Showing results for "The Tourist" in Crime Fiction

Tourist season is swinging into high gear in Miami. So are the activities of a bizarre terrorist group determined to keep the hapless "snowbirds" away. Armed with bombs, weed, and jumbled credos, they move toward their grand target, the Orange Bowl Parade, with plans to bring Miami and its tourist trade to a halt.

A young man wakes from a coma to find himself targeted by the men who killed his parents, while someone is impersonating a notorious New Zealand serial killer... the latest chilling, nerve-shredding, twisty thriller from the author of The Quiet People... How do you catch a killer... When the only evidence is a dream? James Garrett was critically injured when he was shot following his parents’ execution, and no one expected him to waken from a deep, traumatic coma.

Urlaub im Paradies. Freundinnen aus der Hölle. Türkisblaues Meer, weißer Sand und luxuriöse Strandvillen: Das exklusive Sapphire Island Resort auf den Malediven ist der perfekte Ort für einen Traumurlaub. Hierher reisen die Freundinnen Darcy, Kate und Camilla, um Darcys Scheidung zu feiern. Doch die drei Frauen verbindet keine gewöhnliche Freundschaft: Ein traumatisches Ereignis in ihrer Vergangenheit hat sie zusammengeführt – und lässt sie auch unter Palmen und Sonnenschein nicht los.

Guy Collins, a British hack, is hunting for an election story in Lagos. A decision to check out a local bar in Victoria Island ends up badly - a mutilated female body is discarded close by and Collins is picked up as a suspect. In the murk of a hot, groaning, and bloody police station cell, Collins fears the worst. But then Amaka, a sassy guardian angel of Lagos working girls, talks the police station chief around. She assumes Collins is a BBC journo who can broadcast the city's witchcraft and body-parts trade that she's on a one-woman mission to stop.

Als ein amerikanischer Tourist in Cherringham als vermisst gemeldet wird, sieht die örtliche Polizei zunächst keinen Grund zur Sorge, da sich bei geführten Touren häufiger Leute absetzen. Dann aber reist die Schwester des Touristen aus New York an, verzweifelt auf der Suche nach ihrem Bruder. Auch Jack und Sarah sind schließlich überzeugt, dass an dem Verschwinden des Mannes mehr dran ist, als es zunächst schien.

The self-appointed saviour of Lagos' sex workers, Amaka may have bitten off more than she can chew this time as she finds herself embroiled in a political scandal. When a plane crash kills the state gubernatorial candidate, the party picks a replacement who is assured of winning the election: Chief Ojo. But Amaka knows the skeletons that lurk in Chief Ojo's closet, including what took place at the Harem, the secret sex club on the outskirts of Lagos that he frequents.