Showing results for "Camera" in Suspense

Un fine settimana di dicembre, il Palace de Verbier, lussuoso hotel sulle Alpi svizzere, ospita l'annuale festa di una importante banca d'affari di Ginevra, che si appresta a nominare il nuovo presidente. La notte della elezione, tuttavia, un omicidio nella camera 622 scuote il Palace de Verbier, la banca e l'intero mondo finanziario svizzero. L'inchiesta della polizia non riesce a individuare il colpevole, molti avrebbero avuto interesse a commettere l'omicidio ma ognuno sembra avere un alibi:

Bretagna, una camera d’albergo d'estate, una storia di amour fou che infrange ogni regola e precipita verso il delitto. Considerato uno dei romanzi più avvincenti di Simenon, si apre con un incipit memorabile: una donna giace nuda sul letto sfatto di un albergo, dopo aver fatto l'amore in un pomeriggio d'estate. I due amanti, la sensuale Andrée e il mite emigrante italiano Tony, s'incontrano da undici mesi nella camera azzurra che dà il titolo al romanzo, dove vivono la loro travolgente passione.

Some say that true evil never dies, it merely lies dormant, awaiting the next opportunity to rise from its dark lair and visit itself upon humankind again. Jack Hunger, a cop in Lee County, Florida, never gave it much thought. He purchased the 20-year-old Pentax K1000 camera at a perfectly respectable thrift store, and it was to be the beginning of a new hobby for the reclusive crime scene photographer.

Windwood Farm has a terrible secret - one that's been buried for nearly 100 years. Taryn Magill aims to uncover it - or die trying. As a mixed-media artist and urban explorer with a love for abandoned houses and a big imagination when it comes to the past, 30-year-old Taryn has never really met an old house she didn't like. In fact, she's made a career out of painting these sad, often derelict structures, to show her clients their former glory.

Konrad Neale is a television presenter. His waning career has been given a new lease of life since he took on a series of hard-hitting documentaries that investigate miscarriages of justice. Matthew Hawley has been convicted of the brutal murder of his wealthy, attractive wife, Helena. However, he has no memory of the events and insists he is not responsible for willingly killing her.

At 34, Nick Walsh is a broken, deeply cynical man. Since the violent deaths of his parents 13 years earlier, he has been living alone in his childhood home in the suburban Midwest, drinking, drugging, and debauching himself into oblivion. A measure of solace is provided by his newly found relationship with Monica, a mysterious woman who seems to harbor as many secrets as he does. Obsessed with understanding the circumstances surrounding his parents' deaths and deranged by his relentless sorrow, Nick begins a campaign of spying on his neighbors via hidden cameras and microphones.

Pat thought she'd left her past behind and started a new life. But one doesn't get rid of voyeurism, obsessions and family quite that easily. Sometimes one has to adopt drastic measures to survive the harassment of a man, particularly a man like Herman. And this time Pat is determined to win, whatever the price.