Résultats pour "Sins" dans Suspense

If there was a way to save a loved one from a terrible disease, would you take it? What if the consequences were unclear? Alistair Rain’s life is fading before his eyes. His wife, Eliza, is being taken from him before her time, her body ravaged by an inoperable plague. Desperate, he turns to prayer, the last bastion of hope, but God doesn’t exist. Not in Alistair’s world. What answers is something else entirely. Something far beyond his comprehension. Something that will irrevocably change his life and the lives of those around him forever. Sin is a dark horror from the mind of Matthew A.

Jake Tillard is back in Egypt with his flame Libby Joyce. Their geologic training leads to a gold prospect in the shadows of St Catherine’s monastery. Once again the science is simple compared to problems created by Russian and Chinese partners. Greed, blackmail, activism, and murder conspire to derail Jake and Libby from producing gold in the shadow of the mountain where Moses received the Ten Commandments. Sinai Gold provides twists, turns, and rich descriptions from the Middle East to Moscow to Montana, with a surprise around every corner.

International oil exploration normally attracts large companies, big money, giant egos, and unscrupulous corruption. Against this backdrop, Montana-born geologist Jake Tillard pursues his dream to discover natural gas in Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula. Unprepared for a nasty battle to control a previously worthless patch of desert, Jake encounters murder, kidnapping, espionage, and blackmail. Helped by a desert Bedouin, he struggles to outwit Israeli power brokers, Islamic fanatics, and US government agents to save his daughter and achieve his dream.

Contains books one, two, and three of Sins of the Father, a humorous supernatural suspense story filled with magic, mythology, and mayhem from Nazri Noor, author of the best-selling Darkling Mage series.

Te levantas. La casa está vacía. Tu familia ha desaparecido. Es una mañana que no olvidará jamás. Cynthia Archer, de quince años, despierta con una fuerte resaca y temiendo la inevitable confrontación con sus padres. Pero cuando sale del dormitorio no encuentra a nadie. No ve a sus padres, tampoco a su hermano, Todd. De repente. Sin dejar rastro. No están. Veinticinco años después, Cynthia sigue con varias preguntas y ninguna respuesta. ¿Asesinaron a su familia? Si fue así, ¿por qué a ella no? Y si están vivos, ¿por qué la abandonaron de un modo tan cruel?

As the winter chill grips the Highlands, a body is discovered burned alive in a solstice bonfire, kicking off a harrowing Christmas season. When a retired businessman is found hanging from a tree and another associate is savagely murdered in his isolated home, the team is stretched to the limit. With DCI Helena Grant away for a romantic holiday with crime writer Bill Emsworth, McKay must navigate a series of baffling killings under mounting pressure—amidst staff shortages and the relentless Scottish winter.

If something seems too good to be true, it probably is. When a young, daring, impulsive redhead falls prey to an Internet scam and is swindled out of her life savings and her childhood home, she’s hell-bent on recouping her losses and punishing the person responsible. Her single-minded quest for revenge takes her around the world, from New York to Japan, to the untamed steppes of Kyrgyzstan, to Greece, and ultimately, to a sleek super-yacht anchored in the Mediterranean Sea.

Solo han pasado diez minutos desde que llegó y la investigadora Tessa Leoni ya sabe que la cosa no pinta bien. Claramente, un trabajo de profesionales. En el mejor de los casos, toda la familia ha sido secuestrada. En el peor... Cuanto más averigua sobre los Denbe, menos le gusta lo que descubre. Tras la fachada de una familia perfecta -un poderoso ejecutivo, una madre cariñosa, una hija encantadora-, en realidad esconden oscuros, y peligrosos, secretos.

En plena crisis creativa y atrapado en la rutina de su matrimonio y en las secuelas de un accidente, Frankie Armstrong —un escritor en Manhattan— ve tambalear su mundo cuando conoce a Lauren McKellen, su enigmática vecina: una exmodelo con un pasado turbio marcado por el abuso y el escándalo. Lo que inicia como una noche de confesiones y atracción prohibida se convierte pronto en un punto sin retorno. La aparición de detectives, las preguntas incisivas de la prensa y las dudas que germinan en su propio hogar desatan el caos: Lauren ha sido hallada muerta y todos los ojos apuntan a Frankie.

When her wealthy Scottish employer dies of an overdose of heart medication, Nurse Latterly is charged with murder and locked up in Newgate Prison. To save his friend from the gallows, Inspector Monk works feverishly to identify a cold-blooded killer in the victim's greatly admired - and coolly silent - family.

Se acerca el invierno y a Jack Reacher lo buscan desde el corazón mismo del poder: el Servicio Secreto de los Estados Unidos lo necesita. La misión es tan secreta como urgente, y el más mínimo fallo puede poner en riesgo la democracia más sólida del planeta. Entre pistas ambiguas, profundas desconfianzas y la presencia fantasmal de su hermano, Reacher deberá afinar al extremo sus sentidos y mantener su cabeza despejada –si su corazón se lo permite– para investigar las intrigas de Washington y de las fuerzas de seguridad.

Juan Galba se cree a salvo en su tranquilo empleo en un balneario. Hace ya una década que disolvió la sociedad criminal que formaba con su gran amigo, Pablo Echevarría, muerto en extrañas circunstancias. Pero un día se presenta en el balneario Claudia Artola, la viuda de este. Lleva consigo unas cartas que obligarán a Juan a volver, muy a su pesar, a los manejos ilícitos. Por una lealtad no exenta de culpa, deberá proteger a Claudia de una implacable persecución y resolver un escabroso crimen.

The sins of the dead are all consuming . . . Sins of the Dead is the thrilling thirteenth book in Lin Anderson's forensic crime series featuring Rhona MacLeod. 'One of the most satisfying characters in modern crime fiction' – Daily Mail While illegally street racing in the underground tunnels...

Other than her bonsai trees, 20-year-old arborist Silvania August Moonbeam Merigal is alone in the world. After her mother dies and then her grandfather, Silva suffers a sexual assault and becomes pregnant. Then, ready to end her own life, she discovers evidence of a long-lost artist grandmother, Isabelle. Desperate to remake a family for herself Silva leaves her island home on the Puget Sound and traces her grandmother’s path to a hippie beekeeper named Nick Larkins with secrets of his own and then to a religious, anti-government Y2K cult embedded deep in the wilds of Hells Canyon.

Seattle investigator J. P. Beaumont is drawn into an intriguing, and shockingly personal, case in this superb tale of suspense from New York Times bestselling author J. A. Jance. Former Seattle homicide cop, J. P. Beaumont, is learning to enjoy the new realities of retirement—doing morning...

Sabrina Compton's sheltered life is shattered when her beloved husband is brutally murdered. And though their home has been ransacked, nothing appears to be missing. Unable to face the memories the house holds, Sabrina flees to her great-grandmother's cottage on Gaffe Island, off the coast of South Carolina. But the peace she tries to recover is crushed by the revelations of an intrusive FBI agent, and her life is forever altered by the weight of her husband's devastating betrayal.

The past returns to haunt Nick Randall when a celebrity biographer claims to have evidence of his late father's involvement in a terrible crime. If it comes out, the tabloids will have a field day. In search of the truth, Nick unexpectedly finds it impacts on a major insurance scam he is investigating. Then his estranged wife is found dead - and Nick realises that an unknown enemy is stalking him...

Ruthlessly manipulated for most of his adult life by a cunning enemy posing as his friend, half-drowned and enslaved in the Congo and hoodwinked in New York, Doctor James Parker slides into a deep pit of depression. Utterly consumed by misery and grief with his best friend and his fiance missing, his family decimated by the death of his father and his beloved sister, he is past listening to reason and believes he has every reason to kill his generous benefactor, the man he blames for all his misfortunes. But the gallows await!

One of the most popular suspense novels of all time. A well-dressed man stalks the high-class neighborhoods of New York City. He is armed with an ice axe. His victims are strangers. And one cop, Captain Ed Delaney must solve a series of bizarre, gruesome murders that defy logic or method. This shocking story has captured the imaginations of millions like no other modern thriller.

As real as today's headlines. A gruesome crucifixion on the courthouse lawn kicks off chaos in Jergen County. As Jordan and his team discover four similar killings in the United States, the FBI steps in. The Federal case links the killings to a notorious civil rights worker’s murder in the 1960s. For these killings, the motive? Revenge. The suspects? Iconic figures in the Black community. Described as a slam dunk for the prosecution, the case proceeds, threatening to ignite violence in this small rural community similar to riots in major US cities.