Showing results for "Devlin" in Thriller & Suspense

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.

In this trio of sci-fi techno thrillers, a female police detective turned Interpol officer with a rare vision mutation is up against a serial killer and potential apocalyptic disaster. This set includes The Dreaming Tree, Meet Your Maker, and Out of Time.

Though India Devlin left her hometown to pursue a brilliant career as a criminal prosecutor, she has always loved historic Devlin’s Light, visiting as often as her busy schedule permits. But when her brother is found murdered on the steps of the lighthouse - the town’s namesake - she returns to uncover who killed Ry. When her brother’s good friend, Nick Enright, offers to help in her investigation, India accepts - after all, he’s the one who found Ry that night, and heard his mysterious last words.

In the smoldering Memphis summer, someone is terrorizing the broken-down Deluxe Hotel, leaving dead women in the walls and the police out of ideas. But psychic private investigator Caitlyn O’Connell is the only one who can track the clues. Alongside her sexy ex-husband, (sometimes-boyfriend), Sam Pierce, Cait must find the killer while struggling with the "gift" that has cost her nearly everything. The second book in the Caitlyn O’Connell series, this paranormal romance steams with Memphis heat as Cait and Sam enter into the dark world once more.

Her mother called it a gift. But for Caitlyn O’Connell, the voices in her head are a curse, dooming her career, her marriage, and her sobriety. Now the former cop scrapes by as a private investigator, counting down the minutes until happy hour. But when her sexy former partner (and estranged ex-husband) appeals to her for help with a bizarre murder case, Cait can’t say no - to the crime or the man.

The last thing Detective Sam Pierce wants is to revisit the past. But the very secret that doomed his marriage to Cait may be the key to cracking this case.

Der Vampir Chase Blood und sein Kumpel Stoney sind im Auftrag des Fürsten Radvanyi unterwegs. Drei feindliche Vampire aus Philadelphia haben sich in New York eingeschlichen mit dem Ziel, New York allmählich in das Fürstentum Philadelphia einzuverleiben. Chase und Stoney sollen diese feindliche Übernahme verhindern, indem sie die drei fremden Vampire vernichten. Die Aufgabe erweist sich als schwieriger als erwartet. Die fremden Vampire sind keine gewöhnlichen Vampire. Sie besitzen die Fähigkeit, sich in Ratten zu verwandeln und können sich dadurch leicht verstecken.

Für Chase Blood wird die Lage immer kritischer. Mittlerweile hat er - die Nr. 2 im New Yorker Vampir-Imperium - eine erhebliche Anzahl Feinde. Sein Erzfeind Leroque hat es noch immer auf ihn abgesehen und lässt keine Möglichkeit aus, um Chase an den Kragen zu gelangen. Hinzu kommt, dass seit neuesten eine Gruppe von Neu-Nazis den ehrgeizigen Plan verfolgen, sämtliche Vampire New Yorks zu vernichten. Sie scheinen sich bestens mit den Regeln der Vampir-Tötung auszukennen, so sehr, dass selbst Chase Blood mit den brutalen und kaltblütigen Methoden der Nazis zu kämpfen hat.

Als Chase Blood zu einem geheimen Treffen mit dem Stadthalter des New Yorker Vampirimperiums, Big Tom Ybanez, gebeten wird, erwartet er nichts Böses. Ybanez kontrolliert die Gangs von East Harlem und da gibt es immer mal wieder Uneinigkeiten bei den Bandenmitgliedern. Chase vermutet lediglich, dass es ein paar kleinere Probleme zu besprechen gibt. Doch Ybanez Absichten sind alles andere als friedlich und vermittelnd. Er empfängt Chase mit einer Armbrust bewaffnet und einem Dutzend Holzpflöcke im Gürtel. Offensichtlich hat Ybanez vor, Chase nach bester Vampirjägermanier zu töten!

Der Fürst von New York - ein mächtiger, uralter Vampir und Anführer des organisierten Verbrechens in der Millionen-Metropole - wird von einer bedrückenden Vision geplagt. In seiner quälenden Vorstellung steht er einem feindlichen Angriff hilflos gegenüber, bis ihm am Ende ein junger Mann zur Hilfe eilt und ihn rettet. Für den Vampirfürsten gibt es nur noch diesen einen Auftrag: Er muss den jungen Mann finden! Denn nur so kann er seine allgegenwärtige Macht aufrechterhalten. In Chase, einem Mafia-Schläger, erkennt der Vampirfürst eben diesen jungen Mann.

Two men, seemingly unconnected, are discovered dead in a holiday boat on the Norfolk Broads, having apparently committed suicide together. Local journalist Alex Devlin, planning an article on the dangers of internet suicide forums, starts digging into their backgrounds. But Alex’s investigation soon leads her to a much darker mystery - one that will hit closer to home than she could possibly have imagined and place the lives of those she loves in terrible danger.

Alex Devlin’s life changed forever 15 years ago when her sister's two small children were snatched in broad daylight. Little Harry’s body was found a few days later, but Millie’s remains were never discovered. Now Jackie Wood, jailed as an accessory to the twins’ murder, has been released, her conviction quashed by the Appeal Court. Convinced Jackie can reveal where Millie is buried, Alex goes to meet her. But the unexpected information Wood reveals shocks Alex to the core and threatens to uncover the dark secret she has managed to keep under wraps for the past 15 years.

London: Ein hochrangiger Politiker wird bei einem Attentat vor einer großen Menschenmenge erschossen. Der Attentäter kann festgenommen werden, nicht aber die Drahtzieher. Der Sicherheitsdienst ist hilflos, das politische Gefüge wankt und die britische Regierung scheint die Kontrolle zu verlieren. Die Journalistin Sarah, die das Attentat live verfolgt hat, und der idealistische Anwalt Daniel versuchen, die Wahrheit aufzudecken und die Strippenzieher hinter den Toren der Macht zu entlarven.

Critical components of the Large Hadron Collider, the world’s most powerful supercollider and largest machine ever built, have been stolen, and Delta Devlin is brought in by Interpol to investigate. At the same time, a dead body appears washed up on the shores of the East River in Delta’s hometown of New York City - one with very similar injuries to those left by the serial killer she caught to start her career.

In the Czar’s Suite of Kiev’s five-star Persian Palace, police discover a body jammed impossibly deep in a narrow ventilation duct. Security cameras reveal that no one else entered the supersecure room. An ocean away, Interpol rookie Delta Devlin witnesses an attempted assassination, but the bullet meant for the Ukrainian prime minister hits her father instead, lodging next to his heart. Investigations reveal that ex-KGB operator Yuri Korshunov smuggled a 3D-printed plastic gun into the UN Building.

Grace Nolan walked away from the Devlin Group carrying Alex Rossi’s child in her womb and his bullet in her shoulder. But years later, a ghost from the past has kidnapped her son. The ransom? Alex Rossi. To get her son back, Grace will have to step back into the life she’d left behind and reveal her secret to Alex.... With vengeance for his mother’s murder nearly at hand and a deadly substance on the loose, the last thing Alex Rossi needs is to find himself at the business end of Grace’s gun. Now they must race to save a child and stop a madman bent on destruction.

Wherever I went, I heard it: the sound of a purring motorcycle behind me. They never bothered me or said a word. But I knew they were there because of him - Devlin McRae, the head of the local MC. Being followed all the time like this was disconcerting. And lately, the bikes had been getting closer, less secretive, more obvious. What would I do if Devlin ever caught me?