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Christi Daugherty

    Beginning her career as a newspaper reporter at 22, this author covered murders in various cities. This experience provided her with a unique insight into the darker aspects of human nature, which is reflected in her gripping crime novels. Her style is characterized by raw realism and a penetrating psychological look at her characters. Through her works, she explores the complex motivations behind crime and its impact on society.

    Christi Daugherty
    A Beautiful Corpse
    Codename Firefly
    Night School - Legacy. Night School - Der den Zweifel sät, englische Ausgabe
    Night School - Endgame. Night School - Und Gewissheit wirst du haben, englische Ausgabe
    Resistance. Night School 4
    Paris Day by Day
    • Paris Day by Day

      22 Smart Ways to See the City

      These attractively priced, four-color guides offer dozens of neighborhood and thematic tours, complete with hundreds of photos and bulleted maps that lead the way from sight to sight. Day by Days are the only guides that help travelers organize their time to get the most out of a trip. Paris with Kids, Exploring the Louvre, On the Trail of the da Vinci Code, and more Paris Day by Day is the perfect answer for travelers who want to know the best places to visit and the best way to see the city. This attractively priced, four-color guide offers dozens of itineraries that show you how to see the best of Paris in a short time--with bulleted maps that lead the way from sight to sight. Featuring a full range of thematic and neighborhood tours, plus dining, lodging, shopping, nightlife, and practical visitor info, Paris Day by Day is the only guide that helps travelers organize their time to get the most out of a trip. Inside this book you'll

      Paris Day by Day
      4.3
    • Resistance. Night School 4

      • 360 pages
      • 13 hours of reading

      Finding refuge at a secret location in the south of France, Allie almost convinces herself she's safe - until Nathaniel's guards attack. Then she's on the run again, and forced to return to the one place she can truly call home : Cimmeria Academy. But when she arrives, she barely recognises it. Tensions are on a knife edge. Nathaniel is close - very close - to getting everything he wants. Allie is desperate to do something - anything! - to stop him, and agrees to accompagny Lucinda on a dangerous late-night mission. But is she putting her friends'lives at risk? Carter and Sylvain are both ready to fight by her side, and prove their love. Allie knows she must make up her mind once and for all about who she really wants. The time for indecision is over. Everything is at stake and winner takes all ...

      Resistance. Night School 4
      4.3
    • In the last year, Allie's survived three arrests, two breakups and one family breakdown. The only bright point has been her new life at Cimmeria Academy. It's the one place she's felt she belongs. And the fact that it's brought the dreamy Carter West into her life hasn't hurt. . . But far from being a safe haven, the cloistered walls of Cimmeria are proving more dangerous than Allie could've imagined. The students, and faculty, are under threat and Allie's family - from her mysterious grandma to her runaway brother - are at the centre of the storm. Allie is going to have to choose between protecting her family and trusting her friends. But secrets have a way of ripping even the strongest relationships apart . . . 'Night School is dramatic and full of great characters, the perfect blend of suspense and romance.' Sophie McKenzie

      Night School - Legacy. Night School - Der den Zweifel sät, englische Ausgabe
      4.2
    • Codename Firefly

      • 380 pages
      • 14 hours of reading

      The only child of the British Prime Minister has become the target of Russian assassins, and has been moved to an elite boarding school. Shielded by gates she feels safe, but the assassins searching for her are highly trained. As winter closes in and darkness falls, Gray will have to think fast. The hunters are coming.

      Codename Firefly
      4.1
    • A Beautiful Corpse

      • 384 pages
      • 14 hours of reading

      It's a thin line between love and murder... A tense new thriller, perfect for fans of Clare Mackintosh, Cara Hunter and Lisa Jewell

      A Beautiful Corpse
      4.1
    • Night school - Fracture

      • 374 pages
      • 14 hours of reading

      Cimmeria has been more than a school for Allie, it's been a safe haven. But no longer. A nefarious group - one that is tied up with Allie's family in ways she could barely imagine - is trying to destroy everything Cimmeria stands for. Even worse, it's clear that somebody they eat with, sleep with, train with is betraying them. There's a spy in Night School. As the paranoia grows and the fights begin, it's not an attack from outside they need to worry about . . .

      Night school - Fracture
      4.1
    • Eight months ago, Gray Langtry's mother became prime minister... now someone wants her dead. When Gray stumbles across a plot to kill her mother, she must find proof before it's too late. But her own life is in danger as she races to find evidence.

      Number 10
      4.0
    • The Secret Fire

      • 432 pages
      • 16 hours of reading

      A battle against fate. A race against time. Taylor Montclair is a regular girl from the quiet backwater of Woodbury, England. Sacha Winters is a darkly mysterious boy from the City of Lights - Paris, France. While Taylor's focussed on her dream of attending Oxford University, school couldn't be further from Sacha's mind ...Sacha knows exactly when he's going to die. Because he's done it before. On the appointed day, Sacha's time will run out. And his death will fulfil an ancient destiny that could unleash chaos and catastrophe. Taylor is the only person who can save him. Neither of them knows that yet. Because they haven't even met. Hundreds of miles and a body of water separate them. Deadly forces will stop at nothing to keep them apart. They have eight weeks to find each other and unravel an ancient web of mystery and danger. The clock starts NOW.

      The Secret Fire
      3.9
    • The Secret City

      • 368 pages
      • 13 hours of reading

      'Remember: Demons lie' Locked away inside the fortified walls of Oxford's St Wilfred's College, surrounded by alchemists sworn to protect them, Taylor and Sacha are safe from the Darkness. For now. But time is short. In seven days Sacha will turn 18, and the ancient curse that once made him invincible will kill him, unleashing unimaginable demonic horror upon the world. There is one way to stop it. Taylor and Sacha must go to where the curse was first cast - the medieval French city of Carcassonne - and face the demons. The journey will be dangerous. And monsters are waiting for them. But as Darkness descends on Oxford, their choice is stark. They must face everything that scares them, or lose everything they love.

      The Secret City
      3.8
    • ECHO KILLING

      • 356 pages
      • 13 hours of reading

      When a murder echoing a fifteen-year-old cold case rocks the Southern town of Savannah, crime reporter Harper McClain risks everything to find the identity of this calculated killer.--from dust jacket.

      ECHO KILLING
      3.8
    • Night School 4

      • 416 pages
      • 15 hours of reading

      Die Situation spitzt sich zu: Die NIGHT SCHOOL fordert ihre Opfer. Cimmeria befindet sich im Ausnahmezustand. Hilflos müssen Allie und ihre Freunde mit ansehen, wie die Machtkämpfe zwischen den rivalisierenden Gruppen das Internat zunehmend spalten. In der Gefahr wird Allies Liebe zu Sylvain immer inniger. Doch um sein Leben zu schützen, muss sie sich von ihm trennen. Verzweifelt konzentriert Allie sich nun ganz auf das Training für die NIGHT SCHOOL. Bis ein Attentat mit tödlichem Ausgang ihre Welt bis in ihre Grundfeste erschüttert ...

      Night School 4
      4.4
    • Berührende Liebesgeschichte und actiongeladene Spannung: Von Schuldgefühlen und Trauer um den Tod ihrer Großmutter innerlich zerrissen, zieht sich Allie immer mehr zurück. Ohne Lucindas führende Hand droht die Night School endgültig auseinanderzubrechen. Und Allie ist mehr denn je davon überzeugt, dass jeder, den sie liebt, sterben muss. Als die Lage schon hoffnungslos erscheint, taucht auf einmal von unerwarteter Seite Hilfe auf. Nun wissen Allie und ihre Freunde: Der Kampf gegen Nathaniel ist noch nicht verloren!Packendes Finale der Erfolgs-Serie.

      Night School 5
      4.3
    • Wenn du an einen der sichersten Orte der Welt gebracht wirst und sie dich trotzdem finden... Gray, die Tochter der Premierministerin, wird zu ihrem Schutz nach Cimmeria, einem Eliteinternat, gebracht. Es dauert jedoch nicht lange, bis ihre Feinde sie aufgespürt haben. Wird Gray fliehen oder sich der Gefahr stellen?

      Number 10 2. Denn sie werden dich verraten
      4.2
    • Night School 3

      • 416 pages
      • 15 hours of reading

      Nacht für Nacht quälen Allie Albträume, seitdem ihre Freundin Jo ermordet wurde. Sie weiß, dass jeder, der ihr nahesteht, das nächste Opfer werden kann. Deshalb wehrt sie Sylvains Annäherungsversuche ab und verbirgt ihren Schmerz darüber, dass Carter sich von ihr abwendet. Allies Befürchtungen bestätigen sich, als ihre Großmutter das Geheimnis um die NIGHT SCHOOL enthüllt. Ihr wird klar, dass es nur eine Lösung gibt, wenn sie überleben und ihre Freunde schützen will: Sie muss der Wahrheit auf den Grund gehen und die gefährlichen Machtkämpfe beenden.

      Night School 3
      4.1
    • Nebezpečný muž: Joe Pike v hlavní roli: zabrání únosu mladé pokladní z banky, ale na dívku se zaměřili zločinci a požadují devatenáct milionů, o kterých nemá ani tušení! Joe a Elvis Cole ji v tom nenechají. Štěstí rodiny Doveových: V městečku Dove Pond skomírá život. Mladá Sarah, sedmá dcera Doveových, věří, že jí v obnově pomůže nově přistěhovaná Grace Wheelerová... Mrtvá kráska: Kriminální reportérka Harper McClainová se nachomýtla k další záhadné vraždě! Nakreslit si domov: Nečekaně zesnulý uznávaný malíř zanechává svůj dům a obrazy dospívající Penny, nadané kreslířce. Jeho stará mecenáška se snaží dědictví napadnout.

      Nebezpečný muž / Štěstí rodiny Doveových / Mrtvá kráska / Nakreslit si domov
      5.0
    • W. K. Krueger : Desolation Mountain - Na prokleté hoře se zřítí letadlo s americkou senátorkou, která měla zásadně zasáhnout do politiky kraje. Indiáni Odžibvejové, především Cork O´Connor a jeho rodina, se pouští do vyšetřování, protože FBI se k případu staví podivně... G. Hendricks a S. Pekkanen : Anonymní dívka - Jessica Farrisová se účastní anonymní studie zaměřené na etiku a morálku. Pomalu však zjistí, že doktorka Shieldsová s ní má velmi zvláštní úmysly... D. Rosenfelt : Uvězněný - Před třemi lety zmizel maličký chlapeček a rodinný pes. Nyní se pes záhadně vrací a nastává horečné hledání - je malý Dylan živ? Advokát Andy Carpenter opět v akci. Ch. Daugherty : Vražda s ozvěnou - Reportérka Harper McClainová se pídí po detailech kriminálních činů. Náhle v jedné vraždě jako by poznávala minulost - dávnou vraždu její matky...

      Desolation Mountain / Anonymní dívka / Uvězněný / Vražda s ozvěnou
      4.0