Résultats pour "Julia Roberts" dans Romans policiers et thrillers

Daughter of a cold, controlling mother and an anonymous donor, studious, obedient Elizabeth Fitch finally let loose one night, drinking too much at a nightclub and allowing a strange man’s seductive Russian accent to lure her to a house on Lake Shore Drive. Twelve years later, the woman now known as Abigail Lowery lives alone on the outskirts of a small town in the Ozarks.

From #1 New York Times-best-selling author Nora Roberts comes a novel of a woman who needs nothing, a man who sees everything, and the web of deceit, greed, and danger that brings them together - and that could tear them apart… As a professional house-sitter and freelance writer, nothing ties Lila Emerson down - not her work, not a home, and definitely not a relationship. She spends her life moving from one job to the next, sometimes crashing at a friend's Manhattan apartment.

It began on New Year’s Eve. The sickness came on suddenly, and spread quickly. The fear spread even faster. Within weeks, everything people counted on began to fail them. The electrical grid sputtered; law and government collapsed - and more than half of the world’s population was decimated. Where there had been order, there was now chaos. And as the power of science and technology receded, magick rose up in its place.

After the sickness known as the Doom destroyed civilization, magick has become commonplace, and Fallon Swift has spent her young years learning its ways. Fallon cannot live in peace until she frees those who have been preyed upon by the government or the fanatical Purity Warriors, endlessly hunted or locked up in laboratories, brutalized for years on end. She is determined to save even those who have been complicit with this evil out of fear or weakness - if, indeed, they can be saved.

Fallon Swift, approaching her thirteenth birthday, barely knows the world that existed before - the city where her parents lived, now in ruins and reclaimed by nature since the Doom sickened and killed billions. Traveling anywhere is a danger, as vicious gangs of Raiders and fanatics called Purity Warriors search for their next victim. Those like Fallon, in possession of gifts, are hunted - and the time is coming when her true nature, her identity as The One, can no longer be hidden.

The #1 New York Times bestselling author of modern classics such as My Sister’s Keeper and Small Great Things weaves a “richly textured and engaging” (The Boston Globe) tale that explores what happens when a young woman’s past—a past she didn’t even know she had—catches up to her...

"The End of Men is a fiercely intelligent page-turner, an eerily prescient novel, at once thoughtful and highly emotive." --Paula Hawkins, #1 internationally bestselling author of The Girl on the Train Set in a world where a virus stalks our male population, The End of Men is an electrifying and...

Alec Reid’s ghosts of the 21st century seldom lurk in old houses or waft across chilly moors. His dark tales may breathe alongside the supernatural, but they take place in broad daylight, in our daily lives. Their themes include dead warriors resurrected via Bluetooth, Rumpelstiltskin in the suburbs, an algorithmic fear of ghosts, and the shattered dreams of immortality. The world they describe is the one you inhabit, but you would live in terror were you to recognize it for what it is.

Das heutige Deutschland, kurz vor den Bundestagswahlen. Ein Serienkiller entführt Spitzenpolitiker der rechtspopulistischen "NKD" und tötet sie auf brutale Weise, indem er ihnen mit einer Bohrmaschine die rechte Gehirnhälfte zerstört. Eine SOKO um Judith Frigge und Heiko Sass soll den Fall aufklären, tappt aber im Dunkeln. Unterdessen wird durch eine tragische Verkettung privater Lebensumstände der Ex-Polizist Martin Bohm zum Fahrer der NKD-Spitze und verhindert dabei die Entführung des Vorsitzenden Klaus Rasche durch den Killer.

My heart drops as I take in Jemma’s tear-streaked face. Has my worst nightmare come true? My daughter is my whole world, but I’ve been keeping a secret from her. And from the hurt in her eyes, I think she’s found out....

From the author of the Edgar-nominated Invisible City comes another timely thriller that illuminates society’s darkest corners. Told in part through the eyes of a jittery eyewitness and the massacre’s sole survivor, Julia Dahl's Conviction examines the power—and cost—of community...

After the sickness known as the Doom destroyed civilization, magick has become commonplace, and Fallon Swift has spent her young years learning its ways. Fallon cannot live in peace until she frees those who have been preyed upon by the government or the fanatical Purity Warriors, endlessly hunted or locked up in laboratories, brutalized for years on end. She is determined to save even those who have been complicit with this evil out of fear or weakness - if, indeed, they can be saved.

A finalist for the Edgar and Mary Higgins Clark Awards, in her riveting debut Invisible City, journalist Julia Dahl introduces a compelling new character in search of the truth about a murder and an understanding of her own heritage. Just months after Rebekah Roberts was born, her mother, an...

Studious, obedient Elizabeth finally let loose one night, drinking too much at a nightclub and allowing a strange man’s seductive Russian accent to lure her to a house on Lake Shore Drive. The events that followed changed her life forever. Twelve years later, the woman now known as Abigail Lowery lives alone on the outskirts of a small town in the Ozarks. A freelance programmer, she works at home designing sophisticated security systems. Her own security is supplemented by a fierce dog and an assortment of firearms.

I didn’t plan to fall pregnant, but when I found out, I was overjoyed. Even though I’d be going it alone, I swore I’d give my baby everything they needed. But I didn’t know who the man I met on that sweltering summer night, the father of my child, really was. I decided to keep his secret to protect the innocent…but then my beautiful baby was born with a rare illness, desperately needing a transplant.

Aviva Kagan was a just a teenager when she left her Hasidic Jewish life in Brooklyn for a fling with a smiling college boy from Florida-and then disappeared. Twenty-three years later, the child she walked away from is a NYC tabloid reporter named Rebekah Roberts. And Rebekah isn't sure she wants...

Hunde ausführen, Cocktails mixen, sich um ihre kranke Mutter kümmern – und aus sicherer Entfernung das Leben anderer beobachten. Das ist Chloe Coopers Alltag. Besonders fasziniert ist sie von Jemma Spengler, der schönen Influencerin von nebenan, und ihrem Ehemann Adam, einem angesehenen Chirurgen. Das Paar wirkt so perfekt wie aus einem Hochglanzmagazin – bis zu dem Tag, an dem alles endet. Im dichten Morgennebel sieht Chloe vom Strand aus, wie eine Schwimmerin von einem Motorboot erfasst wird. Ist es Jemma? Chloe ist sich sicher, dass es kein tragischer Unfall war, sondern Mord.

Sherlock Holmes ist entschlossen, den Kampf gegen Killjoy aufzunehmen. Durch Oscar Wilde erfährt er, dass es in Aden zu ähnlichen Vorfällen wie in Grail's Hollow gekommen ist. Gemeinsam mit Dr. Watson begibt er sich in den kleinen Ort in der Nähe von London, in dem niemand etwas gehört oder gesehen haben will. Der Fund einer Leiche führt Sherlock Holmes und Dr. Watson schließlich auf eine Spur, deren Verfolgung die beiden in Lebensgefahr bringt ...

In Newton geschehen merkwürdige Dinge: Vögel fallen tot vom Himmel, Gegenstände und Tiere verschwinden und alle Gemälde der renommierten Malerin Liz Bennett wurden des Nachts schwarz übermalt! Als auch noch der selbstgefällige Mr. Darcy einen schweren Unfall erleidet, weil jemand die Bremsen seines Wagens manipuliert hat, beginnt Pater Brown auf eigene Faust zu ermitteln. In letzter Minute kann er einen weiteren Einwohner Newtons davor bewahren, an einer Vergiftung zu sterben. Wie hängen all diese Geschehnisse bloß zusammen?

Das Herzstück einer Mädchenschule ist abgebrannt: die Bibliothek! Einflussreiche Herren sehen hier ihre Chance, die Schule gleich ganz zu schließen. Eliza und Millie wollen dies natürlich verhindern! Getarnt mischen sie sich in den High-School-Alltag und verteidigen gleich eine gemobbte Schülerin. Doch zwischen Cricket, Unterricht und Teepausen finden Millie und Eliza finstere Geheimnisse: Erpressung, falsche Identitäten und ein fast perfektes Verbrechen.