Resultados para "Dämonen" en Policíaca, negra y suspense

Das Alraunengeschöpf Hekate hat Dorian Hunter in einen magischen Schlaf versetzt. Aus seinen Aufzeichnungen geht hervor, dass er in seinem dritten Leben als Georg Rudolf Speyer nach Wittenberg gefahren ist, um Alraune vor dem heimtückischen Dämon Mephistopheles zu retten. Kurz nach seiner Ankunft in Wittenberg soll sich nicht nur Alraunes Schicksal entscheiden – sondern auch das von Georgs altem Mentor Dr. Faust ...

La humanidad lo ha conseguido. Después de décadas de esfuerzo, se ha logrado contactar con seres de otros planetas. Parece que se abre un nuevo horizonte para la raza humana... y sin embargo, algo siniestro y desconocido aguarda en lo más profundo del espacio exterior. Algo de lo que, quizá, la Tierra no salga indemne. El éxito indiscutible de Carter Damon, el libro que lo colocó en el olimpo de los escritores de thriller de ciencia ficción contemporáneo. Imperdible.

Jäger, uno de los terroristas más peligrosos de la Tierra, ha llegado a la ciudad lunar de Ilarki con el propósito de destruirla. Por suerte, ha sido aprendido y ahora cumple condena en prisión. Por lo menos su cuerpo está en la cárcel, su mente ha conseguido huir y eso es lo único que necesita para cumplir con sus planes. Seb Damon, tras salir airoso de su primer caso, deberá enfrentarse a esta extraña caza del terrorista. Para ello, contará con la ayuda de Kurt y Bianca, pero también con su nuevo ayudante y un policía enviado desde la Tierra para atrapar a Jäger.

En el mundo del futuro, la tecnología blockchain ha eliminado el crimen y la inseguridad. Sin embargo, todo tiene un precio, y hay quien no está dispuesto a pagarlo. En Liberium, una colonia salvaje lejos del mundo tecnológico dominado por blockchain, viven hombres y mujeres libres que intentan sobrevivir en un mundo inhóspito. Sin embargo, el mundo de blockchain no se lo permitirá por mucho tiempo.

La novela negra y la ciencia ficción se unen a la perfección en una aventura trepidante digna del cine negro que promete enganchar desde el primer minuto. 2048 en Ilarki, ciudad subterránea de la Luna. Una niña ha sido brutalmente asesinada y la policía se ha quedado sin pistas. Cansados de esperar respuestas que no llegan los familiares deseperados de la victima contratan a Seb Damon, un detective privado novato que acaba de salir de la cárcel tras ser expulsado de la policía. El caso le llevará a adentrarse en un mundo oscuro, lleno de violencia donde conocerá lo más oscuro de la raza humana.

Una serie de brutales asesinatos conmociona a Estados Unidos entero. Todas las víctimas están vinculadas a Lycoon Industries, un imperio tecnológico que avanza a pasos de gigante en la investigación de la inteligencia artificial. Para descubrir al culpable, el FBI contará con la ayuda de Edward Cooper, experto en el tema. Solo hay un pequeño inconveniente: Cooper es el principal sospechoso. Un adictivo thriller tecnológico que serás incapaz de dejar hasta el sorprendente final.

They were madly in love. The perfect couple. That was the story everyone in South River believed...until Gin Talcott and Adam Archer are found shot in their bed. Adam is dead at the scene. Gin is fighting for her life. Detectives Greta Jessup and Finn Pate are assigned to the case. Greta has a long history with Gin’s first husband, Eddie, and is determined to protect his 18-year-old twins. Piper discovered the bodies. Daniel is missing—and so is Adam’s gun.

All I had to do was give him a baby and move on. Being their surrogate was meant to be a simple answer to my mounting problems. With no family, ever-increasing debt, and pressures to stay afloat, I needed a solution. This was supposed to be it. Then it happened. Everything changed. I fell in love with a widower while he mourned his wife. I fell in love with the baby in my belly. For the first time in my life, I knew what I wanted beyond a career as a lawyer.

Strange occurrences stir up a sleepy town in Louisiana. Amanda, the bookworm bachelorette, finds an ancient tome in the thrift shop. A novel? A biography? Hard to even describe it, but she is drawn to it, like it was a magnet, and finds it harder and harder to distinguish the reality of the book from her own. Meanwhile, a dark couple appears, jacking up the quiet streets of the University town. They are free and unstoppable, with their tattoos emitting an unearthly purple glow.

Damon Runyon was a newspaperman and writer. He was best known for his short stories celebrating the world of New York City's Broadway that grew out of the Prohibition era. He created a little world of characters that live on even today in such classic movies as Little Miss Marker and Guys and Dolls, both based on Runyon's stories. Actor Alan Ladd's Mayfair Productions brought Runyon's short stories to radio in the early 1950s.

In New Mexico häufen sich Fälle, in denen Leichen auf eigenartige Weise verändert aufgefunden Wurden. County-Sheriff Mike Potter ist einem Dämon auf der Spur.

Some people amass artwork. For others, it's stamps. But why would you want to collect the possessions of a serial killer?

Als Dr. Watson dem Begräbnis eines Kollegen beiwohnt, wird er von einem Fremden angesprochen, der sich als Anwalt Gabriel Utterson vorstellt. Dieser bittet ihn und Sherlock Holmes um Hilfe in einer seltsamen Angelegenheit: Sein Freund und Klient, Dr. Henry Jekyll, steht offenbar unter dem verderblichen Einfluss eines gewissen Edward Hyde, der zudem für den Mord an einem Parlamentsabgeordneten verantwortlich sein dürfte.

Tom, App-Entwickler und selbsternannter Nerd, versucht, seine Wahrnehmung mit Tabletten zu kontrollieren. Was als alltägliche Büroszene beginnt, verwandelt sich in einen Strudel aus Wahn, Schatten und flüsternder Finsternis. Bald ist nicht mehr klar, ob er Opfer seiner Psychose ist oder Zeuge eines grauenvollen Erwachens.

An illegal homeless camp, an unscrupulous criminal element, and a furious neighborhood— a recipe for tragedy. Camp Faith squats in the path of the new freeway. The sprawling, makeshift encampment is unsightly and unsanitary, but its occupants have nowhere else to go. These are society’s castoffs, made up of the homeless, the addicted, and the mentally unstable. Outreach groups are eager to help, but the local community wants the interlopers removed. Anger runs high on both sides of the issue, and the political pressure for a resolution is enormous.

When two strangers find themselves sitting next to each other on a cross-country flight, neither realize that the identities of their seat mate aren’t exactly what they are saying. In a taut and tension-filled thriller, a cat and mouse game ensues with each person trying to stay one step ahead of the other until there comes a final, inevitable showdown and all is revealed. A perfect vacation listen that is a pause-resister from beginning to end. The Audible version is a masterpiece voiced by British actress Poppy Damon.

Mike Murphy is the new cop in town. He makes me crazy in all the right ways. So crazy that I lose my filter around him, not to mention my ability to function like a normal person. The attraction between us is undeniable and something we can't ignore. But there's a secret that threatens to come between us. When we uncover more than we should, things become dangerous. Will we be able to walk away, or will the quest to find the truth be too tempting?

Essence® best-selling authors Kiki Swinson and De’nesha Diamond are two rising stars in the world of urban fiction. Heist presents two novellas starring young women hustling their way to the top of the game through daring robbery schemes. In Swinson’s The Ultimate Heist, pampered Shannon Marshall is accustomed to a big-money lifestyle. Her world is shattered, however, when her man is thrown into prison for gun running.

Some call it murder. Others, karma. The female vigilantes dubbed The Black Wigs call it justice. The victims? Sexual predators who never paid for their sins. For three months, The Black Wigs byline has belonged to Sawyer Brooks, a crime reporter still struggling with her own demons. Now copycat vigilantes are cornering the unchecked abusers of Sacramento and uploading the men’s abject fear to social media. The trending insanity isn’t making Sawyer’s job any easier. Neither is a new murder - another predator, but one who doesn’t fit so neatly into The Black Wigs’ agenda.

Sharp-suited sharpies, slick-talking slicksters, high-rolling gamblers, and habitués of the racetrack - they're all here, and it's all in fun! Straight from the imagination of the legendary Broadway raconteur Damon Runyon, here is another rollicking collection of stories about bets and debts, lovers and losers, con men and wise guys.