Resultados para "Flower" en Negra y suspense

The moment I looked into his eyes, I knew I was in trouble. The second I heard his name, I knew I should stay away. Our fathers were mortal enemies - Chicago crime bosses from rival families. But that didn’t stop Leo Conti from pursuing me. Being together was dangerous, reckless, and totally hot. He wanted me. I wanted him. What could possibly go wrong?

An astonishing and evocative debut from a new voice in crime fiction. Holly Blain wants to cover real news. The entertainment beat - pop stars and teen trends - was not why she moved to Tokyo. When she meets Inspector Tetsu Tanaka, head of Tokyo’s Metropolitan Police’s Gaikoku-jin unit, it might just be her big break. Tanaka isn’t so sure. Always one to do things by the book, he’s hesitant about bringing this headstrong reporter into his carefully controlled investigation. But young women keep disappearing, and Tanaka is given no choice.

In this exciting seventh entry in Thomas Perry's Jane Whitefield series, Jane spirits James Shelby, a man unjustly convicted of his wife's murder, out of the criminal court building in downtown Los Angeles-but the price of Shelby's freedom is high.

Rachel Rainsford should be excited. She was on a train traveling across the US to a well-paid position as an old lady's companion. But after several hours spent with the man who hired her and is accompanying her on her journey, she's having doubts. His manner seems strange, and she may have acted too hastily in accepting a job so far from home. Meanwhile, in the parlor car, Chan Prescott overhears two men concocting a plan to abduct a young woman. When her name is mentioned, Chan recognizes it as the daughter of a former beloved teacher.

Attempted murder? Inexplicable accident? Either way, a PTA mom struggled for her life in an elementary school cafeteria, poisoned by a wolfsbane-laced smoothie at the fifth-grade graduation party. Now all eyes are on the accused, the victim, and a woman hired to look deeper. Ambitious defense attorney and single mother Allison Barton is anxious to escape the shadow of the low-down dog of a marquee partner carrying their renowned Virginia law firm. A win for her high-profile new client will give Allison the career she deserves. And PTA president Kira Grant certainly appears innocent.

Danish journalist Heloise Kaldan is in the middle of a nightmare. One of her sources has been caught lying, and she could lose her job over it. Then she receives the first in a series of cryptic and unsettling letters from a woman named Anna Kiel. Wanted in connection with the fatal stabbing of a young lawyer three years earlier, Anna hasn't been seen by anyone since she left the crime scene covered in blood.

Negli anni Venti la popolazione più ricca d’America erano gli indiani Osage dell’Oklahoma: nel momento in cui gli idrocarburi stavano per diventare la risorsa più importante del pianeta, sotto il loro suolo furono trovati enormi giacimenti. Giravano in auto di lusso, vivevano in case faraoniche, mandavano i figli a studiare nelle migliori scuole d’Europa. Poi, a uno a uno, iniziarono a morire ammazzati. Sparati, avvelenati, vittime di agguati e imboscate, sempre in circostanze misteriose.

In Flower Net, Lisa See gives us a China not often seen: An extraordinary nation that is at once admirable and frightening. Here the veil is ripped away from modern China--its venerable culture, its teeming economy, its institutionalized cruelty--and the inextricable link between China's...

Ava Reed is a perfectly ordinary girl living in Denver, Colorado. Raven Monclare is a trained killer with potent magical powers. In one hour, in one heart-wrenching, blood-pounding hour, everything as Ava knows it changes entirely when she is forced to go on the run after a horrific event, brought on by Raven and her forces, rips Ava's family apart. Pursued fiercely at every twist and turn, Ava and her brother plot revenge—that is, until Ava discovers that she shares something in common with Raven so propelling, it drives them to team up to face the most deadly enemy they both share.

From his serene parish in Lincoln, Rhode Island, Father Richard Merrill had led a seemingly quiet life as a man of the cloth, shepherding his flock toward the solace of a higher power. Now, the core of his beliefs and his being is propelled into the darkest chaos. What's more, it's all for the sake of his very own flesh and blood, two sons who were long ago given up for adoption. Their mother, Francoise Dupont, a former gallery director at the Louvre, has since married an Arab prince. And herein lies the trouble.

It's been 19 years since ten-year-old Laurel was given a life sentence and six-year-old Rosie was given a new identity. The sisters were the very picture of innocence: two little girls who loved to listen to their mother's bedtime stories and play make-believe in the garden. But then an act of unparalleled horror tears their family apart, leaving Laurel behind bars. Neither sister has laid eyes on the other since then, during which time their lives have followed very different paths.

In picturesque Tarnfield in the North of England, feuds and rivalries between villagers typically lie dormant. But the arrival of a new local vicar shakes the community up, bringing together an unlikely alliance between Suzy Spencer, a working mother, part-time television producer and full-time mess, and Robert Clark, a conservative, 'Mr Perfect' widower from the parish. But they are too late to save an unfortunate flower arranger!

Beware the wrath of a broken blind girl. Victor. Torsten. Cassius – the jock, the artist, the stepbrother. They made me theirs – body, heart, and soul. They got inside my head. They broke down my defenses and made me trust them … maybe even love them. They betrayed me. They think they’re untouchable, but they forget that I’m one of them. I’m the poison flower in their garden, beautiful and deadly, hiding in plain sight. I know all their secrets, Their weaknesses, Their darkest desires, And I’m going to make them pay.

When feisty redhead Alexandra Merritt inherits a Las Vegas casino, she finds she has her hands full. In addition to learning the ins and outs of running the Desert Flower, she must learn to deal with the famous and the infamous. Hot-shot athletes, movie stars, hookers, and stand-up comics come to her establishment, and when more than one of them winds up dead, Alex becomes embroiled in a mystery as hot as the Nevada desert. Alex isn't sure who wants her dead, but she better figure it out before the Desert Flower becomes Vegas's next morgue.

Danish journalist Heloise Kaldan is in the middle of a nightmare when she receives the first in a series of cryptic letters from a woman named Anna Kiel. Wanted in connection with the fatal stabbing of a young lawyer three years earlier, Anna hasn't been seen since. The police think she's fled the country, until the reporter who originally wrote about the case is found murdered. Has Anna Kiel struck again, or is there more than one killer at large? And why does every clue point directly to Heloise Kaldan?

North Hunter, ein gefallener Hollywood-Star, sucht Zuflucht in den schottischen Highlands, nachdem ein dunkles Geheimnis aus seiner Kindheit seine Karriere zerstört hat. Dort trifft er auf Aria Howard, die älteste Tochter einer Hollywood-Legende, die sich nach dem Ende einer toxischen Beziehung ebenfalls zurückgezogen hat. Aria leitet das exklusive Ardnoch Estate und begegnet dem arroganten Schauspieler mit Skepsis. Trotz gegenseitiger Abwehr entwickelt sich eine prickelnde Anziehung zwischen ihnen.

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After his country is taken over by the Aurora Empire and he loses everyone and everything he held dear, John is forced to flee the only home he knows. Secrets from his past threaten to come back to bite him. Driven by grief and a desperate quest for safety, he flees to a mysterious haven with hopes of refuge. But beneath the surface, he discovers a sinister truth: Has he merely traded one hell for another?

I'm as innocent as a newborn baby. I swear. I didn't kill those men. They threw me in a mental hospital to cover up the real killer's crimes. I have no idea why, but I have theories. Let me tell you my story, so you can decide if I'm guilty or innocent.

Assaulted, left for dead, and amnesic, the woman who thinks her name is Alex, may be the only surviving victim of a killer who’s targeting prostitutes and leaving their bodies without fingertips to complicate their identification. Denver Homicide Detective Blake Halloran is sure she is connected to the other killings but he can’t identify her, even with her fingertips intact. And she can’t remember anything - including the face or name of the man who tried to kill her.