Nienke van der Meulen Libros

Een lid van de Britse geheime dienst moet een gruwelijke moord oplossen en een poging om een totalitaire eenheidspolitie te vormen, verijdelen.

A chilling, only-too-topical thriller from the award-winning author of THE RED SCREAM and ALL THE DEAD LIE DOWN. Eleven Texan schoolchildren and their bus driver are captured by a fundamentalist cult, taken to a fortified compound and buried underground, kept alive but only just. Negotiations lead nowhere. Enter Molly Cates, tenacious crime writer with the inside track on the cult leader. But time is running out... Claustrophobic terror alternates with frenzied investigations as the sect's deadline approaches. Post-Waco, post-Oklahoma, the nature of cults is explored to its grim, unrelenting limits in this terrifically paced novel of suspense.

A man is moving down a street on Manhattan's Lower East Side, scanning the storefronts, taking in his surroundings, when he sees something in a third-floor tenement window. A woman's face, distorted with terror. Thomas is convinced he's witnessing a murder. Except that things aren't quite as simple as that. To some people, Thomas Kilbride wouldn't exactly be the most reliable of witnesses, and it's going to be very difficult to persuade the police to investigate. Because Thomas was never actually there. And the murder was months ago. But Thomas trusts his eyes. And that could be his biggest mistake.

In the spirit of "The Kite Runner," this shimmering literary debut traces thepath of two cousins--one who left Cuba at the brink of revolution and the onewho stayed behind.

The home was top-notch New Jersey suburban. The living room was Martha Stewart. The basement was Legos—and blood. For sports agent Myron Bolitar, the disappearance of a man he'd once competed against was bringing back memories—of the sport he and Greg Downing had both played and the woman they both loved. Now, among the stars, the wanna-bes, the gamblers and groupies, Myron is unraveling the strange, violent life of a sports hero gone wrong, and coming face-to-face with a past he can't relive, and a present he may not survive. In novels that crackle with wit and suspense, Edgar Award winner Harlan Coben has created one of the most fascinating and complex heroes in suspense fiction—Myron Bolitar—a hotheaded, tenderhearted sports agent who grows more and more engaging and unpredictable with each page-turning appearance.

It is two years since the notorious Nanna Birk Larsen case. Two years since Detective Sarah Lund left Copenhagen in disgrace for a remote outpost in northern Denmark. When the body of a female lawyer is found in macabre circumstances in a military graveyard, there are elements of the crime scene that take Head of Homicide, Lennart Brix, back to an occupied wartime Denmark - a time its countrymen would wish to forget. Brix knows that Lund is the one person he can rely on to discover the truth. Reluctantly she returns to Copenhagen and becomes intrigued with the facts surrounding the case. As more bodies are found, Lund comes to see a pattern and she realises that the identity of the killer will be known once the truth behind a more recent wartime mission is finally revealed ..

An ordinary man's desperate search for his daughter leads him into a dark world of corruption, exploitation, and murder. An increasingly sly cautionary tale about modern life . . . the book's pace is nonstop.--"Booklist."

Finales de los años setenta. En una zona obrera del barrio de Richmond, una mujer de raza negra muere atropellada en un suceso que la policía atribuyó a un desgraciado accidente. Todo el vencindario, excepto la señora Ranelagh, la última persona que estuvo con ella, aceptó la escueta versión policial. Sin embargo, veinte años después, la señora Ranelagh ha vuelto al lugar de los hechos con un único y firme próposito: reconstruir lo sucedido en aquella noche lluviosa que todos los que vivian en el barrio parecen tener motivos para olvidar.

Acid Row is a crime-infested housing project that exists by its own laws. When news comes that a child has been kidnapped, the frustration and anger that has been seething on the streets of Acid Row is ignited. And no one will be safe.

Walters' newest thriller is a haunting psychological tale about a scarred Iraq war veteran whose physical trauma may reflect the inner life of a killer.

Paula Grey 'witnesses' the murder of Norbert Engel, key German Statesman. A veiled woman entered and left the building. One by one, the elite strongmen in a leaderless Europe are assassinated. Tension rises as Tweed, Paula and Bob Newman fly to Zurich, where a fresh assassination takes place. Again a veiled woman was seen. Tweed's pursuit leads to a strange village in Vienna where attempts are made to kill him.

The top ten hardback bestseller - now in A format

Een jonge vrouw ontmoet haar droomprins die ervoor zorgt dat ze een geweldige baan bij een uitgeverij krijgt, maar haar nieuwe werkgeefster blijkt haar werknemers te tiranniseren.

In a gripping thriller, a sexual psychopath emerges among mercenaries as private security firms proliferate in war zones. When five women are brutally murdered in Sierra Leone, journalist Connie Burns questions the arrest of three rebel soldiers but is ignored. In a post-civil war environment where the rape and murder of women are overlooked, she suspects a foreigner—a man claiming to be an SAS operative and working as a bodyguard for a Lebanese diamond trader—might be behind the crimes. Connie recalls his past as a mercenary in Kinshasa and believes he exploits the chaos of war to fulfill sadistic fantasies against women. After enduring a harrowing experience in a Baghdad cellar, Connie goes into hiding in England, struggling to reclaim her former self. There, she forms a bond with Jess Derbyshire, a reclusive local who has distanced herself from the Dorset community. Finding strength in Jess, Connie decides to confront the serial killer once more, fully aware that he will come after her. The tension mounts as she navigates her fears and the dangerous path ahead, determined to seek justice despite the risks.

Een vrouw probeert de waarheid over de dood van een alleenstaande zwarte vrouw, twintig jaar eerder, te achterhalen.