Resultados para "A Confession" en Suspense

Everyone has secrets they would prefer to keep buried, but that’s what makes me so good at what I do. I’ve always been able to sense when people are lying, be it through their body language or the way they speak. As a criminologist, I’ve made it my life’s mission to help those who’ve suffered miscarriages of justice appeal their wrongful convictions. Thirty years ago, my 13-year-old sister was murdered and it felt like a part of me died with her.

When Agnes Blakiston and her maid Maggie take possession of a rental house for the summer, their idea of a tranquil stay is almost immediately upended. First, there is the telephone. It rings late at night, just one ring, but there is never anyone on the line. They begin to notice things have moved during the night. A candle has burned low, and a shawl has disappeared. And then Maggie, spooked and suspicious, discovers a note. It's a confession to a murder. But who has written it and, equally confounding, who has been killed?

Overstrand 1895. Lawrence Harpham and Violet Smith are witnesses to suicide while on holiday. Beneath the body, lies a bible belonging to a murdered man. Clues lead to the violent death of a bookseller and a chilling confession from the past. From Norfolk to Liverpool, investigations point to the unsolved murder of Fanny Nunn in the town of Diss. But how are the murders connected? Why do the parish registers contain so many unnatural deaths? 

For every innocent man sent to prison, there is a guilty one left on the outside. He doesn't understand how the police and prosecutors got the wrong man, and he certainly doesn't care. He just can't believe his good luck. Time passes and he realizes that the mistake will not be corrected: the...

“One of the best historical series being written today.” —Washington Post “Todd once and for all establishes the shell-shocked Rutledge as the genre’s most complex and fascinating detective.” —Entertainment Weekly The Confession is historical crime fiction at its finest, continuing...

THE INCREDIBLE DEBUT PSYCHOLOGICAL THRILLER FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE PERFECT LIE "Spain's blackly comic touch pulls us through a brilliantly dark tale" - Daily Mail ********** SOMETIMES THE TRUTH IS NOT ALL IT SEEMS... SOMETIMES A CONFESSION IS JUST THE BEGINNING... Late one night a...

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER In this “grab-a-reader-by-the-shoulders suspense story” (The Washington Post) from “the master of the legal thriller” (USA Today), an innocent man is about to be executed—and only a guilty man can save him. WINNER OF THE HARPER LEE PRIZE FOR LEGAL...

Brought to you by Penguin. A gripping legal thriller from the No.1 Sunday Times bestselling author and creator of Sooley and The Judge's List. An innocent man is days from execution. Only a guilty man can save him. Travis Boyette is a murderer. Nine years ago, he strangled a high-school...

What should you do if the world has turned against you? When Father Anselm is asked this question by an old man at Larkwood Priory, his response is to have greater resonance than he could ever have imagined. For that evening the old man returns, demanding the protection of the church. His name is Eduard Schwermann and he is wanted by the police as a suspected war criminal.

In the small, seemingly idyllic town of Hermiston, Oregon, Ethan Brandt's world is torn apart in a single, devastating moment—the murder of his parents. As Ethan returns home to confront his grief, he quickly learns that their deaths are only the tip of an iceberg of secrets. With whispers of corruption, betrayal, and criminal empires lurking beneath the town's surface, Ethan is thrust into a dark conspiracy that shakes the foundation of everything he thought he knew about his family, his friends, and himself.

Welcome to The Confession Room: An online forum for anonymous atonement. Some people confess to affairs, others to stealing. Some admit deep, dark wishes. But one day, a confession is posted that nobody expects: murder. And not just one named victim, but two. As more victims are named, and more bodies found, people begin to fear who could be named next. Because it seems that if you have a secret, they'll find you. They know who you are. They know what you've done. Not everyone can survive The Confession Room.

On his 50th birthday, Peadar Gibbons, a seemingly inoffensive amateur poet walked into a West of Ireland garda station, went up to the counter, and told the officer on duty that he had some things to get off his chest. Disbelieving that he could ever have caused anyone any harm, the officer sent him home and told him to write it all down. What emerged two months later was described by the force as "the most elaborate written admission they had ever received".

Behind the closed doors of San Francisco's grandest mansions, beautiful people party the nights away in a heady mix of money, drugs, drink and sex. But the rich and famous aren't the only ones with the keys to these most exclusive of addresses, someone else is intent on crashing the party. A...

Finding people who don't want to be found is a young man's game. But when a beautiful celebrity begs semi-retired Walter Sherman to locate her nephew, he can't refuse. In his search for Harry Levine, Walter soon discovers that others are desperate to find him and willing to kill for what he has: the written confession by the mastermind behind the assassination of John F. Kennedy.

On a cool fall morning in the city of Boston, Charles Knox steps into a confessional booth with a secret to tell. A young priest on the other side of the screen is shaken by what he learns. A former college athlete with an MBA from a prestigious university, Father Joe Russo is not your typical man of God. Nine years earlier, his own life took a tragic turn and he gave everything up, committing his life to the church. Now his peaceful existence is being tested, and he finds himself questioning the God he serves, the vows he made, and someone he left behind.

FBI Agent Rachel Gift's struggle with her mortality becomes all too literal when she investigates murders disguised with high-tech "suicide booths." She must decrypt the mind of a killer who has transformed mercy into mayhem–before they strike again with their homemade harbinger of death.

In Berman's Confession, the second part of the Jed Berman novel series, Berman comes clean about what has driven him to pursue investigative journalism since he got in the business. As the story unfolds, Berman follows his old news director, Fred Demarco, to a job in Maine, and embeds with local Maine soldiers in Afghanistan, where he earns an assist for the shooting of a young Afghani soldier.

Behind the closed doors of San Francisco's grandest mansions, beautiful people party the nights away in a heady mix of money, drugs, drink and sex. But the rich and famous aren't the only ones with the keys to these most exclusive of addresses, someone else is intent on crashing the party. A...

Fans of Stephen King and Joe Hill that like to listen to audiobooks like The Bird Box and The Haunting and can't get enough stories about serial killers are going to enjoy listening to The Asylum Confessions. The majority of these killers are expert manipulators. I realize they could be playing me and messing with my head. It's a chance I'm willing to take. And now...they might just be playing with yours too.

PRAISE FOR CHRIS BRIDGES ‘Hugely gripping’ ABIGAIL DEAN ‘A unique new voice’ ERIN KELLY ‘Full of surprises’ LESLEY KARA –––––––––––––– She’s not there to save her friend. She’s there to silence her. When nurse Laura arrives at her old best friend’s...