Marjolein van Velzen Poradie kníh (chronologicky)

Summer 1942. When Bernie Gunther is ordered to speak at an international police conference, an old acquaintance has a favour to ask. Little does Bernie suspect what this simple surveillance task will provoke ...One year later, resurfacing from the hell of the Eastern Front, a superior gives him another task that seems straightforward: locating the father of Dalia Dresner, the rising star of German cinema. Bernie accepts the job. Not that he has much choice - the superior is Goebbels himself. But Dresner's father hails from Yugoslavia, a country so riven by sectarian horrors that even Bernie's stomach is turned. Yet even with monsters at home and abroad, one thing alone drives him on from Berlin to Zagreb to Zurich: Bernie Gunther has fallen in love.

It was supposed to be the start of a big night out. But when Emily Kane arrives at her sister Carrie's house, she finds the front door unlocked and no one inside. Dinner's cooking, the TV's on. Carrie, her husband and their two daughters are gone.

Soon after the Mexican presidential election, twenty-three bodies are discovered beheaded on the United States border, each marked with a unique symbol - a carving of a hummingbird. Detective Cecilia Garza of the Mexican intelligence agency recognizes it as the signature of Chuparosa - an assassin feared for his cunning and brutality. The fierce and intense detective has been pursuing the killer for years, yet knows little about him, except that he's heading to New York - with the rest of the world. It's United Nations Week in Manhattan and Jeremy Fisk can't let grief over a devastating loss keep him from his duty to safeguard the city. Complicating matters is news of a mass murder nearby - and the arrival of the disturbingly beautiful and assertive Cecilia Garza, determined to do things her way. In the race to catch Chuparosa, these uneasy allies must learn to work together, and fast. As they soon discover, there's more to this threat than meets the eye - and Fisk will have to learn the hard way that justice is not always blind.

Krimi. In 1876, in a mining camp called Roaring Fork in the Colorado Rockies, several miners were killed from grizzly bear attacks. Corrie Swanson has arranged to examine the remains of the dead miners. She makes a shocking discovery. Town leaders, try to stop her from exposing their community's dark and bloody past, arrest and jail he

After his wife, Helen, is brazenly abducted before his eyes, Special Agent Pendergast furiously pursues the kidnappers, chasing them across the country and into Mexico. But then, things go terribly, tragically wrong; the kidnappers escape; and a shattered Pendergast retreats to his New York apartment and shuts out the world. But when a string of bizarre murders erupts across several Manhattan hotels - perpetrated by a boy who seems to have an almost psychic ability to elude capture - NYPD Lieutenant D'Agosta asks his friend Pendergast for help. Reluctant at first, Pendergast soon discovers that the killings are a message from his wife's kidnappers. But why a message? And what does it mean? When the kidnappers strike again at those closest to Pendergast, the FBI agent, filled anew with vengeful fury, sets out to track down and destroy those responsible. His journey takes him deep into the trackless forests of South America, where he ultimately finds himself face to face with an old evil that - rather than having been eradicated - is stirring anew... and with potentially world-altering consequences.

Pendergast - the world's most enigmatic FBI Special Agent - returns to New York City to investigate a murderous cult. William Smithback, a New York Times reporter, and his wife Nora Kelly, a Museum of Natural History archaeologist, are brutally attacked in their apartment on Manhattan's Upper West Side. Eyewitnesses claim, and the security camera confirms, that the assailant was their strange, sinister neighbour - a man who, by all accounts, died ten days earlier. While Captain Laura Hayward leads the official investigation, Pendergast and Lieutenant Vincent D'Agosta undertake their own private - and decidedly unorthodox - quest for the truth. Their serpentine journey takes them to an enclave of Manhattan they never imagined could exist: a secretive, reclusive cult of Obeah and vodou which no outsiders have ever survived...

The course of Frank Mackey's life was set by one defining moment when he was nineteen. The moment his girlfriend, Rosie Daly, failed to turn up for their rendezvous in Faithful Place, failed to run away with him to London as they had planned. Frank never heard from her again. Twenty years on, Frank is still in Dublin, working as an undercover cop. He's cut all ties with his dysfunctional family. Until his sister calls to say that Rosie's suitcase has been found. Frank embarks on a journey into his past that demands he reevaluate everything he believes to be true.

Een ex-CIA-agent moet in Nevada uitzoeken wat er mis is bij de experimenten met een deeltjesversneller, maar komt in een onhoudbare situatie terecht waarbij godsdienstfanatici met de geleerden komen afrekenen.

New York Times-verslaggever William Smithback en zijn vrouw Nora Kelly, antropoloog verbonden aan het Museum of National History, worden in hun appartement aan de Upper West Side aangevallen. Volgens ooggetuigen was de aanvaller hun ietwat vreemde, sinistere buurman – die is echter tien dagen daarvoor overleden... Laura Hayward leidt het onderzoek, maar Pendergast en D'Agosta ondernemen hun eigen onorthodoxe queeste naar de waarheid. Zij doen een ongelooflijke ontdekking: in Manhattan leeft een geheime, besloten gemeenschap die een voodoocultus bedrijft die geen buitenstaander ooit heeft overleefd.

Perched like a black crow on a crag in the most hostile depths of the Himalayas stands a monastery. For a thousand years the monks have kept guard. Now their sanctum has been violated, the secret carried off. After a millennium of hiding from the world, the guardians of the treasure will have to turn to an outsider for help. Luckily Special Agent Aloysius Pendergast is no stranger. Having trained body and mind in Tibet, he knows the land well. But neither he nor his ward, Constance, are prepared for the truth about what the monks have been protecting. The pursuit of the stolen artefact takes Pendergast and Constance far from the snowy wastes, to where the largest-ever ocean liner is preparing for her maiden voyage. As Pendergast and Constance board, they know they are joined by a cargo of secrets and murderers. As the ship slips into the night, it becomes a deadly race to recover the secret of the monks, or blackness to threaten to fall not just over the ship, but the wider world... A stunning dance of death and mystery, THE WHEEL OF DARKNESS takes the most unusual investigator around on his most thrilling case yet...

The world's biggest supercollider, locked in an Arizona mountain, was built to reveal the secrets of the very moment of creation: the Big Bang itself.The Torus is the most expensive machine ever created by humankind, run by the world's most powerful supercomputer. It is the brainchild of Nobel Laureate William North Hazelius. Will the Torus divulge the mysteries of the creation of the universe? Or will it, as some predict, suck the earth into a mini black hole? Or is the Torus a Satanic attempt, as a powerful televangelist decries, to challenge God Almighty on the very throne of Heaven?Twelve scientists under the leadership of Hazelius are sent to the remote mountain to turn it on, and what they discover must be hidden from the world at all costs. Wyman Ford, ex-monk and CIA operative, is tapped to wrest their secret, a secret that will either destroy the world…or save it.The countdown begins…

An FBI agent, rotting away in a high-security prison for a murder he did not commit... His brilliant, psychotic brother, about to perpetrate a horrific crime... A young woman with an extrodinary past, on th edge of a violent breakdown... An ancient Egyptian tomb with an enigmatic curse, about to be unveiled at a celebrity-studded New York gala... Memento Mori

Vtedy v lese je fascinujúca detektívka – plná akcie, psychologických zápletiek a postáv takých skutočných, že Vám pripadajú ako priatelia. Je tu všetko: tragickí milenci, prípad zmiznutých detí, psychopati, mylné dedukcie, trúfalý, zábavný a nespoľahlivý rozprávač. Príbeh vás zdrapne za golier a s krikom vtiahne do lesa. Na oltári z doby bronzovej, objavenom na posvätnom mieste v Knocknaree, sa nájde mŕtve dieťa. Je to talentovaná balerína, dcéra muža, ktorý vedie kampaň proti diaľnici, naplánovanej cez vzácne archeologické nálezisko. Policajt – rozprávač prežil iné nevyriešené zmiznutie v lete roku 1984, čo lesu dodáva desivo klamlivé čaro. K tomu pristupujú politické ťahanice, posvätná hrdosť detektívnych partnerov, rodina, v ktorej niečo fakt smrdí, čudná partia archeológov a príšerný, strašidelný les.

Een Amerikaanse makelaarster is getuige van de moord op een cliënte die het appartement van haar op mysterieuze wijze omgekomen dochter wil verkopen.

Snake River, Idaho--Ariel Behn, a toxic materials expert at a remote nuclear site, finds her well-ordered life shattered when her cousin is slain by an unknown assassin. His shocking death leaves Ariel as the sole heir to a family legacy: a sinister cache of manuscripts that sweeps her into the deadly center of international intrigue--and a mystery that spans the centuries...Jerusalem, 32 A.D.--During the last week of the life of Christ, as the world stands on the brink of a new two-thousand-year circle, Emperor Tiberius works desperately to deciper the tantalizing clues to an age-old enigma. He will not be the only one. For whoever assembles and interprets these cryptic clues will possess the power to control the fate of the world...Now, at the center of this circle of ancient riddles stands the one woman who can pull the strands together: Ariel Behn. What strange powers lie hidden with in the manuscripts? As Ariel races across the continents to reveal the dark secrets buried in her family's past, she begins to unlock the chilling truth of the coming millenium.

Mount Dragon: an enigmatic research complex hidden in the vast desert of New Mexico. Guy Carson and Susana Cabeza de Vaca have come to Mount Dragon to work shoulder to shoulder with some of the greatest scientific minds on the planet. Led by visionary genius Brent Scopes, their secret goal is a medical breakthrough that promises to bring incalculable benefits to the human race. But while Scopes believes he is leading the way to a new world order, he may in fact be opening the door to mass human extinction. And when Guy and Susana attempt to stop him they find themselves locked in a frightening battle with Scopes, his henchmen, and the apocalyptic nightmare that science has unleashed . . . in Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child's Mount Dragon .

A tow-tiered novel. New York City, 1972 and South of France, 1790.

Sarah Becker is the fifth girl to be abducted by a homicidal maniac. Judging from the state of the bodies that have been found, her long hair will be hacked off and she will be tortured. She has about a week to live.

A woman commits suicide for no apparent reason. A week later, her son – fifteen-year-old Mark Underhill – vanishes. His uncle, novelist Timothy Underhill, searches his hometown of Millhaven for clues that might help unravel this horrible dual mystery. He soon learns that a pedophilic murderer is on the loose in the vicinity, and that shortly before his mother’s suicide, Mark had become obsessed with an abandoned house where he imagined the killer might have taken refuge. No mere empty building, the house whispers from attic to basement with the echoes of a long-hidden true-life horror story, and Tim Underhill comes to fear that in investigating its unspeakable history, Mark stumbled across its last and greatest secret: a ghostly lost girl who may have coaxed the needy, suggestible boy into her mysterious domain.

Výskumná spoločnosť ITC z Nového Mexika sa podujala na kvantový výskum, ktorý vo svojom programe zahŕňa aj cestovanie v čase. Na inom mieste sveta, vo francúzskom Castelgarde, prebiehajú archeologické vykopávky hradu a priľahlého kláštora, kde vedci nečakane natrafia na záhadný odkaz. Profesor Johnston prosí o pomoc na pergamene datovanom 7. apríla 1357. Profesorovi spolupracovníci Mark, Chris a Kate sú okamžite pozvaní do výskumného komplexu v Black Rocku, kde im prezident ITC Doniger opatrne vysvetlí, že profesor Johnston nástojil na ceste do svojho milovaného stredoveku a v stanovenom čase sa nevrátil. Vedcom nezostáva nič iné, len ho ísť pohľadať a priviesť späť. A tak sa pre Marka, Chrisa a Kate začína dobrodružná tridsaťsedemhodinová cesta do stredoveku, kde práve zúri dvadsiaty rok Storočnej vojny medzi Francúzmi a Angličanmi...

Archeologe Nora Kelley is gefascineerd door de oude beschaving van de Anasazi-indianen in het zuidwesten van de Verenigde Staten. Een beschaving waaraan duizend jaar geleden - op het hoogtepunt van haar bloei - plotseling een einde is gekomen. Nora's vader is jaren geleden verdwenen tijdens een zoektocht naar dezelfde beschaving. Nu, zestien jaar later, krijgt ze een brief van hem. Nora stelt een expeditieteam samen en begint een trektocht door de onbarmhartige canyons. Want het kan niet anders of haar vader heeft het legendarische Quivira, de verloren Gouden Stad van de Anasazi-indianen, gevonden...

Jack Forman, odborník na populačnú biológiu a programátor, vyvinul počítačový program, ktorý napodobňuje správanie zvierat a kopíruje vzťah medzi dravcom a jeho obeťou. Z firmy, v ktorej pracuje, ho však náhle prepustia, a tak sa plne vžíva do úlohy muža v domácnosti. Zdá sa, že je s tým spokojný, no manželka Julia sa mu postupne začína odcudzovať – správa sa zvláštne, pracuje dlho do noci v tajnom výskumnom laboratóriu spoločnosti Xymos Technology – a Jack ju začína podozrievať, že má pomer. Keď ho však Julia požiada, aby im pomohol s tajným projektom, rýchlo zistí, že v laboratóriu sa dejú závažné veci. Spoločnosť Xymos Technology vyvinula samoreplikačnú nanotechnológiu – celý mikrorobotický roj baktérií, ktorý sa rozvíja na základe Jackovho programu. Tento roj mal pôvodne slúžiť ako neviditeľná a nezničiteľná letecká kamera, no vedcom sa vymkol spod kontroly. Mimo laboratória sa roj správa ako dravec, ktorý sa reprodukuje a hľadá si svoje obete. Najprv zabíja len zvieratá v púšti, no je zjavné, že dokáže zabiť aj ľudí. Keď Jack odhalí, akú veľkú moc má nebezpečný roj, zistí, že hrozba presahuje hranice izolovaného laboratória.

Na een harttransplantatie komt een Amerikaanse advocate door het 'geheugen' van dat hart een internationaal complot op het spoor.

The largest known meteorite has been discovered, entombed in the earth for millions of years on a frigid, desolate island off the southern tip of Chile. At four thousand tons, this treasure seems impossible to move. New York billionaire Palmer Lloyd is determined to have this incredible find for his new museum. Stocking a cargo ship with the finest scientists and engineers, he builds a flawless expedition. But from the first approach to the meteorite, people begin to die. A frightening truth is about to unfold: The men and women of the Rolvaag are not taking this ancient, enigmatic object anywhere. It is taking them.

Traja cestujúci sú mŕtvy ,paťdesiatšesť ranených.Taká je bilancia poruchy dopravného lietadla letiaceho z Hongkongu do Denveru. Vnútorná kabína je prakticky zničená, no pilotovi sa akoby zázrakom podarilo pristáť. Čo bolo príčinou tejto poruchy ?