Ergebnis für "Sins of Fear" in Krimis & Thriller

Marcelina. Ich dachte, ich könnte vor meiner inneren Leere davonlaufen. Dachte, mir macht nichts mehr Angst, weil ich das Schlimmste schon erlebt und überlebt habe. Ich dachte, vielleicht habe ich an diesem anderen Ort eine Chance auf Leben. Ich habe mich getäuscht, denn ich kannte dich noch nicht. Aber ich werde mich nicht vor dir verstecken. Ich werde nicht davonlaufen. Denn ich sehe dich, und das ist alles, was ich will. Beat. Jeder, der uns kennt, hält sich fern von uns. Jeder weiß, was wir tun und wer wir sind.

Marcelina: Ich habe mehr gefunden, als ich gesucht habe. Mehr erlebt, als ich erleben wollte. Doch so sehr ich auch versuche von New Orleans, von dir loszukommen... ich schaffe es nicht. Es braucht nur ein Wort von dir, einen Blick aus deinen Mondscheinaugen, und schon hast du mich wieder. Und ich werde das Gefühl nicht los, dass ich am Ende mehr verliere, als ich es bisher schon getan habe. Beat: Egal was ich tue, Lina, ich werde dich einfach nicht los. Wie viel Leid, wie viel Schmerz muss ich dir noch zufügen, damit du es verstehst? Ich habe dir in einem besonderen Moment geholfen, weil ich dachte, ich müsse es tun.

Stillsitzen, lächeln, nicken. Erzogen zur perfekten Mafiabraut warte ich seit zweiundzwanzig Jahren auf den alles entscheidenden Tag. Wird der zukünftige Capo mich wählen – oder eine der anderen Frauen, die ihm angeboten werden? Unberührt, rein, arglos. Noch bevor die Entscheidung fällt, hat er bereits für mich getötet. Und das nicht zum ersten Mal. Unsere Verbindung reicht länger zurück als es die Tradition seiner Familie erlaubt. Elegant, betörend, gefährlich. Trotzdem – oder vielleicht gerade deswegen? – entscheidet er sich für eine andere.

Secret. Captive. Wife. I had my role to play in this war. He made that clear from the start. No matter what happened between us, his hunger for revenge kept raging. Not even an act of God could change that.

It's 1811, and the threat of revolution haunts the upper classes of King George III's England. Then a beautiful young woman is found savagely murdered on the altar steps of an ancient church near Westminster Abbey. A dueling pistol found at the scene and the damning testimony of a witness both point to one man - Sebastian St. Cyr, Viscount Devlin, a brilliant young nobleman shattered by his experience in the Napoleonic Wars.

The past has claws. And she just woke it up. Petra never asked to be connected to ancient oaths, the fallen sons of Heaven, or a sigil that won't stop haunting her. Her search to uncover her origin has become a race against time: save an archaeological team from an earthquake only she can foresee, expose a conspiracy as old as the Watchers, and avoid being sidetracked by a dangerously captivating academic whose charm threatens to pull her off course.

When her wealthy Scottish employer dies of an overdose of heart medication, Nurse Latterly is charged with murder and locked up in Newgate Prison. To save his friend from the gallows, Inspector Monk works feverishly to identify a cold-blooded killer in the victim's greatly admired - and coolly silent - family.

Fear stalks familiar ground. Acting DCI Rob Marshall is back in the Borders with a permanent promotion dangled in front of him – but storm clouds are gathering, with his new boss eyeing cutting Marshall’s Major Investigation Team. When a seventeen-year-old boy is found murdered in Hawick, Marshall finds a community on the edge. As his team struggles to connect the dots, what seems like a straightforward case unravels into something far more sinister – the details echo another investigation and Marshall finds himself following a trail of secrets hidden in plain sight.

The sins of the dead are all consuming . . . Sins of the Dead is the thrilling thirteenth book in Lin Anderson's forensic crime series featuring Rhona MacLeod. 'One of the most satisfying characters in modern crime fiction' – Daily Mail While illegally street racing in the underground tunnels...

When you are a son and one of the heirs to the legacy of the Cavalieri name, you need to be more vicious than your enemies. Sometimes, the lines get blurred. Years ago, they tried to use her as a pawn in a revenge scheme against me. Even though I cared about her, I let them treat her as if she were nothing. I was too arrogant and self-involved to protect her then. But I'm here now. Ready to risk my life tracking down every single one of them. They'll pay for what they've done as surely as I'll pay for my sins against her.

As startling and provocative as his famous Stranger in a Strange Land, here is Heinlein’s grand masterpiece about a man supremely talented, immensely old, and obscenely wealthy who discovers that money can buy everything.

As director of an inner-city woman's shelter, Dana Dupinsky safeguards many secrets. Some are new identities; some are new addresses; and some are even hidden truths about herself. Passionately dedicated to Hanover House and the women she protects, Dana has always been reluctant to look for love...

It's been four years since I ran away - from home, my brother, and my maybe father. I created a life free of expectations while pretending I wasn't being hunted by all of the above. I managed to stay under the radar all this time...or so I thought. When big brother shows up and saves my ass, I'm forced to face everything I left behind, including her.

I don't believe in fairy tales and Prince Charming. I believe in fear. He taught me how to be afraid. We first met on a playground on a wonderful summer day. It was the first time he hurt me and it wouldn't be the last. For 10 years, he's been my tormentor and I've been his forbidden. But then he went away, and yet I was still afraid. Now, he's back, and wants more than just my tears. You see...he thinks I sent him away so now he wants revenge...and he knows just how to get it.

The hooker was young, pretty...and dead, butchered in a Greenwich Village apartment. The prime suspect, a minister's son, was also dead, the victim of a jailhouse suicide. The case is closed, as far as the NYPD is concerned. Now the murdered prostitute's father wants it opened again--that's where Matthew Scudder comes in.

The last thing Boston Detective D. D. Warren remembers is walking the crime scene after dark. Then, a creaking floorboard, a low voice crooning in her ear… She is later told she managed to discharge her weapon three times. All she knows is that she is seriously injured, unable to move her left arm, unable to return to work. My sister is Shana Day, a notorious murderer who first killed at fourteen. Incarcerated for thirty years, she has now murdered more people while in prison than she did as a free woman.

Claymore Straker is a fugitive with a price on his head. He's wanted by the CIA for acts of terrorism he did not commit; his best friend has just been murdered; and Rania, the woman he loves, has disappeared. Betrayed by those closest to him, he must flee the sanctuary of his safe house in Cornwall and track her down.

The homicide beat in Louisiana isn't just terrifying, it's demonic. Detective Kara Gilligan of the supernatural task force has the ability to summon demons to her aid, but she herself is pledged to serve a demonic lord. And now, people who've hurt Kara in the past are dropping dead for no apparent reason. To clear her name and save both the demon and human worlds, she's in a race against the clock and in a battle for her life that just may take her to hell and back.

A renowned rake, Cameron Mackenzie doesn't care if Ainsley Douglas has a virtuous excuse for sneaking around his bedchamber. He only cares that she's at his mercy. One kiss at a time, he plans to seduce her. But what starts out as a lusty diversion may break Cam's own rules.

Lake Monroe has given in to her childhood tormentor too many times. She knows it, he knows it, and even their enemies know it. When he returned after being found guilty of a crime he didn't commit - a crime he thought she set him up for, he returned darker than ever, demanding her body and her submission. To survive him, she knew she had to give in to fear once more or suffer the deadly consequences....