Ergebnis für "Witches" in Psychothriller

A brand-new, haunting thriller from Freida McFadden, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Housemaid! Some secrets don't die―they wait. When Julia Barlow loses her job and her apartment, she has nowhere left to go but Pemberton, her family's sprawling seventeenth-century estate in rural...

DS Washington Poe ist irritiert, als er wegen eines Mordes zu einem Hinterhof-Bordell in Carlisle gerufen wird: Normalerweise jagt er Serienmörder – hier scheint ein Streit mit einem Zuhälter eskaliert zu sein. Seltsam ist, dass eine kleine Keramikfigur in Gestalt einer Ratte fehlt und...

A New York Times bestseller and a Best Book of 2018 by NPR, The New York Times Book Review, Amazon, The Boston Globe, LitHub, Vulture, Slate, Elle, Vox, and Electric Literature “Tana French’s best and most intricately nuanced novel yet.” —The New York Times An “extraordinary”...

TWO TEENAGE GIRLS. ONE MURDERED CLASSMATE. AND A MODERN-DAY WITCH TRIAL THAT WILL DIVIDE THE NATION . . . 'Mind-bending and brilliant' LISA JEWELL 'Deliciously twisted. . . Genius' CLAIRE DOUGLAS 'An utter masterpiece' SOPHIE HANNAH 'Impeccable plotting' FINANCIAL TIMES...

‘Chillingly addictive’ – Cosmopolitan AN INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER ‘I did an evil thing to be put in here, and I’m going to have to do an evil thing to get out.’ In this twisted, unforgettable horror, a group of young girls turn to a dark, ancient magic. From Grady Hendrix, New...

When the story ends, the hunt begins… Jessica Niemi is drawn into a high-profile investigation after the wife of a famous author, Roger Koponen, is killed in a bizarre ritual. As more twisted murders occur in the coming days, it becomes obvious that Jessica is hunting a serial killer - one...

Eine gutbürgerliche Nachbarschaft in Oslo: Auf offener Straße bricht Erling zusammen und stirbt. Allein im großen gemeinsamen Haus sitzt Evy, seine Frau, mit der er seit fünfundvierzig Jahren verheiratet war. Irgendetwas – das wird ihr immer klarer – stimmt nicht mit dem Tod ihres Mannes. Gegenstände verschwinden aus dem Haus, die drei erwachsenen Kinder verbergen Dinge vor ihr, und die Kellertür, die immer verschlossen ist, steht plötzlich offen. Nach vielen Jahren taucht ein alter Freund aus Erlings Jugend auf, und teilt Evy Unglaubliches mit. Wer wollte Erling schaden?

“Clements’ commanding narration pulls listeners along for the creepy ride.”—AudioFile “As the twists and turns unfold, narrator Clements maintains a tense listening experience full of surprises.”—Library Journal Unbearably tense, utterly propulsive, and studded with folklore and...

After the tragic death of their parents, the seven Ward sisters are sent to live with their grandmother on the remote forest island of Beltane, a place suspended between time and shadow. What begins as an attempt to mend their fractured lives soon twists into a waking nightmare, where grief bleeds into childhood fantasy and ancient rites awaken a dark and eerie devotion to Daudir, the Forgotten God of the Wood.

Former homicide cop Jacqueline "Jack" Daniels has two vacations planned. One at a Bed and Breakfast with her old pal Chandler. Another a visit to a themed escape room with Phineas Troutt, her daughter Sam, Harry McGlade, and his son Harry Junior. Vacations are supposed to be an escape. But what if you can't escape? When both trips go terrifyingly wrong, Jack and those she loves must fight for their lives against a collection of villains too horrible to comprehend.

Belfast, Northern Ireland—2004. Shannon Dillon, twenty-six, discovers a hidden document in a cramped and dimly lit attic, sparking speculation that beloved author C. S. Lewis had once been involved in the occult. When gangsters steal the controversial papers, they leave a trail of death. Shannon, who once trained as an IRA sniper, vows revenge. Leaving home for America, she recruits Simon Magister, thirty-four, a nerdy literature professor at an evangelical college. Against his Christian convictions, Simon is drawn in by scholarly curiosity and a repressed attraction to Shannon.

"Superb ... a perfect horror for our imperfect age.” – The New York Times AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES AND USA TODAY BESTSELLER They were never girls, they were witches . . . . They call them wayward girls. Loose girls. Girls who grew up too fast. And they’re sent to the Wellwood House in St...

In the deep hollows of Greenbrier, Tennessee, Mini Bell Carter, known as Old Grandma Carter, weaves potions and spells as a Cherokee medicine woman and black witch. But her most vital task lies not in her potions, but in raising her great- great-granddaughter, Little Mini Bell, to preserve her legacy. At 93, Granny embarks on a perilous journey to ensure the girl's purity until the age of 16, the key to her immortality. With her sister, the vile Miss Ruby Carter, threatening to undo it all, Granny's last shot at eternal power becomes a race against time.

The Dark End of the Street is a television program that pries into the business of Barry and Cheryl Higgins and their three small children, uncovering every nasty aspect of their lives on welfare in front of a fascinated and disgusted audience. The couple didn’t get rich off the wildly successful reality show, though, so why would anyone want to kidnap the kids?

The Witch in the Well is a dark Norwegian thriller from Camilla Bruce, author of You Let Me In. When two former friends reunite after decades apart, their grudges, flawed ambitions, and shared obsession swirl into an all-too-real echo of a terrible town legend. Centuries ago, beautiful young...

Six months have passed since Jessica's encounter with the mysterious serial-killing coven of witches and the death of her mentor, Erne. Her nightmares about her mother and the witchcraft that undid her have only gotten worse, but she's doing what she can to stay focused. Her homicide squad, now under new leadership, has been given a murder case and a new series of disappearances to investigate. A young woman's corpse has washed up on an icy beach, and two famous Instagram influencers have gone missing at the same time.

Mia is reluctant to go camping with her boyfriend and sister, who are graduate students working on a dissertation about American folklore. But ultimately, they convince her to help document the trip. The group sets off to Black Creek, a remote destination in the Pacific Northwest where Bigfoot has allegedly been sighted. They think they’re prepared for anything, but their sense of terror grows as they find more and more evidence to suggest the monster really is out there. Eventually, Mia realizes she’ll be lucky just to make it out of the woods alive.

‘The Rule of Three is a completely original, nuanced, one-sitting read that blew me away. Whip-smart dialogue, characters that haunt your dreams and a plot you might just die for. I loved it’ CHRIS WHITAKER ‘The Rule of Three absolutely blew me away. An incredibly intense and original...

Harlan Winter has returned to his corner of Appalachia, where his fiery history with a depraved cult has made him a legend. All Harlan wants is to run his occult bookshop and get on with his life—if only his unsettling visions would let him. But when a fellow devotee of the dark arts moves to Coopersville and Harlan’s coveted grimoire is stolen, he’s pulled into a world deadlier than the one that already scarred his soul.

The Craft for the #MeToo era, this debut unfolds a riveting psychological drama shot through with sharp humor and dark magic for readers of Ninth House and The Power. When Lee, a first year at Smith, is raped under eerie circumstances during orientation week by an Amherst frat boy, she's quickly...