Showing results for "Avalon" in Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

In the next novel in the Joe Ledger and Rogue Team International series, things get personal as the team goes up against a group of genetically and biomechanically amplified soldiers to save Joe's kidnapped fiancée. Joe Ledger and Rogue Team International embark on a desperate mission to rescue...

The monster that is Haunted Reels has returned, and now no one is safe. Featuring twenty-four brand-new, never-before-published stories by a mix of Hollywood legends and rising film-industry stars, Haunted Reels 2 continues the menace its brooding predecessor started, only this time it has a grudge. Beware the murderous vandals, maniacal crackpots, and diabolically possessed contained within this book, for once you let them loose, there’s no telling what they’ll do next.

Rhys: My curvy business manager is the woman of my dreams. Too bad she thinks she's too young for me. But today's my day to protect her from the bad guys, to show her that I care. I'll do whatever it takes to have Jessica.

Lane Hansen has a problem. He needs a woman to portray his wife in an undercover operation, and the only females on his team are either very pregnant or built like linebackers who prefer the other team. Then he remembers gorgeous PI Frankie Douglas - a woman who could take his breath away by her beauty and take him down in two and a half seconds. Unfortunately she's the same woman he treated like a one night stand six months before.

An “enchanting” (Caroline Kepnes, author of You) “fairy-tale-inflected thriller” (The New Yorker) about two sisters who encounter a captivating yet possibly dangerous underworld cult that challenges their perception of reality. A New Yorker Best Book of 2024 Rose has come a long way...

When kitchen witch Gwen Young releases King Arthur from the suit of armor in her cafe, it's just the beginning of a new adventure, as he accompanies her out on the town, discovering his new world and helping her solve another murder. 

Sur l'île paradisiaque de Santa Catalina, au large de Los Angeles, les journées sont calmes pour l'inspecteur Stilwell. Récemment débarqué de l'unité des Homicides du LAPD, il s'occupe essentiellement de cas de violences domestiques et d'ébriété sur la voie publique. La découverte du corps d'une jeune femme dans le port de la ville d'Avalon, enroulé dans une bâche et lesté, est donc un véritable choc, non seulement pour Stilwell, mais également pour les personnalités les plus notables de l'île, qui apprécient peu cette mauvaise publicité.

Anne Mason thinks she'll be safe living in the Midwest building a wind farm. She may be dead wrong. Someone is dumping bodies in her corn field and telling Anne they are gifts - for her! As the body count rises, Anne realizes a cold-blooded serial killer is patiently waiting and watching her every move. And he won't stop until he ends her life. It is clear there are no limits to this killer's thirst for revenge or how far he will go to get it.

King Arthur was destined to annihilate dragons from the world - until he was reborn as one. The fae told her killing him was the only way to save the world. They lied.

In this crime fiction thriller, a serial killer of young women hides in plain sight in a quiet county in the Midwest. He hides behind a friendly face that inspires trust and a personality that is charming and persuasive - and has a rage to kill he can't control. Detective Jennifer Brennan, still haunted by her abduction five years before, devotes her life to serving and protecting others. So when three young women go missing in her small county in Indiana and are found murdered on her watch, she vows to find the killer - or die trying.

Bei Ausgrabungen im Cadbury Hill Fort wurde eine kleine Sensation entdeckt: ein Schwertfragment, das auf die Zeit des historischen König Artus datiert werden kann. Ist damit der Beweis erbracht, dass Cadbury tatsächlich einst das sagenumwobene Camelot war? Junes Vater Frank wird als Historiker von seiner Kollegin hinzugezogen, um den Fund zu untersuchen. Der kleine Ort ist in Aufruhr, vor allem als Zeugen berichten, sie hätten in der Nähe der Ausgrabungsstätte eine rätselhafte Rittergestalt gesehen. Dann wird einer der Ausgrabungshelfer ermordet aufgefunden - erstochen mit einem Schwert.

It is four days before Christmas, and all is not quiet as the characters you grew to love in The Deadly Series books fight their inner demons and deception and pray for miracles in this action-packed thriller. Shawn Isaac is a bright five-year-old who has experienced more than his share of domestic violence and abuse. His disappearance one the day he testifies against his father terrifies a county that has already lost three young women to a vicious serial killer.

Sydney Fox is from Sea Isle, NJ and ready to begin a new career after graduating college. Jax Jones is from Elgin, TX and an NBA draft prospect. The two meet and the passion and chemistry is undeniable. They are a match made in heaven but if they pursue a relationship, can it endure the pressures of the NBA?

Alabama-born Anarchy might be able to hide her Southern accent, but she can't hide her feelings for Avalon's resident sadist. Everyone, it seems, knows how much she loves Jasper, including the man himself, but that doesn't stop the pain of the axe falling on her dreams. Jasper Fairfax is a complex man. Bred to be a killer, raised and trained by a monster, he's done a lot of bad things in his life. Anarchy, his pretty kitten, is the bright light against his darkness. But what hope does a man deserve when extinguishing that light is his nature?

Die schöne Schwedin ist nur noch von einem einzigen Gedanken besessen: Sie will endlich die Wahrheit über den grausamen Mord an ihrer Schwester erfahren. Sherlock Holmes nimmt die Herausforderung an, dem Urheber des Schreckens das Handwerk zu legen. Noch ahnen weder Holmes noch Watson etwas von dem blutigen Ritual, das nachts in den Straßen des Londoner East Ends ausgeführt wird - dem Avalon-Ritus...

When kitchen witch Gwen Young discovers a local artist has gone missing, she and Arthur set out to solve the mystery. Neither of them suspects that their past - and their future - is closely tied to this case....

Life was going well for psychologist Alexandra Blake. Her career has taken off and she has been exploring her darkest sexual fantasies with her lover Jeremy Quinn. But her bliss is rudely interrupted when she is abducted in London, caught up in a dangerous struggle between unscrupulous corporations. Her captors want her to help them with their sexual experiments – pushing the boundaries of convention in the search for a drug to stimulate the female libido. But at what cost? How far will Alexandra be willing to go to satisfy her curiosity, both professional and personal?

From Avalon's yacht club, through its alleys, sidewalk cafes, and swank watering holes, across its private beaches and beyond, to the airport in the sky, and the party cruise ship sitting offshore, the judge tracks a shadowy killer. And as the town is forced to fight for its very existence against overwhelming odds, the judge finds his romantic relationship compromised by an old flame, forcing him to examine and re-define his own past, before he can risk a new future.

Sie folgt immer den Regeln. Doch mit ihm bricht sie jede einzelne... Mackenzie Cabot soll auf Wunsch ihrer Eltern ihren College-Abschluss machen. Widerwillig schreibt sie sich für das Garnet College in Avalon Bay ein, obwohl sie sich viel lieber weiter um ihr erfolgreiches Online-Start-up kümmern würde. Aber als sie Cooper Hartley trifft, stellt das ihre Welt auf den Kopf, denn er ist ganz anders als alle Männer, die sie bisher kennengelernt hat. Der Bad Boy mit den Tattoos ist der Einzige, der sie wirklich sieht: ihre Hoffnungen und Wünsche, ihre Träume und Ängste.

Every girl needs a knight in shining armor.... When kitchen witch Gwen Young discovers the spirit of King Arthur in the suit of armor that stands in her cafe only an hour after finding a dead body in the library, she knows it's going to be a very strange day....