Marjolein van Velzen Livres

It was supposed to be the start of a big night out. But when Emily Kane arrives at her sister Carrie's house, she finds the front door unlocked and no one inside. Dinner's cooking, the TV's on. Carrie, her husband and their two daughters are gone.

Na een harttransplantatie komt een Amerikaanse advocate door het 'geheugen' van dat hart een internationaal complot op het spoor.

Roaring Fork, station huppée du Colorado. L'inspecteur du FBI, Aloysius Pendergast, arrive juste à temps pour éviter que Corrie Swanson ne passe dix ans derrière les barreaux. Cette dernière, qui enquête sur la mort de onze mineurs prétendument dévorés par un ours en 1876, s'est mis à dos les autorités locales, dont les juteux projets immobiliers pourraient être compromis. Au moment où Pendergast arrive, la municipalité doit aussi faire face à une autre menace : un pyromane met le feu à plusieurs chalets cossus, leurs propriétaires étant enfermés à l'intérieur. Et si la résolution de ces énigmes était écrite dans cette nouvelle inédite du Dr Watson mettant en scène Sherlock Holmes ?

En 1983, Frank Mackey attend sa petite amie Rosie pour quitter Dublin, mais elle disparaît. Vingt-deux ans plus tard, devenu policier, il n'a toujours pas de nouvelles d'elle. Un jour, sa sœur l'informe qu'on a retrouvé la valise de Rosie.

Au Musée d'Histoire naturelle de New York, un colis contenant des fragments de diamants, représentant l'intégralité de la collection du musée, est livré. Lorsque les médias découvrent cela et provoquent un scandale, les responsables du musée décident de rouvrir au public la Tombe de Senef, une reconstitution parfaite d'un temple égyptien scellé en raison d'une prétendue malédiction. Grâce à la donation d'un financeur anonyme, ils organisent un spectacle qui recrée en direct le pillage de la tombe par des prêtres profanateurs, surpris par la résurrection de la momie. Cependant, certains membres du personnel deviennent fous et développent des comportements violents, allant jusqu'à l'homicide. Personne ne soupçonne qu'ils ne sont que des pions entre les mains d'un véritable génie du mal : Diogenes Pendergast, un tueur psychopathe qui souhaite lancer un nouveau défi à la ville et surtout à son frère, l'agent du FBI Aloysius Pendergast.

After his wife, Helen, is brazenly abducted before his eyes, Special Agent Pendergast furiously pursues the kidnappers, chasing them across the country and into Mexico. But then, things go terribly, tragically wrong; the kidnappers escape; and a shattered Pendergast retreats to his New York apartment and shuts out the world. But when a string of bizarre murders erupts across several Manhattan hotels - perpetrated by a boy who seems to have an almost psychic ability to elude capture - NYPD Lieutenant D'Agosta asks his friend Pendergast for help. Reluctant at first, Pendergast soon discovers that the killings are a message from his wife's kidnappers. But why a message? And what does it mean? When the kidnappers strike again at those closest to Pendergast, the FBI agent, filled anew with vengeful fury, sets out to track down and destroy those responsible. His journey takes him deep into the trackless forests of South America, where he ultimately finds himself face to face with an old evil that - rather than having been eradicated - is stirring anew... and with potentially world-altering consequences.

Archeologe Nora Kelley is gefascineerd door de oude beschaving van de Anasazi-indianen in het zuidwesten van de Verenigde Staten. Een beschaving waaraan duizend jaar geleden - op het hoogtepunt van haar bloei - plotseling een einde is gekomen. Nora's vader is jaren geleden verdwenen tijdens een zoektocht naar dezelfde beschaving. Nu, zestien jaar later, krijgt ze een brief van hem. Nora stelt een expeditieteam samen en begint een trektocht door de onbarmhartige canyons. Want het kan niet anders of haar vader heeft het legendarische Quivira, de verloren Gouden Stad van de Anasazi-indianen, gevonden...

New York Times-verslaggever William Smithback en zijn vrouw Nora Kelly, antropoloog verbonden aan het Museum of National History, worden in hun appartement aan de Upper West Side aangevallen. Volgens ooggetuigen was de aanvaller hun ietwat vreemde, sinistere buurman – die is echter tien dagen daarvoor overleden... Laura Hayward leidt het onderzoek, maar Pendergast en D'Agosta ondernemen hun eigen onorthodoxe queeste naar de waarheid. Zij doen een ongelooflijke ontdekking: in Manhattan leeft een geheime, besloten gemeenschap die een voodoocultus bedrijft die geen buitenstaander ooit heeft overleefd.

Summer 1942. When Bernie Gunther is ordered to speak at an international police conference, an old acquaintance has a favour to ask. Little does Bernie suspect what this simple surveillance task will provoke ...One year later, resurfacing from the hell of the Eastern Front, a superior gives him another task that seems straightforward: locating the father of Dalia Dresner, the rising star of German cinema. Bernie accepts the job. Not that he has much choice - the superior is Goebbels himself. But Dresner's father hails from Yugoslavia, a country so riven by sectarian horrors that even Bernie's stomach is turned. Yet even with monsters at home and abroad, one thing alone drives him on from Berlin to Zagreb to Zurich: Bernie Gunther has fallen in love.

Pendergast - the world's most enigmatic FBI Special Agent - returns to New York City to investigate a murderous cult. William Smithback, a New York Times reporter, and his wife Nora Kelly, a Museum of Natural History archaeologist, are brutally attacked in their apartment on Manhattan's Upper West Side. Eyewitnesses claim, and the security camera confirms, that the assailant was their strange, sinister neighbour - a man who, by all accounts, died ten days earlier. While Captain Laura Hayward leads the official investigation, Pendergast and Lieutenant Vincent D'Agosta undertake their own private - and decidedly unorthodox - quest for the truth. Their serpentine journey takes them to an enclave of Manhattan they never imagined could exist: a secretive, reclusive cult of Obeah and vodou which no outsiders have ever survived...

Katherine Neville's debut novel is a postmodern thriller set in 1972 ... and 1790. In the 20th century, Catherine Velis is a computer expert with a flair for music, painting, and chess who, on her way to Algeria at the behest of the accounting firm where she is employed, is invited to take a mysterious moonlighting assignment: recover the pieces of an old chess set missing for centuries. In the midst of the French Revolution, a young novice discovers that her abbey is the hiding place of a chess set, once owned by the great Charlemagne, which allows those who play it to tap into incredible powers beyond the imagination. She eventually comes into contact with the major historical figures of the day, from Robespierre to Napoleon, each of whom has an agenda. The Eight is a non-stop ride that recalls the swashbuckling adventures of Indiana Jones as well as the historical puzzles of Umberto Eco which, since its first publication in 1988, has gone on to acquire a substantial cult following.

Perched like a black crow on a crag in the most hostile depths of the Himalayas stands a monastery. For a thousand years the monks have kept guard. Now their sanctum has been violated, the secret carried off. After a millennium of hiding from the world, the guardians of the treasure will have to turn to an outsider for help. Luckily Special Agent Aloysius Pendergast is no stranger. Having trained body and mind in Tibet, he knows the land well. But neither he nor his ward, Constance, are prepared for the truth about what the monks have been protecting. The pursuit of the stolen artefact takes Pendergast and Constance far from the snowy wastes, to where the largest-ever ocean liner is preparing for her maiden voyage. As Pendergast and Constance board, they know they are joined by a cargo of secrets and murderers. As the ship slips into the night, it becomes a deadly race to recover the secret of the monks, or blackness to threaten to fall not just over the ship, but the wider world... A stunning dance of death and mystery, THE WHEEL OF DARKNESS takes the most unusual investigator around on his most thrilling case yet...

Sarah Becker is the fifth girl to be abducted by a homicidal maniac. Judging from the state of the bodies that have been found, her long hair will be hacked off and she will be tortured. She has about a week to live.

Soon after the Mexican presidential election, twenty-three bodies are discovered beheaded on the United States border, each marked with a unique symbol - a carving of a hummingbird. Detective Cecilia Garza of the Mexican intelligence agency recognizes it as the signature of Chuparosa - an assassin feared for his cunning and brutality. The fierce and intense detective has been pursuing the killer for years, yet knows little about him, except that he's heading to New York - with the rest of the world. It's United Nations Week in Manhattan and Jeremy Fisk can't let grief over a devastating loss keep him from his duty to safeguard the city. Complicating matters is news of a mass murder nearby - and the arrival of the disturbingly beautiful and assertive Cecilia Garza, determined to do things her way. In the race to catch Chuparosa, these uneasy allies must learn to work together, and fast. As they soon discover, there's more to this threat than meets the eye - and Fisk will have to learn the hard way that justice is not always blind.

Un astéroïde géant découvert sur un îlot au large du cap Horn ! Lorsque le collectionneur Palm Lloyd apprend la nouvelle, il n'a qu'une idée en tête : récupérer cette météorite. Peu importent le coût et les risques de l'expédition. Il doit arriver le premier sur l'île Desolacion et rapatrier le corps céleste. À l'évidence, le milliardaire n'est pas le seul à convoiter ce fragment doté d'étranges propriétés, dont celle de réduire à l'état de cendres quiconque l'approche de trop près. Et la chasse à la météorite vire au cauchemar...

Personnalité des milieux high-tech de Silicon Valley, Julia dirige Xymos, une jeune société qui fabrique des nanoparticules, ces robots infiniment petits destinés à la recherche militaire. Depuis quelque temps, son comportement est étrange. Elle s'absente de plus en plus souvent, se cache pour téléphoner, se désintéresse de son bébé malade, prononce des phrases incohérentes... Jack, son mari, veut comprendre. Chercheur en informatique, il parvient à se faire embaucher par Xymos pour une mission de consultant. C'est là, dans un curieux complexe technologique au cœur du Nevada, qu'il va découvrir jusqu'où peut aller le génie et la folie des scientifiques. Seul, il devra affronter un prédateur que nul n'avait jusque-là imaginé. Un prédateur petit, mais qui menace la planète.

Mount Dragon: an enigmatic research complex hidden in the vast desert of New Mexico. Guy Carson and Susana Cabeza de Vaca have come to Mount Dragon to work shoulder to shoulder with some of the greatest scientific minds on the planet. Led by visionary genius Brent Scopes, their secret goal is a medical breakthrough that promises to bring incalculable benefits to the human race. But while Scopes believes he is leading the way to a new world order, he may in fact be opening the door to mass human extinction. And when Guy and Susana attempt to stop him they find themselves locked in a frightening battle with Scopes, his henchmen, and the apocalyptic nightmare that science has unleashed . . . in Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child's Mount Dragon .

At a moment when the issue of safety and death in the skies is paramount in the public mind, a lethal midair disaster aboard a commercial twin-jet airliner flying from Hong Kong to Denver triggers a pressured and frantic investigation in which the greatest casualty may be the truth.

Twenty years after witnessing the violent disappearances of two companions from their small Dublin suburb, detective Rob Ryan investigates a chillingly similar murder that takes place in the same wooded area, a case that forces him to piece together his traumatic memories.

The world's biggest supercollider, locked in an Arizona mountain, was built to reveal the secrets of the very moment of creation: the Big Bang itself.The Torus is the most expensive machine ever created by humankind, run by the world's most powerful supercomputer. It is the brainchild of Nobel Laureate William North Hazelius. Will the Torus divulge the mysteries of the creation of the universe? Or will it, as some predict, suck the earth into a mini black hole? Or is the Torus a Satanic attempt, as a powerful televangelist decries, to challenge God Almighty on the very throne of Heaven?Twelve scientists under the leadership of Hazelius are sent to the remote mountain to turn it on, and what they discover must be hidden from the world at all costs. Wyman Ford, ex-monk and CIA operative, is tapped to wrest their secret, a secret that will either destroy the world…or save it.The countdown begins…

A woman commits suicide for no apparent reason. A week later, her son – fifteen-year-old Mark Underhill – vanishes. His uncle, novelist Timothy Underhill, searches his hometown of Millhaven for clues that might help unravel this horrible dual mystery. He soon learns that a pedophilic murderer is on the loose in the vicinity, and that shortly before his mother’s suicide, Mark had become obsessed with an abandoned house where he imagined the killer might have taken refuge. No mere empty building, the house whispers from attic to basement with the echoes of a long-hidden true-life horror story, and Tim Underhill comes to fear that in investigating its unspeakable history, Mark stumbled across its last and greatest secret: a ghostly lost girl who may have coaxed the needy, suggestible boy into her mysterious domain.

Jérusalem, an IX du règne de Tibère. Condamné par Pilate, Jésus de Nazareth meurt sur la croix. En Italie, l’empereur est dévoré d’inquiétude : selon de mystérieux textes antiques, ce Messie, annonçant une ère nouvelle, pourrait précipiter le déclin de Rome... Idaho, 1989. Arielle Behn hérite de sa grand-mère des manuscrits précieux. Rédigés en Orient il y a deux mille ans ils sont apparemment indéchiffrables. Déjà convoités par Hitler, ils détiendraient la clé pour agir sur le cours de l’histoire. Un secret jadis percé par Pilate qui, en décrétant la mort de Jésus, savait qu’il changerait à jamais la face du monde. Gardienne des écritures, Arielle Behn va devoir se méfier de tout le monde – d’abord de sa propre famille –, pour réussir à contrôler cette force et échapper à des poursuivants qui ne reculeront devant rien pour détenir cette incroyable source de pouvoir.

Een Amerikaanse makelaarster is getuige van de moord op een cliënte die het appartement van haar op mysterieuze wijze omgekomen dochter wil verkopen.

Een ex-CIA-agent moet in Nevada uitzoeken wat er mis is bij de experimenten met een deeltjesversneller, maar komt in een onhoudbare situatie terecht waarbij godsdienstfanatici met de geleerden komen afrekenen.