Showing results for "Monster" in Police Procedurals

Recht oder Gerechtigkeit – der neue Nr. 1-Bestseller von Nele Neuhaus. Hinter einem Marienaltar im Feld bei Schwalbach wird die Leiche eines jungen Mädchens gefunden. Der Körper ist mit einer Eisschicht überzogen, nachts hatten Temperaturen um die -10° C geherrscht. Die 16-jährige Larissa Jansen wurde erdrosselt. Pia Sander und Oliver von Bodenstein nehmen die Ermittlungen auf. Durch eine DNA-Analyse gerät Farwad M. unter Mordverdacht, ein abgelehnter afghanischer Asylbewerber, der erst kürzlich zu fünf Jahren Haft verurteilt wurde.

Recht oder Gerechtigkeit – der neue Nr. 1-Bestseller von Nele Neuhaus. Hinter einem Marienaltar im Feld bei Schwalbach wird die Leiche eines jungen Mädchens gefunden. Der Körper ist mit einer Eisschicht überzogen, nachts hatten Temperaturen um die -10° C geherrscht. Die 16-jährige Larissa Jansen wurde erdrosselt. Pia Sander und Oliver von Bodenstein nehmen die Ermittlungen auf. Durch eine DNA-Analyse gerät Farwad M. unter Mordverdacht, ein abgelehnter afghanischer Asylbewerber, der erst kürzlich zu fünf Jahren Haft verurteilt wurde.

With Boyd starting his phased return to the CID department, DS Samantha Okeke is once again in the driving seat. So when Okeke takes a call from a child psychiatrist about one of his patients, a troubled thirteen year old girl, it's a race against time to find out whether the monster is real or imagined. Little does she know that her story is going to lead her down a rabbit hole that will bring a monster right to her front door.

Twenty-four hours after he walked away from court a free man, cop killer and gang leader Simon Talbot is found murdered. In his possession: the name of a protected witness from his trial. For DI Hannah Robbins, it's a race against time to find Talbot's killer and locate the bystander before it's too late. But as Hannah delves deeper into the past, she begins to question the integrity of the whole operation. Where do you turn when you can't trust the police?

An Inspector Napoleon Bonaparte Mystery: What is the Lake Frome Monster? Why are the Aborigines so terrified of it? And what dreadful part did it really play in the sudden death of a former roving reporter? When Inspector Napoleon Bonaparte is called in, everything goes against him. There is even a vicious attempt on his life....

It's August 1984, and paperboy Christopher Stewart has gone missing. Hours later, 12-year-old Sammy Cox hurries home from his own paper route, red-faced and out of breath, hiding a terrible secret. Crystal, Sammy's 17-year-old sister, is worried by the disappearance but she also sees an opportunity: the Stewart case has echoes of an earlier unsolved disappearance of another boy, one town over. Crystal senses the makings of an award-winning essay, one that could win her a scholarship - and a ticket out of their small Iowa town.

Immer wieder verschwinden Frauen und werden kurz darauf mit schweren Verletzungen tot am Strand aufgefunden. Ist tatsächlich ein übergroßer Oktopus an den Toten schuld? Was hat es mit dem merkwürdigen Grafen auf sich, der immer wieder auftaucht? Bei ihren Ermittlungen stößt die junge Kommissarin Jenny Corras auf Das Monster von Sorrent.

Ghost stories abound in the lowcountry, and Detective Andy Winslow is about to find himself in the center of one. Andy Winslow grew up hearing campfire tales of the Scarecrow; a monster that stalked the lowcountry's rural areas, killing people with a vengeance. Now, with farmers and their families around Charleston being murdered in record numbers, people start talking about the Scarecrow again. Andy doesn't believe in ghost stories, though. He knows that the sort of monster behind this is of the decidedly human variety, and it's his job to find them.

When 15-year-old Abby Lang disappears in the dead of night, Seattle Police Detective Jayne Moore is assigned to the case. Within days, it becomes clear Abby was lured by an online predator calling himself “Shyboy".

Mayhem explodes when monsters mix with guns, rednecks and beer. Craig Nybo's second novel, Small Town Monsters, visits the town of DePalma Beach, Montana, a peaceful lake community with a five-star rating in any tour travel guide. Monster hunter isn't in the job description when Kurt McCammus, a Los Angeles homicide detective, leaves the big city and all its violence behind to take a job as chief of police in DePalma Beach. He falls in love with the clean air and peaceful community. That is until a local rancher finds 50 head of sheep mutilated on his spread.

En okänd man hittas ihjälskjuten strax utanför Hudiksvall, vid avfarten mot Delsbo. Strax innan har en koloni med ryssar slagit sig ner på en camping inte långt därifrån - trots att det inte är bärsäsong. Kan de ha något med mordet att göra? Hudiksvallspolisen fått plötsligt ett fall som utvecklas till något de aldrig kunnat ana. "Dödligt mönster" är första delen i Leif Woxlins rosade serie Hälsingedeckare.

Die Verschwörung um Groß-Berlin zieht immer weitere Kreise. Walter Piefke kann wirklich niemandem trauen. Sind auch seine ehemaligen Kollegen von der Polizei involviert? Plötzlich treten die Geister der Vergangenheit wieder in sein Leben, denn zum einen geht es um die Spezialeinheit Argus und... seinen Bruder Hermann Piefke!? Zu allem Überfluss bekommt Walter es mit einem Serienmörder zu tun. Ist das Monster von Moabit wieder da?

L'autore aveva scritto questi due racconti lunghi, giunti ormai, con varianti, alla terza edizione, nel 1994 e nel 1995, di poco anteriormente al sorgere della moda del giallo e poliziesco italiani. Sono opere basate sulle figure di Vittorio D'Aiazzo, commissario e poi vice questore, e di Ranieri Velli, suo aiutante e amico, personaggi che, l'uno o entrambi, ritornano in altri romanzi e racconti di Guido Pagliarino: è uscito da poco per i tipi dell'Editrice Genesi l`ultimo romanzo sul personaggio D’Aiazzo, il prequel ”L`ira dei vilipesi”.