Ergebnis für "The House Sitter" in Krimis & Thriller

After my relationship breaks down, I agree to house-sit my brother Dexter's posh apartment whilst he’s out of the country. It will give me some much needed head space. Sitting on the balcony one sweltering summer's night in the midst of a power cut, I'm given a secret window into the lives of the residents in the opposite building, and I see more than I should. I'm drawn to a man in the Penthouse and watch him closely; when a striking woman joins him on the balcony, I can’t tear my eyes away.

When house sitter Jude takes on an assignment acting for self-made ‘girl boss’, entrepreneur Michelle Crane, her intentions aren’t entirely professional. Michelle has something that Jude needs - and the clock is ticking on her window of opportunity to find it.. Jude’s future hangs in the balance, but when it comes down to it, will she betray a stranger to save herself?

Die perfekte Idylle. Die perfekte Falle. Cecilia arbeitet als Housesitterin und hangelt sich von Auftrag zu Auftrag. Nach dem Tod ihrer Mutter hat sie den Boden unter den Füßen verloren, kann nicht einmal mehr ein WG-Zimmer bezahlen. Nun wird sie an der Villa der einflussreichen Familie Waldner abgesetzt, einsam gelegen auf einer winzigen Ostseeinsel.

Er will dein Haus. Er will deine Frau. Er will dein Leben... Stell dir vor, du kommst mit deiner Freundin aus dem Urlaub in dein Haus zurück. Du merkst sofort, dass irgendetwas anders ist: Die Möbel sind verrückt. In der Küche stehen benutzte Töpfe. Die Handtücher riechen fremd. Dann spürst du einen jähen Schmerz - und es wird Nacht um dich. Stell dir vor, du wachst erst nach Tagen im Krankenhaus auf. Deine Freundin ist verschwunden - entführt. Denn da draußen ist jemand, der sich nach einem warmen Heim sehnt. Nach einer liebenden Frau.

Across Europe, a young woman with no name and no fixed appearance hops from empty villa to vacated apartment to dormant summer house under the guise of house sitter. Her agenda? Steal from the rich, and kill anyone who gets in her way. On a stormy night in England, travelling home down narrow country lanes, a fatal car crash leaves Kat’s husband Oliver dead. But as Kat begins to mourn his loss, she discovers something that suggests she never knew her husband at all.

Newly pregnant and down on her luck, Lydia thinks her fortunes have changed when a customer at the café where she works offers her a job and a room in her plush Pacific Heights home. It’s been years since Iris’ husband, Dean, died in his sleep, and Lydia soon becomes the daughter Iris never had—making her cups of tea, helping her with the bills, and taking charge of Iris’ daily medications now that her memory has begun to fail. Then one night, someone makes an emergency call from the telephone in the pristine kitchen. The police arrive to find no sign of Iris or Lydia.

Five complete strangers from across America are about to come together and open the door to a place of evil that they all call home. Inexplicably, four men and one woman are having heart-stopping nightmares revolving around the dark and forbidding houses where each of them were born. When recent terrifying events occur, they are each drawn to their identical childhood homes, only to confront a sinister supernatural presence which has pursued them all their lives and is now closer than ever to capturing their souls....

Samantha stumbled out of the party and onto a busy street only 10 minutes away from her home. But she never made it home...Seven years after Samantha’s disappearance, on what would have been her 33rd birthday, her best friend Diane is shocked to find a letter addressed to Samantha on her doorstep. Opening the envelope, Diane pulls out a birthday card and a finger nail painted in dusky pink nail polish. The same shade Samantha always wore. The same shade she was wearing the night she went missing.

It was easy for Elizabeth. She married the man she loved, bore him two children and made a home for him which was the envy of their friends. It was harder for Ruth. She married Elizabeth’s son and then found that, somehow, she could never quite measure up. Isolation, deceit and betrayal fill the gaps between the two individual women and between their different worlds. In this complex thriller, Philippa Gregory deploys all her insight into what women want and what women fear, as Ruth confronts the shifting borders of her own sanity.