Resultados para "Alice" en Thriller criminal

Roach would rather be listening to the latest episode of her favorite true crime podcast than assisting the boring and predictable customers at her local branch of the bookstore Spines, where she's worked her entire adult life. A serious true crime junkie, Roach looks down her nose at the pumpkin-spice-latte-drinking casual fans who only became interested in the genre once it got trendy. But when Laura, a pretty and charismatic children's bookseller, arrives to help rejuvenate the struggling bookstore branch, Roach recognizes in her an unexpected kindred spirit.

Emma Galway’s suicide has haunted the Meredith Island for fifty years. Back on the island to lay her grandmother to rest, Kate can’t avoid reflecting on the death of her aunt. Learning that her late mother had believed Emma was murdered and had conducted her own investigation, she decides to track down her aunt’s killer. With the help of her neighbour, impetuous and hedonistic sculptor Siobhan Fitzgerald, Kate picks up where her mother had left off.

Alice Ingold has been kidnapped. Call the police. Alert the media. You can’t play this game without all the pieces. Beautiful, blond, and immensely privileged, Alice Ingold is the perfect victim for a true-crime obsessed culture—and for a masked duo with a singular purpose. Instead of a demand for ransom, her captors have a riddle, and they’re inviting the entire country to solve it.

Albtraum Juist – In dieser Klinik ist nichts so, wie es scheint... Der spannende Küsten-Thriller mit Gänsehautgarantie. Ohne Job, frisch getrennt und seelisch am Ende scheint die Dunenburg-Klinik auf der Insel Juist für Journalistin Ella Brandt die letzte Rettung zu sein. Doch hinter den Fassaden der Klinik geht etwas Unheilvolles vor sich. Gerade als Ella beginnt sich auf die Therapie einzulassen, wird eine Patientin tot aufgefunden: Selbstmord. Als eine weitere Patientin in der Nordsee ertrinkt, kommen Ella immer mehr Zweifel, ob in der Klinik alles mit rechten Dingen zugeht.

The remote town of Oriska, New York, hasn't been home for Sydney Lucerno for 13 years. She's escaped the creeping addictions and long-simmering anger that are as much a part of the landscape as the bitter cold. But when she gets the call that her mother is dying, every secret and fear she left behind is waiting to welcome her back. 

La presidenta de la Generalitat Valenciana, Vita Castellá, aparece muerta en la habitación de un lujoso hotel de Madrid. La comprometida situación exige que quede oficialmente descartado un posible asesinato y que la investigación encalle, de manera que el partido en el poder, al que la víctima pertenece, ha activado todos los recursos. El jefe de la policía de la Comunitat Valenciana decide ayudar al ministro del Interior y al director de la Policía Nacional, Juan Quesada Montilla, en su misión: despistar a las autoridades.

Be careful what you dream...when murder is on your mind. Sixteen-year-old Alice is a ghost. Although born blind, the world is more blind to her than she is to it. Until the day she's noticed. By a bully. She did what any girl would do...and wished him dead. When a body is discovered, Alice fears the worst. Could she be to blame? No one would believe her even if she confessed. Because nightmares don't come true...do they?

A vigilante killer lurks in the shadows of Paris. Nine victims have met their fate and the killer hasn’t left a trace. After working the case for 10 months, the French police still have no leads. And now they’re counting on me. I’m Detective Alice Bergman, and it’s my job to close this case using my “special” ability. But I’ve already hit a snag. Nothing happened when I touched the body! Why didn’t it work, and what does it mean? Now, I must catch this killer the old-fashioned way. Can I find a clue or pattern to stop this killer, or will I become the next victim?

Callum is lured to an isolated boathouse by an attractive older woman. When she gets him alone, she knocks him out with a single blow. Surrounded by hills and lakes, Still Waters is home to a close-knit community of wealthy retirees. It's an unlikely setting for violence. The police don't take Callum's disappearance seriously: he's 24-years-old, after all. But Callum's mother, a Still Waters resident, knows that something is very wrong. Then a body is discovered floating in the lake. Head bashed in. But it's not Callum. And someone tweets: Come out to play one last time, Alice. 

Natale in Scozia, il periodo dell’anno che esalta la bellezza di questa terra selvaggia, punteggiata di distillerie di whisky e di guglie e castelli che ne fanno il tripudio del gotico. Ma i sussulti di un indipendentismo che ha origini antiche scuotono la struttura portante del Regno Unito, con il rischio di un referendum che rappresenterebbe un pericoloso precedente. Allie Burns, giovane reporter del Clarion, un quotidiano di Glasgow, sta tornando a casa in treno dopo le vacanze quando si imbatte in qualcosa di inaspettato: un parto in una carrozza.

Brought to you by Penguin. Alice Teale is missing. In a town full of secrets, hers was the biggest. The gripping new thriller from the bestselling author of The Chosen Ones. As usual, seventeen-year-old Alice Teale walked out of school at the end of a bright spring day. She's not been seen since...

Adam Wright ist Drehbuchautor, ein Workaholic. Und er ist gesichtsblind, kann weder Freunde noch Familie erkennen. Nicht einmal seine eigene Frau. Amelia Wright ist Einzelgängerin. Sie arbeitet mit ausgesetzten Tieren und fühlt sich von ihrem Mann nicht wahrgenommen. Hat ihre Ehe überhaupt noch einen Sinn?Jedes Jahr an ihrem Hochzeitstag schreibt seine Frau Adam einen Brief. Und behält ihn für sich. Bis zu diesem Jahr.

Best friends Gia Santiago and Amanda Hendrix set out to start their new careers. Amanda moves to Chicago to work as a newspaper reporter while Gia begins her training at the Miami Police Academy. Gia’s life begins to collapse when Alexie Lee, her non-binary commanding officer, pushes her to the brink of disaster. Amanda’s life goes from fantastic to frantic when Isaac Johnson, a deranged Lucifer-loving lunatic, stalks her every move.

Alicia's life takes a hairpin turn after a fateful encounter with a man harboring a mysterious past. Her once-ordinary existence spirals into chaos, haunted by the shadows of a missing sibling, the web of international espionage, and spine-chilling rumors of genetic experiments that threaten humanity itself.

Pioneering scientist Iris Henderson chose to be her own first test-subject for an experimental therapy, placing a piece of technology into her brain. At least, this is what everyone tells her. Trouble is, Iris is now without her memories so she doesn't know what the therapy is or why she would ever decide to volunteer for it.

A search & rescue expert. A kidnapped woman. The lost girls who haunt them both. "Veteran narrator [Karissa] Vacker performs the novel skillfully.... Her soothing voice, clarity, and intonation draw the listener into the story, while her convincing performance of Theo will hold their attention...

2025 ITW (International Thriller Writers) Thriller Award winner for Best Audiobook! "Vacker's narration keeps listeners on their toes throughout this twisty story of corrupt officials, sociopathic relatives, and dark family secrets. Vacker's character work captures the shifting nature of Emma's...

On a rainy afternoon, Beth Haldane accompanies her elderly mother, Wendy, to the funeral of her boyfriend and local councilor Len. But as they gather in the church, Beth can’t help but notice how many women are there who look just like her mother.

Sometimes bad things happen to good people, so good people have to do bad things . . . 'An author you need to check out' - Harlan Coben, author of I Will Find You From the author of His and Hers, now a major TV series produced by Jessica Chastain. The Queen of Twists, bestselling author of Daisy...

Beth Haldane is worried. First, her dear friend and fellow single mother Jen suddenly gets married to a new man who seems too perfect to be true, then she moves out of leafy Dulwich Village—and now seems to have disappeared without a trace. Beth knows Jen would never leave her little daughter to handle playground predicaments or her sneaky stepmother alone. Heading to Jen’s new home for answers, Beth’s knocks on the front door go unanswered. Police are convinced the lovebirds are on an extended honeymoon, but Beth suspects Jen’s new husband is up to no good.