Ergebnis für "Collector" in Thriller

Brought to you by Penguin. Withdrawn, uneducated and unloved, Frederick is a loner who collects butterflies and takes photographs. He is obsessed with a beautiful stranger, the art student Miranda, whom he watches from afar. When he wins the pools, he buys a remote Sussex country house and...

Er will eine Familie–ganz für sich allein! Als die Leiche einer jungen Mutter mit aufgeschnittener Kehle gefunden wird, übernehmen die Ermittler Emma Bajetzky und Alex Kuper den Fall.

Rom. Aufruhr in der Ewigen Stadt. Papst Johannes Paul III. ist zurückgetreten und spurlos verschwunden. Niemand weiß, ob er überhaupt noch lebt. Zur gleichen Zeit werden seine engsten Vertrauten ermordet. Auf bestialische Weise. Während das Konklave zur Wahl eines neuen Kirchenoberhaupts beginnt, macht sich Vatikanreporter Peter Adam auf die Suche nach dem verschwundenen Papst. Die Spur führt zu einem mysteriösen Orden, der seit Jahrhunderten im Untergrund gegen die Kirche wirkt.

Legendary art restorer and spy Gabriel Allon joins forces with a brilliant and beautiful master-thief to track down the world’s most valuable missing painting but soon finds himself in a desperate race to prevent an unthinkable conflict between Russia and the West.

Eve Farrell is an artist who paints portraits of missing women. Her collection transforms the insensible into something beautiful. In them, her lover, Detective Chris Daniels, sees hope. Eve’s most admiring fan sees compelling symbols of death in art. A collector of sorts himself, he also happens to be a serial killer. When he kidnaps Eve from a gallery opening, his plan is set in motion. Imprisoned in his basement lair, Eve is to paint portraits of his victims—before and after death—to create a macabre exhibit of his own.

The mystery deepens in the gripping second novel in David Baldacci's Camel Club series, The Collectors. Annabelle is a beautiful stranger with a mysterious past, planning the heist of the century – two short cons to fund a long con, then a life of unashamed luxury, incognito in a foreign land...

From #1 New York Times-best-selling author Nora Roberts comes a novel of a woman who needs nothing, a man who sees everything, and the web of deceit, greed, and danger that brings them together - and that could tear them apart… As a professional house-sitter and freelance writer, nothing ties Lila Emerson down - not her work, not a home, and definitely not a relationship. She spends her life moving from one job to the next, sometimes crashing at a friend's Manhattan apartment.

“A world-class practitioner of spy fiction.”—Washington Post In this electrifying thriller from #1 New York Times bestselling author Daniel Silva, Gabriel Allon undertakes a search for a stolen Vermeer masterpiece and uncovers a conspiracy that could bring the world to the brink of nuclear...

La calma de una pequeña localidad patagónica se rompe cuando uno de sus vecinos aparece muerto con signos de tortura en su sofá. Para la criminóloga Laura Badía, este es el caso de su vida: además de la brutalidad del asesinato, de la casa de la víctima han desaparecido trece puntas de flecha talladas hace miles de años por el pueblo tehuelche y cuyo valor es incalculable.

Near an isolated mansion lies a beautiful garden. In this garden grow luscious flowers, shady trees...and a collection of precious “butterflies” - young women who have been kidnapped and intricately tattooed to resemble their namesakes. Overseeing it all is the Gardener, a brutal, twisted man obsessed with capturing and preserving his lovely specimens.

Der Journalist Peter Adam erwacht im Kölner Dom - ohne Erinnerung daran, was in den letzten Tagen geschehen ist. Ringsum hebt sich der Boden, die Hölle tut sich auf, Menschen stehen in Flammen. Hat die Zeit der Apokalypse begonnen? Selbst der Papst im fernen Rom, der sich Petrus II. nennt, scheint von einem Dämon besessen zu sein und tut nichts, um das drohende Verhängnis abzuwenden. Die letzte Hoffnung der Welt liegt in der rätselhaften Tätowierung, die Peter Adams gesamten Körper bedeckt. Uralte Zeichen, die den Weg zu einem der größten Mysterien der Menschheitsgeschichte weisen. Dem Ursprung des Bösen.

Apocalypsis - die komplette dritte Staffel. Zwei parallele, fast identische Welten. Die eine schreibt das Jahr 2011, die andere das Jahr 2013. 2011 steht die Welt am Rande des Untergangs - die Welt 2013 dagegen ahnt nichts von der Apokalypse. 2011: Als Franz Laurenz den Mord an Edward Kelly live im Fernsehen miterlebt, fliegt er umgehend nach Rom zurück. Erneut als Papst Johannes Paul III. bestätigt, beginnt Franz Laurenz mit den Vorbereitungen, die Menschheit vor der Apokalypse zu retten. Gleichzeitig sucht Maria in Jerusalem mit unerwarteter Unterstützung nach der Büchse der Pandora. Ebenso wie ein dämonisches Kind namens Raymond. 2013: Der Collegeprofessor Peter Adam hat apokalyptische Visionen. Als seine Frau und seine kleine Tochter Maya bei einem Flugzeugabsturz ums Leben kommen, eröffnet ihm sein Bruder Nikolas, dass ihr Tod im Zusammenhang mit den Aktivitäten eines okkulten Ordens stehe.

Four months after the explosion at the Garden, a place where young women known as the Butterflies were kept captive, FBI agents Brandon Eddison, Victor Hanoverian, and Mercedes Ramirez are still entrenched in the aftermath, helping survivors in the process of adjusting to life on the outside. With winter coming to an end, the Butterflies have longer, warmer days of healing ahead.

Ein Raumschiff auf einem fremden Planeten. Fünf Crewmitglieder erwachen aus dem Schlaf. Nur Commander Ryan Nash hat eine Erinnerung daran...

Michael Bello has dedicated his life to helping others. Born into a home filled with turmoil, he's held on to his one blinding gift, and that's to do good. Now, as a father and a husband, he's finally happy. But when bodies turn up on his doorstep at the height of his prestigious career, things start to unravel...and the high profile detectives from the Federal Capital Territory start to look at him more closely.

When Agent Mercedes Ramirez finds an abused young boy on her porch, covered in blood and clutching a teddy bear, she has no idea that this is just the beginning. He tells her a chilling tale: an angel killed his parents and then brought him here so Mercedes could keep him safe. His parents weren’t just murdered. It was a slaughter - a rage kill like no one on the Crimes Against Children team had seen before. But they’re going to see it again. An avenging angel is meting out savage justice, and she’s far from through.

Eight-year-old Brooklyn Mercer has gone missing. And as accustomed as FBI agents Eliza Sterling and Brandon Eddison are to such harrowing cases, this one has struck a nerve. It marks the anniversary of the disappearance of Eddison’s own little sister. Disturbing, too, is the girl’s resemblance to Eliza - so uncanny they could be mother and daughter. With Eddison’s unsettled past rising again with rage and pain, Eliza is determined to solve this case at any cost. But the closer she looks, the more reluctant she is to divulge to her increasingly shaken partner what she finds.

From the moment Lucia Holley finds a dead body in the family boathouse, she knows no peace. Set on the outskirts of New York during World War II, The Blank Wall is a psychological suspense novel which traces an increasingly chaotic chain of events as Lucia endeavours to protect herself and her...

New York City is thrown into chaos by the assaults of the Bone Collector, a serial kidnapper and killer who gives the police a chance to save his victims from death by leaving obscure clues. The cops go to Lincoln Rhyme, an ex-NYPD forensics expert left paralysed after an accident on the job...

There’s no redemption for a man with his past. No future for a relationship built on stalking and kidnapping. At least, that’s what he believes. When he meets Daphne again, she’s not a piece of art. She’s a woman determined to paint a new path. For herself. For him. Except the ocean holds more than shadows. It holds danger that could ruin them both.