Resultados para "Frank" en Suspense

La famosa pareja policíaca, Lene Jensen y Michael Sander, vuelven en un caso globalmente relevante en la modernidad. Cuando el geólogo jefe de Nobel Oil, Peter Holm, termina de analizar las pruebas de perforación más recientes en la estación geológica groenlandesa, parece que la explotación más lucrativa de la historia se avecina. Todo el mundo, desde las autoridades groenlandesas hasta inversores en el extranjero, quieren participar en este proyecto. Sin embargo, poco después de que Holm regresara a Copenhague, su cadáver es encontrado con golpes mortales en su cabeza.

Düstere Geheimnisse. In Seattle wurde eine Nonne grausam ermordet. Mordermittler Jason Wade setzt sich auf die Spur des Killers. Sehr bald muss er feststellen, dass ihn dieser Fall auch persönlich betrifft. Denn die Ermittlungen führen ihn in das Umfeld einer rätselhaften Einsiedlerin und ihrer Gefolgsleute – und mitten in ein düsteres Geheimnis. Und damit in die bösen Erinnerungen seines Vaters, der ebenfalls Ermittler gewesen ist. Gemeinsam stellen sich Vater und Sohn einer schrecklichen Wahrheit und einem tödlichen Wettlauf gegen die Zeit.

Ein guter Tag zum Sterben... Nicht weit von Seattle gerät die Studentin Karen Harding in ein fürchterliches Unwetter. Dann gibt auf dem verlassenen nächtlichen Highway auch noch ihr Wagen den Geist auf. Als ein Fremder anhält, um ihr zu helfen, ist die junge Frau sehr erleichtert. Zu spät wird ihr klar, dass der Mann sie offenbar schon länger beobachtet... Der junge Reporter Jason Wade wittert eine Riesenchance, als er vom Fall einer Studentin hört, die auf einem Highway spurlos verschwunden ist.

Der US-Präsident: Mörder, Macher oder Marionette? Er war der Außenseiter. Mit seiner Wahl hat niemand gerechnet. Oder etwa doch? Der neue US-Präsident Stephen Baker ist kaum im Amt, da droht ihm ein Blogger mit explosiven Enthüllungen – und wird kurz danach tot aufgefunden. Baker gerät unter Verdacht: hat er den Mord befohlen? Gejagt von Presse, FBI und einem Killer sucht Bakers Beraterin Maggie Costello nach der Wahrheit – und gerät auf die Spur einer perfiden Verschwörung ... Rasant, realistisch und erschreckend plausibel – Sam Bourne ist der Meister der Spannung.

After being gone for two decades, Maddy’s half sister, Emily, is back in town to settle their late father’s estate. Emily’s not the troubled girl Maddy remembers from their volatile childhood. Apparently, all is well. It can’t possibly matter anymore that Maddy married Emily’s first love, but the pictures Maddy finds on her husband’s phone tell a different story. Suspicions of an affair are hard to ignore.

Sui giornali non troverete nessun accenno all'"incidente". I governi dei Paesi coinvolti non hanno nessun interesse a rendere pubblica la faccenda. Inoltre, dato che l'"incidente" non è apparso sui media, in realtà non è mai avvenuto. Questa è la sua storia. Che cosa ci fa un ex terrorista a Colonia, mentre la città intera si prepara all'arrivo degli uomini più potenti della Terra, convocati per l'imminente G8? È la domanda che tormenta Liam O'Connor, fisico irlandese di fama mondiale, candidato al premio Nobel e autore di bestseller, arrivato in Germania per un tour promozionale.

Beautiful, homicidal Julie has one lethal solution for every problem. And now Nolan and his sometime sidekick Jon have gotten on Julie's “problem” list. If a pair of out-of-town hitmen can't do the job, Julie will do it herself.

Nolan was still alive; his wounds healed and his money was safe - all $800,000 of it. It was Nolan’s birthday, and he was sitting happy. Until Planner was killed. Planner was an eccentric antique dealer; Planner had the $800,000 in his safe. But now he was dead, and the money was gone. Caught up in the sizzling crossfire of double-dealing, danger, and death, Nolan was up against the “Family” again.

The onetime world-class thief Nolan - now happily gone straight with his own restaurant/nightclub - whisks his longtime lover Sherry off to Vegas for a trip to a wedding chapel and a honeymoon stay. But an eye-in-the-sky security cam at a casino spots Nolan, whose past catches up with him when he’s thought to be casing the joint. An old “friend” sees Nolan as the perfect patsy for a scheme to heist the weekly skim haul....

Nolan is a pro, a veteran of mob vendettas and decades of high-tension heists. All he wants in his advancing middle age is his slice of the American pie - a way to make capitalism pay without having to drag guns into it. But a bullet-scarred life does not come without its bad karma, and Nolan - and his young cohort Jon, whose own dream is to confine the violence to the comics he draws - often find themselves facing old enemies and new temptations.

The mob couldn’t kill him, the cops couldn’t catch him, and even time wouldn’t slow him down. His name’s Nolan...a shrewd, restless tough guy with a talent for theft. With a lifetime of heists under his belt and a bullet in his side, he’s ready to retire. And the Mafia’s eager to help him along...permanently. They think he’s got a debt to pay - with his life. But at all these years, they might be willing to settle for 100 grand instead. Nolan’s got to pull a bank job to try to save his ass.

Randy Stone comes upon Marty, a six-year-old boy who is running away from home with a $100 bill. This leads Randy to an attempt to prevent an execution.

Night is when the city comes alive full of promise. Randy stood on the corner watching the world go by, cataloguing each and every person and happening, when a car came by and clipped a guy holding a black case, knocking him over. Randy went to help him, but he was okay and disappeared into the street into a bar called the Glamour Palace. Randy followed him, realizing that he had the guy’s hat.

Katsuk, a militant Native American student, has kidnapped 13-year-old David Marshall - the son of the US undersecretary of state. He and his young hostage flee into the deepest wilds of the Pacific Northwest, where they must work together to survive as teams of hunters try to track them. Even as he struggles to escape, David begins to feel a certain amount of respect for his captor. What the boy does not know, however, is that he has been chosen as an innocent from the white world for an ancient sacrifice of vengeance. And Katsuk may be divinely inspired - or simply insane.

In the Arkansas Ozarks, old-timers spin tales of the Wowzer, a giant panther-like creature that decapitates those who wander too far into the woods. County sheriff’s deputy Jerry was raised on Wowzer stories, but they aren’t enough to stop him from carrying out his own business in the remote hills. Jerry’s more than a sheriff’s deputy; he moonlights as muscle for local drug traffickers, who sometimes need people to get hurt - or get dead. Fortunately, Jerry’s pretty good at his job.

It was a busy Wednesday night. Barnes on the city desk asked me to lend a hand, and I filled in for a couple of hours. I'd just finished taking notes over the headphones, when the switchboard buzzed me with a personal.

Charlie owed Joe Sligo $3000 from his gambling and Sligo’s motto was pay up or die. Charlie has a family and kids to think about and has been in debt for 6 months. Now he turns to Randy Stone for help. Randy Stone knows that the police are looking for Sligo and tells Charlie his only hope is to let the police know where Sligo is.

Two years after the firebombing that devastated the historic East German city, the suffering continues in the throes of a brutal winter. The wary and exhausted citizens scramble to survive, wolf packs of orphans scavenge for food, and Detective Max Heller is called to the scene of a savage murder. A Russian officer was stabbed to death, and not far from the frozen corpse is an abandoned backpack containing another man’s severed head.

Hamburg 1947: It is the year of extremes. After a bitterly cold winter of starvation, the bombed city groans under excruciating heat. And Chief Inspector Frank Stave is confronted with a new case. In the ruins of a shipyard, the corpse of a boy is found and Stave's hunt for the killer leads him into the world of "wolf children" - orphaned children who have fled from the Occupied Eastern Territories and are now united in gangs. When two more bodies are discovered Stave is under even increasing pressure....

Hamburg, 1947. A ruined city occupied by the British who bombed it, experiencing the coldest winter in living memory. Food is scarce; refugees and the homeless crowd into shantytowns and sheds. There is a killer on the loose, and all attempts to find him or her have failed. Plagued with worry about his missing son, Frank Stave is a career policeman with a tragedy in his past that is driving his determination to find the killer.