Ergebnis für "Stella" in Krimis & Thriller

The good news is my nemesis has made it abundantly clear the feeling is mutual. He did call me pretty, though, in the midst of a heated screaming match. Which would have been flattering, if I didn’t loathe him so much. But whatever. I don’t care how handsome he might be, or how charming the rest of the world probably finds him, guys who look like aged-out boy banders aren’t my type. Add to that, he’s got a knack for being in precisely the wrong place at the wrong time, and I was thrilled to march away from our angry skirmish and never see the bastard with the piercing blue eyes, ever again.

Was Marlen Haushofer auszeichnet, ist ihre Fähigkeit, in scheinbar schlichter Sprache messerscharfe Beobachtungen anzustellen, die unter die Haut gehen. So auch in der meisterhaften Novelle Wir töten Stella, einer furiosen und nüchternen Darstellung der Machtstrukturen und -kämpfe in einer Familie, einer eiskalten Bestandsaufnahme einer gescheiterten Beziehung.

Was, wenn der Mann, den du am meisten hasst, genau der ist, der dein Herz höherschlagen lässt? Stella McGrady hatte sich geschworen, nie wieder einen Fuß nach Velvet Creek zu setzen. Doch nach dem plötzlichen Tod ihres Vaters bleibt ihr nichts anderes übrig, als in ihre Heimat zurückzukehren und über das Schicksal der Familienranch zu entscheiden. Und natürlich ist da Luke Sawyer - der letzte Mensch, den sie in ihrer Nähe haben will. Groß, charmant und mit einem Lächeln, das jede Frau zum Schmelzen bringt, ist Luke alles, was Stella nicht brauchen kann.

Ein himmlischer Gesang. Ein tödlicher Sturz. Und ein Dorf, das schneller urteilt als die Polizei. Eigentlich wollte Pubbesitzerin Alex Duggins nur kurz dem wunderschönen Gesang in der kleinen Kirche von Folly-on-Weir lauschen. Stattdessen stolpert sie in ihren nächsten Albtraum: Die junge Sängerin liegt leblos am Boden … und Alex ist diejenige, die sie findet. Für das Mädchen kommt jede Hilfe zu spät und seine Familie, neu im Dorf und von vielen argwöhnisch beäugt, gerät sofort ins Visier.

When Mia Stone is asked to consult on a case in the middle of nowhere, she leaps at the chance to escape the disaster that has become her FBI career, while ignoring the threat still pursuing her. The case turns out to involve the dangerously sexy Seth Volk, who's a bad boy on his best day and a predatory wolf on his worst. Literally.

Ein Neuanfang im idyllischen Dorf. Ein Pub mit eigenwilligen Stammgästen. Und eine Leiche im Wald – mit einem Dartpfeil im Hals. Alex Duggins wollte in Folly-on-Weir eigentlich nur ihre Ruhe haben. Stattdessen steht sie plötzlich im Mittelpunkt eines Mordfalls – in einem Dorf, in dem jeder jeden kennt … und jeder ein Geheimnis hat. Alex Duggins wollte im verschlafenen Dorf Folly-on-Weir nach ihrer gescheiterten Ehe eigentlich nur ihren Pub in der Heimat retten und ihr Leben neu sortieren. Als sie bei einem Spaziergang im Wald eine Leiche entdeckt, wird ihr Plan endgültig auf den Kopf gestellt.

Left alone for the weekend while her husband and two children are visiting her in-laws, the narrator of KILLING STELLA recounts the addition of her friend’s daughter, Stella, into their already tense and tumultuous household. Staring out the window at her garden, she worries about the baby bird in the linden tree, about her husband, Richard, who flits from one adulterous affair to another, about her son’s gloomy demeanor and her daughter’s obliviousness to everything, and, most of all, she worries about Stella, a confused teenager who has just met a sudden and disastrous end.

Torino, 1935. Il lunedì di lavoro di Anita inizia con una novità: Leo Luminari, il più grande regista italiano, vuole portare sul grande schermo uno dei racconti gialli pubblicati su «Saturnalia», la rivista per cui lei lavora come dattilografa. Il che significa poter curiosa - re dietro le quinte, intervistare gli attori e realizzare un numero speciale. Anita, che subisce il fascino della settima arte, non sta nella pelle. L’entusiasmo, però, dura solo pochi giorni, finché il corpo senza vita del regista viene ritrovato in una camera d’albergo.

A profound exploration of the nature of reality and the human mind, from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Road and No Country for Old Men. 'A drought-busting, brain-vexing double act’ – Guardian Alicia Western is the following: Twenty years old. A brilliant mathematician at the...

She is my fair lady—my Eliza Doolittle if you like. A blank canvas on which I will create a masterpiece. Somebody to fool the most discerning eye. But I am no gentleman. I am the man she fears the most. The devil waiting behind the mountain range. I will teach her how to be my perfect woman, and she will thank me for it. I am the master of the game. She doesn't even realize we are playing one. She signed a contract inked in tears and sealed with blood. Now she is mine, and there is nothing she can do about that because hidden in the small print—she gifted me her soul.

Certi luoghi sono maledetti. E le persone che ci abitano condannate a un destino che non meritano. Lo sa bene Stella, diciassette anni, l'estate negli occhi e addosso l'esuberanza di chi è giovane. Tutti a Sant'Elia, un quartiere popolare di Cagliari affacciato sul mare, la conoscono, la desiderano e la invidiano: perché lei è splendida, impunita. Speciale. Ma un giorno in cui il maestrale infuria rabbioso, viene trovata morta su una spiaggia, il volto sfregiato come a cancellare la sua bellezza leggendaria.

100 años de historias de Agatha Christie El primer caso de Hércules Poirot, una oportunidad única para descubrir dónde empezó todo Essex, Inglaterra. En la mansión Styles, la millonaria Emily Inglethorp es hallada muerta en su cama, aparentemente víctima de un ataque cardíaco. Pero el...

Piper Dove è una ragazza ambiziosa e determinata: il suo sogno è diventare la migliore detective di Chicago e riscattare un passato difficile e tormentato. Il suo primo incarico consiste nel pedinare Cooper Graham, celebre ex quarterback dei Chicago Stars, una vera e propria star in città. Peccato che venga scoperta quasi subito... Ora che rischia di perdere casa e agenzia, Piper non ha altra scelta che accettare il lavoro nel club alla moda di Cooper, lo Spiral, ma la vita dell'ex campione negli ultimi tempi è diventata piuttosto movimentata e rischia di coinvolgere la ragazza in affari ben più pericolosi di una crisi finanziaria.

Hazard: A game of Chance and Luck, made riskier when Fate is rolling the dice. For Aristide Delacroix, the first throw summons shades from his past. A man he had met, just once, over a card-table... and the lovely girl indirectly responsible for plunging his life into catastrophe. For Lord Nicholas Wynstanton, tired of waiting for Madeleine Delacroix to make up her mind, it slyly suggests he begin a whole new game with loaded dice; while for Madeleine, it devises a terrifying lesson in missed opportunities and the uncertainty of second chances.

Night after night, she haunts my dreams. A woman I don’t even know. Watching her die in my arms is too much to bear. I can’t sleep. I can’t focus. She is all I think about. She is mine to protect, but I need to find her first, and when I do, I’ll never let her go.

Una de las diez novelas favoritas de la propia Agatha Christie. «Una narración magistral.» The Times Literary Supplement ¿Qué relación hay entre un intento de suicidio fallido, una acusación de robo injusta contra una alumna y la vida sentimental de un famoso tenista? Para un espectador...

He’ll protect them both, no matter the cost. Summer Lewis can’t catch a break. An overworked single mom, she’s struggling to make ends meet. The one bright spot is her favorite customer at the diner where she works—the big, tattooed Reese. But the dark spot in Summer’s life threatens to blot out the sun. Her ex is a member of a notorious motorcycle club, and they refuse to leave her alone. Reese Haven hasn’t been home in almost two decades. Burdened by the weight of his mistakes, he’s convinced he can’t return.

For Stella Bled Lawrence, being wealthy and stylish in 1938 is exactly what it's cracked up to be. She's blissfully unaware of the rising tensions in Europe even as she travels to Vienna on the eve of the Kristallnacht, the Night of Broken Glass. Stella and her husband, Nicky, witness the night's atrocities firsthand. Even as they watch the horror, they never imagine it will touch them personally, a pair of wealthy Americans on their honeymoon, but touch them it does. 

I met him, the man of my dreams. On the worst day of my life. Catching my boyfriend out was bad. Coming out of the club in a daze, I stumbled upon a situation which was worse. Much worse. And it would have been deadly, too. If he wasn’t there to save me. My unsuspecting hero. He was rugged, wild, and powerful. The way he looked at me set me on fire.

Upon learning that his stepsister, Mariella Talbot, is the beneficiary of a surprise inheritance, Sir Jerome Farrell decides to seize it for himself. Already struggling to thwart her step-brother’s other wicked intentions, Mariella realizes two things: To claim the Montesoro legacy, Jerome must make a lengthy journey...but without a certain item in her possession, he will return empty-handed.