Child Crimes

For 500 years, the Cahills have been the most powerful family in the world. For 500 years, they've protected the source of their power - the 39 Clues. And for 500 years, they've kept their secrets silent. Until now. This extraordinary stand-alone novel cracks open the Cahill vault to tell the story of the most coveted piece of artwork in the world, a masterpiece that has been the target of seven separate theft attempts: Jan van Eyck’s altarpiece at Ghent.

This is a summary with key takeaways and analysis of Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood, television star Trevor Noah's memoir about growing up as a mixed-race child.

As the daughter of a Colorado County coroner, 17-year-old Cameryn Mahoney is no stranger to death. In fact, shes always been fascinated by the science of it. so shes thrilled to finally get some hands-on experience in forensics working as her fathers assistant. but Cammie is in for more than she bargained for when the second case that she attends turns out to be someone she knows the latest victim of a serial killer known as the Christopher Killer.

Im Museum of Natural History in New York findet man zwei grausam zugerichtete Leichen. Da man kurz vor der Eröffnung einer Ausstellung steht, will die Museumsleitung nicht viel Aufhebens um die beiden Toten machen. Doch dann werden weitere verstümmelte Leichen entdeckt, die immer von einem seltsamen Gestank begleitet werden...

When forensic psychologist Claire Britten started working with lawyer Nick Markwood on his South Shores project, she had no idea it would endanger her life - and the life of her daughter. But when the little girl goes missing from her South Florida home and Nick insists his longtime nemesis is to blame, Claire frantically follows the trail to the Cayman Islands, desperate to save her daughter before it's too late.

Police found the body of 16-year-old Calyx on her bed under a white blanket. They found her 13-year-old brother Beau in the family car covered up the same way. Both had two gunshots to the head. Both had been dead for hours. The only other person who had been in the home was their mother, Julie Schenecker. She told law enforcement that she could no longer tolerate her kids talking back to her. Was this a case of premeditated murder? Or a horrible tragedy fueled by a mental illness that had spun out of control?

Când Jack Reacher hotărăște să coboare din autobuz în Margrave, un orășel liniștit din Georgia, își închipuie că singurul lui motiv e să viziteze locul unde a murit marele chitarist de blues Blind Blake. E o zi ploioasă și tot ce vrea e să găsească un restaurant unde să mănânce și să bea o cafea. Dar în Margrave tocmai s a produs prima crimă din ultimii treizeci de ani. Iar Jack Reacher, străinul venit de curând în oraș, devine primul suspect. Așa că, la nici jumătate de oră de la sosire, este reținut și dus la închisoare.

Suffer the Children is very unique in its blend of science fiction, murder mystery, romance, and legal genres. The main character, Dusty Burch, is a former wrestler, now attorney, who finds himself deep in the middle of a psychic dream connection with a little girl who needs his help. He meets people around the country and world who share his same burdens. Together, they search for answers, but the secrets they uncover push them to the edge of morality in the name of justice.

On September 11, 2001, on a desolate beach on the outskirts of Copenhagen, police begin investigating the strange death of an unidentified woman. Surrounding the body are what appear to be offerings to the deceased: A book, a small noose, a dead golden canary, a linden tree branch, and a photo of the Kongslund Orphanage. As the police puzzle over their bizarre findings, the Twin Towers fall in walls of flame and the case is quickly overshadowed by the terror half a world away.

When the abduction of a nine-year-old child sends a small town into a frenzy, Detective Sally Lawson is tasked with finding the person responsible. But when evidence points to a janitor employed at the museum where the child was the last seen, Lawson isn’t sure they’ve caught the right man. Desperate to solve the case before another child disappears, Detective Lawson must uncover the truth before worried parents bring the town to the brink of chaos.

Es el fin del verano y Jack Reacher planea hacer un viaje épico que lo lleve desde Maine, en el extremo noreste de Estados Unidos, en diagonal hasta el sur de California, siguiendo el sol. Pero no va a llegar lejos. Un cartel junto a un camino rural anuncia un nombre que Reacher conoce pero donde nunca ha estado: el lugar de nacimiento de su padre. ¿Qué le hace un día más al viaje? Reacher toma el desvío.

For more than 200 years, the wreck of the Whydah (and the riches that went down with it) eluded treasure seekers, until the ship was finally found in 1984 by marine archaeologists. The artifacts brought up from the ocean floor are priceless, both in value and in the picture they reveal of life in that much-mythologized era, changing much of what we know about pirates.

A young girl is found behind a dumpster and more have been found throughout the city, prompting a reformed hit-woman, who is seeking to redeem her soul after the bad deeds she has done, to find out why. She takes on the deepening mystery of who is doing this and why this keeps happening while no one is doing anything about it. Now, it is up to Layla Wilson, once known as the best hit woman ever to do the job, to now find out why the system failed these kids.

La sœur jumelle. Puis la mère. Puis la petite fille. Puis le fils adolescent, et enfin le père. Le 24 mars 2022 une famille française se jette du septième étage de son balcon, face au lac Léman, à Montreux, en Suisse. “Suicide collectif”, concluent presque aussitôt les enquêteurs, malgré la présence de deux enfants mineurs.

What do you get when you mix some albino terrier fur and sand from Alum Bay? Timothy Pinkerton knows, and he’ll do anything to get his grubby hands on more of what he needs for his secret formula. Anything, including hypnotising the town’s residents and stealing their homes.

În "ținutul porumbului" din Nebraska există un mister sinistru… iar Jack Reacher se trezește direct implicat în el. Mai întâi, se pune rău cu clanul Duncan, care a terorizat și domină întregul ținut. Dar ceea ce nu-l lasă pe Reacher să plece este cazul nerezolvat, vechi de decenii, al unui copil dispărut. Cei din clanul Duncan vor ca Reacher să dispară – și nu încearcă să ascundă doar secretele din trecutul lor. Căci, oricât de periculoși ar fi, ei se află doar pe treapta de jos a unei adevărate rețele a criminalității, extinse pe o jumătate de glob.

După ce partenera lui dintr-o aventură mai veche îl abandonează într-o cameră de motel, Jack Reacher își reia călătoria fără o țintă anume și lasă norocul să-i aleagă calea. Ajunge astfel la un banal magazin de amanet unde îi atrage atenția un obiect ciudat: un inel de absolvent al Academiei Militare West Point – un trofeu greu de obținut și la care titularul n-ar renunța ușor. Și mai ciudat este că inelul descoperit de Reacher pare să fi aparținut unei femei.

When Claire Lucas is woken by her husband asking where their baby son is, she is dazed and confused. When she follows Darren into their child’s bedroom, she hears nothing but silence. No baby cries, no cute gurgles. The only thing left in Finlay’s cot is his beloved teddy bear. Finlay has gone. Detective Jessie Blake rushes to the family’s modern home in the rugged Scottish Highlands.

"Puoi lasciare l'esercito, ma l'esercito non lascia te. Non sempre. Non completamente." E infatti Jack Reacher deve tornare in servizio, richiamato dal dipartimento di Stato e dalla CIA. Qualcuno ha colpito il presidente francese mentre teneva un discorso a Parigi. Un solo colpo, sparato con estrema precisione da una distanza eccezionalmente lunga, un colpo che sarebbe stato letale se non l'avessero fermato le barriere protettive.

Eine hinreißend verrückte Kriminalkomödie. Papas gibt es in allen Formen und Größen – es gibt dicke und dünne, große und kleine, dumme und schlaue, laute und leise Papas. Aber keiner ist so wie Franks Papa Gilbert. Denn der ist ein berühmter Rennfahrer, der König der Straße, der Champion der Rennstrecke, von allen nur Gilbert der Große genannt! Doch nach einem schlimmen Unfall ist alles anders: Papa darf keine Rennen mehr fahren, und auf einmal sind Frank und Gilbert arm.