Showing results for "1 Samuel" in Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Down and almost out in Nashville, Hannah May takes a job at what she thinks is a telemarketing company. To her shock, it’s a phone sex hotline. Unfortunately, the only role-playing Hannah can do with conviction is as a cash-strapped twenty-five-year-old virgin caring for a mother with Alzheimer’s. If only her callers were into that fantasy. Instead, one of them is looking for a killer.

I den småländska storskogen, några mil utanför Hultsfred, bor enstöringen Eskil Berg i torpet Sjöliden. En dag hittas han av brevbäraren brutalt misshandlad i sitt kök med sår efter ett märkligt vapen. Kriminalkommissarie Louise Hård startar jakten på förövaren men fallet visar sig vara mer komplicerat än det först verkar. Varför har Eskil flera miljoner kronor på ett hemligt bankkonto? Vem är kvinnan på fotot i hans gamla kamera och varför ligger några tänder undangömda i en ask på hans vind?

I told her my secrets and she told me gilded lies. The words that dripped from her lips like honey were nothing but empty promises. Her betrayal blindsided me. Posie had been my constant. My anchor. My calm. Until she wasn’t. Now she’s my enemy. Before I could even the score, she fled to the other side of the country where she thought she was safe from my wrath.

Historian Aldo Lombardi is a recent graduate of the Pontifical Gregorian University summoned to appear before Pope Benedict. Allison Gillespie is an investigator whose assignment leads her to Aldo and a 500-year-old secret whose discovery may unravel the very fabric of the Christian faith. The pair must uncover the truth behind the secret and reveal what the leaders of the modern Seventh-day Adventist Church know that could destroy the Catholic Church.

Die allgegenwärtige, betongraue Trostlosigkeit treibt einen Jungen zur Flucht aus der Vorstadt. Jenseits von dort, zwischen den Glasstahltürmen der City, lockt eine andere Welt. Der Antiheld der Geschichte beansprucht allen Hindernissen zum Trotz seinen Anteil am Leben... doch wird er auch tatsächlich in dessen Abgründen bestehen und seine Idee von Glück und Liebe retten können?

Suzy's a control freak and has her life mapped out - work hard, find a man with a stable job, and live happily ever after. She's content with the status quo, but her plan comes to a screeching halt when he enters her life and turns it upside down. City gave up on love when his heart was crushed in college, preferring to be the typical bachelor. He spends his nights hopping from one bed to another and his days working at his family tattoo shop, Inked.

I didn't think pulling off for a quick bite to eat in a tiny town in the middle of nowhere would change everything. I was wrong. Now, I'm running through the forest wearing nothing but a red cloak, being hunted by wolves. I'm desperate, terrified, and not ready to die. When they attack, I know this is it. Except…it isn't. Because the den of wolves that bite me somehow turns into men. Men who swear I'm just like them—a shifter. And as much as I don't want to believe them, I'm not sure they're wrong.

Ein Spaziergänger findet im norwegischen Wald ein totes Mädchen, das mit einem Springseil an einem Baum aufgehängt wurde und ein Schild um den Hals trägt: "Ich reise allein." Kommissar Holger Munch wendet sich an seine Kollegin Mia Krüger, deren Spürsinn unschlagbar ist. Er reist auf die Insel Hitra, um sie abzuholen. Was Munch nicht weiß: Mia hat sich dorthin zurückgezogen, um sich umzubringen. Doch als sie die Bilder des toten Mädchens sieht, entdeckt sie ein Detail, das bisher übersehen wurde - und das darauf schließen lässt, dass es nicht bei dem einen Kind bleiben wird.

Jessica Jackson är polis i Västervik och får ärva ett gammalt nedlagt mejeri på (den fiktiva ön) Mörkö, där hon drömmer om att starta ett mikrobryggeri. Men när en död man flyter i land på ön grusas hennes planer. Efter en fest i bygdegården försvinner en ung kvinna. Allt tyder på att hon blivit utsatt för våld. Jessica var själv med på festen, men har inte någon klar bild över vad som egentligen hände. Allt hon minns är ett bråk mellan några invandrare och den försvunna kvinnan. Eftersom hon känner till platsen dras Jessica snart in i den alltmer komplicerade polisutredningen.

The other women watch me with envy, but they know nothing of the beatings and punishments I endure. He hides them with a veil. One I must wear until I give him a son. But when I fail, he threatens the only good things in my life. My sister, Alice, and the daughter he ripped from my arms for another family to raise. I thought running back to Saint View would save us. I thought wrong. Now my sister is dead, left strangled in an alleyway, and my ex-husband isn’t the only suspect.

As I tried to move forward and build a new life under a different identity, I never expected to encounter people I could trust, let alone form connections with four guys who were determined to restore my smile. While finding my way back to myself, I'm discovering that I don't always have to hide. However, when it finally seems like I have a future, my past comes knocking on my door.

Tatiana Jones is no stranger to the battlefield. One look at her scarred flesh tells the tales of her time in captivity. But it’s not only her skin that bears the marks of her failures; doubt and a healthy dose of cynicism now cloud her vision. She has also mastered the fine art of deception. In her line of work it is a necessity.

The complete first and second series of Mark Tavener’s BBC Radio 4 comedy thriller set in a crisis-ridden Cambridge college When prominent don and celebrity TV historian Peter Devanti dies after dining at High Table, his colleague Gilbert suspects foul play and invites his former student Simon...

Der Erzählrahmen der Geschichte zeichnet dabei Momentaufnahmen eines Europas im Niedergang, der Stern westlicher Zivilisation verglüht in ökonomischer Dauerkrise und beständiger Terrorgefahr. In diesen Zeiten wird das Menschsein aller Protagonisten auf eine harte Probe gestellt...