Ergebnis für "Secrets" in Für Hartgesottene

Ever since I met my handsome husband Dr Gabe Bonneville, I started playing the role of the perfect housewife. He works hard as a surgeon, so I look after our home, and throw elaborate dinner parties with champagne cocktails for his best friends Hugh and Anita. He’s my safe place and my chance to have the family I’ve always wanted. I’ve managed to hide the mornings when I wake up and see a face in the shadows. I haven’t told Gabe the truth about the woman who raised me, or told him about the therapy I’ve been getting so my secrets stay hidden in the dark.

A cynical, disabled film director with borderline personality disorder gets recruited to join a secret organization that oversees relations between Hollywood and Fairyland in this Nebula Award–nominated and Tiptree Award Honor Book that’s the first novel in a new urban fantasy series from...

Die Polizistin Bridget Reid ermittelt verdeckt als Prostituierte. Sie muss mit ansehen, wie zwei junge Frauen und ein Freier grausam ermordet werden. Sie selbst wird entführt und erwacht kurze Zeit später in einem verschlossenen Raum. Erinnerungen an Blut, Schmerz und tödliche Angst suchen sie immer wieder heim. Merkwürdigerweise kennt ihr Entführer ihre intimsten Geheimnisse - Dinge, die sie nie jemandem erzählt hat. Wie kann das sein? Und wie kann sie einer Person entkommen, die alles über sie weiß?

Los Angeles Police Detective Margaret Nolan and her partner have worked a lot of different cases, ones where things aren’t always as they appear. And it’s Nolan’s job to find the truth in the darkness around her. When they’re called to the scene of what looks like a fatal car-jacking, Nolan soon realizes her victim was a founder of a company about to sell for millions, and within a day of his death, his partner’s wife is abducted. As Nolan learns more about the victim and his life, she gets pulled into a disturbing world of sex, violence, and big business.

Not much happens in Deerfield, Connecticut. The sleepy little town nestled at the foot of Taconic Range near two pristine lakes is the stuff of Hallmark movies. Picturesque town square, friendly neighbors, the changing seasons… but Deerfield’s small-town charm will lose its allure after a girl goes missing.

Detective Jake Cashen is called in to investigate the chilling deaths of a young couple in the heart of Ohio's Blackhand Hills. What he uncovers threatens to turn a thriving rustic tourist haven into a breeding ground for fear and suspicion. With a statewide political convention in town, the spotlight on Worthington County has never been brighter. The sheriff needs these murders solved quickly and quietly. But as Jake digs deeper, he finds a sinister connection between a prominent figure in Blackhand Hills and the two victims.

Une froide journée de septembre, l'étudiant Marcus Nielsen est retrouvé mort dans son appartement de Nacka. Tout semble indiquer un suicide. Mais sa mère, convaincue qu'il a été assassiné, supplie la police de ne pas classer l'affaire. Quand l'inspecteur Thomas Andreasson commence à enquêter, les pistes semblent mener à la base militaire de Korsö, devant l'île de Sandhamn, où le corps d'un autre homme vient d'être retrouvé. Contactée par Thomas, Nora Linde, qui passe beaucoup de temps sur l'île, essaie d'en savoir plus sur cette base fortifiée où ont été formées les unités d'élite des chasseurs côtiers.

Detective Inspector Milton Bowman seems to have the perfect life, but some secrets refuse to stay buried. His Monday morning takes a tragic turn when he’s involved in a serious car accident on his way to the incident room. DI Harry Powell, a close friend and colleague, is tasked with breaking the news to Bowman’s wife, Linda—only to discover that she’s been murdered.

Chandler Grey arrived at the office at 7:45 and went straight to the break room. He lingered as long as possible, waiting for Braydee, but she never came. The words she had spoken to him yesterday sent a shiver down his spine. The pain in her eyes was something he recognized immediately. He had seen that same look in the eyes of his late wife in the months before she committed suicide.

Tampa's free-spirited Judge Wilhelmina Carson returns in the third installment of this well-loved series. During Tampa's annual Gasparilla Pirate Festival, murder chases Judge Willa's beloved secretary into a world of corruption, bank fraud, and art theft while Willa's dad, Jim Harper, suffers hell of his own making. Just as Willa is recovering from the shock of meeting her father's new trophy wife, her secretary Margaret Wheaton becomes mysteriously involved with a nefarious jeweler.

From two-time Edgar Award–winner and New York Times bestselling author James Lee Burke comes a thrilling novel—now available in ebook—that pits Dave Robicheaux against the worst opponent he’s encountered yet. It’s out there, under the salt of the Gulf of Mexico, off the Louisiana...

Hugo is a hardboiled private eye writer with wits as sharp as a switchblade. Victoria is a vampiress in denial of her mystic heritage. The duo solve the most outlandish crimes and write novels about their experiences as only private eye writers can. Together, this unlikely pair face off against a mob of crazed coin collectors, a terrorist attack by the international criminal Ibn Etin Salaami, a coven of evil vampigs and hampires (like vampires, but with more oinks and grunts), and more absurd and amazing scenarios than you can shake a vampire bat at. Will they survive?

Marnie thought she’d left behind her days of writing ‘celebrity’ tell-all memoirs, but when her big break as a screenwriter turns to dust she’s forced to take another ghost writing job. Except this time it’s for someone who is actually famous. Or rather, infamous. Blythe Hopper. A reclusive former Hollywood star who recently murdered her screenwriter husband. And Marnie has her own reasons for wanting to meet Blythe, not least because of an email she received from Blythe's husband, sent two days after he was shot dead.

In the streets of Harrisburg, a man is killed in what appears to be a straightforward hit-and-run - until the victim turns out to have no identity whatsoever. Obituary writer Lenny Holcomb's ability to glimpse the secrets of his column's subjects leads him to suspect that his old friend, ex-congressman George Packard, may have had a hand in the "accident.” But if so, why do all the clues point to Packard's slick political rival?

When a well-loved family of five are found dead sitting around their dining table with an untouched meal in front of them, it sends shockwaves throughout the community. Was it a murder suicide, or was someone else involved? It's one of DCI Whitney Walker's most baffling cases, and even with the help of forensic psychologist Dr. Georgina Cavendish, they struggle to find any clues or motives to help them catch the killer.

When long-time White Rock resident Mike Donnelly is found dead at his hunting camp, it appears as if the tragic death was by his own hand. But a gut feeling tells Chief of Police Sam Mason otherwise. Is it any coincidence that Mike's family farm sits smack in the middle of a parcel of land that greedy Lucas Thorne desperately needs to complete the development of his resort? Sam and Sergeant Jody Harris's line of questioning stirs up a hornet's nest.

A quiet night in the city of Colby is shattered by a crime that leaves a young man dead and a cop looking for answers. Hitting a stone wall at every turn, Officer Mike Collins and the Colby Police Department follow the trail of one young man's criminal act to discover a crime that leaves a family in shambles. Police officers know evil exists, they face it every day, but the evil that looms in the city of Colby may be more than they can handle.

When a murder occurs in a small town in Upstate New York, retired police detective Graham Sanderson, is drawn back into a vortex of violence, deception, and a series of murders which get dangerously personal. Graham Sanderson thought he’d left it all behind. His years as a Washington, DC...

Burnt-out from policework, Detective Sergeant George Manolis flies from Australia to Greece for a holiday. Recently divorced and mourning the death of his father, who emigrated from the turbulent Prespes region which straddles the borders of Greece, Albania and North Macedonia, Manolis hopes to reconnect with his roots and heritage. On arrival, Manolis learns of the disappearance of an 'invisible'—a local man who lives without a scrap of paperwork. The police and some locals believe the man's disappearance was pre-planned, while others suspect foul play.

Natasha, Riya, Anjali and Katherine were best friends in college - each different from the other yet inseparable - until that night. It was the night that began with a bottle of whisky and a game of Ouija but ended with the death of Sania, their unlikeable hostel mate. The friends vowed never to...