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

The trajectories of Arvind and Arbaaz, both businessmen of a kind whose lives are unwillingly intertwined, ricochet off one another while they play out their sinister and murderous plots of personal and professional one-upmanship, all the while breaking every rule in the book. Both are unaware that what they seek and fight over is the very obstacle in realising an ancient secret that dates back to a time long forgotten. And yet, at the heart of it all, there lies tenderness...and pathos...and blood...and rare moments of an almost exalted happiness.

I broke the code—touched my best friend's sister. Broke her heart—left her behind with my baby. Broke myself—became the monster I swore I'd never be. Six months in Russian hell turned me into Shakal. The Jackal. The one who laughs while bones snap. The one who kills for the Bratva crest on his chest. My dying best friend made me swear: Protect Vanya. Blood oath sealed in his last breath. Now she owns my nights. And I own the secret she's hiding.

Anelie Andersson, die leitende Ermittlerin aus Jokkmokk, wird zu einem entsetzlichen Tatort gerufen. Was anfangs wie ein Familiendrama aussieht, entpuppt sich als grausamer Dreifachmord. Der getötete Ehemann und Vater war bis vor acht Jahren als Drogenermittler tätig. Die Staatsanwaltschaft präsentiert rasch einen Verdächtigen, doch Anelie hegt Zweifel an dessen Schuld. Tief in die Vergangenheit des Toten eintauchend, stößt sie auf düstere Geheimnisse und ein schier unlösbares Puzzle aus Lügen und Korruption.

Connor Fitzgerald is the CIA’s most deadly assassin. On the brink of his retirement, he is sent to Russia for one last hit. Except this isn’t just another job. After a fall out between the CIA and the White House over the assassination of a prominent Colombian politician, his boss is now using the Russian Mafia to cover her tracks. Fitzgerald is not going to St Petersburg to kill, he’s going to die. A page-turning, political thriller about espionage and betrayal by the acclaimed British writer, Jeffrey Archer.

It is 1929. At home, economic depression and dust storms ravage America, and abroad the goose step of Nazism is intensifying. Widespread fear of the "other" has reached a fever pitch. Against this tumultuous backdrop, two families share the spotlight in this sweeping saga: the Himelbaums of Poland and the Browns of Iowa. All Harry Himelbaum wants is to live somewhere happy and to send for the wife and child he must deny having.

Harper Cloud used to love the gilded glamour of Las Vegas, but on the far side of prison, she sees the cracks in the veneer. These days, she keeps her head down and focuses on the elderly patients in her care. She tries to brush off the feeling that she's being watched, but when she's followed home one night and her pursuer gets within a hair's breadth of grabbing her, she knows it's time for a change. Her new wealthy boyfriend, Derrick, doesn't judge her for the secrets in her past. He offers her a job caring for his grandfather in Maryland, and she decides to trust him.

Kathrine bliver bortført af seriemorderen i sin lejlighed, og politiet får hurtigt anholdt en mistænkt i sagen. Men snart står det klart, at de har fat i den forkerte. Drabsefterforsker Felix Jørgensen ved dog, at han er på rette spor, da det viser sig, at en speciallæge i gynækologi har fået forbud om at praktisere på grund af grov forsømmelighed, og sporene leder til et forfaldent hus på Lolland. Befinder Kathrine sig i huset, og ved morderen, at politiet har forsøgt at lokke ham i en fælde?

For at finde frem til det norske våddragtsligs identitet beslutter politiet sig for at udsende en efterlysning gennem Interpol – en black notice. Samtidig kædes liget sammen med mordet på kvinden i Dragør Havn, da begge ofre er blevet udsat for samme kirurgiske indgreb i underlivet. Da en motionsløber finder en livløs kvinde med et identisk snit i en skovsø nær Holte, står det klart, at der er tale om en nordisk serieforbryder.

Lubji Hoch escapes from the Nazis, moves to Berlin and changes his name to Richard Armitage. After a successful career in the British Army, he takes over a struggling newspaper and with unrivalled ruthlessness begins building his media empire. Meanwhile, Keith Townsend, the son of a millionaire and Oxford educated, returns to Australia from London to take over his father's newspaper with similar ambitions. As both men move their quest for power to the world stage, they realise they are more than a match for one another's brilliance and ambition.

Separated at birth by a desperate nurse who loses a millionaire's son to cot death, twin boys grow up without any knowledge of the other. Nat Cartwright lives with his middle-class birth parents and grows up to becomes a war hero in the Vietnam War before returning home to run for office in the Republican party. Fletcher Davenport becomes the only son of the millionaire couple. After graduating from Yale, he builds a reputation as a prolific criminal defence lawyer before he too delves into politics as a Democrat.

Simon Sax si potrebbe considerare un ragazzo fortunato: programmatore informatico americano, genio della matematica, a soli trent'anni sta per diventare miliardario. È infatti a un passo dal concludere un affare che gli cambierà la vita: venderà la sua grande invenzione – un sofisticato software – a una multinazionale. Eppure non è felice. Si sente solo. Il suo successo fa a pugni con una totale assenza di abilità in ambito sociale: le ragazze, per lui, sono sempre state una meta irraggiungibile.

The expected never happens... a man calls unexpectedly on his mistress and sees another man leaving her flat. Accusing her of being unfaithful, he quarrels with her, strikes her. She dies. Leaving unseen, he tips off the police so that the other man is arrested and charged... Has he achieved "The Perfect Murder"? A tantalising opening to "A Twist in the Tale", a fantastic collection of short stories from bestselling author Jeffrey Archer.

Nadine leeft zoals vele andere jonge meiden, dynamisch en bruisend. Op haar zeventiende krijgt ze vlinders in haar buik, ze wordt verliefd op Gerold. Hun relatie ontwikkelt zich, ze beleven mooie momenten samen. Maar er komen geleidelijk ook donkere wolken, de ideeën over wat een goede relatie is, lopen steeds meer uiteen en na bijna drie jaar maakt Nadine het uit. Gerold accepteert dat niet en blijft contact zoeken. Ondanks dat Nadine steeds weer zegt dat niet te willen, weet hij haar toch nog één keer naar zijn huis te lokken.

After decades of brutal conflict, Terran forces finally capture Commander Gordon Monihan—a feared Spacer officer believed to be part of an inhuman hive-mind. But when Lieutenant Lucian Aris breaks protocol and removes Monihan’s helmet, he finds not a monster, but a man. Imprisoned and cut off from the neural network that once filled his mind with constant presence and connection, Monihan is plunged into a deafening silence that begins to unravel his sanity. Worse still, the Terrans subject him to a tribunal designed to prove he is not human. Every emotion is reclassified as programming.

No memory, no resources, no secret lair, and no time to find her feet: this is the story of a self-made villain, and her fall into strife. Fleeing from unknown enemies and an early death, she emerges into a city gone dark in the aftermath of a complete systems failure. Hounded by heroes, menaced by gangs, and helped by the most unlikely of allies, she claws her way up from weakness to strength and works to build a better future for those who deserve it.

When investigative journalist Reagan McAdams discovers her new husband is part of an international crime family, she flees Paris with their newborn and returns to her childhood home in New Hampshire to gather enough money to disappear forever. She’ll do whatever it takes to protect her son from his criminal father.

Nikolaj Bjerregaard ist Erbe des dänischen Rosenborg-Hotelimperiums. Um aus dem Schatten seines Vaters herauszutreten, will er mit einer exklusiven Boutiquehotel-Kette expandieren. Als er die PR-Expertin Emma Jakobsen kennenlernt, die ihm bei der Expansion helfen soll, ist die Anziehungskraft zwischen ihnen sofort spürbar. Doch Emma verfolgt einen geheimen Plan. Ihr Ziel: seinen Ruf ruinieren … Als Louise Bjerregaards Traum von der Gründung eines ökologischen Lifestyle-Magazins zu platzen droht, bietet ihr Ex-Verlobter und Windparkbesitzer Mads Vinther überraschend seine Hilfe an.

When Eric finds eight-year-old Daniel alone in the woods, he has no idea where the boy came from or how he's survived the wintery New Hampshire weather. He figures once he hands the boy off to child services, his part in Daniel's drama will be over. He couldn't be more wrong.

Cormac McCarthy, best-selling author of National Book Award winner All the Pretty Horses, delivers his first new novel in seven years. Written in muscular prose, No Country for Old Men is a powerful tale of the West that moves at a blistering pace.

Step into the twisted universe of The King of the Peso, a pioneering Original series that blends intense storytelling with unparalleled immersion into a world of corruption on both sides of the border. Picho, voiced by the sagacious Harvey Guillén, serves as our guide through the intricate tapestry of frauds woven by his intimidating con man of a father, Pietro La Greca, played with captivating charm by the one and only Peter Stormare.