Showing results for "Élisabeth" in Thriller & Suspense

Ein grauenhaftes Massaker. Ein Verdächtiger, der beharrlich schweigt. Zwei Bürgermeister-Kandidaten, die die Tat für ihren Wahlkampf instrumentalisieren. Im zweiten Teil der Psychothriller-Reihe "Tödlich" von Alex Hansen gerät Kriminalpsychologin Gilian an ihre emotionalen Grenzen. Dr. Gilian Sanders ist nicht leicht aus der Fassung zu bringen. Doch der Tatort, zu dem Sergeant Ryan Moore sie mitten in der Nacht ruft, scheint einem Horror-Film entsprungen zu sein: Mehrere Jugendliche wurden während einer Untergrundparty im Nebenraum eines stillgelegten U-Bahnschachts brutal hingemetzelt.

The Bodine ranch and resort in western Montana is a family business, an idyllic spot for vacationers. A little over thirty thousand acres and home to four generations, it’s kept running by Bodine Longbow with the help of a large staff, including new hire Callen Skinner. There was another member of the family once: Bodine’s aunt, Alice, who ran off before Bodine was born.

Hailey Roarke was never interested in her family's fortune. That's why she became a cop. But with her father and now her cousin dead, she's suddenly on the wrong side of a police interrogation. The only way to clear her name is to solve the riddle before the real killer. Without getting killed herself.

When human remains are found in a ground floor flat, the residents of Nelson Heights are shocked to learn that there was a dead body in their building for over three years. Sarah lives at the flat above and after the remains are found, she feels threatened by a stranger hanging around the building. Laura has lived in the building for as long as she can remember, caring for her elderly father, though there is more to her story than she is letting on. As the investigation starts to heat up, and the two women become more involved, it's clear that someone isn't telling the truth....

“Elisabeth Thomas had me mesmerized from the first page. Dreamy and brimming with dread, Catherine House will swallow you whole."" — Rory Power, New York Times bestselling author of Wilder Girls Trust us, you belong here. A gothic-infused debut of literary suspense, set within a secluded...

Running from her past, Rachel answers an advert to be a live-in assistant to glamorous and eccentric author Dorothy Winters. But behind the closed doors of Dorothy's mansion, she quickly discovers that nothing is as it seems. When Dorothy's manuscript throws up striking similarities to events in Rachel's own life, she becomes convinced that the past she's tried to hide is catching up with her. Then the phone calls start. The parcel arrives. The blood shows up in the bathroom. And Dorothy's friend disappears....

Erica Wright lives a quiet, lonely life in her two-bed end of terrace. Her front door hasn't been graffitied in more than a year, but that's soon about to change - her son, Craig, is being released from prison. Local journalist Luke Harding is determined to warn the public. As the person who covered the arrest and trial all those years ago, he knows the kind of predator Craig really is. When Luke's worst fears are realised after a woman is attacked days after Craig's release, he becomes obsessed with trying to prove that Craig was behind it.

Judith Kepler kennt den Tod wie wenige andere - denn sie ist Tatortreinigerin. Gerade beginnt sie, über ihr weiteres Leben nachzudenken: Ihr Chef will, dass sie die Firma übernimmt, und ihre Beziehung zu einem Waisenmädchen entwickelt sich auf unerwartete Weise. Doch dann stirbt Eva Kellermann, eine frühere Stasi-Spionin. Ihr letztes Geheimnis setzt eine tödliche Jagd in Gang, auf einen der größten Verbrecher dieser Zeit: Bastide Larcan. Er ist Judiths Vater - der so viel Leid verursachte und sich nie dafür verantworten musste.

A kidnapper will stop at nothing to silence the only witness. The last thing Ava Kindred remembers before being thrown off a cliff and left for dead in the Alaskan wilderness is witnessing her friend’s abduction. And when she’s saved by local police chief Mark Tremblay, she enlists his help...

From USA Today best-selling author Elisabeth Grace comes her most suspenseful, sexy, and thrilling books yet!

Pools of blood, scenes of carnage, signs of agonising death - who deals with the aftermath of violence once the bodies have been taken away? Judith Kepler has seen it all. She is a crime-scene specialist. She turns crime scenes back into habitable spaces. She is a cleaner. It is at the home of a woman who has been brutally murdered that she is suddenly confronted with her own past. The murder victim knew Judith's secret: as a child Judith was sent to an orphanage under mysterious circumstances - parentage unknown.

Im Berliner Tiergarten ereignet sich ein schrecklicher Vorfall: Eine der Ersten, die am Tatort eintrifft, ist die junge, ehrgeizige Streifenpolizistin Sanela Beara...

From the author of the acclaimed North of Boston comes a riveting new thriller about an American doctor who travels to Russia to find her estranged grandmother, only to uncover dark family secrets and a dangerous international plot.

Three years ago, Alec McClane and Raegan Devereaux lived every parent's worst nightmare: their one-year-old daughter, Emma, was abducted from a park when Alec turned his back for just a moment. Emma was never found, and presumed dead. The crushing trauma, plus Alec's unbearable guilt, ended the couple's marriage. Now a four-year-old girl matching Emma's profile is found wandering a local park.

Anna has always believed that her mother, Debbie, died 30 years ago on the night she disappeared. But when her father gets a strange note, she realises that she’s never been told the full story of what happened that night on the cliff. Confused and upset, Anna turns to her husband, Jack - but when she finds a love letter from another woman in his wallet, she realises there’s no-one left to help her, least of all her family. And then a body is found....

Ein Toter in Rumänien und ein ermordeter Bauer in Brandenburg – noch ahnt Anwalt Vernau nicht, worauf er sich bei der Verteidigung des jungen Lucian Sandu einlässt, der in die Ereignisse verwickelt zu sein scheint. Der Saisonarbeiter hat gestanden, seinen Chef brutal ermordet zu haben, doch es gibt Widersprüche, und bald ist Vernau sicher, dass Lucian mit seinem Geständnis jemanden schützen will. Auf den ersten Blick sind Verrat, Gier und Hass das Motiv. Aber als Vernau auf dem Hof die geheimnisvolle Rumänin Tina kennenlernt, ist er sich sicher, dass es auch um die Liebe geht.

A "gorgeously written and atmospheric thriller" following a woman on a long-awaited visit to a mountain arts retreat—where she soon finds herself trapped among strangers and in a deadly race to survive (Robyn Harding). “Magnificently absorbing and haunting . . . With a dabble each of...

L'espoir fait vivre, mais il rend fou. Stella Widstrand est une femme comblée, elle a un mari et un fils qu'elle aime plus que tout au monde. La petite vie tranquille de cette psychothérapeute vole en éclats le jour où elle reçoit une jeune patiente, nommée Isabelle.

All his siblings have moved on from their troubling pasts, but Rusty McClane can’t leave his behind. Not even when his freedom is in jeopardy. Legal investigator Harper Blake can sense a bad boy. She’s drawn to them - like she is to her mysterious and brooding new client. The police believe that Rusty is involved with the case of a missing underage girl. Harper’s job is to find evidence to defend him. But is her sexy suspect a predator…or something else? If Rusty is guilty of anything, it’s of stirring something primitive in Harper.

Vier Jahre sind seit dem Verschwinden des kleinen Darijo vergangen. Damals forderten die Erpresser eine Million Lösegeld. Doch die Familie des Jungen ist arm. Sollte eigentlich der Sohn des Multimillionärs Reinartz entführt werden? Als im kältesten Winter seit Jahrzehnten das Skelett des Jungen entdeckt wird, muss die junge Polizistin Sanela Beara dem Vater die schlimme Nachricht überbringen. Die Begegnung mit dem gutaussehenden Biologen löst nicht nur Gefühle, sondern auch Zweifel in ihr aus.