Ergebnis für "Lords" in Thriller

Barrington University is home of the Lords, a secret society that requires their blood in payment. They are above all—the most powerful men in the world. They devote their lives to violence in exchange for power. And during their senior year, they are offered a chosen one.

Eine junge Gouvernante, ein Schloss mit einem dunklen Geheimnis und eine Liebe, die nicht sein darf. Tamara Easterbrook ist Gouvernante und wollte schon immer in einem Schloss arbeiten. Ihr Wunsch geht in Erfüllung, als sie zu den Asbridges kommt. Sie verliebt sich in das Gemälde des verstorbenen ältesten Sohns der Familie, das sie jeden Tag sieht. Aber niemand redet über die Umstände seines Todes. Plötzlich geschehen mysteriöse Ereignisse. Die Bewohner schieben es auf den Geist des alten Earls, der angeblich im Schloss spuke. Doch Tamara glaubt nicht an Geister.

Ich hatte ihr Herz dem Licht geraubt und es mit mir in die Dunkelheit gerissen... Der jungen Cheska Harlow-Wright steht eine glorreiche Zukunft an der Seite eines einflussreichen Geschäftsmannes der Londoner High Society bevor. Doch Cheska hat ein Geheimnis: ihr Herz gehört Arthur Adley, dem Mann, der ihr das Leben gerettet hat. Seit dem Tod seines Vaters hat der Achtzehnjährige als Oberhaupt der meistgefürchteten Familie Großbritanniens alle Hände voll zu tun, sich als rechtmäßiger König der Londoner Unterwelt zu behaupten. Ablenkung, Gefühle oder Schwäche kann er sich nicht leisten.

Sie: von ihrem Bruder aus Geldnot in eine Ehe gezwungen. Er: ab der Taille gelähmt, dennoch will er sie als seine Braut … Miss Felicity Newberry ist ihrem Bruder zuliebe gezwungen, einen Marquess zu heiratet, den sie noch nie zuvor getroffen hat. Sie stimmt der Ehe zu, um ihrem Bruder aus einer finanziellen Krise zu helfen. Doch als sie ihren Ehemann, den charmanten Vernon Payton, Marquess of Kittredge, endlich kennenlernt, stellt sie fest, dass er seit seinem „schwarzen Tag“, an den er keine Erinnerung hat, ab der Taille gelähmt ist.

Whose Body? first introduced Lord Peter to the world and begins with a corpse in the bath of a London flat. Clouds of Witness finds Wimsey investigating murder close to home, and in Unnatural Death he investigates the suspicious demise of an elderly woman. First broadcast on BBC radio in the 1970s and presented here in their entirety, these full-cast adaptations are admired by fans of the genre worldwide.

Scoundrel by nature and master thief by trade, Mouse is the best there is. Sure, his methods may not make him many friends, but he works best alone anyway. And he has never failed a job. But that could change.

They are just children when they first meet: Charlotte, daughter of the French ambassador, and Hiroshi, a laundress’s son. One day in the playground, Hiroshi declares that he has an idea that will change the world. An idea that will sweep away all differences between rich and poor. When Hiroshi runs into Charlotte several years later, he is trying to build a brighter future through robotics.

Ian Carmichael stars as Lord Peter Wimsey in these classic BBC radio dramatisations of Dorothy L Sayers' Golden Age crime novels. Gentleman detective Lord Peter Wimsey starred in a number of novels and short stories by Dorothy L Sayers. These full-cast adaptations - first broadcast on BBC radio between 1979 and 2010 - are cherished by crime aficionados worldwide. The stories featured are Murder Must Advertise, The Nine Tailors, Gaudy Night, and Busman's Honeymoon.

Ian Carmichael is Lord Peter Wimsey in these consummate BBC radio dramatisations of Dorothy L Sayers' much-loved mysteries Elegant, erudite and sharp-witted, aristocratic detective Lord Peter Wimsey featured in numerous novels and short stories by ‘Queen of Crime’ Dorothy L Sayers. These...

A woman lies dead, shot and bleeding. Behind her body stands a large old manor house, her house, and now her son's. She ran the rural estate as a minor fiefdom, all had to subjugate themselves to her will, or they were put out of their homes and ejected from the community. Lady Compton was hated, nobody mourned her passing, but her murder brought suspicion and dismay to the closely allied village, and it brought the police into their midst.

When Lord Edgware Dies a most unnatural death, detective Hercule Poirot must solve a most confounding conundrum: if the obvious killer, the slain peer’s spiteful wife, didn’t do it, who did? A classic from the queen of mystery, Agatha Christie. When Lord Edgware is found murdered the police...

Crispin the mosaicist wants to concentrate on his art. Rustem of Kerakek, a physician, is also on his own journey of self-discovery. But no man may withdraw from society that easily, and both men soon find themselves drawn into the deadly webs of Sarantium. Lord of Emperors is the sequel to Sailing to Sarantium.

The No.1 Sunday Times bestseller IN THE FINAL RECKONING, CHOOSE YOUR SIDE CAREFULLY… The epic conclusion to the globally bestselling historical series. After years fighting to reclaim his rightful home, Uhtred of Bebbanburg has returned to Northumbria. With his loyal band of warriors and a new...

My father never intended to honor his promise to marry me to the most despised crime lord in Corsica. He thought that handshake would be long forgotten. Until Angelo Russo shows up at my sixteenth birthday party and demands his due when I turn eighteen. A man to whom no one dares say no is determined to take what he considers as his, especially when he’s told he can’t have it.

Charles Knight returns to the United States after seven years traveling the world. He embarks on two concurrent professions: one as a major investor in a small pharmaceutical company, and the other as the head of a black market drug-smuggling and distribution operation. Charles has to sort through the legal and illegal, moral and immoral, and right and wrong as he navigates the war on drugs and the crony pharmaceutical industry.

After a terrible divorce left her blindsided, all Evie Quinn wants is a relaxing girls' trip to Scotland, not a fight for her life with a Chimera shifter—an ancient, secretive enemy with the power to shapeshift into anything with a pulse. Surviving the attack is a plus, but her goddess mother drops a bomb on her: Living will change everything. And… it does. Now she's hiding out in a small town running a popular flower shop, doing her best to resist the urge to gnaw on raw meat every chance she gets, and badly pretending she's the same ol' lovable hedgewitch she always was.

Deep blue eyes with silver shards… watching me… always watching… Valentin Constanov doesn't take no for an answer. So, when I tell him to stop following me, it might as well be a direct challenge. It's his job to watch over the empire, after all. And I share a connection with his boss's wife—not that I want anything to do with the Russian mafia or their dark and twisted lifestyle. I've got my own problems to worry about. But the hot-tempered, ill-mannered, tattooed-covered Romeo isn't used to being rejected.

It was the body of a tall stout man. On his dead face, a handsome pair of gold pince-nez mocked death with grotesque elegance. The body wore nothing else. Lord Peter Wimsey knew immediately what the corpse was supposed to be. His problem was to find out whose body had found its way into Mr Alfred Thipps' Battersea bathroom.

Kincaid Family Enterprises sits atop a Vegas real estate empire. Some of our business is legal, while parts hide in the shadows. That's where I come in. Enforcer who does the dirty work. Not talented enough to be King. Not smart enough to be CEO. Not clever enough to think our way out of a war that threatens to take everything we've worked to build. Until fate and circumstance align, and I find myself with the perfect chance. Frame our enemies and win this war. The catch? I'll have to fake my own death.

Killian, Tristian, and Rath. These three men are a part of my past - one that I'd rather never look in the eye again. In high school, they knew my secrets and I knew theirs. They had power and I had nothing. The night everything fell apart, my stepbrother allowed his two best friends to take their rage out on me while he watched. While they laughed.