Showing results for "Ein Kind" in Crime Thrillers

SHE HELPED A PERFECT A STRANGER. SHE DIDN'T KNOW HE WAS THE PERFECT KILLER... 'Steve Cavanagh's twists hit you between the eyes. You never see them coming' ANTHONY HOROWITZ 'This guy is the real deal. Trust me' LEE CHILD 'An absolute page turner' SHARI LAPENA 'A fantastic thriller writer' MARK...

An old case from his LAPD past threatens Bosch's reputation in a gripping new thriller. Harry Bosch is back as a volunteer working cold cases for the San Fernando police and is called out to a local drug store where a young pharmacist has been murdered. Bosch and the town's three-person detective squad sift through the clues, which lead into the dangerous big-business world of prescription drug abuse. Meanwhile, an old case from Bosch's LAPD days comes back to haunt him.

Als Robert Stern diesem ungewöhnlichen Treffen zugestimmt hatte, wusste er nicht, dass er damit eine Verabredung mit dem Tod einging. Noch weniger ahnte er, dass der Tod etwa 1,43 m messen, Turnschuhe tragen und lächelnd auf einem gottverlassenen Industriegelände in sein Leben treten würde.

When a legendary ex-cop is murdered in L.A., the pressure's on to find the killer. Lt. Frank Duffy needs his best detective on the case, but his best detective, Ash Levine, quit a year ago. A tenacious, obsessive detective, Ash resigned after Latisha Patton, the witness in a homicide case he was working, was murdered. Without his job, Ash is left unanchored - and consumed with guilt that he somehow caused Latisha's murder.  When he's asked to rejoin the force, Ash reluctantly agrees. Getting his badge back could give him the chance to find Latisha's killer. 

Ingrid will never forget what John did. The people he hurt. The way he lied about it so easily. The way she defended him. Now he’s back. He says a murderer is after her. He says only he can protect her. Would you trust him? The clock is ticking for Ingrid to decide. Because the killer is ready to strike again.

When private detective and former teacher Henry Kimball is hired to investigate an ex-pupil's cheating husband, he senses all is not quite what it seems, and before he knows it he's gotten far too close to the other woman. As the case gets ever stranger, he turns to the only person he can trust, Lily Kintner, someone with dark secrets of her own.

Eine fensterlose Hütte im Wald. Lenas Leben und das ihrer zwei Kinder folgt strengen Regeln: Mahlzeiten, Toilettengänge, Lernzeiten werden minutiös eingehalten. Sauerstoff bekommen sie über einen "Zirkulationsapparat". Der Vater versorgt seine Familie mit Lebensmitteln, er beschützt sie vor den Gefahren der Welt da draußen, er kümmert sich darum, dass seine Kinder immer eine Mutter haben. Doch eines Tages gelingt ihnen die Flucht - und der Alptraum geht weiter. Denn vieles deutet darauf hin, dass der Entführer sich nun zurückholen will, was ihm gehört.

When the body of social worker Dermot Carine is discovered in a hotel room, the ripples of suspicion start to spread in many directions. Dermot’s sister has come to town searching for answers. But before the killer is identified, long-held secrets will threaten to break apart families, ruin marriages, and leave more than one person dead.

The last time anyone saw Lucia Bernardi, she was driving at top speed away from a Swiss villa - leaving the body of her murdered Iraqi lover behind. Now she has vanished, along with a potentially explosive set of papers, and disgraced journalist Piet Maas has been sent to follow her trail to the South of France. But finding her is just the start of his problems. Soon, amid a cast of con men, secret agents and revolutionaries, he must decide whether to land the scoop of his lifetime - or follow Lucia into ever more dangerous waters.

Assistant US Attorney Alondra Diaz hates traffickers. And she’s determined to put one of America’s most powerful financiers, Andrew Schrader, in prison forever for his crimes against children. But Schrader has videos implicating some of the most powerful members of the US national security state. To eliminate Diaz, the powers that be bring in a contractor: Marvin Manus, an implacable assassin whose skills have been forged in intelligence, the military, and the hardest prisons.

Elly Parker helped a perfect stranger. She didn’t know he was the perfect killer…in another “unguessable and unputdownable” (Alex Michaelides, #1 New York Times bestselling author) psychological thriller from the author of Witness 8. One offers a helping hand. The other is your worst...

'To say Tana French is one of the great thriller writers is really too limiting. Rather she's simply this: a truly great writer' GILLIAN FLYNN '[Crime fiction's] biggest contemporary star' GUARDIAN 'One of the finest writers of contemporary crime fiction' DAILY MAIL...

Björn Diemel ist zurück - und mordet ganzheitlicher als je zuvor. Inzwischen müsste es Björn Diemel besser gehen. Er hat den stressigen Job gekündigt und sich selbstständig gemacht. Er verbringt mehr Zeit mit seiner Tochter und streitet sich kaum noch mit seiner Frau. Ach ja, und nebenbei führt er noch ganz entspannt zwei Mafia-Clans. Warum nur kann Björn das alles nicht genießen? Warum verliert er ständig die Beherrschung? Hat er das Morden einfach satt? Nein, nein, so ist es nicht. Sein Therapeut Joschka Breitner bringt ihn endlich auf die richtige Spur.

Zwei rätselhafte Tode und ein Wettlauf gegen die Zeit... Der atemberaubend fesselnde Kriminalthriller zum Mitfiebern! Regel Nummer 1: Sprich mit keinem Fremden. Regel Nummer 2: Folge niemals einem Fremden. Regel Nummer 3: Geh nie, unter gar keinen Umständen, in das Auto oder das Haus eines Fremden. Wenn du diese Regeln befolgst, wird dir nichts passieren. Das dachte Jakob zumindest, denn schließlich hatte er diese Regeln von seiner Mutter gelernt und ihr fest versprochen, sich daran zu halten. Doch schon bald muss er lernen, dass keine Regel der Welt ihn vor dem Bösen retten kann.

Björn Diemel ist zurück - und mordet ganzheitlicher als je zuvor. Inzwischen müsste es Björn Diemel besser gehen. Er hat den stressigen Job gekündigt und sich selbstständig gemacht. Er verbringt mehr Zeit mit seiner Tochter und streitet sich kaum noch mit seiner Frau. Ach ja, und nebenbei führt er noch ganz entspannt zwei Mafia-Clans. Warum nur kann Björn das alles nicht genießen? Warum verliert er ständig die Beherrschung? Hat er das Morden einfach satt? Nein, nein, so ist es nicht. Sein Therapeut Joschka Breitner bringt ihn endlich auf die richtige Spur.

Surviving a terrorist explosion, a tutu incident, and a night of celebratory drinking, hungover hero DCI Jack Austin proposes an ill-advised alliance with a newly-turned criminal informant. After a string of high-profile murders is committed, Austin goes deep undercover - and uncovers a villainous scheme that threatens the Star Chamber. His world turned upside down, Austin needs to rely on courage, skill and improbable luck. But can he bring the perpetrators of the far-reaching scheme to justice?

Life and death have brought Maggie Gardiner full circle, back to the Erie Street Cemetery where she first entered Jack Renner’s orbit. Eight months ago, she learned what Jack would do in the name of justice. More unsettling still, she discovered how far she would go to cover his tracks. Now a young man sprawls atop a snowy grave, his heart shredded by a single wound. A key card in the victim’s wallet leads to the local university’s student housing - and to a grieving girlfriend with an unsettling agenda.

“Kind, cruel, kind of cruel.” Amber thinks it’s just nonsense, a side effect of being hypnotized for the first time. But when she’s arrested for a brutal murder two hours later, those four words are the key to clearing her name… if only she could remember where she’d seen them. Amber...

The Lawless Kind is about a trucker in Panaji, Goa, India, who specialized in kidnapping, torturing, raping and killing young women on the pretense of offering a lift. Luck ran against him when a police officer on patrol caught him assaulting his last victim inside his truck and got him arrested...

Kate Taylors Leben verwandelt sich in einen Albtraum, als sie frühmorgens zu Hause anstelle ihres drei Tage alten Sohnes ein fremdes Baby in der Wiege vorfindet.