Showing results for "Merchants" in Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Johnny Edge, a former carnival barker, schemes and plots his way to the top while Peter Kessler turns his back on a staid life of small-town stability to stake his fortune on the movie business. Beautiful starlet Dulcie Warren is willing to use her sexuality and to play dirty to get to the top, if that's what it takes. When the lives of these three ambitious, determined characters collide, they have the potential to build a dream - or shatter one.

With no one to help her ring in the new year, Jane Lawless reluctantly agrees to accompany her good friend Cordelia Thorn to the wedding of Cordelias' estranged sister, Broadway star Octavia Thorn. Octavia getting married is no surprise - but her candidate for hubby number four certainly is. Roland Lester is a reclusive 83-year-old retired Hollywood director. No one can understand how the two met. When the bodies start to drop, Jane realizes it might not be love at all that brought the young diva and the aged director together, but something more sinister.

London 1815. Jenny's father is dead. She needs to marry immediately to save her and her mother's livelihood. A chance meeting presents the perfect candidate in the form of the enigmatic Erasmus Black. Gentleman, merchant, and if the rumours are to be believed, captain... But where does Erasmus slip away to in the dead of night? What secrets about her father's business has he discovered? And was their meeting really just a convenient coincidence? Guided by her unique intuition, Jenny must seek the hidden forces in play to unravel a sinister web of corruption...without getting trapped herself.

“Feist has a natural talent for keeping the reader turning pages.”—Chicago Sun-Times The Serpentwar Saga continues! The second book in master fantasist Raymond E. Feist’s New York Times bestselling classic epic fantasy adventure of war, magic, betrayal, and heroism, Rise of a Merchant...

August 1556. Jack Blackjack is on a simple mission: make it back home to his beloved London. It should be simple, right? Wrong. He's made it as far as Exeter, but before he can secure a fresh steed in that hellish city, he's faced with a dead priest, ruthless thieves, and a devious Dean who's determined to see the back of Jack. That suits Jack just fine - he wants to leave! So when wealthy merchant Wolfe, offers passage to London via sea, Jack jumps at the chance...and unwittingly into further danger!

The barrel should have contained books - instead it held treasure and a severed head...Gil Cunningham and his old acquaintance, Glasgow merchant Augie Morison, expecting a delivery of books from the Low Countries, report the gruesome substitute to the Provost, and at the inquest the next morning Morison is accused of the murder and imprisoned. He appeals to Gil, who sets out with his friend and future father in law Maistre Pierre, the French master-mason

Vera Sorokina loves reading the penny dreadfuls and immersing herself in tales of adventure, mystery, and romance. Her own days are filled with the often mundane work of running the book and print shop she owns with her father. The shop offers her the freedom and income to employ and protect the poverty-stricken Londoners she’s come to care about, and it gives her father something to do other than long for their hometown of St. Petersburg. She is grateful for the stability in their lives, but she often feels lonely.

DU traust mir. SIE traut dir. ICH traue niemandem. Eben noch war Ben in der Boutique, in der Nile ein Kleid anprobierte, doch als sie aus der Umkleidekabine kommt, ist ihr Freund spurlos verschwunden. Nile ist sich sicher: Es muss etwas Schreckliches passiert sein. Aber niemand will ihr glauben. Also muss sie ausgerechnet ihre größte Feindin um Hilfe bitten: Flo, die Frau, mit der Ben noch verheiratet ist. Zu Niles Erstaunen ist diese sehr kooperativ. Doch dann entdecken die beiden Frauen immer mehr Ungereimtheiten in Bens Leben.

DU traust mir. SIE traut dir. ICH traue niemandem. Eben noch war Ben in der Boutique, in der Nile ein Kleid anprobierte, doch als sie aus der Umkleidekabine kommt, ist ihr Freund spurlos verschwunden. Nile ist sich sicher: Es muss etwas Schreckliches passiert sein. Aber niemand will ihr glauben. Also muss sie ausgerechnet ihre größte Feindin um Hilfe bitten: Flo, die Frau, mit der Ben noch verheiratet ist. Zu Niles Erstaunen ist diese sehr kooperativ. Doch dann entdecken die beiden Frauen immer mehr Ungereimtheiten in Bens Leben.

Captain Jim Agnihotri and his wife Lady Diana Framji are embarking to England in the summer of 1894. Jim is hopeful the cruise will help Diana open up to him. Something is troubling her, and Jim is concerned. On their first evening, Jim meets an intriguing Spaniard, a fellow soldier with whom he finds an instant kinship. But within twenty-four hours, Don Juan Nepomuceno is murdered, his body discovered shortly after he asks rather urgently to see Jim.

Was würdest du tun, um deine Schwester zu retten? Und was, um sie loszuwerden? Am Tag vor Heiligabend fährt Esther in den Wald zum Haus ihrer Schwester, um ihr ein Geschenk und eine Flasche Wein zu bringen. Ein Schneesturm setzt ein. Das Geschenk wird nicht geöffnet. Der Wein schon. Dinge werden gesagt, die besser ungesagt blieben. Und Taten werden begangen, die nie mehr rückgängig gemacht werden können. Eigentlich muss Esther ihr Weihnachtsfest mit Ehemann und Kindern in der Stadt vorbereiten: einkaufen, Tanne besorgen - es wäre genug zu tun.

'Maigret had never been comfortable in certain circles, among the wealthy bourgeoisie where he felt clumsy and awkward.... Built like a labourer, Oscar Chabut had hauled himself up into this little world through sheer hard work and, to convince himself that he was accepted, he felt the need to sleep with most of the women.' When a wealthy wine merchant is shot in a Paris street, Maigret must investigate a long list of the ruthless businessman's enemies before he can get to the sad truth of the affair.

Ex-DEA agent Jack Merchant is living out his precarious retirement on the docks of Charlestown, Massachusetts, surrounded by the revenge-minded dealers and punks he used to put away. All he's got is his sloop, LILA, but soon enough he gets a visit from the repo man. Except the repo man's a woman, Sarah Ballard. Her proposition: They've got a week to track down a rich couple who've disappeared with their yacht. Find it, and Merchant can keep his boat. The trouble is they're not the only ones looking.