Résultats pour "Lydia" dans Action et aventure

Kriminalkommissar Konrad Jung will mit seiner Freundin ein paar ruhige Tage an der Ostsee verbringen. Doch als sie in dem abgelegenen Haus ankommen, stoßen sie auf eine verweste Leiche. Noch ehe Sondermittlerin Lydia Westphal den Tatort erreicht, überschlagen sich die Ereignisse – und ein folgenschweres Unglück nimmt seinen Lauf. Unter dem Druck von allen Seiten gerät Konrad zunehmend ins Straucheln – bald stehen nicht nur seine Karriere und seine Beziehung auf dem Spiel, sondern auch sein Leben.

Sur la 2ème terre, l’avenir ne se joue plus dans les hautes sphères mais dans l’ombre, où montent les murmures d’une révolte. Ils n’ont pas choisi d’être des héros, seulement de ne plus se taire. Quand l’ordre que l’on croyait immuable se fissure, alliances fragiles, secrets enfouis et promesses de liberté s’entrechoquent. Chaque pas coûte, chaque loyauté se teste.

Former nun Sister Monica Barrett is the reluctant keeper of a stone that holds immense dark magick. She’d abandon it if she could, but it’s become attached to her—literally—and there are five more like it in the hands of powerful, corrupt Mages determined to control the very fabric of the world. Even if they destroy that world in the process. Fortunately, Monica’s foes haven’t been able to find the one thing they need to help them tap into the stones’ powers—a mysterious being named Methuselah, who brought the fragments to Earth millennia before. Unfortunately, neither has Monica.

Scotland, 1912: When Maud and Daisy travel to Clachan Castle on the Isle of Mull to investigate the theft of a valuable statuette, at first the case seems straightforward. But when their prime suspect, bad-tempered fellow guest Mr Tremain, is found dead in his bed, the detective duo realise the castle is under attack… At first, it appears the murder is impossible. All the doors and windows to the room were locked from the inside, and there was no way for the killer to escape.

Lily Singer’s allies and family are determined to hold John Faust accountable for his actions, but doing so may create more problems than it solves. From political intrigue to international alliances, Lily, Sebastian, and Sir Kipling must venture out into the larger wizard community and survive the first Wizard Convocation held in almost a century. And they can't just survive, they must win. Because the enemy they thought they'd defeated was only just getting started, and he always keeps his promises...especially when they involve death and destruction.

A spaceship crash survivor, Addie Rye is lucky to be alive. But being stuck on a primitive planet isn’t exactly the epitome of luck. With no way home, Addie has no choice but learn how to use stone tools and catch her dinner before cooking it, all while attempting to befriend a tribe of wild nomads who inhabit this planet.

As a wealthy, young real-estate developer in Los Angeles, T. lives an isolated life. He has always kept his distance from people - from his doting mother to his crass fraternity brothers - but remains unaware of his loneliness until one night, while driving to Las Vegas, he hits a coyote on the highway. The experience unnerves him and inspires a transformation that leads him to question his business pursuits for the first time in his life, to take a chance at falling in love, and to begin breaking into zoos across the country....

Blessed (or cursed, depending on who you ask) with human intelligence, Sir Edgar Allan Kipling, magical talking cat extraordinaire, spends most of his time keeping his human wizard out of trouble—whether she wants him to or not. If she knew what he usually got up to, she would protest most vociferously. But sometimes a cat’s gotta do what a cat’s gotta do, and one can watch only so many soap operas before an offer of mischief and adventure is too good to turn down.

Sie sehnt sich nach Rache. Womit sie nicht gerechnet hat, ist Leidenschaft. Als ein Feuerdrache ihr Dorf angreift, bietet sich für Nara die perfekte Gelegenheit, die Gerechtigkeit zu erlangen, nach der sie sich immer gesehnt hat - jetzt kann sie sich an den Kreaturen rächen, die ihren Vater getötet haben. Doch der Drache, den sie töten will, scheint von Nara fasziniert zu sein, was langsam jeder zu bemerken beginnt...

A world torn asunder by old ancestral greedy forces, its fate now resting in the hands of the very people that these forces exiled from this world eons ago. Gods and foes, dragons and riders, races of many, long since divided over the many hard challenges faced in these dark times.

Smoke Jensen’s daughter Denny can outride, outrope, and outshoot any man who gets in her way. But being a pretty woman, Denny sometimes attracts the attention of unsavory suitors. Like the lecherous Count Malatesta. Denny met the seductive Sicilian on her trip to Europe - and almost fell head over heels for the swindler. What’s he doing in America?

No gun. No horse. No water or food. And worse yet: No idea how he ended up in the middle of a desert with a bullet in his leg and a bump on his head. That’s the sorry situation Matt Jensen wakes up to — dazed and confused — until he slowly pieces together what happened. The last thing he remembers: He agreed to help out a friend of Duff MacCallister’s. A pretty lady and her husband at a horse ranch. He also recalls their cross-country trip through hell to deliver the horses safely to market. That’s when the outlaws showed up. That’s when the shooting began.

Cominus‘ sorrow seeps into his core at the loss of his brother. Angry at the gods, angry at himself for not being able to save Draco. However, upon freeing the lost dwarfen city, hope swells in his mind as his brother’s image appears before him, after his battle with the fire elemental. Cominus learns that things aren’t as peaceful as he once thought they would be, after his brother’s death ended the war. Armed with Draco’s warning, he, Aryl and Shadow Fang set out for the city of Tysinger, looking for the third ring of Orion. Why? Cominus wished he knew.