Bücher von Lisa Unger

A dark Christmas thriller from New York Times bestselling author Lisa Unger.Instead of presents this Christmas, a true crime podcaster is opening up a cold case...When true crime podcaster Harley Granger drifts into The Next Chapter Bookshop days before Christmas, he seems intent on digging up events that store owner Madeline Martin would much rather forget. Granger has a gift for seeing things that others miss, and his work on true crime has earned him fame and wealth ? and some serious criticism for his various unethical practices. Looking into Madeline's case, a case that many people think is closed but some want reopened, he has a lot of questions about the night Madeline was left for dead on the riverbank, nearly a decade ago. Madeline is the only surviving victim of Evan Handy, who murdered her best friend and is suspected in the disappearance of two local sisters. Since Handy went to jail, though, three other young women have gone missing in similar circumstances. Are the cases connected? Was Handy innocent after all... or was there someone else there that night? Another predator, still out there somewhere?As Christmas approaches and a blizzard bears down, Madeline must return to a past she hoped was dead, to answer questions that have haunted her and others since that day. Will she discover the truth... and is it more terrible than she could ever have imagined?Coupling a picturesque, cosy setting with a deeply unsettling and suspenseful plot, Christmas Presents is a chilling seasonal novella that can be enjoyed all year long.

A couple inherits an apartment with a spine-tingling past in this unputdownable thriller from the New York Times bestselling author of Secluded Cabin Sleeps Six.Rosie and Chad Lowan are barely making ends meet in New York City when they receive life-changing news: Chad's late uncle has left them his luxury apartment at the historic Windermere in glamorous Murray Hill. With its prewar elegance and impeccably uniformed doorman, the building is the epitome of old New York charm. One would almost never suspect the dark history lurking behind its perfectly maintained facade.At first, the building and its eclectic tenants couldn't feel more welcoming. But as the Lowans settle into their new home, Rosie starts to suspect that there's more to the Windermere than meets the eye. Why is the doorman ever-present? Why are there cameras everywhere? And why have so many gruesome crimes occurred there throughout the years? When one of the neighbors turns up dead, Rosie must get to the truth about the Windermere before she, too, falls under its dangerous spell.

Ein idyllisch gelegenes Cottage mit Whirlpool und Sternekoch. Hannah und ihr Mann Bruce freuen sich auf ein besonderes Wochenende in Gesellschaft guter Freunde. Doch schon bald ist die Stimmung im Cottage angespannt. Hannah spürt, dass Bruce etwas vor ihr verbirgt. Und als der Koch beim Abendessen unheimliche Geschichten über die Vergangenheit des Hauses erzählt, während draußen ein Sturm aufzieht, würde Hannah am liebsten wieder abreisen. Dann ist eine der Frauen plötzlich verschwunden. Immer verzweifelter suchen die Freunde nach ihr - nicht ahnend, dass es jemanden gibt, der alles daransetzt, ihr Traumwochenende in einen Albtraum zu verwandeln ...

A collection of the year's best mystery and suspense short fiction selected by New York Times bestselling author Lisa Unger and series editor Steph Cha.

"A deliciously tense ride." -Ruth Ware, New York Times bestselling author of One By OneINSTANT BESTSELLERThree couples rent a luxury cabin in the woods for a weekend getaway to die for in this chilling locked-room thriller.What could be more restful than a weekend getaway with family and friends? An isolated luxury cabin in the woods, spectacular views, a hot tub and a personal chef. Hannah's generous brother found the listing online. The reviews are stellar. It'll be three couples on this trip with good food, good company and lots of R & R.But the dreamy weekend is about to turn into a nightmare. A deadly storm is brewing. The rental host seems just a little too present. The personal chef reveals that their beautiful house has a spine-tingling history. And the friends have their own complicated past, with secrets that run blood deep.How well does Hannah know her brother, her own husband? Can she trust her best friend? Meanwhile, someone is determined to ruin the weekend, looking to exact a payback for deeds long buried. Who is the stranger among them?• People Magazine Book of the Week • PopSugar Best Thriller and Mystery• CrimeReads Best Psychological Thrillers• Goodreads Editor's and Readers Most Anticipated Book • BookPage Best Mysteries of November • BookBub Best Mysteries and Thrillers • Scary Mommy Best Fall Releases • St. Paul Pioneer Press Top Reads • The Saturday Evening Post Best Books to Cozy Up with this Fall

A shattering thriller about three women, strangers, on a heart-wrenching collision course none of them could have seen coming.Long after anyone expected Kate to do anything with her life, she did. Using the journals left behind by her aunt and grandmother, she wrote a novel based on a very real generation-old love story that ended in tragedy. On the other side of town, Emily is about to set fire to her life. She's in a dead-end job and is involved with the wrong man; she can feel herself being drawn into darkness, with horrific consequences. With nowhere to go, she finds herself on the run. Without knowing each other, and with lives that couldn't be more different, Kate and Emily head to the same point on the map: Heart Island, an idyllic place in the middle of a lake in the Adirondacks, owned for generations by Birdie Burke's family. The harsh and unyielding Birdie is at one with this island, which has a terrifying history all its own. She, too, has consequences to face.Heartbroken is a tense, mesmerizing novel about the limits of dysfunctional families, of an island haunted by dark memories and restless ghosts, and of the all-too-real demons we must battle. Wonderfully suspenseful, exquisitely crafted, and written with raw, emotional power, this is Lisa Unger at her very best.Praise for Heartbroken"Stellar. . . . Heartbroken should be on everyone's summer to-read list. For best results, read it alone on an island on a dark and stormy night."-USA Today (4 stars)"Heartbroken has all the makings of a high-wire thriller. But it's the twisted psyches of its main characters that really unsettle. . . . Unger expertly shows how quiet betrayals can rupture a life as deeply as an act of violence."-People (3 ¿ stars)"A can't-put-down thriller interlaced with insightful family drama and echoes of Wuthering Heights."-Family Circle"Lisa Unger is one of the few women to first break into the genre of thrillers, then to dominate it."-Minneapolis Star Tribune"Lisa Unger masterfully writes of the joys and frustrations of family life in her latest novel. . . . What makes [it] shine is the struggle of multidimensional characters with issues that all of us face but sometimes don't want to acknowledge."-Associated Press

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2007 im Fachbereich Pädagogik - Pädagogische Soziologie, Note: 1,7, Technische Universität Dortmund, Veranstaltung: Hauptseminar: Sozialgeschichte, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: In dieser Hausarbeit werden folgende Fragen behandelt: Wie hat sich die Kindheit und Jugend in den letzten Jahrhunderten verändert, was sind die Ursachen dafür, wie sind die Begriffe "Kindheit" und "Jugend" überhaupt entstanden und was haben sie heute für einen Wert in unserer Gesellschaft? Insgesamt geht es in dieser Hausarbeit um den Vergleich von früher und heute - das heißt, welche Entwicklungen und Wandlungsprozesse haben stattgefunden - vor allem in Bezug auf Familie und Gesellschaft.Zentral geht es um die Frage, was man damals unter den Begriffen "Kindheit" und "Jugend" verstand und wie sich dies bis zum heutigen Zeitpunkt geändert hat. Um dies ergründen zu können, muss die Sozialitäts- und Mentalitätsgeschichte der Menschheit näher betrachtet werden. Das bedeutet konkret, dass zum einen soziale Beziehungen innerhalb der Familie und der Gesellschaft untersucht werden; und zum anderen geht es um den Einstellungswandel gegenüber Kindern bzw. Jugendlichen und ihren Lebensbedingungen.

Als Selena im Zug einer jungen Frau begegnet, ist sie sogleich fasziniert von Marthas Offenheit und vertraut ihr ein Geheimnis an: Selena fürchtet, dass ihr Ehemann sie mit der Babysitterin betrügt. Nur wenige Tage später ist die Babysitterin spurlos verschwunden und Selena die Letzte, die sie sah. Während die Polizei beginnt, in Selenas Umfeld zu ermitteln, erinnert diese sich plötzlich an Marthas Frage: "Was wäre, wenn dein Problem einfach so verschwinden würde?" Selena ist zutiefst beunruhigt ...

The childhood murder of Lydia Strong's mother has turned her into a woman obsessed with bringing brutal killers to justice. The reclusive, bestselling true-crime writer and investigative consultant has made a life out of chasing monsters. And her powerful intuitions rarely fail her. When three adults-loners, drifters-go missing, no one seems to notice except for Lydia. Enlisting the help of her friend, former FBI agent Jeffrey Mark, Lydia starts an investigation of her own. But when someone raises the stakes and goes after Lydia-just as fifteen years ago when she put the FBI on the trail of her mother's killer-the real hunt begins.

Fresh from a tour promoting her last case, reclusive true crime writer Lydia Strong receives an anonymous cry for help, begging her to find and protect Tatiana Quinn, "and all the other girls in need of rescue." Maybe the plea strikes close to her heart; maybe her investigator's intuition starts buzzing. She takes it on. But this simple case of a missing teenager soon becomes much more. Someone wants Lydia to drop the case, someone powerful, someone anxious enough to engineer the reappearance of one of Lydia's first--and most dangerous--adversaries. Now, in addition to tracing the roots of Tatiana's disappearance on a trail across the country and eventually overseas, Lydia must find the man who wants her dead, his unfinished business from years ago.