Ergebnis für "People Like Her" in Krimis & Thriller

""Beyond being a brilliant skewering of social media and influencer culture, People Like Her is, quite simply, a damn good thriller . . . . The novel reads like Gone Girl on steroids in all the best ways.”— BookReporter “Breathlessly fast, brilliantly original. Bravo, Ellery Lloyd...

When the one who got away comes back... Real estate broker Tori Cruz has spent years building a life of structure and control—keeping her heart, and her past, carefully locked away. But when Mia Falcon, her childhood best friend and secret first love, crashes back into her life after fourteen years apart, everything Tori thought she buried comes rushing back. Mia didn't mean to find Tori again. She definitely didn't mean to want her. Divorcing, grieving, and lost, Mia only wanted help selling her mother's house.

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER In the propulsive first novel from the author of The Missing Half and host of the #1 true crime podcast Crime Junkie, a journalist uncovers her hometown’s dark secrets when she becomes obsessed with the unsolved murder of her childhood neighbor—and the...

Veronica and Ryan Hartley are the envy of Auburn Drive. When the exclusive neighborhood hosts its annual progressive dinner party, the couple’s perfection is on display. The neighbors are obsessed—entranced by the “it” couple’s movie-star looks and smoldering gazes. But is the perfect pair too good to be true?

Geliebt, geliked - getötet? Im Psychothriller des britischen Autorenpaars Ellery Lloyd wird eine "Insta-Mum" zur Zielscheibe der Rache für einen furchtbaren Verlust. Für eine Million Follower ist "Insta-Mum" Emmy Jackson eine Art beste Freundin und Leidensgenossin: Auf Instagram teilt die Mutter von zwei kleinen Kindern "total ehrlich" ihren chaotischen Familienalltag mit Pleiten, Pech und Pannen.

Ein kleines Mädchen, das ein Geheimnis in sich trägt. Ein Vater, der alles für sie tun würde. Die Jagd beginnt... "Rette sie oder ich schneide ihr die Kehle durch." Er war bereit, seine Tochter zu opfern... Ein Jahr nach dem tragischen Unfall seiner Frau muss Jack einen weiteren Schicksalschlag verkraften. Seine Tochter hat Leukämie, liegt schwerkrank im Krankenhaus und kämpft um ihr Überleben. Es gäbe noch eine Rettung für sie, aber dafür müsste er bereit sein, über Leichen zu gehen.

Ein Serienmörder im Techno-Underground der 90er-Jahre. '"Mi preferas morti." Berlin 1997. Ein Serientäter, der an den Tatorten kryptische Botschaften hinterlässt, hält die Stadt in Atem. Ein Phantom, nicht greifbar. Eine Kommissarin, die tief in den Berliner Underground und die Technoszene eintauchen muss, um den Mörder zu finden. Dabei verliert sie sich in dieser ihr fremden und doch seltsam vertrauten hedonistischen Welt, wird mit ihren Dämonen und ihrer Vergangenheit konfrontiert und kommt dem Täter nahe, ohne es zu wissen.

Alice Brewster is at a low point. After being let go from her job at the ritzy Grant Hotel, she's taken to hiding out at a dingy Manhattan pub just so that she won't have to tell anyone the shameful truth. So when blonde, beautiful Taylor waltzes in one sunny afternoon, Alice is ready for the distraction of an unpredictable new friend. As Alice and Taylor get closer, Alice confesses the real reason she lost her job—a hotel guest, the wealthy real estate mogul Weston Chambers, assaulted her. But while Alice wants sympathy, Taylor's rage is white hot. We could kill him, she says.

Pretty Lizzie Higgs is gone, burned to death on her own hearth - but was she really a changeling, as her husband insists? Albie Mirralls met his cousin only once, in 1851, within the grand glass arches of the Crystal Palace. But unable to countenance the rumours that surround her murder, he leaves his young wife in London and travels to Halfoak, a village steeped in superstition.

The last time Maeve saw her cousin was the night she escaped the cult they were raised in. For the past two decades, Maeve has worked hard to build a normal life in New York City, where she keeps everything—and everyone—at a safe distance. When Andrea suddenly reappears, Maeve regains the only true friend she’s ever had. Soon she’s spending more time at Andrea’s remote Catskills estate than in her own cramped apartment. Maeve doesn’t even mind that her cousin’s wealthy work friends clearly disapprove of her single lifestyle.

Henrietta Von Harmon works as a 26 girl at a corner bar on Chicago's northwest side. It's 1935, but things still aren't looking up since the big crash and her father's subsequent suicide, leaving Henrietta to care for her antagonistic mother and younger siblings. Henrietta is eventually persuaded to take a job as a taxi dancer at a local dance hall - and just when she's beginning to enjoy herself, the floor matron turns up dead. When aloof Inspector Clive Howard appears on the scene, Henrietta agrees to go undercover for him-and is plunged into Chicago's grittier underworld. Meanwhile, she's still busy playing mother hen to her younger siblings, as well as to pesky neighborhood boy Stanley, who believes himself in love with her and keeps popping up in the most unlikely places, determined to keep Henrietta safe - even from the Inspector, if need be. Despite his efforts, however, and his penchant for messing up the Inspector's investigation, the lovely Henrietta and the impenetrable Inspector find themselves drawn to each other in most unsuitable ways.