Résultats pour "Holly Jackson" dans Romans policiers et thrillers

In seven days, Jet Mason will be dead. Jet is the daughter of one of the wealthiest families in Woodstock, Vermont. Twenty-seven years old and back home, she’s still waiting for her life to begin. I’ll do it later, she always says. She has time. Until Halloween night, when she is violently attacked by an unseen intruder, suffering a catastrophic head injury. Doctors are certain that within a week, the injury will trigger a fatal aneurysm. To her parents’ dismay, Jet rejects an extremely risky operation in order to guarantee herself at least a few more days.

When Penny Dahl calls the Finders Keepers detective agency, hoping for help locating her missing daughter, Holly Gibney is reluctant to accept the case. Her partner, Pete, has Covid. Her (very complicated) mother has just passed away. And Holly is meant to be on leave. But something in Penny’s desperate voice makes it impossible to turn her down. Meanwhile, mere blocks from where Bonnie Dahl disappeared live Professors Rodney and Emily Harris. But they are also harboring a shocking, unholy secret.

Tra sette giorni Jet Mason sarà morta. Jet ha ventisette anni e sta ancora aspettando che la sua vita decolli. Il suo mantra è "lo farò più tardi", pensando di avere tutto il tempo del mondo. Fino alla notte di Halloween, quando viene aggredita in casa sua da un intruso. L'attacco le procura un forte trauma cranico e il medico è certo che entro una settimana la lesione scatenerà un aneurisma mortale. Jet non ha mai pensato di avere dei nemici, ma ora vede tutti sotto una nuova luce: la sua famiglia, la sua ex migliore amica, ora sua cognata, il suo ex fidanzato possessivo.

In sieben Tagen wird Jet Mason tot sein. Jet ist die Tochter einer der reichsten Familien in Woodstock, Vermont. Bis zu jener Halloween-Nacht, als sie von einem unsichtbaren Eindringling brutal angegriffen wird. Dabei erleidet Jet eine schwere Kopfverletzung, und die Ärzte sind sich sicher: In spätestens einer Woche wird ein tödliches Aneurysma Jet umbringen. Jet wird ihren eigenen Mord aufklären.

¿Quién mató a Andie Bell? Todos creen saber la verdad, pero solo Pippa sabe que están equivocados. Hace cinco años, la estudiante Andie Bell fue asesinada por Sal Singh. La policía sabe que fue él. Sus compañeros también. Todo el mundo lo sabe. Pero Pippa ha crecido en la misma ciudad que ha sido y no lo tiene tan claro... Decidida a desenterrar la verdad, Pippa convierte este asesinato en el tema de su proyecto de final de curso. Poco a poco, empezará a descubrir secretos que alguien se ha empeñado en ocultar.

On July 4, 1826, as Americans lit firecrackers to celebrate the country’s 50th birthday, both John Adams and Thomas Jefferson were on their deathbeds. The young nation had outlived the men who made it, but could it survive intensifying divisions over the very meaning of the land of the free? American Radicals is a dynamic, timely history of 19th-century activists - free-lovers and socialists, abolitionists and vigilantes - and the social revolution they sparked in the turbulent Civil War era.

My name is Larkspur, and I am an Elemental. My people use the power of the earth to sustain life and defy our enemies. I should be at my father's side as a royal princess. But as a half-breed, bastard child, that isn't going to happen. The King is missing and his mind is cracked. It is up to me to find him before the Rim is taken over by the bloodthirsty heir to the throne.

Tras Asesinato para principiantes y Desaparición para expertos, disfruta la esperada tercera novela de la nueva reina del thriller juvenil. Uno de los thrillers más absorbentes que leerás jamás. Pip está acostumbrada a recibir amenazas. Tiene un podcast de true crime que se ha vuelto viral y, además, su trabajo como investigadora le ha supuesto crearse algún que otro enemigo de más. Pero de entre todos esos mensajes que le llegan, hay unos que le preocupan.

Adventuress Countess Alessandra Zorzi has a new vocation: reacquiring the occult artifacts she stole to put into the safer hands of Miskatonic University. With her new apprentice, Pepper Kelly, Zorzi tracks the infamous Zanthu Tablets to Paris. But the city is rife with spies and the countess has many enemies. When Pepper is kidnapped, it becomes clear that someone is out for revenge. Zorzi must rescue her apprentice, find the tablets, and prevent an old enemy from summoning an army of vengeful ghouls from the depths of the catacombs. Stealing relics is a lot harder the second time around.

When Arkham Advertiser reporter Andy van Nortwick receives a mysterious film reel in the mail, with a simple note: "Maude Brion is very much alive!", he steps onto a path which will lead him to the brink of madness. Brion, the famous actress and film director, vanished a year ago on an ill-fated expedition into the Amazon rainforest, delving into the legend of the Spider Queen. Thrilled by the prospect of his big break, Nortwick swings the funds to launch a rescue mission. He gathers a team of explorers and a keen folklorist to bring back Brion and cement his reputation.

Tras Asesinato para principiantes, Holly Jackson regresa con un caso aún más intrincado, imprevisible y absorbente. Pippa no quiere dedicarse a la investigación: el precio a pagar es demasiado alto. Después de resolver el asesinato de Andie Bell, Pippa decidió cerrar esa etapa para siempre. Y, aunque el pódcast que grabó con Ravi sobre el caso se ha hecho viral, insiste en que sus días de detective quedaron atrás... O eso es lo que ella cree. Porque cuando Jamie Reynolds desaparece y la policía no logra encontrarlo, a Pippa no le queda más remedio que volver a las andadas.