Résultats de "Val" dans Toutes les catégories

Der zweite Band der spannenden Thriller-Serie der Bestseller-Autorin und Crime-Queen Val McDermid ist ein gnadenloser Pageturner: Der Polizei-Psychologe und Profiler Tony Hill händigt einem Elite-Polizeiteam zu Schulungszwecken eine Liste mit 30 verschwundenen Mädchen aus. Womit er nicht gerechnet hat, ist der Ehrgeiz der jungen und brillanten Shaz Bowman, die tatsächlich überraschende Zusammenhänge bei gleich sieben der Mädchen aufspürt.

It’s April 2020 and Edinburgh is in lockdown, but that doesn’t mean crime takes a holiday. It would seem like a strange time for a cold case to go hot—the streets all but empty, an hour’s outdoor exercise the maximum allowed—but when a source at the National Library contacts DCI Karen Pirie’s team about documents in the archive of a recently deceased crime novelist, it seems it’s game on again. What unspools is a twisted game of betrayal and revenge, but no one quite expects how many twists it will turn out to have.

Asher Evans is living her dreams eight seconds at a time. She’s finally at the top of the rankings and headed for the National Finals Rodeo in Las Vegas, and she owes it all to the man who taught her everything, Silas Wilson.

You'd think that after battling a demon, Astrid Knightstorm would deserve a break. No such luck for Austin's premier wizard private detective. Her former master and mentor, Orpheus, has gone off grid. And with rising tensions at the Hellmouth—the literal gateway to the nine realms of hell—she's getting worried. What begins as a fact-finding mission to LA embroils Astrid in a battle to save the world from an invasion of monsters that even an army of vampires struggles to contain.

Don Quijote de la Mancha narra la historia de un hidalgo maduro que se daba a leer gran cantidad de libros de caballerías, con tanta afición y gusto, que olvidó casi por completo quien era y se deja llevar para convertirse en aquello que lo tanto lo ha cautivado, un caballero andante, y así hacerse de aventuras.Don Quijote de la Mancha - Primera Parte [Idioma Español España]

Just when Astrid Knightstorm is starting to believe things are going her way, a precious fae gemstone crumbles in her hands. Worse, it belongs to a High Priestess who hates her guts. As punishment, Astrid is ordered to investigate a disturbance in the treacherous fae Wildlands. What she finds is Vorathium, a demon literally hell bent on destruction. As creatures spill through the weakening barriers and a feral werewolf prowls Austin's streets, Astrid makes a shocking discovery. Her parents are alive, trapped in the Realm of Lost Souls.

Emily never expected her first job in the ambulance control room to turn her whole world upside down. Between endless 999 calls, sleepless nights, and an NHS held together by humour and takeaway tea, she finds herself drawn to two very different people: Rockie, the fast-response paramedic with a sharp tongue and a storm behind his eyes, and Amira, her fearless colleague with a wicked smile and a soft touch when no one’s looking. As the adrenaline of the job builds, so does the tension. Rockie is reckless and complicated, hiding wounds deeper than any ECG can show.

After her first lackluster experience with intercourse, Clare Dunnaby swears off romantic entanglement for good. At 21, she remains unattached and content - pursuing the study of botany and geology with single-minded focus. She remains certain she has no need for the amorous attentions of the opposite sex...at least, until she enters her bedchamber to find a nude man waiting in her bed.

Benedict Sterling founded The Gentleman Courtesans agency to assure financial security for himself and his friends. Unfortunately, the efforts of a spiteful gossip-column writer threaten to expose his secrets - including those that could see him ruined and ostracized. With everyone he cares about in the path of his enemy, he is determined to silence The London Gossip, once and for all.

Tyler Cree has never been good at the whole "look and don’t touch" thing. From the moment he was old enough to walk on his own two feet, he’s been looking for trouble. Trouble comes in many forms...quite a few of those forms being the female persuasion. Tyler knows what girls want - a bad boy. And he has the bad boy image down pat. Ex-military - check. Hot cop - double check.

Coke Solomon has lived a full life. He’s a retired army drill sergeant, so he is more than used to getting his way. And if he can’t have it his way? Well, let’s just say that’s never happened before... At least not until Cora Maldonado walks into his life, demanding he fall in line, or she’ll find a way to make his life hell. It doesn’t matter that she’s younger than him, and has a father that would rather see him dead than have his baby girl anywhere near him. Nor does it matter that his ex-wife is highly offended that she’s been replaced with a much younger woman.

Augusta “Tucker” Delacroix is perfectly content running a successful oil field supply company until her brother and business partner, Jim Bob, dies suddenly. Things go from bad to worse when she gets a call from Monique, a beautiful stranger who turns out to be Jim Bob’s mistress and mother to his son. Monique needs financial support for her child, and Tucker steps up - it’s what family does. Willow Vernon has never approved of her sister’s affair with a wealthy married man, but when Monique becomes ill, Willow assumes care of her nephew.

De vez en cuando, todo empieza de nuevo. Candela es una mujer de cuarenta y pocos años con una vida normal, acostumbrada a la soledad, enormemente observadora y con un ácido sentido del humor. Sus días transcurren sin grandes sobresaltos mientras trabaja de camarera en el bar que regenta junto a su abuela y a su madre tuerta. Un bar de barrio por el que, a través de sus clientes, pasa la vida entera. Candela deberá alumbrar cualquier penumbra, incluso esa que vuelve desde el pasado que creía olvidado.

Cuentos de la selva de Horacio Quiroga ha sido y es para generaciones de niños y niñas la puerta de entrada a la inconmensurable naturaleza misionera, pero por sobre todo, a una forma de interpretarla y, así, interpelarnos a nosotros mismos. Horacio Quiroga pintó con letras los paisajes verdes y colorados de Misiones y le dio la palabra a su fauna para apropiarse de un mundo y hacer aflorar las emociones y pasiones humanas más básicas y profundas.

The ultimate cowboy ménage experience! The steamy contemporary series that has it all, including two (or three!) cowboys in every book!

In "Calming Affirmations" you'll find a sanctuary of peace and strength within this audiobook, offering 300 powerful affirmations specifically designed to combat stress and anxiety. This audiobook is a pure, focused collection of transformative words, each carefully crafted to guide you toward a more serene and balanced state of mind.

Sebastian Fitzek, Val McDermid, Michael Connelly und zehn weitere Thrillerautoren lassen Ihnen das Blut in den Adern gefrieren...

Nikolai doesn’t want much out of life: sex, immortality, and the power to disembowel anyone who crosses him. But with dark magic forbidden, his only option is Medea–a mage so deadly even the Enforcers give her a wide berth. Despite dire warnings that her apprentices don’t survive, Nikolai won’t stop until she agrees to train him. After all, he’s a killer himself.

The Letter That Never Reached Her is a quiet, atmospheric literary novella about inheritance, silence, and the truths that wait decades to be heard. When Elara Winslow reopens her late grandmother’s seaside bookshop, she discovers a crate of unsent wartime letters—written by a man her grandmother never spoke of, and never answered. As Elara reads through the correspondence, she uncovers a restrained, unfinished love shaped by war, duty, and a single withheld message that altered two lives forever.

Homeless, running from a violent partner, and battling suicidal depression, she found herself sitting by a river holding a bottle of pills in one hand and a bottle of red wine to wash them down in the other. Out of the twilight sky a majestic blue heron circled and landed just a few feet away. Something in the heron's piercing eyes caused her to stop swallowing the pills. In that moment, she realized that there was just too much beauty and magic in the world to give up. Thus began a decades-long quest to understand how wondrous encounters can spark healing from trauma and grief.