Résultats pour "san francisco" dans Thrillers et romans à suspense

Alles ist vorbereitet … und das Tor zur Hölle öffnet schon bald seine Pforten … Mitten in San Francisco plant eine Gruppe wahnsinniger Satanisten das Unglaubliche: Sie wollen mittels eines uralten Rituals den Fürsten der Finsternis auf die Erde zurückholen. Um Satan einen würdigen Empfang zu bereiten, schrecken die Psychopathen auch vor Menschenopfern nicht zurück. Die frühere Ghostwriterin Penny Archer, die nur durch Zufall in der Stadt ist und noch immer mit einem schweren Schicksalsschlag zu kämpfen hat, wird unfreiwillig in die Machenschaften der Satanisten hineingezogen.

Jack Nightingale fights his battles in the shadows - in the grey areas where the real world meets the supernatural. But when he arrives in San Francisco to take on a group of Satanists bent on opening a doorway to hell, the danger is out in the open and all too real. The Apostles - a Satanic coven using murder and torture to pave the way for a demon to enter the real world - realise that Nightingale is on their tail and unleash their own brand of monsters to take him down.

Peyton and Marco finally have everything they’ve wanted for so long. The future has never looked brighter or more secure, but...Marco’s battle with the mob terrorizing San Francisco has become personal and he’s square in their crosshairs. Naturally, car bombs going off in the middle of the city draws the attention of the FBI and when a splinter group called the Goblins claims responsibility, who better to take them out than the Ghost Squad? Of course, Peyton has no choice. When someone threatens her man, she’s ready to go to war.

This is the second volume of short stories by USA Today best-selling author, M. Louisa Locke, set in the gas-lit world of Victorian San Francisco. The first story, Beatrice Bests the Burglars, finds Mrs. O’Rourke, the O’Farrell Street boardinghouse cook, home alone and in danger. In Dandy’s Discovery, something odd is happening at the boardinghouse, but Dandy, the Boston Terrier, discovers the culprit and all is well.

When teacher turned deckhand Steve Ondelle is framed for the killing of a San Francisco supervisor, he tumbles into a world of billion-dollar deals and bizarre sexual adventures, a world where hard evidence depicts him as a misfit who turns to murder. To expose these freshly-minted lies, Steve must first make peace with a lifetime of painful truths. He travels from the piers of Sausalito to the penthouses of San Francisco, with unlikely allies like Leonard the Human Statue, Eli of the Coral Reef, The Prophet of Market Street. And Liam the Fog Seller.

NEW YORK TIMES bestseller 2005: Welcome to NoCal and SoCal, the uneasy sister-states of what used to be California. The millennium has come and gone, leaving in its wake only stunned survivors. In Los Angeles, Berry Rydell is a former armed-response rentacop now working for a bounty hunter...

Sechs Gräber platzten auf wie überreife, schwarze Früchte. Der Boden flog durch die Luft, die Erde riss auf, und Blumen und Sträucher wurden hinweggefegt. Die Särge wurden, wie von Geisterhand, ächzend aus der Erde geschoben. Die schmalen Frontseiten durchstießen hart den Boden und kamen wie kantige Ungetüme aus der Tiefe. Wie Geschosse griffen sie an. Ihr Ziel: Menschen! Zur gleichen Zeit lag Iwan Kunaritschew, im San Franzisko Kentfield Hospital, im Sterben. Die PSA im Alarmzustand und Larry Brent im Kampf gegen seinen tödlichsten Gegner: VAROX!

Charley McElroy is a handsome, well-heeled travel writer and CIA informant, who also happens to be an F-to-M transman. And he's been recently benched by the Agency for not paying his taxes. On the other side of San Francisco, Electra, a Manhattan socialite-turned-dominatrix has just arrived to rebuild her life. Meanwhile, Frankie is a lesbian police sergeant on the outs with the SFPD and trying to recover from the death of her wife.

In San Francisco, bodies are turning up cold and lifeless—faces twisted in terror, hearts stopped without a single wound. Investigative reporter Eddie Marrow suspects something far more sinister than a serial killer: a creature that drains human energy to survive. As Eddie digs deeper, he uncovers a trail of victims—all seemingly healthy, all mysteriously depleted—leading to a force that pulses through the city’s power lines and preys in plain sight. But the closer Eddie gets, the more he feels it pulling at him—feeding on his memories, his strength, his soul.

Life in 1881 San Francisco is difficult if you are a poor widow like Mrs. O’Malley, especially when you have seven children and are forced to live in one of the crowded neighborhoods South of Market. Late one night, as she sat at the window of her crowded flat, sewing and worrying, she noticed something strange going on across the street. Her decision to investigate will have unexpected consequences.

Katarina was a survivor, but these were the words that haunted her. There was only one reason why she pushed through each day...defend the weak, uphold the law. Nothing else mattered. When she discovers a body down on Nob Hill, she is bent on becoming a part of the ongoing investigation. The only problem was the detective on the case...Max Garcia. He had saved her once and she was forever indebted to him. But he wants more; she sees it in the way he looks at her...even at a crime scene. But she wasn’t the kind of girl a man would want. She considered herself damaged goods.