Showing results for "The Literature of Connection" in Suspense

Nathan hatte gehofft, sich ein ruhiges Leben zu ermöglichen und ein altes Häuschen im Süden Frankreichs zu renovieren, aber ein friedlicher Ruhestand scheint einfach nicht infrage zu kommen. Stattdessen ist er gezwungen, den brutalen Mord an seinem alten Freund zu rächen und herauszufinden, was das alles, wenn überhaupt, mit ihrer alten Einheit, dem 75. Ranger-Regiment, 3. Bataillon, zu tun hat.

After fending off a would-be abductor, 27-year-old singer-songwriter Hannah Cassidy hides behind a car in the half-empty parking lot behind Pancake Pantry in Nashville. From there, she watches in horror as her attacker grabs another woman and pushes her into a nearby car. Within seconds, the vehicle speeds away.

Convinced his sister’s death wasn’t an accident, private investigator Sergio Ross is determined to catch her killer. But with all the clues hinting at a connection to another unsolved murder, he has to join forces with Helen Pike - a woman linked to both deaths - to find the truth. Can they follow the cold trail to get justice...before they become the next victims?

In 1945, with their thousand-year empire falling around them and the Allies on their heels, the Nazis hide a sealed chest in the dark, forbidding waters of the Finstersee—a lake surrounded by the brooding peaks of the Austrian Alps. There it lies for 21 years, almost forgotten, until a British agent decides to raise it from the depths. The secrets he uncovers are far-reaching and lethal, and in Salzburg, Bill Mathison, a New York attorney on the trail of a missing colleague, finds himself drawn into the shadowy underworld of international espionage.

A desperate escape from Romania after the fall of the Ceausescus... a violent introduction to the new rules of warfare on the borders of Afghanistan... then an icy struggle for survival among the world’s highest mountains... Death follows those who seek beyond the ‘Delta Connection’ searching for something closely guarded in the most dangerous region on earth.

Each year the Bohemian Club - a clique of powerful conservatives whose ranks include Nixon, Reagan, and Kissinger - gathers for a confidential meeting in the backwoods town of Henderson, California. Though their activities are shrouded in secrecy, Henderson meter-reader Vejay Haskell is about to get an all-too-close inside look. Searching the countryside for a coworker’s missing niece, she finds the beautiful gymnast lying dead in the bottom of a sewer drain.

A homeless man has been found in an alley, clobbered to death. The crime seems pretty cut and dried - vagrants fighting over turf - until the Newcastle Police Department uncovers a connection to a local shelter in danger of being taken over by greedy developers. Is the dead John Doe a victim of some sinister plot? And what became of the scruffy mutt he had recently adopted?

The 23 May Liberation Front finances their terrorism by the sale of drugs in Canada and the U.S. Heroin, cocaine, hashish--the usual. Now they have their hands on a new synthetic called Ziff-a drug with an unusual side effect. It does radical and permanent damage to the genetic makeup of the user, thus effecting generations yet unborn.

Il 4 giugno 2014 è una data cruciale per il nord-est d'Italia: all'alba l'unico rumore, assordante, sono le manette che scattano ai polsi di politici e imprenditori. Il MOSE si è rivelato nel suo lato più buio. Il malaffare e il crimine organizzato si sono infiltrati in una terra senza padroni, con risorse e difficoltà, con una grave crisi alle spalle e un futuro imprevedibile. Una terra in cui il passaggio generazionale non si riferisce soltanto alle grandi famiglie di imprenditori, ma anche alla politica e al crimine.