Resultados para "Families" en Suspense

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.

The human “oddities” in the Museum of the Strange are less wondrous than the gawking rubes had been promised. But Alida is something else. The real thing. Traveling Depression-era America from carnival midways to speakeasies, Alida is resigned to an exploited and lonely life on the road as the museum’s golden ticket. Until she’s rescued by two compassionate strangers. Franklin and Loretta Fairchild see in Alida a gifted and uncannily well-read girl in need of a loving touch and a family. With the openhearted couple and their three precociously imaginative children, Alida finds it.

Hope Close: a leafy, tranquil backwater in the heart of the English countryside. But when Andy Meyer moves in, it soon becomes clear that picture-perfect homes can hide less-than-perfect lives. Fresh from rehab and with no interest in meeting his neighbours, Andy erects forbidding gates to keep the ghosts of his past - and any prying eyes - at bay. Next door, in the grandest house, Layla is unhappily married to a much older man and desperately misses her young son, who has been banished to boarding school.

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...

When Brian finds out that his wife, Diane, is pregnant, he is elated. He’s been patiently waiting for twelve years to become a father. But Diane has always been nervous about having children because of her family’s dark past. The timing of the pregnancy also isn’t ideal - Diane has just been promoted, and Brian is being called away to open a new London office for his company.

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.

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.

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.

Lizzy Moon never wanted Moon Girl Farm. Eight years ago, she left the land that nine generations of gifted healers had tended, determined to distance herself from the whispers about her family’s strange legacy. But when her beloved grandmother Althea dies, Lizzy must return and face the tragedy still hanging over the farm’s withered lavender fields: the unsolved murders of two young girls, and the cruel accusations that followed Althea to her grave.

On the outskirts of a town too tired for its own happenings, the boys were found dead inside a tent. Three years later, their fathers have disappeared too. Ruth Fenn's son was the boy they blamed. For three years, Ruth has accepted her lot as pariah, focusing on her ailing mother and the children left in her care by the struggling single parents of North Falls, Vermont. But now the additional loss of her husband is too much to bear. As she edges closer to the truth, she begins to uncover some secrets that are better left buried.

For as long as she can remember, Arabella has communicated with those who exist only in memory. Being the centre of attention growing up was uncomfortable, and now, as a renowned psychic medium, it is becoming more of a struggle. Arabella’s ability and reputation always made it impossible to hold onto lasting relationships, but with those who no longer walk this earth, that’s not the case.

Elisa Brown is driving back from her annual, somber visit to her son Silas’s grave when something changes. Actually, everything changes: her body is more voluptuous; she’s wearing different clothes and driving a new car. When she arrives home, her life is familiar - but different. There is her house, her husband. But in the world she now inhabits, Silas is no longer dead, and his brother is disturbingly changed.

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Wenn sich die eigene Mutter als brutaler Serienmörder entpuppt. Der atemraubende erste Band der Thriller-Reihe über menschliche Abgründe. Kriminalkommissarin Amy Winter hat nur ein Ziel: in die Fußstapfen ihres Vaters zu treten, der selbst ein hochangesehener Polizist war. Doch als sie ein Brief von Lillian Grimes, der psychopathischen Serienmörderin, erreicht, gerät ihr Leben völlig aus den Fugen. Die Verbrecherin, die seit Jahrzehnten für eine Reihe abscheulicher Morde hinter Gittern sitzt, ist Amys leibliche Mutter.

Mark Burcham dachte eigentlich, er hätte alles: eine glückliche Ehe, ein gemütliches Haus in Los Angeles und eine wundervolle Tochter. Dann erhält er die schlimmste aller Nachrichten: Amy wurde tot aufgefunden. Stück für Stück entdeckt Mark die Seite seiner Frau, die sie versuchte zu verbergen, und ihm wird klar, dass jemand verhindern will, dass er Amys Geheimnisse erfährt.

An Halloween zieht eine Gruppe Eltern mit ihren kostümierten Kindern um die Häuser–bis der elfjährige Joshua spurlos verschwindet. Übrig bleiben nur blutverschmierte Fetzen seines Geisterkostüms. Für die Elterngruppe ist der Vorfall gleich ein doppelter Schock: Denn vor vier Jahren verschwand schon einmal an Halloween ein Neusser Kind–und es trug genau das gleiche Kostüm.

Meri's family has been producing doctors for so many generations that no one remembers why, so when she flunks out of medical school, she runs as far from her parents as she can get. In the small mountain town of Canyon Mines, Colorado, she takes a job at the Inn at Hidden Run B&B. And waits. It's only a matter of time. What she doesn't count on is genealogist Jillian Parisi-Duffy and her father, Nolan, having her back when it takes everything she has not to bolt again but to stay and face the truth that only unfolding her family's history will reveal....

Die postapokalyptische Welt sorgt weiterhin für gefährliche Feinde an jeder Ecke, während Lance und seine stetig schwindende Gruppe einen langen und verschlungenen Umweg durch die Colorado Rockies bewältigen. An jedem Pass und hinter jedem Felsen lauert die Gefahr. Bergbewohner, die entschlossen sind, ihre knappen Ressourcen für sich zu behalten, sind bereit zu töten, um dies zu tun, während andere nur um die Sicherheit ihrer Familien besorgt sind.

Ante el gran éxito de la saga del detective Edgar «el Zurdo» Mendieta, Élmer Mendoza nos sorprende con la primera entrega de la serie protagonizada por «el Capi» Garay. Con apenas 18 años, debe idear un plan para reunir cuatro millones de dólares en tres días luego de recibir una llamada amenazante: han secuestrado a su padre. Es el momento de demostrar a los demás y a sí mismo que no es un adolescente inútil.

Twenty years ago, Liz left Easthaven to escape the memory of one tragic night at Lakewell Manor. Only she and her best friend Tamsin saw what really happened, and in the aftermath they drifted apart. Now she’s forced back after a nasty divorce, with two daughters in tow, the shadows of that terrible night lurking on every corner. With a custody battle looming, she’s one wrong move away from her life falling apart completely.