Resultados para "Illusion" en Policíaca, negra y suspense

In this well-known classic, a school inspector travelling to the village of Pit End wonders whether the things he’s seeing are products of his imagination or something supernatural. There’s a rational answer, but is it the right one? Was It an Illusion is taken from the Victorian Anthologies series featuring short stories by classic writers of the spooky, the scary and the supernatural. Guaranteed to give you the shivers, each collection includes familiar and loved creepy tales as well as those less well-known. With music by Benedict Edwards.

Goody. A powerful real estate developer has been buying up land in the area and wants my business. He refuses to take no for an answer. My bakery, Goody’s Goodies, has been in the family for more than a century. I will not sell. But his threats are becoming real, and people are dying. Tristan. I have been searching for the mystery woman I crossed paths with in a club in New York. I knew she was mine, but was called away just before she was unmasked. Imagine my surprise when she shows up next door to my planned BDSM club. She has drawn the fury of a dangerous shifter.

Christian Bennet, veterano periodista ganador de un Premio Pulitzer, recibe una enigmática llamada de Martha Sullivan, propietaria del diario El Sentinel de Nueva York, postrada por una enfermedad mortal, que le hace un singular encargo: quiere que localice a su hija y única heredera, Angela, desaparecida años atrás, ya que si esta no aparece el periódico caerá en manos de un grupo inversor.

In a dry Kansas riverbed, a troop of young girls finds a human hand. This discovery leads Billy Spire, the tough and broken sheriff of Ewing County, to investigate and confront the depths of his community and of himself: the racism, the dying economy, the lies and truths of friendship, grievances of the past and present, and even his own injured marriage. To flyover folks, Ewing County appears nothing more than a handful of empty streets amid crop circles and the meandering, depleted Arkansas River. The truth of this place—the interwoven lives and stories—is anything but simple.

Eve St. Clair desperately needs help sorting reality from her fearful imaginings when ghostly voices seem to haunt the Victorian house in Sunderland, England, that she inherited from her uncle. Online research leads to a group that claims to offer just the aid she’s seeking. But can Ransom King’s handpicked team of investigators truly banish Eve’s night terrors?

Attorney Sabre O. Brown takes on three disconcerting new cases, each with its own illusion: a woman claiming she's been impregnated by a ghost, a threatening parent prone to violence, and a child bride with a heartbreaking First Amendment issue. At the same time, Sabre tries to protect her mother, who is dating a suspicious widower she met online. In Sabre's search for justice, she is found near death after a magician's illusion deviously goes wrong.

To save a sick, orphaned boy, Anna Freeman must risk her own life. Little Paulo desperately needs a new heart. It's his only Christmas wish - well, that and building his first snowman. For the surgery, Anna must take him to a hospital in the city she once called home. A place she fled in fear years ago. Which means telling Dr. Lucas Bennett that the woman he's known all this time as a caring orphanage worker is really someone else. Someone with a very frightening past. And that the danger stalking all of them won't take Christmas Day off. 

When her parents' company fails, Alex Woods finds herself at the mercy of billionaire Harry Kerrington, who will bail them out but only at a cost. That price? Alex must agree to be engaged to Harry's playboy son for a period of three years. Three years to put her life on hold. Three years where she has to pretend. Three years she won't get back. Daniel isn't happy about the arrangement, either. But he's willing to make it work, to prove to his father that he's ready to run the company. And when the sparks do more than fly, Daniel will do anything to prove to Alex that he's worthy of her.

Sharon Davis, tenacious NYPD homicide detective, is determined to catch a ruthless serial killer who disfigures the faces of beautiful, young women before killing them. Sharon's pursuit of the elusive killer leads her to the glamorous fashion world and threatens to unveil the dark secret of an influential socialite in New York's elite. The detective uncovers the involvement of a famous supermodel gravely unaware of the great danger lurking. The more she investigates, mind-taunting discoveries begin to scratch the surface.

With the coming of the Olympic Games to Berlin, a false air of civility has taken over as the government extends a welcome to the world. But below the surface, the police state remains, and hundreds of so-called “undesirables” are rounded up and held in a newly constructed concentration camp in the city. In desperation, one of the prisoners reaches out to the Ritter family, and Maureen and her band of subversives will undertake a mission of mercy that could see them all end up as victims of the dreaded Gestapo.

Ghostly images appear and float across the stage, objects levitate into the air, and a beautiful assistant disappears inside a glass box, then reappears inside a second glass box. All while the audience at the Crystal Palace, including amateur investigator Mikaela Forsythe, watch the performance. Is it real? Then, an evening with her friend, Theodora Templeton, attending the one-night performance by master illusionist Jean Luc Betard, takes a ghastly turn and plunges Mikaela headlong into murder when the illusionist's young assistant is found dead at the end of his newest stunt.

A fabled illusion performed by a stage magician who claims to possess real supernatural powers. A treasure from the colonial era in India when international supremacies vied for power. A phantom trading ship lost over 200 years ago. And a ninja whose murderous intentions in present-day Japan connect the deeds of a long-dead trader who was much more than he seemed....

In una Palermo sconvolta dallo scandalo che vede rinviato a giudizio il procuratore capo accusato di pedofilia, il commissario Antonio Marongiu è alle prese con l'omicidio di un ragazzo, ritrovato nei pressi della discarica cittadina. Le due cose non sembrano collegate, fino a quando si scopre che il giovane era un hacker che lavorava per i servizi segreti. Quella che sembrava una normale indagine per omicidio si trasforma in un intrigo nel quale il ruolo dei media, dei servizi segreti, della criminalità e della politica si mescolano in un groviglio complicato e pericoloso.

I never expected someone I knew wanted me dead. I guess I shouldn’t have been surprised. Jealousy has been motivating people to do horrible things for all of history, and when you’ve made as much money as I have, it’s hard not to be the target of the green-eyed monster. I also didn’t expect my beautiful bodyguard Sam to throw herself in front of a bullet for me. No one has ever risked their life like that me before, especially a woman I’m falling for.

Nicholas Morra sa perfettamente qual è il suo posto nel mondo: tra le strade degradate di Corviale, in bilico tra il crimine e la disperazione, senza una via di fuga. Ma una notte, in un vicolo buio, tutto cambia. Altea De Santis non ha scelto Corviale. Lei e la sua famiglia sono finiti lì per necessità, strappati a una vita che aveva tutto fuorché la stabilità. Lei, però, non è il tipo che abbassa la testa. È troppo orgogliosa per lasciarsi sopraffare, troppo testarda per scappare. Così, quando si trova faccia a faccia con Nicholas, capisce subito che è pericoloso, imprevedibile.

Dane and Mandy, a popular magic act for 40 years, are tragically separated by a car wreck that claims Mandy’s life—or so everyone thinks. Even as Dane mourns and tries to rebuild his life without her, Mandy, supposedly dead, awakes in the present as the19-year-old she was in 1970.

Quando una donna viene trovata morta in una cassa di legno con il corpo trafitto da spade, la polizia di Stoccolma è frastornata: difficile capire se si tratti di un gioco di prestigio finito in tragedia o di un macabro rituale omicida. Le indagini vengono affidate a una squadra speciale: un gruppo eterogeneo di agenti scelti – e allergici alle procedure istituzionali – tra i quali spicca per doti investigative Mina Dabiri. Proprio Mina suggerisce di coinvolgere nel caso Vincent Walder, un famoso mentalista, profondo conoscitore del linguaggio del corpo e del mondo dell’illusionismo.

Hunter becomes the hunted. Sacramento Detective Emily Hunter is exposed to inhumanity on a daily basis—it's the unfortunate baggage that comes with police work, and she's mostly learned how to shoulder the load. But it all turns personal when her fellow cop and boyfriend, Brian Conner, is caught in the blast of a targeted church bombing. Brian is gravely injured, suffering a traumatic brain injury. But the attacks don't stop there—soon, more officers come under fire, and Emily searches for a connection.

Virtua - kann eine KI die Welt zerstören? Weil er als Psychologe gescheitert ist, bewirbt Daniel sich bei dem Konzern Mental Systems, der führend in der Entwicklung künstlicher Intelligenz ist. Wider Erwarten bekommt er den Job - und ist gleich fasziniert von der virtuellen Welt, in die er eintaucht. Besonders beeindruckt ist er von Virtua, der neuesten Entwicklung von künstlicher Intelligenz. Doch dann lernt er den Entwickler Chen kennen, der seine Vorgesetzten warnt, die KI sei unkontrollierbar.

Für den Computerspiele-Entwickler Alex Stein geht ein Traum in Erfüllung. Sein gewagtes Projekt, mittels künstlicher Intelligenz und der Steuerung des Menschlichen Nervensystems die virtuelle Realität zu revolutionieren, scheint tatsächlich zu funktionieren. Sein Prototyp erzeugt Simulationen für alle Sinne, die vom realen Leben kaum zu unterscheiden sind. Alex Karriere in der Londoner Computerspiele Firma Realmind Systems entwickelt sich rasant. Doch während er in immer perfektere Simulationen eintaucht, beginnt sein reales Leben auseinanderzufallen.