Ergebnis für "Jane" in Thriller

Hadrian Blake ist ein Bücherdetektiv. Von London aus besorgt er im Auftrag verschrobener Kunden die seltensten Werke. Sechs Bände, gebunden in Menschenhaut, führen ihn auf die Fährte eines antiken Folianten, "Das Thebanische Grab". Zugleich wird Blake von seiner Vergangenheit eingeholt: Einst war er Polizist, bis ein tödlicher Vorfall in der London Library seine Karriere beendete. Schon damals zog sein Erzfeind die Fäden, Tibor Kazanian. Von einem Versteck in Osteuropa aus beherrscht Kazanian eine Sekte, die Bücher in einer vergessenen Sprache verehrt.

An einer Berliner Schule wird ein Lehrer erschossen. Der Verdacht fällt auf zwei Schüler. Kommissar Kalkbrenner übernimmt den Fall und stößt auf ein Geflecht aus Lügen, Intrigen und Mord - das ihn schon bald mit seiner eigenen Vergangenheit konfrontiert. Kann er sich und seine Familie schützen?

1887 veröffentlicht Karl May seine Erzählung Der Sohn des Bärenjägers. Trapper Baumann quält ein Trauma, seit ein Grizzly ihm Weib und Tochter tötete. Jeden Bären, der seitdem seinen Weg kreuzt, bringt er gnadenlos zur Strecke. Bis der Jäger auf seinen Streifzügen selbst in die Fänge von wütenden Sioux-Ogallalas gerät. Um den Vater vorm Tod am Marterpfahl zu retten, wächst Martin, der jugendliche Sohn des Bärenjägers, über sich hinaus. Winnetou, Old Shatterhand, Hobble Frank, Jemmy und Davy helfen bei der gefährlichen Befreiung.

“I very much need to be dead.” These are the chilling last words left by a man who had everything to live for but took his own life. His widow, FBI agent Jane Hawk, is determined to find the truth, no matter what. Those arrayed against her are devoted to protecting something important – or...

Jen Shaw has climbed all her life. The riskier the ascent, the better. Until she went too far and hurt the people she cares about. So she's given it all up now and checked herself into a rehab centre to prove it. Yet, when Jen awakens drugged and dangling off the local lighthouse less than 24 hours after a 'family emergency' takes her home to Cornwall, she needs all her skill to battle her way to safety. Has Jen fallen back into her old ways, or is there a more sinister explanation?

A gripping new crime thriller with a ticking clock! 'Thrums along at a breakneck pace' Irish Times 'Fast-paced and action-packed' Woman & Home December Book of the Month 'Pacy, gripping and tightly plotted' Guardian A notorious family… The country-house lifestyle of the Carter family may seem...

The sequel to Puzo's epic and brutal Mafia classic The Godfather. Once again Puzo brings the history of the Corleone family to life. Michael Corleone's exile in Sicily is ending, but on the instructions of his father, The Godfather, he must bring back to him the young man known as Salvatore Giuliano - if he can find him.

Morgonposten på UD i Stockholm innehåller ett vadderat kuvert med ett snyggt avkapat finger. Fingret tillhör en svensk medborgare som maffian på Sicilien kidnappat. Motvilligt åtar sig Carl Hamilton uppdraget att befria de kidnappade. Men han och hans medhjälpare möter en motståndare de aldrig tidigare stött på. Jan Guillous serie om Carl Hamilton blev omedelbart en stor framgång, som med åren kom att växa till Sveriges största romansuccé genom tiderna. Vendetta är den sjätte delen i serien och utkom 1991.

Penguin presents the audiobook edition of My Name Is Nobody by Matthew Richardson, read by Colin Mace. 'I know a secret. A secret that changes everything...' Solomon Vine was the best of his generation, a spy on a fast track to the top. But when a prisoner is shot in unexplained circumstances on...

Billie, Mary Alice, Helen and Natalie have worked for the Museum, an elite network of assassins, for forty years. But now their talents are considered old-school and no one appreciates their real-world resourcefulness in an age of technology. When the foursome is sent on an all-expenses-paid trip to mark their retirement, they are targeted by one of their own. Only the Board, the top-level members of the Museum, can order the termination of field agents, and the women realise they've been marked for death.

BBC radio dramatisations of classic novels centred around engaging anti-heroes who dominate high society Ambitious. Ruthless. Unprincipled. With their blurred morals and relatable imperfections, it’s no wonder we find anti-heroes so appealing and fascinating. Featuring a mixture of male and...

All archaeology student Jane Barnaby had to do was deliver a box of pottery shards to her professor at his dig site, along with his new car. Yes, his office was in Oxfordshire, and his dig site was in Spain, a trip of 1,400 miles across three countries and two bodies of water. Still, it should have been simple. That is, until everything went wrong.

Archie Legge is a successful hypnotherapist…and a recovering drug addict. Stuck in a mundane cycle of sessions for weight loss and smoking cessation, he becomes intrigued by the question: what happens to a person's soul when they temporarily lose consciousness? His investigations bring startling results, and suddenly Archie is addicted to something else–discovering the truth behind these ethereal adventures.

When the shadowy circumstances of a relative's death are brought to light, Jane and Lila are plunged into the recesses of an underground drug operation with links to a burgeoning fascist movement in this thrill ride from the author of Broken River. The Pool sisters have gone into business...

Bo Parrott has spent forty years reading the market. He knows its rhythms, its tells, its lies. He also knows when something is wrong. As a respected investment advisor nearing retirement, Bo is preparing to leave Wall Street behind and return home to North Carolina with his wife, Selby. But the data won’t let him go. Beneath a roaring market and nonstop optimism, Bo sees familiar warning signs. The kind history remembers. The kind most people ignore until it’s too late.

A powerful debut novel that continues the legacy of ‘Master of the Genre’ Desmond Bagley with a thriller set in Australia, also appealing to a new generation of readers of who adore Jane Harper and Chris Hammer. The Sequel to Desmond Bagley’s DOMINO ISLAND Insurance investigator Bill Kemp...

Colm Reid, a disillusioned journalist in Dublin, is invited by Norwegian conservationist Kennet Haven to cover a story in the remote Garamba National Park in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Colm joins Kennet, Kennet’s sister Jane, Belgian journalist Fatou Ba, and the rangers of Garamba...

It should have been a simple job. All archaeology student Jane Barnaby had to do was pick up a box her professor needed and deliver it to him at his dig site, along with his new car. Yes, his office was in Oxfordshire, and his dig site was in Spain, a trip of 1,400 miles across three countries and two bodies of water. Still, it should have been simple. And it was, until Jane discovered she picked up the wrong box by mistake.

Dana's young life revolves around her martial arts, taught to her by her mother, her father's art gallery, and her girlfriend. Having witnessed her mother's brutal murder, Dana descends into the dark underworld of drug lords and murderers, relying on her martial art skills for revenge. The drug lords she chases quickly give Dana the nickname "Red Bitch" Dana assembles a small crew of confident, successful women and goes after the killers.

Was passiert, wenn ein Gentleman-Betrüger für den britischen Geheimdienst MI6 arbeitet? Leo Rivenhall, ein junger, aber sehr gewiefter Betrüger, ist in der Welt der Reichen und der Schönen zu Hause, sehnt sich jedoch nach Abenteuern à la James Bond. Schneller als erwartet ist seine große Stunde gekommen. Der MI6 hat nämlich ein Problem. Agenten des Geheimdiensts werden in Pakistan von einem Unbekannten an die Taliban verraten. Das letzte Opfer ist Nora Harris, die von den Terroristen entführt wurde.