Showing results for "Animals" in Thriller & Suspense

Shelby works as a dog walker in northern California, and she’s just finished up her bi-weekly trip to the park with a husky named Pluto. When she brings him back to his house, she finds his owner - Todd Burke, a well-known local businessman and founder of an organic supplements company - lying on the bathroom floor, dead. A detective arrives on the scene. As she interviews Shelby, the body is inspected by a medical examiner, and more cops search Todd’s home, it becomes clear that the victim’s life was less picture-perfect than his clean-cut persona might lead you to believe.

Es ist an der Zeit, die Krone der Schöpfung weiterzureichen … Animal. Sprich oder stirb von Bestseller-Autor Tibor Rode ist ein brandaktueller, top recherchierter True-Science-Thriller über die Entschlüsselung der Sprache der Tiere und die Frage, ob wir bereit sind, ihnen zuzuhören. Endlich darf aufstrebender Anwalt Ben Lorenz für eine renommierte Hamburger Großkanzlei seinen ersten Fall vor Gericht verhandeln.

Una novela negra bestialmente adictiva. Hay un animal salvaje dormido en nuestro interior. ¿Qué ocurre cuando despierta? El hallazgo de un cadáver conmociona a los habitantes de una tranquila región rural en Asturias. Se trata de un hombre asesinado con una crueldad extrema, encontrado a pocos metros del prostíbulo local. Aunque era un vecino conocido y respetado, todo parece apuntar a una venganza. Olivia Marassa es una joven y ambiciosa reportera que trabaja para el periódico de la región y ve en este caso la oportunidad de conseguir una gran exclusiva.

Returning home to England from New York, Margot finds her family in chaos. Her cousin Chloe is in prison awaiting trial for murdering her twin sister, Claudia, their mother has withdrawn into the imaginary world of her romance novels, Claudia’s 14-year-old daughter has regressed to early childhood and refuses to leave her bed, and to top it all off, the family cat has decided to live with the neighbors. As Chloe’s trial approaches, the atmosphere in the house becomes increasingly fraught, and Margot begins to wonder whether someone else is responsible for Claudia’s death.

Three weeks on from that night and ChameleoMan & friends are riding high after their first vigilante victory... but Dan & his cats are about to face something far deadlier. Stopping a mugging was almost too easy, but when a body turns up in the industrial estate, Dan begins to wonder if the superhero life is really for him. Catman is missing, the police are asking questions, and shadowy figures stalk the street at night. With time running out, Dan, Andrew, and the Flash must race to uncover the truth—before the law starts pointing fingers at them. But something darker lurks in the shadows.

Two grisly murders are committed at a meatpacking plant by a person wearing a cow mask. Not long after, the CEO of a water park is brutally killed by someone wearing an orca mask. Interpol Agent An Chang believes these are the latest acts of a ruthless serial killer he has been chasing for more than 20 years...a killer who targets those who harm innocent animals.

When rhino poachers kill two of his fellow rangers in Kruger Park, South African Defense Force veteran Cobus Venter reaches his breaking point. Quitting his job, he embarks on a vigilante mission to take down the animal-trafficking syndicate from the inside. Meanwhile, in Florida, insurance investigator Randall Knight is called to a private roadside zoo, where a new tiger cub of suspect lineage brought a virus that wiped out all the zoo’s tigers. The disease is just one species jump away from erupting into a deadly global human pandemic.

Three years after narrowly escaping a one way trip to the gas chamber, the fugitive known only as Animal finds himself drawn back to the scene of the crime: Harlem. Throughout his entire time in exile, the only thing that kept Animal going was the thought that he would one day be reunited with his soul mate, Gucci - but one bullet changed everything. When his enemies tried to murder Gucci, they crossed the line, so he vowed to cross them all.

Bill Reed manages a wildlife sanctuary in rural Idaho, caring for injured animals - raptors, a wolf, and his beloved bear, Majer, among them - that are unable to survive in the wild. Seemingly rid of his troubled past, Bill hopes to marry the local veterinarian and live a quiet life together, the promise of which is threatened when a childhood friend is released from prison.

FBI agent Christian Windsor's life rests in the hands of a madman, Charles Twaller. His only hope of salvation? The person who waged war against the entire FBI. His former partner. The genius. The psychopath. Luke Titan. FBI Director Alan Waverly sees none of this, though. He only knows Titan escaped and his two agents are missing. Most likely dead. To Waverly, Titan won the war. Going against everything he believes in, Waverly refuses to let Titan escape. He makes a phone call and steps outside of the law. He hires a killer unlike any of them have seen. He hires an animal.

Qui a dit que la Tamise, qui traverse la petite ville de Marlow à l’est de Londres, était un long fleuve tranquille ? Certainement pas ses habitants. Quand La Marlow Belle, un bateau de plaisance loué par le club de théâtre local rentre au port avec un convive de moins, la ville est en émoi. Le corps du disparu – l’irascible Oliver Beresford, fondateur du club – est bientôt retrouvé sans vie sur le rivage. God save Marlow ? Inutile : Judith, l’intrépide octogénaire, et ses amies n’en sont pas à leur premier meurtre.

"Ici-bas, nous sommes tous des animaux. " Le premier roman traduit en français de Morgan Greene, un auteur britannique salué par Chris Whitaker et Jo Nesbø. Trois camarades de classe tuent l'un de leurs camarades de classe sans être inquiétés, 10 ans plus tard ils sont de retour dans la ville de Savage Ridge piégés par une enquêtrice...

In this final installment of the widely popular “Animal” series, we find our anti-hero on a hunt for the woman who forced him to pick his guns back up when she burned his entire world down. The traitorous Red Sonja. She alone holds the key to saving his children and avenging his murdered wife, Gucci, but first he has to find her.

Animal, the gentle and kind-hearted family man, is still infamous for turning at any moment into a cold-blooded killer. Animal is the product of ruthless abuse and the unforgiving streets - he is the product of the world we all live in. Is there anything that could push you to the breaking point of murder? Are you absolutely sure there isn't? After all, there's an Animal in all of us.

After making a promise to leave the street life behind, a shocking revelation forces Animal back into the game to face his greatest opponent yet. When Animal's former lover, Red Sonja, shows up on his doorstep with a little girl, claiming Animal is the father, he and Gucci immediately fear it's a ploy for money. But Red Sonja has come to collect a debt of a different kind, one that can only be paid in blood. A powerful man is hunting Red Sonja and her daughter, and she calls on Animal to stop him.

USA TODAY BESTSELLER "Irresistible!" — James Patterson A MISSING GIRL. AN ORPHANAGE FILLED WITH SECRETS. Hazel wants a new life. She’s thirty years old, single, and her private investigation business is months away from folding. Her luck takes a turn when Madeline Hemsley, a mysterious...

Can an officer and her K-9 partner survive a bomber with a vendetta? When a serial bomber’s explosion in Olympic National Park lands K-9 officer Willow Bates in the hospital, her estranged husband, FBI agent Theo Bates, rushes to her side. He’s determined to protect her and the baby he...

2 luglio 2022, due ladri stanno per rapinare una importante gioielleria di Ginevra. Ma questo non sarà un colpo come tutti gli altri. Venti giorni prima, in un elegante sobborgo sulle rive del lago, Sophie Braun sta per festeggiare il suo quarantesimo compleanno. La vita le sorride, abita con il marito Arpad e i due figli in una magnifica villa al limitare del bosco. Sono entrambi ricchi, belli, felici. Ma il loro mondo idilliaco all’improvviso s’incrina.

The forest is hungry, and her family's secrets are tangled in the trees… Lia Gregg always hoped to outgrow her fear of the woods surrounding her childhood home. The dark, menacing trees have long been the site of whispered legends and disappearances of girls like her. But after a breakup sends...

Right off, Mark Hardin smelled a rat. Someone was stealing animals...a lot of animals. It wasn't an escalation of the "petnapping" of several years past. No ransom asked, but thousands of dogs and cats were missing, primarily along the densely populated Eastern Seaboard. Sheer volume alone dictated that there was some planning behind the thefts. Somewhere, these small animals were being disposed of. And there had to be a profit in it for somebody.