Ergebnis für "Lisa" in Politik

'The Devil's Advocate makes your palms sweat and your blood run cold; the terrific trial scenes out-Grisham John Grisham.' The Times 'This guy is the real deal. Trust me.' LEE CHILD 'Top notch thrills and courtroom drama' SHARI LAPENA 'A terrific writer. He has talent to burn.' DON WINSLOW HE'S...

Chief Standish kandidiert für den Posten des Bürgermeisters. Doch bereits bei seiner ersten großen Wahlkampfveranstaltung kommt es zum Desaster. Eine Bombe explodiert und reißt unter anderem seinen Neffen in den Tod. Dr. Russel Owen und sein Team suchen unter Hochdruck nach dem Bombenleger und geraten dabei in einen gefährlichen Strudel aus Korruption und organisiertem Verbrechen.

In den stillgelegten U-Bahn-Schächten New Yorks treibt ein perverser Serienmörder sein Unwesen. Das Team der Rechtsmedizin ermittelt unter Obdachlosen, die in den Tunneln ihr Lager aufgeschlagen haben. Offenbar hat der Täter es gezielt auf die Außenseiter der Gesellschaft abgesehen. Dr. Russel Owen und seine Kollegen stoßen dann aber auf Ungereimtheiten und finden heraus, dass sie es mit mehr als einem Killer zu tun haben

It was meant to be a night off duty for Jen Garner and Hannah Littlefair, spent celebrating the achievement of a dear old friend in a luxury hotel penthouse suite. But crime doesn’t take a night off, as they’re soon to find out…

Elena Fairchild is a teacher at one of the state’s new elite schools. Her daughters are exactly like her: beautiful, ambitious and perfect. A good thing, since the recent mandate that’s swept the country is all about perfection. Now everyone must undergo routine tests for their quotient, Q, and any children who don’t measure up are placed into new government schools. Instead, teachers can focus on the gifted.

A State Department diplomat must confront the ghosts of her past as she searches for a missing American woman in New Zealand in this pulse-pounding and unputdownable thriller. Lake Harlowe may not appear to be your typical State Department diplomat. With the number of skeletons in her closet...

Ambitious, twenty-something FBI Special Agent Jade Harrington cuts her vacation short to investigate the murder of a conservative radio personality only to discover that he may be the victim of a serial killer. Whitney Fairchild, the elegant and charismatic Democratic senator from Missouri, campaigns in a cutthroat race for president of the United States. Cole Brennan, the most popular conservative talk-show host in the nation, battles nightly to save his country and help the incumbent Republican president maintain his "inner conservative" to win re-election.

Go, Went, Gone is the masterful new novel by the acclaimed German writer Jenny Erpenbeck, “one of the most significant German-language novelists of her generation” (The Millions). The novel tells the tale of Richard, a retired classics professor who lives in Berlin. His wife has died, and he lives a routine existence until one day he spies some African refugees staging a hunger strike in Alexanderplatz. Curiosity turns to compassion and an inner transformation, as he visits their shelter, interviews them, and becomes embroiled in their harrowing fates.

I'm Hailey Anne Monroe. I’m 28 years old. An artist, who found her muse on the canvas because I wasn’t allowed to have friends or even keep a journal. And yes, if you haven’t guessed by now, I’m that Hailey Anne Monroe, daughter to Thomas Frank Monroe, the man who was a half-percentage point from becoming president of the United States. If you were able to ask him, he’d probably tell you that I was the half point. But you can’t ask him, and he can’t tell you. He’s dead. They’re all dead, and now, I can speak.

Specialpolis Rebecka Born är avstängd från Sektionen för särskilda hot (SSH) för sin hantering av ett internationellt traffickingfall. Medan hon utreds av sina överordnade får hon ett anonymt tips: Något står inte rätt till med en grupp ensamkommande flyktingbarn. Rebecka avfärdar samtalet. Hon har lämnat in sin polisbricka och är dessutom upptagen med sitt röriga privatliv. Men när ett snarlikt tips inkommer från en källa som tidigare visat sig pålitlig väcks hennes nyfikenhet och oro. Vem har tagit de försvunna barnen?

Brock “BJ” Janoff and his older brother Jonas run a private investigation firm in Venice, CA. BJ is randomly approached by a stranger on the street with a proposition he can’t refuse–one million dollars to deliver a single envelope to a hotel lobby. They pay him up front, which sounds good on the surface, but now BJ’s life is in danger if he doesn’t deliver the envelope in time.

The sudden death of her refugee friend sets off a chain of events that will change Shelley’s quiet life forever. Her burning desire for the truth uncovers a web of conspiracy, danger, and corruption that reaches all the way to the top. Shelley is reluctant to jeopardize her safe career and comfortable life, but it soon becomes clear that she will have to break rules and risk everything to uncover the truth.

Penguin presents the unabridged, downloadable audiobook edition of A Traitor in the Family by Nicholas Searle, read by Ciaran McMenamin and Lisa Hogg. 'While her husband prepared to murder a young man he had never met, Bridget O'Neill completed her packing for Christmas with her in-laws.'...

Psychotherapist Neve Keane knew that returning to work at the hospital after being stabbed by a patient would be difficult. But entering her unit only to be surrounded by a crowd of people claiming they need her help to stop the apocalypse—that’s more than she bargained for.

Spielplatz des Romans ist der Deutsche Bundestag. Spielzeit sind die Monate März bis Mai 2015. Die Episoden des Romans finden nach einer Sonnenfinsternis statt. Die umfassend recherchierten Ereignisabläufe jener Monate bilden den zeitdramaturgischen Rahmen für das Psychogramm des fiktiven Abgeordneten M. Das Changieren zwischen Zeitgeschichte und okkulter Selbsterforschung schafft eine Zone zwischen Rationalität und Irrationalem, in der das Machtstreben von M erzählt werden kann. M erfährt schließlich seine eigene Sonnenfinsternis.

'Hayley Chill is relentlessly smart and brave' KARIN SLAUGHTER, Sunday Times bestselling author Ex-White House intern Hayley Chill is in training as an MMA fighter, trying to leave her past behind her. But hard as she may try to escape it, the past finds her. Under the floorboards of her...

This instant national bestseller leads a young intelligence operative into the depths of a dangerous white supremacy conspiracy that threatens to tear the country apart in a “high adrenaline adventure” (Booklist). Intelligence operative Hayley Chill is pursing the truth about her father’s...

The latest in the nationally bestselling 'edge-of-your-seat' (Book Riot) Hayley Chill series. WHEN JUSTICE FALLS NO ONE IS SAFE An associate justice of the Supreme Court is dead, killed by the very police officer assigned to protect him. As shockwaves ripple through the country, Hayley Chill’s...

A Supreme Court justice is murdered and a conspiracy with potentially cataclysmic effects is uncovered in this adrenaline-charged entry in the nationally bestselling “propulsive, page-turning, compelling” (C.J. Box, #1 New York Times bestselling author) Hayley Chill series. When a justice of...

Folge 10 der Hörspielserie "Caiman Club". Lobbyismus ist sein Leben. Und um das muss Star-Strippenzieher Hagen von Grau nun fürchten. Denn in der dritten Staffel der Audio-Blockbuster Serie CAIMAN CLUB macht eine terroristische Vereinigung Jagd auf Lobbyisten.