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

The lights went out. The desert didn't care. Lizzy built a farm that pulls water from thin air. When a solar flare kills every circuit on earth, it becomes the last green place in Nevada, and every armed survivor wants it. Her sister Poppy knows how to fight. Lizzy has to learn...

SE LEI SAPESSE (un giallo di Kate Wise) è il libro 1 di una nuova serie thriller dell'autore best-seller Blake Pierce, il cui best-seller Il killer della rosa (libro 1) (scaricabile gratuitamente) ha ricevuto più di mille recensioni a cinque stelle. La cinquantacinquenne Kate Wise, madre di una figlia ormai grande e agente dell'FBI appena andata in pensione, si ritrova strappata via dalla sua tranquilla vita di periferia quando la figlia della sua amica viene uccisa durante una violazione di domicilio - e la implorano di fornire il suo aiuto.

Cora has never quite fit innot at school, not at home, not even in her own skin. Plagued by terrifying dreams of winged beings and a war she doesn’t understand, she tries to ignore the darkness creeping into her life. But when a mysterious new student arrives—dark, dangerous, and impossibly...

Après dix années passées à Richmond, Will Seems revient dans la petite ville où il a grandi pour prendre un poste d'adjoint au shérif. Il y retrouve cette terre du sud de la Virginie hantée par l'histoire, celle des riches plantations de tabac et de l'esclavage, que le progrès semble avoir oublié. Will devra affronter ceux de son propre passé lorsqu'un de ses amis d'enfance est assassiné. Alors qu'un vieil homme est suspecté, la communauté noire de la région engage une détective privée, Bennico Watts, pour l'innocenter.

Jeri thought she had survived the worst of the illness. She was wrong.After nearly two weeks trapped in a fever, Jeri wakes to an empty house, no phone service, and a world that has gone terrifyingly quiet. Her sister, Alice, is gone. The television offers nothing but static. The streets are...

Arabella was supposed to be dead.After faking her death to escape the vampires who want her gone, Arabella and Ethan disappear into Las Vegas, hoping to build a life free from fear, secrets, and bloodshed.For six months, they succeed.Then Olive discovers the truth.Obsessed with Ethan and...

NATIONAL BESTSELLER The Christie sisters and their bookshop cat, Agatha, flirt with coldhearted crime when bookish matchmaking turns into a date with death. Sisters Ellie and Meg Christie share a love of books, reading, and their new roles as co-caretakers of the Book Chalet, their...

Arthur Brown has killed for money, survived every gunfight, and earned a reputation as the fastest gun in the West.Then he falls in love with the daughter of the man he's been hired to destroy.Daniel Jacobs wants Jed McBride's ranch—and he's willing to pay Arthur to drive the stubborn rancher...

The 12 crimes of Christmas: Bart Sagan is a thief, yes, but more or less a good guy - at least, he wouldn’t rob an orphanage if he didn’t have to. Not at Christmastime, anyway. But then the local crime boss, Harry King, loses a shipment of drugs and orders Bart to burglarize the 12 addresses to which it’s been accidentally sent. Can Bart and his ragtag band of independent criminals keep their Christmas spirit while breaking and entering at the behest of a drug lord? Can they keep their lives if they don’t?

'WHAT A FASCINATING READ. I WAS TOTALLY IMMERSED IN THIS WORLD ANNA CREATED. SHE IS A WONDERFUL STORYTELLER' - LORRAINE KELLY 'A BEAUTIFULLY PORTRAYED AND IMAGINATIVE TALE OF WOMEN IN MEDIEVAL SCOTLAND IN ALL THEIR VULNERABILITY AND POWER' - S. G. MacLean, author of THE BOOKSELLER OF INVERNESS...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE AN POST IRISH BOOK AWARDS 2023 'When it comes to writing YA fiction as beautiful, eerie and utterly chilling as WISE CREATURES, Deirdre Sullivan is in a league of her own' - Louise O'Neill, author of ONLY EVER YOURS I always thought that hauntings began with houses. They...

As the daughter of a biker, I've been toe-to-toe with brutal men. I grew up surrounded by violence, so I thought I could survive anything. Until I learned what it really means to be at the mercy of a monster. One I loved. One I trusted. Now that I've escaped, I refuse to go back. But when I show up on my brother's doorstep looking for help, I find myself face-to-face with Mason Zane.

Sisters Ellie and Meg Christie share a love of books, reading, and the Book Chalet - their family's historic bookshop tucked midway up a scenic Colorado mountain. But romance? That's another story. So when their cousin signs them up for her newest business venture - matchmaking based on bookish tastes - the sisters approach their blind double dates with foot-dragging dread. And while Ellie's date meets her low expectations, Meg's match, a book-loving romantic straight out of classic literature, is a charming surprise...until he turns up murdered the next morning.

In the bustling city of St. Anderson, Denim Rose Martin is determined to leave her troubled past behind. After a riotous upbringing marked by an unloving mother, she finds herself entangled in a relationship with a charming yet unpredictable man. Just as she begins to break free from his grasp, unsettling truths emerge, hinting at a darker, much more powerful force at play. Draco, a striking kingpin from Mississippi, whose presence sends shivers down Denim's spine.

The incomparable Inspector Alan Grant returns in the latest addition to our enormously popular Josephine Tey series. As well as all the usual delights of Tey’s writing and the Inspector himself, To Love and Be Wise also features one of the most cunning and surprising twists of any of Tey’s novels – making it an absolute must-listen for any Golden Age crime aficionado.

Annie Park’s wife, Issy, a famous author, died twelve months ago. In her Will, she left instructions that Annie relocate with Issy’s teenage children from Hackney to her childhood home in the rural village of Colthwaite, Cumbria. Despite her misgivings, Annie complies because she loved her...

All three women who live at 1054 Mockingbird Lane have secrets...and with a body at the bottom of their apartment building’s staircase, those secrets need to stay buried. Sylvia Webb has a plan. And a potential Mr. Right. He’s sweet, simple, and dependably clueless. The only thing unpredictable about him is his needy ex-girlfriend, who is this close to shattering Sylvia’s dreams. Riki McFarlan has a good career and an amazing boyfriend who wants to settle down. If only she didn’t have feelings for her neighbor - who happens to be her close friend’s husband.

Alma Harper has been trying to forget what happened in Widowsfield 16 years ago. She has a good life as a music teacher now, and might rekindle her relationship with her one true love. However, the number 314 haunts her, and threatens to bring her back to the day that her brother disappeared. When a reporter shows up, just days before March 14th, Alma realizes that her past is coming back to haunt her. What happened on March 14th, at 3:14, 16 years ago? No one but The Skeleton Man can remember.

After a decade of exile precipitated by the tragic death of his mother, Will Seems returns home from Richmond to rural Southern Virginia, taking a job as deputy sheriff in a landscape given way to crime and defeat. But his attempts to start again are wrecked when a brutal homicide claims the...

Logan branched off and became his own boss while partnered with his uncle, while Lyric blossomed with her writing career and became a publisher who then moved into the movie industry. Busy with their careers, they never neglected their number one priority, their twin son and daughter, LJ and Legacy.