Showing results by author "Lisa Gardner" in Suspense

Twenty years ago, Melanie Stokes was abandoned in a Boston hospital, then adopted by a wealthy young couple. Gifted with loving parents, a doting brother, and an indulgent uncle, Melanie has always considered herself lucky. Until the first cryptic, threatening note arrives: “You Get What You Deserve.” Melanie has no memory of her life before the adoption. Now someone wants her to remember it all - even the darkest nightmare the Stokes family ever faced: the murder of their first daughter.

What would you do if the man of your dreams hides the soul of a killer? Jim Beckett was everything she'd ever dreamed of...But two years after Tess married the decorated cop and bore his child, she helped put him behind bars for savagely murdering ten women. Even locked up in a maximum security prison, he vowed he would come after her and make her pay. Now the cunning killer has escaped - and the most dangerous game of all begins....

Frankie Elkin, nomade solitaire, parcourt le pays à la recherche de personnes disparues que le reste du monde a oubliées. Spécialisée dans les affaires classées, Frankie voit souvent ses enquêtes finir en tragédie. Mais cette fois, cela pourrait être différent.

A young woman is found strangled in the stairwell of a college library, only her sneakers missing. With no physical evidence, no signs of sexual assault, and no witnesses, all the police have to go on are the three men who were in the library with her: her boyfriend and two campus security guards...all of whom have secrets, none of whom can be proven guilty. Five years later, ex-FBI profiler Pierce Quincy and his wife, former police officer Rainie Conner, agree to consult on the still-unsolved case.

The home of a family of five is now a crime scene: four of them savagely murdered, one - a sixteen-year-old girl - missing. Was she lucky to have escaped? Or is her absence evidence of something sinister? Detective D. D. Warren is on the case - but so is survivor-turned-avenger Flora Dane. Seeking different types of justice, they must make sense of the clues left behind by a young woman who, whether as victim or suspect, is silently pleading, Look for me.

Una pregunta, una decisión rápida y Brian Darby yace muerto en el suelo de la cocina. Su mujer, Tessa Leoni, agente de la policía estatal, declara haberlo matado en defensa propia y tiene heridas que lo confirman. Para la veterana detective D.D. Warren debería ser un caso fácil, pero ¿dónde está la hija de seis años?.

“Like all the best suspense novels, Alone will leave you shaken. . . . You can't wait to see what happens next.”—People Who can you turn to when you’re at your most vulnerable? State Trooper Bobby Dodge watches a tense hostage standoff through the scope of his sniper rifle. Dodge has...

L'agent du FBI Kimberly Quincy, le commandant D.D. Warren et Flora Dane : les trois héroïnes de Lisa Gardner de nouveau réunies dans un thriller à couper le souffle. Macabre découverte dans une petite ville de Géorgie. Les restes d'un corps humain, puis bientôt un charnier, révélés au grand jour... Est-ce le testament de Jacob Ness, le tueur en série qui a défrayé la chronique pendant des années avant d'être abattu ? Ou l'œuvre d'un complice ?

Seven years ago, carefree college student Flora Dane was kidnapped while on spring break. For 472 days, Flora learned just how much one person can endure. Miraculously alive after her ordeal, Flora has spent the past five years reacquainting herself with the rhythms of normal life, working with her FBI victim advocate, Samuel Keynes. She has a mother who’s never stopped loving her, a brother who is scared of the person she’s become, and a bedroom wall covered with photos of other girls who’ve never made it home.

Lisa Gardner revient en force avec une nouvelle héroïne : Frankie Elkin, une femme au passé douloureux, qui s’est donné pour mission de retrouver coûte que coûte des personnes disparues, et ce surtout parce que le reste du monde a baissé les bras.

FBI Special Agent Kimberly Quincy and Sergeant Detective D. D. Warren have built a task force to follow the digital bread crumbs left behind by deceased serial kidnapper Jacob Ness. When a disturbing piece of evidence is discovered in the hills of Georgia, they bring Flora Dane and true-crime savant Keith Edgar to a small town where something seems to be deeply wrong.

Est-ce parce qu'elle attend un enfant que l'agent du FBI, Kimberly Quincy, se sent particulièrement concernée par le récit incroyable et terrifiant d'une prostituée enceinte ? Un serial killer s'attaquerait-il à ces filles vulnérables ? Aurait-il trouvé la clé du meurtre parfait ou s'agit-il de crimes imaginaires ?

Fortiden er ikke forbi... En forfærdelig handling har revet en idyllisk by i Bakersville, Oregon, itu, og indbyggerne, der engang var fredelige, forlanger nu retfærdighed med det samme. Men selvom en dreng allerede har erklæret sig skyldig i den skrækindjagende forbrydelse, tyder beviserne på, at det måske ikke er tilfældet. Betjent Rainie Conner, der leder sin første mordefterforskning, står i stridens midte. Det rammer for tæt på, trækker hende tilbage til sine værste mareridt og truer med at afsløre hendes hemmelige synder.

Eight years ago, Sharlah May Nash's older brother beat their drunken father to death with a baseball bat in order to save both of their lives. Now thirteen years old, Sharlah has finally moved on. About to be adopted by retired FBI profiler Pierce Quincy, and his partner, Rainie Conner, Sharlah loves one thing best about her new family: they are all experts on monsters.

Nicole Frank shouldn't have been able to survive the car accident, much less crawl up the steep ravine. Not in the dark, not in the rain, not with her injuries. But one thought allows her to defy the odds and flag down help: Vero.

When shy and reserved Maggie Ferringer is called for jury duty, she never expects to be kidnapped by an escaped convict. But when Cain Cannon, disguised as a prison guard, pulls a gun, she has no choice but to be taken hostage. Cain claims that he’s innocent of killing his girlfriend six years ago, and now he wants revenge on the people who put him behind bars. Soon Maggie becomes more than just a hostage to Cain. As they slowly begin to share the secrets of their respective pasts, Maggie discovers that she wants to fight for Cain’s freedom - because he just might be the kind of man she can love.

Otto anni fa, Telly Ray Nash ha ucciso suo padre, un ubriacone violento, con una mazza da baseball. Così facendo ha salvato se stesso e la sorellina Sharlah. Da quel momento però i due fratelli sono cresciuti separati, senza incontrarsi mai. Oggi Sharlah ha tredici anni e finalmente si sta lasciando tutto questo alle spalle. Dopo essere passata da una famiglia affidataria all'altra, ora sta per essere adottata da Rainie e suo marito Pierce Quincy, ex agente dell'FBI in pensione. E c'è una cosa che Sharlah adora dei suoi nuovi genitori: sono entrambi esperti in "mostri".

Solo han pasado diez minutos desde que llegó y la investigadora Tessa Leoni ya sabe que la cosa no pinta bien. Claramente, un trabajo de profesionales. En el mejor de los casos, toda la familia ha sido secuestrada. En el peor... Cuanto más averigua sobre los Denbe, menos le gusta lo que descubre. Tras la fachada de una familia perfecta -un poderoso ejecutivo, una madre cariñosa, una hija encantadora-, en realidad esconden oscuros, y peligrosos, secretos.

Three siblings searching for the truth about their family are about to find more than they bargained for. When Tamara Allistair lost her family, she quickly learned that the only person she could rely on was herself. Now Tamara wants revenge against the man who wronged her. But going after a target with far-reaching connections is a dangerous gamble, and soon Tamara is the one being threatened. A man with his own share of family issues, ex-marine C. J. MacNamara knows that protecting Tamara is the right thing to do.

Que feriez-vous si vous connaissiez le jour et l'heure exacts de votre mort ? Pour Charlie Grant, ce sera le 21 janvier à 8 heures précises, dans quatre jours. Comme ses deux meilleures amies. Et elle souhaite que ce soit l'inspectrice D.D. Warren de la police de Boston qui se charge de l'enquête. Prise par la traque d'un tueur de pédophiles, D.D. accepte à contrecœur. Mais dès qu'elle plonge dans le passé de la jeune femme, son instinct lui souffle que celle-ci ne lui a pas tout dit...