En una caba?a aislada de Massachusetts, seis j?venes dispuestos a morir se atrincheran esperando el asalto de agentes del FBI. En una zona boscosa de Washington, cerca del monumento a Franklin D. Roosevelt, aparece el cad?ver de la hija de un senador.Para Maggie O?Dell, agente especial del FBI encargada de la investigaci?n, estos dos casos est?n lejos de ser rutinarios. Experta en la elaboraci?n de perfiles criminales, Maggie aporta un enfoque psicol?gico en casos en los que intervienen presuntos asesinos en serie. De ah? que no acabe de entender ...
Lui, c’est Dexter, expert au service m?dico-l?gal de Miami. Un homme tout ? fait moral : il ne tue que ceux qui le m?ritent. Mais aussi tr?s m?ticuleux : il efface toute trace de sang apr?s avoir d?coup? les corps. Un jour, il est appel? sur les lieux d’un crime perp?tr? selon des m?thodes tr?s semblables aux siennes. Dexter aurait-t-il rencontr? son alter ego ? Ou serait-ce lui qui. Impossible.
Prawnik Ramsey Hunt, uciekaj?c przed dziennikarzami po nag?o?nionym przez media incydencie, szuka spokoju w odosobnionej chacie w G?rach Skalistych. Wymarzony spok?j nie trwa jednak d?ugo – Hunt znajduje w lesie nieprzytomn? dziewczynk?. Zabiera rann? do swojej chaty, ale w ?lad za ni? w pobli?u domu pojawiaj? si? zab?jcy. Nie tylko oni zagra?aj? ?yciu Ramseya i jego ma?ej podopiecznej – oto Molly Santera, matka dziewczynki, znajduje ich w g?rskim domku i w pierwszej chwili bierze Ramseya za porywacza. Gdy m??czyzna wyprowadza matk? z b??du i zdobywa w ko?cu jej zaufanie, nie ma ju? czasu na podzi?kowania. Depcz?cy im po pi?tach mordercy s? blisko… Czy ich zleceniodawc? jest dziadek dziewczynki, boss podziemnego Chicago?
Lieutenant Eve Dallas is no party girl, but she's managing to have a reasonably good time at the celebrity-packed bash celebrating , a film based on one of her famous cases. It's a little spooky seeing the actress playing her, who looks almost like her long-lost twin. Not as unsettling, though, as seeing the actress who plays Peabody drowned in the lap pool on the roof of the director's luxury building. Now she's at the center of a crime scene-and Eve is more than ready to get out of her high heels and strap on her holster and step into the role she was born to play: cop.
La violenta erupci?n de un volc?n en Islandia obliga a desalojar una peque?a isla. Las cenizas y la lava sepultan una poblaci?n. Sus habitantes se ven en la necesidad de iniciar una nueva vida en duras condiciones, y muchos abandonan la isla.Treinta a?os despu?s aquel trauma parece superado, pero el proyecto Pompeya del Norte decide desenterrar algunas de las viviendas. En las excavaciones de una de las casas, junto a objetos y utensilios cotidianos, se realiza un hallazgo sorprendente: cuatro cad?veres hab?an quedado ocultos por las cenizas todo ese tiempo sin que nadie sospechara de su existencia. Una abogada se ve forzada a investigar qu? hab?a ocurrido realmente con aquellos cuerpos y c?mo hab?an llegado all?. La evidencia de un antiguo crimen har? aflorar una s?rdida historia de violencia que parece no haber finalizado todav?a, estremeciendo la aparentemente tranquila vida de un pueblo de pescadores.
Conducting a top secret investigation into the death of a fellow police officer has Lieutenant Eve Dallas treading on dangerous ground. She must put professional ethics before personal loyalties. But when a dead body is placed outside her home, Eve takes the warnning personally. With her husband, Roarke, watching her every move, Eve is drawn into the most dangerous case of her career. Every step she takes makes her question her own beliefs of right and wrong-and brings her closer to a confrontation with humanity's most seductive form of evil…
En Par?s, un cirujano norteamericano puede al fin vengar el brutal asesinato de su padre.En Londres, un polic?a de Los ?ngeles colabora con Scotland Yard en la investigaci?n de una serie de decapitaciones.En Ginebra, una joven doctora se ve envuelta en una historia de amor que cambiar? su vida.En Nuevo M?xico, una terapeuta acompa?a a un paciente muy especial de vuelta a Suiza.En Alemania, un selecto grupo de empresarios se prepara para celebrar un hecho hist?rico.
As a practised reporter until her newspaper went to that great pressroom in the sky, PI Tess Monaghan knows and loves every inch of her native Baltimore. It's a quirky city where baseball reigns, but lately homicide seems to be the second most popular local sport. Business tycoon 'Wink' Wynkowski is trying to change all that by bringing pro basketball back to town, and everybody's rooting for him – until a devastating, muckraking expose of his lurid past appears on the front page of the Baltimore Beacon Light. It's a surprise even to the newspaper's editors, who thought they'd killed the piece. Instead, the piece killed Wink, who's found in his garage with the car running. Tess is hired to find the unknown computer hacker who planted the lethal story – but it doesn't take long for her to discover deeper, darker secrets…
It's fire season, and the hills of Los Angeles are burning. When police and fire department personnel rush door to door in a frenzied evacuation effort, they discover the week-old corpse of an apparent suicide. But the gunshot victim is less gruesome than what they find in his lap: a photo album of seven brutally murdered young women – one per year, for seven years. And when the suicide victim is identified as a former suspect in one of the murders, the news turns Elvis Cole's world upside down.Three years earlier Lionel Byrd was brought to trial for ...
Harry Pierce has a whole new life new apartment, new telephone, new telephone number. But the first time he checks his messages, he discovers that someone had the number before him. The messages on his line are for a woman named Lilly, and she is in some kind of serious trouble. Pierce is inexorably drawn into Lilly's world, and it's unlike any world he's ever known. It is a night time world of escort services, websites, sex, and secret identities. Pierce tumbles through a hole, abandoning his orderly life in a frantic race to save the life of a woman he has never met. Pierce traces Lilly's last days, but every step into her past takes him deeper into a web of inescapable intricacy and a decision that could cost him everything he owns and holds dear…
Straight-A-student Karl Petrofsky finds himself in over his head after an underground cheating ring, known as The Confederacy, recruits him. Initially lured by the popularity of The Confederacy’s members, Karl dumps his nerdy friends and rationalizes that his cheating contributions are really a strike against a tyrannical assistant principal, Mr. Klimchock, who secretly uses security cameras to catch deceitful students. Then Klimchock nails Karl on tape and threatens to blacken his transcripts unless he coughs up the names of his coconspirators. Caught between The Confederacy and Klimchock, Karl tries to hatch a plan that will save his SAT ...
Jack Daniels thought she could rest easy once she locked up the nefarious Alex Kork in prison for life. However, she hadn't counted on Kork's incredible ability to get out of any situation. Now the insane serial killer is again on the loose – and once more, Jack has to make Chicago safe from this deviant woman's evil ways. Her longtime partner, the Krispy Kreme-loving Herb, is on the case with Jack, as is her former partner and nemesis, Harry. They band together to try to stop Kork's chilling rampage, resulting in the most gripping and suspenseful Jack Daniels mystery yet.
A gripping novel about one man's dogged pursuit of a serial killer against the opposition of Stalinist state security forces, Child 44 is at once suspenseful and provocative. Tom Rob Smith's remarkable debut thriller powerfully dramatizes the human cost of loyalty, integrity, and love in the face of totalitarian terror.A decorated war hero driven by dedication to his country and faith in the superiority of Communist ideals, Leo Demidov has built a successful career in the Soviet security network, suppressing ideological crimes and threats against the state with unquestioning efficiency. When a fellow officer's son is killed, Leo ...
FBI agent Quentin Hayes always knew he had an unusual talent, even before he was recruited by Noah Bishop for the controversial Special Crimes Unit. But, as gifted as he is, for twenty years he's been haunted by a heartbreaking unsolved murder that took place at The Lodge, a secluded Victorian-era resort in Tennessee. Now he's returned one final time, determined to put the mystery to rest.Diana Brisco has come there hoping to unlock the mystery of her troubled past. Instead, she is assailed by nightmares and the vision of a child who vanished from The Lodge ...
Jack Tannis es un veterano de la Guerra Fr?a, quien form? parte de una campa?a para salvaguardar la tecnolog?a militar de los Estados Unidos de aquellos que pretend?an hac?rsela llegar a sus enemigos, la Uni?n Sovi?tica. David Harper, por otra parte, fue una vez identificado como el miembro vital de una tendenciosa conspiraci?n que ambicionaba poner en aprietos a los Estados Unidos y a sus aliados. Aunque Tannis no estaba convencido de la culpabilidad de Harper, las pruebas eran dif?ciles de rebatir, por lo que Tannis mantuvo sus dudas para ...
