Resultados para "David" en Thriller criminal

La ciudad de Valencia se despierta una fría mañana de invierno con la noticia del extraño asesinato de una mujer. La disposición del cuerpo y las particularidades de la escena hacen que la policía se plantee que esa muerte no es más que el comienzo de un juego de pistas ideadas por el asesino que debe conducirlos a la verdad. La investigación del caso lleva hasta el Hypnerotomachia Poliphili, un extraño volumen del siglo xv, con páginas repletas de jeroglíficos y multitud de grabados con un contenido sexual nada habitual para la época.

El reino del irreverente y sarcástico Jackson Lamb está en Londres y se llama Casa de la Ciénaga, un vertedero al que van a parar los miembros de los servicios secretos que han cometido un error, ya sea olvidar un documento en un tren, despistarse en una ronda de vigilancia o volverse poco fiables a causa del alcohol. Sus colegas los denominan "caballos lentos", son los parientes pobres del espionaje británico y todos comparten las ganas de salir de allí a cualquier precio y volver a la acción.

Las vidas de Sean King y Michelle Maxwell, ex agentes secretos reconvertidos en investigadores privados, no atraviesan un buen momento. Además, Sean se ve forzado a investigar la muerte de un científico en la comunidad que se sitúa frente a Camp Peary.

John Puller es un combatiente veterano y el miembro más experto del Departamento de Investigación Criminal del ejército estadounidense. Su hermano, militar como él, cumple cadena perpetua por traición y Puller está empeñado en averiguar la verdad.

En lo alto de una montaña, en los páramos de Noruega, hay un viejo caserón habitado por un hombre solitario. Se llama Roy, es experto en pájaros, lleva la gasolinera del pueblo y en cada casa corre un rumor sobre él. Su vida gris se reabre con la vuelta de Carl, su hermano pequeño. No se ven desde que se fue a estudiar a Estados Unidos hace quince años, tras la muerte trágica de sus padres en un accidente de coche.

Il presidente degli Stati Uniti sa che è un incarico pericoloso e ad alto rischio. Se dà l'ordine, ha l'opportunità di eliminare una minaccia globale una volta per tutte, ma se la missione fallisce, affronterebbe sicuramente l'impeachment e le ritorsioni contro la nazione si moltiplicherebbero. Decide così di rivolgersi all'unica squadra che può fare l'impossibile: Will Robie e la sua compagna Jessica Reel. Insieme, le loro capacità come killer non hanno eguali ma non tutti i vertici militari sono d'accordo.

Former up-and-coming hotshot attorney David Adams left his glamorous corporate law firm to fight for the disenfranchised. With a caseload of petty offenses, a meager office in a crumbling building, and little in the way of compensation, David needs a real case. When he agrees to represent Rebel, David recognizes this will be the biggest challenge of his young legal career. The mentally unstable homeless man has been accused of murder, and the evidence of his guilt seems overwhelming. But it’s the victim who shakes David’s world: a county prosecutor.

María Paz is a young Latin American woman who, like many others, has come to America chasing a dream. When she is accused of murdering her husband and sentenced to life behind bars, she must struggle to keep hope alive as she works to prove her innocence. But the dangers of prison are not her only obstacles: gaining freedom would mean facing an even greater horror lying in wait outside the prison gates, one that will stop at nothing to get her back.

Will Robie è fuggito dalla sua piccola città natale di Cantrell, Mississippi, dopo il liceo, interrompendo tutti i legami personali senza mai guardarsi indietro. Fino a quando suo padre, Dan Robie, pilastro della comunità e giudice della città, non viene arrestato e accusato di omicidio. Nonostante il prestigio della sua posizione, la maggior parte degli abitanti di Cantrell lo ritiene colpevole.

A family is gunned down in the snow, but one of the children survives. Three years on, that child takes revenge, and the Snow Killer is born. But then, nothing - no further crimes are committed, and the case goes cold. 50 years later, has the urge to kill been reawakened? As murder follows murder, the detective team tasked with solving the crimes struggle with the lack of leads. It’s a race against time and the weather - each time it snows, another person dies.

Il quinto capitolo della saga Millennium. L'aver portato alla luce un intrigo criminale internazionale, mettendo in mano al giornalista investigativo più famoso di Svezia lo scoop del decennio, non è bastato a risparmiare a Lisbeth Salander una breve condanna da scontare in un carcere di massima sicurezza. E così, mentre a Mikael Blomkvist e a Millennium vanno onori e gloria, lei si ritrova a Flodberga insieme alle peggiori delinquenti del paese, anche se la cosa non sembra preoccuparla più di tanto.

An ambitious Stanford graduate, David Adams has begun a fast-track career at Austin’s most prestigious law firm. It’s a personal victory for the rising superstar - a satisfying reversal from his impoverished and despairing childhood. Now he has the life he’s always wanted: An extravagant salary, a high-rise condo, a luxury SUV, and no limit to how far he can go in the eyes of the top partners.

Having abandoned corporate law, David Adams is now the voice of justice for the city of Austin’s vulnerable outcasts. His new client is Parker Barnes, a trembling twelve-year-old runaway and foster-care poster boy arrested for petty theft. Dealt a rough hand in life, he reminds David of his own childhood. This should be a simple, if heartbreakingly familiar, case. Until the FBI muscles in. Parker is also a suspect in the murder of a federal witness. No matter how desperate Parker’s denial, David fears there’s so much more to the kid’s hard-luck story than he’s letting on.

Homicide prosecutor David Brunelle faces the most difficult case of his career. An innocent young girl is murdered in a heinous, unforgivable way. The only evidence against the killer is the full confession of his accomplice - another young girl he also victimized. But the accomplice is charged with the murder as well, which means that she has the right to remain silent. And she's so scared of the killer, she refuses to take a deal to testify against him.

Il quarto capitolo della saga Millennium. Continua la trilogia di Stieg Larsson! Da qualche tempo Millennium non naviga in buone acque e Mikael Blomkvist, il giornalista duro e puro a capo della celebre rivista d’inchiesta, non sembra più godere della popolarità di una volta. Sono in molti a spingere per un cambio di gestione e lo stesso Mikael comincia a chiedersi se la sua visione del giornalismo, per quanto bella e giusta, possa ancora funzionare. Mai come ora, avrebbe bisogno di uno scoop capace di risollevare le sorti del giornale insieme all'immagine - e al morale - del suo direttore responsabile.

Genevieve Callow, the FBI's top criminal profiler, is growing tired of her constant race against the clock. A quieter life seems possible—until a hike in the woods around the town of Roxobel leads to the discovery of a victim's body covered in runes on a bloody altar. Local law enforcement is outmatched and under-equipped, and the townspeople are terrified by the evidence of more rituals to come. First on the scene, Callow and her team are immediately assigned to the case, her short reprieve now interrupted by a cunning and sadistic killer who knows exactly who she is.

Caroline Adamson's future is looking up...until her mutilated body is found. Her ex-husband is the main suspect. But when one murder becomes three, Edinburgh faces up to the fact that it might have a serial killer in its midst. Could the answer lie with Schoolbook, the latest social media craze to hit the city? DCI Cullen is determined to prove himself and equally determined to find justice.

Izzy is cursed. Her highly developed empathic abilities allow her to read people's emotions with terrifying accuracy—and consequences. As a child, she sparked her parents' divorce by revealing her father's infidelity. As an adult, she has cut herself off from everyone. But now young girls are going missing, and the police have no suspects. And when Izzy sees her old school caretaker interviewed, she knows his story about when he last saw the latest victim isn't true.

Detective Kate believes that her own number is up when she finds herself staring at the wrong end of a double-barrelled shotgun on a sodden stretch of Somerset marshland. She’s on the trail of villain Lenny Stallard, who has just broken out of prison. He was serving time for the murder of the elderly wife of a colonel during a robbery at their country residence near Bridgwater. Revenge appears to be the motive, and for DS Lewis’s superior, it is a cut-and-dried case as the bodies of trial witnesses begins to mount up. But it’s all a bit too convenient.

Kate returns from a disastrous honeymoon, only to be plunged into a macabre murder investigation. A teenage girl last seen leaving a party at the height of a local scarecrow festival is found strangled and partially stripped in her own barn. The gruesome crime is an exact copy of the 150-year-old murder of peasant girl, Martha Tinney, alleged by superstitious locals to have been committed by a spectral scarecrow, nicknamed Strawfoot.