Résultats pour "The Kill" dans Petites villes et ruralité

A quiet little town. A twisted mind lurking. Three souls tied together in a brutal killing spree. Twelve-year-old Eli Wright's vivid imagination is his escape... until his strange neighbor demands he help bury a young couple she killed, or she'll slaughter his family. As a sinister wind whispers secrets and shadows hide terrifying truths, Eli is drawn into a nightmare he may not escape. Meanwhile, librarian Julie Baker fled to Darling to start over after her mother's notorious death years ago. But the past returns with a vengeance when Julie's aunt dies under mysterious circumstances.

Read by award-winning narrator Jeff Harding. **NOW A MAJOR PRIME TV SERIES STARRING ALAN RITCHSON** Jack Reacher jumps off a bus and walks fourteen miles down a country road into Margrave, Georgia. An arbitrary decision he's about to regret. Reacher is the only stranger in town on the day they...

A “droll, psychologically astute…unexpected…very funny” (Maureen Corrigan, NPR’s Fresh Air) and moving portrait of a long-married couple, seen through the eyes of their wickedly observant daughter. Miranda’s parents live in a dilapidated house in rural France that they share with two...

En el pequeño pueblo de Maycomb, Alabama, durante los años treinta, un hombre negro es acusado de violar a una mujer blanca. Atticus Finch, abogado íntegro y viudo a cargo de sus dos hijos, Jem y Scout, decide ponerse al frente de una defensa imposible. Desde la mirada impregnada de humor y de ternura de la pequeña Scout, Harper Lee explora las grietas de una sociedad dominada por el prejuicio racial, la desconfianza hacia lo diferente, la rigidez de los vínculos familiares y vecinales y un sistema judicial sin garantías de imparcialidad.

Although she hadn't known Leonard Mallett well, Carole Seddon feels duty bound to attend her fellow committee member's funeral. As she suspected, the sermon is very predictable - not unlike Leonard himself. What she couldn't have predicted was that the deceased's daughter would use the occasion to publicly accuse her stepmother of murder. Did Heather Mallett really kill her husband? Deciding to get to the heart of the matter, Carole's neighbour Jude joins the new community choir - and discovers that amidst the clashing egos and petty resentments lurk some decidedly false notes.

Tuesday Hendrickson has spent eight years running from memories of that night. Her sister’s screams. Blood on the walls. And Arsen Bauer, a monster known as the Crying Killer, shot down in a barrage of bullets as he fled. Case closed. Intending to build a safe new identity out of the ashes, Tuesday changed her last name and moved away. She’s now a private investigator who guards herself and her daughter, Julia, like their lives depend on it. And maybe they do. Because unless she’s imagining things, Tuesday has seen Arsen on the streets of Saint Paul. She’d know her sister’s killer anywhere.

*Read it before you watch it – now a major TV series for Paramount+* ‘The final double twist is well worth waiting for’ My Weekly ‘Hooks you in to the drama straight away’ The Sun Every marriage has its secrets… Beth and Tom Hardcastle are the envy of their neighbourhood – they...

‘OMG THAT ENDING!!!!’ ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Reader Review Is murder in the blood? In a sleepy Devon village, a woman is taken from the streets. Local vet Jenny is horrified. This kind of thing doesn’t happen here. But it’s not the first time she’s been so close to a crime scene. The daughter...

*Read it before you watch it – now a major TV series for Paramount+* ‘The final double twist is well worth waiting for’ My Weekly ‘Hooks you in to the drama straight away’ The Sun Every marriage has its secrets… Beth and Tom Hardcastle are the envy of their neighbourhood – they...

The most chilling read of the Christmas season. As the snow begins to fall, the body count begins to climb… DI James Walker is ready for a quiet family Christmas in the sleepy village of Kirkby Abbey. But when he opens an early Christmas present left on his doorstep, he soon realises it is no...

A woman vanishes in the fog up on "the Hill", an area locally known for its tranquillity and peace. The police are not alarmed; people usually disappear for their own reasons. But when a young girl, an old man, and even a dog disappear, no one can deny that something untoward is happening in this quiet cathedral town.

High in the ridges of Appalachia, Emily Child carries a secret that could kill her. Pregnant, but not in the way she dreamed of, her body has turned against her, and time is running out. While her husband searches in desperation, Emily follows an older trail: the half-forgotten path to the Isabella, the midwife who raised her, a woman whispered about in both reverence and fear. Guided by memory, folklore, and the voices of the hills themselves, Emily must navigate not only the dangers of her own failing body but also the haunting pull of a world where the line between healing and myth blurs.

The House of Lambspun has been bombarded for the holidays. In the midst of overflowing bins of sumptuous yarn, unexpected winter romance now buzzes, in chorus with the spindles of shy new spinning instructor Lucy Adair. But when a rancher is found dead in Bellevue Canyon, avid knitter and sometime-sleuth Kelly Flynn quickly puts these festive pastimes aside.

Pre-order the eighth DCI James Walker thriller now! Readers can't put down Alex Pine's winter crime: 'You know winter is coming when the latest Alex Pine novel drops' Netgalley reviewer ★★★★★ 'This is my favourite book in the series' Netgalley reviewer ★★★★★ 'What a fantastic...

Who won't wake from this silent night? *FROM THE KINDLE TOP 20 BESTSELLING AUTHOR* Durham in December is bustling, and a gruesome murder isn’t on anyone’s Christmas list. So when retired teacher Joseph Morley is found dead, sheet music rammed down his throat and a carol playing on repeat in...

'I loved it even before I got to the killer twist! Just brilliant!' - Sarah Pinborough ''Compulsive, all-consuming and unexpectedly emotional' - Jennie Godfrey ‘Gripping, multi-layered, heartbreaking’ - John Marrs 'As tender as it is dark' - C. L. Taylor The last place you want to belong...

'Highsmith herself would raise a glass' - SARAH HILARY 'Drew me in from the very first page and had me hooked throughout' - PHILIPPA EAST 'An intriguing cat and mouse game, which will keep you reading into the early hours' - TINA BAKER 'You are quite the chameleon, aren't you? You could wear...

This winter, fear comes gift-wrapped. *FROM THE KINDLE TOP 20 BESTSELLING AUTHOR* In the dead of winter, the Pennine Way is treacherous. As snowstorms hit, hikers have been told to stay away. But not everyone has heeded the warning: a lone walker finds a parcel in the snow, addressed to her. But...

‘I LOVE this author… So many twists and a brilliant story’ ★★★★★ reader review Chilling truths are buried in this snow… When a body dressed in a Santa Claus suit appears in the snow just outside a small village in Cumbria, DCI James Walker is the first to appear on the scene...

'GRIPPING… Keeps you on the edge throughout. A real page turner!' ★★★★★ Reader review, Snow is falling. Murder is calling. Journalist Gordon Carver receives news that sends a chill down his spine. Rushing home from the pub, he frantically calls his police contact, DCI James Walker to...