In this story Nero Wolfe investigates the murders of Eugene R. Poor, an inventor of novelties.

Ptomaine poisoning killed the heiress. Now their client can cozy up to the money. But there are too many beautiful women in the mansion, and the slimy little parasite is confused when he should be scared. After Archie Goodwin drops the ball, Nero Wolfe is ready to break a few laws — like extortion.

Nero Wolfe agreed to cook the Ambassador’s trout — not to catch the diplomat’s killer.

Czy buk może wyrosnąć w ciągu jednej nocy? Owszem. W ogrodzie śpiewaczki Zofii Simeonidis w Paryżu. Tyle że odtąd kobieta nie może zmrużyć oka, po nocach myśląc o tym drzewie. A potem znika, co wcale nie dziwi jej męża. Mateusz, Marek i Łukasz, trzej sąsiedzi Zofii, wspomagani przez byłego policjanta – inspektora Vandooslera, próbują rozwikłać zagadkę pojawienia się drzewa w ogrodzie i zniknięcia swojej sąsiadki. Odkrywają prawdziwe korzenie drzewa, które liczy piętnaście lat oraz ocieka nienawiścią i zazdrością.

Eleven-year-old Tilly Martin is dragged from her suburban bedroom. Her mother, Cora, pleads for mercy but the kidnappers are clear: if they don't get their $5 million back in five days, Tilly dies. If anyone contacts police, Tilly dies.

Journalist Jack Gannon's estranged sister, Cora, disappeared without a trace decades ago. Now she is frantically reaching out to him for help. Cora tells him about the shameful mistakes she's made – but she guards the one secret that may be keeping her daughter alive.

A twenty-year-old assassin, haunted by the faces of the people he's executed, seeks absolution as he sets out to commit his last murders as a hired killer.

In the U.S. and Mexico, police and the press go flat out on Tilly's case. But as Gannon digs deeper into his anguished sister's past, the hours tick down on his niece's life and he faces losing a fragment of his rediscovered family forever.

From Publishers Weekly

In this top-notch fourth novel in Burke's series featuring ex-Texas Ranger attorney Billy Bob Holland, Billy Bob has moved his family and practice to the pastoral city of Missoula, Mont., the setting of his last adventure (Bitterroot, 2001), only to discover that the psychopathic ex-biker/rodeo clown, Wyatt Dixon (who buried Billy Bob's private investigator wife, Temple, alive), is out of prison on a technicality and claiming to be a born-again Christian. Billy Bob befriends alcoholic Desert Storm hero Johnny American Horse, a sometime breeder of horses and eco-activist who-when not in the drunk tank-is carrying on a passionate affair with Amber Finley, the daughter of Romulus Finley, a vindictive and bigoted powerful U.S. senator. When Johnny is suspected of murdering the hit man who invaded his home as well as masterminding the burglary of Global Research (a high-tech agricultural lab), making off with its computer files, the action picks up quickly. Noted for quirky characters and intricate plots, Burke introduces demon-driven sheriff's deputy Darrel McComb-an ex-war hero and former mercenary pilot who flew cocaine for the contras-who has an erotic fixation on Amber. Factor in private security agency chief Greta Lundstrum, FBI agent Seth Masterson and Karsten Mabus, CEO of the company that owns Global Research, and the mayhem builds to a gripping, spine-tingling finale.

A new heroin syndicate, using military weapons and a faction of the Mexican army, has eliminated all the other gangs in Mexico. Their operation now stands invincible.

Able Team cuts its way into the action, careering into open war against the drug ring. But everyone, even the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency, is plotting war against Able Team!

In and above the streets of Mexico City, the world's most crowded metropolis, the men of Able Team fight for survival from attack on all sides. Over the roar of battle, Blancanales yells at a Mexican army lieutenant, "We have been tricked by your government and by ours! Betrayal is everywhere! How do you expect us to take this insanity?"

The Dolphin, pride of America's nuclear fleet, is the only submarine capable of attempting the rescue of a British meteorological team trapped on the polar ice cap. The officers of the Dolphin know well the hazards of such an assignment. What they do not know is that the rescue attempt is really a cover-up for one of the most desperate espionage missions of the Cold War — and that the Dolphin is heading straight for sub-zero disaster, facing hidding sabotage, murder . . . and a deadly, invisible enemy . . .

Schlimm genug, daß Amelia Peabody allein nach Ägypten reist, aber ihre neue Freundschaft zu der mittellosen und verrufenen Evelyn Barton-Forbes sprengt nun wirklich alte Konventionen der viktorianischen Etikette. Als die lebenslustige Evelyn, die eigentlich nur vor ihrer mißglückten Verlobung fliehen wollte, bald nicht nur von unzähligen Verehrern, sondern auch von einer erstaunlich lebendigen Mumie verfolgt wird, ist ihre unerschrockene Beschützerin und Hobbydetektivin Amelia gefordert ...

Eine friedliche Fahrt auf dem Nil muß sich die junge Amelia Peabody wohl aus dem Kopf schlagen: Erstens laufen ihr die durchaus nicht uninteressanten Emer-son-Brüder, ihres Zeichens Ägyptologen, über den Weg, und dann muß sie auch noch ihren verrufenen, mittellosen Schützling Evelyn Barton-Forbes retten -nicht nur vor allen möglichen Verehrern, sondern auch vor einer plötzlich sehr lebendigen Mumie ... Damit ist sie natürlich ganz in ihrem kriminalistischen Element, aber nebenher muß sie sich auch noch für andere verzwickte Fälle engagieren ...

Swego czasu wykazałam się ignorancją na miarę ludzi mediów, chciałam lepiej poznać literaturę włoską nie zauważywszy, że Umberto Eco do grona pisarzy włoskich należy. Co więcej, kiedyś jakieś podejście do Eco miałam jednak za młoda i zbyt niecierpliwa byłam a może i wybór padł na nieodpowiedni utwór, bo na "Zapiski na pudełku zapałek". Toteż teraz postanowiłam wykorzystać wyzwanie i nadrobić zaległości czytelnicze w kwestii literatury włoskiej.

Strasznie wahałam się nad napisaniem recenzji książki "Imię Róży" na swoim blogu, bo to rzekomo ciężka książka, kiepsko się czyta i na dodatek zawiera tyle filozofii, która nie pozwala się książką cieszyć tylko zanudza. Tymczasem odniosłam zupełnie inne wrażenie. To naprawdę świetna powieść, którą można czytać na wiele sposobów i wielu płaszczyznach – w zależności od tego w którą chcemy się wgłębiać na taki poziom trudności trafimy. Dzięki temu do książki można wracać i wielokrotnie odnajdywać nowe, ciekawe elementy wcześniej przez nas nie odkryte, albo nie zrozumiane. Zdarzyło mi się powracać do jakiejś strony lub dwóch, żeby przypomnieć sobie stanowisko któregoś z mnichów na dany temat.

Po pierwsze jest tu wątek kryminalny, w myśl hitchcockowskiej wizji fabuły idealnej na początku pojawia się trup a później jest tylko gorzej. W roku 1937 w opactwie benedyktynów we Włoszech ma miejsce tajemnicze morderstwo bądź samobójstwo. Wilhelm z Baskerville wraz z uczniem Adsem z Melk przyjeżdżają do klasztoru, by pomóc w rozwikłaniu zagadki morderstwa. Szybko okazuje się, że giną kolejni mnisi, wszyscy w tajemniczo powiązani z biblioteką. Wilhelm jako były inkwizytor ma wyostrzony zmysł obserwacji i potrafi dostrzec to, czego nie widzą inni, i dlatego jest w opactwie potrzebny. Wydarzenia w opactwie opisuje Adso, uczeń i sekretarz Wilhelma i to jego oczyma śledzimy akcję. Wątek kryminalny wciąga, nie chce się od książki odchodzić.

Drugą warstwą jest obraz religii w średniowieczu, wieki ciemne, triumf wiary i zarazem bojaźni sprawił, że wszelkie formy władzy posiadało duchowieństwo. To oni umieli pisać i czytać, dbali o księgi i zachowanie ich dla kolejnych pokoleń. Dlatego też czuli się lepsi od zwykłych ludzi, biednych i nierzadko dotkniętych przez los. Trzymanie przywileju pisania i czytania dla siebie pozwalało im zachować wysoki status. W opactwie tym toczy się dyskusja na temat ubóstwa mnichów, podczas tygodnia bogatego w wydarzenia odbywa się spotkanie wysłanników papieża ze zwolennikami ubóstwa. Kościół sprzeciwiał się postawie św. Franciszka, która to rzucała cień na bogactwa i zbytki dostępne dla papieża i kościoła w ogóle. „Imię Róży” zawiera mnóstwo fragmentów i dysput związanych ze stanem kościoła w średniowieczu.

Mamy tu też rozważania na temat śmiechu, wiedzy i dążenia do jej zdobywania czy nawet kilka słów o miłości. Krótko mówiąc, powieść jest ciekawa, im bardziej się wgłębiamy tym więcej elementów dostrzegamy. Że już nie wspomnę o tle historycznym – średniowiecze stało się dla mnie bardziej zrozumiałe, zawsze postrzegałam je jako wieki ciemne, łatwowierni i bojaźliwi ludzie, którzy niewiele maja do powiedzenia o swym życiu. Eco przedstawia średniowiecze „od kuchni” co pozwoliło mi znaleźć odpowiedź na pytanie dlaczego tak się właśnie dzieje.

Ultima settimana del novembre 1327. Ludovico il Bavaro assedia Pisa e si dispone a scendere verso Roma, il papa è ad Avignone e insiste per avere al suo cospetto Michele da Cesena, generale dei francescani, i quali qualche anno prima hanno proclamato a Perugia che Cristo non ha avuto proprietà alcuna. Dottrina eretica, come eretici sono i fraticelli, i cui roghi illuminano l’Italia e la Francia, come eretiche erano le bande armate di fra Dolcino, debellato e bruciato da due decenni. Su questo sfondo storico si svolge la vicenda di questo romanzo, ovvero del manoscritto misterioso di Adso da Melk, un novizio benedettino che ha accompagnato in una abbazia dell’alta Italia frate Guglielmo da Baskerville, incaricato di una sottile e imprecisa missione diplomatica. Ex inquisitore, amico di Guglielmo di Occam e di Marsilio da Padova, frate Guglielmo si trova a dover dipanare una serie di misteriosi delitti (sette in sette giorni, perpetrati nel chiuso della cinta abbaziale) che insanguinano una biblioteca labirintica e inaccessibile. Guglielmo risolverà il caso, forse troppo tardi, in termini di giorni, forse troppo presto, in termini di secoli. E per farlo dovrà decifrare indizi di ogni genere, dal comportamento dei santi a quello degli eretici, dalle scritture negromantiche al linguaggio delle erbe, da manoscritti in lingue ignote alle mosse diplomatiche degli uomini del potere. Difficile da definire (gothic novel, cronaca medievale, romanzo poliziesco, racconto ideologico a chiave, allegoria) questo romanzo (la cui storia si intreccia con la Storia — perché l’autore, forse mendacemente, asserisce che di suo non vi è una sola parola) può forse essere letto in tre modi. La prima categoria di lettori sarà avvinta dalla trama e dai colpi di scena, e accetterà anche le lunghe discussioni libresche, e i dialoghi filosofici, perché avvertirà che proprio in quelle pagine svagate si annidano i segni, le tracce, i sintomi rivelatori. La seconda categoria si appassionerà al dibattito di idee, e tenterà connessioni (che l’autore si rifiuta di autorizzare) con la nostra attualità. La terza si renderà conto che questo testo è un tessuto di altri testi, un «giallo» di citazioni, un libro fatto di libri. A ciascuna delle tre categorie l’autore comunque rifiuta di rivelare che cosa il libro voglia dire. Se avesse voluto sostenere una tesi, avrebbe scritto un saggio (come tanti altri che ha scritto). Se ha scritto un romanzo è perché ha scoperto, in età matura, che di ciò di cui non si può teorizzare, si deve narrare.

Umberto Eco è nato ad Alessandria (Piemonte) nel 1932. Ordinario di semiotica all’università di Bologna, è autore di molte opere saggistiche. Ha esordito nel 1956 con uno studio sull’estetica medievale. Il suo ultimo libro, del 1979, riguarda la situazione del lettore nei labirinti della narratività.

Убийство престарелого французского путешественника – лишь первое из цепи загадочных преступлений, происходящих на тихом постоялом дворе в Риме.

За расследование берутся знаменитый дипломат и разведчик Людовика XIV аббат Мелани и его «доктор Ватсон» (или, точнее, «аббат Адсон») – поваренок постоялого двора.

Погоня за таинственным убийцей ведет их все дальше – то в мрачный подземный мир римских катакомб, то в алхимические лаборатории, то в лабиринты Ватикана, где готовится покушение на жизнь папы Иннокентия XI…

Однако загадка все еще остается загадкой, а преступник все еще идет на шаг впереди охотников!

n 15th century Venice it is a dangerous time to be alive. A permanent winter has rolled in over the canals and bodies keep washing up on the banks of the city. These bodies are especially hard to identify, since they have been skinned.In the present day, a famous portrait by Titian has been discovered. Its subject: the 15th century suspected murderer Angelico Vespucci. The skins of Vespucci's victims were never found, so his guilt was never proven. Although it is rumoured that when the portrait arises, so will the man. And when flayed bodies start turning up all over the world, it looks like this is more than just a superstition. A murderer has been called back to life, and he is hungry for revenge.

Après Bayeux, Versailles et Venise, voici Pénélope à Giverny, la patrie de Claude Monet. Notre intrépide conservatrice-détective assiste à un dîner au musée Marmottan-Monet, au cours duquel elle rencontre deux spécialistes de l'œuvre du grand impressionniste. Le lendemain, l’une, une religieuse, a disparu, alors que l’autre, une Américaine, est retrouvée égorgée. Wandrille, le compagnon-journaliste de Pénélope, est à Monaco où il couvre le mariage du prince Albert et de Charlène. Dans la principauté se prépare aussi la vente d’une toile de Monet. Vrai ou faux ? Le peintre, ami de Clemenceau, était-il vraiment l’homme tranquille qu’on connaît ? Un quatrième volume des Enquêtes de Pénélope aussi drôle qu’érudit.

Une démonstration évidente du maître du « polart ».

Le Monde des livres.

Irrésistible de virtuosité narrative et ludique autant qu’instructif. Un vrai bonheur de lecture.

La Provence.

Beaucoup de charme et de légèreté.

Version Femina.

Revoici Pénélope, la jeune conservatrice du patrimoine, toujours amoureuse de Wandrille, le journaliste dandy et rieur. après avoir résolu l’énigme de la tapisserie de Bayeux, elle est nommée au château de Versailles. Dès son arrivée, elle découvre un cadavre, un Chinois et un meuble en trop.

C’est effrayant, c’est étrange, c’est beaucoup. Dans ce temple de la perfection et de la majesté vont s’affronter la mafia chinoise et une société secrète qui se perpétue depuis le XVII^e siècle. Des salons aux arrière-cabinets du château, des bosquets du parc aux hôtels particuliers de la ville, Pénélope, bondissante et perspicace, va percer les mystères de Versailles.

Par l’auteur d’Intrigue à l’anglaise.

Foisonnant, amusant, extravagant, ébouriffant.

Bernard Pivot, Journal du Dimanche.

Tout ça est drôle, enlevé, subtilement agencé, entre les aventures d’Arsène Lupin et le Da Vinci Code.

Livres Hebdo.

Trois mètres de toile manquent à la fameuse tapisserie de Bayeux, qui décrit la conquête de l'Angleterre par Guillaume le Conquérant.

Que représentaient-ils ? Les historiens se perdent en conjectures. Une jeune conservatrice du patrimoine, Pénélope Breuil, s'ennuie au musée de Bayeux, jusqu'au jour où sa directrice, dont elle est l'adjointe, est victime d'une tentative de meurtre ! Entre-temps, des fragments de tapisserie ont été mis aux enchères à Drouot. Pénélope, chargée par le directeur du Louvre de mener discrètement une enquête, va jouer les détectives et reconstituer l'histoire millénaire de la tapisserie, de 1066 à la mort tragique de Lady Diana sous le pont de l'Alma…

Intrigue à l'anglaise a reçu le prix Arsène Lupin.

À l'image de Guillaume conquérant les terres saxonnes, Adrien Goetz ravit son lecteur avec brio.

Bernard Géniès, Le Nouvel Observateur.

Cette comédie policière mêle, avec humour, art et politique, réalité avérée et fiction délirante.

Annick Colonna-Césari, L’Express.

Pénélope ne connaît pas Venise. Un comble pour une historienne de l'art, de surcroît conservatrice au château de Versailles !

Un colloque sur les gondoles, instruments de la conquête vénitienne, lui offre l'occasion de passer quelques jours sur la lagune. Cependant, à Rome, Achille Novéant, membre de l'Académie française et grand amoureux de la Sérénissime, meurt tragiquement. Bientôt, ce sont tous les « écrivains français de Venise », club d'ordinaire paisible et inoffensif, qui sont menacés. Et voilà Pénélope — secondée par son fiancé-journaliste Wandrille — obligée de revêtir ses habits d'enquêtrice. Au cœur de l'énigme, un Rembrandt qui dormirait sur une île et que personne n'a jamais vu.

Beaucoup d'excentricités, quelques personnages masqués, des meurtres en série sont les ingrédients de ce savoureux cocktail vénitien.

Thierry Clermont, Le Figaro littéraire.

An intricate historical page-turner about a forbidding country estate and the unlikely forensic duo who set out to uncover its deadly secrets.

In the year 1780, Harriet Westerman, the willful mistress of a country manor in Sussex, finds a dead man on her grounds with a ring bearing the crest of Thornleigh Hall in his pocket. Not one to be bound by convention or to shy away from adventure, she recruits a reclusive local anatomist named Gabriel Crowther to help her find the murderer, and historical suspense's newest investigative duo is born.

For years, Mrs. Westerman has sensed the menace of neighboring Thornleigh Hall, seat of the Earl of Sussex. It is the home of a once- great family that has been reduced to an ailing invalid, his whorish wife, and his alcoholic second son, a man haunted by his years spent as a redcoat in the Revolutionary War. The same day, Alexander Adams is slain by an unknown killer in his London music shop, leaving his children orphaned. His death will lead back to Sussex, and to an explosive secret that has already destroyed one family and threatens many others.

Instruments of Darkness combines the brooding atmosphere of Anne Perry with the complex, compelling detail of Tess Gerritsen, moving from drawing room to dissecting room, from coffee house to country inn. Mrs. Westerman and Mr. Crowther are both razor-sharp minds and their personalities breathe spirit into this gripping historical mystery.

Детектив

If it had been only opium smuggled across the Turkish border, or even the savage murder of!the girl Mija of the notorious Cinema Bleu, it would not have involved Axe, America's super-secret intelligence agency.

But the stakes were far higher- nothing less than the total security of nations at the brink of World War III.

It was the climactic assignment for our ranking counter-espionage agent, the man with the frightening miniaturized weapons — Nick Carter, called by his fellow-agents Killmaster.

Published for the first time in digital, a classic spy story from the bestselling thriller writer Derek Lambert.

Each year a nucleus of the wealthiest and most influential members of the Western world meet to discuss the future of the world’s superpowers at a secret conference called Bilderberg.

A glamorous millionaires just sighting loneliness from the foothills of middle age… a French industrialist whose wealth matches his masochism and meanness… a whizz-kid of the seventies conducting a life-long affair with diamonds, these are just three of the Bilderbergers who have grown to confuse position with invulnerability. A mistake which could prove lethal when a crazed assassin is on the loose…

‘Lambert certainly keeps the action moving with surprise plot twists thrown in every now and again to unsettle the reader’ Liverpool Daily Post

The new installment in Stella Rimington’s series of “frighteningly authentic” espionage thrillers (Chicago Tribune) featuring the fiercely intelligent, ambitious MI5 officer Liz Carlyle.

Liz has been transferred to counter-espionage—the hub of MI5 operations during the Cold War, which has been scaled back as anti-terrorism has gained priority. But there’s plenty for her to do: there are more spies operating in London in the twenty-first century than there were during the height of East-West hostilities. Even the Russians still have a large contingent, although now they spy on the international financial community and on the wealthy ex-pat oligarchs who make England their domain.

In her new assignment, Liz quickly uncovers a plot to silence one of these Russians: Nikita Brunovsky, an increasingly vocal opponent of Vladimir Putin. The Foreign Office is adamant about forestalling a crime that could become a full-blown international incident, but there’s not a single clue as to how the assassination will be carried out—and Liz is solely responsible for averting disaster. So she goes undercover, attaching herself to Brunovsky’s retinue: racing against the clock to determine who betrayed him and suddenly facing a wholly unexpected second task—unmasking a Russian operative working undercover alongside her.

Dame Stella has once again distilled her experience as the first woman Director General of MI5 into a spy novel of arresting psychological complexity and unflagging suspense.

Università d’Islanda. In un mattino di fine ottobre, il silenzio del dipartimento di Storia viene lacerato da un grido. Aprendo la porta di uno stanzino, il direttore si vede crollare addosso un cadavere senza occhi e con una runa magica incisa sul petto. Il corpo è quello di Harald Guntlieb, enigmatico dottorando tedesco con la passione per il cupo periodo della caccia alle streghe. Ma chi era veramente Harald? Per la polizia, che chiude frettolosamente il caso con l’arresto di un piccolo spacciatore, era solo uno stravagante ragazzo ricco in vena di emozioni forti, dalle perversioni sessuali alle modificazioni corporee estreme. Per Matthew Reich, inviato in Islanda dalla famiglia Guntlieb per riaprire le indagini, era uno dei massimi esperti europei di magia nera, grazie a un’inestimabile quanto agghiacciante collezione ereditata dal nonno. Per Thora Gudmundsdottir, l’avvocatessa incaricata di assistere l’affascinante Matthew, era solo un figlio non amato, incamminatosi fra le tenebre per inseguire un miraggio. Non resta dunque che ripercorrere i passi del giovane in un folle labirinto sulle tracce di un libro maledetto, fra antichi sortilegi e moderne rivalità accademiche, per svelare un mistero sempre più tetro, complesso e intrigante…

Un mattino di una torrida estate sivigliana i coniugi Vega vengono trovati morti nella loro casa di Santa Clara, la città-giardino costruita nei primi anni Cinquanta dagli americani nella città andalusa. Malgrado ogni indizio sembri indicare un patto suicida, l’ispettore Javier Falcón è tutt’altro che convinto. Dalle indagini sull’attività di Rafael Vega, un costruttore di successo, emergono ambigui legami con la mafia russa. E i primi interrogatori rivelano che la comunità dell’esclusiva Santa Clara nasconde disperazione, fallimenti ed enigmi inconfessati. Fra i primi a parlare vi sono Marty Krugman, architetto americano che lavorava con Vega, e la bellissima moglie Madeleine. Si sono trasferiti lì, stando alle loro dichiarazioni, per sfuggire all’America del dopo 11 settembre, ma il loro passato sembra nascondere ben altre motivazioni. Un altro vicino chiamato in causa è l’attore Fabio Ortega, la cui stella si è offuscata dopo che il figlio è finito in galera per un delitto infamante. Sotto il caldo impietoso dell’Andalusia l’elenco delle morti misteriose si allunga. E dopo che una nuova pista sembra portare Falcón a un giro di pedofili che si credeva debellato, seguiamo col fiato sospeso l’ispettore mentre collega indizi e fili in apparenza irrilevanti e ricostruisce un complicato intrigo che lo costringe a confrontarsi con le atrocità della psiche umana.

The detached yet penetrating account of the savage and senseless murder of a family.

With the publication of this book, Capote permanently ripped through the barrier separating crime reportage from serious literature. As he reconstructs the 1959 murder of a Kansas farm family and the investigation that led to the capture, trial, and execution of the killers, Capote generates suspense and empathy.

A nine year old boy is found raped and murdered at the bottom of a well near a beach resort in southern Italy. A Senegalese itinerant peddler is accused in what looks like a hopeless case taken on by Guido Guerrieri, counsel for the defence. Faced with small-town racism fuelled by recent immigration from Africa, Guido attempts to exploit the esoteric workings of the Italian courts. More than a perfectly paced legal thriller, this is a relentless suspense novel that goes way beyond the genre.

Ellery Queen, il famoso giallista-detective, decide di trasferirsi nella pacifica cittadina di Wrightsville in cerca di tranquillità e colore locale per il suo prossimo romanzo; il posto sembra ideale, quieto fino alla noia, e gli abitanti sono una splendida fonte di ispirazione, con i loro tic e i piccoli vizi da provincia americana. Ellery passa il tempo leggendo e passeggiando, ma ama anche ascoltare le chiacchiere dei cittadini del piccolo centro. I pettegolezzi più gustosi ruotano intorno al matrimonio, improvviso quanto imprevedibile, tra la ricca Nora Wright e Jim, il giovane che anni prima l’aveva abbandonata a due passi dall’altare. Quando Nora inizia a soffrire di un male misterioso, l’intera città si trasforma in un covo di vipere e tutti sono pronti ad accusare l’uomo di avere avvelenato la moglie. Ma è possibile che Jim abbia sposato il suo antico amore solo per ucciderla? Naturalmente Ellery non riuscirà a scrivere una sola riga, impegnato come sarà a scoprire l’insospettabile verità nascosta dietro il primo delitto che la sonnacchiosa Wrightsville abbia conosciuto da molto tempo.

Published for the first time in digital, a classic spy story from the bestselling thriller writer Derek Lambert.

Each year a nucleus of the wealthiest and most influential members of the Western world meet to discuss the future of the world’s superpowers at a secret conference called Bilderberg.

A glamorous millionaires just sighting loneliness from the foothills of middle age… a French industrialist whose wealth matches his masochism and meanness… a whizz-kid of the seventies conducting a life-long affair with diamonds, these are just three of the Bilderbergers who have grown to confuse position with invulnerability. A mistake which could prove lethal when a crazed assassin is on the loose…

‘Lambert certainly keeps the action moving with surprise plot twists thrown in every now and again to unsettle the reader’ Liverpool Daily Post

The new installment in Stella Rimington’s series of “frighteningly authentic” espionage thrillers (Chicago Tribune) featuring the fiercely intelligent, ambitious MI5 officer Liz Carlyle.

Liz has been transferred to counter-espionage—the hub of MI5 operations during the Cold War, which has been scaled back as anti-terrorism has gained priority. But there’s plenty for her to do: there are more spies operating in London in the twenty-first century than there were during the height of East-West hostilities. Even the Russians still have a large contingent, although now they spy on the international financial community and on the wealthy ex-pat oligarchs who make England their domain.

In her new assignment, Liz quickly uncovers a plot to silence one of these Russians: Nikita Brunovsky, an increasingly vocal opponent of Vladimir Putin. The Foreign Office is adamant about forestalling a crime that could become a full-blown international incident, but there’s not a single clue as to how the assassination will be carried out—and Liz is solely responsible for averting disaster. So she goes undercover, attaching herself to Brunovsky’s retinue: racing against the clock to determine who betrayed him and suddenly facing a wholly unexpected second task—unmasking a Russian operative working undercover alongside her.

Dame Stella has once again distilled her experience as the first woman Director General of MI5 into a spy novel of arresting psychological complexity and unflagging suspense.

Gerald Hanna is rudely jolted out of his humdrum existence as an insurance actuary—with a longstanding librarian fiancee—when a dying man with a big boodle in gems lands in his car. Disposing of the body, Hanna keeps the jewels and manages to get the best of both the cops and the robbers who are on his tail… Progressively tricky and tense.

A dark secret keeps Chicago assistant state's attorney Kristen Mayhew as tightly wound as the springy red curls she works to pin down. Meals at the nearby diner, sleepless nights renovating her empty house and days in court where the bad guy more often than not doesn't face justice make up her life-until she finds the bodies of three criminals she failed to convict in the trunk of her car. Each dead body comes accompanied by a sinister letter, the writer informing "Dearest Kristen" that justice has been done on her behalf. An unusual twist for a suspense novel, to be sure, but because the murderer preys on rapists, gang members and pedophiles, Rose'strademark tentacles of fear never fully extend (as they did in her earlier books, Don't Tell and Have You Seen Her). Instead, this book's greatest strength lies in the romance between Kristen and handsome detective Abe Reagan, who's still reeling from the death of his wife. Abundant side characters, including Abe's entire jovial clan, clutter the plot and diminish the story's tension, especially when minor players suddenly step forward to play major roles. But readers will appreciate Rose's sensitive portrayal of Kristen's hesitancy to trust and Abe's gentle perseverance in uncoiling the vibrant woman within.

First it was a limo driver shot through the neck with a crossbow. Then it was a high-priced escort stabbed through the heart with a bayonet.

Random hits, thrill kills, murderers with a taste for the finer things in life – and death – are making NYPSD Lieutenant Eve Dallas angry. And an angry Eve can be just as an efficient and dangerous predator as the killer.

As time runs out on another innocent victim's life, Eve's investigation will take her into the rarified circle that her husband, Roarke, travels in – and into the perverted heart of madness…

The quiet scandal surrounding her parents' deaths 20 years ago sends Beryl Tavistock on a search for the truth from Paris to Greece. As she enters a world of international espionage, Beryl discovers she needs help and turns to a suave ex-CIA agent. But in a world where trust is a double-edged sword, friends become enemies and enemies become killers.

A stirring page-turner from the bestselling author of the Mitford Series.

Jan Karon's new series, launched with her New York Times bestselling Home to Holly Springs, thrilled legions of Mitford devotees, and also attracted a whole new set of readers. "Lovely," said USA Today. "Rejoice!" said The Washington Post.

In this second novel, Father Tim and Cynthia arrive in the west of Ireland, intent on researching his Kavanagh ancestry from the comfort of a charming fishing lodge. The charm, however, is broken entirely when Cynthia startles a burglar and sprains her already-injured ankle. Then a cherished and valuable painting is stolen from the lodge owners, and Cynthia's pain pales in comparison to the wound at the center of this bitterly estranged Irish family.

In the Company of Others is a moving testament to the desperate struggle to hide the truth at any cost and the powerful need to confess. Of all her winning novels, Jan Karon says this "dark-haired child" is her favorite-a sentiment readers everywhere are certain to share.

Seit Jahrhunderten gehört die Lösung des Rätsels um den Stein der Weisen zu den ältesten Sehnsüchten der Menschen. Denn hier liegt der Schlüssel zum ewigen Leben und zu der geheimnisvollen Formel, die Blei in Gold verwandeln soll. Das uralte Voynich-Manuskript verspricht eine Antwort! Doch nun ist es verschwunden, und Indiana Jones bricht auf, um das unschätzbar wertvolle Dokument wiederzubeschaffen. Er setzt sich auf die Fährte des fanatischen Wissenschaftlers Leonardo Sarducci, der das Manuskript gestohlen hat. Die Spuren führen in die Wüste -und in die älteste Krypta der Welt. Eine tödliche Falle für Indiana Jones?

Autor - Max McCoy, preisgekrönter Journalist und Autor mehrerer Romane, lebt in Pittsburg, Kansas

Come in "Angeli e demoni" e ne "Il codice da Vinci" il protagonista de "Il simbolo perduto" è Robert Langdon, professore di Harvard specializzato in simbologia. Langdon, a Washington per una conferenza, si trova coinvolto in una serie di segreti legati alla massoneria americana dopo che il suo amico Peter Solomon, esponente della massoneria, viene rapito. A questo punto a Langdon non rimane che cominciare ad indagare per salvare il suo amico; in sole 12 ore, aiutato dalla sorella di Solomon, dovrà decifrare il simbolo perduto in un susseguirsi di misteri, colpi di scena, imprevisti e realtà nascoste.

Robert Langdon, professore di simbologia ad Harvard, è in viaggio per Washington. È stato convocato d’urgenza dall’amico Peter Solomon, uomo potentissimo affiliato alla massoneria, nonché filantropo, scienziato e storico, per tenere una conferenza al Campidoglio sulle origini esoteriche della capitale americana. Ad attenderlo c’è però un inquietante fanatico che vuole servirsi di lui per svelare un segreto millenario. Langdon intuisce qual è la posta in gioco quando all’interno della Rotonda del Campidoglio viene ritrovato un agghiacciante messaggio: una mano mozzata col pollice e l’indice rivolti verso l’alto. L’anello istoriato con emblemi massonici all’anulare non lascia ombra di dubbio: è la mano destra di Solomon. Langdon scopre di avere solamente poche ore per ritrovare l’amico. Viene così proiettato in un labirinto di tunnel e oscuri templi, dove si perpetuano antichi riti iniziatici. La sua corsa contro il tempo lo costringe a dar fondo a tutta la propria sapienza per decifrare i simboli che i padri fondatori hanno nascosto tra le architetture della città. Fino al sorprendente finale. Un nuovo capitolo de "Il Codice da Vinci", un thriller dalla trama mozzafiato, che si snoda a ritmo incalzante in una selva di simboli occulti, codici enigmatici e luoghi misteriosi.

Evie Wilson was the victim of the villain in DON'T TELL, an assault which resulted in paralysis on one side of her face. After her injury, Evie retreated into the virtual realm, seeking refuge from the public eye by interacting with online friends. Now, with the help of a surgeon, Evie's face is restored and she is ready to return to the real world. However, she remains connected to the Internet for her graduate thesis on using the virtual world as therapy to improve self-esteem. She has become an online shopkeeper who sells faces and bodies to users interested in building a new avatar on a website called "Shadowland." In her new role, Evie maintains "surveillance" over her test subjects to ensure they don't become too caught up in the intoxicating virtual realm.

Meanwhile, homicide detective Noah Webster has been investigating a string of suspicious suicides that he believes are connected murders. Noah's investigation leads him to Evie when one of her online test subjects is found dead of apparent suicide, but Evie believes otherwise.

Evie is shocked to find herself drawn to someone for the first time in many years and she's reluctant to trust Noah. However, he's the only one who believes her story about the suspicious death of her test subject, and he soon discovers that many of the apparent suicides in his case had avatars in "Shadowland."

As murder victims connected to the website begin to appear more frequently, Noah asks Evie to be his virtual guide in the investigation. However, they don't realize that the killer is closer than they think-and that he holds a special grudge against Evie.

Un uomo incappucciato scarica un sacco nella boscaglia. Dentro il sacco, un cadavere. È solo il primo di una serie di omicidi che funesterà la cittadina di Wrightsburg, in West Virginia. L’autore è un serial killer che si firma copiando i modus operandi di famosi assassini seriali. È possibile che gli omicidi abbiano una relazione con lo strano furto effettuato nella lussuosa residenza di un’aristocratica famiglia locale? Apparentemente no, ma l’istinto di Sean King e Michelle Maxwell dà spazio a entrambe le indagini. E sarà al termine di un.avventura rischiosa che Sean e Michelle arriveranno alla fine della storia. Per vedere quanto l’uomo può essere cattivo e quali cose è pronto a fare perché i suoi segreti rimangano tali.

A best-seller across Europe, Italian author Faletti’s first novel is a top-notch thriller. Monte Carlo, in Monaco, is supposed to be one of the safest places on earth, with a police force more concerned with paparazzi than with homicide, but that all changes when a mystery man calls a popular radio show. The next day two faceless bodies are discovered, along with I kill written in blood. The substantial cast of characters that assembles to find the killer is led by Frank, a former FBI agent; Frank’s best friend, Nicholas, the police commissioner; and the charismatic DJ Jean-Loup Verdier. All the characters are fully fleshed and three-dimensional, which makes the use of multiple viewpoints particularly enjoyable. The dialogue and narration could have been a little tighter, but Faletti manages to pull it off, maintaining a good pace and masterfully building tension through 600 pages, a clear sign of a major new talent. This one will appeal not only to devotees of European crime fiction but also to thriller fans in general.

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The voice on the radio. The writing, red as blood. I kill…A detective and an FBI agent embark upon the most harrowing case of their careers as they attempt to track down an enigmatic killer in this relentlessly suspenseful thriller. The killer announces his heinous acts in advance with desperate phone calls and ties his crimes together with songs that point to his victims; he then mutilates them and removes their faces. Set in Monte Carlo and featuring an international cast of intriguing characters, the hunt for the deranged perpetrator remains gripping and unsettling, possibly even more so, after the killer's identity is revealed and the detectives must close in on their target before he strikes again.

Gennaio, costa del Perù. Il povero pescatore Juan non crede ai suoi occhi: dopo lunghe settimane di magra, si stende davanti a lui un enorme banco di pesci. Ma il terrore cancella ben presto la felicità: i pesci, muovendosi come un unico essere, distruggono la rete, ribaltano la barca e impediscono all'uomo di raggiungere la superficie.

Marzo, Norvegia. A bordo di una nave oceanografica un biologo e una scienziata osservano milioni di "vermi" luminescenti che sembrano aver invaso lo zoccolo occidentale. Da dove vengono? Cosa sono?

Pochi giorni dopo, Canada. Un gruppo di balene attaccano la Barrier Queen e la affondano. Il mondo intero sarà drammaticamente coinvolto in questi avvenimenti in apparenza così lontani tra loro.

When Kay Lansing marries wealthy widower Peter Carrington, she is well aware of the rumours surrounding the mysterious death of Peter's first wife Grace, who was found floating in the family pool ten years ago, pregnant at the time. Kay also discovers that Peter is a chronic sleepwalker who suffers from periodic nightmares. When the police arrive at her doorstep with a warrant for Peter's arrest in connection with another murder – that of a woman Peter had escorted to a high school senior prom twenty-two years ago – Kay begins to fear that she has married a sleepwalking murderer, and she resolves to find out the truth behind the puzzling deaths. But are the two deaths linked? And why does a melody that Kay cannot identify keep playing in her head every time she approaches the family chapel?

Millers Kill reaches the boiling point in this white-hot novel of love and suspense

People die. Marriages fail. In the small Adirondack town of Millers Kill, New York, however, life doesn't stop for heartbreak. A brand-new officer in the police department, a breaking-and-entering, and trouble within his own family keep Police Chief Russ Van Alstyne busy enough to ignore the pain of losing his wife--and the woman he loves.

At St. Alban's Episcopal Church, the Reverend Clare Fergusson is trying to keep her vestry, her bishop, and her National Guard superiors happy--all the while denying her own wounded soul.

When a Mexican farmhand stumbles over a Latino man killed with a single shot to the back of his head, Clare is sucked into the investigation through her involvement in the migrant community. The discovery of two more bodies executed in the same way ignites fears that a serial killer is loose in the close-knit community. While the sorrowful spring turns into a scorching summer, Russ is plagued by media hysteria, conflict within his department, and a series of baffling assaults.

As the violence strikes closer and closer to home, an untried officer is tested, a wary migrant worker is tempted, and two would-be lovers who thought they had lost everything must find a way to trust each other again--before it becomes forever, fatally, too late.

Julia Spencer-Fleming shows you can escape danger--but not desire--in her most suspenseful, passionate novel yet.

In her role as consort of Jean-Claude, the seductive Master Vampire of the City, Anita Blake is faced with a dangerous conflict of interest-and her struggle to control her fierce desires-when she is called in to assist with the search for a vampire serial killer preying on strippers. Reprint.

One of today's solid-gold A-list must-read writers." – Lee Child

A thrilling tale of suspense, vengeance, and murder, featuring Wyoming game warden Joe Pickett. This one will break C. J. Box out to a larger audience.

J. W. Keeley is a man with a score to settle. He blames one man for the death of his brother: Joe Pickett. And now J. W. is going to make him suffer. Spring has finally come to Saddlestring, Wyoming, and game warden Joe Pickett is relieved the long, harsh winter is finally over. However, a cloud of trouble threatens to spoil the milder weather-local ranch owner and matriarch Opal Scarlett has vanished under suspicious circumstances. Two of her sons, Hank and Arlen, are battling for control of their mother's multi-million-dollar empire, and their bitter fight threatens to tear the whole town apart.

Everyone is so caught up in the brothers' battle that they seem to have forgotten that Opal is still missing. Joe is convinced, though, that one of the brothers killed their mother.

Determined to uncover the truth, he is attacked and nearly beaten to death by Hank Scarlett's new right-hand man on the ranch-a recently arrived stranger who looks eerily familiar.

A series of threatening messages and attempts to sabotage Joe's career follow. At first, he thinks the attacks are connected with his investigation of Opal's disappearance, but he soon learns that someone else is after him-someone with a very personal grudge who wants to make Joe pay… and pay dearly. Compelling and suspenseful, In Plain Sight is a crackling novel from one of today's best mystery writers.

County prosecutor Trish Jones has had it with smooth-talking, under-performing suits. And though she's never had a thing for big, brawny guys, one look at Caleb Vancouver's bulges makes her think she might have been missing out. One Harley ride later they're back at her place, and she realizes that she has been missing out… on quite a lot…

Bob Lee Swagger is back! Hunter's signature blend of "cinematic language, action-packed suspense, and multifaceted characters" (The Baltimore Sun) is here in full complement as this true American hero fights to clear the name of a fellow soldier-in-arms and faces off against one of his most ruthless adversaries yet-a sniper whose keen intellect and pinpoint accuracy rivals his own.

A movie crew has come to New Iberia, Louisiana, to film a Civil War epic, and star Elrod Sykes just can't seem to keep his lavender Cadillac on the road. Under threat of a drunk driving charge, he offers Detective Dave Robicheaux information in exchange for leniency: he leads him to the skeletal remains of a man whose murder Robicheaux witnessed in the summer of 1957. When the FBI arrives in the person of agent Rosie Gomez, Robicheaux must form a new partnership that challenges how he views himself and his local community. But it is only when Robicheaux makes the acquaintance of the legendary Confederate cavalry officer General John Bell Hood in the mist of the bayou that he begins to understand that 'war is never over', and that the battle rages on…

Like most bank managers, Dave Calvin had acquired an irresistible charm that he could switch on whenever he felt the necessity. Underneath it, he was cold, calculating, brutal — a perfect murderer. He cooks up a plan to rob his own bank at Pittsville and make it look as if his secretary, Alice Craig and her boyfriend, had made off with the looted money. Alice, who is a spinster, with no parents, no relatives and nobody to care whether she lived or died…. Dave Calvin knew just how he could make her disappear. And to achieve his plan, he enlisted the support of his own landlady, Kit Loring, who was sensuously beautiful and also an ex-alcoholic. However, Dave Calvin  was soon to realise that a woman who is an ex-alcoholic, isn't the most reliable partner for murder…

Carlos Fuentes w tej niedużej, ale fascynującej bogactwem nastrojów i przemyśleń opowieści, mówi, że "wszystko, co ukryte, czeka po prostu na nasze uważne spojrzenie". Pozornie banalny romans, stanowiący główny wątek powieści, eksploduje dramatyzmem, skłaniając czytelnika do zastanowienia się nad zagadką mijającego czasu i odradzającej się w kolejnych wcieleniach miłości.

Zagłębiając się w "podwójny", stworzony przez Fuentesa świat, znajdujemy odpowiedź na pytania, które przed nami stawia. Ale może nie będzie to odpowiedź jednoznaczna, lecz inna dla każdego z nas?

Powieść zaczyna się jakby od środka – głównego bohatera poznajemy jako 93-letniego starca (niegdyś cenionego dyrygenta), wpatrującego się w pewien przedmiot, stanowiący ważny rekwizyt w całej książce. Jest to kryształowa pieczęć (autor opisuje ją dokładnie), będąca czymś w rodzaju amuletu czy symbolu doskonałości (jest okrągła i gładka). Stary dyrygent nie potrafi się bez niej obejść, chociaż z całą pewnością nie służy ona do pieczętowania czegokolwiek. Motyw pieczęci przewija się przez całą książkę. Główny wątek fabularny powieści to historia niespełnionej miłości dyrygenta i utalentowanej śpiewaczki o imieniu Inez. Historię tę poznajemy poprzez retrospekcję. Oto lata II wojny światowej, Anglia, bombardowany Londyn. Dyrygent (wówczas młody, ale już sławny) wywozi piękną Inez do nadmorskiej miejscowości, gdzie jednak miłosna przygoda nie znajdzie spełnienia, natomiast czytelnik dowiaduje się o istnieniu tajemniczej "trzeciej osoby". Jednocześnie z tym wątkiem pojawia się drugi: opowieść o związku dwojga ludzi z prehistorycznej przeszłości – będzie się ona przeplatać z historią dwojga poznanych już bohaterów. Dyrygent i śpiewaczka, po latach sukcesów artystycznych, spotykają się tylko raz, w 19 lat po pamiętnym (i na dobrą sprawę, niezrozumiałym) rozstaniu. Po wspólnym występie – jest to "Potępienie Fausta" Berlioza widzą się już tylko po to, aby się pożegnać i stwierdzić, że nie byli sobie przeznaczeni. Książka Fuentesa zadziwia nieoczekiwanymi chwytami, nagłą zmianą stylistyki i nastrojów. Wielki urok ma też subtelna analiza wątków miłosnych. Ważne miejsce w powieści zajmuje muzyka. W tle wciąż obecny jest motyw ze wspomnianego utworu Berlioza, analizowanego w ciekawy sposób. Na końcowych stronach książki żegnamy się ze starym dyrygentem, który, wiedząc, że niedługo umrze, wraca myślą do Inez i… kryształowej pieczęci.

A serial killer holds New York in his grip. He does not choose his victims. Nor does he watch them die. But then there are too many of them for that. The explosion of a twenty-two storey building, followed by the casual discovery of a letter, lead the police to face up to a dreadful reality: some of New York's buildings were mined at the time of their construction. But which ones? And how many? A young female detective hiding her personal demons behind a tough appearance, and a former press photographer with a past he'd rather forget, and for which he still seeks forgiveness, are the only hope of stopping this psychopath. A man who does not even claim responsibility for his actions. A man who believes himself to be God. Praise for the Giorgio Faletti: "In my neck of the woods, people like Faletti are called larger than life, living legends". (Jeffery Deaver). "Publishing sensation". ("Financial Times"). "I Kill is one of those bestsellers that proceeds at a cracking pace and presses all the right buttons with clinical efficiency. Giorgio Faletti's thriller is set in Monte Carlo, home to so many obnoxious millionaires and their trophy girlfriends that what the city really needs is a serial killer. Enter just such a killer… The writing has no great literary pretentions, but then it does not have to. The plot is the thing". ("Sunday Telegraph). "The best selling first novel by Giorgio Faletti…has been defined as a masterpiece and Faletti himself as the best living Italian writer." (Corriere della Sera).

Sick of hearing about vampires? So is Meena Harper.

But her bosses are making her write about them anyway, even though Meena doesn't believe in them.

Not that Meena isn't familiar with the supernatural. See, Meena Harper knows how you're going to die. (Not that you're going to believe her. No one ever does.)

But not even Meena's precognition can prepare her for what happens when she meets – then makes the mistake of falling in love with – Lucien Antonescu, a modern-day prince with a bit of a dark side. It's a dark side a lot of people, like an ancient society of vampire hunters, would prefer to see him dead for.

The problem is, Lucien's already dead. Maybe that's why he's the first guy Meena's ever met whom she could see herself having a future with. See, while Meena's always been able to see everyone else's future, she's never been able look into her own.

And while Lucien seems like everything Meena has ever dreamed of in a boyfriend, he might turn out to be more like a nightmare.

Now might be a good time for Meena to start learning to predict her own future…

If she even has one.

The phenomenal series set in a future New York City returns as NYPSD Lt. Eve Dallas hunts for the killer of a seemingly ordinary history teacher-and uncovers some extraordinary surprises. Craig Foster's death devastated his young wife, who'd sent him to work that day with a lovingly packed lunch. It shocked his colleagues at the private school, too, and as for the ten-year-old girls who found him in his classroom in a pool of bodily fluids-they may have been traumatized for life.

Eve soon determines that Foster's homemade lunch was tainted with deadly ricin, and that Mr. Foster's colleagues have some startling secrets of their own. It's Eve's job to sort it out- and discover why someone would have done this to a man who seemed so inoffensive, so pleasant… so innocent.

Now Magdalena Percell… there's someone Eve can picture as a murder victim. Possibly at Eve's own hands. The slinky blonde-an old flame of her billionaire husband, Roarke-has arrived in New York, and she's anything but innocent. Roarke seems blind to Magdalena 's manipulation, and he insists that the occasional lunch or business meeting with her is nothing to worry about… and none of Eve's business. Eve's so unnerved by the situation that she finds it hard to focus on her case. Still, she'll have to put aside her feelings, for a while at least-because another man has just turned up dead.

Eve knows all too well that innocence can be a facade. Keeping that in mind may help her solve this case at last. But it may also tear apart her marriage.

To the outside world, Cypress Springs, Louisiana, is a postcard-perfect town where moral, decent citizens lead safe, wholesome lives. But outsiders, it seems, don't fare so well…

When journalist Avery Chauvin returns home to Cypress Springs, Louisiana, after twelve years, it's as if time has stood still. Yet for her everything has changed – her mother died a year ago and now her father is gone. Devastated by her father's suicide and her inability to save him, Avery has taken a leave of absence from her newspaper job to come back and put his affairs in order. But in truth, she has come looking for answers. How could her father, a physician who dedicated himself to preserving life, have taken his own?

As Avery begins the heartbreaking task of cleaning out her parents' home, she discovers a box of fifteen-year-old newspaper articles covering the same event – the brutal murder of a young woman in Cypress Springs. Why, she wonders, did her father keep the clippings?

Then Avery meets a newcomer to Cypress Springs – a woman looking into her brother's sudden disappearance and into whispered rumors of strange happenings in town. Soon the events of the past and present take on a terrifying new meaning for Avery. A woman is found savagely murdered. An outsider passing through town vanishes. Neighbors go missing in the night.

Determined to get to the truth, Avery soon discovers that each layer of deceit she exposes is somehow linked to that long-ago murder – and to her father. Could he have been murdered?

Uncertain where to turn and whom to trust, Avery must face the fact that in this peaceful Southern town a terrible evil lives, protected – until now – by the power of silence.

Erica Spindler weaves a chilling tale of murder, betrayal and uncertain loyalties as she explores the razor edge between good and evil in a novel that will keep you turning the pages long into the night.

From Publishers Weekly

In this top-notch fourth novel in Burke's series featuring ex-Texas Ranger attorney Billy Bob Holland, Billy Bob has moved his family and practice to the pastoral city of Missoula, Mont., the setting of his last adventure (Bitterroot, 2001), only to discover that the psychopathic ex-biker/rodeo clown, Wyatt Dixon (who buried Billy Bob's private investigator wife, Temple, alive), is out of prison on a technicality and claiming to be a born-again Christian. Billy Bob befriends alcoholic Desert Storm hero Johnny American Horse, a sometime breeder of horses and eco-activist who-when not in the drunk tank-is carrying on a passionate affair with Amber Finley, the daughter of Romulus Finley, a vindictive and bigoted powerful U.S. senator. When Johnny is suspected of murdering the hit man who invaded his home as well as masterminding the burglary of Global Research (a high-tech agricultural lab), making off with its computer files, the action picks up quickly. Noted for quirky characters and intricate plots, Burke introduces demon-driven sheriff's deputy Darrel McComb-an ex-war hero and former mercenary pilot who flew cocaine for the contras-who has an erotic fixation on Amber. Factor in private security agency chief Greta Lundstrum, FBI agent Seth Masterson and Karsten Mabus, CEO of the company that owns Global Research, and the mayhem builds to a gripping, spine-tingling finale.

A new case forces PI Tess Monaghan to confront her own past and a man she once loved, when she receives a newspaper photograph of an old boyfriend with part of the headline attached that reads: Big Trouble.

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Who hasn't dreamed of being an evil overlord?

Today's finest fantasy authors have delivered fourteen tales that run the gamut from humorous to serious, fantasy to science fiction. Certain to appeal to role-playing gamers, fantasy lovers, and megalomaniacs who want to rule the world.

"A page-turner of the highest calibre. It has enough twists and turns to keep you guessing until the end." – Michael Connelly

"Breathtakingly real and utterly compelling… some of the most literate and stylish writing you'll find anywhere today."- Jeffery Deaver

"One hell of a read, gut-wrenching and exciting." – Ken Bruen

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In Duluth, Minnesota, a young woman, Rachel Stoner, has gone missing. Cop Jonathan Stride, a sharply focused detective despite the stresses of his troubled personal life, is quick to suspect her stepfather of murder. And yet, he has his doubts. Even for a man accustomed to power, the accused seems remarkably convinced he'll go free. Could he be telling the truth? While Stride endeavours to make sense of the conflicting pieces of evidence, a young woman's body lies half-buried deep in the woods. But if it's not the body of Rachel, where is the missing girl? Is she dead, or is the terrible, unexpected fate that awaits Graeme Stoner one he does not deserve? In this dark, involving mystery, nothing is as it seems, and readers will be gripped to the very last page as the shocking truth gradually emerges.

La antropóloga forense Temperance Brennan es una de las primeras personas en acudir al monte donde acaba de estrellarse un pequeño avión de pasajeros. Casi todos ellos eran estudiantes que formaban parte de un equipo de béisbol, y entre las víctimas también podría encontrarse Katy, la hija de Tempe.

Asustada la doctora decide investigar los motivos de la tragedia y, a partir de ese momento, se verá envuelta en una conspiración dirigida a entorpecer por todos los medios su trabajo y acabar con su vida.

After being out of print for many years, this classic Mafia thriller returns in a new package. When Stacy Wyatt is broken out of prison and brought to Sicily, his only choice is to enter the mob. He is assigned to rescue a wealthy businessman’s daughter from a bandit kidnapper. It’s only when he's in too deep that he realizes the tables have turned, the job was a setup, and the only person left to trust is himself.

El comisario Bernal, de la Policía Judicial madrileña, y su beata esposa Eugenia están pasando la Semana Santa en Cádiz, donde ella medita sobre el divorcio que le ha solicitado su marido al tiempo que hace ejercicios espirituales en un convento. Aunque su visita a Cádiz obedece a motivos personales, Bernal se ve obligado a intervenir en la investigación policial a que da lugar el hallazgo del cadáver de un submarinista en unas redes de pesca. Pero si el submarinista no se ha ahogado -cosa que demuestra la autopsia-, ¿cómo se produjo su muerte? ¿Quién lo mató? ¿Y qué estaba haciendo en aquella estratégica zona de la bahía compartida por españoles y norteamericanos…? Las originales tramas de David Serafín, sus vividas descripciones de la idiosincrasia española y su meticulosa exposición de los métodos policiales y forenses le han valido el aplauso unánime de crítica y público, ejemplificado en la popularidad del protagonista de la serie: el comisario Bernal.

Public images clash with private lives. Ruthless ambition collides with forbidden desires at the very summit of a powerful nation's government. A crisis of terrifying proportions is set to explode between the superpowers.

An abandoned Southwark warehouse burns next door to a women’s shelter for victims of spousal abuse. Within it lies the charred corpse of a female body burned beyond all recognition. At the same time, workers at Guy’s Hospital anxiously discuss the disappearance of a hospital administrator – a beautiful, emotionally fragile young woman who’s vanished without a trace.

And in an old, dark rambling London house, nine-year-old Harriet’s awful fears won’t be silenced – as she worries about her feuding parents, her schoolwork… and the strange woman who is her only companion in this scary, unfamiliar place.

Gemma James and Duncan Kincaid – lovers and former partners – have their own pressing concerns. But they must put aside private matters to investigate these disturbing cases. Yet neither Gemma nor Duncan realize how closely the cases are connected – or how important their resolutions will be for an abducted young child who is frightened, alone… and in serious peril.

This anthology was edited by Michael Connelly. His essay is called "Once Upon a Midnight Dreary."

A collection of stories by thriller master Edgar Allan Poe with essays by beloved and bestselling writers, to commemorate the 200th anniversary of Poe's birth. Authors involved include Michael Connelly, Jeffery Deaver, Nelson DeMille, Tess Gerritsen, Sue Grafton, Stephen King, Lisa Scottoline, Laura Lippman, and twelve others.

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Few have crafted stories as haunting as those by Edgar Allan Poe. Collected here to commemorate the 200th anniversary of Poe's birth are sixteen of his best tales accompanied by twenty essays from beloved authors, including T. Jefferson Parker, Lawrence Block, Sara Paretsky, and Joseph Wambaugh, among others, on how Poe has changed their life and work.

Michael Connelly recounts the inspiration he drew from Poe's poetry while researching one of his books. Stephen King reflects on Poe's insight into humanity's dark side in "The Genius of 'The Tell-Tale Heart.'" Jan Burke recalls her childhood terror during late-night reading sessions. Tess Gerritsen, Nelson DeMille, and others remember the classic B-movie adaptations of Poe's tales. And in "The Thief," Laurie R. King complains about how Poe stole all the good ideas… or maybe he just thought of them first.

Powerful and timeless, In the Shadow of the Master is a celebration of one of the greatest literary minds of all time.

The Mystery Writers of America, founded in 1945, is the foremost organization for mystery writers and other professionals dedicated to the field of crime writing.

From the acclaimed, bestselling author of Stardust, The Good German, and Los Alamos – a gripping tale of an American undercover agent in 1945 Istanbul who descends into the murky cat-and-mouse world of compromise and betrayal that will come to define the entire post-war era.

A neutral capital straddling Europe and Asia, Istanbul has spent the war as a magnet for refugees and spies. Even American businessman Leon Bauer has been drawn into this shadow world, doing undercover odd jobs and courier runs for the Allied war effort. Now as the espionage community begins to pack up and an apprehensive city prepares for the grim realities of post-war life, he is given one more assignment, a routine job that goes fatally wrong, plunging him into a tangle of intrigue and moral confusion.

Played out against the bazaars and mosques and faded mansions of this knowing, ancient Ottoman city, Leon's attempt to save one life leads to a desperate manhunt and a maze of shifting loyalties that threatens his own. How do you do the right thing when there are only bad choices to make? Istanbul Passage is the story of a man swept up in the aftermath of war, an unexpected love affair, and a city as deceptive as the calm surface waters of the Bosphorus that divides it.

Rich with atmosphere and period detail, Joseph Kanon's latest novel flawlessly blends fact and fiction into a haunting thriller about the dawn of the Cold War, once again proving why Kanon has been hailed as the 'heir apparent to Graham Greene' (The Boston Globe).

Sarah Pribek, una detective de Mineápolis especializada en desapariciones, protege la identidad de una amiga suya, Genevieve. Ambas persiguieron, encontraron y mataron a Royce Stewart, violador y asesino de la hija de Genevieve, en una trama en la que se vio involucrado el marido de Sarah, que se encuentra en la carcel. Nadie del departamento de policía entiende el extraño proceder de la detective, que está protegiendo a una criminal, y un inspector llega a la ciudad para investigarla… Una historia donde las cosas no tienen las motivaciones correctas, o al menos las que se presume que deberian ser.

"Le parole della O'Connell sono lucide e affilate come un bisturi." (Carlo Lucarelli)

A volte la violenza esplode quando e dove meno te l'aspetti. Come a Dayborn, graziosa cittadina sprofondata nella calda, languida atmosfera della Louisiana. E' lа che, diciassette anni fa, la dottoressa Cass Shelley и morta sotto i colpi di una folla inferocita, lapidata senza pietа per una colpa immaginaria. Da allora, tutti a Dayborn hanno fatto del loro meglio per dimenticare. Tutti tranne Tom Jessop, lo sceriffo che da quasi vent'anni si interroga sul destino della piccola Kathy Shelley, scomparsa subito dopo l'omicidio della madre. Quella bambina oggi и una donna, a tutti nota con il nome di Kathy Mallory, detective della Crimini Speciali di New York. Messo da parte il distintivo e la sua nuova vita, Kathy torna a Dayborn decisa a ottenere non semplice giustizia, ma 'vendetta'. Per stanare gli assassini di sua madre deve affrontare un'indagine intricata e rischiosa, ai margini della legalitа. Solo quando la veritа verrа a galla in tutto il suo orrore, Cass Shelley potrа riposare in pace nella tomba vegliata dall'angelo di pietra.

"Una O'Connell in splendida forma per un thriller da non perdere." (Booklist)

"Ancora una volta Carol O'Connell avvince il lettore fino all'ultima pagina." (Publishers Weekly)

"Brava da morire." (Richard North Patterson)

This time around, Hood is running the California-Mexico border with the ATF, searching for the iron river – the massive and illegal flow of handguns and automatic weapons that fuels the bloody cartel wars south of the border. Gunrunners by nature aren't exactly ethical, but the lengths they'll go to, and the innocent lives they'll risk, are shocking even to Hood. Most shocking of all is the close personal connection Hood finds wrapped up in events south of the border – a connection that shakes him to his core.

Police Lieutenant Eve Dallas encounters one of her most difficult cases in this latest offering from J. D. Robb, alter ego of bestselling author Nora Roberts. With the very first victim, Eve realizes that the killer stalking the streets of New York City isn't a run-of-the-mill serial murderer. The copycat executions are imitating the methods and victim choices of an ominous list of notorious serial killers, beginning with Jack the Ripper. And when the killer leaves a distinctive note at the crime scene, it's clear that he's targeting Eve personally-a fact that worries Roarke, Eve's shrewd husband.

Assisted by her aide, Peabody, Eve compiles a list of suspects that includes several high-profile possibilities. Their very prominence, however, complicates the investigation, for they have the power and influence to make the search difficult. All of the suspects are reluctant to cooperate but one of them is playing with Eve like a cat with a mouse by tempting her with crime scene notes and challenging her to find him. Can Eve stop him before he slaughters again? Or will his next victim be Eve herself?

Author Robb, a.k.a. Roberts, doesn't miss a beat in this police procedural thriller. The futuristic setting is rich with imaginative details; the cast of supporting characters offers an intriguing variety, while Eve and Roarke's relationship is layered with emotional intimacy and spiced with sex. Whether you're a faithful follower or new to the series, you won't be disappointed in the edge-of-the-seat suspense in Imitation In Death. Don't miss this one.

After Paige Winterbourne is ousted as leader of the American Coven of Witches, all she wants to do is hide under her duvet for a few months. Let the supernatural world manage without her, see if she cares… But fate, of course, has other plans. A murderer is on the loose – someone with superhuman skills. When Paige learns that the killer is targeting children, she realises she has to get involved in the covert investigation. And so Paige – desperate to protect those she loves – is thrown into a world of arrogant Cabal leaders, drunken necromancers, sulky druid gods and pretentious leather-clad vampires. Luckily, she has a female werewolf and a certain renegade sorcerer on her side…

The internationally bestselling author shows off her superb talent with this brilliantly conceived, skillfully executed tale of suspense.

In Karin Slaughter's exciting new thriller, an officer is shot point-blank in the Grant County police station and police chief Jeffrey Tolliver is wounded, setting off a terrifying hostage situation with medical examiner Sara Linton at the center. Working outside the station, Lena Adams, newly reinstated to the force, and Frank Wallace, Jeffrey's second in command, must try to piece together who the shooter is and how to rescue their friends before Jeffrey dies. For the sins of the past have caught up with Sara and Jeffrey – with a vengeance…

Deftly interweaving present and past, Slaughter – dubbed "the new face of crime" by Book magazine – offers another brilliant knife-edge tale of suspense that cements her place among the most outstanding practitioners of crime fiction today.

Berlin 1934. The Nazis have been in power for just eighteen months but already Germany has seen some unpleasant changes. As the city prepares to host the 1936 Olympics, Jews are being expelled from all German sporting organisations – a blatant example of discrimination. Forced to resign as a homicide detective with Berlin 's Criminal Police, Bernie is now house detective at the famous Adlon Hotel. The discovery of two bodies – one a businessman and the other a Jewish boxer – involves Bernie in the lives of two hotel guests. One is a beautiful left-wing journalist intent on persuading America to boycott the Berlin Olympiad; the other is a German-Jewish gangster who plans to use the Olympics to enrich himself and the Chicago mob. As events unfold, Bernie uncovers a vast labour and construction racket designed to take advantage of the huge sums the Nazis are prepared to spend to showcase the new Germany to the world. It is a plot that finds its conclusion twenty years later in pre-revolution Cuba, the country to which Bernie flees from Argentina at the end of A Quiet Flame.

Herido en acto de servicio, John Corey, detective de la brigada de homicidios de la policía de Nueva York, se recupera en un pueblecito de Long Island habitado por agricultores, pescadores y, por lo menos, un asesino. Tom y Judy Gordon, una joven y atractiva pareja de biólogos conocidos de Corey, han sido hallados en su jardín con sendas balas en la cabeza. Los primeros indicios apuntan a un robo frustrado, pero el rumor de guerra bacteriológica que salpica al centro de investigación de patologías animales de Long Island hace que circule el rumor de que los Gordon se habían apoderado de una sustancia muy peligrosa. El asesinato del matrimonio se convierte en un crimen de repercusiones mundiales y Corey acaba tomando cartas en el asunto. Sus investigaciones nos conducen por tradiciones, leyendas y secretos ancestrales del norte de Long Island, a la vez que el astuto detective se ve envuelto en una trama mucho más compleja de lo que esperaba. Isla Misterio, con un ritmo trepidante y salpicada de ingeniosas pinceladas cómicas, constituye sin duda la novela más lograda de Nelson DeMille.

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When he was twelve years old, Adam Ryan went playing in the woods one sunny day with his two best friends. He never saw them again. Their bodies were never found, and Adam himself was discovered with his back pressed against an oak tree and his shoes filled with blood. He had no memory of what had happened. Twenty years later Adam – now using his middle name of Rob – is a detective with the Dublin police force. His colleagues don't know about his past. He works as a team with Cassie Maddox, a smart, tough cookie; they are best friends as well as partners. When the body of a young girl is found at the site of an archaeological dig, Rob and Cassie get the case. And when they reach the crime scene, Rob realises it is the exact site of his childhood trauma. They also find a hairclip that he recognises as having belonged to his friend. Could there be a connection between that old, unsolved crime and this? Knowing that he would be thrown off the case if his past were revealed, Rob takes a fateful decision to keep quiet. Rob and Cassie are investigating the murder of Katy Devlin, but they both hope that they might also solve the twenty-year-old mystery of the woods.

The author of When Alex Was Bad and The Firefighters of Station Five series provides another titillating two-pronged mission: seduce…and eliminate.

Jude St. Laurent is a former assassin for SHADO, a covert homeland security agency. After a mysterious accident, he's lost all memory of his former life, and embraces his new identity as a hedonistic artist. But when he's haunted by visions of the past, he turns to his new personal assistant for help-and she knows just how to make him forget.

Jude doesn't know that Lily Vale is a secret agent who uses sex to manipulate her targets-and always gets her man. But her mission takes a turn when Lily realizes that there's more to this case, and Jude, than meets the eye. If she's going to save them both, she'll have to find out who's pulling the strings…

Ein Kernforscher wird in seinem Schweizer Labor ermordet aufgefunden. Auf seiner Brust finden sich merkwürdige Symbole eingraviert, Symbole, die nur der Harvardprofessor Robert Langdon zu entziffern vermag. Was er dabei entdeckt, erschreckt ihn zutiefst: Die Symbole gehören zu der legendären Geheimgesellschaft der "Illuminati". Diese Gemeinschaft scheint wieder zum Leben erweckt zu sein, und sie verfolgt einen finsteren Plan, denn aus dem Labor des ermordeten Kernforschers wurde Antimaterie entwendet.

A tantalizing tale of erotic suspense in which a mask slips-and everything is revealed… Blaze Kelly, one of the Secret Homeland Defense Organization's top spies, is a powerful D/S master, and all raw male. Yet underneath his mask hides a wounded soul that aches for love. Emma Foster wears disguises too as part of her job for SHADO. But she's not excited about her next mission-with the man who broke her heart. Together they must infiltrate a group that plans to transfer a weapon of mass destruction into enemy hands-a mission that involves them in an illicit sexual game. As they are forced to explore their most dangerous desires, they face a challenge that could break even the steeliest of spies…

Desire takes on dangerous forms in the conclusion to the sexy SHADO series.

As leader of the covert homeland security agency SHADO, Michael Ross wants revenge on ex-agent Robert Dietz. Only two people can help him capture this psychopath: Sexy tech expert Katrina Brandt and Michael's new right-hand man, Bastian Chevalier. But as the three team up, they find themselves consumed by an illicit desire for one another. Will his two lovers be able to save Michael from falling prey to his deadly lust for vengeance?

From Publishers Weekly

The year is 2056. mood-altering drugs are legal, prostitution is licensed, virtual-reality games have replaced TV sets for entertainment and New York supercop Eve Dallas continues her sleuthing in Robb's fourth installment in the Death series (Naked in Death, Glory in Death, etc.). This time around, Eve has married her soul mate, Roarke, and is caught up in the puzzling suicide of a technician who's been working on Roarke's unfinished space resort. The young tech, Eve learns, had cheerfully hanged himself after a VR trip. Back on Earth, autopsies from two similar suicides reveal a pin-sized burn on the brains of the victims. All clues point to a deadly subliminal message in a VR toy?one that Roarke produces. This is sexy, gritty, richly imagined suspense. The fact that it is written by Nora Roberts under the pseudonym J.D. Robb is a tribute to her versatility.

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Those who prefer thrillers packed with psychological complexity, truly demented characters and nonstop, unexpected plot twists will enjoy this terrifying treat from Prescott (Next Victim, etc.). Brilliant psychiatrist Robin Cameron seems on the verge of success with an experimental program that uses a magnetic helmet to trigger, then modify, old angers that cause criminal behavior. Atypical serial killer Justin Gray initially seems a promising subject for rehab since his murders of high school girls involved mixed motivation-she didn't torture them or sexually molest them, and he has to drink to deal with death. Indeed, Gray seems almost cuddly compared to traumatized LAPD Sergeant Alan Brand, who unwittingly admits to a cold-blooded killing while under Robin's care. When Gray escapes and Robin's teenaged daughter is kidnapped, Robin doesn't know who to accuse. The possibly rehabbed killer? The supposed good cop Alan? Or is there a bigger and more sinister conspiracy afoot? The suspense doesn't let up until the last page, and even then, readers will continue to speculate, as Robin does, whether a killer's yearning for blood is learned or innate. Without a doubt, this dark, compulsive read messes with your mind and makes you love it.

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Having ditched her Orchid Beach, Fla., police chief post, returning supersleuth Holly Barker opts for a CIA career in Woods's by-the-numbers thriller, the fourth in the Barker series (Blood Orchid). Barely through basic training at a highly regimented CIA "training farm," Barker's class is suddenly enlisted to track down calculating killer (and opera buff) Teddy Fay (first seen in Woods's Capital Crimes). An ex-CIA agent himself, Fay uses insider information to continue assassinating international political figures who also happen to be enemies of the U.S. Barker stakes out the Metropolitan Opera House, and narrowly misses Teddy in disguise in several contrived set pieces. The narrative accelerates from a somewhat sluggish first half when CIA operatives' solid deliberation moves Barker ever closer to nabbing the elusive Fay-who, by the way, lives mere blocks away from her. But Fay dupes the CIA again, with the help of a Santa Claus costume, and assassinates a Saudi prince before vanishing. Woods's latest lacks the urgent plotting and bracing thrills needed to make it truly memorable, and though Barker is a tough, formidable protagonist, the question remains why she, after absconding with over $5.5 million in untraceable drug money, bothers to clock in at all. Only Barker's dog, Daisy the Doberman, knows for sure.

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California's formidable p.i. Kinsey Millhone (``A'' Is for Alibi, etc.), fired from her comfortable berth with Fidelity Insurance, now rents office space from busy Santa Teresa lawyer Lonnie Kingman. His usual outside investigator Morley Shine has died of a heart attack, and he hires Kinsey to take over the case that Morley was working on. It involves the upcoming trial of David Barney, acquitted of the six-year-old murder of his wife, Isabelle, but now being sued for wrongful death in civil court by Isabelle's first husband, Ken Voigt. Voigt, represented by Lonnie Kingman, is sure that Barney killed Isabelle and wants to keep her considerable fortune out of his hands. Lonnie thinks he has a strong case, buoyed by damning new evidence from drifter Curtis McIntyre. But what Kinsey finds as she begins to probe is a surprising number of people with reasons to hate Isabelle-among them Voigt's second wife, Francesca, and Isabelle's business mentor Peter Weidmann and his overprotective wife, Yolanda. She also uncovers curious gaps in Morley's files and begins to question his ``heart attack,'' as Lonnie's seemingly solid case collapses bit by bit, with her own life on the line in the gritty finale. A sober, resolute Kinsey, romanceless at the moment, and a clever, meaty puzzle-for which the publisher plans a 300,000 first printing. Rack up another winner for Grafton.

In early spring of 2059, Lieutenant Eve Dallas is called off planet to face a grueling ordeal – giving a seminar at the largest police conference of the year, to be held in a swanky resort. A resort which just happens to be owned by her husband, Roarke, of course.

Even though Eve can't quite see it that way, it's supposed to be at least partly a vacation. But work intrudes in the form of a bloody homicide, and Eve is off and running. The case is complicated by Eve's personal history with the victim – and by the killer's history with Roarke. As danger closes in and the body count rises, Eve must find a way to stop the cycle of violence and revenge, and shove the past back where it belongs.

A South American crime lord has brought New York the worst lawlessness and violence the city has ever seen. Police shot in the street. Judges murdered in the courtroom. Mayhem is unleashed-and the mayor demands that Detective Michael Bennett find a way to stop it.

Bennett takes his ten kids and their beautiful nanny, Mary Catherine, out of the chaos on a much-needed vacation to upstate New York. But instead of escaping the violence, it follows them and they find themselves in the middle of another nightmare that threatens the entire family. The danger isn't only coming from the crime lord's killers-FBI Agent Emily Parker is back, and Bennett's attraction to her endangers his relationship with Mary Catherine. A no-holds-barred, pedal-to-the-floor, action-packed novel, MICHAEL BENNETT'S GOLD is James Patterson at his most thrilling best.

Eliza Benedict cherishes her peaceful, ordinary suburban life. But her tranquility is shattered when she receives a letter from the last person she ever expects to hear from: Walter Bowman. There was your photo, in a magazine. I'd know you anywhere.

In the summer of 1985, when she was fifteen, Eliza was kidnapped by Walter. He had killed at least one girl and Eliza always suspected he had other victims as well. Now on death row for the rape and murder of his final victim, Walter seems to be making a heartfelt act of contrition. Having wondered why Walter had let her live, she cautiously makes contact with him.

Yet as Walter presses her for more and deeper contact, it becomes clear that he is after something greater than forgiveness. He wants Eliza to remember what really happened that long-ago summer. He wants her to save his life. And Eliza, who has worked hard for her comfortable life, will do anything to protect it – even if it means finally facing the terrible truth she's kept buried inside.

The New York Times-bestselling author delivers another extraordinary Walt Fleming thriller.

Sun Valley sheriff Walt Fleming's budding relationship with photographer Fiona Kenshaw hits a rough patch after Fiona is involved in a heroic river rescue and she attempts to duck the press. Despite her job and her laudable actions, she begs Walt to keep her photo out of the paper, avoiding him when he can't.

Then Walt gets a phone call that changes everything: Lou Boldt, a police sergeant out of Seattle, calls to report that a recent murder may have a Sun Valley connection. After a badly beaten body is discovered just off a local highway, Walt knows there is a link-but can he pull the pieces together in time?

A curious little man attempts to hire PI Tess Monaghan to unmask the Visitor (also known as the Poe Toaster), who has been visiting the Baltimore grave of Edgar Allan Poe every year on 19 January for the past fifty years, leaving three red roses and a half-empty bottle of cognac. The man is committing no crime, and Tess refuses the assignment, but she worries that a less scrupulous private detective may take it on. So she goes to the 19 January vigil as an observer. In the freezing darkness she watches as two cloaked figures approach the grave, appear to embrace and then part. As they walk off in different directions, there's a gunshot and one is killed. Tess quickly learns that the dead man is not the regular Visitor. So who is he? And why was he there? When it turns out that Tess's would-be client had given her a fake name, she knows she must try to find him. And when an old friend from her past surfaces, claiming that the shooting was a homophobic hate crime, things only get more complicated…

An action packed, razor sharp thriller featuring LA private eye Elvis Cole. Meet Elvis Cole. Vietnam Veteran, private eye who carries a.38 and is determined never to grow up. 15 year old Teri Hewitt has been left holding the babies now that her dad, Clark has disappeared without trace. She wants Cole to find him. The search reveals a chronically unemployed drug addict caught up in counterfeiting scams and mixed up with the Russian mafia and Vietnamese Gunmen. As the action heads towards a gunfight in Disneyland and Cole dodges his almost girlfriend's husband, Indigo Slam shapes up into the most entertaining and exciting American crime novel for years.

The Dolphin, pride of America's nuclear fleet, is the only submarine capable of attempting the rescue of a British meteorological team trapped on the polar ice cap. The officers of the Dolphin know well the hazards of such an assignment. What they do not know is that the rescue attempt is really a cover-up for one of the most desperate espionage missions of the Cold War — and that the Dolphin is heading straight for sub-zero disaster, facing hidding sabotage, murder . . . and a deadly, invisible enemy . . .

Non c’è morbosità apparente dietro le azioni del serial killer che tiene in scacco la città di New York. Non sceglie le vittime seguendo complicati percorsi mentali. Non le guarda negli occhi a una a una mentre muoiono, anche perché non avrebbe abbastanza occhi per farlo. Una giovane detective che nasconde i propri drammi personali dietro a una solida immagine e un fotoreporter con un passato discutibile da farsi perdonare sono l’unica speranza di poter fermare uno psicopatico che nemmeno rivendica le proprie azioni. Un uomo che sta compiendo una vendetta terribile per un dolore che affonda le radici in una delle più grandi tragedie americane. Un uomo che dice di essere dio.

Collaboratore della scientifica di Miami, oltre che uomo affascinante e spiritoso, Dexter sente continuamente l’istinto irrefrenabile a uccidere che sfoga soltanto su chi, a suo parere, se lo merita: assassini, pedofili, stupratori. Finora è giunto al quarantesimo omicidio senza destare alcun sospetto, però adesso un collega sta iniziando a fiutare qualcosa. Per non farsi smascherare, Dexter decide di recitare per un po’ la parte del bravo poliziotto e del fidanzato perfetto, dedicando molto tempo alla nuova fiamma e ai due bambini di lei. Per quanto tempo riuscirà a tenere a freno il suo alter ego? Mentre cerca di depistare il collega, viene coinvolto dalla sorellastra Debbie, agente della Omicidi, nel caso di un sadico serial killer che uccide secondo rituali affini ai suoi, mutilando con precisione chirurgica le proprie vittime, lasciandone alcune vive e spaventosamente traumatizzate. L’appetito di Dexter viene stuzzicato, ma deve essere tenuto sotto controllo finché c’è in giro la sua nemesi, il tenace Doakes, che però all’improvviso scompare. È ora di mettersi sulle tracce di quel misterioso chirurgo e di far agire il Passeggero, a meno che non sia la preda ora a braccare il cacciatore…

Alex Cross's niece is found brutally murdered. Overcome with grief, Alex vows to take down her killer before he strikes again. But shortly after he begins the investigation, Alex discovers that his niece had gotten mixed up with some very important, very dangerous people. And she's not the only one who has disappeared.

The hunt for the murderer leads Alex and his girlfriend, Detective Brianna Stone, to Washington 's most infamous club-a place where every fantasy is possible, if you have the credentials to get in. The killer could be one of their patrons, one of Washington 's elite who will do anything to keep their secrets buried.

With astonishing plot twists and electrifying revelations that will keep readers on the edge of their seat, I, ALEX CROSS is James Patterson's most suspenseful Alex Cross novel yet.

Una bala a través de la mirilla de la puerta acabó con la vida de Isabelle. En el juicio por el asesinato, el acusado David Berney, esposo de la victima, fue absuelto por falta de pruebas. Seis años despúes, uno de los ex maridos de Isabelle decide interponer una demanda por lo civil contra Barney.

El investigador que llevaba el caso ha fallecido recientemente y Kinsey Millhone lo sustituye en el que es su primer trabajo para el bufete de abogados Kingman e Ives. Uno de los principales escollos que Kinsey deberá afrontar es la caótica acumulación de datos. Algunos de sus archivos están vacios, otros contienen información relativa a entrevistas que al parecer nunca mantuvo, y toda la acusación se basa en las declaraciones de un ex convicto cuya credibilidad es más que cuestionable.

Resuelta a recomponer esta embrollada historia, Kinsey se pierde en un mar de dudas e incongruencias. Hay tantos cabos sueltos, tantas preguntas sin respuesta que ni siquiera la probada pericia de la detective parece suficiente para desvelas el venenoso secreto del asesino.

l destino sembra sorridere a LuAnn, giovane disoccupata: il misterioso signor Jackson le offre infatti il biglietto vincente di una lotteria che vale milioni di dollari. Ma prima di riuscire a godere della sua grande occasione, la ragazza trova a casa il cadavere del suo uomo in un lago di sangue e si scopre braccata dalla polizia, preda di una trappola mortale.

Un intrigo micidiale, costruito come un congegno a orologeria.

From Publishers Weekly

Though Woods's (Heat) latest caper provides all the credibility of a soap opera, the novel also offers some of the guilty pleasures attendant to that TV format. When wine merchant Sandy Kinsolving meets art dealer Peter Martindale on a flight from London to NYC (the novel's primary locations), they are inspired by watching Alfred Hitchcock's Strangers on a Train to hatch their own version of that classic plot-in which two strangers each agree to commit murder for the other. It seems that both men have "troublesome" wives, so why doesn't Sandy kill Peter's spouse and Peter return the favor? After one lady is duly offed, however, events careen out of control. In fact, so many subsequent episodes occur (many of them preposterous and too tidily handled) that the murder pact gets lost. As often happens in the world of soaps, a glossy veneer lends an air of sophistication-a corner suite at London's Connaught Hotel, a cashier's check for $28 million-and, also, of unreality. (Even the dialogue begins to smack of Noel Coward.) Enjoyable for a time, the tony tinsel is overtaken by a blandness that ultimately undercuts the novel's would-be dramatic and psychological aspects. BOMC, QPB alternates; Harper Audio.

The new novel by Maxim Jakubowski, the “King of the Erotic Thriller” (The Times)

A young Italian woman flees her home in Rome and gets involved with the wrong man in Paris.

Cornelia, the fearless stripper and killer for hire, who proved such a hit in previous novels, is back and on another mission to kill.

As the two women’s paths intersect, an English crime writer down on his luck is mistaken for a private eye and goes on a quest for a missing person.

From New York to Paris, and then on a thrilling journey through Barcelona, Tangiers, Venice and then finally to a small medieval town outside Rome, the waltz with darkness of the three characters in search of love, lust and redemption becomes ever more poignant and mysterious.

Sexy, sad, breathless, a memorable tale of lost souls caught in a spider’s web of their own making.

The writing is a joy, dancing nimbly between the erotic and the thriller. There will be many books this year, screaming for your attention, few will satisfy you on every level like this amazing book.

— Ken Bruen

He lives in solitude beneath the city, an exile from society, which will destroy him if he is ever seen.

She dwells in seclusion, a fugitive from enemies who will do her harm if she is ever found.

But the bond between them runs deeper than the tragedies that have scarred their lives. Something more than chance — and nothing less than destiny — has brought them together in a world whose hour of reckoning is fast approaching.

In Innocence, #1 New York Times bestselling author Dean Koontz blends mystery, suspense, and acute insight into the human soul in a masterfully told tale that will resonate with readers forever.

Eleven-year-old Tilly Martin is dragged from her suburban bedroom. Her mother, Cora, pleads for mercy but the kidnappers are clear: if they don't get their $5 million back in five days, Tilly dies. If anyone contacts police, Tilly dies.

Journalist Jack Gannon's estranged sister, Cora, disappeared without a trace decades ago. Now she is frantically reaching out to him for help. Cora tells him about the shameful mistakes she's made – but she guards the one secret that may be keeping her daughter alive.

A twenty-year-old assassin, haunted by the faces of the people he's executed, seeks absolution as he sets out to commit his last murders as a hired killer.

In the U.S. and Mexico, police and the press go flat out on Tilly's case. But as Gannon digs deeper into his anguished sister's past, the hours tick down on his niece's life and he faces losing a fragment of his rediscovered family forever.

A nine year old boy is found raped and murdered at the bottom of a well near a beach resort in southern Italy. A Senegalese itinerant peddler is accused in what looks like a hopeless case taken on by Guido Guerrieri, counsel for the defence. Faced with small-town racism fuelled by recent immigration from Africa, Guido attempts to exploit the esoteric workings of the Italian courts. More than a perfectly paced legal thriller, this is a relentless suspense novel that goes way beyond the genre.

Lieutenant Jonathan Stride has never forgotten the case that made him decide to join the police force. Back in the 1970s, Laura – sister of Stride's girlfriend – was murdered. The obvious suspect was a vagrant, who slipped through the hands of the police, including Stride's detective hero Roy. Now, though, Stride's looking at the case in a new light. Tish Verdure, an old friend of Laura's, has come home, and she's certain that the killer was a local boy, now an attorney with connections at the highest level. Stride's soon convinced that there was a deliberate decision to direct the investigation towards a simple solution and away from Tish's suggested perpetrator, but he's also sure that Tish is hiding a secret about the past. A secret that could have shattering consequences – including a second murder…

Das Grauen kehrt nach Derry, Maine, zurück. Acht Jahre nach den in "Es" geschilderten Ereignissen, geschehen dort wieder seltsame Dinge. Ralph Roberts leidet zunehmend an Schlaflosigkeit und sieht plötzlich die Köpfe seiner Mitmenschen von einer bunten Aura umgeben.

Torture.

Ghost detainees.

And a massive cover-up that continues even today.

This is the propulsive thriller that only former CIA operative turned bestselling novelist Barry Eisler could write.

Marooned in a Manila jail after a bar fight fatality, black ops soldier Ben Treven gets a visit from his former commander, Colonel Scott Horton, who explains the price of Ben's release: Find and eliminate Daniel Larison, a rogue operator from Ben's unit who has stolen ninety-two torture tapes from the CIA and is using them to blackmail the U.S. government.

But other players are after the tapes, too, and to find Larison, Ben will have to survive CIA hit teams, Blackwater mercenaries, and the long reach of the White House. He'll also have to find a way to handle Paula Lanier, a smart, sexy FBI agent who has her own reasons for wanting the tapes and is determined to get them before Ben does. With the stakes this high, everyone has an angle – everyone but Ben, who will have to find the right alliance if he wants to stay alive.

New York Times bestselling author Tess Gerritsen's relentless, inventive novels take readers on pulse-racing thrill rides that are as satisfying as they are heart-stopping. Now, in this edge-of-your-seat suspense novel, a mysteriously isolated town stands abandoned as a silent watcher waits.

In Wyoming for a medical conference, Boston medical examiner Maura Isles joins a group of friends on a spur-of-the-moment ski trip. But when their SUV stalls on a snow-choked mountain road, they're stranded with no help in sight.

As night falls, the group seeks refuge from the blizzard in the remote village of Kingdom Come, where twelve eerily identical houses stand dark and abandoned. Something terrible has happened in Kingdom Come: Meals sit untouched on tables, cars are still parked in garages. The town's previous residents seem to have vanished into thin air, but footprints in the snow betray the presence of someone who still lurks in the cold darkness – someone who is watching Maura and her friends.

Days later, Boston homicide detective Jane Rizzoli receives the grim news that Maura's charred body has been found in a mountain ravine. Shocked and grieving, Jane is determined to learn what happened to her friend. The investigation plunges Jane into the twisted history of Kingdom Come, where a gruesome discovery lies buried beneath the snow. As horrifying revelations come to light, Jane closes in on an enemy both powerful and merciless – and the chilling truth about Maura's fate.

When the bones of the Magi are stolen from their resting place in a German cathedral, a dying priest's whispered clue catapults Dane and Bones into the midst of a deadly race to solve a centuries-old conspiracy. Danger lurks at every turn and no one knows where the clues will lead… or what they will uncover. From ancient cathedrals, to hidden temples, to icy mountain peaks, Dane and Bones must outrun and outwit their enemies in the thrilling adventure — Icefall. Don't miss this thrilling novella!

WOULD YOU KILL TO LIVE FOREVER?

When the body of a gunshot victim rolls into the Santa Fe morgue, it should be a day like any other for medical investigator Lillian Cruz. Yet upon examination, the corpse appears to be over a hundred years old with smallpox scars, and an odd wound protrudes from the victim's leg. Lodged in the femur, under decrepit scar tissue, is a bullet shaped like a musket ball. The bullet looks like it was fired during the Civil War and had remained in the victim's leg ever since.

Rattled by the discovery, Cruz instructs her assistant to take specimens to the state authorities immediately and not to tell a soul about it. Minutes after the assistant leaves, the lights go dark in the morgue and Cruz is kidnapped.

The Defense Intelligence Agency calls in former war correspondent Ethan Warner and his partner, Nicola Lopez, to discreetly investigate the disappearance. And very quickly, a relatively simple case turns into something much more sinister. With each new lead they uncover, Warner and Lopez are inadvertently bringing a warped and dangerous individual closer to achieving a catastrophic goal: immortality.

In the spine-chilling tradition of Michael Crichton and James Rollins, Immortal is an action-packed blockbuster that combines science, suspense, and ingenious speculation.

In a masterwork of international adventure, supernatural mystery, and apocalyptic prophecy, New York Times bestselling authors James Rollins and Rebecca Cantrell open the next chapter in a world of shadow and light, of salvation and damnation, where the fate of the heavens is locked within a child of…

Innocent Blood

A vicious attack at a ranch in California thrusts archaeologist Erin Granger back into the folds of the Sanguines, an immortal order founded on the blood of Christ and tasked with protecting the world from the beasts haunting its shadows and waiting to break free into the sunlight. Following the prophetic words found in the Blood Gospel — a tome written by Christ and lost for centuries — Erin must join forces with Army Sergeant Jordan Stone and the dark mystery that is Father Rhun Korza to discover and protect a boy believed to be an angel given flesh.

But an enigmatic enemy of immense power and terrifying ambition seeks the same child — not to save the world, but to hasten its destruction. For any hope of victory, Erin must discover the truth behind Christ's early years and understand His first true miracle, an event wrapped in sin and destruction, an act that yet remains unfulfilled and holds the only hope for the world.

The search for the truth will take Erin and the others across centuries and around the world, from the dusty plains of the Holy Land to the icy waters of the Arctic Ocean, from the catacombs of Rome to an iron fortress in the Mediterranean Sea, and at last to the very gates of Hell itself, where their destiny — and the fate of mankind — awaits.

With The Blood Gospel, the first novel in the Order of the Sanguines series, James Rollins and Rebecca Cantrell breathtakingly combined science, myth, and religion and introduced a world where miracles hold new meaning and the fight for good over evil is far more complicated than we ever dreamed. In Innocent Blood they again take us to the edge of destruction… and into the deepest reaches of imagination.

Deep in the heart of Antarctica lies a forgotten military installation. Deadly secrets are secured behind its doors… including the remnants of a decades-old plot to devastate mankind.

Disgraced treasure hunter Cy Reed is on the trail of an incredible treasure when a cargo ship mysteriously explodes. At the same time, a team of geologists makes an astonishing discovery that could rewrite ancient history. And a beast of impossible origins unleashes a bloody rampage across the ice.

As Reed unravels the mysteries behind Antarctica's dark past, he begins to uncover a sinister conspiracy. Plagued by ferocious storms and betrayed on all sides, he races toward an inevitable clash that could salvage his ruined reputation… or unleash hell upon the world.

Tensions flare in Northwest Asia and Op-Center races to prevent World War III in this chilling, ripped-from-the-headlines thriller from the authors of the USA Today bestseller Out of the Ashes.

When a team of assassins murder a high-ranking North Korean general and his family in their sleep, making it look like a robbery, events are set in motion that could shake the balance of world powers. Meanwhile, a U.S. naval combat ship, the USS *Milwaukee*, is attacked by North Korean forces in the middle of a training exercise off the shore of South Korea, and Commander Kate Bigelow is forced to ground the ship to avoid being captured. The crew takes refuge on a tiny island, trapped dangerously between the grounded ship and a fleet of hostile North Korean soldiers.

Op-Center intelligence discovers a secret alliance behind the attack-a pact between China and North Korea that guarantees China total control of a vast oil reserve found beneath the Yellow Sea. As both sides marshal their forces for a major confrontation at sea, Chase Williams and his Op-Center organization devise a plan to secretly spirit the American crew from the island and out from under North Korean control. But the North Koreans are not finished. In a desperate gamble, they unleash a terrorist cell on the American homeland. Only Op-Center can uncover their plan and stop it in time to prevent a major catastrophe that could lead to all-out war.

The electrifying new thriller from New York Times bestseller Stephen Hunter takes you deep inside the mind of the most notorious serial killer of all time: Jack the Ripper.

In the fall of 1888, Jack the Ripper slaughtered five prostitutes in London’s seamy Whitechapel District. He did not just kill — he ripped with a butcher’s glee — and then, after the particularly gruesome slaying of Mary Jane Kelly, he disappeared. For 127 years, Jack has haunted the dark corners of our imagination, the paradigm of the psychotic killer. We remember him not only for his crimes, but because, despite one of the biggest dragnets in London history, he was never caught.

I, Ripper is a vivid reimagining of Jack’s personal story entwined with that of an Irish journalist who covered the case, knew the principals, charted the investigation, and at last, stymied, went off in a bold new direction. These two men stalk each other through a city twisted in fear of the madman’s blade, a cat-and-mouse game that brings to life the sounds and smells of the fleshpot tenderloin of Whitechapel and all the lurid acts that fueled the Ripper headlines.

Dripping with intrigue, atmosphere, and diabolical twists, this is a magnificent psychological thriller from perennial New York Times bestseller Stephen Hunter, who the San Francisco Examiner calls “one of the best storytellers of his generation.”

Nick Kismet will go anywhere, do anything, to protect the treasures of the ancient world. But to stop an ancient symbol of power from becoming a weapon of unimaginable terror, he’ll have to go further than he’s ever gone before….

When an old college flame tries to entice him into smuggling a precious relic into the United States, Nick Kismet knows there’s something more going on. But before he can get at the truth, a former rival appears out of nowhere, inviting Kismet to join him on a search for the mythical Golden Fleece. Although Kismet dismisses the possibility that the Fleece is real, he soon realizes that the search may bring him one step closer to unmasking the mysterious Prometheus group and solving the puzzle of his own origins.

Accompanied by the beautiful daughter of a kidnapped Russian exile, Kismet follows in the footsteps of the legendary Argonauts, and sets out for the Republic of Georgia, the site of the ancient kingdom of Colchis. There he will discover that the Fleece is no mere story, but is instead the key to a devastating new weapon.

Kismet’s quest will take him from the deserts of North Africa to the urban jungles of Manhattan to the snow covered mountains of Georgia… but to keep the Golden Fleece from falling into the hands of his greatest enemy, Kismet will have to go…

…Into the Black.

Captain Grant Stevens and his team wait in Germany for a flight home, having just returned from a completed mission in Austria. A call from Admiral John Torrinson, Chief of NIS, changes their plans. Grant and his men are asked to "go above and beyond" again. They'll complete the new mission with lethal speed and precision.

Without warning an American facility in Sicily has been attacked by a renegade Mafia group. Sarin nerve gas, heavy weapons, and munitions have been stolen. Collateral damage is heavy.

SEAL missions are grueling by any definition of the word, but this mission takes an unexpected turn. Stevens discovers his friends could be among the victims.

The mission: Infiltrate the compound, eliminate resistance, rescue any hostages, and find the nerve gas.

The electrifying new thriller from New York Times bestseller Stephen Hunter takes you deep inside the mind of the most notorious serial killer of all time: Jack the Ripper.

In the fall of 1888, Jack the Ripper slaughtered five prostitutes in London’s seamy Whitechapel District. He did not just kill — he ripped with a butcher’s glee — and then, after the particularly gruesome slaying of Mary Jane Kelly, he disappeared. For 127 years, Jack has haunted the dark corners of our imagination, the paradigm of the psychotic killer. We remember him not only for his crimes, but because, despite one of the biggest dragnets in London history, he was never caught.

I, Ripper is a vivid reimagining of Jack’s personal story entwined with that of an Irish journalist who covered the case, knew the principals, charted the investigation, and at last, stymied, went off in a bold new direction. These two men stalk each other through a city twisted in fear of the madman’s blade, a cat-and-mouse game that brings to life the sounds and smells of the fleshpot tenderloin of Whitechapel and all the lurid acts that fueled the Ripper headlines.

Dripping with intrigue, atmosphere, and diabolical twists, this is a magnificent psychological thriller from perennial New York Times bestseller Stephen Hunter, who the San Francisco Examiner calls “one of the best storytellers of his generation.”

New York Times bestselling author Dale Brown goes beyond the headlines in this high-tech, high-tension military thriller in which a resurgent Russia enflames sectarian unrest and violence in Ukraine and Poland, setting off a stealth robotic war and escalating an international crisis.

In the spring of 2017, the U.S. economy is rebounding under President Stacy Anne Barbeau, the country's first female president. But her leadership is about to be severely tested: Russian president Gennadiy Gryzlov has sent special troops, disguised as pro-Russian activists, into Ukraine and Moldova. Though NATO is outraged, its response is tepid. Refusing to let Russian aggression go unpunished, former U.S. president Kevin Martindale approaches Polish president Peter Wilk with a radical solution: a counterattack using a covert force of Cybernetic Infantry Device (CID): manned robots.

Underwritten by the wealthy Wilk, Operation Iron Wolf is launched-without the knowledge of the Americans or its NATO partners. The CID's initial strikes are successful, infuriating Gryzlov and propelling President Barbeau to pledge western help to investigate the attack. With international tensions at the boiling point, Martindale's secret alliance, supported by the best military technology, is determined to outmaneuver the Russians.

In this battle that will determine the fate of Eastern Europe, just which side will win?

Seven days after she had been abducted, the body of a twenty-year-old woman is found on a green patch of grass by the Los Angeles International Airport. She has been left with her limbs stretched out and spread apart, placing her in a five-point human star. The autopsy reveals that she had been tortured and murdered in a most bizarre way. But the surprises don’t end there. This killer likes to play, and he left a note lodged inside his victim’s throat.

Detective Robert Hunter, who leads LAPD’s Special Section, Ultra Violent Unit, is assigned the case. But almost immediately a second body turns up. Hunter knows he has to be quick.

Surrounded by new challenges as every day passes, Hunter finds himself chasing a monster. A predator whose past hides a terrible secret, whose desire to hurt people and thirst for murder can never be quenched — for he is DEATH.

n 15th century Venice it is a dangerous time to be alive. A permanent winter has rolled in over the canals and bodies keep washing up on the banks of the city. These bodies are especially hard to identify, since they have been skinned.In the present day, a famous portrait by Titian has been discovered. Its subject: the 15th century suspected murderer Angelico Vespucci. The skins of Vespucci's victims were never found, so his guilt was never proven. Although it is rumoured that when the portrait arises, so will the man. And when flayed bodies start turning up all over the world, it looks like this is more than just a superstition. A murderer has been called back to life, and he is hungry for revenge.

Archaeologist Leah Andrews stumbles upon something inexplicable in southwestern New Mexico: inside a dark cavern lies an undiscovered, Native American cliff dwelling abandoned for 800 years. While twisting through one of the narrow underground passageways, Leah’s flashlight illuminates the remains of a violent massacre.

Ancient human remains — all slaughtered in a long-ago massacre — cover the cavern floor, along with a number of brilliantly colored, granite crystals. The rare crystals are native to only one place on earth: a frozen mountain range in central Antarctica.

Could Native Americans have traveled to the frozen continent of Antarctica 800 years prior to the first known human exploration? If so how? And why?

There’s only one person who can get Leah to those mountains in Antarctica: her estranged husband and climbing guide Jack Hobson.

At their destination they make a stunning discovery that will change history and science forever. But Leah’s team is far from the only interested party.

As her secret makes its way to the highest levels of government, a race to seize the Russian-claimed Antarctic territory brings the world to the brink of nuclear conflict.

It’s a time of unexpected change for Stone Barrington. A recent venture has achieved a great victory, but is immediately faced with a new challenge: an underhanded foe who’s determined to wreak havoc at any cost. Meanwhile, when Stone finds himself responsible for distributing the estate of a respected friend and mentor, the process unearths secrets that range from merely surprising to outright alarming. And when a lethal beauty from Stone’s past resurfaces, there’s no telling what chaos will follow in her wake...

Ever a master of keeping cool under pressure, even Stone might have his work cut out for him this time... because when grand ambitions collide with criminal inclinations, the results may be more deadly than he could have anticipated.

When a six year old girl is found dead, hanging from a tree, the only clue the Oslo Police have to work with is an airline tag around her neck. It reads 'I'm travelling alone'. Holger Munch, veteran police investigator, is immediately charged with re-assembling his homicide unit. But to complete the team, he must convince his erstwhile partner, Mia Kruger – a brilliant but troubled investigator – to return from the solitary island where she has retreated with plans to take her own life. Reviewing the evidence, Mia identifies something no one else has noticed – a thin line carved into the dead girl's fingernail: the number 1. Instinctively, she knows that this is only the beginning. To save other children from the same fate, she must find a way to cast aside her own demons and confront the most terrifying, cold-hearted serial killer of her career…

In the Blood is the Lisa Unger novel we've all been waiting for – and a return to the dark psychological suspense that madeBeautiful Liesa bestseller around the world.Lana Granger lives a life of lies. She has told so many lies about where she comes from and who she is that the truth is like a cloudy nightmare she can't quite recall. About to graduate from college and with her trust fund almost tapped out, she takes a job babysitting a troubled boy named Luke. Expelled from schools all over the country, the manipulative young Luke is accustomed to controlling the people in his life. But, in Lana, he may have met his match. Or has Lana met hers? When Lana's closest friend, Beck, mysteriously disappears, Lana resumes her lying ways – to friends, to the police, to herself. The police have a lot of questions for Lana when the story about her whereabouts the night Beck disappeared doesn't jibe with eyewitness accounts. Lana will do anything to hide the truth, but it might not be enough to keep her ominous secrets buried: someone else knows about Lana's lies. And he's dying to tell. Lisa Unger's writing has been hailed as "sensational" (Publishers Weekly) and "sophisticated" (New York Daily News), with "gripping narrative and evocative, muscular prose" (Associated Press). Masterfully suspenseful, finely crafted, and written with a no-holds-barred raw power, In the Blood is Unger at her best.

You will be scared. But you won’t know why…

I’m thinking of ending things. Once this thought arrives, it stays. It sticks. It lingers. It’s always there. Always.

Jake once said, “Sometimes a thought is closer to truth, to reality, than an action. You can say anything, you can do anything, but you can’t fake a thought.”

And here’s what I’m thinking: I don’t want to be here.

In this deeply suspenseful and irresistibly unnerving debut novel, a man and his girlfriend are on their way to a secluded farm. When the two take an unexpected detour, she is left stranded in a deserted high school, wondering if there is any escape at all. What follows is a twisted unraveling that will haunt you long after the last page is turned.

In this smart, suspenseful, and intense literary thriller, debut novelist Iain Reid explores the depths of the human psyche, questioning consciousness, free will, the value of relationships, fear, and the limitations of solitude. Reminiscent of Jose Saramago’s early work, Michel Faber’s cult classic Under the Skin, and Lionel Shriver’s We Need to Talk about Kevin, I’m Thinking of Ending Things is an edgy, haunting debut. Tense, gripping, and atmospheric, this novel pulls you in from the very first page…and never lets you go.

Russia's new ballistic missile submarine, Yuriy Dolgorukiy, is being deployed on its first patrol while America's newest fast attack submarine, North Dakota, is assigned to trail it and collect intel. As the Russian submarine heads under the polar ice cap, its sonar readings reveal the trailing American sub and cause the Russians to begin a radical, evasive maneuver. This, however, fails and the submarines collide, resulting in damage that sends both to the bottom.

The Americans immediately set up a rescue mission, sending a new submarine and a SEAL team to establish an ice camp — Ice Station Nautilus — and stage a rescue. The Russians also send men and material, ostensibly to rescue their own men, but the Russian Special Forces team is also there to take the American base camp and the American sub, leaving no survivors or traces of their actions. As the men in North Dakota struggle to survive, the SEAL team battles for possession of the submarine.

Rick Campbell's Ice Station Nautilus is an epic battle above and below the ice, Special Forces against SEALs, submarine against submarine, with survival on the line.

While meeting with a confidential informant, Mary Grant's husband, Joe, an FBI agent, is killed on a remote, dusty road outside of Austin, Texas. The official report places blame on Joe's shoulders, but the story just doesn't add up and Mary prods the FBI to investigate. There are just too many questions. Meanwhile, Ian Prince, founder of ONE technology, the world's largest Internet company, has his own concerns about the FBI looking into Joe Grant's death. Prince's newest invention, the Titan supercomputer, is set to launch, and Mary's quest for the truth could cause him trouble. When Mary is stonewalled by the FBI, she takes matters into her own hands. With the help of her daughter, Jessie, a brilliant hacker, she takes over her husband's investigation, putting herself and her entire family in the crosshairs of one of the most powerful men in America, as well the newest and most terrifying surveillance system ever created.

Sam Cleave, reporter for a small newspaper, has seen better days. After his partner was killed during an undercover investigation, he lost his passion for work and living.

But when a resident of a nearby assisted living home is tortured and murdered in a barbaric manner, he starts investigating. He is especially intrigued when a mysterious box is given to him that belonged to the dead man, but he needs help to interpret what it means.

He teams up with Nina Gould, an expert in World War II history. Soon the two of them realize that they are about to discover one of the best-guarded secrets of the war, It dawns on them that this would be the discovery of a lifetime, a discovery of immeasurable value, and a discovery that men would kill for.

They join an expedition, sponsored by an eccentric billionaire, hunting for gold and breathtaking art buried deep below the Antarctic surface. Instead of gold and stolen art, they find something terrifyingly disturbing beneath the eternal ice.

A team of Nazi scientists has made an amazing discovery. But experiments have gone terribly wrong. The situation gets out of hand, and before long the expedition members find themselves peering into the deepest recesses of the human soul. Nina and Sam realize that their only hope for survival is to unlock the secrets of Ice Station Wolfenstein.

Ice Station Wolfenstein leads the reader on a roller-coaster ride in search of a legend. Packed with breathtaking suspense and nerve-shredding action, Ice Station Wolfenstein is a thrilling read for all fans of action, suspense, and intrigue.

« This is the end. »

Tragique, superbe et sans concession, la conclusion magistrale d’une série apocalyptique unique en son genre.

Les derniers jours sont arrivés. Ancien agent des forces de police de Concord (New Hampshire), Hank Palace a trouvé refuge dans les bois de Nouvelle-Angleterre, où d’anciens collègues se sont rassemblés pour attendre la fin. Mais son esprit n’est pas encore en paix. Il lui reste une affaire à régler, la plus importante peut-être : celle de la disparition de sa soeur Nico, qui semble liée aux activités d’un énigmatique culte pseudo-survivaliste qui entend encore sauver le monde, envers et contre tout.

L’humanité entre maintenant dans ses derniers soubresauts. En route pour l’Ohio, où l’attend manifestement une révélation tragique, l’inoxydable Hank, accompagné du chien Houdini et de son ami Cortez, découvre à bicyclette ce qui reste de l’Amérique : un monde en ruine et déserté par la technologie, un territoire hostile peuplé de gangs fanatiques, d’immigrants illégaux, de groupuscules religieux… et d’une communauté amish qui pourrait bien l’amener à reconsidérer toute sa perception des choses.

Matt Drake encounters mystery, thrills and horror in the vast mountains of Peru. When legendary treasures from a long-lost hoard start drip-feeding through the black market, Drake and the rest of the SPEAR team are tasked to track down the mysterious seller. From Paris to Lyon and Monaco they hunt for clues through the lavish auction houses. Then everything changes. Their single-minded hunt ends in Peru where they find remote villages beset nightly by el monstruo — monster. Unable to walk away, Drake and his colleagues promise to help and find themselves embroiled in the centre of something poles apart from anything they’ve encountered before. As they defend the villages and search for the old Inca treasure, they are forced to confront new terrors: mountain men who abide by an ancient, ghastly practice; a desolate chateau owned by their king and an ill-advised attempt to infiltrate the depraved community’s heart. Inca Kings comes fully loaded with action, archaeological adventure, team spirit, new revelations, and a remarkably different storyline, guaranteed to provoke your imagination.

An explosive new release from Amazon bestselling author Robert B. Williams

A high-octane, fast-paced, action-packed Jack Coulson thriller with edge-of-your-seat suspense and an ending that will blow you away.

For over 70 years Hitler’s most chilling, top secret weapon or Wunderwaffe has been buried inside an icy fortress in one of the most inhospitable and unforgiving places on earth — the Antarctic. Even today, this weapon could change the outcome of the Second World War.

When oceanographer Leah Anderson discovers a secret WWII German submarine base hidden deep under the Antarctic ice shelf, she sparks a desperate race to acquire the weapon.

While Russian and American submarines clash deep below the ice pack, a sinister force launches a ruthless assault on the ice to secure the weapon they have been searching for since 1945.

Enigmatic covert ops soldier Jack Coulson has already been to hell and back, but if he’s going to stop the rise of the Thousand Year Reich, then he must enter the gates of hell one more time.

The Second World War is over.

What no one knows is that the Third Reich has not given up — the battle has just begun…

For fans of James Rollins, Matthew Reilly, Michael Grumley, A.G. Riddle, Rob Jones, Jay J. Falconer, James D. Prescott, Brad Thor and Douglas E. Richards.

The Central Intelligence Agency is under attack, and so is its top field operative, Kyle Swanson. The highly decorated former Marine Corps gunnery sergeant is attending the funeral of a friend when a terrorist blows up the grave. A week later, he narrowly survives a grenade attack in Berlin. In Washington, Congress is being told that Swanson has been turned, his private employer is corrupt, and the Agency itself cannot be trusted. Swanson is assigned to find the root of the problem and is partnered up with Luke Gibson, a skilled operative rated as being almost as good as Swanson.

They are looking for assassin Nicky Marks, who also was a CIA shooter but now works for a shadowy power broker known as The Prince. But before Kyle and Luke can eliminate the threat, they must identify and find the man who wants them dead. That takes them from the pink poppy fields of Afghanistan to the jungles of Southeast Asia and the streets of America as they learn that the Prince is the ruthless kingpin of a global drug empire that uses CIA planes to transport opium and heroin. Swanson also lines up a secret partner, the beautiful widow of his friend whose grave was desecrated in Mexico, the sharpshooting former commando Beth Ledford, who has her own agenda of pure retribution. Kyle Swanson, at the worst possible moment in a combat showdown, must decide: Do you trust your partner, and if so, which one?

• A plane crash deep in the north woods of Maine…

• A dying man’s last words…

• A genius convinced she has saved the world…

“Do you have kids?” A dying man’s bizarre question abruptly ends Chris Foster’s yearly north woods sabbatical and launches him on a collision course with an unimaginable destiny.

Pushing his gritty determination to the limit, he doggedly pursues the violent and reclusive genius who believes she has single-handedly solved humankind’s gravest threat.

What starts as a simple quest to stop a madman evolves into a soul searching odyssey as the zealot’s skewed motives become understandable, almost noble, and a decision of mind-blowing consequence awaits.

Они встретятся снова, чтобы продолжить начатую Рэнделлом Перришем партию и закончить задание, которое она получила, когда видела его в последний раз.         – Ты должна кое-что сделать для меня, Лиса.                 Рэнделл:. Со стороны может показаться, что я играю с ней и другими людьми от скуки, но это обманчивое впечатление, не имеющее ничего общего с истинными причинами. Моя одержимость контролем построена исключительно на страхе. Она позволяет мне управлять собой, потому что боится меня, а я использую всевозможные рычаги контроля, потому что боюсь ее. И это удивительное ощущение, невероятное по своей силе. И оно не стихийно, а имеет собственные законы, похожие на те, что держат солнечную систему в равновесии. Планеты вращаются вокруг солнца, под воздействием силы отталкивания, превышающей силу притяжения, и только поэтому не сходят со своей орбиты и галактика остается неизменной.                Лиса: Настоящего Рэнделла не знает никто.        Даже он сам.        Настоящего Рэнделла не существует.        Он по-прежнему живет в закрытой комнате, моделируя собственные псевдореальнсти, создавая схемы, неспешно и продуманно передвигая фигурами живых людей по шахматной доске.        . Я не особенная. Я его секрет. Источник его страха.         И, может быть, главная угроза его существованию.

Published for the first time in digital, a classic spy story from the bestselling thriller writer Derek Lambert.

Each year a nucleus of the wealthiest and most influential members of the Western world meet to discuss the future of the world’s superpowers at a secret conference called Bilderberg.

A glamorous millionaires just sighting loneliness from the foothills of middle age… a French industrialist whose wealth matches his masochism and meanness… a whizz-kid of the seventies conducting a life-long affair with diamonds, these are just three of the Bilderbergers who have grown to confuse position with invulnerability. A mistake which could prove lethal when a crazed assassin is on the loose…

‘Lambert certainly keeps the action moving with surprise plot twists thrown in every now and again to unsettle the reader’ Liverpool Daily Post

INTRODUCING JASON KING…

On a cold night in Australia, two construction workers driving along a deserted mountain road are gunned down inside their vehicle. The killings are fast. Efficient.

An assassination, carried out with expert precision. The only witness to the crime is a man resting by the side of the road. Recently retired, he'd flown halfway across the world to escape his demons.

Ex-U.S. black ops operative Jason King.

Quickly spotted, King is targeted by those in the shadows of a small country town, ruthless killers determined to tie up loose ends. They have no knowledge of the violent past they are about to revive…

ISOLATED is the first book in the Jason King series. $0.99 for a limited time only. Book 2, IMPRISONED, coming September 2016.

A FOREIGN LEGION THRILLER

Separated from his beloved wife during the war, Kriso Tovak believes her to be dead. Then, after the war—having joined the Foreign Legion—he learns she is still alive…

Kriso plotting to desert the army to join his wife in Prague, is captured, court-martialled, and executed. But the shock doesn’t end there, as his execution triggers a sequence of ghastly events at the Legion base at Dini Sadazi.

Legionnaires Rex Tyle and Pete Havers get caught up in the unfolding events, along with their superiors, Captain Monclaire, and Colonel Jeux, a tragic drunkard who once had a brilliant brain. But at the heart of it all is Annice Tovak, who takes terrible vengeance for the death of her husband.

I shall Avenge! is a classic military thriller packed with twists and turns and explosive action.

John Robb (1917-1993) was born Norman Robson in Northumberland, England. Aged nineteen, he became a journalist, working on the Daily Mirror, Daily Telegraph, Daily Mail and Daily Express. After war service in the army and as a correspondent, Robb joined The Star in Sheffield. Writing as John Robb, he became a prominent novelist. His first two novels in 1951 were Space Beam and No Time For Corpses. He went on to write the successful Legion novels, based as they were on his own experiences.

The new installment in Stella Rimington’s series of “frighteningly authentic” espionage thrillers (Chicago Tribune) featuring the fiercely intelligent, ambitious MI5 officer Liz Carlyle.

Liz has been transferred to counter-espionage—the hub of MI5 operations during the Cold War, which has been scaled back as anti-terrorism has gained priority. But there’s plenty for her to do: there are more spies operating in London in the twenty-first century than there were during the height of East-West hostilities. Even the Russians still have a large contingent, although now they spy on the international financial community and on the wealthy ex-pat oligarchs who make England their domain.

In her new assignment, Liz quickly uncovers a plot to silence one of these Russians: Nikita Brunovsky, an increasingly vocal opponent of Vladimir Putin. The Foreign Office is adamant about forestalling a crime that could become a full-blown international incident, but there’s not a single clue as to how the assassination will be carried out—and Liz is solely responsible for averting disaster. So she goes undercover, attaching herself to Brunovsky’s retinue: racing against the clock to determine who betrayed him and suddenly facing a wholly unexpected second task—unmasking a Russian operative working undercover alongside her.

Dame Stella has once again distilled her experience as the first woman Director General of MI5 into a spy novel of arresting psychological complexity and unflagging suspense.

We never saw it coming. The Invasion has begun.

With the world in chaos and the aliens swarming the domed city of Nashville, Maya Talbot continues on her quest to find her children while destruction rains down from above—the aliens have arrived and the invasion has begun. With a crew of unlikely allies and a mother’s incredible determination, she must find her kids and get to safety before it’s too late. But what if Maya can’t outrun the alien invaders, and what if there isn’t anywhere left for the survivors to hide? The race is on and the clock is ticking because the aliens seem bent on annihilating the human race and destroying the planet.

Anthony Awards

Barry Awards

Edgar Awards

Macavity Awards

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When he was twelve years old, Adam Ryan went playing in the woods one sunny day with his two best friends. He never saw them again. Their bodies were never found, and Adam himself was discovered with his back pressed against an oak tree and his shoes filled with blood. He had no memory of what had happened. Twenty years later Adam – now using his middle name of Rob – is a detective with the Dublin police force. His colleagues don't know about his past. He works as a team with Cassie Maddox, a smart, tough cookie; they are best friends as well as partners. When the body of a young girl is found at the site of an archaeological dig, Rob and Cassie get the case. And when they reach the crime scene, Rob realises it is the exact site of his childhood trauma. They also find a hairclip that he recognises as having belonged to his friend. Could there be a connection between that old, unsolved crime and this? Knowing that he would be thrown off the case if his past were revealed, Rob takes a fateful decision to keep quiet. Rob and Cassie are investigating the murder of Katy Devlin, but they both hope that they might also solve the twenty-year-old mystery of the woods.

Summer 1944. When German sniper Dieter Rohde’s older brother is unjustly shot for desertion by the SS, he will stop at nothing to win the Iron Cross medal and redeem his family’s name by targeting as many Allied troops as possible. Rohde’s deadly efforts bring him into direct confrontation with American sniper Caje Cole. Rohde may be driven by ambition, but he hasn’t encountered an adversary like Cole, the so-called hillbilly sniper who is as hard as the mountains he calls home and as wily as a backwoods fox. As the final pitched battle for France takes place around them at the Falaise Pocket, these two snipers declare war on each other.

Two young couples escape their high-paced New York lifestyles for a quick getaway to an island off of Belize. Upon arriving they learn that their vacation will involve more than wasting the days away on the beach. The owner, Stefan, is a wealthy son of a financial guru, and a cousin to one of the guests. As part of his entertainment, he informs the group that they will be attempting to discover the identities of mercenaries from the 1800s that stormed the island and killed “The Royal Family” who had been abolished from Mainland by the Crown.

When one of the four vacationers goes missing, they realize that the island may have more to offer than a cute mystery and tropical fun. Is the game only a game? Can they leave the island?

It’s the summer of 1974, and the beautiful island of Cyprus is under threat of an invasion.

But for some, this tragedy offers an opportunity to settle some very personal scores, and gain some very specific political advantages…

In London, former MI5 officer Alex Swan and his colleague, ex-policeman Arthur Gable, are investigating the murder of an RAF officer. When a connection is made between the London murder and a terrorist group that is active on the island, Swan and Gable find themselves inexorably drawn into the conflict in the Med.

Elsewhere, other interested parties are wading into the situation, all keen to make their mark and take their share of the spoils. Add to this, an Irish-American former submariner desperate to avenge the death of his brother at British hands, a nomadic mercenary unit led by an ex-SAS sergeant and a highly sensitive document hidden aboard an old warplane, then the scene is set for an edge-of-your-seat thriller that crosses continents, experiences and perspectives.

Will Swan and Gable be able to prevent the conflict on Cyprus erupting into all-out war, threatening NATO’s southern flank?

Agatha Award

“(A) SHARP-EDGED, WITTY TALE…

Buoyed by intriguing characters, a wry wit, and lush Virginia atmosphere, McCrumb’s mystery spins merrily along on its own momentum, concluding that justice will triumph… but in surprising ways.” – Publishers Weekly

“Elizabeth’s eighth outing has it all-a gaggle of tidy mysteries, nonstop laughs, bumper-sticker wisdom about the male animal, and some other, sadder kinds of wisdom, too. Quite a banquet-if you don’t mind all that arsenic.” – Kirkus Reviews (starred review)

“Whenever Sharyn McCrumb suits up her amateur detective, Elizabeth MacPherson, it’s pretty certain that a trip is in the offing and that something deadly funny will happen.” – The New York Times Book Review

“McCrumb has an exquisite sense of the ridiculous: she creates a New Age version of the Mad Hatter’s tea party that will induce tears of laughter as she neatly skewers academia.” – Richmond Times-Dispatch

“A terrific tale… Lots of feminist folklore is coupled with plain old fun as the lawyers and MacPherson do their damnedest to defend their clients.” – Trenton Times

“She’s Agatha Christie with an attitude; outrageous and engrossing at the same time.” – Nashville Banner

“Contains the author’s trademark rapier wit… Only a writer as accomplished as Sharyn McCrumb can so skillfully marry farce and tragedy with such rewarding results.” – The Gainesville Sun

“A delightfully entertaining, uniquely plotted story.” – Booklist

“McCrumb is a fine writer with an eye and ear finely tuned to the ever-frazzling relationships between the sexes.” – St. Petersburg Times

“McCrumb’s ability to write in a variety of styles-crossing genres, mixing the comic with the serious-makes her one of the most versatile crime authors on the contemporary scene.” – Booklist

“Sharyn McCrumb is definitely a star in the New Golden Age of mystery fiction. I look forward to reading her for a long time to come.” – ELIZABETH PETERS

“IF I’D KILLED HIM WHEN I MET HIM… is sheer pleasure. The book moves like a streak and all the storylines are fascinating. To tantalize you further, let me say that this story has the most unusual sexual scene in the world of mystery literature.” – Romantic Times

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Southern sleuth Elizabeth MacPherson acts as official investigator for her brother's Virginia law firm and tests her skills solving two sensational murders and a third crime unsolved for a century.

Two brothers must confront their past, one a mafia hitman the other a budding senator, which has set them on very different paths…

A dark, atmospheric thriller with a plot that will keep you guessing until the last moment.

"Snappy writing, humor, and plenty of page-turning tension." – Julie Hyzy

Dee Carmichael, lead singer of the pop sensation The Flamingoes, has been one of Brett Kavanaugh's most dedicated customers at her tattoo shop. When Dee is discovered dead surrounded by ink pots and needles, Brett is branded a suspect.

It seems that someone is impersonating Brett. And if she doesn't act fast, the killer is sure to put the dye in dying once again…

Ein exklusiver Cocktail aus dem Besten, was weibliche Kriminalliteratur zu bieten hat!

Erstmals präsentiert sich hier Bestsellerautorin Elizabeth George,»die Meisterin des englischen Kriminalromans «als Herausgeberin: 26 spannende und raffinierte Kriminalgeschichten von den besten Autorinnen der Welt, wie Dorothy L. Sayers, Ruth Rendell, Sara Paretsky, Minette Walters, Marcia Muller, Nadine Gordimer, Joyce Carol Oates und vielen anderen. Mit einer Einführung von Elizabeth George!

Murder is easy-on paper.

Book restoration expert Brooklyn Wainwright is attending the world- renowned Book Fair when her ex Kyle shows up with a bombshell. He has an original copy of a scandalous text that could change history-and humiliate the beloved British monarchy.

When Kyle turns up dead, the police are convinced Brooklyn 's the culprit. But with an entire convention of suspects, Brooklyn 's conducting her own investigation to find out if the motive for murder was a 200-year-old secret-or something much more personal.

When an elderly woman is found raped and brutally murdered in San Francisco, Vail heads west to team up with SFPD Inspector Lance Burden and her former task force colleague, Detective Roxxann Dixon. As Vail, Burden, and Dixon follow the killer's trail in and around San Francisco, the offender continues his rampage, leaving behind clues that ultimately lead them to the most unlikely of places: a mysterious island ripped from city lore whose long-buried, decades-old secrets hold the key to their case. Alcatraz. The Rock.

Женщины для него – всего лишь расходный материал. Он использует их, строя свою карьеру и приумножая состояние, а потом уничтожает. Механизм отлажен и не дает сбоев. До тех пор, пока на его пути не встречаются они... Бэла – воспитательница детского сада, закомплексованная и одинокая, но волею случая оказавшаяся наследницей огромного состояния. Лиля – тренер по фитнесу, уверенная в себе, красивая и жесткая, ведь ей всего в жизни приходится добиваться самой, а на плечах – маленький сын и мама-пенсионерка. Казалось бы, силы неравны: на его стороне деньги, жизненный опыт и власть, а женщины доверчивы и беззащитны. Однако на этот раз все сразу пошло не по плану...

Starred Review. While Miles's patients start remarking about loved ones not seeming to be themselves, he merely chalks it up to paranoia. However, when he becomes witness to a distinct but subtle change in the personality of some townspeople, he and his friends realize something is afoot. Their fears are realized as they stumble upon faceless corpses and strange pods. But the pod people are spreading fast, and Miles is running out of places to hide and people to help him. Finney's classic tale of alien invasion is recreated anew with more terror than the book or the film. Tabori delivers a performance that will chill listeners with his intensity and sense of urgency. His lightly raspy and mature voice works perfectly through the first-person perspective of Miles. He captures the mood and adjusts his pitch, speed and tone accordingly. By the end of this production, listeners will believe they are listening to Miles himself and not just some narrator. A brief interview with Tabori at the end reveals that he's the son of Don Siegel, who directed the original 1957 film Invasion of the Body Snatchers.

From "one of the best crime writers at work today" (Michael Connelly) comes a fast,f unny, violent new noir crime classic-a Coen Brothers movie come to life.

He has been compared to Lehane, Ellroy, and Pelecanos, but Ace Atkins's rich, raucous, passionate blend of historical novel and crime story is all his own and never more so than in Infamous.

In July 1933, the gangster known as George "Machine Gun" Kelly staged the kidnapping-for-ransom of an Oklahoma oilman. He would live to regret it. Kelly was never the sharpest knife in the drawer, and what started clean soon became messy, as two of his partners cut themselves into the action; a determined former Texas Ranger makes tracking Kelly his mission; and Kelly's wife, ever alert to her own self-interest, starts playing both ends against the middle.

The result is a mesmerizing tale set in the first days of the modern FBI, featuring one of the best femmes fatales in history-the Lady Macbeth of Depression-era crime-a great unexpected hero, and some of the most colorful supporting characters in recent crime fiction.

"…I жодної версiї!" — нова книга вiдомого українського письменника Володимира Кашина, що створив серiю детективних романiв, головним героєм яких є iнспектор карного розшуку Дмитро Коваль.

До цiєї книги увiйшли: роман"…I жодної версiї!", повiсть "Готується вбивство" i драма "День народження". Достовiрнiсть матерiалу, гострий, напружений сюжет, проникнення в психологiю героїв, щоб пояснити їхнi вчинки, як благороднi, так i ганебнi, такi особливостi творiв Володимира Кашина.

A police procedural featuring Tokyo homicide detective Inspector Imanishi, who is still pursuing a criminal even when the official investigation is closed, taking him across Japan in his search for justice.

Two bodies are discovered in the middle of an ancient stone circle. Each met death in a different but violent way. As Detective Inspector Lynley wrestles with the intricacies of the case, the pieces begin to fall into place, forcing Lynley to the conclusion that the blood that binds can also kill.

A collection of stories

This volume contains three revised versions of Elizabeth George's short stories which were originally published under the title 'The Evidence Exposed'. Here there are also two new stories and an introduction by the author to all five stories of human weakness.

The vice-president of a Chicago bank hires V.I. Warshawski to find his son. She's pleased. The head of the International Brotherhood of Knifegrinders hires her to find his daughter. She's not so pleased. Who's the boss in this dangerous game of insurance fraud, murder contracts and gunmen?

Perennial grad student Veronica Gale gets more than she bargained for when her latest dissertation project puts her in the path of philosopher/assassin/carnival-ride operator Coney Bombay-and an unsolved murder that might just kill her, too.

Kamo se ve obligado a aprender inglés en tres meses. Su madre le ofrece la posibilidad de cartearse con Cathy, una chica francamente extraña, por la que Kamo empieza a sentir una fuerte atracción…

The eighth novel in the critically acclaimed Inspector Alan Banks series. Detective Inspector Banks had seen crimes just as savage in London, but somehow the murder of a teenage girl seemed all the more shocking in the quiet Yorkshire village of Eastvale. Deborah Harrison had been found one foggy night in the churchyard behind St Mary's, strangled with the strap of her school satchel. But Deborah was no typical sixteen-year-old. Her father was a powerful financier who ran in the highest echelons of industry, defence and classified information. And Deborah, it seemed, enjoyed keeping secrets of her own…

In the blistering, dry summer, the waters of Thornfield Reservior have been depleted, revealing the ruins of the small Yorkshire village that lay at its bottom, bringing with it the unidentified bones of a brutally murdered young woman. Detective Chief Inspector Banks faces a daunting challenge: he must unmask a killer who has escaped detection for half a century. Because the dark secret of Hobb’s End continue to haunt the dedicated policeman even though the town that bred then has died – and long after its former residents have been scattered to far places… or themselves to the grave. From an acknowledged master writing at the peak of his storytelling powers comes a powerful, insightful, evocative, and searingly suspenseful novel of past crimes and present evil.

Best known today for his exciting blockbuster novels, Sidney Sheldon is the author of The Best Laid Plans, Nothing Lasts Forever, The Stars Shine Down, The Doomsday Conspiracy, Memories of Midnight, The Sands of Time, Windmills of the Gods, If Tomorrow Comes, Master of the Game, Rage of Angels, Bloodline, A Stranger in the Mirror, and The Other Side of Midnight. Almost all have been number-one international bestsellers. His first book, The Naked Face, was acclaimed by the New York Times as "the best first mystery of the year" and received an Edgar Award. Most of his novels have become major feature films or TV miniseries, and there are more than 275 million copies of his books in print throughout the world. Before he became a novelist, Sidney Sheldon had already won a Tony Award for Broadway's Redhead and an Academy Award for The Bachelor and the Bobby Soxer. He has written the screenplays for twenty-three motion pictures, including Easter Parade (with Judy Garland) and Annie Get Your Gun. In addition, he penned six other Broadway hits and created three long-running television series, including Hart to Hart and I Dream of Jeannie, which he also produced. A writer who has delighted millions with his award-winning plays, movies, novels, and television shows, Sidney Sheldon reigns as one of the most popular storytellers of all time.

"A highly intelligent thriller that burrows backward through time like Houdini explaining a trick. An automatic book-of-the-year." – Lee Child

In the Company of Liars is a truly original thriller, strikingly fresh and unpredictable. Told in chronological reverse, from its enigmatic end to its brilliant beginning, the novel is centered on a woman who is on trial for murder-Allison Pagone, a mother caught between competing forces, each represented by someone who may not care if the pressure kills her in the end. A prosecutor wants Allison convicted and put on death row. An FBI agent believes she can squeeze her into ratting on her family. A daughter and an ex-husband need to save their own skins. And circling them all: a group who would prefer to eliminate her quietly and anonymously, but who also are not what they seem.

Our first picture of Allison is in the moments following her death. The story then moves backward in time like the cult film Memento: an hour earlier, then the day before, back and back to the beginning, until we can see what's really happened-and, most shocking, what hasn't. At every turn, Allison Pagone knows that what she sees may not be what's real. The only sure thing is her place in a vortex of half-truths, threats, and suspicion. When her nightmare is over, will she awake in the company of friends -or in the company of liars?

Chester Cain, a small time hit man and ace gambler, tired of his old life, moves to Las Vegas with all his lifetime savings, only to come across a set of ruthless people who try to use him, implicate him in a crime which he does not commit, and soon the cops are after Cain,who goes on the run, along with Ms. Wonderly, a homeless wayward girl, who is also being framed like him.

Istanbul Noir presents stories from a city at once ancient and modern, Asian and European, postcard-perfect and simmering with rage.

Akashic Books continues its groundbreaking series of original noir anthologies, launched in 2004 with Brooklyn Noir. Each story is set in a distinct neighborhood or location within the city of the book.

Brand-new stories by: Müge İplıkçı, Behçet Çelik, İsmail Güzelsoy, Lydia Lunch, Hikmet Hükümenoğlu, Riza Kiraç, Sadik Yemni, Bariş Müstecaplioğlu, Yasemın Aydinoğlu, Feryal Tilmaç, Mehmet Bılâl, İnan Çetın, Mustafa Ziyalan, Jessica Lutz, Tarkan Barlas, and Algan Sezgıntüredı.

Sergeant Logan McRae is in trouble...

His missing-persons investigation has just turned up a body in the woods — naked, hands tied behind its back, and a bin bag duct-taped over its head. The Major Investigation Team charges up from Aberdeen, under the beady eye of Logan’s ex-boss Detective Chief Inspector Steel. And, as usual, she wants him to do her job for her.

But it’s not going to be easy: a new Superintendent is on her way up from the Serious Organised Crime Task Force, hell-bent on making Logan’s life miserable; Professional Standards are gunning for Steel; and Wee Hamish Mowat, head of Aberdeen’s criminal underbelly, is dying — leaving rival gangs from all over the UK eying his territory.

There’s a war brewing and Logan’s trapped right in the middle, whether he likes it or not.

The sharpest, most stylized, and ambitious anthology of Native American literature ever published. Readers enter into a welter of troubled history throughout the Americans where the heritage of violence meets the ferocity of intent.

Riktor doesn’t like the way the policeman comes straight into the house without knocking. He doesn’t like the arrogant way he observes his home.The policeman doesn’t tell him why he’s there, and Riktor doesn’t ask. Because he knows he’s guilty of a terrible crime.

But it turns out that the policeman isn’t looking for a missing person. He is accusing Riktor of something totally unexpected. Riktor doesn’t have a clear conscience, but this is a crime he certainly didn’t commit.

When a six year old girl is found dead, hanging from a tree, the only clue the Oslo Police have to work with is an airline tag around her neck. It reads 'I'm travelling alone'. Holger Munch, veteran police investigator, is immediately charged with re-assembling his homicide unit. But to complete the team, he must convince his erstwhile partner, Mia Kruger – a brilliant but troubled investigator – to return from the solitary island where she has retreated with plans to take her own life. Reviewing the evidence, Mia identifies something no one else has noticed – a thin line carved into the dead girl's fingernail: the number 1. Instinctively, she knows that this is only the beginning. To save other children from the same fate, she must find a way to cast aside her own demons and confront the most terrifying, cold-hearted serial killer of her career…

In this gripping #1 New York Times bestseller from Queen of Suspense Mary Higgins Clark, a Manhattan ER doctor is brazenly murdered in front of his young son in a city playground. Five years later, his killer is still at large.

When Laurie Moran’s husband was brutally murdered, only three-year-old Timmy saw the face of his father’s killer. Five years later his piercing blue eyes still haunt Timmy’s dreams. Laurie is haunted by more-the killer’s threat to her son as he fled the scene: “Tell your mother she’s next, then it’s your turn…”

Now Laurie is dealing with murder again, this time as the producer of a true-crime, cold-case television show. The series will launch with the twenty-year-old unsolved murder of Betsy Powell. Betsy, a socialite, was found suffocated in her bed after a gala celebrating the graduation of her daughter and three friends. The sensational murder was news nationwide. Reopening the case in its lavish setting and with the cooperation of the surviving guests that night, Laurie is sure to have a hit on her hands. But when the estranged friends begin filming, it becomes clear each is hiding secrets…small and large.

And a pair of blue eyes is watching events unfold, too…

Hannah Ives struggled bravely through the ravages of illness, and fellow patient Valerie Stone was at her side. As cancer survivors they have a lot to celebrate when they meet again, but their reunion is short-lived. Soon Valerie is dead, and a suspicious Hannah must sift through a mountain of clues trying to uncover the cause of her friend's untimely death. But there are those in the big business of living and dying who think she's becoming too curious… and it's high time her questions were silenced.

Hannah Ives knows what it means to be a survivor. Now she's about to discover what it means to be a target.

"Joe Ide is a bad man: IQ is so hellaciously entertaining, deeply moving, and electrifyingly alive that you'll want to read it twice." – Lou Berney

"I don't know how fast Joe Ide writes, but from now on he'll have to write faster. Everyone who reads IQ will be clamoring for the next book, and for the one after that. This is one of the most intriguing-and appealing-detective characters to come along in years." – Carl Hiaasen

"Joe Ide's IQ is a wondrous double-helix of mean-street savvy entwined with classical detection, like Conan Doyle as channeled through Martin Scorsese. It's a terrific book." – Stephen Hunter

"With its street poetics and truer-than-life characters, this beautifully spun first novel is gonna blow through the crime fiction world like a fire hose-blast of fresh air. Joe Ide has that rarest of writerly skills-a wholly unique voice, one that is at once irreverent and compelling, moving and incisive. IQ will become a reader favorite. It will get glowing reviews. It will be nominated for awards. Let me save you waiting around for the word of mouth to reach you-buy this book now." – Gregg Hurwitz

"Isaiah Quintabe-known as I.Q.-is an unconventional unlicensed, underground detective solving problems for the disenfranchised people of Los Angeles, and Joe Ide's superb novel-IQ-is the one of the freshest and liveliest crime novels I have read in years. His debut heralds an exciting new voice in American crime fiction." – Adrian McKinty

"Joe Ide is the best new writer I've encountered in recent years. IQ is a terrific book with an unexpected story, whose lead character has great potential for a series." – John Sandford

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A resident of one of LA's toughest neighborhoods uses his blistering intellect to solve the crimes the LAPD ignores.

East Long Beach. The LAPD is barely keeping up with the neighborhood's high crime rate. Murders go unsolved, lost children unrecovered. But someone from the neighborhood has taken it upon himself to help solve the cases the police can't or won't touch.

They call him IQ. He's a loner and a high school dropout, his unassuming nature disguising a relentless determination and a fierce intelligence. He charges his clients whatever they can afford, which might be a set of tires or a homemade casserole. To get by, he's forced to take on clients who can pay.

This time it's a rap mogul whose life is in danger. As Isaiah investigates, he encounters a vengeful ex-wife, a crew of notorious cutthroats, a monstrous attack dog, and a hit man who even other hit men say is a lunatic. The deeper Isaiah digs, the more far reaching and dangerous the case becomes.

"A sure bet for one of the finest debut novels of the year." – Deborah Crombie

Secrets and lies can't stay buried forever in Cedar Valley.

In the summer, hikers and campers pack the small Colorado town's meadows and fields. And in the winter, skiers and snowboarders take over the mountains. Season by season, year after year, time passes and the lies, like the aspens and evergreens that surround the town, take root and spread deep.

Now, someone has uncovered the lies, and it is his murder that continues a chain of events that began almost forty years ago. Detective Gemma Monroe's investigation takes her from the seedy grounds of a traveling circus to the powerful homes of those who would control Cedar Valley's future.

Six-months pregnant, with a partner she can't trust and colleagues who know more than they're saying, Gemma tracks a killer who will stop at nothing to keep those secrets buried.

Beautifully written with a riveting plot and a richly drawn cast of characters, Inherit the Bones is a mesmerizing debut from Emily Littlejohn.

"An absolutely cracking, unputdownable mystery told by a narrator with one big, booming voice. I loved it." – Gillian Flynn

Just months after Rebekah Roberts was born, her mother, an Hasidic Jew from Brooklyn, abandoned her Christian boyfriend and newborn baby to return to her religion. Neither Rebekah nor her father have heard from her since. Now a recent college graduate, Rebekah has moved to New York City to follow her dream of becoming a big-city reporter. But she's also drawn to the idea of being closer to her mother, who might still be living in the Hasidic community in Brooklyn.Then Rebekah is called to cover the story of a murdered Hasidic woman. Rebekah's shocked to learn that, because of the NYPD's habit of kowtowing to the powerful ultra-Orthodox community, not only will the woman be buried without an autopsy, her killer may get away with murder. Rebekah can't let the story end there. But getting to the truth won't be easy-even as she immerses herself in the cloistered world where her mother grew up, it's clear that she's not welcome, and everyone she meets has a secret to keep from an outsider.In her riveting debut "Invisible City," journalist Julia Dahl introduces a compelling new character in search of the truth about a murder and an understanding of her own heritage.

After saving the Calgary Stampede from a potential terror attack in Glycerine, Detectives Lane and Li find themselves on the hunt yet again, this time following a pair of gruesome killers whose perfectly composed crime scenes match those of an inmate put away by Calgary Police years earlier. As more people come into the line of fire, Lane must team up with some unlikely new allies in order to crack the case.Meanwhile, with the birth of a new nephew, the happily chaotic Lane household must deal with the taciturn detective's estranged, fundamentalist family and their efforts to interfere in raising the child.

Icelander is the debut novel from a brilliant new mind, an intricate, giddy romp steeped equally in Nordic lore and pulpy intrigue.

When Shirley MacGuffin is found murdered one day prior to the annual town celebration in remembrance of Our Heroine’s mother — the legendary crime-stopper and evil-thwarter Emily Bean — everyone expects Our Heroine to follow in her mother’s footsteps and solve the case. She, however, has no interest in inheriting the family business, or being chased through steam-tunnels, or listening to skaldic karaoke, or fleeing the inhuman Refurserkir. But evil has no interest in her lack of interest.

A Nabokovian goof on Agatha Christie, a madcap mystery that is part The Third Policeman and part The Da Vinci Code, The Icelander is one thing above all else: a true original.