Resultados para "Klinge" en Suspense

"Le Chat" ("The Cat"), an infamous thief, has come out of retirement and is again liberating expensive jewelry from wealthy tourists on the French Riviera. Or is it a "copycat" who is stealing fortunes?

For the Sake of the Game is the latest volume in the award-winning series from New York Times best-selling editors Laurie R. King and Leslie S. Klinger, with stories of Sherlock Holmes, Dr. Watson, and friends in a variety of eras and forms. King and Klinger have a simple formula: Ask some of the world's greatest writers-regardless of genre - to be inspired by the stories of Arthur Conan Doyle. The results are surprising and joyous. 

Ominous is a voyeuristic experience of real-life stories of supernatural terror and mystery. These short stories will shake you down to the last fabric of your soul through fear and trepidation. The words will draw you into each chapter and entice your morbid curiosity with tales of ghosts, monsters, aliens, sadistic murders, and secret conspiracies all with vivid imagery. No matter how bizarre or terrifying these stories are, they are all based on actual events—many experienced by the writers themselves. This is not just a normal book on tape.

A young man returns to West Texas to take over the family ranch he has inherited after eight years in the army. Almost immediately, Robert Bradford becomes a target of an assassination attempt. He suspects his older half brother, the owner of a much larger neighboring ranch, is behind the attempt. Robert also believes his half brother was behind the attempt to have him convicted of assault eight years earlier.

A 15-year-old girl lies dead in a park. Two detectives, Logan Decker and Mike Harris, begin a routine investigation of what appears to be another death by overdose, but soon turns into a first-degree murder case. What could a 15-year-old girl possibly know that would make her a target for murder? An unexpected personal connection leads the detectives on a search for her killer in the underbelly of drugs in America. Their search takes them from the back allies of Cincinnati to the halls of Congress. Everywhere they turn, they find ruthless killers trying to protect the guilty.

The Butterfly Boy takes the listener on a dramatic, sweeping journey through two World Wars in Germany and races on around the globe throughout that tumultuous century. The Butterfly Boy is the story of Arnie, who as a small boy loses the use of his arms through polio, yet conquers this to grow up to be the "greatest mouth painter in the world". Born in a sleepy German town, Arnie rises to become one of Hitler's favourite artistes despite his handicap and his Jewish mother.

When a brilliant academic makes a scientific breakthrough, sinister forces will stop at nothing to steal his priceless discovery. The inventor is a talented mathematician, Vasco Valseca, who is furious when a hacker steals money from his bank account. With insights inherited from his forebear, a legendary Mallorcan navigator, he creates a program to pinpoint the culprit's location. When very bad people learn of his discovery, they plan to get a hold of his priceless software for sale to a government - or to a terrorist group. And so the evil schemes begin.