Resultados para "Monster" en Novela negra

Josh Soule's premiere thriller, The Monster, follows the psychological decline of a nameless narrator who tells his tale of being stalked and framed by a local serial killer. His relationships with friends and family deteriorate, and he soon is required to fend for himself. As days tick by, the time must come to find his way out of this problem before he ends up in prison or worse....

My acts are vicious and cruel, vile and life-taking. My demands are unquestioned no matter how depraved. There’s a monster inside me, and the wounds that scar my soul are dark and deep. I’m Dante Simone. Underboss of the Chicago Outfit. She walks into the audition, eyes snapping with a fire that could cost her life - if she were to unleash it. Piper Tate crawls beneath my skin on our first encounter. Her audition, a condition of employment I’ve sat through a thousand times, is like no other. It’s magnetic, cementing my traitorous eyes to her lithe form.

Answers. They’re hard to come by. The way the Outfit obtained them rocked us to our very core, but we’re overcoming the loss and looking ahead. The war is here, and preparations will take Piper and me to Boston and into a meeting with the other American Mafia organizations. Except a single call renders the meeting null and void. An attack has taken place in Chicago that results in Madeline’s kidnapping. Miami is responsible. They will be eliminated. And I’ll be the one to see it done.

Hope Rippa may look like your average fashionista, but a dark secret bankrolls her luxury lifestyle. Although she might appear a legitimate businesswoman by day, after dark Hope serves as a personal shopper to some of Europe's wealthiest murderers. You name it, she'll find it-and charge a hefty sum for the convenience.

In the dying days of 1850, the young detective Charles Maddox takes on a new case. His client? The only surviving son of the long-dead poet Percy Bysshe Shelley, and his wife Mary, author of Frankenstein. Charles soon finds himself being drawn into the bitter battle being waged over the poet's literary legacy. When a chance discovery raises doubts about the death of Shelley's first wife, Harriet, he starts to question whether she did kill herself—or whether what really happened was far more sinister…

Evil is best fought from within. When Mason Black is first called out to investigate the disappearance of three teenagers, he never truly believes he will find their bodies. Especially not with human bite marks embedded in their remains. While the police are breathing down his neck, Mason finds himself trapped in the deep underground world of a cannibalistic cult, working his way toward the truth from the inside. But then a shocking secret is revealed, and it will change his life forever.

Within the confines of Johnny's mind comes a twin sister named Joanny. Between the two of them, they go on a killing spree to right a wrong they felt. Will they get caught, killed, or escape?

Officer Seth Erickson is a by-the-book professional, at least until he meets attorney Matthew Longtine and his wife, Deborah. As Seth pursues the elusive Masked Vigilante, Matthew and Deborah solicit him as a security guard while they strive to combat the city's growing gang problem. When Matthew's health takes a turn for the worse, his beloved wife, Deborah, is determined to do whatever it takes to save her husband, even if it means risking losing everything.

The deadly dimensions over London have been sealed, and the monsters have departed. But word has come to Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson of a more terrifying creature still - the great Cthulhu has been sighted off the waters of Innsmouth, Massachusetts. Only Holmes can defeat him. And in the muddy village of Innsmouth, surrounded by villagers who are more sea-monster than human, Holmes meets again his nemesis, Moriarty, and yet greater foes: Amelia Scarcliffe and Maria Fitzgerald, harbingers of Dagon, who have called forth Cthulhu.

With Boyd starting his phased return to the CID department, DS Samantha Okeke is once again in the driving seat. So when Okeke takes a call from a child psychiatrist about one of his patients, a troubled thirteen year old girl, it's a race against time to find out whether the monster is real or imagined. Little does she know that her story is going to lead her down a rabbit hole that will bring a monster right to her front door.

This book is for listeners of true crime podcasts and audiences of both fiction and true-crime nonfiction. It's the true story of first-generation Irish-American nurse Jane Toppan, born as Honora Kelley. Jane Toppan was absolutely a monster, but she did not start out that way. When Jane was a young child, her father abandoned her and her sister to the Boston Female Asylum. From there, Jane was indentured to a wealthy family who changed her name, never adopted her, and wrote her out of the will.

Stardetektiv Timothy Truckle wird vom amerikanischen Sicherheitsdienst zwangsverpflichtet. Er soll einen hochintelligenten Mutanten suchen, der während eines geheimen Tests geflohen ist. Das Monster mit vier Armen ist ein genetisch veränderter Mensch. Tiny will den Mutanten helfen und in den UNDERGROUND schleusen. Gelingt es ihm oder scheitert er diesmal kläglich? Musik: Johannes C. Schneeweiß Coverbilder: Margret Aurin

In "Merciless Monster," Arturo Abruzzi's relentless quest for the woman he loved has led him through the darkest corners of the world, tearing his soul apart as he searched for a trace of her mysterious disappearance. The emptiness left in her absence renders him cold, numb, and hollow, a mere shell of the man he once was. Struggling to endure the pain, he contemplates the unthinkable, tempting fate to deliver him from the anguish that courses through his veins.

Jahrmarkt in Dursham! Zum ersten Mal haben die Gaukler und Schausteller in der kleinen Stadt ihre Zelte aufgeschlagen. Und sie haben eine Menge an Attraktionen mit im Gepäck. Kein Wunder also, dass die ganze Stadt auf den Beinen ist. Doch als die Leiche eines unbescholtenen Antiquitätenhändlers im Bassin der Meerjungfrau gefunden wird, endet der Spaß abrupt. Warum musste Mr. Willer sterben? Und wo ist sein Bruder abgeblieben? Mimi Rutherfurt ahnt noch nicht, dass sie es diesmal mit leibhaftigen Monstern zu tun bekommt.

Nicky just wants to save her brother. She showed up with an envelope full of cash and a smart mouth and found herself in a den of monsters. I wish I could say I was the best of them, I wish I could protect her - but I’m far from perfect.

The mean streets are awash with violence, with robberies and murders taking place in every dark corner of Dodge City. While the police know who is to blame, they find themselves up against something never encountered before and catching the madman will be no easy task. Go It Alone is an explosive tale of revenge and bloodshed unlike anything else.

Take a moment and walk in the shoes of a 17-year-old Egyptian girl who was drugged, raped, and turned into a hoe. Meet a young single Black mother who lost her job and needed a way to make ends meet but ended up losing it all. Get to know a White runaway girl who started turning tricks just to eat. The one thing they all had in common was Tmac. He was a smooth monster who hid behind a charming smile.

Thomas Harris ist zurück und schickt einen Killer ins Rennen, der erneut für schlaflose Nächte sorgt! Die Schreie einer Frau sind Musik in seinen Ohren. Er ist groß, blass, haarlos und wie ein Reptil liebt er die Wärme. Menschen begegnen ihm mit Angst und Ekel. Er ist daran gewöhnt. Doch wenn sie das Monster in ihm erkennen, ist es meist zu spät. Dann betteln sie um einen schnellen Tod und er genießt den Schmerz in ihren Gesichtern. Unheimlich spannend gelesen von Achim Buch.