Showing results for "Game On" in Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

When Stephanie Plum is woken up in the middle of the night by the sound of footsteps in her apartment, she wishes she didn’t keep her gun in the cookie jar in her kitchen. And when she finds out the intruder is fellow apprehension agent Diesel, six feet of hard muscle and bad attitude whom she hasn’t seen in more than two years, she still thinks the gun might come in handy. Turns out Diesel and Stephanie are on the trail of the same fugitive: Oswald Wednesday, an international computer hacker as brilliant as he is ruthless.

Aslan Kennedy has an idyllic life as leader of a spiritual retreat for wealthy holidaymakers on one of the Caribbean's most unspoilt islands, Saint Marie. Until he's murdered, that is. The case seems open and shut: when Aslan was killed, he was inside a locked room with only five other people, one of who has already confessed to the murder. Detective Inspector Richard Poole is hot, bothered, and fed up with talking to witnesses who'd rather discuss his aura than their whereabouts at the time of the murder.

The rules of the game are simple: survive 24 hours and earn more money than you could possibly imagine. The only catch? You’ll be hunted like an animal. Trapped on a tropical island, Sean Marshall is surrounded by lunatics who want his head. Marshall will not prove an easy trophy. He has skills. Skills that make him dangerous to those out for his blood. But the hunters in this game won’t play fair. The island is also home to predators thought long extinct, and Marshall is soon pursued by ravenous beasts with a prehistoric hunger.

Byrdie, a graduate of art school, decides she's sick of living on a shoestring. After reading books on success, and learning how to bring about what one desires, it's Game On. She creates a painting of what she wants to achieve and it ushers in the life she'd envisioned. When she lands a lucrative dream job in financial investments, it comes with more luxuries than she'd ever imagined. Along with the mansion, maid, fancy car, and clothes, comes the knight in shining armor who hired her.

Part caper, part romantic comedy, this hilariously entertaining book in the Bod Squad series features a sassy and sexy undercover operative, Susannah “Legs” Carter, and her Ocean’s Eleven-style team of private investigators. From Washington, DC, to Paris, Legs is tailing Charles Oakley Palmer III, a white-collar criminal she’s determined to bring to justice. But will romance or betrayal blossom along the way?

Got a problem? Odds against you? Call the Equalizer. McCall’s first client is a distraught mother who is desperate to locate her young daughter, drawn into the shadowy world of white slavery. But this client may not be all she appears to be.

The zombie plague unleashes its horrors on the suburbs of Atlanta without warning, pitting the living against the dead. Caught in the mass exodus, Lilly Caul struggles to survive in a series of ragtag encampments and improvised shelters. But the Walkers are multiplying. Dogged by their feral hunger for flesh and crippled by fear, Lilly relies on the protection of good Samaritans by seeking refuge in a walled-in town once known as Woodbury, Georgia. But Lilly begins to suspect that all is not as it seems....

Christmas Eve, 1971... Five-year-old Billy Chapman witnessed his parents brutally murdered by a man disguised as Santa Claus, leaving him and his little brother to be raised in a strict Catholic orphanage ruled by the sadistic Mother Superior.

Jessica Fletcher is quick to accept an invitation to replace a speaker who couldn’t attend a Book Festival in Belfast, Ireland. When her Cabot Cove neighbor Maeve O'Bannon hears about the trip, she asks Jessica to deliver some paintings to her family in the village of Bushmills. Happy to extend her travels and see more of the Irish countryside, Jessica agrees.

The streets are about to explode…and Puyallup’s local paranormal investigator Jimmy Kincaid is caught right in the middle of it. The neighborhood’s criminal syndicates are on the brink of all-out war, and if they go at it, the streets will run red—literally. But Jimmy’s got more problems. Someone’s sending him a particular message by sending him severed limbs. And then there’s the hitmen coming after him. Last but not least, he’s got to broker a deal between the biggest elven street gang in Seattle and a vicious Triad gang—and not get himself killed in the bargain.

Ein Serienmörder versetzt eine ganze Stadt in Angst und Schrecken. Seine grausamen Taten sind nicht nur das Werk eines eiskalten Verbrechers, sondern auch eine makabre Inszenierung, die die Ermittler an ihre Grenzen bringt. Detective Jonas Müller, ambitioniert und entschlossen, nimmt die Herausforderung an, doch schnell wird klar: Dieser Täter spielt nicht nach den Regeln. Unterstützt von der brillanten Kriminaltechnikerin Eva Hartmann, taucht Jonas in ein Netz aus Lügen, Symbolen und tödlichen Rätseln ein.

Er will ein Spiel mit dir spielen. Und der Einsatz ist dein Leben. Genialer Nervenkitzel mit furiosem Finale! Als Officer Cole Hudley das Gebäude des Radiosenders SiriusXM betritt, um der berüchtigten Talkshow-Moderatorin Jordan Briggs einen Strafzettel zu überbringen, ahnt er nicht, dass sein Tag eine tödliche Wendung nehmen wird. Denn als ein Fremder während der Live-Sendung anruft und ein scheinbar harmloses Entweder-Oder-Spiel mit der Moderatorin spielen will, detonieren plötzlich mehrere Bomben rund um New York City.

The new VI Warshawski novel from the New York Times best-selling author pits acclaimed detective VI Warshawski against some of today's most powerful figures. Legendary sleuth VI Warshawski returns to the Windy City to save an old friend's nephew from a murder arrest. The case involves a stolen artifact that could implicate a shadowy network of international criminals. As VI investigates, the detective soon finds herself tangling with the Russian mob, ISIS backers and a shady network of stock scams and stolen art that stretches from Chicago to the East Indies and the Middle East.

Er will ein Spiel mit dir spielen. Und der Einsatz ist dein Leben. Genialer Nervenkitzel mit furiosem Finale! Als Officer Cole Hudley das Gebäude des Radiosenders SiriusXM betritt, um der berüchtigten Talkshow-Moderatorin Jordan Briggs einen Strafzettel zu überbringen, ahnt er nicht, dass sein Tag eine tödliche Wendung nehmen wird. Denn als ein Fremder während der Live-Sendung anruft und ein scheinbar harmloses Entweder-Oder-Spiel mit der Moderatorin spielen will, detonieren plötzlich mehrere Bomben rund um New York City.

The Walking Dead series of original novels, set in the universe of Robert Kirkman's iconic comic, reaches its crescendo in The Fall of the Governor, Part Two. From coauthors Robert Kirkman, creator of the Eisner Award winning comic book and executive producer of AMC's blockbuster TV series, and Jay Bonansinga, Stoker award finalist and internationally acclaimed author, comes the gripping fourth and final novel in this richly woven literary saga, which began with The Walking Dead: Rise of the Governor.

The year 2065: The streets are abandoned, shops are empty, parks are silent. But is that really much of a surprise when you can connect to the Cybernet? Everyone can turn on, log in, and drop out.

Mitzy Moon hopes to earn some girlfriend points on a scenic weekend getaway. Steaming off on a historic train with her handsome beau seems like the perfect way to outrun fate. But their 1920s-themed sleuthing party abruptly derails when they discover an actual corpse. Now they’re on the wrong side of the tracks, and Mitzy and her sheriff will have to solve the case before the guilty party disappears at the next depot. With a list of suspects as long as the cast of characters, she’ll need to push her powers to the boiling point before more tickets get lethally punched.

Ten years after a fiery raid kills her family, former cult member Sybilla “Billie” Laure has a completely new identity. She’s settled in rural Colorado with her daughter, hoping for a quieter life. But the world has other plans. With wildfires raging and birds dropping from the sky, Billie wonders if her cult leader father’s apocalyptic predictions are finally coming true. When an intruder murders her husband and kidnaps her daughter, Billie has no choice but to confront the secrets of her past.

Jeden Morgen pendelt Rachel mit dem Zug in die Stadt, und jeden Morgen hält der Zug an der gleichen Stelle auf der Strecke an. Rachel blickt in die Gärten der umliegenden Häuser, beobachtet ihre Bewohner. Oft sieht sie ein junges Paar: Jess und Jason nennt Rachel die beiden. Sie führen - wie es scheint - ein perfektes Leben. Ein Leben, wie Rachel es sich wünscht. Eines Tages beobachtet sie etwas Schockierendes. Kurz darauf liest sie in der Zeitung vom Verschwinden einer Frau - daneben ein Foto von "Jess".

This is the story of the "Skinny Bandit" - a whiter-than-cocaine kid from the gang-filled streets of Otay in San Diego - who robbed banks to eat and ironically no longer needs banks because of his steady success in Bitcoin trading and other cryptocurrencies.