Résultats pour "William King" dans Romans policiers et thrillers

Misery, c’est le nom de l’héroïne populaire qui a rapporté des millions de dollars au romancier Paul Sheldon. Après quoi il en a eu assez et il a fait mourir Misery pour écrire enfin le " vrai " roman dont il rêvait. Mais il suffit de quelques verres de trop et d’une route enneigée, dans un coin perdu, pour que tout bascule... Lorsqu’il reprend conscience, Paul est allongé sur un lit, les jambes broyées dans l’accident. Sauvé par une femme, Annie. Une admiratrice fervente qui ne lui pardonne pas d’avoir tué Misery.

For the Sake of the Game is the latest volume in the award-winning series from New York Times best-selling editors Laurie R. King and Leslie S. Klinger, with stories of Sherlock Holmes, Dr. Watson, and friends in a variety of eras and forms. King and Klinger have a simple formula: Ask some of the world's greatest writers-regardless of genre - to be inspired by the stories of Arthur Conan Doyle. The results are surprising and joyous.

William Pepper was James Earl Ray's lawyer in the trial for the murder of Martin Luther King, Jr., and even after Ray's conviction and death, Pepper continues to adamantly argue Ray's innocence. This myth-shattering expose is a revised, updated, and heavily expanded volume of Pepper's original best-selling and critically-acclaimed book of the same name, with 26 years of additional research included. The result reveals dramatic new details of the night of the murder, the trial, and why Ray was chosen to take the fall for an evil conspiracy.

All the stories in this collection from Stephen King are related to the Vietnam War. King fans will recognize echoes of The Dark Tower series in the collection's first story, "Low Men in Yellow Coats." As the characters develop over the next four stories, King's version of the Vietnam War becomes one of his most frightening tales ever.

Where Flynne and her brother, Burton, live, jobs outside the drug business are rare. Fortunately, Burton has his veteran's benefits, for neural damage he suffered from implants during his time in the USMC's elite Haptic Recon force. Then one night Burton has to go out, but there's a job he's supposed to do - a job Flynne didn't know he had. Beta-testing part of a new game, he tells her.

King ou l'art d'enraciner dans les petits faits les plus insignifiants de la vie quotidienne le suspense et l'épouvante. Bazaar est au cœur de Castle Rock, cette petite ville américaine où l'auteur a situé nombre de ses thrillers tels Cujo, La Part des ténèbres ou Les Tommyknockers... Une poudrière où s'accumulent et se déchaînent toute la violence et la démence que recèle l'âme de chacun. Jusqu'à l'implosion. King ou l'art de rayer une ville de la carte par la seule force de la haine. De ces haines qui vous font mourir ou tuer.

Verity Jane, gifted app whisperer, takes a job as the beta tester for a new product: a digital assistant, accessed through a pair of ordinary-looking glasses. "Eunice", the disarmingly human AI in the glasses, manifests a face, a fragmentary past, and a canny grasp of combat strategy. Realizing that her cryptic new employers don’t yet know how powerful and valuable Eunice is, Verity instinctively decides that it’s best they don’t.

Dante “Drifter/Gianni” Giovanni is an agent for the Glenn and Sons agency. He is stationed in Arlington, Virginia with his handler Venus. Giovanni will have to fight anyone and everyone to make people pay for their terrorist actions. Gianni loves the United States of America and protects it by any means necessary. Whether it is teaming up with his friends in the agency, or trying to avoid his enemies. Danger lurks around every corner on his way to the top of the food chain.

Vous êtes-vous déjà demandé ce qui se passait après minuit ? Tout bascule. Le temps se courbe, s'étire, se replie ou se brise en emportant parfois un morceau de réel. Et qu'arrive-t-il à celui qui regarde, les yeux écarquillés, la vitre entre réel et irréel juste avant qu'elle explose et que des aiguilles de verre se mettent à voler en tous sens ?

Vous êtes-vous déjà demandé ce qui se passait après minuit ? Tout bascule. Le temps se courbe, s'étire, se replie ou se brise en emportant parfois un morceau de réel. Et qu'arrive-t-il à celui qui regarde, les yeux écarquillés, la vitre entre réel et irréel quand elle explose et que des aiguilles de verre se mettent à voler en tous sens ?

Formula One has long maintained a glitzy aura that masks dark and strange goings-on in the background. But with the 2019 season came a force louder than Formula One could dream of muffling: William Storey, the founder of British energy drink startup Rich Energy. Storey became a multimillion-dollar sponsor of the Haas Formula One team a year after records showed Rich Energy having a mere $770 in the bank. He equated his doubters to moon-landing truthers. But where were actual cans of Rich Energy, and did the supposed sponsorship funds exist?

November 1968. Judy Garland is performing drunk at the Palladium and the city of London is about to catch fire - literally. Summonded to a gas explosion, Detective Sergeant Cathal Breen unearths a shocking discovery beneath the rubble: Mind-bending paintings by Bridget Riley and Peter Blake... and the garroted body of Jacob Pugh, a playboy god in the art world. With Detective Helen Tozer, Breen must infiltrate the artistic demimonde of a volatile and increasingly murderous city.

Sergeant Elijah Dawson and Detective Isabella Kennedy go after a dedicated serial killer. The two have been consistently playing behind and in the dark for months. Several witnesses have different accounts of what the “Ice Prince/Princess” looks like. The Boston campus will be shook for the rest of its existence.

The land of ignorance and crime runs the city. Watch how I maneuver through the world and avoid the worthlessness of being normal. Nothing else matters but power and respect. Anything you want comes with those two things. Imagine your wife and children not respecting you, you don’t have any power. I didn’t come in this world with power and it’s my goal to capture it; and whoever tries to stop me—I’ll try my hardest to make their lives miserable.

A collection of coast-to-coast murder and mayham, including these unabridged short stories: "Vaudeville" by Whitley Strieber, read by Roddy McDowell; "Lucky Day" by Mary Higgins Clark, read by Betsy Palmer; "Starstruck" by Jon A. Breen, read by James Stacy; "Snookered" by Gerald Tomlinson, read by David Birney; "It Was Bad Enough" by Ron Goulart, read by Arte Johnson and Gee Whiz; "My Lovely" by Betty Buchanan, read by Joan Rivers.

Dive with Olivia Newton, one last time, into a suspenseful world of butting danger, where the next target could just be lounging on a beach in Brazil, sipping on coconut water. A world of assassins, cults, and Orders. A world of old and forgotten treasures that won’t stay hidden. Every ounce of gold could cost its possessor their life, and allies switch sides as fast as day turns to a cold, wicked night.

The old wall is a border: England and Scotland, South and North, light and darkness. It is 1745, and the long-awaited night as come. The Bloodking calls his army to battle, and armed with the powers of the undead and the damned, he will bring them South to claim his birthright: The throne of Britain. Only the old Watchers on the wall stand in his way. They, their swords, and their faith. But too much time has passed and the Watch has grown slack and ill-prepared for the coming war.

Several times a week, Charlotte Jones leaves suburbia behind and boards a chartered flight to parts unknown, where she wraps her hands around the necks of marks for just as long as she has to. Then she goes back to domestic life with a paycheck, defense wounds, and the sense that she can handle anything. Which is good, because being a wife, mother, and sociopath, with an insatiable taste for murder, gives the term work-life balance new meaning.

It’s been two years since Dinah Collins left the NYPD in disgrace, forced out for digging too deeply into the sudden disappearance of a fellow cop - her brother, Danny. Now, scraping by as a PI, Dinah is hired to find a young woman, Lucy Fisher, who vanished on Halloween, last seen wearing a creepy costume. As she pursues a deadly trail of clues, Dinah will find she’s faced with a terrible choice: If she can only save one person, Danny or Lucy, who will it be?

Criminal lawyer Robbie Munro is back home, living with his dad and his newfound daughter. Life as a criminal lawyer isn't going well, and neither is his love life. While he's preparing to defend the accused in a rape case, it all becomes suddenly more complicated when one of his more dubious clients leaves a mysterious box for him to look after. What's in the box is going to change Robbie's life - forever.