Showing results for "SARA" in Crime Thrillers

Kieran Murphy is an Irish mob boss and one of the most powerful men in Boston. When he walks me home, people step aside out of respect for him. He could have any woman he wants. So why does he have eyes only for me? Is it how he has to lift my chin with his fingers to keep my eyes level with his when he scolds me and how I cover my bottom instinctively when he tells me that I've earned a spanking? Or is it how I quiver at the thought of everything I'm too ashamed to beg him to do to me? Maybe it's all of those, but I'm pretty sure there's something else too.

A young British backpacker goes missing on the West Coast Trail. No one is sure whether she died or simply disappeared. Apart from Laura. Twenty years later, a body has been found. And there's only one person who could reveal the secret that Laura's been hiding all this time. But she knows that two can keep a secret. IF ONE OF THEM IS DEAD.

It's the hottest summer on record. Norfolk is parched. One steaming night an old thatched barn at Wild Thyme Farm is torched. The battle to put out the blaze rages. Detective Sara is on the scene when there's a horrifying discovery: there's a body in the embers. Sara and her team have been investigating a series of fires breaking out all over the county—but this is the first body. Accident or murder?

Detective Sara Hirst has moved from London to Norfolk Police's Serious Crimes Unit. Under the brooding skies of North Norfolk, Sara faces her toughest case yet and finds that great beauty sometimes conceals great violence.

Detective Sara Hirst has moved from London to Norfolk Police's Serious Crimes Unit. She wants to know the truth about her father, who has connections to the area. Her mother won't tell her the real story. A new job. A new place. Same old problems. Sara's first call-out is to a decomposing body discovered in a ditch on a local farm. How does the murder relate to a recent spate of thefts? Who wanted the victim dead? Then the case grows very personal.

It's a stormy December morning when seal-watchers find the body on the beach at Winterton-on-Sea. His clothes have been torn to shreds on the rocks. The bright-orange life jacket didn't save him in the end. Detective Sara Hirst races to the scene. The washed-up body turns out to be a deckhand who got swept overboard in a storm.

Al parco, seduti su una panchina vicino ai bambini che giocano, potrebbero sembrare due innocui vecchietti, Sara Morozzi e Andrea Catapano. Nessuno indovinerebbe che sono stati per anni i migliori agenti sulla piazza. A sorpresa, ora, i Servizi hanno di nuovo bisogno della donna invisibile e del cieco dalle straordinarie doti investigative. Si tratta di un'operazione in cui non possono usare mezzi tecnologici, solo l'intercettazione personale alla vecchia maniera, che i due maneggiano come nessun altro.

A volte un incontro inatteso spalanca le porte del passato. Succede a Sara mentre sta lottando per salvare la vita del piccolo Massimiliano, il nipotino colpito da una grave malattia. Due occhi riappaiono dalla nebbia di giorni lontani, Sara li conosce bene. Sono gli stessi che tanti anni prima aveva cercato in ogni modo di dimenticare. La donna invisibile è catapultata indietro nel tempo: Napoli, 1990. È caduto il muro di Berlino, gli stati satelliti dell'URSS sono in crisi e in Italia sono esplosi i movimenti studenteschi.

Teresa Pandolfi ha esagerato. Questo pensa chi l'ha rapita. La sfacciata, attraente bionda a capo dell'Unità segreta dei Servizi deve essere messa a tacere. Prima di farla fuori, però, serve la certezza che non abbia lasciato prove compromettenti per il loro sistema di potere. Intanto Sara è in crisi. Diverse come il giorno e la notte, lei e Bionda sono amiche, colleghe, rivali. Più ancora: sorelle. Dal giorno in cui non le risponde a un messaggio, Mora ha capito: Teresa è in pericolo di vita.

NYPD detectives Gemma Capello and Sean Logan are cutting through Grand Central Terminal on their way to a nearby pub when all hell breaks loose. Masked men gun down police officers and round up a group of commuters—including Gemma and Logan—taking their cell phones and binding them hand and foot in zip ties. They are members of the paramilitary group known as Sinister 13, seeking the release of their imprisoned soldiers. Their leader wears a vest covered with C-4 plastic explosives, threatening to detonate it if their demands are not met.

Un piccolo aeroplano turistico diretto in Sardegna si schianta nel mar Tirreno con a bordo diverse persone. Tra loro, un noto imprenditore che ha rilasciato la sua ultima intervista poco prima del decollo, con il vociare degli altri passeggeri sullo sfondo, tutti tranquilli e sorridenti, ignari dell'imminente tragedia. Quando l'agente dei Servizi in pensione Andrea Catapano sente le voci delle vittime - lui che non vede ma sa ascoltare meglio di chiunque altro - un ricordo nitido riaffiora.

Manhattan, 1923. Scandalous flapper Dot King is found dead in her Midtown apartment, a bottle of chloroform beside her and a fortune in jewels missing. Dot’s headline-making murder grips the city. It also draws a clutch of lovers, parasites, and justice seekers into one of the city’s most mesmerizing mysteries.

V.I. bor ikke mere i det fattige South Chicago, men kommer tilbage som traener for et skolebasketballteam på den high school, hun selv tidligere har gået på. Holdet består af utilpassede piger med alskens sociale problemer, nogle af dem teenagemødre. Isaer en pige, Josie Dorrado, tilskynder V.I. til at hjaelpe sin mor, der er ansat på en lille flagfabrik, som presses hårdt af en discountkaede.

Vics kvarter er ved at blive overtaget af "yuppier", der med deres bidselsko og sorte mapper vil gøre området mere eksklusivt. Skatterne ryger i vejret og almindelige mennesker som Vic, der lever fra hånden til munden, presses til at følge med - eller pakke sammen og forlade denne del af byen. Vaerst går det dog ud over gamle Hattie Frizell og hendes fem hunde, der i yuppiernes øjne er bydelens vaerste skamplet.

To gamle, sorte søstre bestiller Chicago-detektiven Victoria I. Warshawski til at finde den enes søn, der har vaeret savnet i flere end 40 år. En tilsyneladende håbløs opgave, som V.I. alligevel påtager sig. Undervejs får hun rodet op i en masse af fortidens synder, gamle skeletter rasler ud af skabene og spor fører tilbage til de dramatiske raceuroligheder i 1966, hvor Martin Luther King blev skudt.

Tres personas y tres destinos entrelazados con maestría en este maravilloso thriller acerca del tráfico sexual en Suecia, España y Europa. Con esta novela, Sara Larsson se confirma como una de las grandes voces del género en Escandinavia, a la altura de autoras como Camilla Läckberg o Anne Holt.

For Meg Jennings and her K-9 companion, Hawk, exploring the ruins of a deserted building is an exciting way to sharpen their skills without the life-or-death stakes they face as part of the FBI's Human Scent Evidence Team. But deep in the echoing rooms of an abandoned asylum, Hawk finds the body of an elderly woman. The victim couldn't have made her way into the derelict building on her own. Before 48 hours pass, Meg learns of three more cases of elders found dead in neglected urban structures. There's not enough evidence to link the deaths - yet. But Meg scents a pattern.

Selvom Vic ikke er meget for det, tager hun tilbage til sit gamle nabolag i det sydlige Chicago for at deltage i sit gamle basketball-holds genforeningsfest. Arrangøren hedder Caroline, og hun har et problem, som hun gerne vil have Vic til at løse. Caroline har aldrig mødt sin far, og med en mor, der ligger for døden, er det ved at vaere sidste chance. Alt imens Vic søger tilbage i venindens fortid, bliver hun også konfronteret med sin egen historie.

Vic bliver kontaktet af sin gamle grandtante Rosa, der er kommet i knibe. Rosa har brug for Vics hjaelp til at modbevise, at hun skulle have begået underslaeb for flere millioner dollars fra det lokale kloster. På trods af at Rosas kolde forstadshjem ikke just vaekker søde minder hos Vic, bliver hun modvilligt inddraget i redeligheden. Jo laengere Vic kommer ind i sagen, jo mere omfattende bliver den.

Da Vics faetter, den tidligere hockeystjerne Boom-Boom Warshawski, under mystiske omstaendigheder findes død i Chicagos havn, saetter Vic sig for at finde hans morder. Hun er overbevist om, at Boom-Boom ikke blot er snublet på den glatte havnemole, men at fordaekte gerningsmaend har villet have ham af vejen, da han lå inde med oplysninger om kriminalitet i rederiindustrien.