Showing results for "Born" in Suspense

Detective Inspector Avison Fluke is a man on the edge. He has committed a crime to get back to work, concealed a debilitating illness and is about to be made homeless. Just as he thinks things can't get any worse, the body of a young woman is found buried on a Cumbrian building site. Shot once in the back of the head, it is a cold, calculated execution. When the postmortem reveals she has gone to significant expense in disguising her appearance, Fluke knows this is no ordinary murder.

Day one of her new job, and psychic witch Charlie Payne is already in danger. When she and her team are called in to investigate the disappearance of the Cochran family from their home, it looks like a straightforward demon abduction. Only, there's never anything straightforward about dealing with a demon and Charlie knows it.

Technology has advanced in 2060 New York City, but childbirth has been the same since the beginning of time. And despite the brutal double homicide on Lieutenant Eve Dallas' caseload, she has to be there for her pregnant friend, Mavis, even if it means throwing the dreaded baby shower. But Mavis needs an even bigger favor now. Tandy Willowby, one of the moms-to-be in her class, has gone missing, just days before her due date.

It's a chair that has been passed down from generation to generation. But ten-year-old Joey refuses to go near it - even though it seems terribly important to Joey's father and uncle. Because the chair is part of a family tradition. A tradition in which Joey must take his place-no matter how terrifying...

In her battle against demon assassins, Ella Grey pulled too much power and it nearly killed her. To save her, Damien and Deb had to cut Ella off from her magic. Desperate to rescue her brother from the vampires but powerless to help him, Ella must find a way to control the reaper that's nearly gnawed through her soul and get her magic back. When madman and necromancer Phillip Zarella offers her a solution, it's too tempting to pass up. But making a deal with the devil always has consequences.

Get yourself ready for Mary Lisa Beverly - a soap-opera phenom who's just won her third Daytime Emmy for her role as Sunday Cavendish on Born to Be Wild. She's fun and lovable and has lots of crazy friends, most of whom hang out at her house in the Colony, the famous gated community in Malibu.

I didn't mean to kill him. The last thing I want is the director of my film—my first big role—dead. Now the cops are here, and even though it's obviously self-defense, I'm done for...my life is over. I'll never work in this town again even if I manage to avoid jail time. I'll be infamous instead of famous. Temperance Johnson is straight out of central casting—a spy master with tiger's eyes and unnatural grace—a real killer. He offers me a solution. He'll sweep all this under the rug and help me reach my goals if I work for him. Well, for the government.

In search of redemption from his sordid past, FBI Special Agent Alex Bailey takes on a new partner, Katherine Mitchel...and a new secret mission. Before being assigned their first joint case, Katherine uncovers damning evidence against a major crime ring known as The Syndicate.

This book tells of a young woman who was found to have killed as a child. She was detained in various mental institutes, and then on to prison. It shows how she learned to control herself and whether or not prison reformed her.

FBI agent Scarlett Bell feels abandoned. Her supervisor doesn’t trust her to work with a partner, and the agency watches every move she makes.

Beautiful Charone Blackwell is a victim of multiple domestic violence and sexual battery attacks. Just when she thought she had successfully defied the odds and gotten away, she receives a call from her batterer letting her know she’s not safe—in fact far from it. The batterer is on the way to her home. Desperate to get away from another brutal altercation, she leaves what was once her safe haven and goes to the local coffee shoppe where she believes she’ll be protected.

Hendes datter, med de smaragdgrønne øjne og det sødeste smil, betyder alt for hende. “Mor,” siger den lille pige og rører hendes ansigt med rystende fingre, inden hun bliver vristet væk. Kommer hun nogensinde til at se sit barn igen? Da den enlige mor Alison Nolan tager på ferie med sin 6-årige datter, Hazel, glæder hun sig til at tilbringe kvalitetstid med sin lille pige. En ferie ved Silent Lake, hvor sneklædte tinder er omgivet af efterårets gyldne farver, er lige, hvad de trænger til. Men efter få timer forsvinder Alison og Hazel ud i den blå luft.

Jennifer Hanson comes home and catches her 12-year-old son, Shane, stabbing their cat to death. Thankfully, he doesn't see her. She has long known Shane has a brain with psychopathic tendencies. Ever since he accidentally shot his father to death at age six, she has done everything she can to ensure Shane doesn't become a full-blown psychopath. She can tell he's changing, becoming increasingly dangerous, but she can't stomach putting him in a psych ward. But then she finds pictures of a dead girl in his phone, a girl everyone thought had died accidentally.

Born to Hustle follows the lives of identical twin brothers as they learn to survive their abusive upbringing by identifying with fictional con men, imitating behaviors of gangsters and secret agents, to become the bad-ass boys in black. With no one to protect them, the twins grow up fearful of attachments to anyone else but one another. They learn to use being idents to hustle the world around them, becoming the ultimate grifters focused on becoming as rich as possible as quickly as possible.

Frank Baltimore is a bit of a loser, struggling by as a carpenter and handyman in rural New England when he gets his big break, building a mansion in the executive suburbs of Hartford. One of his workers is a charismatic 18-year-old kid from Liverpool, Dmitry, in the US in the summer before university. Dmitry is a charming sociopath, who develops a fascination with his autodidactic philosopher boss, perhaps thinking that, if he could figure out what made Frank tick, he could be less of a pig.

A recent college graduate, Rayla Rousseau has been leading a double life that’s given her life extraordinary meaning. Trained from the time she was seven by her grandmother to become the irrepressible thief she is, Rayla has worked for a secret sisterhood since her 13th birthday. In addition, Rayla’s maintained a solo thieving career since she turned 18. Now at 22, she’s a full-fledged high-end thief who steals from the vile, contemptible, and entitled wealthy, taking down real bad guys and keeping a fair amount of the spoils for her trouble.

After his father passes, James returns home and finds out that his younger brother has become ensnared in a deadly race against the mafia and needs his protection.

In an inspiring story of the Jewish struggle against their own demise, Jacob, a writer on assignment whose wife succumbs to psychosis, finds not only the ruins of what was once a theatre in the Jewish ghetto, but also a tonic for his own despair. For the Nazi commandant, the destruction of the ghetto is not enough. The entire Jewish people must perish, if only symbolically. To that end, he blackmails the leaders of the Jewish community to write, perform, and attend a play depicting Abraham's sacrifice of Isaac.

As the sequel to The Sixth Lobe, Danny Wilson returns to America after a long separation meant to keep him out of harm's way. The gutsy retired detective who risked life and limb caring for him for more than a decade grudgingly allows him the chance to fulfill childhood dreams to avenge murdered parents. Knowing this day would come, the father expended considerable effort over many years ensuring his adopted son is prepared.

Too many infant boys of Palm Beach gentry are dying of sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS). Only obstetrics nurse Casey Jansson is suspicious. Al Warner, crack Miami homicide detective, is inactive, languishing on medical leave from a deadly shootout with the Angel of Death. He’s in the best physical condition of his life, but struggling to convince the department’s shrink he is not suffering from PTSD. Learning of the SIDS deaths from Casey, Warner concedes it sounds more than coincidental, agreeing to help investigate and hoping romance develops later.