Showing results for "Care" in Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Morris Duckworth teaches English to the pampered rich of Verona, and Morris is not pleased. Living a meager existence in a squalid apartment, he regards his privileged students with envy and disdain, first wreaking revenge by petty theft and then, like all good criminals, graduating to grander larceny. When one of those students, a beautiful but vapid heiress named Massimina, falls in love with him, Morris can almost smell upward mobility.

Soy Daphne Wood, la librera de Castle Combe. Mi vida era apacible hasta que el autor superventas Jill Holland se mudó al pueblo. Compró la casa que está al lado de la mía, la de la difunta Bettie, y se convirtió en mi nuevo vecino. Las chicas del club de lectura envidiaron mi suerte. Yo también pensé que era afortunada, hasta que empecé a ver cosas de lo más inquietantes.

Esta narración es una historia enigmática; un relato escalofriante en el que en ningún momento se sabe exactamente qué sucede ni por qué.

Sixteen delightful holiday short stories by some of your favorite Soho crime authors! This captivating collection of short mysteries and crime capers - which features New York Times best-selling authors, Crime Writers Association Gold and Diamond Dagger winners, and Edgar Award nominees - contains laughs aplenty, the most hardboiled of holiday noir, and heartwarming reminders of the spirit of the season.

Miles de personas de todo el mundo conocían a João Teixeira de Faria como Juan de Dios, un sanador espiritual de Brasil que se hizo famoso por realizar milagros médicos sin anestesia. Pero en 2018, se empezó a revelar que Juan de Dios guardaba un secreto oscuro que llevaría a su caída. En esta serie, conoceremos a un gurú que construyó un imperio sagrado, la actividad criminal que lo hizo posible, y la poderosa red de creyentes que lo protegen hasta el día de hoy. Esta historia se trata sobre el alcance de los movimientos internacionales de sanación espiritual, el poder de la fé...

When Afrah arrives at Ravenswood Lodge Care Home for the first time, she feels far from home. Her daughter, Amira, didn't want to send her away from the comfort and familiarity of her surroundings but she's struggling to cope. Ravenswood Lodge was meant to be a safe space for Afrah. But when her belongings start vanishing, her family photographs, her jewellery, her pill boxes, Amira and the staff say it's just Afrah's imagination, it's just her failing memory. But Afrah is adamant someone is playing games with her. She knows Ravenswood Lodge isn't safe for her. Someone wants her gone.

ONE BODY. SIX EXPERTS. CAN YOU SOLVE THE CASE BEFORE THEY DO? Mega-bestselling British crime novelist Cara Hunter makes her big American debut with a wholly immersive thriller like none you've seen before: written as the teleplay of a true-crime documentary, it has the reader puzzling away...

Billionaire dragon shifter Darius is a man in control—of his business, his family, his life. But stubborn, outspoken, redheaded Loretta and the rowdy preschoolers at her day care are about to turn his well-ordered life upside down. The fire at Loretta's apartment was no accident, and the closer he keeps her, the safer she'll be. But Loretta's not about to let anyone treat her like a treasure to be locked up for safekeeping.

Keith Morrison takes us to America’s heartland, where single mom Cari Farver disappears just weeks into a new romance. What follows is a series of strange and terrifying events, including taunting texts and threatening emails to Cari's boyfriend and his ex that escalate to stalking, arson and murder. But nothing could prepare friends, family, and investigators for the mind-bending twist that would come next…

Murder never shocks Leonora Spencer. Violence is a fact of life in Victorian London, and most of the corpses Leo attends to inside her uncle's city morgue are its victims. But when she witnesses a woman's death at a popular night club, and then follows a suspicious hooded figure retreating from the scene, Leo lands herself in the center of another complex Scotland Yard investigation—right where Detective Inspector Jasper Reid doesn't want her.

The New York Times bestselling author of the Maisie Dobbs series turns her prodigious talents to this World War I standalone novel, a lyrical drama of love struggling to survive in a damaged, fractured world. By July 1914, the ties between Kezia Marchant and Thea Brissenden, friends since...

Mikael Blomkvist, un jurnalist căzut în dizgrație, este angajat să investigheze un caz neobișnuit. Însă când acesta face legătura între dispariția Harrietei și un lanț de crime terifiante, săvârșite cu 40 de ani în urmă, misiunea lui devine imposibil de finalizat fără ajutorul unui asistent. Lisbeth Salander, o tânără de 24 de ani, cu o înfățisare de hacker și o inteligență de geniu, pare a fi candidatul perfect pentru această poziție.

En agosto de 2005, mucho antes de los crímenes que conmocionaron el valle del Baztán, una joven Amaia Salazar de 25 años, subinspectora de la Policía Foral, participa en un curso de intercambio para policías de la Europol en la Academia del FBI, en Estados Unidos, que imparte Aloisius Dupree, el jefe de la unidad de investigación. Una de las pruebas consiste en estudiar un caso real de un asesino en serie a quien llaman "el compositor", que siempre actúa durante grandes desastres naturales atacando a familias enteras y siguiendo una puesta en escena casi litúrgica.

Kommissarin Thea nimmt sich gerade eine berufliche Auszeit, als ihre Freundin sie um Hilfe bittet: Thea soll ihr in ihrem Feinkost-Laden auf Mallorca aushelfen. Die ersten Tage im malerischen Küstenort Paguera sind herrlich, doch dann wird ihr Nachbar ermordet! Thea ist schockiert und beginnt auf eigene Faust, Nachforschungen anzustellen. Dabei gerät sie mit dem spanischen Polizisten David Martinez aneinander. Doch Thea wird seine Hilfe noch brauchen. Denn sie ahnt nicht, was sie mit ihren Ermittlungen losgetreten hat...

"A València apareixen els cadàvers de dos polítics que havien estat involucrats en trames corruptes amb un conseller d’alta volada de la Generalitat, que va fugir a l’altre punta del món abans de ser condemnat per aquests tractes il·legals. Ara totes les sospites recauen sobre l’exconseller que pot haver torn at a fer justícia, però ningú no sap on és. Ni tan sols la seva família. El fill és un aspirant a novel·lista que vol escriure la seva gran obra a partir de la història del pare. La muller és una dona de classe alta vinguda a menys que viu en la inòpia des de la fugida del marit."

Soon to be a MAJOR MOVIE. A gripping and heartbreaking story, A Thousand Miles from Care tells the 30-year quest Steve Johnson undertook to uncover the truth about his brilliant brother’s death. At the entrance of Sydney Harbor, the cliffs rise fourteen stories above the Pacific, like a...

Cari Mora uprchla před válkou v rodné Kolumbii do USA a pod dohledem imigračního úřadu žije na dočasné povolení pobytu v Miami. Aby se uživila, stará se o luxusní sídlo přímo na pláži Miami Beach. Nemá ale tušení, že pod domem je ukryto půl tuny ryzího zlata a jistý Hans-Peter Schneider po něm už celé roky slídí. Krásná Cari, která pro zvrhlého Schneidera představuje potenciálně zajímavou kořist sama o sobě, je teď zdá se, jedinou překážkou. Jejich nevyhnutelný střet však možná nebude mít tak jasného vítěze, jak se na první pohled zdá.

Venticinque milioni di dollari in lingotti d'oro appartenuti a Pablo Escobar sono sepolti in una grande e misteriosa villa nella baia di Miami Beach. Il bottino fa gola a molti, gente senza scrupoli che tiene d'occhio la casa. Primo tra tutti Hans-Peter Schneider, un uomo perverso e pericoloso che vive delle fantasie malate di altri uomini ricchi. Cari Mora è una ragazza colombiana di venticinque anni con un passato drammatico, scampata alla violenza del suo paese. È l'unica persona ad aver accettato di fare la custode di quella villa.

Thomas Harris ist zurück und schickt einen Killer ins Rennen, der erneut für schlaflose Nächte sorgt! Die Schreie einer Frau sind Musik in seinen Ohren. Er ist groß, blass, haarlos und wie ein Reptil liebt er die Wärme. Menschen begegnen ihm mit Angst und Ekel. Er ist daran gewöhnt. Doch wenn sie das Monster in ihm erkennen, ist es meist zu spät. Dann betteln sie um einen schnellen Tod und er genießt den Schmerz in ihren Gesichtern. Unheimlich spannend gelesen von Achim Buch.

A dying cop asks DCI Christine Caplan to fulfil her last wish: to investigate a cold case that’s still preying on her mind. The naked body of a young man that was found in a lonely wood, dismissed as a down and out by her superiors. Caplan connects the case to other victims left to die in the bleak Scottish forests, injured and unable to escape. As the scent grows stronger, the cold cases suddenly seem dangerously hot.