Resultados para "Stine" en Suspense

Ödesmark, en el norte de Suecia, es un pequeño pueblo de catorce casas desperdigadas, de las cuales solo cinco siguen habitadas. Una de ellas es el hogar de Liv Björnlund, que comparte con su hijo y con su tiránico y anciano padre, Vidar. Aunque viven de forma austera, uno de los rumores que corre sobre ellos es que el cabeza de familia amasó una gran fortuna especulando con terrenos y bosques de sus vecinos.

When London journalist Eleanor-Rigby Donovan receives an anonymous letter alluding to a crime committed by her deceased mother, her life is turned upside down. It points her to a bar on the Baltimore Harbor, where she finds a stranger who has received the same mysterious letter about his own mother. Together, Eleanor-Rigby and this young man, George-Harrison Collins, embark on a quest through the shadowy past of the Stanfields, a moneyed Maryland family full of unimaginable secrets.

The thrill-a-minute stories the writers of the original movie, The Mummy, with Boris Karloff, and its many sequels and remakes, used for research. Fans of those films will find the origins of: the scene in which the sacred formula for eternal life is secreted in the base of a statue of Isis; as well as the scenes in which mummies are brought back to life by burning a rare Egyptian herb; where a modern woman, who is the reincarnation of an ancient Egyptian princess, begins to turn into a mummy herself; where mummies can only be truly destroyed by fire; and many others

Als Silvie nach einem Sturz zu sich kommt, ist die einst so lebenslustige Frau gefangen in ihrem eigenen Körper. Zwar lebt sie mit ihrem Mann und ihren Söhnen in ihrem früheren Zuhause, doch die Frau, die sie jetzt so liebevoll pflegt, ist ausgerechnet Sabrina – die Jugendliebe von Silvies Mann und ihre Rivalin. Wie konnte es dazu kommen? Und wo ist Silvies Schwester Anna, die seit Jahren kurz vor einem Zusammenbruch stand? Ist sie etwa im Gefängnis? Oder in der Psychiatrie? Erst allmählich erlangt Silvie ihre alten Fähigkeiten zurück und hegt bald einen schrecklichen Verdacht.

This unique collection for connoisseurs of detection done female style brings back six of the greatest fictional women sleuths of the era of gaslights and horseless carriages. Long out of print and unobtainable, these celebrated women 'tecs were once nearly as famous as the fictional sleuth of Baker Street himself. Their fame waned in the long decades of the 1930s through the '80s, when female sleuths took a backseat to Sam Spade, Nero Wolfe, and the like. But, they are back to baffle and thrill contemporary readers in The Legendary Women Detectives edited by Jean Marie Stine.

When British twenty-somethings Ruth and Adam are offered the chance to spend the summer housesitting in New York, they can’t say no. Young, in love and on the cusp of professional success, they feel as if luck is finally on their side. So the moment that Eden turns up on the doorstep, drenched from a summer storm, it seems only right to share a bit of that good fortune. Beautiful and charismatic, Eden claims to be a friend of the homeowners, who told her she could stay whenever she was in New York. They know you’re not supposed to talk to strangers....

This second volume of a must-listen collection contains 15 bibliomysteries by best-selling and award-winning authors.

Alison, Julie, Sarah, Heather. Four friends living the suburban ideal. Their jobs are steady, their kids are healthy. They're as beautiful as their houses. But each of them has a dirty little secret, and hidden behind the veneer of their perfect lives is a crime and a mystery that will consume them all.

American nanny Eleanor was never meant to meet Alex. But when she walks into his London police station to report a stalker, everything changes for them both. He’s convinced he can protect her from anything and anyone. She hopes her darkest days are behind her.

Stell dir vor, du willst dir was Gutes tun. Fährst zur inneren Einkehr zu einem Selbstfindungsworkshop. Doch statt Entspannung wartet ein Verbrechen auf dich. Eine Finca inmitten der mallorquinischen Berge. Levke Sönkamp will dort in einem Workshop endlich zur Ruhe kommen. Doch was vielversprechend beginnt, mündet in einen Albtraum. Eine Teilnehmerin kehrt vom morgendlichen Yoga nicht zurück. Kurz darauf ist eine weitere Person verschwunden. Levke wendet sich an Chefinspektor Barceló. Der ermittelt gerade in einem rätselhaften Todesfall, der sich in einer Finca ganz in ihrer Nähe zugetragen hat.

In this New York Times bestseller, twenty-six renowned authors team up to create a first-rate serial thriller—a collaboration that combines the skills of today's greatest storytellers to produce one gripping murder mystery. “The lineup of writers who have contributed to this mystery is akin...

Småland, kurz vor Mittsommer. In einem Wald wird der von Pfeilen durchbohrte Leichnam eines Lehrers gefunden. Die Todesumstände erinnern an die Darstellung frühchristlicher Märtyrer. Bald darauf tauchen an der Domkirche seltsame Zeichen auf. Haben Nyström und Forss es mit einem religiösen Ritualmord zu tun? Als ein weiterer Toter entdeckt wird, erhöht sich der Druck auf die beiden ungleichen Frauen spürbar.