Cynthia is happily married with a young daughter, a new family. But the story of her old family isn’t over. A strange car in the neighborhood, untraceable phone calls, ominous “gifts”–someone has returned to her hometown to finish what was started twenty-five years ago. And no one’s innocence is guaranteed, not even her own. By the time Cynthia discovers her killer’s shocking identity, it will again be too late . . . even for goodbye.
Come close, children, and see the living crocodile. A vintage '54 Buick Roadmaster. At least, that's what it looks like ...There is a secret hidden in Shed B in the state police barracks in Statler, Pennsylvania. A secret that has drawn troopers for twenty years - terrified yet irresistibly tempted to look at its chrome fenders, silver grille and exotic exhaust system. Young Ned Wilcox has started coming by the barracks: mowing the lawn, washing the windows, shovelling snow; it's a boy's way of holding on to his father - recently killed in a strange road accident by another Buick. And one day Ned peers through the windows of Shed B and discovers the family secret. Like his father, Ned wants answers. He deserves answers. And the secret begins to stir ...
Paris, July 1942 : Sarah, a ten year-oldJewish girl, is arrested by the French police in the middle of thenight, along with her mother and father. Desperate to protect heryounger brother, she locks him in a cupboard and promises to comeback for him as soon as she can.
Sookie's got just a month, before the next full moon, to find out who wants her brother dead - and to stop the fiend! Sookie Stackhouse enjoys her life, mostly. She's a great cocktail waitress in a fun bar; she has a love life, albeit a bit complicated, and most people have come to terms with her telepathy. The problem is, Sookie wants a quiet life - but things just seem to happen to her and her friends. Now her brother Jason's eyes are starting to change: he's about to turn into a were-panther for the first time. She can deal with that, but her normal sisterly concern turns to cold fear when a sniper sets his deadly sights on the local changeling population. She afraid not just because Jason's at risk, but because his new were-brethren suspect Jason may be the shooter. Sookie has until the next full moon to find out who's behind the attacks - unless the killer decides to find her first. The Sookie Stackhouse books are delightful Southern Gothic supernatural mysteries, starring Sookie, the telepathic cocktail
In this unforgettable classic novel by #1 "New York Times"bestselling author Tami Hoag, the promise of a new love isimperiled by the secrets of the past. In the charming seaside townof Anastasia, California, Faith Kincaid is looking to start overafter her bruising divorce from powerful, corrupt senator WilliamGerard. But the past still haunts her. As she prepares to testifyagainst her ex at his high-profile bribery trial, the federalgovernment is watching her every move. They've even sent a specialagent, Shane Callan, to protect her. Faith doesn't think she needsa bodyguard--especially one as physically formidable as Shane. Buthe refuses to take no for an answer. Soon the two are sharingsecrets and the simmering attraction between them shows signs ofsizzling out of control. But as Faith learns, Shane's not a foreverkind of guy--unless she can convince him to undergo a major changeof heart.
1996 wurde das Teatro La Fenice in Venedig vom Feuer zerst?rt.Ausgehend von dieser Trag?die gestaltet der Autor einbeeindruckendes historisches Portr?t einer einzigartig sch?nenStadt und seiner Bewohner und prominenten G?ste.
This thoughtful if less than suspenseful thriller frombestseller Patterson ( Eclipse ) charts the impact of thebrutal murder of black coed Angela Hall at Caldwell College inWayne, Ohio, on gifted athlete Mark Darrow, who discovered the bodyand later became a nationally renowned lawyer. Mark's best friendwas convicted of the crime, but many aspects of the trial troubledMark. Lionel Farr, Caldwell's provost and Mark's former mentor,offers Mark the post of college president 16 years after Angela'smurder. Mark agrees to return to Caldwell, now struggling with thesuspected embezzlement of $900,000 from its endowment by itscurrent president. With Lionel's support, Mark investigates boththe embezzlement and the old murder. Patterson evokes the quietschism between town and gown in Wayne as well as the fragilerelationship between blacks and whites, while Mark's probing hitsexposed nerves with fatal results. (Sept.) Copyright Reed Business Information, a division of ReedElsevier Inc. All rights reserved. --This t
Everyone thought that the hard part applying to college was getting accepted. But, now that acceptance letters have made their way into the hands of the Upper East Side's most glamorous, it's quite obvious that deciding on which college to attend may just be even more nerve-wracking and confusing. Luckily, there's only one month left of high school for the seniors, and they plan on partying the last part of the semester away. After all, there's always time to think about college after we attend the latest sample sale. Everything is finally falling into place for Blair Waldorf. She and Nate Archibald are back together, and she has finally handed her V card over to him. Her mother gave birth to her little baby sister, Yale; and, much to her surprise, she absolutely adores the tiny tyke, and is shaping up to be the best big sister the Upper East Side has ever seen. The only thing that has her baffled and in a perpetual state of anger is the fact that she has been wait-listed at Yale. Even worse, both Nate and
The true, declassified account of CIA operative Tony Mendez'sdaring rescue of American hostages from Iran that inspired thecritically-acclaimed film directed by and starring Ben Affleck, andco-starring John Goodman, Alan Arkin, and Bryan Cranston. On November 4, 1979, Iranian militants stormed the Americanembassy in Tehran and captured dozens of American hostages,sparking a 444-day ordeal and a quake in global politics stillreverberating today. But there is a little-known drama connected tothe crisis: six Americans escaped. And a top-level CIA officernamed Antonio Mendez devised an ingenious yet incredibly risky planto rescue them before they were detected. Disguising himself as a Hollywood producer, and supported by acast of expert forgers, deep cover CIA operatives, foreign agents,and Hollywood special effects artists, Mendez traveled to Tehranunder the guise of scouting locations for a fake science fictionfilm called Argo. While pretending to find the perfect filmbackdrops, Mendez and a
Total Heat Sidney Archer has the world. A husband she loves. Ajob at which she excels and a cherished young daughter. Then, as aplane plummets into the Virginia countryside, everything changes.And suddenly there is no one whom Sidney Archer can trust. TotalDanger Jason Archer is a rising young executive at Triton Global,the world's leading technology conglomerate. Determined to give hisfamily the best of everything, Archer has secretly entered into adeadly game. He is about to disappear-leaving behind a wife whomust sort out his lies from his truths, an accident team that wantsto know why the plane he was ticketed on crashed, and a veteran FBIagent who wants to know it all...
Sookie doesn't have that many relations, so she hated to lose one - but of all the people to go, she didn't expect it to be her cousin Hadley, a consort of New Orleans' vampire queen - after all, Hadley was technically already dead. But she is gone, beyond recall, and she's left Sookie an inheritance - one that comes with a bit of a risk - not least because someone doesn't want Sookie digging too deep into Hadley's past - or her possessions. Sookie's life is once again on the line, and this time the suspects range from the rogue werewolves who have rejected Sookie as a friend of the pack to her first love, the vampire Bill. Sookie's got a lot to do if she's going to keep herself alive ...The Sookie Stackhouse books are delightful Southern Gothic supernatural mysteries, starring Sookie, the telepathic cocktail waitress, and a cast of increasingly colourful characters, including vampires, werewolves and things that really do go bump in the night.
Im San Francisco der fetten 80er Jahre waren seine ElternStadtgespr?ch: unversch?mt reich und unglaublich gut aussehend,exzessiv lebend und berüchtigt für ihre Partys. Au?ergew?hnlicheErinnerungen an eine wilde Kindheit und den schnellen Aufstieg undtiefen Fall der Eltern.
Detective John Corey, last seen in Plum Island, now faces histoughest assignment yet: the pursuit and capture of the world'smost dangerous terrorist -- a young Arab known as "The Lion" whohas baffled a federal task force and shows no sign of stopping inhis quest for revenge against the American pilots who bombed Libyaand killed his family. Filled with unrelenting suspense andsurprising plot twists at every terrifying turn, THE LION'S GAME isa heartstopping race against time and one of Nelson DeMille's mostriveting thrillers.
When Edgar Freemantle moves to the remote island of Duma Key to escape his past, he doesn't expect to find much there. But Duma has been waiting for him, and something in the view from his window urges him to discover a talent he never knew he had. Edgar Freemantle begins to paint. And as he paints, the island's secrets begin to stir. Secrets of children lost in the undertow, of a ghost ship riding the distant horizon - and a family's buried past reaching long hands into the present.
Edgar Roy-an alleged serial killer held in a secure,fortress-like Federal Supermax facility-is awaiting trial. He facesalmost certain conviction. Sean King and Michelle Maxwell arecalled in by Roy's attorney, Sean's old friend and mentor TedBergin, to help work the case. But their investigation is derailedbefore it begins-en route to their first meeting with Bergin, Seanand Michelle find him murdered. It is now up to them to ask the questions no one seems to wantanswered: Is Roy a killer? Who murdered Bergin? With help from somesurprising allies, they continue to pursue the case. But the morethey dig into Roy's past, the more they encounter obstacles,half-truths, dead-ends, false friends, and escalating threats fromevery direction. Their persistence puts them on a collision coursewith the highest levels of the government and the darkest cornersof power. In a terrifying confrontation that will push Sean andMichelle to their limits, the duo may be permanently parted.
'The world has teeth and it could bite you with them anytime it wanted. Trisha McFarland discovered this when she was nine years old. Lost in the woods.' Trisha has only veered a little way off the trail. But in her panic to get back to the path, Trisha takes a turning that leads into the tangled undergrowth. Deeper and deeper in the terrifying woods. At first it's just the bugs, midges and mosquitoes. Then comes the hunger. For comfort she tunes her Walkman into broadcasts of the Red Sox baseball games and the performances of her hero Tom Gordon. As darkness begins to fall, Trisha realises that she is not alone. There's something else in the woods - watching. Waiting ...
The Fortress of Solitude is the story of Dylan Ebdus growingup white and motherless in downtown Brooklyn in the 1970s. It's aneighborhood where the entertainments include muggings along withgames of stoopball. In that world, Dylan has one friend, a blackteenager, also motherless, named Mingus Rude. As Lethem follows theknitting and unraveling of their friendship, he creates anoverwhelmingly rich and emotionally gripping canvas of race andclass, superheros, gentrification, funk, hip-hop, graffiti tagging,loyalty, and memory. The Fortress of Solitude" "is the first greaturban coming of age novel to appear in years.
Un jeune notaire anglais, Jonathan Harker, est envoyé enTransylvanie pour rencontrer un client, le comte Dracula, nouveaupropriétaire d'un domaine à Londres. L'homme qu'il découvre est unecréature démoniaque, un mort vivant qui boit le sang de sesvictimes... Jonathan échappera-t-il au vampire ? Et quel sortattend Mina, sa douce fiancée ?