Résultats pour "Questa" dans Thrillers et romans à suspense

She is omnivorous. No matter age or appearance, physical frailty or imperfection. It is not their flesh that feeds her appetites, but their souls. She devours young and old, men and women. She leaves only a desiccated husk. An unspeakable evil. An impossible gift. Renowned magus Taita is now over 100 years old and has ascended to a new level of wisdom and understanding about his world. But he must prepare himself for the biggest threat Egypt has ever faced: the great plagues and the failure of the Nile, brought about by the fire witch Eos, an ancient force of sheer evil.

The daughter of a murdered businessman joins forces with a New York City cop in a perilous hunt for history's most coveted treasure. Claire Andrews loved her father dearly, but now he's dead, brutally slain after attempting to sell an irreplaceable, possibly priceless saltcellar encrusted with rare gems. Leaving the Midwest for New York City, she seeks the help of Detective Artie Modelstein of the NYPD's Frauds/Jewels Squad, hoping to recover the lost treasure and clear her father's sullied name.

After letting his pack and his found family down, Ethan has left Grey Ridge on a mission to put things right. Being responsible for the near death of his friend's mate, he won't return until he gets revenge on those who attacked her. Nothing will distract him from his quest for justice, including finding his mate. This is book 5 in the Shifters of Grey Ridge series, a steamy wolf shifter romance with enemies to lovers, rejected mates, forced proximity, and a happily ever after.

Paul ist verschwunden. Eigentlich war der leidenschaftliche Journalist nur drei Wochen in einem Kurhotel zur Recherche. Doch als ihn seine Lebensgefährtin Alice vom Zug abholen will, taucht er nicht auf. Alice‘ Anrufe laufen ins Leere, Paul versäumt das vielleicht wichtigste Interview seiner Karriere. Und das Hotel behauptet, er sei schon vor Tagen abgereist. Schließlich checkt Alice selbst dort ein. Sie findet heraus, dass in den vergangenen Jahren gleich mehrere Personen seit ihrem Aufenthalt in dem Hotel nicht mehr aufgetaucht sind.

Meet The Nearly Dearly Departed Club. Four random strangers thrown together with only one thing in common. They’re all dead. Or maybe not....

Tra i palazzoni della periferia di Cagliari gli anni passano lenti e la prospettiva migliore è riuscire a rimanere a galla cercando di non pestare i piedi alle persone sbagliate. Nanni, Bebbo e Ricky, tre amici molto diversi tra loro, lo hanno imparato a proprie spese. Ci provano, a tirarsi fuori dalle sabbie mobili in cui sono immersi fin da ragazzini, ad affrancarsi da quella criminalità che costringe a rubare, prostituirsi, camminare a testa bassa.

It is 1938, and antiques dealers Rick and Rose Sinclair come across an old journal. It tells an explorer’s tale of sighting the queen’s lost temple, but his porters forcing him to turn back, terrified by myths of the temple’s protection by giant monsters and the queen’s avaricious ghost. The Sinclairs will find that all the legends were true. The temple does exist. The treasure is still there. And it is all defended by giant creatures bent on slaughtering any who trespass. Will Rick’s cunning and Rose’s intellect be enough to survive the dangers of the temple of the queen?

When the circus arrives in Edinburgh, Rose McQuinn is delighted. However, the festivities are overshadowed by the murder of a clerk during a bank robbery and the suicides of two young women. Are these deaths straightforward or could they all be linked to one killer? Rose’s ex-fiancé, Inspector Jack Macmerry, believes that Rose can help with his inquiries and she finds suspicious links with the circus and the behaviour of a sinister scar-faced clown.

It's September 1940, and British intelligence is desperately worried: the Nazi invasion of Britain is imminent. A sinister organisation called The Group, a collection of British and Irish Nazi collaborators, is at work trying to support Hitler's plans. But that is not the only concern for the spy chiefs: the search for double agent 'Archie'–the Soviet spy and British traitor–is proving fruitless, and now they know there’s a second traitor, Bertie, also in play.

After a series of deadly museum robberies, where cultural treasures of Viking origin are stolen, historian Dr. Nina Gould is intrigued and infuriated. She elicits help from her friend, investigative journalist Sam Cleave, to see if they can discover and expose the culprits. Nina thinks that she may have befriended one of the robbers involved, and so begins the chase to uncover the truth.

A young archaeology graduate discovers that there is truth to the teachings that his father and grandfather tried to teach him as a child growing up on a reservation in Arizona. For so long he believed that ancient stories of gods and artifacts with mysterious powers were just part of ancient people's imaginations. Until, that is, he is drawn into a quest to find a man who is after the ultimate power. A power that will allow him to create and destroy that rest in an ancient tablet. It's up to Jack now to find Paul Winslow and put a stop to his plan.

World War III has passed and John Thomas Rourke, ex-CIA Covert Operations Officer, weapons specialist and survival expert has at last reached his home, only to find that his wife and two children have fled for their lives. With the knowledge that his family has survived the nuclear holocaust, Rourke, with the aid of young Paul Rubenstein, must find his loved ones.

It's 1937. Fear and suspicion stalk the Continent. A million have died in Stalin's Great Purge and the Nazi terror grips Germany. But British intelligence is still trying to work out who the enemy is. As Europe heads towards war, treason is in the air. British spymasters know there is one Soviet agent in their ranks, codenamed Agent ‘Archie', and there's a frantic search to find them. What they don't know is that he is not the only traitor.

Conosciamo davvero le persone che amiamo? Una donna con un terribile segreto, un uomo disposto a tutto pur di continuare ad amarla. Ma cosa è successo esattamente quel giorno in spiaggia? Perché quella tragedia inconcepibile e assurda? Dopo trent’anni trascorsi all’estero, Giovanni è tornato a Roma e gestisce una palestra frequentata anche da amici e conoscenti della sua gioventù. L’uomo ha una relazione con Alessandra e il loro è un legame libero, fatto di piccoli gesti e attrazione.

A body caught on the end of a mast, another skewered by a rhond hook, and a chain of evidence Tanner simply cannot accept. As a twisting gale howls its way over Barton Broad, DS Jenny Evans joins a handsome old friend to help rescue the crew of an overturned boat. But when they discover a body, snagged on the end of the mast, one murder soon follows another, leaving DI John Tanner facing a race against time, desperate to prove that the most obvious suspect isn’t who everyone seems to think it is.

Fed up with always feeling one step behind, Quinn is determined to find out who is trying to annihilate all of Bullard’s team. Only the trail takes him to Izzie, Bullard’s niece. The team knows the saboteur was someone close to Bullard, and Izzie had had a hell of a fight with Bullard the last time they spoke. But how involved was she in this plane crash? Izzie is also suspicious of everyone. She’s been to hell and back, all because she was stubborn and angry at Bullard, but she’d never do anything to hurt him.

DS Charlie Woodend has a murder to solve. Trouble is, nobody seems to want him to solve it. Not Eddie, a Liverpudlian thug sent to threaten him; not DCI Bentley; not Deputy Commissioner Naylor, whose word is law in Scotland Yard; not even the dead girl's mother herself. But Woodend cares. He will find the murderer, he promises himself, even if that means putting his career and perhaps even his own life on the line.

Ex-Secret Service operative turned world traveler, John Beckett planned to marvel at Venezuela’s majestic Angel Falls. Instead, he’s thrust into a nightmare when rebel guerrillas capture his tour group. In a jungle prison camp rife with danger, Beckett allies with Vanessa Adler, a CIA officer with her own motives, to orchestrate an escape. As rebel tensions explode and a monstrous enforcer takes control, Beckett must navigate a deadly web of bloodshed, betrayal, and survival. But with his identity a guarded secret, even from those hunting him, every decision risks exposure and disaster.

It's kill or be killed in America. A young man beats his mother half to death. A girl burns her teacher alive and films it. America is imploding under the influence of 'X', a conspiracy theorist radicalizing innocents on the Internet. And number 1 on X's kill list? Christopher Wren. As civilians on the street open fire, Wren's only hope is to hunt down and kill X before the country rips itself apart.
But X could be anyone, even someone Wren already knows...

1942: a German spy comes ashore on a desolate stretch of Lincolnshire beach. But he is hunted down by a young detective, Richard Prince. The secret services have need of a man like him.... In occupied Europe, Denmark is a hotbed of problems for British intelligence. Rumours of a war-ending weapon being developed by the Germans are rife. Sent to Copenhagen, Prince is soon caught in a deadly game of cat and mouse. Dodging Gestapo agents, SS muscle and the danger of betrayal, his survival - and the war effort - hangs in the balance.