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Marcel Rouwé

    9 giorni
    High Noon
    The Liar
    Black Hills. Lockruf der Gefahr, englische Ausgabe
    Identity
    Il testimone
    • Identity

      • 496pagine
      • 18 ore di lettura

      Sunday Times bestselling author's brand new thriller about one woman's quest to reclaim her life What turns someone into a monster? Are they born that way, or is it a choice? I suppose it can be either or both Morgan Albright dreams of owning her own bar one day but she's bartending for now - working hard, saving money. Life is hectic but she loves sharing a house with her best friend, Nina, and she is even finding time to date for the first time in what feels like forever. When a seemingly random attack turns Morgan's life upside down, she must leave the city to return to her family home. She hopes that moving back to a small town where she can feel safe will help her to put the horror of that day behind her but, as Morgan soon discovers, sometimes your past just doesn't want to let you go...

      Identity2023
      4,1
    • The new keep-you-up-all-night suspense thriller from one of the UK's best crime writers.

      The Favour2022
      3,3
    • Coben's second novel - now back in print. They were looking for a miracle cure . . . Sara and Michael. The ideal celebrity couple, darlings of the media - until their lives are shattered by a mystery illness. Dr Harvey Riker. His clinic has found the miracle cure that millions seek. One-by-one his patients are getting well. One-by-one they are targeted by a serial killer more fatal than the disease. Lieutenant Bernstein. His true desires make him a perfect choice to track the killer - or a perfect victim. Can anyone stop the killer who will do anything to prevent the world's most desperately needed miracle cure . . . ?

      Miracle cure : when hope becomes the deadliest of killers2016
      3,7
    • Shelby Foxworth lost her husband. Then she lost her illusions …   The man who took her from Tennessee to an exclusive Philadelphia suburb left her in crippling debt. He was an adulterer and a liar, and when Shelby tracks down his safe-deposit box, she finds multiple IDs. The man she loved wasn’t just dead. He never really existed.   Shelby takes her three-year-old daughter and heads south to seek comfort in her hometown, where she meets someone new: Griff Lott, a successful contractor. But her husband had secrets she has yet to discover. Even in this small town, surrounded by loved ones, danger is closer than she knows—and threatens Griff, as well. And an attempted murder is only the beginning …

      The Liar2015
      4,0
    • High Noon

      • 467pagine
      • 17 ore di lettura

      When Police Lieutenant Phoebe MacNamara is grabbed by a man who throws a hood over her head and brutally assaults her, she can't help but be deeply shaken. Then threatening messages show up on her doorstep, and she's not just alarmed but frustrated. How do you go face-to-face with an opponent who refuses to look you in the eye?

      High Noon2015
      3,9
    • 9 giorni

      • 416pagine
      • 15 ore di lettura

      Rachel Jenner è sconvolta e in preda al panico: suo figlio Ben, di soli otto anni, è scomparso, e lei non sa come affrontare questa tragedia. Inoltre, a peggiorare la situazione, ci sono gli obiettivi della stampa e le telecamere delle TV che seguono lo sviluppo del caso e le stanno con il fiato sul collo. È vero, ha commesso una leggerezza: ha perso per un attimo di vista Ben e lui è sparito e ora tutto il Paese pensa che lei sia una madre sprovveduta e vada condannata. Ma cosa è successo veramente in quel tragico pomeriggio? Stretta fra il dramma di aver perso il figlio, le sempre più serrate indagini della polizia e la pubblica gogna dei media, Rachel deve affrontare un’altra agghiacciante realtà: tutto quello che sa di sé e dei suoi cari si rivela una gigantesca bugia. E non c’è più nessuno, nemmeno nella sua famiglia, di cui la donna possa fidarsi. Il tempo stringe e forse il piccolo Ben potrebbe essere ancora salvato, ma l’opinione pubblica ha già deciso. E tu, da che parte starai?

      9 giorni2015
      3,8
    • Kind van de zee - druk 2

      • 336pagine
      • 12 ore di lettura

      Het is eind jaren zestig van de vorige eeuw. Na een jaar op een strenge Engelse kostschool is de zeventienjarige Angel blij dat ze weer terug is op Kreta, het eiland waar ze geboren is en waar haar hart ligt. Zij en haar jeugdvriendin Chrissi zijn van plan om samen een vrolijke, luie zomer door te brengen in het bergdorp van hun jeugd. Maar dan overlijdt Angels moeder onverwacht. Haar vader, die zich geen raad weet met zijn opstandige dochter, wil dat Angel terugkeert naar Engeland. Zij en Chrissi besluiten samen weg te lopen en verschuilen zich in de grotten langs de kust van het Griekse eiland, waar in die tijd een hippiegemeenschap woont. Het leven is daar echter lang niet zo idyllisch als het eruitziet. Wanneer ze door hun onvolwassen roekeloosheid een arts nodig hebben die hen gratis en discreet kan behandelen, maken ze kennis met ene Constantinos. Angel wordt wanhopig verliefd op hem, maar wat ze niet weet is dat ze niet voor niets zo veel in hem herkent. Hun liefde is voorbestemd om dramatisch te eindigen.

      Kind van de zee - druk 22014
    • The Informationist

      • 307pagine
      • 11 ore di lettura

      Nine years after escaping the violence in Cameroon, Vanessa Michael Munroe, the daughter of American missionaries, agrees to help Houston oilman Richard Burbank find his adopted daughter, who vanished four years ago while visiting west central Africa.

      The Informationist2014
      3,8
    • Emily Robertson looks like the woman who has it all, the lovingly restored Tuscan farmhouse, the three beautiful children, the successful, attentive husband. But when her husband dumps her by text message, she has to face up to some stark home truths.

      Villa Serena2012
      3,0
    • The House of Dust and Dreams

      • 373pagine
      • 14 ore di lettura

      Greece 1936. A young British diplomat and his wife have been posted to Athens. Hugh loves the life there but his spirited and unconventional wife, Evadne, finds it hard to fit into the whirl of endless parties and socialising. When Hugh is sent to Crete to sort out a problem, they stay in a rundown house owned by his family. His wife falls in love with the place and the people, and stays on when Hugh returns to his duties. As she tries to rebuild the ramshackle home, Evadne - known as Heavenly by the locals - makes firm friends with Anthi, a young woman from the village and Christo, the handsome and charismatic young builder. But the dark clouds of war are gathering and the island will become a crucible of violence and bloodshed in the days to come. For Heavenly, her friends and family, it will be the greatest test they have ever known.

      The House of Dust and Dreams2012
      3,5
    • Il testimone

      • 564pagine
      • 20 ore di lettura

      Chicago, 2000. La sedicenne Elizabeth Fitch è dotata di un’intelligenza superiore alla media e si attiene scrupolosamente alla rigida tabella di marcia ideata per lei dalla madre. Finché un giorno decide di trasgredire le regole: si ubriaca in un locale notturno e si lascia trascinare in una villa sulla Lake Shore da un seducente uomo dall’accento russo. Ma lì assiste a qualcosa che non doveva vedere e che cambierà radicalmente la sua vita. Arkansas, 2012. Abigail Lowery vive in una piccola città abbarbicata tra le montagne della regione degli Ozark. Nella sua casa tra i boschi, progetta sofisticati sistemi di sicurezza, e i suoi unici compagni sono un cane feroce e un vasto assortimento di armi da fuoco. Conduce un’esistenza appartata, parla poco e non racconta mai nulla di sé. La sola presenza che tollera è quella del commissario di polizia Brooks Gleason, affascinato dalla sua natura solitaria. Gleason è il solo che abbia intuito il bisogno di protezione di Abigail, anche se non immagina che le sue difese servano a nascondere una storia che un giorno, fatalmente, dovrà essere rivelata...

      Il testimone2012
      4,2
    • In this #1 New York Times bestseller, Nora Roberts takes readers deep into the rugged hills of South Dakota, where the shadows keep secrets, hunters stalk the land, and a friendship matures into something more.... Cooper Sullivan spent the summers of his youth on his grandparents’ South Dakota ranch, sharing innocent games and stolen kisses with the neighbor girl, Lil Chance. Now, twelve years after they last walked together hand in hand, fate has brought them back to the Black Hills. Though the memory of Coop’s touch still haunts her, Lil has let nothing stop her dream of opening the Chance Wildlife Refuge, but something—or someone—has been keeping a close watch. When small pranks and acts of destruction escalate into a heartless attack on Lil’s beloved cougar, memories of an unsolved murder have Coop springing to action to keep Lil safe. Both of them know the natural dangers that lurk in the wild landscape of the Black Hills. But a killer of twisted and unnatural instincts has singled them out as prey....

      Black Hills. Lockruf der Gefahr, englische Ausgabe2009
      4,1