Showing results for "Organized Crime" in Police Procedurals

En la costa gallega, donde el mar esconde leyendas y las meigas aún caminan por sus calles, un asesino convierte sus faros en altares. Aine, una joven que vive entre la razón y la superstición, se verá arrastrada a un enigma tan oscuro como las aguas que chocan contra sus costas. ¿Te atreves a acercarte a sus acantilados? ¿Estás preparad@ para cruzar la línea entre el mito y la muerte?

Bloomsbury presents Blood Sisters by Graham Masterton, read by Lucianne McEvoy. Why would nuns need protection from a killer? In a nursing home on the outskirts of Cork, an elderly nun has been suffocated in her sleep. It looks like a mercy-killing – until another sister from the same convent...

Bloomsbury presents Living Death by Graham Masterton, read by Lucianne McEvoy. DS Katie Maguire and her team are stretched to their limit. A gang of dognappers is terrorising Cork. The city's drug trade is at an all-time high. Now a girl has gone missing – and all in the glare of the media...

Bloomsbury presents Red Light by Graham Masterton, read by Lucianne McEvoy. Should she catch the killer – or let them strike again? On a bloodstained mattress in a grimy flat, a man lies dead. A terrified girl kneels over his body. She has been trapped here for three days. It doesn't take DS...

Bloomsbury presents Taken for Dead by Graham Masterton, read by Lucianne McEvoy. 'One of this country's most exciting crime novelists.' Daily Mail Not even one of Ireland's best detectives can catch these killers. In a secluded cove just outside the reaches of the city of Cork, a woman wakes up...

After losing her sister to a drug overdose, Chief Superintendent Jo Howe is desperate to tackle the world of drugs that consumes the shadowy backstreets of Brighton. Operation Eradicate is her response, deploying undercover tactics to collapse drug circles while also providing treatment services to victims of drug abuse. But not everyone sees this as a positive development. The man behind Respite pharmaceuticals, billionaire Sir Ben Campbell, views Operation Eradicate as a threat to his business.

BESTSELLING AUTHOR COLLECTION Reader-favorite romances in collectible volumes from our bestselling authors. Undercover Connection by New York Times bestselling author Heather Graham Much to their mutual annoyance, FBI agent Jacob Wolff and Miami detective Jasmine Adair discover they’re both...

From the No. 1 bestselling author of THE MISSING AND THE DEAD comes the short novel: 22 DEAD LITTLE BODIES, plus two short stories: STRAMASH and DI STEEL'S BAD HEIR DAY, and a novella: THE 45% HANGOVER, all featuring his most popular characters – DS Logan McRae and DCI Roberta Steel. They say...

Investigative journalist Emma Hunter never thought she’d be a best-selling author. Especially not for a blistering exposé of the brutal horrors committed at a children’s home. All she wants is to return home to the anchoring salt air and solitude of Weymouth where questions still fester unanswered and a 20-year-old secret binds her to the beach.

Set on the coast of Sicily, The Safety Net is the twenty-fifth novel in the bestselling Inspector Montalbano series by Andrea Camilleri. ***Adapted for BBC4's Inspector Montalbano series*** Vigàta is bustling as the new filming location for a Swedish television series set in 1950. In the...

Mientras en Palermo se lleva a cabo el mayor juicio en la historia de la Mafia, don Roberto Luciano aprovecha la boda de su nieta para anunciar su decisión de testificar contra su despiadado enemigo, el hombre que le arrebató a su hijo mayor. Pero antes de cumplir su amenaza, don Roberto y todos sus herederos varones son brutalmente asesinados. Solo las mujeres de la familia sobreviven. Y lejos de rendirse, juran venganza. En un mundo dominado por hombres, descubrirán que la astucia femenina y la violencia pueden ser una combinación letal.

A tortured body is found in a basement. Drug dealing and people smuggling is on the rise. Then police start going missing! There seems to be no connection between the crimes, but Detective Caelan Small senses something isn’t right. Plunged into a new investigation, lives are on the line. And...

Rau und mörderisch - die Bretagne. Zwei Tote werden an die nordbretonische Küste geschwemmt: Flüchtlinge aus dem berüchtigten Lager in Calais "La Jungle". Was zunächst nach Routine für Ronan Prad von der Gendarmerie Maritime aussieht, wird zu einem brisanten Fall, als ein verschollenes Segelschiff geortet wird. Obwohl man ihn warnt, beschließt Ronan, zu dem Schiff zu tauchen. Nachdem er bei dem Tauchgang knapp einem Anschlag entgangen ist, findet er im Rumpf des Bootes weitere Leichen. Seine Ermittlungen reichen weit in politische Sphären.

Die Anwältin Rita Hendriks ist vom Schicksal einer jungen Frau aus Moldawien völlig erschüttert und möchte ihr helfen: Maria wurde als Sexsklavin gefangen gehalten und konnte ihrem Martyrium nur knapp entkommen. Doch kurz darauf ist Rita tot. Ein Fall für die engagierte Frankfurter Kommissarin Julia Durant, die weiteren ungeklärten Morden auf die Spur kommt.

Frank Bosman führt mit seinem Team vom LKA einen ziemlich hoffnungslosen Kampf gegen Arslan Aziz, den Kopf einer libanesischen Großfamilie, die das Drogengeschäft in Berlin weitgehend kontrolliert. Als die albanische Mafia aggressiv auf den Markt drängt und Arslans Bruder Tarik einen Konkurrenten ermordet, sieht Bosman die Chance, den ganzen Clan zur Strecke zu bringen. Doch die Festnahme endet blutig, und Bosman kommt schwer unter die Räder.

Un nuovo caso per il commissario Calligaris. A Rivorosso Umbro sembra non esserci mai pace. Il commissario Adalgisa Calligaris e i suoi fidati collaboratori, infatti, devono fare i conti con un nuovo omicidio. Nella frazione di Ponterullo, è stata uccisa Ercolina Ruzzolo, un’anziana vedova che viveva da sola. Sul cadavere, viene ritrovato un rosario. Dai primi rilievi tutto induce a sospettare che la donna conoscesse il suo assassino. E che gli abbia aperto volontariamente la porta.

Questi sei racconti, con protagonisti i quattro vecchietti del BarLume e il barrista Massimo, sono stati pubblicati per la prima volta in diverse antologie poliziesche di questa casa editrice. Trame varie e vivaci in cui fa capolino la chimica, primo amore di Malvaldi. Nessun luogo come un bar è più adatto a osservare la gente, per ascoltare e capire.

Steven Ross, a family man from a small midwestern town, has been arrested for murder. Evidence suggests he’s an accomplice of the sadistic killer Paul Offenbach. County district attorney Evan Quill believes in his heart that Ross is guilty, but as the trial unfolds, doubts emerge. He presses forward anyway, in a legal fencing match against a brilliant big-city defense attorney. Will Quill’s uncompromising beliefs put an innocent man in jail? Or will a misstep let a killer go free?

24 dicembre 1962. All’Istituto Santi Innocenti si stanno svolgendo le prove generali per lo spettacolo di beneficenza organizzato durante il periodo natalizio. L’iniziativa prevede anche un’esposizione di presepi e una mostra dedicata alla sposa sarda. Da quest’ultima, nel corso della mattina, viene rubata una fede d’oro in filigrana, appartenente alla nobile famiglia dei Molina di Villadoria. Le prime indagini indirizzano i sospetti del tenente Roversi, chiamato a occuparsi del caso, verso un piccolo ladruncolo, noto con il nome di Sorigghittu, che però nega di aver rubato la fede.