Showing results for "Daisy" in Thriller & Suspense

There’s a dress in Daisy’s closet. Silver. Low-backed. Tiny spaghetti straps. She’ll wear it to prom on the arm of Harris Zandari, the most gorgeous senior at her school. How did quiet, barely-there Daisy, land Harris Zandari? She watched him. She watched him so closely, and for so long, that she saw things no one else did. She saw through his charm, his bright, smiling face, to the sad, broken person underneath just waiting for the perfect sad, broken girl to complete him. Daisy was that girl.

In the summer of 1923, the Honorable Daisy Dalrymple makes what should be an uneventful research trip to the Museum of Natural History quite an eventful day - with her nephew, Derek, and her soon-to-be stepdaughter, Belinda, in tow. But as she interviews the various curators for her article on the museums of London, she soon discovers that the Museum of Natural History is a hothouse of professional rivalry and jealousy.

La jeune et belle Daisy Haites n'aspire qu'à une chose : une vie normale. Mais lorsque l'on est la soeur d'un des seigneurs de la pègre londonienne, c'est mission impossible. La situation ne fait que se compliquer lorsqu'elle tombe éperdument amoureuse du séduisant Christian Hemmes, l'un des rares hommes de Londres qui échappe encore au joug de son frère Julian.

Eine starke KI an der Schwelle zur Welt: Öffnet sich die Büchse der Pandora? Oder kommen Glück und Wohlstand für alle? In den Wäldern Montanas arbeitet eine Reihe von Wissenschaftlern an der Entwicklung einer mächtigen allgemeinen künstlichen Intelligenz. Aus Sicherheitsgründen befinden sich ihre Labore weit verstreut in abgelegenen Hütten ohne Kommunikationsmittel und externe Stromversorgung. Der mysteriöse Leiter des Projekts lässt die Zwischenergebnisse regelmäßig abholen und Treibstoff für den Generator, Wasser und Lebensmittel liefern.

Berømte mordere har fanklubber. Hamish Wolfe er ikke nogen undtagelse – til trods for at han skal sidde spærret inde resten af sit liv for mord på tre unge kvinder, får han utallige fanbreve hver eneste dag. Hans beundrere er sikre på, at han er uskyldig, og at han er manden i deres liv.

Twenty years ago, student Daisy Harrington went out for the evening and never came home. Her body was found a week later. The killer was caught. Case closed. Now, on what would have been her fortieth birthday, her five university housemates are invited to a weekend gathering. None of them want to go. But none of them can refuse—the invitation makes it clear that if they don’t attend, the past they’ve spent two decades hiding will finally come to light.

Every small town has one unsolved case that haunts its memory, festering for generations below the surface. Over sixty years ago, Daisy Doe was murdered and discarded outside Pineville, Alabama, buried without a name or anyone to mourn her loss. When Star Cavanaugh's father tried to solve the case, he too was killed. Now a cold-case detective with resources of her own, Star is determined to get to the bottom of both crimes. But to do so, she’ll have to face an entire town locked in corruption, racism, silence, and fear—and the same dangerous killer who took two other lives.

Sir Charles Sheridan is many things - an amateur scientist, a renowned photographer, and a skilled detective. And due to Victorian customs, he will soon become a baron - rendering him unable to marry American writer Kate Ardleigh. But even as customs keep them apart, a good murder case always seems to bring them together. The Countess of Warwick, known affectionately as Daisy, is the subject of endless rumors about her unladylike ways and temperament. But what happens during a weekend party at her Easton estate is uglier than any rumor. First, a stable boy is killed.

Stella Wiseman was a child TV star, but there’s nothing glamorous about her life now. Alone in her thirties, she’s lost her parents and her friends and she’s stuck in a dead-end job. But just as she hits rock bottom she meets Marco, a charismatic older man who offers to get her back on her feet. He seems too good to be true. Is he? She appreciates the money he lavishes on her. And the pills. But are the pills just helping her sleep, or helping her avoid her problems?

Teenager Edie Hudson was nobody’s little darling, which made vanishing all too easy. Two decades later, she’s been forgotten by everyone except her mother, Samantha. And the person who knows what happened to her. Samantha has had a long time to remember, and to regret. Having seen how little her daughter mattered to the community in the months following her disappearance, she wonders if Edie was lost before she was even gone. Or was it guilt, not indifference, that made the locals turn a blind eye? When she meets Frances, she at last starts to hope for answers.

Isabel Rosen hat noch ein Semester am Wilder College vor sich, als ein neuer Professor ihren Kurs für Kreatives Schreiben übernimmt. R. H. Connelly ist ein charismatischer Lehrer und ein Mann mit Geheimnissen. Er gibt Isabel das Gefühl, gesehen zu werden, schön und talentiert zu sein: die Frau, die sie sein möchte. Die beiden beginnen eine Affäre, die die Grundlagen dessen, wer Isabel zu sein glaubt, immer mehr erschüttert. Während ein weiteres Drama um ein verheiratetes Paar am College alle um sie herum in Atem hält, ahnt Isabel, dass die Grenze zwischen Jugend und Erwachsensein weniger klar ist, als sie dachte.

La pequeña Daisy, de ocho años, ha desaparecido durante una celebración familiar. Ninguno de los vecinos de la tranquila calle de las afueras de la ciudad ha visto nada. ¿O sí? El inspector Adam Fawley trata de no llegar a conclusiones precipitadas, pero sabe que nueve de cada diez veces, el culpable es alguien a quien la víctima conocía. Lo que significa que alguien miente. Y que la carrera contrarreloj para encontrar a Daisy ha comenzado.

Daisy Lane is trying to build a future for herself and her sons. Roy Kemp, Daisy's former lover, is banged up in prison. Daisy must watch over Roy's criminal empire, while attempting to continue her relationship with copper Vinnie Endersby. But it isn't long before another gangster decides to challenge Roy's dominance.

Things have not been going too well for Daisy Lane. Her murdered lover, Eddie Lane, has left her comfortably off and his son little Eddie is an adorable and constant reminder of his father. The new man in her life, South London gangster Roy Kemp, looks out for her and is kind to little Eddie. But someone is watching Daisy's every move, like a predator choosing the perfect moment to pounce.

Singer and lead guitarist Nikki Rani will do whatever it takes to keep her mom and her band safe, even if it means keeping secrets about her friend's murder. She failed her loved ones once and won't be taken in again by a ridiculous story. There are no fairy tales in her future—especially not with a broody stranger who's more likely to offer heartache and pain than redemption.

Once upon a time, Adria Rojas had it all―a budding romance, her music, and a whole family. Then, in one year, her bandmate was murdered, her sister vanished, and the man she trusted humiliated her beyond forgiveness. Now, the only way she keeps her head above water is by losing herself in her drums. One stupid mistake led to the nightmare Ronan Hawk has spent years trying to rectify. Just when he's given up on ever making things right with Adria, evidence of her sister's kidnapping falls in his lap, bringing him back into her life.

As the Vice President's daughter and his current assignment, Leya Singh is completely off-limits to Special Agent Holden Kent. He refuses to let his desire for the Painted Daisies singer and sitar player cost him the future he's worked his entire life to achieve. Not when his goal of working on the Presidential detail is finally within his grasp.

The only family the Painted Daisies singer and harpist Fiadh Kane has left in this world is her band. When their leader―her best friend who stood by her through the worst―is killed, she's determined to find who did it and make him pay. Fiadh is convinced the band's new label owner knows more about the murder than he's shared. She plans to reveal Asher's skeletons by any means possible, even if it means using the magnetic lure blooming between them in ways she never expected.

French Alps, 1998. Two young men ski into a blizzard...but only one returns. Twenty years later. Four people connected to the missing man find themselves in that same resort. Each has a secret. Two may have blood on their hands. One is a killer-in-waiting. Someone knows what really happened that day. And somebody will pay.

Former Crime Analyst Merilyn Davies brings to life a gritty, heart-stopping crime thriller that will have you utterly obsessed. When a young couple are the lead suspects for the murder of their only child, Crime Analyst Carla Brown and DS Nell Jackson are assigned to investigate. The evidence seems conclusive, but something just doesn’t feel right. The case is quickly cast into doubt when the lead forensic pathologist starts receiving threatening letters - containing details only the police should know.