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Titel des englischen Originals; Murder on the Links.

Leys Physical Training College was famous for its excellent discipline and Miss Lucy Pym was pleased and flattered to be invited to give a psychology lecture there. But she had to admit that the health and vibrant beauty of the students made her feel just a little inadequate.Then there was a nasty accident — and suddenly Miss Pym was forced to apply her agile intellect to the unpleasant fact that among all those impressively healthy bodies someone had a very sick mind…

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The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes are overshadowed by the event with which they close—the meeting of the great detective and Moriarty, the Napoleon of Crime. Their struggle, seemingly to the death, was to leave many readers desolate at the loss of Holmes, but was also to lead to his immortality as a literary figure.

Le précurseur, français, de Sherlock Holmes…

Victor Dean falls to his death on the stairs of Pym's Advertising Agency, and no one is sorry. That is until Lord Peter Wimsey joins the firm and asks some awkward questions. Finding himself involved in a web of blackmail and drugs, more must die before the sinister plot can be unravelled.

A chance encounter restores Giles Armitage to his fiancee, but the shipwreck has left him with amnesia, and their happiness is threatened by Carola Roland. So when Carola is murdered, Giles is the chief suspect and it takes all Miss Silver's ingenuity to unravel the real significance of the crime.

The game is once again afoot in this thrilling mystery from the bestselling author of The House of Silk, sanctioned by the Conan Doyle estate, which explores what really happened when Sherlock Holmes and his arch nemesis Professor Moriarty tumbled to their doom at the Reichenbach Falls.

Internationally bestselling author Anthony Horowitz’s nail-biting new novel plunges us back into the dark and complex world of detective Sherlock Holmes and Moriarty — dubbed the Napoleon of crime” by Holmes — in the aftermath of their fateful struggle at the Reichenbach Falls.

Days after the encounter at the Swiss waterfall, Pinkerton detective agent Frederick Chase arrives in Europe from New York. Moriarty’s death has left an immediate, poisonous vacuum in the criminal underworld, and there is no shortage of candidates to take his place — including one particularly fiendish criminal mastermind.

Chase and Scotland Yard Inspector Athelney Jones, a devoted student of Holmes’s methods of investigation and deduction originally introduced by Conan Doyle in “The Sign of Four”, must forge a path through the darkest corners of England’s capital — from the elegant squares of Mayfair to the shadowy wharfs and alleyways of the London Docks — in pursuit of this sinister figure, a man much feared but seldom seen, who is determined to stake his claim as Moriarty’s successor.

A riveting, deeply atmospheric tale of murder and menace from one of the only writers to earn the seal of approval from Conan Doyle’s estate, Moriarty breathes life into Holmes’s dark and fascinating world.

"Murder Is No Joke,” a workaday whodunit in a couturier’s salon, is a sample, par excellence, of the master’s inimitable ability to relate the unrelated — put the round peg in the square hole, so to speak — and nail two killings on one murderer.

Monday takes Rabbi David Small on a private exodus to Israel for a much needed rest. But as usual, trouble follows the Rabbi. While his congregation at home is busy plotting his dismissal, the Rabbi is up against the Wall in an international incident involving a young American student, Israeli intelligence, and a group of Arab terrorists with murder on their minds...

Gunārs Cīrulis

Mīļais nesteidzies

Romāns

Romāna galvenie varoņi ~ milicijas darbinieki — parādīti sarežģīta un neikdienišķa nozieguma atklāšanas procesā.

Noziegumā iejaukta jaunieša Jara Vaivara liktenis neparedzēti un traģiski saistās ar iekšlietu orgānu darbinieku likteņiem. Viņam grib palīdzēt, bet kā to izdarīt? Kā rīkosies viņš pats?

RĪGA «LiESMA» 1982

Recenzenti: Ēvalds Strods un milicijas ģenerālmajors, juridisko zinātņu doktors Anrijs Kavalieris

Mākslinieks Gunārs Kļava

"Le roman populaire a donné naissance au roman policier, et cette transition s'opère sous nos yeux comme par magie, grâce à un auteur presque oublié, Henry Cauvain (1817 – 1899) et à son merveilleux roman Maximilien Heller. Ce récit est excellent, entre autres raisons, parce qu'il est relativement bref et ne s'encombre d'aucune intrigue amoureuse. Il comporte un criminel de génie, un crime en chambre close remarquablement expliqué compte tenu de l'époque, et un enquêteur résolument privé!On peut y faire des comparaisons amusantes. Heller aime les chats, comme Sherlock Holmes. Il prend de l'opium pour s'endormir – comme Holmes. Comme lui, il procède par déductions logiques. Il a un confident qui raconte l'histoire, et qui est médecin, comme le Watson de Holmes… Tout pourrait laisser croire que Cauvain, imbibé de Gaboriau, a également lu Conan Doyle et lui a emprunté personnages, techniques et détails! Or Maximilien Heller date de 1871, alors que la première aventure de Sherlock Holmes ne sera publiée que seize ans plus tard!"

Les aventures d'un détective amateur sur les traces de Sherlock Holmes: comme lui, il a une forte personnalité, une faculté de concentration intellectuelle extraordinaire qui souvent l'empêche de dormir: c'est pourquoi il prend de l'opium.

Deborah and Simon St. James have taken a holiday in the winter landscape of Lancastershire, hoping to heal the growing rift in their marriage. But in the barren countryside awaits bleak news: The vicar of Wimslough, the man they had come to see, is dead—a victim of accidental poisoning. Unsatisfied with the inquest ruling and unsettled by the close association between the investigating constable and the woman who served the deadly meal, Simon calls in his old friend Detective Inspector Thomas Lynley. Together they uncover dark, complex relationships in this rural village, relationships that bring men and women together with a passion, with grief, or with the intention to kill. Peeling away layer after layer of personal history to reveal the torment of a fugitive spirit, Missing Joseph is award-winning author Elizabeth George's greatest achievement.

El renombrado director de orquesta Helmut Wellauer aparece muerto, envenenado con cianuro potásico, durante una representación de La Traviata en el célebre teatro veneciano de La Fenice. Hasta el comisario Guido Brunetti, acostumbrado a la laberíntica criminalidad de Venecia, se asombra de la cantidad de enemigos que el músico ha dejado en su camino a la cumbre. Pero, ¿cuántos tenían motivos suficientes para matarle?

Conocido y querido ya por miles de lectores, el comisario Brunetti, armado tan sólo con su paciencia y sagacidad, resuelve en esta sugerente novela policíaca su primer caso.

Brunetti es un héroe corriente, es decir, un antihéroe cuya vida es feliz en lo personal y crecientemente desgraciada en lo profesional. Un vago izquierdismo lo une con su esposa Paola y les lleva a compartir de vez en cuando reflexiones amargas sobre la corrupción, la burocracia.

Muerte en La Fenice fue galardonada en Japón con el prestigioso Premio Suntory a la mejor novela de intriga y convirtió en poco tiempo a Donna Leon en el gran boom de la novela policíaca en Europa. Un excelente comienzo.

«El verdadero encanto de esta serie reside en el carisma de Brunetti y su apasionada identificación con el alma de Venecia.»

The New York Times Book Review.

Detective Inspector Delaney is looking forward to spending Christmas with Kate Walker and his young daughter Siobhan, but the past always had a way of ruining Jack’s best-laid plans. And this holiday season is no different!

A year previously, Delaney was responsible for the arrest of Michael Robinson, a viciously violent rapist. Robinson always claimed he was set up by the police but before he could be brought to trial he was brutally attacked in prison and left for dead. He didn’t die, however, and a year later, out of hospital and fit for trial, he is pointing the finger squarely at Delaney for the assault that nearly killed him. And not only that — it looks like he has a case!

And everything is about to get a whole lot worse for the Detective Inspector when Robinson walks free from court.

There are new faces at White City — and with them come old crimes, old bones and old scores to settle!

It seems that Delaney is not the only one in West London with a past they’ll take any measures to hide. And as the body count starts to climb, it looks like Jack himself might be about to join the club.

The Murder Club!

“This smart and original mystery is a true page-turner… will baffle, surprise, and draw out suspicion until the final few pages. With each book, Higashino continues to elevate the modern mystery as an intense and inventive literary form.”

—Library Journal (starred review)

“Fiendishly clever… Higashino offers one twist after another… Readers will marvel at the artful way the plot builds to the solution.”

—Publishers Weekly (starred review)

Acclaimed bestselling novelist Kunihiko Hidaka is found brutally murdered in his home on the night before he’s planning to leave Japan and relocate to Vancouver. His body is found in his office, a locked room, within his locked house, by his wife and his best friend, both of whom have rock solid alibis. Or so it seems.

At the crime scene, Police Detective Kyochiro Kaga recognizes Hidaka’s best friend, Osamu Nonoguchi. Years ago when they were both teachers, they were colleagues at the same public school. Kaga went on to join the police force while Nonoguchi eventually left to become a full-time writer, though with not nearly the success of his friend Hidaka.

As Kaga investigates, he eventually uncovers evidence that indicates that the two writers’ relationship was very different that they claimed, that they were anything but best friends. But the question before Kaga isn’t necessarily who, or how, but why. In a brilliantly realized tale of cat and mouse, the detective and the killer battle over the truth of the past and how events that led to the murder really unfolded. And if Kaga isn’t able to uncover and prove why the murder was committed, then the truth may never come out.

Malice is one of the bestselling—the most acclaimed—novel in Keigo Higashino’s series featuring police detective Kyochiro Kaga, one of the most popular creations of the bestselling novelist in Asia.

‘Morse had solved so many mysteries in his life. Was he now, he wondered, beginning to glimpse the solution to the greatest mystery of them all...?’

Why does a theft at Christmas lead Chief Inspector Morse to look upon the Festive Season with uncharacteristic goodwill? How can the discovery of a short story written by a beautiful Oxford graduate lead Morse to her murderer? And what happens when Morse himself falls victim to a brilliantly executed crime?

Published together for the first time are ten dazzling short stories by Colin Dexter, including two new mysteries written especially for this anthology. The collection features five ingenious cases for Inspector Morse and five other stories which take us from a cell in Oxford Prison to Sherlock Holmes’ drawing room at 221B Baker Street... and on to a chance encounter with another famous detective in the canteen at Kidlington Police HQ... The final story opens as Morse awaits the arrival of his sergeant in Room 231 of the Randolph Hotel, where once again he must confront a sudden, terrible death.

Tantalizingly plotted and tautly told, each story in this volume is a mini-masterpiece of detective fiction: beguiling, surprising, and totally absorbing.

L'histoire qui est racontée ici est rigoureusement vraie. Je n'y ai pas changé une virgule.

J'ai seulement modifié les événements, déformé les faits, interverti les situations, débaptisé les personnages et déplacé l'action.

J'ai également pris des libertés avec le lecteur, le vocabulaire de l'affabulation.

Oui, j'ai fait tout cela.

Mais, parole d'homme, je n'ai pas changé une virgule à l'histoire.

J'aurais peut-être dû… Ça aurait évité à Béru et au beau San-Antonio de se trouver dans la situation la plus effarante de leur brillante carrière. Et comme dit ce grand intellectuel de Bérurier : MÉNAGE TES MENINGES, gars, et prépare tes mécaniques.

Pour tout vous dire, je rêvais depuis longtemps d'aller en Iran… Mais pas dans ces conditions !

Au XX^e siècle, être obligé de se battre au sabre, c'est surprenant, non ? Mais, croyez-moi, votre San-Antonio se révèle vite un as de cette discipline et les sbires qui se sont frottés à lui, s'ils n'étaient pas déjà des eunuques, ne sont pas près de mettre Casanova en péril.

Quant à Bérurier au pays des mille et une nuits (des mille et un z'ennuis, plutôt), c'est pas racontable en page 4 de couverture.

Sachez qu'il y a plusieurs façons de donner sa langue au chat… La donner au Chah n'est pas la plus facile, vous allez voir !

Quand une polka te demande de mettre ton doigt où elle a son doigt, vas-y, mon Nestor, car il vaut toujours mieux reconnaître le parcours avant la course.

Mais quand c'est un ancien pote de la communale qui te balance cette vanne, alors prends tes cliques sous un bras, tes claques sous l'autre, et taille-toi sans en écouter davantage.

Tu vois, le tartant, dans notre job, c'est de le prendre au sérieux.

De vouloir faire comme si on avait de l'honneur. A force de jouer à ce jeu de c… tu finis par en contracter, de l'honneur.

Et alors là… Alors, là, fiston, t'es promis à toutes les rémoulades !

Les cimetières sont bourrés de mecs qui en avaient trop.

Et cependant, le Vieux m'avait bel et bien ordonné de tout laisser tomber.

L'ennui, c'est que je me suis dit : « Laisser tomber quoi ? »

Tu comprends ?

Non !

Ben alors, lis !

On t'a déjà mené en bateau, non ?

Donc tu as le pied marin, si tu n'as pas l'air malin.

Alors, mets ton béret à pompon et embarque, matelot !

Grimpe avec Béru et moi sur le Thermos pour une croisière very délectable.

Tu trouveras à bord des sirènes très sublimes, avec une proue qui n'a pas besoin de soutiens-loloches et une poupe que tu peux déguster à la cuiller.

Y a du champagne, du punch, de la vodka et du caviar…

Et des bombes en guise de dessert.

Très glacées, tu verras.

Avec elles, t'es sûr de faire un boum…

C'est les requins qui vont être contents !

Et si tu as envie de la quille, ben, sers-toi.

Avant qu'elle coule.

Mon culte, il existe, non ?

Et parce qu'il existe, une bande de CONservateurs en prennent ombrage, le foutent sur la commode, mais qui est-ce qui va l'avoir dans le culte ?

Devine.

Moi, tu me connais ?

Une âme de fer dans un corps sain ; une main de velours dans un corsage.

Tout dans la tête pour garder les mains libres.

Principal défaut ? Raffole des gonzesses sans distinction d'âge ni de confession.

Principale qualité ? Les fait reluire.

Signe distinctif ? A horreur des cons.

Mais tu peux rester.

Et prendre connaissance de ce plaisant ouvrage.

Tu y trouveras : la moutarde de la polissonnerie, l'œuf de l'action et l'huile de la volupté.

Si tu remues bien le tout, tu obtiendras une succulente mayonnaise.

Elle donnera un peu de goût à ta vie insipide.

Allez, viens !

La vérité ?

Rarement je suis passé aussi près de la grande faucheuse que dans ce book.

Un tout petit peu plus, c'était : « bon suaire, m'sieurs-dames » sur l'air des lampions.

Et tout ça, tu veux que je te dise ?

A cause d'une gentille opticienne qui n'avait pas mis de culotte pour faire sa vitrine.

Nous autres tringleurs, on est peu de chose, tu sais !

Pendant que j'y pense : n'en parle pas à maman, elle se ferait du mouron. Tu connais Félicie !…

C'est beau, un bordel.

C'est confortable.

On y passe généralement de bons moments.

Sauf quand il y vient des gens bizarres.

Alors il arrive que les choses se gâtent et qu'on se mette à y mourir à qui mieux mieux.

Un conseil : ne jamais ouvrir la fenêtre donnant sur la rue, sinon t'es obligé d'appeler les pompiers. Et les pompiers dans un bordel, quoi que tu en penses, ça la fout mal !

À croire qu’il est plus important d’intercepter des « go fast » de cannabis que d’arrêter des tueurs…

Si la marchandise est perdue, rien ne vous protègera plus, même pas les barreaux d’une prison…

Une rumeur assassine s’en prend à l’innocence d’une famille.

La violence des trafics mobilise Stups et Crim’ au-delà des frontières, dans le secret d’enquêtes mettant à l’honneur des tempéraments policiers percutants, parfois rebelles, toujours passionnés.

En France et à l’étranger, Pierre Pouchairet a vécu les procédures, les ambiances et les « milieux » qui inspirent ses romans. Dans ses livres éclate une vérité qui dépasse l’imagination, la vérité d’une vie engagée…

Biographie de l'auteur

En France et à l'étranger, Pierre Pouchairet a vécu les procédures, les ambiances et les « milieux » qui inspirent ses romans. Dans ses livres éclate une vérité qui dépasse l'imagination, la vérité d'une vie engagée…

On retrouve ici les quatre héros de Malavita, l'inénarrable famille Blake. Repenti de la mafia new-yorkaise, Blake, rebaptisé Wayne, a obtenu la protection du FBI, et s'est installé en France avec les siens sous la surveillance tatillonne d'un ange gardien légèrement dépressif. L'ancien gangster a trouvé dans l'inépuisable réservoir d'anecdotes de sa première vie la matière de quelques thrillers à succès. Tout se passerait pour le mieux si la cellule familiale n'était pas emportée dans la tourmente des remises en cause existentielles… Les enfants traversent une adolescence compliquée, l'épouse fidèle a décidé de s'émanciper, et l'auteur de best-sellers, soudain seul face à lui-même, est en proie aux affres de la création littéraire. Des problèmes ordinaires, somme toute, pour une famille qui ne l'est pas… Ils seront résolus de la façon la plus diabolique et la plus hilarante qui soit.

Biographie de l'auteur

Après avoir exercé divers métiers qui ont servi de cadre à ses premiers romans, Tonino Benacquista construit une œuvre dont la notoriété croît sans cesse. Après les intrigues policières de La maldonne des sleepings et de La commedia des ratés, il écrit Saga qui reçoit le Grand Prix des lectrices de Elle en 1998, et Quelqu’un d’autre, Grand Prix RTL-Lire en 2002.

Scénariste pour la bande dessinée (L’outremangeur, La boîte noire, illustrés par Jacques Ferrandez), il écrit aussi pour le cinéma : il est coscénariste avec Jacques Audiard de Sur mes lèvres et de De battre mon cœur s’est arrêté, qui leur valent un César en 2002 et 2006.

On retrouve ici les quatre héros de Malavita, l'inénarrable famille Blake. Repenti de la mafia new-yorkaise, Blake, rebaptisé Wayne, a obtenu la protection du FBI, et s'est installé en France avec les siens sous la surveillance tatillonne d'un ange gardien légèrement dépressif. L'ancien gangster a trouvé dans l'inépuisable réservoir d'anecdotes de sa première vie la matière de quelques thrillers à succès. Tout se passerait pour le mieux si la cellule familiale n'était pas emportée dans la tourmente des remises en cause existentielles… Les enfants traversent une adolescence compliquée, l'épouse fidèle a décidé de s'émanciper, et l'auteur de best-sellers, soudain seul face à lui-même, est en proie aux affres de la création littéraire. Des problèmes ordinaires, somme toute, pour une famille qui ne l'est pas… Ils seront résolus de la façon la plus diabolique et la plus hilarante qui soit.

Biographie de l'auteur

Après avoir exercé divers métiers qui ont servi de cadre à ses premiers romans, Tonino Benacquista construit une œuvre dont la notoriété croît sans cesse. Après les intrigues policières de La maldonne des sleepings et de La commedia des ratés, il écrit Saga qui reçoit le Grand Prix des lectrices de Elle en 1998, et Quelqu’un d’autre, Grand Prix RTL-Lire en 2002.

Scénariste pour la bande dessinée (L’outremangeur, La boîte noire, illustrés par Jacques Ferrandez), il écrit aussi pour le cinéma : il est coscénariste avec Jacques Audiard de Sur mes lèvres et de De battre mon cœur s’est arrêté, qui leur valent un César en 2002 et 2006.

A series of "accidents" at nuclear power stations across the United States is destabilizing America's energy program.

In the fallout of this highly complex plot, the United States will be forced to rely on Third World oil, oil whose flow is controlled by the Russian KGB.

Mack Bolan must push to the core of this sabotage before a full-scale disaster occurs. But it's a race with a temperature gauge that goes only one way — straight toward a nuclear meltdown.

The extraordinary new novel in the #1 New York Times — bestselling series from the grand master of adventure.

In October 1943, a U.S. destroyer sailed out of Philadelphia and supposedly vanished, the result of a Navy experiment with electromagnetic radiation. The story was considered a hoax — but now Juan Cabrillo and his Oregon colleagues aren’t so sure.

There is talk of a new weapon soon to be auctioned, something very dangerous to America’s interests, and the rumors link it to the great inventor Nikola Tesla, who was

working with the Navy when he died in 1943. Was he responsible for the experiment? Are his notes in the hands of enemies? As Cabrillo races to find the truth, he discovers there is even more at stake than he could have imagined — but by the time he realizes it, he may already be too late.

Miami is still freakin’ humid. The nights are even hotter. And there’s a body on ice. And that’s just the beginning of this adrenaline-rush of a hot-wired ride from phenomenal #1 New York Times bestselling author Janet Evanovich.

A woman with a taste for speed and a talent for breaking the rules, Barney also knows a little too much about cheating. First there was Hooker and that salesclerk. Now she’s convinced one of the competitors is up to no good on the track. Snooping to find evidence, Hooker and Barney “borrow” a NASCAR hauler. Turns out, the hauler is carrying two race cars and a dead guy. Now Barney and Hooker are facing multiple counts of grand theft auto and homicide.

So buckle up as Barney, Hooker, a 150-pound-bundle-of-St. Bernard-love named Beans, and the Super Cigar Ladies Felicia and Rosa shift into gear on a wild race around South Florida and Concord, North Carolina.

Everything you always wanted to know about righteous indignation, stealing an eighteen-wheeler, and sex in the fast lane.

J'aime mieux prévenir.

Celui qui entreprend la lecture de « Ma cavale au Canada » doit avoir le cœur et les roustons bien accrochés, car il y a davantage d'épisodes dramatiques dans cette œuvre magistrale qu'il n'y en a eu pendant toute la dernière guerre et plus de scènes de baise que n'en comptent les règnes d'Henri VIII et d'Elisabeth II réunis.

Prière d'éteindre sa cigarette avant de pénétrer dans ces pages. A l'intérieur, y a déjà plein de gonzesses qui ont le feu aux miches : inutile d'aggraver les risques.

Vive le Québec Livres !

GUNĀRS CĪRULIS

MAGNOLIJA CĪRUĻPUTENĪ

Ironisks detektīvstāsts

Rīga «Liesma» 1986

Recenzente LIJA BRIDA KA Mākslinieks JURIS PETRAŠKEVIČS

Mimo upływu trzech tygodni, nie zapomniałam o holenderskiej aferze, bo ciągle mi o niej ktoś przypominał. Martusia nerwowo dopytywała się przez telefon, czy coś wiem o Ewie Thompkins i czy ona na pewno do niej nie przyjedzie. Nie wynikało z tego wprawdzie jasno, która do której miałaby przyjechać, ale pocieszająco twierdziłam, że nie. Gąsowska dzwoniła dwukrotnie, cała zatroskana, bo Jadzia tam się martwi i nie wie co zrobić, Thompkins chodzi ponury, a Thompkinsowa w strasznych nerwach. Samochód, co jej ukradli, już odzyskała, ale teraz go nie chce i płacze, żeby jej inny kupić, a kto by się dziwił, skoro w nim trupa znaleźli. Gorzej, podobno je mąż tego trupa znał, więc tym bardziej nie wiadomo, co robić.

Poradziłam, żeby nic. Znajomość z trupem, o ile został pochowany, niczemu nie szkodzi.

Teraz znów Górski…

Flower's breezy debut introduces a quirky heroine—India Hayes, a librarian at Martin College in Stripling, Ohio, who's also an artist. India agrees, yet again, to be a bridesmaid, this time for her childhood friend, Olivia Blocken, for whom her brother, Mark, an assistant professor at Martin, still carries a torch. After Olivia left Stripling for college elsewhere, Mark suffered a breakdown and buried himself in mathematics. Not wanting to upset Mark, India doesn't tell him she's a bridesmaid in his lost love's wedding. When someone pushes Olivia to her death in the college fountain and Mark becomes the most likely murder suspect, India turns amateur sleuth in an effort to prove her brother's innocence. Warring cats and distinctive characters, like India's everything Irish landlady and her bizarre '60s activist parents, will appeal to cozy fans.

Des nuits comme celle-là, je vous jure…

Y a qu'à Paname qu'on en rencontre !

Et encore, faut attendre minuit.

Pourtant, ça démarrait plutôt pas mal. Moi, vous me connaissez ?

Je me voyais déjà plonger dans les transports en commun en compagnie de la môme Rebecca…

Je lui mijotais un programme de gala, avec une cargaison de frissons tous plus voluptueux les uns que les autres.

Remarquez, des frissons y en a eu au cours de cette sacrée nuit !

Et pas qu'un peu !

Seulement, ça n'était pas ceux que j'escomptais.

Lorsqu'il s'est mis à pleuvoir de la viande froide, j'ai drôlement regretté d'être sorti sans pébroque.

Heureusement que Berthe Bérurier m'accompagnait.

Parce qu'avec une Jeanne d'Arc de deux tonnes, vous me direz ce que je voudrai, mais on se sent moins seul !

When Jane and neighbor Shelley Nowack sign up for a gardening class at their local community center, they end up with a substitute, the pompous Dr. Stewart Eastman, after an unknown intruder sneaks into the home of the regular teacher, Julie Jackson, and knocks her out, leaving her in a coma. Suspects in the attack include everyone taking the gardening class: fastidious computer programmer Charles Jones, persnickety librarian Martha Winstead, lonely widower Arnie Waring and loony aging hippie Ursula Appledorn. But in this leisurely, talky tale, Jane is less concerned with crime solving than with visiting the gardens of her classmates, tending to her injured foot, worrying about her teenage son's unsuitable girlfriend and buying herself a new TV for her bedroom. Only near the end does a murder occur. Dr. Eastman is found strangled with green twine in a compost pile, after which Churchill brings the plot to a tidy conclusion, with the killer's motive turning on Dr. Eastman's patented pink marigolds.

Il y a une multitude de choses dont j'ai horreur. Les jeunes filles de plus de quatre-vingt-dix-sept ans, tout d'abord. Le poisson mal cuit, aussi. Puis les liaisons mal-t-à-propos ; les ouatères de wagons de seconde classe ; les bitures de Bérurier et les imparfaits du subjonctif de Pinaud. Mais s'il y a une chose qui m'énerve par-dessus tout, qui me file au bord du delirium très mince, c'est qu'on s'asseye sur mon chapeau… Surtout au cinéma… Surtout quand on l'a fait exprès… Surtout quand c'est le dargeot d'un truand qui est l'outrageur… Surtout quand tout ça cache le commencement d'une aventure insensée !

Franchement, M. Konopoulos ne me demandait rien.

D'ailleurs, je n'étais pas venu à Genève pour ça.

La sublime nana qui m'attendait à l'aéroport avait une autre chatte à fouetter.

Mais il a fallu que ce pauvre manutentionnaire soit mordu par un méchant serpent et que son aimable cadavre déboule en même temps que nos valises…

C'est idiot pour Marie-Marie qui, consécutivement, a dû faire une croisière en ambulance !

Mais alors, si tu avais vu nos frimes quand on a déballé l'abominable costume !

Enfin, tu m'as compris ?

Si tu as tout pigé, pas la peine d'acheter ce livre. Mais s'il te reste des zones obscures dans la comprenette, n'hésite pas. Quand tu en auras terminé la lecture, j'aime autant te prévenir : tu devras changer de calbar.

Savez-vous que la pègre vient de s'enrichir d'une nouvelle recrue ?

Et pas une demi-portion, croyez-moi !

Du vrai casseur…

Du qui file la rouste aux caïds de Pigalle…

Du qui se permet de descendre un flic en plein commissariat.

Son nom ?

Pour Messieurs les hommes, il s'appelle Bemard Tonacci…

Ça ne vous dit rien ?

Alors, je vais vous en balancer davantage :

A la P.J., ce zigoto est plus connu sous le nom de commissaire San-Antonio.

Pas de panique… Rassurez-vous, je n'ai pas changé de bord… mais il faut admettre que tout pourrait le laisser croire au début de ce chef-d'œuvre.

L'histoire qui est racontée ici est rigoureusement vraie. Je n'y ai pas changé une virgule.

J'ai seulement modifié les événements, déformé les faits, interverti les situations, débaptisé les personnages et déplacé l'action.

J'ai également pris des libertés avec le lecteur, le vocabulaire de l'affabulation.

Oui, j'ai fait tout cela.

Mais, parole d'homme, je n'ai pas changé une virgule à l'histoire.

J'aurais peut-être dû… Ça aurait évité à Béru et au beau San-Antonio de se trouver dans la situation la plus effarante de leur brillante carrière. Et comme dit ce grand intellectuel de Bérurier : MÉNAGE TES MENINGES, gars, et prépare tes mécaniques.

Pour tout vous dire, je rêvais depuis longtemps d'aller en Iran… Mais pas dans ces conditions !

Au XX^e siècle, être obligé de se battre au sabre, c'est surprenant, non ? Mais, croyez-moi, votre San-Antonio se révèle vite un as de cette discipline et les sbires qui se sont frottés à lui, s'ils n'étaient pas déjà des eunuques, ne sont pas près de mettre Casanova en péril.

Quant à Bérurier au pays des mille et une nuits (des mille et un z'ennuis, plutôt), c'est pas racontable en page 4 de couverture.

Sachez qu'il y a plusieurs façons de donner sa langue au chat… La donner au Chah n'est pas la plus facile, vous allez voir !

Quand une polka te demande de mettre ton doigt où elle a son doigt, vas-y, mon Nestor, car il vaut toujours mieux reconnaître le parcours avant la course.

Mais quand c'est un ancien pote de la communale qui te balance cette vanne, alors prends tes cliques sous un bras, tes claques sous l'autre, et taille-toi sans en écouter davantage.

Tu vois, le tartant, dans notre job, c'est de le prendre au sérieux.

De vouloir faire comme si on avait de l'honneur. A force de jouer à ce jeu de c… tu finis par en contracter, de l'honneur.

Et alors là… Alors, là, fiston, t'es promis à toutes les rémoulades !

Les cimetières sont bourrés de mecs qui en avaient trop.

Et cependant, le Vieux m'avait bel et bien ordonné de tout laisser tomber.

L'ennui, c'est que je me suis dit : « Laisser tomber quoi ? »

Tu comprends ?

Non !

Ben alors, lis !

On t'a déjà mené en bateau, non ?

Donc tu as le pied marin, si tu n'as pas l'air malin.

Alors, mets ton béret à pompon et embarque, matelot !

Grimpe avec Béru et moi sur le Thermos pour une croisière very délectable.

Tu trouveras à bord des sirènes très sublimes, avec une proue qui n'a pas besoin de soutiens-loloches et une poupe que tu peux déguster à la cuiller.

Y a du champagne, du punch, de la vodka et du caviar…

Et des bombes en guise de dessert.

Très glacées, tu verras.

Avec elles, t'es sûr de faire un boum…

C'est les requins qui vont être contents !

Et si tu as envie de la quille, ben, sers-toi.

Avant qu'elle coule.

Mon culte, il existe, non ?

Et parce qu'il existe, une bande de CONservateurs en prennent ombrage, le foutent sur la commode, mais qui est-ce qui va l'avoir dans le culte ?

Devine.

Moi, tu me connais ?

Une âme de fer dans un corps sain ; une main de velours dans un corsage.

Tout dans la tête pour garder les mains libres.

Principal défaut ? Raffole des gonzesses sans distinction d'âge ni de confession.

Principale qualité ? Les fait reluire.

Signe distinctif ? A horreur des cons.

Mais tu peux rester.

Et prendre connaissance de ce plaisant ouvrage.

Tu y trouveras : la moutarde de la polissonnerie, l'œuf de l'action et l'huile de la volupté.

Si tu remues bien le tout, tu obtiendras une succulente mayonnaise.

Elle donnera un peu de goût à ta vie insipide.

Allez, viens !

La vérité ?

Rarement je suis passé aussi près de la grande faucheuse que dans ce book.

Un tout petit peu plus, c'était : « bon suaire, m'sieurs-dames » sur l'air des lampions.

Et tout ça, tu veux que je te dise ?

A cause d'une gentille opticienne qui n'avait pas mis de culotte pour faire sa vitrine.

Nous autres tringleurs, on est peu de chose, tu sais !

Pendant que j'y pense : n'en parle pas à maman, elle se ferait du mouron. Tu connais Félicie !…

C'est beau, un bordel.

C'est confortable.

On y passe généralement de bons moments.

Sauf quand il y vient des gens bizarres.

Alors il arrive que les choses se gâtent et qu'on se mette à y mourir à qui mieux mieux.

Un conseil : ne jamais ouvrir la fenêtre donnant sur la rue, sinon t'es obligé d'appeler les pompiers. Et les pompiers dans un bordel, quoi que tu en penses, ça la fout mal !

— La suite! réclamaient les enfants. La suite! La suite!

Ma suite à moi c'est l'autre petit moi-même qui préparer ma relève dans le giron de Julie. Comme une femme est belle en ces premiers mois où elle vous fait l'honneur d'être deux! Mais, Julie, crois-tu que ce soit raisonnable? Julie, le crois-tu? Franchement… hein? Et toi, petit con, penses-tu que ce soit le monde, la famille, l'époque où te poser? Pas encore là et déjà de mauvaises fréquentations!

— La suite! La suite!

Ils y tenaient tellement à leur suite que moi, Benjamin Malaussène, frère de famille hautement responsable, bouc ressuscité, père potentiel, j'ai fini par me retrouver en prison accusé de vingt et un meurtres.

Tout ça pour un sombre trafic d'images en ce siècle Lumière.

Alors, vous tenez vraiment à ce que je vous la raconte, la suite?

On retrouve ici les quatre héros de Malavita, l'inénarrable famille Blake. Repenti de la mafia new-yorkaise, Blake, rebaptisé Wayne, a obtenu la protection du FBI, et s'est installé en France avec les siens sous la surveillance tatillonne d'un ange gardien légèrement dépressif. L'ancien gangster a trouvé dans l'inépuisable réservoir d'anecdotes de sa première vie la matière de quelques thrillers à succès. Tout se passerait pour le mieux si la cellule familiale n'était pas emportée dans la tourmente des remises en cause existentielles… Les enfants traversent une adolescence compliquée, l'épouse fidèle a décidé de s'émanciper, et l'auteur de best-sellers, soudain seul face à lui-même, est en proie aux affres de la création littéraire. Des problèmes ordinaires, somme toute, pour une famille qui ne l'est pas… Ils seront résolus de la façon la plus diabolique et la plus hilarante qui soit.

Biographie de l'auteur

Après avoir exercé divers métiers qui ont servi de cadre à ses premiers romans, Tonino Benacquista construit une œuvre dont la notoriété croît sans cesse. Après les intrigues policières de La maldonne des sleepings et de La commedia des ratés, il écrit Saga qui reçoit le Grand Prix des lectrices de Elle en 1998, et Quelqu’un d’autre, Grand Prix RTL-Lire en 2002.

Scénariste pour la bande dessinée (L’outremangeur, La boîte noire, illustrés par Jacques Ferrandez), il écrit aussi pour le cinéma : il est coscénariste avec Jacques Audiard de Sur mes lèvres et de De battre mon cœur s’est arrêté, qui leur valent un César en 2002 et 2006.

On retrouve ici les quatre héros de Malavita, l'inénarrable famille Blake. Repenti de la mafia new-yorkaise, Blake, rebaptisé Wayne, a obtenu la protection du FBI, et s'est installé en France avec les siens sous la surveillance tatillonne d'un ange gardien légèrement dépressif. L'ancien gangster a trouvé dans l'inépuisable réservoir d'anecdotes de sa première vie la matière de quelques thrillers à succès. Tout se passerait pour le mieux si la cellule familiale n'était pas emportée dans la tourmente des remises en cause existentielles… Les enfants traversent une adolescence compliquée, l'épouse fidèle a décidé de s'émanciper, et l'auteur de best-sellers, soudain seul face à lui-même, est en proie aux affres de la création littéraire. Des problèmes ordinaires, somme toute, pour une famille qui ne l'est pas… Ils seront résolus de la façon la plus diabolique et la plus hilarante qui soit.

Biographie de l'auteur

Après avoir exercé divers métiers qui ont servi de cadre à ses premiers romans, Tonino Benacquista construit une œuvre dont la notoriété croît sans cesse. Après les intrigues policières de La maldonne des sleepings et de La commedia des ratés, il écrit Saga qui reçoit le Grand Prix des lectrices de Elle en 1998, et Quelqu’un d’autre, Grand Prix RTL-Lire en 2002.

Scénariste pour la bande dessinée (L’outremangeur, La boîte noire, illustrés par Jacques Ferrandez), il écrit aussi pour le cinéma : il est coscénariste avec Jacques Audiard de Sur mes lèvres et de De battre mon cœur s’est arrêté, qui leur valent un César en 2002 et 2006.

Im Jahr 799 begegnen sich Papst Leo III. und der König der Franken, Karl der Große, in Paderborn. Der eine ist vor seinen Feinden in Rom geflohen, der andere denkt daran, sein Lebenswerk mit dem Kaisertitel zu krönen. Doch dann wird der Aufenthalt an den Quellen der Pader von rätselhaften Mordfällen überschattet. Als ersten trifft es Bischof Odoaker während einer Messe im Dom...

Murder at Mansfield Park is a witty and clever re-imagining of Jane Austen's much-loved novel Mansfield Park. But in this Mansfield Park, things have changed…

Formerly Austen's meekest heroine, Fanny Price has become not only an heiress to an extensive fortune but also a heartless, scheming minx. Hiding her true character behind a demure facade, Fanny is indeed betrothed to Edmund, now Mrs Norris's stepson; but do the couple really love each other? Henry and Mary Crawford arrive in the country ready to wreak havoc with their fast city ways, but this time Henry Crawford is troubled by a suspicious past while his sister, Mary, steps forward in the best Austen style to become an unexpected heroine.

Meanwhile, tragedy strikes the safe and solid grand house as it becomes the scene of violence. Every member of the family falls under suspicion and the race begins to halt a ruthless murderer.

Funny and sharp, Murder at Mansfield Park is simply a delight to read.

Sherlock Holmes is dead.

Days after Holmes and his arch-enemy Moriarty fall to their doom at the Reichenbach Falls, Pinkerton agent Frederick Chase arrives in Europe from New York. The death of Moriarty has created a poisonous vacuum that has been swiftly filled by a fiendish new criminal mastermind who has risen to take Moriarty’s place.

Ably assisted by Inspector Athelney Jones of Scotland Yard, a devoted student of Holmes’s methods of investigation and deduction, Frederick Chase must forge a path through the darkest corners of the capital to shine light on this shadowy figure, a man much feared but seldom seen, a man determined to engulf London in a tide of murder and menace.

Author of the global bestseller The House of Silk, Anthony Horowitz once more breathes life into the world created by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. With pitch-perfect characterization and breathtaking pace, Horowitz weaves a relentlessly thrilling tale that teases and...

The Eighteenth Chronicle of Matthew Bartholomew

Close to the end of Easter Term 1358, the Colleges of the University of Cambridge are at war over the creation of a Common Library. Scholars from the poorer hostels are delighted by the scheme, but others see it as a dangerous precedent, and demand that the project be abandoned. At a meeting of all the masters to discuss the matter, a book flies through the air, striking one of their number and leaving him seriously wounded. Matthew Bartholomew is called upon for his skills as a physician, but his experience is even more in demand when a body is found floating in the pond of the library’s garden on the eve of its opening.

Meanwhile, there have been three murders in the town: these victims have all had their throats cut, and the culprits are rumoured to be a force of dangerous smugglers who lie low in the Fens.

Alongside Sheriff Tulyet and Brother Michael, Bartholomew knows he only has a week to disentangle the threads of violence that link town to gown, academic to tradesman. To fail might mean the destruction of the whole town.

The game is once again afoot in this thrilling mystery from the bestselling author of The House of Silk, sanctioned by the Conan Doyle estate, which explores what really happened when Sherlock Holmes and his arch nemesis Professor Moriarty tumbled to their doom at the Reichenbach Falls.

Internationally bestselling author Anthony Horowitz’s nail-biting new novel plunges us back into the dark and complex world of detective Sherlock Holmes and Moriarty — dubbed the Napoleon of crime” by Holmes — in the aftermath of their fateful struggle at the Reichenbach Falls.

Days after the encounter at the Swiss waterfall, Pinkerton detective agent Frederick Chase arrives in Europe from New York. Moriarty’s death has left an immediate, poisonous vacuum in the criminal underworld, and there is no shortage of candidates to take his place — including one particularly fiendish criminal mastermind.

Chase and Scotland Yard Inspector Athelney Jones, a devoted student of Holmes’s methods of investigation and deduction originally introduced by Conan Doyle in “The Sign of Four”, must forge a path through the darkest corners of England’s capital — from the elegant squares of Mayfair to the shadowy wharfs and alleyways of the London Docks — in pursuit of this sinister figure, a man much feared but seldom seen, who is determined to stake his claim as Moriarty’s successor.

A riveting, deeply atmospheric tale of murder and menace from one of the only writers to earn the seal of approval from Conan Doyle’s estate, Moriarty breathes life into Holmes’s dark and fascinating world.

Gervase Bonel, with his wife and servants, is a guest of Shrewsbury Abbey of Saint Peter and Saint Paul when he is suddenly taken ill. Luckily, the Abbey boasts the services of Brother Cadfael, a skilled herbalist. Cadfael hurries to the man's bedside, only to be confronted by two very different surprises. In Master Bonel's wife, the good monk recognises Richildis, whom he loved before he took his vows. And Master Bonel has been fatally poisoned by a dose of deadly monk's-hood oil from Cadfael's herbarium. The Sheriff is convinced that the murderer is Richildis' son Edwin, but Cadfael is certain of her son's innocence. Using his knowledge of both herbs and the human heart, Cadfael deciphers a deadly recipe for murder...

Meet Madame Koska—a fabulous haute couture designer and the owner of a new atelier in 1920s London who has a knack at solving crimes that baffle the police.

When a priceless brooch disappears from a museum in Russia, Madame Koska is suddenly drawn into the mystery. But who is Madame Koska? And what does the missing jewel have to do with her?

Książka, która stworzyła Mocka.

Wrocław, maj 1933 roku. Wstrząsająca zbrodnia. Zmasakrowane zwłoki dwóch kobiet. Tajemnicze zdanie napisane krwią ofiar. I wszędzie skorpiony. Idealna sprawa dla Eberharda Mocka.

W mrocznym i posępnym Wrocławiu, gdzie w każdym zaułku złodzieje i mordercy czekają na ofiarę, rządzi przemoc i korupcja. Wysoko postawieni notable oddają się hazardowi i rozpuście, przekupna policja walczy o władzę. W mieście zarażonym doktryną hitlerowską pewien komisarz gustuje w dość nietypowej rozrywce. Grywa w szachy (według własnych zasad) z pięknymi roznegliżowanymi pannami. To Mock, którego z domu rozkoszy może wyciągnąć tylko kolejna zbrodnia.

Książka, która stworzyła słynnego Mocka.

Debiut mistrza polskiego kryminału.

Maj 1933 roku. Wrocław. Wstrząsająca zbrodnia. Zmasakrowane zwłoki dwóch kobiet znalezione w salonce. Tajemnicze zdanie napisane krwią ofiar. Skorpiony.

Idealna sprawa dla Eberharda Mocka.

W mrocznym i posępnym Wrocławiu, gdzie w każdym zaułku złodzieje i mordercy czekają na ofiarę, gdzie po zmierzchu nie należy wychodzić z domu, rządzi brutalne prawo przetrwania. W mieście, gdzie wysoko postawieni notable i arystokracja oddają się hazardowi i rozpuście, przekupna policja walczy o władzę, a społeczeństwo zainfekowane jest doktryną hitlerowską, pewien komisarz oddaje się dość nietypowej rozrywce. W jednym z lepszych burdeli grywa w szachy (według własnych zasad) z dwiema pięknymi roznegliżowanymi pannami.

To najsłynniejszy komisarz polskiego kryminału, Eberhard Mock.

Sprawę tajemniczych zabójstw ze skorpionem w tle komisarz poprowadzi wraz z Herbertem Anwaldtem, młodym policjantem z Berlina. Prawda, którą odkryją, na zawsze zmieni życie wszystkich osób związanych ze śledztwem.

Murder at the Tsar’s private palace… and sinister monk Rasputin is a suspect. The Russian Revolution draws Professor Axelson and his assistant Agnes into a terrifying web of intrigue and violence. Fleeing for their lives amid the death throes of two vast, ancient empires, they face horrors beyond imagination. And in a far-flung corner of the world, they find the answer to their mystery.

Copyright © Evelyn Weiss 2018

J'aime mieux prévenir.

Celui qui entreprend la lecture de « Ma cavale au Canada » doit avoir le cœur et les roustons bien accrochés, car il y a davantage d'épisodes dramatiques dans cette œuvre magistrale qu'il n'y en a eu pendant toute la dernière guerre et plus de scènes de baise que n'en comptent les règnes d'Henri VIII et d'Elisabeth II réunis.

Prière d'éteindre sa cigarette avant de pénétrer dans ces pages. A l'intérieur, y a déjà plein de gonzesses qui ont le feu aux miches : inutile d'aggraver les risques.

Vive le Québec Livres !

Des nuits comme celle-là, je vous jure…

Y a qu'à Paname qu'on en rencontre !

Et encore, faut attendre minuit.

Pourtant, ça démarrait plutôt pas mal. Moi, vous me connaissez ?

Je me voyais déjà plonger dans les transports en commun en compagnie de la môme Rebecca…

Je lui mijotais un programme de gala, avec une cargaison de frissons tous plus voluptueux les uns que les autres.

Remarquez, des frissons y en a eu au cours de cette sacrée nuit !

Et pas qu'un peu !

Seulement, ça n'était pas ceux que j'escomptais.

Lorsqu'il s'est mis à pleuvoir de la viande froide, j'ai drôlement regretté d'être sorti sans pébroque.

Heureusement que Berthe Bérurier m'accompagnait.

Parce qu'avec une Jeanne d'Arc de deux tonnes, vous me direz ce que je voudrai, mais on se sent moins seul !

Il y a une multitude de choses dont j'ai horreur. Les jeunes filles de plus de quatre-vingt-dix-sept ans, tout d'abord. Le poisson mal cuit, aussi. Puis les liaisons mal-t-à-propos ; les ouatères de wagons de seconde classe ; les bitures de Bérurier et les imparfaits du subjonctif de Pinaud. Mais s'il y a une chose qui m'énerve par-dessus tout, qui me file au bord du delirium très mince, c'est qu'on s'asseye sur mon chapeau… Surtout au cinéma… Surtout quand on l'a fait exprès… Surtout quand c'est le dargeot d'un truand qui est l'outrageur… Surtout quand tout ça cache le commencement d'une aventure insensée !

Franchement, M. Konopoulos ne me demandait rien.

D'ailleurs, je n'étais pas venu à Genève pour ça.

La sublime nana qui m'attendait à l'aéroport avait une autre chatte à fouetter.

Mais il a fallu que ce pauvre manutentionnaire soit mordu par un méchant serpent et que son aimable cadavre déboule en même temps que nos valises…

C'est idiot pour Marie-Marie qui, consécutivement, a dû faire une croisière en ambulance !

Mais alors, si tu avais vu nos frimes quand on a déballé l'abominable costume !

Enfin, tu m'as compris ?

Si tu as tout pigé, pas la peine d'acheter ce livre. Mais s'il te reste des zones obscures dans la comprenette, n'hésite pas. Quand tu en auras terminé la lecture, j'aime autant te prévenir : tu devras changer de calbar.

Savez-vous que la pègre vient de s'enrichir d'une nouvelle recrue ?

Et pas une demi-portion, croyez-moi !

Du vrai casseur…

Du qui file la rouste aux caïds de Pigalle…

Du qui se permet de descendre un flic en plein commissariat.

Son nom ?

Pour Messieurs les hommes, il s'appelle Bemard Tonacci…

Ça ne vous dit rien ?

Alors, je vais vous en balancer davantage :

A la P.J., ce zigoto est plus connu sous le nom de commissaire San-Antonio.

Pas de panique… Rassurez-vous, je n'ai pas changé de bord… mais il faut admettre que tout pourrait le laisser croire au début de ce chef-d'œuvre.

La Mercedes se trouva bientôt à quelques mètres derrière Malko. L’homme assis à côté du chauffeur était Boza, le croate à la tête d’oiseau. Malko identifia facilement ce qu’il tenait dans ses mains : un « riot-gun » noir à plusieurs coups. Une arme capable à quelques mètres de déchiqueter n’importe quel être humain. La Mercedes accéléra encore, commençant à la doubler. son estomac se contracta : le canon du riot-gun pointait son museau par la glace ouverte de la voiture, visant la tête de Mako.

L'histoire qui est racontée ici est rigoureusement vraie. Je n'y ai pas changé une virgule.

J'ai seulement modifié les événements, déformé les faits, interverti les situations, débaptisé les personnages et déplacé l'action.

J'ai également pris des libertés avec le lecteur, le vocabulaire de l'affabulation.

Oui, j'ai fait tout cela.

Mais, parole d'homme, je n'ai pas changé une virgule à l'histoire.

J'aurais peut-être dû… Ça aurait évité à Béru et au beau San-Antonio de se trouver dans la situation la plus effarante de leur brillante carrière. Et comme dit ce grand intellectuel de Bérurier : MÉNAGE TES MENINGES, gars, et prépare tes mécaniques.

Pour tout vous dire, je rêvais depuis longtemps d'aller en Iran… Mais pas dans ces conditions !

Au XX^e siècle, être obligé de se battre au sabre, c'est surprenant, non ? Mais, croyez-moi, votre San-Antonio se révèle vite un as de cette discipline et les sbires qui se sont frottés à lui, s'ils n'étaient pas déjà des eunuques, ne sont pas près de mettre Casanova en péril.

Quant à Bérurier au pays des mille et une nuits (des mille et un z'ennuis, plutôt), c'est pas racontable en page 4 de couverture.

Sachez qu'il y a plusieurs façons de donner sa langue au chat… La donner au Chah n'est pas la plus facile, vous allez voir !

Quand une polka te demande de mettre ton doigt où elle a son doigt, vas-y, mon Nestor, car il vaut toujours mieux reconnaître le parcours avant la course.

Mais quand c'est un ancien pote de la communale qui te balance cette vanne, alors prends tes cliques sous un bras, tes claques sous l'autre, et taille-toi sans en écouter davantage.

Tu vois, le tartant, dans notre job, c'est de le prendre au sérieux.

De vouloir faire comme si on avait de l'honneur. A force de jouer à ce jeu de c… tu finis par en contracter, de l'honneur.

Et alors là… Alors, là, fiston, t'es promis à toutes les rémoulades !

Les cimetières sont bourrés de mecs qui en avaient trop.

Et cependant, le Vieux m'avait bel et bien ordonné de tout laisser tomber.

L'ennui, c'est que je me suis dit : « Laisser tomber quoi ? »

Tu comprends ?

Non !

Ben alors, lis !

On t'a déjà mené en bateau, non ?

Donc tu as le pied marin, si tu n'as pas l'air malin.

Alors, mets ton béret à pompon et embarque, matelot !

Grimpe avec Béru et moi sur le Thermos pour une croisière very délectable.

Tu trouveras à bord des sirènes très sublimes, avec une proue qui n'a pas besoin de soutiens-loloches et une poupe que tu peux déguster à la cuiller.

Y a du champagne, du punch, de la vodka et du caviar…

Et des bombes en guise de dessert.

Très glacées, tu verras.

Avec elles, t'es sûr de faire un boum…

C'est les requins qui vont être contents !

Et si tu as envie de la quille, ben, sers-toi.

Avant qu'elle coule.

Mon culte, il existe, non ?

Et parce qu'il existe, une bande de CONservateurs en prennent ombrage, le foutent sur la commode, mais qui est-ce qui va l'avoir dans le culte ?

Devine.

Moi, tu me connais ?

Une âme de fer dans un corps sain ; une main de velours dans un corsage.

Tout dans la tête pour garder les mains libres.

Principal défaut ? Raffole des gonzesses sans distinction d'âge ni de confession.

Principale qualité ? Les fait reluire.

Signe distinctif ? A horreur des cons.

Mais tu peux rester.

Et prendre connaissance de ce plaisant ouvrage.

Tu y trouveras : la moutarde de la polissonnerie, l'œuf de l'action et l'huile de la volupté.

Si tu remues bien le tout, tu obtiendras une succulente mayonnaise.

Elle donnera un peu de goût à ta vie insipide.

Allez, viens !

La vérité ?

Rarement je suis passé aussi près de la grande faucheuse que dans ce book.

Un tout petit peu plus, c'était : « bon suaire, m'sieurs-dames » sur l'air des lampions.

Et tout ça, tu veux que je te dise ?

A cause d'une gentille opticienne qui n'avait pas mis de culotte pour faire sa vitrine.

Nous autres tringleurs, on est peu de chose, tu sais !

Pendant que j'y pense : n'en parle pas à maman, elle se ferait du mouron. Tu connais Félicie !…

C'est beau, un bordel.

C'est confortable.

On y passe généralement de bons moments.

Sauf quand il y vient des gens bizarres.

Alors il arrive que les choses se gâtent et qu'on se mette à y mourir à qui mieux mieux.

Un conseil : ne jamais ouvrir la fenêtre donnant sur la rue, sinon t'es obligé d'appeler les pompiers. Et les pompiers dans un bordel, quoi que tu en penses, ça la fout mal !

Париж, 1900 год, Всемирная выставка. Место и время, где сплетаются архитектура и мифы, промышленный шпионаж и мистическая революция. Город-театр, где заговор оборачивается грандиозным спектаклем абсурда. Город-фабрика, что неуёмно производит желания и амбиции, а их сладостно-горьким осадком, словно углём и чернилами, пишет историю. Город-корабль, что, как верно гласит его девиз, раскачивается на волнах, но не потопляем. Однако выдержит ли он грядущий шторм? Не угаснет ли свет в Городе огней? Наконец, что или кто определяет его конструкт? Всё это — в не лишённом иронии, драмы и магии романе городских приключений «MCM».

‘Even better than Child 44’

Telegraph

Moskva is a brilliantly written, chilling and sophisticated début serial killer thriller set in Cold War Moscow. Makes Kolymsky Heights look like a walk in Gorky Park.

* * *

Red Square, 1985. The naked body of a young man is left outside the walls of the Kremlin; frozen solid – like marble to the touch – missing the little finger from his right hand.

A week later, Alex Marston, the headstrong fifteen year old daughter of the British Ambassador disappears. Army Intelligence Officer Tom Fox, posted to Moscow to keep him from telling the truth to a government committee, is asked to help find her. It’s a shot at redemption.

But Russia is reluctant to give up the worst of her secrets. As Fox’s investigation sees him dragged deeper towards the dark heart of a Soviet establishment determined to protect its own so his fears grow, with those of the girl’s father, for Alex’s safety.

And if Fox can’t find her soon, she looks likely to become the next victim of a sadistic killer whose story is bound tight to that of his country’s terrible past…

Praise for Jack Grimwood:

‘Given that the definitive thriller in 1980’s Moscow already exists (Martin Cruz Smith’s Gorky Park), Jack Grimwood’s Moskva looks like a crazy gamble. But it’s one that comes off…’

— Sunday Times

‘Tom Fox is well drawn, the action scenes are filled with energy and tension, but the real hero of Moskva is Russia itself, bleak, corrupt, falling apart, but with an incurable humanity.’

— Tom Callaghan, author of A Killing Winter

‘A compulsive and supremely intelligent thriller from a master stylist.’

— Michael Marshall, author of The Straw Men

‘A first-rate thriller – Moskva grips from the very first page. Heartily recommended.’

— William Ryan, author of The Twelfth Department

‘Like the city herself, Jack Grimwood’s Moskva is richly layered, stylish, beautifully constructed, and full of passion beneath the chills. Part political thriller, part historical novel, part a story of personal redemptions, Moskva cements Jack Grimwood as a powerful new voice in thriller writing. Not to be missed.’

— Sarah Pinborough, author of The Dog-Faced Gods trilogy

‘Hard to know what to praise first here: the operatic sweep of this mesmerising novel; the surefooted orchestration of tension; or the vividly realised sense of time and place; all of these factors mark Jack Grimwood’s Moskva out as **something special in the arena of international thrillers.’

— Barry Forshaw, author of Brit Noir

‘Memorable characters, powerful recreations of history and an unrelenting pace that will keep you breathless. A striking début in the genre.’

— Maxim Jakubowski

‘A sublime writer… I felt glimmers of Le Carré shining through the prose.’

— CrimeSquad

Kovask se souvenait des paroles de son chef direct, le commodore Gary Rice.

— Dix-huit bâtiments du type ELBA sont en construction, en Angleterre, en Allemagne, en Italie, en Norvège et au Danemark. Dix-huit cargos qui seront laissés, en temps de paix, à la libre disposition des armateurs qui les ont commandés, mais qui, à la moindre alerte, seront à la disposition de l’état-major de l’O.T.A.N. Nous avons financé pour 50 % leur construction. Nous les faisons monter dans les meilleurs chantiers, les plus sûrs également, sous surveillance constante. Plus confidentiel encore : N’oubliez pas que certains transporteront des têtes nucléaires, soit pour ravitailler les sous-marins en pleine mer, soit pour servir eux-mêmes de base de lancement. Des caissons spéciaux sont prévus à cet usage. L’ELBA a failli brûler entièrement. Sans une intervention rapide des pompiers, il n’en restait rien. Malgré tout, sa mise à l’eau est retardée de deux mois. D’autres incidents se sont produits dans la plupart des chantiers qui construisent ce type de bateau. Il faut en découvrir l’origine.

— L’homme est gravement brûlé. Il s’est trouvé tout près d’une importante source de radioactivité. Ses brûlures sont profondes. Aucun appareil de radiologie n’a pu les provoquer. Il faut …

— Gardez vos conclusions pour vous, professeur. Il vaudrait même mieux que vous vous efforciez de ne plus y penser.

— Est-ce un secret touchant la défense nationale?

‘Your orders are to kill Conroy… We shall approve any method you like to use.’

This is the ultimatum that sends Commander Esmonde Shaw, dynamic agent of British Defence Intelligence, to join a Moscow-bound coach tour in West Berlin. Somewhere among its passengers is Ivan Conroy, fanatical British communist planning to assassinate the man next in line for the Soviet leadership.

From the moment that two passengers force the driver of the Moscow coach to crash through a Russian road block, and Shaw finds himself a fugitive from the bullets of the Soviet police, he and the young American girl with him are suddenly swept into a labyrinthine intrigue of sabotage and treason.

First published in 1964 by George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd.

A grisly murder is committed at a health resort situated in a recently renovated farmhouse, which turns out to be notorious for being haunted. Attorney Thóra Gudmundsdóttir is called upon by the owner of the resort—the prime suspect in the case—to represent him. Her investigations uncover some very disturbing occurrences at the farm decades earlier—things that have never before seen the light of day. My Soul to Take is a chilling, dark and witty crime novel, and a welcome return for Thóra, the heroine of the highly-acclaimed Last Rituals.

Il cadavere è nudo, inginocchiato sul materasso di uno squallido albergo di Londra. La testa è coperta da un cappuccio, le mani, legate con una cintura, sono protese in avanti come in preghiera. Il killer l'ha violentato ripetutamente. Poi l'ha strangolato. E alla fine, prima di dileguarsi, ha ordinato una corona funebre. Non saranno in molti a piangere la morte di Douglas Remfry, reduce da sette anni di reclusione per aver violentato tre giovani donne. Ma all'ispettore Thorne della squadra crimini speciali della polizia di Londra non interessa il passato della vittima. Il suo compito è trovare l'assassino e consegnarlo alla giustizia.

Это вторая книга трилогии «Реальные истории» (первая – роман «Темные изумрудные волны»). Повествование основано на реальных событиях – перед нами история петербургского предпринимателя, в 2006 году обанкротившего фирму с долгами свыше 90 миллионов рублей. Во второй книге описание заканчивается 2000-м. Одновременно с работой на инофирме главный герой развивает собственный бизнес, скидывая заказы клиентов на карманную дистрибьюторскую контору и «завязывается» с компанией, выпускающей конкурентную продукцию. В романе описываются взаимоотношения с поставщиками, клиентами, компаньонами. Для оживления скучных производственных будней добавлены события криминальной хроники и любовные перипетии…

В 1986 году на каждого жителя Белокаменной приходилось по 0,07 автомобиля. Специалистами было заявлено, что если количество личного транспорта превысит 170 автомобилей на 1000 москвичей, то в городе наступит коллапс. Сейчас в Москве на 1000 человек 250 машин. Коллапс давно торжествует, причем его тоже заклинило в какой-то безнадежной мертвой точке. Но в один прекрасный день эта точка была сбита бампером «Porsche Cayenne» стоимостью в несколько миллионов. И по принципу домино все поехало – как, собственно, и мозги тех, кто выезжает по утрам на МКАД, чтобы по собственному желанию оказаться в круге первом… Этот роман про Дорогу длиною в сто девять километров, не имеющую начала и конца, где смерть – привычное дело, а ложь, предательство и жестокость выходят за рамки человеческого понимания.

Durch Zufall erhält die Moskauer Kriminalmiliz die Information, daß vor wenigen Tagen ein Mann ermordet wurde. Bekannt ist sogar einer der Täter, der jedoch entkommen kann. Als nach mühevoller Suche der Tote in einem Schuppen gefunden wird, stellt sich heraus, daß im Haus nebenan etwa zur gleichen Zeit ein schwerer Einbruchsdiebstahl begangen wurde. Hängen die beiden Verbrechen zusammen?

Wer ist der Tote? Weshalb wurde er umgebracht? Je tiefer die Kriminalmiliz in den Fall eindringt, desto mehr Rätsel gibt er ihnen auf. Die Verbindungen der Verbrecher reichen bis in eine Stadt am Schwarzen Meer, und allmählich zeichnen sich die Konturen eines riesigen und perfekt organisierten Wirtschaftsverbrechens ab.

Arkadi Adamow (Jahrgang 1920), der Begründer des sowjetischen Kriminalromans, wird seit vielen Jahren auch in der DDR gern gelesen. Unter anderem erschienen von ihm bei Volk und Welt „Gift aus dem Kischlak", „Der verschwundene Hotelgast", „Die Tote in der Baugrube" und „Ein Uhr nachts".

Foto: © M. N. Pasi

Arkadi Adamow

Titel der Originalausgabe:

На свободное место

© Издательство „Советский писатель", Москва 1981

Collins provides a vivid portrait of college-town life in the Vietnam years as Nolan does a favor for an old-time Mafia friend and tries to find out how his daughter was killed. Was it really a suicide like the police say? Or was she involved somehow in the circle of drugs that was so pervasive in the college scene? Nolan risks his life investigating a Mafia family's involvement in the girl's death to help out his old pal.

When a spike in CIA intelligence suggests a major terrorist attack planned for Memorial Day, the president orders Mitch Rapp, his top counterterrorism operative, to pull out all the stops. Rapp immediately leaves for Afghanistan where he leads the ultra secret counterterrorism Special Forces unit on a daring commando raid across the border into Northern Pakistan. Their target: an al-Qaeda stronghold.

Within a subterranean room, Rapp and his team discover a treasure trove of maps, computers, files and bills of lading for multiple freighters heading to US ports - all pointing to plans for a catastrophic attack on Washington DC. Information is quickly relayed back to CIA headquarters, and a nuclear emergency search team scrambles to the scene. In a few hours, the freighters have been located and the danger averted. Or has it? To Mitch Rapp, the whole operation seemed just a bit too easy.

Following his instincts on a quest to unearth the whole truth, Rapp makes a truly terrifying discovery - and with Memorial Day closing fast, he must find a way to prevent a disaster of unimaginable proportions ...

U.S. Treasury agent Alexandra LaDuca (Conspiracy in Kiev) is back crisscrossing Europe in pursuit of an ancient relic stolen from a Madrid museum – and the chilling secrets behind its theft. With a new partner, danger, and betrayal at every turn, Alex must make the toughest decision of her life – whom should she trust?

Hired by a political kingmaker to investigate a cocaine war, journalist Morgan Citron uncovers a scandal involving the F.B.I. and the C.I.A. It’s a story that will make Watergate look like a parking ticket — if Citron lives to tell about it.

‘Even better than Child 44’

Telegraph

Moskva is a brilliantly written, chilling and sophisticated début serial killer thriller set in Cold War Moscow. Makes Kolymsky Heights look like a walk in Gorky Park.

* * *

Red Square, 1985. The naked body of a young man is left outside the walls of the Kremlin; frozen solid – like marble to the touch – missing the little finger from his right hand.

A week later, Alex Marston, the headstrong fifteen year old daughter of the British Ambassador disappears. Army Intelligence Officer Tom Fox, posted to Moscow to keep him from telling the truth to a government committee, is asked to help find her. It’s a shot at redemption.

But Russia is reluctant to give up the worst of her secrets. As Fox’s investigation sees him dragged deeper towards the dark heart of a Soviet establishment determined to protect its own so his fears grow, with those of the girl’s father, for Alex’s safety.

And if Fox can’t find her soon, she looks likely to become the next victim of a sadistic killer whose story is bound tight to that of his country’s terrible past…

Praise for Jack Grimwood:

‘Given that the definitive thriller in 1980’s Moscow already exists (Martin Cruz Smith’s Gorky Park), Jack Grimwood’s Moskva looks like a crazy gamble. But it’s one that comes off…’

— Sunday Times

‘Tom Fox is well drawn, the action scenes are filled with energy and tension, but the real hero of Moskva is Russia itself, bleak, corrupt, falling apart, but with an incurable humanity.’

— Tom Callaghan, author of A Killing Winter

‘A compulsive and supremely intelligent thriller from a master stylist.’

— Michael Marshall, author of The Straw Men

‘A first-rate thriller – Moskva grips from the very first page. Heartily recommended.’

— William Ryan, author of The Twelfth Department

‘Like the city herself, Jack Grimwood’s Moskva is richly layered, stylish, beautifully constructed, and full of passion beneath the chills. Part political thriller, part historical novel, part a story of personal redemptions, Moskva cements Jack Grimwood as a powerful new voice in thriller writing. Not to be missed.’

— Sarah Pinborough, author of The Dog-Faced Gods trilogy

‘Hard to know what to praise first here: the operatic sweep of this mesmerising novel; the surefooted orchestration of tension; or the vividly realised sense of time and place; all of these factors mark Jack Grimwood’s Moskva out as **something special in the arena of international thrillers.’

— Barry Forshaw, author of Brit Noir

‘Memorable characters, powerful recreations of history and an unrelenting pace that will keep you breathless. A striking début in the genre.’

— Maxim Jakubowski

‘A sublime writer… I felt glimmers of Le Carré shining through the prose.’

— CrimeSquad

Updated and Revised 2015 Edition of the Best-Selling Creative Non-Fiction Crime Story “Cat and Mouse – Mind Games with a Serial Killer”.

As seen recently on British TV Show “Born to Kill”

In this startling, twisting, turning story of murder, mayhem, and self-discovery, convicted mass murderer and baby killer Bill Suff “The Riverside Prostitute Killer” is your guide to exploring your personal demons.

This is a unique book containing everything that was heretofore known and suspected but meticulously kept “off the record”, as well as details that that only the killer knew until now. There are interviews with principals; transcripts of the illegal police interrogation of Bill; excerpts from the cookbook, poetry, and writings of Bill; a step-by-step reconstruction of the mental chess game between Bill and Brian; and appreciation for how “friendship” with this serial killer led to death for some but salvation for others.

For seven years—1985 to 1992—Bill hid in plain sight while terrorizing three Southern California counties, murdering two dozen prostitutes, mutilating and then posing them in elaborate artistic scenarios in public places—he’d placed a lightbulb in the womb of one, dressed others in men’s clothes, left one woman naked with her head bent forward and buried in the ground like an ostrich; he’d surgically removed the right breasts of some victims, and cut peepholes in the navels of others.

When the newspapers said that the killer only slayed whites and hispanics, Bill ran right out and raped, torutred and killed a pregnant black woman. When a film company came to town to make a fictional movie about the then-uncaught killer, Bill left a corpse on their set. And, as the massive multi-jurisdictional police task force fruitlessly hunted the unknown killer, Bill personally served them bowls of his “special” chili at the annual Riverside County Employees’ Picnic and Cook-off.

William Lester “Bill” Suff. He says he’s innocent, says he’s been framed, says he’s the most wronged man in America, maybe the world. He’s easygoing, genial, soft-spoken, loves to read, write, draw, play music and chat endlessly. He describes himself as a lovable nerd and a hope-less romantic, and he fancies himself a novelist and poet.

Brian first connected with Bill on the basis of writer to writer, and that’s when the mind games began. Even in jail, Bill was the master manipulator, the seducer who somehow always got way. But Brian was determined to lose himself in Bill’s mind, in Bill’s fantasies, to get at the truth of who and what Bill Suff is. Only then would he know the truth of how close we are all to being just like Bill.

Some readers wrote that the book was “personally important and life-changing”, others that it was “the only serial killer book with a sense of humor”, and others that they wished the author dead or worse. The son of one of Suff’s victims held on to the book as life-preserving testimony to the goodness of his fatally flawed mother and the possibility that his own redemption would eventually be in his own hands.

Meanwhile, TV series and movies continuously derive episodes and plots from the unique details of the murders and the spiraling psyches of the characters as laid out in the book.

When it was first released, Brian Alan Lane’s genre-bending bestseller “Mind Games With a Serial Killer” was simultaneously hailed and reviled.

“Highly recommended: the creepiest book of the year… A surreal portrait of a murderous mind.” (Details Magazine)

“This book is an amazing piece of work—it’s like Truman Capote on LSD.” (Geraldo Rivera on The Geraldo Rivera Show)

“A masterpiece… that needs to be sought out and savored by all those with a truly macabre sensibility… A post-modernistic objet trouvé… that could have been concocted by Vladimir Nabokov.” (The Boston Book Review)

“A new approach to crime… absolutely riveting, utterly terrifying.” (Forensic Science Bookstore)

She was a full blown brunette in a bandanna halter that just covered the essentials. The non-essentials were very impressive too. This was just the kind of case Shayne could enjoy. Keeping an eye on a dish like this and getting paid for it to boot.

An omnibus of novels

From New York Times bestselling authors Charlaine Harris and Nalini Singh and national bestselling authors Ilona Andrews and Meljean Brook, tales of man's worst friend…

In these hound-eat-hound worlds, anything goes. and everything bites.

Follow paranormal bodyguards Clovache and Batanya into Lucifer's realm, where they encounter his fearsome four-legged pets, in Charlaine Harris's The Britlingens Go to Hell. Seek out a traitor in the midst of a guild of non- lethal vampire trackers, one that intends to eradicate the entire species of bloodsuckers, in Nalini Singh's Angels' Judgment. Find out why the giant three-headed dog that guards the gates of Hades has left the underworld for the real world – and whose scent he's following – in Ilona Andrews's Magic Mourns. Embark on a perilous search for the kidnapped niece of a powerful vampire alongside her blind – and damn sexy – companion and a hellhound in Meljean Brook's Blind Spot.

These four novellas by today's hottest paranormal authors will have hellhound lovers everywhere howling.

Nalini Singh pulls away another dark layer of sheer desire, revealing passions unknown, in her latest novel about the world of the Psy. A ghost returns from a leopard changeling’s past, making him question everything—even his base animal instincts…

Clay Bennett is a powerful DarkRiver sentinel, but he grew up in the slums with his human mother, never knowing his changeling father. As a young boy without the bonds of Pack, he tried to stifle his animal nature. He failed...and committed the most extreme act of violence, killing a man and losing his best friend, Talin, in the bloody aftermath. Everything good in him died the day he was told that she, too, was dead.

Talin McKade barely survived a childhood drenched in bloodshed and terror. Now a new nightmare is stalking her life—the street children she works to protect are disappearing and turning up dead. Determined to keep them safe, she unlocks the darkest secret in her heart and returns to ask the help of the strongest man she knows...

Clay lost Talin once. He will not let her go again, his hunger to possess her, a clawing need born of the leopard within. As they race to save the innocent, Clay and Talin must face the violent truths of their past...or lose everything that ever mattered.

Amanda McCready was four years old when she vanished from a Boston neighborhood twelve years ago. Desperate pleas for help from the child's aunt led investigators Kenzie and Gennaro to take on the case. The pair risked everything to find the young girl-only to orchestrate her return to a neglectful mother and a broken home.

Now Amanda is sixteen-and gone again. A stellar student, brilliant but aloof, she seemed destined to escape her upbringing. Yet Amanda's aunt is once more knocking on Patrick Kenzie's door, fearing the worst for the little girl who has blossomed into a striking, clever young woman-a woman who hasn't been seen in weeks.

Grand Rapids Press A mind-boggling page-turner…Robin Cook has another sure bestseller.

A storyteller of the most daring imagination…chillingly entertaining and thought-provoking. – Associated Press

***

A gigantic drug firm has offered an aspiring young doctor a lucrative job that will help support his pregnant wife. It could make their dreams come true-or their nightmares…

Book DescriptionReid Bennett, the newest addition to Murphy’s Harbor, Ontario, has embarked on his second case. During the Ice Festival, there is a sudden blackout and the Queen of the Ice Festival disappears; in fact she’s been kidnapped! Members of a feminist anti-pageant group are suspected, but Reid suspects something fishy. He must expose the organizer of the kidnapping – and try not to get himself killed.

The second novel in the trilogy. Bernard is sent to Mexico in order to "enrol" the East German Erich Stinnes.

A betrayed wife and dedicated mother suddenly forced to raise her six-month-old daughter alone, Melanie Vargas is also an ambitious, hard-working professional who has had to bite and claw for recognition in the federal prosecutor’s office. Then, while strolling with her baby girl on a steamy New York night, Melanie stumbles onto the kind of high-profile case that could make a career: the burning townhouse of a wealthy former prosecutor, its owner’s tortured, murdered corpse smoldering within. Melanie Vargas wants this chance – she needs it – and she’ll do whatever it takes to get it.

But a headline-grabbing opportunity of a lifetime could cost Melanie more than she ever imagined, as it pulls her closer to a dangerous affair with a secretive, enigmatic FBI agent – and closer still to a sadistic human monster moving expertly through the city’s darkest shadows.

***

“Michele Martinez’s Most Wanted is taut and crisp, as well-crafted a mystery as you’ll read this year.” – John Lescroart

“Michele Martinez, a former New York prosecutor turned author, skillfully shows the promise of an exciting series in this debut. Most Wanted succeeds as an intense legal thriller, a police procedural, and a look at the treachery of the workplace, with a bit of romantic suspense added for good measure.” – Ft. Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel

“ Martinez pairs a dedicated prosecutor with a streetwise cop in a city story of nonstop suspense. The pages turn in a blur! Edgy and fresh.” – Iris Johansen

“ Martinez joins Linda Fairstein in the ranks of prosecutor turned authors, bringing real-life detail and emotion to this thriller.” – Library Journal

“An effervescent debut thriller… Martinez has crafted an enormously appealing heroine and a breezy, entertaining tale.” – Publishers Weekly

“Who but a former prosecutor could have created this bright and fearless heroine-in-peril? And I loved Martinez ’s edgy mix of New York grit and glamour, set to a galloping, can’t-put-it-down tempo. Most Wanted is an utter page-turner.” – Tess Gerritsen

Inglaterra, año del Señor de 1171: en Cambridge aparece el cadáver de un niño horriblemente asesinado. Otros muchos han desaparecido. Los judíos, directamente acusados de estos crímenes por la todopoderosa jerarquía católica, buscan refugio entre los muros del castillo para evitar las iras de los soliviantados ciudadanos. Al rey Enrique esta situación dista de complacerle: necesita a los judíos para llenar sus arcas y debe encontrarse al verdadero culpable para aplacar al pueblo, que ha elevado a la categoría de santo al niño asesinado.

Para esclarecer la situación aparecen en Cambridge un reputado investigador, Simón de Nápoles, acompañado de una misteriosa mujer, Adelia Aguilar, y de un enigmático hombre de origen árabe, Mansur.

La especialidad de Adelia, doctora en la célebre escuela de medicina de Salerno, es el estudio y la disección de cadáveres. Se trata de una maestra en el arte de la muerte, algo que debe disimular cuidadosamente si no quiere correr el riesgo de ser acusada de brujería.

Las investigaciones conducen a Adelia hasta el último rincón de Cambridge. Encontrará amigos que la ayudarán y hallará el amor… pero también tendrá que luchar denodadamente con un terrible asesino dispuesto a seguir matando y con las supersticiones y prejuicios de los habitantes de la ciudad.

Brand-new stories by: Jeffery Deaver, Lawrence Block, Charles Ardai, Carol Lea Benjamin, Thomas H. Cook, Jim Fusilli, Robert Knightly, John Lutz, Liz Martínez, Maan Meyers, Martin Meyers, S.J. Rozan, Justin Scott, C.J. Sullivan, and Xu Xi.

Brand-new stories by: Paco Ignacio Taibo II, Eugenio Aguirre, Eduardo Antonia Parra, Bernardo Fernández Bef, Óscar de la Borbolla, Rolo Díez, Victor Luiz González, F.G. Haghenbeck, Juan Hernández Luna, Myriam Laurini, Eduardo Monteverde, and Julia Rodríguez.

Paco Ignacio Taibo II was born in Gijón, Spain, and has lived in Mexico since 1958. He is the author of numerous works of fiction and nonfiction, which have been published in many languages around the world, including a mystery series starring Mexican Private Investigator Héctor Belascoarán Shayne. He is a professor of history at the Metropolitan University of Mexico City.

Martin Misunderstood tells the story of Martin Reed, an average man who wonders how he has wound up with such an abysmally empty existence. Working as a senior accountant at Southern Toilet Supply and still living with his nagging mother, his sole source of excitement is the crime novels he cherishes. So immersed is Martin in these escapes he fails to notice the crimes going on all around him. When first one, then another, of his co-workers is brutally murdered, Martin steps in to help the investigation, bringing his amateur detecting skills to bear. But Martin realizes too late that what he has mistaken for the glow of the spotlight, is actually the harsh glare of interrogation.

The spellinbinding sequel to Sidney Sheldon's Master of the Game. One of most glamorous and suspenseful tales ever told! It began with Jamie MacGregor, stealing diamonds in Africa. It continued with his daughter, the powerful Kate Blackwell who grew her father's company into a world wide conglomerate, Now the story passes to the next generation. Spanning the decades and picking-up exactly where Sidney Sheldon's bestselling Master of the Game finished, Mistress of the Game follows the Blackwell family as they, Love, and lose, scheme and murder through the 80's up until the present day. Heart-stopping and glamorous, tense and provactive, Mistress of the Game is the sequel that Sheldon fans have been waiting for!

Proud, iron-willed Tennessee widow Tamsin MacGreggor is wanted-dead or alive-for a crime she didn't commit. But out West the law is shoot first, ask questions later. So she's running for her life-with notoriously handsome bounty hunter Ash Morgan in hot pursuit.

Tamsin is Morgan's match, shrewd and strong enough to escape his capture. Twice. But catching her now is more than Morgan's duty-it's personal. For somehow she has slipped past his defenses and stolen his well-guarded heart. Their passionate love erupts in the wilds of a harsh, unforgiving land where a bounty hunter must finish his job-and an innocent woman will do whatever it takes to save herself from a hangman's noose…

Moscú, hacia 1990. Un chantajista amenaza a un matrimonio con revelar que su hijo de doce años es adoptado. ¿Cómo ha salido a la luz este secreto? La investigación se centra en un juez que confiesa que le han robado varios sumarios. Anastasia Kaménskaya de la policía criminal, sospecha que ese robo múltiple oculta otro asunto mucho más turbio, que ella descubre rápidamente. Un eminente científico degüella a su mujer, pierde la memoria y el juicio, y cuando parece que es capaz de recordar algo, también pierde la vida. ¿Qué misterio se esconde tras ese drama familiar y por qué han querido taparlo?

Персонажей романа «Memento mori» известной английской писательницы Мюриэл Спарк преследуют по телефону – неизвестный голос повторяет одну и ту же фразу: «Помните, что вас ждет смерть». Полиция бессильна...

MALICE opens with New Orleans Detective Rick Bentz in the hospital. He thinks he smells his first wife's perfume, and sees Jennifer in the doorway; but she's been dead for 12 years. Rick begins to see Jennifer regularly, as if she is haunting him. It was Bentz who identified her body after her car wreck…which he never doubted, until now. He hasn't told his new wife, Olivia; but she is also hiding a secret from Bentz.

A series of murders begin, and each victim was a part of Jennifer's past, making Bentz the prime suspect.

MALICE is a gripping, edge-of-your-seat tale of deception and betrayal, where Rick Bentz is forced to confront the ghosts of his past…and a killer's twisted vengeance.

Nadia Stafford isn't your typical nature lodge owner. An ex-cop with a legal code all her own, she's known only as 'Dee' to her current employers: a New York crime family who pays her handsomely to bump off traitors. But when Nadia discovers that a troubled teenage employee and her baby have vanished in the Canadian woods, the memory of a past loss comes back with a vengeance, and her old instincts go into overdrive.

With her enigmatic mentor, Jack, covering her back, Nadia unearths sinister clues that point to an increasingly darker and deadlier mystery. Now, with her obsession over the case deepening, the only way Nadia can right the wrongs of the present is to face her own painful ghosts – and either bury them for good, or die trying. Because in her book, everyone deserves a chance. And everyone deserves justice.

In this timely stand-alone thriller ripped from the headlines, New York Times bestselling author James Grippando, whom the Wall Street Journal calls "a writer to watch," explores a world in which the destruction of financial institutions and the people who run them can occur in a matter of hours – perhaps even minutes.

At thirty-one, Michael Cantella is a rising star at Wall Street's premier investment bank, Saxton Silvers. Everything is going according to plan until Ivy Layton, the love of his life, vanishes on their honeymoon in the Bahamas.

Fast-forward four years. It's the eve of his thirty-fifth birthday, and Michael is still on track: successful career, beautiful new wife, piles of money. Reveling in his good fortune, Michael logs in to his computer, enters his password, and pulls up his biggest investment account: Zero balance. He tries another, and another. All of them zero. Someone has wiped him out. His only clue is a new e-mail message: Just as planned. xo xo.

With these three words Michael's life as he knows it is liquidated, along with his investment portfolio. Saxton Silvers is suddenly on the brink of bankruptcy, and he's the leading suspect in its ruin. Michael is left alone, framed, and facing divorce, with undercover FBI agents afoot, spyware on his computer, and mysterious e-mails from a "JBU." Embroiled in corporate espionage, he's desperate to clear his name and realizes that several signs point to his first wife, Ivy, as a key player. But what if Ivy has come back from the dead, only to visit on Michael a fate worse than death?

With echoes of The Firm, James Grippando's newest thriller takes readers to the inner circle of Wall Street, illustrating the very real dangers of what Warren Buffett called "financial weapons of mass destruction."

Para Sookie Stackhouse, las actividades del día a día de los vampiros y cambiantes de la comunidad de Bon Temps y alrededores, en Luisiana, son de vital interés. Tiene un vínculo de sangre con el rey de los vampiros, es amiga del grupo de cambiantes local, trabaja para un hombre que puede transformarse en cualquier animal y tiene un hermano pantera…

Aunque para la mayor parte de la población humana, los vampiros son criaturas misteriosas y seductoras, y eso que ni siquiera saben de la existencia de los cambiantes… Hasta ahora. Se han decidido a seguir la línea de los no muertos y revelar por fin su existencia al resto del mundo.

Al principio todo parece ir como la seda… pero el cuerpo mutilado de una pantera aparece en el parking del Merlotte's. Sin embargo, un peligro todavía mayor que el susodicho asesino amenaza Bon Temps. Una raza de seres mayores, más sabios y mucho más reservados que los vampiros o los cambiantes, se prepara para una guerra. Y Sookie se verá convertida en el títere humano de todos ellos en su batalla.

Los juegos deberían ser para divertirse, pero para dos equipos de expertos, son para asesinar, porque el equipo vencedor es el que consiga la mayor cantidad de muertes. Se rumorea que los participantes en este violento desafío son Caminantes Fantasmas. Y Kadan Montague no está muy contento con eso.

Kadan es un Caminante Fantasma y está decidido a limpiar de rumores el nombre de los suyos.

Para hacerlo, necesitará la ayuda de la psíquica Tansy Meadows. Pero en cuanto la ve, sabe que su misión será más complicada de lo que imaginó… y “el juego del asesinato” puede no ser todo lo que aparenta.

An omnibus of novels by Ilona Andrews and Jeaniene Frost

New York Times bestselling authors Jeaniene Frost and Ilona Andrews bring you two short stories of paranormal.

Jeaniene Frost's story, One For the Money, features vampires Cat and Bones trying to protect a spoiled heiress with a price on her head and an undead hitman on her trail. Previously published in Death's Excellent Vacation. Also includes the first three chapters from Jeaniene's story in The Bite Before Christmas anthology, as well as a sneak peak at ONCE BURNED, the first novel in the new Night Prince series.

Ilona Andrews story, A Questionable Client, is a prequel to her award-winning Kate Daniels series. In a world beset by magic waves, Kate Daniels works as a mercenary. She is tired, hungry, and there is foul-smelling blood on her boots. All she wants to do is to go home, but when Mercenary Guild offers her a job she can't refuse, she find herself protecting a man against Russian wizards. Previously published in Dark and Stormy Knights. Also includes first two chapters of FATE'S EDGE, book 3 in the Edge series, and first two chapters of Magic Grieves, a Kate Daniels novella.

A un discípulo de Mesmer le encargan que cure el hipo que sufre un sudamericano pobre abandonado en un hospital de París en la primavera de 1938. En apariencia, nada puede pasar. Sin embargo el mesmerista Pierre Pain se verá envuelto en una intriga en donde se planea un asesinato ritual de proporciones planetarias. ¿Quién es el sudamericano que agoniza en el hospital Arago? ¿Por qué unas fuerzas ocultas desean su muerte? ¿Qué se pierde y qué se gana con esa muerte? Sólo Pierre Pain se da cuenta de lo que se teje entre bastidores. Y él no es un héroe sino un hombre común y corriente: solitario, secretamente enamorado de madame Reynaud, delicado, pacífico, descreído, el menos indicado para intentar resolver una historia extraordinaria a mitad de camino entre la casualidad y la causalidad, una aventura a vida o muerte en donde se pondrá en juego el amor, la soledad, la dignidad y el valor del ser humano, el delirio, la irremediable tristeza. Una insólita novela en la que el autor de Los detectives salvajes, premiado con el Rómulo Gallegos, exhibe su no menos insólita altura literaria.A un discípulo de Mesmer le encargan que cure el hipo que sufre un sudamericano pobre abandonado en un hospital de París en la primavera de 1938. En apariencia, nada puede pasar. Sin embargo el mesmerista Pierre Pain se verá envuelto en una intriga en donde se planea un asesinato ritual de proporciones planetarias. ¿Quién es el sudamericano que agoniza en el hospital Arago? ¿Por qué unas fuerzas ocultas desean su muerte? ¿Qué se pierde y qué se gana con esa muerte? Sólo Pierre Pain se da cuenta de lo que se teje entre bastidores. Y él no es un héroe sino un hombre común y corriente: solitario, secretamente enamorado de madame Reynaud, delicado, pacífico, descreído, el menos indicado para intentar resolver una historia extraordinaria a mitad de camino entre la casualidad y la causalidad, una aventura a vida o muerte en donde se pondrá en juego el amor, la soledad, la dignidad y el valor del ser humano, el delirio, la irremediable tristeza. Una insólita novela en la que el autor de Los detectives salvajes, premiado con el Rómulo Gallegos, exhibe su no menos insólita altura literaria.

En una conversación de bar parisino, monsiuer Pain discute sobre mesmerismo con otro paciente -quizá un farsante-, que le recuerda que uno de los practicantes de esta teoría (que pretendía curar mediante el uso del magnetismo) fue el médico inglés Hell, apellido que, discurren los dos, significa infierno. Curiosamente no llevan la analogía más allá, pero quizá en esta charla se encuentra una de las claves de la sorprendente novela del narrador chileno, avecindado en España, Roberto Bolaño, Monsieur Pain, que la editorial Anagrama reeditó recientemente. A lo largo de toda la historia, los nombres de los protagonistas son parte fundamental del misterio y llevan a este seguidor de las enseñanzas de Mesmer a un insólito viaje por el París de la primera posguerra, en donde convalece César Vallejo y aún resuenan los disparos de la guerra civil española.

La historia ocurre en 1938 e inicia cuando madame Reynaud, una viuda joven a la que Pierre Pain ama en silencio, le pide a éste -que asistió en la agonía a su esposo- que ausculte al poeta peruano, convaleciente en un hospital a causa de un ataque de hipo. Esta petición es el detonador de una aventura inquietante donde tienen cabida tanto los seguidores de Mesmer como ciertos conspiradores de origen español, e incluso las investigaciones metafísicas de Pierre Curie forman parte de la intriga.

La novela de Bolaño es un pastiche, un collage de situaciones que poco a poco sugieren una historia aún más oscura: la de una conspiración maligna no sólo contra el poeta que agoniza sino también contra ciertas teorías que, como el propio mesmerismo, rechazan la verdad científica oficial. Monsieur Pain será el encargado de descubrir los hilos de esta trampa, pero al realizar su investigación sólo encontrará lo que profetiza su apellido. Incapaz de enfrentar a los verdugos, el protagonista de la novela callará para siempre lo que descubrió o aquello que simplemente creyó intuir.

Bolaño, cuya novela Los detectives salvajes ha conocido un éxito inusitado, se muestra aquí como un narrador de buena mano: algunos protagonistas fueron personas reales y algunos de los hechos que ocurren en la novela -la muerte de Curie o la de Vallejo- sucedieron realmente, pero el autor ha mezclado de tal suerte las historias que el resultado es inquietante y, por momentos, perturbador.

Pain es la clave, lo que leemos es la historia de un momento de su vida y su fracaso tanto en el amor como en la resolución de un misterio que está más allá de sus propias fuerzas. Para hacer aún más profundo el enigma, al final de la obra el autor plantea la vida de sus protagonistas a través de diversas voces que prefiguran los testimonios acerca de sus `detectives``. Y de alguna manera el epílogo hace aún más inquietante el destino de Pain, las casualidades que lo llevaron a encontrarse, en una ciudad plagada de surrealistas, con dos fabricantes de cementerios marinos que desprecian a los seguidores de André Breton, así como con un mundo nocturno repulsivo y atrayente donde la única persona que parece comprenderlo es un portero argelino. Porque si bien monsieur Pain es incapaz de vestirse de héroe, el azar y sus leyes lo llevan por caminos jamás imaginados para concluir en el fracaso. Por eso su personalidad nos toca a todos. Pain representa al hombre que espera la derrota final, a quien no lo redime ni siquiera un último acto de rebeldía.

El protagonista de la novela de Bolaño vive una aventura que no esperaba pero también padece, como todo solitario, el terror a la oscuridad, la sospecha que anida en el corazón de los amantes desesperanzados y silenciosos. Y si parece que al final que no ocurre nada -o al menos eso podemos creer-, la verdad es que las peripecias del señor Pain son las que mantienen pendiente al lector hasta la última página. La novela en conjunto no es más que una gran trampa en la que caemos fácilmente. Pero de eso se trata precisamente: de seguir a Pierre Pain a lo largo de un periplo que lo llevará (y a nosotros con él) al desencanto.

Si bien Monsieur Pain no es la más lograda de las novelas de Roberto Bolaño, sí prefigura algunos de sus temas y ese estilo personal que ha convertido al escritor chileno en una de las más gratas revelaciones de la prosa latinoamericana de los últimos años.

Strange things were happening in Drake House: A perfect rose appearing on a pillow…an antique dress materializing out of nowhere…a mysterious spirit roaming the halls…

Five years after Rachel Lindquist had left California to chase her dreams, she returned home to care for her aging mother, only to find herself chasing a ghost! Addie Lindquist insisted a presence haunted Drake House and had hired noted parapsychologist Bryan Hennessy to investigate, but Rachel knew better than to believe in what she couldn't see-or to surrender to the strong current of desire pulling her towards Bryan.

Bryan had dealt with skeptics before, but convincing Rachel was the biggest challenge of his life. The enchanting beauty had lost faith in everything that wasn't practical, and that included matters of the heart. As Bryan fought her reluctance to succumb to feelings she couldn't control, a second, more sinister force began to stalk them, threatening to drive them from Drake House and from each other-a force that could be banished only by a man who believed in the power of love and…Magic.

Sybilla Forsenstrom doesn't exist. For fifteen years she has been excluded from society and, as one of the homeless in Stockholm, she takes each day as it comes, keeping all her possessions in her rucksack – apart from a knife and salami which she stores in a smart briefcase. She is always well-dressed and displays impeccable manners. One night, in The Grand Hotel, she charms a susceptible businessman into paying for her dinner and room. His dead body is discovered the following morning and Sybilla becomes the prime suspect. When a second person is killed in similar circumstances, she becomes the most wanted person in Sweden.

Plus-size reporter Kate Gallagher is facing the ultimate challenge – wearing a bikini for an upcoming assignment about weight loss scams. Sticking to her diet won't be easy – especially since her love life is already wasting away.

Kate learns she's not alone at a meeting of a women's support group, the Newbodies – where her friend Lila confides that her marriage is in trouble. When Lila turns up dead, Kate's suspicions immediately fall on the husband. But that's before she finds out that Lila wasn't the first 'Newbody' to die. Apparently a killer has an appetite for plus-sized victims.

Arly Hanks – the wildest chief of police in the Ozarks – has finally met her match. To her horror, she's been cajoled into chaperoning a group of ten hormonally challenged teens on a youth group camp out, along with the mayor's wife, the high school shop teacher, and preacher Brother Verber. Bunking with the crew is bad enough, but things get even hairier when one of the campers stumbles upon the body of a white-robed woman with a shaved head. And before Arly Hanks can do a head count, she finds herself hindered by a cast of crazies, while she tracks down a spacey cult whose initiation ritual could be a real killer.

When a spike in CIA intelligence suggests a major terrorist attack planned for Memorial Day, the president orders Mitch Rapp, his top counterterrorism operative, to pull out all the stops. Rapp immediately leaves for Afghanistan where he leads the ultra secret counterterrorism Special Forces unit on a daring commando raid across the border into Northern Pakistan. Their target: an al-Qaeda stronghold.

Within a subterranean room, Rapp and his team discover a treasure trove of maps, computers, files and bills of lading for multiple freighters heading to US ports - all pointing to plans for a catastrophic attack on Washington DC. Information is quickly relayed back to CIA headquarters, and a nuclear emergency search team scrambles to the scene. In a few hours, the freighters have been located and the danger averted. Or has it? To Mitch Rapp, the whole operation seemed just a bit too easy.

Following his instincts on a quest to unearth the whole truth, Rapp makes a truly terrifying discovery - and with Memorial Day closing fast, he must find a way to prevent a disaster of unimaginable proportions ...

Asked to help attorney Mitchell Reece locate a stolen document that could cost him a multimillion-dollar case, paralegal Taylor Lockwood finds out what goes on behind closed doors at Hubbard, White Willis.

Nadando desnuda en la noche en compañía de sus delfines, Melis había encontrado por fin la paz y algo parecido a la felicidad. Vivía en una isla solitaria alejada del mundo… pero el mundo no estaba dispuesto a olvidarla. Porque esta muchacha hermosa y aparentemente frágil tiene la clave para el mayor descubrimiento arqueológico de la humanidad, un premio que atrae a los hombres como la sangre a los tiburones. Uno de ellos es Jed Kelby, seductor millonario, curtido ex-comando de la Armada y ambicioso buscador de tesoros. El otro es Hugh Archer, traficante de armas y uno de los más despiadados criminales que existen. Melis resiste bien las presiones, pero cuando la gente comienza a morir a su alrededor se ve obligada a aceptar la colaboración de Kelby. Juntos, zarparán en busca de un sueño y se enfrentarán a la muerte que les acecha continuamente. Pero para encontrar el tesoro Melis tendrá que superar antes la más dura de las pruebas, plantar cara a un terrible secreto del pasado que, en manos de su enemigo, es un arma devastadora.

Lewis Cane is an ex-SOE operative who worked with the French Resistance against Nazi Germany. He stayed in Paris after the end of World War II, making a somewhat precarious living as a business expediter. One day he is approached by a lawyer, Henri Merlin, a former resistance comrade, with a job: a wealthy international financier, Maganhard, needs to be driven from Brittany to Liechtenstein in secrecy and within three days. The fact that the French Sûreté have an open arrest warrant out on Maganhard seemed like a simple problem. However, when half the hit-men in Europe start gunning for them, things get complicated quickly. As Cane races the clock, the police, and the assassins across France and Switzerland, whom can he trust? His alcoholic and trigger-happy bodyguard? Maganhard's mysterious private secretary who seemingly goes out of her way to create problems? Or his former Resistance contacts, who might or might not sell him out for the highest price?

In a small upstate New York town, an idyllic lake yields a ghastly discovery when the skeletal remains of a young woman missing for 27 years are pulled from the icy depth – along with unmistakable evidence of her murder. Suddenly, the long-dormant case of Kelly McShane Braden’s mysterious disappearance is reactivated. And for two devastated men, dark emotions and disturbing secrets will also rise to the surface.

Vampire hunter extraordinaire Anita Blake arrives in Philadelphia to raise a witness from the dead so that his testimony can be taken with the help of Micah, the king of the wereleopards, but she is more fearful of spending time alone with Micah, her former lover, than dealing with a zombie.

The time has come for Meredith Gentry to put aside her detective work and fulfill her ultimate obligation to the world of Faerie — where her efforts to conceive an heir to the throne of the Unseelie Court are crucial to restoring magic, and life itself, to the Fey kingdom.

An omnibus of novels

From four of today's hottest fantasy authors – all-new novellas of dark nights, cruel cities, and paranormal P.I.s.

The best paranormal private investigators have been brought together in a single volume – and cases don't come any harder than this.

New York Times bestselling author Jim Butcher delivers a hard-boiled tale in which Harry Dresden's latest case may be his last.

Nightside dweller John Taylor is hired by a woman to find something she lost – her memory – in a thrilling noir tale from New York Times bestselling author Simon R. Green.

National bestselling author Kat Richardson's Greywalker finds herself in too deep when a 'simple job' goes bad and Harper Blaine is enmeshed in a tangle of dark secrets and revenge from beyond the grave.

For centuries, the being that we know as Noah lived among us. Now he is dead, and fallen-angel-turned-detective Remy Chandler has been hired to find out who killed him in a whodunit by national bestselling author Thomas E. Sniegoski.

More compulsive fun in this all-new, original mystery starring everyone's favorite OCD detective, 'one of television's best-loved characters.' (Honolulu Star- Bulletin)

Leland Stottlemeyer is used to obsessive- compulsive genius Adrian Monk getting all the praise and attention. But the police captain is feeling a little hostile after taking a lot of ribbing about his reliance on his star consultant. Is it possible he's used the latest round of budget cuts as an excuse to cut Monk loose?

But Monk is much too compulsive to stop investigating, even without pay. Soon he's calling in tips under assumed names to help solve cases. (Who would ever guess the real identity of 'Adrian Smith' and 'Adrian Jones?') Then Stottlemeyer is framed for the murder of another cop – and only one detective in San Francisco can save him…

Cara Maloan doesn’t look like a monster. In fact, the gorgeous blond nightclub singer possesses heavenly attributes that make Atlanta detective Todd Brooks sure there’s a higher power somewhere. But a twisted killer is leaving a trail of bodies in seedy hotel rooms across town. The male victims show no wounds–it’s as if the life was simply drained from them. And right now, mysterious Cara is Todd’s only suspect.

Cara knows it’s foolish to be so drawn to a man who thinks she’s a murderer. She also knows Detective Brooks would find the truth even harder to swallow. Cara is one of the Other, a race of powerful, paranormal creatures who live among humans. Cara’s particular abilities make men putty in her hands–all except this rugged, sexy-as-hell detective. But now someone, or something, has singled Cara out for serious payback…

As uneasy trust gives way to mind-blowing desire, Cara and Todd will go head-to-head with a killer whose mission is deeply personal, and who’s determined to serve up revenge that’s hotter than hellfire, and just as deadly…

In a world of shadows, desire conquers all…

In this sexy, gripping novel, Cynthia Eden draws readers deeper into the realm of the Others—vampires, shifters, and sinfully attractive demons whose powers are matched only by their dark hungers…

Tall, dark, and formidable, Niol Lapen is the last demon on earth most people would ask for a favor, yet the sexy little reporter who wanders into his club dares to do exactly that. Holly Storm already knows too much about his kind, and Niol has no wish to help her get in deeper over her head. But working alongside her may be the only way to stop a killer, even as it ignites a primal desire unlike anything he’s known.

Holly has seen firsthand what Niol is capable of, but that doesn’t frighten her nearly as much as her body’s instinctive reaction to him, or the wild, fierce passion that would tempt her to follow him through hell itself. Something evil and relentless is prowling the streets of Atlanta. And as Holly’s search leads her into danger that even Niol could never have predicted, she’ll uncover a secret that could rip her world apart….

Centuries have passed since civilization's brush with apocalypse. The world's greatest threats have all been silenced. There is no anger, no hatred, no war. There is only perfect peace…and fear. A terrible secret was closely guarded for centuries: every single soul walking the earth, though in appearance totally normal, is actually dead, long ago genetically stripped of true humanity.

Nine years have gone by since an unlikely hero named Rom Sebastian first discovered a secret and consumed an ancient potion of blood to bring himself back to life in Forbidden. Surviving against impossible odds, Rom has gathered a secret faction of followers who have also taken the blood-the first Mortals in a world that is dead.

But The Order has raised an elite army to hunt and crush the living. Division and betrayal threaten to destroy the Mortals from within. The final surviving hope for humanity teeters on the brink of annihilation and no one knows the path to survival.

On the heels of Forbidden comes MORTAL, the second novel in The Books of Mortals saga penned by Ted Dekker and Tosca Lee. Set in a terrifying, medieval future, where grim pageantry masks death, this tale of dark desires and staggering stakes peels back the layers of the heart for all who dare take the journey.

The Books of Mortals are three novels, each of which stands on its own, yet all are seamlessly woven into one epic thriller.

In Jurassic Park, he created a terrifying new world. Now, in Micro, Michael Crichton reveals a universe too small to see and too dangerous to ignore.

In a locked Honolulu office building, three men are found dead with no sign of struggle except for the ultrafine, razor-sharp cuts covering their bodies. The only clue left behind is a tiny bladed robot, nearly invisible to the human eye.

In the lush forests of Oahu, groundbreaking technology has ushered in a revolutionary era of biological prospecting. Trillions of microorganisms, tens of thousands of bacteria species, are being discovered; they are feeding a search for priceless drugs and applications on a scale beyond anything previously imagined.

In Cambridge, Massachusetts, seven graduate students at the forefront of their fields are recruited by a pioneering microbiology start-up. Nanigen MicroTechnologies dispatches the group to a mysterious lab in Hawaii, where they are promised access to tools that will open a whole new scientific frontier.

But once in the Oahu rain forest, the scientists are thrust into a hostile wilderness that reveals profound and surprising dangers at every turn. Armed only with their knowledge of the natural world, they find themselves prey to a technology of radical and unbridled power. To survive, they must harness the inherent forces of nature itself.

An instant classic, Micro pits nature against technology in vintage Crichton fashion. Completed by visionary science writer Richard Preston, this boundary-pushing thriller melds scientific fact with pulse-pounding fiction to create yet another masterpiece of sophisticated, cutting-edge entertainment.

Mikael Blomkvist, ekonomireporter, döms till fängelse för förtal av finansmannen Wennerström, och beslutar sig för att ta time-out från sitt jobb på tidskriften Millennium. I samma veva får han ett ovanligt uppdrag. Henrik Vanger, tidigare en av landets främsta industriledare, vill att Blomkvist ska skriva släkten Vangers historia. Men det visar sig snart bara vara en täckmantel för Blomkvists verkliga uppgift: att ta reda på vad som hänt Vangers unga släkting Harriet, som varit spårlöst försvunnen i snart fyrtio år. Till sin hjälp får han Lisbeth Salander, en ung strulig tjej, tatuerad och piercad, men också professionell hacker och med unika egenskaper som gör henne till en oslagbar researcher.

The first novel in the gripping Intercrime trilogy.

Following a complicated but successful dismantling of a hostage situation, Detective Paul Hjelm is facing the prospect of a potentially career-ending investigation by Internal Affairs. Instead, he finds himself dropped into a new elite team of officers selected from across the country, whose mission is to find an elusive killer who has been targeting Sweden's business leaders. The killer's modus operandi: two distinctive shots straight through the head, bullets carefully pulled from the wall – a nighttime ritual enacted with Thelonius Monk's jazz classic Misterioso playing in the background.

As Hjelm, his young partner Jorge Chavez, and the rest of the team follow one lead after another in a frantic search for the killer – navigating the murky world of the Russian Mafia and the secret societies of Sweden's wealthiest citizens – they must also face one of Sweden's most persistent ills: a deep-rooted xenophobia that affects both police and perpetrator.

Written with great energy, penetrating candor, and dark wit, and populated with characters whose motivations are as nuanced as they are unexpected, Misterioso is an utterly absorbing novel – an arresting introduction to this acclaimed author.

For years, the operations of a mysterious and ruthless extortioner, who called himself “The Tortoise”, had baffled Scotland Yard and the police forces of Europe. But the Tortoise made a mistake of interfering with Don Micklem, millionaire settled in London, with friends in high places. And once Micklem was aroused, he tracked down the Tortoise to his lair in a remote place in Italy….

En 1958, cuando James Ellroy tenía diez años, el cuerpo de su madre fue hallado en la cuneta de una carretera, en un pequeño pueblo cerca de Los Ángeles. Nunca se descubrió al asesino y el caso quedó cerrado. Ellroy alcanzó el éxito en su faceta de escritor de novelas tan radicales como provocativas, pero la memoria de la muerte de su madre no dejó de perseguirlo. En esta obra Ellroy da cuenta de la frustrada investigación policial; de la volátil trayectoria que tomó su vida a partir de aquel suceso trágico; de la carrera de un antiguo sheriff de Homicidios del condado de Los Ángeles llamado Bill Stoner; de la investigación que el autor y el propio Stoner emprendieron para identificar, años después, al asesino de su madre.Esta autobiografía de James Ellroy es una historia arrebatadora: sobre la naturaleza del crimen, sobre el mero pestañeo que puede separar la lujuria del impulso asesino; sobre el viaje atrevido y revelador del autor a los rincones más oscuros de su memoria.

The title of Cronin's debut collection of eight interconnected stories, set between 1979 and the present, implies that the content will be devoted to the relationship between the eponymous duo. Instead, they don't appear in the same tale until halfway through, detailing their marriage in their early 30s after both become teachers. Before this, there's a lengthy opening story concerning the events leading up to the accidental death of O'Neil's parents, Arthur and Miriam; another story on how O'Neil and his older sister, Kay, cope with the aftermath; and a third about the abortion Mary has at the age of 22. After the wedding, the stories still don't always focus on the pair, with one devoted solely to Kay's own dysfunctional marriage. Cronin, a graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop, is an accomplished craftsman, and at times his prose is quite moving and beautiful, though the sadness he channels is too often uninflected by humor. Playing out variations on the theme of the inability of parents and children to truly know one another, Cronin is capable of creating fresh poignancy. Readers interested in going straight to the best of the collection should head for "Orphans" and "A Gathering of Shades," in which the author affectingly paints how the two siblings help each other through the pain of living and dying, showcasing the real love story here. Agent, Ellen Levine. (Feb. 13) Forecast: This is a promising debut collection, and national print advertising in the New Yorker and alternative weeklies should target the appropriate readership. Sponsorship announcements will also feature the title on NPR.

Young film-maker Rune, becomes obsessed with the murder of one of the customers at her video shop, who has been renting the same noir film over and over again. She is convinced that the secrets of his brutal death are hidden within the film, but her interest brings her too close to the killer.

Maximum Ride and the other members of the Flock have barely recovered from their last arctic adventure, when they are confronted by the most frightening catastrophe yet. Millions of fish are dying off the coast of Hawaii and someone-or something-is destroying hundreds of ships. Unable to discover the cause, the government enlists the Flock to help them get to the bottom of the disaster before it is too late.

While Max and her team are exploring the depths of the ocean, their every move is being carefully tracked by Mr. Chu-a criminal mastermind with his own plans for the Flock. Can they protect themselves from Mr. Chu's army of mercenaries and save the ocean from utter destruction?

A James Patterson Pageturner

In the spirit of the most enduring hit movies and books, James Patterson has written this story for readers from ten to a hundred and ten. Special care has been taken with the language and content of MAXIMUM RIDE 5.

Enter the world of Elmore Leonard. The setting is Palm Beach County, Florida, where someone places a live ten-foot alligator in the backyard of the bigoted, redneck judge Bob Gibbs-known to all as Maximum Bob-and his wife, Leanne, a former Weeki Wachee mermaid. Not long after that, shots are fired into the judge's house. It doesn't take much figuring to conclude that someone's out to get him and that malefactor isn't going to stop at the second try. There's a long list of suspects: Dale Crowe, who just got an outrageous sentence for a minor crime; his uncle Elvin, a killer on parole, raring to go again; Dr. Tommy Vasco, the drugged out former medical doctor; his equally bizarre friend, Hector; and Dicky Campau, who makes a living poaching alligators. And there are others.

Somehow Kathy Baker, a nifty young probation officer, has got herself in the middle of all this. She's got to avoid two seducers-the judge and a homicidal maniac-and work with a young police officer who interests her for more than professional reasons. Trying to pick out from his assortment of bad guys, sociopaths, and punks the one who's trying to kill the judge is pure entertainment, as only Elmore Leonard, with his ear for the sound and eye for the sight of lowlife, can provide.

When Jack Newlin comes home to find his wife dead on the floor of their elegant dining room, he's convinced he knows who killed her – and determined that the murderer should escape detection. Making a split-second decision, he sets about doctoring the evidence in order to frame himself for the crime. And to hammer the final nail in his coffin, he hires the most inexperienced lawyer he can find: Mary DiNunzio of Philadelphia law firm Rosato and Associates. Unfortunately for Jack, hiring Mary could turn out to be a big mistake. Inexperienced she may be, but Mary soon discovers that instead of defending a guilty client who claims to be innocent, she has an innocent client falsely proclaiming his guilt.

Night Wing-the revolutionary test plane with a top-secret weapons system-was Colonel Joe "Breed" Mackenzie's number-one priority. And weapons expert Caroline Evans was his number-one distraction. True, the stubborn blonde was giving him the cold shoulder, but Joe hadn't become the best of the best by giving up. Then he discovered someone on the inside was sabotaging Night Wing, and with her late hours and specialized expertise, Caroline seemed the obvious choice. Now Joe had to choose between allegiance to his country and love for his prime suspect…

The extraordinary new Gabriel Allon novel from the 'gold standard' (The Dallas Morning News) of thriller writers.

Over the course of ten previous novels, Daniel Silva has established himself as one of the world's finest writers of international intrigue and espionage – 'a worthy successor to such legends as Frederick Forsyth and John le Carr' (Chicago Sun-Times) – and Gabriel Allon as 'one of the most intriguing heroes of any thriller series' (The Philadelphia Inquirer).

Now the death of a journalist leads Allon to Russia, where he finds that, in terms of spycraft, even he has something to learn. He's playing by Moscow rules now.

This is not the grim, gray Moscow of Soviet times but a new Moscow, awash in oil wealth and choked with bulletproof Bentleys. A Moscow where power resides once more behind the walls of the Kremlin and where critics of the ruling class are ruthlessly silenced. A Moscow where a new generation of Stalinists is plotting to reclaim an empire lost and to challenge the global dominance of its old enemy, the United States.

One such man is Ivan Kharkov, a former KGB colonel who built a global investment empire on the rubble of the Soviet Union. Hidden within that empire, however, is a more lucrative and deadly business: Kharkov is an arms dealer – and he is about to deliver Russia 's most sophisticated weapons to al- Qaeda. Unless Allon can learn the time and place of the delivery, the world will see the deadliest terror attacks since 9/11 – and the clock is ticking fast.

Filled with rich prose and breathtaking turns of plot, Moscow Rules is at once superior entertainment and a searing cautionary tale about the new threats rising to the East – and Silva's finest novel yet.

Amazon.com Review

When confronted with the most challenging and the most personal case of her legal career, Bennie Rosato-an expert on police corruption-questions everything she has learned as a criminal attorney, and everyone she considers to be family. During a visit behind the bars of Philadelphia 's Central Corrections facility, Bennie is shocked to discover that an inmate bears a striking physical resemblance to herself. The prisoner, Alice Connolly, stands accused of murdering her cop boyfriend Anthony Della Porta, and the case reeks of a police conspiracy. Connolly convinces Bennie to defend her in court. Bennie feels confused, intrigued, and even somewhat elated by this clone of herself, and dives head first into a bubbling cauldron of corruption, drugs, murder, and assault-mixed in with a thought-provoking subplot that questions the intricacies of legal ethics.

Mistaken Identity is Lisa Scottoline's sixth and tastiest dish yet. The book is gripping and smart, and it brings into bloom the highly likable character of Bennie Rosato, who made her debut appearance in Legal Tender. Bennie has her vulnerable moments-we witness this when, in some emotional scenes, she doubts the authenticity of her twin. Still, Ms. Rosato is no shrinking violet, especially when it comes to exposing the questionable goings-on of Philadelphia 's Eleventh Precinct.

Scottoline keeps us in a bubble of suspense-is Connolly really Bennie's twin? Did she murder Della Porta? If not, who did and why? The author neatly ties all our unanswered questions together into a perfectly formed bow, and keeps us frantically turning pages until the very end.

From Publishers Weekly

Double jeopardy is more than just a legal term in this taut and smart courtroom drama by Edgar Award winner Scottoline. Bennie Rosato, the irrepressible head of an all-female Philadelphia law firm, moves to center stage after playing a supporting role in the author's previous novel, Rough Justice. Bennie's client is tough, manipulative Alice Connolly, charged with murdering her police detective boyfriend, who may or may not have been a drug dealer. Complicating matters is Alice 's claim to be Bennie's identical twin sister and to have been visited by their long-lost father. Despite her wrenching emotional reaction to this revelation and her mother's deteriorating health, Bennie puts her personal and professional life on the line, immersing herself in the case. She enlists the aid of her associates, Mary DiNunzio and Judy Carrier, as well as Lou Jacobs, a cantankerous retired cop she hires as an investigator. They discover that a web of corruption may have enveloped the prosecuting attorney and judge who are now trying Alice 's case. Scottoline effectively alternates her settings between prison, law office, courtroom and the streets. Readers familiar with her previous work will enjoy the continuing evolution of the characters' relationships. Judy is still the bolder of the two associates, her experiences highlighted this time by an amusing venture into the seamy world of pro boxing. But Mary, until now a timid and reluctant lawyer ("Maybe I could get a job eating"), emerges from her shell. Scottoline falters occasionally by resorting to ethnic stereotypes, particularly in her dialogue, but generally succeeds in creating a brisk, multilayered thriller that plunges Rosato Associates into a maelstrom of legal, ethical and familial conundrums, culminating in an intricate, dramatic and intense courtroom finale. Agent, Molly Friedrich. Major ad/promo; author tour. (Mar.) FYI: Mistaken Identity is one of the six books excerpted in Diet Coke's marketing campaign.

Most nie ma końca, na jego wielu poziomach żyją ludzie, a jednym z nich jest wyłowiony z rzeki John Orr. Bohater cierpi na amnezję i opowiada lekarzowi swoje dziwne sny. Jednak autor przenosi nas nagle i stajemy się świadkami życia pewnego dość przeciętnego Szkota. Cóż jest dalej? Wszystko zaczyna się mieszać i nie jesteśmy pewni o czyim śmie właśnie czytamy i co tak naprawdę jest snem a co rzeczywistością. Powieść Banks’a jest hybrydą łączącą w sobie obyczajową historię, fantastykę oraz jednocześnie jej parodię. To literacki eksperyment zabawa stylem, językiem i wyobraźnią.

La misteriosa muerte de Harry Stanford, uno de los hombres más ricos del mundo, tiene múltiples repercusiones. La familia se reúne para el funeral, en Boston. Y, de pronto, aparece una hermosa mujer que dice ser hija de Harry Stanford y heredera, por tanto, de una parte de su cuantiosa fortuna. ¿Se trata acaso de una impostora? Los Stanford son gente respetuosa y con poder, pero detrás de la impecable fachada se oculta una madeja de extorsiones, drogas y muerte. Con la habilidad que lo distingue, Sidney Sheldon delinea una historia intrincada y ágil donde el final es verdaderamente sorprendente.

A los amigos hay que tenerlos cerca; a los enemigos, muy cerca; y a la familia, aún más cerca. Lily Diamond, una joven que ha crecido en un medio difícil, se une a Patrick Brodie, un cabecilla del hampa local que lleva sus «negocios» con mano de hierro. Juntos formarán uno de los clanes más poderosos de los ambientes turbios del East End londinense. Tienen cinco hijos, a los que pretenden darles todo lo que ellos no tuvieron, sin importarles la forma de conseguirlo. La vida parece sonreírles cuando Patrick es asesinado por una banda rival. Con todo perdido, desamparada en un mundo peligroso en el que no se puede confiar en nadie, Lily tendrá que sacar adelante a su clan. Más cerca es una novela sobre los ambientes arrabaleros del Londres cada vez más mestizo de los años setenta. Un periodo de mutaciones en el que los viejos negocios del hampa (juego, prostitución…) van dejando paso al más rentable mundo de las drogas que se abre paso a borbotones de sangre.

Tras la boda de su hija Katerina, el comisario Kostas Jaritos decide tomarse unos días de descanso y viajar con Adrianí, su temperamental mujer, a Estambul, ciudad estrechamente relacionada con la historia de Grecia. Así pues, mezclado con cientos de turistas, Jaritos se lanza a admirar iglesias, mezquitas y palacios mientras degusta la gastronomía del lugar y discute no sólo con su mujer sino también con los miembros del grupo con el que viaja. Sin embargo, todo se tuerce cuando algo aparentemente tan nimio como la desaparición de una anciana en un pueblo de Grecia se convierte de pronto en un caso de asesinato, pues informan a Jaritos de que han encontrado muerto a un pariente de esa anciana… y de que ésta se dirige a Estambul. Jaritos tendrá que trabajar codo con codo con el suspicaz comisario turco Murat, e irá internándose en la pequeña comunidad que conforman los griegos que todavía, tras el éxodo masivo que protagonizaron en 1955, permanecen en la ciudad.

Alberto Marini ha conseguido con su novela que me alegre de vivir en una casita de campo, sin porteros. Debo decir, que antes de saber que el libro existía supe de la película de Jaume Balagueró -quien por cierto firma el prólogo del libro- y no me enteré hasta después, que se basaba en un guión de Alberto Marini.

La historia me pareció original desde el principio. Su planteamiento lo es, y es que pocas veces nos paramos a pensar en que nuestra vida podría estar en las manos de quien menos nos esperamos y de la manera menos insospechada posible. Como por ejemplo, en las de ese portero de edificio que nos saluda amablemente cada mañana, al salir de nuestro piso. Ese hombre agradable, educado, solícito (no podía dejar de imaginarme al fantástico Luis Tosar), que nos ayuda con las bolsas de la compra, que nos abre la puerta cuando nos hemos dejado las llaves dentro. En manos de alguien tan retorcido y cruel como Cillian, ese portero de edificio con acceso a nuestra vivienda, a nuestra vida más íntima, podría estar nuestra vida, y eso me pone nervioso, no sé a ustedes.

Y es que Cillian es, como he leído en alguna sinopsis, un artesano del dolor ajeno. Vive para hacer sufrir a los demás, de hecho es el motor que impulsa su vida. Sus momentos de felicidad se inspiran en los de infelicidad de aquellos que le rodean, y no tiene compasión con nadie, para él todo forma parte de un juego de manipulación en el que no deben descubrir sus verdaderas intenciones, y no le importará que su objetivo sea niño, mujer o anciano.

Todos deben tener su ración de infelicidad. Y cuanto más grande sea esta, más ganas de seguir viviendo tendrá Cillian. Porque él todos los días juega a la ruleta rusa con su vida, y debe sopesar, según la infelicidad que produzca en los demás, si su vida debe continuar o por el contrario debe terminar.

El portero tiene fijación por Clara, la vecina del 5B, es la que últimamente declina la balanza hacia el lado que le permite vivir. La pelirroja que siempre parece feliz, rebosante de vida, de confianza, que le regala sonrisas y palabras amables que le hieren como dagas, que le hacen odiarla con toda su alma.

La prosa de Marini es sencilla, sin ornamentos innecesarios ni descripciones tediosas, sin duda fruto de sus muchos años como guionista cinematográfico. Con esta prosa nos sumerge en una historia llena de ideas retorcidas, de malas intenciones y de giros inesperados, y es que con Cillian todo es posible. Y cuando digo todo, es todo. Sin desvelar ningún spoiler comentaré que hubo una parte, con Alexander, otro de los personajes de la novela, que me sorprendió por su malignidad… a mí, que me considero curado de espanto desde hace años.

Sin duda, nos encontramos ante una buena novela que parte de una idea muy original sin deshincharse por el camino y que se devora en dos tardes. Como información adicional comentar que se va a traducir a cinco idiomas y que pronto, tanto libro como película (qué ganas de verla) podrán disfrutarse al mismo tiempo.

Z zakładu dla umysłowo chorych ucieka Michael Hrubek, pacjent ze schizofrenią paranoidalną. I ma przed sobą ściśle określony cel: odnaleźć Lis Atcheson – to jej zeznania sprawiły, że uznano go za potwora i skazano na zamknięcie.

Podczas burzy, sprzyjającej szaleńcowi, ścigają go teraz trzej ludzie: psychiatra Kohler – przekonany o niewinności swego pacjenta, zawodowy tropiciel Heck – liczący na nagrodę za schwytanie szaleńca, i Atcheson – mąż Lis, który musi dopaść Hrubeka, nim ten skrzywdzi jego żonę…

The crime is inhumanly cruel with horrific consequences both unthinkable and inevitable. During a service at a cathedral in Cologne, Germany, a band of armed intruders dressed in monks' robes unleash a nightmare of blood and terror, ruthlessly gunning down worshippers and clergy alike. The killers haven't come for the church's gold and valuable artwork, but for a priceless treasure secreted within; the preserved bones of the Three Magi who once came to pay homage to a newborn savior. As they flee the carnage they have wrought, they carry a prize that could reshape the world'. 'The Vatican is in turmoil, and Lieutenant Rachel Verona of Rome's carabinieri is assigned to lead the investigation. But no ordinary police organization alone can deal with the bizarre theft and massacre, and SIGMA Force - an elite covert arm of the U.S. Defense Department - is called in under the command of Grayson Pierce. New to Sigma, Pierce assembles a crack team of scientific and Special Forces operatives to unravel the mystery of the stolen bones, and together they set out on a twisting trail through a labyrinth of clues and dark revelations that carry them to the sites of the Seven Wonders of the World - and to the doorstep of the mystical and terrifying Dragon Court'. An ancient, secret fraternity of alchemists and assassins, the master-adepts of the Dragon Court have plans for the sacred remains that will alter the future of humankind in devastating ways that only the maddest of zealots could desire - and they will let nothing and no one stand in their way. Suddenly Pierce, Verona, and the Sigma team are the hunted as well as the hunters, forced to use every skill they possess to survive as they follow the bones to the ultimate confrontation between darkness and light - in a lost place of history where science and religion will unite to unleash a horror not seen since the beginning of time.

Dieciséis años recién cumplidos y había huido de casa para conocer, por fin, al joven universitario con quien llevaba tiempo chateando, convencida de haberse enamorado. Luego… el silencio.

Seis meses después el caos se desata en Dutton, un pequeño pueblo del estado sureño de Georgia. Cinco adolescentes son asesinadas, y la única que logra sobrevivir sabe que impedirán que hable como sea.

Una pareja está decidida a ayudarla. Luke Papadopoulos, agente federal, se enfrenta a diario al mal sin rostro que merodea en internet, aunque jamás haya podido acostumbrarse. Susannah Vartanian, que se ha visto forzada a regresar a Dutton, comprende que debe sacar a la luz todo lo que calló durante años.

Ambos se verán obligados a juzgar a todo un pueblo. Un pueblo edificado sobre la crueldad impune, el poder absoluto y los silencios cómplices, un pueblo que se sustenta gracias a la poderosa tela de una araña que no puede permitir que nadie escape.

La enterraron con las manos unidas como si rezara…

Es enero, el suelo está helado y solo una casualidad ha permitido que el cuerpo haya sido descubierto. La policía de Filadelfia recurre entonces a Sophie Johannsen, una joven arqueóloga especialista en excavaciones medievales. Gracias a ella localizan el segundo cadáver: un joven con las manos a la altura del pecho, como si sostuviera una espada.

Ya tienen una dama y un caballero, dos asesinatos que imitan ritos funerarios medievales, y algo más cruel todavía: a su alrededor aguardan otras sepulturas, algunas ocupadas, otras vacías, esperando a las próximas víctimas… lo que el detective Vito Ciccotelli debe impedir a toda costa con la ayuda de Sophie.

Mientras, una empresa de videojuegos se prepara para el lanzamiento de su nuevo producto estrella: El inquisidor, un juego que lleva el horror y la oscuridad de la Edad Media hasta sus últimas consecuencias.

El detective Jan Fabel se encuentra ante el caso más sanguinario y macabro de su historia profesional. Los cadáveres de dos mujeres a las que han arrancado los pulmones y las notas desafiantes de alguien que firma como «Hijo de Sven» son las únicas pistas de un asesino cuya motivación va más allá de la ira, acercándose a una suerte de ritual donde lo sagrado y lo monstruoso se dan la mano para teñir de escarlata toda la ciudad. Mientras Fabel avanza en la investigación, va quedando claro que se trata de algo mucho más complejo que el trabajo de un simple psicópata.

Shanghai, 1990, el asesinato de la joven Guan «Hong Ying», una celebridad política y estandarte nacional, se convierte en un caso delicado un año después de los acontecimientos de la Plaza Tiananmen. El recién ascendido Inspector Jefe Chen Cao se muestra poco convencido por la máscara de perfección de la heroína roja, entregada a la causa del Partido, sin amigos ni amante.

Muerte de una heroína roja es mucho más que una historia de detectives. Llena de contrastes, es una radiografía sutil de la China de la transición, captada a través de una multitud de historias particulares y una apasionante inmersión en su historia, cultura, tradición poética y gastronómica. Una magnífica iniciación a la China de hoy.

Galardonada con el Premio Anthony a la mejor primera novela y finalista del prestigioso Premio Edgar, Muerte de una heroína roja es la confirmación de uno de los escritores más interesantes del momento.

The last people to die in Mary King's Close had been plague victims. But that was in the 1700s. Now a body has been discovered, brutally tortured and murdered in Edinburgh's buried city. Inspector John Rebus, ex army, spots a paramilitary link, but how can this be true? It is August in Edinburgh, the Festival is in full swing. No one wants to contemplate terrorism in the throng ing city streets. Special Branch are interested, however, and Rebus finds himself seconded to an elite police unit with the mission of smashing whatever cell may exist. But the victim turns out to be a gangster's son, and the gangster wants revenge on his own terms. Soon Rebus finds himself in a non man'sland where friendly fire is as likely to score a hit as anything lauched by the unseen enemy.

The president rushes across the South Lawn through a pounding thunderstorm to Marine One to fly to Camp David late at night. His advisers plead with him not to fly, but he insists. He has arranged a meeting that only three people in his administration know about. After fighting its way through the brutal thunderstorm on the way to Camp David, Marine One crashes into a ravine in Maryland, killing all aboard.

The government blames the European manufacturer of the helicopter and accuses them of killing the president. Senate Investigations and Justice Department accusations multiply as Mike Nolan, a Marine Corps reserve helicopter pilot and trial attorney in civilian life, is hired to defend the company from the criminal investigations, then from a wrongful death lawsuit brought by the most notorious lawyer in America on behalf of the First Lady. Nolan knows that to prevail in the firestorm against his client, he has to find out what really caused Marine One to crash, and why the president threw caution aside to go to a meeting no one seems to know about. To clear his client, Nolan must win the highest-profile trial of the last hundred years with very little working for him, and everything working against him.

Marine One expertly mixes political intrigue with courtroom drama and fast-paced action in the most exciting thriller of the year.

U.S. Treasury agent Alexandra LaDuca (Conspiracy in Kiev) is back crisscrossing Europe in pursuit of an ancient relic stolen from a Madrid museum – and the chilling secrets behind its theft. With a new partner, danger, and betrayal at every turn, Alex must make the toughest decision of her life – whom should she trust?

Cuando encuentra un CD de ordenador que alguien ha olvidado en el asiento contiguo del tren en el que viaja, Tom Bryce hace lo que cualquier persona decente haría: lo recoge y cuando llega a casa intenta averiguar a quién pertenece para poder devolvérselo. Sin embargo, su buena fe topará con el horrible contenido del disquete: un estremecedor asesinato. En un principio, duda sobre la veracidad de los hechos de los que es testigo, ¿realidad o ficción? Sin embargo, a partir de ese momento, su vida y la de su familia comienzan a correr peligro.

Al poco tiempo aparece el cadáver decapitado de una joven cuya identidad se desconoce; la única pista de la que dispondrá la policía será la presencia de un escarabajo oculto entre los restos de la víctima, en lo que parece ser el indicio de un juego macabro. Al frente de la investigación se colocará el peculiar detective Roy Grace, especializado en la resolución de casos que llevan años sin resolver, y cuyo pasado y personales métodos, entre los que se halla su fe en la videncia para la resolución de los crímenes más complicados, le confieren una discutida posición dentro del cuerpo de policía.

Harry Bosch participa como testigo en un juicio en el que se acusa a un director de cine del asesinato de una actriz. Mientras tanto, Terry McCaleb recibe la vista de una antigua compañera de trabajo que solicita su ayuda en la resolución de un caso difícil. El asesinato que ahora debe investigar es el tipo de homicidio complejo con los que trataba frecuentemente durante sus días en el FBI.

Nie war das Grauen bedrohlicher …

Tessa Lockland kann den angeblichen Selbstmord ihrer Schwester nicht glauben. Deshalb macht sie sich auf den Weg nach Moonlight Cove, der kalifornischen Kleinstadt, in der ihre Schwester zuletzt gelebt hat. Auch ein FBI-Agent trifft dort ein, um eine Reihe seltsamer Todesfälle zu klären. Der an den Rollstuhl gefesselte Vietnam-Veteran Harry Talbot hat ihn verständigt, da auch er schon länger seltsame Ereignisse beobachtet. Und schließlich ist da noch das Mädchen Chrissie Foster, deren Eltern sich zu unheimlichen Wesen verwandeln. Alle Fäden scheinen bei der geheimnisvollen Computerfirma New Wave zusammenzulaufen, die ein wahnwitziges Experiment mit den Bürgern der Stadt plant ...

Titel der Originalausgabe MIDNIGHT.

Aus dem Amerikanischen übersetzt von Joachim Körber Scanned by Doc Gonzo.

Czytając Martwego aż do zmroku zaczynasz wyobrażać sobie autorkę powieści, Charlaine Harris, jako ukochane dziecko Laurell K. Hamilton i Joego R. Lansdale'a – może z Tanyą Huff i P. N. Elrodem jako rodzicami chrzestnymi. A jednak "humorystyczny wampirzy kryminał z elementem romantycznym" Harris jest nie tylko kolejną mroczną igraszką z naszym ulubionym motywem nieumarłych. Otrzymujemy również opowieść o parze odmieńców próbujących znaleźć sobie miejsce w świecie, i o ich związku, który nie jest łatwy ani dla niej, ani dla niego.

W świecie Harris wampiry stanowią mniejszość społeczną, która niedawno otrzymała prawa obywatelskie. Ich nierozcieńczona krew stała się niezwykle poszukiwanym lekarstwem. Na czarnym rynku fiolka wampirzego płynu życiowego – który podobno "tymczasowo łagodzi symptomy pewnych chorób i zwiększa potencję seksualną, będąc czymś w rodzaju skrzyżowania prednizonu z viagrą" – kosztuje dwieście dolarów. Odkąd prawnie uznano nieumarłych, kelnerka Sookie Stackhouse wyraźnie miała nadzieję, że ktoś taki zjawi się w małym północnoluizjańskim miasteczku Bon Temps. Jest więc po prostu zachwycona, kiedy wysoki, ciemnowłosy, przystojny, blady wampir siada przy jednym z jej stolików. Jednak dziewczyny nie pociąga wcale nieśmiertelność wampira ani nawet jego zmysłowa atrakcyjność. Wydaje się za to urzeczona faktem, że nie potrafi czytać mu w myślach. Sookie bowiem, wyobraźcie sobie, jest telepatką. Dar, który sama nazywa upośledzeniem, utrudnia jej życie, a zwłaszcza spotkania z mężczyznami (mimo iż jest atrakcyjną dwudziestopięcioletnią blondynką). Właściwie wszyscy w mieście nazywają ją stukniętą. Czasami, atakowana przez setki natrętnych, cudzych myśli, sama się uważa wariatkę.

Sookie jest bohaterką zupełnie niepodobną do Buffy, więc ratuje świeżo poznanego wampira – wampira Billa, tak, naprawdę! – przed parą ludzi chcących osuszyć go z cennej krwi. Właśnie wtedy odkrywa, że nie "słyszy" ani jednej myśli Billa. Fakt ten wystarczy, by Sookie poczuła do wampira sympatię. Cóż, niektórym związkom trzeba było na początek nawet mniej.

Okazuje się, że korzenie Billa sięgają Bon Temps, że wrócił tu i zamierza się osiedlić w rodzinnej posiadłości, którą właśnie odziedziczył. W dodatku, walczył w wojnie domowej, a wampirem został w roku 1870. Fakty te zachwycają babcię Sookie, oddaną członkinię lokalnego klubu Potomków Wybitnych Poległych. Bill może dostarczyć klubowi szczegółów, dzięki którym babcia i inni członkowie znajdą się w "genealogicznym siódmym niebie".

Jednak szczęście nie tak prosto osiągnąć. Gdy zamordowano dwie młode kobiety, a na ich udach koroner znajduje ślady kłów, podejrzenie pada na wampiry, czyli także (a może przede wszystkim) na Billa. Mordercą mógłby też być Jason, seksowny brat Sookie, który uwielbia kobiety, choć lubi także lekką perwersję. Bill i Sookie (z niejaką pomocą pewnego wampira imieniem Bubba) muszą się zmienić w detektywów, rozwiązać zbrodnie i znaleźć prawdziwego przestępcę. Tak się to zaczyna…

"Pierwszorzędny kryminał… Przekonujący i zadziwiający". "The Washington Post Book World"

"Dobrze napisany i niezwykle interesujący… Wielka rzecz". "The Boston Glob"

"Atmosfera książek Harris nawiązuje do czarnego kryminału oraz powieści detektywistycznej… Fabułę stanowi świetnie skonstruowana historia, która sięga pod powierzchnię małomiasteczkowego życia". "Fort Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel"

"Frapująca". "Minneapolis Star Tribune"

"Opowieści Harris na przemian czarują i mrożą czytelnikowi krew w żyłach. Z tą trudną kombinacją autorka radzi sobie bez problemów, wręcz doskonale". Carolyn G. Hart

"Styl Harris ma urok i lekkość, które przypominają styl powieści Anne Tyler… Jest oryginalny i zadziwiający. Niezwykłego smaku tej książce dodają nawiązania do powieści gotyckiej". "The Christian Science Monitor"

"Nadzwyczajna". "Library Journal"

"Styl Harris jest gawędziarski, zawsze przymilny, "tylko między nami dziewczynami". "Kirkus Reviews"

"Charlaine Harris to imię i nazwisko, które trzeba zapamiętać". "Macon Telegraph and News"

"Doskonałe powieści… Harris inaczej opowiada o morderstwach". "Mystery News"

Sookie Stackhouse es una camarera con un inusitado poder para leer la mente. Su don es el origen de sus problemas. Siempre acaba sabiendo más de lo que le gustaría de la gente que le rodea. De todos menos de Bill Compton, porque su mente, la de un vampiro qué trata de reinsertarse en la sociedad, es absolutamente impenetrable. Cuando sus vidas se cruzan descubrirá que ya no hay vuelta atrás. La aparición de un asesino en serie es la prueba definitiva para su confianza…

Con esta novela, Charlaine Harris demuestra hasta qué punto su talento puede hacer que una casi imposible mezcla de vampiros, misterio, intriga y humor se convierta en una obra deliciosamente imprescindible.

The handsome top agent Matt dies a tragic death in his bath tub – the women mourn about the loss. However it's just faked for his latest top-secret mission: He shall find Dr. Solaris, inventor of the Helium laser beam, powerful enough to destroy a whole continent. It seems Dr. Solaris has been kidnapped by a criminal organization. The trace leads to the Cote D'Azur…

When Christian children are being kidnapped and murdered in 12th century Cambridge, England, Adelia is sent to seek out the truth, and hopefully absolve the Jews being blamed for the crimes, before the townspeople take matters into their own hands. During a time when women are second-class citizens at best, and the practice of scientific autopsies is considered blasphemous, Adelia is the most skilled “speaker for the dead” hailing from progressive Naples – yet she is forced to masquerade as the meek assistant to her colleagues during their frantic search for the real child killer.

From The Washington Post

It's hard enough to produce a gripping thriller – harder still to write convincing historical fiction that recreates a living, breathing past. But this terrific book does both, and does it with a cast of characters so vivid and engaging that you'd be happy to read about them even if they weren't on the track of a sexually depraved serial child-murderer.

Mistress of the Art of Death opens with a clever takeoff on Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, which introduces the central players, a group of pilgrims returning from the shrine of the newly canonized St. Thomas à Becket: a prior and a prioress (from rival abbeys); two knights, lately returned from the Crusades; an overweight but very shrewd tax collector; a gaggle of citizens; and three Gypsies, who are in fact secret investigators sent by the king of Sicily to discover the truth behind a series of gruesome murders near Cambridge.

Four children have been found dead and mutilated. The Jews of Cambridge have been blamed for the murders, the most prominent Jewish moneylender and his wife have been killed by a mob, and the rest of the Jewish community is shut up in the castle under the protection of the sheriff.

As the only group allowed to commit usury – that is, to lend money at interest – the Jews are prosperous, and thus the king of England considers them his prize cash cows. He wants them cleared of suspicion and released, so they can go back to paying him high taxes. To this end, he appeals to his cousin, the king of Sicily, to send his best master of the art of death: a doctor skilled in "reading" bodies. Enter Vesuvia Adelia Rachel Ortese Aguilar, 25, the best mistress of death that the medical school at Salerno has ever produced. With Simon of Naples, a Jewish "fixer," and Mansur, a eunuch with a mean throwing-ax, it's her job to find a murderer before he – or she – can kill again.

Adelia comes onstage when she meets the prior under dramatic circumstances on the road, saving him from a burst bladder caused by a swollen prostate by thrusting a hollow reed up his penis. Not every man would follow up on an introduction like this, but the prior wants the mystery solved, too – and if the solution happens to ace out the rival abbey, so much the better.

Adelia finds 12th-century England a barbarous place. England finds Adelia a jaw-dropping anomaly. And Franklin exploits the contrast brilliantly. We're on Adelia's side from the start, identifying with her quite modern sensibilities – but at the same time, as she begins to know the English inhabitants as people, we sympathize with them, too. And a small but nice romantic subplot develops as the celibate, married-to-science Adelia discovers to her horror that live bodies have minds of their own.

Though the story is set in Cambridge, the Crusades run through the culture. We see both the corruption and the idealistic faith of the period, and while the Jews come off by far the best, Christians and Muslims are portrayed with evenhanded understanding. Beyond this, the story's background is a wonderful tapestry of the paradoxes and struggles of the times: Christianity and Islam, Christians and Jews, science and superstition, and the new power of Henry II's rule of law versus the stranglehold of the Church.

There are also fascinating details of historical forensic medicine, entertaining notes on women in science (the medical school at Salerno is not fictional), and a nice running commentary on science and superstition, as distinct from religious faith. Franklin does this subtly, by showing effects, rather than by beating us over the head with her opinions. These are clear enough but expressed with artistry rather than political correctness.

Franklin likewise balances cynicism, humanity and objectivity well. Adelia feels horror, fury and sympathy on behalf of the victims and the bereaved, but she doesn't let that get in the way of finding the truth. And the story makes it clear that the motives of those who want a solution to the crime are not necessarily purer than the motives of those who want to conceal it.

Mistress of the Art of Death is wonderfully plotted, with a dozen twists – and with final rabbits pulled out of not one hat but two, as both the mystery and the romance reach satisfactorily unexpected conclusions. It's a historical mystery that succeeds brilliantly as both historical fiction and crime-thriller. Above all, though, Franklin has written a terrific story, whose appeal rests on the personalities of the all-too-human beings who inhabit it.

– Diana Gabaldon, author of a series of historical novels, including "Outlander" and "A Breath of Snow and Ashes."

Second in the delightful new Scumble River mystery series… When school pyschologist Skye Denison's beloved grandma is found dead in her bed, an autopsy proves it was murder. And Skye is determined to find out whodunit, even if the answer lies in the rotten roots of her own family tree.

Sally Brainerd ucieka z lecznicy psychiatrycznej, gdzie została umieszczona wbrew swej woli, i w przebraniu przyjeżdża do miasteczka Cove. W ślad za nią przybywa agent specjalny FBI, James Quinlan, który sądzi, że dzięki niej uda mu się wyjaśnić zagadkę morderstwa. Jednak wkrótce jego znajomość z Sally przybiera inny niż służbowy charakter… a to wszystko dzieje się w miasteczku Cove, położonym nad brzegiem oceanu.

Nowa książka Catherine Coulter, znanej już dobrze polskim czytelnikom z romansów historycznych – "Młoda pani Sherbrooke", "Szalony baron", "Dziedzictwo Valentine" i innych – napisana z werwą i dużą dozą humoru, jak wszystkie książki tej popularnej amerykańskiej autorki.

Na ostry dyżur do szpitala w Springer w Bostonie zostaje przyjęty staruszek z objawami choroby Alzheimera. Wstępne badanie nie ujawnia żadnych dolegliwości neurologicznych. Podejrzewając udar mózgu, doktor Toby Harper nakazuje wykonanie tomografii komputerowej. W czasie, gdy reanimuje kolejnego pacjenta, jej podopieczny dosłownie rozpływa się w powietrzu.

Kilkanaście dni później do szpitala trafia mężczyzna z takimi samymi objawami, jak u nadal nie odnalezionego Harry’ego Slotkina. Obu wcześniej leczył doktor Carl Wallenberg. Pacjent umiera, a Toby, wbrew woli Wallenberga, aranżuje sekcję zwłok. Diagnoza nie pozostawia wątpliwości co do przyczyny śmierci: zarażenie chorobą szalonych krów.

Kilka innych tajemniczych zgonów, których wyjaśnieniem zajmuje się Toby, wskazuje coraz wyraźniej, że to nie epidemia, lecz rezultat czyjegoś świadomego działania. Tropy prowadzą do luksusowego domu opieki, w których Wallenberg i jego współpracownicy przeprowadzają eksperymenty medyczne na starcach, wszczepiając im hormony…

From Publishers Weekly

Themes from Patterson's popular adult titles When the Wind Blows and The Lake House waft through this YA thriller, the author's first in the genre. Wood stars as Maximum Ride, 14-year-old leader of a band of kids who have escaped the lab where they were bred as 98% human and 2% bird (wings being a key component) and developed a variety of other-worldly talents. In Patterson's unusual universe, Max and her young cohorts are soon forced to rescue one of their own-a girl named Angel-from a pack of mutant wolf-humans called Erasers. Wood nails Patterson's often adult-beyond-their-years dialogue with a jaded tone. But the result of this pairing makes Max sound more off-putting than cool or intriguing. The listening experience is stalled in the starting gate, keeping the action-adventure earthbound rather than high-flying. Ages 12-up.

From School Library Journal

Grade 7 Up-A group of genetically enhanced kids who can fly and have other unique talents are on the run from part-human, part-wolf predators called Erasers in this exciting SF thriller that's not wholly original but is still a compelling read. Max, 14, and her adopted family-Fang and Iggy, both 13, Nudge, 11, Gazzy, 8, and Angel, 6-were all created as experiments in a lab called the School. Jeb, a sympathetic scientist, helped them escape and, since then, they've been living on their own. The Erasers have orders to kill them so the world will never find out they exist. Max's old childhood friend, Ari, now an Eraser leader, tracks them down, kidnaps Angel, and transports her back to the School to live like a lab rat again. The youngsters are forced to use their special talents to rescue her as they attempt to learn about their pasts and their destinies. The novel ends with the promise that this journey will continue in the sequel. As with Patterson's adult mystery thrillers, in-depth characterization is secondary to the fast-moving plot. The narrative alternates between Max's first-person point-of-view and that of the others in the third person, but readers don't get to know Max very well. The only major flaw is that the children sound like adults most of the time. This novel is reminiscent of David Lubar's Hidden Talents (Tor, 1999) and Ann Halam's Dr. Franklin's Island.

The master of the medical thriller returns with his most heart-pounding tale yet.

Twenty-eight-year-old Sean McGillin is the picture of health, until he fractures his leg while in-line skating in New York City 's Central Park. Within twenty-four hours of his surgery, he dies.

A thirty-six-year-old mother, Darlene Morgan, has knee surgery to repair a torn ligament in her knee. And within twenty-four hours, she has died.

New York City medical examiners Dr. Laurie Montgomery and Dr. Jack Stapleton are back, in Robin Cook's electrifying twenty-fifth novel. Last seen in Vector, the doctors confront a series of puzzling hospital deaths of young, healthy people after successful routine surgery.

Despite institutional resistance from her superiors, as well as from those at Manhattan General, Laurie doggedly pursues the investigation. Though it seems impossible to determine why and how the patients are dying, she comes to suspect that not only are the deaths related-they're intentional, suggesting the work of a remarkably clever serial killer with a very unusual motive, involving frightening ties to both developing genomic medicine and the economics of modern-day health care.

Then Laurie is dealt a double blow: While coping with Jack's inability to commit to their relationship, she discovers she carries a genetic marker for a breast-cancer gene. As her personal life continues to unravel, the need for answers becomes more urgent, especially when Laurie is pulled into the nightmare as a potential victim herself. With time winding down, she and Jack race to connect the dots-and save Laurie's life.

With his signature blend of suspense and science, Robin Cook delivers an electrifying page-turner as vivid as today's headlines.

Cztery potworne morderstwa… Nieuchwytny zabójca… I niezwykła kobieta, która potrafi skłonić zmarłych do wyjawienia sekretów. W 1171 roku bestialskie zabójstwa dzieci wstrząsają Cambridge. Król sprowadza ze słynnej sycylijskiej szkoły medycznej najlepszego mistrza sztuki śmierci – biegłego w anatomii i arkanach śledztwa. Któż mógłby jednak przypuszczać, że ów medyk jest… kobietą. W zabobonnej Anglii Adelia musi kryć swą prawdziwą tożsamość, by nie oskarżono jej o czary. Potajemnie bada okaleczone zwłoki, dokonuje oględzin miejsc zbrodni i dzięki wiedzy i dedukcji układa listę podejrzanych. Bogobojni mieszczanie, rozmodleni mnisi, usłużni dworzanie, waleczni rycerze… Kto z nich jest mordercą, który już wybrał następną ofiarę?

El golf, precisamente, no es el deporte preferido de Myron Bolitar. Pero ahí está: presenciando entre bostezos el Abierto de Estados Unido. Es el mejor escaparate para un agente deportivo en busca de clientes. Y parece que va a tener suerte: Linda Coldren, número uno en la lista de ganancias en el circuito americano promete contratarle. Antes, sin embargo, tendrá que encontrar a su hijo, que ha desaparecido misteriosamente justo cuando el marido de Linda, Jack, parece que va a tener de nuevo la posibilidad de ganar el torneo. Win, para sorpresa de Bolitar, sin embargo, le va a pedir que no acepte el caso. Myron, por una vez, decide ignorarle y se lanza a la búsqueda de Chad. Muy pronto comprenderá que nunca debió de hacerlo. Descubrirá que un mundo de falsas apariencias, estafas, dolor y muerte, pero, sobre todo, obligará a Win a revivir su pasado, traumas de la infancia que no se olvidan jamás.

El agente deportivo Myron Bolitar está a punto de llegar a lo más alto. Lo mismo pude decirse de Christian Steele, un quarterback recién llegado a la liga profesional y su cliente más importante. Sin embargo, la llamada de una ex novia de Chistian, una chica a quien todo el mundo cree muerta, incluso la policía, pone en peligro la firma de un contrato. Myron, de pronto, se ve envuelto en una intriga relacionada con sexo y chantajes, y mientras trata de descubrir la verdad sobre una tragedia familiar, una mujer y las mentiras de un hombre se enfrenta al lado oscuro de su profesión.

Las mujeres más peligrosas son aquellas que resultan irresistibles. ¿Qué hace peligrosa a una mujer? Su gran belleza, su encanto, su inteligencia, la manera en que se aparta el cabello de los ojos, o el modo de reírse. Puede tener conciencia absoluta de su poder, o desconocerlo por completo. Utilizarlo comoa rma o protegerse detrás de él. La intención y el propósito no aumentan ni disminuyen el poder, y ése es mayor peligro de todos los que son seducidos y sometidos por él.

«Le hipnotizará y le conmoverá… Un libro más dolorosamente autorrevelador de lo que la Oates novelista o crítica se haya atrevido a publicar jamás.» – Ann Hulbert, The New York Times Book Review

En una mañana gris de febrero, Joyce Carol Oates llevó a su marido Raymond Smith a urgencias aquejado de una neumonía; una semana después, ciertas complicaciones terminaban con su vida. Estas deslumbrantes páginas capturan el estado emocional de Oates tras la repentina muerte de su marido, y cómo se ve obligada a hallar su equilibrio sin la alianza que la había sostenido durante cuarenta y siete años y veinticinco días.

Llenas de agudas reflexiones y, a veces, de humor negro, estas Memorias de una viuda narran también una conmovedora historia de amor, lírica, moral e implacable, como las que pueblan sus novelas, y ofrecen un inédito retrato de su intimidad, hasta ahora celosamente guardada.

«Impecable… No cometa el error de pasar por alto este libro; simplemente, es demasiado bueno para perdérselo.» – Dave Moyer, The New York Journal of Books

«Sorprendente… Periodística e intuitiva, emocional y reflexiva… Oates comenzó escribiendo el diario de una viuda, y lo que ha logrado es la historia de un matrimonio.» – Geeta Sharma Jensen, The Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel

«Oates pertenece a la vieja estirpe de Poe, Borges, Kafka, Cortázar o Chéjov…» – Ángeles López, Qué Leer

«Una novela maravillosamente escrita y muy conmovedora… Una compra valiosa para el lector de memorias y, en especial, para los más mayores.» – Library Journal

«Oates escribe con una honestidad visceral y no ceja en obligar a sus lectores a las conjeturas al respecto de su próxima y estremecedora empresa.» – Kirkus Reviews

«Las memorias de Oates se unirán a Antonia Fraser y Joan Didion en la sección de obras esenciales sobre la pérdida.» – The Daily Beast

«Tiene tanto de retrato de un matrimonio único como de crónica del duelo… Inmensamente conmovedora.» – Kim Hubbard, People Magazine

«Tan cautivadora como dolorosa… un relato desgarrador… Esta posibilidad que Oates ofrece al lector de experimentar la muerte de Smith del mismo y dramático modo en que lo hizo ella es algo muy característico del excelente equilibrio de la autora entre lo intelectual y lo emocional.» – Valerie Sayers, The Washington Post

An electrifying psychological thriller about a mother and daughter pushed to their limits.

Shelley and her mom have been menaced long enough. Excused from high school where a trio of bullies nearly killed her, and still reeling from her parents' humiliating divorce, Shelley has retreated with her mother to the quiet of Honeysuckle Cottage in the countryside. Thinking their troubles are over, they revel in their cozy, secure life of gardening and books, hot chocolate and Brahms by the fire. But on the eve of Shelley's sixteenth birthday, an unwelcome guest disturbs their peace and something inside Shelley snaps. What happens next will shatter all their certainties-about their safety, their moral convictions, the limits of what they are willing to accept, and what they're capable of.

Debut novelist Gordon Reece has written a taut tale of gripping suspense, packed with action both comic and terrifying. Shelley is a spellbinding narrator, and her delectable mix of wit, irony, and innocence transforms the major current issue of bullying into an edge- of-your-seat story of fear, violence, family loyalty, and the outer reaches of right and wrong.

James Bond

James Bond

En su última película, James Bond renuncia a la categoría de 007, abandona el servicio y parte hacia Montecarlo, al volante de su Bentley Mulsanne Turbo, para cumplir una misión distinta a todo lo que había hecho hasta aquel momento. ¿Cómo explicar el súbito cambio de vida del hombre que venía siendo la más elogiada arma defensiva de cuantas ha tenido el Estado británico? ¿Y qué imprevisibles consecuencias tendrá esta decisión para el juego internacional de fuerzas cuyo equilibrio nos permite a los ciudadanos corrientes dormir tranquilos? Bond ha sido nombrado heredero de su tío Bruce, de Australia, con una condición de obligado cumplimiento: tiene que gastar las primeras cien mil libras del legado frívolamente, en actividades censurables cuya elección deja a su albedrío, dentro de un plazo determinado. Y Bond decide conciliar parte de ese mandato con su renovada pasión por ese príncipe de los coches que es el Bentley. Pero su abandono del Servicio exige explicaciones más consistentes. En el Parlamento, la oposición interpela al Ministerio a propósito de fallos en el sistema de seguridad británico encubiertos por el Gobierno. El que se sospeche de él no preocupa tanto a Bond como la posibilidad de que en el esclarecimiento de los hechos su honorabilidad se ponga en tela de juicio. Esta nueva y diabólica trama de John Gardner conduce a James Bond hasta un genio de los ordenadores que traiciona al Pentágono. También le enfrenta a un siniestro ejército mercenario que está fraguando una audaz operación terrorista, y le lleva a un alocado vuelo en zeppelín sobre Ginebra coincidiendo con la celebración de una conferencia en la cumbre de defensa de la paz. Y para salvar su honor, James Bond tendrá que vencer todos esos obstáculos…

“John Winston, cantante y líder de The Walrus, aparece muerto con cuatro disparos en la suite de su hotel después de un concierto. La policía pronto descubre que Winston ha fallecido a una edad considerada maldita en el mundo de la música pop. Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin y Jim Morrison son algunos de los ilustres miembros del macabro club de los 27. A pesar de su imagen de apóstol de la paz, Winston tenía numerosos enemigos. Entre ellos, el irlandés Ronan O’Rahilly, “Mr. Download”, el más famoso pirata informático que mediante holografías, ha conseguido piratear el último bastión que les quedaba a los músicos: los conciertos en directo. Además, la investigación da un vuelco inesperado: Markk David Champman, el asesino de John Lennon que lleva recluido en prisión más de treinta años, asegura estar detrás de la muerte de Winston. Empresas discográficas sin escrúpulos seductoras groupies caza estrellas, fans enloquecidos… la novela muestra la cara más oscura del negocio del rock”.

„Magiczny nóż” to druga część trylogii „Mroczne materie”. Akcja powieści rozgrywa się w trzech wszechświatach – w naszym świecie, w świecie znanym z pierwszej części „Zorza północna”, który jest podobny do naszego, lecz równocześnie odmienny, oraz w nowym, obcym świecie, który różni się od tamtych obu.

The stakes have just been raised for psychologist Alan Gregory: His friend and fellow therapist Hannah Grant has died at the office, mysteriously and suddenly. The police are baffled, leaving another apparent homicide unsolved in Boulder, Colorado. Only Alan has the means to decipher Hannah’s clues, a quest that will take him to Las Vegas and lead him to question the integrity of those closest to him.

The clock is ticking as Alan tracks one of Hannah’s most elusive patients; has she been kidnapped, or is she a runaway? The answers to both cases may be locked in the mind of a patient he has been treating for a schizoid personality disorder. In a maze of dilemmas that could cost him his career, or his life, Alan takes a bold risk that will have readers racing to the stunning conclusion of Missing Persons.

Smart and fast-paced, Missing Persons showcases the rapid-fire dialogue and taut story lines that have made Stephen White the bestselling author that he is today.

The number-one New York Times bestselling In Death series explodes with intrigue, passion, and suspense. Now, Nora Roberts writing as J.D. Robb propels you into the darkest night of Lieutenant Eve Dallas's life-when a killer comes to call.

Eve's name has a made a Christmas list, but it's not for being naughty or nice. It's for putting a serial killer behind bars. Now the escaped madman has her in his sights. With her husband Roarke at her side, Eve must stop the man from exacting his bloody vengeance-or die trying.

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Approaching middle age warily, PI Kinsey Millhone of the Southern California coast is mildly depressed, romantically vulnerable and in the process of reassessing her family ties. Yet, when it comes to her professional abilities, she's at the top of her form, as this deftly plotted and absorbing novel (her 13th appearance, after L Is for Lawless) proves. Bader Malek, a local industrial tycoon, has died, and his four sons now stand to inherit a substantial fortune. But one of them, Guy, has been missing since 1968. A drug addict, ne'er-do-well and all-around miscreant, Guy had been disinherited by his exasperated father shortly before he vanished. But that particular will has disappeared, and Kinsey has been hired by the family to find out if Guy is still alive and thus in line to collect his original portion of the estate. She quickly succeeds in locating him and brings back a sweet, guileless and totally reformed man. But is he? The three other brothers?a truly devious, arrogant and greedy lot?are deeply ambivalent about Guy's return. A murder in the family leaves the surviving Malek kin as prime suspects. This is a subtle and swiftly moving novel, pleasantly unpredictable, with an agreeable overlay of smoldering romance, as fellow PI and former lover Robert Dietz reenters Kinsey's life. Grafton's heroine?more introspective, yet still feisty and surefooted?leads this finely tuned and at times electrifying tale to a thoroughly satisfying conclusion. 1,000,000 first printing.

¿Puede la mente humana proyectar una imagen o sugestionar a alguien, sin importar el tiempo o la distancia? ¿Existe la posesión de espíritus? ¿Es verdad que en nuestra época se dan las manifestaciones de las artes que implican la magia y el espiritismo? ¿Puede ser inmoral crearle daño a otra persona valiéndose de la transmisión del pensamiento para causarle la enfermedad y aun la muerte?

Manitú, uno de los libros más vendidos en España, obra de Graham Masterton, nos da respuesta a más de uno de estos interrogantes, narrándonos la historia más insólita, tan solo comparable con El bebé de Rosemary o El exorcista, tal vez superando estas dos obras en muchísimos cuadros de suspenso, llenos de un terror intenso y escalofriante.

When an angry, unemployed chemist unleashes a bio-terrorist attack against women and children, the president of the United States asks Donovan Creed to get involved. It's just one more thing on Creed's plate.

It must have been a hell of a night. One of those long, dangerous nights where the world shifts and doors open. A night of bad judgment and wrong turns, of weariness and hilarity and a hard sexual charge that both frightens and compels. A night where your life changes irrevocably, for better or for worse, but who the hell cares, so long as it changes.

It must have been a night just like that, yeah, if only I could remember it.

All Victor Carl knows is that he’s just woken up with his suit in tatters, his socks missing, and a stinging pain in his chest thanks to a new tattoo he doesn’t remember getting: a heart inscribed with the name Chantal Adair.

My apartment is trashed, my partnership is cracking up, I’m drinking too much, flirting with reporters, sleeping with Realtors. Frankly, I’m in desperate need of something hard and clean in my life, and finding Chantal is all I have.

Is Chantal Adair the love of Victor’s life or a terrible drunken mistake? Victor intends to find out, but right now he’s got bigger concerns. His client, a wanted man, needs to come in out of the cold, and he’s got a stolen painting for Victor to use as leverage.

But someone is not happy that the painting has surfaced. Or that the client is threatening to tell all. Or that Victor is sniffing around for information about Chantal Adair. The closer Victor comes to figuring it all out, the deeper into danger he falls, as the ghosts of the past return to claim what’s theirs.

NOBODY LIVES FOREVER. NOT EVEN A VAMPYRE.

Just ask Joe Pitt. After exposing the secret source of blood for half of Manhattan 's Vampyres, he's definitely a dead man walking. He's been a punching bag and a bullet magnet for every Vampyre Clan in Manhattan, Brooklyn, and the Bronx, not to mention a private eye, an enforcer, an exile, and a vigilante, but now he's just a target with legs.

For a year he's sloshed around the subway tunnels and sewers, tapping the veins of the lost, while above ground a Vampyre civil war threatens to drag the Clans into the sunlight once and for all. What's it gonna take to dig him up? Just the search for a missing girl who's carrying a baby that just might be the destiny of Vampyre-kind. Not that Joe cares all that much about destiny and such. What he cares about is that his ex-girl Evie wants him to take the gig. What's the risk? Another turn playing pigeon in a shooting gallery. What's the reward? Maybe one shot of his own. What's he aiming for? Nothing much. Just all the evil at the heart of his world.

Me mudé a Nueva York hace un mes para convertirme en el mejor periodista de todos los tiempos. Para encontrar las mayores historias jamás contadas. Y ahora aquí estoy: Henry Parker, veinticuatro años, exhausto y aturdido, a punto de que una bala acabe con mi vida. No puedo huir. Huir es lo único que Amanda y yo hemos hecho las últimas setenta y dos horas. Y estoy cansado. Cansado de saber la verdad y de no poder contarla.

Hace cinco minutos creía haberlo resuelto todo. Sabía que aquellos dos hombres (el agente del FBI y el asesino a sueldo) querían matarme, pero por motivos muy distintos. Si muero esta noche, más gente morirá mañana…

Premio Café Gijón de Novela 1995 Convocado por el Ayuntamiento de Gijón y patrocinado por la Caja de Asturias

Pese a una obra narrativa y ensayística muy notable, ya reconocida no sólo en su país sino también en Hispanoamérica, sólo ahora llega a los lectores españoles Máscaras, la cuarta novela de Leonardo Padura, galardonada con el Premio Café Gijón de Novela 1995. Con su publicación queremos reparar en cierto modo ese olvido al que relegamos, con demasiada frecuencia, a una valiosísima nueva generación de escritores cubanos que han nacido prácticamente con la Revolución y siguen viviendo en Cuba. Máscaras forma parte de una tetralogía de novelas policiacas, protagonizadas por el mismo personaje, el teniente de policía Conde, hombre solitario y desencantado, sancionado en la Central por una antigua insubordinación, y a quien vuelven a llamar para investigar los casos más extraños y menos lucidos. Este entrañable personaje, y el género novelesco en el que se enmarca, le sirven a Padura para abrirse a un horizonte más amplio: sus historias trazan, de hecho, un fresco a la vez risueño y sombrío de las pequeñas grandezas y grandes miserias de la vida cotidiana en la Cuba actual y las someten, como de pasada, a una brillante y profunda reflexión. En la tupida arboleda del Bosque de La Habana aparece un 6 de agosto, día en que la Iglesia celebra la transfiguración de Jesús, el cuerpo de un travesti con el lazo de seda roja de la muerte aún al cuello. Para mayor zozobra del Conde, aquella mujer «sin los beneficios de la naturaleza», vestida de rojo, resulta ser Alexis Arayán, hijo de un respetado diplomático del régimen cubano. La investigación se inicia con la visita del Conde al impresionante personaje del Marqués, hombre de letras y de teatro, homosexual desterrado en su propia tierra en una casona desvencijada, especie de excéntrico santo y brujo a la vez, culto, inteligente, astuto y dotado de la más refinada ironía. Poco a poco, el Conde va adentrándose en el mundo hosco en el que le introduce ladinamente el Marqués, poblado de seres que parecen todos portadores de la verdad de Alexis Arayán… ¿Pero dónde, en semejante laberinto, encontrará el Conde su verdad?

The more you watch Moscow, the more it looks like a huge chameleon that keeps changing its face—and it isn’t always pretty. Following Akashic Books’ international success with London Noir, Delhi Noir, Paris Noir, and others, the Noir series explores this fabled and troubled city’s darkest recesses.

Features brand-new stories by: Alexander Anuchkin, Igor Zotov, Gleb Shulpyakov, Vladimir Tuchkov, Anna Starobinets, Vyacheslav Kuritsyn, Sergei Samsonov, Alexei Evdokimov, Ludmila Petrushevskaya, Maxim Maximov, Irina Denezhkina, Dmitry Kosyrev, Andrei Khusnutdinov, and Sergei Kuznetsov.

Natalia Smirnova was born in 1978 in Moscow. In 2006, together with Julia Goumen, she founded Goumen & Smirnova Literary Agency, representing Russian authors worldwide.

Julia Goumen was born in St. Petersburg, Russia, in 1977. She holds a PhD in English and has worked in publishing since 2001.

"The summer I was eight years old, five hours disappeared from my life"?so runs the catchy opening to Heim's impressive first novel. The speaker is Brian Lackey, now a troubled teenager, once an introverted kid growing up scared in the small town of Hutchinson, Kans. The reason for his memory lapse and his fear, as we and Brian learn during the course of the novel, turns out not to be the space aliens that he first suspects, but his molestation at the hands of his Little League coach. The key to Brian's reclamation of those lost hours is homosexual hustler Neil McCormick?the slugger on that Little League team and an accomplice to Brian's sexual abuse. Working its way over the course of a decade toward Brian and Neil's reunion, the narrative unfolds through chapters whose points of view alternate among Brian, Neil and a handful of their siblings and confidants. Heim makes numerous freshman mistakes, including a relatively static narrative, prominent characters who outlive their usefulness and occasional lapses in the writing. He also creates scenes of genuine beauty, however, and handles his complicated characters and delicate subject matter with calm assurance.

Laureen O'Donnell trabaja en la Casa de Acogida para Mujeres de Glasgow, donde conoce a Anne Harris, una chica que llega al centro con dos costillas rotas y en plena batalla contra el alcoholismo. Dos semanas después, el cuerpo de Anne aparece en el río, grotescamente mutilado y envuelto en una manta. Todo apunta a que el marido de Anne es el asesino, pero ¿no puede haber un culpable menos evidente?

Maureen y su amiga Leslie tratan de romper con la indiferencia que rodea el asesinato de Anne, aunque, misteriosamente, Leslie mantiene la boca bien cerrada y no cuenta todo lo que sabe. En un intento por aclarar la confusión en la que se ve sumida su vida, Maureen viaja a Londres. Sin embargo, en lugar de solucionar sus problemas, pronto se verá inmersa en un mundo de violencia y drogadicción.

Maureen O'Donnell no es una chica con suerte. Además de vivir en un barrio marginal de Glasgow y ser paciente de un centro psiquiátrico, se encuentra anclada a un trabajo sin futuro y a una relación hermética con Douglas, un psicoterapeuta poco transparente.

A punto de poner fin a su relación con Douglas. Maureen se despierta una buena mañana con una resaca insufrible y con su novio muerto en la cocina de su piso. La policía la considera una de las principales sospechosas, tanto por ser una joven que- se sale de los cánones de la normalidad como por su carácter inestable y su actitud poco cooperativa. Incluso su madre y su hermana sospechan de ella. Presa del pánico y con un sentimiento de abandono por parte de sus amigos y familiares. Maureen empieza a poner en duda todo lo que creía inamovible.

Murder and ghoulish mayhem are the order of the day in bestseller McCammon's colorful third thriller featuring "problem-solver" Matthew Corbett and his escapades in early 18th-century America. After confronting a criminal mastermind in The Queen of Bedlam (2007), Matthew finds himself a celebrity whose exploits have become sensational fodder for colonial tabloids. This heady attention contributes to a bad lapse of judgment when he and his senior associate, Hudson Greathouse, accidentally allow a brutal murderer, Tyranthus Slaughter, to give them the slip while they transport him to prison in Philadelphia. The rousing narrative details Matthew's dogged pursuit of the indestructible Tyranthus as the killer cuts a bloody swath through the Pennsylvania wilderness. McCammon shows a sure hand balancing scenes of Matthew's quiet contemplation with the cold-blooded carnage that makes his quarry's name so appropriate.

Pewnego wrześniowego dnia w 1966 roku szesnastoletnia Harriet Vanger znika bez śladu. Prawie czterdzieści lat później Mikael Blomkvist – dziennikarz i wydawca magazynu "Millennium" otrzymuje nietypowe zlecenie od Henrika Vangera – magnata przemysłowego, stojącego na czele wielkiego koncernu. Ten prosi znajdującego się na zakręcie życiowym dziennikarza o napisanie kroniki rodzinnej Vangerów. Okazuje się, że spisywanie dziejów to tylko pretekst do próby rozwiązania skomplikowanej zagadki. Mikael Blomkvist, skazany za zniesławienie, rezygnuje z obowiązków zawodowych i podejmuje się niezwykłego zlecenia. Po pewnym czasie dołącza do niego Lisbeth Salander – młoda, intrygująca outsiderka i genialna researcherka. Wspólnie szybko wpadają na trop mrocznej i krwawej historii rodzinnej.

"Mężczyźni, którzy nienawidzą kobiet" to doskonały, pełen pasji thriller, w którym tajemnica trzyma czytelnika w napięciu aż do samego końca. Po książki Larssona na całym świecie sięgnęło już prawie 9 mln czytelników! Tę książkę można czytać na wielu płaszczyznach: jako kryminał pełen mrocznych tajemnic, jako znakomitą, wielowątkową powieść współczesną, pełną prawdziwych zdarzeń i osób, jako thriller psychologiczny z doskonale skrojonymi sylwetkami bohaterów. Autor ma fantastyczną zdolność jednoczesnego prowadzenia wielu skomplikowanych wątków, które błyskotliwie wiąże ze sobą. To pierwsza z trzech książek o Mikaelu Blomkviście i Lisbeth Salander zebranych w serii "Millennium" Mimo 640 stron – trudno się od niej oderwać!

Bullet Catcher and former Navy SEAL Constantine Xenakis has infiltrated a dive ship to discover who's plundering priceless gems from a legendary sunken Spanish galleon. When he catches Lizzie Dare red-handed in the locked treasure room, her story of a stolen ancestral legacy convinces him to work with the sexy thief instead of turning her in – and not just because he wants to find the real culprit. Lizzie is willing to risk everything to save the Bombay Blue Diamonds from her sworn enemy, even if that means giving in to an irresistible desire to get closer to her accomplice. But when passion hits them like a rogue wave and danger surrounds them like a school of hungry sharks, their adventure on the high seas turns treacherous…and deadly.

An omnibus of novels

New York Times bestselling authors Lisa Jackson, Beverly Barton, and Wendy Corsi Staub join forces to create a thrilling novel about love, revenge, and the dark secrets three women hold to a terrifying murder…

A KILLER WHO GETS AWAY WITH MURDER ONCE…

It's been twenty years since the night Jake Marcott was brutally murdered at St. Elizabeth High School. It's a night that shattered the lives of Lindsay Farrell, Kirsten Daniels, and Rachel Alsace. It's a night they'll never forget. A killer will make sure of that…

FINDS IT EASIER TO KILL AGAIN

A 20-year reunion has been scheduled for St. Elizabeth's. For some alumni, very special invitations have been sent: their smiling senior pictures slashed by an angry red line…

AND AGAIN…AND AGAIN…

Three women have been marked for death. Tonight, as the music plays, and the doors of St. Elizabeth are sealed, a killer will finish what was started long ago, and the sins of the past will be paid for in blood…

Two murder victims have been discovered in the boots of their cars. The first was would-be actor, Richard Dada; the second Dr Claire Argent, a psychiatrist at a maximum security hospital. Milo Sturgis tends to think there will be plenty of suspects amongst her clientele, but as his friend Alex Delaware remarks, none of his patients ever killed anyone and as they investigate the backgrounds of both victims it appears that Milo needs to look elsewhere, because neither of them are who they made themselves out to be.

As they slowly unravel the strands of their lies another, truly monstrous, character emerges: a man who gains his pleasure not from mere mutilattion and murder but from making his victims watch their own forthcoming death on film. And somehow he has control over some of the Claire Argent's patients, apparently securely behind bars.

In one of the most complex plots he has yet devised, Jonathan Kellerman has created a devastating mystery thriller.

Para Ryan Swan, a la que la vida le había enseñado que sólo podía confiar en sí misma, Pierce Atkins era el último hombre al que debía confiarle el corazón. Pero ante la presencia cautivadora de Pierce, todas sus defensas parecían desvanecerse como por arte de magia.

A Pierce Atkins, obsesionado con huir de su pasado, no le costaría escapar del interior de una caja fuerte ante miles de espectadores. Pero, ¿estaba dispuesto a seguir huyendo toda la vida?, ¿o debía escuchar a su corazón y firmar el contrato de matrimonio que Ryan le ofrecía?

Maggie Holloway is unsatisfied with the explanation for her former stepmother's death, and when the residents of a nursing home begin dying suddenly and inexplicably she becomes suspicious. It is only later that she realizes she herself is a target for a twisted killer.

It’s a jungle out there. Literally. At least for Evan Tanner, eternally sleepless sometime superspy, who finds himself in Africa on the trail of the AWOL ruler of tiny Modonoland. It seems the petty despot’s gone missing, and he’s taken the state treasury along with him. No stranger to impossible missions and international peril, Tanner’s been in over his head before. This time, however, he’s in imminent danger of being buried alive. And it all has to do with the CIA, white supremacists, moderate revolutionaries… and a blond jungle bombshell named (no joke!) Sheena. Tanner’s always been a sucker for a pretty face and a curvaceous body, especially one that’s wrapped in leopard skin. But this red hot renegade daughter of a local missionary is a man-eater. Which means this time Tanner’s goose is well and truly cooked.

Drew Mathias, zdolny elektronik i entuzjasta gier komputerowych, nie miał żadnego powodu, żeby odebrać sobie życie. Podobnie jak wzięty nowojorski adwokat S.T. Fitzhugh, wpływowy senator Peary czy Cerise Devane, przebojowa właścicielka popularnego brukowca. Tych czworga nie łączyło nic poza tym, że postanowili odejść z tego świata. Śledztwo nie przyniosło żadnego rezultatu, ale porucznik Eve Dallas z nowojorskiej policji nie chce uwierzyć, że były to samobójstwa. Kto jednak i dlaczego chciałby pozbawić życia czworo niezwiązanych ze sobą ludzi? I jak tego dokonał?

Porucznik Dallas postanawia mimo wszystko poszukać odpowiedzi na te pytania. Oczywiście może liczyć na pomoc świeżo poślubionego męża – superprzystojnego, superinteligentnego i bogatego Raorke’a – który kocha ją do szaleństwa i zrobi dla niej wszystko.