A glove made for Shakespeare's son Hamnet by his grandfather - is it genuine? Is it worth killing for? Is the Dolphin Theatre the place for it?

Dispatched to return fascist commander Col. Roberto Quesada to face the televised spectacle of trial in the United States, Able Team drops into the free-fire zone of El Salvador's Morazan province.

A Salvadoran army commando, obsessed with revenge for his "disappeared" father and brother, guides Able Team across a landscape of terror and atrocity.

Then a coded radio transmission from Washington, D.C. betrays Able Team. Battling against Stalinist assassins, the three North Americans pursue Quesada into the lost world of the Honduran mountains — where Pan-American Nazis are training the shock troopers of a New World Reich.

A bitter war rages in Afghanistan during the 80's. Growing desperate, the Soviet Union creates an exotic chemical weapon. They test their creation in a massive cave complex, in Khost, Afghanistan. Unknown to the Soviets, the chemical works in unimaginable ways.

Decades later, a team of Delta Force Operators goes missing in the same region. The lone survivor describes a nightmare that has awoken inside the cave. An elite group of special forces members from the Special Activities Division are sent in with one mission: kill everything inside the cave.

Elunia zdołała przełknąć odrobinę ożywczego napoju, ostrożnie odstawiła kieliszek, po czym chwyciła go ponownie i chlupnęła sobie więcej. Bieżan ze zrozumieniem kiwnął głową i ciągnął dalej: – Tak to ogólnie wygląda. A przy tym nikt niczego nie fałszuje, ofiary są zwyczajnie terroryzowane i same podpisują czeki…

Kolejna powieść, której akcja dzieje się w kasynie i na obrzeżach świata mafijnego. Bohaterka dość mimowolnie staje się dużym kłopotem dla szefów organizacji przestępczych, nie są oni jednak w stanie usunąć tego zagrożenia, kierowanego ręką losu…

Kontynuacja " Wszystkiego czerwonego ". Straszny ryk wyrwał mnie ze snu późną nocą. Na moment zastygłam w obawie, że dom się wali, ale zaraz przypomniałam sobie o rezerwuarze. Uspokojona, doczekałam chwili zamilknięcia urządzenia i zasnęłam na nowo. – Proponuję, żeby w nocy powstrzymywać się od spuszczania wody – rzekłam o poranku. Co wy na to? Wśród nocnej ciszy grzmi dubeltowo. – A kto spuszczał? – zainteresowała się Alicja. – Nie wiem. Ty albo Beata. – Przysięgam, że ja nie- zarzekła się Beata. Spałam jak kamień, a poza tym czuję się intruzem i z całej siły staram się być cicha, bezwonna i nieszkodliwa. – Nie czuj się – poradziła jej Alicja. Wyróżniałabyś się za mocno. Ja też nie, to kto? Joanna, może ty sama? – Nie sądzę. Trudno spuszczać wodę w wychodku, zarazem leżąc w łóżku. – A jesteś pewna, że poleciała? – Mam pokój najbliżej, tuż obok, niemożliwe było nie słyszeć. Żadna z was nie słyszała? – Ja nie – odparła Beata. – Coś mnie chyba obudziło, ale nie wiem co – wyznała Alicja. Możliwe, że ryk, ale widocznie ucichło, zanim się zdążyłam zastanowić.(z fragmentu książki)

Moskwa, rok 1936. Nastia Strzelecka jest na pozór przeciętną komsomołką i pracownicą fabryki „Sierp i Młot”. Wkrótce jednak ta nadzwyczaj sprawna fizycznie i zdeterminowana dziewczyna trafia pod opiekę wpływowego towarzysza Chołowanowa, sławnego pilota, zostaje przyjęta do kadry narodowej ZSRR i rozpoczyna intensywny kurs spadochroniarski. Kiedy podczas wielkiej powietrznej parady dochodzi do tragicznego wypadku, Nastia swoją niezłomną postawą zwraca uwagę samego towarzysza Stalina. Wódz przydziela ją do elitarnej jednostki służb specjalnych i Nastia rozpoczyna błyskawiczną karierę. Wygląda na to, że gotowa jest zrobić wszystko dla dobra komunizmu i Związku Radzieckiego…

James Bond w stylowej Moskwie roku 1900? Tak! Nazywa się Fandorin i tym razem szuka ukrytego w podziemiach skarbu. W tajemnicę zamieszana jest tytułowa Śmierć – piękna dziewczyna z półświatka, której kochankowie giną w dziwnych okolicznościach. Jedna z najlepszych powieści słynnego pisarza, łącząca porywającą intrygę kryminalną z mrocznym nastrojem w barwnej scenerii carskiej Rosji. Mimo podobieństwa tytułu, nowa książka nie jest dalszym ciągiem "Kochanki Śmierci". Znakomita zabawa i zarazem literatura wysokiej klasy!

1191. During excavation work at Glastonbury Abbey, an ancient leaden cross is discovered buried several feet below the ground. Inscribed on the cross are the words: Hic iacet sepultus inclitus rex arturius in insula avalonia. Here lies buried the renowned King Arthur in the Isle of Avalon. Beneath the cross, the labourers uncover a male and a female skeleton. Could these really be the remains of the legendary King Arthur and his queen, Guinevere? As the monks debate the implications of this extraordinary discovery, the bones disappear – spirited away by the mysterious Guardians, determined to keep King Arthur's remains safe until, it is believed, he will return in the hour of his country's greatest need. Over the following centuries, many famous historical figures including King Edward I, Shakespeare and even Napolean become entangled in the remarkable story of the fabled bones.

JANS FLEMINGS

KAZINO ROYALE

Džeimss Bonds saņem dīvainu uzdevumu - doties uz nelielu Francijas kūrortpilsētiņu, lai pie kāršu galda sacenstos ar kādu veiklu spēlmani. Vakarus viņš pavada lepnos restorānos, kopā ar jaunu, skaistu dāmu baudīdams izsmalcinātus ēdienus un dzērienus, bet vēlajās nakts stundās dodas uz kazino, kur spēlē bakarā uz vairāku miljonu vērtām likmēm.

Par šīs spēles galveno laimestu var kļūt aukstasinīga un viltīga slepkavas raidīta lode, jo aģenta 007 pretinieks gan kazino, gan ārpus tā, izrādās, ir viens no nežēlīgākajiem un prasmīgākajiem krievu spiegiem.

ROMĀNS

Apgāds «Artava» Rīgā

Nu angļu valodas tulkojusi Ilze Bērziņa Māksliniece Antra Mazika

© Tulkojums, noformējums «Artava»,

Mysterious, coded messages have come from the remotest, most dreaded former gulag in northern Siberia. They plead for a certain man to be sent to carry out the most astounding Russian secret of all. The man is Johnny Porter — fierce rebel, Rhodes scholar, loner outdoorsman, cynic, genius — the most memorable fiction hero of this decade. The account of how he gets in, finds the man — and woman — who sent for him, and tries to get their secret out is a masterpiece of wrenching excitement, shredding suspense, and immensely intelligent storytelling, with twists that continue until the very last page.

In einem See südlich von Reykjavik wird ein Toter entdeckt. Der Wasserspiegel hatte sich nach einem Erdbeben drastisch gesenkt und ein menschliches Skelett sichtbar werden lassen. Es ist an ein russisches Sendegerät angekettet. Ein natürlicher Tod ist ausgeschlossen. Hat man sich hier eines Spions entledigt? Erlendur, Elínborg und Sigurđur Óli von der Kripo Reykjavik werden mit der Lösung des Falls beauftragt. Ihre Nachforschungen führen sie in das Leipzig der Nachkriegsjahre, wo eine tragische Geschichte um Liebe, Verlust und berechnende Grausamkeit ihren Anfang nahm …

Tijdens haar stage op de afdeling Moordzaken van het plaatselijk Openbaar Ministerie, kwam Allison DuBois erachter dat ze een speciale gave had. Als ze de foto's en ander materiaal van de plaats delict klaarlegde voor de rechtszaak, zag ze de misdaad door de ogen van de dader. In plaats van haar gave te onderdrukken, besloot ze haar mogelijkheden ten volle te benutten. Nu helpt ze justitie bij het vinden van lichamen, het ontdekken van bewijs en het oplossen van zaken.

Stanley Johnson’s Kompromat is a brilliant satirical thriller that tells the story of 2016’s seismic and unexpected political events on both sides of the Atlantic.

The UK referendum on Britain’s membership of the EU was a political showdown the British PM, Jeremy Hartley, thought he couldn’t lose. But the next morning both he and the whole of the rest of the country woke in a state of shock.

America meanwhile has its own unlikely Presidential candidate, the brash showman Ronald Craig, a man that nobody thought could possibly gain office. Throw into the mix the cunning Russian President Igor Popov, with his plans to destabilise the west, and you have a brilliant alternative account of the events that end with Britain’s new PM attempting to seek her own mandate to deal with the Brexit related crisis and America welcoming its own new leader.

Now in development for a major new TV series, Kompromat is a fast-paced thriller from a true political insider, and who knows, it just might all be true!

When you’ve already got blood on your hands, what’s a little more?

Turner needs to start a new life and that means he needs cash… fast. So the twenty thousand he’s offered for a job sounds pretty good, even if it means killing Cuban dictator Fidel Castro. And he’s not alone. There are four other men—killers, idealists, mercenaries—all with the same target. Can they band together to overthrow Castro and get Turner his chance at a new life?

This ebook features an illustrated biography of Lawrence Block, including rare photos and never-before-seen documents from his personal collection, and a new afterword written by the author.

Masao, einziger Sohn einer reichen japanischen Unternehmerfamilie, tappt ahnungslos in eine Falle. Der Achtzehnjährige ist mit Onkel und Tante nach Amerika gekommen, um die Asche seiner Eltern heimzuholen, die bei einem Flugzeugunglück das Leben verloren haben. Noch ganz benommen vom Tod der Eltern und von der Testamentseröffnung, die ihn zum Alleinerben des Industrieimperiums macht, hört Masao Bruchstücke eines Gesprächs, und ein furchtbarer Argwohn steigt in ihm auf: Will ihn sein Onkel aus dem Weg räumen, um in den Besitz der Firma zu kommen?

Ein erster Fluchtversuch Masaos endet kläglich, und in der Nacht darauf wird der Verdacht zur Gewißheit: Masao soll sterben. In letzter Sekunde gelingt es dem Jungen zu entfliehen. Er schlägt sich nach New York durch. Auf abenteuerliche Weise entkommt er auch dort immer wieder den Häschern seines Onkels. Die Flucht führt Masao weiter, quer durch die Vereinigten Staaten, von der Ostküste bis nach Los Angeles, und als Masao schon glaubt, es geschafft zu haben, steht Teruo Sato, der Onkel, vor ihm …

Od kuli ginie była gwiazdka tenisa, dwudziestoczteroletnia Valerie Simpson. Przed śmiercią próbowała bezskutecznie umówić się z Myronem Bolitarem. Głównym podejrzanym jest klient Myrona, utalentowany czarnoskóry tenisista, Duane Richwood, który prawdopodobnie rozmawiał z Valerie dzień przed morderstwem. Prowadząc prywatne dochodzenie, Myron i jego przyjaciel, zblazowany psychopata Win Lockwood, wpadają na ślad zabójstwa popełnionego sześć lat wcześniej w ekskluzywnym klubie tenisowym.

Trzy kobiety cudem ocalały z brutalnego napadu. Napastnik poniósł karę. Ale nagle koszmar zaczyna się na nowo. Ktoś chce dokończyć swoje dzieło i mieć pewność, że tym razem nie będzie ocalonych.

Stone Barrington is back in New York, and after a rather harrowing sojourn in Key West, he's looking to stay closer to home and work on some simple divorce and custody cases for Woodman Weld. But when he crosses paths with a fetching Broadway actress-and sometime lip model- Stone gets a little more deeply involved with business than he'd expected. When his new lady love turns out to be a lady with a shady past, Stone and downtown cop Dino Bacchetti realize that her beauty may have an unusually high price…

Early one morning Jack jumps off a bus in the middle of nowhere and walks 14 miles down an empty country road. The minute he reaches the town of Margrave he is thrown into jail. As the only stranger in town, a local murder is blamed on him. However, it soon becomes clear that he is not the killer.

Andrew Bliss, art critic pens the phrase "art terrorism" to describe the murder of artist Dean Starr. No one suspects he knows anything about a crime committed in a gallery 12 years earlier. Detective Kathy Mallory wants to reopen the case and a number of people in high places start to get nervous.

Agentka FBI, Rachel Walling, dostaje w końcu wiadomość, której obawiała się przez lata – dowiaduje się, że Poeta powrócił. Wiele lat temu pracowała nad tą słynną sprawą, ścigając seryjnego mordercę wplatającego w swe ohydne zbrodnie fragmenty wierszy. Rachel nigdy nie zapomniała Roberta Backusa, zabójcy, który nazywał siebie Poetą – i najwidoczniej on również jej nie zapomniał.

U Harry'ego Boscha również dzwoni telefon. Emerytowany detektyw z policji Los Angeles dowiaduje się od żony dawnego przyjaciela o jego śmierci. Jej przyczyna wydaje się naturalna, lecz przyjaciel miał związek ze sprawą Poety – Harry rozpoczyna więc dogłębne poszukiwania – i wplątuje się przez to w niesamowitą, przerażającą aferę.

Właśnie tak rozpoczyna się najbardziej wciągająca, przejmująca i mistrzowsko napisana ze wszystkich powieści Michaela Connelly'ego. W „Kanale” Harry Bosch sprzymierza się z Rachel Walling, przeciwko FBI; razem podążają tropem najbardziej okrutnego i inteligentnego z morderców jakiego widziało Los Angeles. W pełnym napięcia, ekscytującym pościgu za rozwiązaniem zagadki, Harry Bosch trafia w surowy krajobraz pustyni Mojave, na pełen blasku bulwar Las Vegas, w mroczne zakamarki Los Angeles. Jednocześnie musi odnaleźć się w swej nowej roli, jako ojciec kilkuletniej córki, pogodzić największą miłość swego życia z poczuciem obowiązku i swą głęboką świadomością istnienia zła. Ta niezwykle dramatyczna i wstrząsająca powieść sprawi, że czytelnicy Michaela Connelly'ego z niecierpliwością czekać będą na następny utwór tego jednego z najlepszych amerykańskich pisarzy.

Historia prawdziwie przerażająca, w stylu Thomasa Harrisa, a to wielka pochwała. – Stephen King

Success can never be guaranteed in every case Alexandra Cooper prosecutes, but for once the odds are with her for putting away a serial rapist for a crime he committed over twenty years previously, but outside the courtroom another predator is at large. His first victim was a call-girl, a cat-o-nine-tails discovered near her body, and it seems as though Detectives Mike Chapman and Mercer Wallace need to look amongst her clients for the killer, but the discovery of other corpses, the modus operandi remarkably similar to the first, turns the investigation into a hunt for a random and viciously sadistic murderer. A part of his signature is that in the humid heat of summer he leaves his victims' remains in some of the least populated parts of New York – a derelict office building, an abandoned fort on an island below Manhattan. Alex fears it may be another twenty years before they can identify this monster, each day bringing the dread of news of another killing, then she, Chapman and Mercer get lucky and are able to give a name to their target. But that's not the same as putting him safely behind bars: to do that they are going to have to get close to him, much too close for Alex's own safety…

The #1 New York Times bestseller returns with a completely new setting-the magnificent natural beauty of Sun Valley, Idaho -and a heart-stopping story in which a local sheriff struggles to protect a controversial politician from the elegant plan of a hired assassin.

Eight years ago, in Sun Valley-snowcapped playground for the wealthy and ambitious-all that stood between U.S. Attorney General Elizabeth Shaler and a knife-wielding killer was local patrolman Walt Fleming. Now Liz Shaler returns to Sun Valley as the keynote speaker of billionaire Patrick Cutter's world-famous media and communications conference, a convergence of the richest, most powerful business tycoons. The controversial attorney general is expected to announce her candidacy for president. It's a media coup for Cutter-but a security nightmare for Walt Fleming, now the county sheriff.

As the Cutter conference gets under way, authorities learn of a confirmed threat on Shaler's life, and various competing interests-the Secret Service, the FBI, Cutter's own security forces -begin jockeying for jurisdiction. Amid the conference's opulent extravagances, Walt is suddenly shaken by an apparent murder, his nephew's arrest, and a haunting legacy from his family's past. The clock ticks down toward Shaler's keynote address as we track the chilling precision of her assassin's preparations.

The Natural History Museum's prize exhibit – a giant squid – suddenly disappears. This audacious theft leads Clem, the research scientist who has recently finished preserving the exhibit, into a dark urban underworld of warring cults and surreal magic. It seems that for some, the squid represents a god and should be worshiped as such. Clem gradually comes to realise that someone may be attempting to use the squid to trigger an apocalypse. And so it is now up to him and a renegade squid-worshiper named Dean to find a way of stopping the destruction of the world as they know it whilst themselves surviving the all out-gang warfare that they have unwittingly been drawn into…

A killer is on the loose, blurring the line between fact and fiction. His prey — the writers of crime novels who have turned psychological profilers into the heroes of the nineties. But this killer shatters all conventional wisdom, and for one woman, the desperate hunt to uncover his identity becomes a matter of life and death. Professor Fiona Cameron is an academic psychologist who uses computer technology to help police forces track serial offenders. She used to help the Met, but when they screwed up an investigation after ignoring her advice she vowed never to work for them again. Still smarting from the experience, she’s working a case in Toledo when her lover, thriller writer Kit Martin, tells her a fellow crime novelist has been murdered. It’s not her case, but Fiona can’t help taking an interest. Which is just as well, because before too long the killer strikes again. And again. And Fiona finds herself caught in a race against time not only to save a life but to bring herself redemption, both personal and professional.

From Publishers Weekly

Scottoline's previous thrillers (Dead Ringer; Courting Trouble; etc.) have featured the women of the all-female Philadelphia law firm Rosato and Associates, and have concerned the usual elements of murder, stalking, bribery and corruption. This novel by the former trial lawyer and Edgar Award winner, while embracing the requisite ingredients, is especially engaging because of its personal angle: growing out of Scottoline's discovery of her own grandparents' alien registration cards, the book involves the case of an Italian-American who was interned during WWII. Amadeo Brandolini emigrated from Italy to Philadelphia, where he started a family and worked as a fisherman. When the war broke out, the FBI arrested and imprisoned him (along with 10,000 other Italian-Americans). He lost everything and wound up committing suicide in the camp. Rosato and Associates' young star, Mary DiNunzio, steps up to represent Brandolini's estate as it sues for reparations. Mary "grew up in South Philly, where she'd learned to pop her gum, wear high heels, and work overtime" and silently prays to saints when she can't find things. This case, a pro bono one, means a lot to her; the local small business owners and family friends she grew up with want retribution for Brandolini as much as she does. Mary puts all of her energy into the job, and when clues suggest Brandolini's death may have been a homicide, she becomes even more enthralled. As Mary learns more, the enemy camp (another Italian-American family, the Saracones) turns its murderous eye on her. Scottoline skillfully weaves a complicated, gripping and fast-paced tale, at turns comical, nerve-wracking and enlightening.

"The White Rabbit beckons you to follow him, down the rabbit hole, into his world. He's a deceiver, a trickster. You won't know what is truth and what is a lie. He aims to best you. Beat you. And when he does, you die."

When a friend is found brutally murdered in her New Orleans apartment, former homicide detective Stacy Killian has reason to believe her death is related to the cultish fantasy role-playing game White Rabbit. The game is dark, violent – and addictive.

As a former member of the Dallas police force, Stacy was exposed to more than her share of the horrors of crime. Moving to New Orleans was her attempt to pursue a quieter life. But her friend's murder plunges her back into the role that she fled – especially after she meets Spencer Malone, the homicide detective assigned to the murder case. Stacy doubts the overconfident rookie is up to the task and vows to track down the killer herself.

Her investigation draws her into the privileged circle of White Rabbit's brilliant creator, Leo Noble, a man with many dark secrets in his past… a man whose life has the same frightening surreal quality of the game he invented.

As the bodies mount and the game is taken to the next level, Stacy and Spencer are forced to work together. Soon they are trapped in the terrifying world of a game gone mad where Leo Noble and all the people around him are suspect, cryptic notes foretell the next victim and no one – no one – is safe.

Because White Rabbit is more than a game. It's more real than life and death. And anyone can die before the final moment when the game is over… and the killer takes all.

Kate Brannigan, feisty Manchester-based PI, is back, investigating the bizarre case of the missing conservatories. Before Long she's up to her neck in crooked land deals, mortgage scams, financial chicanery – and murder. But when a favour for a friend puts Kate's own life in danger, bizarre is not the first word she thinks of…

Jest to drugi tom powesci o agencie Jasonie Bournie. "Miedzynarodowy spisek oplata siecia intrygi caly swiat. Jej macki siegaja z Hongkongu do Waszyngtonu i Pekinu. Wplatany wbrew swojej woli w zagadkowa i bezwzgledna gre superagent Jason Bourne znow musi walczyc i zabijac. W miare jak zrywa kolejne zaslony falszu, przekonuje sie, ze stawka jest zycie ukochanej kobiety i utrzymanie niepewnej rownowagi miedzy mocarstwami…"

"Engrossing…

[with] meticulous characterizations." – People

"Like the atmosphere of casual malevolence in Shirley Jackson's 'The Lottery' or the contagious suspicion that fuels Rod Serling's 'The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street,' creepiness spreads like kudzu in Slaughter's small-town setting." – Washington Post Book World

"Karin Slaughter deserves all the praise she gets for her razor-sharp plotting and forensic detail. But for me the hook is in her characters and relationships.

They are right on the mark." – Michael Connelly

"The undertone of violence is pervasive, even at quiet moments, amplifying Slaughter's equation of intimacy with menace and placing her squarely in the ranks of Cornwell and Reichs." – Publishers Weekly

"A fast-paced thriller for those not faint of heart." – Library Journal

"It's not easy to transcend a model like Patricia Cornwell, but Slaughter does so in a thriller whose breakneck plotting and not-for-the-squeamish forensics provide grim manifestations of a deeper evil her mystery trumpets without ever quite containing." – Kirkus Reviews

"With Blindsighted, Karin Slaughter left a great many thriller writers looking anxiously over their shoulders.

With Kisscut, she leaves most of them behind…

It succeeds brilliantly." – John Connolly

"A tension-filled narrative with plenty of plot twists… This is just the ticket for readers who like their crime fiction on the dark side." – Booklist

"Impossible to put down… Slaughter hits all the buttons, providing an original and well-plotted story that doesn't let up until the final sentence." – Orlando Sentinel

"Karin Slaughter is an impressive new landmark on the thriller map." – Val McDermid

"Slaughter delivers a noir thriller complete with a brooding atmosphere that veers into Southern gothic tradition… [She] gives us an understanding about victims that only a well-constructed hard-boiled novel can. This is a novel that has staying power, because she makes us care so much about the characters." – Florida Sun-Sentinel

"Though her forensics and investigative writing place her in a league with Patricia Cornwell and Kathy Reichs, Slaughter's tweaking of the human condition is key to making her a uniquely original voice in the world of mystery and suspense." – Mississippi Clarion Ledger

"Karin Slaughter is a fearless writer. She takes us to the deep, dark places other novelists don't dare to go. Kisscut will cement her reputation as one of the boldest thriller writers working today." – Tess Gerritsen

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Amazon.com Review

When police chief Jeffrey Tolliver responds to a disturbance at a local skating rink, the last thing he expects is to have to shoot a 13-year-old girl who's holding a gun on a fellow student. Then Jenny Deaver's autopsy reveals two stunning facts: she did not bear the murdered newborn discovered in the rink's restroom, and she had recently been genitally mutilated. With his ex-wife, pediatrician Sara Linton, Jeffrey uncovers a child sex and pornography ring involving Jenny, her classmates, and their mothers-a horrific enterprise that culminated in the killing that Tolliver will never be able to forget. This taut, chilling thriller showcases Karin Slaughter's skill at plotting, pace, and narrative, and will linger in the reader's mind long after the stunning denouement. This is a terrific sequel to her debut, Blindsighted, with two protagonists whose complex relationship will no doubt be a featured subplot in her next offering.

From Publishers Weekly

Aptly named novelist Slaughter (Blindsighted) brings back her horribly scarred cast of Grant County, Ga., cops and coroners for more murder, mayhem and horrific sexual violence. Pathologist Sara Linton, who has been dating her ex-husband, police chief Jeffrey Tolliver, is witness to Tolliver's fatal shooting of a teenage girl when the girl threatens to shoot a 16-year-old boy in a standoff outside the local skating rink. A search of the rink turns up a dismembered fetus in a toilet; Sara's postmortem reveals the girl had a long history of abuse most gruesomely, her vagina is sewn shut. Working the case alongside Jeffrey is Det. Lena Adams, herself the victim of a recent abduction and rape, who is also trying, with difficulty, to come to terms with the death of her gay sister. Questioning Mark, the boy who was almost shot, Lena gradually uncovers a true horror show of pedophilia, incest and kiddie porn, an inverted world where parents rape their children before peddling them to strangers for money and blackmail. Slaughter adheres to the traditional mystery format, but turns up the shock factor tenfold, demonstrating that the deepest depravity can be business as usual in small towns as well as big cities. The undertone of violence is pervasive, even at quiet moments (" Lena was able to pull her hand away, but not before she felt Grace's thumb brush across the scar… The touch was tender, almost sexual, and Lena could see the charge Grace got out of it"), amplifying Slaughter's equation of intimacy with menace and placing her squarely in the ranks of Cornwell and Reichs. (Sept.) Forecast: Slaughter's much-praised first novel, Blindsighted, put her on the thriller map. Kisscut, a featured alternate selection of the Literary Guild, Doubleday Book Club, Mystery Guild and BOMC, could make her a bestseller. 10-city author tour.

When Irene Kelly's articles profiling missing children run in the Las Piernas Express, she anticipates the renewed public interest and the deluge of phone tips and remembered clues; she even anticipates the renewed pain of the anguished parents. What she doesn't expect is that the articles will set off a murderous chain reaction – and put her life in peril.

Perhaps one of the more tragic disappearances in recent Las Piernas history was that of Jenny Fletcher, just shy of her fourth birthday. The body of Jenny's father, Richard, a graphic artist, was found bludgeoned in his studio; hours later Jenny's stepbrother Mason was apprehended with the murder weapon and bloody clothing in his car. But little Jenny was never found. As the years pass, everyone assumes Jenny is dead. Everyone except her brother Caleb, who not only believes Jenny survived but steadfastly believes in Mason's innocence.

Caleb, now a graduate student studying with forensic anthropologist Ben Sheridan, works on cases for the Las Piernas Police Department. When bones are discovered at the old Sheffield estate just days after the missing-children articles appear, Caleb finds himself drawn into a case that threatens to bring personal tragedies back to the present. He has a fierce ally in reporter Irene Kelly, who will stop at nothing to solve the mysteries of his father's murder and his sister's disappearance.

The Walter Mosley and his new hero, Leonid McGill, are back in the new New York Times-bestselling mystery series that's already being hailed as a classic of contemporary noir.

Leonid McGill-the protagonist introduced in The Long Fall, the book that returned Walter Mosley to bestseller lists nationwide -is still fighting to stick to his reformed ways while the world around him pulls him in every other direction. He has split up with his girlfriend, Aura, because his new self won't let him leave his wife-but then Aura's new boyfriend starts angling to get Leonid kicked out of his prime, top-of-theskyscraper office space. Meanwhile, one of his sons seems to have found true love-but the girl has a shady past that's all of sudden threatening the whole McGill family-and his other son, the charming rogue Twilliam, is doing nothing but enabling the crisis.

Most ominously of all, Alfonse Rinaldo, the mysterious power-behind- the-throne at City Hall, the fixer who seems to control every little thing that happens in New York City, has a problem that even he can't fix- and he's come to Leonid for help. It seems a young woman has disappeared, leaving murder in her wake, and it means everything to Rinaldo to track her down. But he won't tell McGill his motives, which doesn't quite square with the new company policy- but turning down Rinaldo is almost impossible to even contemplate.

Known to Evil delivers on all the promise of the characters and story lines introduced in The Long Fall, and then some. It careens fast and deep into gritty, glittery contemporary Manhattan, making the city pulse in a whole new way, and it firmly establishes Leonid McGill as one of the mystery world's most iconic, charismatic leading men.

Pełna dramatyzmu powieść o chciwości, zdradzie, sabotażu, niebezpieczeństwie i związkach, które prowadzą do zbrodni. Roffe Sons, potężna międzynarodowa korporacja farmaceutyczna, na czele której stoją zdesperowani, żądni pieniędzy członkowie rodziny Roffe, traci swego właściciela, jednego z najbogatszych ludzi na świecie, który ginie w tajemniczym wypadku, pozostawiając zarządzanie imperium swojej jedynej córce. Elżbieta, inteligentna, ambitna i piękna kobieta, wbrew oczekiwaniom pozostałych członków rodziny, nie zgadza się po śmierci ojca na sprzedaż Roffe Sons. Postanawia nie tylko ocalić firmę od bankructwa, ale doprowadzić ją do dawnej świetności. Aby tego dokonać, musi zmierzyć się z tymi, którzy podstępnie usiłują jej w tym przeszkodzić, jak również z tym, który czyha na jej życie…

Do wybrzeży Stanów Zjednoczonych zbliża się statek z nielegalnymi chińskimi imigrantami na pokładzie.

Przemytem tych ludzi kieruje nieuchwytny Kwang Ang, poszukiwany przez policję wielu krajów. Okręt tonie niedaleko brzegu, ale części imigrantów udaje się dotrzeć do lądu. Kwang Ang znika w Nowym Jorku, a Lincoln Rhyme zostaje poproszony o pomoc w poszukiwaniach przestępcy, który nie zawaha się przed zgładzeniem każdego, kto mógłby go zidentyfikować. Wszystkim ocalałym z katastrofy Chińczykom grozi śmierć. Rhyme musi ująć mordercę, zanim ten do nich dotrze.

Lincoln Rhyme to jeden z najwybitniejszych kryminalistyków na świecie. Od czasu tragicznego wypadku jest sparaliżowany od szyi w dół. Przykuty do łóżka planuje samobójstwo, gdy od swojego dawnego partnera z policji otrzymuje propozycję, której nie może odrzucić…

Kolekcjoner Kości – morderca i porywacz mający obsesję na punkcie starego Nowego Jorku – zostawia wskazówki, które tylko Lincoln Rhyme może odszyfrować. W wyznaczonym czasie, dzielącym od śmierci kolejne ofiary, Lincoln Rhyme i Amelia Sachs – policjantka, która jest jego rękami i nogami – starają się znaleźć miejsca ukrycia porwanych, korzystając ze wskazówek podrzuconych przez Kolekcjonera Kości.

Powoli kryminalistyk zawęża krąg poszukiwań wokół porywacza. Jednak okazuje się, że Kolekcjoner Kości ma swoje plany i zaciska pętlę wokół Lincolna Rhyme'a…

W Edynburgu zaginęła studentka… Tyle że nie jakaś tam, a córka niezwykle zamożnego i wielce wpływowego bankiera. Brak wszelkich śladów, a detektyw inspektor John Rebus nabiera przeświadczenia, iż chodzi tu o coś więcej niźli tylko wyskok zbuntowanej smarkuli, której do głowy uderzyły pieniądze tatusia i nie tylko. Pojawiają się dwa tropy: drewniana laleczka w piętnastocentymetrowej trumience, którą ktoś podrzucił nad brzegiem strumienia i interaktywna gra internetowa, którą zarządza tajemniczy cybernetyczny guru. Dramatyczne zdarzenia i zawzięty upór detektywa, który woli słuchać starych longplayów niż plików MP3 powodują, że historia i współczesność zaczynają się z sobą mieszać i wzajemnie przenikać.

Jim Rook, nauczyciel angielskiego w West Grove Community College w Los Angeles, obdarzony zdolnością postrzegania zjawisk nadprzyrodzonych, ma od nowego roku nową podopieczną – Indiankę Navaho Catherine Biały Ptak. Po jakimś czasie do szkoły z różnych źródeł zaczynają napływać groźne sygnały. Duch dziadka zapowiada nadejście tajemniczego zagrożenia ze wschodu; ktoś demoluje szkolną szatnię; policja znajduje nieludzko zmasakrowane zwłoki chłopca Catherine. Rook dowiaduje się, że Catherine jest rytualnie zaręczona z Indianinem z Arizony, który wysłał za nią demoniczną bestię w celu ostrzeżenia jej przed nawiązaniem stosunków z mężczyznami. Ofiarą bestii pada narzeczona Jima. Demon, będący wcieleniem złośliwego indiańskiego ducha Coyote, planuje masakrę wszystkich uczniów Rooka…

Former SAS legend Chris Ryan brings you his sixteenth novel and it is full of all his trademark action, thrills and inside knowledge.2003. Invalided out of the SAS Chet Freeman makes his living in high-end security, on a temporary contract for an American corporation called the Grosvenor Group. He catches a young woman, a peace campaigner, eavesdropping on a meeting the Group is holding with the British Prime Minister. The Group’s interests include arms manufacture, and what Chet and the young woman overhear seems to imply that it is bribing the Prime Minister to take his country into an illegal war. Could this possibly be true?

Somebody believes that this is a secret that needs covering up, because Chet and the girl are attacked. Hunted down, they go into hiding, and a deadly game of cat and mouse begins.

Nearly ten years later tension is reaching breaking point in Jerusalem. The now ex-Prime Minister is working as a Middle East peace envoy. As the city descends into anarchy and rival armies are poised to turn it into a battlefield, Chet’s best buddy, Luke, is part of a team tasked by the Regiment with extracting the ex-Prime Minister.

At the height of the battle Luke discovers a conspiracy far more devastating than any arms deal.

When you're in your late twenties and nothing in your life seems to be falling into place, knitting is an awfully seductive way to spend your free time. After all, as long as you're following the instructions, you can knit row after row with the knowledge that the pattern will emerge and you'll end up with just what you wanted. Life, on the other hand, doesn't come with a stitch counter, so Kathleen, Sari, and Lucy, the heroines of KNITTING UNDER THE INFLUENCE, just have to figure things out as they go along.

Their weekly Sunday knitting circle is the only thing holding them together as Kathleen is cut off financially by her family and forced to enter 'the real world' for the very first time at the age of twenty-seven, Sari finds herself falling for the man who made her life a living hell in high school but who now desperately needs her help, and Lucy finds herself torn between emotion and reason when her lab and her boyfriend are assailed by an animal-rights group.

At their club meetings, they discuss the really important questions: how bad is it, really, to marry for money if you like the guy a lot anyway? Can you ever forgive someone for something truly atrocious that they've done? Is it better to be unhappily coupled than happily alone? And the little ones: Can you wear a bra with a hand-knit tube top? Is it ever acceptable to knit something for a boyfriend? And why do your stitches become lopsided after your second martini?

In Claire LaZebnik's hilarious and sometimes heartbreaking novel, Sari, Lucy, and Kathleen's lives intersect, overlap, unravel, and come back together-the result is an utterly satisfying read.

Zdecydowanie pierwsze słowo jakie ciśnie się na usta kiedy słyszymy nazwisko Grahama Mastertona to "Manitou". Również dla mnie jest to jedna z tych powieści, które otworzyły przede mną świat literackiej grozy i pokazały mi, że czasem można bać się zwykłej kartki papieru, pokrytej niepozornymi plamkami tuszu… Czy zatem może dziwić fakt, że Mistrz, świadomy wartości tamtej powieści, pokusił się o kontynuację swojego najlepszego dzieła?

Harry Erskine, po śmierci Śpiewającej Skały, ponownie wiedzie żywot prowincjonalnego wróżbity, stopniowo coraz mniej dowierzając własnej pamięci, zwłaszcza jeśli chodzi o wydarzenia związane z walką z Misquamacusem. Nic nie wskazuje na to, aby w jego życiu znów miały pojawić się zdarzenia ścinające krew w żyłach, ale los wydaje się szykować kolejną niespodziankę. Jakże wielkie musiało być zdziwienie Harrego, kiedy okazało się, że za epidemią wampiryzmu szalejącą w Nowym Jorku, stoi jego największy koszmar senny – szaman Misquamacus, tym razem sprzymierzony z samym Księciem Ciemności – wampirem Draculą. Na szczęście Śpiewająca Skała również tym razem przybędzie, aby wesprzeć przyjaciela w walce z demonami ciemności.

Muszę przyznać, że Harry Erskine jest jedną z moich ulubionych postaci w książkach Mastertona. Życiowy nieudacznik, którego okrutny los stawia przed trudnymi wyzwaniami, stawia im dzielnie czoła z podziwu godnym uporem. Jak wypadła kontynuacja najlepszej do tej pory powieści Grahama? Z przykrością muszę odnotować, że wpisuje się ona niestety w szereg powieści "wypluwanych" seryjnie przez tego autora na zamówienie. Owszem znajdziecie tu ciekawe, barwne opisy, wartką akcję, ale już fabuła i pomysł aby połączyć europejskie wampiry z pradawną indiańską magią wywołuje jedynie uśmiech politowania na twarzy miłośnika horroru. Niestety, bo saga Manitou zasługuje chyba na lepszą kontynuację. Do plusów zaliczyłbym z pewnością niezwykłą plastyczność opisów. Matsterton przyzwyczaił nas do tego, że z wielką łatwością posługuje się słowem, tworząc barwne indywidualności, niemalże żyjące własnym życiem na kartach książki. Z przyjemnością spotkałem ponownie Erskina czy Śpiewającą Skałę. Warto sięgnąć po tę książkę, jeśli prawdziwą estymą darzysz pierwsze powieści Mastertona – pamiętaj jednak, że jak wiele powieści tego autora to jedynie miła rozrywka na jeden wieczór. Po jej przeczytaniu pewnie do niej nie wrócisz, ale miły smak krwi w ustach z pewnością będzie towarzyszył lekturze.

Profesor Nathan Underhill, próbuje wyhodować mitycznego gryfa, by z niego pozyskać materiał do badań nad komórkami macierzystymi i zastosowaniem ich w leczeniu wielu chorób, wobec których medycyna była dotychczas bezradna. Doktor Christian Zauber, dyrektor Domu Spokojnej Starości Murdstone, także pracuje nad odtworzeniem mitycznej istoty – bazyliszka. On jednak korzysta w swej pracy z alchemii i czarnej magii. Podczas nocnej wizyty w domu starców, Nathan i jego żona Grace odkrywają potworną tajemnicę Zaubera. Niestety wyprawa kończy się tragicznie – Grace, porażona spojrzeniem bazyliszka, zapada w śpiączkę. Tymczasem doktor Zauber znika. Na pomoc Nathanowi przychodzi młoda dziennikarka, która trafia na ślad doktora ukrywającego się w Krakowie. W pięknej scenerii krakowskiej Starówki rozpoczyna się śmiertelna gra, w której amerykański naukowiec walczy o życie z przerażającym potworem powołanym do życia przez szaleńca o nadludzkich zdolnościach.

The New York Times bestselling author of the acclaimed Nina Reilly series returns with a bold and gripping new work, a masterful stand-alone that will delight devoted fans – and garner legions of new ones. This haunting and original tale of love, obsession, and the secrets that we keep – especially from ourselves – begins with a sudden, inexplicable vanishing.

For ambitious, troubled architect Ray Jackson, the questions start one sultry California summer night when his wife, Leigh, disappears. No phone call, no ransom note, no body to reveal whether she has left of her own accord and is alive, or is dead. Although it's clear they had a passionate, close relationship, Ray Jackson is not looking for his wife. Why?

Enter Kathleen, old friend of Leigh's, who shows up demanding answers. Ray wants answers, too, but his questions seem strange and shady to Kat.

Suspected by his wife's best friend and the police, Ray launches a desperate, alarming search of his own. Using a collection of keys he has hoarded since he was a boy – keys to homes he once lived in – Ray invades each house, one by one.

Will he unlock secrets from his past that will help him make sense of a life that appears to be disintegrating? Or will he expose chilling secrets that may have scarred him past redemption?

Kat can't figure him out. Still, hoping to find answers to her own gnawing, emotional questions, she throws in her lot with him, at times terrified he killed her friend, and at other times convinced he's an innocent man.

Past and present collide as the deceits and subterfuges are exposed, and Ray Jackson is confronted with the most agonizing decision of his life – to face his own violence-laden past, acting to prevent another murder – or not. His choice will leave nothing and no one the same.

‘Cancel all appointments and unplug the phone. Once started you will do nothing until you finish this thriller’ Harpers & Queen

‘A chilling study of obsession [with] a nail-biting climax’ Sunday Telegraph

‘A real frightener’ Literary Review

‘Compulsive… sexy and scary’ Elle

‘Not only a nail-biting read, but also has great insight into male and female desire, obsession, self-destructiveness and the wilder shores of love’ Daily Telegraph

‘Tremendous suspense and sharp observation’ Mail on Sunday

‘A nail-biting tale of love on the brink of insanity’ Daily Mirror

‘The pace is fast, compelling, the slickness of the prose makes the sudden jolts of horror particularly blood-freezing’ Guardian

Taylor Lockwood pracuje jako aplikantka w jednej z najznakomitszych nowojorskich kancelarii prawniczych z Wall Street. Znakomity adwokat, Mitchell Reece, prosi ją o pomoc w poszukiwaniu ukradzionego dokumentu. Taylor, zafascynowana przystojnym, błyskotliwym mężczyzną i zaintrygowana sprawą, przyjmuje jego propozycję. Im bardziej jednak zagłębia się w tajemnice firmy Hubbard, White and Willis, tym większe ogarnia ją przerażenie.

„Konflikt interesów” to nie tylko doskonale napisana powieść sensacyjna – zaglądając za zamknięte drzwi szacownej firmy prawniczej, pracującej na potrzeby wielkich korporacji finansowych, poznajemy zasady funkcjonowania Wall Street, a także zwyczaje, słabości i motywy działania rekinów amerykańskiej finansjery.

From Publishers Weekly

The 11th adventure of Santa Teresa, Calif., PI Kinsey Milhone has a dark tone-due in great part to Kinsey's working this case mostly at night. Kinsey agrees to look into the 10-month-old death of Lorna Kepler, a young woman whose decomposed body was discovered in her cabin so long after death that it was impossible to determine the cause. Kinsey's client, Lorna's mother, who works the night shift in a 24-hour diner, suspects murder. So does Kinsey, especially after investigating Lorna's effects and her considerable assets, some unaccounted-for. An anonymously delivered pornographic tape adds to the emerging portrait of the dead woman as an intriguingly self-sufficient, ambitious woman of the evening. In nighttime forays, Kinsey talks to an all-night deejay whom Lorna often visited at his studio; she meets-and befriends-a prostitute who occasionally teamed up with Lorna to party with clients. She also investigates the victim's day job as a part-time receptionist for the water district, where a high-stakes development project is currently raising tempers. A host of suspects includes a porn filmmaker in San Francisco, members of Lorna's family, her landlord, the water district employees and even a smooth-dressing cop, whom Kinsey talks to at night. But lack of sleep dulls Kinsey's perceptions and it takes two more deaths and the surprise appearance of a deus ex limousine to lead her to a solution. Even sleep-deprived, Kinsey shows spunk and appeal, but she is not at her sharpest here. 600,000 first printing; author tour.

Porucznik Eve Dallas z wydziału zabójstw nowojorskiej policji ma przed sobą trudne zadanie. Piękna, sławna modelka Pandora została w brutalny sposób zamordowana, a główną podejrzaną o zbrodnię jest Mavis Freestone, najserdeczniejsza przyjaciółka Eve. Dallas, przekonana o jej niewinności, postanawia wykryć prawdziwego sprawcę. Jednak coraz to nowe dowody świadczą przeciwko Mavis i wszyscy radzą Eve, aby zakończyła śledztwo. Wierna przyjaźń obu kobiet zostaje wystawiona na ciężką próbę.

"Kształt wody" to pierwsza z prezentowanych polskiemu czytelnikowi powieści tego niezwykle popularnego we Włoszech autora.

W Vigacie zostaje odnalezione ciało inżyniera Luparello, lokalnej osobistości. Według orzeczenia biegłych, przyczyną śmierci był atak serca spowodowany "przedawkowaniem" uciech erotycznych. Komisarz Montalbano, pomimo nacisków, ociąga się z zamknięciem śledztwa, i to nie tylko dlatego, że denat uchodził za człowieka ostrożnego i raczej wstrzemięźliwego. Pewne osoby zachowują się dziwnie, a w pobliżu zwłok odnajdują się zagadkowe przedmioty. Wszystko to najwyraźniej świadczy, że ktoś próbuje skompromitować inżyniera. Potwierdza to śledztwo komisarza, odkrywające coraz to nowe, niespodziewane tropy.

An American general is captured in the Middle East by terrorists who threaten to behead him within days. One strange fact: moments before he is rendered unconscious during the attack, the general notices that his captors speak American English. What's going on?

Gunnery Sgt. Kyle Swanson, a top Marine sniper, is vacationing on a yacht in the Mediterranean when he receives orders to mount a top secret mission to rescue the general. But as the Marines prepare to land in the Syrian desert, they fall victim to a terrible accident. Swanson, the only survivor, then discovers they were also flying into an ambush. How did the enemy have details of a mission known only to a few top American government officials?

Swanson takes off across the desert alone to find the captured general and realizes he is fighting a particularly ruthless and dangerous enemy: American mercenaries working for a very-high-level group of U.S. officials with ties to the White House itself, part of a clandestine conspiracy whose hidden goal is nothing less than total control of the American military. Their sworn enemy is the captured general whose fate now rests in Swanson's hands.

Filled with the kind of action that author Jack Coughlin lived during his career as a Marine sniper, Kill Zone marks the debut of an extraordinary new series.

In this third installment of Pearson's Sun Valley series, KILLER SUMMER takes us back to the high-stakes world of the wealthy and politically connected – just in time for the area's 17th Annual Wine Auction. The world's most elite wine connoisseurs have descended on Sun Valley to taste and bid on the world's best wines, including three bottles which are said to have been a gift from Thomas Jefferson to John Adams.

With sky-high prices all but guaranteed for these priceless items, it's no wonder a group of thieves is out to steal them. Sheriff Walt Fleming is responsible for all aspects of the auction, from security of the dignitaries to the physical safety of the auction site to the transportation and security of the rare wines themselves. When a bomb explodes just as the auction revs up, Walt is thrown headlong into the fray, investigating not just an explosion, but an even bigger heist planned by a criminal mastermind who will stop at nothing to gain his prize.

When the newly promoted captain of the NYPSD and his wife return a day early from their vacation, they were looking forward to spending time with their bright and vivacious sixteen-year-old daughter who had stayed behind.

Not even their worst nightmares could have prepared them for the crime scene that awaited them instead. Brutally murdered in her bedroom, Deena's body showed signs of trauma that horrified even the toughest of cops; including our own Lieutenant Eve Dallas, who was specifically requested by the captain to investigate.

When the evidence starts to pile up, Dallas and her team think they are about to arrest their perpetrator; little do they know yet that someone has gone to great lengths to tease and taunt them by using a variety of identities. Overconfidence can lead to careless mistakes. But for Dallas, one mistake might be all she needs to bring justice.

Matt Cahill was an ordinary man leading a simple life until a shocking accident changed everything. Now he can see a nightmarish netherworld that exists within our own. Now he’s on a dangerous quest for the answers to who he is and what he has become…and engaged in an epic battle to save us, and his soul, from the clutches of pure evil.

When Matt wanders into a struggling Nevada tourist trap recreation of an “old west” town, he’s unaware that he’s being trailed by a Special Ops team of professional mercenaries hired by a University desperate to unlock the secret behind his resurrection…and that he’s put everyone around him in dire jeopardy. The mercenaries have no intention of letting Matt escape…or letting any witnesses survive. Matt finds himself in a deadly bind. Somehow he must rally the peaceful citizens into defending themselves against the sadistic, well-armed mercenaries… or sacrifice himself to save them from certain death.

When a skier goes missing at Sun Valley 's Galena Summit, Sheriff Walt Fleming quickly assembles his crack search-and-rescue team and heads out into the snowy night. Despite the treacherous conditions, Walt and his group, including deputy Tommy Brandon and Walt's best friend, Mark Aker, set off on skis, accompanied by highly trained search dogs. Within minutes, something goes horribly wrong: a shot rings out, and one of their team is dead. By morning, Mark Aker has disappeared.

Torn between professional responsibility and the desperate urge to find his friend, Walt is further challenged by an unexplained illness at a local water bottling plant that sends workers to the hospital and sets off biohazard warnings. Following threads of questionable evidence through the glitter of Sun Valley leads Walt to an unlikely – and darker – source, and reveals a crime played out on a much larger scale than he originally envisioned. Waist-deep in snow and knee-deep in lies, the life of his friend in the balance, Walt begins to suspect that the whole operation is controlled by people of great wealth and power, which leaves him where he started: out in the cold.

No one but Japanese-American assassin John Rain can win the game of cross and double cross he encounters in this new novel of sexy international intrigue in the series.

Torn between his past as a soldier and his vocation as a killer, longing for attachment but forced to operate alone, and haunted by the fear that one day there must be a reckoning for the things he has done, John Rain moves like a dark ghost through Tokyo and the other urban landscapes in which his Asian features enable him to operate undetected. His ability to make death appear to have been of “natural causes” keeps his reluctant services in constant demand.

In Killing Rain, Rain has a new employer, the Mossad – which needs an operator who can remove “problems” in Asia – and a new partner: Dox, the ex-marine sniper and party animal first introduced in Rain Storm. He also has a new hope that by using his fearsome talents in the service of something good, he might atone for all the lives he has already taken. But when Rain’s freshly awakened conscience causes him to botch an assignment, turning what should have been a surgical hit into a massacre, he finds himself running both from the Mossad and from the CIA. Can he trust Delilah, the alluring Israeli agent whom he once fought and then loved, to save him now?

New York Times bestselling author Karen Rose delivers another pulse-pounding suspense novel that ties into SCREAM FOR ME.

Five teenage girls have been murdered. One survived, and only she can reveal the secrets of a disturbing ring of people who kidnap and sell teenage girls on the black market. But those responsible for the crimes will do whatever it takes to maintain her silence.

Susannah Vartanian and Luke Papadopoulos have both sworn to stop the murderers for their own reasons. Susannah, the sister of the hero in SCREAM FOR ME, suffers from a mysterious past that is connected to the sinister black market. Luke is an investigative agent and a computer expert who refuses to let another child predator get away.

Susannah and Luke are instantly attracted to each other, but their troubled pasts prevent them from immediately acting upon their feelings. The case will lead them to the shady realm of Internet chat rooms, where anyone can mask their identity. As Susannah and Luke draw closer to the criminals, they discover a chain of deception so intricate they don't know who to trust. Susannah and Luke find comfort in one another's arms, but the killers are ruthless and determined, and will take extreme measures to insure their anonymity and keep their business intact.

An exciting new series featuring Mike “Primetime” Brown, a character from her popular “Black Ops, Inc.” series.

For the seven years after Operation Slam Dunk went south, Mike Brown got drunk on each anniversary. The eighth year was no different—until he was drugged by a woman and woke up to her questions about what had happened eight years ago in Afghanistan. CIA attorney Eva Salinas has her own theory behind what happened to Mike’s team—which included her husband—in Afghanistan eight years ago, and she’s determined to prove foul play. Though she doesn’t trust him, Mike is the only person she can turn to for help. Under an assumed name, Eva convinces Mike to assemble a new team and go after the traitor who screwed up both their lives. As they track down the rogue who started it all, Eva and Mike discover they can’t live without each other. But can they stay alive while an enemy is still on the loose?

A new novel by the Bram Stoker Award-winning author of THE TURTLE BOY.

On a scorching hot summer day in Elkwood, Alabama, Claire Lambert staggers naked, wounded, and half-blind away from the scene of an atrocity. She is the sole survivor of a nightmare that claimed her friends, and even as she prays for rescue, the killers—a family of cannibalistic lunatics—are closing in.

A soldier suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder returns from Iraq to the news that his brother is among the murdered in Elkwood.

In snowbound Detroit, a waitress trapped in an abusive relationship gets an unexpected visit that will lead to bloodshed and send her back on the road to a past she has spent years trying to outrun.

And Claire, the only survivor of the Elkwood Massacre, haunted by her dead friends, dreams of vengeance… a dream which will be realized as grief and rage turn good people into cold-blooded murderers and force alliances among strangers.

It’s time to return to Elkwood.

In the spirit of such iconic horror classics as The Texas Chainsaw Massacre and Deliverance, Kin begins at the end and studies the possible aftermath for the survivors of such traumas upon their return to the real world—the guilt, the grief, the thirst for revenge—and sets them on an unthinkable journey… back into the heart of darkness.

Review

“From the first chapter I found myself comparing KIN to the absolute best work of Jack Ketchum, James White Wrath, and Richard Laymon. You might be thinking that I’ve listed an awful lot of great authors here and mentioned more than a few classics in this review and that there’s no way this book could live up to that hype. You’d be wrong. KIN is not only the best novel I’ve read all year, it is one of the most horrifying ones I’ve ever read. I hope you give it a shot.”

—HORROR WORLD

“It’s odd that an Irish transplant to the Northern US has written one of the best Southern Gothic novels in recent memory. I’ll look forward to Burke’s next work just as much as I hated to see this one end. I would highly recommend KIN to lovers of old fashioned horror fiction with a twist. If you’re going to read just one noir cannibal revenge novel this year, KIN should fit the bill.”

—DARK DISCOVERIES

For decades, the top-secret Red Cell Seven unit has operated beyond the reach of the law — defending the United States by any means necessary, with absolute impunity. But the tables have turned, and the untouchable anti-terror squad is under attack. Determined to end Red Cell Seven’s ruthless, lawless existence, the US president has tapped military assassin extraordinaire Skylar McCoy to lead a covert search and destroy mission. But McCoy isn’t the only one gunning for Red Cell Seven. A vengeful drug lord has dispatched his own hired killers to eliminate the elite commandos as the first step in the ultimate terrorist plot: exterminating the highest echelons of American government. Caught in the middle, the agents of RC7 must fight their dirtiest, most devastating battle — and dare to decide who will be saved or sacrificed for the greater good.

Niezwykła powieść kryminalna – uczta dla miłośników fabuł detektywistycznych i wyrafinowanych nawiązań literackich, porównywana z "Imieniem róży" Umberto Eco. Efektowna intryga i wyraziste postacie.

Boston, rok 1865. Niespodziewana seria brutalnych morderstw wstrząsa miastem. W tym samym czasie niewielkie grono akademików kończy prace nad pierwszym amerykańskim przekładem Boskiej Komedii Dantego i zamierza odsłonić Nowej Anglii niesamowite wizje zawarte w tym dziele. Przedsięwzięciu temu sprzeciwiają się miejscowe władze, dopatrujące się w papistowskich treściach włoskiego arcydzieła niebezpieczeństwa dla spokoju protestanckiego miasta. Narażeni na groźby i szykany z ich strony członkowie Klubu Dantego – poeci i profesorowie uniwersytetu: Henry Wodsworth Longfellow, Olivier Wendell Holmes, James Russell Lowell i ich wydawca James T. Fields – starają się utrzymać swą translatorską misję w tajemnicy. W tym samym czasie policyjne śledztwo utyka w ślepym zaułku, akademicy zaś niespodziewanie odkrywają, iż zabójstwa wystylizowano zgodnie z "piekielnymi wzorami", uwiecznionymi w dziele włoskiego poety. Zadaniem członków Klubu Dantego stanie się powstrzymanie zabójcy – Nicolas Rey, jedyny czarny policjant w Bostonie, wbrew policyjnym regułom podejmie z nimi współpracę. Morderca okaże się być bliżej niż można było pomyśleć.

Przygotuj się na mocne wrażenia, jeśli chcesz go poznać. "Matthew Pearl jest wschodzącą gwiazdą współczesnej literatury – błyskotliwy, pomysłowy, wszechstronnie utalentowany autor "- Dan Brown, autor Kodu Leonarda.

Moskau, 1953. In der Sowjetunion herrscht die nackte Angst. Stalins Letzte große Säuberungswelle wütet im Land. Die Staatssicherheit hat Ohren und Augen überall - und jeder denunziert jeden, in der Hoffnung, die eigene Haut zu retten.

Der hochdekorierte Kriegsheld und Offizier des NKWD Leo Demidow wird zu einem Kollegen geschickt. Fjodors kleiner Sohn ist ums Leben gekommen - und Fjodor besteht darauf, dass es kein Unfall war, sondern brutaler Kindsmord. Diese Behauptung kann die Familie das Leben kosten -denn die herrschende Ideologie sagt: Im real existierenden Sozialismus gibt es kein Verbrechen. Warum sollte in der perfekten Gesellschaft jemand Grund haben zu töten? Es gelingt Leo, den verzweifelten Vater zum Schweigen zu bringen - aber er selbst kann das tote Kind nicht vergessen.

Leo beginnt heimlich im Fall des ermordeten Jungen zu ermitteln - und stellt fest, dass einem bestialischen Killer immer mehr Kinder zum Opfer fallen. Aber seine Nachforschungen bringen Leo in tödliche Gefahr: Der Apparat bestraft die kleinste Abweichung mit gnadenloser Härte. Aus dem Karriere-Offizier wird ein Gejagter. Irgendwann hat er nur noch ein Ziel: den Mörder zu stoppen, ehe die NKWD-KoLlegen Leo selbst zur Strecke bringen ...

Dark times lie ahead for Special Agent Ren Bryce and the Rocky Mountains Safe Streets Task Force in the heart-stopping new thriller from the bestselling author of DARKHOUSE and BLOOD LOSS.

In her most shocking case yet, FBI Special Agent Ren Bryce takes on a depraved serial killer fueled by a warped sense of justice.

A master of evasion, each life he takes ramps up Ren’s obsession with finding him. Then one victim changes everything and brings Ren face to face with a detective whose life was destroyed by the same pursuit.

Together, can they defeat this monster? Or will he take them both down?

The President’s children have been kidnapped. The water supply for Washington DC has been poisoned. Alex Cross is on both cases.

Detective Alex Cross is one of the first on the scene of the biggest case he’s ever been part of. The President’s son and daughter have been abducted from their school — an impossible crime, but somehow the kidnapper has done it. Alex does everything he can but is shunted to the fringes of the investigation. Someone powerful doesn’t want Cross too close.

A deadly contagion in the DC water supply threatens to cripple the capital, and Alex sees the looming shape of the most devastating attack the United States has ever experienced. He is already working flat-out on the abduction, and this massive assault pushes Cross completely over the edge.

With each hour that passes, the chance of finding the children alive diminishes. In an emotional private meeting, the First Lady asks Alex to please save her kids. But even the highest security clearance doesn’t get him any closer to the kidnapper — and Alex makes a desperate decision that goes against everything he believes in.

In 1971, President Nixon sealed off the U.S. Bullion Depository at Fort Knox. In the process, he locked away unimaginable wealth… along with an astonishing secret.

In New York City, famed treasure hunter Cy Reed fights his way through a massive riot. With everything on the line, he races to complete an ultra-strange urban excavation. But when that excavation turns up startling information about his disgraced grandfather, he’s plunged headfirst into a tangled web of conspiracy and government secrets.

As the truth about his troubled family starts to emerge, Reed forges a path into the heart of the Fort Knox depository. With the world teetering on the brink of financial oblivion, he battles to uncover a breathtaking secret that could save the global economy… or shatter it into millions of pieces!

What do you do when the power goes off?

A terrorist group has acquired one hundred E-bombs. Each bomb's electromagnetic pulse is powerful enough to blow out all power and all technology from a major city. The terrorists plan to hit one hundred American cities in a campaign of destruction. Word has gotten out about the coming blackout and gangs, criminals and terrorist strike teams are poised to attack when the lights go out.

Joe Ledger knows how to stop them. He has the names, locations, abort codes. But a targeted EMP weapon kills the electronics aboard his plane. Joe crashes in the deepest and most remote part of the vast rainforests of the Pacific Northwest. Joe and his combat dog, Ghost, survive the crash — but they are lost in the wilderness with no weapons and no way to get the information to the authorities.

Time is running out. And Joe is being hunted by a terrifying new kind of assassin. A team of remote viewers have the ability to take over any person and turn ordinary citizens into killers.

Joe and Ghost may have to kill the innocent in order to save the entire country from falling during a night of darkness and mass murder.

Jason Steadman is a thirty-year-old sales executive living in Boston andsworking for an electronics giant, a competitorsto Sony and Panasonic. He's a witty, charismatic guy who's well liked at the office, but he lacks the “killer instinct” necessary to move up the corporate ladder. To the chagrin of his ambitious wife, it looks as if his career has hit a ceiling. Jason's been sidelined.

But all that will change one evening when Jason meets Kurt Semko, a former Special Forces officer just back from Iraq. Looking for a decent pitcher for the company softball team, Jason gets Kurt, who was once drafted by the majors, a job in Corporate Security. Soon, good things start to happen for Jason-and bad things start to happen to Jason's rivals. His career suddenly takes off. He's an overnight success. Only too late does Jason discover that his friend Kurt has been secretly paving his path to the top by the most “efficient”-and ruthless- means available. After all, as Kurt says, “Business is war, right?”

But when Jason tries to put a stop to it, he finds that his new best friend has become the most dangerous enemy imaginable. And now it's far more than just his career that lies in the balance. A riveting tale of ambition, intrigue, and the price of success, Killer Instinct is Joseph Finder at his best.

Bundeswehr General Karl Blackstiirm, incensed by events since the reunion of the two Germanies, has moved to seize control of the government. Central to his plan to restore the country's destiny as head of a new European world order is the seizure of the U.S. nuclear and chemical weapons stockpile at Kriegspiel Munitions Depot. The only things that stand in his way are Kriegspiel's tiny garrison and the soldiers of the U.S. Army's neighboring 195th Infantry Brigade (Mechanized), who are preparing to redeploy to the United States as part of the post-Cold War "peace dividend."

Posing as terrorists, Blacksturm's German commandos assassinate U.S. Army Europe's top leader and eliminate key civilian politicians, paving the way for the attempt to seize Kriegspiel. The 195th Brigade's new commander, Col. Alexander Stern, a veteran mechanized infantryman, and his deputy, Green Beret Lt. Col. Mark Griffin, become reluctant partners in the desperate effort to prevent the Bundeswehr's 11th Panzerbrigade from reaching its objective.

Kregspiel is a chillingly realistic story that could just as easily appear in tomorrow's newspapers as in the pages of a novel. Todd Stone's detailed descriptions of armored combat and dismounted infantry actions reflect his more than four years' experience training with U.S. and Bundeswehr forces in Germany and his more than a decade's service as a mechanized and light infantry officer in the U.S. Army.

Billionaire explorer David Purdue is tasked to return a stolen religious relic to its rightful place to avoid a prison sentence, forcing him to return to Ethiopia. The tribunal in charge of his case allows him to take a handful of people with him on the expedition, two of which happen to be investigative journalist Sam Cleave and historian Dr. Nina Gould.

Meanwhile in Egypt, two astronomers from an ancient order notice a sinister shift in the heavens, marking the advent of cataclysm. Specific heavenly bodies are somehow moved from their orbits, causing natural disasters all over the world with every falling star.

What they do not know, is that a malevolent sage known as the Magician is traveling across Europe. He is gathering special diamonds, each part of an arcane alchemical practice that causes climatic chaos. When the astronomers meet up with Purdue, Sam, and Nina, they implore the group to assist them in tracking down King Solomon’s diamonds. They have reason to believe that the fabled binding of seventy-two demons by the Biblical king is directly linked to the Magician collecting diamonds according to an obscure star map he carries.

Before he sows irreparable destruction, Sam, Nina, and Purdue have to find a way to stay ahead of the evil Magician and collect the necessary diamonds before he can locate them and drive humankind to extinction.

A word from the author: Hello and thank you for your interest in my book. It has come to my attention that some people have been mistaking my books for those written by the famous author duo Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child. This is not the case. I wish to clarify that I am not, by any means, related to Douglas Preston or Lincoln Child, Lee Child or any other author called Preston Child. I hope this clears up the confusion.

King Solomon's Diamonds leads the reader on a roller-coaster ride in search of a legend. Packed with breathtaking suspense and nerve-shredding action, King Solomon's Diamonds is a thrilling read for all fans of action, suspense, and intrigue.

Stanley Johnson’s Kompromat is a brilliant satirical thriller that tells the story of 2016’s seismic and unexpected political events on both sides of the Atlantic.

The UK referendum on Britain’s membership of the EU was a political showdown the British PM, Jeremy Hartley, thought he couldn’t lose. But the next morning both he and the whole of the rest of the country woke in a state of shock.

America meanwhile has its own unlikely Presidential candidate, the brash showman Ronald Craig, a man that nobody thought could possibly gain office. Throw into the mix the cunning Russian President Igor Popov, with his plans to destabilise the west, and you have a brilliant alternative account of the events that end with Britain’s new PM attempting to seek her own mandate to deal with the Brexit related crisis and America welcoming its own new leader.

Now in development for a major new TV series, Kompromat is a fast-paced thriller from a true political insider, and who knows, it just might all be true!

Quand le Soleil Levant devient un Soleil noir,

Quand le passé devient aussi tranchant qu’une lame nue,

Quand le Japon n’est plus un souvenir mais un cauchemar,

Alors, l’heure du kaïken a sonné.

After inheriting a farm on New Zealand’s South Island, Lewis Harding tries his best to keep it running. The financially strapped farmer is forced to forage his new land for implements, eliciting the help of his son, Gary. But when they go too close to the entrance of an old deserted gold mine, catastrophe strikes in more ways then one. When Gary’s older brother, Dr. Cecil Harding shows up at the farm, Nekenhalle, he discovers that his brother and father had gone missing.

A spate of livestock mutilations plague the local area, forcing Dr. Harding, a veterinarian, to call in the help of the Australian Wilderness Society. Ironically, this coincides with their current investigation of culling by poison, because, according to Harding, the New Zealand livestock are dying of snakebites. Knowing that New Zealand does not have snakes, the Wilderness Society obtains the help of Scottish explorer, David Purdue, during a legal debate.

Purdue and his associates, journalist Sam Cleave and historian Dr. Nina Gould, accompany the Wildlife Society under the pretense of making a documentary, while actually seeking the location of the Lost City. Similar poisonings in the remains of Nazi soldiers prompted Purdue’s pursuit into the Lost City’s secret, but Nekenhalle has a reputation for evil.

Inside the bowels of the farm, the expedition party finds the source of the killings, but at the same time, they venture into a forbidden place they do not know the way out from…

Following on from THE MIDAS LEGACY, Andy McDermott's new Wilde and Chase novel sees our daring duo on the trail of a strange, ancient weapon of immense power hidden in a lost city deep in the African jungle. Perfect for fans of Clive Cussler, Chris Kuzneski, Dan Brown and Scott Mariani.

Nina Wilde is back on the hunt. Now a presenter of her own TV documentary series, Nina is in Jerusalem. Clues found at the Ark of the Covenant recovery site have led her to the ruins of the First Temple, buried beneath Temple Mount. Within them, Nina spots an opening to a previously hidden chamber — a map room which contains a model of a mysterious city thought to contain a great yet dangerous power hidden by King Solomon himself. Analysing the clues, Nina believes that the city is located in the Democratic Republic of Congo, one of the most dangerous locations on Earth.

Eddie is in England with their daughter Macy but Nina's phone call is about to change everything. He has had his own problems in the DRC in the past and he isn't about to let Nina go there alone.

Joining forces, Nina and Eddie are about to start a chain of events from which there might be no return…

A bitter war rages in Afghanistan during the 80's. Growing desperate, the Soviet Union creates an exotic chemical weapon. They test their creation in a massive cave complex, in Khost, Afghanistan. Unknown to the Soviets, the chemical works in unimaginable ways.

Decades later, a team of Delta Force Operators goes missing in the same region. The lone survivor describes a nightmare that has awoken inside the cave. An elite group of special forces members from the Special Activities Division are sent in with one mission: kill everything inside the cave.

Early one morning Jack jumps off a bus in the middle of nowhere and walks 14 miles down an empty country road. The minute he reaches the town of Margrave he is thrown into jail. As the only stranger in town, a local murder is blamed on him. However, it soon becomes clear that he is not the killer.

When readers last saw renovator Tish Amble she was running for her life, her boyfriend Brad left wounded and at the mercy of drug lords in northern Michigan. On Brad's advice, Tish heads for Del Gloria, California, to hide out with an old friend of his-professor Denton Braddock. Tish tries to start a normal life, enrolling in college and working on restoring a block of homes, but her past is catching up with her. Someone is sabotaging her work, and Brad hasn't called in months. Should she return to Michigan to find out what has happened? Or would a homecoming be more painful-and deadly-than she's ready for? Full of the fast-paced action and nail-biting suspense readers have come to expect from author Nicole Young, Kiss Me If You Dare is the thrilling conclusion to the Patricia Amble Mysteries.

Najnowsza powieść „norweskiej królowej zbrodni”, Karin Fossum. Halldis Horn zamordowano na progu jej domu. Na miejscu przestępstwa widziano Errkiego, uciekiniera z zakładu dla obłąkanych.

Wątpliwości co do jego winy ma tylko Sara, psycholog chłopca. Śledztwo prowadzi znany z innych kryminałów Fossum Konrad Sejer. Następnego ranka napada na bank Morgan. Jego zakładnikiem zostaje właśnie Errki. Uciekają w góry, gdzie porywacz i porwany się zaprzyjaźnią.

Johnny Bianda is a man with a dream. He wants to own a boat off the coast of Florida and he only needs $186,000 to buy it. He steals the money from his firm, knowing that one day they’ll notice and one day they’ll kill him for it — after all, it is the Mafia. But for Johnny Bianda, the risk is worth taking and he knows it will be at least a year before they catch up with him…. Unfortunately for Bianda, the knock on his door comes sooner than he thinks.

Morderczy północny wiatr albo zemsta blondynki

Dlaczego pielęgniarka Alicja Miechocka uknuła perfidny plan zamordowania Oskara Łastowskiego. Dlaczego wbiła mu 20 centymetrowy lancet chirurgiczny tyłem i od spodu? Dlaczego wreszcie indagowana przez majora Stefana Downara przyznała się do tej zbrodni szybko, łatwo i niemal bez emocji? Odpowiedź na te elementarne pytania wcale nie wydaje się taka oczywista. Nie wystarczy bowiem postawić tezę, że pielęgniarka Alicja Miechocka kochała doktora Andrzeja Mierzwickiego, a gdy przebrzmiał ich intymny związek postanowiła się zemścić. W tym celu zabiła męża kobiety, z którą Mierzwicki romansował i zmierzał prostą drogą do małżeństwa. Poprzedzone oczywiście rozwodem. Po co mu to było. Nie mógł wziąć panny, tylko zamierzał rozbić małżeństwo by dążyć do swego egoistycznie pojętego szczęścia? To by było za proste.

Jasne jest, że skalpel Alicji symbolizuje ostrze krytyki społecznej lub jak kto woli ostrze moralności socjalistycznej. Musi zginąć ten, kto nastaje na podstawową komórkę społeczną. I nie są tu ważne uczucia. Ważny jest porządek usankcjonowany prawem, przepisem, dokumentem urzędu stanu cywilnego. To jest oczywiście tylko pierwszy poziom interpretacji. Drugi to czechowowski problem niewłaściwego ulokowania uczuć. Każdy kocha inną osobę, niż ta przez którą jest kochany. W efekcie powstaje węzeł gordyjski nie do rozwiązania. Albo inaczej. Rozwiązywalny bywa tylko przez skrajne posunięcie, w tym wypadku posunięcie (cóż za wieloznaczne słowo) lancetem o długości 20 cm. Dla porządku wspomnijmy, że śmiertelnie zaplątane osoby tworzą następujący szereg: Alicja Miechocka-Andrzej Mierzwicki-Łastowski-Łastowska.

Pragnę także zwrócić uwagę na trzecią interpretację. Wywołaną przez impuls mianowicie. Impuls czyli coś nagłego i nieprzewidywalnego, co niepohamowaną siłą pcha ku ostateczności. Jedni zobaczą tu istotę sprawy poprzez rozumowanie psychoanalityczne, czyli wielką walkę instynktu życia (Erosa) z instynktem śmierci (Tanatosem)… Są to ogromne siły, których działaniu nie sposób się oprzeć. Zwykle także trudno racjonalnie wyjaśnić dlaczego tak postępujemy. Zrobiliśmy coś i już. Z drugiej strony nie lekceważyłbym sił natury. Mamy na ten temat dwukrotną informację. Najpierw na str. 6 pojawia się zdanie: ”Północny wiatr uderzał w twarze przechodniów drobnym, twardym śniegiem”. Druga wskazówka pojawia się na str. 20: „Lodowaty, Północny wiatr uderzał w zmarznięte twarze białymi płatkami, osiadającymi na policzkach, nosach, okularach. Ten i ów próbował otworzyć parasol, ale nie na wiele się to zdało”. To wyjaśnienie działań pielęgniarki Alicji wydaje się najbardziej racjonalne w swej nieracjonalności. Widać tu oczywiście istotny wpływ jednego z wczesnych opowiadań Raymonda Chandlera „Gorący wiatr”. Zborowski musiał posłużyć się lodowatym wiatrem, gdyż akcja „Kardynalnego błędu” rozgrywa się w Polsce, a nie Kaliforni.

Innym problem tej niepozornej krótkiej powieści jest szekspirowskiej proweniencji dylemat żenić się, czy nie żenić? Znajomy Mierzwickiego Kalicki stwierdza: ”Chyba tylko z dobrą kucharką. Inne propozycje matrymonialne nie interesują mnie” (s. 5). W tym miejscu warto zauważyć, że Stefan Downar cały czas jest kawalerem niezwykle łasym na kobiece wdzięki: „Downar bacznie obserwował młodą kobietę. Fantastyczna babka pomyślał, wodząc wzrokiem po dorodnej postaci pani Łastowskiej. Trudno się dziwić, że ten doktorek oszalał dla niej” (s. 10). Z kolei będąc służbowo w szpitalu nie może powstrzymać się od uwagi: ”Widziałem tu bardzo ładne dziewczęta w białych czepeczkach” (s. 12). Brakuje informacji czy dziewczęta miały coś jeszcze na sobie.

Bohaterowie spotykają się w kilku lokalach. Wspomina się o „Wilanowskiej” oraz „Kameralnej”. Szczególne jednak miejsce autor poświęcił „Kaprysowi”, gdzie wyznaczył spotkanie Downara z drugoplanową postacią Iwoną Sobańską. Oto lokal: ”Kaprys okazał się miejscem bardzo odpowiednim do poufnej rozmowy. Zajętych było zaledwie parę stolików, przy których toczyły się dyskusje na tematy literacko-edytorskie, jako że w pobliżu mieszczą się dwa wydawnictwa”. (s. 31) Uwaga! Wchodzi Sobańska: ”Nagle spojrzenia gości kawiarnianych skierowały się ku drzwiom. Nawet drzemiąca bufetowa podniosła głowę. Osobę, która swym wejściem wywarła takie wrażenie na obecnych, można było określić jako skrzyżowanie cyrkowego clowna z rajtarem jego królewskiej mości Karola Gustawa. Spod szerokich rozkloszowanych na dole spodni koloru świeżutkiej jajecznicy wyglądały jasnozielone buty na wysokim obcasie. Czerwony obcisły spencer przepasany był potężnym czarnym pasem, ozdobionym złotymi okuciami i sprzączkami, służącymi zapewne do przypięcia rapieru. Na głowie ogromny filcowy kapelusz z odwiniętym rondem na modłę szwedzką. Kobieta mogła mieć około czterdziestki i była dobrze zbudowaną blondynką”. (s. 32). Uff, piękny opis. Trzeba przyznać, że autor chyba najbardziej lubił blondynki „dobrze zbudowane” oraz „dorodne”. Żeby nikt z Klubowiczów nie zarzucał mi pomijania drugoplanowych postaci męskich wspomnę o niejakim Zahoreckim, typowym niebieskim ptaku czasów PRL. Tu scharakteryzowanym poprzez dialog: „- Czym się pan zajmuje? – Niczym. – No… coś pan przecież musi robić? – Nie robię nic specjalnie ciekawego. Jem, śpię, jeżdżę wozem, chodzę do kina, do teatru, sypiam z dziewczętami. Czasem gram w brydża. – Nigdzie pan nie pracuje? – Nie. Bardzo nie lubię pracować.” (s. 24). Howgh.

14-letni Eryk podkochuje się w nauczycielce, rysuje komiksy o czarnych charakterach i ostatnich sprawiedliwych, no i marzy o zaznajomieniu się ze "świerszczykami" ojca, 6-palczastego Edmunda. Właśnie kończy się rok szkolny, nadarza się niespodziewana okazja. Eryk ma spędzić wakacje nad jeziorem Genezaret w towarzystwie Henry'ego, swojego starszego brata, oraz Edmunda. Będą zajadać się parówkami, watą cukrową i goframi, nudzić, wiosłować, wyruszać na tajemnicze nocne wyprawy, wchodzić "za friko" na festyny, podglądać życie dorosłych oraz marzyć o pewnej nastolatce, która pracuje w sklepie, i rzecz jasna o nauczycielce, która na nieszczęście okazuje się dziewczyną reprezentacyjnego szczypiornisty, Bennego Armaty, słynącego z atomowego uderzenia…

Pełen napięcia thriller psychologiczny, rozgrywający się w fascynującym świecie lat dwudziestych, zaludnionym przez piękne kobiety, zdegenerowanych arystokratów, morfinistów i członków tajemnych sekt. W mrocznych zaułkach Wrocławia, ponurego, przesiąkniętego zbrodnią miasta, grasuje seryjny morderca, którego tropem podąża radca kryminalny Eberhard Mock. Krajewski tworzy misterną intrygę, zręcznie wykorzystując wzory klasycznego kryminału i kreując własny, niesamowity świat.

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Owning half a detective agency is not as exciting as it sounds when your partner won't let you solve any cases. Transplanted Aussie Kylie Kendall is frustrated as all get out, and she spends most of her time hanging out with her receptionist and sampling the Los Angeles nightlife. But that's about to change. Twins Alf and Chica Hartnidge, the hosts of Australia's hit children's television show The Oz Mob, hire Kylie to find out who's smuggling opals into the United States inside their Kelvin Kookaburra plush toys. A syndication deal and a load of money are riding on whether Kylie will shut down the smugglers, but a murder (or two) makes the stakes even higher.

When Detective V.I. Warshawski begins an investigation of a three million dollar theft from a monastery, acid is thrown in her face, and she suspects she might be taking on the Vatican, the Mafia, and an international conglomerate.

Patricia Amble might be down, but she's not dead--yet. Tish has left the Detroit suburbs for her next renovation project: an old log cabin in Michigan's remote Upper Peninsula. And the fun part—it's the same cabin where she spent her childhood summers. The fresh air and solitude are just what she needs after her flight from romance and her brushes with death. As Tish arrives at her new home, her hope for peace and quiet is shattered when she finds a torn photo of her dead mother with the words "don't ask why" written across her face. Mysterious relatives, old rivalries, and a dangerous drug ring may make this twenty-six-year-old mystery more than she can handle. Tish must put together the pieces of her mother's death or risk losing everything—including her own life. Book 2 in the Patricia Amble Mystery series, Kill Me If You Can is a suspense-packed story of family secrets, long-distance romance, and renovations of the heart.

In Knochenbruch geht es um zwei Väter, die beide einen Sohn haben, und um die wechselseitigen Beziehungen, die sich zwischen diesen vier Personen entwickeln, als einer der Väter die totale Gewalt über beide Söhne zu erlangen versucht.

Dieses Thema hätte in viele Gewänder gekleidet werden und in jedes Zeitalter, jedes Land versetzt werden können. Ich beschloß, es hier und jetzt in Newmarket vor dem Hintergrund der Pferderennen spielen zu lassen, und schmückte die Szene mit knochenbrechenden Schlägen aus, mit denen ein durch und durch respektabler Rennstall unterwandert, erobert und zerstört werden sollte…

New York City is one of the fashion capitals of the world, well known for its glamour and style. Yet high fashion means high stakes, as Alex Cooper discovers when designer Wolf Savage is found dead in an apparent suicide days before the biggest show of his career.

When Savage's daughter insists his death was murder, the case becomes a media sensation. Soon Alex is investigating the family secrets Savage kept so well hidden, just as things are about to get deadly on the catwalk…

When the daughter of a billionaire Hollywood director is found murdered after what appears to be a kidnapping gone wrong, Los Angeles Special Trials prosecutor Rachel Knight and Detective Bailey Keller find themselves at the epicenter of a combustible and high-profile court case.

Then a prime suspect is revealed to be one of Hollywood's most popular and powerful talent managers-and best friend to the victim's father.

With the director vouching for the manager's innocence, the Hollywood media machine commences an all-out war designed to discredit both Rachel and her case.

KILLER AMBITION is at once a thrilling ride through the darker side of Tinseltown and a stunning courtroom drama with the brilliant insider's perspective that Marcia Clark is uniquely qualified to give.

The fourth book in the successful Stephen Ramsay mystery series. Self-confident, ruthless, overbearing actress Gabriella Paston has many enemies-at least one with a mind to murder. As rehearsals begin for the local show in which she was to star, Inspector Ramsay attempts to find her killer.

The new Chief Inspector Gamache novel from the #1 New York Times bestselling author.

When a peculiar letter arrives inviting Armand Gamache to an abandoned farmhouse, the former head of the Surete du Quebec discovers that a complete stranger has named him one of the executors of her will. Still on suspension, and frankly curious, Gamache accepts and soon learns that the other two executors are Myrna Landers, the bookseller from Three Pines, and a young builder.

None of them had ever met the elderly woman.

The will is so odd and includes bequests that are so wildly unlikely that Gamache and the others suspect the woman must have been delusional. But what if, Gamache begins to ask himself, she was perfectly sane?

When a body is found, the terms of the bizarre will suddenly seem less peculiar and far more menacing.

But it isn't the only menace Gamache is facing.

The investigation into what happened six months ago - the events that led to his suspension - has dragged on, into the dead of winter. And while most of the opioids he allowed to slip through his hands, in order to bring down the cartels, have been retrieved, there is one devastating exception.

Enough narcotic to kill thousands has disappeared into inner city Montreal. With the deadly drug about to hit the streets, Gamache races for answers.

As he uses increasingly audacious, even desperate, measures to retrieve the drug, Armand Gamache begins to see his own blind spots. And the terrible things hiding there.