Showing results for "the-whole-truth" in Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Nicolas Creel, a super-rich arms dealer, decides that the best way to boost his business is to start a new cold war - and he won't let anything or anyone get in his way. As international tensions rise and the superpowers line up against each other, the lives of three very different people will never be the same again. As intelligence agent Shaw, academic Anna Fischer and ambitious journalist Katie James are all drawn into Creel's games, can anything stop the world from spiralling out of control?

Nicolas Creel is a man on a mission. As the head of a major arms vendor, he is plotting a ruthless plan to supercharge his company’s profits by triggering a new cold war – and he won’t let anyone stand in his way. Meet Shaw, a man with no first name: a shadow operative working for a multinational organization that seeks to keep the world safe from men like Creel. Desperate to rebuild her disgraced reputation and rise to the top of her profession, Katie James gets the break of a lifetime when she finds herself on the same path as the mysterious Shaw.

When an Oxford student accuses one of the university's professors of sexual assault, DI Adam Fawley's team think they've heard it all before. But they couldn't be more wrong. Because this time, the predator is a woman and the shining star of the department, and the student, a six-foot male rugby player. Soon DI Fawley and his team are up against the clock to figure out the truth. What they don't realise is that someone is watching.

Armed with more truth than Dahlia can stand, she squares off against her abuser and the mastermind behind her kidnapping, Bob, once and for all. Her feelings of vindication quickly fade as fingers point at her when Bob goes missing.

Anne Alexander is a successful solicitor, her life apparently happy and secure. Until she learns that her deceased mother has been keeping a terrible secret from her. Just as her family life is thrown into upheaval, she meets her next client - pop-star Chloe Robson, who has seemingly just murdered her husband. But is Chloe herself the victim?

Sie bestimmt die Regeln. Er könnte alles verlieren. Und einer von beiden lügt. An der renommierten Universität Oxford wird der schwerwiegende Vorwurf eines sexuellen Übergriffs laut. Das routinierte Team von DI Adam Fawley glaubt zunächst, dass sie derartige Geschichten schon oft auf dem Schreibtisch hatten. Doch diesmal sollten sie sich gewaltig irren. Die mutmaßliche Täterin: eine hoch angesehene, aufstrebende Professorin der Universität mit makellosem Ruf.

The prevalence of sex crimes has become one of the most urgent and most widely misunderstood subjects of our times. We are living through a sea change in our attitudes to sex crimes, yet we continue to get things badly wrong in the way we respond to them. Drawing on over 30 years' experience, Patrick Tidmarsh argues that we need to find a new way to understand, investigate and talk about these crimes. He forces us all to question our own prejudices and assumptions - about both victims and perpetrators.

In a deadly Icelandic snowstorm, four friends seek shelter in an abandoned hunting lodge. Miles from help, and knowing they will die out in the cold, they break in, hoping to wait out the storm until morning. But nothing can prepare them for what's inside. With no other option, they are forced to spend a long and terrifying night in the cabin: watching as intently and silently as they themselves are being watched. As the night darkens, old secrets spill into the light, and tensions rise between the four friends.

«Recordad a Konstantin» es el grito de batalla que recorre Estados Unidos. Un vídeo colgado en Internet certifica que este joven ruso ha sido torturado y ejecutado por el gobierno de su país.

Pocos casos criminales del México reciente son tan conocidos y a la vez mal comprendidos, incluso distorsionados por los medios de comunicación y seudoinvestigadores de las redes, como el ataque de Diego Santoy a la familia Peña Coss, ocurrido el 2 de marzo de 2006, en la colonia Cumbres, de Monterrey. Tras huir y ser capturado, Santoy admitió haber agredido a su exnovia Érika y asesinado a los hermanos de ella, Érik y María Fernanda, solo unos niños, además de secuestrar a Catalina, la empleada doméstica de la familia.

En un caluroso 22 de julio de 1975 en el Cortijo de Los Galindos, situado en Paradas, un pueblo de la campiña sevillana se cometió un terrible crimen en el que murieron cinco personas. Aquello supuso una verdadera conmoción para la España de la época. A pesar de decenas de años de investigación, el crimen jamás fue resuelto, dando pábulo a novelas, películas y a teorías disparatadas, donde casi siempre se acusaba a uno de los asesinados. Debido a la desastrosa investigación, hace ya más de 20 años que los crímenes prescribieron.