Ergebnis für "Graves" in Belletristik

Eine äußerst morbide Mordserie wird zu einer ganz besonderen Herausforderung für Special Agent Aloysius Pendergast - denn dem erklärten Einzelgänger wird von seinem neuen Chef beim FBI ein Partner zur Seite gestellt. Den jungen Agent Coldmoon im Schlepptau, reist Pendergast nach Miami Beach, wo ein Serienkiller die Herzen ermordeter Frauen zusammen mit kryptischen Briefen auf Gräbern ablegt. Während es zwischen den Opfern des Killers keinerlei Verbindung zu geben scheint, stellt sich schnell heraus, dass in den Gräbern ausnahmslos Selbstmörderinnen beigesetzt sind.

I'm anything but sweet, despite what people think, so when he tells me I'm too good for him and I'm better off without him, I don't listen. My life was simple before Grave stepped through that door, but who wants simple?

A BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation of Robert Graves' brilliant account of the madness and debauchery of ancient Rome, starring Tom Goodman Hill as Claudius and Derek Jacobi as Augustus. The wickedly entertaining inside story of the lives and deaths of the Imperial dynasty from Augustus to...

I, Claudius is Robert Graves' riveting account of Ancient Rome in all its madness and debauchery. First published in 1934, and written in the form of Claudius' autobiography, it endures as one of literature's most celebrated and compelling historical novels. Abhorred by his weakness and viewed...

A missing girl. A dead hunter. One sheriff caught in the storm. When a seasoned hunter is found murdered in the Colorado high country and a teenage girl vanishes hours later, Sheriff Ray Duke doesn’t believe in coincidences. Not in Blue Sky County. Not with the snowstorm rolling in. And not with fresh boot tracks pointing to a tangled trail of lies. As Duke digs deeper, what he finds isn’t just a missing girl—it’s a web of secrets that stretches across families, friendships, and the frozen wilderness they all call home.

Don't miss Neil Lancaster's brand-new espionage thriller series! No Mercy available to buy now. ‘Grabbed me from the first page’ Ian Rankin ‘The best police procedural I’ve read in years’ Jane Casey This grave can never be opened. The head of Scotland’s most powerful crime family is...

The Mortician I've always known I was different. My name is Seven Grey, and I hang out with dead people. Yes, Seven like the number, and yes… literal dead people. I'm the only mortician in a small town tucked away in backwoods Maine, and I've known this was my dream job since the day they...

The follow-up to Erin Sterling’s New York Times bestselling hit The Ex Hex features fan favorite Gwyn and the spine-tinglingly handsome Wells Penhallow as they battle a new band of witches and their own magical chemistry. Gwyn Jones is perfectly happy with her life in Graves Glen. She, her mom...

Sergeant Louise Nightingale is content in the knowledge that a psychopath has been put behind bars for a very long time. She is unaware that he was just a student of a much more deadly opponent - a nameless, faceless terror who is intent on proving his prowess on the killing field. It soon becomes clear that Louise is his ultimate goal. Desperately trying to find Nightingale before the killer does, DCI Andrew Fenwick wonders if her continued silence means he is already too late.

For years the boglands of Northern Europe have given up bodies of the long-deceased. Bodies that are thousands of years old, uncannily preserved. Bodies with strange injuries that suggest ritual torture and human sacrifice. When a corpse is found in a bog in Galway, Cormac Reilly assumes the find is historical. But closer examination reveals a more recent story. The dead man is Thaddeus Grey, a local secondary school principal who disappeared two years prior.

When torrential summer rains uncover a bizarrely tattooed body on a Lake District hillside, old wives' tales also come swirling to the surface. For centuries Lakelanders have whispered that Fletcher Christian staged the massacre on Pitcairn so that he could return home. And there he told his...

With Pack defeated, Marcus is now King of the Therians, but he quickly learns there is a difference between sitting on the throne of your defeated foe and running a kingdom. Before Pack's body is cold, he faces resistance from the Chosen and needs to find those he can trust among the conquered masses. Balancing expectations while charting a new path for all Therians is more difficult than he expected.

Dramatisations of selected novels and short stories by the acclaimed Robert Graves An acclaimed poet and novelist, Robert Graves is best remembered today for his immensely popular I, Claudius novels. He penned over 140 works in his lifetime, ranging from historical fiction to comic and...

Power is old. Spirit is older. And some debts demand sacrifice. When a sacred fire tears through the hills above Jacmel, the old protections fail—and the dead go quiet. Terra Graves, a Milwaukee mambo with more grit than patience, is pulled into a war she didn’t start and refuses to lose. Vodou vèvès light the way. Enemies wear beautiful faces. The World Beneath—its bars, crossroads, and back-alley altars—prowls just under the city’s skin.

'Confirms Harris's undisputed place as our leading master of both the historical and contemporary thriller' Daily Mail LAWS ARE SILENT IN TIMES OF WAR. There was a time when Cicero held Caesar's life in the palm of his hand. But now Caesar is the dominant figure and Cicero's life is in ruins...

Hunted by the dead. Betrayed by the living. Will they have what it takes to survive? The world is overrun by the undead, and Sgt. Major Jack Tate battles not only zombies but his own tortured past. Leading a misfit team of rookies and outcasts, Tate fights to reclaim America one bloody inch at a time. Things take a lethal turn when The Grave Diggers learn of a sinister plot that threatens the very survival of the country and their freedom. It's up to Tate and his rookie team to stop it, but what can a small team of misfits do against a huge shadow organization? They're about to find out.

A marine biologist's search for an undiscovered species of octopus leads her to an isolated island where long-buried memories rise like specters from the deep, intent on dragging her darkest truths to the surface... From the author of The Entirely True Story of the Fantastical Mesmerist Nora...

The gripping Temperance Brennan novel from world-class forensic anthropologist Kathy Reichs, the international no. 1 bestselling crime thriller writer and the inspiration behind the hit TV series Bones. In the searing heat of Guatemala, Dr Temperance Brennan must harden herself against the...

Read in the style of a secret diary, this famous sequel to I, Claudius gives a wry and human view of the Roman world, bringing to life some of the most scandalous and violent times in history. Claudius has survived the murderous intrigues of his predecessors to become, reluctantly, Emperor of...

Direktør og iværksætter Michael Storm får besked om, at hans far er død. I silende regnvejr drager han til barndomshjemmet i Aalborg for at gøre dødsboet op, men garagen gemmer på en forfærdelig hemmelighed. Sagen lander hos politiets rejsende elitekorps, hvor Hamid Khamsin og...