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Riek Borgers Hoving

    Beach Road
    Violets are blue
    Mary, Mary
    Sur le pont du loup. Und erlöse uns von dem Bösen, französische Ausgabe. Thriller
    The big bad wolf
    2nd Chance
    • Seizure

      • 550pages
      • 20 heures de lecture

      What could the Shroud of Turin, a conservative Southern senator, and an entrepreneurial researcher have in common? Here, politics, religion, and bioscience collide in a gripping narrative. Senator Ashley Butler, a quintessential demagogue, embodies traditional American values and reacts against virtually all biotechnologies. When tasked with chairing a sub-committee to ban new cloning technology, he sees it as pivotal for his political future. This poses a barrier for Dr. Daniel Lowell, who has developed a groundbreaking technique to advance stem-cell research. Although they appear to be opposites destined to clash during Senate hearings, both men share a critical flaw: Butler’s insatiable quest for power overshadows his concern for the unborn, while Lowell’s ambition for wealth and fame eclipses his patients’ well-being. The situation intensifies when Butler learns he has Parkinson’s disease, leading to a Faustian pact with Lowell. However, the premature use of Lowell’s technology results in Butler suffering from severe temporal lobe epilepsy, causing bizarre seizures. This cautionary tale reflects the challenges of navigating a rapidly evolving biotechnological landscape, highlighting the ethical dilemmas of our time.

      Seizure2010
      3,6
    • The big bad wolf

      • 432pages
      • 16 heures de lecture

      Alex Cross battles the most ruthless and powerful killer he has ever encountered - a predator known only as "the Wolf. "Alex Cross's first case since joining the FBI has his new colleagues stymied. Across the country, men and women are being kidnapped in broad daylight and then disappearing completely. These people are not being taken for ransom, Alex realizes. They are being bought and sold. And it looks as if a shadowy figure called the Wolf - a master criminal who has brought a new reign of terror to organize crime - is behind this business in which ordinary men and women are sold as slaves. Even as he admires the FBI's vast resources, Alex grows impatient with the Bureau's clumsiness and caution when it is time to move. A lone wolf himself, he has to go out on his own in order to track the Wolf and try to rescue some of the victims while they are still alive. As the case boils over, Alex is in hot water at home too. His ex-fiancee, Christine Johnson, comes back into his life - and not for the reasons Alex might have hoped.

      The big bad wolf2009
      4,0
    • Meedogenloos

      • 320pages
      • 12 heures de lecture

      Het leven van het hoofd van een gezin staat op het spel als zware jongens iets van hem willen, maar hij niet weet wat dat is.

      Meedogenloos2008
    • Healthy patients are dying of unknown causes in a San Francisco hospital and the Women's Murder Club decides to investigate the hospital's personnel

      The 5th Horseman2007
      3,8
    • Beach Road

      • 432pages
      • 16 heures de lecture

      Tom Dunleavy has a one-man law firm in East Hampton, summer home to billionaires and Hollywood celebrities. But his clients are the people he grew up with, the people who make a living serving the rich. When an old friend, Dante Halleyville, is arrested for a triple murder near a movie star's mansion, Tom agrees to represent him, and recruits super lawyer, and ex-girlfriend, Kate Costello to help fight the case. As Tom wonders if he can ever get Kate to forgive him for his past sins, the case takes on astonishing dimensions, revealing a world of illegal pleasures, revenge, and fear amongst the super-rich...

      Beach Road2007
      3,9
    • Mary, Mary

      • 451pages
      • 16 heures de lecture

      FBI Agent Alex Cross is on vacation with his family in Disneyland when he gets a call from the Director. A well-known actress was shot outside her home in Beverly Hills. Shortly afterward, an editor for the Los Angeles Times receives an e-mail describing the murder in vivid details. Alex quickly learns that this is not an isolated incident. The killer, known as Mary Smith, has done this before and plans to kill again.Right from the beginning, this case is like nothing Alex has ever been confronted with before. Is this the plan of an obsessed fan or a spurned actor, or is it part of something much more frightening? Now members of Hollywood's A-list fear they're next on Mary's list, and the case grows by blockbuster proportions as the LAPD and FBI scramble to find a pattern before Mary can send one more chilling update.

      Mary, Mary2006
      4,0
    • Pour offrir à sa petite amie Tess une vie de luxe, Ned Kelly accepte de participer à un vol d'art organisé par son cousin Mickey. Mais le coup tourne mal, et Mickey ainsi que ses complices sont abattus. Lorsque Tess est également assassinée, Ned se réfugie chez son père. Cependant, la police est déjà sur ses traces, le considérant comme le principal suspect. Seule l'agent du FBI, Ellie Shurtlett, lui accorde sa confiance. Ensemble, ils découvrent une conspiration dans laquelle le père de Ned semble également être impliqué… Un thriller palpitant et haletant !

      Garde rapprochée2006
      3,8
    • Violets are blue

      • 416pages
      • 15 heures de lecture

      Detective Alex Cross must confront his most terrifying nemesis ever- and his own deepest fears- in this electrifying thriller from the world's #1 bestselling writer. D.C. Detective Alex Cross has seen a lot of crime scenes. But even he is appalled by the gruesome murders of two joggers in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park-killings that look more like the work of savage beasts than humans. Local police are horrified and even the FBI is baffled. Then, as Cross is called in to take on the case, the carnage takes off, leaving a trail of bodies across America and sweeping him to Savannah, Las Vegas, New Orleans, Los Angeles as his nemesis, the merciless criminal known as the Mastermind, stalks him, taunts him, and once again, threatens everything he holds dear...

      Violets are blue2006
      4,0
    • The Women's Murder Club returns for another thrilling crime investigation. Will their skills be enough to take down a brutal madman? A brutal madman sprays bullets into a crowd of children leaving a San Francisco church. Miraculously-or was it intentionally?-only one person dies. Then an elderly black woman is hung. Police homicide inspector Lindsay Boxer senses a connection and together with medical examiner Claire, assistant D. A. Jill, and Chronicle reporter Cindy, finds a link that sends a chill through the entire nation. This killer's motives are unspeakable. In this "inventive" installment of the Women's Murder Club, James Patterson proves once again why he is the #1 master of the murder mystery (Sunday Times).

      2nd Chance2004
      4,1