Résultats pour "The Trap" dans Littérature, romans et fiction

Happily settled in Florida, Sonja believes she’s escaped the trap set by unscrupulous drug lords. But when her son, Tomas, is taken, she’s back to square one...and Iceland. Her lover, Agla, is awaiting sentencing for financial misconduct after the banking crash, and Sonja refuses to see her. And that’s not all...Agla owes money to some extremely powerful men, and they’ll stop at nothing to get it back. With her former nemesis, customs officer Bragi, on her side, Sonja puts her own plan into motion to bring down the drug barons and her scheming ex-husband and get Tomas back.

Brought to you by Penguin. How far would you go to catch a killer? This is the question UK agent Emma Makepeace must ask herself when she is sent to Edinburgh for the upcoming global G7 Summit. The Russians are in town and Emma and her team know a high-profile assassination is being planned. But...

Brought to you by Penguin. 'You'd think they'd do something about the taxi shortage,' he says. 'Especially with the missing women.' Stranded on a dark road in the middle of the night, a young woman accepts a lift from a passing stranger. It's the nightmare scenario that every girl is warned...

American Alana Eastwood's grandfather, and her only living relative, has taken ill at his home in Germany. Alana travels to be by his side, and while staying at his country cottage, she finds an unopened letter, postmarked 1945, that thrusts her into one of the most notable unsolved mysteries from postwar Germany. When people turn up dead, the local police are ill equipped to grasp the entire chain of events that the mysterious letter has put into play.

Life for Sterling the vampire is sweet in sleepy Silveropolis. Blood is in easy supply with college kids and cryptid hunters swarming the town for mountain madness, an annual search for an elusive creature known as Smallfoot. But another corpse is discovered in the woods. Are the Everetts back? Is it a ritual killing or a random murder? With the help of a brooding journalist and a jealous storm god, Sterling must investigate before it’s too late. The victim was staked through the heart, after all.

Introducing Detective Inspector Vera Stanhope. The Crow Trap is the first book in Ann Cleeves’s Vera Stanhope series – which is now a major ITV detective drama starring Brenda Blethyn, Vera. Everyone has something to hide . . . Three very different women come together at an isolated cottage...

The International Bestseller 'Hilarious and gut-wrenching' - Alice Slater, author of Death of a Bookseller 'Think Dolly Alderton, but with the sharp edges of Eliza Clark' - Independent Belfast: three girls are living for the weekend, their wild friendship the only thing that matters. Harley...

This was never just her story. In Ascension, the veil finally lifts. Governments fall silent. Truth goes public. And humanity faces a choice it has avoided for centuries. Millicent is no longer alone. The worlds are no longer separate. And the war is no longer hidden. This is not an ending wrapped in comfort. It’s a reckoning. A convergence. A final refusal to remain small. Some will call it awakening. Others will call it the end of everything they understand. Both would be right. Together, we rise.

The heir to Martina Cole’s crown with a story of murder, the underworld, violence and treachery. The Butlers are the kings of the East End. Vinny and Roy Butler are the apple of their mum’s eye. Queenie knows they can play dirty, but when it comes to family they look after business and make her proud. Nothing and no one can bring them down. Brotherly love. But Vinny seems to have crossed the wrong person, and his cards are marked. And with the brothers joined at the hip, Roy may just be in the firing line too…

The brave pilots of Rogue Squadron face the impossible as the sinister Ysanne Isard wreaks havoc on a fragile Coruscant. The Rebels have taken the Imperial headquarters world of Coruscant, but their problems are far from over. A killer virus called Krytos is spreading among the population and...

When Jamie Blair, 24, unemployed and back from the trenches, took lodgings at Larcom Street in Walworth, he had no idea he was walking into a trap. The house was owned by Henry Mullins, big, burly and a hard drinker. Henry made life hell for his four stepchildren who looked half-starved and frequently got bashed.

Callie Devereux has it all - a successful career, a beautiful home and an attentive, loving partner. Until one day, she wakes up to discover that the man she thought she loved has taken everything from her, leaving her penniless. Desperate to get answers, Callie goes after the man she once trusted and discovers a world built on secrets and lies. Jack Carlisle has never heard of the man Callie Devereaux claims to have once loved, but he has a good idea who it is - his business partner and old friend, Logan Armitage.

Millicent has spent her whole life chasing answers about her parents’ deaths and the strange anomalies that have stalked her since childhood. Now, the truth finally surfaces—and it’s darker than she ever imagined. A forgotten storage locker reveals her father’s coded notebooks, warnings from another reality, and an obsidian sphere meant for her mother. Suddenly, Millicent’s past becomes the center of a multiversal war, with the Architects closing in and the Eva's calling her through fracturing dimensions.

A six-year-old girl is erased from another world and the echo won’t stop calling Millicent back. Timelines are collapsing. Reality is bleeding at the seams. And every answer demands a sacrifice. What began as astral observation becomes something far more dangerous. This is the moment Millicent stops crossing worlds… and starts changing them.

Never underestimate the power of the streets! There are those who live by the commandments that govern them and those who don't. Keep your friends close and your enemies closer. The hustle never stops so be prepared to execute with the skill of a warrior, a street warrior!

Trap Commandments: the carrying out or putting into effect a plan, order or course of action. Never underestimate the power of the streets! There are those that live by the commandments that govern them and those who don't. Keep your friends close and your enemies closer. The hustle never stops so be prepared to execute with the skill of a warrior, a street warrior!

Being a natural-born leader comes with a certain type of responsibility. The streets will never respect a man who is not rightfully holding down the position he was born to uphold. Some are created to lead while others were created to follow. Money will always keep stacking as long as everyone plays their position. The weight of the world rests on those that are born to be great... Haze Ellis has no idea just how true that is until the moment he realizes that he is the descendent of a King... A "Street" King!

In this eerie and cerebral tale of supernatural horror, Henry S. Whitehead and H. P. Lovecraft blend gothic dread with cosmic terror. The Trap follows the mysterious disappearance of Robert Grandison, a student at a quiet schoolhouse, shortly after the arrival of an antique mirror retrieved from a decaying estate. His tutor, Canevin, soon uncovers that the mirror is more than an object—it’s a portal to a strange, warped dimension where time fractures, forms mutate, and lost souls linger.

The Trap by H. P. Lovecraft is a chilling short story that blends supernatural horror with cosmic mystery. Centered on a cursed antique mirror that acts as a portal to another dimension, the tale follows Canevin and his student Robert as they confront dark forces, warped realities, and the sinister legacy of Axel Holm’s forbidden experiments. Perfect for fans of eerie classic horror, Lovecraftian themes, and stories where ordinary objects conceal terrifying secrets, this haunting narrative captures the timeless fear of curiosity gone too far.

Brought to you by Penguin. A stingingly brilliant new psychological thriller from the 5 million copy-bestselling author of Here to Stay and The Magpies Summer 1999. Will joins five other idealistic graduates working for an eccentric psychology professor. They’re going to launch a website to...