Resultados para "The Kill" en Literatura y ficción

Lady Darling is a woman "of a certain age." Fifty, to be specific, which, in the eyes of London society, makes her uninteresting, eccentric, and a little intimidating. She's a widow. An empty-nester (all of her children are very successfully married off). She's titled, influential… and very, very rich. Now she just wants to be left alone to enjoy her pets, her gardens, and her books. Until someone turns up dead at a dinner party, and Lady Darling is on the scene. What's a smart, responsible, capable woman to do? Find the killer, of course!

All Systems Red is the tense first science fiction adventure novella in Martha Wells' series The Murderbot Diaries. For fans of Westworld, Ex Machina, Ann Leckie's Imperial Raadch series, or Iain M. Banks' Culture novels. The main character is a deadly security droid that has bucked its restrictive programming and is balanced between contemplative self-discovery and an idle instinct to kill all humans.

It’s the annual hunt for Sloane and her vigilante family of serial killers. Track the most cold-blooded psychos imaginable and take them down. This summer’s prey is Allan Munster, a churchgoing chicken farmer who slaughters more than fowl. The rules of the game: Divide into teams, devise a strategy, and make a move—the more cutthroat the better. May the best team win. The players are closing in. All eyes are on Munster. But there’s a hitch in the family sport this year. Someone might be watching them.

I always figured I’d eventually get killed in my line of work. I just assumed I’d stay dead at that point. I was the one people hired to do the killing, after all. I knew a thing or two about how death worked. So when I was finally taken down during a high-profile hit, I was ready to embrace death with open arms. Except I didn’t fully die. Not yet, at least. Some crazy afterlife system seems to have had me on its radar for a while now, and I’ve just been recruited to kill my way through a whole different world like it is a demented video game.

Una serie de macabros asesinatos de jóvenes que acaban de dar a luz trunca la paz de las tranquilas islas Shetland… Hay una leyenda sobre los habitantes de las remotas islas Shetland: descienden de una ignota raza nórdica que los hace ser admirados por su aspecto… y por sus poderes. Para Tori Hamilton no ha sido fácil trasladarse a una lejana isla del noroeste de Escocia.

Sydney Shaw, like every single woman in New York, has terrible luck with dating. She's seen it all: men who lie in their dating profile, men who stick her with the dinner bill, and worst of all, men who can't shut up about their mothers. But finally, she hits the jackpot. Her new boyfriend is utterly perfect. He's charming, handsome, and works as a doctor at a local hospital. Sydney is swept off her feet.

While eleven-year-old Nora Davis was up in her bedroom doing homework, she had no idea her father was killing women in the basement. Until the day the police arrived at their front door. Decades later, Nora's father is spending his life behind bars, and Nora is a successful surgeon with a quiet, solitary existence. Nobody knows her father was a notorious serial killer. And she intends to keep it that way. `Then Nora discovers one of her young female patients has been murdered. In the same unique and horrific manner that her father used to kill his victims.

Emma Fern has won at life: she's a prize-winning author and she's blissfully happy with her husband, Jim. It wasn't an easy rise to the top, but Emma knows you can't achieve success without sacrifice. The trouble is, Jim knows that too. As her literary triumph starts to fade into the past, Emma comes under pressure to write a second bestseller. But her big secret is that she didn't write the first one. She's a fraud, and the only people who ever knew the truth are...no longer a problem.

Un giorno al Biondo e a Quello con la cravatta capita un incarico che richiede un salto di qualità: l'obiettivo è un arcimilionario, un esponente dell'altissima finanza che vive in una favolosa non-zona sospesa tra Londra e Milano. Incassato l'anticipo, però, piovono le complicazioni, in un ottovolante di equivoci, colpi di scena, incidenti, avventure e sconvolgimenti vertiginosamente intrecciati, in ambienti esclusivi ed extra lusso dove si mischiano fondi di investimento e realtà inconfessabili.

Perla Wultz lives with her husband, Grant, and their precious daughter, Sophie, in a gated Pasadena community. Affluent, sociable, and accomplished, Perla plays the part of loving wife and mother to perfection. It seems an ideal life, if not for a decades-old crime that has become Perla’s dark and consuming secret obsession. Twenty-three years ago, Leewood Folcrum confessed to murdering two young girls during a birthday party. Though he’s been condemned to a life sentence, his crime is not forgotten.

EL DESTINO JUEGA CON LOS CORAZONES, Y A VECES EL AMOR SE VUELVE UNA MALDICIÓN ETERNAEn Frenesí, nos transportamos a Dublín, 1884, donde Killian Gallagher, un antiguo vampiro y magistrado de la zona norte de Irlanda, se cruza con Gabrielle Touré, una joven que se oculta tras la fachada de una solterona. Sin embargo, es su aroma lo que realmente lo atrae, despertando en él una seducción que no sentía desde su juventud, y un impulso que no puede controlar.Gabrielle, quien creció en un orfanato y oculta un oscuro secreto sobre sus padres, sabe que debe huir para salvarse.

Con Diario de un killer sentimental y Yacaré, dos novelas cortas reunidas aquí en forma de libro, Luis Sepúlveda se adentra de lleno en el género policiaco que tanto le ha gustado desde siempre. Si, en la primera, el asesino a sueldo infringe con su enamoramiento todas las normas de su implacable profesión, en la segunda, el investigador de una compañía de seguros no puede evitar saltarse a la torera los límites de su misión, dejándose llevar por su fino olfato de antiguo agente de policía.

La joven periodista Margaret Berry tiene la oportunidad de su vida al entrevistar al asesino en serie más peligroso de la historia. Atila Collins, un joven y prometedor político y abogado, que se convirtió treinta años antes en el hombre más buscado de Estados Unidos, ahora está a punto de...

La novela relata una intriga sorprendente sobre una serie de asesinatos en plena época nazi, con la figura omnipresente de Heydrich, considerado el heredero de Hitler y muerto en 1942. Klaus Rotter, miembro de las SS y antiguo inspector de policía, es detenido en mayo de 1945 por soldados británicos. Al interrogarlo, descubren que es un elemento importante de los servicios secretos del Tercer Reich e íntimo colaborador en su día de Reinhard Heydrich.

Un professionista è sempre un professionista, ma la giornata era iniziata male: a Madrid faceva un caldo infernale e la sua amichetta francese l'aveva piantato come un cretino per un tizio incontrato a Veracruz. La compagnia di una buona bottiglia di whisky e di una mulatta che si portava dietro tutta l'aria dei Caraibi non gli aveva risollevato l'umore, quella ragazzina viziata dai fianchi sodi e dalla bocca rossa lo aveva proprio messo a tappeto. In fondo, dietro i modi da duro lui era un killer sentimentale.

Is someone systematically killing the judges called to the British Columbian bar? At least one has been murdered and several have disappeared. Arthur Beauchamp returns from retirement once again to take on the case, this time defending his former nemesis, backwoods poet Cudworth Brown. He finds himself chasing all kinds of leads, including tracking down a mystery novel that Brown’s unreliable former lawyer has been writing, just as Beauchamp’s own wife, Margaret, has announced her candidacy for the Green Party.

"The First Kill" is a bit of backstory for the universe of The Shadow Campaigns. The Shadow Throne implies a connection between Andreas, Duke Orlanko's brutally efficient go-to killer, and Sothe, the Gray Rose, his best agent turned bitter enemy. In this story, we get to see these two at an earlier point in their careers, and take a look at how that relationship got started.

Un thriller absolutamente apasionante en el que Sarah, la valiente heroína del best seller internacional Huérfana, Monstruo, Espía, se lanza a la cacería de un médico alemán rebelde en Centro América, que bien podría ser un peligroso asesino en serie.

I Stockholms parker försvinner unga flickor som senare hittas våldtagna och mördade. Rädslan sprider sig i staden och för varje dag som går ökar risken för ett nytt dåd. För Martin Beck och hans spanare verkar läget hopplöst - tills en ledtråd visar sig bli värdefull... Maj Sjöwall och Per Wahlöös boksvit Roman om ett brott har blivit internationella klassiker och stilbildande inom sin genre. De tio böckerna utkom mellan 1965 och 1975. Mannen på balkongen är den tredje boken i serien. Bonusmaterial: Maj Sjöwall presenterar romanen.

It’s Halloween night, and out-of-work writer Goldie Monroe’s trip to the drugstore scares up more than the fake blood she’s looking for. It leads to the man of her naughtiest dreams. And in spite of her costume, sparks fly from the moment they meet. Noah Adler, aspiring sneaker designer, is impossibly gorgeous—like a tatted-up version of Goldie’s favorite blue-eyed vampire. He’s there for candy, but it’s Goldie he can’t resist. When she invites him to her sister’s F/X company bash, he’s all in without a second thought.