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Karen Rose

    29 juillet 1964

    L'auteure à succès international Karen Rose crée des romans à suspense qui plongent les lecteurs dans un monde d'émotions intenses et d'intrigues périlleuses. Son écriture mêle habilement des relations complexes à des intrigues captivantes, assurant que les lecteurs restent fascinés jusqu'à la dernière page. Le style de Rose se caractérise par des personnages réalistes aux prises avec de sombres secrets et des démons personnels tout en luttant pour leur survie et la justice. Elle construit magistralement une atmosphère d'effroi et d'incertitude, attirant les lecteurs dans un royaume où l'amour et le danger s'entremêlent souvent.

    Die For Me. Todesschrei, englische Ausgabe
    Have You Seen Her?
    Edge of Darkness
    I'm Watching You. Des Todes liebste Beute, englische Ausgabe
    Buried Too Deep
    Les roses écarlates
    • Les roses écarlates

      • 672pages
      • 24 heures de lecture

      Traumatisée par une agression, Eve Wilson s'est réfugiée dans l'univers virtuel de Shadowland. Là, loin des rues de Minneapolis, elle se projette dans une vie qui n'est pas la sienne, espérant tenir sa douleur à distance. Mais plusieurs des femmes qui, comme elle, fréquentent Shadowland, se suicident mystérieusement. Le monde auquel Eve tente de se raccrocher serait-il tout aussi monstrueux que celui qu'elle essaie de fuir ? L'inspecteur Noah Webster, chargé de l'enquête, lui apprend qu'il s'agit en réalité de meurtres. Choquée par ces révélations, Eve propose à Noah de le conduire dans les méandres de cet univers de l'ombre, sur les traces du tueur...

      Les roses écarlates
    • From New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Karen Rose comes another explosive novel in the New Orleans series, where some secrets are worth dying for—or killing to keep. Three can keep a secret if two of them are dead.Employed as the nighttime security guard of Broussard Private Investigations, Phineas Bishop has been working through overwhelming PTSD episodes from his Army service while still utilizing his military skills. But when a violent break-in occurs at the office, the accusatory eyes of the NOPD glance to Phin, and he resolves to track down the intruder and clear his name. Phin’s only lead and witness is Cora Winslow, a spirited librarian who also needs answers. Her father’s body has been discovered under a recently demolished building, murdered twenty-three years ago. So, who has been sending her the handwritten letters—written and signed by him—every year since she was five? Someone wants to keep Cora in the dark. And now, they’re coming for her. As Cora’s bodyguard, Phin is surprised by his fondness for the woman’s fierce determination and research prowess. But New Orleans’s Garden District holds secrets as old as the streets themselves. With help from the entire Broussard P.I. team, Phin and Cora enter a labyrinth of fraud and homicide that threatens to bury them all.

      Buried Too Deep
      5,0
    • When admiration becomes obsession, will it turn to murder? I'M WATCHING YOU is a brilliant thriller from bestselling Karen Rose, and part of her Chicago series. Kristen Mayhew, the Chicago Public Defender's office star prosecutor, is no stranger to success. With success comes danger though and it's only a matter of time before she herself becomes a victim. A secret admirer is following Kristen's every move. He kills the criminals she herself is powerless to stop, then sends her letters offering the murders as tokens of his respect. Kristen's life is out of control and, as the body count rises, the killer's obsessive need for retribution will make Kristen a target, along with everyone she holds dear...

      I'm Watching You. Des Todes liebste Beute, englische Ausgabe
      4,4
    • Edge of Darkness

      • 599pages
      • 21 heures de lecture

      The fourth book in Karen Rose's nail-biting Cincinnati Series revisits your favourite characters battling crime in the city's dark underbelly. Fans of Tess Gerritsen, James Patterson and Karin Slaughter will not be able to tear themselves away from this explosive thriller.

      Edge of Darkness
      4,4
    • Have You Seen Her?

      • 502pages
      • 18 heures de lecture

      One by one, young girls are being murdered. Now a killer has a different victim in his sights. HAVE YOU SEEN HER is an unforgettable thriller, part of bestselling author Karen Rose's Raleigh series. Good night. Sleep tight. One by one, the girls disappear from their beds at night. Each one is pretty, with long dark hair. And each one is found brutally murdered. Special Agent Steven Thatcher has sworn to find the killer. As the investigation pulls him one way, his family pulls him in another. A widower haunted by loss, he now worries about his son Brad slipping away. But there's a bright light in his life: his son's teacher, Jenna Marshall, has reached out to help, and slowly she and Steven are falling in love. But both have been hurt before. And as the two try to find the courage to bare their souls, a murderer looks for the real treasure he craves. He sets his traps. And waits.

      Have You Seen Her?
      4,4
    • Die For Me. Todesschrei, englische Ausgabe

      • 704pages
      • 25 heures de lecture

      A killer with a passion for the past, his victims tortured beyond endurance, and all done in the name of a game: DIE FOR ME is bestselling Karen Rose at her most chilling best. Part of the Philadelphia/Atlanta series. 'Delivers the kind of high-wire suspense that keeps you riveted to the edge of your seat' Lisa Gardner. A multimedia designer is hard at work. His latest computer game, Inquisitor, heralds a new era in state-of-the-art graphics. But there's only one way to ensure that the death scenes are realistic enough... In an isolated field in Philapelphia, Detective Ciccotelli's day begins with one grave, one body and no murder weapon. It ends with sixteen graves, but only nine bodies and the realisation that the killer is going to strike again. When it's discovered that the murder weapons are similar to those used in medieval torture, Ciccotelli, knowing he's going up against the most dangerous opponent of his career, enlists the help of archaeologist Sophie Johannsen to find the killer. Let the games begin...

      Die For Me. Todesschrei, englische Ausgabe
      4,4
    • Held in a bunker by sadistic kidnappers, who can save these girls? KILL FOR ME is the brilliant thriller by bestselling Karen Rose, part of the Philadelphia/Atlanta series, and the finale to the trilogy she began with DIE FOR ME and SCREAM FOR ME.

      Kill For Me (The Philadelphia/Atlanta Series Book 3)
      4,4
    • Death Is Not Enough

      • 612pages
      • 22 heures de lecture

      The past comes back to haunt a high-profile defense attorney in the newest book in the Baltimore series from the New York Times bestselling author of Edge of Darkness and Monster in the Closet. In his work as a defense attorney in Baltimore, Thorne has always been noble to a fault--specializing in helping young people in trouble just as someone did for him when he was younger. He plays the part of the bachelor well, but he secretly holds a flame for his best friend and business partner, Gwyn Weaver, a woman struggling to overcome her own demons. After four years, he thinks he might finally be ready to confess his feelings, come what may. But his plans are derailed when he wakes up in bed with a dead woman--her blood on his hands and no recollection of how he got there. Whoever is trying to frame Thorne is about to lead him down the rabbit hole of his past, something he thought he had outran long ago. Thorne must figure out who has been digging into his secrets, how much they know, and how far they will go to bring him down . . .

      Death Is Not Enough
      4,4
    • Colton Driscoll is a compulsive liar. But there's one thing his psychologist Sam Reeves fears he is telling the truth about: murder. Concerned his patient has committed an awful crime and that the life of another girl could be under threat, Sam calls in an anonymous tip to the San Diego Police Department. Detective Kit McKittrick works homicide in the hope that one day she will find out what happened to her foster sister, Wren. When a tip comes in from an anonymous caller it leads her to the body of a girl whose murder has the hallmarks of a serial killer that has been at large for almost twenty years. It also leads her to the source of the information: Dr Sam Reeves. Will Kit be able to crack the cold case in time to stop another murder being committed? And is Sam Reeves being a concerned citizen trying to help, or is there another more sinister reason he has so much information?

      Cold Blooded Liar
      4,4