Résultats pour "Collector" dans Thrillers et romans à suspense

From #1 New York Times-best-selling author Nora Roberts comes a novel of a woman who needs nothing, a man who sees everything, and the web of deceit, greed, and danger that brings them together - and that could tear them apart… As a professional house-sitter and freelance writer, nothing ties Lila Emerson down - not her work, not a home, and definitely not a relationship. She spends her life moving from one job to the next, sometimes crashing at a friend's Manhattan apartment.

In his most gripping thriller yet, Jeffery Deaver takes listeners on a terrifying ride into two ingenious minds...that of a physically challenged detective and the scheming killer he must stop. The detective was the former head of forensics at the NYPD, but is now a quadriplegic who can only exercise his mind. The killer is a man whose obsession with old New York helps him choose his next victim. Now, with the help of a beautiful young cop, this diabolical killer must be stopped before he can kill again!

Near an isolated mansion lies a beautiful garden. In this garden grow luscious flowers, shady trees...and a collection of precious “butterflies” - young women who have been kidnapped and intricately tattooed to resemble their namesakes. Overseeing it all is the Gardener, a brutal, twisted man obsessed with capturing and preserving his lovely specimens.

Espiar a los vecinos es una mala costumbre..., que se vuelve peligrosa cuando lo que se presencia es un asesinato. Lila Emerson tiene dos profesiones que se complementan perfectamente: cuidadora profesional de casas y escritora freelance. Sus clientes le encargan el cuidado de sus viviendas, plantas e incluso mascotas cuando se ausentan y mientras que vive en el hogar prestado, ella aprovecha para soñar con la vida de otros y escribir novelas.

Lieutenant Dev Singh dutifully spends his days recording the memories of people who, struck with incurable depression, will soon have their minds erased in order to be more productive members of society. At night though, hidden in the dark, Dev remembers and writes in his secret journal the special moments shared with him—the small laugh of a toddler, the stillness of a late afternoon, the first flutter of love. But when the Bureau finds out that he has been recounting the memories—and that the depression is in him too—he is sent to a sanitarium to heal.

As a professional house sitter and freelance writer, nothing ties Lila Emerson down - not her work, not a home, and definitely not a relationship. She spends her life moving from one job to the next, sometimes crashing at a friend’s Manhattan apartment. And though she can appreciate her clients' extraordinary homes, their expensive collections, and their adorable pets, Lila has never longed for possessions of her own. Everything she has, including her heart, is portable. But when she witnesses a possible murder-suicide from her current apartment-sitting job, life as Lila knows it takes a dramatic turn.

Fauna Young owns a small computer repair shop. She lives in a townhouse downtown. She loves to dance with her two best friends in city clubs. From the outside, Fauna’s life looks like any other young professional’s in bustling Houston. On the inside, Fauna hides a secret. She can read people’s emotions as well as intense memories impressed on everyday objects.

While enjoying a leisurely ride from Temecula to see their beloved San Diego Padres play, off-duty detective sergeants Bill Dix and Steve Petersen find themselves in the middle of a jaw dropping firefight… in broad daylight. The two can't believe their luck as this is the second vacation they've taken together that's turned out horribly wrong.

For Izzy Graves, scrubbing blood out of bathroom tile is just another Tuesday. Crime scene cleaning pays the bills, and Edgar—her pet rat—is the only one waiting when she gets home. And she’s fine with that. Then her father dies—the Bone Collector, headline monster and part-time dad. His lawyer delivers a box: inside, a victim’s bone and a cryptic letter. It’s the first clue in a gruesome hunt for more bones scattered across the city. But Izzy isn’t the only one searching.

Bound by a deal forged in desperation, an immortal soul traverses centuries as a servant to forces beyond comprehension. His task is simple yet unyielding: to ensure every bargain struck is honored and every debt paid, no matter the cost. As he collects the remnants of humanity's most desperate choices, he wrestles with the weight of his eternal servitude, the morality of his task, and the elusive promise of redemption. But in a world where every deal has its price, the ultimate question lingers—what will you give for redemption?

After 20 years working for Pervenio Corp chasing bounties and extinguishing rebellions throughout the solar system, he’s on a routine pickup job hunting a wealthy offworlder heir who ran away from home. But when a mad scientist gets his hands on the boy, Malcolm finds himself caught up in a twisted plot to develop working androids.

DON'T MISS THE NBC TELEVISION SERIES LINCOLN RHYME: HUNT FOR THE BONE COLLECTOR The first novel in the New York Times bestselling series featuring forensic detective Lincoln Rhyme—from the author of The Never Game. “Lightning-paced…a breakneck thrill ride.”—The Wall Street Journal...

Max Travers is an English teacher in Japan. When his manipulative boss begins swindling the unsuspecting parents of his students, Max must retrieve his passport to return home. Max sneaks into her office only to stumble upon a burglary in progress. Max barely escapes but accidentally takes a strange diary bound in leather and embossed with a strange seal. Little does Max know that this diary has been hidden for over half a century, and its secrets could topple some of Japan's most powerful people and rewrite the history of the royal family.

It's the summer of 1922, and 19-year-old Paulien Mertens finds herself in Paris - broke, disowned, and completely alone. Everyone in Belgium, including her own family, believes she stole millions in a sophisticated con game perpetrated by her then-fiance, George Everard. To protect herself from the law and the wrath of those who lost everything, she creates a new identity, a Frenchwoman named Vivienne Gregsby, and sets out to recover her father's art collection, prove her innocence - and exact revenge on George.

After losing her partner in the line of duty, Agent Sidney Shaw is forced to team up with a renegade bounty hunter. And she doesn’t like it. John Smoke—an incarcerated wild card—is released into her custody, only to push her vaunted training to the limits and toss the FBI playbook out. But a vast hidden network of criminals with the terrifying ability to shape-shift into monsters is spreading its supernatural sickness in the very fabric of human society. Innocents end up dead or missing.

Eccentric billionaire Tom Tennyson has a score to settle. As a boy, his father took him on a hunting trip to the Himalayas. When things went horribly wrong, the encounter left him deeply scarred.

The husband of a naturist couple is plagued by nightmares of murdering young women. "But they're just dreams," he tells himself and his wife until he recognizes the murder victim in a local news story as someone from his latest nightmare. Now those dreams threaten to send him to Texas's death row.

Apocalypsis - die komplette dritte Staffel. Zwei parallele, fast identische Welten. Die eine schreibt das Jahr 2011, die andere das Jahr 2013. 2011 steht die Welt am Rande des Untergangs - die Welt 2013 dagegen ahnt nichts von der Apokalypse. 2011: Als Franz Laurenz den Mord an Edward Kelly live im Fernsehen miterlebt, fliegt er umgehend nach Rom zurück. Erneut als Papst Johannes Paul III. bestätigt, beginnt Franz Laurenz mit den Vorbereitungen, die Menschheit vor der Apokalypse zu retten. Gleichzeitig sucht Maria in Jerusalem mit unerwarteter Unterstützung nach der Büchse der Pandora. Ebenso wie ein dämonisches Kind namens Raymond. 2013: Der Collegeprofessor Peter Adam hat apokalyptische Visionen. Als seine Frau und seine kleine Tochter Maya bei einem Flugzeugabsturz ums Leben kommen, eröffnet ihm sein Bruder Nikolas, dass ihr Tod im Zusammenhang mit den Aktivitäten eines okkulten Ordens stehe.

Der Journalist Peter Adam erwacht im Kölner Dom - ohne Erinnerung daran, was in den letzten Tagen geschehen ist. Ringsum hebt sich der Boden, die Hölle tut sich auf, Menschen stehen in Flammen. Hat die Zeit der Apokalypse begonnen? Selbst der Papst im fernen Rom, der sich Petrus II. nennt, scheint von einem Dämon besessen zu sein und tut nichts, um das drohende Verhängnis abzuwenden. Die letzte Hoffnung der Welt liegt in der rätselhaften Tätowierung, die Peter Adams gesamten Körper bedeckt. Uralte Zeichen, die den Weg zu einem der größten Mysterien der Menschheitsgeschichte weisen. Dem Ursprung des Bösen.

Rom. Aufruhr in der Ewigen Stadt. Papst Johannes Paul III. ist zurückgetreten und spurlos verschwunden. Niemand weiß, ob er überhaupt noch lebt. Zur gleichen Zeit werden seine engsten Vertrauten ermordet. Auf bestialische Weise. Während das Konklave zur Wahl eines neuen Kirchenoberhaupts beginnt, macht sich Vatikanreporter Peter Adam auf die Suche nach dem verschwundenen Papst. Die Spur führt zu einem mysteriösen Orden, der seit Jahrhunderten im Untergrund gegen die Kirche wirkt.