Showing results for title "The Double" in Thriller & Suspense

In a place like Las Vegas, people can find themselves in complicated situations with difficult and dangerous people. Chance Hardway is a debt collector, bounty hunter, assets-recovery specialist, and anything else needed—if the money is right. He’s a retired Green Beret, a former police officer, and a man who knows how to deal with difficult people his way, the Hardway.

Sievers recognizes the restoration of the Double Salute as an opportunity to pursue his lifelong dream of becoming a commissioned officer. To realize his dream, he must find inner healing to overcome his fear and guilt that threatens to consume him from within. He must also resist the advances of an ex-girlfriend who longs to rekindle an old flame and snuff out his current relationship with his wife, Cathreen.

"It is an easy task," Selingman declared. "This young man is your slave. Whatever your daily business may be here, some part of your time, I imagine, will be spent in his company. Let me know what manner of man he is. Is this innate corruptness which brings him so easily to the bait, or is it the stinging smart of injustice from which he may well be suffering? Or, failing these, has he dared to set his wits against mine, to play the double traitor? If even a suspicion of this should come to you, there must be an end of Mr. Francis Norgate."

Top TV critic Joe McBride, is doing fine professionally, but his private life is a mess, what with a five-year-old daughter, an angry ex-wife, and a very-soon-to-be-ex-fiancée, not to mention a come-hither co-anchor and a beautiful brand-new neighbor who's alluring, available...and much, much, more than meets the eye.

At 17, Jason wants much more from life than working at his father’s pub, and when fate, in the form of twins Daisy and Bea and their small circle of friends, offers him a glimpse of another, more glamorous, world, he’s determined to become a part of it. It’s Daisy who Jason is most entranced by, though. Everyone is: she’s the sun around which others orbit. The trouble with the sun, of course, is that those who get too close risk getting burned—and by the end of the summer, one of the group will be dead.

The Red Bozos were the friendliest faces in frenetic Midlands Amusement Park. Security personnel, yes, but they were more than that, for lost children seeing one of those garish outfits and the sympathetic smile on the painted face atop it knew they would soon be reunited with their parents.

Ramona, a battered wife, plans to kill her husband and make it look like an accident. After his death, while going through his belongings, she finds papers he has written that make no sense. When her mama commits suicide, she finds her mama's diaries. The diaries begin just before Japan attacked Pearl Harbor. Ramona is amazed at what she learns about her mama, the sheriff, and the whole town of Addison, Georgia, where she lives.

Riley McGavran is a retired game warden and Vietnam veteran coping with alcoholism, depression, and post-traumatic stress disorder. While traveling, Riley picks up a hitchhiker named Abilene Kirkpatrick, who is headed to her ailing mother’s bedside in Montana. Riley is intrigued by her atypical beauty and excited by the prospects of the journey. But his simple act of kindness opens into a nightmare, and the unlikely pair is dragged through ordeal after ordeal, pitted against ruthless criminals, corrupt forces, and each other’s demons—including Riley’s Vietnam flashbacks.

Double Standard tells the story of Dr. Rene James, a nationally recognized facial reconstruction surgeon in her early '50s. Rene, who is single and has engaged in casual relationships with several medical residents at her hospital, finds herself unexpectedly pregnant. When she determines who the baby's father is, she finds out that he wants her to keep the baby.

Twin sisters Lily and Daisy Kennedy live a life ruled by their controlling father, Des. Desperate to salvage his own shattered dreams, he forces his girls to perform in seedy London club, Eden's, in the hopes they will finally hit the big time. Their double act instantly pulls in the punters, but in the shadow of the spotlights, danger lurks. Lily, the golden girl, is stressed out by their new life, but rebellious Daisy relishes the freedom and excitement it brings.

This is a blockbuster. Emilio was a data processing professional. His wife Bernice was a successful real estate agent. The real estate market had been red-hot. She rode the wave and made a bundle, and so did her pals. For that, they developed a habit of going for the happy hour at the Double Helix Winery every Friday after a fruitful week. This week, however, Fate, or, Mephistopheles, interfered. A stray bullet from a freak gang tussle close-by accidentally caught her and killed her. The classical wrong place at the wrong time. To say the least, Emilio was devastated. He went on an epic ...

A reporter and the nurse he loves put each piece of a deadly puzzle into place, while a terrifying secret waits in the shadows.

Par un matin d'octobre, Ganel Todanais se rend à la police et avoue avoir tué l'artiste de renom Natan de Valois, il apporte même l'arme du crime. Son mobile ? Une haine sans limite pour ce rival qui lui vole ses idées. Or, le corps est introuvable.

When Vidor Kiraly, a world-renowned neuroscientist and Cambridge don, violently attacks a man at a prize ceremony (while in an apparent state of psychosis), the story attracts the attention of Anton Gessen, a psychiatrist with a penchant for unusual cases, who runs a private clinic in the Swiss Alps. Not long after Vidor arrives at the clinic, Gessen suspects that his newest patient is not all he seems.

En Max i la Julieta hauran de trobar el seu germà i amic desaparegut i descobrir el misteri que hi ha darrere de la seva desaparició. Una carrera a contrarellotge plena de traïcions, suplantacions de personalitat i plans d’assassinat.

Some wounds need more than time. They crave revenge. Claire's father is a privileged man: handsome, brilliant, the product of an aristocratic lineage and an expensive education, surrounded by a group of devoted friends who would do anything for him. But when he becomes the prime suspect in a horrific attack on Claire's mother - a pretty little thing who married into the elite ranks of society and dared escape her gilded cage - fate and privilege collide, and a scandal erupts. Claire's father disappears overnight, his car abandoned, blood on the front seat.

They are what make a woman a woman. They are what bring nourishment to infants. They are the first things that bring the boys running. This Christmas, a woman's breasts get an added description - murder weapons. Lisette Donavan, living and working in New York City, puts her murderous rampage on hold as it nearly sends her to the poor house. In dire straits and failing to resist that familiar urge, Lisette considers turning her personal revenge into a business arrangement.

Double D Death is a tongue-in-cheek murder mystery and short story. It's about Lisette Donavan, whose breasts bring her the wrong kind of attention. Lisette's reaction to that attention turns out to be deadly. Some men love breasts so much, they'd die to be surrounded by them. Make fun of Lisette's double D's, and they'll die because of them.

"The Masquerade of Death": Targar Negary entombs his only surviving child in a sarcophagus, possibly thinking her to be a victim of the Black Plague that is sweeping Europe. Poor Talis must endure agonizing and seemingly-endless hours of torture within her tomb, wondering who emplaced her there and why, if it was her father, seeking some sort of punishment. With Talis' air running out, she does not believe that she can survive this entombment and find out the reason for it.

On the heels of her last mystery, Elisabeth's new patient is more than meets the eye, and unraveling his secrets will throw her team into a desert storm of double agents and religious extremists. All that stands between love and war are two families, two brothers, and two conflicting versions of the truth.