Resultados para "The Raven" en Policíaca, negra y suspense

I've finally escaped the everyday hell I've dealt with since I was a child. Moving to the small Colorado town of Raven Creek to build a new life felt like the best idea at the time. One of peace, calm nights, and good friends. But when I introduce the hot-as-sin cowboy as my fake boyfriend for one night, everything shifts. The question is, is it for better or worse?

After a nearly fatal blow to the skull, traumatized private detective Ian Cameron is found dazed and confused on a muddy riverbank in Victorian London. Among his effects: a bloodstained business card bearing the name of a master wizard and a curious pocket watch that doesn’t seem to tell time. To retrieve his lost memories, Ian demands answers from Edwina and Mary Blackwood, sister witches with a murky past. But as their secret is slowly unveiled, a dangerous mystery emerges on the darkened streets of London.

Mit einer blutenden Kopfwunde kommt er in einer düsteren Gasse zu sich, neben ihm eine Leiche, in seiner Hand eine Pistole. Keine Erinnerung, kein Name, keine Hinweise auf seine Identität. Ein mysteriöser Zettel in seiner Tasche führt ihn zu dem verschlafenen Städtchen Lyons Creek und einer Frau namens Hope. Seit dem Tod ihres Mannes kämpft Hope Hanson ums Überleben. Mit zwei Töchtern und einer maroden Ranch am Rande des Ruins nimmt sie widerwillig die Hilfe des geheimnisvollen Fremden an, den sie Sam nennt.

Ellie Hawthorne doesn’t believe in ghosts. But that doesn’t mean she isn’t haunted… A young physics professor fighting to keep her lab afloat, Ellie is one funding cut away from losing everything she’s worked for. So when a paranormal society offers her a generous grant in exchange for a three-night investigation of the mysterious Bruker House in northern Maine, she reluctantly accepts. At the secluded estate, Ellie’s skepticism clashes with the investigators’ unorthodox beliefs.

The son of a wealthy plantation owner and a doting mother, Mungo St John is accustomed to the wealth and luxuries his privilege has afforded him. That is until he returns from university to discover his family ruined, his inheritance stolen and his childhood sweetheart, Camilla, taken by the conniving Chester Marion. Fuelled by anger and love, Mungo swears vengeance and devotes his life to saving Camilla - and destroying Chester.

Hollywood Action-Star Jax Dalton will eigentlich nur zu einer Weihnachtsparty in New York fliegen–bis ein Schneesturm seinen Plan komplett durcheinanderbringt. Statt in der Glitzerwelt der Großstadt landet er in dem verschneiten Städtchen Lyons Creek am Fuße der Appalachen. Als er in dem kleinen Friseursalon 'Maggie's Tangles' Zuflucht sucht, ahnt er noch nicht, dass die Begegnung mit der Besitzerin sein Leben verändern wird.

Apprentice Sarah Fisher is helping to fund Dr Will Raven's emerging medical practice in exchange for being secretly trained as a medic, should the rules barring women ever change. Sarah needs no instruction in the inequalities that beset her gender, but even she has her eyes opened to a darker reality when a relative seeks her help in searching for her missing daughter. Annabel Banks was promised a situation in a prestigious household, but there has been no word from her since she left home, and the agency that arranged her position says she never appeared.

Roman Volkov is a devil in human skin. His next mission is revenge, and she is meant to be nothing more than a pawn in his game. But Ayla Aslan sees something human in him—and dares to love. An angel who once thought she could change him quickly learns he doesn't love; he destroys. Yet angels burn devils alive, and Roman realizes too late that she is his obsession, his weakness, his undoing. She has damned him, but he has shattered her heart.

Bartolomeo Rebaudengo e Ardelia Spinola sono una strana coppia. Commissario in pensione lui, pacato, cortese e incline solo al vizio di gola; schietta e ruvida lei, che di mestiere fa il medico legale. Amici da una vita ed ex amanti, non smettono mai di punzecchiarsi, ma insieme sono formidabili. Se c'è un segreto da svelare, un pettegolezzo da confidare, una voce da riportare, la gente di Langa è a loro che si rivolge. Così succede con la telefonata della signora Costanza, di mestiere chirurgo plastico, rimasta l'unica superstite della famiglia Alfieri dopo la morte della madre.

Grace was one of the most decorated sharpshooters in the Marines. He's fiercely committed to righting the wrongs that plague the world and protecting the innocent. But there are too many rules and strict orders in the armed forces the Ravens don't have. Mirage left his world without a trace. He has a brilliant mind and more degrees in science and medicine than one person could ever hope to obtain.

Die engagierte Jurastudentin Katie Lewis entkommt nur knapp einem brutalen Mordanschlag, der ihrem Mentor und Professor das Leben kostet. Erschüttert flieht sie in die Kleinstadt Lyons Creek, um bei ihrer Schwester Zuflucht zu finden. Doch die Geschehnisse lassen sie nicht los. Könnte die tödliche Attacke mit einem alten Prozess zusammenhängen, den sie und ihr Professor gerade untersucht haben? Die Antwort scheint in den Unterlagen zu liegen, die der Professor ihr kurz vor seinem Tod anvertraute.

Lucas Rurik used to be part of the Raven Guild. That is, until someone murdered all of its members—except for him. That was seven years ago. Now, Lucas keeps to himself, avoiding getting too close to anyone lest they become targets themselves. But when one of his oldest friends at the Rift-Crime Unit calls upon him for help with a case that’s already taken down people who mean a lot to him, Lucas can’t resist stepping back into the fray. Something is killing FBI and RCU agents alike—something unlike anything Lucas has ever seen before, on Earth or in the Rift.

Handsome, grumpy local policeman Ben Taylor doesn't believe in coincidences, and he doesn’t think mysterious newcomer Milla Graham is as innocent as she seems. Why is she really here in Raven’s Edge, and how come she keeps turning up at his crime scenes, causing trouble? Can he solve this murder case without losing himself–or his heart–to the rather distracting Miss Graham?

Die Cafébesitzerin Angela Hill gerät während einer Fahrt in den Hügeln oberhalb von Lyons Creek in einen unerwarteten Schneesturm. Zu allem Überfluss bleibt auch noch ihr betagtes Auto liegen. Um der eisigen Kälte zu entkommen, macht sie sich zu Fuß auf den mühsamen Weg zu einer abgelegenen Holzhütte. Vom wilden Schneetreiben völlig orientierungslos bricht sie erschöpft zusammen und verliert das Bewusstsein.

Asher Anderson is angry―at the world, at himself, at the way his best friend Lucy Wolfe seems determined to tune out this buzzing connection between them. He doesn't mean to solve all his problems with violence, but maybe he has too much of his father in him. That's why the faculty at Avernia College hates him, right? Because of the "evil" blood in his veins?

Riviera Ligure di Ponente. Meta turistica di lombardi e piemontesi. Uno di quei posti dove non dovrebbe succedere mai niente. Scompare un insegnante del liceo. Cose che capitano. Ma dopo poco una studentessa di quello stesso liceo viene trovata morta assassinata. Chi conduce le indagini è il commissario di Alassio, Bartolomeo Rebaudengo, un cuneese d'Alta Langa timido, belloccio, che nasconde dietro i modi introversi un carattere d'acciaio. Il suo impegno è condiviso da una squadra di uomini e donne capaci, ma soprattutto uniti dalla stima verso di lui.

She used to chase him. Watched from her window. Broke into his home. Pushed every limit until the cold, controlled man next door finally snapped—and shattered her heart. She thought it was over. That she could erase him, piece her pride back together, and move on. But he won't let her. Now he's the one watching. Obsessing. Hunting her the way she once hunted him. The stalked has become the stalker—and he's just as twisted.

Panik erfasst Jordan Turner, als sie in einem Kleidungsgeschäft verfolgt wird. Ihre einzige Chance: Sie muss so weit weg von Denver wie möglich. Kurz entschlossen flieht sie nach Lyons Creek, einer abgeschiedenen Kleinstadt am Fuße der Appalachen, wo auf einer Ranch eine Melkerin gesucht wird–auch wenn Jordan keinerlei Ahnung von Kühen und noch weniger vom Melken hat. Kaum angekommen, gerät sie ins Visier von Shawn Decker, dem misstrauischen Polizei Chief.

When I transferred to East Point Prep, I had one mission in mind: find the people responsible for murdering Magnolia. Someone within these entitled walls killed my only friend and threw her overboard like she was human trash. Now, they'll pay. My best friend told me everything through weekly emails, leaving coded clues in her simple messages. I know every incident, and I have the names of her bullies—her murderers. Seger, Chase, Zeppelin, Carter, and Ainsley.

Raven, assassin-for-hire, finds her reputation tarnished when a rival steals her contracts out from under her. She goes on the hunt, attempting to track him down before he destroys her name completely. The vultures of the criminal underworld are circling, waiting until she is at her weakest before finishing her off. On top of that, she's being pursued not only by a gang of neo-Nazi meth dealers but a psychotic torturer, who is intent on claiming her magnificent raven feather tattoos as his prize.