Ergebnis für "In Plain Sight" in Thriller

In the dead of night, four teenagers taking a shortcut through an archaeological dig site find a body in a trench. It doesn’t take long for them to be more scared than they’ve ever been in their lives. These are no ancient remains: the woman was killed just hours earlier . . .

When a baby girl is snatched from the crowd of spectators at a fun run, the local police have a major investigation on their hands. DI Clare Mackay and her team are in a race against the clock when they learn that the child has a potentially fatal medical condition. As Clare investigates she realises this victim wasn’t selected at random. Someone knows who took the baby girl and why. But will they reveal their secrets before it's too late?

Amore, once a respected investigative reporter, now runs a quiet independent site on the fringes of the media world. When a young woman is found dead in a luxury hotel under suspicious circumstances, Amore's instinct for the truth pulls him back into the shadows he tried to escape. What begins as a single story soon unravels into a web of deceit connecting powerful corporations, hidden networks, and digital manipulation at a global scale.

From Linda Castillo, the New York Times bestselling author of A Gathering of Secrets, comes a new Kate Burkholder short mystery, In Plain Sight: a story of star-crossed love and murder in Amish country. Seventeen year old Amish boy, Noah Kline, is struck by a car as he walks alongside a dark...

There’s something sinister happening in Boone County…Since the debacle involving her friends and her ex, Rayna Nydert has kept to herself. Duped by the rotten bastard, she still feels guilty for her part in it all. With harvest season in full swing, her self-isolation has been easy to keep. But when she finds a beaten and terrified young man in one of her fields, to help him hide from his pursuers, she must turn to the one man who has the power to shatter her heart into a million tiny pieces, Thomas Archer.

After his wife’s murderer is captured, Blake Jordan heads to Chicago to propose to the woman he loves. But while millions of Americans are distracted with New Year’s Eve celebrations, Russian terrorists are making other plans. When they force a hacker to crash a train in DC, Blake learns that a prisoner warned authorities about the attack. But he discovers the prisoner is his wife’s killer, and she claims another strike is imminent.

Meet Ebenezer Cosmen. He's a computer programmer and a writer - a middle-of-the-road man with conventional needs and a relaxed attitude towards worldly things. He lives alone with a small cohort of trusted comrades. He wrote a fictional novel about a serial killer that was later imitated by an actual killer. Obviously, he became a little less middle-of-the-road after that. This recognition propelled his book sales to heights he never imagined. He enjoyed the success for over a decade until the killer was captured.

FBI Special Agent Jon Wells has spent his days and nights tracking and bringing down terrorists. His new case brings him to a whole new level involving the Somali community and the Chinese government through cyber terrorism and corporate espionage. Jon has to use all his skills as he navigates through this world of deception, murder, torture, and the disenfranchised to prevent a meltdown of the economy and funding to terrorists.

Carolyn Blanche thought she had left the darkness behind. Once a relentless investigator, she traded the adrenaline rush for a quiet life as a banker, a mother, a woman at peace. But some mysteries refuse to be ignored. It starts with a house. A half-built, unfinished shell standing alone on a busy road. Ordinary to the world, but to Carolyn, something is deeply, horribly wrong. The house isn’t supposed to be there—it doesn’t even exist on public records. And yet, someone is inside. Watching. Waiting. What begins as idle curiosity soon spirals into an obsession.

When running for your life, the best plan may be to hide in plain sight. That's what Jordan thinks when fleeing from her abusive husband. A remote cabin in the woods in an even more remote part of the country is the haven she needs, a place to live her life in peace and solitude while guarding the secrets she must keep to stay safe.

A trail of death. A web of corruption. The ultimate betrayal. A series of armed robberies on local petrol stations leaves Mildenheath CID chasing their tails. But things are about to get a whole lot worse. When an elderly woman is killed during an armed raid on her jewelry shop, Knight and Culverhouse realize one of their own is involved - a police officer. With the future of Mildenheath CID at stake and the lives of their loved ones under threat, time is running out fast. As they begin to investigate the web of corruption, they discover just how deep it runs - and how close to home.

I watch him from the shadows, capturing his essence through a tiny lens. Every inch of his skin I have committed to memory. I know his body as well as my own. I’m waiting for the right moment to let him catch sight of me. Just like the way he seized my attention so long ago.

The quest for truth can become an addiction. A habit that’s almost impossible to break. What if almost everything you were taught about history was a lie? This is about London, it’s oldest institutions and a force of resistance that is doing all they can to survive. Try to forget what you know. This is just the beginning…

New York Times bestselling author Elizabeth Lowell creates another masterpiece of excitement and chills, passion and surprise. When Lacey Quinn inherits the striking landscapes done by her late, much-loved grandfather, she believes they are as good as anything hanging in museums. But the...

In the fourth installment of the best-selling Serenity's Plain Secrets series, Serenity must work with US marshals to uncover the truth behind a shockingly brutal 15-year-cold murder. Desperate for answers, Serenity finds herself in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, where she unravels secrets that threaten to tear her and Daniel apart. But digging up the past is dangerous, and the quaint Amish settlement isn't as safe as it seems.

The incomparable New York Times bestselling author Elizabeth Lowell explores the fine art of murder. Lacey Quinn is determined to prove that the striking landscapes she inherited, done by her late, much-loved grandfather, are as good as anything hanging in museums of California Impressionism...

There are no vampires, zombies, or magical beings here; no, what lurk in this world are even more terrifying. Once you meet them, you will think twice before turning your back on that seemingly innocuous neighbor or coming to the aid of the helpless damsel in the dark parking lot. These monsters don’t lurk under your bed or in the shadows: They are the people you see every day at work, in the supermarket, and in broad daylight. They are the horrors that hide in plain sight, and they will unsettle you more than any supernatural being ever could.

Summer McCloud has been managing without her mother for five years now. But what she knows about Lila McCloud could fill a teacup. When a woman is murdered the same day she buys a book from Tarot and Tea, the occult shop Summer inherited when her mother disappeared, Summer's life begins to unravel. She is the number one suspect in the murder investigation. But Summer is an amateur sleuth and has visions about murders - she can solve this one, can't she?

Tanner Returns and the conglomerate wants him dead. With their resources and vast troops of lethal thugs, the conglomerate assumed that killing one man would be easy. They were wrong! While Tanner is just one man, he is the last man you want to go to war wit. And when he teams up with another target of the conglomerate, he doubles his chances at surviving.

Twenty-five years ago, Billy Jo was born to a meth addict and spent her first few months being weaned off the drug. Labeled a difficult baby, she was bounced from foster home to foster home. That was before she was adopted by Chase McCabe. Billy Jo feels resentment for the woman responsible for her 15 years of hell. That has her seeking out leads as to where her real mother is, her last known whereabouts based on the sealed file she isn’t technically supposed to access. Following the rules is not something Billy Jo is known for, especially not when she’s playing amateur detective.