Showing results for "Ring" in Suspense

DCI Monkia Paniatowski has seen dozens of murder victims in her time, but nothing could have prepared her for the corpse in the woods. It is not so much that the man’s throat has been slashed that shocks her, nor even the way he is naked – it is the way he has been carefully posed. Paniatowski has been assigned a new sergeant, who she does not entirely trust. Worse yet, an old enemy from the secret service announces he will be monitoring her every move.

Claire leads a busy, fulfilled and happy life, a life she wouldn't trade for anything...but that is about to change for ever. When Claire fails to prevent a young woman's suicide, the incident seems to trigger something in her - forgotten images of a long-lost sister and a childhood she had always remembered as being close to perfection. Realising that this was not the case, Claire runs the risk of uncovering the dark secrets that are locked away in her memories.

Beatrice Poole may be a vicar's daughter, but that doesn't mean she's a stranger to the darker passions. Indeed, she knows enough about gothic terrors to have carved out a highly successful career penning "horrid novels." But now the talented authoress finds herself in the midst of an ominous adventure that rivals anything she's ever written.Her beloved Uncle Reggie is dead, Beatrice suspects that he was murdered - all because of his keen interest in a fabled treasure that may not even exist. Rumors abound that the Forbidden Rings of Aphrodite, said to give their possessor the most unnatural powers, have surfaced in London. Yet Beatrice needs more than rumors to uncover the truth. That's why she's braved the wilds of Devon to seek out a leading authority on antiquities and ancient legends: The famously eccentric, unquestionably reclusive, possibly dangerous Earl of Monkcrest, a man believed to dabble in the supernatural.But bearding the Mad Monk of Monkcrest in his den and dangling the possibility of uncovering a fabulous artifact before him may be the biggest mistake of Beatrice's life. For suddenly, she finds herself joined in an uneasy alliance with a man who is every bit as fascinating as one of the heroes in her novels.

When English accountant Daniel Elliott dies in a car accident one rainy night, his widow, Grace, is overcome with grief... and panic. Daniel was controlling and their marriage loveless, but he always took care of the sheltered Grace. Or so she thought. She soon discovers Daniel kept secrets: an alias, mob ties, a list of numbers, a mysterious beach house in Florida... and a girlfriend who looks like Grace. Swallowing her fear, she flies to Miami to claim the house Daniel left her. But the price of her curiosity is peril.

Some secrets should stay buried. The number-one New York Times best-selling author of The Inner Circle delivers the third novel in the blockbuster Culper Ring Trilogy. Beecher White, a humble archivist at the US National Archives by day, has a secret: he belongs to the Culper Ring, a network of spies founded by George Washington during the American Revolution. Over the course of his time working for the Culper Ring, White has discovered countless secrets....

The Taskforce—a highly clandestine Special Forces unit—faces public exposure. The release of the Panama Papers left a trail that could compromise the organization. Yet there's even more at stake than the Taskforce's own anonymity. A lethal attack is in motion. The chaos that ensues distracts the Taskforce from even deadlier information. The Panama Papers hold a secret more explosive than any attack, if only the Taskforce could see it...

Tomás Nevinson has left the secret service and returned to his old job working in the British Embassy in Madrid. Assumed dead by his wife Berta, Tomás attempts to resume his previous life and heal from his psychological wounds. But when he is contacted by his old boss, Bertram Tupra, Nevinson reluctantly becomes involved in a plan to locate and eliminate a woman believed to have helped orchestrate the 1987 Hipercor bombing. Detonated by the ETA, a Basque separatist group, the bomb killed 21 people and injured 45.

천재적인 피아니스트 백동우는 교통사고로 왼손에 부상을 입지만 상대편 차량의 일가족이 사망하는 참사를 목격한다. 5개월 후, 꿈의 무대로 불리는 카네기홀에 입성하나 교통사고 후유증인 국소성이긴장증이라는 경련 증상이 도져 연주를 망치고 만다.

Hotel owner C.C. Dixon has a beautiful fiancée and a mysterious million-dollar debt. Before he can embrace his future, he'll have to sort his past. Or die trying.

Detective Finnegan Beck is called to a crime scene - a remote house near the rural Irish town of Cross Beg - where a dog lies whimpering beside his beloved owner’s body. At first it looks like a burglary gone wrong. But Beck spots something his colleagues didn’t. The victim, Eddie Kavanagh, was wearing his smartest clothes. He’d brushed his hair. And, on closer inspection, a small velvet box containing an engagement ring is discovered in his pocket, along with a letter to a nameless woman, which seems to suggest she’s in danger.

Treachery causes Gwyneth Fairchild's world to crumble. The daughter of a British general, she barely saves her life by fleeing London aboard a ship to America. Her goal is to find refuge with the Lane family in Maryland, having been told by her father she could implicitly trust Winter and Bennet Lane, even though their nations are once again at war. After meeting their son, Thad, she wonders how safe she truly is when she discovers that the Lanes trade in a dangerous commodity - espionage.

The reported theft of a family heirloom sends officers Ceepak and Boyle racing to Sea Haven, New Jersey's Mussel Beach Motel to investigate. At the scene of the crime, Danny and Ceepak run into something much worse than a burglar: the DePinna family reunion! Narrator Jeff Woodman returns in this exclusive audio short story production.

A young woman is found dead at a local beach. Sergeant Bill Granger, the local policeman, is called in to investigate. He had hoped for a quiet off-season. Instead, what seems to be a straightforward case of an unfortunate death turns into a complex web of small-town secrets and desire for revenge that will soon place Bill's family in danger. With Niko Sopoaga, a young South Auckland constable working alongside him, Bill falls into the dark and dangerous world of drug distribution and a hardened motorcycle gang wreaking havoc, while they chase a clever killer.

Detective Sean Trann hates trials. They are his least favorite part of putting a criminal behind bars. But he’s looking forward to the trial of the serial killer they’d named “Spider.” However, once the testimonies begin, the witnesses’ cryptic words start to wreak havoc in Sean’s life. Without knowing who to trust, how can he keep himself, and those he cares about, from Spider’s extensive influence?

Una giovane regista decide di indagare sulla strana storia del villaggio dove abitava sua nonna... Nell’estate del 1959, il piccolo villaggio minerario di Silvertjärn è stato teatro di un evento inspiegabile: i suoi novecento abitanti sono svaniti nel nulla, lasciandosi dietro soltanto una città fantasma, il cadavere di una donna lapidata nella piazza del paese e una neonata di pochi giorni abbandonata sui banchi della scuola. A distanza di decenni, la regista Alice Lindstedt si lascia ossessionare da questa storia.

The Ring of the Witch: The Curse of Apollo was an exciting project that originated in social media. The story was not written as a traditional novel (narrative prose), but in a style that resembles more a stage script - making the audio adaptation an amazingly unique experience! The talented narrator that worked with us did more than 25 different voices and accents - which even included a few lines in Greek and German.

A sinister organization has burst out of nowhere, their roots forged in old Russia, but with a modernized ideology and global aspirations. Violence and destruction are unleashed, plunging the world into disarray and revealing powerful connections. Those in the intelligence community scramble to catch up, as some of their own were unveiled as sympathizers.

One man, five lives, ring fenced and separated: Bennie, loving husband and father; Benjie, beloved youngest son; Ben, successful corporate banker; Benjamin, millionaire author and publisher of pornography; and Jamie, dynamic part-time lover of a beautiful musician.

Uno dei romanzi più amati di Michele Navarra, con protagonista Alessandro Gordiani, qui giovane avvocato incaricato della difesa di un uomo accusato di omicidio.Un’auto viene ripescata dalle acque del lago di Bracciano, alle porte di Roma. All’interno del bagagliaio il cadavere di Giuseppe Finotti, un uomo misteriosamente scomparso tempo prima.

Tobia Allievi si troverà a indagare su uno dei casi più criptici della sua carriera. Sono stati ritrovati, in ordine: il corpo di una ragazza punk, delle lettere dell’alfabeto posizionate in un apparente disordine, il poster di uno di quei film dimenticati, un altro corpo — questa volta di un hacker, ritrovato crocifisso — e per finire in bellezza una citazione di Wittgenstein. Allievi dovrà trovare il filo che connette tutti questi pezzi del puzzle, ma la questione sembra avere dell’impossibile.