Resultados para "Was" en Negra y suspense

Nicole Cutty and Megan McDonald are both high school seniors in the small town of Emerson Bay, North Carolina. When they disappear from a beach party one warm summer night, police launch a massive search. No clues are found, and hope is almost lost until Megan miraculously surfaces after escaping from a bunker deep in the woods. A year later the best-selling account of her ordeal has turned Megan from local hero to national celebrity.

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.

El cuerpo del joven Manuel Prieto aparece en el Cerro Garabitas de la Casa de Campo de Madrid el día de Nochebuena de 1952. Gonzalo Suárez, inspector de segunda del Cuerpo General de Policía, se hace cargo del caso. Un caso que, sin saberlo, cambiará su vida tal y como la conoce.

Three years ago, Jacob Price walked away. After a whirlwind steamy affair, my father's best friend broke my heart. He told me things were too complicated. Messy. Wrong. That we could never be together. I knew he loved me, but the fear of ruining our family was too great. With too much at stake, he sacrificed our hearts and ended it. Now, he's back, and he still wants me. He still loves me. But now, I'm engaged to another man.

The past holds no power when the future is you. It took twenty-four years, but Lucy Lincoln finally escaped the twisted religious cult she was born into—Sacro Nuntio. A year later, Lucy still feels shackled to her past–and smothered by her protective sister, Lenix. In an attempt to finally taste real freedom, she decides to take a road trip across the United States. She hopes that embracing new experiences can lead her to discover who she truly is without the weight of others' expectations.

Thirteen years ago, I ran away from a cult, Sacro Nuntio, and became Lenix Taylor. Everyone knows me as a free spirit. No one knows about the horrible sins rotting in my past. Or how I killed the leader of Sacro Nuntio—my father—in cold blood. But the past never stays where it should for long. Now, after all this time, my brother has found me, and is threatening to drag me back to punish me for my crime. Escaping from that life was the hardest thing I've ever done. Staying free proves more difficult than expected when it involves the only person powerful enough to protect me—Connor Maxwell.

Five years ago, I bled to death from a knife to the throat. But I didn't stay dead. I woke up changed, and remembered far too much. I have been haunted by the memories of my past lives ever since. For five years, I've had the illogical certainty that I've spent lifetimes connected to the same soul. Lifetimes of love, heartache, and betrayal. Was I destined to find them again? As fate would have it while seeking revenge for my death, my murderer led me straight to her: Sunny.

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 this well-known classic, a school inspector travelling to the village of Pit End wonders whether the things he’s seeing are products of his imagination or something supernatural. There’s a rational answer, but is it the right one? Was It an Illusion is taken from the Victorian Anthologies series featuring short stories by classic writers of the spooky, the scary and the supernatural. Guaranteed to give you the shivers, each collection includes familiar and loved creepy tales as well as those less well-known. With music by Benedict Edwards.

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.

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

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.

That evening the baker's wife ran down the village street in a tattered pink nightgown. She screamed as she ran. Strange things are afoot in the English village where the Willoweed family live. First, the river floods in June. The family wakes to find ducks sailing around the drawing room and dead peacocks bobbing in the garden. But the flood is only the beginning of their troubles. All of a sudden the miller goes mad and drowns himself. Then the butcher slits his throat. A peculiar illness is spreading through the town and picking off its victims one by one.

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?

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?

One big mistake. One bigger regret. Once the lead singer of a renowned rock band, Joe Jarrett now cherishes a quiet life by the sea. With family as his anchor, Joe's world is on the brink of collapse when historic accusations of rape and murder surface against his band. As Joe is forced to face the consequences of the past, threatening letters from a stalker seeking revenge reach his home. Who is she? Meanwhile, his son's new girlfriend, Edie, conceals her own dark secret.

Twin sisters Cassie and Lenora are inseparable. Ever since that night, they’ve been on their own, and that’s how they like it. As the sole permanent residents of Cabin Two, their refuge on an isolated Tennessee campground, the twins manage to stay away from prying eyes, probing questions, and true-crime junkies. The peace and quiet is almost enough to make them forget what happened all those years ago. Almost. Until a teenage girl camping at the neighboring cabin goes missing, and the memories come rushing back.

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.

Katherine Hope Jones is a seemingly normal woman with a well-paying job. The horror of her childhood carefully hidden away. But after she witnesses an act of animal cruelty, her tightly constructed world comes crashing down as past and present collide.

Writing in England at the turn of the 20th century, G.K. Chesterton was dubbed the "prince of paradox" for addressing serious questions with his light, whimsical style. In this classic allegory, which has captivated generations since it was first published in 1908, Chesterton tackles such profound concepts as honor, truth, and God with insightful humor and colorful enigma.