Résultats pour "The Rain" dans Policier, thrillers et œuvres à suspense

A golden-backed mission, a glittering foundation, a public spectacle that promised to carry a chosen few beyond a dying Earth. What the cameras didn’t show was the cost: an engineered myth, a falsified dataset, a sealed lab log—and something crystalline waiting in the dust of another world. Maya Sarkar buried her child and buried her faith in institutions. Captain Isabel “Iz” Moretti gave her life to command, then came home to a child who should have stayed an absence. A young microbiologist named Yuki learns her single exposure was a planetary vector.

The best-selling author of the classic Mars trilogy and The Years of Rice and Salt returns with a riveting new trilogy of cutting-edge science, international politics, and the real-life ramifications of global warming as they are played out in our nation's capital - and in the daily lives of those at the center of the action. Hauntingly realistic, here is a novel of the near future that is inspired by scientific facts already making headlines.

Princess Madivia is broken. Her fae magic doesn’t work, her illness will kill her, and nobody knows she exists. So when the gods select her to leave her tower in the Ice Court and train to be a Valkyrie at Featherblade, she is sure they’ve made a terrible mistake. So is every other fae at Featherblade. All except the disgraced fire-fae Valkyrie, Kain. His burning gaze never leaves her. Nobody knows what he did to have his wings taken away, but he is as dangerous as the deadly world Maddy has been drawn into.

Grieving for the loss of his mentor, Rainer Hase begins to investigate his mysterious death. As he searches for the truth, he finds that the late Lieutenant McFarlane was unraveling a dangerous conspiracy of highly-placed traffickers.

John March runs a struggling bookshop with just one regular customer - Mr. Hill. His life is defined by routine until the day he discovers he is sole beneficiary of a will worth £5 million thanks to the eccentric Mr. Hill's untimely death. But Mr. Hill also leaves behind something else - a lock of hair, a finger bone and a tooth in a jar of water. It's certainly not the worst day of John's life...until the rain comes and the dying starts.

Rob and Emma have made a fresh start, moving away from London and back to her hometown. With their baby daughter Sophie, their family is complete. Until one night, Rob arrives home from a late shift to find baby Sophie crying and on her own. Frantically, he searches the house and surroundings, but Emma has disappeared without a trace. Rob is distraught. Emma couldn’t abandon their child - could she? As rumours spread around the village, Rob uncovers secrets about Emma’s past life that shake his foundations about the woman he thought he married.

A woman crashes her car near the scenic Colorado ski resort town of Rocky Points and slips into a coma after suffering head trauma. The Sluice-Byron County first responders discover she's stolen her vehicle from central Washington, and doctors find her body is riddled with wounds that have nothing to do with the collision. Chief Detective David Wolf of Rocky Points is two days from getting married when he learns the crash victim's identity is Special Agent Kristen Luke of the FBI - Wolf's colleague and former lover.

Searching for a wealthy friend's yacht, Travis McGee puts himself square in the center of the international cocaine trade, and finds himself the target of some of the most ruthless villains he's ever met. Contemplating his own mortality for the first time, Travis McGee discovers amid all the danger the astonishing surprise behind the cat-shaped pipe cleaners someone is leaving at his door.

In the summer of 1988, Timothy Waters, a frail, asthmatic boy entered Camp High Tide. His parents wanted him to play and interact with the other kids, but a group of rowdy campers had other plans. He’s harassed and bullied, but when given an ultimatum to end his predicament, it leads to his death. Thirty years later, Detective Nash, after losing his wife to cancer, continues living through the mundane cases of lost cats and drunken slobs. Until a dreadful call comes in; Charlie Hamilton, the local drunk and prior proprietor of Camp High Tide, has been killed.

Brad will go insane unless his body is completely hair-free. Prince Alastair looks for his Cinderella, but he carries her foot skin instead of a slipper. Poppy will stop at nothing to become the number one pimple popping social media star. A weight loss cult holds darker secrets than its abusive leader. And it gets worse.

It was a pity about the weather, but even in Yorkshire it couldn't rain all the time. Geraldine pushed her hair into her rainhood and studied the thin drizzle pittering into brimming puddles.

Zwei starke Persönlichkeiten, die voneinander lernen, zu lieben. Wäre da nicht ihre Vergangenheit und sein rätselhaftes Verhalten ... Sie, tough und stets in allen Belangen fest die Zügel in der Hand, trifft auf ihn, fucking Gentleman, bestimmend führend, der weiß, was Frau braucht und sie auf seine ganz eigene Art und Weise davon überzeugt.

Plus-size beauty Ebony Drake has been poor all her life. Instead of wishing for her situation to change, she decides to change it. She moves away from her drug-addicted mother to start her life anew. The last thing on her mind is love until she meets the mysterious Rain Tanaka. Ebony doesn’t know what he sees in her, all she knows is that he scares her with the way he makes her feel.

Um ihren Vater zu retten, verkauft Rachel ihre Seele an den Boss der Red Eyes. Unter Santiagos Fittichen schmiedet sie allerdings nicht nur ein neues Bündnis, auch Callums dunkle Anziehung und die Wahrheit über den Tod ihrer Mutter ziehen sie immer tiefer in einen Strudel aus Hass, Leidenschaft und Verrat. Der Wunsch nach Rache führt sie zurück in das Schlangennest der Vipers. Doch schafft sie es, den wahren Mörder ihrer Mom zu Fall zu bringen und ihre Gefühle für Nero und Callum auszuschalten?

The United States and its NATO allies prepare a desperate Hail Mary: a knockout blow to end the war in a matter of months. At the same time, the Soviets ratchet up the war of attrition, a grim strategy designed to grind the West into dust. But behind the lines, a political shakeup in Moscow spells a different kind of trouble. Social unrest and the strain of total war send cracks spiderwebbing across the Eastern Bloc. The tension is high, and something is about to snap. Is this the beginning of the end . . . or will the fires of war burn out of control?

Jake Sawyer is feeling the heat. Returning to duty after an enforced psychological break, he’s called in to investigate the murder of a young woman found near one of the Peak District’s key beauty spots. Sawyer is intrigued by the unusual mix of extreme violence and decorative presentation, and when the death is connected to the earlier killings of three other local women, he joins a task force of regional detectives in a hunt for the man the media are calling The New Ripper.

As the captain of a schooner catering to the elite on the Caribbean Seas, Sebastian Stark does his best to avoid any human encounters. Interacting with people isn't his thing, and he prefers the company of a bottle of vodka, a shot glass, and maybe a whore. There's no doubt he's hiding from a checkered past, but he does well keeping everything to himself...until the night his schooner capsizes, and he's stuck on a life raft with one of the passengers. Raine's young, she's cute, and Bastian would probably be into her if he wasn't suffering from alcohol withdrawal.

“America’s best novelist” (The Denver Post) brings back one of his most fascinating characters—Texas sheriff Hackberry Holland, cousin to lawman Billy Bob Holland—in this heart-pounding bestseller. In a heat-cracked border town, the bodies of nine illegal aliens—women and girls...

Die Weaver-Brüder entkamen in ihrem letzten Abenteuer nur knapp dem Tod. Auf der Suche nach einer sicheren Unterkunft erreichen sie die Stadt Exeter, in der ihr Onkel mit seiner neuen Frau lebt. Doch dieser widmet sich einer seltsamen Leidenschaft, dem Sammeln von Schrumpfköpfen.

The world’s largest volcano does not reside beneath Hawaii’s mountains, or in Washington state, but Yellowstone National Park. Past eruptions have darkened our continent and covered it with a blanket of ash that smothered both plant and animal life. Now the supervolcano, with its earthquakes and geysers, is monitored on a daily basis for signs of the beast reawakening.