Résultats pour "Max" dans Suspense

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.

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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.

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.

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 Rainier’s...

Vienna, 1904. The body of a man—still sitting in a chair—is discovered in an abandoned piano factory on the outskirts of the city. He has been shot dead but his face has been horribly disfigured with acid, making identification impossible. In front of the body are three chairs positioned...

A series of successful professional men are found slashed to death in their beds, apparently during sex, the presumed victims of a gay murderer. Homicide detective Max Segal is on the case, but he’s distracted by his failing marriage and an attractive journalist who is covering the case. Judy Wells has everyone fooled, including the police. She’s been methodically stalking, seducing, and murdering every man who has ever dumped her - and her revenge seems almost justified. But the FBI is closing in.

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.

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.

Lorsqu’un corps est retrouvé couvert de peinture blanche sur une plage de Finlande, une pièce d’échecs dans la gorge, Milo, profileur, est appelé en renfort par la police. Un soir de novembre, un corps est découvert sur le rivage d’une île finlandaise, la peau couverte d’une...

Sulle rive ventose di Seurasaari, un'isola al largo di Helsinki, viene ritrovato un cadavere: la pelle ricoperta di vernice bianca, un pezzo degli scacchi incastrato in gola. I crimini seguono una logica precisa e gli indizi rimandano a simboli e strategie che sfuggono ai protocolli investigativi. L'omicida non si limita a colpire: provoca, anticipa e orienta l'indagine come su una scacchiera. Per fermare il killer, Milo è costretto a collaborare con Stanislav, campione europeo di scacchi e suo patrigno, l'unico in grado di interpretare il linguaggio strategico dell'assassino.

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.

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?

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.

Dos desapariciones sin explicación, una biblioteca enorme y una escritora en busca de respuestas. Después de la desaparición de su esposo, Julia Tompson recibe una petición de Max Ventura. Su propuesta: ordenar la extensa biblioteca del hombre. Poco después de enviar el mensaje, él también se desvanece. Julia intentará descifrar el secreto tras las desapariciones. Contará con la ayuda de Arturo C. Dola, amigo suyo y escritor de novelas negras, y de Eduardo, el joven ayudante de Ventura.

Max is back, trawling the trailer parks and waterways of south Florida, where amid the gorgeous beaches and abundant foliage there lies a stunning range of brutality. After Max is hired to investigate a conspiracy involving fake claims to Medicare, he quickly realizes the scheme is much more dangerous than anyone assumed.

Rick Newman and Julie Phillips fall in love in 1979 while attending NYU. They plan to be married after graduation, but when Julie becomes pregnant, the baby, their son, is given up for adoption, and the turbulent emotions surrounding the loss ultimately ends their relationship. Twenty-seven years later, Rick discovers that Julie has been killed in an auto accident and is driven to find their now 27-year-old son. He learns his son Eric lives in India and has a young son of his own who lives in the United States. A journey halfway around the world leads to joy and tragedy.

Private Investigator Max Dunham is planning a vacation in sunny Mexico when two kids enter his office and ask for help hiring a hit man. They insist their lives are in danger and that murder is the only way they can protect themselves. Max's disbelief is tempered by sympathy. The precocious girl and her taciturn brother are strangers to American society, having grown up in the Amazon jungle. They find much of life in the US incomprehensible, even silly.

This second novel in the Max Bader series finds Max and friends in New York accidentally drawn into the investigation of heroin trafficking, child prostitution, and murder in a corrupt Manhattan Police Department, an indifferent Catholic Church, and a university hospital complicit in the crimes. Confronted with overwhelming odds and with few people they can trust, dare they seek justice?