Resultados para "Stoner" en Suspense

Five years ago, when Detective Jena Campbell put the Leviticus Killer behind bars, she locked her darkest secret away with him. Something never meant to surface. Something better left to rot with the madman who had destroyed so many lives. When a strange man calling himself Azrael appears on social media with threats to unleash ten plagues, ten deaths, in ten days, unless Leviticus is released, Jena is forced to reopen that door and face her past.

This is the story of John Stone, financier and armaments manufacturer, a man so wealthy that in the years before World War One he was able to manipulate markets, industries and indeed whole countries and continents. A panoramic novel with a riveting mystery at its heart, Stone's Fall is a quest to discover how and why John Stone dies, falling out of a window at his London home.

Dakota Sloane, a tough-as-nails former foster kid, has spent her life running from the past. A man haunted by secrets, Logan Garcia has only one goal: to drink himself into oblivion. They're two strangers in a bar—until the news reports nuclear detonations in New York City and Washington, D.C. Before they can escape Miami, everything explodes. Buildings collapse and fires rage. As the fallout descends, utter chaos erupts.

Ausgerechnet im Finale der deutschen Meisterschaft verliert Robert Stein seinen ersten Box-Kampf. Dabei zieht er sich eine schwere Kopfverletzung zu, die das Aus seiner Karriere bedeutet. Durch Zufall erfährt er von einem Auswanderer, der in Nordamerika Schaukämpfe veranstaltet und damit jede Menge Geld verdient. Stein nimmt den Namen Rob Stone an und geht den Deal seines Lebens ein, der sein Leben für immer verändert.

Jane’s days at a Midwest insurance company are perfectly ordinary. She blends in well, unremarkably pretty in her floral-print dresses and extra efficient at her low-level job. She’s just the kind of woman middle manager Steven Hepsworth likes - meek, insecure, and willing to defer to a man. No one has any idea who Jane really is. Least of all Steven. But plain Jane is hiding something. And Steven’s bringing out the worst in her.

In Primary Duty: The Forging of Luke Stone, Book 6, a groundbreaking action thriller by number one best seller Jack Mars, a Supreme Court Justice is taken hostage by a terrorist organization. With a consequential decision before the court, the death of this swing Justice could change the political landscape for decades.

Sebastian, a young farmhand living in the Australian mallee, is being watched covertly by Val, a fugitive hiding in the forests on the banks of the River Murray. Val has an official document that confirms his death 14 years ago. There is no official document that confirms his particular skill: assassin. 

Ma si tratta di una buca piccola: il corpo non è quello di un adulto. Una vita innocente è stata sacrificata per siglare un oscuro patto di sangue. E il segreto che lega i presenti è destinato a essere sepolto sotto terra. Anni dopo, la direttrice di una scuola viene brutalmente assassinata: è solo il primo di una serie di agghiaccianti delitti che terrorizzano la regione della Black Country, in Inghilterra. Il compito di seguire e fermare questa orribile scia di sangue viene affidato alla detective Kim Stone.

Chris Norman's dreams of being a commercial pilot are shattered when he crashes his plane in central Australia. His life hangs in the balance—a balance that is swayed by the intervention of an Aboriginal bushman bent on his own murderous mission. The bushman leaves Chris with a mysterious and incongruous legacy, a Celtic cross made of stone. Partly blinded and in deep grief at no longer being able to fly, Chris finds his way to the Hebridean islands off the west coast of Scotland, where he seeks to unravel the secrets of the Celtic stone.

Elliot is hiding in his world of boats from a past that has wounded him. He is anti-authoritarian, lacking direction and broke. Emma is terrified of life outside the studious, ordered world of Oxford. But circumstances propel her into the dangerous world of international subterfuge. Kai is a Chinese triad gang leader, who is all too familiar with violence. However, he is now questioning his life, and seeking redemption. The three of them meet in Hong Kong, a place where money is king, corruption is rife, and the secret societies of the triads are flourishing.

Sembra un semplice caso di vendetta personale, ma l'omicidio è solo il primo di una serie di delitti che via via diventano più cruenti. È evidente che dietro tutto questo cè qualcuno con un piano preciso da realizzare. Mentre le indagini si fanno sempre più frenetiche, Kim si ritrova nel mirino di un individuo spietato e deciso a mettere in atto il proprio progetto criminale, a qualunque costo. Contro un sociopatico che sembra conoscere ogni sua debolezza, la detective Stone si rende conto che ogni mossa potrebbe esserle letale.

Charlie e Amy, due bambine di soli nove anni, compagne di gioco, scompaiono all'improvviso. Un messaggio recapitato alle rispettive famiglie conferma l'ipotesi peggiore: le giovani sono state rapite. È l'inizio di un incubo. Poco tempo dopo, un secondo messaggio è ancora più mostruoso. I malviventi mettono le due famiglie l'una contro l'altra, minacciando di uccidere una delle due bambine. Per la detective Kim Stone e la sua squadra il caso è più difficile del solito. I rapitori potrebbero davvero trasformarsi in assassini spietati.

A reporter on the rebound. An ex-cop with nothing to lose. A truth worth killing for. Crime reporter Will Finch doesn't believe Gianna Whitelaw jumped from the Golden Gate Bridge—no matter what the suicide note says. But when her powerful father, U.S. Senator Franklin Whitelaw, shuts down the investigation, Finch is forced to walk away. Until private investigator Eve Noon sends him a cryptic message. She knew Gianna. She knows what happened that night. And she knows Finch is tangled in it more than he realizes.

Murder hits close to home as the brother-in-law of Decker’s half-brother is found dead in a seedy hotel room. Missing from the scene is the dead man’s 15 year-old-niece. Pete finds the girl in the last place anyone would think to look, and soon devastating family secrets emerge.

Everything about the ranch is a mystery. Rumours abound about the millionaire who owns it, the women who live with him and the sudden disappearances. Joe Pickett is tasked by the governor to find the truth. There are two other men living up at the ranch. One is a stone-cold killer who takes an...

A fractured marriage. A silent family. A secret that connects them all. When DC Cat Kinsella is approached by Joseph Madden for help with his wife, Rachel, there's not much she can do. Joseph claims that Rachel has been threatening him, but can't - or won't - give Cat details as to why...

Winter comes early to the rural native community of Stone Cross, Alaska - and so does hunting season. Caribou and moose are a major source of food through the long, dark months ahead. But Arliss Cutter has come here for a very different game. A federal judge is receiving death threats and refuses protection. Cutter and his deputy Lola Teariki have been assigned to shadow him on his trip to this icy outland to make sure that he's safe. But they quickly discover that no one is ever really safe in a place like this. And no one is above suspicion....

STONE COLD BLACKOUT is a fast-paced thriller whose protagonist is a young surgeon, Dr. Julia Jensen. Julia began her career as an emergency physician but changed her chosen specialty after a tragic case. A young boy was brought to her ER with a severe allergic reaction and dies after she...

Phillip Springer has been grading diamonds since he was eight years old. His eyes are as sharp as any magnifying glass, and he has used them to turn the family diamond business into a global concern. Besides their love of diamonds, the Springers have another interest: the occult, ESP, and the mystical power of gems. Phillip has never fully believed in such superstition, but a sudden death in his family forces him to contemplate things he thought impossible.

Scritta in forma di diario, quest'opera narra giorno per giorno l'avvincente e misteriosa avventura del professor Edgar Stone. Intrigato da una criptica mail, lo studioso accetta di partecipare ad una ricerca segreta. Da subito gli viene detto che al termine di ogni fase del lavoro gli verranno rimossi i ricordi, ma lo studioso decide di tenere un diario, cifrando i suoi appunti in modo che nessuno possa comprenderli. Attratto dalla possibilità di scoprire verità precluse ai molti si addentra sempre più in una realtà che lentamente mette alla prova la sua sanità mentale.