Resultados para "Flora" en Suspense

Susana Macaya, de padre gitano pero educada como paya, desaparece tras su fiesta de despedida de soltera. El cadáver es encontrado dos días después en la Quinta de Vista Alegre del madrileño barrio de Carabanchel. Podría tratarse de un asesinato más, si no fuera por el hecho de que la víctima ha sido torturada siguiendo un ritual insólito y atroz, y de que su hermana Lara sufrió idéntica suerte siete años atrás, también en vísperas de su boda.

Cuatro amigos y sus parejas deciden tomarse unas cortas vacaciones al norte del estado de Maine, en las inmediaciones de Clayton Lake. La región es una de las más deshabitadas de los Estados Unidos, pero el grupo necesita relajarse y reencontrarse después de varios años sin mantener el contacto. Todos ellos se conocen desde que estudiaron en el instituto de secundaria en Brooklyn.

El famoso psiquiatra Salomón Lewin ha dejado su labor humanitaria en la India, para ocupar el puesto de psiquiatra jefe del Centro para Enfermedades Psicológicas de la Ciudad de Londres. Un trabajo monótono pero bien remunerado. Las relaciones con su esposa Margaret tampoco atraviesan su mejor momento y Salomón intenta buscar algún aliciente entre los casos más misteriosos de los internos del centro.

El primer cadáver es el de un hombre desnudo, con la cara desfigurada y los ojos arrancados. Algo aterrador está ocurriendo en las montañas, un recién nacido ha desaparecido y una sombra misteriosa se mueve por los bosques. El caso requiere de todas las habilidades de Teresa Battaglia, comisaria de policía especializada en perfiles criminales que, todos los días, camina sobre el infierno. Su verdadera arma es la mente, pero esta la está engañando, su lucidez está en riesgo y la investigación, por tanto, también. Por primera vez en su vida, tiene miedo.

Betty Cox ha terminado su segundo año de universidad y la tensión con sus padres no deja de crecer. Los Cox son una de las familias conservadoras más influyentes de los Estados Unidos y el centro de todas las miradas de la alta sociedad de Houston, pero todo está a punto de cambiar. Después de un sábado de fiesta con su novio Robert, Betty descubrirá que sus padres han desaparecido junto a sus dos hermanos pequeños.

Coming from scandalous Florida treasure hunters and drug smugglers, Sloan McPherson is forging her own path, for herself and for her daughter, out from under her family’s shadow. An auxiliary officer for Lauderdale Shores PD, she’s the go-to diver for evidence recovery. Then Sloan finds a fresh kill floating in a canal - a woman whose murky history collides with Sloan’s. Their troubling ties are making Sloan less a potential witness than a suspect. And her colleagues aren’t the only ones following every move she makes. So is the killer.

Sloan McPherson and the Underwater Investigation Unit have discovered a van at the bottom of a murky Florida pond. Sealed inside the watery tomb are the bodies of four teenagers who disappeared 30 years ago after leaving a rock concert. To authorities, it looks like a tragic accident. To Sloan, it looks like murder. Every piece of evidence is starting to connect to a string of cold case vanishings throughout Florida. Clue by clue, Sloan navigates the warm, dark waters where natural predators feed, knowing that the most dangerous one is still above the surface - nesting and dormant.

When the man who date raped a friend is found not guilty, the women in her book group decide to take matters into their own hands. Mystery and true-crime writer Kate Clark Flora's fascination with people's criminal tendencies began in the Maine attorney general's office. Deadbeat dads, people who hurt their kids, and employers' acts of discrimination aroused her curiosity about human behavior. Her books include seven "strong woman" Thea Kozak mysteries and three gritty police procedurals in her star-reviewed Joe Burgess series.

John Puller non è semplicemente un agente speciale dell'Esercito degli Stati Uniti, ma la punta di diamante della Criminal Investigation Division, l'uomo a cui ci si affida per risolvere i crimini più complessi ed enigmatici. Questa volta, però, Puller è alle prese con un caso anomalo, dai delicati risvolti personali. Il cadavere di sua zia è stato rinvenuto a Paradise, una tranquilla cittadina della Florida, considerata un vero e proprio paradiso in terra dai numerosi turisti che ne affollano le incantevoli spiagge.

Thirty years ago, Elise and Nathaniel shared a horrific trauma that united them in grief. Now, grown up and married with a young family, they feel their worst nightmares are behind them. Until the day their daughter is abducted and murdered. Both Elise and Nathaniel lost their mothers to a notorious killer who manipulated innocent victims into taking their own lives. Could it be that "the Watcher" has returned for another round of the same sadistic game? Why now? And why are Elise and Nathaniel being targeted again?

EN EL EXTERIOR está Violet, una bailarina de ballet próxima a alcanzar la vida de sus sueños, vida que peligra con la aparición de una amenaza que podría revelar la impactante verdad de su gran logro. EN EL INTERIOR, dentro de las paredes del centro de detención juvenil de Aurora Hills, está Amber, encerrada por tanto tiempo que ya no puede imaginar la libertad. ATADA A ESTOS DOS MUNDOS está Orianna, quien tiene la clave para esclarecer los misterios más oscuros de ambas chicas.

Fernanday Julio tienen un amor enfermo. Ella es una joven universitaria de Monterrey que busca sentirse protegida; él, un poderoso narco. Su relación no sólo es violenta, sino obsesiva. El miedo de Fernanda le ha hecho aceptar el maltrato de “su hombre”,volversedependiente. Sin embargo, poco a poco ella también empezará a ejercer violencia como una necesidad para sentirse poderosa.

Lucy quiere escapar del territorio de su padre, un poderoso y temible político, que es también un prominente capo del crimen organizado en el norte de México. Su intento de escape no tiene un plan bien definido, por lo cual es capturada por Treviño, fiel esbirro del padre. Lucy no desiste, y en su ruta de huida va perdiendo casi todo: su cómoda vida, sus escasos amigos, sus hombres, su guardaespaldas... Todo, excepto su pistola. Pero eso es sólo el inicio: a sus escasos años habrá de conocer la degradación, la muerte, la miseria, quizás el incesto.

A man is dead, shot three times in his home office. But his computer has been shot twelve times, and when the cops arrive, his pregnant wife is holding the gun. D. D. Warren arrives on the scene and recognizes the woman - Evie Carter - from a case many years back. Evie's father was killed in a shooting that was ruled an accident. But for D.D., two coincidental murders is too many. Flora Dane sees the murder of Conrad Carter on the TV news and immediately knows his face. She remembers a night when she was still a victim - a hostage - and her captor knew this man.

The home of a family of five is now a crime scene: four of them savagely murdered, one - a sixteen-year-old girl - missing. Was she lucky to have escaped? Or is her absence evidence of something sinister? Detective D. D. Warren is on the case - but so is survivor-turned-avenger Flora Dane. Seeking different types of justice, they must make sense of the clues left behind by a young woman who, whether as victim or suspect, is silently pleading, Look for me.

FBI Special Agent Kimberly Quincy and Sergeant Detective D. D. Warren have built a task force to follow the digital bread crumbs left behind by deceased serial kidnapper Jacob Ness. When a disturbing piece of evidence is discovered in the hills of Georgia, they bring Flora Dane and true-crime savant Keith Edgar to a small town where something seems to be deeply wrong.

Charlene Grant believes she is going to die. For the past few years, her childhood friends have been murdered one by one. Same day. Same time. Now she’s the last of her friends alive, and she’s counting down the final four days of her life until January 21st. Charlene doesn’t plan on going down without a fight. She has taken up boxing, shooting, and running. She also wants Boston’s top homicide detective, D. D. Warren, to handle the investigation. But as D. D. delves deeper into the case, she starts to question the woman’s story.

The last thing Boston Detective D. D. Warren remembers is walking the crime scene after dark. Then, a creaking floorboard, a low voice crooning in her ear… She is later told she managed to discharge her weapon three times. All she knows is that she is seriously injured, unable to move her left arm, unable to return to work. My sister is Shana Day, a notorious murderer who first killed at fourteen. Incarcerated for thirty years, she has now murdered more people while in prison than she did as a free woman.

Seven years ago, carefree college student Flora Dane was kidnapped while on spring break. For 472 days, Flora learned just how much one person can endure. Miraculously alive after her ordeal, Flora has spent the past five years reacquainting herself with the rhythms of normal life, working with her FBI victim advocate, Samuel Keynes. She has a mother who’s never stopped loving her, a brother who is scared of the person she’s become, and a bedroom wall covered with photos of other girls who’ve never made it home.