Meg Gardiner

Michael Mann, guionista y director cuatro veces nominado al Óscar por El último mohicano, The Insider, Ali, Miami Vice, Collateral y Heat, colabora en su primera novela con la escritora ganadora del Edgar Award Meg Gardiner; un explosivo regreso al universo y los personajes de su famosa pelicula policiaca, con una historia completamente nueva que transcurre en los años anteriores y posteriores del iconico film. Un dia despues del final de Heat, Chris Shiherlis (Val Kilmer) se encuentra escondido en Koreatown; esta herido, medio inconsciente y tratando desesperadamente de escapar de Los Çngeles. Lo persigue el detective del Departamento de Policia de Los Çngeles Vincent Hanna (Al Pacino). Horas antes, Hanna habia matado al compañero de Shiherlis, Neil McCauley (Robert De Niro), en un tiroteo bajo las luces estroboscopicas al pie de una pista del aeropuerto de Los Çngeles. Ahora Hanna esta decidido a capturar o matar a Shiherlis, ultimo superviviente de los hombres de McCauley, antes de que desaparezca de la ciudad. En 1988, siete años antes, McCauley, Shiherlis y el resto de la banda recorren dando golpes la Costa Oeste, la frontera con Mexico y, por ultimo, Chicago; ganan dinero salvajemente y viven al limite.

Meet Jo Beckett - a forensic psychiatrist who profiles victims' lives to help solve their deaths.On a San Francisco street, Jo confronts a scene of pure carnage: four dead, five injured after a high speed pursuit. In the mangled remains of a BMW lies prosecutor Callie Harding, dead with the word dirty written in lipstick on her thigh. Why did Harding run from the police? Why did she crash through a bridge railing? Was it an accident? Suicide? Or murder?Jo is a last resort in difficult cases. But now she's on the front line, because Callie Harding isn't the first high flyer to go down and take others with her. And if Jo can't figure out why the prosecutor died, Harding won't be the last.Jo's about to discover how dirty some secrets can be.

Forensic psychiatrist Jo Beckett is called to the scene of a plane inbound from London to San Francisco. A passenger is behaving erratically, offering Jo cryptic clues from a shattered past: something about a missing wife and son...a secret partnership gone horribly wrong...and, most alarming, a deadly biological agent that no one can stop.

Gardiner, MegFinden. Jagen. Zielen. Toten."Ein Selbstmord ohne Leiche? Nicht in der Familie Delaney!" Als das Autowrack von Evan Delaneys Vater geborgen wird, denkt die Polizei zunachst an Suizid, doch von der Leiche fehlt jede Spur. Das FBI schaltet sich ein und vermutet, Phil Delaney konne sich ins Ausland abgesetzt haben, da er an geheimen Waffenentwicklungen arbeitete. Evan macht sich auf die Suche nach der Wahrheit und gerat bald selbst ins Visier des organisierten Verbrechens.Sie lieben Kay Scarpetta, Temperance Brennan und Sara Linton - dann sollten Sie unbedingt Evan Delaney kennenlernen. Finden Sie weitere Bucher von diesem Autor Aus dieser Kategorie

Dos asesinatos. Las víctimas llevan la marca del Profeta, un psicópata calculador que hace veinte años sembró el terror en la bahía de San Francisco y luego desapareció. Aquel asesino en serie destruyo al padre de Caitlin Hendrix cuando era una niña, ahora ella es policia y no piensa dejarle escapar. Aunque para ello tenga que asomarse al abismo.

With this breakout novel, the Meg Gardiner fan club is growing... View our feature on Meg Gardiner''s The Dirty Secrets Club. A string of high-profile murder-suicides has San Francisco more rattled than the string of recent earthquakes. Hired by the SFPD to shed light on the victims lives, forensic psychiatrist Jo Beckett makes a shocking discovery: all the suicides belonged to a group of A-listers with lots of money and plenty to hide. And soon Jo finds herself trapped in a nightmare from her past when she gets invited to join the club... The next suspense superstar. Stephen King A harrowing thriller. Jeffery Deaver

une mère qui a abandonné sa famille sans laisser d'adresse. une secte ultra-violente, les " guerriers de l'apocalypse ", décidés à mettre le feu aux poudres. une base de l'aéronavale en plein désert mojave où l'on stocke des armes nucléaires. une avocate à qui l'on a confié la garde d'un enfant. un petit garçon de huit ans qui va devenir l'objet d'un monstrueux chantage. quand l'irrationnel gouverne certains esprits, quand votre vie est menacée, seuls le sang-froid et une détermination sans faille pourront peut-être vous sauver... aucun amateur de frissons ne pourra lâcher ce roman avant la dernière page.elizabeth george.

RESUMEN

Sarah Keller is a skip tracer, tracking criminals who have gone on the lam. She's also a single mother to five-year-old Zoe, living quietly in small-town Oklahoma--until an accident sends Zoe to the ER, and their life changes in a heartbeat. Medical tests reveal a desperate secret Sarah has been hiding for years: Zoe is not her daughter, but rather a girl once rescued from a nightmare of murder, vengeance, and harrowing family ties she can't possibly remember. Sarah does. And someone wants to make sure she never forgets. Now Sarah must abandon her carefully constructed life and take Zoe on the run. Using her knowledge as a skip tracer to stay off the grid, she must remain one step ahead of her pursuers if she is to stay alive, save Zoe, and bury the past once and for all.

¿PUEDE UN ASESINO SER ENCANTADOR? En los últimos meses, han desaparecido varias mujeres en una zona del sur de Texas. La policía ha establecido algunos vínculos entre ellas: son jóvenes, guardan cierto parecido fisico y todos los presuntos secuestros se produjeron un sabado por la noche. La agente Caitlin Hendrix, miembro de la Unidad de Analisis de Conducta del FBI, sospecha que un psicopata recorre las carreteras de los alrededores de Austin a la caza de posibles victimas. Sus peores temores se ven confirmados cuando aparecen los cadaveres de dos de las mujeres buscadas, vestidas con camisones blancos y rodeadas de polaroids.

When Evan Delaney's father disappears, the cops think he's fled the country to avoid prosecution. But Evan is sure that Phil has been abducted or killed for reasons associated with his work for Naval Intelligence. As Evan hunts for clues, she is attacked by an armed man. The attacker ends up dead -- and turns out to be a federal agent. Now Evan is on the run, implicated in his murder. Then she is contacted by a sinister duo -- a Madam and gigolo mother-and-son-team who claim that Phil was mixed up in their very dirty business. Can Evan save her father's reputation -- and his life? And can Jesse save Evan? Time is running out !

When a young woman tumbles dead onto the beach, the police identify the body. It's Evan Delaney.Except that Evan is very much alive. It's her identity that has been stolen. And the thief has compromised more than just Evan's bank account. She has been scamming money from rich Hollywood wannabes - including a vicious drug boss. He wants his money back. From Evan. Soon she finds herself harassed by drug runners and suspected of murder. She must save herself - but to do that must escape a web of deceit that threatens to destroy not just her, but her boyfriend Jesse.

Evan Delaney, novelist and legal go-fer, is dressed as Diana Ross in order to crash a fancy-dress party and serve a summons, when she hears that Franklin Brand is back in town. Brand is the hit-and-run driver who sentenced Evan's lover Jesse to life in a wheelchair, and killed his best friend. Since the accident, Brand has been avoiding justice overseas; but if he's back, Evan and Jesse are determined to get him, helped by the dead boy's brother Adam.Brand had been a high-flier in Mako Technologies, a cyber-security firm, and this is where Evan starts looking. She quickly uncovers evidence that Brand was embezzling funds, and that Adam's brother knew all about it. So maybe that hit-and-run wasn't an accident at all?Then the policeman investigating is killed, and Adam and Jesse both come under suspicion.The plot has more twists, thrills and spills than a white-knuckle ride, and is complicated by the confused emotions of the main parties involved: Jesse feels a survivor's guilt; Adam resents the fact that Jesse is alive while his brother died. But there are more corpses - including a near miss for Evan herself - to come before the bad guys are finally brought to book.

Evan Delaney is a heroine of our times: a woman with a big heart, a quick tongue and a hot temper that gets her into trouble. She is shocked to discover that Tabitha, her ex-sister-in-law, has joined The Remnant - the Reverend Pete Wyoming's fanatical band of disciples. And that Tabitha is trying to regain custody of her six-year-old son, Luke, currently in Evan's care while his father is posted to the Naval Air Warfare Center. Then one of the Remnant is killed, and Evan's brother is the prime suspect. With her boyfriend, lawyer Jesse Blackburn, Evan tries to clear her brother's name and rescue her nephew. In doing so, she finds herself caught up in a wild plan to steal weapons, and a blazing inferno on a Santa Barbara hillside.

Michael Mann, lun des plus grands cinéastes contemporains, fait une entrée fracassante dans le monde du polar avec un premier roman explosif qui raconte lavant et laprès de son film iconique Heat. C