Bøger af Michael Prescott

Small-town private eye and part-time assassin Bonnie Parker is back, in another high-voltage adventure set on the Jersey Shore. Bonnie thought she'd put her troubles behind her when she killed mob boss Frank Lazzaro and got away clean. But nothing's that easy. Russian mafia kingpin Anton Streinikov has taken a personal interest in the killing - and in Bonnie herself. He wants her delivered to his greenhouse, where very bad things happen. It doesn't help that Bonnie's latest client has set the cops on her tail, giving the local chief of police his best chance to put her behind bars. All in all, she's had better weekends. As night falls, she finds herself hunted by bad guys and cops, outmaneuvered, outgunned, and in the fight of her life. Luckily, only the good die young-and Bonnie is bad to the bone. BAD TO THE BONE is the latest thriller from New York Times and USA Today bestseller Michael Prescott, author of COLD AROUND THE HEART, BLOOD IN THE WATER, and FINAL SINS. With over three million copies sold in both print and digital editions, Prescott is one of today's leading writers of crime fiction and psychological suspense.

From New York Times and USA Today bestseller Michael Prescott, author of COLD AROUND THE HEART and BLOOD IN THE WATER, comes SHADOW DANCE, a chilling tale of nightmarish suspense. Little Timothy Cutter has a secret. He knows the truth behind his parents' inexplicable deaths. He knows about the runa: ageless, bodiless, a shadow thing that invades a human host and steals its victim's soul with a kiss ... Robert Thorn, too, has a secret. Twelve years ago he unleashed the runa on the world. Ever since, he has been stalking it across two continents, following a trail of corpses that cast no shadows. He has sworn to stop the runa ... and Timothy is the key. Only one thing stands in Thorn's way-Dr. Rachel Weiss, the therapist assigned to help the traumatized boy. In the concrete canyons and shadowed hilltops of Los Angeles, Timothy, Rachel, and Thorn find themselves locked in a deadly dance, as mankind's oldest enemy inexorably closes in ... Out of print for two decades, SHADOW DANCE is now available, newly revised, in this special e-book edition.

From New York Times and USA Today bestseller Michael Prescott, author of FINAL SINS and COLD AROUND THE HEART, comes this exciting novel of relentless psychological suspense. John Cray has a secret. For twelve years he has stalked and kidnapped women, setting them loose in the mountains of eastern Arizona, hunting them like animals, and taking their lives. He has left no clues. He is suspected by no one. Or so he thinks. But now he has a problem. Somebody -- a woman whose name he doesn't know -- is stalking him. She follows him when he makes his nightly rounds in Tucson. She watches him on busy streetcorners and in shadowy restaurants. She seems to know his secret. But if so, why hasn't she gone to the police? Cray plans to turn the tables on his mysterious pursuer. He will become the predator, and she -- the prey. Once she's in his power, she will tell him who she is and what she's after. And then she will die. But even Cray isn't prepared to confront the truth when he discovers it -- or to deal with the shattering implications of a past he had thought long buried and an obsessive madness he cannot control ... "Stealing Faces is truly thrilling as well as chilling: I could not put this book down. Reading the first few chapters of this tale is like reading the climax for most thrillers and the excitement just keeps building. Michael Prescott knows how to keep readers' eyes glued to his pages.... I was completely hooked. Actually, more than completely hooked, I thought the lightning-paced thrills were going to give me a heart attack!" - Judith Flavell, The Mystery Reader

Yet another spellbinding thriller from award-winning author Michael Prescott, HITMAN is a taut, fast-paced page-turner, a classic tale of "man versus himself" in the exalted tradition of hard-boiled crime stories and literary noir. Charlie Kearns is a cold-blooded assassin for hire, exterminating "undesirables" for cold, hard cash. But he's also hiding a terrible secret, a crippling addiction which could prove his ultimate downfall. Can he cover it up, and escape a bullet to his own heaad - or will his insatiable obsession backfire? MICHAEL PRESCOTT is the author of more than twenty books, including a dozen novels and four collections of short stories. He lives and writes on the West Coast.

From New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Michael Prescott, author of FINAL SINS and COLD AROUND THE HEART, comes SHATTER - a complex mystery thriller that "deftly weaves inventive characters and believable situations." (Publishers Weekly) They call him the Rag Doll Man. In the guise of a police officer, he prowls the streets of Los Angeles and the run-down suburb of Corona Beach, seeking victims among the forgotten girls who sell their bodies for a fistful of cash. LAPD detective Donna Wildman, trained in criminal profiling, is loaned out to Corona Beach to bring in the killer. But when the trail of clues twists toward the station house itself, Donna begins to fear that the Rag Doll Man may be one of her own colleagues - one who is watching her every move.

From New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Michael Prescott, author of FINAL SINS and SHATTER, comes a relentless and explosive thriller. The people of Tuskett, California, sense something wrong with the man who comes striding out of the Mojave, the man with icy blue eyes. Something unnatural, like a prayer recited backward or a cross hung upside down. Something evil. Then darkness falls, draping the sleepy desert town like a burial shroud, and in the night shadows the man called Kane goes to work. And his work is death ... A motion picture adaptation of KANE is currently in development with Canadian production company Unstable Ground.

From New York Times and USA Today bestseller Michael Prescott, author of COLD AROUND THE HEART and MORTAL FAULTS, comes this powerful story of evil incarnate. Murderer Peter Faust, found not guilty by reason of insanity, has become an international celebrity-a hero to disaffected young people and pop-culture poseurs. But fame has its price, as Faust learns when he finds he is being stalked by a mysterious stranger. To protect himself, he hires rogue security consultant Abby Sinclair, a streetwise vigilante who will deal with the threat by any means necessary. What Abby doesn't know is that her sometime partner and recent adversary, FBI Special Agent Tess McCallum, is about to be pulled into the case-setting the two women on a collision course that will end in violence, betrayal, and death. "In Abby and Tess, Prescott has created two of the fiercest and most commanding heroines to come along in a while."-New Mystery Reader Magazine "Fans of psychological thrillers can never go wrong with Prescott."-Roundtable Reviews

From New York Times and USA Today bestseller Michael Prescott, author of FINAL SINS and COLD AROUND THE HEART, comes this electrifying novel of terror and suspense. C.J. Osborn was ten years old when the boogeyman came for her. Ever since, she has feared his return. Now an LAPD cop, C.J. faces danger every day on the streets of Newton Division - "Shootin' Newton," the city's roughest territory. But the greatest danger lies in C.J.'s own home, where a stranger's eyes are watching her - a stranger who plans to finish what he started sixteen years ago ...

"This is the story of three summer days on the street where I grew up. Three days that I lived twice ..." Imagine that you turn a corner and find yourself instantly, inexplicably transposed in space and time to the world of your childhood, more than four decades ago. George McGovern is running for president. Miniskirts and bell-bottom jeans are in fashion. A can of tuna fish costs forty-nine cents. And there's no way out. You must be there for a reason. And you begin to suspect what it is. If you're right, it will require you to take a man's life in an act of cold-blooded, premeditated murder. But that's okay. You've murdered before ... New York Times and USA Today bestseller Michael Prescott, author of COLD AROUND THE HEART and FINAL SINS, delivers a haunting tale of obsession, violence, and destiny in his 25,000-word novella - THE STREET.

From New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Michael Prescott, author of FINAL SINS and COLD AROUND THE HEART, comes this chilling study in psychological suspense. Kirstie and Steve Gardner are hoping to enjoy a vacation getaway on a tropical island paradise in the Florida Keys - until a man from Steve's past shows up with the law on his trail and murder on his mind. "Fans of psychological thrillers can never go wrong with one of Prescott's disturbing novels. He knows how to take ordinary people and twist them around so thoroughly that you know longer know just who the bad guy truly is. Then when you are on the edge of your seat, he throws in a twist that knocks you sideways!" - Roundtable Reviews

From New York Times and USA Today bestseller Michael Prescott, author of COLD AROUND THE HEART and BLOOD IN THE WATER, comes MANSTOPPER, a novel of ultimate horror. Four highly trained attack dogs are caged inside a truck traveling down a lonely stretch of New Jersey highway ... but not for long. When the truck crashes, the animals break loose. Bred to kill, they waste no time before claiming their first victim ... and then another ... and another .. As the death toll mounts, one man steps up to capture or destroy the feral animals - Karl Masterson, the man who bred and trained them, and who knows them better than anyone else. But even Masterson may be no match for the most cunning of all the dogs, the Doberman named Razor. Violent, bloody, and unrelentingly intense, MANSTOPPER was praised by Stephen King as "one of the best paperback originals of the year." Out of print for more than two decades, MANSTOPPER is again available in this special ebook edition.

It takes a killer ... to stop a killer.That's how crime lord Armin Petrossian sees it when he summons Bonnie Parker to his palatial home on Christmas Eve. Petrossian has personal reasons to take care of the serial killer known as the Man in the Moon. And Bonnie-a private investigator on the Jersey Shore who moonlights as a freelance assassin-seems like the perfect choice for the job. But the Man in the Moon has secret accomplices who are playing their own deadly game. And they don't intend to let anyone spoil their holiday plans ... Michael Prescott is the New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of more than twenty thrillers. TEARS FOR THE DEAD is the fifth entry in the Bonnie Parker, PI, series.

Gerald Harding is forty-three-years old, twice divorced, and severely depressed. An ad man for a major concern in Pittsburgh, he worries he's on the brink of professional failure. Then his boss assigns him to a multi-million-dollar account in Amsterdam. Gerald suddenly finds himself in the heart of a foreign city, captivated by the lights and excitement. But soon he's forced to face his most restless demons, and all the heartache waiting on the other side.

From New York Times and USA Today bestseller Michael Prescott, author of FINAL SINS and COLD AROUND THE HEART, comes a dizzying thrill ride of nonstop action, danger, and suspense. Rookie patrol officer Trish Robinson isn't expecting to see any action during another routine night on the job. But when she and her training officer answer a prowler call at a remote estate, the two cops walk into an ambush laid by a crew of ruthless criminals. Disarmed, cut off from help, and outnumbered five to one, the young rookie must draw on inner resources she never knew she possessed as she plays a game of cat-and-mouse with hardened killers in a desperate battle to survive.

Small-town private investigator and part-time assassin Bonnie Parker isn't expecting any trouble at the boardwalk amusement arcade in South Jersey - until she meets Kyle Ridley, a renegade drug courier on the run, who desperately requires Bonnie's special skills to keep herself alive. Going up against a ruthless drug syndicate isn't anyone's idea of fun and games, especially when the enemy is the Dragusha clan, whose graying patriarch - Ujku, the Wolf - has a penchant for shipping his victims out of Port Newark in a freighter's cargo hold, locked in a steel container where no one can hear their screams. What started as another day at the beach turns into Bonnie's longest and most harrowing night as she tangles with professional killers, sadistic thugs, and a deeply crazy man out of her past. It's the ultimate test of luck and skill, with the odds against her stacked impossibly high, and Bonnie wouldn't play at all if she didn't have her own skin in the game. USA Today and New York Times bestselling author Michael Prescott has sold more than 4 million books worldwide. SKIN IN THE GAME is his 27th novel.

From national bestseller Michael Prescott, author of FINAL SINS and STEALING FACES, comes a new novel of suspense. Bonnie Parker is a small-town private detective on the Jersey shore who just happens to be named after America's most notorious female outlaw, the distaff half of Bonnie & Clyde. And though no one can prove it, she's an outlaw in her own right, willing to supplement her PI duties by acting as a professional assassin. For a price, and when circumstances warrant it, she'll take extreme measures to solve her clients' problems - permanently. Bonnie is experienced and tough - but she's never gone up against a man like Pascal, a globetrotting hit man who has raised murder to the level of a fine art. During a turbulent summer night, while Bonnie struggles to untangle a web of deception that stretches to the jungles of South America, she and Pascal face off in a blistering battle for survival - a battle only one of them can win. Michael Prescott is the New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of 23 thrillers.

From New York Times and USA Today bestseller Michael Prescott, author of FINAL SINS and COLD AROUND THE HEART, comes CHASING OMEGA, a 30,000 word paranormal thriller. "Do you believe in life after death?" It's a question Daniel Brand finds himself answering after he picks up a mysterious woman on the side of an Arizona highway long after midnight. The issue isn't merely philosophical. His passenger, Claire Holland, is a psychic medium on the run from a secret conspiracy holding the key to the truth about life, death ... and what comes after. CHASING OMEGA is a fast-paced, twist-and-turn story of pursuit and betrayal, seasoned with cosmological speculation and spiritual exploration, from one of America's most widely read ebook writers.

From New York Times and USA Today bestseller Michael Prescott, author of FINAL SINS and COLD AROUND THE HEART, comes a terrifying story of obsession and murder. On a bad night in L.A., shy and timid Wendy Alden survives a terrifying encounter with a serial killer nicknamed the Gryphon. But the Gryphon isn't through with Wendy. His insane obsession drives him to strike at her again and again. And again ...

From New York Times and USA Today bestseller Michael Prescott, author of FINAL SINS and COLD AROUND THE HEART, comes this mesmerizing study of insanity, conspiracy, and betrayal. Private security consultant Abby Sinclair is an expert on identifying - and neutralizing - stalkers. But she's never worked for a U.S. congressman before. When Jack Reynolds hires her to investigate the mystery woman who's shadowing him at public events, she has no idea that she'll end up interfering in a federal investigation - and that FBI special agent Tess McCallum is about to come back into her life. "Stunning ... Prescott has created two of the fiercest and most commanding heroines to come along in a while" - New Mystery Reader Magazine

From New York Times and USA Today bestseller Michael Prescott, author of SHATTER and COLD AROUND THE HEART, comes an electrifying new thriller, BLOOD IN THE WATER. Small-town private eye and part-time assassin Bonnie Parker thought the hit on Alec Dante was pretty routine - but Alec's uncle, mob underboss Frank Lazzaro, has other ideas. He's sworn to avenge Alec's death, and he's willing to wade through an ocean of blood to do it. But Bonnie's troubles don't end there. A street gang is gunning for her. The local police chief thinks he has the evidence to put her away. And a hurricane is about to make landfall ... It all adds up to a superstorm of murder, conspiracy, and betrayal. In a desperate fight, Bonnie will need all her skills to save herself as the storm waters rise. Michael Prescott is the author of more than 25 thrillers. After a long career in traditional publishing, he has now become one of the world's bestselling e-book writers.

Here are twenty stories by master storyteller Michael Prescott, author of over a dozen books, including OUT OF IOWA, BREATHLESS, A SHORT STAY IN AMSTERDAM, PITCH BLACK, and BEING ALONE TOGETHER. Each of these tales, alternately heartbreaking and grimly humorous, grips the reader from start to finish, and all bear Prescott's unique and inimitable signature. CALL ME ANYTIME is Prescott at his dark, psychologically penetrating best, featuring some of his best short fiction to date, and certain to leave a lasting impression upon the reader such as only his caliber of prose can.

Fred Dogan is a loving husband and devoted father, dedicated to his family and his work. He's also a recovering alcoholic. When his sanity and sobriety are tested by unthinkable horrors across the course of a year, he finds himself driven to the edge of a spiritual cliff, forced to ponder the ultimate question: can he somehow survive the realization of every husband's and father's worst nightmare, or should he simply step off the ride - into oblivion unknown? A STRAW IN THE WIND is perhaps Prescott's most poignant tale yet, an emotional tour-de-force of highest literary merit. With its taut prose, vivid imagery, and Prescott's rare ability to breathe three-dimensional life into all of his characters, here is a beautifully rendered novella without the slightest hint of artifice: stirring, succinct, unpredictable, and unforgettable. "Brilliant, moving, and compact. One seldom encounters a story at once so rife with suspense and yet so potent in its impact upon the reader's heart." - Ted Biringer, author of THE FLATBED SUTRA OF LOUIE WING MICHAEL PRESCOTT is the award-winning author of more than twenty books. He lives and writes on the West Coast.

They call him the Rain Man. When the skies over Los Angeles darken with storm clouds, he goes to work - stealing victims, chaining them in the city's underground storm tunnels, and letting them drown.It's up to FBI Special Agent Tess McCallum to stop him - but to do so, she'll need the help of maverick security operative Abby Sinclair, who works outside the law. Together they may catch a killer ... if they don't kill each other first.Michael Prescott is the New York Times and USA Today best-selling author of more than 20 thrillers.

From New York Times and USA Today bestseller Michael Prescott, author of FINAL SINS and COLD AROUND THE HEART, comes RIPTIDE, a dark, unsettling descent into old crimes and new madness. Jennifer Silence reads between the lines. A psycholinguistic analyst, she studies documents written by murderers, teasing out hidden clues. But nothing in her life has prepared her for the document that is now in her hands. A leather-bound diary from a crumbling crypt. The diary of Jack the Ripper. If it is genuine, it suggests a troubling connection between Jennifer's family and history's most infamous serial killer. A connection that may explain her father's suicide ... and her brother's mental illness. A connection that may implicate her brother in a new rash of killings, and prove that the Ripper's spirit still prowls dark streets and alleys, taking lives ... And the next victim may be Jennifer herself. RIPTIDE is the newest thriller from Michael Prescott, whose novels have been hailed as "brilliant ... chilling ... unrelentingly suspenseful" (Publishers Weekly), "harrowing ... intense" (Jeffery Deaver), "irresistible, un-put-downable" (Crescent Blues), and "stunning ... far above the usual offerings for the genre" (New Mystery Reader).

His name is Mobius, and he is death.He has left a trail of corpses stretching from Denver to Los Angeles. Now fate has handed him a new kind of weapon, the deadly nerve gas VX, which can multiply the body count by a factor of hundreds.For FBI Special Agent Tess McCallum, it's a race against the clock to find Mobius before he stops the city's beating heart. But Mobius is closer than she knows ... and Tess herself may be his next victim."Unrelentingly suspenseful, this psychological chiller is only for those with a high terror threshold."-Publishers WeeklyMichael Prescott is the New York Times and USA Today best-selling author of more than 20 thrillers.

From New York Times and USA Today bestseller Michael Prescott, author FINAL SINS and COLD AROUND THE HEART, comes this dizzying thrill ride of nonstop terror and suspense. In the dead of night, psychologist Erin Reilly is abducted from her Tucson home. Her kidnapper -- a serial killer who burns his victims alive. Tormented by his obsession, he wants Erin to cure him before he kills again. If she fails, she'll become his next victim. While Erin's twin sister Annie searches desperately for her, Erin delves into her captor's psyche and his past, discovering a secret guilt ... a complex web of crime and betrayal ... and an unexpected connection between the killer and herself. "Suspense, sex, treachery, terror ... Thrilling!" - Mystery Scene

New York Times and USA Today bestseller Michael Prescott, author of COLD AROUND THE HEART, FINAL SINS, and other thrillers, presents a collection of seventeen stories that run the gamut from mystery and suspense to horror, fantasy, and science-fiction. Many have never been published before. The stories include "Stalkerama," an Abby Sinclair adventure; "Rite of Passage," about a young boy who suspects his father of a terrible crime; "Long Goat," a tale of voodoo in Los Angeles; "Voivode," a search for the real Dracula; and the title story, "Steel Trap," about forbidden love in the red-light district of a future Singapore.

New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Michael Prescott delivers a haunting story of fate, obsession, and murder in COMES THE DARK. Erica Garrison has long suspected her brother Robert of a terrible crime, but she has never sought proof, afraid of what she might find - until today. Now, in the secret underground caverns below the rural town of Barrow, Pennsylvania, she searches for the site of the childhood games she and Robert played - games that may have sparked a homicidal fascination that grips him to this day. And all the while her brother, and her past, are inexorably closing in ... "A harrowing thriller of the first order. [Prescott's] character are flesh-and-blood real, the atmosphere's intense, and the plot races along unceasingly." - Jeffery Deaver

Dr. Robin Cameron explores the dark places of the mind, hoping to reform hardened criminals. For her, no one is beyond redemption. Still, she may have met her match in Justin Gray, a conscienceless serial killer with a taste for young girls. Girls like Robin's teenage daughter Megan - who, unknown to her mom, is venturing into some dark places of her own."Packed with psychological complexity, truly demented characters and nonstop, unexpected plot twists ...This dark, compulsive read messes with your mind and makes you love it."-Publishers WeeklyMichael Prescott is the New York Times and USA today best-selling author of more than 20 thrillers.

Over the past century and a half, a wealth of evidence has emerged that is consistent, at least, with the hypothesis of life after death. ¿Near-death experiences¿Deathbed visions¿Mediumship¿Apparitions ¿Past-life memories, and memories of a between-lives stateYet even those who are inclined to take this evidence seriously may struggle to make sense of it. How can the idea of an afterlife be integrated into our everyday experience? How can we connect the seemingly nebulous notion of postmortem survival with the hard, tangible reality of life on earth?Through metaphors, images, and analogies-illustrated with dozens of documented cases drawn from the literature of parapsychology-this book suggests ways of looking at life beyond death, not as a baffling anomaly, but as a logical extension of our experience of reality here and now. The hope is that we can learn to see reports of an afterlife as something more than mere ghost stories ... and to sharpen the focus of our gaze on "The Far Horizon."