Ergebnis für "The Women" in Thriller

Read by Julia Whelan, including an Author's Note read by Kristin, revealing her inspiration for telling the women's heroic stories, which had been either forgotten or entirely overlooked. From the worldwide bestselling author of The Four Winds, The Nightingale and Firefly Lane (a Number One...

Eel Marsh house stands alone, surveying the windswept salt marshes beyond Nine Lives Causeway. Mrs Alice Drablow lived here as a recluse. Now Arthur Kipps, a junior solicitor with a London firm, is summoned to attend her funeral, unaware of the tragic and terrible secrets which lie behind the house's shuttered windows.

This was meant to be the perfect trip. The northern lights. A press launch on a luxury cruise ship. A chance for travel journalist Lo Blackwood to recover from a traumatic break-in that has left her on the verge of collapse and to work out what she wants from her relationship. Except things don't go as planned. Woken in the night by screams, Lo rushes to her window to see a body thrown overboard from the next-door cabin. But the records show that no one ever checked in to that cabin, and no passengers are missing from the boat.

When the invitation to attend the press opening of a luxury Swiss hotel - owned by reclusive billionaire Marcus Leidmann - arrives, it’s like the answer to a prayer. Three years after the birth of her youngest child, Lo Blacklock is ready to re-establish her journalism career, but post-pandemic travel journalism is a very different landscape from the one she left ten years ago.

Ein grausamer Doppelmord erschüttert San Francisco! Ein Fall für Inspector Lindsay Boxer, den einzigen weiblichen Detective bei der Mordkommission, und den "Club der Ermittlerinnen". Obwohl die Reporterin Cindy Thomas, die Pathologin Claire Washburn, die Staatsanwältin Jill Bernhardt und Lindsay Boxer dabei gegen alle professionellen Regeln verstoßen: Sie müssen untereinander mit offenen Karten spielen - denn sie suchen einen Mörder, der Geschmack am Töten gefunden hat. Aber dann übersieht Lindsay Boxer dieses eine kleine Detail, das sie ihr Leben kosten kann.

Eine eiskalt geplante Mordserie erschüttert San Francisco: Die Opfer waren zwar unterschiedlich alt und wurden mit verschiedenen Waffen getötet, allen gemeinsam aber ist, dass sie Verbindungen zur Polizei hatten. Lieutenant Lindsay Boxer, der einzige weibliche Detective bei der Mordkommission San Francisco, nimmt diesen Fall sehr persönlich, denn die Blutspur führt in die eigenen Reihen. Ein neuer Fall also für ihre Freundinnen, den "Club der Ermittlerinnen".

The gripping new thriller from the bestselling author of The Couple at No 9.

Die Kämpferin. Mir gehört keine Krone. Kein Königreich. Alles, was mir gehört, ist das Blut, das ich vergieße. Ich bin Schwester. Rebellin. Miststück. Allen voran jedoch bin ich eine Waffe. Nein, ich fühle keine Reue. Das ist der Lauf der Natur. Der eine ist Jäger, der andere die Beute. Die Jäger. Du bist unsere Beute, kleine Fee. Ist dir das nicht bewusst? Ich will, dass du läufst. Er will, dass du für uns blutest. Doch wir beide wollen, dass du schreist. Vor Schmerz. Vor Ekstase. Du denkst, du seist das Monster? Wir zeigen dir, was wahre Bestien sind. Elli hat nur ein Ziel.

Asra. In Chicago flüstern sie meinen Namen nur, weil sie Angst haben, dass ich vor ihnen stehe und ihnen jede Sehne einzeln durchtrenne. Ich bin Asra, Königin der Sünden. Ich bin nicht dein Albtraum, ich bin dein Untergang. Dorian. Sie ist mein Untergang und die Einzige, die mir das geben kann, was ich brauche. Der letzte Schritt zur Rache. Diese Frau mit einem Blick, der nach Anarchie und Zerstörung schreit, wird mir den Weg ebnen. Wenn Asra eines weiß, dann, dass die Welt ihren wahren Namen vergessen hat.

Anna Fox lives alone - a recluse in her New York City home, unable to venture outside. She spends her day drinking wine (maybe too much), watching old movies, recalling happier times...and spying on her neighbors. Then the Russells move into the house across the way: a father, mother, their teenaged son. The perfect family. But when Anna, gazing out her window one night, sees something she shouldn't, her world begins to crumble. And its shocking secrets are laid bare.

Detective Lindsay Boxer hat endlich geheiratet. Doch die Erinnerungen an ihre Hochzeit verblassen schnell, als sie mit den Ermittlungen...

Die sieben Todsünden, ich habe sie alle gesehen. Ich war jahrelang stolz auf mein Herz. Jetzt aber brauche ich mehr, um die zu schützen, die ich liebe. Als ich Cayden Lancaster um Hilfe bitte, ist mir bewusst, dass der Preis meine Seele sein wird. Was macht ein Engel wie du in der Hölle, Darling? Verzweiflung, Niedertracht, Hass. Jeder trägt sie in sich, zurück bleibt absolute Finsternis. Aber du, Rosalia O´Farrel, an dir perlen sie ab. Alles in mir dürstet danach, sie dir zu nehmen, deine weißen Flügel.

In Women, Seated, we enter the world of an elite Chinese family: A life of luxury, limitless power, and around-the-clock service, which includes their trusted nanny Yu Ling. Slipping in and out of the shadows, careful to speak deferentially, meticulous in her care of their only son Kuan Kuan, Yu has served the family for years and knows their secrets. But little do they suspect that Yu has secrets of her own. In the pressure-cooker political environment of China, the fates of even the most powerful families can reverse overnight.

Carigara, 1986. Josephine del Rosario is the town pariah, left destitute after her parents were assassinated, and destined to marry a man twice her age. So when Hiraya Ranoco, an old friend, offers Josephine an escape, she can't say no. All she needs to do is spend one night in the Ranoco’s home and play a children’s game of hide and seek. If she wins, she can have anything she wants. Even, perhaps, Hiraya’s heart. But the manor is sprawling and nightmarish, crawling with insects and rotting from the inside out. The servants stand silently in corners and won't meet her eye.

Another Life is a powerful, moving and hopeful story of the life-changing impact of the connections we form, by the bestselling author of The Four Winds and The Women, Kristin Hannah. Angie DeSaria has spent years of her life trying to have a child. Now, her marriage has crumbled under the...

Maya has returned to Princeton for her college reunion—it’s been a decade since she graduated, and she is looking forward to seeing old faces and reminiscing about her time there. This visit is special because Maya will also be attending the graduation of her little sister, Naomi. But what should have been a dream weekend becomes Maya’s worst nightmare when she receives the news that Naomi is dead. The police are calling it an accident, but Maya suspects that there is more to the story than they are letting on.

Brigid Donovan’s battle with the witches is finally over. Her new supernatural bed and breakfast is open for business, and she’s ready to embrace her new life as a low-key small business owner. But peace never lasts—especially when there’s a power vacuum calling out to every ambitious supernatural in the region. Brigid doesn’t care who claims the territory… as long as they leave her out of it. Unfortunately, that’s not part of their plan.

Twelve years ago, forensic anthropologist Jamie Cash survived a brutal kidnapping. After years of therapy, she has made a life for herself, though it is one that is haunted by memories of her terrifying past. She finally lets herself believe that she can have a close relationship with a man, when signs start appearing that point to one frightening fact: her attacker is back and ready to finish the job he started all those years ago. Can Jamie escape her attacker's grasp a second time?

Homicide detective Lindsay Boxer knows her way around a crime scene. But nothing can prepare her for the shock of recognition: the victim is Warren Jacobi, Lindsay's former partner who rose to chief of police. A top detective until the end, Jacobi managed to leave Lindsay a clue. Following a trail of evidence across the country, the Women's Murder Club pledges to avenge Jacobi's death before the killer can take another one of their own.

In 1920s Toronto, best friends Lily di Marco and Mae Thebault used to be inseparable. They lived under the same roof and cared for each other's children—in a world where men held all the power, they looked out for one another. But then the Great Depression hits, changing their relationship forever, as both women are forced to make impossible decisions to save themselves—and their families—from ruin.