Résultats lu par "V" dans Policier, thrillers et œuvres à suspense

In the face of a president who lobs accusations without facts, evidence, or logic, truth tellers are under attack. Meanwhile, the world order is teetering on the brink. North Korea is on the verge of having a nuclear weapon that could reach all of the United States, Russians have mastered a new form of information warfare that undercuts democracy, and the role of China in the global community remains unclear.

Reno Villarrubia has killed more men than she has kissed. A fierce Colombian bodyguard who carries a switchblade in her boot, she protects a black-market kingpin named Victor Pagnolli. When Pagnolli is blackmailed by a cop who knows more than he should, Reno must stay alive on a reckless journey through the criminal underworld surrounded by treachery, murderous jealousy, and pursuing FBI agents. As the clock ticks away, Reno knows she is just one bad break away from being killed or arrested. 

Fifteen years ago, tragedy struck in the small town of Malvern, Arkansas. All but one of the Drexel family were slain, leaving eight-year-old Tyler Drexel as the lone survivor. Sheriff Clyde Tidwell wrestled with demonic spirits to save the boy and eventually raised him as his own, changing Tyler’s last name to Tidwell and moving to Mountain Home, Arkansas, to start a new life. Eight years later, Tyler and Clyde both faced the demons again when another tragedy strikes. 

Football star Cameron Dean is genuine campus royalty at Globe University, but his life is more of a nightmare than a dream. When he unexpectedly inherits a creepy old castle in Denmark, Cameron tries to put his worries behind him, inviting his girlfriend and college buddies along on an overseas trip to check out the gloomy fortress. The plan is to get some serious partying done. Too bad nobody counted on the ghost of a drowned girl rising from her watery grave with vengeance on her mind! 

Los Angeles, 1954. Sending a pair of mass murderers to the chair got his name in the papers, but veteran fighter pilot turned detective, Augy Small, couldn’t celebrate. The culprits confessed, but the cops only ever found one body. Who had the killers died to protect? Katya Tyler, a Russian enigma with a wad of cash in one hand and a hit list in the other, claims to have the answers. First, she wants Augy’s help to bring down a massive underground network of human traffickers. As the case unfolds, every clue is an echo of his past.

Former Marine and Iraqi war veteran Wes Hansen is hired to hunt down the man who assaulted the daughter of billionaire oilman Cole Blackwell. Wes has only one name to go on: Meshach. And only one witness: a dog that Wes believes the man used as a prop so he could walk the dark streets of Lubbock, Texas, unquestioned.

Astrid S. erkannte ihren Sohn auf Fahndungsfotos, rief die Polizei und erfuhr: Er soll zwei Kinder getötet haben: Am Mor­gen des 29. Ok­to­ber 2015 hält sie ihre Angst nicht mehr aus. Sie greift zum Te­le­fon und wählt die Num­mer, die in ei­ner Zei­tung ab­ge­druckt ist. Im Ber­li­ner Lan­des­kri­mi­nal­amt klin­gelt das Te­le­fon der Soko Mo­ha­med. Ein Kom­mis­sar hebt ab. As­trid S. nennt ih­ren Na­men. Die neu­en Fahn­dungs­fo­tos, sagt die 53-Jäh­ri­ge, sie habe Sil­vio dar­auf er­kannt. "Der Mann auf den Bil­dern ist mein Sohn."

Jeweler Dora Starke believes creating her own jewelry line with no money and no time is her biggest problem. She's mistaken. When her estranged recluse dad shows up and thrusts a stolen, cursed necklace worth millions at her face and demands she sell it or he's dead, she knows this must be her biggest problem. She's wrong. 

Reluctant psychic Katherine Crystal, dubbed "Crystal Ball Kate", is thrust into the national spotlight when she accurately predicts the death of a movie actor's young son in a private plane crash. Besieged by requests to use her powers to help others, she realizes why her parents had warned her never to let anyone know of her visions. Atlanta police detective Jack Hale harbors a deep-seated distrust of psychics and ignores Katherine's warnings. Jack is forced to partner with Kate, who uses her eerie sensitivity to evil to help him catch a serial killer in Sydney, Australia.

In 1868, six people sought refuge at a hidden enclave in the high desert of eastern Oregon: A brilliant female doctor dying of a rare disease. A Confederate deserter. Two refugees from a lynch mob. A former slave. A womanizing shootist. These were the first acolytes of Stonegarden Abbey, learning the secrets of Hermetic magic under the tutelage of mysterious prophet Ezekiel Reardon. But their time at Stonegarden ended in fire and tragedy. Those left alive thought the tragedy was behind them. But the dark power they believed was gone and buried only slept....

He finally did it, he couldn't stop himself from letting his guard down; he got his heart involved with her. He loved her, now, and more than anything in the whole, damn, crazy world. After protecting himself for so long, he lost everything in one, perfect, passionate night. "God have mercy on my soul. The mafia took her right after we... Christ and god-damn it! I love her. I don't even know how I'm going to tell her father." Anthony Scali has to keep himself focused, despite his heart being open again for the wild, and unbelievably beautiful Paige Morgan.

The rotting flesh in the bucket drew alligators for miles. Cooter Lafuente pulled out a big, glistening, fatty piece. While tearing in half, the tendon snapped and a piece flung onto his cheek. "Argh! Here you go, you big ugly gator!" When he threw the piece of meat into the water, the alligators came right up to the dock where he sat, between all the flotsam left over from the floods.

Between the Monday after Abraham Lincoln was shot until the following week, Tom Jones hid John Wilkes Booth in the wilds of Maryland and then helped him get across the Potomac River to Virginia.

This is the true story a woman swindled out of a fortune by her famous ex-Confederate-general husband, Philip Dale Roddey. You will find this story nowhere else in material about Roddey but it was splashed across the nation in newspapers in 1874 and followed closely by the New York Times.

Within this audiobook, you'll discover award winning tales of weaponized fall vegetables, huckleberry wars with bears, a sheriff from the 1800s whose biggest problem isn't that he's dead, dogs with bad karma, lethal jewelry, plus a bonus story with a recipe and much more.

At 10 years old, Hadley Dixon's life changed forever. Since those few tragic weeks, she's tried to keep the past buried, but old bones have a way of rising up. Grown now, Hadley can't hide any longer. Haunted by a boy who never made it home, a woman who sings in moonlight and dances in flames, and the strange, scarred recluse who watches it all from the shadow of the pines, the time has come for Hadley to pay for her sins.

Ivy's car has broken down in the middle of the night in the middle of nowhere on the way back from a summer babysitting job, her cell phone neglectfully uncharged, and she's never been so grateful to see flashing lights in her rearview mirror. The familiar, rugged, gorgeous cop who comes to her rescue is sympathetic, inviting Ivy into the front seat of his cruiser where he intends to call for a tow-truck.

The short story of discovering the secret to eternal life. What if someone discovered the very secret to avoiding death? Wouldn't that be the ultimate source of knowledge? But with any new discovery many times we rush to the conclusion without thinking about the consequences of our actions. The paradox of eternal life may be something better left to God to decide and control.

After defeating the dreaded Quatre, dragon-vampire, Ashley, and her lover, the vampire Verloren, take a well-deserved rest in the Pacific Northwest. Ashley wants to learn about her newfound powers, and both of these soul mates want to chart their uncertain future. What will their role be in this world of misfits? And what is the meaning of disturbing premonitions seen only by Verloren?

Fred Carver is hired by his good friend, Lieutenant Alfonso DeSoto of the Orlando police, to investigate the death of his uncle at Sunhaven, a local nursing home. Carver is harassed by Raphael Ortiz, a viciously depraved thug bent on discouraging Carver from investigating Sunhaven.