Showing results for "Faces" in Police Procedurals

His name, they tell him, is William Monk, and he is a London police detective. But the accident that felled him has left him with only half a life; his memory and his entire past have vanished. As he tries to hide the truth, Monk returns to work and is assigned to investigate the brutal murder of a Crimean War hero and man about town. Which makes Monk’s efforts doubly difficult, since he’s forgotten his professional skills along with everything else.

With Malcolm on forced bed rest and off duty, Detective Seong-Jae Yoon faces his first solo case since joining the BPD—and it's one that will challenge his morals, his sense of duty, and his insistence on adhering to the letter of the law, especially when his actions in the Bishop case leave him questioning his own integrity. When the supposedly accidental death of a husband and father points to foul play in the victim's family, how close will Seong-Jae look to determine if the ends justify the means . . . and will he be able to live with the choices he makes?

Allie Bishop is no stranger to pain. Fifteen years ago, she watched as her father brutally murdered a woman he had taken captive. As it turned out, there had been many more. Now a Special Agent with the FBI, Allie spends her days hunting down the worst humanity has to offer. Her nights are spent beating back the lingering shadows of her past. Her newest case confronts her with a series of middle-aged women with their faces meticulously cut off.

In December 1941, America is reeling from the brutal attack on Pearl Harbor. Both patriotism and paranoia grip New York as the city frantically mobilizes for war. Nurse Louise Hunter is outraged when the FBI, in a midnight sweep of prominent Japanese residents, storms in to arrest her patient’s wife. The desperately ill Professor Oakley is married to artist Masako Fumi. The nurse vows to help the professor free Masako. But when the murdered body of Masako’s art dealer is discovered in the gallery where he’d been closing down her controversial show, Masako’s troubles multiply.

Quand la curiosité est vraiment un vilain défaut... Paris, Lyon, Alicante. Une série de crimes méthodiques, au modus operandi similaire. Un suspect bien sous tous rapports, au passé lourd d'une blessure jamais refermée. Louise, derrière la fenêtre de son appartement de Montmartre ou la vitrine de la librairie où elle travaille, s'éprend d'un inconnu au charme fou. Bientôt, des coïncidences troublantes et des mensonges, l'incitent à voir en lui le coupable des meurtres mentionnés dans la presse.

El escritor, Jaime Valdés, viaja a Santander para impartir su primer taller de novela. Su llegada coincide con el resurgir del caso del asesino bautizado como El Vengador. Una fotografía enviada a la policía y al Diario Montañés en la que se muestra el cuerpo sin vida de un individuo con un cartel sobre el pecho que reza; culpable, refleja sin lugar a dudas la forma de actuar del famoso asesino. Un asesino que falleció dos años antes.