Résultats pour "Helena" dans Thrillers et romans à suspense

La Brigade Para a beau être petite, notre influence grandit. J'ai gagné le respect des vampires et des loups-garous de Londres et je crois que je sais enfin ce que je fais. Mais j'ignore encore ma véritable nature. Malheureusement, je n'ai pas trop le temps de me poser cette question, j'ai quelques petits soucis à gérer. Déjà, j'essaie d'éviter Lord Horvath, le beau chef vampire aux yeux noirs, qui semble déterminé à approfondir (beaucoup) notre relation. Il y a aussi Devereau Webb, le chef d'un petit gang, et son cadeau mystérieux qui ne m'inspire rien de bon.

Rencontrez Kitt Hartley, bibliothécaire passionnée, buveuse de thé invétérée et détective à ses heures... Kitt est bibliothécaire à York. Fan de romans policiers, elle aime aussi beaucoup le Lady Grey, son chat Iago et sa meilleure amie Evie, une masseuse aux doigts de fée fan de vintage. Côté cœur, en revanche, c'est plutôt morne plaine. Une vie paisible, donc, jusqu'à ce que l'on retrouve l'ex d'Evie assassiné, un stylo plume planté dans le cœur. Si tout indique que son amie est la coupable, Kitt ne doute pourtant pas de son innocence.

Set in neon-drenched Providence, Rhode Island, circa 1987, just two years after a plane carrying four mafia-affiliated law-firm partners exploded over the Atlantic along with the cushy lives of their once wealthy wives.

England, 1941. When Jane Treen is summoned to her boss’s office at the end of a long day, she smooths down her tweed skirt and makes them both another strong pot of coffee. Brigadier Remmington-Blythe slides a folded copy of the evening newspaper towards her, with one small article circled in red ink. A body has been found on an English beach in the little seaside town where she grew up, and he wants her to investigate. Jane is used to managing secret agents and spies, but she is now part of The Secret Detective Agency, England’s answer to solving the most mysterious murders.

The girl emerged from the woods, barely alive. Her story was beyond belief. But it was true. Every dreadful word of it. Days later, another desperate escapee is found - and a pattern is emerging. Pairs of victims are being abducted, imprisoned then faced with a terrible choice: Kill or be killed. Would you rather lose your life or lose your mind? Eeny Meeny is an electrifying debut, with the nerve-shredding intensity of Saw and Along Came a Spider.

When her boss, James Langton, is almost fatally injured while pursuing a ruthless gang, Detective Anna Travis must put her own career on hold as she nurses him through his intense frustration and desperation to bring his would-be murderer to justice. Then Anna is assigned to a different case...

Un jour de fin d'été, sur une plage des Cornouailles, Olivia, trois ans, disparaît. Effondrés, ses parents Maggie et Colin attendent en vain que l'Océan leur restitue le corps de l'enfant. Quelques semaines plus tard, non loin de là, c'est la rentrée des classes pour Hailey, cinq ans. Jennifer s'en fait une fierté mais depuis quelque temps, sa petite fille est distante et craintive, si bien que Jennifer se laisse parfois déborder par la nervosité. D'autant que son mari est absent, qu'elle affronte seule une nouvelle grossesse, et que certaines bribes de son passé lui reviennent comme enveloppées de brouillard.

Winter, 1936. Kitty receives an unexpected telegram just before Christmas saying that her father in New York is seriously ill. She and her husband Matt swiftly set out for America and, after a fraught ocean crossing, they arrive to discover he is much improved. Kitty decides to make the most of her visit by taking in the sights and attending a costume party thrown by her father’s friend, Mrs Dangerfield.

Under the Mediterranean sun, a drama begins in a café in Málaga. For Ian Ferrier, an employee of the United States Space Agency on holiday to visit his old friend Jeff Reid, it means the startling discovery that Reid is not just a wine exporter, but rather engaged in smuggling communist defectors to the West. Events take a turn for the worse when Ferrier, a stranger to the deadly world of espionage, must take sole charge of a high-ranking KGB agent. Alone in an frighteningly alien landscape, he can afford no mistakes when choosing whom to trust …

When an ex-police officer from the murder squad is found shot dead in a dank squat, Detective Anna Travis is pulled into the case he was working on - the hunt for Alexander Fitzpatrick, a drug-trafficker with a vast fortune, and one of the most wanted men in the Western world. But there have...

Penguin presents the audiobook edition of Love Me Not by M. J. Arlidge, read by Elizabeth Bower. She Loves Me A woman's body lies in the road. At first it looks like a tragic accident. But when Helen Grace arrives on the scene it's clear she's looking at a coldblooded killing. But why would...

Late spring, 1936. As Kitty Underhay steps onto the sun-drenched station platform in Nice, on orders from Whitehall to track down a missing man, she hopes there will still be time to lie by the pool, preferably with a cocktail in hand. But when she and her husband Matt take a brief evening stroll, instead of finding a perfect croissant, they stumble across a body. Kitty and Matt quickly realise it is Fred Bennett, the man from Whitehall they were hoping to find. Had he simply drunk too much fabulous French wine, or is something fishy going on in this seaside city?

A murder investigation unearths the brutal history of a village where innocence has a shifting meaning if you are alive. Or dead. When psychotherapist Alexis Cosse is found murdered in the playground of the sleepy northern village of Burrowhead, the local police force of Georgie, Trish and Simon investigate. Georgie starts to realise something bad is lurking under the soil in Burrowhead, while someone (or something) equally threatening is hiding in the strange and haunted cave beneath the cliffs.

Hace veinticuatro años, durante unas vacaciones mágicas en Chipre, Helena se enamoró por primera vez. Ahora regresa a Pandora, una casa hermosa pero en muy mal estado que su padrino le ha dejado en herencia, para pasar el verano junto a su familia. No obstante, la idílica belleza de Pandora esconde muchos secretos, secretos que durante años Helena ha sido capaz de ocultar a su marido, William, y a su hijo Alex, que, con solo trece años, se debate entre proteger a su madre o averiguar la verdad sobre su verdadero padre.

Où est passée Mathilde ? Ses parents donnent l'alerte : la jeune femme de 27 ans ne donne plus de nouvelles. Croyant d'abord à une simple fugue, le policier chargé de l'enquête découvre sa voiture avec un siège ensanglanté. Au fil des témoignages, on découvre une disparue aux prises...

FIRST CLASS PSYCHOLOGICAL SUSPENSE FROM A MAJOR NEW VOICE IN FICTION In her guise as 'Dear Amy', agony aunt for a local newspaper, Margot Lewis has dealt with all sorts of letters - but never one like this... Dear Amy, I've been kidnapped by a strange man. I don't know where I am. Please help me...

Her life didn't turn out the way she expected―so she made herself a new one When Clemmie goes next door to check on her difficult and unlikeable neighbor Dom, he isn't there. But something else is. Something stunning, beautiful and inexplicable. Clemmie photographs the wondrous object on her...

Vuelve Helene Flood, maestra del suspense escandinavo y autora de La psicóloga. Antes de que Erling sufriera un ataque al corazón y cayera fulminado en la calle, ya había sufrido una serie de "casi" accidentes bastante sospechosos. Ahora, sola en su inmensa casa, Evy, su esposa durante...

Summer 1935. Enjoying a belated honeymoon visiting her new husband Matt’s family in the rolling Yorkshire hills, Kitty strolls through a village fair. But when Kitty persuades Matt to visit the fortune teller’s tent, the lovebirds are shocked to find the body of Madame Zaza slumped over her crystal ball, pearl necklace askew and a half-drunk cup of tea at her elbow.

A few years ago, Laura lost her daughter in tragic circumstances. Now, she is running from her past, but a chance encounter with a frightened teenager, Miriana, drags her back into a web of secrets and danger. As Miriana’s cryptic story unravels, Laura realises the threat is closer than she ever imagined. Someone is hunting Laura, determined to bury the truth about what really happened to her daughter. A predator is watching. Waiting. Ready to strike again. Trapped between fear and fury, Laura must confront her darkest suspicions and uncover the terrifying truth before the hunter closes in.