Showing results for "Vendetta" in Crime Thrillers

Cop or criminal? When you're undercover, the lines can get a little blurry. Former vigilante Lexi Winter, returns in a fast-paced, suspenseful crime thriller for readers of Candice Fox and Shelley Burr Ace hacker, former sex worker and vigilante Lexi Winter is now a cop and not keen to revisit...

Cyrus Shelton has spent the last twenty-three years locked up in the Huntsville State Penitentiary with only one thing on his mind - revenge on the arresting detective, Frank Windom, and his lousy defense attorney, Jonell Simone. Now paroled and having learned Windom had the nerve to die, he sets his sights on Windom's former partner, Jack West.

Gia Santella is all about the fast life. Ever since her parents died in a tragic accident, she’s been burning through her inheritance, chasing desperate highs in the hopes of forgetting her past. But when an unexpected letter arrives, the past finally catches up to her. Because her parents’ death was no accident...and now their killer is coming for her.

Once bitter enemies, Samantha Reynold and Seb Stoker's powerful alliance enables their firms and casinos to go from strength to strength. With the families no longer in opposition, it seems that Sam and Seb are untouchable. But not everyone is happy with the new power couple of the club world. Unbeknownst to everyone, someone new wants to see Sam’s perfect life ruined. And they will stop at nothing to seek their revenge—even if it means destroying everything—and everyone—in their path. With tensions high, Sam and Seb must put their trust in each other completely.

With his dying breath, Carl Venable, head of the CIA task force on terrorism and Jude Brandon's final link to terrorist ringleader Max Huber, gives Brandon a mandate: to keep his daughter, Rachel, safe at any cost. But Rachel Venable has a shocking, twisted past of her own, one that comes rushing back after her medical clinic in Guyana is attacked by Huber - the same man who murdered her father and kept her imprisoned for months.  

When ex-Navy SEAL and black ops legend Anna Gabriel gets word that her sister’s children are being held on a remote U.S. military base in Turkey, she doesn’t ask questions—she grabs her gear. The man behind the abduction? A ruthless American general who faked his own death and vanished into the shadows of a rogue operation.

When Daniel Leicester goes in search of his late wife's missing bicycle in the oppressive heat of a Bologna summer, he is transported to her final days. But as unfinished business bleeds - quite literally - into the present, Daniel begins to suspect Lucia's accidental death may not have been an accident after all. With characters ranging from the Bologna branch of Italy's Right and Acknowledged Masons to an activist group trashing tourist lets, Tom Benjamin takes the listener on another colourful excursion to one of Italy's most mysterious locations

All Cyn wants is justice. Kolya Kurev murdered her family in cold blood and got away with it. Single-minded in her determination, Cyn becomes the killer she needs to be. Until she meets Lee, a man also deeply wronged by Kurev. Cyn's new problem? Lee. Lee is stealing her revenge and screwing with the carefully carved life she’s made for herself. As if his mere presence and counter-productive ambitions weren’t enough, he’s going to get her caught.

Il Cicala ammazza chiunque, soprattutto gli innocenti. La Balena persuade le vittime a suicidarsi. Lo Spingitore agisce ai semafori o nelle stazioni. A Tokyo sono i migliori in circolazione. A chi verrebbe in mente di sfidarli? Dall'autore rivelazione de I sette killer dello Shinkansen un thriller indemoniato sullo sfondo di una Tokyo di cui nessuno sospettava l'esistenza. Suzuki è un tranquillo insegnante di matematica. Fino al giorno in cui sua moglie non viene travolta e uccisa da un'auto pirata.

Denzel Riker was the CIA's best assassin, a ghost on missions so secret they never existed on paper — until Chief Daniel Roberts pulled the trigger on his wife and son to bury a multimillion-dollar drug ring. Left for dead after a Mexican ambush, Riker clawed his way back with one burning goal: to make the Chief pay. Max Carter, a broke NYC valet, looks too much like Denzel Riker for his own good. When assassins mistake him for the agent, Max gets pulled into a dangerous and deadly world, encompassing both sides of the law.

Roberto Cherchi è stato con­dannato all'ergastolo per quattro omicidi ed è ricercato dalle forze dell'ordine. Quando, durante la sua latitanza, scopre che l'avvocato Antonella Deme­las è in coma in seguito a un ag­guato, decide di trovare il responsabile. Un sentimento di profonda gratitudine, infatti, lega il fuggiasco alla donna e il deside­rio di vendetta è più forte di qua­lunque rischio.

C'è un filo conduttore che, superando lo Stretto dalla Calabria alla Sicilia, unisce una serie di cinque omicidi: un prete, giovani ragazze ritrovate con indosso delle maschere mortuarie, vittime mummificate. E se si vuole prestare l'orecchio alle dicerie, c'è anche una profezia che viene dalle strade di Roma, dove un mendicante avrebbe predetto esattamente le morti, l'ordine, e le dinamiche.

The Saint is on holiday in Naples when a brawl interrupts his lunch; a tweedy English tourist has casually addressed an Italian as Dino Cartelli - provoking the paunchy individual so named to set his hulking henchman on the bewildered Briton. The Saint intervenes, and soon the disagreement is all but forgotten...until the following morning’s newspaper headlines reveal that the Englishman has been murdered.

Sono gli anni Ottanta. Alessandro Loggia si mantiene all'università lavorando come cameriere. Aspira a un futuro diverso da quello dei suoi genitori, da costruire insieme a Diletta, il suo grande amore. Ma il sogno si infrange quando Gaetano Santoliquido, figlio di un ricco imprenditore edile di origini siciliane, irrompe nella sua vita portandogli via tutto, compresa Diletta. Le umiliazioni, l'arresto, la vita che si sbriciola pezzo dopo pezzo. Alessandro cade in un abisso profondo. Il buio e poi più nulla.

Firenze, 1971. Un uomo sembra essersi suicidato lanciandosi dal Campanile di Giotto. Il commissario Bisagno, tuttavia, nutre dei seri dubbi sulle modalità della sua morte. Nel frattempo, il cadavere viene identificato: si tratta di un ex detenuto, fuggito dal carcere durante l'alluvione del 1966. Ben presto, Bisagno capirà che quello che appare come un suicidio è, in realtà, un omicidio. Basterà scavare un po' più a fondo per capire come l'evento sia proprio collegato a un fatto di sangue consumatosi anni e anni prima.

Sting: Booktrack Edition adds an immersive musical soundtrack to your audiobook listening experience! * From a New York Times bestselling author, a savvy businesswoman and an assassin struggle to outwit each other in this sizzling romantic thriller from a "masterful storyteller" (USA Today)...