Carsten Stroud Libri

Il sole inonda di luce dorata le strade e le case coloniali, filtrando tra le querce e i salici per andare a rifrangersi sulle acque turbolente del fiume Tulip. Niceville sarebbe una cittadina idilliaca... Se non fosse per le ombre, i sussurri, le sparizioni. E tutte quelle morti misteriose. Il detective della omicidi Nick Kavanaugh è un forestiero, che vive e lavora in quel piccolo centro nel profondo Sud degli Stati Uniti per amore della moglie, Kate Walker, discendente di una delle più antiche famiglie della zona. Da tempo Nick è alle prese con eventi non solo criminosi, ma anche inspiegabili. Da un lato ci sono le conseguenze imprevedibili e sanguinose di una rapina in banca finita nel sangue, con una lunga scia di ricatti, vendette e complicità. E dall’altro, c’è Rainey Teague. Che è solo un ragazzo... o forse no. Forse è abitato da un’energia oscura e implacabile. La stessa che permea ogni angolo di Niceville. Perché a Niceville nulla resta morto e sepolto a lungo. A Niceville ogni famiglia custodisce un segreto che mormora dai confini del nulla, affilando gli artigli nel buio. A Niceville nessuno può sfuggire al vuoto.

Benvenuti a Niceville, una piccola cittadina del sud degli Stati Uniti, circondata dal verde delle colline, popolata di alberi e di antiche ville coloniali e… abitata dal Male. A Niceville, ogni famiglia nasconde un segreto. A Niceville, la gente sparisce nel nulla, e raramente se ne trova traccia. Per questo, quando Rainey, di soli dieci anni, scompare, tutte le forze di polizia locale si mobilitano, senza alcun indizio da seguire… È solo il primo anello di una catena di avvenimenti che travolgeranno, nel giro di trentasei ore, la vita di molte persone. Nick Kavanaugh, un poliziotto con un lato oscuro, indaga, aiutato dalla moglie Kate, ma a Niceville il male sembra essere molto più forte degli uomini…

The young magician Nathaniel is fast rising through the government ranks. His most urgent task is to put an end to the mysterious Resistance, but Kitty and her friends continue to elude him. As the pressure mounts, London is suddenly threatened by a new series of terrifying attacks. Is it the Resistance - or something even more dangerous? Nathaniel is forced to embark on a perilous mission to the enemy city of Prague; and to summon once again the troublesome, enigmatic and quick-witted djinni, Bartimaeus. The thrilling sequel to The Amulet of Samarkand is a roller-coaster ride of magic, adventure and political skulduggery as the fates of Nathaniel, Bartimaeus and Kitty explosively collide.

The astonishing final installment in the page-turning trilogy that Stephen King calls “an authentic work of American genius.” Niceville has an almost unearthly beauty when the sun tops the ancient nearby mountain called Tallulah’s Wall and bathes it in soft Southern light. But there’s a reason Native American tribes avoided the place: An absence that inhabits the air and the depthless “sink” atop Tallulah’s Wall. This “Nothing” has long bent time and the desires of a chosen few to her shadowy ends. As THE RECKONING begins, Detective Nick Kavanaugh and his wife, family lawyer Kate, have accepted that reality in Niceville is not normal. Seemingly, they’ve fought Nothing to a draw. But now a buzzing emerges in the heads of some perfectly normal folks. Nothing isn’t finished. Come to Niceville and sink into Carsten Stroud’s inimitable blend of crime and supernatural thriller, as characters you’ll love throw in with bad guys you’ll like way more than you should as they battle evil.

Ex-cop turned boat minder Rick Broca comes across the wreckage of an airplane, and it quickly becomes apparent that the pilot he rescued from the water is not who he claims to be.

When ten-year-old Rainey Teague disappears on his way home from school in idyllic Niceville, Detective Nick Kavanaugh traces the boy to his last sighting - staring into the window of old pawn shop in town. CCTV shows Rainey there one minute and then gone the next. In the days that follow, any hope Rainey's family has of finding him alive starts to fade but then Rainey is found - alive but in a coma, and there's no telling when, or if, he'll ever wake up...One year on, Kavanagh is still haunted by the case. And now another member of the town - this time an elderly woman - has been reported missing. It's as though she vanished into thin air. Once again, Kavanagh's on the case and, as he starts to dig back through the town's history, he can't help but notice that Niceville has a much higher than average number of stranger abductions...

Een ex-politieman uit New York redt tijdens een orkaan tussen Cuba en Florida een neergestorte piloot uit zee, hetgeen verstrekkende gevolgen heeft.

In Niceville, einer Kleinstadt im Süden der USA, geraten die Dinge vollends außer Kontrolle: An einem Wochenende werden mehrere Menschen brutal ermordet. Die Täter berichten von einer mysteriösen Stimme, die sie angestachelt habe. Sind sie besessen? Ermittler Nick Kavanaugh ist zunächst damit beschäftigt, seine Familie zusammenzuhalten, die vom Adoptivsohn Rainey tyrannisiert wird. Aber was ist der Grund dafür, dass sich in Niceville scheinbar normale Menschen in eiskalte Killer verwandeln? Der Schlüssel zu allem liegt in der mit pechschwarzem Wasser gefüllten Senke am Rande der Stadt. Während Nick und seine Helfer versuchen, das Böse zurückzudrängen, hat es sich schon längst in den Köpfen der Menschen eingenistet. Ist es überhaupt noch aufzuhalten? Endlich: Der Abschluss der Niceville-Trilogie! ›Der Aufbruch‹ ist ein rasanter, sich über alle Genregrenzen hinweg-setzender Mix aus Hardboiled-Thriller, Mystery und Horror – hochgelobt vom großen Stephen King. Niceville-Trilogie: Band 1: Niceville Band 2: Die Rückkehr Band 3: Der Aufbruch