Showing results for "Two Women" in Police Procedurals

Imperial Stout Layla Reyne spins off from her pulse-pounding Agents Irish and Whiskey books with Imperial Stout, the first installment in the Trouble Brewing series It’s a good thing assistant US attorney Dominic Price co-owns a brewery. He could use a cold one. Nic’s star witness has just...

No one is more shocked than Ginger Mitchell, former call girl, current PI, at how well this whole crime-fighting thing is going. In the short time since she returned home to Portland, she’s taken down an entire crime ring and exposed a corrupt police department. Not bad for her first year on the job. But it’s not like all that success made Ginger’s life easier. Hired hit men are after her. Darlene, the boss who killed her mother, is still at large. Ginger’s brother is missing.

In Shoot the Breeze, the first book of the series, a young woman turns up dead along the Mississippi River, and rising-star Detective Kate Rosetti quickly realizes it’s the work of a notorious cross-country serial killer. In the next book, Riddle Me This, Kate gets the news that infamous serial killer Ramone Wilkes has escaped from prison, and she knows that he's on his way to her.

As the country bakes under the relentless summer sun, a young doctor is found brutally murdered at his home in a picturesque Cambridgeshire village. Is his death connected to his private life - or his professional one? Dr Joshua Ainsworth worked at an all-female detention centre, one still recovering from a major scandal a few years before. Was he the whistle-blower - or an instigator? As Detective Sergeant Ferreira and Detective Inspector Zigic begin to painstakingly reconstruct Dr Ainsworth’s last days, they uncover yet more secrets and more suspects.

At first it appears a mugging gone horribly wrong: one man dead and a woman left in a coma one Friday night in Washington, D.C. The woman is Arlington police detective Frank Mancini's niece and lives in the boarding house run by retired FBI-agent-turned-landlady Ethel Fiona Crestwater. Ethel and Frank are old friends, and so she volunteers to investigate the crime on Frank's behalf, as his hands are tied by jurisdictional issues. But what appears at first a random robbery soon proves more diabolical.

DI Jan Talantire is called to a cottage in Ilfracombe, where the female occupant is found dead, impaled with a crucifix. The woman, who had been renting the house for a few months, is well known locally, but the documents at the house indicate her real name is Ruth Lyle. The name means nothing to the young PC who found her, DI Talantire knows this cannot be the body of Ruth Lyle.

The perfect family. The perfect house. The perfect life. All gone now. What could cause a man, when all the stars of fortune are shining upon him, to suddenly snap and destroy everything he has built? This is the question that haunts Sergeant Ryan DeMarco after the wife and children of beloved college professor and best-selling author Thomas Huston are found slaughtered in their home. Huston himself has disappeared and so is immediately cast as the prime suspect.

Weihnachten in Frankfurt. Eine junge Frau verlässt an Heiligabend spät ihre Familie, um ihrer Arbeit nachzugehen. In dieser Nacht zahlen die Freier erfahrungsgemäß besonders gut. Am nächsten Tag findet man ihre Leiche. Das Schicksal der jungen Frau trifft Julia hart, die eigentlich mit Hochzeitsplanungen beschäftigt ist. Nach ein paar Tagen meldet sich Peter Brandt, Julias Kollege aus Offenbach: Auch hier wurde eine Tote gefunden, ein Callgirl mit betuchter Kundschaft.

Kommissarin Heike Stein muss sich mit packenden, aber herausfordernden Mordfällen auseinandersetzen, die sie an ihre Grenzen bringen. Eine tote Frau im Park, ein vorgetäuschter Selbstmord und ein Toter auf einem Alsterdampfer lassen Heike keine Minute Ruhe. Und dann schwebt sie plötzlich selbst in Lebensgefahr.

And high-ranking members have taken an interest in FBI Special Agent Megan Luchek. Money Makes It Deadlier: Agent Luchek steps into high heels and deep danger when she gets assigned to investigate a bank. Revenge Makes It Sweeter: Megan gets a late-night summons to the hospital to speak with a gunshot victim. Christmas Makes It Chaos: Agent Luchek goes to Philadelphia for an antiterrorism conference only to face off against real terrorists. Treachery Makes It Tense: Megan gets an unlikely ally in the desperate fight to save Dan’s family from a madman.

A brilliant reporter, haunted by her husband's death.... A disgraced cop, tangled in a web of lies.... Two unlikely heroes, brought together by one unthinkable crime.... Listen to the first three episodes of this addictive series, brought together for the first time in one volume.

Un reconocido empresario de la ciudad, y aspirante a la alcaldía, aparece brutalmente asesinado junto a su esposa y la empleada doméstica en el jardín de su residencia. De manera simultánea, varias viviendas de lujo son asaltadas por alguien que deja una marca característica en la pared: el símbolo del euro dibujado en barro.

Oktober 1987: Aus der psychiatrischen Klinik St. Lars verschwinden Tommy Svensson, ein 23-Jähriger mit einer Lernbehinderung, und die psychisch instabile 17-jährige Ann-Louise Sparre, Tochter aus reichem Hause. Hinweise auf ein Gewaltverbrechen gibt es nicht, auch keinen Leichenfund. 35 Jahre später wird in der ehemaligen Klinik – das Gebäude ist längst zur Ruine verfallen – ein in eine Zwischenwand eingemauerter Leichnam gefunden: Tommy Svensson, gestorben an Herzstillstand aufgrund einer Überdosis Beruhigungsmittel. Jetzt ist es ein Fall!

A body is found in a car crash, but the victim was already dead.... Police partners, D.I. Calladine and D.S. Ruth Bayliss race against time to catch a vicious serial killer. The first two victims are American university students and both have livestock tags fixed to their earlobes. Who wanted them dead and what's the connection? The detectives piece together the forensic evidence and track down the witnesses, to reach a shocking conclusion.

When Felicity Springer is reported missing after a police training conference, the countdown to find her begins.... On her way home after an exhausting weekend, with colleagues she can’t wait to escape, Felicity notices something odd about the white van in front of her. A hand has punched through the car’s rear light and is frantically waving, trying to catch her attention. Desperate to help, Felicity dials 999 and calls it in. But whilst on the phone, she loses control of the car on the icy road, crashing straight into the vehicle ahead.

Detective Anna Travis is investigating the brutal murder of a young woman whose body was discovered in the Thames, brutalised and severed in half, a red flower in her hair. With the case bearing an eerie resemblance to the famous unsolved murder case of Elizabeth Short—known as the Black Dahlia—media interest intensifies, and fears of a copycat take hold. But with almost no clues, the case is slowly going cold. That is until the killer reaches out to the press.

Homicide detective Tracy Crosswhite has returned to the police force after the sensational retrial of her sister’s killer. Still scarred from that ordeal, Tracy is pulled into an investigation that threatens to end her career, if not her life. A serial killer known as the Cowboy is killing young women in cheap motels in North Seattle.

Winterferien in Åre. In der besinnlichsten Zeit des Jahres wird außerhalb des Dorfes eine Männerleiche gefunden. Das Opfer wurde schwer misshandelt. Doch der Mord gibt Rätsel auf: Das Opfer hatte scheinbar keine Feinde. Als in einem der umliegenden Dörfer die Frau eines freikirchlichen Pastors verschwindet, geraten Hanna Ahlander und Daniel Lindskog unter Druck. Die Gesuchte ist hochschwanger. Und sie braucht Medikamente.

A cold-blooded kidnapper has been playing a twisted game with a terrified Minnesota town. Now a respected member of the community stands accused of a startling act of evil. But when a second boy disappears, a frightened public demands to know: Have the police caught the wrong man? Is the nightmare continuing...or just beginning? Prosecutor Ellen North believes she’s building a case against a guilty man - and that he has an accomplice in the shadows. As she prepares for the trial of her career, Ellen suddenly finds herself swept into a cruel contest of twisted wits.

En olycka kommer sällan ensam... När resterna av en död människa hittas i motorverkstadens största maskin ser det till en början ut som en olyckshändelse. Men för Julia Nöjd blir bilden en annan då hon själv börjar undersöka olyckan. Som tidigare journalist och nyanställd på Fabrikens informationsavdelning, ställer hon alltför obekväma frågor. För sent inser Julia att hon hamnat mitt i maktspelet. Ett spel med höga insatser. Ett spel om liv.