Risultati per "Trudy" in Poliziesco, thriller e suspense

Ludovica Baroni era una commessa. Poi un matrimonio che sembra quello giusto e la sua vita cambia. Quanto e come non l'avrebbe mai immaginato. Da un giorno all'altro l'uomo che ha sposato, uno dei piú importanti commercialisti di Lecco, sparisce. Né la polizia né lei stessa - che fra lo sconcerto generale se ne va in vacanza sulla riviera romagnola - paiono molto interessati a cercarlo.

Ai piedi del Castagno dei cento cavalli, un albero secolare che cresce sulle pendici dell'Etna, due guardie forestali ritrovano il corpo di una donna brutalmente assassinata. La scena del crimine è sconcertante. Per il vicequestore Guarrasi, della Mobile di Catania, l'indagine si presenta subito complessa, se non altro perché sulla vittima non esistono praticamente notizie, quasi non avesse un passato.

Bruno Manera e Federica Pesenti sembrano una coppia felice. Lui è un ricco cinquantenne, lei di anni ne ha trentacinque ed è l'erede di una dinastia di imprenditori della "valle", operoso distretto del Settentrione dove dominano i maggiorenti, l'élite dei capitani d'industria che ha costruito l'ordine del duro lavoro per tanti, del profitto per pochi e delle menzogne per tutti. Su insistenza di Federica, Bruno accetta di trasferirsi in paese, varcando la frontiera invisibile della provincia profonda.

Samy steckt mitten in den Weihnachtsvorbereitungen und eine Christmas Party folgt der nächsten, als sie erneut die dunkle Seite Windsors kennenlernt. Die Burtons veranstalten kurz vor den Feiertagen ein rauschendes Fest, zu dem Samy und Cornelius eingeladen sind. Daher ist es kaum verwunderlich, dass er im Laufe des Abends tot aufgefunden wird. Weil die Reichen Windsors lieber unter sich bleiben, versucht die Polizei auf anderem Weg hinter die Geheimnisse der Partygäste zu kommen - und zwar mit der Hilfe von Samy und Cor.

In the waning days of the Catskills hotel era, Stanley and Rachel Roth, the owners of the Cuttman Hotel, were practically dynasty—third generation proprietors of a sprawling resort with a grand reputation. The glamorous and gregarious matriarch, Rachel. The cunning and successful businessman, Stan. Four beautiful children. A perfect family deserving of respect and loyalty. Or so it seemed.

 The tragic story of the murders of three women committed over three decades by one cold-blooded man in Maine's North Woods. Jennie Cyr disappeared in 1977. Jerilyn Towers vanished in 1982. Lynn Willette never came home on a night in 1994. Each woman had a relationship with James Hicks, who in 2000 confessed to murdering them, dismembering their bodies, and burying the remains alongside rural roads in Aroostook County. This is their story.

Samy Wilde, die in Windsor ein neues Leben beginnen möchte, kommt einfach nicht zur Ruhe. Während sie sich den schönen Dingen des Lebens zuwendet und am liebsten Yoga macht, wird ihr eine Stelle an der renommierten Universität von Oxford angeboten. Beim Versuch, sich Klarheit zu verschaffen, ob sie bereit für einen neuen Berufsalltag ist, stolpert sie (erneut) über eine Leiche. Als wäre dies nicht schlimm genug, handelt es sich bei der Toten um die Besitzerin des angesagten Windsor Yoga Studios, das Samy täglich besucht.

Gerade als Samy Wilde ihr neues Leben in Windsor zu genießen beginnt, fällt ihr ein Toter vor die Füße. Das passt ihr gar nicht, denn die Informatikerin war durch den Verkauf einer App zu Geld gekommen und möchte sich endlich einmal den angenehmen Dingen des Lebens widmen. Stattdessen wird sie selbst des Mordes verdächtigt. Als Frau der Tat beginnt Samy mithilfe ihres guten und etwas skurrilen Freundes Cornelius, ihre eigenen Recherchen rund um das Windsor Castle durchzuführen. Dabei werden beide mit Samys Vergangenheit konfrontiert.

A timely and penetrating mystery about the intersection of policing, racism, and the community—set in a city at its boiling point—from an author who’s been in the trenches and seen it all. A senseless act of violence. During a vigil calling for police reform, students from Spelman College...

“A fresh, gritty debut. Boyce unveils one of the best new series characters in ages. . . A book that combines fast-paced suspense with moving insights.”—#1 New York Times-bestselling author Lisa Gardner From an author with more than thirty years’ experience in the Atlanta Police...

From author Trudy Nan Boyce, whose police procedural debut was hailed as "authentic" (NYTBR) and "exceptional" (Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel), returns with a stunning prequel to the Detective Salt series, the story behind the case that earned Salt her promotion to homicide. At the beginning of her...

Allyson Jaymes has it all - celebrity, power and a glamorous marriage. Until her world is destroyed by the bitterest betrayal of all: her husband's explosive affair with her 19-year-old assistant, Tessa Dukes. Tessa's ambitions burn fiercely. Her chilling manipulation of fame and her steady destruction of so many dreams and ambitions lead all concerned into a fatal minefield of sexual obsession, psychotic jealousy and deadly treachery.

Recently widowed, Katherine Chambers is taking her young son to visit her husband's family when disaster strikes. The ship they are sailing on runs into a severe storm off Robin Hood's Bay on the Yorkshire Coast. The Whitby lifeboat goes to their rescue but the freak weather conditions mean that not only is the ship lost but the lifeboat crew as well. However, among the bodies on the beach, a survivor is found.

It is 1802, and when her beloved father dies, Lucy Mitchell's curiosity is fired by his last words: 'the de Northbys owe you'. Who are the de Northbys, and why do they 'owe' the Mitchells? Her mother says he was too sick and confused to make sense, but Lucy undertakes some investigations of her own.