Showing results for "Echo" in Crime Fiction

The bestselling novel featuring the "wonderfully epic hero" (People) who inspired the hit film Jack Reacher. Thumbing across the scorched west Texas desert, loner Jack Reacher has nowhere to go, and all the time in the world to get there. Cruising the same stretch of two-lane blacktop is pretty...

After a party in New York, Lieutenant Eve Dallas rides home with her billionaire husband, Roarke, happy to be done with cocktails and small talk. After another party, not far away, a woman retires to her bedroom with her husband - and walks into a brutal nightmare. Their paths are about to collide....

For maverick LAPD homicide detective Harry Bosch, the body in the drainpipe at Mulholland Dam is more than another anonymous statistic. This one is personal...because the murdered man was a fellow Vietnam "tunnel rat" who had fought side by side with him in a hellish underground war. Now Bosch is about to relive the horror of Nam. From a dangerous maze of blind alleys to a daring criminal heist beneath the city, his survival instincts will once again be tested to their limit.

Elite Ukrainian assassin Ruslan Akulov, aka Wolf Six, is a ghost. A weapon for hire forged in the fires of conflict and tempered by experience. Known by both the underworld and international intelligence agencies, he works alone, guided only by the next mission and his unwavering commitment to his personal kill code. So when a routine contract in Argentina turns from simple to chaotic in the squeeze of a trigger, Akulov is thrown into a complex web of deceit and dangerous tests of loyalty.

Welcome to the Wye Valley, exactly on the border of England and Wales, home to a dark legacy of murder... Nestled deep in the Black Mountains, the village of Longtown is haunted by killings both ancient and modern. When young farmer and lottery winner Eddy Davies is found dead in suspicious circumstances, Herefordshire Police find themselves handling a complicated investigation. Things aren't looking good for Davies's friend, the mysterious Autumn Wise, who is found nearby holding a shotgun...

A brand new Nikki Galena mystery where echoes from the past haunt the twistiest, most complex investigation of her career.

In this gripping, unforgettable thriller for fans of James Patterson and Lisa Gardner, someone is recreating infamous unsolved murders… and the killer is closer than anyone could imagine. Fall in Philadelphia. A man’s corpse is found in one of the city’s poorest neighborhoods. It’s...

In the shadow of California's Sierra Nevada mountains lies Darkness, a town where secrets run as deep as the valleys and some families' roots are stained with blood. Interim Sheriff Izar Llewellyn has enough on her plate, trying to prove herself worthy of her badge while battling small-town politics and her own painful past. But when a local mechanic is found hanged in the library's historical reading room, what looks like suicide soon reveals a darker truth.

It’s 20 years since Alice went missing. There’s never been any trace. Until now. Until some bones are found in a shallow grave on the cold, bleak North York Moors. But is it Alice? Or Becky? The other girl–who disappeared a month earlier…

In Echoes of the Lost: The Guardian of the Forgotten, Chandraish Sinha spotlights an engrossing tale of strength, mystery, and the tenacious pursuit of justice.

Auf einer fröhlichen Hochzeitsfeier beobachtet die 49-jährige Marie eine gruselig verkleidete Gestalt, die die Braut entführen will. Zuerst denkt sie noch an einen misslungenen Scherz, doch als ein Gast dazwischen geht, tötet ihn der Vermummte kaltblütig und entkommt. Danach ist für sie und die 26-jährige Lena nichts mehr, wie es war. Was bleibt, ist Angst: Wird der Mörder mit der lila Rose wieder zuschlagen? Georg Krammer, der ermittelnde Polizeibeamte, kann es nicht ausschließen, nachdem die dünngesäten Spuren im Sand verlaufen.

After a stressful winter, DSI William Lorimer is enjoying some time away from Glasgow. He and his new friend, Daniel Kohi, have retreated to the wilds of the Scottish Highlands to unwind. But what awaits them is far from a holiday. Despite its troubled history, the mountain village of Glencoe is now a popular resort, famed for its close-knit community, its breath-taking scenery and the warm welcome it offers weary travellers. So it's particularly shocking when two bodies are discovered in quick succession on the nearby peaks.

1992. Ein kleiner Junge wird Zeuge eines schrecklichen Verbrechens. Jahre später begleitet die 28-jährige Lena ihren Jugendfreund zu einer Preisverleihung. Dort lernt sie den skrupellosen Filmproduzenten Konrad Felsinger kennen und trifft eine fatale Entscheidung. Zu spät erkennt sie die Gefahr, in die sie nicht nur sich selbst begibt. Die 50-jährige Marie hat indes ihren Frieden gefunden, denn sie trauert nicht mehr um Christian Gottlieb. Dieser außergewöhnliche Mann, der ihr so viel bedeutet hat und dessen plötzliches Verschwinden sie einst völlig aus der Bahn geworfen hat.

Rachael Schlank is a straight-talking detective who’s always felt like a fish out of water, bouncing between departments over the years. Now she’s finally found a home in Victoria Police's Cold Case Unit. When a vigilante starts targeting hunters, leaving clues about a long-ago cold case, Rachael is asked to join a task force investigating the crimes...along with a former colleague whose dangerous temper has already made an impact on her life.

During a vicious heat wave, a county maintenance worker stumbles upon two suspicious suitcases abandoned by the side of the road. Sheriff Bree Taggert responds to find two bodies stuffed inside the luggage. The press demands action. The community is on edge. Suddenly, Bree is at the center of a media firestorm. In Oregon, a senator’s daughter goes missing. FBI Special Agent Mercy Kilpatrick agrees to keep the politically sensitive case on the down-low.

Detective David Wolf’s slow winter in the Colorado Rockies is interrupted by two events: a mountain lion attack in a remote trailer park, and a wealthy man coming into headquarters to report the robbery of three valuable paintings. Leaving the big cat incident to animal control, Wolf follows his duty and pursues the two thieves, even if the victim is a cagey billionaire with his hands in the pockets of an equally shady newcomer in town running for sheriff.

Harry Bosch, einst bei der Eliteeinheit des Morddezernats von Los Angeles, muss wieder ganz unten beim LAPD anfangen, nachdem er in vermeintlicher Notwehr einen Unbewaffneten erschossen hat. Viel Zeit sich zu grämen hat er nicht: Bei einem Routineeinsatz erkennt er in einem toten Junkie einen ehemaligen Kameraden aus dem Vietnamkrieg. Der Mann war wie Bosch eine der sogenannten "Tunnelratten", die die unterirdischen Tunnelsysteme des Vietcong auszuräuchern hatten. Hat sich Billy Meadows wirklich den goldenen Schuss gesetzt? Aber warum ist einer seiner Finger so seltsam gebrochen?

Unable to escape his own past, Rick Cahill risks his life for a woman who is hiding her own. Rick Cahill was never convicted of his wife’s murder, but he was never exonerated either. Not by the police. Not by the media. Not even by himself. Eight years later, police suspicion and his own guilt remain over his responsibility in his wife’s death. When he meets Melody Malana, a beautiful yet secretive TV reporter, he sees a chance to love again. When she is arrested for murder and asks Rick for help, the former cop says no, but the rest of him says yes, and he grasps at a chance for love and redemption.

When a terrified, bloodied man staggers from a boarded-up shop in broad daylight in the small Suffolk village of Evernam, police are called to the scene. What they find inside the derelict building sends the community into shock: four bodies, their throats savagely cut, arranged in a bizarre formation with objects surrounding them. The survivor, Mark Lingham, insists that the deaths are his fault and is immediately arrested for murder. But police specialist Dr Cora Lael - a woman with the ability to sense emotional echoes from objects - hears a different story...

Ein erschreckender Todesfall: in einer Höhle mitten im wilden Peak District wird ein Rechtsanwalt tot aufgefunden. Eine dunkle Botschaft: Während alte Legenden um Fluch und Hexerei im Ort umgehen, ist Detective Inspector Megan Dalton sicher, dass es sich um Mord handelt. Es gibt nur ein Problem: in die Felswand hinter dem Toten sind seine Initialen und das Bild vom Sensenmann gemeißelt. Und die stehen da schon seit hundert Jahren. Ein tödliches Echo: Bei den schwierigen Ermittlungen merkt Meg, dass irgendjemand ihre persönlichen Geheimnisse kennt.