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It was eight years since Patrick had vanished leaving his pitiful note, 'I'm sorry but I can't bear it any longer. Don't be angry with me, Patrick. Now it seemed, he had returned — just in time to claim the family inheritance. But if Patrick really had committed suicide, who was this mysterious young man claiming to be him and calling himself Brat Farrar?

Tension mounts as Inspector Alleyn works against time to collar a vicious killer and avert a political holocaust, the repercussions of which would be felt around the world!

An anthology of stories based around the very first mystery detective, Le Chevalier C. Auguste Dupin, created by Edgar Allan Poe.

Dupin famously featured in 'The Murders in the Rue Morgue' (1841), then went on to star in two more investigations, 'The Mystery of Marie Rogêt' (1842) and 'The Purloined Letter' (1844).

The anthology will include the original 1841 story and Clive Barker's sequel, 'New Murders in the Rue Morgue' (which was first published in his Books of Blood series) to bookend the stories.

Conributors: Guy Adams, Steve Volk, Thomas Monteleone, Lisa Tuttle, Simon Clark, Joe R. Lansdale, Elizabeth Massie, Ed Gorman, Jonathan Mayberry, Yvonne Navarro, Weston Ochse and Clive Barker

Wolf’s lust for a unique black orchid combined with his envy of the orchid fancier who hybridized it impel him to attend the annual New York flower show. A nursery/seed company employee is murdered at the show. Wolfe offers to solve the murder in exchange for the rare plant; and he does solve it with some clear thinking and a dramatic stratagem.

In this story Nero working for the War Department. The case presented to him involves widespread industrial sabotage, and without much in the way of clues, Nero, with Archie’s help, sets his own “booby traps” to catch a murderer and a traitor.

In “Bullet for One,” a man with a lot of enemies is shot dead while riding his horse in the early morning in Central Park; five of the six suspects believe the sixth man is the culprit, but he’s got an ironclad alibi...

In this story Nero Wolfe investigates the murders of Dazy Perrit, an underworld kingpin.

When Nero Wolfe comes up against murder in the advertising business it isn’t surprising that the world’s largest detective (one-seventh of a ton of orchid-loving, beer-drinking genius) should find himself involved with one of the world’s largest advertising agencies. The agency is conducting the biggest prize contest ever, with prizes totaling one million dollars. Just one man knows the solutions in the million-dollar contest, and it’s his disappearance that introduces Nero and Archie to the world of four-color spreads and TV spectaculars. It introduces them also to a murderer who has the audacity to kill in Nero’s office and before Nero’s very eyes. After Rex Stout unfolds this novel, it is possible that the advertising world will never be the same — and this may be a public service.

GUNĀRS CĪRULIS

BEZALGAS ATVAĻINĀJUMS

Darbs ieguvis trešo prēmiju Vissavienības un otro prēmiju republikāniskajā konkursā par Iekšlietu ministrijas iestāžu darbības atspoguļojumu literatūrā.

Recenzents E. STRODS Māksliniece R. KLIECE

 «Liesma», 1981

Rītausmā jūras līča viļņos šūpojas vientuļa jahta. Uz tās nav neviena cilvēka. Kas noticis — nelaimes ga­dījums, nolaidība, noziegums, neizprotama mistifikācija? Sos jautājumus Gunāra Cīru|a jaunajā detektīvromānā risina Inspektors Putriņš,' kurš pats lr pieredzējis burā­tājs un tāpēc labi pazīst gan negadījuma upuri, gan iespējamos vainīgos. Grāmata sniedz lasītājiem ne tikai interesanti samezglotu kriminālpavedienu, bet arī Ieskatu šai savdabīgajā sporta un jūras braucēju pasaulē.

Ради любви… На что можно пойти ради любви? Катя Петровская, капитан милиции, сотрудница пресс-центра УВД, вспомнила залитую кровью лестницу, пакет с его жутким содержимым в руках эксперта, заросшую крапивой канаву, нагнувшиеся до земли ветви яблонь с червивыми плодами, темную фигуру, всем своим весом налегающую на веревку, перекинутую через сук. Лицо, искаженное бешенством… Так на что можно пойти ради любви?.. Принимая участие в расследовании дела об убийстве двух молодых женщин, Кате пришлось заглянуть в черный омут человеческой души. Соприкоснуться с самым запретным, самым темным… И убедиться – реальность иногда превосходит самые страшные сны…

Ради любви… На что можно пойти ради любви? Катя Петровская, капитан милиции, сотрудница пресс-центра УВД, вспомнила залитую кровью лестницу, пакет с его жутким содержимым в руках эксперта, заросшую крапивой канаву, нагнувшиеся до земли ветви яблонь с червивыми плодами, темную фигуру, всем своим весом налегающую на веревку, перекинутую через сук. Лицо, искаженное бешенством… Так на что можно пойти ради любви?.. Принимая участие в расследовании дела об убийстве двух молодых женщин, Кате пришлось заглянуть в черный омут человеческой души. Соприкоснуться с самым запретным, самым темным… И убедиться — реальность иногда превосходит самые страшные сны…

"One of the most startling and provocative mysteries I've read in years." – Carl Hiaasen

"Read this book, savor the language – it's the last and the most compelling word in thrillers." – James Ellroy

Surreal Bangkok, city of temples and brothels, where Buddhist monks in saffron robes walk the same streets as world-class gangsters, where bodies and souls are for sale or rent, and where the way you die may be more important than the way you live.

Inside a locked Mercedes an African-American Marine sergeant is killed by a maddened python and a swarm of cobras. Two cops – the only two in the city not on the take – arrive too late. Minutes later, only one is alive.

Sworn to avenge the death of his partner and soul brother, Sonchai Jitpleecheep, a fair-skinned Thai and a devout Buddhist who commutes daily between the sacred precepts of his religion and the profane delights the city has to offer, works his way through District 8. His tools are the forensic techniques of the modern police department; no less vital is his profound understanding of the mystical workings of the spirit world.

Soon he is in a realm he has never before encountered: the moneyed underbelly of Bangkok, where desire rules and the human body is as custom-designable as a raw hunk of jade – and where Sonchai eventually tracks the killer, a predator of an even more sinister variety.

A highly original story of gripping pace and reality, Bangkok 8 is a rare thing: a darkly atmospheric novel redolent with the authentic, hallucinogenic atmosphere of Bangkok. You've never read a thriller quite like this.

At the start of Burdett's superb third mystery-thriller to feature Thai police detective Sonchai Jitpleecheep (after Bangkok 8 and Bangkok Tattoo), Jitpleecheep shows old friend Kimberley Jones, an American FBI agent, a vicious snuff film he's received depicting the murder of an ex-lover of his named Damrong. Jitpleecheep and Jones maintain their complex platonic relationship as, helped by Jitpleecheep's assistant Lek, they pursue Damrong's killers. The trail leads them to an important banker, an American teacher, a Buddhist and an exclusive men's club called the Parthenon. Jitpleecheep, who now lives with Chanya, a former prostitute pregnant with his child, is visited in an erotic way by Damrong's ghost, while his corrupt superior, police colonel Vikorn, orders Jitpleecheep to help start a porn film business. Expertly juggling elements that in lesser hands would become confused or hackneyed, Burdett has created a haunting, powerful story that transcends genre.

Killing customers just isn't good for business."

My mother Nong's tone reflects the disappointment we all feel when a star employee starts to go wrong. Is there nothing to be done? Will we have to let dear Chanya go? The question can only be decided by Police Colonel Vikorn, who owns most of the shares in the Old Man's Club and who is on his way in his Bentley.

"No," I agree. Like my mother's, my eyes cannot stop flicking across the empty bar to the stool where Chanya's flimsy silver dress (just enough silk to cover nipples and butt) drapes and drips. Well, the dripping was slight and is more or less finished (a rusty stain on the floor turning black as it dries), but in more than a decade as a detective in the Royal Thai Police, I have never seen a garment so blood-soaked. Chanya's bra, also hideously splattered, lies halfway up the stairs, and her panties-her only other garment-lie abandoned on the floor outside the upstairs room where, eccentrically even for a Thai whore, she has taken refuge with an opium pipe.

"She didn't say anything at all? Like why?"

"No, I told you. She dashed in through the door in a bit of a state holding an opium pipe, glared at me, said, ‘I've done him in,' ripped off her dress, and disappeared upstairs. Fortunately, there were only a couple of farang in the bar at the time, and the girls were fantastic. They merely said, ‘Oh, Chanya, she goes like that sometimes,' and gently ushered them out. I had to play the whole thing down, of course, and by the time I got to her room, she was already stoned."

"What did she say again?"

"She was tripping on the opium, totally delirious. When she started talking to the Buddha, I left to call you and the Colonel. At that stage I didn't know if she'd really done him in or was freaking out on yaa baa or something."

But she'd snuffed him all right. I walked to the farang's hotel, which is just a couple of streets away from Soi Cowboy, and flashed my police ID to get the key to his room. There he was, a big muscular naked American farang in his early thirties, minus a penis and a lot of blood from a huge knife wound that began in his lower gut and finished just short of his rib cage. Chanya, a basically decent and very tidy Thai, had placed his penis on the bedside table. At the other end of the table, a single rose stood in a plastic mug of water.

There was nothing for it but to secure the room for the purposes of forensic investigation, leave a hefty bribe for the hotel receptionist-who is now more or less obliged to say whatever I tell him to say (standard procedure under my Colonel Vikorn in District 8)-and await further orders. Vikorn, of course, was in one of his clubs carousing, probably surrounded by naked young women who adored him, or knew how to look as if they did, and in no mood to be dragged to the scene of a crime until I penetrated his drunken skull enough to explain that the business at hand was not an investigation per se but the infinitely more challenging forensic task so lightly spoken of as a "cover-up." Even then he showed no inclination to shift himself until he realized it was Chanya (the perp, not the victim).

"Where the hell did she get the opium?" my mother wants to know. "There hasn't been opium in Krung Thep since I was a teenager."

Lisa, the estranged wife of TV superstar cop Cart Ramsey, is found murdered in a Los Angeles park. She'd divorced him for cruelty and the detectives on the case, Petra Connor and Stu Bishop, immediately elevate him to No 1 suspect. But a thorough investigation of the scene reveals that there was probably a witness to the killing. Reading the evidence on the ground Petra and Stu believe it is a homeless man, but in fact it is a homeless boy – Billy Straight. He knows he has vital evidence, but he is too scared of being returned to his former existence to come forward. As Billy battles with his conscience, Petra and Stu have plenty of other leads to follow and a dual narrative of stunning complexity and suspense develops until they eventually combine into a single crescendo of tension. Jonathan Kellerman has produced a thriller which is genuinely unputdownable.

Tu connais l'histoire de la chèvre de M. Seguin ? C'est celle de la mère Tatzi. Sauf qu'il manque M. Seguin. Par contre, des loups, t'en trouves à gogo. Et avec des dents vachement carnassières. Il en faut pour bouffer cette vieille bique.

A killer is out for blood, and it’s up to Detective Steve Carella to bring him in ― but a shocking surprise awaits when a survivor fingers the suspect in a lineup.

Je file un coup de périscope hors de ma tire et j'avise une Aronde qui se pointe à ma hauteur. L'espace d'une seconde, je me dis qu'il s'agit peut-être d'un coup fourré organisé par des malfrats qui en voudraient à mes os préférés, mais je décide que des truands ne klaxonneraient pas pour se signaler à mon attention et que, d'autre part, ils ne rouleraient pas dans une Aronde. Alors je lève le pied…

Si tu n'as jamais vu le prince Charles d'Angleterre complètement mort, le nez dans une salade de homard, lis ce book.

Si tu n'as jamais vu Béru propulser deux nonnes dans des cageots de tomates, lis ce bouquin.

Si tu n'as jamais vu San-A aux prises avec un couple mystérieux qui le ridiculise, lis ce polar.

Mais si tu as le palpitant qui déconne, l'ami, alors ne lis pas ce chef-d'œuvre, il te tuerait !

Chanson de salle de garde :

Et pourtant ! Oui, pourtant !

Il a bel et bien trépassé à l'ombre

des montagnes Rocheuses, notre

héroique Buffalo Bide.

Il aura donné sa vie à la France.

Et son vit à Cupidon.

Qu'il repose en pets.

Amen.

Figurez-vous qu'Alcide Sulfurik, plus connu dans les milieux de l'espionnage sous le matricule S 04 H2, a été kidnappé au retour d'une importante mission en Chine populaire par un commando de rebelles arabes dans l'aride pays de Kelsaltan !

Connaissez-vous le Kelsaltan ?

Il est situé très exactement à l'angle du golfe Persique et de l'avenue Raymond-Poincaré… C'est vous dire… Pour l'atteindre, il faut, à dos de chameau, traverser le grand Rasibus ou désert de la soif.

Et, par ironie, il a fallu que pour accompagner votre valeureux SAN-ANTONIO dans cette mission périlleuse on fasse appel à Pinaud et surtout à BÉRURIER ! Je ne vous en dis pas plus… Joignez-vous à notre étrange caravane et venez visiter le sérail du cheikh BÉRURIER (qui est d'ailleurs un cheikh avec provision).

Bénin en apparence, l'inspecteur Katz possède du félidé homonyme une détente sournoise et implacable. À pattes veloutées, il tourne autour de grands truands qui, après avoir volé un tas de bijoux, se le disputent sans pitié. Katz attend son heure pour lancer ses griffes. Mais dans la police, Katz est parrainé — et surveillé — par son frère aîné, le commissaire principal Lantier, un vieux matou pelé mais sagace…

«Hugues Pagan se livre ici à une démystification de la police à papa, non point burlesque comme dans les Ripoux, mais saumâtre et quelque peu nihiliste, du style dans une société pourrie, pourquoi les flics ne le seraient-ils pas.»

Michel Lebrun, L'Année du Polar

Bérurier, ex-interne des hôpitaux de Paris ?

Ça vous la coupe, hein ?

Et pourtant vous allez voir que le Gros sait aussi bien manier le stéthoscope que le saucisson à l’ail.

Surtout quand il a comme vieille bonne une sémillante donzelle nommée Pinaud.

Et si ce bouquin vous détraque la rate, vous savez maintenant par qui vous faire soigner !

Bérurier, ex-interne des hôpitaux de Paris ?

Ça vous la coupe, hein ?

Et pourtant vous allez voir que le Gros sait aussi bien manier le stéthoscope que le saucisson à l’ail.

Surtout quand il a comme vieille bonne une sémillante donzelle nommée Pinaud.

Et si ce bouquin vous détraque la rate, vous savez maintenant par qui vous faire soigner !

Дон Роберто Лучано, глава сицилийской мафии, соглашается выступить свидетелем обвинения на процессе Пола Кароллы, двадцать лет назад жестоко убившего сына дона. Но чуть ли не накануне судебного разбирательства все мужчины в семье Лучано оказываются убиты. Жена Роберто, ставшая внезапно вдовой, две ее невестки и внучка берут бразды правления в свои руки и объявляют врагам вендетту. Теперь они bella mafia, прекрасная мафия, и горе каждому, кто встанет у них на пути.

Andy McNab and Peter Grimsdale's Battlefield 3: The Russian is the most ambitious, and substantial thriller ever to be published alongside a game. It is the best in its class. Never before has there been such close, two-way collaboration between an author and the creators of the game itself. Nor has the resulting book been written by a thriller writer with such a strong track record of bestsellers behind him. SAS hero, McNab, has used Battlefield 3 as his starting point to write a story that breaks new ground and can't be found within the game. Displaying all of his trademark grit, authenticity and insight, Battlefield 3: The Russian is a scorching top-of-the-line military and a heart-stopping race against time…

The Mayor?

"Yes", Smith said, "he's taken over the city. He has given an open invitation to organized crime to move its operations into Bay City. He's opening the piers so that contraband can move in and out easily, so drugs can flow freely. Mob interests are coming from all over the country..setting up cutting rooms and jewelry factories for stolen diamonds..printing facilities for counterfeit stock certificates and securities..major counting rooms for what may become the nation's biggest illegal gambling operations. It'll be the crime capital of the U.S. within a few months!"

"Well, there's capitalism at work again. Proving that our system works best," said Remo.

"..And we want you and Chiun to keep him alive. Of course, he won't know who you are or who you work for," said Smith.

"Or why. Which includes us, as usual. But that's O.K., if we can't kill him with kindness, then we'll CURE him," said Remo.

"Let's not get into that," gasped Smith.

Remo and Chiun must focus on the dizzy series of events connecting the banana republic of Hispania, the Peaches of Mecca, and a luscious blonde named Gloria X. The missing like lies in the tequila-soaked brain of Barney Daniels, an ex-CIA agent who is spirited away to a mental hospital when he tips a few wild stories to the press.

Under the influence of an intoxicating woman, the groggy sot becomes a hired assassin and gets into some tight situations. Every cutthroat in New York City is plying his with drinks to find out what he knows, and Daniels is having a high time...until someone slips him a mickey.

It all comes back to his staggering memory in a dream: it's not the U.S. but the Russkies who are pouring missiles into the lush jungles of Hispania. Unless Remo and Chiun act fast, Washington, D.C. is likely to get blasted.

Mack Bolan learns that archenemy Greb Strakhov is in Lebanon. The Executioner has a personal vendetta with the KGB terror merchant.

Bolans mission is twofold: to settle the score with Strakhov, and to avenge the 240 U.S. Marines who lie dead in the wake of a suicide-bomber attack. A single life lost is unacceptable to Bolan.

But not even the combat-hardened Executioner is prepared for the utter carnage he finds in Beirut. There, Death respects no barriers.

In a conflict in which none of the warrior factions seem to want peace, Bolan knows what he has to do. Make sure that the savages instigating the strife are silenced — forever!

A police chief betrays his code of honor to the Mafia and tries to persuade fellow officers to accept money from the Mob. Those who refuse are killed.

Through all his miles along the hellfire trail, the Executioner has always looked on the police as soldiers on the same side.

But Mack Bolan sees this lawman as a traitor, both to his badge and to Bolans cause. Will the warrior break his own rules to stop the corrupt cop?

Rumors and rumbles of a Cuban exile connection with the Mafia crime machine in Miami have come to Bolans ears.

The Executioner enters an old battleground, only to find hordes of Cuban outcasts crowding the city center, and the teeming core of Miami pulsing to a new Latin death song.

Grim specters and faithful friends of a former life weave a deja vu tapestry as Bolan hits both the Mob and an exile splinter movement.

Clouds of terror hang low over Americas southern ocean playground. The rumbles are turning to thunder. Unless Bolan can stop the Havana hurricane, Miami and its beaches will be awash in blood!

Mack was back in an undercover role. Posing as a U.S. Army sergeant selling guns to terrorists, Bolan struck deep into the ranks of Europes most brutal group of Kidnappers.

A team of world-class athletes had been taken hostage. The captors — the Zwilling Horde. The aim— pirating of a deadly chemical weapon. The answer — Mack Bolan!

The Executioner was up against fearsome adversaries — the vicious Tania, who liked to scorch the flesh of friends, and the hideous Rudi, a giant hulk whose battle with Bolan added a new dimension to savagery.

But they didnt have a chance in hell. When Bolan is reduced to bare fists, only the dead are safe!

Two men take the same pledge — to see justice done. Mack Bolan, a self-styled executioner, made his vow in silence and alone. Hal Brognola took his oath for all America to see. Hunter and prey in former years, they are now lifelong friends. Their friendship is their strenght — and their weakness.

The mission: Mack Bolan must rescue Brognola's kidnapped wife and children, and clear his friend's name of treachery.

The enemy that Bolan must face is ruthless and neck deep in the blood of a late U.S. president and his brother. The frame and snatch smell of CIA involvement, and Bolan knows that underworld links with Clandestine Ops run deep at Langley. With these odds, can Bolan stop his friend's world from falling apart?

Mack Bolan, exhausted by the firestorm that is his life, decides to take a well-deserved R and R. But instead of some tropical resort, the Executioner plans to challenge natures whims in the depths of an Icelandic glacier.

On a perilous trip beneath the polar ice cap, he makes a discovery to startling it is tantamount to an act of war.

And the innocent vacation becomes a hunt — with Bolan as the prey.

When John Dortmunder sets out to rob a bank, he really means it. He steals the whole thing. With the help of his usual crew, as well as a sophomoric ex-FBI man and a militant safecracker, Dortmunder puts a set of wheels under a trailer that just happens to be the temporary site of the Capitalists' & Immigrants' Trust Corp.

When the safe won't open and the cops close in, Dortmunder realizes he's got to find a place — somewhere in suburban Long Island — to hide a bank.

"One of the funniest conceptions you're going to come across…the ending is hilarious." (The New York Times)

A corto di soldi, Stephanie Plum rimedia un lavoro, nella società di assicurazioni del cugino, come “cacciatrice di teste”, con il compito di consegnare alla polizia tutti gli arrestati rilasciati su cauzione che non si sono presentati in tribunale per il processo. Il suo primo caso è però quello di un agente di polizia ingiustamente accusato di omicidio, un ex compagno di liceo di Stephanie, al cui

Przed moją furtką zatrzymała się jakaś nieznajoma facetka. Widziałam ją doskonale, bo akurat robiłam sobie w kuchni herbatę i czekałam, aż mi się woda zagotuje. Facetka popatrzyła na dom, a potem rozejrzała się z uwagą po okolicy, najdłuższe spojrzenie poświęcając wierzbie. Następnie zadzwoniła. Nie wyglądała na brutalnego złoczyńcę, zatem wpuściłam ją od razu, z niepokojem usiłując sobie przypomnieć, czy przypadkiem nie byłam umówiona na jakiś kolejny wywiad. Nie, chyba nie, bo nic mnie nie gryzło w głębi duszy.

Kolejna, najnowsza, powieść jednej z najpoczytniejszych polskich pisarek. Fragment powieści: "- Samo gadanie na zbrodnię by nie wystarczyło – stwierdziłam po namyśle. Ona przecież wychodziła z domu, nie? Mógł się zakradać etapami i szukać. Sprawdzać. Skoro poszedł i zabił, musiał mieć informacje konkretne. Ja już coś tam słyszałam, tu się wszystko szeroko rozchodzi, latała po knajpach…" "- Po jednej knajpie – sprostowała Grażynka – Miała swoją, umówioną." "- Dobrze, po jednej, dostawała pożywienie. Poszła w końcu tego wieczoru czy nie?" "- Osobiście sądzę, że poszła, nie sznurowałaby butów tylko dla kamuflażu. Miała takie wysokie, staroświeckie, sznurowane buciki, mogła przecież udawać, że chce iść w czymkolwiek, bodaj w kapciach. Ale tego wyjścia nie widziałam, a co gorsza, słyszałam jak zamykała za mną drzwi. Przekręcała klucz. Nie przyznałam się do tego policji."

Жизнь — это вереница случайностей. Если вы стоите на распутье и не знаете, куда двигаться дальше, просто помните, что главное — двигаться…

Этому правилу всегда следует молодая журналистка Анна, знакомая нам по предыдущей книге Ирины Шаниной «Поцелуй смеющегося Будды». Если в первом романе Анна спасла уникальный алмаз от лап китайской мафии, то здесь ей предстоит раскрыть убийство девушки-модели.

The Mayor?

"Yes", Smith said, "he's taken over the city. He has given an open invitation to organized crime to move its operations into Bay City. He's opening the piers so that contraband can move in and out easily, so drugs can flow freely. Mob interests are coming from all over the country..setting up cutting rooms and jewelry factories for stolen diamonds..printing facilities for counterfeit stock certificates and securities..major counting rooms for what may become the nation's biggest illegal gambling operations. It'll be the crime capital of the U.S. within a few months!"

"Well, there's capitalism at work again. Proving that our system works best," said Remo.

"..And we want you and Chiun to keep him alive. Of course, he won't know who you are or who you work for," said Smith.

"Or why. Which includes us, as usual. But that's O.K., if we can't kill him with kindness, then we'll CURE him," said Remo.

"Let's not get into that," gasped Smith.

Combien d'temps croyez-vous-t-il que ça durera-t-il, c't'absence de mon Béru, commissaire ? Ce silence ? J'vais prendre un avocat et m'reconstituer partie civique. Réclamer des hommages et intérêts ! Un homme comme mon homme, ça vaut son poids d'pognon, croiliez-moi ! Faut qu'l'Etat va m'le payer, commissaire. Sans compter qu'un chibre comme l'sien, au grand jamais j'retrouv'rai l'même. C'tait classé monument hystérique, un nœud de c't'acabit ! Les taureaux faisaient la gueule quand y voiliaient limer c'pauv'Alexandre-Benoît dans la nature.

Ça va faire deux mois que j'étiole du frifri, commissaire. C'est plus une vie !

(Doléances de Berthe Bérurier)

You can't judge a book by its cover. To look at her, one would never think suburbanite homemaker Jane Jeffry would be interested in murder and mayhem. But after all the corpses she's come across — and killers she's unmasked — she's practically an expert on the subject. Which is why, with best buddy Shelley Nowack in tow, Jane's booking down to a nearby mystery writers' convention to mingle with the brightest lights of literary crime. . and maybe drum up some interest in her own recently completed manuscript. However, what would a mystery convention be without a mystery? It seems fairly certain that at least one real-life murderer is stalking the proceedings. But who is he/she/them? The dirt-dishing, pseudonymous Internet gossip monger "Ms. Mystery," who's lurking around there somewhere? The local bookseller who dearly loves "Modern Golden Age" women writers? The avid reader who seems to know a bit too much about the personal lives of the famous attendees? Jane and Shelley are on the case, ready to snoop, eavesdrop, and gossip their way to a solution. But the killer they seek is no open book. . and may turn out to be harder — and deadlier — to read than they initially imagined.

Vous me croirez si vous voudrez, comme dit mon éternel Bérurier, mais à Chicago, un flic français en mission officielle a beaucoup plus de problèmes avec la police locale qu'avec les gangsters ! Nulle part au monde, les poulets n'aiment qu'on vienne marcher sur leurs plates-bandes, mais aux États-Unis, c'est pire qu'ailleurs…

Peut-être qu'ils craignent qu'on leur pique leur « enveloppe » au passage ! Halte-là !.. Pas touche !.. Bas les pattes !.. C'est notre affaire… BAS LES PATTES ! ils disent, les poulagas, et les durs répliquent « hands up ! », ce qui prouve que ce pays est bien celui des contradictions. Il n'y a que les gonzesses qui soient comme chez nous… Surtout les taxi-girls à qui j'ai eu affaire tout au cours de ma mission… Leur devise, à elles, ce serait plutôt « legs up », « jambes en l'air » si vous préférez.

A l'enterrement de mon onc' Prosper, à Saint-Locdu, mon village natable, yavait Sana. Pas très corrèque, y m'refile, au moment des gondoléances, un œuf frais dans la pogne. Bon, passons !

Y avait aussi ma cousine Laurentine, la plus foutue garce du canton. Voilà-t-il pas qu c'te vilaine haridelle glisse et tombe dans la fosse, surl'cercueil à m'n'onc ! Et quand Collignier, l'notaire — un sacré biberonneur, soit dit en passant — nous annonce que l'héritage de Tontonva reviendre à son animal de compagnie et qu'nous deux, la Laurentine et moi, on s'ra que les jus-de-fruitiers, alors là, la cousine, è s'dresse comme un fantôme sur une lande écossaise…

Mais c'est pas l'tout : l'animal dont auquel il est question, c'est pas un chien, ni même un gros matou. C'est un coq, Mongénéral qu'y s'suce nomme…

Sacré Tonton ! Dommage qu'y soye canné. Parce que, s'il avait su tout ce qui s'en aye suivi, y serait resté baba…

Comme moi…

John Dortmunder doesn't like manual labor. So when he gets the offer of money to dig up a grave, he balks . . . then he wonders why Fitzroy Guilderpost, criminal mastermind, wants to pull a switcheroo of two 70-years-dead Indians.

Tu connais l'histoire de la chèvre de M. Seguin ? C'est celle de la mère Tatzi. Sauf qu'il manque M. Seguin. Par contre, des loups, t'en trouves à gogo. Et avec des dents vachement carnassières. Il en faut pour bouffer cette vieille bique.

Un compresseur.

Deux cons pressés.

Deux comprimés.

Deux cons primés.

Bérurier devenu obsédé sexuel.

M. Félix dont le paf est classé monument historique.

Une Autrichienne qui nous fait passer des moments hystériques.

Une dizaine de cadavres.

Ça, c'est le résumé de ce livre.

Maintenant, si tu veux tous les détails croustillants, faut l'acheter, mon pote; qu'est-ce que tu veux que je te dise! Je ne vais tout de même pas te faire peur et te faire triquer juste avec une quatrième page de couverture!

— Bouge ton pied que je voie la mer, soupira Véra.

J'ai bougé mon pied.

Elle a vu la mer.

Et du même coup, le spectacle le plus effarant, le plus incrédulant, le plus tout ce que tu voudras qui se puisse imaginer !

Si tu ne crains pas les péripéties, entre avec nous dans la ronde, mon pote.

On n'a pas le temps de s'embêter.

D'ailleurs, on n'a même pas le temps de comprendre.

Mais on n'est pas là pour ça, hein ?

LES FEMMES AUSSI AIMENT SAN-ANTONIO !

Pourquoi j'aime les livres de San-Antonio ?

Parce qu'ils me font mourir de rire. Je l'avoue sans honte, sans éprouver le besoin de me justifier en faisant remarquer que, mine de rien, leur auteur est un écrivain véritable, sérieux. Le Rabelais de notre époque. Rions avec San-Antonio, notre ami, champion du rire toutes catégories : petit rire, gros rire, fou rire, rire de coin, rire bon enfant, rire vengeur, contrepèteries, à-peu-près, calembours, San-Antonio ne fait pas la fine bouche.

Nous non plus. C'est si bon de rigoler sans faire de manières, de se détendre, des dilater la rate, de se tenir le ventre, de s'étouffer de rire, d'en hurler, d'en pleurer.

Quiconque nous fait rire est notre meilleur ami. Un conseil : lisez San-Antonio.

Son petit monde deviendra le votre.

Marcelle SEGAL (La Suisse)

Ma Félicie chérie,

Je t'écris d'Istanbul où je vis des choses que tu auras du mal à croire lorsque je te les raconterai. Jamais, de toute ma carrière, je n'aurai eu tant d'ennemis sur le dos à la fois. On peut dire que je bois le calife jusqu'à l'hallali ! Je travaille en « poule » avec Violette, une nouvelle inspectrice « ormée » par le Vieux. Béru a complètement défoncé le fondement d'une employée du consulat. Mathias a les poches bourrées de gadgets qui ridiculiseraient James Bond. Quant à Jérémie Blanc, il devient raciste ! Mais comme dit Violette : « L'un dans l'autre, on s'en sort. » Je ne me souviens pas si, la dernière fois tu m'as fait une blanquette, tu avais bien mis un jaune d'œuf dedans ? Le mieux est que tu m'en refasses une autre quand je rentrerai. En attendant, je Bosphore.

Grosses bises,

Ton fils pour la vie.

Antoine.

Je file un coup de périscope hors de ma tire et j'avise une Aronde qui se pointe à ma hauteur. L'espace d'une seconde, je me dis qu'il s'agit peut-être d'un coup fourré organisé par des malfrats qui en voudraient à mes os préférés, mais je décide que des truands ne klaxonneraient pas pour se signaler à mon attention et que, d'autre part, ils ne rouleraient pas dans une Aronde. Alors je lève le pied…

Si tu n'as jamais vu le prince Charles d'Angleterre complètement mort, le nez dans une salade de homard, lis ce book.

Si tu n'as jamais vu Béru propulser deux nonnes dans des cageots de tomates, lis ce bouquin.

Si tu n'as jamais vu San-A aux prises avec un couple mystérieux qui le ridiculise, lis ce polar.

Mais si tu as le palpitant qui déconne, l'ami, alors ne lis pas ce chef-d'œuvre, il te tuerait !

Chanson de salle de garde :

Et pourtant ! Oui, pourtant !

Il a bel et bien trépassé à l'ombre

des montagnes Rocheuses, notre

héroique Buffalo Bide.

Il aura donné sa vie à la France.

Et son vit à Cupidon.

Qu'il repose en pets.

Amen.

Figurez-vous qu'Alcide Sulfurik, plus connu dans les milieux de l'espionnage sous le matricule S 04 H2, a été kidnappé au retour d'une importante mission en Chine populaire par un commando de rebelles arabes dans l'aride pays de Kelsaltan !

Connaissez-vous le Kelsaltan ?

Il est situé très exactement à l'angle du golfe Persique et de l'avenue Raymond-Poincaré… C'est vous dire… Pour l'atteindre, il faut, à dos de chameau, traverser le grand Rasibus ou désert de la soif.

Et, par ironie, il a fallu que pour accompagner votre valeureux SAN-ANTONIO dans cette mission périlleuse on fasse appel à Pinaud et surtout à BÉRURIER ! Je ne vous en dis pas plus… Joignez-vous à notre étrange caravane et venez visiter le sérail du cheikh BÉRURIER (qui est d'ailleurs un cheikh avec provision).

Fallait bien que ça arrive un jour ! À force de cavaler côte à côte, Béru et moi, on a fini par se retrouver face à face. Et quand le Gros se met à faire du zèle au point de nous valoir une nouvelle guerre contre l’Allemagne, croyez-moi, c’est duraille d’arranger les bidons.

Aller à l’autre bout du monde pour se tirer la bourre, c’est un comble, non ?

En tout cas, j’en connais un qui nous a bien eus, tous les deux. Je vous dis pas son blaze, il est dans le bouquin !

Fallait bien que ça arrive un jour ! À force de cavaler côte à côte, Béru et moi, on a fini par se retrouver face à face. Et quand le Gros se met à faire du zèle au point de nous valoir une nouvelle guerre contre l’Allemagne, croyez-moi, c’est duraille d’arranger les bidons.

Aller à l’autre bout du monde pour se tirer la bourre, c’est un comble, non ?

En tout cas, j’en connais un qui nous a bien eus, tous les deux. Je vous dis pas son blaze, il est dans le bouquin !

Bérurier, ex-interne des hôpitaux de Paris ?

Ça vous la coupe, hein ?

Et pourtant vous allez voir que le Gros sait aussi bien manier le stéthoscope que le saucisson à l’ail.

Surtout quand il a comme vieille bonne une sémillante donzelle nommée Pinaud.

Et si ce bouquin vous détraque la rate, vous savez maintenant par qui vous faire soigner !

Bérurier, ex-interne des hôpitaux de Paris ?

Ça vous la coupe, hein ?

Et pourtant vous allez voir que le Gros sait aussi bien manier le stéthoscope que le saucisson à l’ail.

Surtout quand il a comme vieille bonne une sémillante donzelle nommée Pinaud.

Et si ce bouquin vous détraque la rate, vous savez maintenant par qui vous faire soigner !

From Publishers Weekly

Brutal murders linked to an ancient betrayal send late 17th-century Tokyo into a panic. They also spell big trouble for the Shogun's special investigator, Sano Ichiro, in this sequel to Rowland's well-received first novel, Shinju. The killings are made known when the severed heads of the victims are put on public display, in the manner of an ancient custom known as bundori, or war trophy. The victims are descendants of warriors who, more than a century earlier, were involved in the murder of a powerful warlord. As the killings continue, Sano, though hampered in his investigation by his devotion to the warrior-code of bushido and its precepts of silent obedience and service, suspects three of the most powerful men in the Shogunate, including Chamberlain Yanagisawa. Also complicating Sano's quest for the truth is a female ninja in Yanagisawa's power; aiding it are an eager young officer in the Tokyo police and a quirky old morgue attendant. Sano's allegiance to bushido makes him an unexpectedly passive hero, undermining the author's apparent attempt to wed Japanese philosophy to Western mystery-thriller conventions. But the novel reads smoothly and positively smokes with historical atmospherics.

From Library Journal

Part historical novel, part detective story, and part romance, Rowland's sequel to Shinju (LJ, 8/94) features, once again, the samurai detective Sano Ichiro, working for the shogun of the city of Edo in Tokugawa-era Japan. Several questionable plot devices effectively remove the novel from the detective genre, but the story is well constructed and compulsively readable. Sano must track down, virtually single-handedly, a serial killer who is at work in the region and whose motivation is complex, related to events of 129 years prior. The detective's job is complicated by court intrigue, increasingly so as his clues point toward suspects of influence. The richness of the historical detail adds enormously to the novel, and the reader comes away with a highly visual sense of life in feudal Japan. An enjoyable light reading experience, recommended for public libraries and popular reading collections.

David Dodd, Univ. of Colorado Libs., Colorado Springs

Before she was a detective, before she was a reluctant wife and distracted mother, before she was even a debutante, Dandy Gilver spent one perfect summer with the Lipscotts of Pereford. The golden memories of it have sustained her through many a cold snap in Perthshire. So when two of the Lipscott sisters beg her to help the third, she can hardly refuse. Sweet, pretty Fleur Lipscott: where is she now? The astonishing answer to this is that Fleur – still Miss Lipscott, indeed more Miss Lipscott than ever – is buried alive in the tiny seaside village of Portpatrick, working as a schoolmistress at St Columba's College for Young Ladies. But she is one of the few remaining, for St Columba's has been shedding mistresses as a snake its skins and the exodus is far from over. With mistresses vanishing and corpses mounting up, can Mrs Gilver, detective, pass herself off as Miss Gilver, English mistress, to solve the one and stop the other?

Dear Alec, Remember my engagement yesterday? The annual duty luncheon for the Reverend Mr Tait from which and whom I expected only boredom? I could hardly have been more wrong, Alec dear, and I am this minute packing to follow the Reverend home to his manse in Fife, there to attend a meeting of the Rural Women's Institute. Hardly a house party at which one would usually leap, I grant you, but not only is the man himself a perfect darling – imagine Father Christmas shaved clean and draped in tweed – but his parish, it seems, heaves with more violent passions than a Buenos Aires bordello. A stranger, you see, is roaming the night and pouncing on the ladies of the Rural. At least that's the tale they're telling and the one that Mr Tait told me, but since half the village think he's a figment and he only ever strikes at the full moon, I cannot help but wonder if there's something even odder going on…Much love and remember me fondly if the dark stranger gets me, Dandy xx

For Brother Cadfael in the autumn of his life, the mild November of our Lord’s year 1145 may bring a bitter — and deadly — harvest. England is torn between supporters of the Empress Maud and those of her cousin Stephen. The civil strife is about to jeopardize not only Cadfael’s life, but his hopes of Heaven.

 While Cadfael has sometimes bent the abbey’s rules, he has never broken his monastic vows—until now. Word has come to Shrewsbury of a treacherous act that has left thirty of Maud’s knights imprisoned. All have been ransomed except Cadfael’s secret son, Olivier de Bretagne. Conceived in Cadfael’s soldiering youth and unaware of his father’s identity, Olivier will die if he is not freed. Like never before, Cadfael must boldly defy the abbot. The good brother forsakes the order to follow his heart—but what he finds will challenge his soul.

For Brother Cadfael in the autumn of his life, the mild November of our Lord’s year 1145 may bring a bitter — and deadly — harvest. England is torn between supporters of the Empress Maud and those of her cousin Stephen. The civil strife is about to jeopardize not only Cadfael’s life, but his hopes of Heaven.

 While Cadfael has sometimes bent the abbey’s rules, he has never broken his monastic vows—until now. Word has come to Shrewsbury of a treacherous act that has left thirty of Maud’s knights imprisoned. All have been ransomed except Cadfael’s secret son, Olivier de Bretagne. Conceived in Cadfael’s soldiering youth and unaware of his father’s identity, Olivier will die if he is not freed. Like never before, Cadfael must boldly defy the abbot. The good brother forsakes the order to follow his heart—but what he finds will challenge his soul.

In this riveting and emotionally powerful historical drama, an ex-FBI agent plunges into the darkest shadows of 1930s Europe, where everything he loves is on the line…

International consultant Prescott Sweet’s mission is to bring justice to countries suffering from America’s imperialistic interventions. With his outspoken artist wife, Loretta, and their two children, he lives a life of equality and continental elegance amid Europe’s glittering capitals—beyond anything he ever dared hope for.

But he is still a man in hiding, from his past with the Bureau, from British Intelligence—and from his own tempting, dangerous skill at high-level espionage. So when he has the opportunity to live in Moscow and work at the American Embassy, Prescott and his family seize the chance to take refuge and at last put down roots in what they believe is a fair society.

Life in Russia, however, proves to be a beautiful lie. Reduced to bare survival, with his son gravely ill, Prescott calls on all his skills in a last-ditch effort to free his family from the grips of Stalin. But between honor and expediency, salvation and atrocity, he’ll be forced to play an ever more merciless hand and commit unimaginable acts for a future that promises nowhere to run…

Bogomils Rainovs

BEZGALA GARLAICĪBA

Romāns

IZDEVNIECĪBA «LIESMA» RIGA 1978

No bulgāru valodas tulkojusi Eleonora Tjarve Mākslinieks Arvids Galeviuss

Tulkojums latviešu valodā,

«Liesma», 1978

Espionage takes to the twenty-first century playing fields, where rules are broken and remade outside the reach of governments and the law. Agents recruited for the clandestine organization known as Room 59 play hard, play for keeps…or die trying. But now new Room 59 agent Ajza Manaev, a top MI6 operative, discovers just how high the stakes really are when she goes undercover inside Chechnya's terrorist training camps, where bitter young widows harness their hate as suicide bombers. Ajza doesn't know she's being manipulated by many sides of a deadly game. Her mysterious Room 59 handler has his own agenda, while the secret, silent mastermind behind a global destabilization plot hopes to push Ajza's loyalties to the breaking point. And in a game where the ground is always shifting, Ajza is inducted by hellfire into Room 59's harsh reality: she's on her own.

Combien d'temps croyez-vous-t-il que ça durera-t-il, c't'absence de mon Béru, commissaire ? Ce silence ? J'vais prendre un avocat et m'reconstituer partie civique. Réclamer des hommages et intérêts ! Un homme comme mon homme, ça vaut son poids d'pognon, croiliez-moi ! Faut qu'l'Etat va m'le payer, commissaire. Sans compter qu'un chibre comme l'sien, au grand jamais j'retrouv'rai l'même. C'tait classé monument hystérique, un nœud de c't'acabit ! Les taureaux faisaient la gueule quand y voiliaient limer c'pauv'Alexandre-Benoît dans la nature.

Ça va faire deux mois que j'étiole du frifri, commissaire. C'est plus une vie !

(Doléances de Berthe Bérurier)

Vous me croirez si vous voudrez, comme dit mon éternel Bérurier, mais à Chicago, un flic français en mission officielle a beaucoup plus de problèmes avec la police locale qu'avec les gangsters ! Nulle part au monde, les poulets n'aiment qu'on vienne marcher sur leurs plates-bandes, mais aux États-Unis, c'est pire qu'ailleurs…

Peut-être qu'ils craignent qu'on leur pique leur « enveloppe » au passage ! Halte-là !.. Pas touche !.. Bas les pattes !.. C'est notre affaire… BAS LES PATTES ! ils disent, les poulagas, et les durs répliquent « hands up ! », ce qui prouve que ce pays est bien celui des contradictions. Il n'y a que les gonzesses qui soient comme chez nous… Surtout les taxi-girls à qui j'ai eu affaire tout au cours de ma mission… Leur devise, à elles, ce serait plutôt « legs up », « jambes en l'air » si vous préférez.

A l'enterrement de mon onc' Prosper, à Saint-Locdu, mon village natable, yavait Sana. Pas très corrèque, y m'refile, au moment des gondoléances, un œuf frais dans la pogne. Bon, passons !

Y avait aussi ma cousine Laurentine, la plus foutue garce du canton. Voilà-t-il pas qu c'te vilaine haridelle glisse et tombe dans la fosse, surl'cercueil à m'n'onc ! Et quand Collignier, l'notaire — un sacré biberonneur, soit dit en passant — nous annonce que l'héritage de Tontonva reviendre à son animal de compagnie et qu'nous deux, la Laurentine et moi, on s'ra que les jus-de-fruitiers, alors là, la cousine, è s'dresse comme un fantôme sur une lande écossaise…

Mais c'est pas l'tout : l'animal dont auquel il est question, c'est pas un chien, ni même un gros matou. C'est un coq, Mongénéral qu'y s'suce nomme…

Sacré Tonton ! Dommage qu'y soye canné. Parce que, s'il avait su tout ce qui s'en aye suivi, y serait resté baba…

Comme moi…

Tu connais l'histoire de la chèvre de M. Seguin ? C'est celle de la mère Tatzi. Sauf qu'il manque M. Seguin. Par contre, des loups, t'en trouves à gogo. Et avec des dents vachement carnassières. Il en faut pour bouffer cette vieille bique.

Un compresseur.

Deux cons pressés.

Deux comprimés.

Deux cons primés.

Bérurier devenu obsédé sexuel.

M. Félix dont le paf est classé monument historique.

Une Autrichienne qui nous fait passer des moments hystériques.

Une dizaine de cadavres.

Ça, c'est le résumé de ce livre.

Maintenant, si tu veux tous les détails croustillants, faut l'acheter, mon pote; qu'est-ce que tu veux que je te dise! Je ne vais tout de même pas te faire peur et te faire triquer juste avec une quatrième page de couverture!

— Bouge ton pied que je voie la mer, soupira Véra.

J'ai bougé mon pied.

Elle a vu la mer.

Et du même coup, le spectacle le plus effarant, le plus incrédulant, le plus tout ce que tu voudras qui se puisse imaginer !

Si tu ne crains pas les péripéties, entre avec nous dans la ronde, mon pote.

On n'a pas le temps de s'embêter.

D'ailleurs, on n'a même pas le temps de comprendre.

Mais on n'est pas là pour ça, hein ?

LES FEMMES AUSSI AIMENT SAN-ANTONIO !

Pourquoi j'aime les livres de San-Antonio ?

Parce qu'ils me font mourir de rire. Je l'avoue sans honte, sans éprouver le besoin de me justifier en faisant remarquer que, mine de rien, leur auteur est un écrivain véritable, sérieux. Le Rabelais de notre époque. Rions avec San-Antonio, notre ami, champion du rire toutes catégories : petit rire, gros rire, fou rire, rire de coin, rire bon enfant, rire vengeur, contrepèteries, à-peu-près, calembours, San-Antonio ne fait pas la fine bouche.

Nous non plus. C'est si bon de rigoler sans faire de manières, de se détendre, des dilater la rate, de se tenir le ventre, de s'étouffer de rire, d'en hurler, d'en pleurer.

Quiconque nous fait rire est notre meilleur ami. Un conseil : lisez San-Antonio.

Son petit monde deviendra le votre.

Marcelle SEGAL (La Suisse)

Ma Félicie chérie,

Je t'écris d'Istanbul où je vis des choses que tu auras du mal à croire lorsque je te les raconterai. Jamais, de toute ma carrière, je n'aurai eu tant d'ennemis sur le dos à la fois. On peut dire que je bois le calife jusqu'à l'hallali ! Je travaille en « poule » avec Violette, une nouvelle inspectrice « ormée » par le Vieux. Béru a complètement défoncé le fondement d'une employée du consulat. Mathias a les poches bourrées de gadgets qui ridiculiseraient James Bond. Quant à Jérémie Blanc, il devient raciste ! Mais comme dit Violette : « L'un dans l'autre, on s'en sort. » Je ne me souviens pas si, la dernière fois tu m'as fait une blanquette, tu avais bien mis un jaune d'œuf dedans ? Le mieux est que tu m'en refasses une autre quand je rentrerai. En attendant, je Bosphore.

Grosses bises,

Ton fils pour la vie.

Antoine.

Je file un coup de périscope hors de ma tire et j'avise une Aronde qui se pointe à ma hauteur. L'espace d'une seconde, je me dis qu'il s'agit peut-être d'un coup fourré organisé par des malfrats qui en voudraient à mes os préférés, mais je décide que des truands ne klaxonneraient pas pour se signaler à mon attention et que, d'autre part, ils ne rouleraient pas dans une Aronde. Alors je lève le pied…

Si tu n'as jamais vu le prince Charles d'Angleterre complètement mort, le nez dans une salade de homard, lis ce book.

Si tu n'as jamais vu Béru propulser deux nonnes dans des cageots de tomates, lis ce bouquin.

Si tu n'as jamais vu San-A aux prises avec un couple mystérieux qui le ridiculise, lis ce polar.

Mais si tu as le palpitant qui déconne, l'ami, alors ne lis pas ce chef-d'œuvre, il te tuerait !

Chanson de salle de garde :

Et pourtant ! Oui, pourtant !

Il a bel et bien trépassé à l'ombre

des montagnes Rocheuses, notre

héroique Buffalo Bide.

Il aura donné sa vie à la France.

Et son vit à Cupidon.

Qu'il repose en pets.

Amen.

The Cold War is over — yet new, even more frightening wars have sprung up within our borders. Now, the field of battle for Devereaux, code name November, is to be found in Washington and Chicago itself.

The conspirators are a rich, beautiful radical; a disenfranchised army officer; and a playboy U.S. Senator. They're backed by a mysterious Lebanese bank known as the International Credit Clearinghouse. And their goal is a shocking one: destroy the entire civilian energy industry in one bold stroke.

In less than twenty-four hours, the November Man will have to defuse the most potentially devastating act of sabotage in history — and avenge an agonizingly personal injustice.

First published November 1st 1993.

A new army of killers was being recruited in Sicily by the Dons in the States. Young, tough, ruthless men were being smuggled into America, trained to wage brutal war within the underworld.

The government wanted to hasten the butchery and let the Brotherhood strangles its own blood. Someone had to infiltrate the Mob, go right to the top and assassinate the Number One Don.

It was an impossible assignment. So AXE gave it to Killmaster N3, Nick Carter!

They call him Reguiba. Moroccan death merchant extraordinaire. With an army of desert jackals who live to kill-and kill to live-he's got the manpower, the hardware and the petrodollars to pull any job… no matter how bloody.

His target: American allies in the Middle East. His goal: the total breakdown of Western alliances. His biggest obstacle: Agent N3 — Nick Carter!

— Voyez-vous Kovask, depuis que le pasteur nous a alertés, j’ai des insomnies.

Son pouce passa par-dessus son épaule.

— Approchez-vous de la carte. Ces fameux brouillards s’étendent surtout sur les passes les plus commodes pour accéder à cette île. Imagines que les Russes aient songé à la vieille tactique à papa. Débarquement rapide et inattendu. Sans bruit ni rasées. Ici ils capturent une bonne partie de l’état-major de la Navy, et en quelques heures ils arrivent à Kodiak où se trouve le grand Q.G. interarmes. En une nuit l’Alaska est à eux, et les B. 47 sont cloués au sol avec tout le système de représailles. Imaginez un truc semblable combiné avec un pilonnage du Vieux Pays, c’est fini. Même pas la consolation d’avoir l’Alaska comme dernier bastion.

On a dreary London evening, Commander Esmonde Shaw leaves his pile of paperwork in the Admiralty and heads home to Barons Court.

Yet what should have been a routine evening is disturbed by the discovery of a body underground… a gruesome murder which is traced by Naval Intelligence to the troubled region of Nogolia in West Africa, the site location of the British-American radio station which controls the nuclear missile satellite BLUEBOLT.

From this Nogolian radio station, nuclear missiles can be directed to any target on earth.

Aside from the fears of accidental detonation at the hands of corrupt political powers is the mysterious cult of Edo, a troubled and hazardous movement gripped by the power of voodoo, sweeping across the continent of Africa like wildfire with no mercy for anyone who dares to question it.

Natives are on the verge of revolt and as spiritual and scientific powers collide, the security of BLUEBOLT ONE and the world are at stake…

Commander Shaw soon finds himself in the depths of the African jungle on a grave and treacherous mission, searching for a man called Edo with a brief to halt his plans for world power and destruction…

Figurez-vous qu'Alcide Sulfurik, plus connu dans les milieux de l'espionnage sous le matricule S 04 H2, a été kidnappé au retour d'une importante mission en Chine populaire par un commando de rebelles arabes dans l'aride pays de Kelsaltan !

Connaissez-vous le Kelsaltan ?

Il est situé très exactement à l'angle du golfe Persique et de l'avenue Raymond-Poincaré… C'est vous dire… Pour l'atteindre, il faut, à dos de chameau, traverser le grand Rasibus ou désert de la soif.

Et, par ironie, il a fallu que pour accompagner votre valeureux SAN-ANTONIO dans cette mission périlleuse on fasse appel à Pinaud et surtout à BÉRURIER ! Je ne vous en dis pas plus… Joignez-vous à notre étrange caravane et venez visiter le sérail du cheikh BÉRURIER (qui est d'ailleurs un cheikh avec provision).

Fallait bien que ça arrive un jour ! À force de cavaler côte à côte, Béru et moi, on a fini par se retrouver face à face. Et quand le Gros se met à faire du zèle au point de nous valoir une nouvelle guerre contre l’Allemagne, croyez-moi, c’est duraille d’arranger les bidons.

Aller à l’autre bout du monde pour se tirer la bourre, c’est un comble, non ?

En tout cas, j’en connais un qui nous a bien eus, tous les deux. Je vous dis pas son blaze, il est dans le bouquin !

Fallait bien que ça arrive un jour ! À force de cavaler côte à côte, Béru et moi, on a fini par se retrouver face à face. Et quand le Gros se met à faire du zèle au point de nous valoir une nouvelle guerre contre l’Allemagne, croyez-moi, c’est duraille d’arranger les bidons.

Aller à l’autre bout du monde pour se tirer la bourre, c’est un comble, non ?

En tout cas, j’en connais un qui nous a bien eus, tous les deux. Je vous dis pas son blaze, il est dans le bouquin !

Bérurier, ex-interne des hôpitaux de Paris ?

Ça vous la coupe, hein ?

Et pourtant vous allez voir que le Gros sait aussi bien manier le stéthoscope que le saucisson à l’ail.

Surtout quand il a comme vieille bonne une sémillante donzelle nommée Pinaud.

Et si ce bouquin vous détraque la rate, vous savez maintenant par qui vous faire soigner !

Bérurier, ex-interne des hôpitaux de Paris ?

Ça vous la coupe, hein ?

Et pourtant vous allez voir que le Gros sait aussi bien manier le stéthoscope que le saucisson à l’ail.

Surtout quand il a comme vieille bonne une sémillante donzelle nommée Pinaud.

Et si ce bouquin vous détraque la rate, vous savez maintenant par qui vous faire soigner !

Genealogist Nigel Barnes's second case leads him into the dark heart of the Mormon church and a gruesome, century-old secret.

Detective Chief Inspector Grant Foster is called to a homicide at the home of a single mother in Queens Park, London. Her throat has been cut from ear to ear and her body dumped in the garden. Her daughter and only child, Naomi, who has just turned fourteen that day, is missing. As the hours tick by, the feeling grows among Foster's colleagues that this is most likely becoming a double-murder inquiry. With nothing in the present to indicate a motive, Foster decides to delve into the dead woman's past only to find out she does not have one. He calls on genealogist Nigel Barnes. The trail takes Barnes back to late Victorian England where it abruptly ends with a young couple who came from the United States to England. Nigel's quest takes him on trip through the violent history of the Mormon church as he and Foster race to solve a shameful, long-kept secret that is about to have bloody repercussions in the present, and for which someone is seeking vengeance.

Dan Waddell delivers another gritty, suspenseful mystery that will keep readers guessing until the last page.

Frank Matisse had specialized in stealing from hotel rooms but was trying hard to go straight. He meets Dick Nichols in New Orleans and discovers that he was raising money for the Contras, although his daughter, Lucy, doesn't want the money to arrive in Nicaragua. From the author of "Glitz".

After his life spirals out of control, a young man navigates a world of juggalos, transients, and petty criminals with Shane, an enigmatic small-time drug dealer with a penchant for body modification.

Полицейский участок юго-восточного Лондона охвачен гневом и ужасом: маньяк-убийца, вооружившись молотком, выслеживает копов одного за другим. В лучших традициях Гая Ричи и Квентина Тарантино стражам порядка придется спасать свои шкуры и пытаться остановить сумасшедшего Блица.

«Blitz. Без компромиссов» — новый роман Кена Бруена, одного из самых успешных авторов нуар-детективов. Сюжет, крепкий, как ирландский виски, покорил не только читателей по всему миру, но и кинозрителей. В экранизации роль дикого и беспощадного крутого Бранта сыграл брутальный Джейсон Стэтхем.

By the author of Dare Me and The End of Everything

In October 1931, a station agent found two large trunks abandoned in Los Angeles’s Southern Pacific Station. What he found inside ignited one of the most scandalous tabloid sensations of the decade.

Inspired by this notorious true crime, Edgar®-winning author Megan Abbott’s novel Bury Me Deep is the story of Marion Seeley, a young woman abandoned in Phoenix by her doctor husband. At the medical clinic where she finds a job, Marion becomes fast friends with Louise, a vivacious nurse, and her roommate, Ginny, a tubercular blonde. Before long, the demure Marion is swept up in the exuberant life of the girls, who supplement their scant income by entertaining the town’s most powerful men with wild parties. At one of these events, Marion meets—and falls hard for—the charming Joe Lanigan, a local rogue and politician on the rise, whose ties to all three women bring events to a dangerous collision.

A story born of Jazz Age decadence and Depression-era desperation, Bury Me Deep—with its hothouse of jealousy, illicit sex and shifting loyalties—is a timeless portrait of the dark side of desire and the glimmer of redemption.

Callie is at an October keg party in the woods, when she notices that her friend Katherine has gone missing. The kids spread out to look for her and Callie finds her, lying on a path, with a big, bloody fake knife in her. She reaches for the knife and raises it, only to discover, to her horror, that it is real. At that moment, another of the search party stumbles on them, and takes a photo of Callie holding the bloody knife. Now she is the suspect in a grisly murder. How can she prove her innocence – and find the true murderer?

The first novel of the trilogy introducing Bernard Samson and the rest of the bickering, in-fighting intelligence community in which he is a much put-upon member. After five years of desk work, Bernie finds himself ordered back into the field.

Jane Charlotte has been arrested for murder.

She tells police that she is a member of a secret organization devoted to fighting evil; her division is called the Department for the Final Disposition of Irredeemable Persons—"Bad Monkeys" for short.

This confession earns Jane a trip to the jail's psychiatric wing, where a doctor attempts to determine whether she is lying, crazy—or playing a different game altogether. What follows is one of the most clever and gripping novels you'll ever read.

Hollywood location scout John Pellam thought the scenic backwater town of Maddox, Missouri, would be the perfect site for an upcoming gangster film. Until real bullets leave two people dead and one cop paralysed. Pellam had unwittingly wandered onto the crime scene just moments before the brutal hits. Now the feds and local police want him to talk. Mob enforcers want him silenced. And a mysterious blonde just wants him. Trapped in a town full of sinister secrets and deadly deceptions, Pellam fears that deal will imitate art, as the film shoot – and his life – race toward a breathtakingly bloody climax.

An idyllic cottage. An unlikely suicide. A conspiracy that could blow the lid off the Department of Justice.

Three months ago Quinn Harlowe left the high-pressure hallways of the Justice Department to become an independent consultant and have more control over her life – maybe even have a life. But the nirvana of her new gig is short-lived when Quinn discovers her friend and former colleague Alicia Morrow dead outside Quinn's bayside cottage. Suicide? Quinn is doubtful.

Investigating on her own, she soon discovers that someone is following her every move. Huck McCabe claims he's a bodyguard at Breakwater, a high-security compound near Quinn's cottage. But Quinn suspects he's lying, never imagining the truth: McCabe is an undercover agent trying to penetrate a violent network of vigilantes – the same people Quinn has identified. Joined by a common goal, Quinn and McCabe must fight the bastion of law and order… a fight they know could lead to disaster.

In the silent caves of deepest France, young archaeologist Julia Kerrigan unearths an ancient skull, with a hole bored through the forehead. After she reveals her discovery, her colleague is killed in suspicious circumstances. Meanwhile, in the jungles of south-east Asia photographer Jake Thurby is offered a curious assignment by a beautiful and determined Cambodian lawyer who is investigating finds at the mysterious 2000-year-old Plain of Jars. Finds which the authorities have gone to great lengths to keep secret. No one knows why. Back in England, an aged professor has been brutally and elaborately murdered. The murder remains unsolved. As the archaeologist, lawyer and photographer pursue their separate quests to discover the truth, an underlying pattern begins to emerge, which connects these far-flung events in the most terrifying and unimaginable way. And it soon becomes clear that those who seek to unlock the compelling puzzle will be risking very much more than their lives.

In Zeltserman's run-of-the-mill second Bill Shannon mystery (after 2007's Bad Thoughts), Shannon, now a PI in Boulder, Colo., investigates the murder of two college students-Taylor Carver and Linda Gibson, bludgeoned to death in the bedroom of the off-campus condo they shared-at the behest of the condo owner, who's being sued for lax security. After his former colleagues on the Boston police force vouch for him, Shannon gets more cooperation from the locals. Meanwhile, the mother of a girl taken in by the True Light cult calls on the detective for help. Some may find it odd that no one mentions the Jon Benet Ramsey case when the recent history of murders in Boulder comes up in conversation. The predictable plot builds to a final twist that will shock few. Readers might do better to check out the second in Zeltserman's bad-ass out of prison trilogy, Pariah (Reviews, Aug. 3), instead.

From Publishers Weekly

Cook's lack of ability as a stylist generally has been masked by his talent for fashioning a solid medical drama-often ripped from current headlines-that keeps readers turning pages. Unfortuately, that's not the case in his 12th novel (after Vital Signs), which has a plot so ludicrous that the weak characters and silly dialogue are all too obvious. Most offensive in the latter category are the stilted, out-of-kilter exchanges between a pair of Mafia hitmen who run about New York City "whacking" (murdering) people with increasing frequency. Meanwhile, Dr. Laurie Montgomery, a forensic pathologist in the NYC Medical Examiner's office, finds a pattern of unrelated cocaine overdose deaths among career-oriented people never known to have used drugs. Despite the obvious evidence that she's onto something, her boss couldn't care less, while the homicide detective she becomes involved with is more concerned about the mob killings, and, like her boss, cannot understand why she is outraged by the behavior of two corrupt, thieving uniformed cops in her department. As luck would have it, there's also another man in Laurie's life, a self-centered ophthalmologist whose patients just happen to include the mob boss behind both the cocaine deaths and the murder spree. Readers who plow through this amateurish effort will guess the ending long before any of the characters has a clue.

From Kirkus Reviews

An ironically revealing title for ophthalmologist Cook's fuzziest novel in years-an awesomely inept medical/crime thriller about a forensic pathologist up against the mob. As the story opens, the mind of one Duncan Andrews is ``racing like a runaway train,'' his lethargy having ``evaporated like a drip of water falling onto a sizzling skillet.'' Hours and several more clich‚s later, the ``Wall Street whiz kid'' is dead of a cocaine overdose and lying on the autopsy table of generic Cook heroine (young, spunky, pretty doc) Laurie Montgomery, an N.Y.C. medical examiner. Days and several more dead yuppies later, Laurie is convinced that someone is flooding the upscale market with bad cocaine. Of course, no one will listen to her-not her boss, who wants to chill this political hot potato; not silver-tongued, gold- plated ophthalmologist Jordan Scheffield, who's wooing her with limos and swank dinners; not cop Lou Soldano (``a bit like Colombo''), to whom Laurie explains the exact difference between ophthalmologists, optometrists, and opticians and who wants to woo her with his sedan and spaghetti but can't match Jordan's glitz and anyway is busy worrying about the mob-related corpses stacking up next to the yuppies in Laurie's morgue. For meanwhile, in scenes stiff with clich‚, two mobsters are blowing away a seemingly random group of citizens on orders from mob kingpin Paul Cerino, who, Laurie learns, is one of Jordan 's patients-and who deals coke. Laurie sleuths; the mobsters lock her in a coffin; Laurie sobs; the mobsters let her out; Laurie remembers the flammable properties of ethylene, handily within reach, and blows up the mobsters. Finally, Laurie dumps Jordan for Lou, and she and the cop talk about the motives behind the whole ``horrid affair''-which owe more than a little to Coma. A slack and ragged retread, with Cook parodying himself in a tale that's about as stylish and suspenseful as an eye-chart.

LAPD homicide detective Peter Decker and his wife, Rina Lazarus, will be blindsided by a brutal multiple murder in this twisting tale of suspense from New York Times bestselling author Faye Kellerman.

"They say dead men don't talk, but if you listen, they do."

As a lieutenant in the LAPD, homicide detective Peter Decker doesn't get many calls at 3 a.m. unless a case is nasty, sensational – or both. Someone has broken into the exclusive Coyote Ranch compound of billionaire developer Guy Kaffey and viciously gunned him down, along with his wife and four employees.

A well-known figure on both the business and society pages, Kaffey, with his sons and his younger brother, Mace, built most of the shopping malls in Southern California and earned a reputation for philanthropy, donating millions to worthy causes. It doesn't take long for Peter, his trusted detectives Scott Oliver and Marge Dunn, and the rest of his homicide team to figure out that the gruesome killings must be an inside job. Things become even more entangled when they discover that Kaffey's largesse had included organizations that extended second chances to delinquents, many of whom Kaffey had hired for his personal security. But was the job pure murder/robbery or something even more twisted? A developer of Kaffey's magnitude doesn't make billions without making more enemies with blood grudges.

With leads taking the team across L.A., up and down the Golden State, and into Mexico, Decker is plenty busy – and plenty thankful not to have to worry about his wife, Rina Lazarus, getting caught up in this deadly case. Rina is out of harm's way, serving on a jury at the courthouse.

But then a chance encounter with a court translator who needs her help leads Rina into the terrifying heart of her husband's murder investigations – and straight into the path of a gang of ruthless killers. To protect Rina, Decker must find his prey before death unites his two worlds.

A fast-paced tour through the urban landscape of L.A., Blindman's Bluff is a riveting mile-a-minute thrill ride from a formidable master of her craft.

Aníbal iturralde es un delincuente sin escrúpulos. Víctor, su hijo, un muchacho de carácter débil que necesita protección, y para eso está Olsen, un pistolero temerario y con buena puntería, a quien le repugna matar.

Olsen es también un macho de arrebatada sexualidad y a la vez un individuo taciturno con problemas de conciencia. Un hombre traicionado que planea vengarse, un mañoso ladrón de automóviles y un amante susceptible. Y aún así, todas estas características no acaban de definirlo: su origen es incierto, tanto como sus instintos y designios.

En el umbral de la madurez, Olsen descubre en su ser una realidad que lo sorprende y desconcierta.

Bolero es novela negra y novela de amor, pero sobre todo una indagación sobre la amistad y el destino.

Banks is on holiday, headed for Fisherman's Wharf in San Francisco. His daughter, Tracy, home in Leeds and angry with her father, is headed for some very deep trouble. Robinson's nineteenth Inspector Banks novel is a stunner.

Handguns are illegal in the U.K., and whenever one is reported, the police swing into high gear. But things go very wrong when the police swoop down on a home in Eastvale to seize a reported handgun. In the confusion, Patrick Doyle, a former neighbour of Banks, is shot. Doyle's daughter, Erin, is to blame for the gun being in the house, and while she's in police custody, her housemate in Leeds, Tracy Banks, decides to let Erin 's boyfriend know that the police have been around their place. Bad decision. When Banks returns home from holiday, Tracy is missing. And that's not the worst of it.

Robinson's latest Inspector Banks novel is a powerful story of how the volatile emotions of love and resentment can turn deadly when fear comes creeping in.

The Library: Only a handful know it exists… It holds the world's most astonishing – and terrifying – information… But the one book that is the key to the greatest secret of all time… is missing.

Former FBI Special Agent Will Piper solved – and survived – the "Doomsday Killer" case… and his reward was a forced early retirement. But the shattering truths he learned about the government's most covert operations won't let him rest – and now he's on the trail of a mysterious volume that's been lost for six centuries. This is the book that inspired Shakespeare and the prophecies of Nostradamus, and once Will gets his hands on it, his life will be worth nothing – his death sentence a top priority handed down from the very highest levels of power.

Because there are some truths too dangerous for anyone to know – those that concern the future, world domination… and the end of everything.

A stained legal career spent defending mob enforcers, two-bit hoods, and other dregs of humanity has left Philadelphia lawyer Victor Carl jaded and resentful – until a new client appears to offer him an escape and a big payday. Caroline Shaw, the desperate scion of a prominent Main Line dynasty, wants him to prove that her sister Jacqueline’s recent suicide was, in fact, murder before Caroline suffers a similar fate. It is a case that propels Carl out of his courtroom element and into a murky world of fabulous wealth, bloody family legacies, and dark secrets. Victor Carl would love nothing more than to collect his substantial fee and get out alive. But a bitter truth is dragging him in dangerously over his head, and ever closer to the shattering revelation that the most terrifying darkness of all lies not in the heart of a Central American jungle… but in the twisted soul of man.

Once Chase Malone waged war. Now he creates beauty, living as a reclusive painter in Mexico. Until a rich man hires Chase to do his wife’s portrait. And Chase finds out what beauty is really all about… Derek Bellasar is an international arms merchant who lives in a fortress-like mansion on the Riviera. Sienna is his wife and the woman whose incredible beauty Chase Malone must somehow capture on canvas. There’s only one problem: Every time Bellasar has one of his wives painted, she dies. Suddenly, Chase is fighting a one-man battle against Bellasar and a private army of highly trained killers. At stake is Sienna’s life – and more. Because the CIA has been using Chase to keep a blockbuster biological arms deal from going down. And with a man’s evil threatening to devastate the world, Chase Malone must save a woman, save his life, and practice the art of war.

It came in a plain brown wrapper, no return address – a tape recording of a horrifying, soul-lacerating scream, followed by the sound of a childlike voice delivering the enigmatic and haunting message:

'Bad love. Bad love. Don't give me the bad love…'

For child psychologist Dr Alex Delaware, the chant, repeated over and over like a twisted nursery rhyme, is the first intimation that he is about to enter a living nightmare. Others soon follow: disquieting laughter echoing over a phone line that suddenly goes dead, a chilling trespass outside his home, a sickening act of vandalism. A carefully orchestrated campaign of vague threats and intimidation rapidly builds to a crescendo as harassment turns to terror, mischief to madness.

Searching his memory for the phrase 'bad love', Alex recalls a symposium he attended over a decade ago commemorating the work of Dr Andres de Bosch who ran a clinic for troubled adolescents. But when he tries to contact the other delegates, Alex discovers a seemingly random series of violent deaths amongst them.

As he delves deeper into the history of the clinic, the escalating pattern of violence becomes inescapably clear. And if Alex fails to decipher the twisted logic of the stalker's mind-games, he will be the next one to die.

The school year is almost at an end, and the chocolate sale is past history.  But no one at Trinity School can forget The Chocolate War.

Devious Archie Costello, commander of the secret school organizationcalled the Virgils, stall has some torturous assignments to hand out before he graduates.  In spite of this pleasure, Archie is troubled by his right-hand man, Obie, who has started to move away from the Virgils.  Luckily Archie knows his stooges will fix that.  But won't Archie be shocked when he discovers the surprise Obie has waiting for him?

And there are surprises waiting for others.  The time for revenge has come to those boys who secretly suffered the trials of Trinity.  The fuse is set for the final explosion.  Who will survive?

Tres mujeres jóvenes han aparecido ultrajadas y asesinadas. El criminal se ha guardado como fúnebre recuerdo un objeto de cada una de ellas. Demasiadas coincidencias en tono a una forma de actuar que recuerda a los salvajes procedimientos y la impronta de un asesino en serie que conmocionó a la sociedad escocesa en los años sesenta: el escurridizo John Biblia, cuya verdadera identidad nunca se pudo averiguar. El inspector de policía John Rebus es el vivo reflejo de la frustración de aquellos que no pudieron atrapar a aquel depravado criminal. Ahora está decidido a enfrentarse con alguien que parece querer glorificar la memoria de su macabro predecesor.

En el embarullado curso de la investigación el inspector Rebus topa con otra serie de muertes sin conexión aparente. Un trabajador de la industria del petróleo, un confidente del narcotráfico y un conocido mafioso mueres en extrañas circunstancias; unos sucesos a los que hay que añadir las extrañas implicaciones de personajes de los bajos fondos urbanos y de magnates de las altas esferas del poder económico. Inmerso en varios frentes abiertos, el carácter pendenciero, rebelde y transgresor del inspector le enfrenta además a una investigación interna dirigida por un superior vengativo. Cualquier paso en falso puede acabar con la carrera de Rebus, si bien antes habrá que poner punto final a una obsesión: dar caza a John Biblia.

Monday, the lowest point of the week. A day of dark impulses. A day to snatch a child from the streets ...

The abduction of five-year-old Matthew Farraday provokes national outcry and a desperate police hunt. And when his face is splashed over the newspapers, psychotherapist Frieda Klein is left troubled: one of her patients has been relating dreams in which he has a hunger for a child. A child he can describe in perfect detail, a child the spitting image of Matthew.

Detective Chief Inspector Karlsson doesn't take Frieda's concerns seriously until a link emerges with an unsolved abduction twenty years ago and he summons Frieda to interview the victim's sister, hoping she can stir hidden memories. Before long, Frieda is at the centre of the race to track the kidnapper. But her race isn't physical. She must chase down the darkest paths of a psychopath's mind to find the answers to Matthew Farraday's whereabouts. And sometimes the mind is the deadliest place to lose yourself.  

You do not mess with the Special Investigators! The events of 9/11 changed Jack Reacher’s drifter life in a practical way. In addition to his folding toothbrush, he now needs to carry photo ID to get around. Yet he is still as close to untraceable as a human being in America can get. So when a member of his old Army unit manages to get a message to him, he knows it has to be deadly serious. The Special Investigators always watched each other’s backs. Now Reacher must put the old unit back together. Someone has killed one of them, and he can’t let that go.

Delilah and her partner – tall, dark, handsome, and Hispanic ex-FBI guy Ric Montoya – are busy solving a "Romeo and Juliet" double-murder and she's got plenty more to deal with: vampires, werewolves, and tigers, oh my!

Espionage takes to the twenty-first century playing fields, where rules are broken and remade outside the reach of governments and the law. Agents recruited for the clandestine organization known as Room 59 play hard, play for keeps…or die trying. But now new Room 59 agent Ajza Manaev, a top MI6 operative, discovers just how high the stakes really are when she goes undercover inside Chechnya's terrorist training camps, where bitter young widows harness their hate as suicide bombers. Ajza doesn't know she's being manipulated by many sides of a deadly game. Her mysterious Room 59 handler has his own agenda, while the secret, silent mastermind behind a global destabilization plot hopes to push Ajza's loyalties to the breaking point. And in a game where the ground is always shifting, Ajza is inducted by hellfire into Room 59's harsh reality: she's on her own.

New York Times bestseller John Lescroart returns with an ambitious, torn-from- today's-headlines thriller featuring his trademark blend of real people and real suspense.

John Lescroart's millions of fans have been waiting three years for the return of San Francisco defense attorney Dismas Hardy and his buddy, detective Abe Glitsky-and in that time John Lescroart's popularity has continued to soar. Now, Hardy and Glitsky reunite in a story filled with the big themes that are worthy of them-the intersection of love, betrayal, and a desperate search for the truth in a critical matter of national security.

When Dismas Hardy agrees to clean up the caseload of recently disappeared attorney Charlie Bowen, he thinks it will be easy. But one of the cases is far from small-time-the sensational clash between National Guard reservist Evan Scholler and an ex-Navy SEAL and private contractor named Ron Nolan. Two rapid-fire events in Iraq conspired to bring the men into fatal conflict: Nolan's relationship with Evan's girlfriend, Tara, a beautiful school-teacher back home in the states, followed by a deadly incident in which Nolan's apparent mistake results in the death of an innocent Iraqi family as well as seven men in Evan's platoon. As the murky relationship between the US government and its private contractors plays out in the personal drama of these two men, and the consequences become a desperate matter of life and death, Dismas Hardy begins to uncover a terrible and perilous truth that takes him far beyond the case and into the realm of assassination and treason.

From the treacherous streets of Iraq to the courtrooms of California, Betrayal is not only John Lescroart's most ambitious and provocative novel, it is a magnificent tour de force of pure storytelling.

Nach »Hotel«, »Airport«, »Räder«, »Die Bankiers« und »Hochspannung« nun endlich der langerwartete neue Bestseller von Arthur Hailey:

Bittere Medizin

Der große Roman über ein brisantes Thema unserer Zeit: das Geschäft mit der Gesundheit. Eine Gruppe ehrgeiziger Männer und eine ehrfolgreiche Frau an der Spitze eines Pharma-Konzerns: Täglich müssen sie sich zwischen persönlicher Karriere und der Verantwortungfür Millionen Patienten entscheiden. Viele von ihnen verschließen die Augen vor »Nebenwirkungen«, wenn es um die Einführung neuer Medikamente geht. Das hat folgen, als ein Mittel gegen Schwangerschaftsbeschwerden auf den Markt kommt.

Aus dem Amerikanischen von Charlotte Franke

Titel der amerikanischen Originalausgabe: »Strong Medicine«

Fairstein, former chief of the Sex Crimes Unit in the Manhattan District Attorney's Office, returns with her ninth legal thriller starring prosecutor Alexandra Cooper. The author's own expertise again adds to the credibility of her fiction, in terms of courtroom banter, pacing, and those small "you couldn't make this up" details, such as the fact that shopping carts are the current favored receptacles for attorneys' case files. Her plotting is steady if formulaic. The big flaw in Fairstein's writing is that she has a tin ear when it comes to how people talk; her dialogue, often progressing in parallel phrases and clauses that are highly unlikely to occur in normal speech, is weighed down with backstory. Because she wants dialogue to do the work of narrative, she puts all manner of improbable words in her characters' mouths, thereby revealing motive and emotions. This tale starts with the trial of an upscale Manhattanite accused of murdering his wife. An explosion in the tunnels underneath the city interrupts the trial. Not surprisingly, the defendant is connected to the disaster. Again not surprisingly, Cooper must search within the tunnel system to find the answers. What works about this overly manipulative plot device, however, is that it gives Fairstein the opportunity to present some genuinely fascinating historical and engineering facts about the "city of death" far below Manhattan. Clunky in style but strong on procedural detail and background material.

San Francisco Judge Ramsey Hunt, longtime friend to FBI agents Lacey Sherlock and Dillon Savich, is presiding over the trial of Clive and Cindy Cahill – accused in a string of murders – when the proceedings take a radical turn. Federal prosecutor Mickey O'Rourke, known for his relentless style, becomes suddenly tentative in his opening statement, leading Hunt to suspect he's been threatened – suspicions that are all but confirmed when Hunt is shot in the back. Savich and Sherlock receive news of the attack as an ominous note is sent to Savich at the Hoover Building: You deserve this for what you did. Security tapes fail to reveal who delivered the note. Who is behind the shooting of Judge Ramsey Hunt? Who sent the note to Savich? And what does it all mean? Savich and Sherlock race to San Francisco to find out… watching their backs all the while.

An anthology of stories edited by John Joseph Adams.

From Dracula to Buffy the Vampire Slayer; from Castlevania to Tru Blood, the romance between popular culture and vampires hearkens back to humanity’s darkest, deepest fears, flowing through our very blood, fears of death, and life, and insatiable hunger. And yet, there is an attraction, undeniable, to the vampire archetype, whether the pale European count, impeccably dressed and coldly masculine, yet strangely ambiguous, ready to sink his sharp teeth deep into his victims’ necks, draining or converting them, or the vamp, the count’s feminine counterpart, villain and victim in one, using her wiles and icy sexuality to corrupt man and woman alike… Edited by John Joseph Adams (Wastelands, The Living Dead), By Blood We Live gathers together the best vampire literature of the last three decades from many of today’s most renowned authors of fantasy, speculative fiction, and horror.

Mack Stone can't believe he's just walked in on Kindra in Flagrante computer delicto. When they're mistakenly signed up for sensual couples counselling, co-workers Jared and Candy are shocked.

Regan Reilly and her best friend, Kit, are on vacation in Honolulu, intent on having a Hawaiian adventure. They won't be disappointed!

When we last saw L.A.-based private detective Regan Reilly, she'd recently become engaged. On the opening pages of Burned, Regan gets a call from Kit, urging her to come to Hawaii for one last girls' weekend before she ties the knot. The snowstorm of the century is blanketing the East Coast. Regan can't get to New York to visit her fiancé, Jack "no relation" Reilly, and Kit can't get back home to Connecticut. So Regan packs a bag and is on her way.

At the Waikiki Waters Playground and Resort, where Kit has been staying, the body of Dorinda Dawes, who wrote the hotel newsletter, washes ashore. Around her neck is an exquisite and historically valuable shell lei that once belonged to a Hawaiian princess, a lei that had been stolen from the Seashell Museum in Honolulu thirty years before.

Will Brown, the manager of the resort, doesn't believe that it's an accidental drowning. In the three months Dorinda had worked in Hawaii, she had become a controversial character who had a reputation for pointing out the very worst in people. Will is afraid that she was murdered and that the murderer might still be in their midst, perhaps a guest at the resort.

Besides Dorinda's death, strange things have been happening at Waikiki Waters. Luggage has gone missing, food has been tainted, and tubes of suntan lotion are being dropped into the toilets. Could someone be trying to bring down the whole establishment?

Lucky for Will, he happens to meet Regan Reilly in the hotel lobby and convinces her to get on the case. Since Kit is infatuated with a new love interest – Steve, a fabulously wealthy thirty-five-year-old retiree living on Oahu who is eager to spend time with her – Regan is free to take the job. But once she starts digging, she comes across all sorts of suspicious characters. And the closer she gets to the truth, the more danger she's in.

Can Regan find out what really happened to Dorinda before it's too late for someone else? Before it's too late for her?

Is the culprit someone from the tour group visiting from Hudville, a town where it rains 89 percent of the time? Is it one of the employees at the hotel? Could it be Jazzy, a social climber who has a job house-sitting on the Big Island? Just who had it in for Dorinda? Regan's investigation takes the reader on a fast-paced ride from Waikiki to the Big Island of Hawaii and back again.

Carol Higgins Clark's trademark light touch, humor, and quirky characters make Burned yet another wonderfully unpredictable mystery, complete with a thoroughly satisfying denouement.

An omnibus of novels

Enter a world where no boundaries exist – and where every seduction is supernatural…

Follow four of today's most provocative authors to a place where love can transform reality-and anything can happen. Here they present stories of ethereal circumstances, magical romance, and otherworldy suspense. Beginning with an all-new tale from #1 New York Times bestselling author Nora Roberts writing as J. D. Robb-and featuring lieutenant-of-the-future Eve Dallas-this collection will take you on a breathtaking journey through the passion of the heart and its power to transcend the everyday…

When a dead body is found in a North London flat, it seems like a straightforward domestic murder until a bloodstained sliver of X-ray is found clutched in the dead woman's fist – and it quickly becomes clear that this case is anything but ordinary. DI Thorne discovers that the victim's mother had herself been murdered fifteen years before by infamous serial killer Raymond Garvey. The hunt to catch Garvey was one of the biggest in the history of the Met, and ended with seven women dead. When more bodies and more fragments of X-ray are discovered, Thorne has a macabre jigsaw to piece together until the horrifying picture finally emerges. A killer is targeting the children of Raymond Garvey's victims. Thorne must move quickly to protect those still on the murderer's list, but nothing and nobody are what they seem. Not when Thorne is dealing with one of the most twisted killers he has ever hunted…

After her brilliant stand-alone thriller EVERY SECRET THING (it has received stunning reviews in the US and increased her sales by 35%) Lippman returns to her wonderful series character, PI Tess Monaghan and her home town of Baltimore. This story begins when an orthodox Jewish man, Mark Rubin, hires Tess to trace his missing wife Natalie who has disappeared with their three children, a boy on the brink of adolescence, Isaac, and younger, boy/girl twins. It transpires that Natalie has taken off with another man, Zeke. The husband Mark, who loves his wife and adores his children, especially Isaac, is devastated. At first Tess has him marked as a control freak and thinks his wife may have had a point, but her feelings change. The narrative is shared between Tess, pursuing her investigation, and the family on the run whose story is told mainly from Isaac's point of view. This is a fascinating novel about men and women, parents and children, a family drama as much as mystery – it's highly intelligent and sensitive and, at the same time, a hugely compelling page-turner.

Luke Mullen, sixteen year old son of a former, high- ranking police officer has disappeared, presumed kidnapped. While no- one quite dares to voice the fear that he could also be presumed dead, Detective Inspector Tom Thorne is brought in to beef up the squad dedicated to locating the missing boy. The first thing the team looks for is anyone with a grudge against Luke's father, a man who'd put a lot of tough villains away in his time. A list quickly emerges, but Thorne discovers that ex-DCI Tony Mullen has omitted the name of the most obvious suspect; a man who'd once threatened him and his family, and who, after serving time for his original crime, is now the main suspect in a murder which has been unsolved for four years. Is this a simple oversight – understandable considering the trauma of his son's disappearance? Or is it something more telling? Aware that he does not have the luxury of time, Thorne searches desperately for connections and leads, but learns that secrets are as easily buried as bodies, and that assumptions are the enemy of truth.

"A haunting tale of loss and one woman's search for the truth no matter the consequences. This vividly written novel will leave you breathless and as chilled as the starkly beautiful North Yorkshire moors where this compelling story unfolds." – Heather Gudenkauf

In this thrilling gothic suspense debut in the tradition of Rosamund Lupton and Sophie Hannah, a young mother searches Yorkshire's windswept moors for the truth behind her husband's mysterious disappearance.

THE ANSWERS ARE HIDING BENEATH THE SHADOWS

When Grace's husband, Adam, inherits an isolated North Yorkshire cottage, they leave the bustle of London behind to try a new life. A week later, Adam vanishes without a trace, leaving their baby daughter, Millie, in her stroller on the doorstep. The following year, Grace returns to the tiny village on the untamed heath. Everyone – the police, her parents, even her best friend and younger sister – is convinced that Adam left her. But Grace, unable to let go of her memories of their love and life together, cannot accept this explanation. She is desperate for answers, but the slumbering, deeply superstitious hamlet is unwilling to give up its secrets. As Grace hunts through forgotten corners of the cottage searching for clues, and digs deeper into the lives of the locals, strange dreams begin to haunt her. Are the villagers hiding something, or is she becoming increasingly paranoid? Only as snowfall threatens to cut her and Millie off from the rest of the world does Grace make a terrible discovery. She has been looking in the wrong place for answers all along, and she and her daughter will be in terrible danger if she cannot get them away in time.

New in the national bestselling series – Magdalena Yoder solves a case of hotcake homicide.

During a church breakfast, Minerva J. Jay, known for her prodigious appetite, slumps over after ingesting several stacks of pancakes. Police Chief Chris Ackerman wonders if the serving of the fatal flapjacks is a case of assault and batter. Magdalena has her own bun in the oven, but that doesn't stop the chief from asking for her help with the investigation.

Before Magdalena can begin, however, she has to make a special delivery of her own – and just when she thinks she's found her number one suspect, he turns up dead, squished flatter than a pancake by a driverless cement truck. Now, to stop the killer from cooking up another crime, Magdalena has no choice but to jump from the frying pan into the fire.

The elite Special Crimes Unit, the FBI's most controversial and effective team, is a group of mavericks and misfits trained to use their unique psychic abilities to hunt the worst monsters imaginable — human ones. Led by the enigmatic Noah Bishop, the SCU team has earned a reputation for pitting their skills and cunning against killers that other cops fear. But this time Bishop and his agents face an enemy who has them in his sights, a trained sniper with a deadly plan — and more than one ace up his sleeve.

It starts with an unspeakable series of grisly murders across three states, a trail of blood leading, finally, to the small Tennessee town of Serenade. There, two more brutal murders lure the SCU into what may be the ultimate trap.

One of the first investigators on the scene, Special Agent Hollis Templeton is willing to push herself as hard and as far as necessary. Risking more than her life to help and protect her fellow SCU members, Hollis is coping with psychic abilities that are evolving in unprecedented ways, an attraction to the most complex man she's ever known, and a serial murder investigation that has just turned very, very personal.

In her time with the SCU, Hollis has shown an uncanny ability to survive even the most deadly attacks. But what she doesn't count on is that this killer intends to destroy the team from within.

The clock is ticking. The body count is rising. And as Bishop and his agents race to uncover the identity of their true enemy, not even their special senses can warn them just how bloody, and how terrifyingly close, the truth will be.

SIN AND DANGER COLLIDE WHEN THE WORLD'S HOTTEST SECRET AGENTS COMPETE FOR THE PRIZE EVERYONE'S LUSTING AFTER…

No one's ever seen it. Everybody wants it. That's why the government has just unleashed its secret weapon. Drop-dead-gorgeous art dealer Suzi Toussi has been tapped for the toughest mission of her career: to locate the Memphis Sphinx, an ancient artifact rumored to possess otherworldly powers. Tracking it to Paraguay means going up against Dax Killian, the sexy special ops agent who's planning to snatch the coveted relic right out of her hot little hands. If he can find it first.

Dax first spotted her outside a seedy bar – in three-inch heels and a too-tight dress. He'd know those curves anywhere. But what was Suzi doing in a hellhole like Ciudad del Este? Dax knows the answer: the Sphinx. Suddenly the game is on – and only one of them will walk away with the prize. With the Sphinx surfacing and passion taking Suzi and Dax under, they're headed for a showdown that could reveal the secrets of the ages.or expose them to the hottest danger of all.

Ishawooa, Wyoming, is far from bucolic nowadays, as the sheriff, Crane Carlson, is reminded when he finds a teenager murdered in a meth lab. His other troubles include a wife who's going off the rails with bourbon and pot, and his own symptoms of the disease that killed his grandfather.

Einar Gilkyson, taking stock at eighty, counts among his dead a lifelong friend, a wife, and his only child, and his long-absent sister has lately returned home from Chicago after watching her soul mate die. His granddaughter, Griff, has dropped out of college to look after him, though Einar would rather she continue with her studies and her boyfriend, Paul. Completing this extended family are Barnum McEban and his ward, Kenneth, a ten-year-old whose mother (Paul's sister) is off marketing enlightenment.

What these characters have to contend with on a daily basis is bracing enough, but as their lives become even more strained, hardship foments exceptional compassion and generosity, and along with harsh truths come moments of hilarity and surprise and beauty. No one writes more compellingly about the modern West than Mark Spragg, and Bone Fire finds him at the very height of his powers.

Lil Chance fell in love with Cooper Sullivan pretty much the first time she saw him, an awkward teenager staying with his grandparents on their cattle ranch in Montana while his parents went through a messy divorce. They spent every summer together, treking in the Black Hills, tracking cougar and falling in love. Then Cooper broke her heart and moved back to New York City. Ten years later and Cooper has given up his job in the police force to run the ranch after his grandfather is injured in a fall. Lil has stayed true to her love of cougars and of the Black Hills and opened an animal sanctuary. She has been targeted by animal rights campaigners in the past but this time someone seems intent on murder. As hikers are killed, animals mutiliated and a family member goes missing, Lil knows that she has no choice but to turn to Cooper for help in her fight for survival…

“Fast-paced.” – People

“This terrific thriller will drag you into its chilling web of terror and not let go until the last paragraph…A ripping good read.” – The San Francisco Examiner

“Catherine Coulter can always be counted on to write an exciting thriller.” – BookBrowser

“Ms. Coulter is a one-of-a-kind author who knows how to hook her readers and keep them coming back for more.” – The Best Reviews

“A good storyteller…Coulter always keeps the pace brisk.” – Fort Worth Star-Telegram

“Danger never felt so good.” – BookPage

“Coulter takes readers on a chilling and suspenseful ride…taut, fast-paced, hard to put down.” – Cedar Rapids Gazette

“A mind-bending mystery…intriguing.” – Publishers Weekly

“Fast-paced, romantic…Coulter gets better and more cinematic with each of her suspenseful FBI adventures.” – Booklist

“A dizzying dash involving kidnapping, near misses, murder, and a manhunt. Her readers are guaranteed a happy ending.” – The Sacramento Bee

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Dear Reader:

Get yourself ready for Mary Lisa Beverly – a soap-opera phenom who's just won her third Daytime Emmy for her role as Sunday Cavendish on Born to Be Wild. She's fun and lovable and has lots of crazy friends, most of whom hang out at her house in the Colony, the famous gated community in Malibu. Unfortunately, there is one bad thing to poleax her champagne life – someone is trying to kill her.

You'll meet Mary Lisa's family in Goddard Bay, Oregon. She's blessed with her father, cursed with her mother, and betwixt and between with her two nutzoid sisters.

And how about guys? There aren't any hotties in L.A. of interest to Mary Lisa, but in Goddard Bay – there are District Attorney John Goddard and Chief of Police Jack Wolf. And guess what? Even in the boondocks, bad stuff can happen.

Mary Lisa's best friends, Lou Lou Bollinger and Elizabeth Fargas, become embroiled in the baffling attempts on Mary Lisa's life in L.A., with unexpected results.

I hope you laugh a lot with Born to Be Wild, root for Mary Lisa in all of her roles, and all in all, have a fine time with this book.

Do let me know what you think. Write me at P.O. Box 17, Mill Valley, CA 94942, or e-mail me at [email protected] Visit my website at www.catherinecoulter.com.

Enjoy,

Catherine Coulter

First, there were the dead in the graveyard who I'd been hired to raise to settle a dispute over who owned the land they were buried on. Then the three dead teenagers in the woods and another girl, drained of blood. Something was wrong in and around Branson, Missouri. And I was right in the middle.

"You can't trust anyone who sleeps with monsters". That's what Anita Blake had always believed. But now she was sharing a bed with the Master Vampire of the city. So when an arsonist began to target vampire victims, the creatures of the night turned to their former enemy. For now only "The Executioner" could save them from the inferno.

"Richard was an alpha werewolf. It was his only serious flaw. We'd broken up after I'd seen him eat somebody". Thrown into jail for assaulting a woman, Anita's ex-fiance needs her help. She has just a few days to spring him and find out who framed him; the full moon is on its way.

Raven Strigoi, M.D. must do battle with a clever sorcerer known as Courtier de Sang. The sorcerer has developed a virus designed to kill shape shifters, and Ravens lover has become infected. As she races against time, the virus jumps species, and now any magickal being on Mirabelle island is susceptible, including Raven, who is half vampire and half human. Raven needs a miracle and must face a goddess to get it.

Here at last is the sensational sequel to "Papillon" – the great story of escape and adventure that took the world by storm. "Banco" continues the adventures of Henri Charriere – nicknamed 'Papillon' – in Venezuela, where he has finally won his freedom after thirteen years of escape and imprisonment. Despite his resolve to become an honest man, Charriere is soon involved in hair-raising exploits with goldminers, gamblers, bank-robbers and revolutionaries – robbing and being robbed, his lust for life as strong as ever. He also runs night-clubs in Caracas until an earthquake ruins him in 1967 – when he decides to write the book that brings him international fame. Henri Charriere died in 1973 at the age of 66.

New York Times bestselling author Kimberla Lawson Roby returns with this delightful sequel to The Best of Everything, in which the infamous Reverend Curtis Black's beautiful daughter, Alicia, is all grown up – and headed for trouble of her own

Her first marriage didn't work out, but that isn't going to stop Alicia Black, the privileged daughter of the charismatic Reverend Curtis Black, from getting what she wants. One month after her wedding to her second husband, she can't believe her good fortune. God has heeded her prayers, blessing her with Pastor JT Valentine, a handsome, dynamic man of the cloth with his own large congregation, just like her father.

Unfortunately, Alicia doesn't understand just how much like Curtis her new husband truly is. She doesn't know that JT has been sneaking around town with other women – or that he only married her to get close to her father's money and fame. But while Alicia is blinded by love, her dad certainly isn't. He warned his little girl that JT simply can't be trusted. After all, it takes one to know one, and who better to see into the darkness of a sinner's heart than Curtis?

It will take a miracle to save the day. But God acts in mysterious ways, and soon a host of lies, longtime secrets, and acts of betrayal comes to light, and Alicia must face some very crucial and life-changing decisions. This time, she's got to be careful what she prays for…

Introducing Australia's most acclaimed crime-thriller writer to North American audiences with his first two books in his award-winning Jack Irish series.

A phone message from ex-client Danny McKillop doesn't ring any bells for Jack Irish. Life is hard enough without having to dredge up old problems: His beloved football team continues to lose, the odds on his latest plunge at the track seem far too long, and he's still cooking for one. When Danny turns up dead, Jack is forced to take a walk back into the dark and dangerous past.

With suspenseful prose and black humor, Peter Temple builds an unforgettable character in Jack Irish and brings the reader on a journey that is as intelligent as it is exciting.

Jack Irish – gambler, lawyer, finder of missing people – is recovering from a foray into the criminal underworld when he agrees to look for the missing son of Des Connors, the last living link to Jack's father.

It's an offer he soon regrets. As Jack begins his search, he discovers that prodigal sons sometimes go missing for a reason. Gary Connors was a man with something to hide, and his trail leads Jack to millionaire and political kingmaker Steven Levesque, a man harboring a deep and deadly secret.

Black Tide, the second book in Peter Temple's celebrated Jack Irish series, takes us back into a brilliantly evoked world of pubs, racetracks, and sports – not to mention intrigue, corruption, and violence.

In a city like Baltimore, where someone is murdered almost on a daily basis, Attorney Michael Abramowitz's death should be just another statistic. But for PI Tess Monaghan's client, who is in the frame, time is running short to prove his innocence.

Michael Connelly returns with a new character and a story that reaches new levels of intricacy and suspense-his most gripping work to date.

Thanks to a heart transplant, retired Los Angeles -based FBI agent Terrell McCaleb has a new lease on life. Formerly a well-known media fixture as pointman for the bureau in the investigation of serial killers, he leads a quiet life now, spending his time renovating the fishing boat he lives on in the Los Angeles Harbor. His goal is simple-to finish restoring his houseboat and return to his home town on Catalina Island. But McCaleb’s calm seas turn choppy when a story in the “What Happened To?” column of the L.A. Times brings him face to face with the sister of the woman whose heart now beats in his chest. From her McCaleb learns a terrible truth: that the donor of his heart was not killed in an accident as he’d been told, but was murdered. Racked with the guilt of having lived because of someone else’s murder, McCaleb springs into action. Using his FBI connections and his expertise in crime scene interpretation, he embarks on a private investigation of his donor’s murder-a search leading him to a crime far more complex, and far more dangerous than he’d imagined. In BLOOD WORK, Michael Connelly is at the top of his game-delivering his most ambitious thriller yet.

RAVES FOR BLOOD WORK AND SUSPENSE MASTER MICHAEL CONNELLY

“RECALLS NO ONE SO MUCH AS RAYMOND CHANDLER… CONNELLY PUTS HIS FOOT ON THE GAS AND DOESN’T LET UP.” – Los Angeles Times

“A richly detailed and totally absorbing thriller… distinguished by its finely etched characters, relentless pacing, and spot-on depictions of the diversity of life in today’s L.A… BE PREPARED TO READ THIS ONE STRAIGHT THROUGH. IT’S THAT GOOD.” – Chicago Tribune

“CONNELLY IS ONE OF THOSE MASTERS OF STRUCTURE WHO CAN KEEP DRIVING THE STORY FORWARD, PARAGRAPH BY PARAGRAPH, IN RUNAWAY-LOCOMOTIVE STYLE.” – USA Today

“BEAUTIFULLY CONSTRUCTED, POWERFULLY RESONATING…Fans of Connelly’s Harry Bosch novels will feel right at home with this thriller, and newcomers will see right away what all the fuss has been about.” – Publisher’s Weekly (starred review)

“A WONDERFULLY TAUT READ.” – Washington Post Book World

“BLOOD WORK IS FIRST RATE… CONNELLY IS ONE OF THE BEST OF THE NEW BREED OF THRILLER WRITERS. His latest is as good as hisTrunk Music andThe Poet .” – San Francisco Examiner

“CONNELLY DOESN’T JUST TALK ABOUT POETS, HE WRITES LIKE ONE.” – People

“POWERFUL STORYTELLING AND WRITING SKILLS.” – Houston Chronicles

“CONNELLY’S PLOTTING IS NEAR FLAWLESS.” – Fort Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel

“CONVINCINGLY CHOREOGRAPHED, and the procedural details of his casework fascinate.” – Wall Street journal

“Connelly should hit it big and reach the large audience who gleefully submitted themselves to the horrors of Thomas Harris’sRed Dragon andThe Silence of the Lambs .” – Booklist

When the body of a young man is discovered deep beneath the icy waters of Lake Grant, a note left under a rock by the shore points to suicide. But within minutes, it becomes clear that this is no suicide. It's a brutal, cold-blooded murder. All too soon former Grant County medical examiner Sara Linton – home for Thanksgiving after a long absence – finds herself unwittingly drawn into the case. The chief suspect is desperate to see her, but when she arrives at the local police station she is met with a horrifying sight – he lies dead in his cell, the words 'Not me' scrawled across the walls. Something about his confession doesn't add up and deeply suspicious of the detective in charge, Lena Adams, Sara immediately calls the Georgia Bureau of Investigation. Shortly afterwards, Special Agent Will Trent is brought in from his vacation to investigate. But he is immediately confronted with a wall of silence. Grant County is a close-knit community with loyalties and ties that run deep. And the only person who can tell the truth about what really happened is dead.

In Thailand, two men hire some modern-day pirates to hijack a Russian freighter. It is appallingly easy and the ship sails, undetected, toward the western coast of North America.On the Bering Sea, the USS Sojourner Truth, a Coast Guard cutter, patrols the Maritime Boundary Line. The seasoned crew, dealing with a high volume of ocean-going traffic, is finding that choppy seas are making their efforts even more difficult.In Washington DC, a CIA analyst traces the sale of black market plutonium. As the pieces fit together, he realizes that a terrorist attack is under way on a valuable-and vulnerable-American target. He also sees that the Sojourner Truth is sailing right into the attack-putting his estranged wife, the second in command on the Sojourner, at the heart of an international crisis.Relentlessly gripping and frighteningly plausible, The Blindfold Game is the pinnacle of Dana Stabenow+s award-winning career.

Three hundred years ago, the settlers on the small Maine island of Sanctuary were betrayed by one of their own, and slaughtered. Now a band of killers has returned to Sanctuary to seek revenge on a young woman and her son, and the only people who stand in their way are a young rookie officer and the island’s resident policeman, the troubled giant known as Melancholy Joe Dupree. But Joe Dupree is no ordinary policeman. He is the guardian of the island’s secrets, the repository of its memories. He knows that Sanctuary has been steeped in violence, and that its ghosts will tolerate the shedding of innocent blood no longer. On Sanctuary, the hunters are about to become the hunted.

Two sisters were attacked in their own home.

Only one of them survived. And now she must revisit hell if justice is to be served.

Forensic pathologist Dr. Anya Crichton is incensed over the brutal crime, and she will do everything in her power to see that the three men responsible are punished severely. But the suspects, the Harbourn brothers, are part of a fanatically devoted family of criminals who are expert at sidestepping the law. And suddenly, people connected with the investigation and prosecution are turning up dead.

In the face of an impending legal travesty Anya cannot let fear distract her. But it may be harder to remain calm in light of the nightmare the Harbourns' attorney unearths beneath the floorboards of his own house…

A yacht bearing a young American couple is attacked by Somali pirates, leading to bloodshed and the violent kidnapping of the pregnant woman on board. To aid in her rescue from the lawless and war-torn jungles of coastal Africa, Sigma Force enlists the aid of a unique search team: former army ranger Captain Tucker Wayne and his military war dog, Kane. But what appears to be a straightforward mission turns into a fiery ambush and betrayal – for this most valuable hostage is in fact the president's daughter.

Halfway around the world, a firebombing at a fertility clinic in the United States reveals a group of women collected from around the globe and enslaved to bear children by artificial means. One woman lives long enough to give birth to a stillborn baby, but a genetic study reveals the child bears an impossible abnormality – a triple helix of DNA.

To uncover the dark truth hidden within our genetic code and shrouded by a centuries-old conspiracy, Commander Gray Pierce and Tucker Wayne must team up to save an unborn child, a child whose very existence raises a pair of ageless questions:

Could you live forever?

Would you live forever?

Award-winning writer C. J. Box returns with a vengeance in this thrilling new novel featuring Wyoming game warden Joe Pickett.

It's elk season in the Rockies, but this year a different kind of hunter is stalking a different kind of prey. When the call comes in on the radio, Joe Pickett can hardly believe his ears: game wardens have found a hunter dead at a camp in the mountains – strung up, gutted, and flayed, as if he were the elk he'd been pursuing. A spent cartridge and a poker chip lie next to his body.

Ripples of horror spread through the community, and with a possibly psychotic killer on the loose Governor Rulon is forced to end the hunting season early for the first time in state history. Are the murders the work of a deranged antihunting activist or of a lone psychopath with a personal vendetta?

As always, Joe Pickett is the governor's go-to man, and he's put on the case to track the murderous hunter, as more bodies and poker chips turn up.

Bold, fast-paced, and with a controversial hook – hunting versus antihunting activists – Blood Trail is proof that C. J. Box is an ever-rising talent.

They were British Special Forces, trained to be the best. In January 1991 a squad of eight men went behind the Iraqi lines on a top secret mission. It was called Bravo Two Zero. In command was Sergeant Andy McNab.

Dropped into “scud alley” carrying 210-pound packs, McNab and his men found themselves surrounded by Saddam’s army. Their radios didn’t work. The weather turned cold enough to freeze diesel fuel. And they had been spotted. Their only chance at survival was to fight their way to the Syrian border seventy-five miles to the northwest and swim the Euphrates River to freedom. Eight set out. Five came back.

This is their story. Filled with no-holds-barred detail about McNab’s capture and excruciating torture, it tells of men tested beyond the limits of human endurance… and of the war you didn’t see on CNN. Dirty, deadly, and fought outside the rules.

Bohaterami "Białej śmierci" Stephena White'a (autora thrillerów psychologicznych) jest małżeństwo – doktor Alan Gregory (psycholog) i Lauren Crowder (prokurator). Państwo Gregorowie zostają poproszeni przez organizację Locard o pomoc w odnalezieniu sprawcy zabójstwa sprzed 10 lat. Zostały wtedy zamordowane dwie 16 – letnie dziewczynki – Tami Franklin i Mariko Hamamoto. Zadaniem doktora jest stworzenie portretów psychologicznych dziewcząt. Pomóc ma mu w tym rozmowa z psychologiem Raymondem Wellem, u którego Tami odbyła psychoterapię. Pan Well nie jest jednak skory do szczerej rozmowy… Bohater odbywa także rozmowy z rodzicami i bratem Tami oraz młodszą siostrą Mariko. Dowiaduje się zaskakujących rzeczy. Okazuje się także, że wiele do ukrycia ma Phil Barrett – szeryf w czasie, kiedy zostały zabite dziewczynki.

Akcja powieści nabiera tempa; pojawiają się nowe dowody i osoby, które mogą być zamieszane w to morderstwo. Gregory zaczyna podejrzewać, że zabójstwo Tami i Mariko wiąże się z zastrzeleniem żony Raymonda – Glorią. To jednak nie podoba się kilku osobom… Jest tu także wątek reporterki Dorothy Levin, która przez swoją dziennikarską dociekliwość traci życie. Nie będzie to jedyne morderstwo popełnione w czasie, kiedy członkowie Locarda przeprowadzą śledztwo w sprawie śmierci dziewcząt…

Jak zostanie rozwikłana zagadka tragicznej śmierci Tami i Mariko? Co mają do ukrycia państwo Franklinowie? Czy doktor Gregory umknie czyhającemu na niego niebezpieczeństwu? Odpowiedzi na te i inne pytania znajdą Czytelnicy w tej pełnej zwrotów akcji książce.

A Short Story

Tied up and disrobed. One likes to play with her. One wants to hurt her. How does she stay alive long enough to escape?

A renowned psychic decides to work alone and follow a lead on a missing persons case. When she visits the home of the victim, the psychic is at the mercy of the perpetrators.

They tie her up in the basement where she is at the whim of their twisted desires.

Kate Brannigan’s not just having a bad day, she’s having a bad week. Her boyfriend’s death notice is in the paper, her plan to catch a team of fraudsters is in disarray and a neo-punk band want her to find out who’s trashing their flyposters. And her business partner wants her to buy him out. Fine, but private eyes with principles never have that kind of cash.

Kate can’t even cry on her best friend’s shoulder, for Alexis has worries of her own. Her girlfriend’s pregnant, and when the doctor responsible for the fertility treatment is murdered, Alexis needs Kate like she’s never done before.

So what’s a girl to do? Delving into the alien world of medical experimentation and the underbelly of the rock-music business, Kate confronts betrayal and cold-blooded greed as she fights to save not only her livelihood, but her life as well…

Over the years, Ian Rankin has amassed an incredible portfolio of short stories. Published in crime magazines, composed for events, broadcast on radio, they all share the best qualities of his phenomenally popular Rebus novels. 10 years ago, A GOOD HANGING Ian's first short story collection demonstrated this talent and now after nearly a decade at the top of popular fiction, Ian is releasing a follow up. Ranging from the macabre ('The Hanged Man') to the unfortunate ('The Only True Comedian') right back to the sinister ('Someone Got To Eddie') they all bear the hallmark of great crime writing. Of even more interest to his many fans, Ian includes seven Inspector Rebus stories in this new collection…

When my mother named me Ophelia, she thought she was being literary. She didn't realize she was being tragic.

On the surface, Annie Powers's life in a wealthy Floridian suburb is happy and idyllic. Her husband, Gray, loves her fiercely; together, they dote on their beautiful young daughter, Victory. But the bubble surrounding Annie is pricked when she senses that the demons of her past have resurfaced and, to her horror, are now creeping up on her. These are demons she can't fully recall because of a highly dissociative state that allowed her to forget the tragic and violent episodes of her earlier life as Ophelia March and to start over, under the loving and protective eye of Gray, as Annie Powers. Disturbing events-the appearance of a familiar dark figure on the beach, the mysterious murder of her psychologist-trigger strange and confusing memories for Annie, who realizes she has to quickly piece them together before her past comes to claim her future and her daughter.

En Nueva Orleans, una fundación de ayuda a la `contra` nicaragüense guarda todo el dinero recaudado con la bendición de Reagan entre los magnates y empresarios norteamericanos. El coronel Dagoberto Godoy y su siniestro guardaespaldas, Franklin de Dios, son los encargados de recoger el dinero y de organizar el embarque clandestino, de las armas destinadas a la guerrilla antisandinista. La CIA sigue con atención los acontecimientos, pero nadie puede sospechar que se ha formado entre tanto un singular grupo de bandidos dispuestos a dar un golpe magistral. Aunque parezca una locura, Lucy Nichols, que había sido monja en una leprosería de Nicaragua, Jack Delaney, ex presidiario, y Roy Hicks, que fue expulsado de la policía acusado de soborno, tienen un plan infalible para hacerse con el botín.

Genealogist Nigel Barnes's second case leads him into the dark heart of the Mormon church and a gruesome, century-old secret.

Detective Chief Inspector Grant Foster is called to a homicide at the home of a single mother in Queens Park, London. Her throat has been cut from ear to ear and her body dumped in the garden. Her daughter and only child, Naomi, who has just turned fourteen that day, is missing. As the hours tick by, the feeling grows among Foster's colleagues that this is most likely becoming a double-murder inquiry. With nothing in the present to indicate a motive, Foster decides to delve into the dead woman's past only to find out she does not have one. He calls on genealogist Nigel Barnes. The trail takes Barnes back to late Victorian England where it abruptly ends with a young couple who came from the United States to England. Nigel's quest takes him on trip through the violent history of the Mormon church as he and Foster race to solve a shameful, long-kept secret that is about to have bloody repercussions in the present, and for which someone is seeking vengeance.

Dan Waddell delivers another gritty, suspenseful mystery that will keep readers guessing until the last page.

It started out as a simple hike in the Utah canyonlands on a warm Saturday afternoon. For Aron Ralston, a twenty-seven-year-old mountaineer and outdoorsman, a walk into the remote Blue John Canyon was a chance to get a break from a winter of solo climbing Colorado's highest and toughest peaks. He'd earned this weekend vacation, and though he met two charming women along the way, by early afternoon he finally found himself in his element: alone, with just the beauty of the natural world all around him. It was 2:41 P.M. Eight miles from his truck, in a deep and narrow slot canyon, Aron was climbing down off a wedged boulder when the rock suddenly, and terrifyingly, came loose. Before he could get out of the way, the falling stone pinned his right hand and wrist against the canyon wall.

And so began six days of hell for Aron Ralston.

She's standing at the front door. Covered in blood. Is she the victim of a crime? Or the perpetrator?

A teenage girl--Sienna, a troubled friend of his daughter--comes to Joe O'Loughlin's door one night. She is terrorized, incoherent-and covered in blood.

The police find Sienna's father, a celebrated former cop, murdered in the home he shared with Sienna. Tests confirm that it's his blood on Sienna. She says she remembers nothing.

Joe O'Loughlin is a psychologist with troubles of his own. His marriage is coming to an end and his daughter will barely speak to him. He tries to help Sienna, hoping that if he succeeds it will win back his daughter's affection. But Sienna is unreachable, unable to mourn her father's death or to explain it.

Investigators take aim at Sienna. O'Loughlin senses something different is happening, something subterranean and terrifying to Sienna. It may be something in her mind. Or it may be something real. Someone real. Someone capable of the most grim and gruesome murder, and willing to kill again if anyone gets too close.

His newest thriller is further evidence that Michael Robotham is, as David Baldacci has said, "the real deal - we only hope he will write faster."

All characters and events in this publication, other than those clearly in the public domain, are fictitious and any resemblance to real persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental.

Rebecca Blackburn caught a glimpse of the famed Jupiter Stones as a small child. Unaware of their significance, she forgot about them – until she discovered the priceless, long-missing gems were the key to a deadly chain of events spanning thirty years and three continents.sparing no one.

When a seemingly innocent photograph reignites one man's simmering desire for vengeance, Rebecca turns to Jared Sloan, the love she lost to tragedy and scandal. His own life has changed forever because of the secrets buried deep by their two families.

Their relentless quest for the truth will dredge up bitter memories and shocking revelations of misplaced loyalty, dangerous pride and naked ambition.and they will stop at nothing to expose a cold-blooded killer.

Amazon.com Review

Boulder psychologist Alan Gregory hasn't seen former patient Gibbs Storey since she and her husband were in marriage counseling with him almost a decade ago. So when she walks into his office with a startling declaration-that she believes her husband murdered at least one woman, and may be planning to kill more-Gregory finds himself on the horns of a dilemma that's not just professional but personal as well: He can't reveal what his patient has told him, not even to his wife, who's a prosecutor, or his friend Sam, who's a cop. What's more, his feelings for Gibbs may be clouding his judgment about the truth of what she professes. Though he telegraphs the denouement too early, Stephen White once again turns in a thoughtful, well crafted novel full of interesting insights on marriage, friendship, the human condition, and the Colorado landscape.

From Publishers Weekly

Murder, sex and guilt are all on the couch in bestseller White's latest (Cold Case; Manner of Death; etc.) featuring ongoing series hero Alan Gregory, a low-key sleuth/psychologist. As always, the author delivers an absorbing mystery, a mix of interesting subplots involving Gregory's sympathetic friends and family, and a paean to the beauty of the Colorado countryside. This time he splits the point of view equally between Gregory and Gregory's best friend, Boulder police detective Sam Purdey. Sam has just had a heart attack and is facing a dreaded rehabilitation regimen when his wife decides to leave him, perhaps permanently. Gregory has his own plateful of domestic difficulties caring for his MS-stricken wife and his toddler daughter while tending to a full caseload of clients who run the gamut from mildly neurotic to full-blown psychotic. An old patient he hasn't seen in a year, the beautiful Gibbs Storey, comes back for therapy and announces that her husband has murdered a former lover, and she's not sure what to do about it. And by the way, she thinks he may have murdered a bunch of other women as well. Gregory decides that, as a therapist, he cannot report the murders to the police, spending pages and pages justifying his decision. He turns to recuperating pal Sam, and the two of them separately follow various threads until all is resolved, just in the nick of time. White is known for his surprise endings, and this one is no exception. Aside from the repetitive and less than convincing ethical considerations, it's an engrossing addition to an excellent series.

The sleepy town of Heartsdale, Georgia, is jolted into panic when Sara Linton, paediatrician and medical examiner, finds Sibyl Adams dead in the local diner. As well as being viciously raped, Sibyl has been cut: two deep knife wounds form a lethal cross over her stomach. But it's only once Sara starts to perform the post-mortem that the full extent of the killer's brutality becomes clear. Police chief Jeffrey Tolliver – Sara's ex-husband – is in charge of the investigation, and when a second victim is found, crucified, only a few days later, both Jeffrey and Sara have to face the fact that Sibyl's murder wasn't a one-off attack. What they're dealing with is a seasoned sexual predator. A violent serial killer…

From Publishers Weekly

Iles's previous thriller, 2003's provocative The Footprints of God, featured an omnipotent supercomputer and an on-the-run duo racing around the globe from North Carolina to Jerusalem. This time, Iles returns to more familiar ground: Natchez, Miss.; New Orleans; and the Mississippi delta, where a serial predator has been killing middle-aged men. Forensic odontologist Cat Ferry, an expert on teeth and the damage they can inflict, is called in by the New Orleans PD to explain the bite marks found on the bodies. Cat, the alcoholic granddaughter of Dr. William Kirkland, owner of the sprawling Malmaison estate and the richest, most powerful man in Natchez, has solved previous murders with her married detective lover, Sean Regan. This time, though, she's pregnant with Sean's baby, and this plus the discovery of old bloody footprints hidden in the carpet fibers of her Malmaison childhood bedroom threaten to plummet her into the depression that's plagued her since she was 15. She thinks one footprint might be hers, made on the night her father died of an ill-explained gunshot wound. Iles weaves in dark strains of child sexual abuse and the resulting repressed memories as Cat searches for the serial killer and for answers about her father's death. This overlong novel lacks the scintillating originality that made Iles's last outing so memorable, but he ties up all the loose ends in an exciting climax.

From Booklist

In his ninth book, Iles returns to the Deep South, an old Natchez mansion to be exact, where 31-year-old Catherine Ferry, a forensic specialist, retreats after panic attacks interfere with her work on what appears to be a string of serial killings. No sooner does she arrive than she discovers that the facts of her privileged if troubled youth in the house, where black servants still cater to the whims of Cat's racist, iron-willed grandfather, are an elaborate fiction. In her quest for the truth, especially about the brutal death of her father, she opens the door to a disturbing family history that puts her at both physical and emotional risk-and, eventually, leads her to the doorstep of an unusual serial killer. Iles' dialogue leaves something to be desired this time around ("I have to keep digging until I uncover the truth. If I don't, I'll go mad"), and a heavy dose of melodrama (Cat, a longtime alcoholic with bipolar disease, goes cold turkey when she discovers she's pregnant) gets in the way of the mystery. Still, this provocative tale of twisted lives and dark, agonizing secrets delivers enough atmospheric suspense to keep Iles' many fans entertained till the last page.

After six exciting thrillers in seven years, bestselling author James Grippando is at last bringing back the main character from his blockbuster debut novel, The Pardon. Miami lawyer Jack Swyteck is in trouble. With more than a decade of experience in the criminal courts, Jack doesn't handle many civil cases. But this one is different. His exgirlfriend is being sued because she thought she was going to die. When Jessie Merrill was diagnosed with a deadly disease, she worked a deal with an insurance company to get cash fast. In exchange, a group of wealthy investors were supposed to collect on the policy at her death. But Jessie was misdiagnosed, and the investors want their money back. Now. At the trial, Jack pulls off a brilliant victory and Jessie gets to keep the USD1.5 million from the investors. Two days later, her body turns up in Jack's bathtub. As the evidence mounts against him, Jack finds himself on a collision course with dark secrets from the past and a possible killer who is beyond suspicion.

A weapon designed to decimate the Roman Empire has just become the number one threat to the United States.

From the national bestselling author of The Lions of Lucerne, Path of the Assassin, and State of the Union comes the most gripping international thriller yet featuring Navy SEAL turned covert counterterrorism agent Scot Harvath.

"Scot Harvath is the perfect all-American hero for the post-September 11th world." – Nelson DeMille

When a mystery thousands of years in the making threatens to catapult the enemies of America to a sure and decisive victory, the only person the president can call for help is the man the administration has just fired.

Caught live on Al Jazeera in an off-the-books operation, Scot Harvath's career has been terminated and he is forced to go to ground as the president bows to pressure from a ruthless senator with her sights set on the White House. But when the tide in the war on terror suddenly turns against the U.S., the president has no choice but to secretly bring Harvath back inside.

Ducking a congressional subpoena, Harvath travels to the Mediterranean, where he learns of a shadowy organization that has been combing the earth for decades in search of the ultimate weapon to use against the United States and her allies.

Now, after three summers of record-setting heat across present-day Europe, one steadily melting Alpine glacier has given up an ancient secret-one with the potential to thrust civilization back into the Dark Ages.

From Cyprus, London, and Paris, to Italy, Switzerland, and Saudi Arabia, Harvath must race against the clock to stop one of the greatest evils ever to face the United States. With his characteristic high-voltage action, sweeping international locales, and meticulous research, Brad Thor has created another supercharged novel that is sure to thrill.

From Publishers Weekly

Set in New York City in 2060, bestseller Roberts's latest police thriller under her Robb pseudonym in her Lt. Eve Dallas series (Naked in Death, etc.) offers her usual engaging characters. Dallas's investigation of the brutal murders of Natalie Copperfield, a 26-year-old accountant, and Copperfield's boyfriend becomes entangled with the search for Tandy Willowby, a pregnant friend who mysteriously vanishes shortly before her due date. Dallas discovers that Copperfield had stumbled on some white-collar fraud at her high-profile accounting firm, while Willowby's disappearance may be part of a series of abductions. Predictably, the two cases converge, and the mystery's solution becomes obvious. Newcomers, who may be dismayed at how little things will have changed in more than 50 years, would do better to start with earlier books in this near-future suspense series.

When Billy Bob Holland visits his old friend Doc Voss, he finds himself caught up in a horrific tragedy. Doc's daughter has been brutally attacked by bikers, and the ring leader, Lamar Ellison, walks free when the DNA samples 'get lost'. Then Ellison is burned alive and Doc is arrested. So much for Billy Bob's vacation – Doc needs a lawyer, and fast. And that's not all. Newly released killer Wyatt Dixon has tracked Billy Bob to Montana, bent on avenging the death of his sister for which he holds Billy Bob responsible. And Wyatt is only one thread of a tangled web of evil that includes neo-Nazi militias, gold miners who tip cyanide into the rivers, a paedophile ring, and the Mob. As the corpses of the guilty and innocent pile up, Billy Bob stands alone.

It's the second-to-last day of archaeological field school. Dr Temperance Brennan's students are working on a site of prehistoric graves on Dewees, a barrier island north of Charleston, South Carolina, when a decomposing body is uncovered in a shallow grave off a lonely beach… The skeleton is articulated, the bone fresh and the vertebrae still connected by soft-tissue; the remains are encased in rotted fabric and topped by wisps of pale, blond hair – a recent burial, and a case Tempe must take. Dental remains and skeletal gender and race indicators suggest that the deceased is a middle-aged white male – but who was he? Why was he buried in a clandestine grave? And what does the unusual vertical hairline fracture of the sixth cervical vertebrae signify? While Tempe is trying to piece together the evidence, her personal life is thrown into turmoil. When a bullet – intended, perhaps, for her – puts Tempe 's estranged husband Pete in hospital, her unexpectedly emotional response complicates her on-off relationship with Detective Andrew Ryan… But before long, another body is discovered – and Tempe finds herself drawn deeper into a shocking and chilling investigation, set to challenge her entire view of humanity…

Tess Monaghan has finally made the move and hung out her sign as a private investigator for hire, complete with an office in Butchers Hill. Maybe its not the greatest address in Baltimore, but you've got to start somewhere. Then in walks Luther Beale, the notorious vigilante who five years ago shot a boy for vandalising his car. Just out of prison, he wants to make reparations to the kids who witnessed his crime, so he needs Tess to find them. But once she starts snooping, the witnesses start dying. Is the 'Butcher of Butchers Hill' at it again? Like it or not, Tess is embroiled in a case that encompasses the powers that be, a heartless system that has destroyed the lives of children, and a nasty trail of money and lies leading all the way back to Butchers Hill.

They are three very different women: Zoe, the pretty blonde schoolteacher; Jenny, the former hand model turned model mother and wife; and Nadia, the free spirit who entertains at children’s parties. But when they are targeted by a sexual predator, they become sisters closer than kin. Suddenly they share the same dread when they approach their doorsteps, fall victim to the same rising panic as darkness falls. For someone is watching them, learning them better than they know themselves. And when the gruesome threats begin to escalate, each woman faces a horrifying truth: No one is coming to the rescue, not even the police. Stalked by an unknown killer, each can count only on herself, and do whatever it takes to survive.

During a grizzly bear research project in Glacier Park, one terrifying night, a bear finds the research team. By morning, the camp is in ruins and a few hours later, the body of a camper is discovered. Anna's search for what, or who, is responsible stretches her resources to the limits.

In un'area industriale semiabbandonata della periferia londinese vengono scoperti i cadaveri di cinque donne mutilate e seviziate. Scattano immediatamente le indagini che vengono affidate al giovane ispettore Jack Caffery. Egli comprende all'istante che i delitti sono opera di un maniaco: le vittime sono state infatti sottoposte a procedure chirurgiche amatoriali per la riduzione del seno e sono state pettinate e truccate in modo da ricordare delle bambole. La morte tuttavia non è stata causata dalle orrende ferite, bensì da un'iniezione letale; inoltre il killer ha inserito nel petto delle vittime e cucito accanto al cuore un uccellino vivo, simbolo e firma del suo macabro operato.

but welcome. Someone seems to be trying to drive them away-at first with silly pranks but then with threats that become increasingly dangerous, especially to the oldest child, ten-year-old Tom Fletcher, who begins to believe that someone is always watching him.

The adults in Tom's life are trying to help, including his parents; the vicar next door, younger and more dashing than you'd expect a vicar to be; and a therapist, Evi Oliver, who believes him more than she wants to. But there are other clues that something isn't quite right in Heptonclough, including the mysterious accidental deaths of three toddlers over the last ten years. It is not until Tom's siblings, two-year-old Milly and five-year-old Joe Fletcher, go missing in turn that the little village's evil secret turns the Fletchers' dreams into a nightmare.

With Sacrifice, Awakening, and now Blood Harvest, S. J. Bolton displays time and time again her remarkable talent as a beguiling storyteller, a master of thrills, and the mistress of her own brand of modern Gothic tale.

Lisa, the estranged wife of TV superstar cop Cart Ramsey, is found murdered in a Los Angeles park. She'd divorced him for cruelty and the detectives on the case, Petra Connor and Stu Bishop, immediately elevate him to No 1 suspect. But a thorough investigation of the scene reveals that there was probably a witness to the killing. Reading the evidence on the ground Petra and Stu believe it is a homeless man, but in fact it is a homeless boy – Billy Straight. He knows he has vital evidence, but he is too scared of being returned to his former existence to come forward. As Billy battles with his conscience, Petra and Stu have plenty of other leads to follow and a dual narrative of stunning complexity and suspense develops until they eventually combine into a single crescendo of tension. Jonathan Kellerman has produced a thriller which is genuinely unputdownable.

The extraordinary new Western from the New York Times- bestselling author, featuring itinerant lawmen Virgil Cole and Everett Hitch.

Law enforcement in Appaloosa had once been Virgil Cole and me. Now there was a chief of police and twelve policemen. Our third day back in town, the chief invited us to the office for a talk.

The new chief is Amos Callico: a tall, fat man in a derby hat, wearing a star on his vest and a big pearl-handled Colt inside his coat. An ambitious man with his eye on the governorship-and perhaps the presidency-he wants Cole and Hitch on his side. But they can't be bought, which upsets him mightily.

When Callico begins shaking down local merchants for protection money, those who don't want to play along seek the help of Cole and Hitch. But the guns for hire are thorns in the side of the power-hungry chief. When they are forced to fire on the trigger-happy son of a politically connected landowner, Callico sees his dream begin to crumble. There will be a showdown-but who'll be left standing?

An omnibus of novels

One murder. Three city agencies. Three powerful romances!

No one keeps secrets from Death in this bold new collection by bestselling authors.

JOAN ELLIOTT PICKART

JUSTINE DAVIS

JACKIE MERRITT

a powerful man is murdered in his home, and not even his wealth and privilege can hide the trail of scandal he left behind. A scandal that is about to be unmasked by Chicago's top agencies…

– Reunited over a corpse, forensics detective Josh Benton and medical examiner Maggie Sutter discovered foul play – and a simmering attraction underlying their long-term alliance…

– Darien Wilson was made for marriage – not murder investigations. But since Detective Colin Waters was forced to accept her as his partner, he was also forced to accept that she was a damn good detective. And one hell of a lover…

– Jennifer Anderson shared one passion-filled night with district attorney Evan Stone. Little did she know he'd be her next assignment, or that she would be following the sexy prosecutor all the way to the final verdict – of father-to-be.

"Alex Duarte is my kind of cop. I hope he sticks around for a long, long, time." – Michael Connelly

It was supposed to be a low-level bust for ATF agent Alex Duarte, with the hope that he could work it up the ladder to someone important. He just didn't know how important. In New Orleans to check out a mysterious Panamanian named Ortiz who likes to trade guns illegally and import marijuana by the truckload, Duarte suddenly finds himself in the middle of something bigger than he has ever known. Because guns and drugs are bad enough-but there are other things that are much, much worse.

A shadowy colonel who is not what he seems… a white supremacist intent on becoming "the man who changed America"… an attractive FBI agent with a lot of pull and a lot of secrets… Alex Duarte knows he's in deep with these characters. He just hopes he's not over his head.

"Trzy dni przed śmiercią matka wyznała – to były niemal jej ostatnie słowa – że mój brat wciąż żyje" – tak zaczyna się najnowszy thriller Cobena. Od dnia, w którym brat Willa Kleina, Ken, zamordował Julię, jego byłą sympatię, minęło jedenaście lat. Ścigany międzynarodowymi listami gończymi, dosłownie zapadł się pod ziemię. Z czasem rodzina uznała go za zmarłego. Przeglądając dokumenty rodziców, Will natrafia na świeżo zrobione zdjęcie Kena. Wkrótce potem znika Sheila, narzeczona Willa. Coraz więcej poszlak wskazuje, że nie była osobą, za którą się podawała. FBI poszukuje jej jako głównej podejrzanej w sprawie o podwójne zabójstwo. Co łączy Sheilę z serią morderstw i sprawą sprzed jedenastu lat? Czy ona także padła ofiarą zabójcy? Gdzie jest Ken? Will nie zazna spokoju, zanim nie dotrze do…

Myron Bolitar przyjmuje propozycję właściciela klubu New Jersey Dragons i zgadza się odnaleźć gwiazdę drużyny, Grega Downinga, swojego rywala z czasów studenckich, który przepadł jak kamień w wodę. W zamian otrzyma szansę powrotu do zawodowej koszykówki. Być może Greg uciekł przed gangsterami poszukującymi go za długi hazardowe, albo przed policją w związku z zabójstwem Carli, kobiety, która go szantażowała. W domu zaginionego Myron znajduje ślady krwi zamordowanej, które niebawem ktoś usuwa, podobnie jak ślady obecności tajemniczej kobiety, z którą Greg żył po rozstaniu z żoną. Okazuje się, że cała sprawa ma związek z wydarzeniami z jego własnej przeszłości…

Kto mógł porwać syna Jacka Coldrena, znanego golfisty, który z ogromną przewagą prowadzi w mistrzostwach USA? Podejrzenia padają na dawnego asystenta Jacka, Lloyda Rennarta. Tymczasem okazuje się, że Rennart pół roku wcześniej popełnił samobójstwo. A jeśli żyje i tylko upozorował własną śmierć? A może Chad sfingował porwanie? Myron Bolitar podejmuje się odnaleźć chłopca – po raz pierwszy bez swojego niezawodnego przyjaciela Wina, który z niewiadomych powodów odmawia udziału w śledztwie. Jedyny trop, jakim dysponuje, to karta kredytowa zaginionego, z której ktoś ciągle korzysta. I tym razem klucz do wszystkich zagadek kryje się w przeszłości…

Studentka Kathy Culver znika w tajemniczych okolicznościach na terenie kampusu uniwersytetu. Jej poplamniona krwią bielizna zostaje odnaleziona w koszu na śmieci. Daje to podstawę do przypuszczenia, że padła ofiarą gwałtu i zabójstwa. Osiemnaście miesięcy później ktoś zamieszcza zdjęcie Kathy w piśmie pornograficznym. Były narzeczony dziewczyny Christian Steele, wschodząca gwiazda amerykańskiego futbolu, odbiera zagadkowy telefon – w słuchawce słychać głos zaginionej. Kiedy z rąk mordercy ginie ojciec Kathy, jej starsza siostra, dawna ukochana Myrona – piękna pisarka Jessica – prosi go o pomoc. Myron przekonuje się, że każda z osób zamieszanych w sprawę ma coś do ukrycia – łącznie z Kathy, której przeszłość skrywa wiele tajemnic…

Pregnant women play key roles in this bone-chilling fourth novel in Gerritsen's edgy, suspenseful series of thrillers featuring Boston Medical Examiner Maura Isles and Homicide Detective Jane Rizzoli. Both of the usually gritty crime fighters are uncharacteristically vulnerable. Rizzoli is carrying her first child, and Isles-divorced and alone at age 40 and suddenly, unsettlingly aware of her biological clock-is experiencing decidedly unspiritual feelings for her priest. As the novel begins, Isles-an adopted child who never knew the identity of her birth parents-is confronted by the corpse of a murdered woman who is apparently her identical twin. Another detective, Rick Ballard, comes forward to say that he knew the victim and is certain her killer is a powerful pharmaceutical baron known to have stalked her. Isles falls for the handsome Ballard, but she isn't convinced by his theory, and she launches an investigation into her sister's past, following the trail to a state correctional facility and a schizophrenic inmate who may be her mother. This opens the cobwebbed pages of a nightmarish family album and leads Isles to a remote cabin in Maine where the long-dead body of a pregnant woman is discovered buried in the woods. The killer, Isles discovers, has been murdering pregnant women for decades, making periodic sweeps of the country. Meanwhile, brief scenes chronicle the diabolical kidnapping of an affluent pregnant housewife who is kept buried in a crude coffin. An electric series of startling twists, the revelation of ghoulishly practical motives and a nail-biting finale make this Gerritsen's best to date.

The year is 1958. O'Connor, a young reporter with the Las Piernas News Express, is desperate to discover who has perpetrated a savage attack on his mentor, Jack Corrigan. In and out of consciousness, Corrigan claims to have witnessed the burial of a bloodstained car on a farm, but his reputation as a heavy drinker calls his strange story into question. In a seemingly unrelated mystery, a yacht bearing four members of the wealthy Ducane family disappears during a storm off the coast. An investigation finds that the Ducane home has been broken into; a nursemaid has been killed; and Max, the infant heir, has gone missing. Corrigan recovers his health, but despite a police investigation and his own tireless inquiries, the mysteries of the buried car and the whereabouts of Maxwell Ducane haunt him until his death.

Twenty years after that fateful night, in her first days as a novice reporter working for managing editor O'Connor, Irene Kelly covers the groundbreaking ceremony for a shopping center – which unexpectedly yields the unearthing of a buried car. In the trunk are human remains. Are those of the infant heir among them? If so, who is the young man who has recently changed his name to Max Ducane? Again the trail goes maddeningly, perhaps suspiciously, cold.

Until today. Irene, now married to homicide detective Frank Harriman, is a veteran reporter facing the impending closing of the Las Piernas News Express. With circulation down and young reporters fresh out of journalism school replacing longtime staffers, Irene can't help but wish for the good old days when she worked with O'Connor. So when the baffling kidnap-burial case resurfaces, Irene's tenacious love for her mentor and journalistic integrity far outweigh any fears or trepidation. Determined to make a final splash for her beloved paper and solve the mystery that plagued O'Connor until his death, Irene pursues a story that reunites her with her past and may end her career – and her life.

From Publishers Weekly

Denton 's third novel (after Buddy Holly Is Alive and Well on Ganymede) takes the overworked serial-killer concept and wrings from it a striking depiction of middle-American despair, betrayed innocence, and transcendent hope. Jimmy Blackburn is a roaming murderer with an idiosyncratic moral code: he kills only those he feels deserve to die. His victims include cheating auto mechanics, bullying bosses and a thieving encyclopedia salesman. In intervening chapters, Denton traces Blackburn's childhood in small-minded small-town Kansas, in a home haunted by an abusive father, a world prescribed by casual cruelties and repressive, untrustworthy authority. Denton doesn't settle for facile connections between Blackburn's early years and his criminal turn, playing his life off against some Norman Rockwell vision of an America that never was. He portrays Blackburn's childhood not as unusually bleak or cruel, but as an all-too-common experience, so it's the reality of a mundane world-not some exceptional horror-that produces Blackburn the killer. And Blackburn himself is no simplistic figure of evil; he retains a sympathetic innocence, a stubborn hope, throughout his doomed journey, and his end yields a surprising sense of redemption. Denton 's hand never falters as he shows us an America of petty injustices and vanished dreams, where a sensitive Kansas boy can grow into a killer.

From Library Journal

Abused and unloved, Blackburn is a true victim of circumstance who devises his own strict moral code to guide him in all matters including whom and what to kill. On his 17th birthday, Blackburn shoots a cop who has just killed a dog in the town church. He then embarks on a career as a one-man eliminator of those who mistreat and prey upon others. Using stark, unadorned prose, Denton (Buddy Holly Is Alive and Well on Ganymede, Morrow, 1991) has created a modern-day parable illustrating the shades of good and evil and the meanings of life. Sometimes humorous but more often heart-wrenching, Blackburn delivers a knockout punch to rigid, self-satisfied thinking everywhere. Excellent.

It's not easy to find a fresh angle for the werewolf theme, but this debut novel from a Canadian writer proves that solid storytelling and confident craftsmanship can rejuvenate one of the hoariest of all horror clich‚s. Elena Michaels is a self-described "mutt," a werewolf who left her secretive pack in upstate New York for a life among humans. In the year since she relocated to Toronto, she's embarked on a career as a journalist and begun a pleasingly mundane relationship with a decent man. All this is jeopardized when she agrees to help her old packmates hunt some troublesome mutts who are converting common criminals to werewolves and leaving a trail of conspicuous carnage. Reunited with her former lycanthrope lover and forced into brutally predatory confrontations, Elena finds the call of the wild subtly reasserting itself. Armstrong prepares readers for her tale's twists with several key revisions of werewolf lore the werewolf taint is mostly hereditary, and werewolves can be killed as easily as any human or wolf. Her true achievement, though, is her depiction of werewolf nature in believably human context. Elena's feral sensibility, like her psychological vulnerabilities, seems a natural outgrowth of her abusive childhood, and her relationship with the pack is that of any prodigal child to a close-knit family. The sensuality of Elena's transformations and the viciousness of her kills mesh perfectly with her tough personality. Filled with romance and supernatural intrigue, this book will surely remind readers of Anne Rice's sophisticated refurbishings of the vampire story.

Disturbed when a series of women who look exactly like her turn up dead, small-town doctor Kacey Lambert starts looking for connections between the victim's lives and her own. As the body count mounts, Lambert's discoveries lead back to her new boyfriend even though local detectives find no motive that can explain the murders. Striking an uncertain balance between paranoia and legitimate fear, BORN TO DIE offers the deadly suggestion that the more alike we are, the more likely we may be to share a terrible destiny.

What woman isn't a sucker for a sexy hunk with a hot English accent and a very large…estate? Fall in lust with three British Bad Boys who like it shaken and stirred, and who know exactly how to give a woman the royal treatment, in bed and out.

George and the Dragon Lady

George Hartley is high on the list of England 's most eligible bachelors: he's young, single, gorgeous – and, as the 19th Earl of Ponsford, lives in a castle. Granted, the castle has seen better days… but nights with the Earl are what LA TV producer Maxine Larraby keeps thinking about…

Nights Round Arthur's Table

Seattle thriller author Meg Stanton desperately needs a quiet place to work. Stag Cottage in the English countryside is perfect… until she meets local pub owner Arthur Denby. He's as dark and brooding as one of her imaginary villains, and Meg always falls for her villains. But there's nothing imaginary about the things Arthur does to her after last call…

Union Jack

Former head chef and current love cynic Rachel Larraby can't believe she got dragged across the pond for a catering job. Weddings – ugh, she's had enough personal experience, thanks. And though recurring best man Jack Flynt is quite smashing, she can keep it to just a steamy fling. Until this very bad bloke starts looking at her with those forever eyes…

Montauk lawyer Tom Dunleavy's client list is woefully small-occasional real estate closings barely keeps him in paper clips. When he is hired to defend a local man accused in a triple murder that has the East Hampton world in an uproar, he knows that he has found the case of his lifetime.

The crime turns the glittering playground for the super-rich into a blazing inferno. Dunleavy's client is a local hero, but Dunleavy knows the case rests atop a volcano of money, deception, and forbidden desires. His client is the perfect fall guy-unless he can find the key that unlocks the secret rooms of the gilt-shrouded set.

When Dunleavy is joined by his former flame, the savvy and well-connected attorney, Kate Costello, he believes he has a chance. But payback is a bitch-especially from the rich. The violent retaliations of billionaires threatened by his investigation exceed anything Dunleavy has ever seen. With the entire nation's eyes on him in a new Trial of the Century, Dunleavy orchestrates a series of revelations that lead to a stunning outcome-only to find afterward that the truth is wilder than anything he ever imagined.

Written with the unstoppable velocity and head-twisting surprises that only James Patterson can master, BEACH ROAD will leave readers reeling long after they have turned the last page.

Undercover enforcer Sean Dillon tackles a new crisis as Presidential skeletons threaten to burst from the closet – in the dramatic new thriller from the master of suspense, the author of the international bestsellers Day of Reckoning, Edge of Danger and Midnight Runner. In the waning days of World War II, Hitler gave his diary to a young aide for safekeeping. Now it’s threatening to resurface, with explosive contents: the details of a meeting between emissaries of Hitler and Roosevelt to reach an armistice and turn their collective efforts against the Soviet Union. The American representative: a close relative of none other than the current US President, Jake Cazalet. Powerful enemies of Cazalet will do anything to get their hands on that diary – and it is up to White House operative Blake Johnson, together with his colleague in British intelligence, Sean Dillon, to make sure they don’t… Filled with hairpin twists and high-tension action, with characters as dark and surprising as any he has created, this is Jack Higgins working at the peak of his powers.

A horrifically mutilated corpse is discovered wedged in an isolated crevice. The highly-regarded but unpredictable ex-commando Pierre NiTmans is sent from Paris to the French Alps to investigate. Meanwhile, Karim Abdouf, a young Arab policeman, is trying to find out why the tomb of a young child has been desecrated. When a second body is found, high up in a glacier, the paths of the two policemen are joined in their search for the killers, a trail that embroils them with the mysterioius cult of the Crimson Rivers.

This killer dreams in shades of death…

In each of her New York Times bestselling novels, critically acclaimed author Kay Hooper has led readers to unforgettably chilling encounters with fear and evil. Now, in her latest thriller, she takes us on a terrifying manhunt for a serial killer no ordinary cops can stop – a psychopath who seems to step out of a living nightmare.

He's the kind of killer we instinctively fear the most. A killer without boundaries, without conscience, without any fear of being caught. And his latest victim is terrifying proof that no one is safe: the daughter of a powerful U.S. senator.

Now, with the national media calling for justice and a grief-stricken father seeking vengeance, Bishop and his FBI Special Crimes Unit find themselves in a unique situation. This time even psychic cops aren't enough to stop evil. Aid comes in the form of a fledgling civilian organization of unorthodox crime stoppers. Operating outside of any government oversight, without sanction or official authority, they are comprised of a membership every bit as talented and eccentric as Bishop's SCU – if not more so. And that is no coincidence. For Bishop helped launch this organization barely two years before.

Dani Justice knows all about monsters. They haunt her nightmares – and her life. But she never expected to find herself doggedly on the trail of a real flesh-and-blood predator so cunning, he's eluded the best law enforcement could send up against him; so deadly, he doesn't hesitate to kill even a senator's daughter. Or a cop.

Dani doesn't want to hunt this killer. She doesn't want to risk the life she's made for herself, or her hard-won peace. But she doesn't have a choice. Because his bloody rampage has hit far too close to home. Because Dani alone commands a weapon powerful enough to destroy him.

And because Dani knows something even Bishop doesn't. Dani knows how the hunt ends. It ends in fire. And blood. And death.

What she doesn't know is who will survive.

Kay Hooper thrills fans with her riveting crime fiction featuring Noah Bishop's extra-ordinary agents. Now, the New York Times bestselling author brings the elite FBI Special Crimes Unit back to fight a serial killer with a thirst for more than just blood in the chilling follow-up the Blood Dreams.

All clues to the recent rash of murders point to the enigmatic Church of the Everlasting Sin and its charismatic leader, the Reverend Adam Deacon Samuel. But getting to the man known as 'Father' will be no easy task, for he is insulated within his flock of loyal minions – closely guarded by those who would gladly give their life for his. Now, with the support of Haven, the civilian agency Bishop helped launch, the SCU must go deep into the fold of a puppetmaster whose power reigns over more than they could ever have imagined.

From Publishers Weekly

Gerritsen leaves the urban hospital setting of her first two successful thrillers (Harvest; Life Support) and steps into Stephen King territory?the troubled Maine town of Tranquility?with mixed results. The former doctor's ability to create credible characters and make medical details accessible and exciting provide the book's strongest moments, as Dr. Claire Elliot?recent widow from Baltimore?tries to make a go of her new life in Tranquility, where she has moved to get her son Noah, 14, away from dangerous influences. Irony of ironies: the country turns out to hold more savage dangers for the teen than the city ever did. Claire's struggles with the boy, her failure so far to win a place for herself in the hearts of prospective patients and a possible romance with the town's police chief are straightforward and moving. Harder to swallow is the book's premise?that savage outbreaks of violence among Tranquility's teenagers occur every 50-odd years, caused by natural or even supernatural factors. It's Claire who makes the connection between recent murders and older attacks, and of course there's the old "enemy of the people" subplot about not scaring off the tourist trade. The fact that Tranquility's teenage problem has a scientific solution lets Dr. Elliot have a final moment of triumph, but you can't help feeling that King would have made the story more powerful?and more fun. Major ad/promo; author tour; Doubleday Book Club and Literary Guild super release; Mystery Guild main selection; simultaneous Simon Schuster audio.

From School Library Journal

YA-Tranquility, ME, sounds like the perfect place for Dr. Claire Elliot to relocate with her teenage son and help him deal with his father's death. However, as she begins her practice, so begins an epidemic of teen violence. The shooting of the school biology teacher and the violent ending to the big dance have Claire and the town police chief, Lincoln Kelly, searching hard for clues and answers. Are the blue mushrooms growing in the forest where local teens hang out the cause? Or is the mysterious green phosphorescence that appears on the lake where many of the young people swim the culprit? Claire's son suddenly and mysteriously becomes as wild and uncontrollable as his friends. This is a gory medical thriller that will keep YAs totally engaged.

No one could have imagined Odd Thomas ever leaving the perfect quirky comfort of Pico Mundo, least of all Odd himself. The little desert town that nurtured Odd all his life is the locus of everything he holds dear-his loyal friends, his ghostly confidants, and the place where he loved and lost his soul mate, the irreplaceable Stormy Llewellyn. Yet leave it he has, to embrace the solitude and peace of an isolated monastery high in the western mountains as he tries to find a way to live fully again.

But Odd has a knack for finding himself in the path of trouble no matter where he goes-even among the eccentric monks in their sanctuary and with the King of Rock 'n' Roll at his side. For a killer is stalking the ancient holy halls, and Odd is about to encounter an enemy who eclipses any he has yet encountered…

This thriller, set in Newmarket, centres around Neil Griffon who is abducted by two ruthless men. When he is set free he is the victim of vicious threats, weird extortion, and a nerve-wracking war of attrition.

A thriller in which a Federal agent and a Wall Street lawyer must race against time to thwart the plan of a secret militia group to firebomb Wall Street and wipe out the financial heart of America.

It begins with a phone call. Gordon Reeve's brother has been found dead in his car in San Diego – the car was locked from the inside, a gun in his hand. In the US to identify the body Gordon comes to realise that his brother has in fact been murdered. What's more, it is soon obvious that his own life is in danger. Once back in Scotland he finds out that there have been more visitors than usual to his house and his home has been bugged by professionals. But Reeve is a professional too. Ex SAS, he was half of a two man unit with someone he came to fear, then to hate. It looks like his Nemesis is back. The horror has just begun…

Award-winning author Nevada Barr reveals another side to her remarkable storytelling prowess with this heart-wrenching yet tender tale of two women whose boundless devotion to each other is continually challenged in nineteenth century America.Award-winning author Nevada Barr reveals another side to her remarkable storytelling prowess with this heart-wrenching yet tender tale of two women whose boundless devotion to each other is continually challenged in nineteenth century America.

Zack Walker is back and on the job as a features writer for the city paper. While researching his first assignment Zack stumbles upon a homicide that may be linked to a gang that's been terrorizing the city’s high-end shopping district. Suddenly, he finds himself at the center of a violent crime wave and destined for a confrontation with Barbie Bullock – a ruthless criminal with a disturbing obsession. As worlds begin to collide and boundaries between family and foes blur, Zack must be ever vigilant to outwit the evil at large, whether in the suburbs, the city, or in his own imagination. Heaven help the bad guys when this resourceful father comes to make good on a deal gone bad.

In the too-quiet town of Oakwood, only the lucky die of boredom… and new homeowner Zack Walker isn’t feeling lucky. Whoever said the burbs were boring will think twice after reading Linwood Barclay’s hilarious debut mystery, in which Dad learns the hard way that he doesn’t always know best.

Zack wouldn't blame you for thinking he's safety-obsessed. True, he masterminded a plot to trade his family’s exciting city lifestyle for one of suburban tranquillity. True, even after this strategic move, Zack still has issues with family members who forget their keys in the front door, leave their cars unlocked, or park their backpacks at the top of the stairs – where you could kill yourself tripping over them. Just ask his wife, Sarah, or his teenage kids, Paul and Angie, who endure their share of lectures.

Zack knows that he needs to chill out and assume the best for once – but we know what happens to those who assume.

When Zack realizes their two-faced developer sent a petty thief to fix their leaky shower, he starts fighting hard to ignore the fact that Oakwood isn’t the crime-free paradise he was hoping for. But his brief state of denial comes to an abrupt end when, during a walk by the creek, he stumbles across a dead body. Even more shocking, Zack actually knows who the victim is – and who might want him dead.

With a killer roaming around their neighborhood and Zack’s overactive imagination in overdrive, he’s sure things can't get any worse. But then another local is murdered – and Zack’s paranoid tendencies get him implicated in the crime. While his wife is trying to remember why she married him in the first place, and his kids are considering whether it’s time to have him committed, Zack decides there's only one thing he can do. To protect his family – and avoid being busted for a crime he didn’t commit – he’s going to have to override his safety-first instincts, tap into his delusions of machismo, and track down the killer himself.

Some things weren’t meant to be discovered. Three people are each drawn to the small town of Beckon, Wyoming. A young anthropologist researches a Native American legend and makes a terrifying discovery. An ex-cop investigating her cousin’s disappearance finds herself in grave peril. And an aging businessman is lured by the promise of a miracle. One by one they discover the town’s ghastly secret. The only question is… will any of them make it out alive?

From the Back Cover

Some things weren’t meant to be discovered. But once they’re unleashed, there’s no turning back.

Beneath the town of Beckon, a terror hides, lurking in the darkness. Waiting.

Three people are drawn to the small Wyoming town for very different reasons. Anthropologist Jack Kendrick comes looking for clues to his father’s disappearance. Police officer Elina Gutierrez arrives in the near-deserted town on the trail of her missing cousin. And George Wilcox is lured by the promise of a cure for his wife’s illness.

All are looking for answers. But as they draw closer to discovering the town’s chilling secret, the real question becomes . . . will their quest uncover a miracle, or release an unspeakable evil?

The "book of the dead" is the morgue log, a ledger in which all cases are entered by hand. For Kay Scarpetta, however, it is about to take on a new meaning. Fresh from her bruising battle with a psychopath in Florida, Scarpetta decides it's time for a change of pace, not only personally and professionally but geographically. Moving to the historic city of Charleston, South Carolina, she opens a unique private forensic pathology practice, one in which she and her colleagues-including Pete Marino and her niece, Lucy-offer expert crime-scene investigation and autopsy services to communities lacking local access to modern, competent death investigation technology.

It seems like an ideal situation, until the new battles start-with local politicians, with entrenched interests, with someone whose covert attempts at sabotage are clearly meant to run Scarpetta out of town. And that's before the murders and other violent deaths even begin.

A young man from a well-known family jumps off a water tower. A woman is found ritualistically murdered in her multimillion-dollar beach home. The body of an abused young boy is discovered dumped in a desolate marsh. Meanwhile, in distant New England, problems with a prominent patient at a Harvard-affiliated psychiatric hospital begin to hint at interconnections that are as hard to imagine as they are horrible.

Kay Scarpetta has dealt with many brutal and unusual crimes before, but never a string of them as baffling, or as terrifying, as the ones confronting her now. Before she is through, that book of the dead will contain many names-and the pen may be poised to write in her own.

Nina Reilly is a tough, tenderhearted, and unpredictable Lake Tahoe attorney with a one-woman practice, a young son, a genuine sense of humor, and an interesting love life. Now, in Breach of Promise, Nina takes on the biggest case of her career, a high-profile, high-stakes palimony suit that could make her millions or ruin her financially. Little does she suspect that it will place her dead center in a bizarre and perplexing murder investigation.

A collection of stories

In Burning Bright, the stories span the years from the Civil War to the present day, and Rash's historical and modern settings are sewn together in a hauntingly beautiful patchwork of suspense and myth, populated by raw and unforgettable characters mined from the landscape of Appalachia. In "Back of Beyond," a pawnshop owner who profits from the stolen goods of local meth addicts – including his own nephew – comes to the aid of his brother and sister-in-law when they are threatened by their son. The pregnant wife of a Lincoln sympathizer alone in Confederate territory takes revenge to protect her family in "Lincolnites." And in the title story, a woman from a small town marries an outsider; when an unknown arsonist starts fires in the Smoky Mountains, her husband becomes the key suspect.

In these stories, Rash brings to light a previously unexplored territory, hidden in plain sight – first a landscape, and then the dark yet lyrical heart and the alluringly melancholy soul of his characters and their home.

Thirty-something Alex Owens knows very little about her childhood or who she really is, her only family an absent, emotionally fragile mother. Alex spent most of her adulthood searching for the missing link, drifting from job to job, relationship to relationship. But when an infant's remains are unearthed in her hometown in back-country California, Alex suddenly realises that she has a connection to the case. As if opening Pandora's box, long-lost memories start flooding in, dark and terrifying nightmares that haunt her every waking moment. When she arrives in Sonoma, the tight-knit community greets Alex with silence and suspicion, but Alex presses on, determined to get to the heart of a secret no one wants to see uncovered. As more violent deaths and a series of deadly rituals shock the small town, Alex is finally forced to confront the terrible truth about a single night that changed her family's lives forever…

Creo que con este es el tercer libro que leo de David Baldacci. Hasta ahora los libros que he leído suyos eran de intriga, pero este es totalmente distinto. En este caso es una novela que describe el cambio de vida que tienen que llevar a cabo dos hermanos, que se trasladan con su abuela a las montañas de Virginia. La novela transcurre en la época de la guerra mundial y refleja de una manera bastante realista lo dura que es la vida en las montañas, tanto para los agricultores y ganaderos como la gente que explotaba las minas de carbón.

La novela está bien escrita y disfrutas de la historia, en la que es importante meterse en la piel de los protagonistas. Como unos niños viven las circunstancias que les han tocado vivir y como se adaptan a una vida tan distinta a la que llevaban hasta ese momento en la ciudad.

Un libro entrañable, en el que las relaciones familiares tienen gran importancia. No comento nada del final para no chafar la novela.

Buen libro para descansar de la traca de novelas negras que os estaba metiendo ultimamente.

The city of San Francisco is being stalked by a huge shaved vampyre cat named Chet, and only I, Abby Normal, emergency backup mistress of the Greater Bay Area night, and my manga-haired love monkey, Foo Dog, stand between the ravenous monster and a bloody massacre of the general public.

Whoa. And this is a love story? Yup. 'Cept there's no whining. See, while some lovers were born to run, Jody and Tommy were born to bite. Well, reborn, that is, now that they're vampires. Good thing theirs is an undying love, since their Goth Girl Friday, Abby Normal, imprisoned them in a bronze statue.

Abby wants to be a bloodsucking fiend, too, but right now she's really busy with other stuff, like breaking in a pair of red vinyl thigh-high Skankenstein® platform boots and wrangling her Ph.D.-candidate boyfriend, Steve (the love monkey). And then there's that vampire cat Chet, who's getting bigger and smarter – and thirstier – by the minute. Abby thought she and Steve could handle the kitty cat on their own, mais non…

Before you can say "OMG! WTF?" Tommy and Jody are sprung from captivity, and join forces with Abby, Steve, the frozen-turkey-bowling Safeway crew, the Emperor of San Francisco and his trusty dogs Lazarus and Bummer, Abby's gay Goth friend Jared, and SF's finest Cavuto and Rivera to hunt big cat and save the city. And that's when the fun really begins.

Tom 2 cyklu „Z archiwów NUMA”.

Pradawna legenda, rewolucyjne odkrycie i najsłynniejszy obok Dirka Pitta bohater Cusslera w pojedynku z szaleńcem opanowanym żądzą władzy.

Rok 1991. Brazylijska uczona dokonuje epokowego odkrycia. Ale jej samolot przepada gdzieś nad Ameryką Południową…

Rok 2001. Kurt Austin i członkowie NUMA napotykają u wybrzeży Kalifornii stado martwych wielorybów. Usiłując odkryć przyczynę śmierci zwierząt, docierają do tajnego podwodnego laboratorium, opuszczonej bazy lotniczej na Alasce, a wreszcie do serca wenezuelskiej dżungli i tajemniczego plemienia – strażników niewyobrażalnego sekretu. I ujawniają zbrodniczy plan, którego celem jest panowanie nad światem…

A first class detective adventure, tough and suspenseful… I've not read anything so good since Raymond Chandler set down Philip Marlowe in Los Angeles' Walker Percy James Lee Burke, author of the highly-acclaimed HEAVEN'S PRISONERS and THE NEON RAIN, returns with his third Dave Robicheaux adventure which confirms his reputation as a brilliant storyteller and a crime novelist of compelling originality.

BLACK CHERRY BLUES sweeps from the lush, misty Bayou country of Southern Louisiana to the rugged landscape of Montana, where Dave Robicheaux ex-New Orleans homicide detective confronts Indians, oil company roughnecks and ruthless criminals.

Haunted by a double tragedy the accidental death of his father and brutal murder of his wife -Robicheaux embarks on an investigation that leads to the Montana offices of the oil company that once employed his father. And in coming to the aid of an old friend, burnt-out rockabilly star Dixie Lee Pugh, he is sucked into a violent, terrifying world where shady federal agents and mafia henchmen obey nobody's rules but their own…

"A stunning novel that takes detective fiction into new imaginative realms" – Publishers Weekly