Showing results for "C" in Police Procedurals

When a sniper kills four people on Boston Common, Boston homicide detective Mike Houston and his partner Anne Bouchard are sent to investigate the case. Amidst the blood and terror, Houston discovers similarities, likenesses the killer’s positioning, his choice of victims, and his code of ethics between the crime scene and his own training as a US Marine scout and sniper. And with the staging of the scene set for prime shock value, Houston has to wonder what it is this murderer intends to accomplish.

An einem frostigen Wintertag auf der Insel Rügen wird die junge Leonie tot in einem Eisloch aufgefunden. Hauptkommissarin Gretchen Larssen und ihr Team stellen fest, dass die junge Frau ermordet wurde. Ist Leonies Vater, ein Pastor, schuld an ihrem Tod? Auch das Eislauftalent Mikka ist verdächtig, denn er hatte das Mädchen beobachtet und war ihr auf Schritt und Tritt gefolgt. Doch als Gretchen Leonies Bucket List entdeckt, erscheinen die Ereignisse plötzlich in einem anderen Licht.

Darlington is a small Northern town where everyone knows everyone. And Detectives Tanzy and Byrd know there’s a twisted serial killer in their midst... They find Julia Porter’s body tied to a chair in her quiet family home in the outskirts of Darlington. She’s covered in blood, and someone has cut out her eyes. Next to her is a message written in red crayon: She didn’t see it coming. Detectives Tanzy and Byrd have never seen the like of this in their town before. Then a few days later a woman is handed a package on the high street. It contains Julia Porter’s eyes ... It’s a warning.

When your new employer tasks you with investigating the first successful mass shooting in twelve years, it’s understandable to be nervous. Fortunately, detective-in-training Cowan Soto has a Personal Brain Assistant—a cybernetic implant—that allows him to firewall pesky emotions like worry and guilt and redact memories of bullet-riddled corpses. Unfortunately, Cowan soon learns it was his suspect’s PBA which allowed a ruthless hacker to puppet her into a shooting rampage.

Outside Denver, Joe Rickards stands over a small aircraft wreckage, studying burnt remains still smoldering in a field of freshly fallen snow...an investigator for the NTSB, working to carefully roll back the last several hours and identify the cause of the accident. But this time, he can't. The details behind this tragedy don't add up. Unlike every other investigation of Joe's career, the facts make no sense. Each new piece of information only makes the accident more mysterious, and more baffling.

December, 1939. Having solved the case of the Suffolk Vampire, Inspector Betty Church and her colleagues at Sackwater Police Station have settled back down to business. There's the elderly Mr Fern, who keeps losing his slippers, Sylvia Satin's 13th birthday party to attend and the scintillating case of the missing bookmark to solve. Though peace and quiet are all well and good, Betty soon finds herself longing for some cold-blooded murder.

Convinta che qualcuno stia cercando di ucciderla, la ricca Jane Wetherby chiede a Hamish Macbeth di trascorrere il Natale con lei e con un gruppo di amici presso la sua clinica termale, che sorge sull'isola di Eileencraig. Tormentato da un brutto raffreddore e senza progetti per il periodo natalizio, Hamish accetta, anche se pensa che Jane sia soltanto una donna po' strampalata. Sull'isola, però, l'atmosfera è assai cupa: gli abitanti sono scontrosi e quasi aggressivi e gli altri ospiti sono assai gelidi nei suoi confronti.

Hamish Macbeth riceve la notizia che c'è stato un omicidio ad Arrat House, in cui vive il ricchissimo Arthur Trent ma, sebbene sia un poliziotto, non si scapicolla per raggiungere la (presunta) scena del crimine. Trent infatti è famoso – e famigerato – per i suoi scherzi, anche di pessimo gusto, e Hamish ne sa qualcosa, dato che, tempo prima, era stato chiamato proprio ad Arrat House per indagare su un delitto, scoprendo poi che la "vittima" era il maggiordomo di Trent coperto di sangue finto. Stavolta, però, la vittima c'è ed è proprio l'incorreggibile burlone Arthur Trent.

Criminals have to answer to Agent Jade Monroe, and they aren't liking it. On her first assignment since her promotion to SSA status in the Serial Crimes Unit of the FBI, Jade Monroe and her new partner, Lorenzo DeLeon, are tasked to southern Louisiana, where disturbing discoveries have been made. Human bones have been found in numerous sites deep in bayou country, and the locals aren’t too excited about having outsiders poking around in their business.

The United States is in turmoil nine months after an assassination attempt targeting the new president. Texas, home to the unsuccessful Nationalist Party candidate, has seceded from the Union, and other states are poised to follow. In Santa Fe, a priest who is an anti-nuclear activist is murdered. In Taos County, Sheriff Ulysses Walker investigates the murder of a young man associated with Nuclear Peace and Justice.

Sommersonnenwende auf der Insel Rügen: In einem einsamen Waldgebiet überfährt ein Sportwagen ein junges blondes Mädchen. Hauptkommissarin Gretchen Larssen und ihr Team stellen fest, dass es sich bei der Toten um die seit Wochen vermisste 17-jährige Karolina aus Polen handelt. Der Fall wird immer rätselhafter, als Gretchen entdeckt, dass schon ein Jahr zuvor ein anderes blondes Mädchen auf der Insel als vermisst gemeldet wurde.

The small, friendly town of Gladstone, Tennessee seems the ideal place to raise a family - until two teenagers are found tortured to death. Sheriff Miranda Knight will do anything to make her small town safe again, even if it means calling in Noah Bishop, the FBI’s psychic profiler. The last time she and Noah combined their psychic powers, she was almost destroyed. Now she must learn to trust him again, or she will most certainly die at the hands of the monster who’s stalking her town.

Eine plötzliche Flut von Giftbriefen versetzt das schottische Dorf Lochdubh in Aufregung. Die Dinge nehmen eine tödliche Wendung, als die örtliche Postbotin erhängt in ihrem Zimmer aufgefunden wird - mit einer bösartigen Notiz unter ihren baumelnden Füßen. Dorfpolizist Hamish Macbeth geht von Mord aus, im Unterschied zu seinen Vorgesetzten, die den Vorfall als Freitod zu den Akten legen wollen.

In the dark woods of Olive Park, in the hills above Sacramento, a California Highway Patrol officer stumbles over a gnarled branch. But it isn’t a branch. It is an arm. Reaching up from a shallow grave. And clutched in the small, desperate hand is a single quarter. So begins one of the most exhaustive investigations in California history. Yet even with their massive resources, State and Federal authorities fail to find any trace of the killer. After two long years, the case goes cold.

Una ragazza viene ritrovata morta per un’overdose nell’ospedale psichiatrico abbandonato di Aguscello, nella bassa ferrarese. Non si riesce a capire chi sia. Ma nelle quarantott’ore che passano fra il ritrovamento del corpo e l’inizio degli esami autoptici, la ragazza sparisce. Qualcuno l’ha vista allontanarsi sulle sue gambe: un raro caso di morte apparente.

"Jede Familie hat ein dunkles Geheimnis" In einer verlassenen Finca in der Serra de Tramuntana findet ein Wanderer einen Toten. Der Mann wurde mit einem Kopfschuss hingerichtet. Inspectora Ana Ortega und Comisario Lars Brückner übernehmen den Fall und entdecken in einer geheimen Kammer der Finca ...

A spectacular, voice-driven mystery from a highly acclaimed crime writer. How do you solve a murder when everyone thinks you're guilty? Marjorie Crowe lives in Kilgoyne, Scotland. The locals put her age at somewhere between 55 and 70. They think she's divorced or a lifelong spinster; that she...

Finiti i tempi gioiosi del commissariato "La Bella Napoli", nascosto fra le bellezze degli Appennini, Prisco si ritrova ora sbattuto in Sardegna per ordine ministeriale. La vita, laggiù, anche se condita da belle spiagge e birra a volontà, è tuttavia tediosa. Neanche la relazione con Lia, moglie di un assessore, sembra ridare a Prisco un po’ di quella gioia di vivere che ha sempre avuto. Ma un nuovo caso, l’omicidio di un concessionario di macchine di lusso, sembra giunto proprio al momento giusto, obbligando il nostro commissario a rimettersi in pista e dare inizio a una delle sue indagini...

V inchiesta del Commissario De Vincenzi. Milano 1934, Fiera del Libro, Fra editori in cerca di visibilità e vanitosi scrittori di cassetta, piomba il dramma. Sotto il bancone del Libro dei Libri, viene trovato un cadavere, ed il Commissario De Vincenzi è chiamato a indagare. Poco dopo un altro omicidio ancora più efferato. Tutto porta ad una congrega di stranieri che covano odio e vendetta per ragioni lontane nel tempo.

Detective Max Rupert's and attorney Boady Sanden's friendship is being pushed to the breaking point. Max is convinced that Jennavieve Pruitt was killed by her husband, Ben. Boady is equally convinced that Ben, his client, is innocent. As the case unfolds, the two are forced to confront their own personal demons.