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Martina Šturcelová

    The Teacher
    La donna della porta accanto
    The Locked Door
    The Inmate
    The Perfect Son
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    • From Sunday Times bestselling author Freida McFadden comes a dark and twisting psychological thriller about a mother who suspects her son of committing a terrible crime... But how far will she go to protect her family? All families have secrets. But some secrets are deadly.Erika Cass has a perfect family and a perfect life. Until, one quiet evening, two detectives show up at her front door.Mrs. Cass, we were hoping your son could answer a few questions about the girl who disappeared last night...A high school girl has vanished from their quiet neighbourhood, and the police suspect the worst. Erika's teenage son, Liam, was the last person to see the girl alive.Erika has always sensed something... different in her seemingly perfect oldest child. He's charming, smart and popular, but mothers have the best instincts. Erika knows there's more to her son than meets the eye. She wants to believe he's innocent, but as the evidence mounts, she can't deny the truth?Liam may have done the unthinkable.With The Perfect Son, bestselling author Freida McFadden delivers a twisted, thought-provoking crime thriller about a family's loyalty pushed to the limits.

      The Perfect Son
      4,1
    • The Inmate

      • 328pagine
      • 12 ore di lettura

      A gripping, twisty thriller from Freida McFadden, the Sunday Times bestselling author of The Housemaid and The Coworker! The guiltiest people aren't always the ones behind bars... As a new nurse practitioner at a maximum-security prison, Brooke Sullivan is taught three crucial rules: Treat all prisoners with respect. Never reveal any personal information. Never EVER become too friendly with the inmates. But nobody knows that Brooke has already broken the rules. Nobody knows about her intimate connection to Shane Nelson, one of the penitentiary's most notorious and dangerous inmates. They certainly don't know that Shane was Brooke's high school sweetheart--the star quarterback, the golden boy who's serving a life sentence for a series of grisly murders. Or that Brooke's testimony was what put him there. But Shane knows. He knows more than anyone. And he will never forget. The Inmate is a propulsive, mind-bending thriller about how we define guilt--and who has to pay for it, from Sunday Times bestselling author Freida McFadden.

      The Inmate
      4,1
    • The Locked Door

      • 320pagine
      • 12 ore di lettura

      A twisty psychological thriller from the Sunday Times bestselling author of The Housemaid and The Coworker! Some doors are locked for a reason... While eleven-year-old Nora Davis was up in her bedroom doing homework, she had no idea her father was killing women in the basement. Until the day the police arrived at their front door. Decades later, Nora's father is spending his life behind bars, and Nora is a successful surgeon with a quiet, solitary existence. Nobody knows about her past, and she'll do anything to keep it that way. Then one of her young female patients is murdered, killed in the same unique and horrific manner that her father used to kill his victims. Somebody knows who Nora is. Somebody wants her to take the fall for this unthinkable crime. But she's not like her father. The police can't pin anything on her. As long as they don't look in her basement... From Sunday Times bestselling author Freida McFadden comes a riveting psychological thriller about guilt, secrets, and whether it's possible to outrun what's in our blood.

      The Locked Door
      4,1
    • A mind-bending, psychological thriller from the New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of The Housemaid! Lesson #1- trust no one Eve has a good life. She gets up each day, gets a kiss from her husband Nate, and heads off to teach math at the local high school. All is as it should be. Except... Last year, Caseham High was rocked by a scandal, with one student, Addie, at its center. And this year, Eve is dismayed to find the girl in her class. Addie can't be trusted. She lies. She hurts people. She destroys lives. At least, that's what everyone says. But nobody knows the real Addie. Nobody knows the secrets that could destroy her. And Addie will do anything to keep it quiet. From the New York Times bestselling author Freida McFadden comes a story of twisting secrets and long-awaited revenge.

      The Teacher
      3,8
    • The Coworker

      • 368pagine
      • 13 ore di lettura

      SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER "Don't start a Freida McFadden book late at night. You won't be able to put it down!"-- Natalie Barelli, bestselling author of Unforgivable Two women. An office filled with secrets. One terrible crime that can't be taken back. Dawn Schiff is strange. At least, everyone thinks so at Vixed, the nutritional supplement company where Dawn works as an accountant. She never says the right thing. She has no friends. And she is always at her desk at precisely 8:45 a.m. So when Dawn doesn't show up to the office one morning, her coworker Natalie Farrell--beautiful, popular, top sales rep five years running--is surprised. Then she receives an unsettling, anonymous phone call that changes everything... It turns out Dawn wasn't just an awkward outsider--she was being targeted by someone close. And now Natalie is irrevocably tied to Dawn as she finds herself caught in a twisted game of cat and mouse that leaves her wondering: who's the real victim? But one thing is incredibly clear: somebody hated Dawn Schiff. Enough to kill. The Coworker is a tense, unputdownable thriller from Sunday Times bestselling author Freida McFadden that explores the dark ways the past can echo through the present--with deadly consequences.

      The Coworker
      3,7
    • Dopo aver perso il precedente impiego, Millie ringrazia la sua buona stella quando viene assunta senza referenze da Douglas Garrick, un ricco specialista nel settore delle tecnologie, per tenere in ordine lo splendido attico con vista sulla città e preparare invitanti pasti in una modernissima cucina. C'è un'unica condizione: non deve interagire con Wendy, la moglie di Douglas, che è malata, risiede nella camera degli ospiti e non può essere disturbata per nessun motivo. Millie accetta ma ben presto capisce che qualcosa non va in quella casa e che non è tutto oro ciò che luccica: sente Wendy piangere e rinviene strane macchie di sangue sulle sue camicie da notte quando fa il bucato. E così un giorno non può fare a meno di bussare alla porta della stanza degli ospiti. Quando si apre delicatamente, quello che vede all'interno cambia tutto...

      Nella casa dei segreti
      4,2
    • Love, Mom

      • 400pagine
      • 14 ore di lettura

      Mackenzie Casper has always lived in the shadow of her famous mother – a best-selling author whose dark, twisted tales have garnered fans across the world.When her mother dies in a tragic accident, many fans are left grieving. But Mackenzie is left with more than she bargained for when investigators start asking questions.What if what happened wasn’t an accident? What if it was murder? Then, a mysterious envelope arrives, with pages from her mother’s diary:Want to know a secret?Love, Mom.What Mackenzie reads leaves her in shock. Then comes the next letter…As Mackenzie starts her own investigations, she begins to uncover the secrets her family have hidden from her for years.But which one was worth killing for?

      Love, Mom
      4,1
    • Žádné lži

      • 248pagine
      • 9 ore di lettura

      Novomanželé Tricia a Ethan hledají dům svých snů. Když však navštíví odlehlé sídlo, které kdysi patřilo uznávané psychiatričce Adrienne Haleové, jež před čtyřmi lety beze stopy zmizela, uvězní je tam prudká zimní bouře… a nezbývá jim nic jiného než ji v domě přečkat. Tricia náhodou narazí na tajnou místnost, kde jsou uloženy nahrávky všech doktorčiných sezení s pacienty. Při jejich poslechu postupně odkrývá děsivý řetězec událostí, které vedly ke zmizení doktorky Haleové. S každou kazetou zapadá na místo další kousek šokující skládanky a síť lží se pomalu rozplétá. A poslední nahrávka odhalí celou hrůznou pravdu.

      Žádné lži
      4,1