Showing results for "Translation, Translation" in Thriller & Suspense

Con la morte del marito Nick in un incidente stradale, il mondo di Sarah va in frantumi. Affrontare un futuro senza di lui sembra impossibile. Ma forse non deve farlo. Quando Sarah scopre EternaTech, il programma di intelligenza artificiale a cui Nick e il suo socio stavano lavorando in segreto, le viene data la possibilità di parlare con Nick dall’oltretomba. Sembra lui. Sembra davvero lui…

As Autumn deepens into darkness in Lidingö, on the Stockholm archipelago, the island is plunged into chaos: in the space of a week, two teenagers, the son of the island's mayor and that of a powerful businessman, are brutally murdered. Their bodies are left deep in the forest, dressed in white tunics with crowns of candles atop their heads, like offerings to Saint Lucia. Maïa Rehn has fled Paris for Lidingö, where her husband has grown up, trying to come to terms with the death of their only daughter in a car accident...

A literary page-turner about one man's quest for an ancient mystery through the perilous streets of modern London Walter Rothschild has nothing but his work. Estranged from his wife and adult daughter, he spends his days and nights lost in translation -- constantly working and reworking the...

Nanao, nicknamed Ladybug - the self-proclaimed “unluckiest assassin in the world” - boards a bullet train from Tokyo to Morioka with one simple task: Grab a suitcase and get off at the next stop. Unbeknownst to him, the deadly duo Tangerine and Lemon are also after the very same suitcase - and they are not the only dangerous passengers onboard. Satoshi, “the Prince”, with the looks of an innocent schoolboy and the mind of a viciously cunning psychopath, is also in the mix and has history with some of the others.

De gruwelijke, maar waargebeurde moord op Elizabeth Short drijft de agenten Bleichert en Blanchard van afschuw tot complete waanzin. Een absolute misdaadklassieker. In 1947 wordt Los Angeles opgeschrikt door de vondst van het zwaar verminkte lijk van een jonge actrice. 'De Zwarte Dahlia’ beheerst wekenlang de krantenkoppen, net als de levens van rechercheurs Bucky Bleichert en Lee Blanchard – collega’s, vrienden, rivalen. De zoektocht naar Elizabeth Short's moordenaar voert ze langs de schaduwkanten van het naoorlogse Hollywood, en de zwarte randen van hun eigen duistere verlangens.

Één dag in het jaar stroomt het bloed door de straten van Los Angeles...Op 10 juni is geen enkele vrouw haar leven zeker. Al twintig jaar is deze dag ...

Pour obtenir la garde de sa filleule, Mary a besoin d'un mari de toute urgence. Sauf qu'elle ne veut pas de n'importe quel homme : elle le veut, lui, Hector, l'objet de ses désirs depuis des mois. Mais Hector ne fait que la repousser. Dans la vraie vie, la Bête ne finit pas avec Belle. Il est bien trop sombre pour le petit rayon de soleil qu'est Mary. Alors même si ça le tue de voir la femme de ses rêves avec un autre homme, il sait qu'il doit garder ses distances. Ce qu'il ne sait pas, c'est que Mary n'a pas dit son dernier mot.

What makes life perfect? Insurance mathematician Henri Koskinen knows the answer because he calculates everything down to the last decimal. And then, Henri is faced with the incalculable. After suddenly losing his job, Henri inherits an adventure park from his brother - its troubling financial problems included. The worst of these issues appear to originate from big loans taken from criminal quarters and dangerous men are keen to get their money back. But what Henri really can't compute is love. He meets Laura, an artist with a joie de vivre and erratic lifestyle that bewilders him.

Revelle Lee spricht 11 Sprachen und dolmetscht am Old Bailey in London – für Zeugen, Opfer, Angeklagte. Als sie bei einem Mord-Prozess mitbekommt, wie sich der Angeklagte erfolgversprechend verteidigt, verstößt sie gegen ihren eigenen Codex und verfälscht seine Aussage, damit der vermeintlich Schuldige verurteilt wird. Bald stellt sich heraus: Revelle hat versehentlich einen Unschuldigen ins Gefängnis gebracht. Und nicht nur das. Zudem ist jemand hinter ihr und ihrem Pflegesohn Elliot her.