Роберт Крейс3.6 Элвис Коул - один из самых удачливых детективов в Лос-Анджелесе... Именно поэтому к нему обращается адвокат преуспевающего владельца сети ресторанов Тедди Мартина, которого обвиняют в убийстве жены. Адвокат утверждает, что улики против его клиента сфальсифицированы офицером полиции Анджелой Росси, поскольку она любой ценой хочет восстановить свою репутацию после позорно проваленного ею пять лет назад дела. Задание кажется простым, и детектив берется выяснить всю подноготную Росси. Но чем дальше Элвис Коул и его компаньон, бывший спецназовец Джо Пайк, под оглушительный рев прессы пробиваются через хитросплетения свидетельских показаний, тем лучше понимают, что Анджела Росси не подставляла Тедди Мартина... Роберт Крейс - автор сериала об Элвисе Коуле, самом популярном частном детективе последнего десятилетия. Его книги издаются огромными тиражами. Они получали премии Энтони и Эдгара По, не раз удостаивались титула "Лучший детектив года".
Макс Аллан Коллинз0.0 Действие романа происходит в 1932 году на Гавайях. Расследуется предполагаемое изнасилование белой женщины пятью цветными парнями, а также убийство одного из этих парней родственниками пострадавшей. Защиту в деле об убийстве ведет старый опытный адвокат, а расследование для него проводит... Натан Геллер.
Стивен Гринлиф0.0 "Marsh? It's Peggy." The words strike like lightning bolts into the life of John Marshall Tanner, reopening old wounds, rekindling old desires. The speaker is Peggy Nettleton, Tanner's former secretary and former lover, who left his life six years earlier in circumstances too painful to remember. Now Peggy lives in Seattle and is about to marry Ted Evans, a wealthy investment banker. But Peggy has a problem - Nina Evans, Ted's beautiful young daughter by a previous marriage, is missing. The young model has disappeared into Seattle's netherworld after posing for some nude photographs. Peggy's marriage can't go forward until Nina is found. Peggy calls on her old boss for help. From art galleries to strip clubs, from porn kings to computer wizards, Tanner trails Nina to her oppressor's lair. He will be tested as never before as he learns more than he cares to know about Peggy and the man to whom she is betrothed, and about the world of digital imagery and its capacity to generate electric evils.
Джеремайя Хили0.0 The eleventh title in one of today's best American mystery series (Kevin Moore, Chicago Sun-Times). Detective John Cuddy is happy to handed a case as routine as a background check on a client's boyfriend. But after he's warned off by the mob, Cuddy's investigation grows more bizarre and dangerous. Local publicity (Massachusetts).
Билл Пронзини0.0 A "worried mother" job takes "Nameless" to a California backwater, where college student Allison McDowell has disappeared with her mysterious new boyfriend on a drive from Oregon to San Francisco. And behind a simple missing-persons case lies a sinister—and deadly—conspiracy. "'Nameless' is a good man to walk you through the noir landscape."—Marilyn Stasio, New York Times Book Review "'Nameless' has become an American treasure.... A stunning and unique achievement in crime fiction."—Booklist "One of the best in the mystery-suspense field is Bill Pronzini."—Washington Post
Сандра Уэст Проуэлл0.0 Tough as barbed wire and just as tightly strung, Phoebe Siegel is a cop turned private detective with too much past, too much family, and a talent for diving too deep into a case.
Bob Maitland is the golden boy of Montana politics, poised to run for governor. There's just one loose end in his life--the 27-year-old killing of his heiress
wife, Ellen, which was never solved. Maitland wants Phoebe Siegel to find the long-missing construction worker who either committed or witnessed the murder. Phoebe, no fan of Maitland's style, promises only to think it over. After Maitland trumpets their supposed agreement to the press, Phoebe hears from another potential client. Frank Chillman swears Ellen Maitland's murder and the murder of his prostitute sister, one day later, are related. Before Phoebe can even check out his story, he's found shot to death. With a dead man for a client, she plunges into the case, trying to find the connection between a rich wallflower and a hard-luck call girl who died three decades ago. The trail is long cold, but it heats up quickly as someone starts stalking Phoebe, with another killing in mind....
Харлан Кобен4.1 Когда-то Майрон Болитар и Грег Даунинг соперничали и на баскетбольной площадке, и в любви... И теперь именно Майрону, спортивному агенту и талантливому детективу-любителю, предстоит расследовать загадочное исчезновение Грега, ставшего за эти годы звездой профессионального баскетбола.
Владелец клуба, за который играл Грег, не хочет ни скандала, ни вмешательства полиции. Болитар вскоре узнает, что исчезнувшего Грега шантажировала некая особа, именующая себя Карлой Уитни.
Однако прежде чем Болитару удается поговорить с Карлой, ее жестоко убивают...
Стивен Уомак0.0 FOOLS RUSH IN. . .
I'd done some crazy stuff off-and-on the last couple of years. My life had gone off in some weird directions. But nothing could match yanking a stoned, naked, sick seventeen-year-old girl out of a murder scene and sneaking her off under the nose of the police.
Harry James Denton is no fool. But his search for a rich runaway teen, Stacey Jameson, takes him to the seamy and very wild side of Nashville. Nobody's chain lays straight, a friend tells Harry. But Stacey's is especially twisted, with links that lead back to a family filled with secrets. Even a hardboiled P.I. like Harry isn't prepared for what awaits him in the depths of hard-core hell, where only he can save a lost girl before she destroys herself or lets a ruthless murderer do it for her.
"Steven Womack has done for male private eye fiction what Grafton and Paretsky did for women operatives in the Eighties, and if you haven't heard of him yet, you will."
--Mostly Murder
Carol Lea Benjamin0.0 She gets top billing. But he's the real teeth of the operation. In the search for a killer, they make the perfect team....
She's thirty-eight, too independent for most men's taste, and too suspicious for her own good. In her back-alley Greenwich Village cottage, private investigator Rachel Alexander has one ace in the hole: Dash, the devoted, barrel-chested pit bull terrier she once saved from certain death, and who is now about to return the favor.
Dash and Rachel are looking for a missing barkless champion basenji named Magritte, and for a killer. The basenji belonged to a struggling artist found dead on a downtown pier near a sign that said "don't be caught alone." As Rachel pursues a string of clues that take her from the SoHo art scene to the world of Manhattan's homeless to the Westminster Kennel Club dog show, those words echo in her mind. For in an urban landscape where good friends are hard to come by and true lovers even harder, Rachel soon discovers how dangerous it can be to trust the wrong person. Unless, of course, that person is a dog...
Michael Stone0.0 Bounty hunter Streeter is a string of exes… ex-linebacker, ex-accountant, ex-bouncer, and four-time ex-husband … who excels at exacting his own brand of justice… with explosive results.
Streeter is hired by the scheming woman he nailed for insurance fraud to go after her dead boyfriend’s stash of drug money… and has to single-handedly face off against a greedy, violent pack of lowlifes and sociopaths killing their way to the big score.
John Wessel0.0 In "This Far, No Further," love, lust, blood, and betrayal all collide in a story that will shock and entrall everyone who opens the book. In this blockbuster thriller, John Wessel explodes onto the American crime-fiction scene with a gripping first novel that already has him being heralded as the Raymond Chandler of the '90s.
This sizzling tale is set deep in a Chicago winter. Wessel's hero, Harding, was once a licensed private investigator with an office, a partner, and a future, but then a simple little domestic case -- find the family's missing daughter -- turned on him when the daughter showed him the scars her father gave her. Harding promised to protect her, but he couldn't, not even after killing the man her father had sent after them.
Now Harding's an ex-con, working off the books on another simple little domestic case -- take a few pictures of a straying husband and his girlfriend -- but this case turns on him, too. When the heartsick wife turns up at his door and the girlfriend turns up dead, Harding knows he's in trouble. But not until the cops tell him that he's a murder suspect and that his ex-lover's on a slab at the morgue does he realize just how much trouble is headed his way. Harding's trouble comes from all directions -- from his terrifying past and his perilous present -- and dead is just about the nicest thing that could happen to him.
Combining crisp, dark dialogue, telling physical and emotional detail, and a gift for razor's-edge plotting and breakneck pacing, John Wessel has created in "This Far, No Further" a bold new kind of hero and launched what promises to be a long and exciting career.
