Titoli in Poliziesco, thriller e suspense

On the night of Easter Eve 1989, twelve-year-old Hanna's older brother Erik and some friends go to the infamous Mount Verity, where there is a cave that, according to legend, was used in the witch trials in Östergötland during the seventeenth century. Rumor has it that whoever does not tell...

When a scientist working for the Gomez Organization is found dead in a remote Antarctica station, Jake Adams is called back to work for the billionaire. The problem is Sirena is away visiting a friend in Europe, and he is tethered to his Utah ranch with his eighteen-year-old daughter, Emma. So...

Fifteen years ago, an unidentified killer terrorised Northern Georgia, killing hikers with two shots from a pistol before disposing of the bodies along the remote trails and in the rivers in the vicinity of Blood Mountain. The killer was never brought to justice. Now, Carter Blake has returned home for the first time in many years. The visit stirs old memories, including a girl from school who vanished without a trace.

See the difference, read #1 bestselling author Michael Crichton in Large Print * About Large Print All Random House Large Print editions are published in a 16-point typeface Three passengers are dead. Fifty-six are injured. The interior cabin virtually destroyed. But the pilot manages to land...

Una bomba che esplode in un centro commerciale, un disastro aereo dai retroscena inquietanti, una Milano di intrighi e corruzione, multietnica e oscura. Questo lo scenario in cui si muove Sauro Badalamenti, di professione investigatore assicurativo che, suo malgrado, si trova fra le mani una doppia indagine che lo costringerà a scavare nel cuore nero della città. Un piano diabolico, segreti e perversioni lo condurranno nell'oblio di una Milano mai così spietata.

The Red-Headed League is the second of the 12 stories in The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, which was published in 1892. In it, Jabez Wilson, a flame-haired London pawnbroker, comes to consult Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson. Some weeks before, Wilson responded to a newspaper want ad offering highly paid work to only redheaded male applicants.

Un romanzo che cattura, una suspense che tiene con il fiato sospeso fino alle righe finali...

The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes are overshadowed by the event with which they close - the meeting of the great detective and Moriarty, the Napoleon of Crime. When "The Final Problem" was first published, the struggle between Holmes and his arch nemesis, seemingly to the death, left many readers desolate at the loss of Holmes, but it also led to his immortality as a literary figure.

Das gleiche Ereignis, das einst Atlantis zerstört hat, bedroht jetzt unsere heutige Welt. Auslöser dafür glaubt die Archäologin Billie Swan zu sein, da sie versucht hat, das Rätsel der einstigen Katastrophe zu lösen. Als sie dann auch noch entführt wird, müssen Sam Reilly und seine Freunde alles daran setzen um Billie zurück zu holen und die Welt vor ihrem Untergang zu retten … Nur einige wenige Menschen wissen heute, was die Bewohner des historischen Atlantis einst getötet hat und wo sich dieser mysteriöse Ort befindet.

Tobela Mpayipheli, oud-KGB-sluipmoordenaar, ook bekend as “Umzingeli” (Die Jagter), het gedink hy het sy vorige lewe agtergelaat. Maar nou bevind hom skielik in ’n onmoontlike situasie. Want lojaliteit is belangrik – en hy moet nou binne 72 uur in Lusaka uitkom, anders sterf ’n ou vriend, ’n medestryder wat gyselaar gehou word. Die losprys wat hy saam met hom moet neem, is gevaarlik – ’n hardeskyf met sensitiewe inligting. Die plaaslike intelligensiediens gaan alles in hul vermoë doen om hom te keer. En nou word die jagter die prooi.

Archäologe Ben O'Shea glaubt, endlich angekommen zu sein, als er eines der fünf Cottages an der stürmischen Südwestküste Irlands bezieht. Doch das Haus wirft eine Frage auf, die er sein halbes Leben lang verdrängt hat: Was geschah wirklich mit seiner Freundin Liz vor 20 Jahren? Während das Hügelgrab Schicht für Schicht an die Erdoberfläche kommt, gerät Ben selbst zwischen die Fronten alter Feindschaften und unausgesprochener Schuldgefühle. Als ein Teamkollege tot auf der Straße liegt, scheint sich seine größte Angst zu erfüllen: Ein Mörder treibt sein Unwesen.

En los convulsos albores del nazismo y la Segunda Guerra Mundial, Tánger se convierte en un escenario vibrante de espionaje. Aquí, una joya heredada, un brillante con un pasado turbio, amenaza con destrozar la vida de una familia española mientras aliados y nazis luchan por el control de una ruta de tráfico de diamantes, cruciales para la maquinaria de guerra. Sumérgete en una trama donde el amor entre una joven católica y un hombre judío desafía las convenciones en una sociedad acelerada.

The Viking raiders' devastation has been halted once more by the shields of Mercia as opposed to Wessex. But their whereabouts are unknown. King Wiglaf of Mercia is keen to ensure the Viking raiders are swept from his shared border with Wessex but these Viking ships are quick and difficult to track and Icel is once more deployed with Ealdorman Ælfstan warriors to do his King's bidding. However, Icel's quest is beset with many more obstacles and it's not all about the seax and shield. Worrying news from home overshadows Icel's every deadly encounter.

She's in love with Derry, a bright and charming math student, surrounded by friends, and her biggest worry is whether she wants to return to her old life as a student. But her peace is short-lived. After a horrific murder, Sarah becomes the target of a relentless killer. Her investigation pulls her into the depths of a decades-old mystery involving the disappearance of a group of brilliant mathematicians—once poised to revolutionize their field. They called themselves The Dumat Society.

Newly promoted Detective Superintendent Jack Hawksworth has headed up three major serial operations in England and in each of these cases he has lost a part of himself. Then, while on sabbatical as guest lecturer in a London university, one of his female students dies under highly suspicious circumstances, and he finds himself drawn into a chilling new case that reaches across the world. Jack's investigations lead him to Australia, where he identifies a cynical international crime consortium that preys on the anguish of childless couples and vulnerable women.

He thought he was done with the killing. But old habits die hard. Kyle Payne thought he'd left his deadly past behind—until he is targeted by mysterious assassins posing as FBI agents. Forced into an uneasy alliance with Special Agent Carrie Walker, who is also being targeted, Payne sets out...

Lord Alexander Hawke is used to going after big game, but his pursuit of a mysterious figure code-named Warmonger brings him up against his most deadly foe—Vladimir Putin—in the latest entry in this New York Times bestselling series. Lord Alexander Hawke’s hunt for the Warmonger—a...

When obscure crime writer Ethelred Tressider vanishes, his dogged literary agent, Elsie Thirkettle, is soon on his trail. Finding him (in a ramshackle hotel in the French Loire) proves surprisingly easy. Bringing him home proves more difficult than expected - but (as Elsie observes) who would have predicted that, in a hotel full of stamp collectors, the guests would suddenly start murdering each other? One guest is found fatally stabbed, apparently the victim of an intruder.

Una novela heredera de los clásicos del género fantástico y de fantasmas, pero en una versión contemporánea llena de lirismo, delicadeza y crueldad. La empleada de una inmobiliaria prepara una casa vacía para la visita de unos compradores cuando se encuentra en la cocina con un niño de siete años que no pestañea. La aparición se repetirá y la mujer dejará atrás su mundo cotidiano para, como la Alicia de Lewis Carroll, atravesar el espejo.

Ironworker Wayne Colson and his spirited wife Carmen are witnesses to a shakedown scam — witnesses who must be eliminated. Enter Armand Degas (a.k.a. Blackbird), the brains of the operation, and his partner Richie Nix, an ex-con whose highest goal is to rob a bank in every state. After the Colsons enter the Federal Witness Security Program, a lively chase ensues — with two bumbling but determined killers on Wayne and Carmen's trail.