Showing results for "Los Leones" in Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Naked and bloody, a seven-year-old girl walks into a bank in central Stockholm in broad daylight and gets away with millions. Leona Lindberg of Stockholm's Violent Crimes Division agrees to work on the case. With a long, distinguished history in the police force, she seems the perfect choice. But Leona is grappling with deep issues of her own - a gambling addiction, a strained marriage - that could jeopardize the investigation. As she struggles to keep the volatile pieces of her life under control, the line between right and wrong becomes increasingly unclear - and even irrelevant.

Oregon, summer 1983. A series of mysterious deaths shakes the coastal town of Harmony Bay from its peaceful sleep. Shortly after the death of his wife, Sheriff Cody is called upon to investigate numerous murders which all exhibit strange puncture wounds. Cody and his team expect the murders are committed by a serial killer, but it soon becomes clear something more sinister lurks behind this idyllic town, which becomes his worst nightmare.

Vicky Bauer's life is already complicated. Her brief career as a film scholar has been replaced by difficult stints as a substitute teacher. Vicky's husband is in a semicoma and her estranged father has suddenly become dependent on her. In the midst of this decidedly troubled existence a series of unrelated events further complicate Vicky's life. For some reason people who have caused Vicky difficulties are now the subjects of acts of violence. Moreover, Vicky has a new neighbour to whom she is extremely attracted.

Vicky Bauer is a woman who unwittingly gets involved in other people's business. Sometimes this gets her into serious trouble. Take Rachel for instance. When Vicky witnesses Rachel's abuse at the hands of her husband, Vicky offers Rachel refuge in her home. Weeks later, Rachel is found dead. Vicky is compelled to make sense of this young woman's story and to track down her killer.

While trying to save her marriage and stay sober, Vicky Bauer witnesses a murder, and when no one, not even her husband, believes her, Vicky must figure out what is going on before she too is killed.

Delilah Barrett is a head-turning beauty on a quest for justice. The former cop with a checkered past has made a career of recovering stolen rare books with her private detective firm. She's level-headed, smart, cool under pressure...and entirely unprepared for her new assignment. When a centuries-old book worth an astronomical fortune disappears from Philadelphia's Franklin Museum, Delilah is paired up with Henry Finch, a brilliant rare-book librarian and celebrated academic. Their orders: Go undercover as a married couple, and recover the book by whatever means necessary.

When one of his wife Paola's students comes to visit him, with a strange and vague interest in investigating the possibility of a pardon for a crime committed by her grandfather many years ago, Commissario Brunetti thinks little of it, beyond being intrigued and attracted by the girl's intelligence and moral seriousness. But when she is found murdered, clearly stabbed to death, Claudia Leonardo is suddenly no longer simply Paola's student, but Brunetti's case ...

On the eve of the Cuban Missile Crisis in Paris, 1962, Devereaux and Nordstrom uncover Soviet plans to ship nuclear arms. But when nobody acts after sharing his findings, Devereaux becomes the target of an assassination attempt and soon realizes the plot extends far beyond Cuba - and himself. A thrilling and well-paced novel filled with Cold War intrigue, Topaz features two agents on a journey around the world to save NATO and themselves.

Los Angeles, 1963: African American Korean War veteran Harry Ingram earns a living as a news photographer and occasional process server: chasing police radio calls and dodging baseball bats. With racial tensions running high on the eve of Martin Luther King’s Freedom Rally, Ingram risks ending up one of the victims at every crime scene he photographs. When Ingram hears a call over the police scanner to the scene of a deadly automobile accident, he recognizes the vehicle described as belonging to his good friend and old army buddy, the white jazz trumpeter Ben Kinslow.

Stuntwoman Dakota Sherrod is an adrenaline junkie. Leaping off buildings and running through fire is just another day at the job. Hence, when she sets her sights on Hamilton, she goes after him full-force. Their attraction is fierce, but he thwarts her advances at every turn. He's the strong, silent type who operates by a set of rules, but he'll soon realize she rarely follows rules.   

He comes to me through a lattice in a confessional booth in my church. He's brash, vulgar, and confessing to things that would send him to hell, and yet, I find myself intrigued by the mysterious man. His sinful words thrill me. His way of life, so different from my own, has me coveting excitement that's long been missing. The more I'm around him, the more I realize how long I've been deprived of so much, and the more my own deviance begins to emerge.

In vier Episoden erzählt Menger schaurige Geschichten, die unter die Haut gehen: Vier Geschichten über das Leben. Und das Überleben! Im Beichtstuhl. An der Bushaltestelle. Beim Zahnarzt. Zuhause. Die Figuren in seinen Shortstorys erleben Dinge, die nahezu jeden Menschen in Angst und Schrecken versetzen würden und sich in unseren Urängsten widerspiegeln.

Nizza, im Sommer – ausgerechnet hier, wo die Reichen und Schönen unter Palmen flanieren, prunkvolle Yachten ausfahren und den Apéro an der Promenade genießen, spült das Meer die Leiche einer jungen Frau in einem blauen Kleid an den Strand. Nachts gab es keinen Schiffsverkehr – was hat sich also auf dem Wasser zugetragen? Die Ermittlungen führen Commissaire Léon de Cavallier und seine zupackende Kollegin Nadia Bentaleb ins Innere der High Society, wo Geld und Macht eine unheilige Verbindung eingehen mit Sex, Drogen und Korruption.

The twenty-eighth mystery featuring Çetin İkmen and Mehmet Süleyman, stars of BBC Two's gripping crime drama series The Turkish Detective, available to watch on BBC iPlayer. When two women are found dead in Istanbul - one bitten by a snake in the slum quarter of Kuştepe, the other killed by...

Elisabetta Foscarini, Jugendfreundin von Brunetti und immer noch eine Schönheit, taucht eines Tages in der Questura auf. Ob Brunetti verdeckt ermitteln könne, wer die Familie ihrer Tochter bedroht? Konkrete Tathinweise fehlen. Wer sollte auch einer Tierärztin Böses wollen und einem Buchhalter, der für eine wohltätige Stiftung gearbeitet hat? Schon will Brunetti das Ganze als übertriebene mütterliche Sorge abtun, da kommt es zu einem Überfall, der menschliche Abgründe offenbart.

Descubre los secretos sobre el mayor descubrimiento arqueológico de todos los tiempos La tumba de Tutankhamón fue sin duda el mayor descubrimiento arqueológico de todos los tiempos. Lo que no es tan conocido es que entre los maravillosos tesoros se rumoreaba que había papiros que contenían...

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER"Absorbing history of an unlikely alliance.” - Kirkus Reviews From the New York Times bestselling authors of Ghosts of Honolulu comes their most harrowing true story yet. It's 1942, and New York City is at war. German U-boats are sinking ships just miles...

Segunda temporada de la versión única, emocionante y muy divertida de Sherlock Holmes, su infatigable Watson y la misteriosa voz interna que les acompaña. Todo muy de Sherlock Holmes.

Tercera temporada de la versión única, emocionante y muy divertida de Sherlock Holmes, su infatigable Watson y la misteriosa voz interna que les acompaña. Todo muy de Sherlock Holmes. Creada y dirigida por Mona León Siminiani, la lista completa de narradores incluye además a Pepe Viyuela, Enrique Martínez, Nacho Fresneda, José Gómez, Mabel del Pozo, Francisca Gonzalez, Rodrigo Poisón, Goizalde Nuñez, Samuel Viyuela, Erika Bleda, Héctor Checa, Carmen Mayordomo, Nacho Marraco, Jose Ángel Fuentes, Iñigo Álvarez, Antonio Muñoz, Elisa Chía, Edu Rejón, Iván Ugalde, Alvaro Ramos.

Libby Day tenía siete años cuando su madre y sus dos hermanas fueron víctimas de lo que los medios llamaron la masacre de la granja de Kinnakee, Kansas. Ella salvó la vida y testificó contra su hermano Ben, a quien señaló como el culpable. Veinticinco años después, el Kill Club -una sociedad secreta obsesionada con crímenes célebres- localiza a una Libby en franca decadencia y pretende que les ayude a escarbar en los cabos sueltos de aquella noche, quizá en busca de alguna prueba que absuelva a Ben.