Gunnar Kwisinski Livres

Le docteur David Beck et sa femme Elizabeth, journaliste, ont vingt-cinq ans et s’aiment depuis l’enfance. Comme chaque année, ils retournent sur les lieux de leur premier baiser, le lac Charmaine, en Pennsylvanie. Mais la baignade tourne au cauchemar. Elizabeth est enlevée, David, assommé. Le cadavre de la jeune femme sera retrouvé non loin de là, marqué au fer rouge par un serial killer. Huit ans plus tard, le souvenir de cette nuit d’effroi hante toujours David. À l’approche de l’anniversaire du drame, il reçoit un étrange email anonyme contenant un message codé dont seuls Elizabeth et lui connaissent la clé. Qui le lui a envoyé ? Dans quel but ? Si c’est une blague, elle est de très mauvais goût : Elizabeth est morte ; son père, Hoyt Parker, un ancien inspecteur de la police new-yorkaise, a formellement identifié son corps. Et pourtant, le doute s’installe…

Fifteen years ago in small-town New Jersey, a teenage boy and girl were found dead. Most people concluded it was a tragic suicide pact. The dead boy's brother, Nap Dumas, did not. Now Nap is a cop - but he's a cop who plays by his own rules, and who has never made peace with his past. And when the past comes back to haunt him, Nap discovers secrets can kill ...

„Lucky“ ist ein packender Thriller über ein Mädchen, das nach Jahren der Misshandlung den Tod ihrer Mutter durch ihren gewalttätigen Vater miterleben muss. Zwanzig Jahre später wird der Vater entlassen und sucht seine Tochter, die mittlerweile einen eigenen, mörderischen Weg gefunden hat, mit ihrer Vergangenheit umzugehen.

It's a profile, like all the others on the online dating site. But as NYPD Detective Kat Donovan focuses on the accompanying picture, she feels her whole world explode, as emotions she's ignored for decades come crashing down on her. Staring back at her is her ex-fiance Jeff, the man who shattered her heart 18 years ago. Kat feels a spark, wondering if this might be the moment when past tragedies recede and a new world opens up to her. But when she reaches out to the man in the profile, her reawakened hope quickly darkens into suspicion and then terror as an unspeakable conspiracy comes to light, in which monsters prey upon the most vulnerable. As Kat's hope for a second chance with Jeff grows more and more elusive, she is consumed by an investigation that challenges her feelings about everyone she ever loved - her former fiance, her mother, and even her father, whose cruel murder so long ago has never been fully explained. With lives on the line, including her own, Kat must venture deeper into the darkness than she ever has before, and discover if she has the strength to survive what she finds there.

Doc, einst erfolgreicher Arzt, kämpft nun in der Halbwelt von San Antonio. Nach dem Tod seines Freundes Hank Williams plagen ihn Schuldgefühle und Hanks ruheloser Geist. Als das Mädchen Graciela in sein Leben tritt, scheint sich alles zu wenden, doch Hanks Geist kann sich über Docs neues Glück nicht freuen.