Ergebnis für "vertigo" in Thriller

Der Originaltitel des 1954 erschienenen Romans von Pierre Boileau und Thomas Narcejac lautet "D'Entre Les Morts". So lebt auch Ex-Polizist Roger Flavières. Die Toten verfolgen ihn. Bei einem Einsatz stürzt sein Kollege vom Dach - Flavières kann nichts tun, er ist nicht schwindelfrei. Voller Schuldgefühle gibt er den Beruf auf. Nun soll er die Frau eines Bekannten beschatten. Der sorgt sich: Madeleine leidet an Melancholie. Wie ihre Urgroßmutter, die sich das Leben nahm. Tatsächlich rettet Flavières sie bei einem Selbstmordversuch aus der Seine - und verliebt sich.

The inimitable Richard Jury returns in the latest in the bestselling mystery series: “Martha Grimes has written a whodunit with terrific characters and a grand plot mixed with her unique droll wit. Vertigo 42 is one smart mystery!” (Susan Isaacs, bestselling author of Goldberg Variations)...

It's 2007, and the world is edging towards the biggest financial crisis since the Great Depression. A secret international Corporate alliance, known as the cabal, is using the moment to spread its influence. Helen Chen and Andrew Hunt have little in common. She's a gray hat, and he's a senior CIA officer. But when Hunt is tasked to fight the cabal, and Chen becomes the alliance's latest target, they'll have to find a way to help each other or end up like everybody else who tried to stand up to the cabal--dead.

Cuando Sofía decide mudarse con su hijo a un nuevo domicilio tras su separación, no puede creerse su buena suerte: acaba de encontrar un precioso piso restaurado en pleno centro de la ciudad, decorado con exquisito gusto y muy asequible. Sin embargo, poco a poco sus rutinas en su nuevo hogar parecen enturbiarse: pronto su hijo se independiza y ella se queda sola con la única compañía, omnipresente, de Germán, su único vecino, que vive en el piso de arriba del antiguo edificio.

When attorney Blake Cartwright abandons a successful career to turn a dilapidated lighthouse into an inn, everybody thinks she's gone a little bit crazy. After witnessing a body fall from the tower, Blake wonders if they might be right. According to local legend, the spirit of a former keeper's wife lures women to their deaths in the icy water below.

A series of crimes strikes the Venice area but they are unrelated and there are no motives to explain them. Endowed with a vivid imagination, former astronomer Andrea, now a passionate politician reading pulp fiction and detective novels, casually notes strange indications leading him to suspect David, his partner's son, is responsible. Only one thing is certain: the killer is acting in accordance with the temporal law regulated by the Fibonacci sequence. The one to discover this is Bobo, one of David’s university friends and a brilliant logical-mathematical mind.