Family Suspense Thrillers

Everything I've done, everything I will do, there will be no regret. The world is a vicious place for a woman. It's even crueler to the daughter of the Ceann na Conairte - discarded, married off, left powerless. But I am no ordinary daughter of the mafia. Unlike every other mafia family, my mother was Melody Callahan, Bloody Mel, the Don of the Italian Mafia, and the Don didn't raise some precious mafia princess. Bone by bone she broke me first, so no one else could - and bone by bone, I pieced myself back together.

Award-winning photographer Ian Collins made only one mistake in life, but it cost his mother her freedom and destroyed their family, leaving Ian to practically raise himself. For years he’s been estranged from his father, and his mother has lived off the grid. For just as long, he has searched for her.

All Lexi wants to do is get through the day at her boring temp job with Green Hand Insurance. That's until she discovers the vice president, Martin Dean, in a pool of blood and herself at the center of an investigation into insurance fraud.

There was so much anger brewing in the child that sometimes Alicia feared for all of them. And now she had gone and done this terrible thing. This terrible, terrible thing. Tara has lost her voice. She knows there was pain and fear, but she cannot remember anything else. Now she can answer the questions only with silence. Minnie has buried her voice for years, losing herself in silence and isolation, keeping her secrets safe and her broken heart concealed. Liam finds refuge in silence; it is a place to go to when he cannot get the words out.

Two months before his wedding, financial executive James Donato chased his trade-laundering brother Phil to Mexico, only to be lost at sea and presumed dead. Six and a half years later, he emerges from a dissociative fugue state to find he's been living in Oaxaca as artist Carlos Dominguez, widower and father of two sons, with his sister-in-law Natalya Hayes, a retired professional surfer, helping to keep his life afloat. But his fiancée, Aimee Tierney, the love of his life, has moved on.

In a town she personifies, Ouisie Pepper wrestles with her own defiance. Desperate to become the wife and mother her husband, Hap, demands, she clings to a simple book about womanhood--striving, failing, and trying again. But beneath her pursuit of self-improvement lies a terrible secret: she knows who killed Daisy Chance.

When Louise Vaughn disappears on her way home from choir practice in the village of Feringham, her parents and their dear friend Norah are devastated. No trace of her is ever found. But, 12 years later, Detective Marsh rekindles the investigation and discovers that the family, including a spiteful and violent adopted brother, have something to hide.

Daisy Lane's fortunes take a spectacular fall when Roy decides to run his criminal empire from London. Without him, the punters disappear and so, too, does the cash. Still, Daisy can take comfort in the fact that her son Eddie is growing up to be as courageous as his late father was. But Eddie’s younger brother, Jamie, is a deeply disturbed young man. Meanwhile, there’s a killer at work in Gosport. It’s Daisy who spots this nasty Casanova at work. She takes it upon herself to have him apprehended - with devastating consequences.

At Sunny Pines Retirement Community, where the “Sixty-Two and Better!” share their golden years, secrets abound. Some scandalous, some haunting, and some dangerous. For Birdie Allen, a retired business owner and grandmother, her secret is the only thing she’s got left. Getting old isn’t the hardest part about life. It’s the memories from more than fifty years ago of the death of her unrequited love. And Birdie’s abandoned quest to root out the killer.

It’s been ten years since Alison’s perfect world fell apart. Ten years since her son Sam disappeared while on a family holiday. Lost at sea, they said, his body never found. And even though her brother and sister were supposedly looking after the kids, Alison will always blame herself. Caught in a spiralling web of all-consuming grief where the lines between reality and fantasy blur, Alison refuses to let go. So when her ex-husband seeks to have Sam officially pronounced dead, Alison embarks upon a desperate and harrowing quest to discover what really happened that day on the beach.

"Das Verschwinden der Linnea Arvidsson" ist ein fesselnder Roman, durch den wir erfahren, wie stark Geschwisterbande sind, wie es ist, in einer der ärmsten Gegenden von Malmö aufzuwachsen, und wie die Liebe uns dazu bringen kann, Dinge zu tun, die wir nie für möglich gehalten hätten. Dani geriet als Jugendlicher in falsche Kreise, verbrachte sogar einige Zeit im Malmöer Gefängnis. Seine Schwester Lydia ist die einzige Familie, die er noch hat, und er hat ihr versprochen, nie wieder ein Verbrechen zu begehen.

River und June – zwischen Anziehung und Misstrauen. Rivers innigster Wunsch war es immer seine Kindheit und die damit verbundenen schmerzhaften Erinnerungen hinter sich zu lassen. Und fast scheint es, als könne ihm das gelingen – endlich fühlt er sich frei und glücklich. Aber dann steht er plötzlich vor den Trümmern dieses Traums. Denn der Loughlin-Clan, aus dessen System er sich mühsam herausgekämpft hat, bedroht nun alle, die er liebt. River weiß: Nur wenn er den Clan und seine kriminellen Machenschaften ein für alle Mal zu Fall bringt, wird er wirklich sicher sein.

Pewnego ranka, którego nigdy nie zapomni, Cynthia Archer budzi się z okropnym kacem i poczuciem, że czeka ją przeprawa z rodzicami. Tymczasem dom jest pusty. Rodzice i starszy brat zniknęli bez śladu. Poszukiwania zakończyły się całkowitym niepowodzeniem. Dziewczyna nie znalazła odpowiedzi na dręczące ją pytania: Czy rodziców i brata zamordowano? Jeśli tak, to czemu jej darowano życie? A jeśli żyją, dlaczego porzucili ją w tak okrutny sposób? Dwadzieścia pięć lat później Cynthia zgadza się wziąć udział w telewizyjnym programie dokumentalnym, w nadziei, że ktoś sobie coś przypomni o tamtej sprawie sprzed lat.

Vor den Toren Stockholms wird an einem Sportplatz die Leiche eines brutal ermordeten Mannes entdeckt...

A former child star and an envious fan collide in this cat-and-mouse psychological thriller about obsession, self-invention, and the dark side of internet fame. University was meant to be Crystal’s way out. Growing up, there was nothing in her life that couldn’t be turned into content for...

At the Bounty Canyon Ranch in Southeastern New Mexico, the bodies of Luke and Deona Pruitt are buried in a manure pit and their 14-year-old son Leeland Pruitt is missing. Deputy Sheriff Greenwood is called out to investigate the missing Pruitt family and discovers the grim scene. Leeland’s brutal upbringing was an open secret overlooked by neighbors and teachers for years. The community turned a blind eye as Leeland was moved by his cruel father from one remote ranch to another. And so, Deputy Greenwood begins a twenty-four-hour hunt to find and save the boy suspected of murdering his parents.

Astrid Johansen swore she would never return to Heron Bay, Washington. In that idyllic coastal town, her little sister, Nina, drowned in a reflecting pool under Astrid’s watch seventeen years ago. Though guilt has kept her away, Astrid can’t ignore her aunt Maude’s urgent plea to come back. Maude claims to have found a letter that will change everything about the past.

Faced with the violent death of his own father, even Assistant Superintendent David "Kubu" Bengu, Botswana CID's keenest mind, is baffled. Who would kill such a frail old man? The picture becomes even murkier with the apparent suicide of a government official. Are Chinese mine-owners involved? And what role does the US Embassy have to play?

When ex-marine Sarah French joins a luxury superyacht as on-board security, she's excited to get her life—and career—back on track. Surrounded by crystal waters, it seems like the perfect place to start over. As they head into open water, though, tensions between the crew quickly build. And when someone goes missing, Sarah has a terrifying realisation. One of them is a killer. All of them are suspects.

For eleven-year-old Esme, ballet is everything - until her four-year-old sister, Lily, vanishes without a trace and nothing is certain anymore. People Esme has known her whole life suddenly become suspects, each new one hitting closer to home than the last. Unable to cope, Esme escapes the nightmare that is her new reality when she receives an invitation to join an elite ballet academy in San Francisco. Desperate to leave behind her chaotic, broken family and the mystery surrounding Lily’s disappearance, Esme accepts.