Résultats pour "kill" dans Policier

Brought to you by Penguin. Their job is to fight crime. Now they are the victims. A killer is terrorising London and this time the police are the targets. Urgently re-assigned to investigate a series of attacks on fellow officers, Maeve Kerrigan and her boss Josh Derwent have little idea what...

Doreen Diller wants to be a movie star. But after 15 years of failed auditions, she’s yet to garner a single callback from a Hollywood producer. Determined to hit the big time before she turns 40, she pins her hopes on a job assisting soap opera heartthrob Tad Longmire. He could be the answer to her dreams—or the beginning of her nightmares. While filming a new TV series starring Tad, a stabbing death rocks the set. Unfortunately for Doreen, the role of murder suspect is finally one she appears ideally suited to play. 

It was supposed to be fun. A relaxing trip to a remote mountain retreat where there’s no phone reception. Three couples, friends since high school, are looking forward to a weekend of drinking, reminiscing and flirting. When someone suggests swapping partners, it doesn’t seem like such a bad idea. The lights will be switched off, for privacy. It’s not really cheating if you don’t know who you were with, right? But when the lights come back on, one of the men is dead. No-one can agree who was in which bedroom with whom.

Nominated for the Booker Prize 2019 Shortlisted for the 2019 Women’s Prize for Fiction Korede is bitter. How could she not be? Her sister, Ayoola, is many things: the favorite child, the beautiful one, possibly sociopathic. And now Ayoola's third boyfriend in a row is dead. Korede's...

À Caen, un corps sans vie est retrouvé sur un parking. L'homme est mort d'une hémorragie, mais pas n'importe laquelle : elle a été provoquée par... une émasculation. Laura Claes et ses équipiers Bricart et Jumet, spécialistes des crimes peu ordinaires, sont appelés en renfort. La perquisition au domicile de la victime révèle son lot de surprises : cordes nouées et plumes de coq tachées de sang, le tout caché dans un oreiller. La police scientifique et Laura sont d'accord : il s'agit d'un mauvais sort. Une sorcière sévit-elle dans la bonne ville de Caen ?

Pourquoi un pilote d'hélicoptère, ancien héros de guerre, a-t-il été retrouvé assassiné dans une maison close du Cumbria, au nord de l'Angleterre ? Pourquoi l'enquête a-t-elle été confiée par le MI5 à Washington Poe et Tilly Bradshaw, chargés au sein de la National Crime Agency, de...

Hannah Wilson can't text her ex again - it's too sad. She can't snap back at the new boss who took her promotion either - she'll be fired. But what she can do is write a series of furious letters to William Thompson, arrested for the murders of multiple women he got close to.

Paige Vallis claimed that she gave in to Tripping's sexual demands because he had threatened to harm his son if she didn't. Alexandra Cooper, prosecuting the ex-CIA man, knew she had her work cut out to convince the jury, but before Paige could complete her testimony on the stand she is found...

A new, twists-galore DI Barton thriller from bestselling author Ross Greenwood. The winter holidays finally look set to bring a white Christmas, but the beautiful snow hides horrors beneath. When a man is found cruelly tortured and murdered, the Major Crimes team is already stretched thin...

What happens when the tides of Pine Island bring in more than just tourists? This suspenseful sequel to Murder at the Movies by Turner Classic Movies host Alicia Malone is a gripping mystery that will have you at the edge of your seat! It's been several months since Audrey Sullivan moved to Pine...

Lorsqu'un vétéran de la Seconde Guerre mondiale se présente à l'agence de détectives de Jim Brodie, personne ne veut croire à son histoire. Il est persuadé qu'on veut l'exécuter, lui et ses compagnons d'armes, au nom d'une vengeance issue de son passé lié aux triades chinoises. Par...

Deputy Sheriff Lou Ford is a pillar of the community in his small Texas town, patient and thoughtful. Some people think he's a little slow and boring, but that's the worst they say about him. But then nobody knows about what Lou calls his "sickness". It nearly got him put away when he was younger, but his adopted brother took the rap for that. Now the sickness that has been lying dormant for a while is about to surface again - and the consequences are brutal and devastating.

Meet Paige: professional milliner, amateur baker and… detective? When a beloved internet food personality is murdered, bridal boutique milliner Paige Andrews must don her detective hat. Can she uncover the truth before it’s too late or will the real killer serve her a slice of danger?

When real estate pro Helen Morrisey’s bombshell daughter, Lizzie, a popular home-shopping network host, invites her to meet an internationally famous chef, Helen jumps at the chance. What woman doesn’t want to shake hands with a celebrity and do a little shopping at the same time? Even more intriguing, this culinary superstar is about to sell his waterfront mansion, and it’s her opportunity to talk business. After all, he couldn’t choose a sharper agent than Helen, could he?

Nosy shopkeeper turned amateur detective Vera Wong can’t resist solving a murder, even while she’s on vacation, in this delightful mystery from USA Today bestselling author Jesse Q. Sutanto. Chinese mother and detective extraordinaire Vera Wong delights in meddling, which happily has led her...

It's the end of a long day at the Dogs Need Nice Homes charity shop. Fiona, Daisy, and Partial Sue, the three retired ladies who volunteer there, are ready to lock up for the night. The ladies watch aghast as a clapped-out ice-cream van lurches up to their door—with Daisy's daughter Bella behind the wheel! Newly divorced Bella has only just gotten rid of her rotten husband. Now, she's bought herself a van—and a whole world of trouble. 

A Time to KillThe life of a ten-year-old black girl is shattered by two drunken and remorseless young men. The mostly white town reacts with shock and horror at the inhuman crime. Until her father acquires an assault rifle–and takes justice into his own outraged hands. For ten days, with...

Jessica is delighted when her nephew Grady invites her to spend a few days with his family in an oceanside New York bungalow. But the morning after Jessica’s arrival, Donna finds her boss dead on a tennis court, and Jessica’s dreams of a relaxing visit are quashed. Everyone in the small beachside community is a suspect, and the local authorities—headed by an old colleague of Cabot Cove sheriff Mort Metzger—have asked that no one leave town. Will Jessica be able find a killer and salvage the rest of her trip?

It was supposed to be a relaxing vacation in sweet, sunny Cape Cod—just me and my beloved brother—but discovering a corpse in our rental house really throws a wrench into our tanning schedule. Now a rude, crude bounty hunter has arrived on the back of his motorcycle to catch the killer and refuses to believe I can be helpful, despite countless hours of true crime podcast listening. Not to mention a fulfilling teaching career of wrangling second graders.

In wintry upstate New York, someone leaves a frozen body wrapped in a pink bow outside Naomi Skye’s gated rural estate. A macabre birthday present for the terrified pop star. A chilling investigation for Sheriff Bree Taggert. Bree and her fellow investigator—and fiancé—Matt Flynn eye a myriad of suspects from Naomi’s world of obsessed exes, paparazzi, stalkers, and secretive locals with something to hide. Someone is killing the people in Naomi’s life. She fears her family could be next.