Resultados para "Adam" en Suspense

As the novel opens, Lestat, having risen from the earth after a fifty-five years' sleep, and infatuated with the modern world, presents himself in all his vampire brilliance as a rock star, a superstar, a seducer of millions. And, in this blaze of adulation, daring to break the vampire oath of silence, he determines to tell his story, to rouse the generations of the living dead from their slumbers and to penetrate the riddle of his own existence.

¿Sabes qué esconden tus vecinos en el sótano? En una casa de un barrio adinerado de la ciudad de Oxford, encuentran por casualidad a una mujer y un niño encerrados en un sótano, casi sin vida y sin identificar. La mujer no habla, no hay registros de desapariciones similares y el anciano propietario de la casa asegura no haberlos visto en su vida. Todo el vecindario está conmocionado. ¿Cómo ha podido suceder? El inspector Adam Fawley sabe que, bajo ese aire inocente, muchos esconden secretos. La pista la proporciona uno de sus casos del pasado, una desaparición que no llegó a resolver.

La pequeña Daisy, de ocho años, ha desaparecido durante una celebración familiar. Ninguno de los vecinos de la tranquila calle de las afueras de la ciudad ha visto nada. ¿O sí? El inspector Adam Fawley trata de no llegar a conclusiones precipitadas, pero sabe que nueve de cada diez veces, el culpable es alguien a quien la víctima conocía. Lo que significa que alguien miente. Y que la carrera contrarreloj para encontrar a Daisy ha comenzado.

Una casa arde en Oxford... y sus cenizas ocultan una verdad terrible. Las apacibles calles de Oxford se encuentran en plenas celebraciones navideñas, cuando un incendio irrumpe en la oscuridad de la noche. Los bomberos se afanan en apagarlo y logran localizar a dos niños. Pero todos se preguntan dónde están los padres, y más aún cuando se confirma que el incendio fue provocado.

The rock star known as Vampire Lestat, worshipped by millions of spellbound fans, prepares for a concert in San Francisco. Among the audience—pilgrims in a blind swoon of adoration—are hundreds of vampires, creatures who see Lestat as a "greedy fiend risking the secret prosperity of all his kind just to be loved and seen by mortals," fiends themselves who hate Lestat's power and who are determined to destroy him . . .

The Zombie War came unthinkably close to eradicating humanity. Max Brooks, driven by the urgency of preserving the acid-etched firsthand experiences of the survivors from those apocalyptic years, traveled across the United States of America and throughout the world, from decimated cities that once teemed with upwards of thirty million souls to the most remote and inhospitable areas of the planet. He recorded the testimony of men, women, and sometimes children who came face-to-face with the living - or at least the undead - hell of that dreadful time.

P.D. James und ihren Ermittler Adam Dalgliesh gibt es bei AUDIOBUCH nun im spannend-unterhaltsamen Dreierpack. In »Ein Spiel zu viel« wird auf Martingale Manor die Leiche des Hausmädchens Sally Jupp gefunden. Was hat es damit auf sich? In »Eine Seele von Mörder« wird ebenfalls eine Frauenleiche entdeckt, mit einem Meißel im Herzen, in einer vornehmen Nervenklinik. Diese stellt sich bald als Intrigennest heraus, das Dalgliesh einige Rätsel aufgibt. In »Ein unverhofftes Geständnis« freut sich Dalgliesh auf eine verdiente Pause.

Una amistad rota. Un secreto peligroso. una verdad que nadie quiere enfrentar Cuando Maddie desaparece sin dejar rastro, Jo tiene la sospecha de que algo terrible ha ocurrido. Ellas eran mejores amigas, hasta que se filtraron fotos íntimas de Jo y todos sus compañeros, incluida Maddie, le...

Eine brutale Mordserie erschüttert die Stadt. Was hat Frendo der Clown damit zu tun? Quinn und ihr Vater ziehen in die verschlafene Kleinstadt Kettle Springs. Ein Neustart für beide. Doch sie finden nicht das erhoffte Idyll. Immer mehr Einwohner flüchten aus der Stadt, in der ein stiller Krieg tobt: Alt gegen Jung, Tradition gegen den Fortschritt.

For crime reporter Syeeda McKay, obsession is part of the job—and no story has ever consumed her like that of the Phantom Slayer. This serial killer has targeted sex workers in South Los Angeles for nearly twenty years. She named him. She’s tracked him. And only she can bring justice to these victims the city has ignored.

Across London, hospital patients are dying - in shockingly unnatural circumstances. A sadistic young woman is targeting them as they lie helpless in their beds, eking out every last sensation of pain as their lives ebb to an excruciating close. The killer is a sadist, but careful too, so the police bring in forensic psychologist Dr. Alex Madison to track down what is clearly an extraordinary and damaged mind.

Adam is finishing up his last year of university with his four closest friends which includes his long-term girlfriend Mackenzie Ferrell. He enjoys life in every moment knowing he has his family, friends, and future career in business all lined up. Everything begins to unravel after the group of friends take a final spring break trip to Cancun. Adam is left questioning his family’s history, and the stability of his relationship with his friends and girlfriend.

Cynthia Burrows thought she'd built the perfect life—successful law career, loving husband, beautiful daughter. But when 18-year-old Tori vanishes without a trace, Cynthia's carefully constructed world begins to crumble. The school says Tori was excused by family. Security footage shows her leaving with an older man. And the boy she was supposed to date? His name sends chills down Cynthia's spine—Alexander Beaufort.

Since his father’s death, Adam Roussos, a preeminent sexologist and expert in religion, hasn’t set foot on Greek soil. But when archeologist friend Aquiles Vangelis urges him to come to Athens to witness a radical discovery - one that threatens to bring Christianity to its knees - it’s a siren song he can’t resist. When Adam arrives, Aquiles’s daughter, the Hellenistic beauty Alexia, reveals that her father has vanished.

Gillian Roberts’ witty, literate Amanda Pepper mysteries are irresistible. Following the adventures of Philadelphia’s finest English teacher/detective, the books crackle with humor and suspense.

Tribulation is a twisted mystery about an end-of-days religious cult manipulating space and traveling across planes of existence on electricity and radio signals. Cult members willingly accept seven brutal years of torture, known as their “tribulation,” to atone for their earthly sins and come out on the other side saved (or thoroughly brainwashed?). The hero of this thriller, Stacy Carlson, must uncover the mystery of the Tribulation cult after her husband Greg is kidnapped by its leader, Brother Elijah (Josh Charles), through a bizarre AM radio broadcast.

Hot shot Private Investigator Cole Ustick couldn't care less about politics. However, his boss thrusts Ustick into the world of Idaho politics by assigning him the case of gubernatorial candidate Ignacio Hernandez. Hernandez wants to find the women behind thinly sourced allegations of sexual misconduct against him that appeared in the state's largest newspaper.

Thirty years ago, seven-year-old Mitch Walker was left for dead in the woods while his five-year-old sister Sarah was abducted. Now, circumstances pull him back to the place where Sarah vanished. He finds evidence linking his sister to a number of girls whose disappearances remain a mystery and has to face the fact that she may have been a victim of a serial killer known as the Blackden Edge Murderer. Elly Cooper, ex-journalist and best-selling author, has been tasked by her agent to investigate the disappearances for a new book. She needs to find out if the rumoured Blackden Edge Murderer is more than just a local legend.

Fifteen years ago, NYPD officer Joseph McSwain was gunned down while trying to stop a robbery. His murder was never solved. Until now. For his son, Hell's Kitchen private detective Jimmy McSwain, his father's death has defined him, defied him, and denied him his chance at happiness. But the shooting death of a young officer named Denson Luke has reignited the investigation into the mysterious Blue Death conspiracy. Jimmy still must earn a living, so he cannot ignore a family in distress. New neighbors Carmen Ramirez and her young son, Sonny, are clearly running from danger. 

The Dark Descent tells the story of David and Rachel, two adventurous cave divers drawn to a mysterious underwater cave system off the coast of California. But as they plunge deeper into the uncharted depths, the line between discovery and danger begins to blur, pushing their survival to the limit. With dwindling resources and no clear way back, David and Rachel must rely on their training, resilience, and unshakable bond to escape before time runs out.