Ergebnis für "Was" in Historische Thriller

'This book is so spectacularly good' Goodreads review ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Mexico in the 1970s is a dangerous country, even for Maite, a secretary who spends her life seeking the romance found in cheap comic books and ignoring the activists protesting around the city. When her next-door neighbor, the...

Londen, begin 1914: zijn naam is Feliks. Hij is naar Londen gekomen om een moord te plegen die de loop van de geschiedenis voorgoed zal veranderen. Feliks is een meester in het manipuleren, en heeft vele andere wapens tot zijn beschikking. Maar zijn tegenstanders zijn de voltallige Engelse politie, een briljante en invloedrijke lord, en de jonge Winston Churchill zelf. Tegen zo'n overmacht is niemand opgewassen – behalve de man van St. Petersburg.

When a string of gruesome modern-day murders sparks chilling echoes of the Whitechapel killings of 1888, profiler Jonah Merrin begins to see a pattern far older—and far darker—than anyone suspects. Victims are found drained of blood, mutilated not in haste but in contempt. No motive. No remorse. Only a presence that moves through shadow, feeding not on need… but on belief. A creature who sees humanity not as prey, but as proof of its own superiority.

In 1920s Fredericksburg, Virginia, young country boy Middy Grove sets out on his own, working at a pickle factory and searching for a place for himself in a constantly changing town uncertain of its identity. One day Middy finds himself drawn to a mysterious city girl with bobbed hair and eyes that seem to shine in the darkness from under her brimmed hat. Like she's some angel fallen from Heaven, he never seems to fully draw her attention, though she always leaves him with the strange phrase "You're too good for me."