Ergebnis für "The Fall of Light" in Krimis & Thriller

On Memorial Day, 1992, three decorated navy officers disappeared in the sleepy beach town of Hansville, Washington. Thirty years later, their medals were found in the marshlands of Foulweather Bluff. So were their bones. For private investigator Thomas Austin, this case hits close to home. The son of a JAG lawyer, Austin grew up around the navy. To solve the case, he must piece together clues buried in the marshlands and dark secrets hidden in navy history.

Die um die Welt reisende Starfotografin Ella Shepherd wird von Polarlichtern an die Nordseeküste gelockt, um die Pfahlbauten von St. Peter-Ording besonders in Szene zu setzen. Noch in der gleichen Nacht postet sie die ersten Fotos in den sozialen Medien – am darauffolgenden Nachmittag wird sie tot in ihrem Bungalow in der Weißen Düne aufgefunden. Torge Trulsen gehört wieder zu den Ersten am Tatort und fühlt sich persönlich betroffen, weil er Ella bereits im Sommer begegnet war und sie eine Reportage über ihn plante.

Award-winning No.1 bestselling author Michael Connelly's ninth Bosch book. Hieronymus (Harry) Bosch has retired from the Los Angeles Police Department - but the discovery of a startling unsolved murder among his old case files means he cannot rest until he finds the killer. When he left the LAPD...

The story did not collapse all at once. It eroded. It repeated. It normalized itself until no one remembered where it began. In The Fall, the final installment of The Redacted Series, the consequences of narrative control become impossible to ignore. What began as exposure turned into transmission. What spread as belief now settles into memory. Juno is no longer chasing the signal. She is living inside its residue. As systems recalibrate and identities fracture, the lines between truth, memory, and consent blur beyond recognition. Control no longer announces itself. It embeds.

Small-time hustler Arthur Abdel Simpson ekes out a living in Athens by robbing gullible tourists. But when an attempted theft backfires, he finds himself out-smarted and blackmailed into driving a highly suspicious car across the border to Istanbul. Then the Turkish secret police get involved, and Simpson becomes embroiled in something far deeper, and more dangerous, than he could imagine. Featuring a heart-stopping jewel heist, this compulsive, morally complex thriller became the basis for the classic film Topkapi.

She faces dangerous situations all the time.... Olympic downhill skier, Harper Young, knows what it’s like to look danger in the face. After all, she does it every time she races down a ski slope. She’s fine with that danger and even excels under the pressure, winning Olympic gold. And as a governor’s daughter, she’s familiar with receiving threats from the general public. But when a stalker turns his sights on Harper, she possesses zero skills to protect herself.

Seine größte Schwäche: eine Woche mit Folgen... Eddie Valenzuela kennt sich in der Musikbranche bestens aus und als er Fiona Franks singen hört, weiß er, dass sie ein Superstar werden wird. Und Fiona hat auch schon einen Plattenvertrag unterschrieben, der ihr eine große Karriere und ihre erste Tournee zusichert. Allerdings musste sie sich verpflichten, Single zu bleiben. Deshalb verschwindet sie nach einer aufregenden Woche voller Leidenschaft - ohne zu wissen, dass es dafür bereits zu spät ist... Die große Breaking-Serie von Ember Leigh für alle Fans von Penelope Ward and Vi Keeland.

Berlin, 1919: Die Nachkriegszeit und deren Verbrechen schreiben Geschichte. Der legendäre Berliner Kriminalrat Ernst Gennat herrscht mit strenger Hand im Polizeipräsidium am Alexanderplatz. Ein junger, angehender Kriminalist macht sich auf den Weg in die Hauptstadt, um von dem Besten zu lernen. Sein Name: Franz Wilhelm Darkowitsch. Zugleich muss Gennat einen komplizierten Fall lösen: Wer erschoss am Weihnachtsabend den jungen, schönen Leutnant?

When Detective Madison Harper arrives at a remote summer camp in Shadow Falls, Northern California, her heart breaks for Jenny, the sweet little girl last seen splashing in the lake with her friends before she vanished. Peering into the silent cabins filled with rows of neatly made beds, Madison knows this idyllic place is hiding a terrible secret.

Aborting an officially-sanctioned assassination attempt at the Houses of Parliament when he realises who the target is, Secret Intelligence Service 'deniable operator' Nick Stone is given a chilling ultimatum by his bosses:fly to Panama and complete the task, or he and Kelly, the 11-year-old...

When a revered sports legend falls victim to a brutal home invasion, a nation is shaken to its core. Outrage swells and the press and powers that be demand answers. DCI Evan Warlow, fresh from a well-earned vacation, is thrown into the cauldron to lead the investigation. But the victim, despite his iconic status, has secrets of his own. Amidst the chaos of jealousy and rivalry that swirls around the case, a darker underbelly emerges. The pursuit of truth transforms into a gripping hunt, but whose truth is the team hunting?

The Rise of Nine is the next thrilling instalment in the gripping Lorien Legacies series by Pittacus Lore. 'Number Four is a hero for this generation' Michael Bay, director of Transformers *** Until I met John Smith, Number Four, I'd been on the run alone, hiding and fighting to stay alive...

When Abby and Noah meet, there is an explosive attraction between them that neither can deny.... As a shy, awkward, social misfit, Abby has gone her whole life feeling as though she's different from everyone else and she simply doesn't fit in well with society as a whole. She longs to feel a real connection with someone, and she finally does when she meets Noah. Unbeknownst to Abby, Noah is from another world and his sole purpose is to hunt down the evil of his people that was unleashed on Earth hundreds of years ago.

Debauched, divorced, and courting death, Billy Ray Schafer is a comedian who has forgotten how to laugh. Over the course of seven spun-out days across the American Southwest, he travels from from hell gig to hell gig in search of a reason to keep living in this bleak and violent glimpse into the psyche of a thoroughly ruined man. Ex-inmate, ex-husband, ex-father - comedian is the only title Schafer has left. Trapped in the wreckage of his wasted career, Billy Ray knows the answer to the question: What happens when the opportunity doesn't come - or worse - it comes and goes? 

Abby has been through hell and has survived one of the most brutal childhoods imaginable. To the outside world, she is just a loner with an attitude. When her grandmother dies in a tragic explosion, Abby is left with questions - and nothing else. Homeless, sleeping in a junkyard, and on the run from a system that has failed her over and over again, she meets Jake, a tattooed, blue-eyed biker with secrets that rival her own. Two broken souls that can't be healed. They can't be saved.

Innocent. Blameless. Pure. Heartbroken. Josie Vos belonged to the one family I hated more than anything. And I had forced her to despise me just as much. It didn't matter that I had lost track of my plan and fallen for my enemy. Irrevocably hurt and enraged by my deceit, she had no intentions of doing anything but watching me lose my throne.

Hale Bennet wird vergiftet aufgefunden. Der beliebte und erfolgreiche Krimi-Autor ist selbst Opfer eines Verbrechens geworden. Ein erster Verdacht richtet sich gegen seine Ex-Frau. Diana Elling hat nicht nur einen privaten Rosenkrieg mit Bennet geführt, sondern musste als seine Verlegerin auch zahlreiche berufliche Kämpfe mit ihm ausfechten. Welche Rolle spielte das letzte Manuskript des Autors, auf das nicht nur die Krimi-Freundin Lady Bedfort sehnsüchtig gewartet hatte?

People on the brink of death come to me for life. I touch them, and my magic burns away their sickness. My gift is exhausting and painful, even dangerous. Which means I never intentionally touch anyone, and no one touches me. So dating? Definitely not happening. All of that changes when a cyber stalker threatens to burn me at the stake. I reluctantly hire a bodyguard, a six-foot-three mountain of temptation named Logan Smith, literally at my fingertips at all times. Every fiber of my 21-year-old virgin body vibrates for him.

From New York Times bestselling suspense author Terri Blackstock comes the final installment in her gripping survival series, as the Branning family is tested once more when thirteen-year-old Beth witnesses two murders--and must decide whether risking her own life to help others is worth the...

From New York Times bestselling suspense author Terri Blackstock comes the third installment in her gripping survival series, where fear, hunger, and suspicion threaten to tear a fragile community apart--and one young man's life hangs in the balance. Eight months into a worldwide blackout, the...