Resultados para "Families" en Negra y suspense

" 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...

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.

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.

El desconocido autor Emiel Steegman inventa una excusa para cancelar la cita que tiene con unos colegas estonios: "Momentos difíciles para la familia". Una frase manida y vaga que se convierte en una idea brillante para su nueva novela, pero inesperadamente acaba haciéndose realidad cuando su hija Renée se queda dormida y no vuelve a despertar. Post Mortem es una novela tan intensa como ingeniosa, una obra que se centra en un momento dramática de la vida del propio autor, Peter Terrin...

Selv de mest perfekte familier kan gemme på de frygteligste hemmeligheder. Hvor godt kender du dem, der bor inde ved siden af ...? Man ville aldrig gætte, hvilke hemmeligheder huset på Hogarth Street gemmer på – hvad der sker i dette øjeblik bag den lukkede dør. En smaragdgrøn græsplæne. Perfekt klippede hække. En havelåge omkranset af efeu og en duft af kaprifolier. I forhaven ligger to løbehjul, et blåt, et neonpink. De tilhører et sæt 5-årige tvillinger. Men hvis man kigger nærmere efter, vil man se, at gardinerne er trukket for, selvom det er årets varmeste dag.

Since Becca Wall’s mother was diagnosed with early-onset Alzheimer’s, every day Becca loses a little more of the loving, caring mother who would do anything for her only daughter. But when one day Nancy Wall confesses that Becca is not her child, Becca's world falls apart. Becca tells herself that the words are just a cruel symptom of Nancy’s illness; after all, she has her birth certificate, and pictures of herself as a newborn along with her Mom, Dad and older brother, Danny.

After the loss of her mother and her own battle with breast cancer, Joanna Teale returns to her graduate research on nesting birds in rural Illinois, determined to prove that her recent hardships have not broken her. She throws herself into her work from dusk to dawn, until her solitary routine is disrupted by the appearance of a mysterious child who shows up at her cabin barefoot and covered in bruises. The girl calls herself Ursa, and she claims to have been sent from the stars to witness five miracles.

Lifestyle journalist Ella Skye remembers every celebrity she interviewed, every politician she charmed, and every socialite who eyed her with envy. Her husband. But what she can’t remember is the tragic car accident that ripped her unborn child from her. Ella can’t even recall being pregnant. Hoping to find the memories of a lost pregnancy that’s left her husband devastated and their home empty, Ella begins delving into her past when she’s assigned an exclusive story about Nathan Donovan, a retired celebrity adventurer who seems to know more about her than she does him.

When Aunt Lavender claims she’s found the location of the lost city of Atlantis, I agree to join her quest—a decision I quickly come to regret when we end up magically shipwrecked on a mysterious island. Even worse, it’s inhabited by a secret sisterhood of witches who make us feel about as welcome as a swarm of mosquitoes at a garden party. It turns out the lack of hospitality is the least of our problems when one member is poisoned.

Becoming an uber-powerful witch overnight isn't nearly as much fun as it sounds. Controlling unfamiliar magic is hard. Really, really hard. Adding to the level of difficulty is the fact that dead bodies keep showing up. Okay, so there's only been two so far, but in a small town like Wind's Crossing, that's a lot. Our town doesn't have all that many living people either. At least this time it isn't my family the police have in their crosshairs. Unfortunately, that isn't the good news you'd think it is. This time the prime suspects are my good friends Mabel Morgan and Tommy Hill.

With old money comes old hatreds, and the fight to survive will take everything the familiar bond offers witch and shifter. Ethan Lumin has followed the plan laid out for him since the day he was born. As part of that plan, he needs a familiar before he turns thirty so he can take his place on the Shadow Board as expected. But he wants more than a bound shifter who’s only interested in his family’s power and money. Axel Hollins learned a long time ago that family comes first, shifters come second, and witches come last.

Willkommen in der Familie. Hier bist du sicher. Oder? Der spannende Psychothriller, der dich so schnell nicht mehr loslässt. Nach dem plötzlichen Tod ihres Mannes hat Laura nicht nur mit ihrer Trauer zu kämpfen, auch finanzielle Probleme belasten sie. Es scheint daher wie ein Geschenk des Himmels, als die lokale Gemeinschaft Oak Leaf Organics ihr und ihrer 17-jährigen Tochter Tilly einen Zufluchtsort bietet. Doch während Mutter und Tochter sich bei ihrer neuen "Familie“ einleben, geschehen immer wieder unheimliche Dinge.