Laurie R. King0.0 In Laurie R. King's "A Grave Talent", the unthinkable has happened in a small community outside of San Francisco. A series of shocking murders has occurred, the victims far too innocent and defenseless. For lesbian Detective Kate Martinelli, just promoted to Homicide and paired with a seasoned cop who's less than thrilled to be handed a green partner, it's a difficult case that just keeps getting harder.
Then the police receive what appears to be a case-breaking lead: it seems that one of the residents of this odd colony is Vaun Adams, arguably the century's greatest woman painter and a notorious felon once convicted of a heinous crime.
But what really happened eighteen years ago? To bring a murderer to justice, Kate must delve into the artist's dark past—even if it means losing everything she holds dear.
Майнет Уолтерс4.0 Обстоятельства дела казались простыми: Олив Мартин призналась в убийстве своей сестры и матери. В тюрьме она получила леденящее кровь прозвище "Скульпторша".
Вот и все, что было известно журналистке Розалинде Лей, когда она отправилась на первое свидание с Олив, отбывающей пожизненный срок в заключении. Могла ли Роз предвидеть, что эта встреча навсегда изменит ее жизнь?
Стивен Уомак0.0 Ex-newspaperman turned private detective Harry James Denton needs any client he can get. It's just his luck that the first person to waltz into his Nashville office is the woman who stole his heart in college - then was stolen by another man. That man is rich surgeon and relentless gambler Conrad Fletcher. But by the time Harry catches up with him, Fletcher's gone from being in debt to being dead.
Lawrence Block0.0 "Keller's Therapy" appeared first in Playboy, and won an Edgar Allan Poe award as the best short story of the year. And it launched Keller on a continuing career as a series character
Joan Lowery Nixon0.0 Novelist Augustus Trevor has written a manuscript that reveals the darkest secrets of his guests. Whoever can solve Trevor's clues can have his story removed from the book. But when Trevor is bludgeoned to death, the survivors (along with the reader) are challenged to find both the manuscript and the murderer.
Барбара Брукс Уоллес0.0 Orphaned twice and all alone in the world, Taddy watches as Neezer and Lucky, two sinister thieves, steal his family's possessions, and then make him a virtual prisoner. With only table scraps and dry crusts of bread to eat, Taddy and another boy named Beetle are forced to work long, cruel hours carrying freezing, heavy blocks of ice for delivery in Lucky's ice wagon.
Then a neighbor, Mrs. Mainyard, tells lucky she'd like to hire Taddy during the day as a servant boy. His wages go to Lucky, but he's better fed. And once inside the sumptuous Mainyard mansion, Taddy sees the impossible - a boy who looks just like him. Can this be the mysterious twin he'd been told about?
