Ergebnis für "Carmen" in Psychothriller

Lainey Taylor is being pushed to the brink by her alcoholic husband, Callum. Prone to hallucinations and erratic behavior, it’s only a matter of time before he puts Lainey’s life—and that of their daughter, Beatrix—in jeopardy. A divorce and full custody is out of the question. In Callum’s words: Over my dead body. Lainey’s sympathetic friend Adelaide has a wild solution. They’ll stage a haunting so convincing it will drive Callum out of Lainey’s life for good. Nothing too over the top: strange smells, noises in the walls, and flies unleashed along the windowsills.

Si hay algo peor que una pesadilla es que esa pesadilla se repita. Y entre nuestros peores sueños, los de todos, pocos producen más angustia que un niño desaparezca sin dejar rastro. Eso es precisamente lo que ocurre al principio de esta novela: en un centro comercial, en medio del bullicio de una tarde de compras, un depredador acecha, eligiendo la presa que está a punto de arrebatar. Esas pocas líneas, esos minutos de espera, serán los últimos instantes de paz para los protagonistas de una historia a la que los calificativos comunes, «trepidante», «sorprendente», le quedan cortos, muy cortos.

En la humilde bahía pesquera de Pasajes, en los años 70, rodeada de muelles de pesca, estibadores, humedad y salazón, se forja una fuerte amistad entre Pakutxa y Celeste, dos niñas de cinco años. Entre juegos, complicidades y travesuras, la desdicha se cruza en su camino y una trágica fatalidad las separa. Celeste, la protagonista de esta historia, sufrirá un trauma que se prolongará durante buena parte de su vida, con consecuencias terribles para ella misma y para cuantos la rodean.

Unmoored by her husband’s death and suffering from writer’s block, novelist Saoirse White moves to Providence, and into the historic home of Sarah Helen Whitman, the nineteenth-century poet and spiritualist once courted by Edgar Allan Poe. Saoirse’s certain she’ll find inspiration in the quiet rooms, as well as in the tucked-away rose garden and forgotten cemetery at the back of the property.

After arriving on Block Island to find her birth mother, Blake Bronson becomes convinced she’s the heroine of a gothic novel—the kind that allowed her intermittent escape from a traumatic childhood. How else to explain the torrential rain, the salt-worn mansion known as White Hall, and the restless ghost purported to haunt its halls? But before Blake can discern the novel’s ending, she’s found dead, murdered in a claw-foot tub. The proprietress of White Hall stands accused.

Toda su vida ha intentado superar el tortuoso pasado de su familia: ser la hija de un asesino en serie. Ahora se encuentra preparando su boda, todo ha quedado atrás… aunque parece que no será tan fácil. Un asesino imitador ha surgido 20 años después. ¿todo se repite? Chloe Davis solo...

You’d think it was the perfect setup: living next door to the grumpy single dad who needs my help with his troublemaking kids—just until football season is over. Swoony stuff, right? You know who’s not swooning? Me. I’m as grumpy as he is, and I’m fairly certain that for NFL Coach Barrett King, it was hate at first sight. It’s nothing I’ll lose sleep over because 1) the feeling is mutual, and 2) I’m not a people person. Just me and my dog, Larry, moving around when the mood strikes, is what I prefer.

Tina is a pillar of a quiet village, a loving mother who once epitomized safety and order. But when her rebellious son's decisions tear through the fabric of her seemingly orderly life. her fierce devotion drives her to commit the unthinkable. In an act fuelled by desperation and love that defies all boundaries, she steps into a shadowy realm where right and wrong become tragic illusions.

Becky Morgan has a life most women would envy until a car accident lands her in the hospital. She insists she’s fine, but it quickly becomes clear she’s changed. She’s forgetful, paranoid, short-tempered. Her husband wants to write off her change in personality to the IVF hormones she's taking in an attempt to get pregnant. Becky's best friend Jules Dalton is a gorgeous, single woman, with a habit of sabotaging relationships.

No one has forgotten the unsolved kidnapping of four-year-old Nicolás Acosta. It galvanized Madrid, shaking it to its core. Two years later, another young child - similar in age and appearance to Nicolás - disappears from the same suburban shopping mall, drawing Chief Inspector Ana Arén back into the case she could never close. This is her chance at redemption. As fears of a serial kidnapper threaten to consume the city once again, Ana’s friend, reporter Inés Grau, jumps at the chance to cover it. But the pressure on Ana is greater than ever as she straddles an ethical line.

“Absolutely not to be missed.” —Vogue “A muscular, canny memoir about labor and power and gender…I couldn’t put it down. What a fucking gorgeous book.” —Carmen Maria Machado, author of In the Dream House A queer teen rebel escapes small-town Appalachia and becomes Los Angeles’s...

Five of the most prominent book influencers in the US make up an exclusive virtual book club that’s the envy of the online book world. Once a month, they get on a video call to sip cocktails, chat about social media campaigns and book events, and discuss their monthly book club pick. Until one meeting, when all of their screens freeze, and they listen to gut wrenching screams as one of them is brutally attacked. It feels like an eternity before the video call drops—and thus begins the frantic texts and phone calls as they try to figure out who was murdered and why.

Restitution is taking the listener deeper into the rabbit hole where the stark difference between truth and obscurity is easily distinguishable. No longer are the investors waiting for a response from the Project: they're ordering it. The Investors are demanding proof that the hosts are viable, and have issued a directive to revive several test subjects and complete implantation.

After suffering a mental breakdown that nearly destroyed her marriage, Nina Taylor works hard to maintain her tenuous hold on sanity and be a good mother to her two young daughters. Despite her best efforts, she questions the possibility of a full recovery.

Malamor, un grupo de pop electrónico formado por Axel, su novia Vega y Rai, dan un exitoso concierto en Ciudad de México. Al llegar a su hotel, Axel recibe la llamada de la policía mexicana. Les desalojan de sus habitaciones por razones de seguridad. Obedeciendo las instrucciones del policía al habla, el trío de músicos españoles llega a otro hotel. En la habitación, descubren que el supuesto policía es en realidad un delincuente y que los han secuestrado.