Showing results for "Monster" in Crime Fiction

Natalie Olsen und ihre beste Freundin Cara feiern ausgelassen in einem Club. Dann verschwindet Cara mit einem gutaussehenden Mann. Am nächsten Morgen liegt sie im Koma. Die Polizei tappt im Dunkeln, aber Natalie ist entschlossen, den Mann zu finden, der ihrer Freundin das angetan hat. Als sie den Unbekannten auf dem Cover eines Magazins entdeckt, ist klar: Es handelt sich um den erfolgreichen Unternehmer Geoffrey Rosenberg. Natalie nimmt einen Job in der Villa des charismatischen Millionärs an. Aber kaum betritt sie sein Haus, beschleicht sie ein grauenvoller Verdacht.

Heidi Waters, CEO of billion-dollar startup Vitality+, is all the rage in Silicon Valley. Her company’s promises to roll out a neurochemical cure for caffeine-related anxiety are set to change the game, a godsend for anyone who’s ever got the jitters from upsizing their morning coffee order. There’s just one problem. There is no cure. The product doesn’t work.

Hope Rippa may look like your average fashionista, but a dark secret bankrolls her luxury lifestyle. Although she might appear a legitimate businesswoman by day, after dark Hope serves as a personal shopper to some of Europe's wealthiest murderers. You name it, she'll find it-and charge a hefty sum for the convenience.

Nicky just wants to save her brother. She showed up with an envelope full of cash and a smart mouth and found herself in a den of monsters. I wish I could say I was the best of them, I wish I could protect her - but I’m far from perfect.

Twenty-four hours after he walked away from court a free man, cop killer and gang leader Simon Talbot is found murdered. In his possession: the name of a protected witness from his trial. For DI Hannah Robbins, it's a race against time to find Talbot's killer and locate the bystander before it's too late. But as Hannah delves deeper into the past, she begins to question the integrity of the whole operation. Where do you turn when you can't trust the police?

It's August 1984, and paperboy Christopher Stewart has gone missing. Hours later, 12-year-old Sammy Cox hurries home from his own paper route, red-faced and out of breath, hiding a terrible secret. Crystal, Sammy's 17-year-old sister, is worried by the disappearance but she also sees an opportunity: the Stewart case has echoes of an earlier unsolved disappearance of another boy, one town over. Crystal senses the makings of an award-winning essay, one that could win her a scholarship - and a ticket out of their small Iowa town.

In the dying days of 1850, the young detective Charles Maddox takes on a new case. His client? The only surviving son of the long-dead poet Percy Bysshe Shelley, and his wife Mary, author of Frankenstein. Charles soon finds himself being drawn into the bitter battle being waged over the poet's literary legacy. When a chance discovery raises doubts about the death of Shelley's first wife, Harriet, he starts to question whether she did kill herself—or whether what really happened was far more sinister…

The deadly dimensions over London have been sealed, and the monsters have departed. But word has come to Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson of a more terrifying creature still - the great Cthulhu has been sighted off the waters of Innsmouth, Massachusetts. Only Holmes can defeat him. And in the muddy village of Innsmouth, surrounded by villagers who are more sea-monster than human, Holmes meets again his nemesis, Moriarty, and yet greater foes: Amelia Scarcliffe and Maria Fitzgerald, harbingers of Dagon, who have called forth Cthulhu.

Am Ostersonntag 1998 wurde die Krankenschwester Elisabetta Zoppetti im Waschraum eines Intercity-Zuges auf brutale Weise ermordet: kniend, mit einem ...

For 12 long years, I’ve breathed, I’ve bled for only one thing....Revenge. Four men took something from me, something which can never be replaced. That one night changed the lives of so many and taught me that monsters are real. But I also learned I’m the biggest monster of them all. Nothing and no one will stand in my way of redemption because those men...they’re now three. The fourth - he is the reason they call me Bullseye. They can run, but sooner or later, I’ll find them, just as I did with their friend. They’re already dead...they just don’t know it yet.

Jahrmarkt in Dursham! Zum ersten Mal haben die Gaukler und Schausteller in der kleinen Stadt ihre Zelte aufgeschlagen. Und sie haben eine Menge an Attraktionen mit im Gepäck. Kein Wunder also, dass die ganze Stadt auf den Beinen ist. Doch als die Leiche eines unbescholtenen Antiquitätenhändlers im Bassin der Meerjungfrau gefunden wird, endet der Spaß abrupt. Warum musste Mr. Willer sterben? Und wo ist sein Bruder abgeblieben? Mimi Rutherfurt ahnt noch nicht, dass sie es diesmal mit leibhaftigen Monstern zu tun bekommt.

Stardetektiv Timothy Truckle wird vom amerikanischen Sicherheitsdienst zwangsverpflichtet. Er soll einen hochintelligenten Mutanten suchen, der während eines geheimen Tests geflohen ist. Das Monster mit vier Armen ist ein genetisch veränderter Mensch. Tiny will den Mutanten helfen und in den UNDERGROUND schleusen. Gelingt es ihm oder scheitert er diesmal kläglich? Musik: Johannes C. Schneeweiß Coverbilder: Margret Aurin

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Thomas Harris ist zurück und schickt einen Killer ins Rennen, der erneut für schlaflose Nächte sorgt! Die Schreie einer Frau sind Musik in seinen Ohren. Er ist groß, blass, haarlos und wie ein Reptil liebt er die Wärme. Menschen begegnen ihm mit Angst und Ekel. Er ist daran gewöhnt. Doch wenn sie das Monster in ihm erkennen, ist es meist zu spät. Dann betteln sie um einen schnellen Tod und er genießt den Schmerz in ihren Gesichtern. Unheimlich spannend gelesen von Achim Buch.

Elle payera au fort prix de sa vie le crime qui aura fait d’elle un monstre à l’égal de l’homme qui, lui, voit sa violence partout exaucé.