Ergebnis für "The Baby" in Psychothriller

Ihre Tochter wäre jetzt Zweiundzwanzig. Aber lebt sie noch? Als Fünfzehnjährige hat Carolin ein Mädchen geboren und zur anonymen Adoption freigegeben. Zweiundzwanzig Jahre später erhält sie von der Polizei die Aufforderung, eine DNA-Probe abzugeben, um die Identität einer weiblichen Leiche festzustellen. Was ist mit meinem Baby passiert, fragt sich Carolin und begibt sich auf die Suche nach ihrer Tochter. Bei der Verfolgung der Spuren ihres Lebens kommt sie nicht nur ihrem Kind, sondern auch einem pathologischen Mörder viel zu nah.

She survived the massacre. Now the real trouble begins. One minute, Erin Callahan is a hero—the teacher's aide who miraculously survived the Cedar Ridge Elementary massacre. The next, she's a pariah. The police are digging into her past. The media is turning her into a villain. The town has turned against her. But only Erin knows why she's truly afraid. Someone left a bouquet on her doorstep. Tucked inside: a plain white card with five words, neatly printed: I killed them for you.

She bursts into my life like a storm, and nothing is the same again. One by one, I watch as my friends fall under her spell. Only I see that her smiles don’t reach her cold, furious eyes. And when I’m accused of things I didn’t do, when my home is vandalized, I know she’s behind it. But she only lets her mask slip when no one is looking, so if I say anything, I’ll look crazy. So when the baby shower comes around, I’m sitting on a velvet sofa in a posh hotel room, surrounded by balloons. But that afternoon, I finally learn the unbelievable truth. There is no baby....

"What a compulsive read! A brilliant first novel that kept me transfixed and entertained until the very last page." -- Tess Gerritsen, New York Times bestselling author You've been held captive in one room. You've been mentally and physically abused every day since you were sixteen years old...

The day I was told I’d never be able to have a child, my world came crashing down. My husband says he still loves me, but I lie awake at night, wishing we could have a family. One morning, my husband’s side of the bed is cold and empty. I hear a noise and head downstairs. In the middle of the rug in my living room is a wooden drawer. Swaddled inside, with perfect rosy cheeks and beautiful round blue eyes, a baby gazes up at me.

ME: Staring down at the sweet baby in my arms, I feel panic instead of love. Because this isn’t the child I gave birth to. My husband whispers to the midwife. They all think I’m going crazy. But the tiny boy in my arms is crying again. I’m certain: he knows I’m not his mummy. And I’ll do whatever it takes to get my son back.

Suzette knows her clever and manipulative seven-year-old daughter doesn’t love her. She can see the hatred and jealousy in her eyes. And as Hanna’s subtle acts of cruelty threaten to tear her and her husband apart, Suzette fears her very life may be in grave danger....

Cynthia is 21, bored and desperately waiting for something big to happen. Unemployed and living with her father, her existence is self-absorbed yet meaningless; her days absorbed by reality TV, social media and an obsession with her striking fitness instructor Anahera. When Cynthia suggests they run away together, it’s not long before Anahera arrives at her door, ready to throw in the towel on her job and her marriage.

In the latest thriller from the bestselling author of Final Girls, a young woman returns to her childhood summer camp to uncover the truth about a tragedy that happened there fifteen years ago. Two Truths and a Lie. The girls played it all the time in their cabin at Camp Nightingale. Vivian...

It’s been six months since Neal Becker was convicted of the murder of his mother-in-law. He’s been committed to the Central State Psychiatric Hospital for life. Meanwhile, "poor, innocent" Baby Natasha is in the custody of Susan Matlow, the compassionate nurse who helped "rescue" her from her criminally insane father. Neal knows what his daughter is. And he knows he only has one chance to stop her from causing more death and destruction.

Twenty-six-year-old NICU nurse Annabelle Kaplan is devoted to the preterm infants in her care—even as her own life quietly unravels. Haunted by the stillbirth of her daughter and drowning in secret debt from compulsive shopping, Annabelle clings to her work as a lifeline. When a tragic accident leaves her beloved patient, Baby Olivia, orphaned, Annabelle’s world tilts again. Olivia is placed in the custody of her only relative—an aunt who seems more interested in money than motherhood.

As a nanny for the wealthy Eatons, Trina watches every day as Rosalind Eaton cradles the baby close. Trina’s baby. The sweet little boy won’t settle—he never does in Rosalind’s arms. It breaks Trina’s heart to see the tiny tears falling down his fat cheeks. His glossy hair is light auburn, and straight. Nothing like the Eaton family’s classic dark curls. Trina has been watching the Eatons for years. And what she knows about their dark past could be their undoing.

I thought my sister was killed a year ago. But now her baby is on my doorstep… I’m drinking a glass of wine in my quiet, empty house, listening to the silence and wondering if I will always be this lonely… And then I hear the knock. When I open the door, I can’t believe what I see. A small bundle, pink fists waving weakly under a patterned blanket, gorgeous deep blue eyes blinking up at me. A baby. I rush to pick her up, clutching her tightly. Who can she belong to? Why would someone abandon her at my door?

A new mom in need of help opens her door to her long-estranged mother—only to invite something much darker inside—in this "fast-paced and frightening debut" (Rachel Harrison) about the long shadows cast by family secrets, perfect for readers of Grady Hendrix or Ashley Audrain. Flora is a new...

All my adult life, I've longed for a baby. We tried IVF. We tried everything. Now, we're waiting to adopt. We have a beautiful home and all the love in the world to give a child. But we're told it will take years. Then one day, at Rocky Point Beach, one thing leads to another. I make a split-second decision—and I come home with a baby. He has tiny red bow lips and the chubbiest cheeks. He's gorgeous. I call him Jonah.

A Most Anticipated Book of 2026 Goodreads Forbes The Millions CrimeReads Bookstr "A love letter to Amy Dunne of Gone Girl." —Olivia Muenter, USA Today bestselling author of Such a Bad Influence and Little One "Sharp, hilarious, and painfully relatable." —Monika Kim, author of...

""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...

As I hold my daughter’s newborn baby to my chest, my heart breaks knowing she didn’t live to meet her son. Someone will need to raise this child, but who will fight the hardest?

From the bestselling author of Suffocated and Insomnia. Seventeen-year-old Teagan thought her life was perfectly ordinary, raised in a quiet town by her devoted mother, Tessa. But when an unexpected message arrives from a stranger claiming to know the truth about her father’s death, Teagan’s world is shaken. The message warns that she’s in danger and begs for her trust—leaving Teagan desperate for answers about her past.

"Thrilling and illuminating."—LA Times "A hypnotic psychological thriller." —People A chance encounter sparks an unrelenting web of lies in this new gripping and complex psychological thriller from the New York Times bestselling author of The Good Girl. She sees the teenage girl on the train...