Showing results for "Angelique" in Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

After a heart attack, Mathias Taillefer wakes up in hospital with a stranger at his bedside. The mysterious girl reveals herself to be Louise Collange, a volunteer who has come to play the cello for patients. When she finds out Mathias is a cop, she asks him to take charge of a very special case. Her mother, a former ballerina at the Paris Opera Ballet, died last year after falling from her balcony, and Louise has a hunch she was pushed. Though hesitant at first, Mathias agrees to help her, sending them both headfirst into a deadly chain of events.

Back when they were students, Simon and his friend, Ray, had dreams to become rock stars. Fifteen years later their mid-30s are bearing down fast, and they're having to accept a less glamorous life. Ray takes refuge from his responsibilities by living a virtual existence in online games. People say he needs to grow up, but everybody finds their own way of coping. But for Simon it's serial murder, mass slaughter and professional assassination.

Their eyes met across a crowded room. She was just a poor servant girl, and he was the son of a rich industrialist. Er, no, this is a Christopher Brookmyre novel, although the eyes meeting across a crowded room part is true. Where it differs from the fairy tales is that the room in question was crowded with hostages and armed bank robbers, and his eyes were the only part of him she could see behind the mask....

Parigi, Natale 2021. Dopo un infarto, Mathias Taillefer si sveglia in una stanza d’ospedale. Una ragazza sconosciuta è al suo capezzale. È Louise Collange, una studentessa che suona il violoncello per allietare i pazienti in corsia. Quando Louise scopre che Mathias è un poliziotto, gli chiede di occuparsi di un caso molto particolare che la riguarda da vicino. All’inizio riluttante, Mathias accetta infine di aiutarla, e presto i due si ritroveranno uniti in una spirale che si stringe pericolosamente intorno a loro.

"I'll give you all the dirt darling." K.C. Gordon can't wait to find out what her old school friend Angelique means by this cryptic comment. But before they meet, someone cuts short the life of international model Angelique Lanci in a hail of bullets. Loved by few, despised and envied by many, Angelique instigated infidelities, salacious gossip, betrayal, and jealousy. But did she deserve to be gunned down in her own home?

In the aftermath of World War II, Private Curtis Dagley is thrust into a mission he never expected—returning stolen cultural treasures to Poland, a nation scarred by war and trapped under Soviet control. Among these treasures is the Veit Stoss Altar, a priceless symbol of Polish identity. But when a single act of chaos implicates Curt in a shooting he didn’t commit, he makes a fateful decision: to take the blame to protect his comrades and prevent a political disaster.

Lestari Aris is a woman on the edge. Her tattoo studio on Karangahape Road is hammered by burglaries; the hangers-on in her life, from a teenage runaway to a married cop, are bonded to her for reasons she can’t fathom. And years after Lestari’s father disappeared, her Indonesian mother is still lost in a self-medicated blur. When a murder in Symonds Street Cemetery whirls Lestari into the orbit of an unpredictable drug, she uncovers a decades-long covert clinical study targeting rough sleepers and others on the fringes – and its dark connections with her own life and history.

Ellie is fiercely strong and independent. She knows what she wants and goes after it. Peter is strong and endearingly handsome. His motives are clear and above reproach. Once he commits himself to something he goes all in, be it love or war. He is an FBI agent. She owns one of the most successful spas in Boca Raton. They shared one earth-shattering kiss before Peter ran away with Ellie's heart. More than a year has passed, but in their hearts they both knew they would see each other again. The day finally came, Peter was back, a bit broken, but all man.

Retrouvée dans la remorque d'un camion en Allemagne à la frontière polonaise, Martha est incapable de se souvenir de son identité. Personne ne sait comment elle est arrivée là. Son amnésie est totale. Et quand on lui présente son mari et son fils, quand tout prouve qu'ils sont sa famille, elle rentre près du lac d'Annecy et découvre sa vie passée.Mais au fil du temps, quelque chose cloche. Elle ne se reconnaît pas dans cette vie qu'elle doit apprendre.

Une tache rouge sur l'oreiller, juste sous les cheveux de sa maman, morte sous les coups de son mari. Voilà ce que le petit garçon a vu, à cinq ans... Pour survivre, Kyle se jette à cœur perdu dans la musique, que sa mère aimait tant. Vingt ans après, devenu leader d'un groupe de rock, il est célèbre dans le monde entier. Mais inapte au bonheur.

A powerful Czech multimillionaire, Radovan Krejcir fled his home country shortly after his arrest in 2005 on charges of fraud. He arrived on South Africa’s shores in 2007, travelling under a fake name with a false passport, and avoiding extradition through pay offs. Krejcir fast began to make a name for himself within South Africa’s underworld, but it was the murder of Teazer’s boss Lolly Jackson in 2010 that brought his name to public attention.

Dans la campagne écossaise du XVème siècle, Ava, une jeune fille que rien ne préparait à subir les pires atrocités, se retrouve aux prises d'un juge sadique et obsédé : Lord Thorburn. C'est dans ce contexte désespéré, qu'elle se liera d'amitié avec Isla, une autre victime de la folie du juge, et qu'elle fera la rencontre de Kieran Thorburn, d'où naitra un amour impossible et dangereux.

This is a collection of 10 stories inspired by real murders that took place in old New York. The details behind the murders, in almost all cases, left the city wondering what happened. Over 100 years later, these crimes remain unsolved to this day. Sit back and enjoy, because, maybe, this is what really happened.

As her best friend, Abby, struggles to cope with the sudden loss of her husband, Rei and her closest girlfriends take her to a beautiful lakeside house nestled in the forests of the Pacific Northwest, hoping that a weekend of support from long-time friends will help Abby along her road of emotional recovery. But as the young women get settled, Rei begins to notice there’s something wrong with the place. Could this peaceful, idyllic location be hiding an ancient evil below the waters of the lake? Or are the problems wholly within Abby herself, who seems to be losing her grip on reality?

A mysterious hologram virus occupies our detective, Mike Lambert, while his exotic heroine, Dr. Helene Troy, runs for president and takes firm stands on issues such as population, jails, education, wars and environment. Mike is the average macho male detective who must remove his ego blinders if he is to win the fair Dr. Troy and join the futuristic movement for which she stands.

2018. La vie de Jo vole en éclats suite à ce qui ne semblait être qu'un banal accident sans gravité ; pourtant, un scanner révèle qu'un anévrisme risque de se rompre à tout moment. Le neurologue lui laisse le choix : elle peut être opérée, mais les risques sont importants. Persuadée qu'elle va mourir, Jo se réfugie chez Victor, son grand-père. Ce dernier va lui montrer un pendentif qu'il a reçu d'Angleterre quelques années plus tôt, avec pour seule explication ce mot griffonné sur une feuille : "De la part de Charlotte, qui n'a jamais oublié Gabriel".

Serena wants what ever girl wants, love, but her parents showed her a different type of love. She desperately tries to understand what love really is when growing up in an abusive household. She vows to always protect her mother and brother from the wrath, that is her father.