Management Thrillers

In "Tracce di Omicidio" (Libro #2 nella seria di thriller di Keri Locke), Keri Locke, detective per persone scomparse nella divisione omicidi del Dipartimento di Polizia di Los Angeles, si sente perseguitata dal rapimento della propria figlia. Incoraggiata dalla nuova pista che ha trovato, la prima in anni di ricerca, la segue con tutte i propri mezzi, determinata a trovare sua figlia e riportarla a casa sana e salva.

JET IV - Reckoning pits Jet against the deadliest threat yet: an enemy with endless resources who will stop at nothing to destroy her. From the mountains of Indonesia to the streets of Washington, Jet discovers in a breakneck-paced roller-coaster of action that danger lurks in the unlikeliest of places and nothing is as it seems.

A man turns up dead in his own apartment, locked in his closet, his body crawling with poisonous spiders, and the Boston police are stumped. As all of their leads collapse, they are dreading the killer will strike again. Desperate, the police have no choice but to turn to Boston’s most brilliant and controversial homicide detective - Avery Black. Now retired, Avery, in a low point in her own life, reluctantly agrees to help with the case. But when other bodies start turning up, Avery can’t help but wonder: Is there a serial killer on the loose?

With their fearless crime-fighting, good manners, and manly fashion sense, the Hardly boys are the pride of Feyport, Illinois. In A Ghost in the Closet, dark-haired, muscular Frank and his lovable kid brother, Joe, return from a gay trip to Europe to find that their parents - world-famous detective Fennel P. Hardly and his wife, Mrs. Hardly - have been kidnapped! Even worse, so have six poodles from the Lake Merrimen Dog Show! Pals Nancy Clue, Cherry Aimless, R.N., and Police Detective Jackie Jones help the Hardly boys track down the criminals.

The sequel to The Case of the Not-So-Nice Nurse is another hoot, a lampooning of girls' fiction of the past full of hapless, do-gooding detectives with "keen sleuthing abilities, up-to-the-minute fashion sense, and gracious finishing-school manners". Girlfriend finds our hapless heroine, Nancy Clue, racing home to River Depths, Illinois, to confess the murder of her father, prominent attorney Carson Clue; expose the terrible truth about him; and free Hannah Gruel, the selfless housekeeper who has shouldered the blame.

When her new life on a tranquil island is shattered by a brutal attack, Jet must return to a clandestine existence of savagery and deception to save herself and those she loves. A gritty, unflinching roller-coaster of high-stakes twists and shocking turns, Jet features a new breed of protagonist that breaks the mold.

Burke is back, but still lurking in the shadows, unable to return home. He is prowling the unfamiliar streets of Portland, Oregon, in search of a runaway teen. By all accounts, Rosebud Carlin is a happy, well-adjusted girl. She doesn’t fit the profile of the runaway kids Burke knows so well... and once was. But there’s something about her father....

Shadow Soldiers is a series of novellas focused on exploring the world of the soldier, especially how their code of ethics is affected by the challenges of real evil in the world today. More morality plays than action-adventures, these episodic stories ask the audience to judge their role in the world's challenges. Uncovering each challenge to our society, Sarge finds the right mercenaries to fight the evil. Creating Warrior Cadre Management (WCM), he builds a diverse team of mercenaries, soldiers, and spies to take on the evil that festers in our world.

Der Schatz des Maharadscha ist eine wunderbar skurrile Kriminalgeschichte, die am Fuße des Himalaja spielt. Der Erzähler lernt Mr. Fulton kennen, eine sonderbar hagere Gestalt, die den Umgang mit Menschen scheut. Er gewinnt Fultons Vertrauen und stellt bald fest, dass dieser ein ganz besonderes Interesse für Edelsteine zu haben scheint. Doch warum ist er an diesem gottverlassenen Ort? Und was verbirgt er in seinem schäbigen Bungalow? Der Erzähler will dies unbedingt herausfinden.

Van Bibber ist ein "man about town" - ein Mann, der das Stadtleben kennt. Als die Dame seines Herzens ihn versetzt, geht er kurzerhand zu einem Boxkampf, um dann ziellos durch die Straßen zu flanieren - wohlgemerkt, kurz vor Sonnenaufgang. Verdächtige Geräusche an der Tür eines Gebäudes erwecken sein Interesse, und so lernt Van Bibber einen ganz besonderen Einbrecher kennen.

Anna Mavrides has been burdened her whole life by the violent visions she had as a young girl. When she decides decades later to write a book about those visions and her family’s connection to the spirit world, it becomes an instant bestseller, but it ultimately triggers a chain of events that would have her charged with the brutal murder of her childhood friend.

At minus five degrees, even the densest blood materials start to turn: the beginnings of a human heart will still into black ice. Callum has been given an opportunity: Jozsef's house is the perfect place to live - plenty of room, a sought-after London location and filled with priceless works of art. All that Jozsef asks in return is for some company while he's ill and the promise that if it all gets too much, someone will be there to help him at the end.  

Gibt es das perfekte Verbrechen? Nun, vielleicht - wenn da nicht das unüberwindliche Begehren wäre, jemandem von eben diesem perfekten Verbrechen erzählen zu wollen.

In the lush world-banking capital of Geneva, Switzerland, three friends from Harvard Business School find their lives and their work unexpectedly intertwined. Catherine and Majid are handling investments for clients with dubious pedigrees. When their friend Rafe shows up in Geneva, he claims to be just another start-up hedge fund manager. But Rafe, after a moral awakening, is now an undercover agent with the US Treasury’s Office of Terrorism and Financial Intelligence, and he’s in Geneva secretly investigating his old friends, one of whom was his former lover.

Karel Čapek, zu Recht einer der berühmtesten und beliebtesten tschechischen Autoren, hat die Welt nicht nur mit dem Begriff des "Roboters" bereichert - er hat auch zahlreiche Krimi-Kurzgeschichten geschrieben, die an Witz und Raffinesse ihresgleichen suchen! Mit dabei: Der gestohlene Kaktus, Das Verschwinden des Herrn Hirsch, Tschintamanin und Vogel, Vom Kassenknacker und vom Brandstifter, Der gestohlene Mord, Der Fall mit dem Kind, Die Geschichte vom Heiratsschwindler, Das Gericht des Herrn Havlena, Die Briefmarkensammlung, Der Geschworene.

Eine spannende Kriminalkurzgeschichte mit einem der berühmtesten Gentleman-Gauner aller Zeiten: Arsène Lupin! Dieser begeht gerade eines seiner eleganten Verbrechen: Er will die berühmte schwarze Perle der Gräfin stehlen, während diese schläft. Doch als er sich den Weg in ihr Boudoir gebahnt hat, macht er eine grauenhafte Entdeckung.

Mit Auguste Dupin schuf Edgar Allan Poe einen der ersten Detektive, dessen Fälle er in drei Geschichten erzählte. Die zweite handelt von einer Parfumverkäuferin namens Marie Roget, die tot bei der Seine aufgefunden wird. Nur Dupin kann noch helfen.

Mit Auguste Dupin schuf Edgar Allan Poe einen der ersten Detektive, dessen Fälle er in drei Geschichten erzählte. Die dritte handelt von einem verschwundenen Brief - und der Frage, wo man einen solchen am besten verstecken kann. Auguste Dupin hat eine Antwort - und sie liegt sehr nahe.

Mit Auguste Dupin schuf Edgar Allan Poe einen der ersten Detektive, dessen Fälle er in drei Geschichten erzählte. Die erste handelt von einem rätselhaften Doppelmord, dessen Ausführung sich niemand erklären kann.

"Una ragazza sola" ("Un thriller mozzafiato con l'agente dell'FBI Ella Dark"—Audiolibro 1) è il romanzo di debutto di una serie da tanto attesa, firmata dall'autore bestseller numero 1 oggi negli Stati Uniti, Blake Pierce, il cui migliore audiolibro, "Il killer della rosa" (scaricabile gratuitamente) ha ricevuto oltre 1.000 recensioni a cinque stelle. L'agente dell'FBI Ella Dark, 29 anni, si trova davanti alla grande occasione di raggiungere il sogno della sua vita: entrare nell'Unità di Crimine Comportamentale. Ella ha un'ossessione nascosta.