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Kurzbeschreibung

After a tragic accident scarred her body and destroyed her dreams, Leila never imagined that the worst was still to come: terrifying powers that let her channel electricity and learn a person's darkest secrets through a single touch. Leila is doomed to a life of solitude...until creatures of the night kidnap her, forcing her to reach out with a telepathic distress call to the world's most infamous vampire...

Vlad Tepesh inspired the greatest vampire legend of all--but whatever you do, don't call him Dracula. Vlad's ability to control fire makes him one of the most feared vampires in existence, but his enemies have found a new weapon against him - a beautiful mortal with powers to match his own. When Vlad and Leila meet, however, passion ignites between them, threatening to consume them both. It will take everything that they are to stop an enemy intent on bringing them down in flames.

Kurzbeschreibung

After a tragic accident scarred her body and destroyed her dreams, Leila never imagined that the worst was still to come: terrifying powers that let her channel electricity and learn a person's darkest secrets through a single touch. Leila is doomed to a life of solitude...until creatures of the night kidnap her, forcing her to reach out with a telepathic distress call to the world's most infamous vampire...

Vlad Tepesh inspired the greatest vampire legend of all--but whatever you do, don't call him Dracula. Vlad's ability to control fire makes him one of the most feared vampires in existence, but his enemies have found a new weapon against him - a beautiful mortal with powers to match his own. When Vlad and Leila meet, however, passion ignites between them, threatening to consume them both. It will take everything that they are to stop an enemy intent on bringing them down in flames.

Produktbeschreibung

Erscheinungsjahr: 2012
Von Frost, Jeaniene

Nach einem tragischen Unfall, der ihren Körper vernarbt und ihre Träume zerstört hat, hätte Leila nie gedacht, dass das Schlimmste erst noch kommen sollte: Grauen erregende Kräfte, die ihr die dunkelsten Geheimnisse eines Menschen verraten, sobald sie ihn berührt. Leila ist zu einem Leben in Einsamkeit verdammt ... bis sie von Geschöpfen der Nacht entführt wird und sie gezwungen ist, mittels Telepathie den berüchtigtsten Vampir der Welt um Hilfe zu rufen.

Produktbeschreibung

Erscheinungsjahr: 2012
Von Gerritsen, Tess

In Bostons Chinatown wird eine Hand gefunden, eine Feuerwaffe fest im Griff. Detective Jane Rizzoli klettert auf das benachbarte Dach und findet eine handlose Frauenleiche, den Kopf fast abgetrennt. Pathologin Dr Maura Isles stellt fest, dass die Mordwaffe ein Schwert uralter chinesischer Herkunft ist. Was wissen die schöne Martial Arts Meisterin Iris Fang und ihre unnahbare Tochter Willow?

Amazon.co.uk

In this ninth outing, Tess Gerritsen?s much-loved series heroines, forensic anthropologist Maura Isles and detective Jane Rizzoli, are on cracking form. The duo often find themselves investigating gruesome murders ? and The Silent Girl is one of the most compelling (and disturbing). Gerritsen is a leading light among the new cadre of female crime writers who are quite as ready to tackle hyper-violent crime fiction as any of their male confreres ? and this is a field, remember, that boasts several stellar talents (including, notably, Kathy Reichs). But one of the most talented practitioners of this nerve-shredding genre is Gerritsen, still on a roll after such highly impressive thrillers as Body Double and Vanish. The latest book, The Silent Girl, is a particularly notable outing for Maura Isles and Jane Rizzoli.

In a Chinatown alley in Boston, a severed human hand is found. On a roof in the vicinity is the decapitated head of a woman. Nearby is a body, and on the corpse are found strands of non-human hair. Involved in the investigation of the crime are Rizzoli and Isles, who quickly discover some starling facts about events that preceded the murder: nearly two decades before, a grim assault on a restaurant in Boston claimed the lives of five people, with only one survivor of the carnage -- a woman skilled in martial arts who is party to a dark secret. Rizzoli and Isles realise that there is something malign and ancient in Chinatown ? and that more lives are at stake.

As so often with Tess Gerritsen, this is a book that guarantees a raising of the pulse rate, and if you harbour the slightest squeamishness, perhaps you'd better pick up something less confrontational. However, the burgeoning army of Gerritsen fans will (quite rightly) have no such pussyfooting objections ? and more power to their (and Gerritsen?s) elbow. --Barry Forshaw