Résultats pour "Herbert" dans Thrillers et romans à suspense

An exceptional Cold War thriller from the dark heart of the Space Race, by astronaut and New York Times bestselling author Chris Hadfield 'An exciting journey to an alternate past' Andy Weir, author of The Martian 'Nail-biting' James Cameron, writer and director of Avatar and Titanic 'Not to be...

Nella guerra infinita tra Est e Ovest, il petrolio è ormai la massima ricompensa a cui aspirare. I sottomarini a propulsione nucleare sfidano le acque nemiche per attingere alle riserve di petrolio nascoste sotto la piattaforma continentale dell'Est. Ma le ultime venti missioni non hanno mai fatto ritorno. Qual è la causa? C'è stato un ingresso clandestino di agenti dormienti all'interno del servizio sottomarino oppure sono gli equipaggi stessi ormai allo stremo delle forze fisiche e mentali?

There is an old, empty house in Devil's Cleave, a deep gorge that leads from the high moors down to the harbour village of Hollow Bay. The house is Crickley Hall and it's large and grim, somehow foreboding. It's rumoured to be haunted. It's thought to hold a secret. Despite some reservations, the Caleighs move in, searching for respite in this beautiful part of North Devon, seeking peace and perhaps to come to terms with what's happened to them as a family. But all is not well with the house....

New York City in the 1970s is a dark, dangerous, and threatening place. One of the bright spots in this decaying metropolis is Paul Konig. As the city’s chief medical examiner, he has developed an impressive reputation for his skills in forensic pathology - skills that will be put to the ultimate test when a dangerous psychopath kidnaps Konig’s daughter. Herbert Lieberman takes his readers on a gruesome journey through the ten most difficult days in the life of a man at the very end of his rope.

SIE IST EINE KÄMPFERIN, EINE ZERSTÖRERIN UND SO VIEL MEHR. Die Welt liegt im Sterben, überall lauern übernatürliche Kreaturen – und Kai kann sich an absolut nichts erinnern. Sie weiß nur, dass sie ihr gestohlenes Amulett zurückholen muss, ohne das sie sich taub und leer fühlt. Als sie in einem Dorf auf den attraktiven Schmied Jadon trifft, bietet dieser ihr nicht nur seine Hilfe an, sondern zieht sie auch in seinen Bann.

The terror begins. London is struck by an invasion. Women, children, old and young, none are safe from the deadly menace. The attacks are swift and sure, escape is impossible. A state of emergency is declared. Evacuation seems the only solution in the face of a growing panic and mounting death toll. War is declared on the public enemy number one. The Rats!

Step into the macabre world of Herbert West–Reanimator, H. P. Lovecraft’s chilling tale of science gone too far. First published in 1922, this groundbreaking horror classic follows the brilliant but unhinged Dr. Herbert West, a medical student obsessed with conquering death itself.

A ghostly twist. Three nights of terror at the house called Edbrook. Three nights in which David Ash, there to investigate a haunting, will be victim of horrifying games. Three nights in which he will face the blood-chilling enigma of his own past. Three hideous nights before Edbrook's dreadful secret will be revealed...And the true nightmare will begin.to the surface, tormenting him, refusing to let him rest. The memory of what he once had been.

It's winter in Melbourne, and Detective Emmett Corban is starting to regret his promotion to head of the Missing Persons Unit, as the routine reports pile up on his desk. So when Natale Gibson goes missing, he's convinced this is the big case he's been waiting for - the woman's husband and parents insist the devoted mother would never abandon her children, and her personal accounts remain untouched. But things aren't all they seem. The close-knit Italian family is keeping secrets - none bigger than the one Natale has been hiding.

En fyldt Boeing 747 letter fra Stockholm og flyver mod New York. Kort efter afgang bliver der fundet et trusselsbrev på et af flyets toiletter. I brevet bliver der stillet krav til både den svenske og den amerikanske regering, og hvis kravene ikke bliver indfriet, vil flyet blive sprængt i...

Kaum noch Waffen und zunehmend außerirdische Touristen aus Goni auf der Erde. Widerstand formiert sich, es braut sich was zusammen. Ehemaligen politischen Hardlinern, Militärs, Geheimdienstlern und Gangstern gefällt das neue friedliche Dasein auf der Erde gar nicht. Sie planen Anschläge auf Gonim, erwischen sie beim Wasser- und Schneesport und töten sie. Sie wollen ihre Waffen zurück. Selbst vor Raketen-Anschlägen auf Herbert schrecken sie nicht zurück.

A suspense novel concerning Lieutenant Frank Mooney's quest to find the killer who has robbed, raped and murdered several New York women. The killer, and his female accomplice, realize someone is copying them and track down a second murderer. Written by the author of City of the Dead.

Mr. Rogers is the ideal guide for a few neighbors looking to survey a large, wooded piece of property. But the surveying trip goes horribly wrong when Rogers suffers a debilitating heart attack and the group is left wandering lost through the woods, with Rogers a shadow of his former self. Almost immediately, tensions that have existed among the friends since childhood begin to flare up. The forest grows darker. Leadership claims are staked and rescinded. Fears start to overwhelm rational decision-making. Then Rogers starts spouting instructions in what sounds like a mystic cipher.

Eine kontrollsüchtige Mutter, eine Tochter, die den Druck nicht mehr aushält … und ein Bedürfnis nach Rache, das gestillt werden muss. Es ist ein schmaler Grat, der ein scheinbar normales Leben vom Abgrund trennt. Sabine kann sie nicht mehr ertragen: ihre Mutter, die sie ständig überwacht und die ihr, schon seit sie ein kleines Mädchen war, vorschreibt, was sie zu tun, zu fühlen, zu denken hat. Und die auch ihre erwachsene Tochter nicht loslassen will. Bis Sabine nur noch einen einzigen Ausweg sieht: Sie muss sich befreien. Ihre Mutter muss sterben.

Rev Bernard Paltoquet becomes involved in another psychic mystery when a young woman, Alice Troy, is murdered and Howard Drake, one of Bernard’s parishioners, is convicted of the crime and sentenced to hang. However, thanks to a mongrel dog, Bernard and his psychic doctor friend, Robbie MacTavish, are alerted to Alice’s unquiet spirit at her graveside.

Bloomsbury presents The Ninth Nightmare by Graham Masterton, read by Mark Meadows. ‘Truly creepy’ Kirkus The original and terrifying conclusion to a supernatural horror series from the master of horror himself, Graham Masterton. TO SLEEP For eight hundred years, Albrecht’s Travelling...

David Ash, detective of the paranormal, is sent to the mysterious Comraich Castle, secluded deep in the Scottish countryside, to investigate a strange, high-profile case. A man has been found crucified in a locked room. The reports suggest that the cliff-top castle is being haunted.... Who or what is the reclusive hooded figure that Ash has seen from the window walking across the courtyard in the dead of night? What are the strange, animal-like sounds that come from the surrounding woods? And why are the castle's inhabitants so reluctant to talk about what they have seen?

Book Three in Herbert’s classic ‘rats’ series. The final countdown. The long-dreaded nuclear conflict. The city torn apart, shattered, its people destroyed or mutilated beyond hope. For just a few, survival is possible only beneath the wrecked streets - if there is time to avoid the slow-descending poisonous ashes. But below, the rats, demonic offspring of irradiated forebears, are waiting. They know that Man is weakened, become frail. Man has become their prey.

Menace awaits. Sleath. Quiet, peaceful. A small village hidden away in the Chiltern Hills, almost forgotten by the modern world. Nothing much seems to happen here; little disturbs the centuries-old tranquillity. Until the ghosts begin to appear and frighteningly bizarre events start to occur. Psychic investigator David Ash, a man burdened by the dark secret of his own past, is sent to Sleath to investigate the phenomena and his discoveries there drive him to the very edge of his own sanity.

The ugly truth. Nicholas Dismas is a Private Investigator, but like no other that has gone before him. He carries a secret to which not even he has the answer. Dismas is hired to find a missing baby. One that was taken away at birth... Or was it? His investigation takes him to a mysteriously located place called Perfect Rest, a nursing home for the elderly. Here Dismas will discover the dark secret of the Others. And in an astonishing and spectacular finale he will resolve the enigma of his own existence.