Domestic Thriller Suspense

In the midst of a sea of holidaymakers, I find myself the lone outsider – no companion, no luggage. An enigma among the carefree crowd. I wonder what they’d do if they knew who I am. Who I really am… What is Liz running away from? Who is this woman my father married? Did he have any idea of what she was capable of? My gaze fixates on the once-familiar house that now feels like a distant memory. I can hardly believe how much my life has changed and that Liz, the woman who puts the word wicked into stepmother has completely vanished.

Il voit tout, Il entend tout, Il sait tout. La nouvelle enquête de Violaine Menou et Louise Caumont a de quoi vous faire trembler durant votre écoute. Interprété par Léovanie Raud, ce livre audio vous fera découvrir des secrets de famille qui auraient peut-être mieux faits de rester enfouis... " Depuis qu'un fou furieux a tué maman, la rage qui couvait au fond de moi est sortie de ses gonds. Je la sens, là, qui enfle, gronde, bouillonne. Elle ressemble à un monstre qui me soulève le ventre. "

Watching and listening to Lou and Charlie used to leave me fraught with envy and loneliness. But now, living next door to my old adversary Liz, I long for the old days—when I was left alone. My sister Jenna can’t understand how the girl who was my childhood bully could now want to be my friend. People change, I tell her. But do they? Neither can she understand why Liz is paying for a cruise to atone for the misery she once caused me. There must be strings attached, Jenna says. She’s right. There is.

Sarah and Adam Granatt had the perfect suburban life: a beautiful house, an adorable daughter, a baby on the way, and a once-in-a-lifetime love. They were the couple everyone envied—until Adam died. In the wake of his death, Adam’s secrets begin to emerge. The first comes out when a woman named Candace introduces herself to Sarah as Adam’s mother. Sarah is rightfully confused: Adam had always said his mother was dead. Adam also lied about making sure Sarah, Ellie, and the new baby would be taken care of financially. The truth is there’s no money.

INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER A brilliantly plotted psychological crime novel about a missing child and the scandal that erupts in the aftermath with a shocking twist They know who did it. Perhaps not consciously. Perhaps not yet. But they know. When eight-year-old Daisy Mason vanishes from her...

Es ist zwei Tage vor Heiligabend, als Hauptkommissar David Büttner und sein Assistent Sebastian Hasenkrug ins Pewsumer Seniorenheim Dat witte Lücht gerufen werden. Hier kam eine betagte Dame auf mysteriöse Weise ums Leben. Die für den heimischen Tannenbaum noch zu besorgenden Weihnachtsbaumkugeln immer im Blick, gerät Büttner mit den Ermittlungen zunehmend unter Zeitdruck. Und die Tatsache, dass es sich bei den Verdächtigen um offenbar leicht verwirrte alte Menschen handelt, befördert die Lösung des Falles auch nicht gerade.

Rose, newly married to surgeon Nathan Winter, wants for nothing in her perfect life–except the one thing she can’t have: for her sister, Daisy, who’s lying unresponsive in a coma, to wake up. Daisy’s psychologist has been a constant presence at her hospital bedside. But he’s taken an unnatural interest in Rose, and now he’s made a shocking accusation: that Rose’s husband is a psychopath and that she’s in danger.

When journalist Holland Tate is granted an interview with Catriona Bouchard, her former best friend turned mega-popular tradwife, she jumps at the chance to also possibly rewrite their bitter ending. But at the Bouchards’ gated compound, what she finds is not the independent woman she once knew. Cat may have six beautiful children and be married to the man she calls the love of her life, but she’s a ghost of her former self.

Election Day is finally here, and Spenser anxiously awaits the results. When a town resident calls in with concerns about their missing neighbors, Spenser performs a routine wellness check. Initially, she sees nothing out of the ordinary. But days pass, and the family is still nowhere to be found. What would make an entire family disappear without a trace? Soon, sinister truths and motives come to light, and Spenser zeroes in on a peculiar clue.

Recently fired and adrift, Charlotte Boyd agrees to oversee renovations on her parents’ small-town summer home that holds a tragic past. After discovering an enthralling diary hidden amidst junk the previous owners left behind, Charlotte connects with the author—a troubled teen named Lark Peters who died by suicide at the house sixteen years ago.

Recovering from a gunshot wound that nearly cost him his life, Tom Douglas isn’t focused on himself – his concern is for his brother Jack, who seems to have vanished without a trace. Jack’s past is as dangerous as it is complicated. Years ago, he faked his own death to escape an organised crime group, and ever since, he’s been living in the shadows, always one step ahead of those who want to hunt him down.

Entre mensonges et secrets, connaissez-vous vraiment votre famille ? Si vous aimez les récits à la façon de Liane Moriarty, vous adorerez ce drame familial, finaliste du concours des Plumes Francophones Amazon Storyteller 2022. C’est une simple porte, claquée trop fort un jour d'été, qui a fait basculer la destinée de trois familles apparemment ordinaires. Leur effet papillon à eux. Imaginez trois couples heureux en ménage, trois familles liées par leurs souvenirs, leur amitié, leurs supercheries, leurs rivalités... Et par un terrible secret, qui a modifié la trajectoire de leur vie à leur insu.

Katie’s divorce was, in a word, humiliating. So when her friend Bess offers a fresh start—a resident caretaking job at a nature preserve—Katie accepts. No matter that she’s not exactly a “nature person.” How hard can it be? But from day one, something feels off. Katie’s new farmhouse looks as if the last caretaker barely moved out at all. When a frantic, terrified woman arrives late at night, expecting a safe place to hide, it’s clear caretaking involves way more than Katie bargained for.

When Cam and Desiree Woodson find the luxurious rental home in a quiet, suburban Atlanta neighborhood, they believe they've discovered the perfect place for their growing young family—and for their tight budget, the price is too good to be true. But what starts as a bargain soon turns into a nightmare when the landlord's unusual lease terms become more suffocating than they ever imagined...

Years ago, Beth Lathrop and her sister Kate suffered what they thought would be the worst tragedy of their lives the night both the famous painting Moonlight and their mother were taken. The detective assigned to the case, Conor Reid, swore to protect the sisters from then on. Beth moved on, throwing herself fully into the art world, running the family gallery, and raising a beautiful daughter with her husband Pete. Kate, instead, retreated into herself and took to the skies as a pilot, always on the run.

When a music festival rolls through the sleepy town of Hesterville, Georgia, the Dixon family’s lives are forever changed. On the final night, a storm muffles the sound of the blaring music, and Rachel tucks her baby into bed before falling into a deep sleep. So deep, she doesn’t hear the kitchen door opening. When she and her husband wake up in the morning, the crib is empty. Emily is gone. Vicki Robart is one of the thousands at the festival, but she’s not feeling the music. She’s feeling the emptiness over the loss of her own baby several months before.

Buckhead, Atlanta. Un quartier chic avec ses voitures de luxe, ses immenses demeures et son salon de beauté. Un établissement raffiné ? Oui, jusqu'à ce que Shannon, l'ancienne meneuse de cette petite communauté privilégiée, soit larguée sans ménagement par Bryce, son mari politicien. Alors qu'elle décide de se venger, trois autres femmes – Crystal, Olivia et Jenny – entrent dans l'arène. Le salon ne tarde alors pas à devenir un enfer sur terre. Parmi elles, l'une va finir par mourir. Mais laquelle ?

Lorsqu’en 1871, la désargentée et intrépide Philomela Drax reçoit une lettre de son riche grand-père déclarant qu’il craint pour sa vie désormais aux mains d’une famille peu scrupuleuse, les Slape, elle se précipite à la rescousse. Mais le temps presse car Katie Slape, une jeune femme dotée d’un don de voyance et d’un bon coup de marteau, est sur le point d’arriver à ses fins... Démarre alors une traque endiablée, des rues poussiéreuses d’un village du New Jersey aux trottoirs étincelants de Saratoga, en passant par les quais de New York, Philo poursuit Katie... à moins que ce ne soit l’inverse ? Car personne n’échappe à Katie la Furie.

Mark Burcham and his wife Amy live the perfect life: they have a happy marriage, a comfortable home in Los Angeles and a beautiful daughter, Tatum. But one night Amy fails to come home from a business trip to Boston, and her office have no record of a client on the east coast. Then Mark gets the worst news of all; Amy has been found dead. But nothing makes sense. Why was Amy still in town, when he’d waved her off at the airport a few days before? Who was the mysterious client she’d been meeting with for months? There’s only one thing Mark knows for certain: his wife was keeping secrets.

My hand trembles as I stare at the anonymous text. On this sunny Saturday morning, our twin ten-year-old boys were playing in the park just down our tree-lined street. But only one of them has come home… and it’s all my husband’s fault. I race to Leo’s study and demand answers. As his face turns white, I know: one of his affairs has turned deadly. I always smell the unfamiliar perfume on his shirt. I try to pretend we are a happy family, for the sake of the children… but now, my child is in terrible danger.