Resultados para "The Confession" en Literatura de género

A BRAND NEW pulse-pounding psychological thriller from M. A. Hunter ⚠️👀 If you like Claire Douglas and Lisa Jewell then you will LOVE this! 📚🩸 'I loved this rollercoaster ride of a novel, full of unexpected twists and turns. Read it in one sitting!' - Jill Childs How far would you...

When Father Henry McGrath hears a confession that sends a cold chill throughout his body, he’s unsure what to do. To divulge the private confession would violate holy canon law. When he refuses to go to the police, people begin to die, and the priest becomes the prime suspect. Elizabeth Monroe, a college professor who teaches forensic psychology, doesn’t believe the elder priest fits the killer’s profile. Elizabeth discovers a frightening thread woven within each killing - a thread that began 30 years ago.

Katie Lapp's identity has been shattered ever since she was painfully torn from her close-knit community in the frightening ordeal called the shunning. Katie, now Katherine Mayfield, sets out to find the ailing birth mother she has never known. Her journey takes her to places where electric lights and telephones set Katherine's mind whirling with "fancy" things and where she stumbles into a world of betrayal, where the plain garb of the Amish is misused to disguise an evil conspiracy.

A Sunday Times bestseller and Richard and Judy Book Club pick. The Confession is an absorbing tale of secrets and self-discovery and the search for truth spanning three decades, from 1980s Hollywood to present-day London. From Jessie Burton, the million-copy bestselling author of The Miniaturist...

On his 50th birthday, Peadar Gibbons, a seemingly inoffensive amateur poet walked into a West of Ireland garda station, went up to the counter, and told the officer on duty that he had some things to get off his chest. Disbelieving that he could ever have caused anyone any harm, the officer sent him home and told him to write it all down. What emerged two months later was described by the force as "the most elaborate written admission they had ever received".

Alfred de Musset, una delle figure emblematiche del romanticismo letterario, nacque a Parigi nel 1810 e morì a 47anni per una malattia cardiaca aggravata dall’alcolismo e dalla sua dedizione all’assenzio. In questa sua opera autobiografica, scritta a 26 anni, narra il suo amore con la scrittrice George Sand. Cornice musicale: Notturno Op 37 No 2 di Chopin. Please note: This audiobook is in Italian.

Copeland Cane V, the child who fell outta Colored People Time and into America, is a fugitive. He is also just a regular teenager coming up in a terrifying world. A slightly eccentric, flip-phone loving kid with analog tendencies and a sideline hustling sneakers, the boundaries of Copeland’s life are demarcated from the jump by urban toxicity, an educational apparatus with confounding intentions, and a police state that has merged with media conglomerates - the highly rated Insurgency Alert Desk that surveils and harasses his neighborhood in the name of anti-terrorism.

Shortlisted for the Costa Novel Award 2019. Tobi and Ella's childhood in East Berlin is shrouded in mystery. Now adults living in London, their past isn full of unanswered questions. Both remember their family's daring and terrifying attempt to escape, which ended in tragedy; but the fall-out...

Unico erede di una ricca famiglia borghese, figlio di genitori anaffettivi, Termeer si convince, fin dagli anni dell'adolescenza, di essere vuoto, inadeguato alla vita. Al destarsi dei sensi gli approcci con le donne sono disastrosi. Sposa Anna, figlia del suo ex tutore, che accetta il dovere coniugale e l'infelicità che ne consegue. D'altro canto lo stesso Termeer vive il matrimonio come una trappola e alterna alla seduzione della musica la frequentazione tormentata dei postriboli. Anna gli rinfaccia di non avere né amici né di provare veri sentimenti: lo disprezza e lui lo sa.

En 1833 Musset rencontre George Sand, avec qui il entretiendra une relation passionnelle et tumultueuse, source d'une grande inspiration créatrice. De fait, la douleur est au centre de la créativité de l'auteur, et la souffrance vive qu'il ressent pendant sa relation avec Sand et à la suite de leur séparation lui inspirera plusieurs chefs-d'œuvre.

The Seal of Confession is the latest breathtaking espionage thriller from the author of Selling St. Christopher. Clemmie, a life-worn shadow operator for the British Secret Service, is accompanied by her team of young misfits, as they investigate the murder of a Russian Orthodox priest in London. However, their mission is anything but routine, and they are soon contending with a riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma.

A house on a quiet street on the south side of Glasgow. Neat, terraced homes with manicured lawns and pruned trees. Not the sort of place that reeks of decay or where dead bluebottles pile up on a windowsill. When the police break in, there’s a surprise in store for them. They find Julie Campbell’s decaying body at her desk, her laptop open beside her. She’s a well-liked, respectable woman. On the laptop is a confession – to five murders.

Anna Rossi walked away from Alec Flynn to keep her family and friends safe. But she can't protect her heart from him, no matter how hard she tries.... Time has done nothing to quell Anna's need for Alec. She knows that she did the right thing by walking away; the constant media attention that Alec's been getting for testifying against Maxim Stein and Force Enterprises is evidence enough of that.

“One of the best historical series being written today.” —Washington Post “Todd once and for all establishes the shell-shocked Rutledge as the genre’s most complex and fascinating detective.” —Entertainment Weekly The Confession is historical crime fiction at its finest, continuing...

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER In this “grab-a-reader-by-the-shoulders suspense story” (The Washington Post) from “the master of the legal thriller” (USA Today), an innocent man is about to be executed—and only a guilty man can save him. WINNER OF THE HARPER LEE PRIZE FOR LEGAL...

"Fans of John Grisham will find much to like here." —Library Journal Confession is good for the soul, but it could mean death to an ambitious young lawyer. Assistant DA Holt Douglas has made a career of getting confessions from criminals. With a confession in hand, he knows a guilty plea is...

Il mio nome è Tosca ed è anche la mia condanna. Molto tardi ho compreso quanta responsabilità abbia avuto sulla mia vita, sulle mie felicità e infelicità. Ma io non ho nulla da rimpiangere, nessun rimorso, solo l'orgoglio d'aver vissuto a modo mio. È Tosca a raccontare in prima persona la...

Fans of Stephen King and Joe Hill that like to listen to audiobooks like The Bird Box and The Haunting and can't get enough stories about serial killers are going to enjoy listening to The Asylum Confessions. The majority of these killers are expert manipulators. I realize they could be playing me and messing with my head. It's a chance I'm willing to take. And now...they might just be playing with yours too.

Each night brings another dying soul with a secret heavy enough to drag the dark closer: a toymaker obsessed with broken children, a woman who decided which kids never came home, a man whose holiday ledger ended in blood, and others who carried their sins far too long.

They arrive alive. They always leave dead. But first, they give me their confession. You know by now my name is Jack Steen, and for those who arrive on my "death" ward at the Asylum, I'm the last face many will see before they die. I am the night nurse at an Asylum for the Criminally Insane, and most of my patients know me as their Angel of Death. I know them as mass murderers, rapists, and serial killers—among other things. Here's what happens: they come on my floor, they give me their deathbed confession, and I help to make their death less painful.