Resultados para "ghost" en Policíaca, negra y suspense

Everyone warned me away from Ghost, but I saw something in him that they didn't. Or so I thought. When I surprise him at the Serpents of Chaos Clubhouse, the fairy tale I'd created in my head disappears in front of my eyes. I learn the hard way that the club always comes first. But when his past...

What begins as a bizarre barroom gimmick quickly becomes a supernatural nightmare. Inside a historic Southern theater turned bar, a sharp-tongued lawyer offers customers a free beer in exchange for their souls. Finger pricks. Blood signatures. A joke designed to attract attention—until the dead begin showing up to collect.

She spent three Seasons learning to see the people no one counts. Now the dead have started to notice. Lady Cordelia Vane is a dowerless earl's daughter and a connoisseur of being overlooked. From the shadow of the third column she catalogues every debt, cut, and secret in the ballroom—and not one soul catalogues her back. Then Felix Carrow, the richest catch of the Season, slips out of the supper room and turns up dead. Poison, the physician decides. Misadventure, society agrees. Case closed.

A burned-out American dropout turned rising star, he plays the clubs under the name VESPER and composes with the help of MUSES, a superintelligent AI that finishes his hooks before he can think them. Then, one night in the small hours, the machine tells him something no machine should know: that Napoleon Bonaparte begged with his dying breath to be buried on the banks of the Seine, that he lies instead in the wrong grave a mile from the water, and that the Emperor will never rest until someone carries him home to the river.

He tried to save one little girl. He failed. Now she won't leave him alone. Joey Twobears is a truck driver, a combat veteran, and a man who knows trouble when he sees it. A routine delivery to an isolated Colorado farm leads him to a terrified six-year-old Navajo girl—and into the path of men with everything to lose. Joey tries to save her. They kill her. They nearly kill him. But Joey survives. Then he starts seeing the girl again. Ghost? Hallucination? Joey doesn't know.

Just because she can see the dead doesn’t mean Verity Long wants to spend her days hunting ghosts. Instead, she’s over the moon to land a marketing job at the local bank…until she finds her new boss dead in the vault. Even her ghost friend, Frankie, knows that's no way to start a career. Relieved to let the police take charge, Verity steps aside, bound and determined to keep her ghost sightings to herself. But when she learns the main suspect in the murder is a very crooked, very dead mobster, Verity knows it's up to her to solve the case.

Una mansión abandonada en Irlanda muestra signos de estar embrujada, incluyendo lo que parece ser el goteo de sangre desde el techo, y varios hombres que han sido encontrados muertos dentro la casa. ¿Es una broma o una aparición? Carnacki recluta a un grupo de hombres locales corpulentos para investigar, junto con varios perros, y tratan de pasar la noche dentro de la mansión. Durante su Odisea las puertas se azotan, se apaga el fuego, un perro muere y el grupo huye de la casa aterrorizado.

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. A young man determined to prove that ghosts do not exist accepts a challenge that takes him into an old English manor and its infamous Red Room. The room has a disturbing history, and those who have tried to spend the night there have met with...

Some ghosts linger, not to haunt…but to be heard. It's been a year since Kate Morgan's husband left, and her once bestselling career as a cozy mystery author has slowed to a crawl. With just her corgi, Ralph, as company, the only craft Kate's been honing lately is the art of avoiding real life. Then she hears about Fannie McKay—"The Lady in White," the ghost of a young woman who took her life after her rum-running lover, Jacob, left her over a century ago.

Kevin Mitnick, the world’s most wanted computer hacker, managed to hack into some of the country’s most powerful—and seemingly impenetrable—agencies and companies. By conning employees into giving him private information and maneuvering through layers of security, he gained access to...

Australian writer Emma Callander has been recruited to complete the final historical mystery in a series by celebrated author Iris Blackburn. It’s 1964, and Iris’s memory is fading. She’s certain that only Emma can do justice to her novel about a murder on the Isle of Skye. When Emma ventures to Scotland for research, she discovers it isn’t fiction at all, but rather a true crime unsolved for more than fifty years.

The case is closed. The record is not. Owen Marlow is back in Portland on no one's authority but his own. His contracting chain runs through a supervisor now on administrative leave—a suspension he triggered. He has no badge, no institutional standing, and no official role in the investigation. What he has is Rourke, a Portland detective who trusts his read, and a case that has sent him a note. The note was found at the third victim's scene. It was addressed to him. Mr. Marlow. You are reading the vocabulary correctly. You are reading the grammar incorrectly.

Verity Long doesn't want to see ghosts, and she'd rather not let anyone know her little secret, either. But when a restless spirit stirs up trouble in her friend's resale shop, Verity and her very new, very dead gangster friend team up to learn what is really happening. They discover an age-old secret, and must learn the truth behind a mysterious disappearance… before it's too late.

August 1942. Crofter's Green's favorite sleuths are headed for the Kent coast—where one of Britain's strangest wartime secrets lies hidden behind shuttered boarding houses and blacked-out promenades. Off the cliffs of Folkestone, just twenty-one miles from enemy territory, a mysterious "ghost fleet" rides at anchor: a flotilla of ships built from wood and canvas, designed to convince Hitler that invasion may come at any moment.

After bank manager Jonathan Ward inherits an old manor, strange things begin to happen. During his first night at the property, a beautiful young woman appears outside his door, pleading for help. Moments later, she has disappeared. Strange apparitions and unearthly sounds follow, as does the young woman seeking refuge.

A haunted library is no place for a girl who can see ghosts, but when Verity Long stumbles on a dead body in the middle of the main reading room, she has to believe someone…even a dead someone…must have witnessed the crime. Her ghostly sidekick Frankie warns her to stay out of it. The very alive, very handsome deputy sheriff, Ellis Wydell, inadvertently places her directly in the middle of it. And her ex-fiancé, Ellis’s brother, is back with an agenda of his own.

When out of work graphic designer Verity Long accidentally traps a ghost on her property, she’s saddled with more than a supernatural sidekick—she gains the ability see spirits. It leads to an offer she can’t refuse from the town’s bad boy, who also happens to be the brother of her ex and the last man she should ever partner with.

In the winter of 1943, a train from Warsaw bound for the Treblinka death camp went missing. Now, in modern-day Poland, the train still haunts the countryside, luring people to leave their homes and step aboard. A group of American travelers with a penchant for ghost hunting decide to look into the disappearances, only to discover a plot that could change the world, and that the Ghost Train's origins reach much further back than the Holocaust.

Keith Chen, the second son of a traditional Taiwanese family of seven, runs away from the oppression of his village to Berlin in the hope of finding acceptance as a young gay man. The novel begins a decade later, when Chen has just been released from prison for killing his boyfriend. He is about to return to his family's village, a poor and desolate place. With his parents gone, his sisters married, mad, or dead, there is nothing left for him there. As the story unfurls, we learn what tore this family apart and, more importantly, the truth behind the murder of Chen's boyfriend.

DC Scott Cullen of Lothian and Borders CID has only been in the job three months. Young, eager to please and desperate to do good. So a missing persons should be an easy case to solve. Right? Fresh from a messy divorce, Caroline Adamson’s future is finally looking up. Her son seems happy and she’s dating again. Trouble is, Cullen can’t find Caroline or the man she met on Schoolbook, the latest social network taking Edinburgh by storm.