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

For more than fifty years, the country has been affected by a horrifying epidemic of ghosts. A number of Psychic Investigations Agencies have sprung up to destroy the dangerous apparitions. Lucy Carlyle, a talented young agent, arrives in London hoping for a notable career. Instead she finds herself joining the smallest most ramshackle agency in the city, run by the charismatic Anthony Lockwood.

The Confiscated Ledger is a modern conspiracy thriller centered on a single unresolved government record—and the man who refuses to let it disappear. Miles Harran is a federal asset recovery contractor. His job is simple: locate misfiled, forgotten, or improperly seized objects and close the record. He doesn’t investigate motives. He doesn’t challenge authority. He finishes paperwork. Until he finds one entry that never closed. A confiscation from 1937 remains marked PENDING—untouched by digitization, reassignment, or official resolution.

Savvy Swift’s life is turned upside-down when she discovers her fiancé cheating. What’s a scorned girl to do? Take off in his classic Dodge Charger, of course!

Deeply gripping and darkly atmospheric, The Animals at Lockwood Manor is a tale of long-buried secrets and hidden desires by Jane Healey. Winner of the HWA Debut Crown Award 2020 Some secrets are unspoken. Others are unspeakable . . . August 1939. As the Second World War looms, thirty-year-old...

Step into the shadowed halls of "The Puzzle Chamber Mysteries: The Labyrinthine Library," where every whisper and echo holds the key to untold mysteries and ancient wisdom. This gripping novel invites listeners on an unforgettable journey through the heart of a library unlike any other—a place where books breathe secrets, walls shift with magic, and puzzles guard the path to hidden truths. Join an intrepid seeker, chosen to unravel the labyrinth's deepest mysteries and confront challenges that blend the arcane with the intellectual.

Federal asset recovery specialist Miles Harran notices something that should have been meaningless: a thirty-four-year-old debt obligation transferred out of a closed federal seizure file. The debt is small. The transfer is properly documented. But the woman named on the instrument is a federal contracting officer preparing to testify in a procurement investigation. Miles starts looking.

Dive into the heart of darkness and light in "The Puzzle Chamber Mysteries: The Amazonian Abyss," a thrilling expedition that blends mystery, adventure, and ancient wisdom into a narrative as dense and compelling as the Amazon rainforest itself. Join Elena and her team of intrepid explorers as they navigate a labyrinth of enigmas and dangers in search of a vanished civilization's secrets. From the Clockwork Jungle to the celestial mysteries of the Solar Alignment, each step reveals puzzles that challenge the mind and spirit, beckoning with the promise of ancient truths and hidden wisdom.

Federal asset recovery specialist Miles Harran discovers a series of routine administrative filings that appear harmless—until he realizes they are quietly transferring control of critical infrastructure across the country. No money has been stolen. No laws appear broken.

When a prominent new member of the town is found dead, hanging from a tree, the quiet village of Hancock, New Hampshire is thrown into shock. Maeve and Arch, owners of the historic Hancock Inn, suddenly find themselves drawn into the mystery. Was the death the work of someone staying beneath their roof? One of the townspeople? Or someone much closer to the victim? As suspicion moves through the Inn's guests and the village itself, secrets begin to surface old grievances, hidden ambitions, and a maze of stories.

As always, Percy has a plan. A dangerous plan. And with hot priest Joe Bruno as his new partner in crime, Percy's never felt more confident. For the first time, the two will work together, secret-free, to face ghosts, sequined hot shorts, and a villain far more powerful and malignant than anything they've met before.

"It’s you and it’s you and it’s always been you." Catholic priest and exorcist Joe Bruno has been nursing a secret crush. All he can think about is too-sexy-for-words, demon-killing art historian Percy Ashdown. One cataclysmic night, when Joe realizes Percy's about to slip from his grasp...

In 1943, the United States government seized the estate of Irene Voss—a naturalized citizen, a widow, and the daughter of German immigrants. Six weeks later, she was dead. Her only heir was told the case had been resolved. It hadn’t. More than eighty years later, federal asset recovery specialist Miles Harran uncovers a pattern buried in wartime records: estates quietly transferred to a facility known only as Site 7-J… heirs never notified… property sold decades later through shell companies.

Ein Vorort von Glasgow. Die neunzehnjährige Odette ist nach dem Tod ihrer Mutter allein. Zufällig lernt sie den über achtzigjährigen Amos kennen, und zwischen den beiden entsteht eine unerwartete Freundschaft. Gemeinsam starten sie einen Kanal in den sozialen Medien, ihre Reels gehen viral. Bis Amos eines Tages vor den Augen der ganzen Welt von Odette ermordet wird und die sich seitdem weigert, auch nur ein Wort zu den Geschehnissen zu sagen.

Oh look! A house made entirely of sweets! Things finally seem to be looking up for Hansel and Gerhardt… Dropped into a lonely cottage deep in the woods as a boy, Gerhardt would give anything to escape. He hates his life, he hates his abusive step father. He’s sure his irritatingly handsome step brother despises him for the share of food he takes, and even more for frequently angering their dangerous father. But Gerhardt’s never once learned to back down from a fight, no matter what it costs him. Hansel is riddled with guilt for the life Gerhardt’s been forced to live.

A numbered account. Opened in Vienna in 1937. Never claimed. Never closed. When Federal Asset Recovery Specialist Miles Harran is assigned to a dormant Swiss account case, it appears routine. A standard claim. A standard process. A standard resolution. It isn’t. The account was never meant to be resolved. It was meant to be kept. As Miles traces the record across Vienna, Bern, and Washington, the facts begin to shift: A pre-war arrangement between two men. An exit that required something in return. A system designed to hold assets—and silence.

Manche Geheimnisse sind unausgesprochen. Andere sind unaussprechlich.1939. Hetty Cartwright muss eine Sammlung des Londoner Natural History Museum vor dem heraufziehenden Krieg in Sicherheit bringen - ins verfallene Herrenhaus Lockwood Manor. Doch das Haus wirkt auf Hetty wie verflucht: Ihre geliebten Exponate, der ausgestopfte Panther, die Kolibris und der Eisbär, verschwinden, werden zerstört und scheinen nachts umherzuwandern.

Amelia Beckett is delighted to be a widow. Married by proxy to a man she'd never met, Amelia recognizes that a fortuitous entry into widowhood frees her from meddlesome chaperones and matchmakers. Heiress to her mother's sugar plantation in Jamaica, she happily anticipates working in a man's world, with the additional credibility of her new title: Lady Lockwood. But with the arrival of Captain Sir William Drake, her plans quickly go awry...William has traversed the Atlantic with one purpose.

Deeply gripping and darkly atmospheric, The Animals at Lockwood Manor is a tale of long-buried secrets and hidden desires by Jane Healey. Winner of the HWA Debut Crown Award 2020 Some secrets are unspoken. Others are unspeakable . . . August 1939. As the Second World War looms, thirty-year-old...

Dive into the depths of mystery with B.E. Lockwood's captivating novel, "The Puzzle Chamber Mysteries: The Submerged Sanctuary". Join Professor Lillian March and her intrepid team as they embark on a thrilling expedition to uncover the secrets of an ancient, hidden sanctuary submerged beneath the waves.

These three men in middle age have been around, lost a few, not kept any. Now they are linked together through women, drugs, and murder. Each is looking for something, but what or who? This is the story of these men, their romances, their crimes, perhaps their results.