Showing results for "Laura" in Police Procedurals

On Easter weekend, a guest at a luxury ski lodge in Åre is stabbed to death in her plush suite. She’s Charlotte Wretlind, a property developer who planned to restore a nearby mountain hotel to its long-gone glory days. It was not a random attack. It was an act of pure aggression leveled against a woman with plenty of enemies. As the murder spreads panic among tourists and Åre residents alike, Detective Inspectors Hanna Ahlander and Daniel Lindskog face a shady staff, a dogged press, and multiple suspects.

Detective Leanne Everhart swore she’d never go back to her hometown near Marfa, Texas—but she returns when her brother needs her, only to find a town in need too, still torn apart by a decades-old crime. Leanne Everhart knows women have something to fear in her artsy hometown, especially so...

Eilean Eadar - eine karge, windgepeitschte Insel, auf der in einer eisigen Nacht vor über hundert Jahren drei Leuchtturmwärter spurlos verschwanden. Als ein junger Mann tot am Fuße des Inselleuchtturms gefunden wird, sollen zwei Polizisten aus Glasgow den rätselhaften Fall untersuchen. Doch kaum auf der Insel angekommen, stoßen die ehrgeizige Georgina und ihr älterer Kollege Richie auf eine Mauer des Schweigens. Was haben die eigenwilligen Bewohner zu verbergen?

Julia Malmros is thriving. A former police officer making her way in the world of crime fiction, she’s turning popularity into fame by writing the next book in a world-renowned suspense series. To help her research, Julia connects with Kim Ribbing. More hacker than man, Kim bears a dark past that’s the very antithesis of the promising future she has planned for herself. They share an undeniable spark—yet it’s likely to implode. That’s the least of Julia’s worries. Hounded by publicity, Julia retreats to her cottage in the Stockholm archipelago.

Cuando una empresa especializada en limpiezas extremas entra en una vieja villa abandonada en San Sebastián, lo último que espera encontrar es un hombre degollado en medio del caos. Simón Aguado, un sintecho con síndrome de Diógenes, parecía invisible para todos... hasta que apareció muerto. La oficial Carmen Arregui, entre comidas familiares, compañeros impertinentes y el peso de la rutina, se ve arrastrada a una investigación donde los márgenes de la sociedad, la memoria y la compasión se entrelazan.

On the day Stockholm police officer Hanna Ahlander’s personal and professional lives crash, she takes refuge at her sister’s lodge in the Swedish ski resort paradise of Åre. But it’s a brief comfort. The entire village is shaken by the sudden vanishing of a local teenage girl. Hanna can’t help but investigate, and while searching for the missing person, she lands a job with the local police department. There she joins forces with Detective Inspector Daniel Lindskog, who has been tasked with finding the girl. Their only lead: a scarf in the snow.

There are excellent reasons why New York Times bestselling author Laura Lippman has won the Edgar, Agatha, Anthony, Nero Wolfe, and every other major award the mystery genre has to offer. To the Power of Three is just one of those reasons. Lippman’s brilliant and disturbing tale of three...

“Powerful….A gripping tale that is a mystery only in the same sense as To Kill a Mockingbird was….Brilliant, insightful, moving.” —Chicago Sun-Times There are excellent reasons why New York Times bestselling author Laura Lippman has won the Edgar, Agatha, Anthony, Nero Wolfe, and...

Kay Scarpetta, l'anatomopatologa più famosa al mondo, si trova a essere la riluttante testimone chiave di un processo per omicidio di grande risonanza mediatica: quasi un anno prima, il cadavere di April Tupelo, ex reginetta di bellezza, era stato ritrovato orrendamente sfigurato su una spiaggia della Virginia. Viene accusato del suo omicidio Gilbert Hooke, il fidanzato.

"Un cadáver abandonado en un pantano. Dos familias poderosas, una operación millonaria y el control de una ciudad en juego. Honor, venganza y corrupción. Cuando la inspectora Agulló acepta su primer caso, encuentra una investigación llena de secretos.

Er tötet aus Hass – und er macht keinen Fehler. Im Hamburger Stadtpark wird die Leiche einer jungen Frau gefunden. Sie wurde mit vierzig Messerstichen getötet, und in ihre Haut ist die Ziffer 1 eingebrannt. LKA-Kommissarin Laura Graf und der Fallanalytiker Daniel Krampe ermitteln, ohne jegliche Spur des Täters am Opfer und am Tatort. Eine Woche später wird eine Tote mit der Ziffer 2 auf dem Rücken gefunden, weitere sieben Tage später eine dritte. Jeder Mord wirkt bis zur Perfektion durchdacht.

Laura has found her calling - she was born to be a detective and is determined to prove it. The next case file on her desk turns out to be a bank heist, and it should be easy enough, but what starts off as a one-and-done job quickly begins to seem too by-the-book and oddly like a notorious series of deadly bank hits from years past dubbed Twilight. But it's a dead end - Twilight is only ever mentioned in hushed tones, and there's little to no history on it in the department. And then she receives her first sign, of many more to come, that her investigation is not welcome.

When former forensic photographer Miranda Rhoads moves to the seaside town of Lost Beach, she decides to make her living as a wildlife photographer, putting crime scenes behind her. But her plans are quickly upended when she comes across a couple sleeping in a canoe, entwined in an embrace. Looking closer, she realizes the man and woman aren't asleep - they’ve been murdered.

Witnessing a prison break, FBI agent Julianne Martinez is within seconds of death...before she's rescued by the one man she thought she'd never see again. She'd know her long-ago love, Brody Kenner, anywhere, even with a sheriff star on his chest. Years ago she left Texas and Brody, and had no plans of returning...until the trail of a missing agent brought her home to both.

Hillsborough, North Carolina is a town with a dark history, one that was hidden until investigative journalist Laura Chambers pulled it into the light. Nearly a year has passed since her deadly encounter with a serial killer’s twisted progeny, a brutal confrontation that left her physically and emotionally scarred. She’s ready to put the past behind her, but the past has other plans.

Investigative journalist Laura Chambers is back in her tiny hometown of Hillsborough, North Carolina, the one place she swore never to return. Fired from The Boston Globe, her career in shambles, she reluctantly takes a job with the local paper. The work is simple, unimportant, and worst of all, boring - at least until a missing girl turns up dead, the body impeccably clean, dressed to be the picture of innocence. Years earlier, 10-year-old Patty Finch left home and never made it back. But for the people of Hillsborough, Patty was just the beginning.

Il magistrato Elena Macchi, con a fianco il fidato commissario Torrisi, si ritrova a dover indagare su una serie di misteriosi omicidi, avvenuti nell’altrimenti placida provincia di Varese. Il tutto ha inizio con l’assassinio di una modella, Eva Borghi, vista poche ore prima in casa del pittore Claudio Murro. Un altro delitto, stavolta a Milano, porterà Elena a collaborare con la questura meneghina assieme a una psicologa e una criminologa del capoluogo.

Marie kann es kaum erwarten: Malcolm Melone, der neue Star am deutschen Schlagerhimmel, will im Beach Residence & Spa sein aktuelles Musikvideo drehen. Doch eines Morgens ist der Schlagerstar spurlos verschwunden. Gemeinsam mit den anderen Hotelangestellten und dem Produzententeam macht sich Marie auf die Suche und findet seine Leiche am Strand. Offenbar wurde er bei einem romantischen Picknick mit einer Champagnerflasche erschlagen.

Marie macht eine grausige Entdeckung: Die gut betuchte Gertrud von Timmenbach liegt tot in der Hotel-Sauna! Die Policia Nacional vermutet einen tragischen Unfall, denn die ältere Dame ist an Herzversagen durch Überhitzung gestorben. Doch Marie ist sich sicher, dass etwas nicht stimmt. Treibt ein Mörder sein Unwesen im Urlaubsparadies? Sie bittet den pensionierten Kommissar Christian um Hilfe, der eigentlich nur seinen Ruhestand auf der Ferieninsel genießen will. Gemeinsam macht sich das ungleiche Duo auf die Suche nach der Wahrheit.

Nobody is surprised when a fire erupts on a property owned by Frank Vinny, who’s been using the wooded lot for the highly flammable process of meth manufacturing - until two bodies are pulled from the wreckage.