Real Life Thrillers

The Real Life of Sebastian Knight, the first novel Nabokov wrote in English, is a tantalizing literary mystery in which a writer’s half brother searches to unravel the enigma of the life of the famous author of Albinos in Black, The Back of the Moon, and Doubtful Asphodel. A characteristically cunning play on identity and deception, the novel concludes “ I am Sebastian, or Sebastian is I, or perhaps we both are someone whom neither of us knows.”

In April 1944, a teenager named Rudolf Vrba was planning a daring and unprecedented escape from Auschwitz. After hiding in a pile of timber planks for three days while 3,000 SS men and their bloodhounds searched for him, Vrba and his fellow escapee Fred Wetzler would eventually cross Nazi-occupied Poland on foot, as penniless fugitives. Their mission: to tell the world the truth of the Final Solution.

Rebecca Waterhouse is just 13 when she witnesses her mother's death at the hand of her father in Seaview Cottage. But what else did she see? Years later, Rebecca's daughters Iris and Jessie know their mother will never speak of that terrible night. But when Jessie goes missing, with her gravely ill newborn, Iris realises the past may hold the key to her sister's disappearance.

Tower of Secrets is a thriller, filled with spycraft and intelligence techniques never before revealed, a true story that is more spellbinding than any work of fiction could ever be. Head of security for cipher communications worldwide, Sheymov has rare knowledge of the entire system. Enter the riveting world of real intelligence where every life-or-death move on the chessboard affects the fate of nations. This is a tale more thrilling than fiction, told by a consummate master of the game.

Television Producer Laurie Moran has spent her career solving cold cases on screen. But her next case takes place away from the glare of the spotlights...and the missing person is a member of her growing family. Laurie is just days away from her midsummer wedding when her fiancé’s nephew, seven-year-old Johnny, vanishes from the beach. Witnesses spotted Johnny playing in the water and collecting shells, but no one remembers seeing him after the morning. When Johnny’s bodyboard washes up to shore, everyone realises that the worst could have happened.

Twelve-year-old Ted Gerson has spent most of his summer playing video games. So when his great-uncle dies and bequeaths him all the so-called treasure in his overstuffed junk shop of an apartment, Ted explores it like it's another level to beat. And to his shock, he finds that eccentric Great-Uncle Ted actually has set the place up like a real-life escape-the-room game!

Fast 50 Jahre lebte Michael Kramer unter uns und tötete in dieser Zeit über 100 Menschen. In diesem Hörbuch erzählt er selbst seine Geschichte, die er noch zu Lebzeiten aufgenommen hat. Du wirst im ersten Teil erfahren, wie er zu dem Menschen wurde, der er war. Wie er erst durch Zufall tötete und dann im Affekt. Keine Details sollst du missen, auch wenn du ihn nach diesem Hörbuch hassen wirst. Im zweiten Teil geht es dann schonungslos weiter.

Though best known for the fictional cases of his creation Sherlock Holmes, Conan Doyle was involved in dozens of real life cases, solving many and zealously campaigning for justice in all. Stanford thoroughly and convincingly makes the case that the details of the many events Doyle was involved in, and caricatures of those involved, would provide Conan Doyle the fodder for many of the adventures of the violin-playing detective.

With a population of 500 souls, isolated Sark has a reputation for being 'the island where nothing ever happens'. Until, one day, the neatly folded clothes of an unknown man and woman are discovered abandoned at a coastal beauty spot. As the search for the missing couple catches the attention of first the local and then national newspapers, Sark finds itself front page news. When young islander Phyllis Carey returns to Sark from England she throws herself into solving the mystery.

Colter Shaw ist hart, er ist kompromisslos und die letzte Rettung für Menschen, denen die Polizei nicht helfen kann oder will. Als er von einer verschwundenen Collegestudentin hört, bietet er dem verzweifelten Vater seine Hilfe an. Seine Ermittlungen führen ihn in das dunkle Herz von Silicon Valley und in die billionendollarschwere Videospielindustrie. Es gelingt ihm, die junge Frau zu finden - doch dann gibt es eine zweite Entführung. Shaw ist überzeugt, dass der Täter versucht, ein Videospiel zum Leben zu erwecken.

Nora Grace Moon thought the toughest challenge this semester would be surviving crippling bouts of OCD, but when her deceased roommate turns up as a reanimated corpse, her world starts to collapse. Nora has an uncanny, heated connection to fellow gamer Wesley. She finds out he’s a US Marshal with real-life skills for tactical survival, not just in-game. They uncover a plot involving an ancient archeology society who will stop at nothing until they have what Nora has—an ancient artifact that will unleash a new world order of the undead.