Showing results for "The Moor" in Thriller & Suspense

After the National Crime Agency cracks a major drug gang, junior barrister Julia McGann finds herself defending the violent enforcer Terrence Bonner. This high-profile case is a coup for her, but almost immediately things start to go wrong. Intruders break into her house, and then a young girl turns up at her door with a horrifying story to tell. Three months later, DCI Craig Gillard and his team struggle with the shocking murder of a much-respected local headmaster, found dead in his own car. The baffling crime fills the newspapers but yields few clues.

Gideon Frayne has spent his whole working life as a policeman in the village of Dark on Bodmin Moor. His first missing-child case is eating him alive. When his own boss sends in a psychic to help with the case, he's gutted - he's a level-headed copper who doesn't believe in such things, and he can't help but think that the arrival of clairvoyant Lee Tyack is a comment on his failure to find the little girl. But Lee is hard to hate, no matter how Gideon tries. At first Lee's insights into the case make no sense, but he seems to have a window straight into Gideon's heart.

On a windswept moor, a child emerges from the mist with a story no one wants to believe. The farmer who finds her assumes she’s simply lost. But when she utters a chilling phrase—“We went to see the old ones”—he realises something is terribly wrong. As Detective Evan Warlow battles his own demons, he and the team are pulled into a case of ritualistic secrets, long-buried crimes, and the whispers of something darker lurking in the mist.

When John Simpson hears of a bizarre animal attack in his old home town of High Moor, it stirs memories of a long forgotten horror. John knows the truth. A werewolf stalks the town once more, and on the night of the next full moon, the killing will begin again. He should know. He survived a werewolf attack in 1986, during the worst year of his life. It's 1986 and the town is gripped in terror after the mutilated corpse of a young boy is found in the woods.

The bleak expanse of Vangmoor was a dark, forbidding place. One victim had been found there, blonde, her face disfigured, her head shorn close to the scalp - killed without motive or mercy. Then a second woman went missing on the moor, and a sense of utter dread gripped the fifty local men who searched for her. Someone watched them in that treacherous place. Was he a killer? Or was he merely angry that a killer had usurped him? For he, and only he, was the Master of the Moor.

Constable Nick has come to know and love the host of characters who live and work on the beautiful North Yorkshire Moors. The amiable constable handles every encounter with his characteristic humour and professionalism, whether he's investigating a plot to scare away a troublesome suitor or helping a neighbour return his late wife's ashes to her beloved moors. Not to mention the insurance agent with a rather unusual policy on Edgar Dawson’s dog, Arthur. It covers him for stealing clothes from washing lines and getting lady dogs pregnant!

The people of High Moor are united in horror at the latest tragedy to befall their small town. As dawn breaks, the town is left to count the cost and mourn its dead, while breathing a collective sigh of relief. John Simpson, the apparent perpetrator of the horrific murders, is in police custody. The nightmare is over. Isn't it? Detective Inspector Phil Fletcher and his partner, Constable Olivia Garner, have started to uncover some unsettling evidence during their investigations of John Simpson's past - evidence that supports his impossible claims: that he is a werewolf....

The war has begun...As the humans make their move against the werewolf threat in their midst, and civil war threatens to break the pack apart, John and Marie struggle to free the only person who can unite the werewolf factions against their common enemy: Marie's brother, Michael. However, their efforts may be for nothing. As tensions mount, the Moonborn prepare to combat the human aggression with an assault of their own; an attack that could spell doom for both man and werewolf alike.

When the body of a well-known local thug is discovered, an intriguing message found on his battered corpse raises unwelcome questions. Is DS Bishop being accused of the grisly murder, or does the message point to a more sinister secret? As the body count grows, Bishop and Knight find themselves...

'Gripping, devastating...Breathtaking' Clare Mackintosh 'Powerful and chilling, with a shocking twist' Guardian ________________ He's been looking in the windows again. Messing with cameras. Leaving notes. Supposed to be a refuge. But death got inside. When Katie Straw's body is pulled from the...

James Blackwood was born into privilege, but fate had other plans. Cast out and forced to be a notorious highwayman, he has become the Shadow of the Moor. His pistol is swift, his blade is sure, and his heart is another matter entirely. When Thomas Hopkins, a restless scholar, stumbles into his path, their fates entwine in ways neither could have foreseen. What begins as a dangerous encounter soon sparks an undeniable connection. As secrets unfold and betrayals loom, the lines between hero and villain blur. James must decide whether to risk it all for the one man who sees beyond the mask.

Rex Obano has written for the stage, television, radio and film. His plays have twice been shortlisted for the Alfred Fagon Award and he received the Roland Rees Bursary in 2018. He is part of the writing team for the BBC Radio series Faith, Hope and Glory and his TV credits include Shakespeare & Hathaway. Included here are five of his acclaimed dramas, as well as a fascinating discussion programme, Black Tudors.

Der Dreißigjährige Krieg ist in vollem Gange - doch davon ist in der einsamen Moorlandschaft im Hohen Venn nichts zu merken. Ganz im Gegenteil, im Kloster Richwinstein ändert sich nichts an dem Alltag, dem dort schon seit Jahrhunderten nachgegangen wird. Jedenfalls bis plötzlich ein gellender und markerschütternder Schrei zu über das nächtliche Moor hallt. Die beiden Helfer, Gastwirt Peter Lallemagne und sein jüdischer Freund Moyses, sehen nur noch eine im Moor versinkende Hand als sie ankommen. Kurz darauf wird das Kloster von fremden Soldaten gefunden und die bisherige Ruhe in dem Moor ist vorbei.

After Ralph accidentally runs over a deer, he decides to take the animal home and ends up serving prime venison to his wife that evening. Soon, his thirst for blood becomes something different, and his life slowly spirals out of control. As the body count rises, a local schoolteacher and a young woman become involved in the mystery. But, is Ralph really the Beast of Bodmin?

Du glaubst, du seist sicher in den eigenen vier Wänden? Du hast dich noch niemals im Leben so sehr getäuscht! Nach einem Schicksalsschlag lebt Grace zurückgezogen in einem ehemaligen B&B mitten im südenglischen Darthmoor. Sie leidet unter furchtbaren Panikattacken, schafft es nicht mehr, das Cottage zu verlassen, geschweige denn, Gäste hereinzubitten. Doch dann stehen eines Tages eine verängstigte junge Frau und ihre kleine Tochter vor der Tür. Beide benötigen dringend Hilfe. Und diesmal schafft es Grace nicht, die Fremden abzuweisen.

"Du musst kommen. Deine Mutter ist verschwunden!“ Mit diesen Worten wird Frederike Feldmanns schönes Leben auf den Kopf gestellt. Vor sieben Jahren hatte Freddi ihrer Familie den Rücken gekehrt. Nun bringt ihr schlechtes Gewissen sie dazu, nach Hause zu fahren und sich um ihre kleinen Geschwister zu kümmern. Als sie zu Hause ankommt, übertrifft die Realität ihre schlimmsten Erwartungen. Vor ihrem Verschwinden hatte ihre Mutter immer wieder vor dem Monster gewarnt, das nachts im Moor herumirren soll.

Mina feels she's living a lie. Barely present for her children while her ex-husband presses her for financial support, the successful CFO loses herself in daydreams filled with passion. But after a fiery affair sparks with a coworker, she's shaken to her core when they awaken to a new reality.

Es sollte ein reiner Entspannungsurlaub werden. Die mythologische Parabiologin Karla Lorenz hatte beschlossen, bei einem Selbstfindungstrip zum Moor Windeby wieder zu sich zu finden und zur Ruhe zu kommen. Ihre lebensgefährlichen Abenteuer hatten an ihren Nerven gezehrt. Eine Reise in die Natur versprach der leidenschaftlichen Biologin die maximale Entspannung. Das Moor und die charakteristische Nebellandschaft strahlten auf sie von jeher Ruhe und Frieden aus. Konnte es etwas Schöneres geben, als ganz allein durch dieses schöne Stück Natur zu wandern? Aber war sie wirklich allein?

Where Are You? is a sequel to the novel Chapel on the Moor, and follows the lives of the two main protagonists a half century later in a quest to discover what, if anything, might remain of the Chapel. In the first novel, two young adults, Merritt Geary and Frank Dole, met by accident on the occasion of the renovation and dedication of a long-abandoned rural chapel built 100 years earlier by Merritt’s great grandfather. At the end of the story, the chapel suffered complete destruction in a colossal storm, and the two parted ways after a brief but intense summer romance.