Eleanor and her mother Marjorie have always had a difficult relationship and although they've tried, they have somehow just failed to connect. Now Marjorie has Alzheimer's, and as her memory fades, her grip on what she has kept hidden begins to loosen. When she calls her daughter to say, 'There's something I have to tell you', Eleanor hopes this will be the moment she learns the truth about the terrible secret that has cast a shadow over both their lives. But Marjorie's memory is failing fast and she can't recall what she wanted to say. Eleanor knows time is running out, and as she tries to gently uncover the truth before it becomes lost inside her mother's mind forever, she begins to discover what really happened when she was a child - and why... A story of family and secrets, perfect for fans of Maggie O'Farrell.
From Blake Pierce, bestselling author of ONCE GONE (a #1 bestseller with over 600 five star reviews), comes book #3 in the heart-pounding Mackenzie White mystery series.
In BEFORE HE COVETS (A Mackenzie White Mystery-Book 3), newly minted FBI agent Mackenzie White graduates the FBI Academy in Quantico only to find herself thrown into an urgent serial killer case. Women are turning up dead while camping in a remote national park in West Virginia. Yet the park is vast, and no connection can be found between them.
At the same time, Mackenzie receives a call from Nebraska urging her to come home. After many years, a new clue has surfaced about her father's murder. The case no longer cold, Mackenzie desperately needs to help solve it.
But the FBI's killer is ratcheting up, and there is no time for distraction as more women turn up missing in the psychological game of cat-and-mouse that follows. This killer is more diabolical-and smarter-than Mackenzie could have imagined. As she goes down a road she fears to travel-deep into her own psyche-she finds a double twist waiting for her that even she could not expect.
A dark psychological thriller with heart-pounding suspense, BEFORE HE COVETS is book #3 in a riveting new series-with a beloved new character-that will leave you turning pages late into the night.
Book #4 in the Mackenzie White Mystery series is also now available!
Also available by Blake Pierce is ONCE GONE (A Riley Paige mystery-Book #1), a #1 bestseller with over 600 five star reviews on Amazon-and a free download!
Das Mädchen hat Angst. Seit Tagen ist sie in einem Verschlag unter der Erde gefangen. Jemand öffnet die Klappe und wirft Laufkleidung herunter. Sie klettert aus ihrem Gefängnis und beginnt zu rennen. In die Freiheit. In den Wald. Da zischt der erste Pfeil haarscharf an ihrem Kopf vorbei ...
Dries Torwellen hat geschworen, seine Nichte Nia zu finden, die von zu Hause ausgerissen ist. Die Spur führt ihn zu einer Lodge in den tiefen Wäldern Kanadas. Ihre Betreiber werben mit einem einzigartigen Urlaubserlebnis. Einem Erlebnis, das alle Grenzen sprengt ...
Italy, 1252 Inquisition. Accusation. Fear. Torture. The guilty and the innocent dying for sins real and imagined, in the flames of the burning stake.… Neilsville, 1978Peter Balsam has come to this sleepy desert town to teach its youth, and finds a mystery of mounting horror. Something is happening to the young girls of St. Francis Xavier High School—something evil. In bloodlet and terror a suicide contagion has swept the town…while a dark order of its holy men enacts a secret medieval ritual. Is hysteria manipulating these innocent children into violent self-destruction? Or has a supernatural force, a thirteenth-century madness, returned to…Punish the Sinners?
For the first female Pinkerton detective, respect is hard to come by. Danger, however, is not. In the tumultuous years of the Civil War, the streets of Chicago offer a woman mostly danger and ruin--unless that woman is Kate Warne, the first female Pinkerton detective and a desperate widow with a knack for manipulation. Descending into undercover operations, Kate is able to infiltrate the seedy side of the city in ways her fellow detectives can't. She's a seductress, an exotic foreign medium, a rich train passenger--all depending on the day and the robber, thief, or murderer she's been assigned to nab. Inspired by the real story of Kate Warne, this spirited novel follows the detective's rise during one of the nation's greatest times of crisis, bringing to life a fiercely independent woman whose forgotten triumphs helped sway the fate of the country.
Another thrilling mystery featuring Detective Sean Duffy and his most dangerous investigation yet
Belfast, 1988. A man is found dead, killed with a bolt from a crossbow in front of his house. This is no hunting accident. But uncovering who is responsible for the murder will take Detective Sean Duffy down his most dangerous road yet, a road that leads to a lonely clearing on a high bog where three masked gunmen will force Duffy to dig his own grave.
Hunted by forces unknown, threatened by Internal Affairs, and with his relationship on the rocks, Duffy will need all his wits to get out of this investigation in one piece.
'Ihre Schönheit verzaubert, ihr Glanz weckt Begierde'. Als Geschenk Ludwigs I. an seine Maitresse verführten die Juwelen schon im 19. Jahrhundert zu verhängnisvoller Liebe und tödlicher Leidenschaft. Tatsächlich taucht kurz nach der Schmuckpräsentation in der Hofstatt eine Leiche am Fischbrunnen des Marienplatzes auf. Hauptkommissar Tom Perlinger, bayerischer Sonnyboy mit amerikanischen Wurzeln, trifft nicht nur auf familiäres Chaos und seine Jugendliebe, sondern ausgerechnet sein Halbbruder Max, der Wirt des Hackerhauses, wird des Mordes verdächtigt ...
Paul Leonberger kehrt nach vielen Jahren in seinen Heimatort Bad Reichenhall zurück, wo er einst des Mordes an seiner Schwester verdächtigt wurde. Doch anstatt die traumatische Vergangenheit begraben zu können, wird er erneut mit dem gewaltsamen Tod einer jungen Frau konfrontiert und muss zur eigenen Entlastung den Mörder finden. Aber bald gibt es einen weiteren Toten, und fast scheint es, als sei der brutale König aus der alpinen Sagenwelt in furchtbarer Form wieder zum Leben erwacht.
Ein neuer Einsatz für Kolt Raynor
Al-Qaida-Kommandant Daoud al-Amriki, einer der meistgesuchten Terroristen der Welt, will dem verhassten Westen eine Lektion erteilen: Er droht mit dem Abschuss amerikanischer Passagierflugzeuge.
Nachdem ein SEAL-Kommando die ersten Raketen-Anschläge nicht verhindern konnte, wird Kolt Racer Raynor mit seinem Delta-Team zu Hilfe gerufen ...
Eine explosive Hetzjagd rund um den Globus - erzählt von einem ehemaligen Elitesoldaten.
Kirkus Reviews: 'Frontline-Action von einem Autor, der schon selbst die Dolchspitze vor sich sah.'
Booklist: 'Gnadenlose Action. Genau das Richtige für Fans von Vince Flynn und Brad Thor.'
James Rollins: 'Zur Seite, Jack Ryan. Kolt Raynor ist der wahre Held des neuen Jahrtausends.'
The Flying Stars are missing. Three brilliant diamonds, whose fame has spread throughout England, have been purloined during an innocent Christmas pantomime. Can Father Brown discover the culprit before the curtain falls?
A man has died. But there's really no mystery in that. His heart failed, that's all. But when Father Brown goes into a room to write down the man's final confession, he is distracted by the strange way in which someone is walking outside his door. From the gait of the queer feet, he deduces all.
