Resultados para "The Dress" en Negra y suspense

Fifteen-year-old Gustine is a "dress lodger", a young prostitute who rents a beautiful blue dress from her landlord to attract a higher class of clientele. To make sure she earns her fees and to keep her from running off with his fantastical gown, her pimp has set a malevolent old woman, known only as "the Eye", to follow her through the back alleys of Sunderland.

Cecilia Carboni ha venticinque anni e per buona parte della vita si è ritrovata a seguire, suo malgrado, i diktat imposti dal padre Alberto, uno dei più quotati avvocati milanesi. Proprio per volere suo, si è laureata in Giurisprudenza e ha iniziato il praticantato nello studio legale di famiglia. Il suo futuro sembra già delineato, quando un giorno le viene rivolta una proposta allettante: lavorare nel prestigioso showroom di Franco Sartori, uno degli stilisti più celebri al mondo.

Once upon a time, Jonathan West lost his best friend, Ansel, under horrific circumstances. Or, at least, he thought he had. On a warm summer night, he finds himself reunited with the dead man - and hunted by a hideous entity that occupies Ansel's body.

An elderly woman, recently bereaved and virtually disowned by her only son, ponders over the meaning of her very existence...leading to tragic consequences.

When Harriet Peters came to Boston in 1882, the Robinson family took her in as one of their own, and Harriet became closer to Lizzie Robinson than her own siblings. Now, four years later, Lizzie is deathly sick, failing quickly just like several others in her family have done over the past few years. How can so many in one family die from the same mysterious illness? Harriet doesn’t have answers, but she is determined to help the family, bringing in a new-to-the-neighborhood doctor, Michael Wheaton.

I awoke this morning in what appeared to be a strange house and I lay between unfamiliar sheets trying to remember exactly where I might be. I was not especially worried at first.

When Kester fulfills his mother's dying wish and meets his father, he is thrown headlong into the family business: catching supernatural spirits. 

A wealthy old man laid up in the hospital is desperate to understand the last months of his daughter's life before she was killed in a car crash in Mexico. It was puzzling. She'd cleaned out her considerable bank account, left Miami and hadn't been heard from again. Travis McGee ventures into the steep hills and strange backwoods of Oaxaca through a bizarre world of dropouts, drug freaks, and kinky rich people - and begins to suspect the beautiful girl's death was no accident.

Detroit Police Detective Russ Baker is in charge of Cold Cases and with his partner, Mary, and their ghostly friend and partner, Wes Loomis, they have to solve murders to be able to send the victim's spirits to the hereafter.

Brought to you by Penguin. At the wedding of the century, a brazen kidnapper steals the star of the show... Erin Easton's wedding in one of New York's biggest venues may have a TV crew documenting every extravagant detail, but when the bride disappears from the reception, it's no diva turn. Her...

Security expert Austin Flint knows all about trouble. He fought it while serving in the Marines, and now he battles it at home as the head of Six Points Tactical & Security. In his line of work, he can’t afford to be distracted by anything… or anyone, and that includes Nina, his cyber security expert. She’s got a chip on her shoulder, a smart mouth. And a body that just doesn’t quit. She’s also his employee, which makes her off limits, no matter how badly he wants her.

Following the death of his wife, Paul moves with his young daughter Hope to the Peak District. When he finds a menu card from a past family holiday to the Caribbean he is immediately haunted by visions of a young girl. As memories are stirred, Paul discovers that the menu from the cruise ship Oriana is covered in personal messages from the ghosts of his childhood...and one particular address catches his eye.

Read by the author, The Long Black Dress is a short tale of gothic horror told by a young woman returning to an empty home after her husband's funeral. In the oppressive and sentient silence of the hollow house, she descends into grief-fueled memories of their relationship and its tragic end, culminating in a haunting ending.

A remote hotel. A murder mystery. A missing woman. Everyone has a role to play, but what’s real and what’s part of the game? “Jilly Gagnon’s well-crafted maze of clues and shifting realities is the perfect read for fans of Lucy Foley.”—Wendy Walker, bestselling author of All Is Not...

A psychopathic killer lurks in Miami’s shadows, snatching and murdering young auburn-haired women. Strangely, they are killed without trauma and left clad in frilly prom-style dresses. Miami’s crack homicide detective, Al Warner, is on the case, but the killer has left few clues. Why were these girls taken and then executed? Was he intent on killing redheads, or was there some other connection? And why were their bodies so carefully arranged in peaceful repose, wearing prom dresses?

Disaster strikes the perfect wedding preparations! A bridal gown savagely torn and splurged with paint. A confused couple targeted by a hostile stranger. This sounds like a perfect case for Molly Gertrude Grey. Michelle and Brian seem to be the perfect match, until an unexpected break-in leaves them reeling and thrown headlong into a mystery. Who would target a couple’s happiness only days before they tie the knot?

Quiet misfit Rose doesn't expect to fall in love with the sleepy beach town of Leonora. Nor does she expect to become fast friends with beautiful, vivacious Pearl Kelly, organizer of the high school float at the annual Harvest Festival parade. It's better not to get too attached when Rose and...

James Patterson’s BookShots. Short, fast-paced, high-impact entertainment. Can a little black dress change everything in her life? Magazine editor Jane Avery spends her nights alone with Netflix and Oreos – until the Dress turns her loose. Suddenly she's surrendering to dark desires, and New...

Human traffickers make their victims live a nightmare beyond comprehension every day. A sadistic human trafficker in central Alabama holds his ladies tight until the chance at freedom falls into one girl's lap when an accidental overdose paves the path for escape. A private investigator conducting illegal surveillance finds himself entangled with the world of pay-by-the-hour women and a depravity he hadn't expected to see.

Veata did not expect any special surprises for her eighth birthday, especially the surprise of being sold into slavery.