Showing results for "Blanche" in Suspense

Blanche White returns to Farleigh, North Carolina for the summer to help her best friend with her catering business. It's a homecoming rich with the potential for new romance and fraught with the pain of facing the man who raped her at knife-point years ago but was never prosecuted for the crime. Shortly after Blanche arrives, a young woman is murdered and the clues point to the rapist. Blanche investigates, determined not to let him get away with another crime...nor is she willing to let his money-hungry sister marry a sweet, mentally-challenged man for his wealth.

Blanche White is a plump, feisty, middle-aged African-American housekeeper working for the genteel rich in North Carolina. But when an employer stiffs her, and her checks bounce, she goes on the lam, hiding out as a maid for a wealthy family at their summer home. That plan goes awry when there's a murder and Blanche becomes the prime suspect. So she's forced to use her savvy, her sharp wit, and her old-girl network of domestic workers to discover the truth and save her own skin.

Los detectives Yago Reyes y Aines Collado se enfrentan a uno de los peores casos de sus carreras como detectives de homicidios. La víctima, una joven de apenas quince años, es hallada muerta y semidesnuda en los arrozales de la localidad valenciana de Cullera. Comienza así una investigación a contrarreloj para atrapar al culpable. A cada paso dado, aumentan las sospechas de que alguien de su entorno más cercano pudo ser el responsable de su muerte. Sin embargo, ahondar en sus vidas hará que salgan a la luz secretos terribles; el precio a pagar será muy alto.

Une deuxième enquête de "Jana Berzelius". Quand une jeune Thaïlandaise utilisée pour faire passer de la drogue est retrouvée morte des suites d'une overdose, tous les indices tendent à prouver qu'un certain "Danilo" est lié à l'affaire. Un ennemi personnel que Jana Berzelius a bien l'intention de faire disparaître. Ancien frère d'armes, il en sait trop sur son enfance sordide. En parallèle, l'équipe de Jana se concentre sur la recherche d'un magnat de la drogue qu'on dit d'une intelligence hors du commun.

Toni Montero fue sentenciado a la edad de diecisiete años a cadena perpetua por un asesinato que no cometió. Recluido en la prisión de San Quintín conoce a un recluso influyente: Marc Lecury, acusado de homicidio. Lecury y su socio, el abogado Leko Tabone, se valen de la Proposición 47 y logran la libertad de Toni Montero después de dieciocho años.

Richard Raising se encuentra en una encrucijada: ha dejado el trabajo, su mujer lo ha abandonado y sus planes de ser escritor no dan frutos. Cuando, en su desesperación, siente que no saldrá a flote, recibe un manuscrito de manos de un enigmático personaje que parece tener datos sobre sus antepasados y le aconseja que busque a Nicholas Blohm y Dante Contini-Massera, protagonistas de la primera entrega de El Manuscrito.

Veinticinco años después, el robo a un banco desencadena una serie de circunstancias que descubrirán lo que se esconde detrás de cada uno de los personajes principales: Daniel Kozlowski, un judío polaco que terminada la II Guerra huyó del campo de refugiados en Caraolos, Chipre, y se radicó en Chicago. Viveka, su joven esposa, que nos conducirá a momentos insospechados.

Esta vez, Blanca Miosi se adentra en el oscuro mundo del terrorismo y crea un personaje inolvidable: Kevin Stooskopf. Una novela que nació inspirada en los cientos de soldados que desde Afghanistán leían sus novelas a través del Kindle y se comunicaban con ella por email. El rastreador se mueve entre la pasión por un amor imposible y el apego al deber en un escenario conflictivo en el que luchan dos religiones, dos pensamientos, y formas diferentes de ver el mundo. Acción, intriga, odio y amor son los ingredientes que acompañarán al oyente desde el principio al final.

The residents of the bucolic Massachusetts hamlet are up in arms. A developer has bought the sprawling Quigley homestead, and his construction crew is causing a ruckus digging up the land. The noise stops abruptly when a female skeleton is found buried in the garden.

Belle Graham and her canine bodyguards, Kit and Gabby, are enjoying their daily outing in the local dog park with new friends Karen Tacete; her daughter, Lily; and their dog, Bear. But Karen's picture-perfect life shatters when her husband, Dan, fails to return home. He's barely been declared officially missing when Karen receives a ransom note that includes a dire warning: If she contacts the police or the FBI, Dan dies.

Belle Graham is mired in New England's snowy, late-January gloom when Hollywood comes calling. Seduced by visions of relaxing poolside in sunny Los Angeles, she heads to Hollywood to create a puzzle for a TV movie based on a crime she and her husband Rosco Polycrates recently cracked. The hook is that the show is interactive - viewers get to solve the crime on air with Belle.

Perro que no ladra es la primera novela de Blanca Cabañas. En su debut, la autora utiliza el sur de España como escenario para construir un thriller muy adictivo, repleto intriga y suspense, con un final que no dejará indiferentes a sus lectores. Todas las familias felices esconden un secreto monstruoso. Lara Ortiz vive en Sevilla desde hace catorce años sin tener noticias de su familia. La llamada repentina de su hermana trastoca su mundo y la obliga a volver al lugar del que ha huido toda su vida: Chiclana de la Frontera.

The husband-and-wife sleuth team is back in five tales of holiday mystery and mayhem. "Holly, Jolly Roger" takes Belle and Rosco to sunny St. Lucia in the Caribbean as they try to decipher the clues to a legendary buried treasure. "The Mystery of Wordsworth House" may remain just that unless Belle and Rosco can turn their stay at a snowy Montreal inn into a chance for a family to solve the riddle of their past... with the help of a ghost.

A homeless man has been found in an alley, clobbered to death. The crime seems pretty cut and dried - vagrants fighting over turf - until the Newcastle Police Department uncovers a connection to a local shelter in danger of being taken over by greedy developers. Is the dead John Doe a victim of some sinister plot? And what became of the scruffy mutt he had recently adopted?

Newlyweds Rosco Polycrates and Belle Graham are settling into life with a new puppy in their charming New England townhouse when Belle's estranged father sets out to visit them. Except renowned anthropologist Theodore A. Graham never makes it off the train. According to the coroner, he died of a heart attack aboard the Amtrak to Newcastle. Now Belle is flying down to Florida to dispose of the effects of a man she barely knew.

Playboy Thompson C. Briephs has just been found strangled in his bed. The police believe the Newcastle Herald crossword editor, a scion of a blue-blooded New England family, died from kinky sex gone wrong. But cop-turned-private investigator Rosco Polycrates thinks there's a six-letter word for what happened. Enlisting the help of Annabelle Graham, the crossword editor for a rival paper, Rosco unearths a crazy quilt of suspects who had it in for the victim - and one of them was blackmailing him.

Belle Graham hears it first from the gossip columnist for the Evening Crier, where Belle is resident crossword editor. Fire has destroyed one of the stables at King Wenstarin Farms - the multimillion-dollar corporation owned by the notorious Collins clan - and the barn manager lies in a coma. Did someone torch the place? That's what Belle's PI husband Rosco Polycrates has been hired to find out.

Suena el teléfono y el mundo es para siempre un lugar distinto. Las cosas suceden sin que nadie sepa por qué y uno no vuelve a ser el que era ni a sentir lo que sentía. Ésta es la historia de una ausencia, el relato de una búsqueda. Un descenso a los infiernos para rescatar al ser amado. Porque ésta es una historia de amor, aunque sea la historia de un amor diferente. Sobre el gran tabú de nuestro tiempo se abre la exploración literaria del amor, el dolor y la vida.

There's one corpse too many in this ingenious mystery featuring husband-and-wife sleuth duo PI Rosco Polycrates and crossword editor Belle Graham. The residents of the bucolic Massachusetts hamlet are up in arms. A developer has bought the sprawling Quigley homestead, and his construction crew is causing a ruckus digging up the land. The noise stops abruptly when a female skeleton is found buried in the garden.

With Christmas approaching, Belle Graham and her husband, Rosco Polycrates, are getting into the holiday spirit. While Belle does her part creating a Noel crossword contest, Rosco dons red suit and snowy beard to collect toys for the town's annual children's drive. But his good will starts to dim when he and two Newcastle Police Department colleagues are mistaken for escaped convicts masquerading as small-town Santas.