Showing results for "Louisa" in Suspense

This chilling tale of greed, lust, and deception opens on a midwinter night when Felix Canaris, a despairing writer about to take his own life, is saved by a knock at the door. The mysterious visitor, a Jasper Helwyze, promises Felix fame and fortune in return for his complete devotion.

In the years before Little Women, Louisa May Alcott anonymously wrote several thrillers in order to make ends meet. Dubbed as her “blood and thunder tales”, they reveal a bright, inventive and passionate writer driven to keep the listener riveted. Behind a Mask is considered the best of these tales. Jean Muir works her will on the Coventry family, who are rich, indolent, and ripe for the picking. While also tackling themes of social status and feminism, Alcott deftly delivers a shocking tale of obsessive intrigue.

Brooklyn psychiatrist Dr. Caroline Strange is certain she knows what's best for her patients, her family, and pretty much everyone else, but that all changes when a troubled young man arrives for his appointment and makes a pair of alarming confessions: I am going to kill someone, and I know who you really are. Dr. Caroline is accustomed to hearing her patients’ deepest, darkest secrets, but it seems Nelson Schack may be one step ahead when detectives show up later that day, inquiring about a missing woman.

Inspector Lestrade of Scotland Yard was made to look a fool in the Sherlock Holmes stories. Now he gets his own back, introducing 16 tales of detectives whose abilities rival that of the great Sherlock Holmes.

Als Jannis Karlsson und Valentine Herzog zu den Buhnen des Ordinger Sandstrandes gerufen werden, ahnen sie das Schlimmste. Der an die Holzpfähle gelehnte Mann ist offensichtlich keines natürlichen Todes gestorben. Umso erstaunter sind die Ermittler der Sondereinheit für besonders brutale Verbrechen, als sich der Tod des Opfers zügig und unkompliziert aufklären lässt. Doch sie haben die Fallakte noch nicht ganz geschlossen, als eine weitere Leiche auftaucht. Denn der Wettlauf gegen die Zeit hat bereits begonnen.