Showing results for "A Literature of Questions" in Thriller & Suspense

A casual remark on the telephone leads Eleanor Hamilton to an appalling and deeply disturbing discovery: John, her husband of 20 years, has been leading a life of duplicity and betrayal. Shock, jealousy, and anger drive Eleanor to extraordinary limits in her desire for revenge. But then fate intervenes in the shape of a terrible accident.

Vingt ans après un scandale qui a brisé des vies, Shirin ose poser la question interdite. À 14 ans, Shirin a rencontré Adam, un vidéaste talentueux qui l'a choisie comme modèle. Une relation ambiguë s'est nouée, jusqu'au drame. Aujourd'hui, Shirin veut rétablir la vérité sur ce qui s'est réellement passé. Mais la société n'est pas prête à l'écouter.

Le commissaire Brunetti reçoit un jour la visite de Claudia Leonardo, une étudiante élève de sa femme. La requête de la jeune fille l'intrigue : elle veut savoir si son grand-père, qui a commis un crime pendant la Seconde Guerre mondiale, peut être réhabilité après sa mort. Mais elle reste évasive quant à la nature de ce crime. Brunetti mène l'enquête et apprend qu'il pourrait bien s'agir d'un trafic d'œuvres d'art. Lorsque Claudia est retrouvée poignardée dans son appartement, les choses se compliquent.

Keep your friends close and your enemies closer. But what if you can't tell which is which? When attorney Izzy McNeil's home is broken into, right after her boyfriend, Theo, moves in, she ignores the coincidence. When Theo is arrested on charges of fraud, she wants to believe he's innocent. But when a neighbor is found dead, she can't ignore that something is very, very wrong. Izzy also can't forget how Theo was inexplicably turned down for a mortgage. Or his recent moody silences....

Following a skiing accident, journalist Sally Proctor is recuperating at her parents' rural Somerset home when she hears about a local man, Brian Jennings, who's been jailed for arson. His sister, convinced of his innocence, is campaigning for his release - and Sally decides to help her by conducting her own enquiries. As she starts to uncover serious discrepancies in the original investigation, Sally and her family are threatened by a series of increasingly menacing incidents. It soon becomes clear that someone will go to any lengths to stop her finding out the truth.

The Mallorcan police receive an anonymous call to say that a body has been found at the foot of a steep wall of rock. Hoping it is an accident, Alvarez makes cursory enquiries only to find that the medical evidence reveals this could be a murder. Alvarez uncovers several possible motives seeming to draw in just about every English person on the Island – but he refuses to countenance that Mary, the dead man’s niece, to whom he becoming uncomfortably close, could be guilty.

When it comes to establishing reasonable doubt in the minds of a New York jury, defense attorney Michael Roehmer is the best in the business - and no one knows this better than rape victim Lisa Altman. She sat helplessly in the courtroom as Roehmer, smoothly and without mercy, shot gaping holes in her testimony. As a result, the man who brutally assaulted her walked free. Right and wrong, guilt and innocence, mean nothing to Roehmer. For him, winning is everything. Now Altman is sitting at a different table: Her rapist has been savagely murdered and she’s accused of the heinous crime.

Best-selling crime writer Geoffrey Gilroy is overcome with jealousy when his wife’s newfound success in the genre begins to eclipse his. Drawing upon his extensive knowledge on the subject, he meticulously plans the perfect murder that will put an end to his wife’s career—and life—once and for all.