Ergebnis für "Julia Roberts" in Thriller

Die Geister der Vergangenheit sind erwacht ... und sie wollen. blutige Rache .. Die in Ungnade gefallene Enthüllungsjournalistin Penny Archer nimmt aus Verzweiflung und Geldnot einen ganz speziellen Job an. Sie soll als Ghostwriter die Memoiren des alternden. Bestsellerautoren Walther Coogan schreiben. Als sie sich dafür auf den Weg nach Hawaii macht, wo derl menschenscheue Autor in einem alten Strandhaus bereits an dem Buch arbeitet, ahnt sie nicht, welche Hölle sie hier bald. durchleben muss.

Hunde ausführen, Cocktails mixen, sich um ihre kranke Mutter kümmern – und aus sicherer Entfernung das Leben anderer beobachten. Das ist Chloe Coopers Alltag. Besonders fasziniert ist sie von Jemma Spengler, der schönen Influencerin von nebenan, und ihrem Ehemann Adam, einem angesehenen Chirurgen. Das Paar wirkt so perfekt wie aus einem Hochglanzmagazin – bis zu dem Tag, an dem alles endet. Im dichten Morgennebel sieht Chloe vom Strand aus, wie eine Schwimmerin von einem Motorboot erfasst wird. Ist es Jemma? Chloe ist sich sicher, dass es kein tragischer Unfall war, sondern Mord.

Daughter of a cold, controlling mother and an anonymous donor, studious, obedient Elizabeth Fitch finally let loose one night, drinking too much at a nightclub and allowing a strange man’s seductive Russian accent to lure her to a house on Lake Shore Drive. Twelve years later, the woman now known as Abigail Lowery lives alone on the outskirts of a small town in the Ozarks.

After the sickness known as the Doom destroyed civilization, magick has become commonplace, and Fallon Swift has spent her young years learning its ways. Fallon cannot live in peace until she frees those who have been preyed upon by the government or the fanatical Purity Warriors, endlessly hunted or locked up in laboratories, brutalized for years on end. She is determined to save even those who have been complicit with this evil out of fear or weakness - if, indeed, they can be saved.

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.

Fallon Swift, approaching her thirteenth birthday, barely knows the world that existed before - the city where her parents lived, now in ruins and reclaimed by nature since the Doom sickened and killed billions. Traveling anywhere is a danger, as vicious gangs of Raiders and fanatics called Purity Warriors search for their next victim. Those like Fallon, in possession of gifts, are hunted - and the time is coming when her true nature, her identity as The One, can no longer be hidden.

It began on New Year’s Eve. The sickness came on suddenly, and spread quickly. The fear spread even faster. Within weeks, everything people counted on began to fail them. The electrical grid sputtered; law and government collapsed - and more than half of the world’s population was decimated. Where there had been order, there was now chaos. And as the power of science and technology receded, magick rose up in its place.

My heart drops as I take in Jemma’s tear-streaked face. Has my worst nightmare come true? My daughter is my whole world, but I’ve been keeping a secret from her. And from the hurt in her eyes, I think she’s found out....

The #1 New York Times bestselling author of modern classics such as My Sister’s Keeper and Small Great Things weaves a “richly textured and engaging” (The Boston Globe) tale that explores what happens when a young woman’s past—a past she didn’t even know she had—catches up to her...

Das heutige Deutschland, kurz vor den Bundestagswahlen. Ein Serienkiller entführt Spitzenpolitiker der rechtspopulistischen "NKD" und tötet sie auf brutale Weise, indem er ihnen mit einer Bohrmaschine die rechte Gehirnhälfte zerstört. Eine SOKO um Judith Frigge und Heiko Sass soll den Fall aufklären, tappt aber im Dunkeln. Unterdessen wird durch eine tragische Verkettung privater Lebensumstände der Ex-Polizist Martin Bohm zum Fahrer der NKD-Spitze und verhindert dabei die Entführung des Vorsitzenden Klaus Rasche durch den Killer.

I didn’t plan to fall pregnant, but when I found out, I was overjoyed. Even though I’d be going it alone, I swore I’d give my baby everything they needed. But I didn’t know who the man I met on that sweltering summer night, the father of my child, really was. I decided to keep his secret to protect the innocent…but then my beautiful baby was born with a rare illness, desperately needing a transplant.

Gibt es Dämonen? Böse Geister, die einen in den Wahnsinn treiben? Der Börsenbroker Cain Douglas zweifelt an seinem Verstand, denn er wird von einem unheimlichen Jungen verfolgt. Ist Cain verflucht worden? Um jeden Preis will Cain die Wahrheit herausfinden - aber diese ist verstörender und bizarrer, als er jemals für möglich gehalten hätte.

Studious, obedient Elizabeth finally let loose one night, drinking too much at a nightclub and allowing a strange man’s seductive Russian accent to lure her to a house on Lake Shore Drive. The events that followed changed her life forever. Twelve years later, the woman now known as Abigail Lowery lives alone on the outskirts of a small town in the Ozarks. A freelance programmer, she works at home designing sophisticated security systems. Her own security is supplemented by a fierce dog and an assortment of firearms.

Aviva Kagan was a just a teenager when she left her Hasidic Jewish life in Brooklyn for a fling with a smiling college boy from Florida-and then disappeared. Twenty-three years later, the child she walked away from is a NYC tabloid reporter named Rebekah Roberts. And Rebekah isn't sure she wants...

For Grace, hosting a party for her affluent, picture-perfect neighbors is not her idea of fun. Slipping away for 30 minutes of alone time seemed like an ideal way to get her through a long night of small talk. But when Sadie, a beloved neighbor, goes missing, those minutes become the key to a murder.

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. And though she can appreciate her clients' extraordinary homes, their expensive collections, and their adorable pets, Lila has never longed for possessions of her own. Everything she has, including her heart, is portable. But when she witnesses a possible murder-suicide from her current apartment-sitting job, life as Lila knows it takes a dramatic turn.

After the sickness known as the Doom destroyed civilization, magick has become commonplace, and Fallon Swift has spent her young years learning its ways. Fallon cannot live in peace until she frees those who have been preyed upon by the government or the fanatical Purity Warriors, endlessly hunted or locked up in laboratories, brutalized for years on end. She is determined to save even those who have been complicit with this evil out of fear or weakness - if, indeed, they can be saved.

Alec Reid’s ghosts of the 21st century seldom lurk in old houses or waft across chilly moors. His dark tales may breathe alongside the supernatural, but they take place in broad daylight, in our daily lives. Their themes include dead warriors resurrected via Bluetooth, Rumpelstiltskin in the suburbs, an algorithmic fear of ghosts, and the shattered dreams of immortality. The world they describe is the one you inhabit, but you would live in terror were you to recognize it for what it is.

"The End of Men is a fiercely intelligent page-turner, an eerily prescient novel, at once thoughtful and highly emotive." --Paula Hawkins, #1 internationally bestselling author of The Girl on the Train Set in a world where a virus stalks our male population, The End of Men is an electrifying and...