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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....
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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...
3) 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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First, there was one dead boy and one missing teenage girl...then there was another...and another. Private Detectives Emily Fox and Michael Logan dig throughthe small town of Windsor in a race to return its loved ones.The single-mother detective, and her war-torn partner, hunt for the murderous kidnapperwho is stalking the formerly peaceful town.Evidence was left behind at the first scene, and an eyewitnesssaw just enough to get them started,but no...
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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......
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In this gripping thriller, Howard University is shaken to its core when four vibrant coeds are brutally murdered in what looks like ritualistic fashion.Amidst all of the chaos, an unexpected clue emerges when a rare and valuable Babe Ruth baseball card appears to be missing, and in its place lies only a note that reads: A Babe for my Babe...As the question marks start popping up around every corner turned, seasoned Metropolitan Police Department Detective,...
8) Payback
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After ten years away, ex-boxer Floyd Carter comes back for his brother's funeral, and to decide what's to be done with his other brother, the lumbering Ludo whose mental age is barely twelve. But if Ludo knows anything it is that Albie's death was not an accident. And if Floyd knows anything it is that he will have to sort things out.In case he thought he had a choice, he is quickly confronted by local hoods who claim that Albie owes ten thousand...
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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,...
10) Count Me Out
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South-east London gangland meets the alternative lifestyle of a travelling fair. Jet Heywood is a fairground boxer past his prime who, after a street brawl, finds himself nursing a head wound. His brother Scott has long wanted out of his dead-end life as a security van driver. When his van disappears with a two million pound payload Jet doesn't know whether Scott was victim or thief. But Scott's old gang knows – and they reckon Jet knows where he...
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Mike Blake walks out of the house one morning to find that his car is parked the wrong way round. He has never driven into a parking space in his life. Getting into the car, he realises that it is not his car, although the mileage is spot on. A short while later, when he arrives at work, he finds that things are vastly different to normal, and then he looks at the calender on the wall, and realises that he is in next week. He finds that there are...
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Maddening missing motive.Enjoying a hard-earned "life of Riley", Max Montford is crushed when his comfortable world suddenly collapses around his ears, first of all with a police bombshell that he is to be charged with complicity in his wife's murder, and then with an equally dangerous accusation of financial wrongdoing. Some unknown person, with a massive grudge, is targeting him, and he hasn't the first clue who it can be. Forbidden to enter the...
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A detective's genius bites back.Cnut's Saturday afternoon is disturbed by his boss, Politimester Alex Skanvik, with a request to investigate what has been reported as a suicide. A retired army oberst, now a hotelier, has died from a shotgun blast, and Cnut has drawn the short straw.He quickly realises that the oberst did not take his own life, and Nil Nilsen's death is only the first of a bizarre set of hotelier murders that create for the detective...
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Can you escape a cult that feeds on fear? Sixteen-year-old Jessica had always felt out of place. When she finds a mysterious stream on the dark web, it seems as if all the stars have aligned-finally, a place where she feels loved; a place where she's a part of a family. Before long, she's sucked into the dangerous world of Father Paul and The Silent Red Room Clan. Trapped in a murderous cult that is way crazier than she could have anticipated, Jessica...
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When ex-mercenary Max Iversson accompanies a nightclub owner to an ill-fated rendezvous in a deserted north London industrial estate, it turns out to be not so much a set-up as a bloodbath. Three men have been shot, the briefcase Iversson has been guarding is empty--and he wants to know why.
So begins a hunt for answers that will take him into direct conflict with Detective Sergeant John Gallan--and take both men into very dangerous territory.
16) Runt
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In every police officer's career, a time comes to take drastic measures-but how far is too far?Payden Beck has hit rock bottom before, and in his new precinct he's the omega dog again, put in a position that can only mean his end. A woman from his past risks her safety to help him, but she has her own score to settle. Can he trust her? More importantly, can he save himself while avenging her?EVOLVED PUBLISHING PRESENTS the fifth novel in the multiple-award-winning...
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A troubled detective.
A tormented serial killer.
Sundays in South Africa's capital city are dangerous for selected women.
As The Bathroom Strangler's frenzy escalates and the body count mounts, Nico van Staaden, the lead detective on the case, finds himself confronting his own demons as he struggles to solve the brutal murders.
But how many women will die in this deadly game of cat and mouse?
18) Junker Blues
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"Chris Kelsey hits another home-run with this fast-paced and enthralling mystery starring Emmett Hardy." –Sublime Book Review It's August 1974. The oil-producing states of the Middle East refuse to sell their oil to the United States, igniting a worldwide economic crisis. What's a catastrophe for some is, for the residents of at least one small town, an opportunity: Burr, Oklahoma sits atop a sea of oil. The embargo sparks an increase in local drilling,...
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Two separate murders put CI Littlejohn on a devious killer's twisting path in this long-running British mystery series.
Finlo Crennell, the former harbourmaster of Castletown, was reported missing one week ago. Now he's turned up in London, wandering the streets and suffering from amnesia. He has no recollection of where he's been or how he got here from the Isle of Man. When Chief Inspector Littlejohn is asked to escort the man home, he assumes...
20) What Goes Around
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Murder is always dark
A private investigator finds the dead body of a man being investigated by another investigator. A possible suicide with a lot of reasons not to kill himself, and other people who might want to do it for him.
A hard-boiled story of death and betrayal, with enough twists, enough double dealings to satisfy fans of Raymond Chandler.
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