Résultats pour "Benjamin" dans Suspense

This lush and haunting novel tells of a city steeped in decadent pleasures and of a man, proud and defiant, caught in a web of murder and betrayal. It is 1833. In the midst of Mardi Gras, Benjamin January, a Creole physician and music teacher, is playing piano at the Salle d'Orleans when the evening's festivities are interrupted - by murder. The ravishing Angelique Crozat, a notorious octoroon who travels in the city's finest company, has been strangled to death.

In Vengeance, a bizarre suicide leads to a scandal and then still more blood, as Benjamin Black reveals a world where money and sex trump everything. It's a fine day for a sail, and Victor Delahaye, one of Ireland's most successful businessmen, takes his boat far out to sea. With him is his...

It is St. John’s Eve in the summer of 1834 when Benjamin January - Creole physician and music teacher - is shattered by the news that his sister has been arrested for murder. The Guards have only a shadow of a case against her. But Olympe - mystical and rebellious - is a woman of color, whose chance for justice is slim. As Benjamin probes the allegation, he is targeted by a new threat: graveyard dust sprinkled at his door, whispering of a voodoo death curse. Now, to save Olympe’s life - and his own - Benjamin knows he must glean information wherever he can find it.

In A Conspiracy of Paper, Weaver investigates a crime of the most personal sort: the mysterious death of his estranged father, a notorious stockjobber. To find the answers, Weaver must contend with a desperate prostitute who knows too much about his past, relatives who remind him of his alienation from the Jewish faith, and a cabal of powerful men in the world of British finance who have hidden their business dealings behind an intricate web of deception and violence. Relying on brains and brawn, Weaver uncovers the beginnings of a strange new economic order.

Sean Hudson thought nothing of hopping a fence to dig illegally for Native American arrowheads, spear points, and other artifacts. Did his thieving, trespassing ways get him killed? How else to explain the small pickaxe that was found sunk deep into his skull? Blanco County game warden John Marlin has dealt with these kinds of looters before, so it's no surprise when the sheriff asks him to assist with the investigation. Marlin quickly learns that this case - like the soil at a dig site - has many layers.

National bestselling authors Kiki Swinson and De'nesha Diamond light it up with two devious tales of players, hustles - and running out of time...

It’s 1835, and the relentless glare of the late July sun has slowed New Orleans to a standstill. When Hesione LeGros - once a corsair’s jeweled mistress, now a raddled hag - is found slashed to death in a shanty on the fringe of New Orleans’ most lawless quarter, there are few to care. But one of them is Benjamin January, musician and teacher. He well recalls her blazing ebony beauty when she appeared, exquisitely gowned and handy with a stiletto, at a demimonde banquet years ago.

All his life, Matthew yearned to be somebody—anyone but the forgettable face in the crowd. Then came the day the sleek red car pulled up, and Mr. Lee offered him the world. It was everything Matthew ever wanted. Until it became everything he feared.

When slave owner Simon Fourchet asks Benjamin January to investigate sabotage, arson, and murder on his plantation, January is reluctant to do any favors for the savage man who owned him until he was seven. But he knows too well that plantation justice means that if the true culprit is not found, every slave on Mon Triomphe will suffer. Abandoning his Parisian French for the African patois of a field hand, cutting cane until his bones ache and his musician’s hands bleed, Benjamin must use all his intelligence and cunning to find the killer - or find himself sold down the river.

Raised from birth to be a force for justice, Damian Stockwell has spent his entire life honing his body, mind, and fists to combat the evils of the world. He travels the globe on a quest to confront those evils and punch them in the face. At his disposal are a vast fortune, an endless array of gadgets and an army of friends including Bertrand, his loyal and lethal valet.

1945: la guerra ha terminado, y algunos alemanes deben huir del país. Tras un viaje agotador, un hombre llega a un antiguo monasterio franciscano que se alza frente a los Dolomitas. Allí hallará refugio y también sellará un pacto. Más de una década después, el doctor Quirke es «un animal herido» que se ha mudado a casa de su hija Phoebe tras la trágica muerte de su mujer.

Harmsworth. A remote, mist-shrouded island in the Russian Arctic. Archaeology Professor Callum Ross makes the discovery of a lifetime: a prehistoric ice mummy preserved for thousands of years by the sub-zero temperatures. Only, they didn't die of natural causes....

Incapaz de guardar reposo pese a sus alucinaciones y desvanecimientos, Quirke regresa al trabajo en la morgue de Dublín. Es a él a quien llaman cuando aparece un cuerpo en el interior de un coche calcinado: todo apunta al suicidio de un funcionario advenedizo, pero Quirke no puede quitarse de la cabeza la sospecha de que algo no encaja. La única testigo se ha esfumado, han borrado todo rastro de ella.

Raised from birth to be a force for justice, Damian Stockwell has forever trained to combat the evils of the world. Blessed with the physique of a demigod and one of the world’s foremost minds, he travels the globe on a quest to confront evil and punch it in the face. Now, on the eve of the future, Damian’s own creation has run amok causing terror at the 1933 World’s Fair. Sinister forces are at work, and Stockwell soon finds himself pitted against evil robots as he and his loyal valet, Bertrand, races against time to stop the Mechanical Menace.

Connor, Deion, Eric, and Rylee are four close friends who were simply out enjoying a winter night together. While driving them home, Connor misses his highway exit toward Greenview. When taking the exit to Savannah so they could turn around, the four notice a large unusual building that appears abandoned, even though the parking lot appears recently plowed. Against Rylee's judgment, the four decide to break in and look inside this abandoned facility. Little did they know that this precise moment would change their four lives forever.

Paul zieht mit seinem Sohn und seinem Enkel Graham los, um in der Wildnis von Oregon dafür zu sorgen, dass sein Enkel ein richtiger Mann wird. Dies gelingt seiner Meinung nach nicht in der Zivilisation von heute, weswegen er mit den beiden einen Jagdausflug in den Wäldern Oregons plant. Karen, die Frau seines Sohnes Justin, hat Bedenken, ob diese Unternehmung das Richtige für ihre beiden Männer ist.

Every object has a ghost. There is a small yellow backpack - half unzipped, mouth yawning to the pavement, contents strewn around it (a banana, an exercise book, a pair of scissors) - abandoned on a suburban footpath. Ten feet away, the rubber stamp of tyres, resisting clamped brakes, mount the curb and cut across the path. The tracks come to an end at a crippled stop sign. The street, a tree-lined suburban road dappled in late-afternoon sunlight, is calm. But anyone walking past can feel the ghosts: the prickle on the back of their necks that tells them something happened here.

El maestro irlandés, ganador del Premio Príncipe de Asturias, vuelve a sorprender con una magistral entrega de Quirke.

Cantora latina fugitiva se matricula em uma instituição de ensino de prestígio e faz amizade com Harlow, jovem estudiosa e um pouco sem jeito que vai trilhar um caminho que mudará a sua vida, rumo aos perigosos do passado suspeito da colega de escola. Nunca chove na Colômbia é uma história emocionante de amizade, amor e corações partidos.

Selbst in der Wildnis von Oregon haben es echte Männer heutzutage schwer. Freizeitparks verschönern die Gegend, das Jäger-Handwerk ist aus der Mode...