Resultados para "Tess" en Negra y suspense

Él la dio por muerta. Pero ella sigue aquí. Cuando la detective de homicidios de Boston Jane Rizzoli y la médica forense Maura Isles llegan a la escena de un crimen brutal, se encuentran con una matanza digna de la bestia más feroz; incluso hay marcas de garras en el cadáver. Allí, el renombrado cazador y taxidermista Leon Gott ha sido grotescamente exhibido como si fuera uno de los magníficos animales cuyas cabezas adornan las paredes de su propia casa.

Al regresar de un viaje de negocios a París, la Dra. Maura Isles se encuentra su casa de Boston precintada como la escena de un crimen. La víctima, para asombro de Isles, no solo es idéntica a ella, sino que todas las pruebas forenses confirman que podría tratarse de su hermana gemela. En compañía de su inseparable colega, la detective Jean Rizzoli, Isles iniciará una investigación que la llevará a indagar en aspectos de su propio pasado que desconocía y que no podía haber imaginado ni en sus peores pesadillas.

Un asesino silencioso se desliza en las casas de las mujeres y entra en las habitaciones mientras ellas duermen. La precisión de las heridas que les inflige sugiere que es un experto en medicina, por lo que los diarios de Boston y los atemorizados lectores comienzan a llamarlo "el cirujano". La única clave de que dispone la policía es la doctora Catherine Cordell, víctima hace dos años de un crimen muy parecido. Ahora ella esconde su temor al contacto con otras personas bajo un exterior frío y elegante, y una bien ganada reputación como cirujana de primer nivel.

It's almost summer in Cape Vincent, and ex-professional ice hockey superstar Mikko Helle arrives, ready to move into his extravagantly renovated waterfront home. Mikko is thirty, handsome, and wealthy. He's a stranger in town. There's no reason to suspect Mikko is anything other than he seems. Local married mother-of-two Nicole Durham works her connections hard to get hired as his cleaner. She needs this job—and not just because of the money. Nicole is desperate to expose a secret, and she's running out of time.

Alex sabe que Lottie nunca deambulaba sola por un lugar extraño. Entonces, cuando su hija de apenas tres años desaparece de esa idílica boda en la playa, Alex inmediatamente cree lo peor. La desaparición de Lottie se convierte, a los pocos días, en una búsqueda internacional, pero no pasa mucho tiempo antes de que las sospechas recaigan sobre su madre. ¿Por qué no estaba cuidando a su hija?

La sconosciuta che giace sul tavolo settorio dell'anatomopatologa Maura Isles è molto giovane. E molto bella. I lunghi capelli castano ramato contrastano con la pelle chiara, tesa sugli zigomi alti. È stata ritrovata sul tetto di un edificio nella Chinatown di Boston, da un gruppo di turisti in cerca di brividi durante un Ghost Tour tra i misteri e le leggende dell'antico quartiere. Qualcuno le ha sparato un colpo di pistola, poi le ha mozzato una mano.

Louise ha tenido que soportar que su marido, Andrew, que la abandonó hace cuatro años, haya creado una nueva familia. La “otra” es ahora su mujer, pero Louise no está preparada para dejar que Caz disfrute de la vida que una vez fue suya, ni para dejar marchar al hombre que aún ama. Cuando Louise empieza a hurgar en el pasado de Caz, las buenas intenciones de mantener una buena relación entre ambas empiezan a desvanecerse. Mientras cada una de ellas intenta destruir a la otra, descubrirán el espantoso secreto que esconde el hombre con el que ambas se han casado.

It’s meant to be an easy job for Harlow Torrent, Slip Witch: personal assistant to Red Forrest, best-selling cozy mystery author in town for Writerpalooza. But when a man staggers out of an alleyway claiming he was attacked by a monster, Harlow is pulled into a dangerous mystery decades in the making. Between Red running her own investigation, two possible charlatans with a history of faking monsters, Aunt Cass leading expeditions under the mansion, mysterious symbols appearing everywhere, and Jack’s parents in town, Harlow has her hands full.

Former spy Maggie Bird came to the seaside village of Purity, Maine, eager to put the past behind her after a mission went tragically wrong. These days, she’s living quietly on her chicken farm, still wary of blowback from the events that forced her early retirement. But when a body turns up in Maggie’s driveway, she knows it’s a message from former foes who haven’t forgotten her. Maggie turns to her local circle of old friends—all retirees from the CIA—to help uncover the truth about who is trying to kill her, and why.

1517. Il giovane Thomas attraversa l'Europa rinascimentale, in fuga dal suo passato. Sono gli anni che seguono la scoperta dell'America e l'invenzione della stampa, un periodo di profondi cambiamenti che segna ormai la fine del Medioevo. La curiosità per il Nuovo Mondo, che Thomas ha accresciuto con numerose letture, lo conduce in Spagna, dove comincia a lavorare come mercante di libri.

Una rom-com che è molto più di una rom-com: Emily Henry torna a deliziare le lettrici con un romanzo destinato a diventare un classico del romance. Da quando si sono conosciuti, al college, Harriet e Wyn sono sempre stati “la coppia perfetta”: stavano bene insieme come il sale e il pepe, il tè e il miele, il pane e il salame. Poi, chissà perché, le cose sono cambiate. Eppure, nonostante siano passati già cinque mesi dalla rottura, ancora non l’hanno detto ai loro migliori amici. Ed è così che si ritrovano a condividere la stessa stanza (e lo stesso letto!) in un cottage nel Maine.

Her blue eyes wide open, glossed over. A few specks of sand clung to her long, dark lashes. Her beautiful face, immobile, covered in sparkling flecks of sand. Who is the beautiful girl found at dawn, on a deserted stretch of white sand beach? What is her secret? FBI special agent Tess Winnett searches for answers relentlessly. With each step, each new finding, she uncovers unsettling facts leading to a single possible conclusion: Dawn Girl is not the only victim. Her killer has killed before.

After her husband Nick’s tragic death, Ally is barely keeping it together. The once-glamorous architect drowned just steps from their quiet riverfront home and now Ally spends her sleepless nights haunted by grief, guilt, and questions she can’t answer. Her teenage daughter Paige is slipping away, and the house that once held their happy family now feels like a tomb—until Marcy shows up.

Les Denbe semblaient sortir des pages de magazines glamours : un mariage modèle, une belle situation, une ravissante fille de quinze ans, une demeure somptueuse dans la banlieue chic de Boston… Une vie de rêve. Jusqu’au jour où ils disparaissent tous les trois. Pas d’effraction, pas de témoin, pas de motifs, pas de demande de rançon. Juste quelques traces de pas et des débris de cartouches de Taser sur le sol de leur maison. Pour la détective privée Tessa Leoni, l’enlèvement ne fait aucun doute. Mais que pouvait donc bien cacher une existence en apparence aussi lisse ?

Taryn Moore is young, beautiful, and brilliant…so why would she kill herself? When Detective Frankie Loomis arrives on the scene to investigate the girl’s fatal plunge from her apartment balcony, she knows in her gut there’s more to the story. Her instincts are confirmed when surprise information is revealed that could have been reason enough for Taryn’s suicide - or a motive for her murder.

When an unidentified woman is found partially decomposed in the stomach of a Burmese python along with a 9mm bullet, the search is on to find out who she is and who murdered her.

A man with a prison record has no place around a fresh faced college student. Tell that to Rory Prince. He should stay the hell away from Olive Cunningham. There’s one small problem, though. She won’t stop almost getting killed. With this too-smart, too-sweet girl holding his heart in her hands, Rory is powerless to do anything but keep saving her.

Harlow Torrent, part-time journalist and full-time slip witch is hot on the trail of an arsonist. But who is behind the deadly fires? Someone working for their own evil ends or a fire spirit acting according to its nature? Or perhaps a magical power hidden away?

Sophie's new flatmate seems like a perfect fit until small things start to feel off in this fast-paced thriller where obsession turns deadly.

When former spy Maggie Bird retired to the seaside hamlet of Purity, Maine, she settled in for a quiet life with breathtaking views. But enemies from her past soon threatened to destroy everything. Maggie survived, thanks to her wits and the collective intelligence of the Martini Club, the circle of ex-CIA friends in her cocktail-sipping book club. Their handiwork, however, caught the attention of young police chief Jo Thibodeau. Now Jo and her neighborhood ex-spies have an uneasy alliance.