Showing results for "Janet" in Crime Fiction

You've lost your job as a department store lingerie buyer, your car's been repossessed, and most of your furniture and small appliances have been sold off to pay last month's rent. Now the rent is due again. And you live in New Jersey. What do you do? If you're Stephanie Plum, you become a bounty hunter. But not just a nickel-and-dime bounty hunter - you go after the big money. That means a cop gone bad.

Die größte Gefahr lauert in deinem eigenen Zuhause: Der packende Psychothriller Ich sehe dich von Janet Clark jetzt als Hörbuch. Während die junge Journalistin Sara in einer unglücklichen Beziehung gefangen ist, scheint ihre Schwester Tini die perfekte Ehe zu führen. Doch als ihr Mann plötzlich tot aufgefunden und Tini zur Hauptverdächtigen wird, scheint ein hässliches Geheimnis ans Licht zu kommen: Hat Paul sie geschlagen? Überzeugt von Tinis Unschuld, beginnt Sara zu recherchieren – und stößt auf ein anonymes Online-Forum für misshandelte Frauen, angeführt von der mysteriösen »Valeska«.

Wie gut kennst du deinen Mann wirklich? Der fesselnde Thriller "Rachekind" von Janet Clark jetzt als Hörbuch... Wenn ein einziger Moment dein Leben für immer verändert... Als Hanna nach einer Firmenfeier spät nach Hause kommt, ist ihr Mann Steve spurlos verschwunden, die gemeinsame Tochter Lilou liegt leblos in ihrem Bettchen. Hanna kann sie gerade noch retten, doch von nun an benimmt das Kind sich immer merkwürdiger: Sie reagiert kaum auf ihre Mutter, scheint Selbstgespräche zu führen.

To lose one husband may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like murder. In New South Wales in 1888, Louisa Collins was sentenced to hang after being tried multiple times for the alleged murders of her two husbands. The testimony of her young daughter helped to decide her fate. This clever and compelling novel recreates Louisa’s time in her Darlinghurst prison cell as she reflects on her life and on the grief and loss that delivered her to this place.

Due pezzi di bravura del miglior Stevenson: "Il ladro di cadaveri", un racconto che M.R. James definì "perfetto" e l'orrorifico "Janet la storta", considerato da molti uno dei capolavori dello scrittore scozzese.

A life-and-death hostage situation at Barfield High Security prison brings Governor Helen Hewitt back to her old stomping ground. But things have changed at Barfield. A new, highly dangerous prisoner poses a threat to the peace, and when discord boils over, the prisoners join forces in an audacious escape attempt. As violence erupts among the officers and the inmates, Hewitt must once again restore order. Before it's too late.

Sadie Wilson’s heart stops the moment the phone rings. Deep in her soul, she knows what’s coming, and the voice on the other end only confirms her fears: Emma never made it to school. Her sweet, scared five-year-old climbed onto the bus for her very first day of kindergarten…and then vanished.

Adopted when she was only days old, Ivy Hon knows little about her lineage. But when she’s stricken with a mystery illness, the results of a genetic test to identify the cause attract the FBI. According to Ivy’s DNA, she’s related to the Full Moon Killer, who has terrorized the Pacific Northwest for decades. Ivy is the FBI’s hope to stop the enigmatic predator from killing again.

Series 4 of Lynne Truss's popular BBC Radio comedy thriller. It is 1957, and WWII bomb disposal hero Captain 'mad Hoagy' Hoagland, now fallen on hard times, appears at Brighton Police Station to deliver two boxes. One contains a silver truncheon; an award for valour for Sergeant Brunswick. The...

Edna Worthley Underwood was born in Maine in 1873. Her first published work was a collaborative translation of materials by Nikolai Gogol. Her talents included both translating (she was an expert linguist), poetry and noted author of short stories. By the 1940’s her literary efforts ceased and, after being admitted to a sanitorium for dementia in 1953, died several years later.