Showing results for "Beast" in Crime Fiction

Nobody touches what's mine without deadly consequences, but when the most beautiful woman is brought to face my fury, my dead heart suddenly begins to beat again. There are no fairy tales in this life. Beauty will never fall for the beast. But this monster doesn't intend to let her go. Everybody has a price. It's just a question of currency. My sweet little hacker can't be swayed by money, but she will do whatever it takes to save her family.

Elusive online journalist Scott King examines the chilling case of a young vlogger found frozen to death in the legendary local ‘vampire tower’, in another explosive episode of Six Stories. In the wake of the 'Beast from the East' cold snap that ravaged the UK in 2018, a grisly discovery was made in a ruin on the Northumbrian coast. Twenty-four-year-old vlogger Elizabeth Barton had been barricaded inside what locals refer to as 'The Vampire Tower', where she was later found frozen to death.

The Commonwealth Games have come to Manchester and the city is buzzing. Caught in the commercial feeding frenzy is Tom Benwell, an advertising executive. But the pressure is getting to Tom - too many deals to make and too many lies to tell. Meanwhile, his friend DI Jon Spicer is on the fast track, showing a love for the job that borders on obsession. Then, in the aftermath of the Games, a string of brutal murders shatters the city's newfound spirit.

Beasts of the Earth tells the story of Harlen LeBlanc, a dependable if quiet employee of the Carter Hills High School’s grounds department whose carefully maintained routine is overthrown by an act of violence. As the town searches for answers, LeBlanc strikes out on his own to exonerate a friend while drawing the eyes of the law to himself and fending off unwelcome voices that call for a sterner form of justice.

In 1920's Kansas, the mangled body of champion buggy racer Tommy Donnan has been discovered beneath his carriage, dragged to his death by his own horse. His twelve-year-old sister, Millie, does not believe his death was an accident. She wants to know the truth behind the night Tommy died. But with her mother given over to grief, her father to fate, and her only surviving brother, Junior, a shell of himself since returning from The Great War, Millie will have to seek this truth alone.

After a long stint in academia, Jodi Luna leaves Boston for the wilds of New Mexico to start a new life as a game warden. Jodi is no stranger to the wilderness; her family has lived here for generations. Determined to protect her homeland, she nabs a poacher in her first week on the job. But when he retaliates by stalking Jodi and her teenage daughter, a cat and mouse game leads Jodi to a white supremacist group deep in the mountains.

A midnight call has Leopold scrambling to gather and deploy his available assets. But there is a high-stakes game being played, one at the highest levels of government. The members of Leopold’s original team—Cira, Estella, Yergha—quickly find themselves in over their heads, prompting Leopold to summon Kiera, and then to fetch his wild card: Atlas Hargrove. This caged lion is itching for a new job, something to bring him closer to finding his daughter. With his enemies stacking up and the warden no longer offering his protection, Atlas will jump out of one nightmare into another.

Nie hätte ich gedacht, dass ich mich eines Tages freiwillig dafür entscheiden würde, bei dem Biest der Bratva zu bleiben. Ich hatte die Chance, das Mafialeben hinter mir zu lassen. Vielleicht hätte ich sie wahrnehmen sollen, doch irgendetwas hält mich bei ihm - Beast ist so viel mehr, als sein Name vermuten lässt. Und mit jedem Tag bei ihm scheine ich wieder zurück zu mir selbst zu finden. Bis ich erneut zwischen die Fronten gerate, plötzlich steht alles auf dem Spiel. Dies ist der zweite Teil der "BEAST"-Dilogie, damit ist die Geschichte abgeschlossen.

Gnadenlos. Animalisch. Blutrünstig. Ich bin nicht umsonst als das Biest der Bratva bekannt. Und sie ist mein Geschenk. Wir hatten einen Deal mit den Japanern, jeder hatte seine Gebiete, seine Geschäfte ... Bis sie einen aus unseren Reihen umbringen und mir Kimi wie ein verdammtes Jungfrauenopfer übergeben. Sie ist schwach, zart wie eine Blume ohne Dornen. Jemand wie ich könnte sie nur allzu leicht zerdrücken.

A soldier returns from the front line of battle to report that Pekkala's charred body has been found at the site of an ambush. But Stalin refuses to believe that the indomitable Pekkala is dead. On Stalin's orders, Pekkala's assistant, Kirov, travels deep into the forests of Western Russia, following a trail of clues to a wilderness where partisans wage a brutal campaign against the Nazi invaders. Unknown to Kirov, he is being led into a trap.

Felix Lane is bent upon revenge for the death of his young son in a hit-and-run accident, and uses all the knowledge he has gained as a well-known crime writer to track down the culprit . The plot features amateur sleuth Nigel Strangeways, a character modelled on W.H. Auden.

Durante una conferencia sobre el futuro del libro digital, Mauro Balaguer, editor de larga trayectoria profesional, se ve abordado por una elegante y bella anciana que le hace entrega de una tarjeta en cuyo reverso aparece escrito en rojo «La bella bestia», al mismo tiempo que, mostrándole un tatuaje, le comenta: «Fui su esclava y esta es la prueba. Si quiere más detalles, llámeme». Intrigado y fascinado por lo que intuye pueda ser su último gran éxito editorial, Balaguer aplaza todos sus compromisos....

"À la fin de ce récit, je vais me tuer. Et puis mourir. C'est ainsi. Toute bonne chose a une fin, mais moi aussi."

J'ai encore tué quelqu'un. Je suis un tueur en série. D'accord, deux cadavres, c'est une petite série, mais c'est une série quand même. Et je suis jeune. Qui sait jusqu'où les opportunités me mèneront? L'occasion fait le larron, le meurtrier ou la pâtissière. C'est documenté.