Showing results for "Searching for God" in Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

A floating fortress occupied by warrior gnomes. A castle made of sand. A derelict submarine guarded by malfunctioning machines. A haunted crypt surrounded by lethal traps. It was supposed to be easy. One bubble. Four castles. Fifteen days. Capture each one, and the stairwell is unlocked.

Ein Mafia-Erbe, notorisches Arschloch und brutales Monster. Ein unglückliches Treffen bringt uns zusammen. Und schon hat er mich ins Visier gefasst. Ihm scheinen all die Widrigkeiten egal zu sein. Stattdessen versucht er, meine stahlharte Kontrolle zu durchbrechen und meine Grenzen zu überwinden.

Der Teufel hat mich gefangen. Mit seinen grauen Augen hält er mich in seinem Bann. Dabei fing es mit einem harmlosen Fehler an. Ich hatte niemals vor, mich ausgerechnet auf einen Mafia-Prinzen einzulassen. Jeremy Volkov ist charmant, attraktiv – doch unter der Oberfläche lauert ein tödliches Raubtier. Er ist getrieben davon, zu besitzen, zu halten – mich zu behalten.

Mein Schicksal ist vorherbestimmt. Als Tochter eines der mächtigsten Männer der Mafia wird von mir erwartet, dass ich den Mann heirate, der für mich ausgesucht wird. Doch dann ist da er. Creighton King. Geheimnisvoll, verschlossen und gefährlich – und meine Chance einer Ehe ohne Liebe zu entgehen. Und er stimmt zu. Der mürrische Typ mit den verschiedenfarbigen Augen geht eine Fake-Beziehung mit mir ein. Doch plötzlich ist es gar nicht mehr so fake.

Telos is a world at the center of a Universe. A bright jewel wrapped in a Lattice of realities. It is a world that gods and demons call home at the beginning of a new age. Remy is a newly risen deity, struggling to survive in a Battle Royale where the consequences are worse than death and last longer than damnation. He will find that he cannot live with his tribe of worshippers. Their strength is his, and his is theirs. Other tribes want nothing more than to feast upon their flesh and consume their power.

Als Shadow aus dem Gefängnis entlassen wird, ist nichts mehr wie zuvor. Seine Frau ist tot, und ein mysteriöser Fremder bietet ihm einen Job an. Er nennt sich Mr. Wednesday und weiß ungewöhnlich viel über Shadow. Er behauptet, ein Sturm ziehe auf, eine gewaltige Schlacht um die Seele Amerikas. Eine Schlacht, in der Shadow eine wichtige Rolle spielen wird.

Der Mann, den ich hasse, ist mein Ehemann! Damals, als ich noch ein ahnungsloses Mädchen war. Doch dann brach er mir gnadenlos das Herz und sperrte es in ein Glas. Seitdem habe ich mir geschworen, ihn bis ans Ende meiner Tage zu hassen. Das heißt, bis ich im Krankenhaus aufwache und er meine Hand hält. Dann sagt er die Worte, die mein Leben für immer verändern. Wie sich herausstellt, sind meine Erinnerungen noch finsterer als meine Gegenwart.

James Whitby, sentenced to death for the murder of prominent lawyer and former Quit India activist Fareed Mazumdar, is less than two weeks from a date with the gallows. In a last-ditch attempt to save his son, Whitby's father, arch-colonialist, Charles Whitby, forces a new investigation into the killing. The investigation leads Inspector Persis Wadia of the Bombay Police to the old colonial capital of Calcutta, where, with the help of Scotland Yard criminalist Archie Blackfinch, she uncovers a possible link to a second case.

They call me Kayla "The Ruthless" King. The Queen of the North Shore and leader of the Kings' Crew. Because of the sacrifices I've made and the merciless way I run my crew, the North Shore belongs to me. In our town, you can only thrive if you're the worst of the worst. But that all ended when the psychopath I put away returned with a target on my back. If I'm The Ruthless King, Nathan White is The Lawless God. The biggest and baddest of them all. He's heartless and cruel, and everyone is safer out of his way. Including me.

When the Capo dei Capi of the Cosa Nostra comes to Sicily to give his approval for his cousin, Stefano, to take me as his bride, I know my fate is all but sealed. Marrying Stefano is the last thing I want, but being a woman, I don't have a say in the matter. Damiano Falco is merciless and rules the Cosa Nostra with an iron fist. Everyone fears him and won't dare go against him. I'm still trying to accept that I'll have no choice but to marry Stefano when Damiano utters the last word anyone expects to hear. "No." He doesn't give his approval, nor does he offer any explanation.

Colonial New Guinea, 1906: A small group of mostly German nudists lives an extreme back-to-nature existence on the remote island of Kabakon. Eating only coconuts and bananas, they purport to worship the sun. One of their members, Max Lutzow, has recently died, allegedly from malaria. But an autopsy on his body in the nearby capital of Herbertshöhe raises suspicions about foul play.

Mia Sokolov, Mafia-Erbin mit selektivem Mutismus, macht keine Gefangenen. Landon King ist ein genialer Künstler, ein vornehmer, reicher Junge, der besessen von Mia ist … und dem düsteren Geheimnis, das sie verbirgt. Trotz Landons psychotischer Tendenzen, die Mia in die Enge treiben, bringt seine Obsession sie näher zusammen, als sie beide je erwartet hätten.

A race to unveil the secret of Laki, a volcano on the southern shores of Iceland, pits our heroes - a 16-year-old Viking girl from the tenth century, a German geologist from World War II, and a former Secret Service agent protecting a female volcanologist - against evil forces with a plan to cause an eruption using explosives, altering the global climate through the release and forcing the price of oil to skyrocket.

As the world is on the brink of mutual destruction between the East and the West, Mary Ashley—a bright, young political science professor—is appointed U.S. Ambassador to an Iron Curtain country. Her husband dies in a suspicious car crash, and Mary becomes the target of a mysterious murder plot by unseen and powerful enemies. Thrust from her comforting life in Kansas, she finds herself lost amongst the political turmoil in a foreign country where she is seen as the enemy, and no one is to be trusted.

"What happens when you have to choose between faith and logic? Temples are places of worship, oceans of tranquillity, or so everyone thinks, till a series of murders threatens to destroy the carefully cultivated reputation of the royal family of Thiruvanathapuram. And when fingers point towards...

With plague and violence stalking the streets and a new Cold War brewing in the East, America has never been more unprepared to face her enemies. There’s blood in the water, and the sharks are circling. When CIA assassin Jason Trapp is called to the Middle East to identify a man suspected to be feared ISIS terrorist Khaled al-Shakiri, he expects to be in and out in a matter of hours. Unfortunately, fate has other ideas. After surviving the most violent prison break the region has ever seen, Trapp is left chasing shadows.

ಕಾರ್ತಿ ಅಂದ್ರೆ ಕಾರ್ತವೀರ್ಯಾರ್ಜುನ ರೆಡ್ಡಿ. ದೊಡ್ಡೋರು ಅಂದ್ರೆ ಚಿನ್ನಮಾದಿರೆಡ್ಡಿ ಅವರ ಕೊನೆಯ ಮಗ. ಅವನಿಗೆ ಡಾನ್ ಫ಼್ಯಾಮಿಲಿ, ಹತ್ಯೆ,ರೌಡಿಸಂ ಒಂಚೂರೂ ಇಷ್ಟವಿಲ್ಲ. ಅಸಲಿಗೆ ಅವನು ಬೆಂಗಳೂರಲ್ಲಿರೋದೇ ಕಡಿಮೆ. ತಂಗಿ ಮದುವೆಗೆ ಅಂತ ಬಂದೋನು ದೊಡ್ಡೋರ ಮೇಲೆ ಆದ ಅಚಾನಕ್ ಮರ್ಡರ್ ಅಟೆಂಪ್ಟ್ ನಿಂದ ಅದರ ಬೆನ್ನಿಗೇ ತನ್ನ ಮೇಲೇ ಆದ ಅವಮಾನದ ಕಾರಣದಿಂದ ತಾನೇ ಎರಡು ಕೊಲೆ ಮಾಡಿಬಿಡ್ತಾನೆ. ಈ ಕೊಲೆ ಅವನು ಬಯಸಿದ್ದಲ್ಲ. ಅವನದನ್ನು ಎಂಜಾಯ್ ಮಾಡಲಿಲ್ಲ. In fact ಅವನಿಗೆ ಇವೆಲ್ಲಾ ಬೇಕಾಗಿರಲಿಲ್ಲ. ಸೂಸನ್ ಜೊತೆ ಜೀವನಪೂರ್ತಿ ಖುಷಿಯಾಗಿರೋದಷ್ಟೆ ಅವನಿಗೆ ಬೇಕಾಗಿದ್ದಿದ್ದು.

In a life like mine, there is only danger dressed up in money and power. I’m a monster in expensive suits and an opulent home. Brigit is an innocent angel with only the clothes on her back. She’s on the run from a nightmarish arranged marriage, and I’m her only hope in the city. If she works my business, she’ll be able to buy herself a new life. But the moment she steps into my life is the moment she’s trapped forever. She thinks she can tempt me and slip away like a thief in the night. She thinks I can make her mine and then let her go. She’s never been so wrong.

Malum, Scorpius, and Orion are now fighting for me. Their power is mind-boggling. The carnage staggering. The High Court wants me to control them, but you can't leash monsters. Even with Sadie, Jinx, and John by my side, I'm struggling to survive. The war drums are beating and life altering secrets are being revealed.

"Aditya runs a gaming company that is struggling to break even. A banker slips off a highrise building, plunging to her death. The finance minister has made some promises that he is finding hard to keep. The LTTE has unleashed terror in America that sends the FBI on a wild goose chase...