Showing results for "The Regents" in Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

London, 1859. Nurse Gemma Tate boards the American packet ship the Prince Regent to aid Inspector Sebastian Bell in investigating the death of a British aristocrat. But when she sees the crime scene, Gemma realizes that her knowledge of human nature will be just as valuable as her medical training. Lord Anthony Blackstock lies murdered in his cabin, his head locked inside a nightmarish iron cage. His wife has vanished without a trace, and time is running out to find her, dead or alive…

Du bist ein braves Mädchen, nicht wahr? Hast immer nach den Regeln gespielt und gerade deswegen verloren. Dein kleines Märchen hat sich nicht erfüllt. Was machen wir nun mit dir? Du machst es uns zu leicht, Praeda. Nur deine Kapitulation ist uns nicht genug. Wir wollen mehr, wollen alles. Du bist hier unter Wölfen. Du wirst für uns bluten. Willkommen an der W&R Academy, kleiner Hase. Savannah Díaz hat nur ein Ziel. Sie will nach Harvard. Als die Absage sie erreicht, bricht für sie eine Welt zusammen.

linded war veteran Frederick Rowlands has escaped the bustle of London to establish a secure life for himself and his family in the countryside. But everything is about to change when an old friend, Chief Inspector Douglas, asks for his assistance in tracking down the killer of a beautiful dancer. That there is a link between the murder and St Dunstan's, the institute for blind ex-servicemen of which Rowlands himself is a member, is only one of the puzzling features of the case.

Writer Cyril Glendinning is waiting for his big break. He is well reviewed by cultured newspapers, but he makes very little money. Then he is commissioned to write a novel for a big publisher, but before he is able to finish, disaster strikes. His wife, Gertrude, is left penniless and alone, until she is awoken one night by a mysterious clicking metallic sound....

I'm the girl who hides in the shadows where it's safe and no one can touch me. I've spent the last six years trying to fade into the background, but one knock on my door changes everything. It's time to pay on a promise I made the day my life was saved.

I'm the girl with a broken heart. I've spent years making sure no one got too close to me, but one night changed everything. The men that I love have sent me away, where they say I'll be safe. They couldn't protect me from getting hurt and it gutted them. Now, someone else is out there, watching me. Waiting to attack. They thought they were protecting me, but they were wrong. Because we're stronger together. And once I go back to the Devil's Regents MC, I'm never leaving their sides again.

When archivist Nadia Fontaine is found dead of an apparent drowning, Emily Snow is hired by Regents University to finish the job she started - to organize and process the papers of Raymond West, a famous Pulitzer Prize-winning author who has been short-listed for the Nobel. As Emily sets to work on the West papers, it begins to dawn on her that several items have gone missing from the collection. To trace their whereabouts, she gains unsupervised access to the restricted “dark archives”, in which she opens a Pandora’s Box of erotically and intellectually charged correspondence.