Showing results for "Kill for Me" in Thriller & Suspense

A deadly game. An unstoppable killer. The perfect alibi. Lucy Anderson is late collecting her daughter from nursery. A mistake that could prove fatal. Her daughter is gone, and there is only one way Lucy can get her back. The ransom is simple: she has to kill someone.... And this is just the beginning. A deadly game with a domino effect has started as the real killer forces others to do his bidding. Can detective inspector Hannah Robbins find the killer’s next puppet before they’re forced to strike, or will this be the case where her opponent has found the perfect way to kill?

The course of true love never did run smooth for PI Mike Hammer. His secretary and partner, Velda, has walked out on him without explanation, and Mike is just surfacing from a four-month bender. But then an old cop turns up murdered - a cop who once worked with Velda on the NYPD Vice Squad. What's more, Mike's pal, Captain Pat Chambers, has discovered that Velda is in Florida, now the moll of gangster and drug runner Nolly Quinn.

Er war die Liebe meines Lebens. Bis ich ihn verlassen musste. Jetzt ist er der Mann, der mich gefangen hält. Rylee hätte nie erwartet, als Hauptverdächtige im Keller des Weißen Hauses verhört zu werden, nachdem der Präsident der Vereinigten Staaten entführt wurde. Dumm nur, dass alle Indizien gegen sie sprechen. Immerhin war sie die Einzige, die sich im Raum mit ihm aufhielt, als dieser verschwand. Und das Blut an ihrem Körper entlastet sie auch nicht unbedingt. Doch das ist nicht Rylees einziges Problem. Jetzt soll sie dem Secret Service den Aufenthaltsort des Präsidenten nennen, obwohl sie sich an rein gar nichts erinnern kann.

Sie sind Schwestern, und sie bekämpfen einander mit allen Mitteln. Denn beide wollen sich das Imperium ihres verstorbenen Vaters sichern, eines Drogenbosses in Guatemala City. Der blutige Streit dauert bereits Jahre, und die amerikanische Drug Enforcement Administration versucht von heimischem Territorium aus vergebens, den Drogenkrieg zu beenden. Die Fehde fordert immer neue Todesopfer, zudem hat sich nun eine der Schwestern eine ganz besondere Waffe in diesem Kampf gesichert: Victor.

A beautiful model's death uncovers an ugly conspiracy stretching all the way to Westminster in Rosie Gilmour's darkest case to date. When rags-to-riches Scots supermodel Bella Mason plunges to her death from the roof of a glitzy Madrid hotel, everyone assumes it was suicide. Except that one person saw exactly what happened to Bella that night, and she definitely didn't jump. But Millie Chambers has no one she can tell - alcoholic, depressed herself and now sectioned by her bullying politician husband, who would believe her?

When your life is a lie, who can you trust? When Maggie Taylor accepts a new job in Manchester, she is sure it is the right move for her family. The children have settled well, although her husband, Duncan, doesn’t appear to be so convinced. But nothing prepares her for the shock of coming home from work one night to find that Duncan has disappeared, leaving their young children alone. His phone is dead, and she has no idea where he has gone or why.

Book editor Agnes Nielsen never anticipated the viral celebrity that would come after solving the attempted murder of her best friend. Suddenly swept up in a world of luxury, she finds herself mingling with New York’s movers, shakers, and moneymakers—among them the enigmatic heiress Charlotte Bond, who takes Agnes under her wing. But those wings, it turns out, aren’t enough to save Charlotte from a fatal fall.

Drake: Sie befand sich in Lebensgefahr, und sie zu retten war eher ein natürlicher Reflex als Absicht. Leider brach ich eine mir selbst auferlegte Regel, als ich den Kerl ausschaltete, der sie in der Mangel hatte, denn zum ersten Mal hatte ich Zeugen. Doch es wurde noch schlimmer, als sich herausstellte, dass sie die Tochter des Mannes ist, den ich als Nächstes töten werde. Nun weiß sie davon und es gibt im Grunde nur noch eine Möglichkeit. Sie wird sich noch wünschen, nie gerettet worden zu sein.

My father has chosen me to succeed him in the family business. But if I want the job, it comes with stipulations. And one of those stipulations is to never mix business with pleasure. AKA, don't sleep with anyone on the job. My father leads by example, and not once have I ever seen him get involved with anyone, not even his beautiful assistant. That was an easy rule to follow...until Axel.

Mike Hammer is on the case, this time hunting the murderer of his old friend and bootlegger-turned-legit-businessman Packy Paragon. Already torn up by the disappearance of Velda, his beloved secretary, Mike Hammer carves a brutal path for vengeance. Drinking heavily, his relationships fraying, his behavior self-destructive, Hammer has to track down Paragon’s black book, with the names of every corrupt official in town. With deception everywhere, and a whole host of reasons to want the ledger, Hammer has to pull himself together and solve the case before all hell breaks loose.

From the best-selling author of The Social Affair and HER comes a mind-bending thriller that's soaked with raw sensuality, as an investigator’s search takes a wicked turn when he meets a beautiful and provocative woman.

Samantha Leiffer is trying to get a grip on reality. Her live-in boyfriend, detective John Krull, isn't deeply troubled, he's just quiet. Her ex isn't a stalker, he's just trying to be friendly. And the nerdy stranger who gives Sam a note warning her of danger unless she calls him, is just hitting on her-until one by one, people vaguely connected to her start getting killed. Now Sam knows she's not imagining the murderer - and that he's closer than she thinks.

What happens when The Firm meets Anita Blake? You get the Halls of Power - our modern world, but twisted. Law, finance, the military, and politics are under the sway of long-lived vampires, werewolves, and the elven Alfar. Humans make the best of rule by “the Spooks”, and contend among themselves to affiliate with the powers-that-be, in order to avoid becoming their prey. Very loyal humans are rewarded with power over other women and men. Very lucky humans are selected to join the vampires.

The Beast had Belle. Killian Black has me. How I got here doesn’t matter, even though he says it does. Says it was my choice. He doesn’t get it, though. It wasn’t ever a choice for me. And now, he’s changing the rules. The agreement was one month. For 30 days, I’d be his. He’s no longer satisfied with my body alone, though. He wants my soul, too. Wants every part of me. And even though I can pretend I’m safe when I lie beneath him, this man does something to me. Something wicked. A thing that will break me.

Roberto es un hombre sin iniciativa que se ha casado con Laura - una arisca pero adinerada mujer que le lleva diez años - para poder vivir a su costa sin excesivas preocupaciones. En el curso de un crucero por el Egeo, conoce a un peculiar ruso que tiene una cámara idéntica a la suya. Una desafortunada confusión hace que Roberto se lleve la cámara equivocada, que se ha utilizado para retratar escalofriantes crímenes.

Roberto es un hombre sin iniciativa que se ha casado con Laura - una arisca pero adinerada mujer que le lleva diez años - para poder vivir a su costa sin excesivas preocupaciones. En el curso de un crucero por el Egeo, conoce a un peculiar ruso que tiene una cámara idéntica a la suya. Una desafortunada confusión hace que Roberto se lleve la cámara equivocada, que se ha utilizado para retratar escalofriantes crímenes.

Death by Chocolate is her favorite dessert. And those knitting needles aren't just for craft projects. To most people, Gin Bombay is an ordinary single mom. Then again, they don't know she's from a family of top-secret assassins. Somewhere between leading a Girl Scout troop for her kindergartner - would nooses count for a knot badge? - and keeping their puppy from destroying the furniture, Gin now has to take out a new target.