The Child

Sebastian Fitzek; Translated By John Brownjohn

Marc Lucas had it all, and lost it all. He is only slowly putting his life back together after the car crash that killed his pregnant wife, when things start to go strangely wrong for him. Nothing too sinister to begin with: his credit cards stop working. But then his key no longer fits his door, and he discovers someone else working in his office. Much worse is to come: he comes home to find himself face to face with his once-dead wife, and she doesn't have a clue who he is. The next day, there is no trace of her. Could this have anything to do with the clinic? They wanted to test their ability to remove traumatic memories from live subjects. Marc had met them, just once, but declined their experimental technology. He now fears they may have begun their tests illicitly...Can he discover just what is happening to him before the waking nightmare he finds himself living overwhelms his sanity? Lire plus…

Zoran Drvenkar; Shaun Whiteside

One. Two. Three. That's all it takes to drive the nail into her head, to leave her hanging on the wall. She deserved to die. Now all he needs is absolution for his sins, and he knows just the people who can help. We know what you should say. We say what you want to hear. Kris, Tamara, Wolf, and Frauke. Four young friends with too much time on their hands and one big idea: an agency called Sorry. Unfair dismissals, the wrongly accused, jilted lovers: everyone has a price and the Sorry team will find out what that is. It's as simple as that. The idea catches on like wildfire and the quartet are soon raking in the cash, doing the emotional dirty work for fat cats, businessmen, and the romantically challenged. But what they didn't count on is that their latest client would be a killer. Standing face-to-face with a brutally murdered woman, Kris and Wolf suddenly realize that the philosophy that has brought them so much success may have a flaw in it. And what they are compelled to do by the person who has contracted them is to dispose of the body. But who is the killer and why has he killed her? Someone is mocking them for playing God, and hell is only just beginning. Intricately plotted, breathtakingly paced, utterly original, Sorry plunges the reader into a world whose connections dazzle the mind. Once you have read it, you will never be able to say "sorry" in quite the same way again. From the Hardcover edition Lire plus…

Fitzek, Sebastian

Marc Lucas had it all, and lost it all. He is only slowly putting his life back together after the car crash that killed his pregnant wife, when things start to go strangely wrong for him. Nothing too sinister to begin with: his credit cards stop working. But then his key no longer fits his door, and he discovers someone else working in his office. Much worse is to come: he returns home to find himself face to face with his once-dead wife, and she doesn’t have a clue who he is. The next day, there is no trace of her. Could this have anything to do with the clinic? They wanted to test their ability to remove traumatic memories from live subjects. Marc had met them, just once, but declined their experimental technology. He now fears they may have begun their tests illicitly... Can he discover just what is happening to him before the waking nightmare he finds himself living overwhelms his sanity? About the Author Sebastian Fitzek has worked as a journalist and author for radio and TV stations all around Europe, and is now head of programming at RTL, Berlin's leading radio station. His first and subsequent novels have become huge bestsellers in Germany, and he is currently working on his fifth. Lire plus…

Fitzek, Sebastian

Marc Lucas had it all, and lost it all. He is only slowly putting his life back together after the car crash that killed his pregnant wife, when things start to go strangely wrong for him. Nothing too sinister to begin with: his credit cards stop working. But then his key no longer fits his door, and he discovers someone else working in his office. Much worse is to come: he returns home to find himself face to face with his once-dead wife, and she doesn’t have a clue who he is. The next day, there is no trace of her. Could this have anything to do with the clinic? They wanted to test their ability to remove traumatic memories from live subjects. Marc had met them, just once, but declined their experimental technology. He now fears they may have begun their tests illicitly... Can he discover just what is happening to him before the waking nightmare he finds himself living overwhelms his sanity? About the Author Sebastian Fitzek has worked as a journalist and author for radio and TV stations all around Europe, and is now head of programming at RTL, Berlin's leading radio station. His first and subsequent novels have become huge bestsellers in Germany, and he is currently working on his fifth. Lire plus…

Mcmahon, Jennifer

From Publishers Weekly Family secrets and fairy lore create a shifting reality in McMahon's unsettling novel about the disappearance of a 12-year-old girl who longed to become Queen of the Fairies. Fifteen years after Lisa goes missing, her younger brother, Sam, gets a strange phone call that leads him and his girlfriend, Phoebe, to discover a book, supposedly written by the King of the Fairies, that Lisa used as her bible to cross over, and which prompts Sam and Phoebe to meet up with Sam's cousin, Evie, to see if they can figure out what happened to Lisa. Nothing is as it seems from that moment on, and Phoebe's longtime fear of a dark man in the shadows seeps back after she discovers, in true woo-woo fashion, that she is pregnant. McMahon (Promise Not to Tell) alternates between the past and present with loads of portent and foreshadowing, creating a rural Vermont chiller with a Rosemary's Baby vibe, but even after a surprising villainess emerges and more than a few disquieting passages about Lisa are burned through, many readers will remain in the dark. (May) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved. Review “Jennifer McMahon never flinches and never fails to surprise as her stories twist down unexpected roads. DonвЂTMt Breathe a Word balances love and horror as McMahon weaves a young couple into a perverse fairyland where RosemaryвЂTMs Baby could be at home.” (Randy Susan Meyers, author of The Murderer's Daughters ) “[A] strange and unsettling... Lire plus…

Carrisi, Donato

A gripping literary thriller and smash bestseller that has taken Italy, France, Germany and the UK by storm. Six severed arms are discovered, arranged in a mysterious circle and buried in a clearing in the woods. Five of them appear to belong to missing girls between the ages of eight and eighteen. The sixth is yet to be identified. Worse still, the girls' bodies, alive or dead, are nowhere to be found. Lead investigators Mila Vasquez, a celebrated profiler, and Goran Gavila, an eerily prescient criminologist, dive into the case. They're confident they've got the right suspect in their sights until they discover no link between him and any of the kidnappings except the first. The evidence in the case of the second missing child points in a vastly different direction, creating more questions than it answers. Vasquez and Gavila begin to wonder if they've been brought in to take the fall in a near-hopeless case. Is it all coincidence? Or is a copycat criminal at work? Obsessed with a case that becomes more tangled and intense as they unravel the layers of evil, Gavila and Vasquez find that their lives are increasingly in each other's hands. THE WHISPERER, as sensational a bestseller in Europe as the Stieg Larsson novels, is that rare creation: a thought-provoking, intelligent thriller that is also utterly unputdownable. Review ''THE WHISPERER is one hell of a ride. This story screams high tension, high stakes and high velocity. Superb.'' ( Michael Connelly ) ''Brilliant... Lire plus…

Fitzek, Sebastian

Josy, la fille de douze ans du célèbre psychiatre Viktor Larenz, souffre d'une maladie inconnue qu'aucun médecin ne parvient à diagnostiquer. Un jour, alors que son père l'accompagne chez l'un de ses confrères, elle disparaît mystérieusement...Quatre ans ont passé, et Josy n'a toujours pas donné le moindre signe de vie. Afin de surmonter ce drame, Viktor Larenz s'est retiré sur une île du nord de l'Allemagne, où il reçoit l'étrange visite d'une inconnue. Anna Spiegel, romancière, souffre d'une forme rare de schizophrénie : les personnages qu'elle invente prennent vie...Fait troublant, son dernier ouvrage raconte l'histoire d'une fillette souffrant d'une maladie inconnue qui disparaît sans laisser de trace... Aussi Viktor entreprend-il sa thérapie dans l'espoir un peu fou de découvrir la vérité sur la disparition de sa fille...L'inconcevable est-il possible ? Le récit d'Anna permettra-t-il d'élucider le mystère ? Entre flash-backs et hallucinations, le lecteur se laisse entraîner dans une atmosphère angoissante qui va crescendo. À la toute fin seulement, il comprendra qu'il s'est fait piéger par l'auteur, machiavélique et talentueux. Lire plus…

Fitzek, Sebastian

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Fitzek, Sebastian

Ready Or Not, Here He Comes. He Plays The Oldest Children's Game In The World, Hide And Seek. Only The Eye Collector Plays It To Death. It Is The Same Each Time. A Woman's Body Is Found With A Ticking Stopwatch Clutched In Her Dead Hand. A Distraught Father Must Find His Child Before The Boy Suffocates - And The Killer Takes His Left Eye. Alexander Zorbach, A Washed-up Cop Turned Journalist Has Reported All Three Of The Eye Collector's Murders. But This Is Different. His Wallet Has Been Found Next To The Corpse And Now He's A Suspect. The Eye Collector Wants Zorbach To Play. Zorbach Has Exactly Forty-five Hours, Seven Minutes To Save A Little Boy's Life. And The Countdown Has Started. Sebastian Fitzek ; Translated By John Brownjohn. Translated From The German. Lire plus…

Fitzek, Sebastian

Ready Or Not, Here He Comes. He Plays The Oldest Children's Game In The World, Hide And Seek. Only The Eye Collector Plays It To Death. It Is The Same Each Time. A Woman's Body Is Found With A Ticking Stopwatch Clutched In Her Dead Hand. A Distraught Father Must Find His Child Before The Boy Suffocates - And The Killer Takes His Left Eye. Alexander Zorbach, A Washed-up Cop Turned Journalist Has Reported All Three Of The Eye Collector's Murders. But This Is Different. His Wallet Has Been Found Next To The Corpse And Now He's A Suspect. The Eye Collector Wants Zorbach To Play. Zorbach Has Exactly Forty-five Hours, Seven Minutes To Save A Little Boy's Life. And The Countdown Has Started. Sebastian Fitzek ; Translated By John Brownjohn. Translated From The German. Lire plus…

Fitzek, Sebastian

Ready Or Not, Here He Comes. He Plays The Oldest Children's Game In The World, Hide And Seek. Only The Eye Collector Plays It To Death. It Is The Same Each Time. A Woman's Body Is Found With A Ticking Stopwatch Clutched In Her Dead Hand. A Distraught Father Must Find His Child Before The Boy Suffocates - And The Killer Takes His Left Eye. Alexander Zorbach, A Washed-up Cop Turned Journalist Has Reported All Three Of The Eye Collector's Murders. But This Is Different. His Wallet Has Been Found Next To The Corpse And Now He's A Suspect. The Eye Collector Wants Zorbach To Play. Zorbach Has Exactly Forty-five Hours, Seven Minutes To Save A Little Boy's Life. And The Countdown Has Started. Sebastian Fitzek ; Translated By John Brownjohn. Translated From The German. Lire plus…

Fitzek, Sebastian; Lee, Jamie (Translator)

Overview: As a young man, Leon Nader suffered from insomnia. As a nightwalker, he even turned to violence during his nocturnal excursions and had psychiatric treatment for his condition. Eventually, he was convinced he had been cured - but one day, years later, Leon's wife disappears from their flat under mysterious circumstances. Could it be that his illness has broken out again? Lire plus…

Mccreight, Kimberly

From the author of the New York Times bestseller and 2014 Edgar and Anthony nominee Reconstructing Amelia comes another harrowing, gripping novel that marries psychological suspense with an emotionally powerful story about a community struggling with the consequences of a devastating discovery. At the end of a long winter, in bucolic Ridgedale, New Jersey, the body of an infant is discovered in the woods near the town’s prestigious university campus. No one knows who the baby is, or how her body ended up out there. But there is no shortage of opinions. When freelance journalist, and recent Ridgedale transplant, Molly Anderson is unexpectedly called upon to cover the story for the Ridegdale Reader, it’s a risk, given the severe depression that followed the loss of her own baby. But the bigger threat comes when Molly unearths some of Ridgedale’s darkest secrets, including a string of unreported sexual assaults that goes back twenty years. Meanwhile, Sandy, a high school dropout, searches for her volatile and now missing mother, and PTA president Barbara struggles to help her young son, who’s suddenly having disturbing outbursts. Told from the perspectives of Molly, Barbara, and Sandy, Kimberly McCreight’s taut and profoundly moving novel unwinds the tangled truth about the baby’s death revealing that these three women have far more in common than they realized. And that their lives are more intertwined with what happened to the baby than they ever could have imagined. <div... Lire plus…

Berry, Lucinda

"A natural fit for fans of Gone Girl-style narrators and fast moving plots— Closer Weekly Growing up abandoned by her father and raised by a single mother, Celeste was determined to create the perfect family but even perfect families have secrets. Celeste’s days are filled with a rewarding career, a devoted husband, and her four-year-old daughter. Only Celeste knows the precarious house of cards her family is built upon until the day her daughter falls critically ill. Celeste’s world quickly spirals out of control as her secret threatens to destroy her marriage, family, reputation, and sanity. She’ll go to any lengths to protect her family—take any risk, break any law—anything except tell the truth. "A gripping psychological thriller." Lire plus…

Gardiner, Meg

From award-winning author Meg Gardiner, co-author of Michael Mann’s Heat 2— A riveting psychological thriller inspired by the never-caught Zodiac Killer, about a young detective determined to apprehend the serial murderer who destroyed her family and terrorized a city twenty years earlier. Caitlin Hendrix has been a Narcotics detective for six months when the killer at the heart of all her childhood nightmares reemerges: the Prophet. An UNSUB—what the FBI calls an unknown subject—the Prophet terrorized the Bay Area in the 1990s and nearly destroyed her father, the lead investigator on the case. The Prophet’s cryptic messages and mind games drove Detective Mack Hendrix to the brink of madness, and Mack’s failure to solve the series of ritualized murders—eleven seemingly unconnected victims left with the ancient sign for Mercury etched into their flesh—was the final nail in the coffin for a once promising career. Twenty years later, two bodies are found bearing the haunting signature of the Prophet. Caitlin Hendrix has never escaped the shadow of her father’s failure to protect their city. But now the ruthless madman is killing again and has set his sights on her, threatening to undermine the fragile barrier she rigidly maintains for her own protection, between relentless pursuit and dangerous obsession. Determined to decipher his twisted messages and stop the carnage, Caitlin ignores her father’s warnings as she draws closer to the killer with each new gruesome murder. Is... Lire plus…

Carrisi, Donato

Sunday Times Crime Book Club Pick Mail On Sunday Thriller Of The Week 'a Coldly Brilliant Exposé Of The Depths Of Human Nature' Sunday Times 'compelling, Beautifully Constructed And Atmospheric' Daily Mail Sixty-two Days After The Disappearance . . . A Man Is Arrested In The Small Town Of Avechot. His Shirt Is Covered In Blood. Could This Have Anything To Do With A Missing Girl Called Anna Lou? What Really Happened To The Girl? Detective Vogel Will Do Anything To Solve The Mystery Surrounding Anna Lou's Disappearance. When A Media Storm Hits The Quiet Town, Vogel Is Sure That The Suspect Will Be Flushed Out. Yet The Clues Are Confusing, Perhaps False, And Following Them May Be A Far Cry From Discovering The Truth At The Heart Of A Dark Town. For Fans Of Donna Leon And Michele Giuttari, Get Ready For The Crime Thriller Of The Year. 'carrisi Is An Expert At Misdirection . . . This Is A Thoroughly Disconcerting, Addictive Thriller Guaranteed To Freeze Your Soul' Metro Lire plus…

Carrisi, Donato [Carrisi, Donato]

ABDUCTED AT THIRTEEN RETURNED AT TWENTY EIGHT IS IT TIME TO GO BACK INTO THE LABYRINTH ?? A young woman named Samantha Andretti wakes up in a hospital bed. Samantha was abducted when she was thirteen. She was kept prisoner for fifteen years. The man by her side, Dr. Green, believes that Samantha's memories contain the clues that will lead to the capture of her abductor. But why does she keep referring to a labyrinth? Outside the hospital, private investigator Bruno Genko does not have long to live. Bruno was assigned to Samantha's case many years ago, and now it is his chance to make amends. Can Samantha be persuaded to go back into the labyrinth? And how did the man its the centre vanish so quickly? Lire plus…

Fitzek, Sebastian; Bulloch, Jamie

'Fitzek's thrillers are breathtaking, full of wild twists' HARLAN COBEN Emma's the one that got away. The only survivor of a killer known in the tabloids as 'the hairdresser' – because of the trophies he takes from his victims. Or she thinks she was. The police aren't convinced. Nor is her husband. She never even saw her tormentor properly, but now she recognises him in every man. Questioning her sanity, she gives up her job as a doctor in the local hospital and retreats from the world. It is better to stay at home. Quiet. Anonymous. Safe. No one can hurt her here. And all she did was take a parcel for a neighbour. She has no idea what she's let into her home. 'Sebastian Fitzek is without question one of the crime world's most evocative storytellers. He always serves up an intense, impossible to put down thriller and The Package is no exception. A gripping read with a surprising twist, this one is not to be missed' KARIN SLAUGHTER 'Sebastian Fitzek is simply amazing. I truly hope that one day I will be able to create suspense and plot twists in the way only Sebastian can. A true Master of his craft' CHRIS CARTER Sebastian Fitzek is Germany's most successful author. His books have sold 13 million copies, been translated into more than thirty-six languages and are the basis for international cinema and theatre adaptations. Sebastian Fitzek was the first German author to be awarded the European Prize for Criminal Literature. He lives with his family in Berlin. Coming soon:... Lire plus…

Sebastian Fitzek [Fitzek, Sebastian]

Every Year, On Average 23 People Disappear Without A Trace From Cruise Ships, Presumed Suicides Or Tragic Accidents. No One Has Ever Come Back. Until Now. Five Years Ago Police Psychologist Martin Schwartz Lost His Wife And Son. They Were Holidaying On A Cruise Ship When They Simply Vanished. A Lacklustre Investigation Was Unable To Shed Any Light On What Happened – Murder-suicide Was The Coroner's Verdict. It Is A Verdict That Has Haunted Martin Ever Since, Blighting His Life. But Now He Has Been Contacted By An Elderly Woman, A Writer, Who Claims To Have Information Regarding Their Fate And Wants Him To Come On Board The Sultan Of The Seas Immediately. She Explains That His Wife And Son Are Not The Only Mother-and-child Pair To Have Disappeared. Only A Few Months Ago Another Mother And Daughter Also Vanished. It Appears There May Be A Serial Killer On Board. But When The Missing Daughter Reappears – Carrying Martin's Son's Beloved Teddy Bear – It Becomes Apparent That The Truth Could Be Much, Much Worse... Lire plus…