Resultados para "Bushido" en Suspense

She senses their twisted desires before she meets them. It's as if fate is helping her stop these monsters from preying on others the way she was preyed upon. And after she has delivered brutal justice, she'll let the whole world see their guilt.

Vietnam veteran Max Donovan is in Bangkok, and very hungover, when his friend “Fat” Freddie Fields is arrested in San Francisco for the murder of an Australian diplomat. He knows his old buddy would never hurt a fly, so he rushes back to the Bay Area to help. There he locks horns with the District Attorney who seems intent on pursuing the case. Suspecting Freddie is being framed, Donovan tries to rustle up some cash to bail him out, but only succeeds in getting into trouble with the local mob. He’ll have to solve the case on his own.

When Liv Dugan ducks out of work for lunch, it's just an ordinary day. When she returns, she stumbles onto a massacre. All her colleagues at Zuma Software have been shot. Only luck has left Liv unscathed, and that might be running out....

Twin sisters Cassie and Lenora are inseparable. Ever since that night, they’ve been on their own, and that’s how they like it. As the sole permanent residents of Cabin Two, their refuge on an isolated Tennessee campground, the twins manage to stay away from prying eyes, probing questions, and true-crime junkies. The peace and quiet is almost enough to make them forget what happened all those years ago. Almost. Until a teenage girl camping at the neighboring cabin goes missing, and the memories come rushing back.

Robbery Under Arms, together with Marcus Clarke’s For the Term of His Natural Life, is considered to be one of the seminal Australian novels of the nineteenth century. It is a barnstorming yarn, delivered in the first person by one Dick Marston, a vigorous and basically honourable young man, who is lured into crime due to unfavourable circumstances.

After years of financial turmoil, in the quaint suburbs of London, Adam and Kat Chapman find themselves embarking upon a seemingly perfect life. Adam secures a highly-paid job at Liam and Imogen's prestigious new company, while their son revels in the lavish attention showered upon him. But beneath the facade of friendship and success lies a dangerous game of manipulation and deceit. When Adam succumbs to a moment of weakness, he unwittingly becomes ensnared in a web of blackmail and illegal schemes.

Since being taken from his home by his mother in the middle of the night, fighting for survival is all Antonias Lambrianu has ever known. He soon learns that money is power and sets his sights on what he sees as a better future. When his past finally catches up with him, it unexpectedly opens up new opportunities, but new threats come hand in hand with them. Antonias is determined that he will emerge triumphant, but there’s jeopardy everywhere and the stakes are high. Everyone, it seems, is playing dangerous games...Antonias most of all.

Murders are taking places in Maine, but why and who is doing all this? Detectives are on the run, and they will figure it out in no time. In the meantime, Ben is going through a blind study and searching for his disappearing girlfriend.

The branding iron glows in the moonlight as he presses the searing metal into his victim's flesh. She must wear the devil's sign, just like the others. He knows the curse that afflicts them - and he'll make sure they carry it to their graves....

Vor der Post in Oregon wird die nackte Leiche des Postboten gefunden. Um seinen Hals trägt er ein Schild mit den Worten "Ich muss für das bezahlen, was ich getan habe". Wenig später taucht ein weiterer nackter Mann auf, gefesselt, vor einer Grundschule. "Ich will, was ich nicht haben kann" steht auf dem Schild um seinen Hals. Dabei handelt es sich ausgerechnet um den Stiefbruder von Detective September Rafferty.

"Was sie zuvor mit mir getan, das tu ich jetzt den andern an" ritzt er ihnen in die nackte Haut, nachdem er sie vergewaltigt und stranguliert hat. Seine Opfer sind alle jung, hübsch, brünett - genau wie die eine, auf die er es abgesehen hat: Detective September Rafferty vom Laurelton Police Department, Oregon. Ihr schickt er eine ihrer Kinderzeichnungen, auf die er in blutroten Buchstaben seine tödliche Nachricht kritzelt. September versteht sofort, dass sie den Serienmörder offenbar aus Kindertagen kennt und er hinter ihr her ist - doch warum?

Weil sie verspätet aus der Mittagspause zurückkehrt, entgeht Liv um Haaresbreite einem Massaker an ihrem Arbeitsplatz. Doch galt der Anschlag wirklich der Firma, die Gerüchten zufolge für das US-Militär arbeitet? Liv befürchtet, dass sie das eigentliche Opfer hätte sein sollen. Sie vermutet einen Zusammenhang mit dem mysteriösen Päckchen, das sie vor wenigen Tagen aus dem Nachlass ihrer Adoptivmutter erhalten hat. In Panik kidnappt Liv den nächstbesten Wagen samt Fahrer. Dabei handelt es sich ausgerechnet um den Undercover-Detective August Rafferty.

Callie Cantrell has only fragmented memories of the car accident that killed her husband and son. One year later, she's still trying to start over, yet she can't shake her unease. Especially when former LA cop West Laughlin barges into her life, searching for his young nephew. At first he thinks Callie's lying about who she is and what she knows. But soon it's clear that Callie and West are linked by a killer who has bent others to his twisted will. The worst night of Callie's life was just the beginning of his vengeance. And when her turn comes again there will be no escape...

It's the ultimate test of strategy and skill. The killer chooses each opponent carefully, learning each one's weaknesses. Every meticulously planned move is leading to a devastating checkmate. Because in this game, all the pretty pawns must die.

In the photograph, three teenaged girls splash in the lake on a sweltering summer evening. Shiloh, Kat, and Ruth are unaware of the man who spies on them from the woods. They have no idea how their lives will be changed by the brutal violence that follows - and the vow of secrecy they take. Fifteen years later, Ruth and Shiloh have both returned to Prairie Creek, Wyoming, where Kat is deputy sheriff. Though they've tried to leave their shared past behind, each has the feeling that someone is lurking in the shadows.

Five Hundred Feet Above Alaska is the story of Peter Connors, a young man who moves to Alaska in pursuit of his dream of becoming a commercial pilot. While the pilots in Alaska are known for their superior airmanship, they are also famous for their disregard of the rules that govern them. Determined to ultimately be an airline pilot in “the lower forty-eight,” Peter vows to walk the straight and narrow. Yet, when Peter is the only pilot available to rescue a comrade who crashed in the snow-covered tundra, he is forced to compromise the very ethics that define him.