Ergebnis für "Salomé" in Krimis & Thriller

My future had always been set. Like a road paved by skilled builders, without bends or intersections, I walked the path my parents laid for me. My marriage to the future of The Outfit was all that mattered. I didn’t have a choice. Belonging to the world’s largest criminal organization wasn’t easy but belonging to him was. With Jacob, I’d got lucky and as a mafia princess, I couldn’t have asked for more. Jacob was beautiful and kind and the road to him was bright with sunlight and sweet with the fragrance of flowers. Until it wasn’t. Until it became dark with shadows.

Isabella "Bella" Moretti is known as a famous real estate heiress and millionaire brat. Most people don't know that her grandfather, a real estate mogul, is actually the head of the Italian mafia for their state. Those who do know, treat her like a princess. She's never wanted for anything. Even though her life sounds perfect, she finds herself stuck between the image she's created and the desire to not be that anymore. Enter Cormac "Cor" O'Connor, the new head for the Irish Mafia and rival to the Italian syndicate on the other side of the city.

Hana Lee has dreams, dreams of a life greater than one she was born into. From a young age, she only knew poverty and death, yet she still had an education and a chance to get out. That is, until her father took those dreams from her: He sold her to the Korean mafia in Seoul, Hana being his payment for the debt he incurred.

In this modern-day retelling of Salome, Herod is a drug lord. Herod’s life is mostly the same until he marries his business partner’s wife and her daughter comes to live with him. If his wife is not trying to destroy him, his new stepdaughter is disobeying at every turn. Everything changes when Salome comes home from college and he has to use her help to clean up her mother’s mess with a snitch. Things change even more when he asks her to dance for his birthday. Things go totally to hell for Herod when he promises Salome anything she wants if she spends an entire week with him dancing.

Rientrata a casa per assistere la madre con una gamba rotta, Katharina Schweitzer si ritrova suo malgrado ai fornelli della locanda di famiglia nella Foresta Nera. Nel frattempo nella valle infuria la protesta contro una pista di sci poco ecologica. Quando l'ambientalista Konrad Hils viene ritrovato morto, Katharina, pungolata dall'immancabile amica Adela, metterà da parte il grembiule e con la sua Panda scoppiettante andrà a caccia dei colpevoli.

Allie Garvey sta andando al funerale di un amico d'infanzia e, oltre a essere sconvolta dal dolore, è terrorizzata, perché in quell'occasione rivedrà le altre due persone con le quali condivide un terribile segreto. Venti anni prima, durante una serata a base di alcol e divertimento nel bosco, Allie e i suoi amici hanno ideato uno scherzo, sfociato tragicamente nella morte di un ragazzo. Nessuno di loro ha mai raccontato ad anima viva i fatti di quella sera, nella speranza di non essere scoperti. E così è stato.

Pace è una parola che la Bambina non concepisce. La sente usare qualche volta a scuola "quando la Maestra ordina: 'Fate la pace', che vuol dire stringere la mano a un Antipatico o addirittura uno Stronzo che durante l'intervallo ti ha pestato perché hai risposto con un calcio alla sua tirata di trecce. Macché pace. Le Bambine sono fatte per la Guerra". Con questo spirito battagliero e dissacrante, la Bambina affronta il mondo dei Grandi.