Ergebnis für "The Good People" in Krimis & Thriller

“Good People is a stunning read. I could not recommend it more enthusiastically. . . . What a spectacular triumph this book is. This is the Afghan novel I have been eagerly waiting for.”—Khaled Hosseini Zorah Sharaf could do no wrong. Zorah Sharaf brought shame upon her family. What’s...

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER In the propulsive first novel from the author of The Missing Half and host of the #1 true crime podcast Crime Junkie, a journalist uncovers her hometown’s dark secrets when she becomes obsessed with the unsolved murder of her childhood neighbor—and the...

It's late 1938. Thomas Heiselberg has built a career in Berlin as a market researcher for an American advertising company. In Leningrad, 22-year-old Sasha Weissberg has grown up eavesdropping on the intellectual conversations in her parents' literary salon. They each have grand plans for their lives. Neither of them thinks about politics too much, but after catastrophe strikes they will have no choice.

What happens when the world's worst villains do unexpectedly good deeds?In this podcast, we dive into history's most uncomfortable paradoxes. Did you know that Adolf Hitler started a pioneering public campaign to completely ban smoking? Or that infamous serial killer Ted Bundy actually saved lives by helping people on suicide hotlines?We explore the complex, bizarre, and sometimes beneficial actions of notorious figures. New episode every week!Note: This podcast is an exercise in holding two opposing thoughts at once. While we discuss specific positive policies, we strictly condemn the evil...

A Good Morning America 'January Book That Can Get Us Through Anything' A Most Anticipated Novel of 2022 by The New York Times, Good Housekeeping, Harper's Bazaar, Entertainment Weekly, New York Post, PopSugar, Shondaland, Yahoo!, and Crime Reads A destitute woman deceives her way into the...

Psychiatrist Dr. Gwen Moore is an expert on killers. She’s spent a decade treating California’s most depraved predators and unlocking their motives - predators much like the notorious Bloody Heart serial killer, whose latest teenage victim escaped and then identified local high school teacher Randall Thompson as his captor. The case against Thompson as the Bloody Heart Killer is damning - and closed, as far as Gwen and the media are concerned. If not for one new development.

**Named a Best Thriller of the Year by the New York Times and the Guardian** In this "riveting" (New York Times) and "morally complex" (The Washington Post) mystery from beloved crime writer Denise Mina, new evidence in an old murder case forces one woman to make an impossible choice. WHAT WILL...

A retired manufacturer has been shot dead by his own pistol, last seen alive by his son-in-law. In this seemingly motiveless murder, Inspector Maigret must rely on his famous intuition to discover the truth. This novel has been published in a previous translation as Maigret and the Black Sheep.

On a tiny island off Paradiso, Florida, in 1970, neighbors gather to toast two new arrivals: shy Catherine and her taciturn husband, Dr. Frank Overbrook, who is taking over an old friend’s medical practice. It’s an intimate welcoming for the newlyweds, who have abandoned city life for swaying palms and an ocean breeze. But the morning after is anything but peaceful when Frank is found dead on the beach.

Some lines should never be crossed. Police corruption, an investigation that ends in tragedy and the mystery of a little girl’s silence – three unconnected events that will prove to be linked by one small town. While detective Cormac Reilly faces enemies at work and trouble in his personal life, garda Peter Fisher is relocated out of Galway with the threat of prosecution hanging over his head. But even that is not as terrible as having to work for his overbearing father, the local copper for the pretty seaside town of Roundstone.

Now a major motion picture, Stephen King's brilliant and terrifying story of a marriage with truly deadly secrets. Darcy Anderson’s husband of more than twenty years is away on one of his routine business trips when the unsuspecting Darcy looks for batteries in the garage. Her toe knocks up...

From Sara Shepard, author of the #1 New York Times bestselling Pretty Little Liars series, comes the shocking sequel to The Perfectionists—with an ending you’ll have to read to believe! Mackenzie, Ava, Caitlin, Julie, and Parker have done some not-so-perfect things. But even though they all...

Peter Goode is home from vacation to rest and further develop his new relationship with the woman of his dreams. Upon arriving home, though, he discovers an old flame dead, lying on his bed. Peter knows he will never be able to explain her being in his home, and further, he knows an evil presence is behind her death.

The Good Spy is Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer Kai Bird’s compelling portrait of the remarkable life and death of one of the most important operatives in CIA history – a man who, had he lived, might have helped heal the rift between Arabs and the West. On April 18, 1983, a bomb...

Peter Goode is a normal man who wants to shed his abnormal life. He wants to find a few friends and share experiences with people who aren’t put off by his physical appearance, which is why he’s decided to take a trip from his home in New York City to the expanses of Acadia National Park in Maine. It’s in Acadia that Peter hopes to see a different way of life and people who don’t see him as ugly. On his bus trip north, though, Peter is warned of the things in Acadia that haunt the forest and seek to lure unsuspecting people from the trails deeper into the woods.

Peter Goode wants nothing more than to meet the woman of his dreams and find a little rest and relaxation in the rolling hills of Northern New York. Unfortunately, Peter will encounter an enemy who can appear to be anyone at any time. If this supernatural entity gets its way, Peter’s best friend, Dan, and Dan’s cousin, Josie, will die along with a lot of other people. Peter is a quiet man who lived through a childhood dominated by his alcoholic mother, her physical and emotional abuse, and some special abilities.

When a group of strangers win a weeklong stay at a primitive-style castle in the Blue Ridge Mountains, it feels like they’ve won the lottery. But when a deadly snowstorm hits the moment they arrive, unease settles in because now they’re bound to the secluded castle with no way out. Once they’ve unpacked, it’s revealed that a mysterious source paid for all of their stays—and the contest that brought them there was nothing more than a trap, designed to lure them into the same place at the same time, causing suspicion to rise, and paranoia to spread.

“Ingeniously twisted.” —Entertainment Weekly, “Must List” “Will leave even the most seasoned crime fiction readers guessing.” —CrimeReads "[Jeong] maintains suspense about her inhuman-seeming protagonist's fate until the bitter end.” —The Wall Street Journal Finalist for...

Six players. One gun. One way out. Lucas Gray has no idea who he is or why he was captured to participate in the mysterious Roulette Game--a death game centered around trust in complete strangers in order to avoid being shot and killed. Pieces of the puzzle will begin to come together and a terrible truth shall be revealed.

Bain met Diana, a.k.a. Luce, the night before he was set to deploy to Afghanistan. It’s not every day that you take your brother’s girlfriend to prom because he refuses to put out the effort. That night was one of the best nights of his life, and the next day, he leaves and doesn’t see her again.