Showing results by author "Jodi Picoult" in Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Jodi Picoult's poignant number one New York Times best-selling novels about family and love tackle hot-button issues head on. In The Storyteller, Sage Singer befriends Josef Weber, a beloved Little League coach and retired teacher. But then Josef asks Sage for a favor she never could have imagined - to kill him. After Josef reveals the heinous act he committed, Sage feels he may deserve that fate. But would his death be murder or justice?

Police chief Cameron McDonald has lived in idyllic Wheelock, Massachusetts for most of his life, as has his beloved wife Allie. Their comfortable lives are thrown into tumult, however, when Cam's distant cousin Jamie arrives in town along with his wife's dead body. Jamie admits to the murder - a mercy killing to end the pain caused by a ravaging cancer. And now Cam is torn by his oath to uphold justice and his family obligations as chief of the Scottish McDonald clan.

Number One bestselling author Jodi Picoult returns with her compulsive new novel - about the lengths we go to for those who have left us behind; about the staying power of love; and about how three broken souls might have just the right pieces to mend each other. Jenna Metcalf was with her mother the night she disappeared in tragic and mysterious circumstances, but she remembers nothing.

An intricate tale of love, haunting memories, and renewal, Second Glance begins in current-day Vermont, where an old man puts a piece of land up for sale and unintentionally raises protest from the local Abenaki Indian tribe, who insist it's a burial ground. When odd, supernatural events plague the town of Comtosook, a ghost hunter is hired by the developer to help convince the residents that there's nothing spiritual about the property.

The discovery of a dead infant in an Amish barn shakes Lancaster County to its core. But the police investigation leads to a more shocking disclosure: Circumstantial evidence suggests that 18-year-old Katie Fisher, an unmarried Amish woman believed to be the newborn's mother, took the child's life. When Ellie Hathaway, a disillusioned big-city attorney, comes to Paradise, Pennsylvania, to defend Katie, two cultures collide - and for the first time in her high-profile career, Ellie faces a system of justice very different from her own.

A handsome stranger comes to the sleepy New England town of Salem Falls in hopes of burying his past: Once a teacher at a girls' prep school, Jack St. Bride was destroyed when a student's crush sparked a powder keg of accusation. Now, washing dishes for Addie Peabody at the Do-or-Diner, he slips quietly into his new routine, and Addie finds this unassuming man fitting easily inside her heart. But amid the rustic calm of Salem Falls, a quartet of teenage girls harbor dark secrets - and they maliciously target Jack with a shattering allegation.

When his cousin Jamie arrives at the police station with the body of his wife and the bald confession that he's killed her, Cam immediately places him under arrest. The situation isn't as clear to Cam's wife, Allie. While she is devoted to her husband, she finds herself siding against Cam, seduced by the picture James paints of a man so in love with a woman that he'd grant all her wishes. Even the one that meant taking her life.

When Chris wakes up in hospital, Emily is the first person he asks for. She is the love of his life. But Emily is dead, and Chris is the sole witness to what happened in the park that night. He claims it was a suicide pact: they were both meant to die. Then the investigation turns up motive for murder, and there is only one suspect....

There is no doubt that Jamie Macdonald killed his wife. But was it murder, or mercy? The case divides the small town of Wheelock. For Police Chief Cameron Macdonald, there's no question that he should be tried and face life imprisonment for Murder One. But Jamie's victim was dying of cancer. He claims she asked for his help to die. And there are those who believe he has suffered enough....

Tiefe Verzweiflung erfasst die junge Katie. Doch in der kleinen Amisch-Gemeinde von Lancaster County kann sie niemandem ihr Geheimnis anvertrauen. Deshalb betet sie zu Gott, dass das hilflose Bündel vor ihr im Stroh für immer aus ihrem Leben verschwinden möge - und steht wenig später unter Mordverdacht. Vor dem faszinierenden Hintergrund der Lebenswelt einer Amisch-Gemeinde erzählt Jodi Picoult von Liebe und Tod, Verrat und bewegender Treue: ein meisterhafter psychologischer Thriller und die Geschichte einer mitreißenden Freundschaft zweier ungewöhnlicher Frauen.

"Es ist vorbei, sagte er. Doch das war es nicht, es fing gerade erst an." Nach seiner unaussprechlichen Bluttat in der Sterling Highschool zweifelt niemand an der Schuld des 17-jährigen Peter Houghton. Doch während der kleine Ort mit den Folgen dieser 19 Minuten zu ringen hat, wird das Rätsel um den Ablauf der Tragödie immer größer... Die Bestsellerautorin Jodi Picoult lotet die Hintergründe von großer Schuld und der verzweifelten Suche nach Gerechtigkeit aus.

For more than a decade, Jenna Metcalf has never stopped thinking about her mother, Alice, who mysteriously disappeared in the wake of a tragic accident. Refusing to believe she was abandoned, Jenna searches for her mother regularly online and pores over the pages of Alice’s old journals. A scientist who studied grief among elephants, Alice wrote mostly of her research among the animals she loved, yet Jenna hopes the entries will provide a clue to her mother’s whereabouts.

Nichts erinnert mehr in Salem Falls an die berüchtigten Hexenjagden, die dort einst Angst und Schrecken verbreiteten. Als es Jack St. Bride in dieses neuenglische Provinzstädtchen verschlägt, möchte er nur eines - seine eigene Vergangenheit für immer begraben. Im Café von Addie Peabody findet er Arbeit, und schon bald wird Jack unentbehrlich in Addies Laden - eine ungewöhnliche Liebesgeschichte beginnt. Doch dann erscheint die junge Gillian, der übersinnliche Kräfte nachgesagt werden.

Ross Wakeman wünscht sich nichts sehnlicher, als zu sterben: Nachdem er mit ansehen musste, wie seine große Liebe bei einem Unfall ums Leben kam, versucht er, ihr in den Tod zu folgen - vergeblich. Dann riskiert er einen anderen Weg, um mit Aimee Kontakt aufzunehmen: Er widmet sich der Geistersuche, immer in der Hoffnung, seine Frau wiederzufinden. Doch dabei stört er nicht nur die Ruhe der Verstorbenen, sondern auch die Geister seiner eigenen Vergangenheit.

Die erfolgreiche Staatsanwältin Nina Frost hat über 200 Fälle von Kindesmissbrauch verhandelt. Dennoch gerät sie völlig aus der Fassung, als sie erfährt, dass ihr eigener Sohn, Nathaniel, missbraucht worden ist. Als es zum Prozess kommt, geschieht ein tödliches Unglück - und das bisherige Leben von Nina Frost und ihrer Familie droht für immer vorüber zu sein.

Zwei Töchter im Teenageralter, zwei alleinerziehende Väter, ein Showdown in einer Frauenklinik in Jackson, im Bundesstaat Mississippi: Ein militanter Abtreibungsgegner dringt in die Klinik ein, eröffnet das Feuer und nimmt Geiseln. Polizeiunterhändler Hugh McElroy soll den Geiselnehmer davon überzeugen, sich zu ergeben. Während der Verhandlung zeigt sich, dass sich McElroys eigene Tochter in der Klinik befindet. Das absolute No-Go in der Polizeiarbeit. Im Lauf des nervenaufreibenden Gesprächs erkennen die beiden Männer, dass sie einiges gemeinsam haben.