Showing results for "Tulips" in Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

The tulip craze of 17th century Holland has a dark side! Cornelius van Baerle, a wealthy but naive tulip grower, finds himself entangled in the deadly politics of his time, and he must decide where his true love lies.

Michael Hart is sin in a suit: dark blond curls, icy blue eyes, and tattoos etched in secrets. By day, he's a billionaire tech mogul. By night, a mafia king. Our paths were never meant to cross—until I was promised to one of his brutal underbosses. Obviously, I run. Guess who tracks me down? The devil himself. I expect punishment. Pain. A cage. Instead, I'm offered a way out: marry Michael and live under his protection. Safe. Untouchable.

'To have discovered the black tulip, to have seen it for a moment...then to lose it, to lose it forever!' Cornelius von Baerle, a respectable tulip-grower, lives only to cultivate the elusive black tulip and win a magnificent prize for its creation. But after his powerful godfather is assassinated, the unwitting Cornelius becomes caught up in deadly political intrigue and is falsely accused of high treason by a bitter rival.

...But now she has a million questions about the Pink Carnation's deadly French nemesis, the Black Tulip. And she's pretty sure that her handsome onagain, off-again crush, Colin Selwick, has the answers somewhere in his archives. But what she discovers in an old codebook is something juicier...

When a local music producer hires the duo to find out who is bootlegging his artists' CDs, Delanie uncovers more than just copyright thieves. And if chasing bootleggers isn't bad enough, local strip club owner and resident sleaze, Chaz Smith, pops back into Delanie's life with more requests. The police have their man in a gruesome murder, but the loud-mouthed strip club owner thinks there is more to the open and shut case. Delanie and Duncan link a series of killings with no common threads. And they must put the rest of the missing pieces together before someone else is murdered.

It's a crime that Times Square dives aren't private investigator Chip Harrison's usual hangouts. Tulip Willing is the star attraction at the Treasure Chest, and also Chip's newest client. It seems she wants cover for a mysterious stranger who's been scaring her out of her clothes. Cherry Bounce, another dancer at the Treasure Chest, is shot dead in the act. Chip finds himself on the trail of a killer who's eager to trap the street-wise detective and strip him of his livelihood forever...

Imagine you can hear a couple fighting, but you can’t see who’s raising their fists. Who’s in danger - the woman, or the man? This is the question support worker Christine asks herself when she decides to make her female domestic abuse service available to male victims...and perpetrators. How can she distinguish the survivors from the abusers - while still offering a safe space for women? "Victim or Perpetrator?" is the first full-length drama to explore domestic abuse in all its forms, across different ages - and across different genders. Inspired by many real-life cases of ...

Dejaté sumergir en una historia emocionante desde el principio en la que el destino del protagonista depende del bulbo de un tulipán. La excelente mezcla de novela de aventuras, histórica y romántica dan como resultado un fabuloso relato de Alejandro DumasLos hermanos De Witt, protegidos del gran rey Luis de Francia, encuentra la muerte a manos de la enloquecida población de La Haya, que les cree culpables de conspiración.