Showing results for "the queen" in Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

She is omnivorous. No matter age or appearance, physical frailty or imperfection. It is not their flesh that feeds her appetites, but their souls. She devours young and old, men and women. She leaves only a desiccated husk. An unspeakable evil. An impossible gift. Renowned magus Taita is now over 100 years old and has ascended to a new level of wisdom and understanding about his world. But he must prepare himself for the biggest threat Egypt has ever faced: the great plagues and the failure of the Nile, brought about by the fire witch Eos, an ancient force of sheer evil.

A 23-year-old law student commits suicide in broad daylight in Moscow's Alexander Gardens. Fandorin is put on the case to find out what drove him to it, a case that deepens as he discovers that the young man was the son of a rich and influential factory owner. The story is enhanced by its authentic backdrop of 19th century Russia. After all, it's difficult to keep your mind on a case when the new Dostoyevsky novel has just hit the shops.

Set in the 1930s, Mob Queen follows one woman’s rapid rise through the Mafia as she searches for the truth about what happened to her friend and navigates a perilous relationship with the infamous Bugsy Siegel.

It is 1548, and seven-year-old Mary Queen of Scots, betrothed to her cousin the Dauphin, heir to the French throne, has been dispatched to France. But far from home and vulnerable, surrounded by the double-dealing and debauchery of a dangerous and unpredictable court, she suffers a series of 'accidents'. Her mother, Scotland's Queen Dowager, orders Francis Crawford of Lymond to protect Mary, believing that at the very heart of Henri II's glittering, decadent court is an assassin hired to kill the infant monarch. Lymond must secretly hunt down this individual before he himself is exposed.

It is 1938, and antiques dealers Rick and Rose Sinclair come across an old journal. It tells an explorer’s tale of sighting the queen’s lost temple, but his porters forcing him to turn back, terrified by myths of the temple’s protection by giant monsters and the queen’s avaricious ghost. The Sinclairs will find that all the legends were true. The temple does exist. The treasure is still there. And it is all defended by giant creatures bent on slaughtering any who trespass. Will Rick’s cunning and Rose’s intellect be enough to survive the dangers of the temple of the queen?

What if one day, your whole life changes when you are told that you are not from the world you've known but are actually a princess from a kingdom located in a different world called Mirral? What if you learn that in the world you are from, some people have special powers?

The New York Times best-selling author brings back the Walker family in a multi-layered thriller in which murders past and present connect the lives of three families. Every summer, in an event that is commemorated throughout the Tohono O'odham Nation, the Queen of the Night flower blooms in the Arizona desert. But one couple's intended celebration is shattered by gunfire, the sole witness to the bloodshed a little girl who has lost the only family she's ever known.

Special Agent Omar Zagouri's latest case is his most dangerous - and his most personal yet. The discovery of secret sixteenth-century letters unveils a plot between the sultan Suleyman and his chief wife, Roxelane, to change the course of the Ottoman Empire. A descendent of Roxelane, Zagouri learns he has an enemy whose revenge has been centuries in the making.

When he encounters a teenager being pursued by a group of dangerous jewel thieves, Orlando Black finds himself in the wrong place at the right time. He helps the kid escape successfully, but things really heat up when one of Black’s old friends is caught in the middle of the thieves’ heist. To save her, he must face the thieves in a final showdown.

Axel Archer was a retired soldier, family man, patriot...and the king of thieves. Five years later, tragedy causes the Archer sisters to return to New York to pick up the pieces of their shattered lives, reunite in a quest for vengeance, and uncover a conspiracy which has cost them dear. They will take their father’s training and their own skills and qualities and adopt their own style. They will show New York that the heirs to the king of thieves are back in town, and the queens of the steal are just as worthy of the throne.