Marjolein van Velzen Libri

Un monte fortezza nel deserto del New Mexico, un progetto che si spinge allesoglie del mistero della vita: azione, amore e morte in un thriller nato dallafantasia dei due autori di "Relic".

Archeologe Nora Kelley is gefascineerd door de oude beschaving van de Anasazi-indianen in het zuidwesten van de Verenigde Staten. Een beschaving waaraan duizend jaar geleden - op het hoogtepunt van haar bloei - plotseling een einde is gekomen. Nora's vader is jaren geleden verdwenen tijdens een zoektocht naar dezelfde beschaving. Nu, zestien jaar later, krijgt ze een brief van hem. Nora stelt een expeditieteam samen en begint een trektocht door de onbarmhartige canyons. Want het kan niet anders of haar vader heeft het legendarische Quivira, de verloren Gouden Stad van de Anasazi-indianen, gevonden...

Ogni pezzo della scacchiera era unico, un gioiello inimitabile; ogni scacco racchiudeva un misterioso potere. Ma dietro alla leggenda della scacchiera di Carlo Magno si cela una straordinaria verità ed una giovane americana esperta di computer è vicina a scoprirla. Ma non è la sola ad avere intuito...Dalla casbah di Algeri ai quattro angoli del mondo, un'appassionante storia fantasy intreccia la favola alla realtà, il potere agl intrighi, l'azione all'enigma. Un eccitante viaggio oltre i confini del tempo e dell'impossibile.

Un aereo entra misteriosamente in stallo sopra il Pacifico, e dopo attimi di terrore, a un passo dalla catastrofe, compie un atterraggio di fortuna con il suo carico di morti e feriti. Qual è stata la causa dell'incidente? Un errore dei piloti? Un difetto strutturale del velivolo? Oppure un atto di sabotaggio? Inizia così un drammatico intrigo, ricco di sorprese e colpi di scena, che coinvolge le multinazionali dell'aeronautica, le compagnie di assicurazione e qualche giornalista senza scrupoli.

When he was twelve years old, Adam Ryan went playing in the woods one day with his two best friends. He never saw them again. Their bodies were never found, and Adam himself was discovered with his back pressed against an oak tree and his shoes filled with blood. He had no memory of what had happened. Twenty years on, Rob Ryan - the child who came back - is a detective in the Dublin police force. He's changed his name. No one knows about his past. Then a little girl's body is found at the site of the old tragedy and Rob is drawn back into the mystery. Knowing that he would be thrown off the case if his past were revealed, Rob takes a fateful decision to keep quiet but hope that he might also solve the twenty-year-old mystery of the woods.

The world's biggest supercollider, locked in an Arizona mountain, was built to reveal the secrets of the very moment of creation: the Big Bang itself.The Torus is the most expensive machine ever created by humankind, run by the world's most powerful supercomputer. It is the brainchild of Nobel Laureate William North Hazelius. Will the Torus divulge the mysteries of the creation of the universe? Or will it, as some predict, suck the earth into a mini black hole? Or is the Torus a Satanic attempt, as a powerful televangelist decries, to challenge God Almighty on the very throne of Heaven?Twelve scientists under the leadership of Hazelius are sent to the remote mountain to turn it on, and what they discover must be hidden from the world at all costs. Wyman Ford, ex-monk and CIA operative, is tapped to wrest their secret, a secret that will either destroy the world…or save it.The countdown begins…

Snake River, Idaho--Ariel Behn, a toxic materials expert at a remote nuclear site, finds her well-ordered life shattered when her cousin is slain by an unknown assassin. His shocking death leaves Ariel as the sole heir to a family legacy: a sinister cache of manuscripts that sweeps her into the deadly center of international intrigue--and a mystery that spans the centuries...Jerusalem, 32 A.D.--During the last week of the life of Christ, as the world stands on the brink of a new two-thousand-year circle, Emperor Tiberius works desperately to deciper the tantalizing clues to an age-old enigma. He will not be the only one. For whoever assembles and interprets these cryptic clues will possess the power to control the fate of the world...Now, at the center of this circle of ancient riddles stands the one woman who can pull the strands together: Ariel Behn. What strange powers lie hidden with in the manuscripts? As Ariel races across the continents to reveal the dark secrets buried in her family's past, she begins to unlock the chilling truth of the coming millenium.

Een Amerikaanse makelaarster is getuige van de moord op een cliënte die het appartement van haar op mysterieuze wijze omgekomen dochter wil verkopen.

Een New Yorks echtpaar wordt aangevallen in hun appartement aan de Upper West Side. Volgens ooggetuigen was de dader hun ietwat vreemde buurman. Maar diezelfde man blijkt al tien dagen daarvoor te zijn overleden. Special Agent Pendergast en inspecteur D'Agosta duiken in de zaak en doen een ongelooflijke ontdekking: in Manhatten bestaat een geheime, besloten gemeenschap die een cultus met voodoo bedrijft die geen buitenstaander ooit heeft overleefd...