Results for "The Dry" in Thriller & Suspense

NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE FROM IFC FILMS STARRING ERIC BANA *INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER* *Winner of the CWA's Gold Dagger Award**Winner of an AudioFile Earphones Award* “A breathless page-turner, driven by the many revelations Ms. Harper dreams up…You’ll love [her] sleight of...

Die schlimmste Trockenheit seit 100 Jahren lastet wie heißes Blei auf dem ländlichen Städtchen Kiewarra mitten im australischen Nirgendwo. Das Vieh stirbt, die Menschen fürchten um ihre Existenz. Als Luke Harding, seine Frau und ihr Sohn erschossen aufgefunden werden, glauben alle, dass der Farmer durchgedreht ist und erweiterten Suizid begangen hat. Aber Sergeant Raco hat seine Zweifel... Aaron Falk kehrt nach 20 Jahren zum ersten Mal nach Kiewarra zurück.

Die schlimmste Trockenheit seit 100 Jahren lastet wie heißes Blei auf dem ländlichen Städtchen Kiewarra mitten im australischen Nirgendwo. Das Vieh stirbt, die Menschen fürchten um ihre Existenz. Als Luke Harding, seine Frau und ihr Sohn erschossen aufgefunden werden, glauben alle, dass der Farmer durchgedreht ist und erweiterten Suizid begangen hat. Aber Sergeant Raco hat seine Zweifel.

For Nathan Bray, this philosophical thought experiment becomes brutally real when an inexplicable event causes the oceans of the world to disappear, leaving him stranded on the dried-out ocean floor with his seven-year-old daughter.

FROM THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF KILL ME Psychopath Michael McClelland escapes from a mental hospital to exact revenge against those responsible for his confinement, including psychologist Alan Gregory and his family. McClelland has the upper hand—secrets from Alan’s past that...

New York Times bestselling and Edgar Award–winning author Peter Robinson delivers an unforgettable, compelling thriller of a lost village and the deadly secrets that are unearthed upon its discovery—secrets that include murder. In the blistering, dry summer, the waters of Thornfield...

‘The Alan Banks mystery-suspense novels are the best series on the market. Try one and tell me I'm wrong’ – Stephen King In A Dry Season is the tenth novel in Peter Robinson's Inspector Banks series, following on from Dead Right. A lost village. Past crimes. Present evil. During a...

A suspenseful storyline in A Dry Hate: Power Versus the People brings current events to life as author Nancy Marshall weaves fact into fiction, providing realistic, sometimes sympathetic characters and motives. In addition, she provides an excellent backdrop of First Amendment issues and a display of power and propaganda in action—an easy and worthwhile story for those who want to understand Arizona immigration politics.

In a sparsely populated part of the Pacific Northwest, World War II has ended and sorrow for lost loved ones contrasts with new beginnings and high expectations. Sara Mullins, a female mining professional without management or union protection breaks into this masculine domain and helps in the creation of the clandestine group The Dry Diggin's Club, where “what happens at the club stays at the club.”

First, a semi-trailer loaded with dead bodies is abandoned on a county backroad. Just when it seems the trailer had merely been passing through, a massacre at the local trucking company knocks that theory in the teeth. Who did it and why? As the Sheriff's detectives unravel the case, they learn that Dixie Mafia enforcer, Ray Emmit, escaped from prison. At the same time, Corey LaPlage, Emmits boss and the Dixie Mafias local chief, makes a plea deal with the Feds, allowing him to return.

In Wild Thyme, Pennsylvania, secrets and feuds go back generations. The lone policeman in a small township on the sparse northern border, Henry Farrell expected to spend his mornings hunting and fishing, his evenings playing old-time music. Instead, he has watched the steady encroachment of gas drilling bring new wealth and erode neighborly trust. The drug trade is pushing heroin into the territory. There are outlaws cooking meth in the woods, guys Henry grew up with. When a stranger turns up dead, Henry’s search for the killer will open old wounds.

‘The Alan Banks mystery-suspense novels are the best series on the market. Try one and tell me I'm wrong’ – Stephen King A lost village. Past crimes. Present evil. During a blistering summer, drought has depleted Thornfield Reservoir, uncovering the remains of a small village called Hobb's...

Dry Bones That Dream is the seventh novel in Peter Robinson's Inspector Banks series, following on from Wednesday's Child. It was 2.47 a.m. when Chief Inspector Alan Banks arrived at the barn and saw the body of Keith Rothwell for the first time. Only hours earlier two masked men had walked the...

When she washes up with no memory of who she is, the last thing she imagined was that she'd end up living with her rescuer - a famous movie star - and his adorable puppy. But someone out there knows her real identity and the more she remembers of her past, the more her new life, and love, are in danger....

For half a lifetime, journalist Martin Scarsden has run from his past. But now there is no escaping. He'd vowed never to return to his hometown, Port Silver, and its traumatic memories. But now his new partner, Mandy Blonde, has inherited an old house in the seaside town and Martin knows their...

In A Dry Season is the tenth novel in Peter Robinson's Inspector Banks series, following on from Dead Right. During a blistering summer, drought has depleted Thornfield Reservoir, uncovering the remains of a small village called Hobb's End – hidden from view for over 40 years. For a curious...

Humanity faces extinction. A few stubborn governments fight back, caught on the defensive. But even their concerted efforts may not be enough to stem the tide of the biological weapon sweeping the world. As people succumb to this genetically engineered weapon, they devolve into weaponized monstrosities hell-bent on destruction. But humanity hasn’t breathed its last breath yet. Those that are determined to vanquish these abominable creatures and the fanatical organization behind them still fight.

Michael and Barton Blink are back, and this time, their bounty takes them to, of all places, a town without a drop of alcohol for sale. The devil twins are here for a bounty that should be easy pickings, if they could just find a way to get a drink, first.