Showing results by publisher "Saga Egmont" in Thriller & Suspense

Wanneer het huis van zijn oudste vriendin, Ellie Cox, verandert in de ergste moordscène die Alex ooit heeft gezien, gelooft hij dat hij de gevaarlijkste moordenaar tot nu toe achtervolgt. Zijn onderzoek leidt Alex naar het Nigeriaanse criminele milieu van Washington D.C. Daar doet hij een verbluffende ontdekking: verantwoordelijk voor de moorden is een bende tieners, die wordt geleid door de machtige Afrikaanse maffiabaas Tijger. Net als Alex en zijn team denken dat ze de ongrijpbare moordenaar op het spoor zijn, verdwijnt Tijger in het niets.

Mijn vader heeft me verkocht. Aan een monster. In plaats van een zorgeloze student, ben ik nu iemands eigendom. Ik doe alles om mijn vrijheid terug te winnen. Het begon als een spelletje. Toen zat ik ineens aan haar vast. Voorgoed. Ze heeft me gebruikt. Dat zal ik haar betaald zetten.

Een stalker, een arts en een ex raken verwikkeld in een mysterieuze ontvoeringszaak. Als ze na een week weer opduikt, heeft ze geen herinneringen aan de dagen ervoor. Chef Recherche Anne Kramer en haar team vermoeden een ontvoering, maar is het dat wel? Of gaat het om liefde? Wraak? Lust? Wie speelt hier welk spel?

Separated at birth by a desperate nurse who loses a millionaire's son to cot death, twin boys grow up without any knowledge of the other. Nat Cartwright lives with his middle-class birth parents and grows up to becomes a war hero in the Vietnam War before returning home to run for office in the Republican party. Fletcher Davenport becomes the only son of the millionaire couple. After graduating from Yale, he builds a reputation as a prolific criminal defence lawyer before he too delves into politics as a Democrat.

Styrkar the Dane emerges from the blood-soaked fields of Senlac Hill, wounded, furious, and filled with purpose. Driven by loyalty and wrath, he becomes a hunted outlaw, a ghost in the woods, feared as the Red Wolf. Styrkar will carve his vengeance into the flesh of his enemies, or fall like the rest of his shield-brothers.

Bloody partisan fights rage in the Balkans. Grenades rain down over the streets. From the rooftops, a heavy machinegun fire strikes down on the hunting battalion. Moaning, the injured soldiers crawl for cover. Molotov cocktails explode with hollow roars, and the burning liquid splash up on humans and materiel. - Partisan, the major stutters terrified and jumps off the vehicle. Porta salutes him with an idiotic smile. - Reporting to the Major that they will probably make it hot for us!

A desolate wasteland. A mission gone wrong. An impossible goal. Roman scout, Silus, is deep behind enemy lines in Caledonia. As he spies on a raiding party, he is abruptly discovered by an enemy chief and his son. Mounting a one-man ambush, everything quickly goes wrong and Silus must run for his life, the head of the enemy leader in his hands. Little does he know the price he will pay... As Silus is inducted into the Arcani, an elite faction of assassins and spies, he must return to Caledonia and risk everything in the service of his Caesar.

A single death could plunge the Empire into chaos... Silus, a member of Emperor Caracalla's elite assassins, the Arcani, is dispatched to Numidia. Rumours of assassination plots against Marcellus, the Emperor's closest aide, are rife. Silus must stop them. But the forces arrayed against the Arcani are now as powerful as they are clandestine. Inducted into the Emperor’s bodyguard, his Lions, Silus soon discovers secrets that should have stayed hidden. And as the Emperor becomes ever more reckless in battle, Silus unearths a conspiracy that runs deeper than his worst nightmares.

An intense novel of war at the Roman frontier. On the Empire's Northern border trouble is stirring. For decades the barbarians have been at the gates. Now, facing threats from within as well as outside, the Emperor is provoking war. When his friend Atius goes missing in Germania, Imperial Assassin Silus is sent into the heart of the battle-torn region.

The fate of Rome, and thousands of lives, rests on the shoulders of one man. After murdering his brother, and taking the position of Emperor for himself, Caracalla orders a brutal purge of the supporters of Geta. Meanwhile, Caracalla’s ally Marcellus is captured by Syrian warriors. They wish to use his son, Avitus, as a puppet emperor to affirm a new Eastern Empire. Caracalla orders Silus to track down and rescue Avitus, rumoured to be Caracalla’s child.

The charred remains of a child are discovered - a child no one seems to have missed... It's high summer, and the lakes are in the midst of an unrelenting heatwave. Uncontrollable fell fires are breaking out across the moors faster than they can be extinguished. When firefighters uncover the body of a dead child at the heart of the latest blaze, Detective Chief Inspector Jude Satterthwaite's arson investigation turns to one of murder. Jude was born and bred in the Lake District. He knows everyone... and everyone knows him.

Dr Maja Holm seeks solace in a desolate Norwegian coastal town, fleeing a turbulent past. But as her gruelling work hours and self-medication take their toll, she teeters on the edge. When a patient's mysterious death raises suspicions, Maja's intuition sparks a daring alliance with local TV journalist Stig Norland. Together, they plunge into the town's secrets, racing against the impending polar storm. But as Maja peels back the layers of the town's dark façade, one question looms: will exposing the truth cost her everything—including her life?

Fans of Kimberley Chambers’ Queenie and Martina Cole will love this unputdownable crime thriller from bestselling crime author Emma Tallon. Sometimes revenge is the only option. Anna Davies is young, smart and successful, plus she’s the head of one of London’s biggest crime networks. She’s seen off her abusive ex-boyfriend and cut her teeth managing clubs around London’s West End. But nothing could have prepared her for what’s around the corner... Beautiful, rich and powerful, Sophia Ivanov has been sniffing around Anna’s business empire and she’s got only one thing on her mind – revenge.

Brothers. Emperors. Deadly enemies... An unputdownable novel of intrigue and combat in Ancient Rome. Emperor Severus is on his deathbed. His sons Geta and Caracalla, feuding in Britannia, are readying for a devastating power struggle. Silus, now a centurion in the Arcani, the secrete network of spies and assassins, is thrown into the maelstrom. Back in Ancient Rome, plots breed in the stinking alleys. Everyone might be an enemy. Everyone a traitor. As an Imperial Assassin, Silus’ loyalty will be tested to breaking point.

Dark waters hide deadly secrets. When the headmistress of a Portsmouth school is found brutally murdered on an old structure in the middle of Langstone Harbour, Detective Andy Horton of Portsmouth CID is assigned to the case. The victim, discovered with a note with the words ‘Have you forgotten ME?’, was a steely, determined woman who made enemies on her path to success. But did any of them hate her enough to want her dead?With the clock ticking and Superintendent Uckfield pressing for results, Horton is forced to make a decision that will put his life on the line.

Als frisch gebackener Vater eines kleinen Wunderbabys namens Lilly-Ann fasst Dexter den Entschluss, ab jetzt ein anständiges Leben zu führen und seine blutrünstigeren Hobbies an den Nagel zu hängen. Als dann jedoch ein junges Mädchen verschwindet und die verdächtigte Gruppe äußerst merkwürdige Praktiken an den Tag legt, hilft der Rechtsmediziner doch wieder seiner Schwester Deborah bei der Aufklärung. Zumal bald der Verdacht des Kannibalismus im Raum steht.

Jede Menge Action und Spannung garantiert der Thriller "Operation Elite" des australischen Bestseller-Autors Matthew Reilly! Die Majestic-12, eine geheime Gruppierung, setzen darin im dritten Teil der Scarecrow-Reihe ein millionenschweres Kopfgeld auf 15 Personen aus, darunter auch auf Shane M. Schofield. Doch der Elite-Marine erfährt von der Verschwörung und versucht herauszufinden, wer die anderen 14 Männer auf der Abschussliste sind und warum sie umgebracht werden sollen. Eine Hetzjagd um die halbe Welt beginnt.

The game of cat and mouse begins... Following an eight month suspension for gross misconduct, Detective Inspector Andy Horton returns to his job after the charges are dropped, but the stain on his career and personal life persists. When Horton stumbles across a naked corpse, brutally bludgeoned, he sets out to find the killer. And while his colleagues want him off the case, fate has other plans.

Stella et Ashkai : un lien toxique, des pouvoirs ancestraux, un clan impitoyable. Elle pensait qu'il l'avait sauvée de ceux qui voulait l'avilir pour lui faire rembourser ses dettes. Mais, elle est passée d'un enfer à un autre. Dorénavant, son destin est entre les mains du « clan », une société secrète crainte même des mafias. Ce sont des monstres, des vrais, de légende. Des loups parmi les hommes. Le pire d'entre eux ? Leur chef Ashkai, qui la veut, elle en particulier. Mais elle ne se laissera pas faire sans combattre.

The page-turning sequel to the best-selling psychological thriller 2Wrong Number". With her husband gone, and his legacy in her hands, Amanda Thorne is hell-bent on revenge. Amanda Thorne is on a mission to avenge her husband. Restoring his honour and protecting his legacy will be dangerous, but she will not rest until all those who have hurt her loved-ones have been dealt with. Her only option is to go undercover in the murky world of the gang kingpin McAllister. So, with her loyal companion Shane by her side, she heads back to Scotland to finish what they started.