Showing results for "Rituals" in Thriller & Suspense

Barrington University is home of the Lords, a secret society that requires their blood in payment. They are above all—the most powerful men in the world. They devote their lives to violence in exchange for power. And during their senior year, they are offered a chosen one.

Rachel Connery is on a seek-and-destroy mission, out for revenge against the mysterious, charismatic man who enticed millions of dollars from her dying mother and cheated Rachel out of her inheritance. She wants retribution and is willing to use every seductive trick at her disposal to obtain it. But desire is a dangerous weapon that cuts both ways, and her trap could end up catching her in a nightmare of forbidden feelings.

Some doors are better left closed . . . Darkly profound and utterly chilling, Apartment 16 is a work of compulsive psychological horror from the award-winning author of The Ritual, Adam Nevill. ‘Fast becoming Britain's answer to Stephen King’ – The Guardian In Barrington House, an upmarket...

When a high-society party is crashed by a naked, knife-wielding, blood-covered man who "thinks" he might have killed someone, Eve Dallas must track down the crime, and the criminals. Everything points to Satanic ritual, but Eve doesn't believe in devil worship.

Detective Peter Decker of the LAPD is stunned when he gets the report. Someone has shattered the sanctuary of a remote yeshiva community in the California hills with an unimaginable crime. One of the women was brutally raped as she returned from the mikvah, the bathhouse where the cleansing...

In einer schummrig beleuchteten Frankfurter Unterführung wird eine verwahrloste Frau aufgegriffen, die verängstigt von einem alten Fluch fantasiert. Kriminalhauptkommissarin Marie Winter und der milliardenschwere, exzentrische BKA-Hauptkommissar Daniel Parkov wissen nicht, wer diese Fremde ist - bis ihnen ein geheimnisvolles Indiz in die Hände fällt.

Un serial killer senza volto. Una sfida che viene dal passato. Perché il male non lascia scampo. L'aria è malvagia sull'isola di Sirling, al largo della costa bretone, dove il comandante Erwan Morvan si trova a indagare sull'orribile delitto di un cadetto militare. Suo padre è un uomo potente, che ha fatto fortuna in Africa e ora manovra tra le quinte le leve della polizia francese: è quel Grégoire Morvan famoso per aver fermato il killer chiamato l'Uomo Chiodo.

The Crime Writers’ Association Historical Dagger Winning Author Winner of the 2024 Ngaio Marsh Award for Best Novel ‘It’s hard to think of a better guide than D. V. Bishop to the brutality and glamour of Renaissance Florence’ – Andrew Taylor, bestselling author of The Royal Secret...

As Logan Martin begins his prison sentence for the brutal murder of his father, the eighteen-year-old’s aunt hires private investigator Teàrlach Paterson. She believes Logan is innocent and wants Teàrlach to uncover the truth. Teàrlach’s visit to the Martin family home yields two disturbing discoveries: a pentagram etched under the carpet in Logan's sister’s bedroom, and a link to the sinister deaths of their elderly neighbours—a journal with the same ominous symbol lies in the couple's home.

HOW DO YOU UNMASK A KILLER WHO'S SPENT YEARS PREPARING TO HUNT YOU DOWN? Kraken is back for the second installment in the internationally bestselling White City Trilogy, this time investigating a series of ritualistic murders, only to find that the key to uncovering the killer may be found in...

In Stierkampfmanier werden während der Karwoche in Südspanien Menschen getötet. Killer in roten Kapuzenmänteln verbreiten mit ihren grotesken Ritualmorden Angst und Schrecken in der gesamten Stadt Cadìz. Die junge Maria Gutierrez, Praktikantin bei der Polizei, war auf einen solchen Fall nicht vorbereitet, doch plötzlich ist sie selbst in die unheimliche Mordserie verwickelt.

La ciudad de Valencia se despierta una fría mañana de invierno con la noticia del extraño asesinato de una mujer. La disposición del cuerpo y las particularidades de la escena hacen que la policía se plantee que esa muerte no es más que el comienzo de un juego de pistas ideadas por el asesino que debe conducirlos a la verdad. La investigación del caso lleva hasta el Hypnerotomachia Poliphili, un extraño volumen del siglo xv, con páginas repletas de jeroglíficos y multitud de grabados con un contenido sexual nada habitual para la época.

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Sherlock Holmes ist ein genialer Berater der arrogant und selbstgerecht die kompliziertesten Fälle löst. Autoritär und zeitgenössisch gelesen von Peter Weis. Das erstaunlichste Abenteuer des Meisterdetektivs Sherlock Holmes hat eigentlich nicht Conan Doyle erfunden: es besteht vielmehr darin, daß diese Phantasiegestalt zu eigenem Leben erwacht ist und eine Existenz erlangt hat, an die Ungezählte felsenfest glaubten und glauben.

"The Musgrave Ritual" is a short story by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, featuring his fictional detective Sherlock Holmes. The story was originally published in Strand Magazine in 1919, and was collected later in The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes. Unlike the majority of Holmes stories, the main narrator is not Doctor Watson, but Sherlock Holmes himself. With Watson providing an introduction, the story within a story is a classic example of a frame tale. It is one of the earliest recorded cases investigated by Holmes, and establishes his problem solving skills.