Bøger af Sheena Kamal

From Strand Critics Award winner Sheena Kamal, comes the third novel featuring the brilliant, fearless, deeply flawed Nora Watts whose vendetta against a triad enforcer escalates when he places a target on her daughter's back.Find your enemy. Before he finds you.Nora Watts has a talent for seeing what lies beneath strangers' surfaces, and for knowing what they're working hard to keep hidden. Somehow, it's the people closest to her she has trouble truly connecting with. In the case of Bonnie, the teenage daughter Nora gave up for adoption, she has to keep trying. For Bonnie has a target on her back--and it's all because of Nora. Two years ago, Bonnie was kidnapped by the wealthy Zhang family. Though Nora rescued her, she made a powerful enemy in Dao, a mysterious triad enforcer and former head of the Zhangs' private security. Now Dao is out for revenge, and she needs to track him down in order to keep herself--and Bonnie--safe. On Dao's trail, Nora forms an unlikely partnership with Bernard Lam, an eccentric playboy billionaire with his own mysterious grudge to bear, and reunites with Jon Brazuca, ex-cop turned private investigator and Nora's occasional ally. From Canada to southeast Asia they pursue Dao, uncovering a shadowy criminal cabal. But soon, the trail will lead full circle to Vancouver, the only home Nora's ever known, and right to the heart of her brutal past.

De pequeña, Nora Watts solo conoció a uno de sus progenitores, a su padre Sam. Cuando este se suicidó, ella se negó a sentir dolor y continuó con su vida. Pero un encuentro fortuito con un veterano de guerra que lo conoció le hace enfrentarse a preguntas y emociones oscuras que no puede ignorar. Si quiere hacer las paces con el pasado, debe plantarle cara.Para descubrir la verdad sobre la vida de su padre y sobre su muerte, Nora viaja de Vancouver a Detroit, donde se crio Sam Watts. En la Ciudad del Motor, Nora descubre que las circunstancias que rodearon al suicidio son más inquietantes de lo que había imaginado. Sin embargo, por mucho que se aleje de Vancouver, Nora no logra dejar atrás los problemas. De vuelta en el noroeste del Pacífico, Jon Brazuca, exdetective de la policía convertido en investigador privado, está investigando la muerte por sobredosis de la amante de un multimillonario. Su búsqueda destapa una despiadada red de contrabando de opiáceos y un sorprendente vínculo con Nora.Centrada en los misteriosos acontecimientos del pasado de su padre y en las pistas que estos le proporcionan para entender su propia identidad y la de su hermana, tal vez Nora no logre ver el peligro hasta que sea demasiado tarde. Pero no son los viejos contactos de su padre los que podrían matarla, sino los suyos propios.

Growing up, Nora Watts only knew one parent?her father. When he killed himself, she denied her grief and carried on with her life. Now, a chance encounter with a veteran who knew him raises questions Nora can't ignore?and dark emotions she can't control. To make her peace with the past, she has to confront it, and her search for the truth takes her from Vancouver to Detroit, where she discovers that the circumstances surrounding Sam Watts' suicide are more unsettling than she'd imagined.Yet no matter how far away Nora gets from Vancouver, she can't shake trouble. Back in the Pacific Northwest, former police detective turned private investigator Jon Brazuca is looking into the overdose death of a billionaire's mistress. His search uncovers a ruthless opiate ring and a startling connection to Nora?but he has no way to warn or protect her, because she's become a ghost, vanishing completely off the grid.Focused on the mysterious events of her father's past and the clues they provide to her own fractured identity, Nora may not be able to see the danger heading her way . . . until it's too late.

She Won't Stop Until the Truth is Found . . .It begins with a phone call that Nora Watts has dreaded for fifteen years?since the day she gave up her newborn daughter for adoption. Bonnie has vanished. The police consider her a chronic runaway and aren't looking for her, leaving her desperate adoptive parents to reach out to her birth mother as a last hope.A biracial product of the foster system, transient, homeless, scarred by a past filled with pain and violence, Nora knows intimately what happens to vulnerable girls on the streets. Caring despite herself, she sets out to find Bonnie with her mutt, Whisper, as her only companion, and little to protect her but her instincts and a freakish ability to detect truth from lies.The search uncovers a puzzling conspiracy that leads Nora on a harrowing journey from the rain-soaked streets of Vancouver, to the icy white mountains of the Canadian interior, to the beautiful and dangerous island where she will face her most terrifying demon. All to save a girl she wishes had never been born.

On a surveillance assignment for a child custody case, PI-in-training Nora Watts finds herself ensconced in a small farming community on a beautiful hippie island in the Pacific Northwest, a place with a reputation for being welcoming to outsiders. But when she arrives there, she discovers her welcome quickly wears thin. Perhaps too quickly. Salt Spring Island, with a history as a refuge for African Americans fleeing the bonds of slavery, is not a place of refuge for her?and, she suspects, may not be for the people who live there, either. As she investigates, nothing about this remote community seems to add up. It gets personal as Nora confronts her own complicated feelings toward her estranged daughter and becomes increasingly concerned about the child she's been tasked to surveil. She discovers that small, idyllic communities can hide very big secrets. Included with this short story is a sneak peek at the next Nora Watts novel from Sheena Kamal, It All Falls Down

What happened to her father that made him kill himself and abandon Nora and her sister?Heading to Detroit to try and find some answers about his life there, Nora expects to discover a reason behind his suicide.

Hun troede hun havde lagt sin fortid bag sig. Men hun tog fejl. Det starter med den telefonsamtale, som Nora har ventet og frygtet i femten år, lige siden hun bortadopterede sin nyfødte datter. Bonnie er forsvundet. Da hun er løbet hjemmefra så mange gang før, tager politiet ikke hendes forsvinden alvorligt. De desperate adoptivforældre rækker derfor ud efter Bonnies biologiske mor, som deres allersidste håb. Som et produkt af et plejesystem, flygtende, hjemløs og rædselsslagen og med en fortid fyldt med vold og smerte, ved Nora godt, hvad der kan ske en sårbare pige, som lever på gaden. Modvilligt begiver Nora sig af sted, med sin hund som eneste selskab, væk fra de skinnende regnvåde gader i Vancouver, velvidende at hun vil åbne sår, som aldrig er helet og dykke ned i et mørke, hvor der intet er til at beskytte hende - kun hendes instinkter og den sære evne hun har til at skille sandhed fra løgn. Eftersøgningen afslører et puslespil af en konspiration, som leder Nora på en sindsoprivende rejse af bedrageri og vold. En rejse som fører hende gennem Canadas snedækkede bjerge til en smuk og farlig ø, hvor hun vil stå ansigt til ansigt med det hun frygter mest. Alt sammen for at redde en datter, som hun aldrig har ønsket sig. "En modig og kompromiløs heltinde, plus en modig og kompromiløs forfatter, giver en ekstraordinær debut- anbefales højt"- Lee Child.

What happened to her father that made him kill himself and abandon Nora and her sister?Heading to Detroit to try and find some answers about his life there, Nora expects to discover a reason behind his suicide.

It's been a month since Trisha's dad was killed, wandering out drunk in front of the car Trisha is driving, and her mother grabs the wheel. Eighteen-year-old Trisha's trying to break the chain, channelling her violent impulses into Muay Thai kickboxing, an unlikely sport for a slightly built girl of Indian descent.