Showing results for "Maria" in Modern Detectives

'Finally a novel I couldn't put down for an entire weekend' - Petra Hammesfahr, German bestselling author 'Anna Jansson is the new literary voice from the Nordic countries' - Berliner Morgenpost One forgotten grave. Two identical crimes. A killer who was supposed to be dead. Detective...

Teresa Maritano si è finalmente decisa a lasciare la polizia. Abbandonato il suo ruolo di ispettrice, ha aperto un bar e trovato la tranquillità che tanto desiderava. Tutto però cambia quando riappare il commissario Marco Ardini, suo ex capo. Una bambina di nome Carlotta è scomparsa da giorni, una bambina che Teresa conosceva abbastanza bene. Deciderà quindi di aiutare Ardini nelle indagini. Queste porteranno i due a scavare in un caso torbido, che li condurrà dapprima a cercare informazioni su un'altra bambina amica di Carlotta, Paola, e in seguito sulla strana madre di quest'ultima.

Irene ha ucciso, forse. Ne è convinto il tribunale che l’ha condannata a quindici anni di detenzione, ne era convinta l’opinione pubblica anche prima che la sentenza venisse pronunciata, e persino lei si ritiene colpevole benché la sua memoria di quel giorno sia molto sfocata. Del resto Irene aveva il migliore dei moventi, dato che la ‘vittima’, se così si può chiamare, era l’assassino di Giulio, suo figlio. Caso chiuso. Ora, scontata l’intera pena, la donna è di nuovo libera e può provare a ricostruirsi una vita nella sua città, Genova.

'The ending of this suspenseful blend of scientific thriller and whodunit packs a real wallop.' - Publishers Weekly The panic is real. The cure is a lie. Gotland is known for its picturesque ruins and summer sun, but a shadow has fallen over the island. In this gripping seventh...

A miracle is for sale. But the cost is paid in blood. For the elite clients of the Cheiron Clinic, the world-renowned fertility center is a place of hope and new beginnings. But behind the hospital's sterile, white walls, Detective Inspector Maria Wern discovers a much darker reality - one...

'This is a real summer thriller. Perfect for a hammock or at the beach. It's an exciting and well told story with good drive and interesting characters.' - The Bookworm Some traditions are meant to be celebrated. Others are designed to kill. Every summer, the Medieval Festival transforms...

The flame has a voice. And it's calling for blood. Eleven-year-old Leo knows that fire is alive. He watched it take his mother, and now, he watches it follow him. In the shadows of his new home in Visby, the smell of turpentine and the crackle of burning plastic become his only companions. To...

An LAPD detective travels to coastal Alabama to investigate the death of the father she hardly knew in this straight-shooting, no-nonsense noir from the author of You Were Never Really Here. Maria Cole's life has never been a walk in the park. Raised in foster care and with a history of abuse...

'What You Do Not Know is suspenseful from the very first page' - Dagens Bok Sweden A billion-dollar report. A community at war. A disappearance that was no accident. The late summer heat on Gotland is stifling, but the tension in the village of Åminne is at its breaking point. A series of...

How far would you go to save your child? On a secluded Gotland beach, a middle-aged couple watches a stranger pitch a tent. Day after day, he returns-always with a different woman at his side. The neighbors watch from their window with a mounting, sickening suspicion: Are these women guests...

Justice is blind. Vengeance sees everything. Twenty-year-old Agnes has spent years living in the shadows of a trauma she couldn't name. Her only sanctuary is Ullsaxen, a secret online community where survivors find the one thing the legal system denied them: belief. But as the group grows, a...

The earth never forgets. And some promises should never be kept. Frida Norrby has lived a long, quiet life near the ancient Roma church on Gotland. But when her husband, Helge, passes away, he leaves behind a burden heavier than grief: a secret buried decades ago in a field of stone. Bound by...

A secret lover. A haunted rectory. A trap that's been waiting since the Stone Age. Detective Inspector Jesper Ek is a man possessed. He has fallen head over heels for Julia, a woman as captivating as she is guarded. But Julia is a mystery with a past that won't stay buried. When her dark...

A storm is coming. The clock is ticking. And the end is closer than you think. It is June in Visby, and an unusual start to the summer has brought Gotland to its knees. Hurricane-force winds have severed the Swedish island from the mainland, cancelling all boat traffic and leaving the...

The judge is hooded. The sentence is ancient. And the execution has only just begun. For Detective Inspector Maria Wern, the greatest battle is no longer on the streets of Visby, but within the walls of her own home. After a catastrophic accident leaves her husband, Björn, paralyzed and...

La prima indagine della celebre serie investigativa - firmata da Maria Teresa Valle - con protagonista Maria Viani, biologa in pensione con il pallino per le storie con delitto. Maria Viani, biologa in pensione, trascorre felicemente le sue giornate in un tranquillo paesino dell’Appennino ligure dividendo il suo tempo tra l’orto e la raccolta di funghi nel bosco. Il ritrovamento del cadavere di un abitante del piccolo paese le offre l’occasione di trasformarsi da tranquilla signora di campagna in detective.

The war ended seventy years ago. The vengeance is only just beginning. In the quiet harbor of Ronehamn, a ninety-year-old man is found with a bullet in his chest. Heinz Meyer was a pillar of the community, but he carried a secret that dated back to the darkest days of 1945. He was one of the...

Privacy is a privilege. Shame is a weapon. And someone is always watching. One storm-lashed October night, sixteen-year-old Hugo vanishes from the Gotland ferry. The search is called off, but a hushed-up witness report and a sister's intuition suggest Hugo didn't just fall-he was pushed...

The past is a fire that never stops burning. At a desolate rest area in Kronviken, a woman's body is found - severely burned, unrecognizable, her identity erased by a melted blue cap. For Detective Inspector Maria Wern, it is a gruesome puzzle. For her colleague, Per Arvidsson, it is the...

In the digital age, your children are never truly home. When a fourteen-year-old girl vanishes on her way home from a school movie night, the illusion of safety in Kronviken is shattered. Her body is discovered the next morning in the frozen forest - a lifeless victim of a predator who lured...