Showing results for "Requiem" in Suspense

When black-ops asset Nathan Stone took out the heads of the Commission, a secret deep-state organization, he thought he’d destroyed them for good. Now he’s gone off the grid, trying to get as far away from his past as possible. But the Commission isn’t done with him yet. Lying low in a Miami bar, Stone knows something’s up when an alluring actress strikes up a conversation with him. His suspicions are correct. The Commission is hot on his trail, and Stone is soon forced to run deep into the heart of the Everglades with the terrified woman as his hostage.

On a flight from Mexico City, Wanda Stroud sees troubling content on the laptop of a passenger seated ahead of her. The next day, Wanda fails to show up for a coffee date she's made with her friend. Ray Wyatt investigates the story while clinging to his last thread of hope that his son, Danny, is not dead.

It was an open-and-shut case when 18-year-old Hannah Docherty was arrested for the brutal murder of her family; she's been incarcerated ever since. When psychotherapist Frieda Klein is asked to assess Hannah, she reluctantly agrees. What she finds horrifies her.... Frieda is haunted by the thought that Hannah might be as much of a victim as her family. Frieda soon begins to realise that she's up against someone who'll go to any lengths to protect themselves....

The rugged hills and dales have finally found their way into DCI Harry Grimm’s heart. Having accepted a permanent position, he’s concentrating on building his team and keeping them focused on solving cases with painstaking police work. But he’s pulled into a classical vocalist’s world of dark secrets when the superstar chorist is brutally killed. With the body discovered gruesomely suspended from a church tower, Grimm and his cops are confronted by walls daubed in satanic symbols.

New Orleans Requiem is written in Donaldson's unique style: A hard-hitting, punchy, action-packed prose that’s dripping with a folksy, decidedly southern, sense of irony. Add in Donaldson's brilliant first-hand knowledge of forensics and the sultry flavor of New Orleans, and the result is first class forensic procedural within an irresistibly delectable mystery.

Verdell, an excelling student-athlete and highschool senior, is headed for greatness when one bad decision alters his college plans. Dhorian, after highschool, received the internship of a lifetime, but quickly finds out that the opportunity isn’t anything like he expected. Paul is a business mogul turned politician and community advocate. Trying to find their way through triggered memories, Verdell, Dhorian, and Paul become victims of coincidence and circumstances. When a twisted plot of fate weaves their paths, will long-buried secrets bury them?

Elvis Cole and former cop Frank Pike have been partners in a detective agency for 12 years. After an ex-girlfriend of Pike's disappears, the girl's father asks them to help the police with the search. When the missing persons case turns into a hunt for a killer who has been stalking victims in Los Angeles, Cole and Pike find themselves battling both a hostile police department and a madman.

Neil Baggio will go from enjoying the sunsets in Santa Fe to chasing down the trail of international drug ring set on releasing a new drug to the world. Neil, reluctant at first, is forced to get involved when Maria trusts the wrong people. Traveling across the US and the globe, Neil will have to find a new path, new routine, and a new way to survive each day.

The Viking job has to get easier in time, right? That's wishful thinking on Valerie's part. The Jarls keep dropping her and Jacob into problems it would take Heimdall's foresight to unravel. Someone is messing with an inexplicable list of companies right here in America. Their connection is unclear, but Valerie sees Cleopatra behind every move. When will it stop? Is her enemy renting space in her head for free?

It takes a killer to catch a killer. And no one understands the motives of ruthless murderer The Sandman quite like Rhett Voss. Having spent his childhood in the shadows of the deranged lunatic, he's become an expert on the topic. Killing is in his blood, and as a hitman for hire, Voss maintains a steady diet of carnage, himself. Except lately, it's lost its appeal. Until he's enticed to track down the clever Sandman who has his sights set on Nola Tensley.

Eric Delarue, poco piú di cinquant'anni, origini francesi, bello, istrionico, di successo, sposato con una donna ricca: un po' per sfotterlo, un po' per invidia, gli operai della fabbrica di cui era il responsabile lo chiamavano Julio, come Julio Iglesias di cui aveva l'irresistibile sorriso. Chi poteva odiare uno così al punto da sparargli sulla porta di casa?

A young woman falls to her death. The only people with her are four schoolfriends. One - or maybe all of them - is responsible. Twenty years later someone is intent on letting them have their just desserts.

James Beck learned the value of loyalty the hard way. Imprisoned for a crime he did not commit, he developed a keen sense of right and wrong. So when his friend is beaten and killed on the streets of the Bronx, Beck is determined to provide him a measure of justice; a little dignity. But what starts as an investigation into a simple street killing soon turns into something more sinister and complex than Beck could have ever imagined.

Hay muchas formas de acabar con la vida propia. Suicidarse no es simplemente tomar una pistola y jalar el gatillo, tampoco es aventarse desde lo más alto de una construcción. El suicidio es el crimen perfecto, ya que no hay culpable al que perseguir. "Uno no se mata por cobardía como supone el común de la gente. Se mata por valentía y coraje", expresa el protagonista de esta obra de René Avilés.

On ne choisit pas sa famille mais le diable a choisi son clan. Alors que Grégoire et Erwan traquent la vérité jusqu'à Lontano, au cœur des ténèbres africaines, Loïc et Gaëlle affrontent un nouveau tueur à Florence et à Paris. Sans le savoir, ils ont tous rendez-vous avec le même ennemi : l'Homme-Clou n'a pas dit son dernier mot. Chez les Morvan, tous les chemins mènent en enfer.

Tom was already prepared for society's collapse when the nonstop solar storms arrived. He just hadn't planned on the loneliness. When a woman and a little boy show up, they bring with them much more than Tom had bargained for. He'll not only have to battle for his life; he'll need to fight for a reason to live, as he recalls the painful memories and the songs linked to them in Hell's Requiem.

Grégoire Morvan, graue Eminenz des französischen Innenministeriums, hütet dunkle Geheimnisse aus seiner Vergangenheit in Zaire. Dort hatte er in den Siebzigerjahren einen bestialischen Killer zu Fall gebracht. Doch jener "Nagelmann", der seine Opfer einem grausamen Ritual folgend mit Nägeln und Spiegelscherben gespickt zurückließ, scheint einen mysteriösen Nachfolger zu haben. Als eine Serie ähnlich gearteter Anschläge Morvans gesamte Familie bedroht, begibt sich Sohn Erwan, Pariser Polizeikommissar, im Alleingang in den Kongo, um die wahre Geschichte seines Vaters zu ergründen.

Nurse Kit Carson’s life hangs by a thread. The deadly grippe has the town of High Plains under the gun, and an assassin known as the Lone Gunman is delivering his own twisted form of justice. Meanwhile, Sheriff Bully Ratzer is hellbent on winning the governor’s seat, and Balmy Wether comes back to town to expose him. Fiction set in America’s New Wild West.

When we lose everything, we tend to gain nothing back without help and support of loved ones. This audiobook describes the many trials and tribulations through which coma patients go. One would consider this counterintuitive, being that one is considered “unconscious” when in a coma. I can testify personally, however, that when you are in a coma, you are not asleep. It’s a dream sort of state. Most of all, this story tries to convey the message not to give up the tough times for easier ones if it’s not right. Sometimes, we must all bear seemingly unbearable pain.