Showing results for "Searching for Adam" in Police Procedurals

With the ink still drying on her Quantico diploma, FBI Special Agent Allie Bishop finds herself thrust into her very first case. A series of gruesome murders has rocked her hometown community of Gig Harbor, WA, and Allie has been entrusted with finding the villain. She's spent years clawing her way out of her father's evil shadow. No longer the frightened young girl who stumbled onto his brutal crimes, Allie must uncover a sinister evil lurking within the corridors of her old high school.

A bloodied and bruised girl runs out of the woods and into the path of oncoming traffic. The police are shocked to discover that she's a missing schoolgirl they've been trying to find for the past three weeks. Traumatized by her ordeal, she's unable to tell them what happened to her. When the case involving the missing schoolgirl and the murdered woman is taken on by the newly-formed Murder Force, Detective Inspector Danica Summers is touched by the vulnerability of the victims and is determined to capture the monster who ruined their lives.

New Orleans has been quarantined, an unknown virus sweeping the city, killing 100 percent of those infected. The Center for Disease Control, desperate to find a cure, is approached by BioDyne Pharma who reveal a former employee has turned a cutting-edge medical treatment capable of targeting specific genetic sequences into a weapon, and released it.

Former detective Harper Adams is only days into sobriety when she realizes her mother’s car accident wasn’t an accident at all. The faded skid marks on the bridge. The drugs in her tox screen. The packed suitcase in the trunk, for a trip her homebody mother never mentioned. Something sinister happened—and Harper is determined to uncover the truth.

Detective Joe Lazarus is missing. The Dying Squad are on the case, but following reports of his sighting, signs suggest he may have fallen back into his criminal ways. A new drug is taking the world by storm. Spook allows the living to see the dead, but its effects are often fatal. The Dying Squad's visit to a Berlin nightclub quickly turns their search into an entirely more sinister case.

Detective Joe Lazarus works for the Dying Squad, solving crimes the living police can't. When the Generation Killer starts wiping out Manchester's innocents, Joe and his new partner Bits have mere hours to catch the murderer. A young woman's life depends on it. Joe's former partner Daisy-May has her own problems. Children are going missing in the afterlife, and she's the only one who seems to care. Her investigation uncovers a conspiracy so vast, it threatens both the living and the dead.

Gillian Roberts’ witty, literate Amanda Pepper mysteries are irresistible. Following the adventures of Philadelphia’s finest English teacher/detective, the books crackle with humor and suspense.

When Detective Inspector Joe Lazarus storms a Lincolnshire farmhouse, he expects to bring down a notorious drug gang; instead, he discovers his own body and a spirit guide called Daisy-May. She's there to enlist him to the Dying Squad, a spectral police force who solve crimes their flesh and blood counterparts cannot. Lazarus reluctantly accepts and returns to the Lincolnshire Badlands, where he faces dangers from both the living and the dead in his quest to discover the identity of his killer - before they kill again.

Detective Inspector Tom Brand has moved from London to his childhood home in the sleepy village of Relby to look after his elderly father and take a job as lead detective in the village's new police station. Before he has a chance to settle into his new life, tragedy strikes. Two twelve-year-old boys pretending to be detectives in a mysterious game disappear. Tom is thrown into the most important case of his career. Families are torn apart by the disappearance of the boys, and the only clues are frustratingly indecipherable.

When a young woman is found dead—shot through the heart with an arrow—it's up to DI Tom Brand and DS Kate Ryan to solve her bizarre murder. The residents of Relby village, still recovering from recent tragic events, are up in arms that the icy finger of Death has touched the community once again. With the press hounding them for information, and a DSI expecting a quick solution to the mystery, Brand and Ryan are working against the clock to make sure the killer doesn't strike again.

The dual forces of good and evil take center stage in the fourth installment in the Jimmy McSwain Files, one that finds the tortured, sexy detective battling an unforeseen enemy: happiness. Yet murder will soon rear its desperate chill, hurtling Jimmy into the highest society and the lowest of lives.

This collection includes books 1-4 in the USA Today best-selling Dead Cold series from two-million copy best-selling author Blake Banner: An Ace and a Pair, Two Bare Arms, Garden of the Damned, and Let Us Prey.

Czy urlop może zmienić się w koszmar? Takiego dylematu nie mieli komisarze Piotr Krzyski i Łukasz Majski, kiedy wraz partnerkami udawali się do ośrodka Raj w malowniczych Będkowicach. Tuż u podnóża majestatycznej Ślęży. Czy jednak pod tą sielanką nie kryją się demony, które tylko czekają na dogodny moment, aby wypełznąć i ukazać prawdziwe oblicze? A może listopad 2010 roku jest szczególnym czasem dla miejscowej społeczności? Czasem legend i historii.

For five long years, Detective Barnes has been hunting the killer of the person he cared about the most. Now, the one man who could have revealed the truth is dead. His charred and blackened body is all that remains in his burnt-out flat. A week later, a desperate, emaciated young woman hammers on the door of a late-night convenience store. She speaks no English—but it’s clear that she’s terrified—and running for her life. It's only Barnes who connects the two events. He and his new boss, Superintendent Samson Kane, team up to uncover the truth.

On a wild and stormy night on England’s south coast, ambitious young police constables Rutherford Barnes and Harriet Holden are doing the rounds when they see a burglar fleeing the scene of the crime. And the location is Harriet’s house. The ground floor is ransacked. Scrawled in red across one wall are the words: DEAD COPS SLEEP LONG. Then a few days later, Harriet’s battered body is discovered in a shabby seafront hotel. Newly promoted to detective, Barnes vows to discover who killed his partner, and why.

KIEDY CZŁOWIEK STANIE SIĘ DZIKSZY NIŻ PRZYRODA... W jednej z jaskiń Ojcowskiego Parku Narodowego dochodzi do brutalnego morderstwa. Zwłoki młodej kobiety zostały upodobnione do nietoperza – symbolu Parku. W dodatku należą do lokalnej działaczki i przewodniczki, pochowanej rok wcześniej, po śmiertelnym wypadku samochodowym. Dziwnym trafem wśród turystów zwiedzających jaskinię jest znany lekarz medycyny sądowej, Hektor Wist... jednocześnie stary znajomy komendanta miejscowej policji. Kiedy okazuje się, że patolog może być jednym z celów oprawcy, podinspektor Tobiasz Morawski decyduje się włączyć go do sprawy.

Łódź. Początek grudnia 2020 roku był wyjątkowo udany dla Wydziału Kryminalnego Komendy Miejskiej. Podkomisarz Adrian Perg wraz z partnerami – nieokiełznanym aspirantem Iwanem Brzostkiem oraz analityczką starszą sierżant Natalią Merc – rozwiązali sprawę tajemniczych morderstw bezdomnych mężczyzn. Wydawało się, że limit zbrodni w mieście wyczerpał się do końca roku.

Danowski dreht durch: Fast 24 Stunden war Hauptkommissar Adam Danowski in der Gewalt eines entflohenen Straftäters - ein fehlgeschlagener Einsatz, verursacht durch seine Kollegen Meta und Finzi. Nun muss er in einer Klinik kuren. Doch Therapie ist nicht so Danowskis Ding. Er schließt seltsame Bekanntschaften, schwänzt die Wassergymnastik und sitzt in der Beschäftigungstherapie ratlos vor einem Klumpen Ton. Vor allem eine Frau nervt ihn: Mareike Teschner. Sie hat genau die positive Glas-halbvoll-Art, die Danowski nicht ertragen kann.

In Hamburgs beliebtestem Spaßbad wird eine junge Frau verschleppt, am Sonnabendvormittag, zur absoluten Stoßzeit. Mittendrin Kommissar Adam Danowski und seine Tochter. Sie erleben die kippende Stimmung, die Panik. Die Entführung sorgt für großes Aufsehen. Weil das Bad immer wieder wegen sexueller Belästigung in den Schlagzeilen war. Und weil die Entführte Billi Swopp ist, eine bekannte YouTuberin, deren Videos aber längst nicht mehr so erfolgreich sind wie vor ein paar Jahren.

Es ist Abend, dunkel. Im Elbtunnel herrscht wie immer Stau. Plötzlich ein Schuss. Der Fahrer eines weißen Geländewagens sackt über dem Lenkrad zusammen. Der Täter entkommt unerkannt. Ein Amokläufer? Der Beginn eines Bandeskrieges? Alle Spuren führen ins Nichts. Und dann interessiert sich mit einem Mal ein amerikanischer Geheimdienst für den Fall. Hauptkommissar Adam Danowski gilt trotz seines jüngsten Ermittlungserfolges als unberechenbar. Auch diesmal geht er eigene Wege.