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

Frank Schätzings neuer großer Mittelalter-Roman. In seinem neuen epochalen Roman Helden, der den Weltbestseller Tod und Teufel kongenial fortsetzt, zeichnet Frank Schätzing das Bild einer abendländischen Gesellschaft im Umbruch. Vor dem Hintergrund gewaltiger Umwälzungen, in denen bereits die Renaissance und die Neuzeit aufscheinen, im ewigen Spannungsfeld von Macht und Moral, schickt Schätzing seinen Helden Jacop auf einen Höllenritt durch die Geschichte.

Ich habe keinen Anspruch auf sie. Ich bin der uneheliche Sohn, unerwünscht und verachtet. Ophelia Hart ist das Mädchen von nebenan. Ich habe sie aufwachsen sehen–und sie unzählige Male vor meinem Halbbruder gerettet. Zwei Jahre lang war ich aus ihrem Leben verschwunden und als ich ihr wieder begegne, ist sie kein Mädchen mehr. Das einzige Problem ist, dass sie seinen Ring am Finger trägt. Aber zwischen uns war schon immer etwas. Ich war immer ihr Beschützer, vor allem, wenn es um ihn ging. Und dieser Sog ist stärker als je zuvor.

Du kannst ihn nicht heiraten, wenn du schon mit mir verheiratet bist.So machte mir Silas Cruz einen Heiratsantrag–wobei es eigentlich mehr eine Forderung war. Er ließ mir nicht wirklich eine Wahl. Er ist dunkel, eifersüchtig und unglaublich besitzergreifend.Und er ist nur einer der Bösewichte in meiner Geschichte. Und ich dachte immer, er wäre mein Held. Doch eines weiß ich ganz genau–wann immer ich ihn brauche, wann immer ich in Gefahr bin, kommt er, um mich zu retten. Das bewies er wieder und wieder.

A psychopathic criminal on the run from prison. A family of five held hostage in their home. A frantic police manhunt across the snowbound Derbyshire moors. Just one survivor. The definitive account of the terrifying 1977 Pottery Cottage murders that shocked Britain. For three days, escaped prisoner Billy Hughes played macabre psychological games with Gill Moran and her family, keeping them in separate rooms of their home while secretly murdering them one by one.

When Darl Moody went hunting after a monster buck he's chased for years, he never expected he'd accidentally shoot a man digging ginseng. Worse yet, he's killed a Brewer, a family notorious for vengeance and violence. With nowhere to turn, Darl calls on the help of the only man he knows will answer, his best friend, Calvin Hooper. But when Dwayne Brewer comes looking for his missing brother and stumbles onto a blood trail leading straight back to Darl and Calvin, a nightmare of revenge rips apart their world.

Zusammengepfercht in einen engen Raum wird das Warten zur Tortour. Doch warten worauf...

Ein durchtriebener Serienkiller und ein Psychologe unter Mordverdacht: "Kaltblütige Lügen" ist der erste Band der San-Diego-Thriller-Reihe der Bestseller-Autorin Karen Rose, in dem die fieberhafte Killer-Suche der toughen Polizistin Kit McKittrick und des sympathischen Psychologen Sam Reeves für knallharten Nervenkitzel sorgt.

Serial killer Gary Heidnik's name will live on in infamy, and his home, 3520 North Marshall Street in Philadelphia, is a house tainted with the memory of unbelievable horrors. What police found there was an incredible nightmare made real. Four young women had been held captive - some for four months - half-naked and chained. They had been tortured, starved, and repeatedly raped. But more grotesque discoveries lay in the kitchen: human limbs frozen, a torso burned to cinders, an empty pot suspiciously scorched....

Between college, surfing, and girls, Trent was living his best free-spirited life in Miami. He was careful not to let anything complicate that. So, when he met Kate, and they quickly became friends, he made sure to keep it that way. Better to play it safe than to risk losing her to a casual hookup. Kate was an independent girl who loved surfing, shopping, and partying with her friends. Her only hang-up in life was the hopeless crush she had on Trent. She couldn’t believe she had allowed herself to fall for the most unavailable guy she knew.

Die Suche nach dem Mörder Sir Gavvendyles führt die Freunde nach Mordenkain, in die Stadt der Beutel- und Halsabschneider. Unversehens kreuzen sie den Weg der blutrünstigen Bande der Pfähler und müssen sich darüber hinaus noch an eine neue Begleiterin gewöhnen.

Den Banden von Mordenkain knapp entkommen, sollte die Reise mit dem Luftschiff "Luftdrachen“ den Helden nun eigentlich etwas Ruhe ermöglichen. Doch nichts liegt ferner als das! Ein Giftanschlag, ein Assassine an Bord und schließlich sogar die mächtigen Traumspinnen sorgen für eine unvergessliche Reise, die den treuen Hörer an Ereignisse aus einer anderen Welt erinnern könnte.

In der fremdartigen Metropole Sonnenpass suchen die Abenteurer den Uhrmacher und Erfinder Verrocchio auf, um das Artefakt, welches Sir Gavvendyle ihnen hinterlassen hat, zu erforschen. In seiner Werkstatt treffen sie das exzentrische Genie leider nicht an, dafür aber sein bizarres Sicherheitssystem Miracula, welches sie für Eindringlinge hält, die es gnadenlos zu bekämpfen gilt!

Ian McAllister has searched the world over, hunting for that all-elusive perfect photograph. He finds it on a tourist trip to North Korea when he stumbles upon a young street kid foraging for roots. Unaware that this single act will brand him a spy and cost his freedom, Ian takes the shot. Now, he must pay the penalty.

FBI agent Ramon Miguel is fiercely protective of his extended family. A hawk shifter, and eldest son of the flock's leader, it's not just his nature but his duty. When he discovers a young cousin has gatecrashed a party at the lions den, he can only hope to get him out before blood is spilled. The very last thing he expects to find when he enters the fray is his beautiful fated mate.

How far do you go to rescue your child? Paul van Niekirk, a successful white South African is held up at gun-point when driving his new BMW. He's dragged out and his abductor drives off in his car. It's an everyday carjacking. Except his nine-month old daughter is in the back seat. As a pacifist, Paul is reluctant to carry a gun, but he descends into the heart of darkness of his country determined to find his child.

Whenever decorated officer Vishwas Nangre Patil recalls the memories of Diwali from his childhood days, the sounds of firecrackers often transform into the deafening grenade blasts from the night of 26/11. It was his grit, cultivated over the years from the neck-breaking labour of studying for the UPSC exams, that had enabled him to power on and gun down the terrorists inside the Taj Mahal Palace hotel during the 2008 Mumbai attacks.

Step inside a dream which becomes reality. Venture off with Gary, a high school art teacher suffering from insomnia. For 10 years, he’s been keeping the struggle alive for his missing sister Kelly, who disappeared without a trace. When he attempts to get his life back with the help of an experimental pill, he soon finds a dangerous connection between the living and the dead. Now, caught in the clutches of his drug-induced dreams, corrupting him with visions of what really happened to Kelly.

Much like Cinderella, Hollie Simmons was waiting for her Prince Charming but wondering if her life was meant to be anything but a fairy tale. A kindergarten teacher, Hollie was raised to be a lady by her southern mother who passed away when Hollie was young. After a speedy remarriage by her father and more losses than she can count, Hollie is alone in the world with only three cold, abusive stepbrothers.

Ihr neuester Fall führt Dr. Russel Owen und sein Team zur New Yorker Comic Con. Der erfolgreiche Comickünstler Silas Robinson, Erfinder des Superhelden "Asphalt Boy", stürzte aus einem Fenster des Convention-Hotels in den Tod. Suizid oder Mord? Die Spurenlage ist unklar, noch dazu gibt es eine Reihe an Verdächtigen. Die Rechtsmediziner des NYPD haben wieder einmal alle Hände voll zu tun.

When thinking of New Mexico, few Americans think spy-vs.-spy intrigue, but in fact, to many international intelligence operatives, the state's name is nearly synonymous with espionage, and Santa Fe is a sacred site. The KGB's single greatest intelligence and counterintelligence coups, and the planning of the organization's most infamous assassination, all took place within one mile of Bishop Lamy's statue in front of Saint Francis Cathedral in central Santa Fe.