Ergebnis für "The Raven" in Krimis & Thriller

Just when the dust begins to settle, a devastating bombshell shatters the fragile peace of the Blaine family. In a freezing kitchen, words are spoken that can never be taken back: Her father was adopted. She’s a Blaine, damn it. With those few words, Pandora’s box is ripped wide open. The woman they thought they knew, the life they thought they understood, is suddenly gone —replaced by a chilling new reality. Upstairs, a stranger is waiting, carrying secrets that threaten to drag the entire family line into the dark.

Ex-special forces operator Amos Carver is being framed for murder. Carver hasn't killed anyone. At least not for a few years, and certainly not in some backwoods Georgia town. He would never harm the person they're accusing him of murdering. But nobody believes him. And no one is willing to help prove otherwise.

After taking command of a carrier strike group deployed to the Mediterranean, Greek and Turkish tensions reach the boiling point when ships are lost under mysterious circumstances. With Flip's strike group in the region, Russia flexes its muscle, first with airpower, then with a naval deployment the volume of which the world had not seen since the Russo-Japanese War to deny the West use of the North Atlantic. Tasked by Washington to confront the onslaught, Flip must maneuver his forces to avoid detection and be in position to strike first when the order comes.

A mother who never hurt a fly just butchered her three children—and it took three bullets to the head to bring her down. Martha Hendricks was the kind of woman who brought honey cakes to prisoners and delivered babies in the dead of night. Now she's dead in the dirt of Broken Spoke, Montana Territory, after putting six men in the ground and trying to reload on a seventh. Gabriel Bane has seen this kind of evil before.

The son of a wealthy plantation owner and a doting mother, Mungo St John is accustomed to the wealth and luxuries his privilege has afforded him. That is until he returns from university to discover his family ruined, his inheritance stolen and his childhood sweetheart, Camilla, taken by the conniving Chester Marion. Fuelled by anger and love, Mungo swears vengeance and devotes his life to saving Camilla - and destroying Chester.

Amos Carver is just minding his own business when a woman falls to her death right around the corner from where he's working. At first it seems like a senseless tragedy. An accident. Carver can't help but investigate. When he does, he realizes this was no ordinary woman. She was a trained killer. And she was looking for him.

When Texas Deputy Sheriff John Cronin thwarts the Cartel’s plan to get paid to smuggle Muslims across the border, he becomes the target of the Cartel once again. One try fails, but the cartel isn’t about to give up. With his granddaughter, Jesse, still recovering from her last run-in with the Cartel and now far away with her Marine husband on a military base, Cronin only has to worry about the innocents around him.

Penguin presents the unabridged, downloadable, audiobook edition of Ravenspur by Conn Iggulden, read by Roy McMillan. England, 1470. A kingdom divided against itself cannot stand. The Yorkist king Edward IV is driven out of England, his wife and children forced to seek sanctuary from the House...

Texas rancher and lawman John Cronin knows what it means to be tough. A decorated Vietnam vet with connections to law enforcement agencies all around the world, he’s thwarted smugglers and drug plots across the globe with more than a few narrow escapes. Whether it’s a sniper competition or teaching the feds a thing or two about police work, Cronin doesn’t hesitate to pull the trigger. Of course, this slow-talking lawman’s biggest challenge yet might be when his granddaughter Jesse falls in love with a Marine.

When a company gathering in Sweden is followed by a sudden global blackout, phones die, networks collapse, and modern life begins to unravel. Stranded far from safety, Martin and a small group of colleagues must navigate fear, mistrust, and escalating violence as they fight to survive in a world...

Hang on to your shamrocks and shillelaghs, folks! Max Blake, that hard-boiled private detective and former muck-raking journalist, along with his fearless fiancée Caeli Brown are back in action and up to their Walther P99s in slick, hypnotic robberies and terrorist plots in their newly adopted Irish homeland. A favor to a new friend who works with the Irish police brings them out of retirement to solve a series of thefts at Bunratty Castle and Folk Park which cater to the tourist crowd.

A man, who believes he is a government operative for a covert black-ops division of the CIA, awakens in the aftermath of the bombing of a federal building in Chicago. Disoriented and struggling to reconcile his last memory—an operation in Croatia pursuing a target wanted for espionage—he soon finds himself accused of domestic terrorism and mass murder. Either his mind is unraveling, or he's been expertly framed.

An Argentine playboy races down the darkened alleys of Buenos Aires, a German on his tail. He darts into a steamy tango hall and begs one of the dancers for refuge, but his pursuer is unshakable. The German leaves with the scrap of information that had been destined for the Americans. The playboy was a spy for the Allies, known as Raven.

Raven Miller knows it for sure: Life can be cruel. Born to an abusive mother, Raven knew only a life of war. After escaping her home, Raven meets a man who bears a remarkable resemblance to her father. And when she finds out about his cheating wife, Raven has just the solution. Together with the heinous Annie Sugarland they travel the country, fighting injustice. But soon, someone of a higher power wants Raven to pay for her own crimes. She discovers she's a link in a chain that dates back to the dawn of history. But can she find a path to redemption?

Tory knew Carl was odd—the meticulous clothes, the creepy smile, the strange coffee orders—but she never imagined how dangerous he truly was until she woke up trapped in an exact replica of The Daily Grind—her own workplace, methodically recreated by the man she always thought of as harmless, if a little strange. Her job hasn't changed: serve Carl coffee, day after horrifying day, following his rigid routine. But this time, any mistake could cost her her life.

Bloomsbury presents The Dead Line by Holly Watt, read by Jasmine Blackborow. THE TIMES THRILLER OF THE MONTH A SUNDAY TIMES THRILLER OF THE YEAR 'Vivid and packed with journalistic lore ... Mixing pulsating derring-do with painstaking detective work' Sunday Times A Bangladeshi camp. A British...

Before Katrina - New Orleans is the murder capital of America and her troubled streets give rise to a cop who hunts killers with methodical, calculating precision, innate in a man half-Cajun and half-Sioux. While others lose their heads in the maddening hunt for a cop-killer, Homicide Detective John Raven Beau focuses his instincts in the relentless pursuit of a murderer.

Deputy Sheriff John Cronin and his granddaughter, Jesse, are preparing for Jesse’s upcoming wedding to her Marine when the Cartel decides to murder some South Texas cops as a payback for arresting their drug smugglers. They send a hit squad to kill Cronin, Jesse, and everyone close to the family. The only problem? They missed the old man.

Whoever said retirement was quiet never met John Cronin. The old man may have retired for the final time from the Sheriff’s office, but there are still cows to run, court cases to testify at, and consultation calls to tap decades of experience. And that’s not even counting the cold cases he’s still trying to solve.

Deputy Sheriff John Cronin is looking forward to a quiet retirement, working on the ranch, and handing it off to his granddaughter Jesse. And he's got to pass on a generation worth of investigations, but it's not as easy as handing over the case files and the keys. First, he's got to train Aaron Miller to fill his role, from the way to dress for rural juries to the finer points of stakeouts and murder investigations, Texas style.