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Krimi von Pete Hackett
Der Umfang dieses Buchs entspricht 124 Taschenbuchseiten.
Nachdem Mark Mossman zehn Jahre im Gefängnis verbracht hat, will er Rache. Der Wissenschaftler hatte seine Forschungen in Bezug auf Anthrax an Terroristen verkaufen wollen, war aber durch eine Zeugenaussage aufgeflogen. Nun hat er den FBI-Agent Milo Tucker in seine Gewalt gebracht und bedroht darüber hinaus ganz New York, wenn seine Forderungen nicht erfüllt werden....
2) Bang Switch
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Something stinks in Peculiar, Texas, and it's not just the dead cop Sergeant Zane Gwilly found shortly before midnight.
Kate Darby misses patrolling the streets of Peculiar, Texas, but she has unfinished business. And she can't have the cops knowing what she's doing.
What do the death of a drug dealer and (two months later) a cop have in common? That's what Kate and Zane need to find out.
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A phone call at midnight. A cocktail lounge on New Orleans's West Bank. A young woman who wants to photograph prostitutes and re-create Bellocq's famous Storyville portraits. And murder. These are the threads that lead private eye Neal Rafferty into a labyrinth of danger in the Crescent City... where crime is always hot, spicy, and full-flavored with suspense. The phone call is from his old girlfriend Jackie Silva. A loan shark named Bubba Brevna...
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A death at the ballet draws Reuben Frost into a backstage conspiracy While striding down Fifth Avenue, reveling in the beauty of the city, Reuben Frost loses his footing-and is caught by a ballerina. Hailey Coles is a slip of a girl, but her firm grip keeps the retired lawyer from crashing down to earth. Soon, Frost will have a chance to return the favor. When the stage of the National Ballet is darkened by murder, only he can ensure that the show...
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The Six-Chambered Heart, book 1 in An American Crime Trilogy, follows Maddock, a Denver private investigator returning from Chicago where he has meted out revenge for the killing of his buddy Charlie by a powerful crime family.
'the Semper Fi', book 2 in 'An American Crime Trilogy', finds the protagonist Maddock hurriedly leaving Denver, on his way south, eventually to Florida, after putting in motion the elements of a scheme designed to ensnare...
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It is Senior Sergeant Gordon 'Laney' Lane's last day at work before retirement. He has had a full life of watching changes occur with not only the police department, but in his life; not all of which are good. He is walking the beat he used to walk, back in the day when cops used to 'walk the beat,' in the rain, remembering his life to that point.'Laney' has an appointment. An appointment which, to him, will right a wrong; a serious wrong. He will...
7) Underground
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Reissue of the first book from the British crime writer whom Ian Rankin would later call 'The Godfather of British Noir'.The hero of this tense thriller has been lying low in the urban decay of south-east London, waiting to be called on for his 'job'. Now his enemies have smoked him out and it is time for him to act. He says he'll stop at nothing - and he means it. Is he a crook or a terrorist? What is he about to do? 'Britain seen through a gun-sight,'...
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Ein Krimi aus Brandenburg
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von Peter Wilkening
Ein Mord am Lehnitzsee in der kleinen Kreisstadt Oranienburg schreckt die Bevölkerung auf. Als dann noch der zweite und dritte Mord passieren, greift Panik um sich! Gelingt es den Protagonisten Kriminalhauptkommissar Werner Winter, Kriminalkommissarin Martha Hoffmann und dem Schriftsteller Friedrich Wilhelming, die Situation in den Griff zu bekommen und den Mörder zu überführen?
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Would-be district attorney Richard Cotton has hired private detective Neal Rafferty to keep tabs on his wife. His wife, Paula Cotton, has hired the cool and classy Lee Diamond to keep tabs on her husband. It's almost Mardi Gras in New Orleans, and when the masks go on they hide a multitude of sins - like bribery, corruption, and drug-running, not to mention Richard Cotton's particular secret. And when the bodies start showing up, Rafferty realizes...
10) Drawing Dead
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An ex-cop gambles with his life in Las Vegas in this mystery. Jake Morgan, who left the Boston police force and wound up in Vegas thanks to his taste for games of chance, finds himself hitting it off with a beautiful high roller in her sumptuous suite. Then an assassin enters and breaks the lady's bliss by popping two lead pills into her forehead. Before Morgan knows it, he's not only being grilled over the murder, he's also targeted by a femme fatale...
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Ein Gangsterboss wird vor Gericht freigesprochen, weil Beweismittel auf ungesetzliche Weise beschafft wurden und sich außerdem Zeugen plötzlich nicht mehr erinnern können. Noch auf den Stufen des Gerichtsgebäudes trifft ihn die Kugel eines Killers und für die Ermittler beginnt die Jagd nach dem Mörder. Denn dieses Attentat ist nur der Beginn einer Welle der Gewalt...
Ein Action Thriller von Henry Rohmer (Alfred Bekker)
Henry Rohmer ist das...
12) Dead Drop
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Jack Salvo teaches philosophy one night a week at a community college, but he pays his bills by working as an L.A. private detective. A wealthy woman hires him to find her wayward daughter Lillie, who has been missing for a week. Salvo figures the girl is probably hiding out with her friends. All he has to do is interview the friends, bust their stories, and deduce the missing brat's location. Salvo soon learns that her "friends" are somewhat parasitical....
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An Assassin. A High Rise. A Problem.Assassins hide in plain sight.Assassin Grace Zouch believes assassins need a moral code. She never kills innocent people. Grace faces a deadly problem.Grace faces her hardest kill yet.A suspenseful, compelling, stellar crime short story about death, love and enjoying life.BUY NOW!Also available in Mystery Short Story Collection Volume 3.
14) Kiss and Kill
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It's a game of cat-and-mouse between PI Steve Conacher and an irresistible man killer making her mark on Madison Avenue. When popular cartoonist Lawrence Lariar decided to moonlight as a mystery writer, creating comic book artist turned amateur sleuth Homer Bull was a natural. From the 1940s through the 1960s, Lariar continued to switch from sketching caricatures to sketchy characters, writing hardboiled crime fiction under his own name as well as...
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"When beauty's the prizeWhat mortal fears dying?"Tim Hawk plans his assassinations well, rehearsing them with cool detachment, and his professionalism makes him a rising star in Kazan's gang. Hawk's only other interest, an unexpected love for baroque opera, is kept concealed. When Kazan returns with his beautiful bride-to-be, Hawk presents the pair with a macabre wedding present. Other guests are shocked, but Kazan and Irena are intrigued. Then Kazan,...
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Cuando Florián Falomir descubre el cadáver de una muchacha en una playa de Cádiz, no puede imaginar hasta dónde le conducirá este caso.
La muerte de la chica estará relacionada con una baraja de plata dorada que perteneció a los Borbones. Concretamente, a Carlota de Borbón, primogénita de Carlos IV y hermana de Fernando VII. Dándose la circunstancia de que ese valiosísimo juego de naipes se acaba de subastar en una sala de Nueva York,...
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With Harris Bishop's daughter needing more treatment for cancer, it falls on Detective Nathan Price to lead the case of the Retirement Killer. Nathan while facing his own demons attempts to track down the killer of elderly members in various retirement homes. The cause of death is all the same, an insulin overdose. Who the murderer is, shocks everyone. On The HuntBook One: On The HuntBook Two: Always WatchingBook Three: Retirement Killer
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En mi negocio, te encuentras con todo tipo de personas; algunos, llamémoslos civiles, son ordinarios, lo que los políticos llaman "gente común"; luego están los personajes, los tipos peculiares, personas con extraños caprichos: lo que un viejo amigo mío podría llamar "personas que asustan a los caballos". Algunos, llamémoslos "los desesperados", vienen a mí porque se encuentran en una situación, a veces creada por ellos mismos y otras veces......
19) Triple Slay
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After television's hottest singing star goes missing, detective Steve Conacher follows a trail of glitter, glamour, bodies, and blood to find her. When popular cartoonist Lawrence Lariar decided to moonlight as a mystery writer, creating comic book artist turned amateur sleuth Homer Bull was a natural. From the 1940s through the 1960s, Lariar continued to switch from sketching caricatures to sketchy characters, writing hardboiled crime fiction under...
20) Naked and Alone
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Johnny Amsterdam, Manhattan's toughest private dick, takes it hard when his favorite nightclub chanteuse books a playdate with murder. When popular cartoonist Lawrence Lariar decided to moonlight as a mystery writer, creating comic book artist turned amateur sleuth Homer Bull was a natural. From the 1940s through the 1960s, Lariar continued to switch from sketching caricatures to sketchy characters, writing hardboiled crime fiction under his own name...
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