Résultats pour "Angelique" dans Suspense

Als die junge Hamburger Nachlasspflegerin Friedelinde Engel zu dem Haus einer Verstorbenen geschickt wird, um das Erbe zu verwalten, scheint es ein Tag wie jeder andere. Doch dann entdeckt sie im Keller die Leiche eines Mannes. Während Hauptkommissar Nicolas Sander bei seinen Ermittlungen im Dunkeln tappt, führt Friedelindes Suche nach den Erben der Toten sie weit zurück in die Vergangenheit. Bald schon müssen Friedelinde und Sander widerwillig zusammenarbeiten, um die wahren Schuldigen zu finden.

Brought to you by Penguin. Ten years ago, in the depths of the Finnish winter, Detective Elea Baker’s daughter was taken—and never found. Now, in the quiet streets of Lincoln, girls are disappearing again. When one is found on the cathedral steps, clutching a chilling clue linked to the...

Enjoying the view from the mountain she has just climbed, Reece Gilmore sees a woman being attacked. But when authorities comb the area, they find nothing - no signs of struggle. No freshly turned earth. Not even a tire track. No one in town seems to believe Reece, except Brody, a gruff loner.

An activist attorney is killed in a cute little L.A. trolley called Angels Flight, far from Harry Bosch's Hollywood turf. But the case is so explosive - and the dead man's enemies inside the L.A.P.D. are so numerous - that it falls to Harry to solve it. Now the streets are superheating. Harry's year-old Vegas marriage is unraveling. And the hunt for a killer is leading Harry to another high-profile L.A. murder case, one where every cop had a motive. The question is, did any have the guts?

En la turbulenta Barcelona de los años 20 un joven escritor obsesionado con un amor imposible recibe la oferta de un misterioso editor para escribir un libro como no ha existido nunca, a cambio de una fortuna y, tal vez, mucho más.

A las faldas del Castillo de Santa Bárbara, en la ciudad de Alicante, aparece el cadáver desnudo de una joven. La nueva inspectora de homicidios, Clara Sánchez, se verá obligada a abordar junto con el inspector jefe Santi Blanes el brutal asesinato. Enfrentada con la complejidad del caso y sus fantasmas del pasado, la investigación se convierte en una carrera contrarreloj para dar con el asesino. Un crimen que esconde mucho más de lo que las apariencias sugieren, vinculado con un tiempo no tan lejano.

Amber. As the top performer at Angel Silk gentleman’s club, she’s seen it all, been forced to do things she never wanted to do. She’s tired of this life... but can she escape it? Lizzy. To the women at Angel Silk, she’s the strong queen bee, mother to the girls. But she’s hiding her own dark secrets - and if they come to light, her life could be destroyed. Jade. The newest dancer at Angel Silk, she’s innocent, beautiful... and trapped.

In The Angel Of Darkness, Caleb Carr brings back the vivid world of his bestselling The Alienist but with a twist: this story is told by the former street urchin Stevie Taggert, whose rough life has given him wisdom beyond his years. Thus New York City, and the groundbreaking alienist Dr...

Un espléndido y decadente palazzo arde en una pequeña isla veneciana donde se celebra un encuentro de la Liga de Libreros Anticuarios. Los cuerpos de los invitados, todos conocidos de Kraken, no aparecen entre los escombros, y se sospecha que su madre, Ítaca, estuvo implicada en el incendio que sucedió en idénticas circunstancias décadas atrás.

The past couple of years have been rough. At times, Rona has felt so much despair that she's wondered if it was all worth the struggle. Just as she is beginning to see a light at the end of the tunnel, another catastrophe strikes. Blindsided by the devious plans of an unseen enemy, she fears she may lose the only thing she has left: her daughter. Not one to stand down from a fight, Rona begins preparing for a battle that absolutely must end in victory. Though her connection has been a little weak lately, she prays that God will send her an angel to help her defeat her enemy.

In the mid twenty-first century San Francisco, a group of corpses is found chained together on the bottom of the bay. Retired police officer Louis Tanner must find the killer among a city full of serial murderers, cyborgs, and street-wise kids. This first book in the Carlucci series introduces famed police lieutenant Frank Carlucci.

After 15 years on the FBI’s elite Hostage Rescue Team, Barrett McCaffery is burned out and broken. He’s traded tactical raids for construction sites—honest work that doesn’t remind him of the people he couldn’t save. His marriage is gone, his faith shattered, and his bank account is circling the drain. Then a stranger makes him an offer he can’t refuse: two-hundred and fifty-thousand dollars to perform one more hostage rescue. The stranger’s boss is a father, and the father’s little angel has been kidnapped. It sounds simple—until Barrett realizes his employers left out a few crucial details.

Kendra Shaw was once an assassin for her government. Lethal and invisible, she worked in the shadows, hunting down terrorists all around the world. But after a harrowing mission in Iraq goes wrong, the pressure becomes too much for her to take, and she suffers a nervous breakdown. Kendra is sent back home, where she spends months recovering from the trauma. She thinks she is out of the game, but any peace is short-lived. One afternoon, Kendra spots a familiar face from her past - Ryan Hosseini, the lover she left behind years ago when she decided to serve her country.

Back from leave after her first closed case, Cassidy Clarke returns to the LAPD, ready to dig in. This time, homeless teens are disappearing. And it’s not because of social reform—they’re being targeted. Cassidy follows a lead to a charismatic grad student who leans on his charm and vast resources to lure vulnerable kids under his wing. But when the people who could expose him start turning up dead, she abruptly switches focus, racing to protect his potential victims instead.

Paige left the only life she’s ever known in Cardiff to move to Oxford, hoping to escape her cheating ex-boyfriend Rufus, and start anew. At Oxford, with some help, she swiftly finds a job as a research assistant to a retired yet eccentric professor, Hugh Eckland, and quickly discovers that the seemingly quaint atmosphere of her new home is only skin-deep, as unnerving secrets start to make their way to the surface.

In the small town of Bacon's Corner, powerful demons are working to ensnare the souls of the townspeople. A woman has been murdered, the Christian school is under attack, and the town is divided by a legal struggle. As heavenly beings rally to aid the faithful, gigantic evil ones are on the alert, looking for any sign of weakness. Each fast-paced chapter of this novel is filled with vivid descriptions of angels and demons. And the trials of the believers are no less absorbing. Richard Ferrone's dramatic narration highlights each test of faith and truth.

Angels Flight: Booktrack Edition adds an immersive musical soundtrack to your audiobook listening experience! * The New York Times bestseller that inspired the new season of hit original drama series BOSCH "A stunner, superbly paced." - Esquire Detective Harry Bosch is on a harrowing journey...

Noch einmal wird dem Hacker T-Rex eine Chiffre des toten Hackers Tron zugespielt - die bisher wir eine Reliquie von den bundesdeutschen Geheimdiensten gehütet wurde. Aber allerhöchste Regierungskreise brauchen die Unterstützung der genialsten Kryptographen, um dunkle (und verdammt reale) Verschwörer der deutschen Politik im Hier und Jetzt in ihre Schranken zu weisen. Im 23. Stockwerk eines Frankfurter Finanzimperiums finden sich die Antworten, die den finsteren Plan hinter dem geheimen Pakt der Verschwörer entlarven. Und die einer echten Majestät das Leben kosten sollten.

Paige wakes up, tied to a tree in the middle of a woodland, drugged and bruised. With no idea how long she’s been held captive, Paige must fight to survive. Paige and Leo work on a plan to escape their restraints and get free, but before they can, their captors return, and they must fight for their lives.

After years of open-water diving, Aaron and Margot have upped the ante. Not content to simply swim with pretty fish, the couple have taken up cave diving - climbing into the Earth in search of flooded caverns filled with adventure. Surrounded by icy waters and claustrophobic rock, where most people would only fear drowning, the newly engaged lovers find thrilling fun.