Ergebnis für "Amy" in Thriller

Wenn sich die eigene Mutter als brutaler Serienmörder entpuppt. Der atemraubende erste Band der Thriller-Reihe über menschliche Abgründe. Kriminalkommissarin Amy Winter hat nur ein Ziel: in die Fußstapfen ihres Vaters zu treten, der selbst ein hochangesehener Polizist war. Doch als sie ein Brief von Lillian Grimes, der psychopathischen Serienmörderin, erreicht, gerät ihr Leben völlig aus den Fugen. Die Verbrecherin, die seit Jahrzehnten für eine Reihe abscheulicher Morde hinter Gittern sitzt, ist Amys leibliche Mutter.

The last person I expect—or want—to take shelter with as a hurricane bears down on Hatterwick Island is Daniel LaRue—the man who broke my heart barely three months ago. I’m not looking for distractions. The clinic’s been targeted by thieves. The island’s locked down tight against the storm. And Daniel—hot Coast Guardsman, bad decision, walking heartbreak—is the last thing I need complicating my life again.

FBI Special Agent Bree Adams has a personal secret, something she has managed to keep hidden for the past 10 years-at least she always thought so...But a chance encounter on a train, and whispered words of chilling consequence change everything. Is the truth about to come out or is someone playing with her mind and her life? Nathan Bishop knew Bree when she was a street kid like him. Their dark past once put him in her debt, and he had to pay up. The last thing he wants to do is help her again. He has a new life now-a life he could lose with one wrong move.

Eine Kreuzfahrt in die Antarktis, ein Killer an Bord und die erbarmungslose Mitternachtssonne. Die Antarktis ist das spektakulärste Reiseziel, das sich Olivia vorstellen kann. Aufgeregt bezieht sie ihre Kabine auf dem zu einem Luxusschiff umgebauten Eisbrecher. Die ersten riesigen Eisberge mit ihren schroffen Kanten versetzen sie in Staunen – bis ihr die Vorkommnisse an Bord den Atem rauben: Zwei Passagiere sterben! War es Mord? In der Antarktis gibt es keine Polizei, keine Telefone und keine Rettung.

A wave of apparent suicides hits a string of seaside resorts, but when a police officer is named as the latest to die, DI Amy Winter suspects there may be more than mere coincidence to these tragic deaths. But what dark motive could cause someone to throw themselves into the cold depths of the North Sea? Someone in the community knows more, but Amy’s questions are met with resistance. A group of mysterious teenagers might hold the key, but why are they so afraid to talk? Meanwhile, after the release from prison of her serial killer mother, Amy is fighting her own demons.

Dreißig Jahre lang hat Ermittlerin Julia Harte erfolglos versucht, den schlimmsten Fall ihrer Karriere zu vergessen. Plötzlich verschwinden wieder junge Frauen auf genau dieselbe Weise wie damals. Julia kehrt aus dem Ruhestand zurück, um die Ermittlungen zu unterstützen.

Lowen Ashleigh is a struggling writer on the brink of financial ruin when she accepts the job offer of a lifetime. Jeremy Crawford, husband of best-selling author Verity Crawford, has hired Lowen to complete the remaining books in a successful series his injured wife is unable to finish. Lowen arrives at the Crawford home, ready to sort through years of Verity's notes and outlines, hoping to find enough material to get her started. What Lowen doesn't expect to uncover in the chaotic office is an unfinished autobiography Verity never intended for anyone to read.

Für die Story ihres Lebens riskiert sie alles. Diese Story ist die Chance ihres Lebens: Cecily darf als Erste den berühmten Bergsteiger Charles McVeigh interviewen, nachdem dieser innerhalb eines Jahres alle vierzehn Achttausender bestiegen hat. Die Sache hat nur einen Haken: Cecily bekommt das Interview erst, wenn sie mit ihm den letzten Gipfel, den Manaslu, erklommen hat. Die kleine Gruppe macht sich auf den Weg, da kommt es im Basislager zu einem tragischen Unfall.

Lucy und Savvy waren nicht nur beste Freundinnen, sondern auch die It-Girls ihrer texanischen Kleinstadt: hübsch, smart und von allen beneidet. Bis zu jener verhängnisvollen Nacht, in der Savvy brutal ermordet wird und man Lucy wenig später auf der Landstraße findet – von Kopf bis Fuß mit dem Blut ihrer besten Freundin beschmutzt und ohne jegliche Erinnerung an die vergangenen Stunden. Die Tat bleibt ungeklärt, und niemand weiß, was in jener Nacht tatsächlich geschehen ist.

When my grandmother, the leader of the Rathmore Coven, summons me, I have no choice but to answer her call. To reach her, I must cross the Wood, the realm of Wotan, lord of the hunt. Rumors of his cruelty and brutality precede him, but nothing prepares me to meet the monster face to face. Because Wotan is more than a monster. He's a predator, a bully, and now he's claimed me as his pawn in his war against my grandmother. A master of torture, he's determined to master me, stripping me bare of all my secrets.

Four-year-old Ellen is snatched by a stranger in the dead of night. Her devastated mother, Nicole, receives four identical phials and a threatening note in a familiar scrawl that chills her to the bone. But she always knew this would happen. She’s been expecting it for years. According to the note, one of the phials is poisoned. Nicole is given a deadly challenge: If she drinks one, the sadistic kidnapper will notify the police of Ellen’s location. The sender claims to be Luka Volkov, but Luka is supposed to be dead, killed long ago in a fire that haunts all those involved.

"Was tust du, wenn die einzige Person, die du je geliebt hast, sich das Leben nimmt? Und es deine Schuld ist?" Vincent Stone ist kalt, unberechenbar und gehört zu den mächtigsten Männern Kanadas. Nur sein sechsjähriger Sohn Jamie erwärmt das Herz des Plattenmoguls. Auf der Suche nach einem Kindermädchen begegnet er der stummen, arbeitslosen Krankenschwester Juliette. Juliette erobert sofort Jamies Herz und auch Vincent muss sich eingestehen, dass er sich zu der jungen Frau hingezogen fühlt. Aber er weiß, er darf sich niemals in sie verlieben.

After Lucy is found wandering the streets, covered in her best friend Savvy’s blood, everyone thinks she is a murderer. Lucy and Savvy were the golden girls of their small Texas town: pretty, smart, and enviable. Lucy married a dream guy with a big ring and an even bigger new home. Savvy was the social butterfly loved by all, and if you believe the rumors, especially popular with the men in town. It’s been years since that horrible night, a night Lucy can’t remember anything about, and she has since moved to LA and started a new life.

It was one dark night that brought Damon Wolfe and Sophie Parker together. They were two tortured souls, looking for escape, and they weren't supposed to see each other ever again...Four years later, Sophie's FBI father, who is also Damon's mentor, is killed in a suspicious car crash after leaving Sophie a cryptic message to trust no one from the agency. When Damon shows up looking for her, she isn't sure if he's friend or enemy, but she knows he could easily rip apart what is left of her heart.

Shee McQueen grew up skip-tracing and hunting military criminals with her father, Mick, until someone put a bounty on her head, forcing her underground. Resurfacing years later, she returns to her family's hotel in Jupiter Beach, FL, to find Mick in a coma, shot by an unknown sniper.

I built my life on my belief in justice. Until the day the system proved me wrong. Now I’m back on Hatterwick Island with nothing left—no career, no credibility, and no illusions about the law I once trusted. The only thing heavier than the guilt I carry is knowing I once turned my back on a man who didn’t deserve it. Rios Carrera. Twelve years ago, my cousin disappeared, and he was the last one to see her alive. I believed the whispers that he was responsible. I made him the villain of the story —and he has every reason to hate me for it.

"I know what you did." The anonymous note starts an ominous game of cat and mouse. Soon, Emily finds herself trapped in a web of gaslighting and manipulation. Someone is lurking in the shadows, observing her every move, and insidiously replacing her in her own existence. With no one she can trust, Emily turns to a stranger for help, an ex-soldier with his own baggage to carry, but is he who he appears to be? As the danger escalates, Emily fights to put an end to the terrifying charade.

Fünf Hobby-Detektive. Eine tote Whistleblowerin. Keine Zeit zu verlieren. Auch das sorgloseste Faulenzen an Deck muss irgendwann ein Ende haben. Es ist Herbst in Amsterdam. Und ohne Heizöl wird es sogar auf dem schönsten Hausboot ungemütlich. Die Auftragslage ist mau. Bis ein vermeintlich langweiliger Fall die Hobby-Detektive ordentlich herausfordert: Ihre Auftraggeberin wird plötzlich tot aufgefunden und entpuppt sich als Whistleblowerin. Die angesehene Expertin für den Rohstoffabbau in der Tiefsee stand kurz davor, ihre Firma in den Ruin zu jagen.

Special Agent Wyatt Tanner has always worked undercover. He thrives in the dark of the night. He survives by turning himself into someone else. But living so long in the shadows can make a man forget who he really is. When people start dying, when he finds blood on his own hands, he questions the choices he has made, the people he is with. Can he find his way back to the light? Can he trust the beautiful woman who needs his help? Or does she also have a secret life? He'll have to make one desperate play to find out...

The third-grade parents at the elite Chester School don’t do anything small—not their drama and certainly not their end-of-year trips. As they set out to the remote island of Santa Cruz off the coast of Southern California, where the only amenity is running water and help is a ninety-minute boat ride away, they may have finally gotten in over their heads.