Showing results for "Invisible" in Crime Fiction

Brought to you by Penguin From the number one best-selling author of The Family Upstairs and The Night She Disappeared comes an engrossing, twisty tale of betrayal when an outsider is accused of murder. You don't see her, but she sees you. MIDNIGHT. In the bad part of town, where cats prowl and...

Everyone thinks Emma Dockery is crazy. Obsessed with finding the link between hundreds of unsolved cases, Emma has taken leave from her job as an FBI researcher. Now all she has are the newspaper clippings that wallpaper her bedroom, and her nightly recurring nightmares of an all-consuming fire...

L'appel radio a mentionné le cadavre d'une femme retrouvé sur une aire de l'autoroute 43, près d'Albertville. Alice Pernelle, fraîchement sortie de l'école de gendarmerie, est la première à arriver sur les lieux avec sa brigade. Face à elle, la victime est nue, à genoux, les bras ballants. Empalée.

"Outback noir has a new star" The Times Burnt-out from policework, Detective Sergeant George Manolis flies from Australia to Greece for a holiday. Recently divorced and mourning the death of his father, who emigrated from the turbulent Prespes region which straddles the borders of Greece...

Two small children - playing a game called 'Witch-Hunter' - place a curse on a young woman eating lunch in a church courtyard. An hour later the woman is found dead. Then a society photographer is stabbed to death in a nearby park and suddenly a link emerges between the two cases. As the members...

Brought to you by Penguin. Discover the new compelling novel from Sunday Times bestselling thriller writer, James Patterson... My name is Elinor Gilbert. And I am the Invisible Woman. Elinor Gilbert was once a young woman with a thriving career at the FBI. Now, decades past solving crimes with...

A killer at large in a remote Basque Country valley , a detective to rival Sarah Lund, myth versus reality, masterful storytelling – the Spanish bestseller that has taken Europe by storm. Shortlisted for the CWA International Dagger The body of a teenage girl has been found on the banks of the...

The Invisible Man is a science fiction novel by H. G. Wells. Originally serialized in Pearson's Weekly in 1897, it was published as a novel the same year. The Invisible Man of the title is Griffin, a scientist who has devoted himself to research into optics and invents a way to change a body's refractive index to that of air so that it neither absorbs nor reflects light and thus becomes invisible. He successfully carries out this procedure on himself, but fails in his attempt to reverse it.

Penguin presents the audiobook edition of Unsolved by written James Patterson, read by Brittany Pressley, and Kevin T. Collins. A chilling and shocking follow-up to Sunday Times bestseller Invisible by James Patterson. FBI researcher Emma Dockery is back with a vengeance. Obsessed with finding a...

Verity can’t seem to stop breaking the rules. Whether it’s her landlord, her employer, or the court-issued restraining orders that demand she stops investigating her sister’s disappearance. However hard she tries, life just keeps unravelling. Pru has always abided by the rules. Well...

Umiko Wada has had enough excitement in life. With an overbearing mother and her husband recently murdered, she just wants to keep her head down. As a secretary to a private detective, her life is pleasantly filled with coffee runs and paperwork. That is, until her boss takes on a new case. A case that is surrounded by shadows. A case that means Wada will have to leave Tokyo and travel to London.

Imperfect design creates a perfect murder in an outrageously funny and fiendishly clever mystery by #1 New York Times bestselling author Lee Goldberg. My name is Wally Nash. I'm an actor, but my day job is working for Edison Bixby, the brilliant, obscenely wealthy insurance investigator who got...

A classic crime novel by one of the most highly regarded exponents of the genre. The murder of old Mr Fransham while washing his hands in his niece’s cloakroom was one of the most astounding problems that ever confronted Scotland Yard. Not only was there a policeman in the house at the time...

On a deceptively quiet Minneapolis evening, Detective Lucas Davenport is summoned to one of the most heinous homicide scenes he's ever encountered. Two elderly women have been brutally bludgeoned inside their home, with only a few valuable yet common stolen items indicating the killer's sinister motives.

“A crackling addition to [the] Prey series” (Entertainment Weekly) from #1 New York Times bestselling author John Sandford. In a wealthy Minneapolis neighborhood, two elderly women are bludgeoned to death. They are apparent victims of a random robbery, though nothing of value appears to have...

Griffin is a scientist who theorizes that if a person's refractive index is changed to exactly that of air and his body does not absorb or reflect light, then he will be invisible. He successfully carries out this procedure on himself, but cannot become visible again, becoming mentally unstable as a result.

A stranger arrives in a small English town, wreathed in a hat, coat, goggles and bandages. It's not just his identity he's hiding, though; he has discovered the secret of invisibility, and believes it will lead him to ultimate power. But he needs to be able to control the process, and when the terrified villagers refuse to help him, he decides on bloody revenge.

In this suspenseful meditation on how grief can warp our perception, a widow’s search for answers begins with a comic book…and could end with a truth she’s not ready to face. It’s been five years since Julia Flynn lost her husband, Richard, in a car accident. She’s managed to rebuild...

Joni Ackermans decision to raise children, 25 years ago, came with a steep cost. She was then a pioneering filmmaker, one of the few women to break into the all-male Hollywood club of feature film directors. But she and her husband Paul had always wanted a family, and his ascending career at a...

Primero le quitaron su vida, después la identidad. Ha llegado la hora de vengarse de todos. Tras ocultarse en Portugal bajo su nueva identidad, Don regresa a Madrid para terminar con lo que empezó: destruir a los agentes del CESID que le arrebataron todo y recuperar a la mujer de su vida. Nadie conoce su nombre porque, oficialmente, está muerto. Un chivatazo le llevará hasta el contacto secreto de Vélez, el cerebro de la operación. Todo lo que necesitará para llegar hasta él. Sin embargo, la misión se torcerá muy pronto y los intereses de Don se verán mezclados con los de otros países y también con los de su hombre de confianza: Mariano.