Чери Прист – лучшие книги

В первые годы Гражданской войны слухи о золоте, таящемся в мерзлых недрах Клондайка, увлекли на север тихоокеанского побережья полчища старателей. Не желая уступить в этой игре, российское правительство поручило изобретателю Левитикусу Блю соорудить большую машину, способную буравить льды Аляски. Так появился на свет «Невероятный Костотрясный Бурильный Агрегат доктора Блю».

Однако в первый же день испытаний Костотряс повел себя непредсказуемо, разгромив несколько кварталов в деловой части Сиэтла и вскрыв подземные залежи губительного газа, который обращал любого человека, вдохнувшего его, в живого мертвеца.

Прошло шестнадцать лет. Опустошенные и все еще токсичные районы обнесены гигантской стеной. В ее окрестностях живет вдова доктора Блю, Брайар Уилкс. Загубленная репутация и сын-подросток, которого нужно растить, не делают ее жизнь легче, но они с Иезекиилем справляются. До того дня, когда Иезекииль, задумав переписать историю, втайне от матери отправляется в отчаянный поход.

Поиски заведут его в туннели под стеной, а оттуда — в город,кишащий прожорливыми зомби, воздушными пиратами, королями преступного мира и вооруженными до зубов дезертирами. И только матери под силу вывести его оттуда живым.

Гражданская война в США не утихает. Противоборствующие стороны вооружены чудовищными механизмами боевыми дирижаблями, шагающими боевыми машинами, мощной и маневренной артиллерией. Смерть собирает богатую жатву на полях сражений, а в госпиталях идет сражение с ней самой. Сестра милосердия Мерси Линч каждый день сталкивается с болью и страданием. Не успев оправиться от известия о гибели мужа, воевавшего в рядах северян, она узнает, что ее отец тяжело болен. Молодая женщина решает разыскать его в далеком Сиэтле, для чего ей придется пересечь истерзанную войной страну. Прихоть судьбы заносит ее на прославленный бронепоезд «Дредноут». Однако…

На заброшенной шахте погибли люди. Официально — это несчастный случай, но кое-кто не верит в официальную версию и просит разобраться в происходящем специалиста по загадочным проблемам...

Пилот почтового диражабля мечтает об остановке в небольшом городке Релактэнс. Там можно вытянуть ноги, посидеть в баре и лечь в настоящую кровать. Но пилот не видит огней города, хотя на дворе ночь.

Lizzie Borden took an axe and gave her mother forty whacks; and when she saw what she had done, she gave her father forty-one.... The people of Fall River, Massachusetts, fear me. Perhaps rightfully so. I remain a suspect in the brutal deaths of my father and his second wife despite the verdict of innocence at my trial. With our inheritance, my sister, Emma, and I have taken up residence in Maplecroft, a mansion near the sea and far from gossip and scrutiny. But it is not far enough from the affliction that possessed my parents. Their characters, their very souls, were consumed from within by something that left malevolent entities…

Music City Salvage is a family operation, owned and operated by Chuck Dutton: master stripper of doomed historic properties, and expert seller of all things old and crusty. But business is lean and times are tight, so he’s thrilled when the aged and esteemed Augusta Withrow appears in his office, bearing an offer he really ought to refuse. She has a massive family estate to unload―lock, stock, and barrel. For a check and a handshake, it’s all his. It’s a big check. It’s a firm handshake. And it’s enough of a gold mine that he assigns his daughter Dahlia to personally oversee the project. Dahlia preps a couple of trucks, takes a small…

From Cherie Priest, the author of The Family Plot and Maplecroft, comes The Toll, a tense, dark, and scary treat for modern fans of the traditionally strange and macabre.

State Road 177 runs along the Suwannee River, between Fargo, Georgia, and the Okefenokee Swamp. Drive that route from east to west, and you’ll cross six bridges. Take it from west to east, and you might find seven.

But you’d better hope not.

Titus and Davina Bell leave their hotel in Fargo for a second honeymoon canoeing the Okefenokee Swamp. But shortly before they reach their destination, they draw up to a halt at the edge of a rickety bridge with old stone pilings, with room for only one car . . .

When, much later, a tow-truck arrives, the driver finds Titus lying in the middle of the road, but Davina is nowhere to be found.

Book Description Although she was orphaned at birth, Eden Moore is never alone. Three dead women watch from the shadows, bound to protect her from harm. But in the woods a gunman waits, convinced that Eden is destined to follow her wicked

Meet Leda Foley: devoted friend, struggling travel agent, and inconsistent psychic. When Leda, sole proprietor of Foley's Flights of Fancy, impulsively re-books Seattle PD detective Grady Merritt’s flight, her life changes in ways she couldn’t have predicted.

After watching his original plane blow up from the safety of the airport, Grady realizes that Leda’s special abilities could help him with a cold case he just can’t crack.

Despite her scattershot premonitions, she agrees for a secret reason: her fiancé’s murder remains unsolved. Leda’s psychic abilities couldn’t help the case several years before, but she’s been honing her skills and drawing a crowd at her favorite bar’s open-mic nights, where she performs Klairvoyant Karaoke—singing whatever song comes to mind when she holds people’s personal effects. Now joined by a rag-tag group of bar patrons and pals alike, Leda and Grady set out to catch a killer—and learn how the two cases that haunt them have more in common than they ever suspected.

Denise Farber has just moved back to New Orleans with her mom and step-dad. They left in the wake of Hurricane Katrina and have finally returned, wagering the last of their family's money on fixing up an old, rundown house and converting it to a bed and breakfast.Nothing seems to work around the place, which doesn't seem too weird to Denise. The unexplained noises are a little more out of the ordinary, but again, nothing too unusual. But when floors collapse, deadly objects rain down, and she hears creepy voices, it's clear to Denise that something more sinister lurks hidden here.Answers may lie in an old comic book Denise finds concealed in the attic: the lost, final project of a famous artist who disappeared in the 1950s. Denise isn't budging from her new home, so she must unravel the mystery-on the pages and off-if she and her family are to survive...

Down by the river, the first to go missing were not much lamented. Disappearances of homeless men foraging through trash or nuisance skater kids who rolled their boards along the planked piers at night were not noteworthy enough to delay the city's development projects. But deep beneath the riverbank, the evidence of a terrible crime has been covered up twice. When a TVA dam falters and the river swells, panic rises downtown. As the Tennessee creeps over its banks, it dredges up death from its own polluted bed. Twenty-nine victims of a long-ago slaughter walk when the water rises, patrolling the banks and dragging the living down to a…