Michael Koryta je majstrom napätia, ktorého diela sa ponárajú do temných zákutí ľudskej psychiky a skúmajú tenkú hranicu medzi dobrom a zlom. Jeho schopnosť vytvárať mrazivé atmosféry a komplexné postavy si vyslúžila uznanie kritiky aj čitateľov po celom svete. Koryta majstrovsky kombinuje napínavé zápletky s hlbokými etickými otázkami, čím jeho thrillery presahujú pouhú žánrovú zábavu a stávajú sa podnetnými literárnymi dielami. Jeho písanie je poznačené silným zmyslom pre miesto a neúprosným skúmaním motivácií postáv, čo čitateľa vtiahne do jeho znepokojivých, ale fascinujúcich svetov.
The plot revolves around Israel Pike, a prime suspect in the murder of seven men on his yacht, including two Senate rivals. With a troubled past and a dangerous secret, he finds himself isolated on Salvation Point Island. Meanwhile, 12-year-old Lyman Rankin, escaping his abusive father, stumbles upon a mysterious woman in an abandoned house who threatens his life. As the investigation unfolds, the lives of Lyman and Israel intersect, leading to unexpected consequences and revelations.
"Recently laid-off, newspaper reporter Nick Bishop takes a humbling job: writing a profile on the new mindfulness app called Clarity. Th eapp itself is a retread of old ideas-- relaxing white noise and guided meditations with one new feature... the "Sleep Songs." A hauntingly beautiful voice sends listeners to a depp sleep with a ballad thais anything but soothing. Then come the nightmares. Vivid and chilling, they feature a dead woman who calls him by name. Soon her voice follows him long after the song is done. As the effects of the nightmares begin to permeate his waking life, Nick makes a terrifying discovery: no one involved with Clarity has any interest in his article. Their interest is in him"--
Once a wife, mother, and witness to a gruesome crime, Nina Morgan has been in hiding for a decade as Leah Trenton. She left behind her Midwestern roots to move to the northernmost tip of Maine. She also left behind a family. Living a fairly isolated life along the banks of the Allagash River, she is determined to focus on the present, on her reclaimed future, but the demons of her past are relentlessly chipping away at Leah's protected hideaway.Then, in the wake of their father's untimely death, Leah's children call and she rushes to them in the guise of 'Aunt Leah'. They embark on a cross country journey but before they reach their destination, danger finds them and it is Leah who must come out of her seclusion to search for and protect her children. Told with the deft plotting and enthralling storytelling of a genre master, these two captivating chase narratives will converge along the rugged Allagash River, in the wilds of Maine, where the wills, morals, and ingenuity of a broken family will be tested against all odds.
"Far upstate, in New York's ancient forests, a drowned village lays beneath the dark, still waters of the Chilewaukee reservoir. Early in the 20th century, the town was destroyed for the greater good: bringing water to the millions living downstate. Or at least that's what the politicians from Manhattan insisted at the time. The local families, settled there since America's founding, were forced from their land, but they didn't move far, and some didn't move at all... Now, a century later, the repercussions of human arrogance are finally making themselves known. An inspector assigned to oversee the dam, dangerously neglected for decades, witnesses something inexplicable. It turns out that more than the village was left behind in the waters of the Chill when it was abandoned. The townspeople didn't evacuate without a fight. A dark prophecy remained, too, and the time has come for it to be fulfilled. Those who remember must ask themselves: who will be next? For sacrifices must be made. And as the dark waters begin to inexorably rise, the demand for a fresh sacrifice emerges from the deep."--
"Tara Beckley, a senior at Hammel College in Maine, is driving a visiting professor to a conference when a horrific car accident kills the professor and leaves Tara a prisoner of locked-in syndrome. She is fully alert, but unable to move a muscle. Trapped in her body, she learns that someone powerful wants her dead -- but why? Abby Kaplan, an insurance investigator, is hired by the college to look in to Tara's case. A former stunt driver, she can tell that Tara's car crash was no accident. She starts asking questions and is soon on the run -- with a young hit man named Dax Blackwell hard on her heels."--Provided by publisher
New York Times-bestselling author Michael Koryta returns with a thrilling new standalone crime novel and a rugged new investigator, an FBI interrogation specialist.
»Fesselnd!« - Harlan Coben Seit dem Tod seiner Frau ist Markus Novak nicht mehr derselbe. Früher hat er als Ermittler unschuldig Verurteilten geholfen, aus dem Gefängnis zu kommen. Doch als der Mörder seiner Frau freigesprochen wird, ist Novak fest entschlossen, das Rechtssystem zu umgehen und den Mörder auf eigene Faust zu jagen. Dafür kehrt er an den Ort zurück, an dem seine Frau starb. Was Novak jedoch nicht weiß – der Mörder wartet bereits auf ihn …
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"Rise the dark. These were the last words written in Lauren Novak's notebook before she was murdered in a strange Florida village. They've never meant anything to the police or to her husband, investigator Markus Novak. Now the man he believes killed her, Gardland Webb, is out of prison and draws Markus to the scene he's avoided for so long: the lonely road where his wife was shot to death beneath the cypress trees and Spanish moss in a place called Cassadaga. In Red Lodge, Montana, a senseless act of vandalism shuts the lights off in the town where Sabrina Baldwin is still trying to adjust to a new home and mourning the loss of her brother, who was a high-voltage linesman just like her husband, Jay. As the spring's final snowstorm calls Jay deeper into the mountains, chasing the destruction to the electrical grid, Sabrina is abducted by Garland Webb, Lauren's purported killer. Drawing them all together is a messianic killer who understands that you can never outpace your past. You can only rise against the future"--Jacket
A pulse-pounding thriller about a small town, a dead girl, and an investigator with nothing to lose. Mark Novak just wants to come home. Still mourning the death of his wife, private investigator Mark Novak accepts a case that may be his undoing. On the same day his wife died, the body of a teenage girl was pulled from the extensive and perilous cave system beneath Southern Indiana. Now the man who rescued the girl, who was believed to be her killer, begs Novak to uncover what really happened. Garrison is much like any place in America, proud and fortified against outsiders. For Mark to delve beneath the town's surface, he must match wits with the man who knows the caverns better than anyone. A man who seems to have lost his mind. A man who seems to know Mark Novak all too well. LAST WORDS is a pulse-pounding thriller of one man's undoing; you just may not know which man.