C. J. Cooke

Two sisters go missing on a remote Scottish island. Twenty years later, one is found--but she's still the same age as when she disappeared. The secrets of witches have reached across the centuries in this chilling Gothic thriller from the author of the acclaimed The Nesting. When single mother Liv is commissioned to paint a mural in a 100-year-old lighthouse on a remote Scottish island, it's an opportunity to start over with her three daughters--Luna, Sapphire, and Clover. When two of her daughters go missing, she's frantic. She learns that the cave beneath the lighthouse was once a prison for women accused of witchcraft. The locals warn her about wildlings, supernatural beings who mimic human children, created by witches for revenge. Liv is told wildlings are dangerous and must be killed. Twenty-two years later, Luna has been searching for her missing sisters and mother. When she receives a call about her youngest sister, Clover, she's initially ecstatic. Clover is the sister she remembers--except she's still seven years old, the age she was when she vanished. Luna is worried Clover is a wildling. Luna has few memories of her time on the island, but she'll have to return to find the truth of what happened to her family. But she doesn't realize just how much the truth will change her.

The Lighthouse Witches

Untitled C. J. Cooke Book 1

'Vivid and compelling' Rosamund Lupton, bestselling author of Three Hours It was like something out of a fairytale... The grieving widower. The motherless daughters. A beautiful house in the woods.

The Nesting

A woman with no name. A wild, abandoned island. A family desperate for answers. A debut thriller like no other. I KNOW MY NAME On a small Greek island, a woman comes ashore with no memory of who she is, where she's from, or how she came to be shipwrecked there. Worse, she has no way of leaving. As she's nursed back to health by the island's only inhabitants, four friends on an annual retreat, she detects tensions between the group that suggest not all is quite as it seems. Her new acquaintances each appear to be hiding something--something that may relate to the mystery of her identity. Meanwhile, in a pretty suburb on the outskirts of London, Eloise, the mother of a newborn and a toddler, vanishes into thin air. Her husband, Lochlan, is desperate to find her--but as the police look into the disappearance, it becomes clear that Lochlan and Eloise's marriage was not the perfect union it appeared. As Lochlan races to discover his wife's whereabouts, Eloise enacts an investigation of her own. What both discover will place lives at risk and upend everything they thought they knew about their marriage, their past, and what lies in store for the future.

I Know My Name

An explorer of abandoned dwellings ventures onto a shipwreck off the coast of Iceland, and finds terrors and secrets far darker than she ever imagined, in this chilling gothic novel from the international bestselling, Edgar-nominated author of The Lighthouse Witches.

A Haunting in the Arctic

In the final chapter of their story, Aria and her mates continue on their journey. Having finally made their way to Valhalla, they now face the problem of finding a way to free the Valkyrie army. The shifter pack face their own difficulties, as they wait for Aria to bring aid. The demons continue in their move to try and take over the realm and the pack is left to deal with the impending attack, alone.As Aria embraces the full extent of her magic, other magics stir in those around her. With the impending Blood Moon and the demon hoard preparing to invade, it is a race against time to find a way to save the realm.Reader warning: this book contains explicit scenes and briefly deals with themes which some readers may find triggering. This is an adult reverse harem book involving MMFM relationships with explicit content and is intended for 18+ readers only.Book 1 - Destiny AwakenedBook 2 - Destiny RisingBook 3 - Destiny Realised

Destiny Series: Book 3

Destiny Realised

The Blame Game

A deserted shipwreck off the coast of Iceland holds terrors and dark secrets in this chilling horror novel from the author of The Lighthouse Witches. The year is 1901, and Nicky is attacked, then wakes on board the Ormen, a whaling ship embarked on what could be its last voyage. With land still weeks away, it’s just her, the freezing ocean, and the crew – and they’re all owed something only she can give them... Now, over one hundred years later, the wreck of the Ormen has washed up on the forbidding, remote coast of Iceland. It’s scheduled to be destroyed, but explorer Dominique feels an inexplicable pull to document its last days, even though those who have ventured onto the wreck before her have met uncanny ends. Onboard the boat, Dominique will uncover a dark past riddled with lies, cruelty, and murder—and her discovery will change everything. Because she’ll soon realize she’s not alone. Something has walked the floors of the Ormen for almost a century. Something that craves revenge.

Une femme sans nom. Une disparition inexpliquée. Un suspense haletant. Une femme échoue sur une île déserte. Qui est-elle, d'où vient-elle, comment est-elle arrivée jusqu'ici ? Elle n'en a pas la moindre idée. Alors que quatre écrivains réunis pour leur retraite annuelle lui viennent en aide, elle détecte de vives tensions au sein du groupe. Les apparences sont trompeuses, et chacun d'eux semble dissimuler un secret en lien avec le mystère de son identité. Pendant ce temps, dans un quartier huppé de la banlieue londonienne, Eloïse disparaît, abandonnant ses deux enfants en bas âge. Son mari se démène pour la retrouver, mais l'enquête menée par la police révèle que leur mariage si parfait n'est qu'une façade...

Si tu t'en vas

A mother must fight for her daughter’s life in this fierce and haunting tale of witchcraft and revenge from the author of A Haunting in the Arctic. Clem gets a call that is every mother’s worst nightmare. Her nineteen-year-old daughter Erin is unconscious in the hospital after a hiking trip with her friends on the remote Orkney Islands that met a horrifying end, leaving her boyfriend dead and her best friend missing. When Erin wakes, she doesn’t recognize her mother. And she doesn’t answer to her name, but insists she is someone named Nyx. Clem travels the site of her daughter’s accident, determined to find out what happened to her. The answer may lie in a dark secret in the history of the Orkneys: a woman wrongly accused of witchcraft and murder four centuries ago. Clem begins to wonder if Erin’s strange behavior is a symptom of a broken mind, or the effects of an ancient curse?

The Book of Witching

A young woman sent to stay in a crumbling gothic manor will find haunting secrets creeping out of the surrounding dark woods in this new, chilling novel from the acclaimed author of The Lighthouse Witches. In the midst of the woods stands a house called Lichen Hall. This place is shrouded in folklore—old stories of ghosts, of witches, of a child who is not quite a child. Now the woods are creeping closer, and something has been unleashed. Pearl Gorham arrives in 1965, one of a string of young women sent to Lichen Hall to give birth. And she soon suspects the proprietors are hiding something. Then she meets the mysterious mother and young boy who live on the grounds—and together they begin to unpack the secrets of this place. As the truth comes to the surface and the darkness moves in, Pearl must rethink everything she knew—and risk what she holds most dear.

The Ghost Woods

Nina Laurin

Anders de la Motte

Frank Kodiak

Pierre Martin

Markus Stromiedel

Vitu Falconi

Nora Luttmer

Gillian Macmillan

Lieben Sie Nervenkitzel und Gefahr? Tauchen Sie gern in die gedanklichen Abgründe von psychopathischen Mördern ein? Freuen Sie sich auf einen kriminellen Abstecher in die Provence mit Pierre Martin? Warten Sie bereits auf neue raffinierte Spannung von Gilly Macmillan? Faszinieren Sie ungelöste Mordfälle, die ihre Schatten bis in die Gegenwart werfen? Sind Sie neugierig auf neue Ermittler wie Eric Marchand, der auf Korsika alten Geheimnissen auf der Spur ist? Oder ist es einfach mal wieder Zeit für eine Auszeit vom Alltag und damit für ein spannendes Buch? Hier sind Ihre mörderischen Aussichten für das Frühjahr 2018! Vorab-Leseproben zu den Spannungs-Titeln des Knaur-Verlages, die im Frühjahr 2018 erscheinen. Das kostenlose Leseproben eBook enthält Leseproben zu: - Nina Laurin »Escape« - Vitu Falconi »Das korsische Begräbnis« - Pierre Martin »Madame le Commissaire und die tote Nonne« - Nora Luttmer »Dunkelkinder« - Frank Kodiak »Stirb zuerst« - Markus Stromiedel »Nachtfrost« - Gilly Macmillan »Bad Friends« - Anders de la Motte »Sommernachtstod« - C. J. Cooke »Broken Memory«

Ausgewählte Leseproben von Pierre Martin, Nora Luttmer, Gilly Macmillan, Anders de la Motte u.v.m.

Mörderische Aussichten: Thriller & Krimi bei Knaur

Abby thought her life was perfect: she had unsurpassable beauty, money, fame, unconditional love, everything that a person could ever want. But like all good things, it didnat last forever; the fairytale eventually came to an end. Everything she had ever treasured was taken from her. Everyone that ever possessed significance in her life walked away, leaving her alone with the one thing she could never face: herself. She locked herself away from the world, feeding on her sorrow and guilt, fueling her feelings of despair and loneliness. She thought that there was only one way out, only one final alternative. Death. She thought it was the only way to escape the pain, the only way to be free again. But sometimes, an object must not be forced to become more than what it really is. What she thought was just that: nothing more than a thought.

Death by a Thought, Life by a Mistake

Du weißt nicht, wer du bist. Du weißt nicht, wer sie sind. Aber sie kennen deinen Namen. Raffiniert, abgründig, manipulativ - Intelligente psychologische Spannung aus der Feder der preisgekrönten irischen Autorin C.J.Cooke, die Sie garantiert bis zur letzten Seite gefangen nehmen wird! Eine Frau erwacht am einsamen Strand einer Insel im Mittelmeer, verletzt und ohne jede Erinnerung. Zum Glück wird sie von vier Freunden, von Beruf Schriftsteller und Autoren, gefunden, die diese Insel als Rückzugsort gewählt haben, um sich in Einsamkeit und karger Abgeschiedenheit ganz dem Bücherschreiben und Schreibprozess widmen zu können. Sie wollen sich um die gestrandete Frau kümmern, bis sie ihr Trauma überwunden hat, ihre Erinnerung zurückgekehrt ist und es ihr gut genug geht, um die Insel zu verlassen. Doch irgendetwas stimmt nicht mit den zwei Männern und zwei Frauen, das kann ihr unfreiwilliger Gast, auch mit Gedächtnisverlust, fühlen: Jeder von ihnen scheint etwas zu verbergen - und: Was wissen sie wirklich über ihren Gast? Zeitgleich sucht man in London verzweifelt nach einer jungen Mutter und Ehefrau, die am helllichten Tag spurlos verschwunden ist. Ohne Geld und Ausweis, ohne Koffer oder Auto, ohne Flugticket und ohne ihre Kinder. Sie ist spurlos verschwunden. Der Ehemann verzweifelt. Stück für Stück lassen die Ermittlungen die perfekte Fassade von Ehe- und Familienglück bröckeln ... Auf intelligente und hochspannende Art und Weise spielt die Autorin C.J. Cooke, die sich an der Universität in Glasgow mit der literarischen Gestaltung psychisch labiler Helden beschäftigt, in ihrem Psycho-Thriller "Broken memory" mit Themen wie Erinnerung, Gedächtnisverlust, Identität und Mutterschaft.

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