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

Angie Dovage can tell there's more to Reece Fernandez than just the tall, brooding athlete who has her classmates swooning, but she can't imagine his presence signals a tragedy that will devastate her small town. When something supernatural tries to attack her, Angie is thrown into a battle between good and evil she never saw coming. Right in the center of it is Reece—and he's not human.

It was New Year’s Eve the night that dead blackbirds descended, hours before 14-year-old Alex McCarthy's sister Olivia went missing from a party. Committed to finding out what happened to her sister within the previously safe walls of their subarctic Orkney village, Alex knows that dishevelled, sometimes intoxicated Detective Inspector Birkens is her best shot.

You don't know who you are. But they do. You wake up on the subway tracks in Los Angeles with no memory of who you are. A backpack is at your feet. Inside is a fresh set of clothes, $1,000 in cash, a phone number, and the instructions "Do not call the police." As you try to figure out your identity, the questions swirl. What is your name? How did you get here? What is the meaning of the tattoo on your wrist of a blackbird and the code FNV02198? There is only one thing you know for sure: People are trying to kill you.

Sang Sorenson’s father abandoned her and her sister, leaving them to fend for themselves for months. He’s returned, and finds Sang is missing. He demands she return. Right now. Will he call the police if she doesn’t? Her Academy team doesn’t want to risk losing her ghost status and she doesn’t want to put them in danger, so she reluctantly returns home, but is comforted that she will still be monitored by them.

Los Angeles, mitten in der Rush Hour: eine junge Frau wacht auf den Gleisen der U-Bahn auf mit nichts als einem Rucksack und einem rätselhaften Vogel-Tattoo auf ihrem Handgelenk. Wie sie dort hingekommen ist kann sie so wenig sagen, wie sie sich an ihre eigene Identität erinnert. Sicher weiß sie nur eins: wer auch immer sie dort abgelegt hat, hat es auf ihr Leben abgesehen und wird sie umbringen, wenn sie der Person nicht zuvorkommt. Ein atemloser Wettlauf um die Zeit beginnt, als sie verzweifelt um ihr Leben und ihre Erinnerung kämpft.

Auch im zweiten Teil der Blackbird-Serie ist Sunny vor ihren Verfolgern noch nicht sicher. Nach dem schockierenden Verrat Bens schlägt sie sich nach New York durch, in der Hoffnung sich dort mit weiteren Verfolgten verbünden zu können. Und dann ist da noch das Versprechen von Rafe, dem Jungen aus ihren Träumen, der sie liebt und ihre wahre Identität zu kennen scheint. Doch in New York ist Sunny ebenso wenig sicher und das tödliche Spiel nimmt weiter seinen Lauf und dann taucht auch noch Ben überraschend wieder auf.

Dresden is cursed. His chest houses a hive of bees that he can't stop from stinging people with psychosis-inducing venom. His face is a shifting montage of all the people who have died because of those stings. And he has been this way for centuries—since he was eighteen and magic flowed through his homeland, corrupting its people. He follows harbingers of death, so at least his curse only affects those about to die anyway. But when he arrives in a Midwest town marked for death, he encounters Essie, a seventeen-year-old girl who suffers from debilitating delusions and hallucinations.

A week ago you woke up in Los Angeles with no memory of who you are. The only thing you knew: People are trying to kill you. You put your trust in Ben, but he betrayed you and broke your heart. Now you've escaped to New York City with a boy named Rafe, who says he remembers you from before. But the two of you are not safe. The same people who are after you are tailing Rafe as well.

Blue Riley has wrestled with her own demons ever since the loss of her mother to cancer. But when she encounters a beautiful devil at her town crossroads, it's her runaway sister's soul she fights to save. The devil steals Blue's voice - inherited from her musically gifted mother - in exchange for a single shot at finding Cass.