Ergebnis für "The Stranger" in Krimis & Thriller

Maxwell Thornton ist nicht wirklich ein geselliger Mensch, aber das war ihm nie wichtig, denn bisher reichte ihm seine Karriere als gefeierter Chirurg. Doch nach dem Tod einer Patientin ist er nicht mehr in der Lage, ein Skalpell in die Hand zu nehmen. Er kündigt seine Stelle in der Stadt und übernimmt eine Hausarztpraxis in der abgelegenen Stadt Rainy Dale, Texas, mit 1001 Einwohnern. Rainy Dale ist von Exzentrikern bevölkert, die seine Geduld auf eine harte Probe stellen. Und zu allem Übel schwimmt auch noch nach wenigen Tagen sein nervigster Patient tot in seinem Pool.

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Ex-SAS soldier Ben Rider falls in love with his enigmatic married boss Sir Nikolas Mikkelsen, but Nikolas is living a lie. A lie so profound that when the shadows are lifted, Ben realises he's in love with a very dangerous stranger. Ben has to choose between Nikolas and safety, but sometimes danger comes in a very seductive package.

Fierce and frosty high achiever Professor Sonja J. Storey is on the verge of seizing power in her department. She has exacting plans to remake her backwoods North Carolina university, just as she has painstakingly remade herself. Sonja's perfectly ordered life takes a dramatic turn when she meets laid-back, magnetic junior professor Crystal Byrd.

Twenty years ago little Brian Arlington was kidnapped from his family's Long Island estate and was never seen again. The trail went cold, but investigative journalist Griff Hadley has always thought there was more to the story - much more. When the Arlingtons' patriarch invites him to stay at their estate to research his true crime book, Griff can't say no. It's the story of a lifetime. But not everyone is happy about Griff's presence. Relatives and staff alike regard him coldly, including Pierce Mather, the Arlingtons' attractive lawyer.

Two years on from the start of a devastating pandemic, food shortages are becoming critical, and rationing looms. So it's more than embarrassing when a truck full of luxury food for Scottish Virus Minister's banquet goes missing. When Bernard and Maitland from the HET team find it, the food is missing—but there is a dead body.