Résultats pour "Sand" dans Thrillers et romans à suspense

NATIONAL BESTSELLER The daughter of a powerful tycoon escapes to a glamorous artists’ retreat—where dark secrets and dangerous temptations await—in this gripping Prohibition-era novel from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Salt to the Sea. “Enthralling . . . While history...

Trouble is brewing in Syria, on the eastern frontier of the Roman Empire. With the troops in a deplorable state, centurions Macro and Cato are despatched to restore the competence of the cohort. But another challenge faces them as Bannus, a local tribesman, is brewing up trouble and preaching violent opposition to Rome. As the local revolt grows in scale, Macro and Cato must stamp out corruption in the cohort and restore it to fighting fitness to quash Bannus - before the eastern provinces are lost to the Empire forever.

Der Auftakt der packenden Thriller-Trilogie um Kriminalhauptkommissar Tom Engelhardt und Kryptologin Mascha Krieger! Die gehörlose 19-jährige Lilli Sternberg verschwindet spurlos auf dem Weg zum Strand. Die Polizei unter der Leitung von Kriminalhauptkommissar Tom Engelhardt durchkämmt sofort die gesamte Umgebung: den Strand, den Ort Sellnitz, in dem Lilli bei ihren Großeltern lebt, das Hinterland. Ohne Ergebnis. Die einzige Spur ist Lillis letzte Handy-Nachricht an eine Freundin: das Foto einer in den Sand gemalten, scheinbar wahllosen Zeichenfolge.

Riddle of the Sands is set during the long suspicious years leading up to the First World War and is a classic of spy fiction.

While on a sailing trip in the Baltic Sea, two young adventurers-turned-spies uncover a secret German plot to invade England. Widely recognized as the first modern spy thriller, this 1902 lone masterpiece by World War I Royal Navy officer Erskine Childers was written as a wake-up call to the British government to attend to its North Sea defenses. It accomplished that task and has been considered a classic of espionage literature ever since.

Against the bloody backdrop of a country simmering with racial tension, friendships are tested, beliefs are tried, and the prejudices of years are challenged...Unaware of the inner turmoil of Kuwait, Evan Davis enters as an employee of Al Hakim, a benevolent Kuwaiti horse-breeder, hired to change the country’s perception on the world’s stage. But all is not what it seems - when documents detailing the atrocities done to the Bedoon are thrust into Evan’s hands anonymously, he is forced to act. But wherever he turns mysteries and secrets abound.

Beneath the Southern charm, Savannah's secrets are darker than its cobblestone streets. US Marshal Katelyn Landers never expected her estranged sister-in-law, Vivienne Chandler, to show up on her doorstep, especially not with a chilling claim that her husband has emptied their bank accounts and...

Some grudges run so deep they can kill. Archeologist Chuck Bender witnesses a mysterious death while conducting a survey at Colorado's Great Sand Dunes National Park. But when local law enforcement declare the the death an accident, Chuck will stop at nothing to find the truth. With his daughter...

Every story has a beginning — though we don’t always recognize it when we’re standing in it. Before the war stories. Before the headlines. Before the hard lessons that would come to define us — there were just a few young kids, trying to make sense of who they were and what they were meant to be. Big Boys in the Sand is where their story begins. It’s where loyalty was tested, courage was learned the hard way, and where a kid named Jack first started to carry the weight that would follow him the rest of his life.

Sam Ireland wants to raise his daughter in peace, but when he saves a woman and child from drowning, he's drawn into a dangerous web of human trafficking. Joining forces with Waleed, an Egyptian intelligence chief, Sam pursues the mastermind, Habid, who has been sending Gaddafi loyalists to their deaths. As innocent lives hang in the balance, Sam navigates treacherous waters to stop Habid and confront the evil lurking beneath the surface.

Ten full-cast BBC Radio thrillers by Berkely Mather Berkely Mather (real name John Evan Weston-Davies) was a British author who wrote sixteen novels ranging from historical adventures to espionage fiction. A prolific writer for television and radio, he contributed scripts to TV series including...

An epic novel of adventure in the grandest tradition of historical fiction, Empires of Sand takes us on a thrilling, unforgettable journey. As civilizations collide around two men, a battle begins: for survival, for love, and for a destiny written in a desert’s shifting sands. The year is 1870...

With one year remaining of sixth-form a tragedy strikes the heart of a close-knit group of teenagers. As political forces threaten to claim and overrun their town, two girls fall hopelessly in love. But neither is aware how fraught with danger and peril their love will become. In this searing portrait of a community on the brink, Sandi Burrill and the Beach of Flames eloquently explores the desperation of teenage love trapped by a forbidding and uncontrollable environment.

Er ist der mächtigste Mann auf Ibiza, und er wird alles tun, um mich zu seiner zu machen. Ich wurde zur perfekten Mafia-Ehefrau erzogen, aber als sich meine Ehe in einen schrecklichen Albtraum verwandelt, habe ich keine andere Wahl, als alles hinter mir zu lassen und ein neues Leben zu beginnen. Ich befinde mich allein auf Ibiza – einem Ort, der unschuldige Mädchen wie mich lebendig verschlingt. Meine Verzweiflung führt mich direkt zu Damiano De Rossi. Er herrscht mit eiserner Faust über diese Insel und hinter seinem auffallend schönen Gesicht verbirgt sich eine böse Finsternis.

Sie sind Elitesoldaten der ganz besonderen Art, denn sie stehen allein im Dienste Gottes: DIE RITTER DES VATIKAN. In einer verlassenen Kirche tief in der syrischen Wüste wartet Pater Jenkins zusammen mit einer Gruppe Kriegswaisen verzweifelt darauf, von den Vatikanrittern evakuiert zu werden. Doch ein Trupp skrupelloser ISIS-Terroristen macht sämtliche Hoffnungen auf eine sichere Rettung zunichte. Als letzter Ausweg bleibt ihnen nur eines: Die gefährliche Flucht durch die Wüste, verfolgt von den Soldaten des ISIS, die es auf eine ganz besondere Fracht in ihrer Mitte abgesehen haben.

From the outside looking in, the residents of Sand Cove are perfect, but their countless secrets and lies are under the guise of expensive perfumes and honey-sweet smiles. Summer has come around again, yet it doesn't feel like summer. The sky isn't blazed in blue, and the sun isn't a celebration of oranges and yellows. It has been eight months since Luca Moretti's murder, and Agent Tyler must deal with the fact that Luca's murder may never be solved.

Recently divorced Anna Fox decides to cheer herself up by retracing a journey her great grandmother Louisa made in the mid-19th century—a Nile cruise from Luxor to Aswan. Anna carries with her two of Louisa’s possessions: an ancient Egyptian scent bottle and an illustrated diary of the original cruise that has lain unread for over a hundred years. As she follows in Louisa’s footsteps, Anna discovers in the diary a wonderful Victorian love story—and the chilling secret of the little glass bottle. 

The year is 1935. Beneath the sweltering sun of French North Africa only the tough, iron men of the Foreign Legion stand between the restless tribesmen of the interior with their dreams of jihad, and the innocent traders and colonists of the coastal towns. Lieutenant Crispin de Corville, a secret agent for the Legion, discovers a plot to unite the tribes and win the essential arms and ammunition for their revolt, taking them from the Legion itself.

The Track of Sand is Andrea Camilleri's twelfth outing in the wryly humorous Inspector Montalbano series. Inspector Montalbano rises one morning to find the carcass of a horse on the beach in front of his seaside home. But no sooner do his men arrive, than the body has mysteriously vanished...

The Sands of Time is the tale of four nuns who are abruptly forced to flee the secure environment of their Spanish convent and face a hostile world they long ago abandoned. Suddenly these four women find themselves pawns in a violent struggle between the outlawed Basque underground movement, led by the charismatic Jaime Miro, and the Spanish army, under the command of the vengeful Colonel Ramon Acoca, who is bent on destroying all of them