Showing results for "Of Lost Cities" in Thriller & Suspense

Casey Duncan is a homicide detective with a secret: when she was in college, she killed a man. She was never caught, but he was the grandson of a mobster and she knows that someday this crime will catch up to her. Casey's best friend, Diana, is on the run from a violent, abusive ex-husband. When...

Priscilla Knight is a dedicated suffragist who was recently widowed for the second time in her young life. Her beloved first husband, DeForrest Jenks, died in a tragic accident and left her with two young daughters and a comfortable fortune. Soon after his death, her pastor convinced her she needed a man to look after her. Before she knew it, he had engineered a whirlwind courtship and hasty marriage to fellow parishioner Endicott Knight. Less than nine months later, Endicott is also dead in a somewhat less tragic and even more suspicious accident.

In LA there’s a killer on the loose. He kills young and rootless girls and he always kills in threes. Back in Dublin, Ed Loy is reunited with Jack Donovan, a film director friend from LA. When the victims of the “Three-in-One Killer” are discovered in LA at locations Jack used for his movies, Loy begins to suspect Jack. He flies to LA, hoping that whatever he finds will point away from his old friend. And then, when he finally unearths the truth, it looks like it may be too late. In Dublin, the killer has broken his pattern.

Professor Castillo's daughter has mysteriously disappeared into the Amazon jungle. Determined to find her, he begs Ulysses and Cassie to go with him. Unable to dissuade him and not wanting him to go on his own, they both accept to help their old friend in his crazy attempt at her rescue. The three embark on an incredible journey to a place that should not exist, the Lost City of Z. A journey nobody has ever returned from.

Daniel Russell war erst 13 Jahre alt, als sein Vater versuchte, sich selbst und seinen Sohn zu töten. Er fuhr von einer Brücke direkt in die Fluten des Moon Lake in Ost-Texas. Doch wie durch ein Wunder überlebte der Junge. Jahre später, nachdem er neue Informationen über sein Kindheitstrauma erhalten hat, kehrt Daniel zurück an den Moon Lake. Er hofft, das Auto und die Knochen seines Vaters bergen zu können.

Ein dringender Hilferuf des Professors erreicht Ulises und Cassandra. Seine Tochter Valeria ist unter mysteriösen Umständen in einer der entlegensten und gefährlichsten Gegenden der Welt verschollen. Der verzweifelte Professor hat sich zu einer überstürzten Expedition entschlossen, um sie zu suchen, und bittet die beiden, ihn zu begleiten.

In a forgotten Cold War bunker, a cold-blooded arms dealer counts his cash and watches from a distance as cities collapse into violence. Pledged to stop him is a man without a past, guided by a teenage boy through the tunnels under the corrupted port city. With each stealthy move toward their target, the path ahead grows ever darker.