Résultats pour "Kim" dans Thrillers et romans à suspense

C’est le Festival de la Nuit à Hollow Cove, des festivités annuelles pour célébrer le monde paranormal qui s’étendent sur cinq soirs consécutifs et regroupent une multitude de personnages puissants parmi nos cercles de sorcellerie. Il y a juste un petit problème. Quelqu’un est retrouvé mort. Et je suis accusée du meurtre.

Kim Slade is at work when there's a knock at her office door. Someone is waiting for her in reception. A woman claiming to be her mother. The mother who abandoned her thirty years ago. Monica Slade has been working as a live-in housekeeper for a judge and his wife, she says. But now Judge Hawkes is dead. The last thing Monica says before the police take her in for questioning is: "There are things you should know. About the past."

A human, a hellhound, and an archangel walk into a bar...sounds like the first line to a joke, right? Only it's no joke. It's my damned life. Witches are running riot. Shifters are on the hunt. Demons are eating humans. There's a new drug on the street. Sigil is dark and deadly to the paranormal kind, opening up their second sight, urging them to maim, torture, and kill. And the bodies are piling up. 

Questo affascinante romanzo di Rudyard Kipling ci mostra un lato dell’India e della cultura buddhista incredibilmente uscito da una penna inglese, in cui tutta la spiritualità orientale, a partire dalla Ruota delle orti e rinascite viene tratteggiata su un o scenario di panorami, di razze e persone comuni, di agenti segreti. Kim, l’allievo del Lama, ci porta con sé, nel suo viaggio iniziatico, in una ridda di avventure . Cornice musicale: Danza macabra, di Saint Saens.

Detective Kim Stone knows from the moment she looks down on Ashley Reynolds that this is no ordinary crime. No one has a bad word to say about this loving wife and mother. So why did someone murder her, and wait to make sure she was dead? Ashley was a social worker, and some claimed she tore families apart. But her husband is also acting strangely, planning to take their daughter and leave town. Did the threat to her come from home or work?

Kim Philby, the so-called Third Man in the Cambridge spy ring, was the Cold War's most infamous traitor, a Soviet spy at the heart of British intelligence. Philby joined Britain's secret service MI6 during the war and went on to head the section tasked with rooting out Russian spies before becoming the service's chief liaison officer with the CIA. He betrayed hundreds of British and US agents to the Russians and compromised numerous operations inside the Soviet Union.

Schweden in den 60er Jahren. Ein kleines Sommerhaus an einem See. Hier verbringen der 14-jährige Erik und sein Freund Edmund die Ferien. Sie schwärmen von der Aushilfslehrerin Ewa, die aussieht wie Kim Novak. Bald findet man die Leiche von Ewas Verlobtem, und Eriks älterer Bruder, der eine Affäre mit Ewa hatte, gerät unter Mordverdacht. Der Täter wird jedoch nie gefunden. 25 Jahre vergehen, bis der erwachsene Erik zufällig einen Bericht über ungeklärte Verbrechen liest...

Bloomsbury presents Julie Chan is Dead by Liann Zhang, read by Yu-Li Alice Shen. 'Outrageously fun. Both a propulsive, heart-pounding ride and a layered examination of social media, status, and obsession' Grace D. Li, Sunday Times and New York Times bestselling author of Portrait of a Thief...

By the time Phil Chase is elected president, the world's climate is far on its way to irreversible change. Food scarcity, housing shortages, diminishing medical care, and vanishing species are just some of the consequences. The erratic winter the Washington, D.C., area is experiencing is another grim reminder of a global weather pattern gone haywire: bone-chilling cold one day, balmy weather the next.

Life is finally settling down—if you count juggling magical crises, a growing family, and the occasional demon encounter as “settling.” But peace doesn’t last long around here. When a string of brutal attacks rocks the town, all signs point to something—or someone—unnatural. And when suspicion falls closer to home than I ever imagined, I realize I’m not just fighting for Hollow Cove’s future. I’m fighting for my family. For the people I love. And for secrets that were never meant to surface.

L'été suédois 196… promet d'être beau et chaud. Dans un cadre idyllique - une bicoque familiale au bord d’un lac, à l'orée d'une forêt - Erik, quatorze ans, entame ses vacances avec son ami Edmund et son grand frère Henry. Pour les deux adolescents, qui goûtent pour la première fois à l'ivresse de la liberté, ce sera l'été de toutes les découvertes. Ce sera aussi l'été de tous les fantasmes. Un soir, Henry revient accompagné d'une femme, qui n’est autre que leur professeur, la sublime Eva Kaludis.

When life gives you magic, murder charges, and mood swings—just add a dash of chaos. I expected pregnancy to come with weird cravings and swollen ankles—not an arrest warrant and a murder mystery. But hey, there you have it. Marcus has been accused of killing a wereape from the New York pack, and the Gray Council authorities are ready to drag him to prison. But they’ve got the wrong guy, and I’ll do whatever it takes to prove it—even if it means confronting a killer, fending off cranky marshals, and dealing with magic that seems determined to betray me at the worst moments.

I’m pregnant. Yep, you heard that right. Pregnant. And while I’m trying really hard not to freak out about that, Hollow Cove is busy preparing for its Headless Horseman reenactment—a big deal around here, apparently. But just as the town is gearing up for spooky fun, events take a real-life terrifying twist. A body is discovered, and carved into it are the words: “Give it back.”

I’m ready to enjoy my new life with my newish husband, but apparently, peace and quiet just isn’t in the cards for me. Enter Lilith—the Goddess of Night and Queen of the Netherworld—who shows up unannounced and demands a favor. Saying no isn’t really an option. I mean, how do you tell a literal goddess to shove it when refusing means she’ll kill you? So yeah, I agree.

Los planificadores trabajan en la sombra para organizar crímenes que ejecutarán asesinos profesionales como Reseng. El joven, que ha crecido entre las paredes de una biblioteca y entre asesinos y conspiraciones, ha sido educado por un planificador al que llaman Viejo Mapache...

Lucifer took my magic. Okay, so technically, Derrick the incubus douche took it, but he was Lucifer's guy and following orders. Still, I can't be a witch or a Merlin without magic. Can my life get any worse? Of course, it can. As I try to adjust and accept life without a drop of magic in my veins, Marcus disappears. Well, not exactly, more like he ghosts me. He's not returning my calls or my texts. Just when I think I finally have my love life on track, it gets derailed, and my heart is slowly torn apart.

A rough childhood branded Jasper Storm trouble. A bad boy. Not worth a damn. His love of cars was the only thing that could battle his delinquency. With the need for speed in his blood, he overcame his wayward ways. Mostly. Now that he's all grown up, the broken city of Detroit hails him as its shining star. And the man behind a new cutting-edge automobile is ready to turn this bankrupt town around.

Sent en aften, da kirkeklokkerne har ringet for sidste gang, bliver Sandra Deakin fundet, kold og livløs og dækket af knivstik, på en tilgroet kirkegård. Kriminalkommissær Kim Stone skynder sig til gerningsstedet, hvor overfaldets voldsomhed overbeviser hende om, at drabet var dybt personligt. Da Kims team graver i Sandras liv, opdager de, at hun mente, at hun kunne kommunikere med de døde. Kim indser, at hun må åbne sit sind for alle muligheder, hvis hun skal have en chance for at opklare sagen.

Da en 19-årig dreng, Jamie Mills, bliver fundet hængt i et træ i en lokal park, bliver hans død erklæret et selvmord. Kriminalkommissær Kim Stones mavefornemmelse siger hende, at der er noget galt. I forsøget på at opklare denne foruroligende sag følger Kim spor, der fører hende ind bag de gamle victorianske mure på klinikken, som drives af familien Gardner. Så bliver liget af en ung kvinde fundet. Hun er blevet kvalt, og hendes død er også iscenesat, så det ligner et selvmord.

Best-selling, award-winning, author Kim Stanley Robinson continues his groundbreaking trilogy of eco-thrillers - and propels us deeper into the awesome whirlwind of climatic change. Set in our nation's capital, here is a chillingly realistic tale of people caught in the collision of science, technology, and the consequences of global warming - which could trigger another phenomenon: abrupt climate change, resulting in temperatures.