Resultados para "K" en Policíaca, negra y suspense

Una agente del FBI buscará la manera de capturar a un asesino en serie que se cruzará en su camino, donde la muerte y los sucesos que desafían a la oscuridad estarán presentes en una historia repleta de pasados ocultos.

One month after surviving the Under Trials, Emery Maves finds herself in a world she doesn't recognize―with a man whose cold eyes are haunted by secrets she can't remember. Stripped of her memories, Emery is tormented by dreams of danger, death, and deceit. The only constant is the lure of the experimental drug that shatters her mind but leaves her almost invincible―and the dangerous pull of the man called Mori.

The man I love has trapped me in a gilded cage. I trusted him to keep me safe. He was my white knight and my dark god, all in one gorgeous package. Until an awful revelation changed everything. Now, I'm desperate to escape his twisted obsession, but he refuses to let me go. He insists that I still love him, but he can't command my affections. No matter how much pleasure he gives me or how many times he says I belong to him.

Glen Runciter está muerto. ¿O lo están todos los demás? Lo que es seguro es que alguien ha muerto en una explosión organizada por los competidores de Runciter. De hecho, sus empleados asisten a un funeral. Pero durante el duelo comienzan a recibir mensajes desconcertantes, e incluso morbosos, de su jefe.Y el mundo a su alrededor comienza a desmoronarse de un modo que sugiere que a ellos tampoco les queda mucho tiempo.

Mit letzter Kraft schafft es Watson schwimmend an die rettende Küste, während Holmes im Meer vermisst bleibt. Auf dem Fußmarsch zur Polizeistation schwört sich Watson, den Fall auch allein zu lösen und Rache an den Verantwortlichen zu nehmen.

Holmes und Watson kehren nach London zurück. In der Temple Church muss der letzte Hinweis auf den Aufbewahrungsort des Heiligen Grals zu finden sein. Schließlich kommt es zur Konfrontation mit den deutschen Agenten, die tödlich zu enden droht.

Nachdem es Mary besser geht, begeben sich Holmes und Watson zu Scotland Yard, um der Befragung Sommersets beizuwohnen. Die Vernehmung gestaltet sich zunächst wenig erhellend und endet dann abrupt durch einen überraschenden Zwischenfall.

Nach der Ausschaltung der deutschen Agenten gelingt auch die Befreiung von Professor Troy. Vater Abraham weiht Holmes und Watson zunächst in das jahrhundertealte Geheimnis der Gralshüter ein, bevor er sie an den Aufbewahrungsort des Heiligen Kelches führt.

Holmes und Watson erfahren von einem Schussattentat vor dem Polizeigebäude, dessen Ziel offenbar Inspektor Lestrade war. Sofort und voller Sorge machen sie sich zum Tatort auf, doch der Anschlag bleibt in jeder Hinsicht mysteriös.

Cameron Mortem has a problem—he can't stop killing his partners. Officially labeled clinically insane, he's also one of the most lethal assets in the Dark Forces, a brutal underground military operation built on obedience, survival, and silence. But an experimental drug has fractured his control, making him a liability whenever someone else is on the field. As punishment, he's thrown back into the Under Trials—a merciless boot camp designed to break the weak and sharpen the ruthless. His one directive? Don't kill the new girl.

Alira, a devoted demigod knight, has found herself trapped in the throes of a brutal curse—a time loop in which the demon kingdom's Blood Knight kills her every time. She is haunted by the attack she led on the innocent village of Thornhall, and her guilt consumes her from the inside out. After the twentieth time loop, she has finally had enough. Something has to change, lest she die at the Blood Knight's hand for the rest of time. A choice she hopes she won't regret—one to end the war between demigods and demons.

En el Londres surrealista de cambio de siglo, el poeta Gabriel Syme es reclutado por un destacamento antianarquista en Scotland Yard. A partir de este momento empezará su bizarra y trepidante misión en la que tendrá un objetivo como detective encubierto. Según Chesterton, se trataba de un nuevo tipo de novela, una historia en la que se tipifican pensamientos modernos, pero no con argumentos, sino con incidentes simbólicos: una comedia alegórica.

Dr. Margaret Richter has it all. She’s rich, thanks to her best-selling self-help books. She has a beautiful home in Cape Cod overlooking the beach. And she has a monthly book club that everyone is dying to get invited to. Literally. Because behind the crystal wine glasses, the fine linens and the catered hors d'oeuvres lies a tangled web of secrets, of deceit, of murder. No member of the book club is innocent—and many are guilty. And the person with the most to hide is Margaret Richter herself.

El conjunto de los relatos del padre Brown constituye quizá la obra más popular de Chesterton. El simpático cura-detective que los protagoniza resuelve en ellos, armado únicamente con su paraguas, su inocencia y su sabiduría, intrincados casos gracias a un conocimiento sencillo a la par que es profundo de la naturaleza humana. Chesterton crea este singular personaje para mostrar que sólo una mirada sincera y que reconozca el misterio que la realidad encierra es capaz de salvaguardar la razón.

Holmes und Watson suchen an der Atlantikküste eine Meereshöhle auf, die der Legende nach als Wohnort des Druiden und Zauberers Merlin diente. Zwar können die beiden den nächsten Hinweis entdecken, doch als die Flut einsetzt, geraten sie in Lebensgefahr.

Im Krankenhaus weichen Watson und Holmes nicht von Marys Seite, während Lestrade den verhafteten Sommerset ins Polizeigefängnis überstellt. Als Mary endlich das Bewusstsein wiedererlangt, kann sie sich an nichts erinnern.

My husband Matt and I are an ordinary married couple in every way but one. At the end of each day, we return to our own homes and our own spaces. But beyond the fairy lights I string at my window, darkness is pressing in. Two local women have gone missing, and I don't want to be alone. Sipping our coffees, looking out of my kitchen window, I soon notice how observant Brenda is. When she tells me that perhaps my husband isn't simply working late, something cold takes root.

Calista Langley regenta en el Londres victoriano una agencia de "presentaciones" dirigida a damas y caballeros respetables que buscan pareja.Desde hace un tiempo, está recibiendo obsequios siniestros -un espejo negro, una corona fúnebre, una campanilla de ataúd...- todos con sus iniciales grabadas.Convencida de que obtendrá ayuda de la policía, Calista recurre a Trent Hastings, un solitario escritor de novelas de misterio poco afecto a las relaciones sociales.

Alicia has left her young son behind with her sister to chase a better life in London. But she’s not just chasing opportunity. She’s escaping the truth. And no one in her new life needs to know what she’s running from. At The Orbit — a glittering high-rise where the city’s elite come to play — Alicia waits tables and watches everything. She knows just how to blend in, how to charm, how to make people see what she wants them to see.

Ryder, Garrett, Kenzo, and Diesel - The Vipers. Their deals are as sordid as their business, and their reputation is enough to bring a grown man to his knees, forcing him to beg for mercy. They are not people you mess with, yet my dad did. The old man ran up a debt with them and then sold me to cover his losses. Yes, sold me. They own me now. I’m theirs in every sense of the word. But I’ve never been meek and compliant.