Bøger af Jonathon King

Max Freeman blickt auf eine lange Karriere bei der Polizei in Philadelphia zurück - bis eines Abends ein Fall zur Katastrophe wird und er in Notwehr einen Jungen erschießt. Zutiefst erschüttert hängt Freeman seinen Job an den Nagel und zieht sich in die Sumpfgebiete von Florida zurück. Doch auch hier holt ihn das Verbrechen ein und als er bei einer nächtlichen Paddeltour die Leiche eines Jungen findet, wird er selbst schnell zum Verdächtigen und muss auf einmal für seine eigene Freiheit kämpfen.Jonathon King arbeitete mehr als zwanzig Jahre lang als Reporter für die Sparte Verbrechen und Polizei für eine Zeitung in Philadelphia, in deren Zuge er unzählige Erfahrungen an Verbrechensschauplätzen, in Gerichtssälen, bei Verhören und Autopsien sammelte. All diese Erfahrungen fließen nun in seine Kriminalromane um den Ermittler Max Freeman ein. Für den Roman "Das Messer im Sumpf" wurde er 2003 mit dem Edgar Award für den Besten Ersten Kriminalroman ausgezeichnet.

When a pregnant judge is abducted, a PI follows her trail into the Florida Everglades in this novel by ';the master of the high-stakes thriller' (Michael Connelly). US district judge Diane Manchester has looked across the courtroom into the eyes of evil before. But today, as she presides over the extradition hearing of a notorious Colombian drug lord, she is also eight months pregnant. Her chair is uncomfortable, her robe is constrictive, and her due date is fast approaching. If she shows a single sign of weakness, Diane risks jeopardizing the biggest trial of her career and setting a vicious murderer free. In seconds, her situation takes a harrowing turn for the worse. Walking to her favorite lunch spot, Diane is grabbed off the street, thrown into the back of a white van, blindfolded, and threatened with death. She has no idea who her kidnappers are or what they want. Maintaining a strict code of silence, they refuse to give her even the smallest glimmer of hope. But Diane's captors have overlooked a crucial detail: Her husband, Billy, is the employer and best friend of Max Freeman, Philadelphia cop turned South Florida private investigator. Tossing off the rule of law, Freeman sets out to determine which of a rogues' gallery of suspects took Dianeand to save her and her unborn child before it's too late. From the author of the Edgar Award winner The Blue Edge of Midnight, whose ';descriptions of Florida's backwaters put him right up there with James W. Hall and Randy Wayne White' (Chicago Tribune), this is a mystery with ';the kind of clock-driven suspense seen in the best of Harlan Coben' (Booklist).

An ex-cop from Philly investigates the deaths of elderly women in a poor Florida community in this ';gritty, vivid, and suspenseful' thriller (Harlan Coben).When five elderly women are murdered in Fort Lauderdale, Max Freeman is determined to get to the bottom of it. His friend, the lawyer Billy Manchester, believes the murders are tied to a conspiracy to collect on the women's life insurance policies. But when Freeman uncovers a shocking betrayal, he soon realizes the gruesome plot reaches further than anyone thought possible. Now it's a race against the clock to hunt down the psychopath behind the murdersbefore the killer sets his sights on Freeman himself.This ebook contains an illustrated biography of the author featuring never-before-seen photos.

The Edgar Awardwinning debut of the bestselling Max Freeman mystery series: A tormented ex-cop's mission to solve a grisly murder and earn redemption for his dark pastAfter a shootout during a convenience store holdup led to the accidental death of a twelve-year-old, Max Freeman left behind the Philadelphia police department for a life in exile in the Florida Everglades.Since then, he has lived in seclusion, haunted by guilt, with the humid night and the nocturnal predators of the swamp as his only company. But everything changes when Freeman discovers a young girl's body floating in the muddy waters and becomes the prime suspect for her murder. To prove his innocence, Freeman must uncover the real murdererand confront his own tortured soulbefore it's too late.This ebook contains an illustrated biography of the author featuring never-before-seen photos.

Female bartenders are targeted by a killer in this PI novel by the author Michael Connelly calls ';the master of the high-stakes thriller.' After three young bartenders are murdered in Miami, and another goes missing in Philadelphia, private investigator Max Freeman is hiredby his ex-girlfriend Sherryto look into the deaths. He accepts the job grudgingly, especially since Sherry is convinced the prime suspect is a retired police officer who once saved Freeman's life back in Philly. Heading from Florida up north to his old stomping grounds, Freeman races to solve the case before the killer can strike again. But looking at the evidence objectively as he wrestles with his personal feelings for Sherry and his former colleague will be more difficult than he expected, in this mystery thats ';compelling from start to finish' by an Edgar Awardwinning author (The Miami Herald). This ebook contains an illustrated biography of the author featuring never-before-seen photos.

A Pinkerton detective is hired to protect a Palm Beach tycoon in this Reconstruction-era tale of luxury hotels, corruption, and murder. The Great Migration of the 1890s remade south Florida as Northern developers, former sharecroppers, and recent immigrants rushed to the state to seek their fortunes. Sitting atop it all was the Royal Poinciana Hotel, built on the shores of Palm Beach by real estate tycoon Henry Flagler. Nearby was the Styx, an African American community that housed many of the Royal Poinciana's 1,200 workers. Shortly after the hotel's completion, the Styx would be mysteriously burned to the ground in a tragedy clouded for generations by rumor and mythuntil now.Riveting and suspenseful, The Styx is a historical novel that brings to life the frenzy of Reconstruction-era Florida, the racial tensions simmering beneath the surface, and the events that changed one community forever.This ebook contains an illustrated biography of the author featuring never-before-seen photos.

Book three of the bestselling Max Freeman mystery series: Max seeks to uncover the twisted truth behind an eighty-year-old triple homicideIn the 1920s, three of Mark Mayes's ancestors left to help build the first road through the Evergladesbackbreaking labor from which they never returned. Now, decades later, Mayes has discovered letters that point to murder as the cause of their disappearance, and he hires Max Freeman to get to the bottom of it all. But as Freeman follows the trail of evidence, he incurs the wrath of the corporation that built the road, and finds that the murder case may not be as cold as everyone assumed. Freeman's search takes him to the heart of the Everglades to reveal the truth behind the murdersand put a stop to a cycle of violence three generations in the making.This ebook contains an illustrated biography of the author featuring never-before-seen photos.

With a sniper targeting Florida's worst criminals, a reporter must choose between revenge and the law in this thriller from the Edgar Awardwinning author. As a reporter for the South Florida Daily News, Nick Mullins has covered the worst of the Sunshine State's crooks and murderers. But the man he's obsessed with is Robert Walker, responsible for the deaths of Mullins's wife and daughter in a drunk driving accident. When a military-trained sniper begins murdering the criminals Mullins has covered in his reporting, he comes to a harrowing crossroads: Stop the sniper's reign of terror, or succumb to his own thirst for vengeance and allow Walker to become the killer's next target.This ebook contains an illustrated biography of the author featuring never-before-seen photos.

A PI's vacation in the Everglades is disrupted by a deadly hurricaneand dangerous criminalsin this riveting read by an Edgar Awardwinning author. The peace and quiet of Max Freeman and Sherry Richards's vacation ends abruptly when Hurricane Simone slams into the Sunshine State. Sherry suffers a devastating injury in the storm, and the two are left stranded in the swamp. But as they struggle to find help, they're thwarted by not only opportunistic crooks looking to benefit from the disaster, but also hired muscle from a powerful oil company hoping to protect a lethal secretregardless of who stands in the wayin this ';survival-of-the-fittest tale' by a master of mystery and suspense (Newsday). ';King vividly describes the hurricane's force and the different ways people respond to it. Sherry displays her grit and Max his ingenuity in a series of desperate gambles as the story builds to an explosive climax. This is a worthy addition to a Florida subgenre that includes Carl Hiaasen's Stormy Weather and Tim Dorsey's Hurricane Punch.' Publishers WeeklyThis ebook contains an illustrated biography of the author featuring never-before-seen photos.