Showing results for "Dogs" in Modern Detectives

Detective Inspector Siobhan Clarke is investigating the death of a senior lawyer during a robbery. But the case becomes more complex when a note is discovered, indicating that this may have been no random attack. When local gangster Big Ger Cafferty receives an identical message, Clarke decides that the recently retired John Rebus may be able to help. He's the only man Cafferty will open up to, and together the two old adversaries might just stand a chance of saving Cafferty's skin.

Every favour has a price. Prison collects in full. Nicholas Glass is a young prison officer already at the end of his rope. The job is grinding him down, the inmates smell weakness, and his colleagues aren’t much better. Every shift stretches longer than the last. When a group of cons reach beyond the walls to threaten his wife and daughter, Nicholas does what he thinks any husband and father would do. He agrees to a small favour. Just once. Just to make it stop. It doesn’t stop. The threats escalate. The favours multiply.

An innocent favour for an old acquaintance pulls a journalist into the terrifying web of the Manchester underworld. As he struggles to free himself from the brutal clutches of the city's most devious drug lord - and those of a violent newcomer - the unfortunate Shaun Mullin must straddle the lines between crime and the law, good and evil… and life and death.

Chief Sam Mason needs hard evidence to nail elusive drug dealer Lucas Thorne. Mayor Harley Dupont offers to provide it. But Dupont is murdered before he can talk. Sam and Sergeant Jody Harris don’t know who they can trust aside from their loyal K-9, Lucy. When the FBI comes sniffing around, their past actions come back to haunt them. Just as Sam’s strongest clue appears to be a dead end, a surprise twist reveals the truth behind Dupont’s murder as well as the mysterious death of officer Tyler Richardson, and Sam learns that what he thought was a betrayal of trust was something else entirely.

It's been a year of change for Gideon and Sirius. Both are new parents, but for the two of them, the joys of fatherhood have to wait. After a few months of silence, the All-In Killer has begun his murderous spree again - and his latest victim died only miles from Gideon's doorstep. The All-In Killer has made it no secret that his homicidal countdown will end only with the deaths of Gideon and Sirius. When Gideon decides he can no longer hide the encroaching threat from his wife, they prepare together for the approaching storm. 

A grim discovery in the woods of a small northern New Hampshire town uncovers a disturbing truth that might finally be what Chief of Police Sam Mason needs to put elusive drug dealer Lucas Thorne away for good. But for Sam’s second in command, Jody Harris, the discovery dredges up disturbing secrets from the past. Secrets that could damage her friendship with Sam.

Detective Michael Gideon is used to being handed L.A.'s oddest cases, but his newest one assigned itself. When Gideon's K-9 partner, Sirius, rescues a lost dog from a pack of coyotes, the duo tries to return her home - only to discover her owner is missing. Heather Moreland has clearly disappeared under suspicious circumstances, and the more Gideon digs into her past, the more he's convinced of her abduction.

Life is good in Elmhurst, Ohio. The war is over, the economy is booming, and the future looks bright. But just across the deep ravine known as Dog's Run is a different life, one where times are always hard and dreams seldom come true. When Wanda Jean Reider, a beautiful young woman from the wrong side of town, is found dead in Dog's Run secrets begin to come out. Secrets that will expose hidden sins and a dark side of life carried on behind the manicured lawns and inside the back rooms of the stores along Main Street.

Die Fehde zweier Familien in Arkansas eskaliert in einer Spirale der Gewalt ... Tief in den Ozarks, im Hinterland der US-amerikanischen Südstaaten, betreibt Jeremiah Fitzjurls einen Schrottplatz, auf dem er gemeinsam mit seiner Enkelin Jo lebt. Eines Nachts kommt sie nicht wie verabredet vom...

It was one hell of an inheritance for former Chicago reporter Tom Coleman: a broken-down pickup truck, ramshackle campground, a canoe livery - and one pot-smoking, barely working employee he doesn’t need, doesn’t want, and can’t afford. But the truth is, after losing a child and a marriage, Tom doesn’t really care.

Bryce Pedley is a 40s-era PI in modern-day Latham, New York, complete with a fedora, a double-breasted suit, a shoulder harness, and a revolver. Where cops fail, he succeeds—and the cops take all the credit. Samuel Cohen hires Pedley in a bar to find a rare book collection the Nazis stole in 1939. Locate rare books? Easy.

Rip, the leader of the Vietnam era "Old Dogs", follows a twisted and torturous path on the behalf of one of his old dogs. His probing brings out an insidious and mortal threat, a threat whose coils are wrapped around every aspect of the investigation. But Rip calls on his old dogs for one more mission on the behalf of their dead companion, but will the old warriors be enough, or will the great evil rise in triumph?

After financial disaster and the zeppelin bombing, the far-future, domed, neo-Victorian city of Bridges is reeling. Three of the four Families are implicated, and an inquest is called to investigate. After her failure to prove Jack Diamond's guilt in David Bryce's kidnapping and the murders of her informants, private eye and mobster's moll Jacqueline Spadros has had enough. While she and her former lover Joseph Kerr try to learn who killed their family friend, they also begin making plans to leave the city. Her tormentors, however, are just getting started.

While the villain Frank Pagliacci has been defeated, all is not well in Bridges. The Four Families accuse each other of spying while Red Dog attacks escalate. Aristocratic jewel merchant Dame Anastasia Louis, styling herself "The Queen of Diamonds", hires her long-time friend, private eye Jacqueline Spadros, to collect from her debtors so she can leave the city.

In a far future US, the once-beautiful domed neo-Victorian city of Bridges is split between four crime families in an uneasy cease-fire. With social disparity increasing and its steam-driven infrastructure failing, a new faction is on the rise: the Red Dogs.

Valdés ha sufrido un duro golpe: durante una reunión con otros líderes del narcotráfico para acordar una tregua que tranquilice al Estado, han asesinado a su amante. Ahora busca venganza. Mendieta acepta ayudarla, sin imaginar la maraña de sospechosos que lo llevará a espacios de poder que ni siquiera había soñado.

Marshall Drummond, private investigator of the strange and bizarre, can’t seem to avoid trouble. It doesn’t help that he has a knack for ticking off magic-wielding people. When his past exploits catch up with him, the time arrives to deal with those old problems. Namely, one Mr. Howe. Because if Drummond doesn’t put an end to it all, Mr. Howe might put an end to Drummond.