Resultados para "Families" en Policíaca, negra y suspense

Flora, una solitaria mujer envuelta en un halo de misterio, vive retirada en La Casa de las Amapolas, un lugar idílico pero apartado de todo en plena sierra de Albarracín. Tras la desaparición de su hija, Aurora, y de la amiga de esta, Blanca, Flora dejó atrás todo su mundo: su hijo Dani, su marido y el trabajo, y se trasladó allí. Eso fue hace más de veinte años. Nunca más se supo de las chicas desaparecidas y ambas familias quedaron destrozadas. La Casa de las Amapolas se convirtió entonces en el refugio donde intentar cicatrizar sus heridas.

María es profesora universitaria en Castellón y una mujer independiente, libre, que se embarca en un viaje a Colombia tras recibir la llamada de su amiga de la infancia, Carmen, una monja oblata que trabaja en un centro en las afueras de Bogotá donde acogen a niños huérfanos o abandonados que han llegado allí tras vivir infancias muy duras. En su visita al centro María conecta de una manera muy intensa con Ava, una niñita que decide adoptar y con la que regresará a España.

Hernández Detectives. Una peculiar agencia de detectives cuya única regla es que la familia no se investiga. La agencia de detectives de Mateo Hernández tiene su sede en una céntrica calle del popular barrio barcelonés de Sant Andreu. Allí, junto a Mateo, trabajan sus hijos Marc y Amalia, y un asistente, Ayala, encargado de los trabajos más sucios. A veces, además, colabora de una forma peculiar Lola, la mujer de Mateo, cuyas intuiciones sobre los casos suelen ser desconcertantemente certeras. Hasta hace unos meses también formaba parte del equipo Nora, la hija mayor del matrimonio, pero en la actualidad se encuentra en paradero desconocido.

Entras en la habitación de tu hijo. El caos habitual. Recoges restos de comida, ropa desperdigada, abres el armario para ponerlo todo en su sitio... y lo ves. Y entonces te das cuenta de una horrible verdad: tu propio hijo puede ser un peligro. Stephanie Maddox dirige el departamento de Asuntos Internos del FBI, donde supervisa que todos sus compañeros cumplan las reglas. Llegar hasta aquí le ha costado casi dos décadas de trabajo duro y sacrificios personales, como la relación con su hijo adolescente, Zachary, que espera con nervios su admisión a la universidad.

Cuando no sabes a quién recurrir. Tras abandonar Madrid, Luisa siente que en su vida solo hay rutina y soledad hasta que se queda embarazada. Será entonces, cuando piense en ello como una oportunidad para recuperar a su marido, quien pasa largas jornadas fuera de casa, y su vida. Pero nada transcurre como pensaba, y eso la lleva a contratar a una doula: Dana.

" Amigo mío, ha pasado casi un mes desde mi regreso y este es el primer momento que encuentro para sentarme a escribirte unas líneas. Eso sí, te he pensado todos los días". 1981. Fernando viaja desde La Habana a Berlín Oriental en plena Guerra Fría y anota cada experiencia en un diario...

Genovese, Gambino, Bonnano, Colombo, and Lucchese. For decades these Five Families ruled New York and built the American Mafia (or Cosa Nostra) into an underworld empire. Today, the Mafia is an endangered species, battered and beleaguered by aggressive investigators, incompetent leadership, betrayals, and generational changes that produced violent, unreliable leaders and recruits.

In the course of her new job as legal assistant for Attorney Ross Cavendish, Brenna is given an antique telephone as a thank you from the daughter of a client for helping her sort through her father's estate after his sudden accidental death. But it turns out there's more to the old phone than its cool vintage quality. To Brenna's surprise, it rings without warning, and a cryptic message leads Brenna to wonder if the man's death really was an accident. But if it wasn't, then that means there's a killer close by.

Rare-book dealer Ashlyn Greer’s affinity for books extends beyond the intoxicating scent of old paper, ink, and leather. She can feel the echoes of the books’ previous owners—an emotional fingerprint only she can read. When Ashlyn discovers a pair of beautifully bound volumes that appear to have never been published, her gift quickly becomes an obsession. Not only is each inscribed with a startling incrimination, but the authors, Hemi and Belle, tell conflicting sides of a tragic romance.

Die 23-jährige Madlen lebt mit ihren jüngeren Geschwistern und dem älteren Bruder Chris auf dem Bauernhof ihrer Eltern. Der Alltag ist geprägt von der Gewalt und Lieblosigkeit des alkoholabhängigen Vaters. Aus Sorge um ihre Geschwister wagt sie es nicht, von Zuhause fortzugehen. Um ihrem Martyrium zeitweise zu entfliehen, hilft sie am Wochenende in einer Bar aus. Dort lernt sie den Jungunternehmer Luis kennen und verliebt sich.

When I was little, I was obsessed with fairytales. My dad told me the stories of the stars and white knights who rescue princesses. I’d wear a silver plastic crown and stare at the sky, waiting for the day my knight in shining armor would come. Then my dad died, my crown broke, and my mom shipped my sister and me off to boarding school. And then I met them. My knights. Only they’re nothing like the fairytales I grew up on. They’re wrapped in sin and shrouded in darkness. Bossy, protective, alphaholes. And heirs to the Italian mafia.

Sometimes a unique talent is inherited - and such is the case for Trouble, son of Familiar, the black cat detective. Trouble's rather indolent life in the sleepy town of Wetumpka, Alabama is upended when a serial killer arrives on the scene. Trouble begins to apply the skills he learned from his dad and his hero, Sherlock Holmes. When local bookseller Tammy Lynn is attacked at the site of an impact crater, Trouble realizes he must protect his human and solve the mystery of the Silk Stocking Killer.

Lillian Smith leads an unexceptional life, writing obituaries and killing time with her inattentive husband and disconnected son. Then she meets David, a handsome stranger, in a coffee shop. Lured into an affair, she invents a new persona, one without strings, deadlines, or brooding husbands. Lillian has never felt so reckless, unpredictable, or wanted. But as her affair with David intensifies, she withdraws from everything that’s real, even her closest friend.

Reformed party girl Meg Ashley leads a life of privilege, thanks to a bestselling horror novel her mother wrote decades ago. But Meg knows that the glow of their very public life hides a darker reality of lies, manipulation, and the heartbreak of her own solitary childhood. Desperate to break free of her mother, Meg accepts a proposal to write a scandalous, tell-all memoir.

Althea Bell is still heartbroken by her mother’s tragic, premature death - and tormented by the last, frantic words she whispered into young Althea’s ear: Wait for her. For the honeysuckle girl. She’ll find you, I think, but if she doesn’t, you find her. Adrift ever since, Althea is now fresh out of rehab and returning to her family home in Mobile, Alabama, determined to reconnect with her estranged, ailing father.

A disgruntled bear fiance. A wanted familiar. A hairless cat named Lonnie. For Hazel Kinsey, it's just another day in Paradise Falls. When Hazel's familiar Tizzy the Squirrel fell in love with another familiar, they had no idea her furry pal would gain witch magic. Apparently, that's a big no-no for the High Familiar Clowder, the council who rules all familiars. When the Clowder shows up in Paradise Falls to decommission Tizzy and send her to the in-between, Haze defies the stick-in-the-butt jerkfaces by refusing to trade in Tiz for a new familiar.

Still reeling from the loss of Shane and with their twins due any day, Gwen is willing to ally with any force needed to put her family enemies in the ground, before they can touch her children. The strength of her vampire keepers is no use when Fannie and Lewis remain in the between, waiting to strike, and Dmitry seems resistant to helping as he is distracted with royal affairs that have him rattled.

It's hard being the youngest in a family of witches known for their power. It's even harder when that magical power has all but passed you by. Still, I was doing okay for myself. I like to think I was proving to the rest of my family that magic wasn't a requirement to living. Then Aunt Opal became the prime suspect in a murder investigation. Wouldn't you know it would happen right when everyone else in the family but me was out of town. Now it's up to me to prove her innocence, and a little magic could go a long way in helping me do that.

Psychologist and criminologist Dr. Gretchen White is a specialist in antisocial personality disorders and violent crimes. She’s helped solve enough prominent cases for detective Patrick Shaughnessy that her own history is often overlooked: Gretchen is an admitted sociopath once suspected of killing her aunt. Shaughnessy still thinks Gretchen got away with murder. It’s not going to happen again.

Als Violas neue Nachbarn in das Haus mit der Nummer 33 einziehen, scheint alles wie aus dem Bilderbuch zu sein. Doch hinter dem gepflegten Rasen und dem höflichen Lächeln lauern dunkle Geheimnisse in den Schatten. Als Viola, eine ruhige Rentnerin, dem seltsamen Verhalten der Familie nebenan auf den Grund geht, stößt sie auf ein beunruhigendes Netz von Lügen. Der Vater, Rhys, ist feindselig. Die Mutter, Wendy, scheint den Bezug zur Realität zu verlieren. Und ihre Tochter Mirabelle ist eine gelinde gesagt unheimliche Achtjährige.