Résultats pour "Ghost" dans Policier, thrillers et œuvres à suspense

Mia a vécu des situations difficiles au cours de ses différentes missions humanitaires. Elle a affronté la misère, la violence, la maladie et la pauvreté, mais elle a toujours repoussé l’idée que sa vie était en danger. Alors quand sa mission en Colombie vire au cauchemar et qu’elle est enlevée puis séquestrée dans une hutte au fin fond de la jungle, elle doit surmonter ses peurs, et s’accrocher à l’espoir d’être secourue.

Sa vie n'est pas un conte de fée : c'est un épisode de Sons of Anarchy. Ghost : Quand on ne connaît pas le fonctionnement d'un MC, on ne comprend pas tout de suite les relations entre les membres. On ne réalise pas que les liens familiaux dépassent ceux du sang. Là où on place la loyauté au-dessus de tout, on nous catalogue immédiatement comme des hors-la-loi. Quand on colle un patch avec notre nom sur le cuir d'une régulière, on passe pour des machos.

Emiline Jackson, a journalist haunted by childhood trauma, writes under the pen name Libby Lewis. Libby was her childhood friend, killed at age 10 by a drive-by shooting that Em witnessed. As an adult, Em writes about controversial social issues, yet early in her career, she avoids writing about gun control, as it is too close for comfort. A surge of mass shootings eventually shakes her resolve, pushing her to confront gun control in her work. But the new owners of the paper she works at shut her down, thwarting her efforts.

Once ambitious and spontaneous, all park ranger Miranda wants after losing her best friend is stillness. Her new job at Everglades National Park and the rekindled connection with an old flame offer some stability and comfort. But everything changes after a rash decision brings her face-to-face with the so-called swamp witch. In Estelle, Miranda finds an unexpected friendship. The old woman is feisty, independent, and extraordinarily green-thumbed. Plants, Estelle tells her, have a language of their own.

When Milton is arrested following a brawl in a Texas bar, the last person he expected to bail him out was a glamorous operative from the Russian Secret Service. The Russians blackmail Milton into finding his predecessor. But she's a ghost, like him, and just as dangerous. Milton finds himself in deep trouble, playing the Russians against the British in a desperate race against time with the life of his oldest friend on the line.

As the days grow shorter and the temperature drops, Halloween approaches. Come, brave listener, pull up a chair, and spend some time with master storyteller Stephen Fry as he tells us some of his favourite ghost stories of all time, in truly terrifying spatial audio. From the headless horseman of Sleepy Hollow to the tortured spirits of M.R. James, from Edgar Allan Poe’s terrifying tale of a doppelganger to Charlotte Riddell’s Open Door that should definitely stay shut, join Stephen as he tells you some truly terrifying tales.

Nella dormiente cittadina di Milburn, New York, quattro anziani si riuniscono per raccontarsi storie, alcune vere, altre inventate, l’importante è che siano terrificanti. Un passatempo innocente per distrarsi dalla tranquilla routine quotidiana. Ma qualcosa è tornato a perseguitare loro e la piccola città. Una storia che li ha visti protagonisti molto tempo prima. Un errore fatale e crudele, un terribile incidente. E ora scopriranno che nessuno può seppellire il proprio passato per sempre...

When two real ghosts and the records of a murdered researcher enter the life of Johan Eschbach, the former spy and present professor finds himself caught with the secret of high technology de-ghosting, and the whole world, including his former spymasters, try to turn Johan himself into another ghost.

The moment I heard how McAra died I should have walked away. I can see that now...'The narrator of Robert Harris's gripping new novel is a professional ghostwriter - cynical, mercenary, and with a nice line in deadpan humour.

Er muss meine Haut nicht berühren, um meinen Körper zu kontrollieren. Er muss nur wissen, wie meine Seele funktioniert. Kat verabscheut Berührungen. Zu viele Hände haben sie gebrochen, zu viele Grenzen wurden überschritten, bis nichts mehr von ihr übrig war. Nähe bedeutet Gefahr. Feuer. Unerträgliche Schmerzen. Niemand berücksichtigt ihr eigenes Verlangen. Niemand - außer ihm. Ein Schatten in der Dunkelheit. Ein unheimlicher Fremder, der immer dann erscheint, wenn ihre Welt am Abgrund steht. Er weckt etwas in ihr, das tief vergraben war: Hunger nach Vergeltung und blutiger Rache.

A quiet encounter… with something that refuses to be forgotten. In A Ghost, Guy de Maupassant delivers a chilling and atmospheric tale that blurs the line between reality and the supernatural. What begins as a simple request soon leads to an eerie and unforgettable experience—one that...

John Sole never planned to stop in Turnbridge, Nevada. But when a local girl is snatched in a violent corporate power play, the haunted ex-cop makes a promise he can't walk away from.

WINNER OF THE WORLD FANTASY AWARD 2018 'An epic drama reminiscent of the best classic Hong Kong gangster films but set in a fantasy metropolis so gritty and well-imagined that you'll forget you're reading a book' KEN LIU, winner of the Hugo, Nebula, and World Fantasy Awards 'Gripping!' ANN...

Whether weaving family life and history into dark fiction or writing speculative Afrofuturism, American Book Award winner and Essence best-selling author Tananarive Due’s work is both riveting and enlightening. In her debut collection of short fiction, Due takes us to Gracetown, a small Florida town that has both literal and figurative ghost; into future scenarios that seem all too real; and provides empathetic portraits of those whose lives are touched by otherness. Featuring an award-winning novella and 15 stories, Ghost Summer: Stories is sure to haunt and delight.

Melanie West is getting her life back on track after a messy divorce when her grandmother, Liza Harris, asks her to join her in opening a bed-and-breakfast inn. Together, Liza and Melanie purchase a purportedly haunted mansion on the Oregon coast and jump right into clearing out the cobwebs. But while attempting to remove wallpaper in an upstairs bedroom, the new B&B owners stumble upon a very real skeleton in their closet.

When the American Otis family buys the English mansion Canterville Chase, they ignore warnings that it is haunted. Far from being frightened by the ghost of Sir Simon, a centuries-old spirit, the Otises baffle him by offering stain remover for his bloodstains and lubricant for his noisy chains. While the family's mischievous twins terrorize the specter, he falls into despair. Only the compassion of young Virginia can help the tormented ghost find redemption and eternal rest in this clever satire about cultural clashes.

Something is very wrong with the Fitzwilliam estate. It was supposed to be a regular seance job. But from the minute I met an angry ghost in the hall, I knew there wasn't going to be anything ordinary about this house or its dead residents. First of all, there were way too many of them. Second, some of them had been helped along from living to dead. Third, my attempt to figure out what was going on got a bit sidetracked when I met the gardener. He was tall, dark green, and handsome. And really, really smart. So I hired him to help me figure out what was going on. 

For the first time, the complete works of M. R. James are available to download in one collection. This unabridged collection of all M.R. James' ghost stories includes tales from Ghost Stories of an Antiquary, More Ghost Stories, A Thin Ghost and Others, and A Warning to the Curious and Other Ghost Stories. It is expertly read by award-winning narrator Jonathan Keeble.

I have always been a bird. Caged by one prison or another when the only thing I ever wanted was to fly away. Sold. Beaten. Starved. Drugged. Nothing scares me anymore. Until him. He makes the numbness go away. He is hazardous to me. It has nothing to do with his mafia lifestyle, and everything to do with what he offers. A gilded prison. A retreat from everything that I once knew. The reality I have no desire to return to. He thinks he's caged me, but soon I'm going to fly.

In Part Two of The Ghost Assassin, Rose Phelan has embraced the darkness within herself; a darkness that allows her to kill her enemies without remorse. Follow Rose’s journey from college student then academic while also working as a Ghost Assassin for a powerful criminal cartel led by her long time lover Calina Orlova. A life filled with both light and darkness; joy and sorrow. The Ghost Assassin is a two book series that should be listened to in order. The books contain mature content including murder, rape, sex trafficking of young women and children and vengeance.