Ergebnis für "the prince" in Krimis & Thriller

Damian Cross, the most feared man at Ashford University, claimed me as his latest sacrifice. There is no escape for a good girl like me. Not from the wealthy heir to Ashford’s most elite secret society–The Four Hundred. I’m a pastor’s daughter who’s spent her life following every rule. Good. Pure. Perfect. He’s the ruthless prince who bends the world to his will. Cruel. Cunning. Dark. I should hate him. But there’s something in the way he watches me—like I’m the only thing holding him together—that shatters every defense I have.

Philippa Langley reveals the findings of a remarkable new research initiative: ‘The Missing Princes Project'. In the summer of 1483, Edward V (aged 12) and his brother Richard Duke of York (aged 9), disappeared from the Tower of London. For over 500 years, history has judged that they were murdered on the orders of their uncle Richard III. Following years of intensive research in UK, American and European archives, astonishing new archival discoveries have been uncovered that change what we know about the fate of the Princes in the Tower.

Callum Griffin is the heir to the Irish mafia. He’s ruthless, arrogant, and he wants to kill me. We got off on the wrong foot when I set a (very small) fire in his house. Our families believe a marriage pact is the only thing that will prevent all-out warfare. I think I might need to murder him while he sleeps. This would all be a lot easier if Callum wasn’t so damned good-looking.

Nachdem Audrey Rose ihren ersten Fall gelöst hat, hat sie keine andere Wahl, als aus London zu fliehen. Zusammen mit dem arroganten, aber charmanten Thomas Cresswell reist sie nach Rumänien, um dort eine der besten Schulen für Gerichtsmedizin in Europa zu besuchen. Doch in den düsteren Hallen der Schule geschehen blutige Morde, und die Leichen werden ohne einen Tropfen Blut im Körper aufgefunden. Schnell stellt sich die Frage: Ist es ein Nachahmungstäter oder ist Vlad, der Pfähler, der berühmte Graf Dracula, wieder auferstanden? Audreys Ermittlungen lassen ihre schlimmsten Ängste wahr werden.

Um ihren kleinen Bruder zu beschützen, nimmt die 29-jährige Allegra einen gefährlichen Auftrag an: Sie soll den sogenannten Nachtprinzen töten. Den Anführer des feindlichen Clans, der, abgeschirmt auf einem gut bewachten Anwesen, seit Jahren die Mafiaszene aufmischt. Unerkannt mischt Allegra sich unter sein Personal, doch um an ihn heranzukommen, muss sie an seinem Sicherheitschef Silvan vorbei. Ein Mann, so gefährlich und verlockend wie die Dunkelheit.

Mein Name ist Logan St. James. Ich bin in einer kriminellen Familie aufgewachsen, aber heutzutage sind meine Tattoos und meine Narben unter einem Anzug versteckt. Ich beschütze die königliche Familie von Wessco. Und durch die Heirat ihrer Schwester gehört auch Ellie Hammond zu dieser Familie. Ich bin gut in meinem Job. Wirklich, wirklich gut. Aber wenn Ellie einen Raum betritt, dann ist es plötzlich verdammt schwer, an irgendetwas anderes zu denken als daran, wie gern ich sie berühren würde. Wie gern ich mehr tun würde, als sie nur zu berühren.

Paris, 1789 - Leo hat alles: Reichtum, einen Titel und zahlreiche Liebhaber. Bis zu der Nacht, in der er alles verliert. Ihm bleibt nichts, nichts als der Hunger und ein Mann, der ihn immer tiefer in die verführerische Dunkelheit zieht.

"On the other side of that door is the man you're going to marry." My father's chilling command sends a shiver down my spine. Suddenly, it clicks. The mysteriously gifted dress. The innocent-looking invitation. This isn't dinner. It's a wedding. My goddamn wedding. The doors swing open... And towering at the altar, all muscle, ink, and menace—Leon Natali. The monster I've cursed since I was old enough to know his name. He's older. Colder. Desperate for an heir. And I'm the gift-wrapped offering meant to seal a blood-soaked alliance.

I've lived my life with rigid control. A tight vice on myself and my emotions. Scars from my past have left me broken. Riddled with guilt and anguish. When my baby sister was kidnapped, I feared the worst. That she'd suffered the same fate as our mother stirred up those feelings I've tried so desperately to bury and ignore. I never expected to find her. Drea Ortega. A five-foot, tattooed, killing machine who took my breath away from the first moment I laid eyes on her. She was my beacon of light in my dark, chaotic world. My heart. My soul. My everything.

Cold. Heartless. Deadly. Whispers of his name alone bring fear to fae and mortals alike. The Prince. There is nothing in the mortal world more dangerous than him. Haunted by a past he couldn’t control, all Caden desires is revenge against those who’d wronged him, trapping him in never-ending nightmare. And there is one person he knows can help him. Raised within the Order, Brighton Jussier knows just how dangerous the Prince is, reformed or not. She’d seen firsthand what atrocities he could be capable of. The last thing she wants to do is help him, but he leaves her little choice.

Once upon a time… there lived a man with a vengeance-filled heart that held too many secrets and a woman, pure of soul, intent on uncovering them. What they failed to realize is that through the storm their love would create, a legacy would be born.

From the author of The Strain comes a tense, psychologically gripping, Hammet award-winning thriller. Four masked men—thieves, rivals, and friends from the tough streets of Charlestown—take on a Boston bank at gunpoint. Holding bank manager Claire Keesey hostage and cleaning out the vault...

Massimo D’Agostino is the heir to his father’s empire. Don’t be fooled by his handsome face or that piercing blue gaze. He’s no prince charming. He’s dangerous and feared, possessive and fierce. Our first meeting began with a contract that forced me to marry him and sign my life away. I was a debt repayment and a pawn in his game to exact revenge against my father. The only way out is death. I belong to him now. Me, the Balesteri Mafia princess. Pure and untouched. Owned by the devil who placed me in a gilded cage.

The Phantom Prince chronicles Elizabeth Kendall’s intimate relationship with Ted Bundy and its eventual unraveling. As much as has been written about Bundy, it’s remarkable to hear the perspective of people who shared their daily lives with him for years. This gripping account presents a remarkable examination of a charismatic personality that masked unimaginable darkness.

Chaotische Pechmarie prallt auf smarten Schotten. Wenn dein Boss dir einen Auftrag gibt, der dich mal eben nach Luft schnappen lässt, dann atme tief durch und sieh zu, wie du aus der Sache mit einem blauen Auge rauskommst. Ella ist spontan, ewig pleite und aktuell steht ihr Job auf der Kippe. Um ihn zu retten, soll sie inkognito einen Callboy daten - mit allem, was dazugehört: Flirten, Restaurantbesuch, Hotelzimmer inklusive Champagner und Rosenblätter im Badewasser... und mehr. Mehr? Im Leben nicht! Ella ist sich sicher, den Auftrag auch ohne den letzten Schritt durchzuziehen.

NATIONAL BESTSELLER An ambitious and exhilarating novel of utopian vision and power, from Anne Rice, conjurer of the beloved best sellers Interview with the Vampire and Prince Lestat "In my dreams, I saw a city fall into the sea. I heard the cries of thousands. I saw flames that...

May 1148. All Dublin is shocked by the murder of a prominent merchant, but only Prince Godfrid knows that the dead man was also a co-conspirator in his brother's plan to take the throne of Dublin. With death stalking his every move, Godfrid must call upon new friends and old to find the killer--and with their help uncover a conspiracy stretching beyond Dublin's walls to every kingdom in Ireland. Join Godfrid the Dane for murder and mayhem in medieval Dublin in The Viking Prince, the 11th Gareth & Gwen Medieval Mystery.

Liebe ist schmerzhaft, Liebe ist blind, Liebe ist nicht für jeden bestimmt... Jeder kennt Nate Malum-Riverside. Er ist charmant, beliebt, attraktiv - und abgrundtief böse. Tillie weiß, dass sie sich von ihm und dem Elite Kings Club fernhalten sollte, wenn sie nicht in deren Strudel aus Geheimnissen und Macht gezogen werden will. Doch vielleicht ist es dafür schon zu spät. Denn Tillies und Nates Geschichte hat längst begonnen... Teil 4 der ELITE-KINGS-CLUB-Reihe von Bestseller-Autorin Amo Jones.

Mafia Prince is the first-person account of one of the most violent eras in Mafia history - "Little" Nicky Scarfo’s reign as boss of the Philly family in the 1980s - written by Scarfo’s underboss and nephew, "Crazy" Phil Leonetti. The youngest-ever underboss at the age of 31, Leonetti was at the crux of the violent downfall of the traditional American Mafia in the 1980s when he infiltrated Atlantic City after gambling was legalized, and later turned state’s evidence against his own.

India’s only female lawyer, Perveen Mistry, is compelled to bring justice to the family of a murdered female Parsi student just as Bombay’s streets erupt in riots to protest British colonial rule. Sujata Massey is back with this third installment to the Agatha and Mary Higgins Clark Award-winning series set in 1920s Bombay.