Résultats pour "Max" dans Suspense

College student Joe Talbert has the modest goal of completing a writing assignment for an English class. His task is to interview a stranger and write a brief biography of the person. With deadlines looming, Joe heads to a nearby nursing home to find a willing subject. There he meets Carl Iverson, and soon nothing in Joe's life is ever the same. Carl is a dying Vietnam veteran-and a convicted murderer. With only a few months to live, he has been medically paroled to a nursing home after spending thirty years in prison for the crimes of rape and murder.

Jane Austen fan Amelia Bennett sneaks away from a dull tour of an English country manor, only to run into a man more dashing than Mr. Darcy himself. About to lose his ancestral home to family debts, charming aristocrat Tom Calder invites his American guest to join him in drinking his way through the estate’s priceless wine collection. But when they wake in his bed the next morning, they’re convinced that in their drunken haze they witnessed a murder. Problem is, the body has vanished and no one believes them.

A former Medal of Valor winner, Minnesota detective Alexander Rupert is now under subpoena by a grand jury on suspicion of corruption. So when he's asked to look into the false identity of a car-accident victim named James Putnam, a man who in fact died 15 years earlier, Rupert sees a potentially big case and an opportunity to regain his respectability. But the investigation puts him in the path of "the Beast", the nom de guerre of Drago Basta, a cunning veteran of the Balkan wars.

Three more supernatural tales are yours in The Max Porter Paranormal Mysteries: Volume 6. Max and the gang return as the groundwork is laid for the beginnings of a witch war. And that’s only the start of the earth-shattering changes heading Max’s way. You won’t want to miss it, and you don’t have to! Dig in and enjoy the next three thrilling novels all in one volume.

The #1 New York Times bestselling author of World War Z is back with “the Bigfoot thriller you didn’t know you needed in your life, and one of the greatest horror novels I’ve ever read” (Blake Crouch, author of Dark Matter and Recursion). As the ash and chaos from Mount...

Max Ringo was once a courtroom star at an elite law firm. Then a car accident left her addicted to painkillers, and her life dissolved into shambles. Now fresh out of rehab and making a comeback as a mediator, she gets her shot at redemption when she is appointed to handle a high-stakes divorce. But as Max begins negotiations between the two notorious power players, the trap is already sprung. The husband kidnaps her teenage son, Nathan, and gives her a chilling ultimatum: settle the case on his terms…or the boy dies.

Der Anruf kommt unerwartet. Eine Ex-Kollegin bittet Fallanalytiker Max Bischoff um Hilfe. Ihr Neffe wurde des Mordes beschuldigt und hat sich daraufhin das Leben genommen. Mit 22. Ein Schuldeingeständnis? Oder die Tat eines Verzweifelten? Max sichtet die Fakten, die Beweislast ist erdrückend, aber nichts passt zusammen. Kein Motiv, vollkommene Willkür. Und dann die vage Verbindung zu einem anderen Fall. Ist das der Durchbruch? Max Bischoff lässt nicht locker, aber das Finden des Mörders wird zu einer unerträglichen Herausforderung, die ihn bis an seine Grenzen bringt.

Let the punishment fit the crime. No unit inside King’s Court Prison is more brutal than the newly refurbished “M” Division. Dubbed “Mayhem” by the inmates, the only ticket needed to gain entry is a life sentence, and cells are filling up fast. With death the only way out of this hell on earth, some are willing to risk everything for one final chance at freedom. After foiling an escape attempt by several prisoners, new guard Tyler White reaches out to the one man who saved him from certain death, the mysterious prisoner in Cell 9.

Seine Zeit beim KK 11 in Düsseldorf ist Geschichte. Jetzt fängt Fallanalytiker Max Bischoff an der Polizeihochschule in Köln neu an. Bildet die aus, die so gut werden wollen wie er. Aber die Fälle finden ihn trotzdem. Als ihn der Vater der seit sechs Jahren verschwundenen Leni Benz um Hilfe bittet, will Max sofort ablehnen. Aber er merkt, dass er es nicht kann. Zu viele Fragen sind ungeklärt im Fall der Grundschülerin, die auf dem Schulweg verschwand und nie mehr gesehen wurde.

Max Bischoff, begnadeter Fallanalytiker, ermittelt in seinem 3. Fall – Der neue Thriller von Nr. 1-Bestseller-Autor Arno Strobel. Damit hat Fallanalytiker Max Bischoff nicht gerechnet. Keine andere als die Leiterin des KK 11 in Düsseldorf, Polizeirätin Eslem Keskin, die bislang kein gutes Haar an ihm gelassen hat, bittet Max um Hilfe. Er soll in dem kleinen Weinort Klotten an der Mosel inoffiziell in einem nie gelösten Vermisstenfall ermitteln.

In remote Montana. Did Lucy Smith's husband deserve to die? She thought so; she killed him. Now she's on the run from his family - The Snakes. They are meanest band you will ever see - purveying "Snake Rock", gratuitous violence and drugs. Lucy makes it to San Francisco, but can her new friends, her new songs, or Skulk Rock save her? Can Jimmy "English" Smith (no relation) help her? Do they have Guardian Angels? Hell's Angels maybe? Pray for Lucy. Pray for James. Pray for San Francisco. Just pray; The Snakes are coming!

Max Anger is a man on the edge. The former fighter in an elite band of special-ops soldiers in Sweden, Anger is haunted by battle scars, a childhood spent in the Stockholm archipelago, and his own mysterious family past. Now behind a desk at Vektor, a think tank conducting research on Russia, he’s met his match - and fallen in love - with fierce fellow operative Pashie Kovalenko. Like all of Vektor, she’s set her sights on the tenuous future of her country.

Vietnam veteran Max Donovan is in Bangkok, and very hungover, when his friend “Fat” Freddie Fields is arrested in San Francisco for the murder of an Australian diplomat. He knows his old buddy would never hurt a fly, so he rushes back to the Bay Area to help. There he locks horns with the District Attorney who seems intent on pursuing the case. Suspecting Freddie is being framed, Donovan tries to rustle up some cash to bail him out, but only succeeds in getting into trouble with the local mob. He’ll have to solve the case on his own.

Max Donovan, a man who uses his knowledge of far-flung corners of the earth and a fair bit of muscle to "fix things," is relaxing by the sea in Senegal. But his much-needed holiday after a botched operation in Malaysia, where he broke more than he fixed, is abruptly interrupted when a man is knifed on the beach.

Johann Baroni, der ehemalige Fußballstar, steht vor dem finanziellen Ruin. Um das Schlimmste abzuwenden, lassen sich er und sein bester Freund, der Totengräber Max Broll, auf ein unmoralisches Angebot ein: Man bietet den beiden viel Geld, wenn sie dafür eine Leiche am Friedhof verschwinden lassen. Gesagt, getan. Doch wenig später liegen zwei weitere Leichen vor Baronis Tür, und nicht nur die beiden Freunde, sondern auch die Polizei beginnt sich zu fragen, woher die unbekannten Toten kommen - und warum ihnen mehrere Organe fehlen.

Um sie herum ist alles dunkel. Tilda hat keine Ahnung, wo sie sich befindet, neben ihr nur zwei Flaschen Saft und ein Handy, ihre einzige Verbindung zur Außenwelt. Ihre letzte Erinnerung: Ein Mann ist in ihre Wohnung eingedrungen, hat sie überwältigt, in eine Kiste gesteckt und irgendwo im Wald vergraben. Und sie erinnert sich auch, wer der Mann war: Leopold Wagner, der "Kindermacher", den sie vor achtzehn Jahren ins Gefängnis gebracht hat. Das Problem ist nur: Wagner kann es eigentlich nicht gewesen sein, denn er sitzt nach wie vor hinter Gittern.

Eine abgründige, schräge und spannende Story rund um einen Totengräber, einen Fußballstar im Ruhestand und eine verschwundene Leiche: Dass Emma, seine erste große Liebe, plötzlich wieder in sein Leben platzt - das kann der Totengräber Max Broll noch hinnehmen. Er findet sich auch noch damit ab, dass er ihre Schwester Marga, die sich vom Hausdach gestürzt hat, auf dem Dorffriedhof begraben muss. Aber dass jemand Margas Leiche aus dem noch frischen Grab entführt, das geht entschieden zu weit.

Fresh out of school, Dr. Crane takes on a new patient who both intrigues and unnerves him. Charming, manipulative, and amoral, Max has exactly the sort of mind Crane finds himself drawn to with fictional characters. As Max weaves himself into Crane's life, Crane realizes that while fiction might be safe, Max certainly is not. When the professional line between them thins, who gets to define where one man ends and the other begins?

When the most powerful witch in North Carolina, Madame Ti, is abducted, the Porter Agency is called upon to find her. With no leadership over magic in the state, many have come to fill the power void, and this appears to be the first overt move. Is it the Brotherhood — a group seeking to restore ancient magic that pre-dates witchcraft? Or Sister Sadie — the insane witch that used the Porter Agency to free herself from cursed captivity?

Investigative journalist Maxine "Max" Revere is covering the high-profile New York City trial of serial killer Adam Bachman, and Max is excited when she's granted a rare interview with him. She has a lot to ask him, and she's also hoping to find out if Bachman knows anything about a couple who's been missing since the week before his arrest. But her time with him doesn't go quite as planned.