Showing results for "Saints" in International Mystery & Crime

Yoshitaka, who was about to leave his marriage and his wife, is poisoned by arsenic-laced coffee and dies. His wife, Ayane, is the logical suspect—except that she was hundreds of miles away when he was murdered. The lead detective, Tokyo Police Detective Kusanagi, is immediately smitten with her and refuses to believe that she could have had anything to do with the crime. His assistant, Kaoru Utsumi, however, is convinced Ayane is guilty. While Utsumi's instincts tell her one thing, the facts of the case are another matter.

Seventeen-year-old Mariana Villalobos's mystic gift creates a sensation in northern Mexico as hundreds of people undergo a personal religious epiphany. Even gangsters reject crime. Seeing revenues tumble in the drug trade, the Liones cartel issues a hit order on the girl.

CIA black-ops legend Christopher Wren pulls over on a Utah highway after three weeks on the road. An arbitrary decision he's about to regret. A biker gang attacks Wren, leaves him for dead and steals his truck. Now he's going to get it back. From a secret warehouse in the desert. Ringed with fences. Filled with human cages. As the body count mounts and a shocking national conspiracy unearths a connection to Wren's dark past, one thing is for certain. Justice will be done.

Paris, July 1999. Private investigator Aimee Leduc is walking through Saint-Germain when she is accosted by Suzanne Lesage, a Brigade Criminelle agent on an elite counterterrorism squad. Suzanne has just returned from the former Yugoslavia, where she was hunting down dangerous war criminals. Back in Paris, Suzanne is convinced she's being stalked by a ghost - a Serbian warlord she thought she'd killed. She's suffering from PTSD, and her boss thinks she's imagining things.

Facing a tight deadline on a computer security contract, Aimée responds to a telephone call from a stranger that leads her to an abandoned infant in a courtyard on the Ile Saint-Louis. She brings the baby home with her, calls her Stella, and awaits contact from the mother. But days pass, and no one reclaims the infant. Meanwhile, a group of environmental protestors is trying to stop the government from entering into a contract with an oil company notorious for pollution.

Die Tote, die zu viel wusste. Sandrine Perrot wird von ihrem Assistenten Adel Azarou zu einem ungewöhnlichen Tatort in der Altstadt von Saint-Malo gerufen. Bei der Toten handelt es sich um eine bekannte Influencerin und Radiomoderatorin, die sich mit ihren Meinungen und Themen in der Region einige Feinde gemacht hat. Der Mörder hat die Leiche und den Tatort nicht nur professionell inszeniert, sondern die Tat auch minutiös aufgezeichnet. Die hinterlassenen Spuren deuten auf mehrere Verdächtige hin.

1826. Aaron Salzberg descend d'une diligence sur la place de Bex. Il a quitté le royaume de Pologne où il est né pour venir travailler dans les mines de sel qui ont fait la fortune de cette petite ville suisse. 2020. L'inspecteur Andreas Auer est appelé en urgence : une prise d'otages est en cours dans les mines de sel de Bex, toujours en activité. Un wagon avec un homme solidement attaché à son bord sort de l'étroite galerie souterraine et s'embrase sous le regard stupéfait des négociateurs et des forces de l'ordre.

I’ve got a reputation to mend—a lifestyle to correct. Hell, I’m no saint; I like my women. But I want this job more than anything. Walking the straight and narrow is going to be hard, but being an invincible is even harder. But the hardest job of all: not torturing the deadbeat thug who left a beautiful and innocent woman high and dry.