Resultados para "August" en Suspense

The day that Stephanie and Doyle meet, circumstances fight against romance. She thinks him rude, crude, and bossy, and while he loves her long legs, he thinks she seems snobbish and cold. However, he feels she has interesting possibilities, and she thinks he is a sexy hunk. How important are first impressions?

Robin è uno stravagante "agente segreto di una grande potenza europea" che, in missione ad Alessandria d'Egitto, si ritroverà coinvolto in rocambolesche situazioni. Sbruffone e autoironico, accompagna il lettore fra riflessioni filosofiche e siparietti comici.

A De Vincenzi non era mai capitato nulla di simile. Da sette ore stava interrogando quell'uomo. Sette ore di un interrogatorio serrato e martoriante, come l'anello d'una garrotta. Ogni quarto d'ora lui dava una girata alla vite, l'anello si stringeva e l'uomo boccheggiava. Ma non sapeva dir altro che: "Perché l'avrei uccisa?". Sospettato dell'omicidio della sua amante, il russo Ivan Kiergine, viene interrogato da De Vincenzi per ore. A Sanremo viene rinvenuto sulla spiaggia un canotto con una pozza di sangue, una borsetta con la cerniera di rubini, un impermeabile rosso.

When award-winning journalist Caitlin Bergman is invited back to campus to receive an honorary degree, she finds an opportunity for a well-earned victory lap - and a chance to face the trauma that almost destroyed her as an undergrad. But her lap becomes an all-out race when a student begs her to probe an unsolved campus disappearance: Angela Chapman went out one Friday night and never came back. 

É com palavras assim que Neil Gaiman apresenta Alerta de risco, uma rica coletânea de histórias de terror e de fantasmas, ficção científica e conto de fadas, fábula e poesia que exploram o poder da imaginação.

Brutale Kidnapper haben den jungen Billy Gruber entführt. Doch die Geisel macht den Gangstern das Leben zur Hölle. Genauso die Polizei. Die setzt ausgerechnet den korruptesten und verschlagensten Bullen im ganzen Bundesstaat in Marsch. Und der hat ganz eigene Ziele.

South of Market, das Schmuddelviertel von San Francisco, ist das Revier von Glückritter Rick. Ein gefährlicher Ort, aber der smarte Einzelgänger kommt zurecht. Bis er den alten Saufbold Kiely trifft, der ein dunkel Geheimnis im Schlepptau hat. Es entbrennt eine gnadenlose Gangsterjagd - und Rick lernt schnell: Niemand ist seines Lebens sicher.

A very hot day finds strange predictions of the future starting to come true.

El Gentleman espera la llegada del jueves. El resto de la semana su existencia solitaria y miserable le empuja a recordar un pasado mejor y se sume en la nostalgia. Sin embargo, los jueves queda con Olga, una joven prostituta que despliega sus encantos de saldo en la calle Montera. Pero al viejo no le interesa el sexo.

At 32 years old, acclaimed architect, Grant Nash had it all. He was living the American dream: a beautiful wife and child, a gorgeous home, a booming business and great friends. And then...in two point eight seconds...his entire life shattered into small pieces before his eyes. All that remained of his once fairy tale life was his fading faith, fractured heart, psychic dog, Charley and the painful, lingering question of...what now?

Florence, summer 1963. Inspector Bordelli is one of the few policemen left in the deserted city. He spends his days on routine work and his nights tormented by the heat and mosquitoes. Suddenly one night, a telephone call gives him a new sense of purpose: the suspected death of a wealthy signora. Bordelli rushes to her hilltop villa and picks the locks. The old woman is lying on her bed - apparently killed by an asthma attack, though her medicine has been left untouched.

“Laura Lippman’s stories aren’t just mysteries; they are deeply moving explorations of the human heart. She is quite simply one of the best crime novelists writing today.” —Tess Gerritsen, author of The Mephisto Club Already praised as “a writing powerhouse” (USA Today) and...

In Son of Holmes, John Lescroart introduced Auguste Lupa, reputed son of the greatest detective of all time... and possessor of a brilliant deductive mind in his own right. Now, in Rasputin’s Revenge, Lupa is summoned to the court of the Russian Czar - where, with a bit of unexpected assistance from none other than Holmes and Watson, he untangles a chilling plot that holds the Winter Palace in a lethal grip....

The Wrong Samantha is a novel about a case of mistaken identity that leads down a dark and dangerous path. Listeners will witness the haunting emotions of the main character as she lives through a corrupt system that completely eradicates her hope for survival.

In this brilliant debut thriller, reminiscent of the works of John le Carre and Olen Steinhauer and infused with the authenticity of the author’s travels, a young American State Department intern based in Turkey becomes “the woman who knows too much” and is marked for death. Penny Kessler...

In this brilliant debut thriller, set in the US embassy in Turkey, one young woman finds herself at the centre of a deadly plot and marked for death ... An intelligent, fast-paced spy novel for fans of Olen Steinhauser and Joseph Kanon. SHE IS THE WOMAN WHO KNOWS TOO MUCH ... Penny Kessler, a...

FBI Special Agent Kim Otto finally caught a break in the hunt for Jack Reacher. When she discovers a fresh lead in Reacher’s old banking records, she’s propelled to the sun-bleached streets of Key West.

FBI Special Agent Kim Otto picks up where Lee Child leaves off in the hunt for Jack Reacher.

A desperate mother implores Michael Flint to do what she can’t: save her son’s life. Flint wants to help and using his unique resources uncovers a long-buried secret. Six years ago, Josh Hallman piloted a plane that crashed into an alpine lake and plunged too deep into the icy water for rescue. All three men aboard were presumed dead. But Hallman’s body was never found. Could he still be alive? In a race against time to save a child’s life, the best heir hunter in the business is determined to find the boy’s father before it’s too late.

Michael Flint promises he can find anyone, anytime, anywhere–dead or alive. Now he’s forced to prove it. More than $50 million in mineral royalties are up for grabs. The legal heir has disappeared. Two Texas oil barons who will stop at nothing to win their bitter rivalry desperately need to locate her before it’s too late. In a hunt stretching from dusty, hot West Texas to snowy Saskatchewan, Flint finds himself caught in the crossfire between dueling tycoons and greedy mercenaries out for their own piece of the pie.