Mostrando resultados por título "Room" en Misterio y Suspenso

Ein Hackerangriff auf einen unbedeutenden Staudamm in den Vereinigten Staaten endet mit tausenden Toten und einer Regierung, die sich fragt, wer sie angegriffen hat und warum. Als sie realisiert, dass dies nur die Spitze des Eisbergs war - und dass die Sicherheit von ganz Amerika auf dem Spiel steht - hat die Präsidentin keine andere Wahl, als Luke Stone zu Hilfe zu rufen. Ein Polit-Thriller mit nonstop Aktion, dramatischen internationalen Schauplätzen, unerwarteten Wendungen und atemberaubender Spannung.

My name is Dr. Maria Martinez and I am - was - a consultant plastic surgeon. I am 33 years old. Place of birth: Salamanca, Spain. And I was convicted of the murder of a Catholic priest.

Maria is in prison. She says she’s innocent and is fighting to clear her name. Because deep down she knows the truth better than anyone. Doesn’t she?

Una habitación. Un cuerpo. Cinco sospechosos. Tres horas para encontrar al asesino. Una camarera. Una limpiadora. Una actriz. Un abogado. Un estudiante. Todos son sospechosos. Encerrados en una habitación de un hotel, sin escapatoria, y sin ninguna pista de cómo llegaron ahí. En la bañera, el cuerpo de un hombre al que todos ellos conocían. Alguien lo asesinó. Alguno de los que están dentro de la habitación. Tienen tres horas para averiguarlo. O todos ellos morirán.

Ein geheimes Experiment. Acht Teilnehmer. Sieben verschlossene Räume. Und ein Killer in Spiellaune. Er nennt sich Janus. Nach dem römischen Gott der Ein- und Ausgänge. Und er kommt in der Nacht. Still, heimlich. In dein Zuhause. Er betäubt dich, nimmt dich mit und schließt dich ein, in einen kalten, dunklen Raum. Um mit dir ein Spiel zu spielen. Sein Spiel. Ein Spiel voller Rätsel. Du hast nur eine Chance diesem Albtraum lebend zu entkommen: Du musst Janus' Spiel spielen - und gewinnen. Zum Glück bist du nicht allein. Du hast Mitspieler. Noch denkst du, dass das ein Vorteil wäre.

Life is a puzzle just waiting to be solved - that's how Reya, a young woman with a penchant for solving complex puzzles, sees it. Reya's life is governed by routine; a roadmap of rules from what foods she eats to what clothes she wears. Most of her time is spent working on her online challenge forum, "The Puzzler". An agoraphobe with obsessive compulsive disorder who hasn’t had sight of the outside world in over six years, Reya views her own symptoms as just another puzzle to be solved.

Samantha Taylor, from Gulfport, Mississippi, has just arrived in Texas as a freshman college student studying photography. Upon her arrival, she meets her roommate Madison, exotic dancer Ava, and tall, handsome Nathan. Madison is excited about spending time with Samantha. She wants to share any and everything with her. Ava starts noticing peculiar things happening to everyone that Samantha becomes close to. They all start disappearing. Ava tries to convince Samantha that there is something not quite right about Madison.

The discovery of her dead mother's diary uncovers a terrible family secret, and Maddie must now play a dangerous game if she is to find her brother and protect the life of her unborn child.

Penguin presents the audiobook edition of The Liar's Room by Simon Lelic. Susanna Fenton has a secret. Fourteen years ago she left her identity behind, reinventing herself as a counsellor and starting a new life. It was the only way to keep her daughter safe. But everything changes when Adam Geraghty walks into her office. She's never met this young man before - so why does she feel like she knows him? Adam starts to tell her about a girl. A girl he wants to hurt. And that's when Susanna realises she was wrong. She doesn't know him. He knows her. And the girl he plans to hurt is her daughter.

Joe must find a killer before the killer kills again. Earline must save her family before it is too late. Carpenter knows he must get away before the truth is revealed, and Josephina, Jr., has found love but now fears for her boyfriend's life. The Richards are just an average family, but their life is anything but average.

What happens to a man who has his ear pressed to the lives of others but not much life of his own? When Stephen Donaldson joins The Institute, he anticipates excitement, romance and new status. This becomes a reality when he is assigned a new case: Phoenix, in which he becomes mesmerized by the voice of the target's wife. Dangerously in love and very lonely, Stephen sets himself up for a vertiginous fall that will forever change his life.

The Authority looks favourably upon meticulousness, efficiency and ambition. Bjorn has all of this in spades, but it's only in the Room that he can really shine. Unfortunately, his colleagues see things differently. In fact they don't even see the Room at all. The Room is a short, sharp and fiendish fable in the tradition of Franz Kafka, Samuel Beckett and Charlie Kaufman. If you have ever toiled in an office, felt like the world was against you or questioned the nature of reality then this is the audiobook for you.

A stunning debut coming-of-age novel set in the ambiguous and claustrophobic world of an exclusive New England prep school. The first time I saw my sister after she died was at the Fourth of July party. I felt someone behind me and my flesh started prickling. My skin recognized her before I did, rippling once then tightening on my bones. My sister, Nica. Grace spent her teenage years playing catch-up with her younger but cooler sister, Nica. Chasing and yet never quite catching up.

Simon Kessler is a reality television psychic who is about to embark on the biggest show of his career. But he eventually learns that he has been living in denial since the murder of his true love, Isabelle. Gradually he discovers a secret conspiracy which has been undiscovered for many years. This is a story of deception, lies, and betrayal of the untold truth of Simon Kessler's life.

When private investigator Sandro Cellini is invited to attend a glamorous launch party in Florence, he has no idea what he's walking into. The former head of security for this elite development has just died under suspicious circumstances, and Sandro finds himself stepping into a dead man's shoes. When one of the residents dies suddenly in suspicious circumstances, events begin to spiral out of control.

Wealthy Richard Walker has just died, leaving behind his country house full of rooms packed with the detritus of a lifetime. His estranged family-bitter ex-wife Caroline, troubled teenage son Trenton, and unforgiving daughter Minna-have arrived for their inheritance. But the Walkers are not alone. Prim Alice and the cynical Sandra, long dead former residents bound to the house, linger within its claustrophobic walls.

Mr. McKelvie (America's answer to a well known English detective) confronts a truly evil person in this exciting novel: "My mind remained appalled before the contemplation of the devilish ingenuity of this man, who could plan the murder with such diabolical cunning."

Imagine if you will, taking a long-awaited vacation to the Alps. This is the case with a middle school teacher who arrives at the inn to find it totally occupied. The innkeeper, however, has a solution. There is an empty room in the town, because the occupant has been lost in the mountains, and if Mansour doesn't mind taking a room that the former occupant may return to, he is welcome to it. Needless to say strange things begin to happen. Narrated by Mike Vendetti.

Steve flies to Rotterdam to find ex-Nazi Rudolph Karpel...with the help of the Glutenschwitzen girls!

Comfortable. Privileged. Happy. Three things I no longer understand; three things I can no longer fathom. Chaos and mayhem overwhelm this room as we are used as guinea pigs for a mass experiment. An experiment that involves mass murder. We've been locked in this room for, some of us, two years. For me, it's hardly been a week. And yet, I can already feel time itself dragging my body down into the dirt. Comfortable. Privileged. Happy. Three things I have when they aren't in here, when they aren't terrifying us, depriving us of sleep. Three things that are only momentarily a gift from God, ...

From the author of the popular Afterlife Series. In 1937 Eloise Marshall takes a position as an assistant in the labyrinth mansion, Brumley House. Placed in her own wing, she is told to not enter the end room, but an apparition of a small boy raises questions about what happened there. She believes he is the ghost of the heiress's son but other restless spirits point her in another direction. After befriending a crime scene photographer, she realizes he is there to help his policeman brother track down a killer on the move. While the three of them try to piece together Brumley’s sordid ...