Ergebnis für "The Block" in Thriller

Luka ist wieder im Gefängnis und diesmal ist es schlimmer als jemals zuvor. Im Block kann er die manipulierten Bilder in seinem Kopf nicht länger von der Realität unterscheiden. Dennoch gelingt ein riskanter Ausbruch und führt ihn und seine Freunde wieder zusammen. Versteckt im Herzen der zerstörten Stadt wird Luka allmählich das Ausmaß ihrer Mission klar: Um den Krieg zu gewinnen, müssen sie Happy besiegen, das alles beherrschende System. Und so ziehen die Jugendlichen mit ihrer stärksten und einzigen Waffe in den Kampf gegen die künstliche Intelligenz: ihrer Freundschaft.

Von ihrem Freund, dem Polizeipsychologen Kranz, wird die abgeklärte Hamburger Privatdetektivin Bella Block um Hilfe bei einer erschütternden Bluttat gebeten. In einem idyllischen Einfamilienhaus am Rande der Stadt hat Lara G. ihre drei Kinder ermordet. Doch die Angeklagte schweigt zu der entsetzlichen Tat; weder im Verhör noch vor Gericht äußert sie sich zu den Ereignissen, die sie in den Abgrund führten.

"Appealing. Day’s choice to withhold both victim and perpetrator ratchets up the tension nicely, and her jabs at suburban repression are sharp. This is wicked fun."—Publishers Weekly “Narrator Megan Tusing gives an emotive and affecting performance as Alex and provides distinct voices for...

Falkenberg, Sweden. The mutilated body of talented young jewellery designer, Linnea Blix, is found in a snow-swept marina. Hampstead Heath, London. The body of a young boy is discovered with similar wounds to Linnea's. Buchenwald Concentration Camp, 1944. In the midst of the hell of the Holocaust, Erich Hebner will do anything to see himself as a human again. Are the two murders the work of a serial killer, and how are they connected to shocking events at Buchenwald?

Mickey Haller - The Lincoln Lawyer - leaves criminal court behind for his first civil lawsuit. But to him, this is still a murder trial. An AI company's chatbot encouraged a sixteen-year-old boy to kill his ex-girlfriend. Can Haller prove the company knew the dangers of its own creation? To do...

In DER PERFEKTE BLOCK (Band #2) sammelt die Nachwuchsprofilerin Jessie Hunt, 29, die Scherben ihres zerbrochenen Lebens auf und verlässt die Vorstadt, um ein neues Leben in der Innenstadt von Los Angeles zu beginnen. Aber als eine wohlhabende Person des öffentlichen Lebens ermordet wird, befindet sich Jessie, die mit dem Fall beauftragt wurde, plötzlich wieder in der Welt der malerischen Vorstadt und jagt einen geistesgestörten Mörder inmitten der falschen Fassaden der Normalität von soziopathischen Frauen.

Ein Doppelpack der Bücher Nummer 1 (Die perfekte Frau) und Nummer 2 (Der perfekte Block) von Blake Pierces Jessie Hunt Psychothriller-Serie! Dieser Doppelpack bietet Buch eins und zwei in einer praktischen Datei. In Die perfekte Frau ist sich die auszubildende Profilerin Jessie Hunt sicher, dass sie ihre düstere Kindheit endlich hinter sich gelassen hat. In Der perfekte Block versucht die neue Profilerin Jessie Hunt, 29, die Scherben ihres zerbrochenen Lebens aufzusammeln und verlässt die Vorstadt, um ein neues Leben in Downtown L.A. zu beginnen.

Falkenberg. Le commissaire Bergström découvre le cadavre terriblement mutilé d'une femme. Londres. Profileuse de renom, Emily Roy enquête sur une série de meurtres d'enfants. Les corps présentent les mêmes blessures que la victime suédoise : trachée sectionnée, yeux énucléés et un mystérieux Y gravé sur le bras. Étrange serial killer, qui change de lieu de chasse et de type de proie… En Suède, Emily retrouve Alexis Castells, une écrivaine spécialisée dans les tueurs en série. Ensemble, elles se lancent dans une traque qui va les conduire jusqu'aux atrocités du camp de Buchenwald, en 1944.

It is a mystery why a street-smart young man like Chip Harrison has to resort to elaborate plans to attract a young woman like Francine. But someone turns Chip’s dream into a nightmare of danger. Chip has to act fast and furiously in a sizzling and suspenseful adventure that only Edgar Award-winning Lawrence Block could have written. In this barrel of fun, Chip Harrison rightfully takes his place beside Block’s best-known characters.

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.

Jessie, thriving again in downtown LA, is sure she’s moved on from her suburban nightmare. Ready to put her failed marriage behind her, she lands a job with the local police department, deferring her acceptance to the FBI’s Academy. She is assigned a straightforward murder in a wealthy neighborhood, a simple case to start her career. But little do her bosses know, there's more to the case than anyone suspected.

In this first in a series of wickedly funny mysteries, best-selling author Lawrence Block introduces Bernie Rhodenbarr, sometimes burglar, sometimes sleuth. Pulling only an occasional, very discreet job, Bernie manages to maintain his comfortable New York City apartment and keep his unorthodox vocation a closely-guarded secret. Every burglar knows never to trust anonymous phone calls. But when the caller offers easy money for an hour's work, Bernie can't ignore the job.

Sie ist ein einziger Traum - für einen Mann aber wird sie zum Albtraum. Johnny Hayden und Doug Rance wollen Immobilienunternehmer Wallace Gunderman um sein gesamtes Vermögen bringen...

It was all too frighteningly familiar. For the second time in his life, Alex Penn wakes up in an alcoholic daze in a cheap hotel room off Times Square and finds himself lying next to the savagely mutilated body of a young woman. After the first death, he was convicted of murder and imprisoned, then released on a technicality. But this time he has to find out what happened during the blackout and why, before the police do.

Keller ist ein Killer. Durch und durch Profi, cool, selbstsicher, kompetent, zuverlässig. Aber er ist auch eine vielschichtige Persönlichkeit: in sich gekehrt und zurückgezogen, eiskalt und gnadenlos effizient, aber zugleich anfällig für Selbstzweifel und Einsamkeit, Albträume und Zukunftssorgen. Seinem Therapeuten gegenüber gibt er sich als "Troubleshooter" eines großen Unternehmens aus, aber sein eigentliches Metier ist Mord.

The Block In the year 2050, the world has experienced a near total economic collapse, destroying the global monetary system. After years of struggle, a new form of exchange arose: cryptocurrencies called scripts, digital IOUs centrally managed through programs called blockchains. And the ambitious Proctors, who control the blocks, restlessly seek to expand their power. Milt Bruckner investigates blocks to counter fraud and is struggling to keep his script-chasing business afloat when a mysterious woman enters his establishment in need of his help.

Matt Scudder is well and truly off the booze, but he still spends time with some of his old drinking pals including Mick Ballou. Mick is worried - a garage full of bourbon has been ripped off and two of his henchman killed in cold blood. Micks wants Scudder to look into it - he reluctantly...

Keller is a regular guy. He goes to the movies, works on his stamp collection. Call him for jury duty and he serves without complaint. Then every so often he gets a phone call from White Plains that sends him flying off somewhere to kill a perfect stranger. Keller is a pro and very good at what he does. But the jobs have started to go wrong. The realization is slow coming, yet when it arrives, it is irrefutable: Someone out there is trying to hit the hit man. Keller, God help him, has found his way onto somebody else's hit list.

After arriving on Block Island to find her birth mother, Blake Bronson becomes convinced she’s the heroine of a gothic novel—the kind that allowed her intermittent escape from a traumatic childhood. How else to explain the torrential rain, the salt-worn mansion known as White Hall, and the restless ghost purported to haunt its halls? But before Blake can discern the novel’s ending, she’s found dead, murdered in a claw-foot tub. The proprietress of White Hall stands accused.

Small-time stoolie Jake "The Spinner" Jablon made a lot of new enemies when he switched careers from informer to blackmailer. And the more "clients," he figured, the more money - and the more people eager to see him dead. So he's greedy but scared, and he turns to his old acquaintance Matthew Scudder, who used to pay him for information back in Scudder's days as a cop. Scudder's his insurance policy - if anything happens to "The Spinner," Scudder can check up on the people who wanted him dead. No one is too surprised when the pigeon is found floating in the East River....