Showing posts with label Suspense. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Suspense. Show all posts

Thursday, 29 March 2012

Whisper In The Dark by Robert Gregory Browne





Selling Price : RM 8.00
Original Price : RM 9.90
Status : Available
Book's Condition : Pages are slightly yellowish. 
Synopsis taken from goodreads :

Naked. Incoherent. Covered with blood. That's how Detective Frank Blackburn finds her--a beautiful Jane Doe brandishing a pair of scissors near the scene of a brutal murder. Is she the perpetrator? Or is she the only eyewitness to the handiwork of Vincent Van Gogh, a twisted serial killer with an "artistic" bent?
To find out, Blackburn takes her to renowned psychiatrist Dr. Michael Tolan. But Tolan has problems of his own. One year ago today, his beloved wife Abby was savagely slaughtered by the very same serial killer. Now Jane Doe is saying things that only Abby could know... about long-buried secrets...about the night of Abby's death... Soon Tolan finds himself headed for a confrontation with his past that could well lead to a breakdown. And it's up to Frank Blackburn to find the connection between Jane, Tolan...and Vincent--before the killer strikes again.


Sepulchre by Kate Mosse






Selling Price : RM 18.00
Original Price : RM 32.90
Status : Sold
Book's Condition : There's a sticker name on a page. 
Synopsis taken from goodreads :

In 1891, young Léonie Vernier and her brother Anatole arrive in the beautiful town of Rennes-les-Bains, in southwest France. They've come at the invitation of their widowed aunt, whose mountain estate, Domain de la Cade, is famous in the region. But it soon becomes clear that their aunt Isolde—and the Domain—are not what Léonie had imagined. The villagers claim that Isolde's late husband died after summoning a demon from the old Visigoth sepulchre high on the mountainside. A book from the Domain's cavernous library describes the strange tarot pack that mysteriously disappeared following the uncle's death. But while Léonie delves deeper into the ancient mysteries of the Domain, a different evil stalks her family—one which may explain why Léonie and Anatole were invited to the sinister Domain in the first place. 

More than a century later, Meredith Martin, an American graduate student, arrives in France to study the life of Claude Debussy, the nineteenth century French composer. In Rennes-les-Bains, Meredith checks into a grand old hotel—the Domain de la Cade. Something about the hotel feels eerily familiar, and strange dreams and visions begin to haunt Meredith's waking hours. A chance encounter leads her to a pack of tarot cards painted by Léonie Vernier, which may hold the key to this twenty-first century American's fate . . . just as they did to the fate of Léonie Vernier more than a century earlier.

Wednesday, 28 March 2012

No Time For Goodbye by Linwood Barclay







Selling Price : RM 9.00
Original Price : RM 32.90 ( Bought it RM 9.90) 
Status : Available
Book's Condition : There's a yellow stain on the upper corner on the 
front cover. And also a sticker stain on the front cover too.
Pages are quite yellowish. 
Synopsis taken from goodreads :

Fourteen-year-old Cynthia Bigge woke one morning to discover that her entire family–mother, father,brother–had vanished. No note, no trace, no return. Ever.  Now, twenty-five years later, she’ll learn the devastating truth.

Sometimes it’s better not to know. . . .

Cynthia is happily married with a young daughter, a new family. But the story of her old family isn’t over. A strange car in the neighborhood, untraceable phone calls, ominous “gifts”–someone has returned to her hometown to finish what was started twenty-five years ago. And no one’s innocence is guaranteed, not even her own. By the time Cynthia discovers her killer’s shocking identity, it will again be too late . . . even for goodbye.

Thursday, 22 March 2012

Killing Fear by Allison Brennan




Selling Price : RM 15.00
Original Price : RM 35.90
Status : Available
Book's Condition : There's a sticker on the front page. 
Synopsis taken from goodreads :

FEAR NEVER DIES 
Theodore Glenn loves to inflict pain . . . both on his victims and on those who later find the mutilated corpses. At his trial seven years ago, Glenn vowed vengeance on Detective Will Hooper, the cop who nabbed him, and beautiful Robin McKenna, the stripper whose testimony put him behind bars. 
When a catastrophic disaster sets Glenn free, he blazes a freshly bloodied path across San Diego County. 

But the death he craves most is Robin McKenna's. 
Putting aside their past troubled relationship, Will rushes to protect Robin, now a savvy businesswoman operating an upscale club. As the killings mount and Glenn proves a master manipulator, Robin and Will become snared in a twisted web of horror. But the shocking truth is even worse: The evil they are to face is even deadlier than they fear.

Guilty Pleasures by Tasmina Perry






Selling Price : RM 15.00
Original Price : RM 35.90
Status : Available
Book's Condition : Pages are a bit yellowish. There's a 
sticker on a page. 
Synopsis taken from goodreads :

In the world of the fabulously rich, fashion can have a very high price. Saul Milford, owner of one of England’s oldest and most prestigious luxury goods companies is dead, but who will inherit his estate? Saul’s niece Cassandra, editor-in-chief of glamorous fashion magazine Rive? Roger, Saul’s handsome brother with a demanding, scheming wife? Julia the art-dealer sister with a dark and brooding secret? All have their reasons for wanting the company. But only one of them will go to any lengths to secure what they believe is rightfully theirs. It’s a gilt-edged tale of lust, glamour and intrigue around the world’s most luxurious locations. 

Flirting With Pete by Barbara Delinsky





Selling Price : RM 13.00
Original Price : RM 21.95
Status : SOLD
Book's Condition : In a great shape. =D
Synopsis taken from goodreads :

Casey Ellis has arrived at a lonely place in her life. Her mother remains in a comatose state several years after a terrible accident -- and now her father has died.
Although Casey never met him, she held an oblique hope that someday her father might acknowledge her. She watched from afar as the illustrious Dr. Cornelius Unger became a celebrated psychologist and teacher. Through it all, she clung to the illusive dream that someday he might take notice of her -- and now it is too late.
It comes as a shock when she learns that he has left her his beautiful townhouse in Boston's exclusive Beacon Hill. Sensing that her father had an ulterior motive in leaving her the house, Casey searches the house and finds the first part of what could be a novel, a journal, or a case study for one of her father's clients. The manuscript tells the harrowing story of a young woman named Jenny who was sexually abused by her father and emotionally abused by her mother. When her mother was murdered, her father was sent to prison. After only six years in jail, he is about to be released, and Jenny knows she has to escape. Her way out appears in the form of a man named Pete who shows up on his motorcycle and offers to whisk her away.
Convinced the story is true, Casey sets out to find the rest of the pages and help Jenny. With the discovery of each additional segment, she learns more about Jenny, about herself, and about Cornelius Unger. The manuscript, when fully assembled, proves to be the key to understanding not only her father's past but also that of the man Casey has come to love.


Dead Man's Footstep by Peter James





Selling Price : RM 8.00
Original Price : RM 21.95 
Status : Available 
Book's Condition : There's a sticker on the front 
page. Pages are slightly yellowish. 

"Abby stepped in the lift and the doors closed with a sound like a shovel smoothing gravel. She breathed in the smell of someone else's perfum, and lemon-scented cleaning fluid. The lift jerked upwards a few inches. And now, too late to change her mind and get out, with the metal walls pressing in around her, they lunged sharply downwards. Abby was about to realize she had just made the worst mistake of her life . . . "
Amid the tragic unfolding mayhem of the morning of 9/11, failed Brighton businessman and ne'er-do-well Ronnie Wilson sees the chance of a lifetime, to shed his debts, disappear and reinvent himself in another country. Six years later, the discovery of the skeletal remains of a woman's body in a storm drain in Brighton, leads Detective Superintendent Roy Grace on an enquiry spanning the globe, and into a desperate race against time to save the life of a woman being hunted down like an animal in the streets and alleys of Brighton.


Wednesday, 21 March 2012

A Prisoner of Birth by Jeffrey Archer





Selling Price : RM 16.00
Original Price : RM 36.90
Status : Available
Book's Condition : Brand new ! =D

Danny Cartwright and Spencer Craig were born on different sides of the track. Danny, an East End Cockney, leaves Clement Attlee Comprehensive School at the age of 15 to take up a job at a local garage. He falls in love with Beth, the boss's daughter, and asks her to marry him. Spencer Craig resides in the West End. A graduate of an English public school and Cambridge University. After leaving university he becomes a criminal barrister and is soon tipped to be the youngest Queen's Counsel of his generation.
Danny and Beth travel up to the West End to celebrate their engagement. They end the evening in a wine bar where Spencer Craig is also celebrating - his 30th birthday, along with a select group of university chums.
Although the two young men don't meet, their lives will never be the same again.
For, an hour later, one of them is arrested for murder, while the other ends up as the Prosecution's chief witness in an Old Bailey trial.