Jennifer Hillier Bücher

Der Mörder hinterlässt grausame Botschaften. Und du weißt, sie gelten dir. Vor vierzehn Jahren kehrte Geos beste Freundin Angela nach einer Party nicht nach Hause zurück. Nun wird ihre zerstückelte Leiche gefunden. Für die Polizei ist schnell klar: Angela ist das Opfer des berüchtigten Serienmörders Calvin James. Doch für Geo ist Calvin nicht nur ein Serienmörder. Für sie ist er ihre erste große Liebe. Seit vierzehn Jahren weiß sie, was in dieser einen Nacht geschah, und vierzehn Jahre lang hat sie niemandem davon erzählt. Doch dann werden weitere Frauen ermordet, auf dieselbe Weise wie damals Angela. Der Mörder hinterlässt am Tatort eindeutige Botschaften. Und diese Botschaften gelten Geo ...

Nichts ist gefährlicher als eine Frau, die alles verloren hat ... Marin hatte alles. Einen attraktiven Ehemann, einen fantastischen Job, einen entzückenden kleinen Sohn. Bis zu dem Tag, als der vierjährige Sebastian spurlos verschwand und ihre ganze Welt zusammenbrach. Ein Jahr später ist Marin nur noch ein Schatten ihrer selbst. Die Polizei hat die Suche aufgegeben. Mit ihrem Mann wechselt sie kaum noch ein Wort. In ihrer Not wendet sie sich an eine Privatermittlerin. Doch statt Sebastian zu finden, macht diese eine andere Entdeckung – Marins Mann betrügt sie. Die Wut holt Marin zurück ins Leben. Nach ihrem Sohn wird sie nicht auch noch ihren Mann verlieren. Und schon gar nicht an eine andere Frau. Diesmal hat das Böse ein Gesicht, und das bedeutet, dass Marin es aus dem Weg schaffen kann. Für immer. »Dieses Buch kann man nicht mehr weglegen!« Karin Slaughter

Inheriting his childhood home in Seattle from the grandfather who hunted down a serial killer decades earlier, Matt, a restaurateur, makes a discovery about his girlfriend's mother that reveals terrible truths about the past.

Inside a maximum-security prison cell, Abby Maddox is serving twenty years for slashing Seattle PD officer Jerry Isaac's throat during the harrowing capture of her former lover, serial killer Ethan Wolfe. To the demented fans, lunatics, and creeps on the outside, she is a celebrity. But to Jerry, now a private investigator whose scarred neck and tortured speech are daily reminders of Abby's vicious attack, she alone may be the key to solving a new wave of murders. Because this killer has been sending her love letters, and carving a message on the victims' bodies: "Free Abby Maddox." With the help of intuitive criminology student Danny Mercy, Puget Sound State professor Sheila Tao, and seasoned detective Mike Torrance, Jerry must coax the shattering truth from isolated, dangerous Abby--before her number-one fan takes another life in the name of a killer's perverted idea of justice

Overwhelmed by tragedy, a woman desperately tries to save her marriage in award-winning author Jennifer Hillier's Little Secrets, a riveting novel of psychological suspense.

By day, Wonderland is a magical amusement park boasting a certain retro charm. Excited children, hands sticky with cotton candy, run frenetically from ride to ride while the tinkling music of the oldest Ferris wheel in the Pacific Northwest fills the air. But behind the scenes, the rides need repairs, and the clown museum is filled with a lot more than just wax figures hunte is working hard to keep the park's dark secrets hidden beneath its weathered attractions. Vanessa Castro's first day as deputy police chief of Seaside, Washington, is off to a bang. The unidentifiable homeless man rotting inside the tiny town's main tourist attraction is strange enough, but now a teenage employee is missing. Clues lead Vanessa into a mysterious web of missing persons cases that goes back decades. She moved to Seaside to escape her own scandalous past, but has she brought her family to the center of an insidious killer's twisted game?

*INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER* "Propulsive and chilling." --People Magazine "An intoxicating thrill ride. Hillier jams her foot on the accelerator and never lets up." --New York Times Book Review Things We Do in the Dark is a brilliant new thriller from Jennifer Hillier, the award-winning author of the breakout novels Little Secrets and Jar of Hearts. Paris Peralta is suspected of killing her celebrity husband, and her long-hidden past now threatens to destroy her future. When Paris Peralta is arrested in her own bathroom—covered in blood, holding a straight razor, her celebrity husband dead in the bathtub behind her—she knows she'll be charged with murder. But as bad as this looks, it's not what worries her the most. With the unwanted media attention now surrounding her, it's only a matter of time before someone from her long hidden past recognizes her and destroys the new life she's worked so hard to build, along with any chance of a future. Twenty-five years earlier, Ruby Reyes, known as the Ice Queen, was convicted of a similar murder in a trial that riveted Canada in the early nineties. Reyes knows who Paris really is, and when she's unexpectedly released from prison, she threatens to expose all of Paris's secrets. Left with no other choice, Paris must finally confront the dark past she escaped, once and for all. Because the only thing worse than a murder charge are two murder charges.

"Dr. Sheila Tao is a professor of psychology. An expert in human behavior. And when she began an affair with sexy, charming graduate student Ethan Wolfe, she knew she was playing with fire. Consumed by lust when they were together, riddled with guilt when they weren't, she knows the three-month fling with her teaching assistant has to end. After all, she's finally engaged to a kind and loving investment banker who adores her, and she's taking control of her life. But when she attempts to end the affair, Ethan Wolfe wont let her walk away. Ethan has plans for Sheila, plans that involve posting a sex video that would surely get her fired and destroy her prestigious career. Plans to make her pay for rejecting him. And as she attempts to counter his every threatening move without her colleagues or her fiancé discovering her most intimate secrets, a shattering crime rocks Puget Sound State University: a female student, a star athlete, is found stabbed to death. Someone is raising the stakes of violence, sex, and blackmail ... and before she knows it, Sheila is caught in a terrifying cat-and-mouse game with the lover she couldn't resist, who is now the monster who won't let her go."--Publisher comments.

Země divů (Wonderland) je zábavní park v jednom malém americkém městě ve státě Washington. Park, v němž nechybí dům hrůzy či muzeum klaunů, funguje jako lákadlo pro turisty a současně zdroj obživy pro celé město. Přinejmenším do chvíle, kdy je v jeho areálu objeveno rozkládající se lidské tělo. Onoho dne, kdy je mrtvola nalezena, nastupuje coby zástupkyně šéfa místní policie Vanessa Castrová. A jako kdyby toho stále ještě nebylo málo, mizí rovněž mladý chlapec, který v zábavním parku pracoval. Vanessa, která začíná oba případy vyšetřovat, zjišťuje, že během posledních deseti let bylo podobných zmizení již více. Řádí zde snad kdosi, kdo unáší a vraždí mladé chlapce? A jak to všechno souvisí se zdejším zábavním parkem? Vanessa se přestěhovala do malého města, aby unikla své vlastní minulosti. Nepostavila ale místo toho sebe i svou rodinu rovnou do středu tajemné hry zákeřného vraha? Jenže tato hra teprve začíná a její konec nedokáže nikdo ani odhadnout.