Resultados para "Was" en Policíaca, negra y suspense

En un mundo donde nada es lo que parece, con bandas rivales enfrentadas, dos personalidades opuestas se verán condenadas a entenderse. Donde hubo fuego, siempre habrá pecado, prepárate para arder en él.

Poet Gabriel Syme believes in the beauty of order and, as such, is recruited by Scotland Yard to an anti-anarchist police corp. While undercover, Syme meets fellow poet Lucian Gregory, a verse writer devoted to disorder, who introduces him to London’s anarchist underworld. Just as Gregory is to be elected to the central council, Syme’s cover is revealed and he is forced to make a decision that sends the cabal into chaos. Is anyone in this underground faction who or what they seem? Syme suddenly realizes he doesn’t have all the answers.

Jeder hat Geheimnisse, und Rachel Holloway bildet da keine Ausnahme. Sie hat alles darangesetzt, dass die Vergangenheit dort bleibt, wo sie hingehört: begraben und vergessen. Und bis jetzt ist ihr das auch gelungen. Doch dann will die kleine Zeitung, bei der sie arbeitet, plötzlich einen Podcast über einen Fall produzieren, der zwölf Jahre zurückliegt und nie aufgeklärt wurde: das spurlose Verschwinden der jungen Molly Forster.

In der zweiten Staffel dieses Original Podcasts berichtet der erfahrene Tatortreiniger Thomas Kundt von tragischen und grotesken Fällen, die zu seinem Berufsalltag gehören. Dabei erlangen wir neue Erkenntnisse über die Details und Eigenarten des Jobs als Tatortreiniger, erhalten überraschende Einblicke hinter verschlossene Türen der Nachbarschaft und erfahren mehr über die gesellschaftspolitischen Prozesse, die zum Beispiel Einsamkeit fördern. Außerdem berichtet Thomas in dieser Staffel von der Heimlichtuerei eines ganzen, streng katholischen Dorfes und von schicksalhafter Gier.

A terribly sad love story. Yet in the end, the truth comes from the grave - literally!

What Was It? is a landmark work of supernatural fiction in which terror arises not from apparitions or superstition, but from direct physical evidence of the impossible. The unseen assailant breathes, struggles, bleeds, and can be bound—yet remains utterly invisible. What begins as a nightmare becomes a methodical investigation, as science, logic, and courage are brought to bear on a phenomenon that refuses explanation.

Eine packende und atmosphärische Neuerzählung von Edgar Allan Poes Klassiker „Der Untergang des Hauses Usher“. Als Alex Easton, ein Soldat im Ruhestand, die Nachricht erhält, dass seine Jugendfreundin Madeline Usher im Sterben liegt, eilt Alex augenblicklich zum Stammsitz der Ushers in der abgelegenen Landschaft Ruritaniens. Was Alex dort vorfindet, ist ein Albtraum aus Pilzwucherungen und besessenen Tieren, die einen dunklen, pulsierenden See umgeben.

Sarah has no memories. She just knows she was found, near death, on a beach miles from her London home. Now she is part of a medical experiment to see whether her past can be retrieved. But bad things seemed to have happened before she disappeared. The police are interested in her hidden memories, too. A nice man she meets in the supermarket appears to have her best interests at heart. He seems to understand her - almost as if he knows her.... As she fights to regain her memories and her sense of self, it is clear that people are hiding things from her.

There is someone on the streets of London who will stop at nothing to make a point... As she walks home from work one night, Josephine Thomas is brutally attacked and left to bleed to death. Billy Rucker had known her, briefly, and he soon hears about the tragedy. At the request of Jo's distraught colleague, he agrees to look into the murder.

A story of love, crime and being deceived, by people hiding their true identities for different reasons. This happens in all walks of life sometimes destroying people’s true characters sometimes making them weaker or stronger, because what does not kill you makes you stronger. It’s called character-building, but in which way?

Nat lives a picture-perfect life, but it wasn’t always this way. A victim of horrific bullying when she was a teenager, she will do anything to keep distance between the girl she was before and the woman she is now. But when her best friend is murdered and people begin to point their finger at her, Nat’s new life quickly unravels.

As her brother lies in a coma after a near-fatal car accident, twenty-two-year-old Grace Brighton climbs the Hollywood Sign to make a desperate wish for his recovery. She loses her footing and plummets to the ground below—only there is no impact. Instead, she finds herself the center of attention at a film studio . . . in 1953 Hollywood. Everyone believes she's Alice Montgomery, a rising star she bears an eerie resemblance to, who disappeared just days earlier.

Twenty years ago, Tatia was adopted into a well-off home where she seemed happy, settled. Then the youngest boy in the family dies in an accident, and she gets the blame. Did she do it? Tatia is cast out, away from her remaining adopted siblings Joel and Poppy. Now she yearns for a home to call her own. So when she see families going on holiday, leaving their beautiful homes empty, there seems no harm in living their lives while they are gone. But somehow, people keep ending up dead. Did she kill them?

All good things must end...and thankfully, those things which aren’t so good must end, too. Rona Shively is tired. She’s reaching out to help a friend, but in truth, the well has run dry. There’s nothing left. And she’s thinking it might be a good time to jump ship. Bad thing is, she’s not on a ship...and she’s sinking fast. Will somebody please throw her a lifeline?

A young woman is reunited with the famous father she never knew at a secluded lakeside community hiding nightmarish secrets in this immersive modern-day gothic for listeners of psychological suspense by Mary Kubica, Shari Lapena, and Megan Miranda.

Charles Tremayne is a spy out of his time. After a long career spent rescuing prisoners from the KGB or helping defectors across the Berlin Wall, the world has changed. The Wall has gone, and no longer is there a need for a Russian-speaking ice-cold killer. Nowadays, state secrets are transmitted via satellite using impenetrable blowfish algorithms. Counting down the days to his retirement by babysitting drunken visiting politicos, he is seconded by MI6 for one last case. 

Hope Jones left North Carolina in the rearview mirror. She'd kept a low profile, refused to watch the news and focused on surviving. Healing. But when people start getting sick due to tainted meat in a grocery store, Hope can no longer pretend she's normal. As she tracks down those responsible, she uncovers a conspiracy, angering powerful people who will stop at nothing to protect their interests.

Net curtains twitch furiously, and neighbours have observations to make to Chief Inspector Purbright and Sergeant Love about the inhabitants of 14, Beatrice Avenue. Nice Gordon Periam, the mild-mannered tobacconist, and his rather less nice (in fact a bit of a bounder) lodger Brian Hopjoy had apparently shared the house amicably. But now neither man is to be found, and something very disagreeable seems to be lurking in the drains.... Then a couple of government spooks turn up, one with an eye for the ladies - the drama is acquiring overtones of a Bond movie!

The Whitechapel Murders of 1888 have remained unsolved for over 130 years and hundreds of theories have been suggested as to the killer's identity. Despite numerous books claiming to unmask the infamous Victorian villain, none have come close…until now. The authors of this book are all members of H Division Crime Club, the world's largest body of experts on the Jack the Ripper murders. They have all come together for the first time in history to deliver their own personal research into each suspect and to finally nail down the identity of the man known as Jack the Ripper.

The theft of rare books from Highpointe's collection, plus an attempted murder, and a fatal accident in its library are front-page news. Her board of trustees is looking for answers—and a scapegoat. Can she avoid being their target? Sunday Sloan and Josh Newlon's love blossoms until the unexpected derails their happiness. Meanwhile, Cambridge University's rare book librarian travels to Westbury on business and ends up unraveling his own personal secrets. A jeweled brooch discovered in Westbury Animal Hospital's lost and found causes a decades-old cold case to be reopened.