Resultados para "The Hole" en Negra y suspense

In this tense, gripping novel by a star of Korean literature, Oghi wakes from a coma after causing a devastating car accident that took his wife's life and left him paralyzed and badly disfigured. His caretaker is his mother-in-law, a widow grieving the loss of her only child. Oghi is neglected and left alone in his bed. His world shrinks to the room he lies in and his memories of his troubled relationship with his wife, a sensitive, intelligent woman who found all of her life goals thwarted except for one: cultivating the garden in front of their house.

A teenage boy and his dog face an unimaginable evil in this coming-of-age horror novel. Seth Granger returns home from summer camp to find that there’s something wrong with the people in his small town. Even his dog is behaving strangely. His mother is distant and distracted, but she may have a very good reason: her husband, Seth’s abusive father, has been murdered and dismembered—and several of his limbs have gone missing. This brutal murder is only the latest in a long line of strange occurrences in the tight-knit community.

Año 2000. En Oslo aparece en plena calle el cadáver degollado de un viejo militante nazi. Harry Hole, que tras cometer un grave error ha sido reasignado a los servicios secretos, percibe los puntos en común entre este crimen y el contenido de un informe de los muchos documentos aburridos que pasan por sus manos a diario: alguien compró un rifle Märklin, un arma extremadamente cara y precisa usada por grupos neonazis.

Il corpo massacrato di un poliziotto è ritrovato alle porte della capitale norvegese, sulla scena di un crimine rimasto irrisolto e su cui lui stesso aveva indagato. Qualche tempo dopo viene scoperto il cadavere di un suo collega: stesse modalità di esecuzione, stesse coincidenze. A questo punto non può essere un caso, ed è chiaro a tutti che l'assassino ha appena cominciato. Fermarlo è un lavoro per Harry Hole. Ma di Harry Hole non c'è traccia. Nesbø utilizza tutti gli ingredienti chiave di un thriller mozzafiato con saggezza e vivacità. Smettete di diffidare, immergetevi e godetevi la corsa.

After 25 years in prison for a senseless juvenile murder, Gordon Loomis returns to a changed world. His old neighborhood is blighted by drug dealers and neglected property. His brother, Dennis, a successful oral surgeon, tries to help but is torn by his own fears and failings. Gordon's persistent visitor, the flamboyant Delores Dufault yearns to be part of his new life, but he is as afraid of relationships as he is of being sent back to jail.

Hoping to promote the Glass Dolphin antiques shop, co-owners Arabella Carpenter and Emily Garland agree to sponsor a hole in one contest at a charity golf tournament. The publicity turns out to be anything but positive, however, when Arabella’s errant tee shot lands in the woods next to a corpse. They soon learn that the victim is closely related to Arabella’s ex-husband, who had been acting as the Course Marshal. With means, opportunity, and more than enough motive, he soon becomes the police department’s prime suspect, leaving Arabella and Emily determined to clear his name.

July 1989, in a sleepy Michigan town, high school grad Nina Laramie heads out with her friends and is never seen alive again. Months later, her skeleton is found near a remote party spot in the forest. The ME determines Nina has been brutally raped and bludgeoned to death. Fear and anger ripple through this tight-knit community when the case goes cold. Thirty years later, Riley St. James, a Detroit PD assigned to Nina’s case, is determined to get her first big cold case win despite having a similar past to the victim.

La única mujer a la que ha logrado amar, Rakel, lo ha echado de su vida. Ha sido readmitido en la policía de Oslo, sí, pero en un departamento infecto, lejos de los casos que sí quiere investigar: por ejemplo, devolver a la cárcel a Svein Finne, el sanguinario violador múltiple al que atrapó hace un puñado de años y que acaba de cumplir condena.

Harry Hole es enviado a Sydney desde Oslo para que investigue el asesinato de una mujer noruega, Inger Holter, cuyo cadáver ha sido encontrado entre oscuras rocas, al pie de un acantilado. La policía sospecha que fue violada antes de morir, pero no se ha hallado rastro alguno de ADN. Harry Hole tendrá como compañero de investigación a Andrew Kengsinton, detective aborigen australiano.

Cuando Harry Hole se marchó a vivir a Hong Kong creyó que su vida cambiaría para siempre: dejaba atrás su pasado en Oslo y su carrera como detective. Sin embargo, un acontecimiento del todo insospechado le hace regresar una vez más a su ciudad natal: Oleg, el niño que ayudó a criar y a quien tanto quiso, ha sido arrestado, acusado de asesinato.

El embajador noruego aparece asesinado en un burdel de Bangkok. El embajador mantenía relaciones muy cercanas con el primer ministro noruego. En Oslo, para evitar el escándalo, tratan de desviar la atención hacia el ministro de Asuntos Exteriores... Harry Hole, alcoholizado y adicto a la vitamina B12, llega a Bangkok con instrucciones claras: silenciar el caso. ¿Será necesario ocultar pruebas? Harry descubre que el caso esconde otras tramas siniestras: se trata de un asesinato mucho más complejo de lo que a priori parecía.

A pair of witches teach an abusive man a lesson on Halloween night. This is a short story that is great to put you in the Halloween mood.

Alice Montgomery goes missing in 2015. Seven years later, her best friend Hannah is bouncing from job to job, city to city, forever feeling the need to outrun something, but unsure what. With the niggling need to move nipping at her heels, Hannah decides to return home–a small coastal town in Western Australia–for the first time since she left, to help her mum after surgery and confront their fractured relationship.

Alice Armitage is a police officer. Or she was. Following a debilitating bout of PTSD, self-medication with drink and drugs, and a psychotic breakdown, Alice is now a long-term patient in an acute psychiatric ward. Though convinced that she doesn't really belong there, she finds companionship with the other patients in the ward despite their challenging and often intimidating issues. So when one of her fellow patients is murdered, Alice feels personally compelled to launch an investigation from within the ward.

Told from a Grandfather's perspective, Fraidy Hole follows the unconventional life of his Granddaughter, Arlo, as she navigates the pitfalls of adolescence into adulthood, paired with the unfortunate events that unfold while she is being influenced by an unusual leader into her darkness, her best friend, Bast. Together, they are torn between hiding in and trying to escape the Fraidy Hole.

In 1964, when Ned Parker, farmer and part-time constable, is summoned to a cornfield one hot morning to examine the remains of a tortured bird dog, he discovers that there is a dark presence in their quiet community of Center Springs, Texas. Ned is usually confident handling moonshiners, drunks, and instances of domestic dispute. But when it comes to animal atrocities—which then turn to murder—the investigation spins beyond his abilities.

After aspiring novelist Jake Conley regains consciousness from a coma, he discovers he’s affected by synaesthesia and that his now cross-wired brain endows him with heightened psychic powers. Jake’s research on the Northumbrian king Aldfrith takes him to Elfrid’s Hole in North Yorkshire, where - as legend relates - the king sheltered after a bloody battle. What Jake doesn't realize is that his investigation has unleashed a series of deadly paranormal events in which Jake himself becomes the prime suspect.

La primera nevada cae en noviembre este año en Oslo. La mañana siguiente, al despertarse, un niño no encuentra a su madre en casa. Se le hace raro encontrar su bufanda favorita colgando del cuello de un muñeco de nieve que alguien ha hecho en el jardín. El detective Harry Hole empieza a sospechar que hay un psicópata suelto, desde hace demasiado tiempo, cuando descubre que un alarmante número de madres y esposas han desaparecido en circunstancias similares, tras caer la primera nieve.

Harry Hole se ha mudado a Los Ángeles, ya nada le retiene en Noruega después de perder todo lo que daba sentido a su vida. Allí lo rescata de su deriva alcohólica Lucille, una veterana actriz de cine que, a cambio de su protección, le ofrece un techo, un traje a medida y unos zapatos de lujo. Mientras, en Oslo, ha aparecido muerta una chica a la que buscaban hacía días, después de acudir a una fiesta organizada por Markus Røed, un magnate inmobiliario que era su sugar daddy.

Las cámaras de seguridad de un banco captan cómo un atracador dispara a bocajarro a la cajera tras un extraño intercambio de palabras. El detective Harry Hole se hará cargo de la investigación, con la ayuda de Beate Lonn, una de las investigadoras más desconcertantes del cuerpo de policía, capaz de identificar rasgos faciales mucho más rápido que cualquier programa informático, pero incapaz de moverse en sociedad. Todas las pesquisas remiten a Raskol Baxhet, un legendario atracador. Sin embargo, es imposible que sea el culpable porque cumple condena en prisión.