Résultats pour "Graves" dans Psychologie

Grad Student Sydney Denik is getting a second chance. When a dream opportunity presents itself with a prestigious foundation doing promising Alzheimer's research, Sydney leaves the shambles of her old life to join a dozen other students at an isolated lodge hidden away in a remote, fog-shrouded inlet on Vancouver Island. But the Madrona Foundation harbors more than brilliant minds. Everyone around her is hiding a terrible secret—including the resident psychologist she's falling in love with.

Rushing towards the tall trees in the distance, Detective Billie Ann Wilde can already hear the sobs of those gathered at the scene of the murder of a young child. And when she spots the little boy’s pale skin and beautiful blond ringlets, her heart catches in her chest. It’s Billie’s own nephew, Charlie, whose life has been taken. Billie is immediately told she can’t work on Charlie’s case, but nothing will stop her finding justice for her brother, Peter. Seeing Peter for the first time in years, he looks nothing like the happy-go-lucky teen she grew up with.

For years the boglands of Northern Europe have given up bodies of the long-deceased. Bodies that are thousands of years old, uncannily preserved. Bodies with strange injuries that suggest ritual torture and human sacrifice. When a corpse is found in a bog in Galway, Cormac Reilly assumes the find is historical. But closer examination reveals a more recent story. The dead man is Thaddeus Grey, a local secondary school principal who disappeared two years prior.

Carolina thought her past was buried until someone dug it up. Just when her life seems to be on the verge of normalcy, Private Investigator Carolina McKay receives a mysterious envelope in the mail. Inside is a photograph of a field with GPS coordinates. And one very cryptic message: “Wish you...

Brought to you by Penguin. Revenge is tough to swallow... Things for Renee Landis are finally looking up. She just quit her dead-end job at a chicken shop after landing the coveted role of junior chef at London’s pristine NOVA restaurant. But it's not the restaurant that draws Renee in - it's...

In Gold Creek, Michigan, legend has it that the ghost of a local grave digger still walks the cemetery, swinging his shovel, looking for his next victim to bury. But when the town’s wealthy undertaker dies, his estranged daughter must contend with the ghosts that haunt her own family.

When two young boys discover human bones buried beneath a tree in a trailer park, Detective Josie Quinn races to join her team at the scene. She used to play in those woods as a child, happier outside and away from her abusive mother, Belinda Rose. Josie’s past crashes into her present when a rare dental condition confirms the bones belong to a teenage foster-child who was murdered 30 years ago. A girl named Belinda Rose.

Ember Brannon is inexplicably drawn to an old gravestone bearing her own name, its forgotten presence casting an unsettling pall over her family's ancestral home. As she becomes fixated on the stone and the long-forgotten life it represents, Ember's reality begins to unravel. Vivid dreams transport her to a time shrouded in mystery, the tragic demise of her namesake becomes an obsession she won't release.

A stranger decided that I was to become his property, that I was his. He leaves me notes in my home and sends flowers to my work. He tells me he is excited for us to be together. The night he takes me alters my life completely. I am broken down piece by piece, struggling to recognize myself when I look into the mirror. Am I going to have a normal happy life, will I ever get to be free of him or what I have become?

Eine äußerst morbide Mordserie wird zu einer ganz besonderen Herausforderung für Special Agent Aloysius Pendergast - denn dem erklärten Einzelgänger wird von seinem neuen Chef beim FBI ein Partner zur Seite gestellt. Den jungen Agent Coldmoon im Schlepptau, reist Pendergast nach Miami Beach, wo ein Serienkiller die Herzen ermordeter Frauen zusammen mit kryptischen Briefen auf Gräbern ablegt. Während es zwischen den Opfern des Killers keinerlei Verbindung zu geben scheint, stellt sich schnell heraus, dass in den Gräbern ausnahmslos Selbstmörderinnen beigesetzt sind.

Yet another teen has gone missing from the Gold Memorial Gardens, and Child Protective Services Investigator Claire Underwood isn't giving up until she finds him. For Claire, solving the case is more than business. Years ago, she lost a friend in that cemetery. Over time, the authorities deemed all the disappeared teens runaways, while local legend blamed the ghost of the murderous grave digger—much to the satisfaction of the Golds, also known as the “Ghouls.” Claire has always suspected the Golds were involved, including in some recent murders among their own.

How far will a father go when the life of his daughter is on the line? That's the question Connor Heart, a detective with 15 years on the job, will have to ask himself as an investigation into a series of kidnappings becomes a deadly personal vendetta. When a serial kidnapper targets his daughter, Connor will have to step outside the law, outside the procedure and red tape that he's been forced to follow for years, and engage in a heart-pounding race against the clock to get his daughter back and put the monster who took her in the ground.

A rotted coffin was pulled from the river—then a second, and a third. Search teams now work around the clock pulling pinewood tombs from the murky waters of the Louisiana delta. And missing women from the last year are at the center of a state-wide manhunt for the man who buried them alive.

Welcome to Deadly Silence, a multi-author collection of chilling short stories where every pause hides a threat. Crafted to make your pulse quicken, and your nerves tighten, these thrillers and light horror tales uncover the terror that lurks in the quiet, waiting to be noticed—or ignored.

DC Fiona Griffiths is bored. It's been months since she had a good corpse, let alone a decent murder to deal with, and it's frankly driving her nuts. And then comes the news, and she has to literally stop herself from jumping with joy: not just a murder but a decapitation, with an antique sword no less, and a murder scene that has been laid out like a particularly gruesome crossword clue.

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Before being promoted to detective, Carrie Santero was given a rare glimpse into the mind of a killer. Through her mentor, Jacob Rein - a seasoned manhunter whose gift for plumbing the depths of madness nearly drove him over the brink - she was able to help capture one of the most depraved serial killers in the country. Now, the discovery of a small human foot buried in the Pennsylvania woods will lead her to a decades-old cold case - and the darkest secrets of her mentor's youth. 

Claire has it all: a handsome chef husband, a happy life on the coast, and a beautiful baby boy. But her picture-perfect life isn’t what it seems. Days after the christening, her husband and baby are murdered. Then she confesses to the gruesome crime. But why? And did she really do it? The evidence against her is damning. The police are convinced they have their killer. But her best friend, Morgan, doesn’t think she did it. But how well does she really know Claire? Soon she's putting her life at risk to find out

I had it. Now it's gone. The loving parents, nice home, and a normal life in the quiet suburbs of Long Island. My aspirations were trite, nothing fancy - a degree so I could get a good job. Make a difference in the world. The wattage on my future was bright, blinding almost. They all expected great things from me, but those things will never come to pass. One night my parents went up in flames, and my ambitions burned along with them. I didn't see the wreck, only pictures afterward....

When the hunter becomes the hunted Serial-killer hunter Nick Shade built his legendary career chasing monsters sadistic criminals with a gruesome thirst for death. When he rescued Montgomery detective Bobbie Gentry from horrific captivity and helped her reclaim her life, he didn't intend to...