Showing results for "Carmen" in Thriller & Suspense

One of the many engineers that keep Beta, the city under the sea, running, Mira only wants to make her family proud and to prove herself worthy. She knows the mysterious city better than anyone and it's her dream to help it flourish. Then, on a solo job in an abandoned section of the city, she encounters a monster of legend: an undine, a dangerous merman from an ancient civilization, long forgotten.

He is a sinner and never a saint. His words drip with lust. His touch... sinful. That is what girls whisper after one night with him. He even has scratches to prove it. He is powerful, dangerous, and never backs down from a challenge. The pawn? The new girl. He can smell her innocent nature like a piranha smelling blood and won't be satisfied until he has a taste. The problem? He isn't the only one who wants it.

Lainey Taylor is being pushed to the brink by her alcoholic husband, Callum. Prone to hallucinations and erratic behavior, it’s only a matter of time before he puts Lainey’s life—and that of their daughter, Beatrix—in jeopardy. A divorce and full custody is out of the question. In Callum’s words: Over my dead body. Lainey’s sympathetic friend Adelaide has a wild solution. They’ll stage a haunting so convincing it will drive Callum out of Lainey’s life for good. Nothing too over the top: strange smells, noises in the walls, and flies unleashed along the windowsills.

You’d think it was the perfect setup: living next door to the grumpy single dad who needs my help with his troublemaking kids—just until football season is over. Swoony stuff, right? You know who’s not swooning? Me. I’m as grumpy as he is, and I’m fairly certain that for NFL Coach Barrett King, it was hate at first sight. It’s nothing I’ll lose sleep over because 1) the feeling is mutual, and 2) I’m not a people person. Just me and my dog, Larry, moving around when the mood strikes, is what I prefer.

Sophie Cayes is on the road to success as an artist. Until her ex-husband threatens to sue for full custody of their son. Upon learning of a guest ranch in Eastern Washington that keeps a room open for women in need, she grabs her son and bolts.

My dreams have all deserted me, and I'm alone in a new town when I meet him—the stranger at the bar. Anthony Bradstone is everything I ever wanted. A prince right from the start. A shining star, successful and loving. Committed, brilliant, generous. Mr Perfect. But the brightest stars have the darkest shadows, and Ant's love comes with… conditions. That's how one stranger in my bed turns into several, and those several turn into a whole lot more.

Madrid, 1834: una terribile epidemia di colera ha messo in ginocchio la città. Ma il terrore ha anche un altro nome, quello della Bestia: un essere spietato e inafferrabile che rapisce le bambine dei quartieri più poveri e ne smembra i corpi. Quando la piccola Clara scompare, sua sorella Lucía non vuole aspettare di ritrovarne il cadavere: dà inizio così alla sua lotta contro il male e contro il tempo. Ha quattordici anni e l’inestinguibile coraggio di chi sente di non poter fare altro. Anche perché nessuno sembra voler fermare davvero il mostro.

When your not so very departed great-great-aunt relies on her old belongings to cling to her particular form of spectral life force, what do you do when some of them come up for auction in Tuscany? Travel to Italy, of course! But what Genie Darling expected to be a smooth, if expensive operation, soon becomes a haunting experience.

Corre el año 1834 y Madrid, una pequeña ciudad que trata de abrirse paso más allá de las murallas que la rodean, sufre una terrible epidemia de cólera. Pero la peste no es lo único que aterroriza a sus habitantes: en los arrabales aparecen cadáveres desmembrados de niñas que nadie reclama. Todos los rumores apuntan a la Bestia, un ser a quien nadie ha visto pero al que todos temen.

As a former Navy SEAL, I’m no stranger to rescue missions. I’m usually prepared for anything that could go wrong. But I was not ready for her. When Carmen Angelo crashed into my mission, literally jumping into my arms, clinging to me as I dangled beneath a helicopter, I couldn’t let her fall. She didn’t. But I did. Boy, did I fall hard.

Wem kannst du vertrauen, wenn nicht deiner eigenen Mutter? Studentin Mackenzie Casper hat stets im Schatten ihrer berühmten Mutter Elizabeth gelebt, einer der bekanntesten Thriller-Autorinnen der Welt. Doch jetzt ist Elizabeth tot. Mackenzie ist nicht die Einzige die Zweifel daran hat, dass es ein tragischer Unfall war. Auf der Trauerfeier erhält sie einen mysteriösen Brief mit Seiten aus dem Tagebuch ihrer Mutter. Weitere Briefe folgen. Hatte ihre Mom Geheimnisse, die sie das Leben kosteten? Um das herauszufinden, muss Mackenzie selbst Nachforschungen anstellen.

Salvaje, feroz, cruel. EL NUEVO Y BRUTAL THRILLER DE CARMEN MOLA QUE MÁS DE 2 MILLONES DE LECTORES ESTÁN ESPERANDO. Lo que parecía un paraíso se terminó convirtiendo en un infierno. Una novela negra impactante y perturbadora al más puro estilo Carmen Mola. Un terrible levantamiento del ejército contra la reina Isabel II tiñe de sangre y muertos las calles de Madrid y el horror campa por toda la ciudad. Entre cañonazos y disparos, una bailarina llamada Leonor y Mauro, un estudiante de Medicina, se ven envueltos en un homicidio que marcará sus vidas.

Gia has found Dravin's truth, and he isn't the only one she belongs to. Can she accept what she means to his family? When she finds out how dangerous they are and what they are capable of, will she accept how far they will go to keep her? Her best friend is in trouble, but the danger surrounding her and Jess has Gia questioning everything except the love in her heart. Danger surrounds them, and the Order is not to be trusted. After all, they are still prey.

Madrid. Nel quartiere di Usera, lampade e dragoni colorati sfilano per festeggiare il Capodanno cinese: inizia l’anno del maiale. Chesca Olmo, coordinatrice della Brigada de Análisis de Casos, non è tanto in vena di divertimento, ma quella sera conosce un uomo e decide di trascorrere la notte con lui. La mattina dopo, quando riapre gli occhi, si trova in un seminterrato, nuda, con polsi e caviglie legate a un letto. Ricorda, nella nebbia delle ore precedenti, tre uomini che la circondano e la osservano con occhi famelici. Poi più niente, soltanto dei grugniti e un odore insopportabile.

Unmoored by her husband’s death and suffering from writer’s block, novelist Saoirse White moves to Providence, and into the historic home of Sarah Helen Whitman, the nineteenth-century poet and spiritualist once courted by Edgar Allan Poe. Saoirse’s certain she’ll find inspiration in the quiet rooms, as well as in the tucked-away rose garden and forgotten cemetery at the back of the property.

Se esiste un limite al male, quali confini sei disposto a superare per salvare chi ami? Quando l’ispettrice Elena Blanco, capo della Brigada de Análisis de Casos, fa irruzione nella stanza di un adolescente come tanti altri non può immaginare quello che troverà sul suo computer: il video in diretta di due uomini incappucciati che torturano una giovane donna. La BAC sa di cosa si tratta, sono mesi che indaga sulla Rete Porpora, un’organizzazione criminale che affonda le sue radici nel lato più oscuro del Deep Web, che commercia video di omicidi a un pubblico anonimo disposto a pagare cifre astronomiche.

Quando rientra all’alba, esausta dopo notti di bevute e sesso occasionale, Elena Blanco ha un rito: esaminare le immagini di una fotocamera che ha piazzato davanti al portone del suo palazzo. Chi ha paura di vedere? O meglio, chi più di ogni altra persona al mondo vorrebbe vedere? C’è un caso irrisolto nel passato di questa eccezionale ispettrice di polizia. L’unico della sua carriera. È molto più di una delusione, è un profondo trauma che ha sconvolto la sua vita e che continua a perseguitare ogni secondo della sua esistenza.

EN EL SILENCIO DE LAS MONTAÑAS TODOS LOS RUIDOS ANUNCIAN LA MUERTE El cadáver de un concejal aparece desmembrado y enterrado hasta las rodillas bajo las ramas de un tejo milenario. ¿Forma parte de un morboso ritual, de una venganza política o alguien ha copiado un terrible asesinato del pasado? Las creencias populares y la celebración de unas extrañas ceremonias entre la niebla de las montañas asturianas inquietan al equipo policial encargado de la investigación, con el reflexivo teniente Juan Peña a la cabeza, quien deberá sumergirse en una realidad que parece más propia de otro orden.

After arriving on Block Island to find her birth mother, Blake Bronson becomes convinced she’s the heroine of a gothic novel—the kind that allowed her intermittent escape from a traumatic childhood. How else to explain the torrential rain, the salt-worn mansion known as White Hall, and the restless ghost purported to haunt its halls? But before Blake can discern the novel’s ending, she’s found dead, murdered in a claw-foot tub. The proprietress of White Hall stands accused.

El 22 de mayo de 1938, en plena guerra civil española, dos mil quinientos presos del Fuerte de San Cristóbal de Pamplona, en su mayoría encerrados por motivos políticos, consiguieron volver a ser libres. Leopoldo Pico, uno de los compañeros, había ideado un plan de fuga para escapar de los malos tratos, el hambre, y la miseria de su vida entre aquellos muros.