Дэвид Эллис – лучшие книги

ЛОЖЬ, СКРЫВАЮЩАЯ ЛОЖЬ Саймон и Вики Добиас — богатая, благополучная семья из Чикаго. Он — уважаемый преподаватель права, она — защитница жертв домашнего насилия. Спокойная, счастливая семейная жизнь. Но на самом деле все абсолютно не так, как кажется. На поверхности остается лишь то, что они хотят показать людям. И один из них вполне может оказаться убийцей… Когда блестящую светскую львицу Лорен Бетанкур находят повешенной, тайная жизнь четы Добиас выходит на свет. Их бурные романы на стороне… Трастовый фонд Саймона в двадцать один миллион долларов, срок погашения которого вот-вот наступит… Многолетняя обида Вики и ее одержимость…

Восемь месяцев назад в страшном пожаре Эмми Докери потеряла свою сестру. Все убеждены, что это была роковая случайность. Кроме Эмми… Аналитик ФБР, она уходит в бессрочный отпуск, чтобы собрать доказательства этого. И вскоре понимает: она вышла на след гениального и безжалостного серийного убийцы, оставляющего за собой только пепел. Но убедить руководство в своей правоте будет непросто. Вместе с бывшим женихом Харрисом Букменом она получает небольшую команду, чтобы в сжатые сроки вычислить гениального убийцу. Но времени будет еще меньше. Убийца понял, что на него объявлена охота, и сделает свой ход…

"Я был не один!" - сказал перед казнью Терри Бургос, повинный в жестоком убийстве шести девушек. Но никто не обратил на его слова внимания, кроме Пола Райли, который выступал по делу в качестве обвинителя... Прошли годы. И однажды убийства возобновились, а Полу Райли, ставшему знаменитым адвокатом, стали приходить анонимные зашифрованные послания. Кто-то копирует "почерк" Бургоса - такова версия полиции. Но Райли уверен: перед смертью Терри сказал правду, и теперь на охоту вышел его сообщник. Кто же он? Где скрывался столько лет? Возможно, ответ кроется в таинственных посланиях? Чтобы понять это, Райли начинает собственное…

Сотрудник полиции Билли Харни оказывается на волосок от смерти. Его напарница и возлюбленная мертва, а он чудесным образом остался в живых. Харни обвиняют в убийстве, но он ничего не помнит. Отчаянно пытаясь защитить свою честь, Билли собирает информацию про тот ужасный день. Он хочет понять, что же тогда произошло, и найти загадочную черную книжку…

No. 7 Ocean Drive is a multimillion-dollar beachfront house in the Hamptons, but its beautiful exterior hides a horrific past. This house was the setting for a series of depraved killings that have never been solved. Neglected, empty and rumoured to be cursed, it's known as the Murder House, and locals keep their distance.

Detective Jenna Murphy has moved to the area to escape her troubled past and rehabilitate a career on the rocks. But when a Hollywood power broker and his mistress are found dead in the abandoned Murder House, Jenna becomes involved in a case that at first seems open and shut, but reveals more secrets than she could possibly imagine.

As more bodies surface and Jenna is drawn deeper into the dark history of No. 7, she must risk her own life to expose the truth – before the Murder House claims another victim.

Čikāgā, lielpilsētas politikas intrigu, ambīciju, cerību un atmaksas pasaulē notiek kārtējais noziegums. Džons Solidejs – ietekmīga pavalsts politikāņa padomnieks ir spiests aizstāvēties, jo pret viņu tiek izvirzīta apsūdzība slepkavībā, kas bija tīrā pašaizsardzība. Tomēr politikā nekas nav tik vienkārši. Advokāta Džona Solideja pagātne, gan tā, ko viņš pats atceras, gan tā, kas pašam rada aizdomas, var atstāt viņu bez nākotnes. Ja vien Džons pirmais neatminēs – kuram būtu izdevīga viņa notiesāšana?

When Abbie Elliot and her three best friends arrive in Monte Carlo, they surrender to the sun and pool, to the champagne and private parties. For four days away from their husbands and families they’re free to live someone else’s life. But in the morning's harsh light, Abbie awakens on a yacht to gunshots and police storming the boat. Two men are dead, and Abbie and her friends are the only suspects. Imprisoned in a foreign country and separated from each other, the vacation of a lifetime has become a desperate fight for survival.

How well can you ever really know someone?

As Ben Casper watches his best friend plummet from her sixth-floor apartment balcony, he realises his life is about to change. Diana had no reason to kill herself, she had to have been pushed.

Diana worked for the CIA, so the investigation into her death is kept tightly under wraps. But Ben is a political journalist, and can feel that something isn't right.

Ben starts investigating for himself and soon discovers Diana was leading a double life he knew nothing about. But when more people involved die in questionable circumstances, it's clear that someone doesn't want the truth to be uncovered. And unless Ben drops his investigation, he could be next.

As Chicago PD’s special-ops leader, Detective Billy Harney knows well that money is not the only valuable currency. The filthy rich man he’s investigating is down to his last twenty million. He’s also being held in jail.

For now.

Billy’s unit is called in when an escape plan results in officers down and inmates vanished.

In an empty lot, Billy spots two Kevlar vests. Two helmets. Two assault rifles. And a handwritten note:

Hi, Billy
Are you having fun yet?

For Detective Billy Harney, getting shot in the head, stalked by a state’s attorney, and accused of murder by his fellow cops is a normal week on the job. So when a drive-by shooting on the Chicago's west side turns political, he leads the way to a quick solve. But Harney's instincts -- his father was once chief of detectives and his twin sister, Patti, is also on the force -- run deep. As a population hungry for justice threatens to riot, he realizes that the three known victims are hardly the only casualties.

When Harney starts asking questions about who's to blame, the easy answers prove to be the wrong ones. On the flip side, the less he seems to know, the longer he can keep his clandestine investigation going ... until Harney's quest to expose the evil that's rotting the city from the inside out takes him to the one place he vowed never to return: his own troubled past.

In the long-awaited follow-up to the #1 bestselling thriller INVISIBLE . . . the perfect murder always looks like an accident.

FBI agent Emmy Dockery is absolutely relentless. She's young and driven, and her unique skill at seeing connections others miss has brought her an impressive string of arrests.

But a shocking new case-unfolding across the country-has left her utterly baffled.

The victims all appear to have died by accident, and have seemingly nothing in common. But this many deaths can't be coincidence. And the killer is somehow one step ahead of every move Dockery makes. How?

To FBI special agent Harrison "Books" Bookman, everyone in the FBI is a suspect-particularly Emmy Dockery (the fact that she's his ex-fiancee doesn't make it easier).

But someone else is watching Dockery. Studying, learning, waiting. Until it's the perfect time to strike.

A woman accused of murder is caught in a tortuous psychological maze that leaves her only one escape—suicide. Or does it? Told in reverse chronological order, from its enigmatic end to its brilliant beginning, In the Company of Liars is a tantalizing tour de force—a “compelling new novel of intrigue, murder, and terrorism” ( The Philadelphia Inquirer ).

Another exhilarating thriller from Edgar Award winner David Ellis, introducing the new series protagonist Jason Kolarich.
Jason Kolarich is a midwestern Everyman with a lineman's build and an easy smart-ass remark. He's a young, intelligent maverick, but he's also struggling with an overwhelming emotional burden--one that threatens to unravel his own life, and possibly the lives of those around him.
Twenty-seven years ago, two-year-old Audrey Cutler disappeared from her home in the middle of the night. She was never found. All the detectives had to go on were vague eyewitness accounts of a man running down the Cutlers' street, apparently carrying someone. Without enough evidence to suggest otherwise, Griffin Perlini--a neighbor with prior offenses against minors--was arrested, but never convicted.

The case is long closed when Perlini is murdered nearly thirty years later. Now a man named Mr. Smith appears in Jason Kolarich's office, saying only that he represents a third party who wants the man charged with murder off the hook and that Kolarich is perfect for the job. The new client: Audrey Cutler's older brother, Sammy--Kolarich's estranged childhood best friend--a man he hasn't seen in nearly twenty years.

But when Kolarich starts receiving violent threats from Mr. Smith's enigmatic employer, he figures out that the secrecy behind this nameless third party--and the key to winning Sammy's case--is entangled with the mystery of Audrey's disappearance. With his own life and Sammy's in the balance, Kolarich has to put aside not only the mounting anxiety of the job but also a heart-wrenching personal tragedy in order to find out what really happened to Audrey all those years ago.

'Inspector Gascoigne was murdered with a ray gun. A weapon that has not yet been developed on this Earth!'

The TARDIS makes a hazardous return to 1960s Earth - materialising on a runway at Gatwick Airport! The Doctor and his friends realise that all is not well when Polly witnesses a murder, and then both she and Ben vanish. The authorities refuse to take the matter seriously - but when Polly reappears, why does she claim not to recognise her friends? Aided by the plucky Samantha Briggs, and helped and hindered by Inspector Crossland of Scotland Yard and the airport Commandant, the Doctor and Jamie piece together a number of clues.

A sequence of mysterious events seems to centre around Chameleon Tours, whose package holidays are designed to entice young people to foreign shores. Just how far-flung are the horizons they offer, and why are none of their passengers coming back? Who are the faceless ones, and what hideously deformed creatures are involved in the operations being conducted at the airport medical centre? The Doctor believes that there's a connection between Chameleon Tours and the odd behaviour of key airport personnel - but in seeking to prove his theory, and rescue Ben and Polly, he becomes embroiled in a plot to steal the identities of thousands of young people.

Book Description1918. In the course of his work, the writer comes in contact with a large number of people who are interested in botany as a recreation and a change from their regular work. It is noteworthy with such students that interest in a

David Ellis’ Line of Vision has won the 2002 Edgar Award for Best First Novel by an American Author!
Marty Kalish has been accused of murdering his lover's husband. He had a motive. He was at the scene of the crime. He manipulated evidence to hide his guilt. He even confessed. But that's not the end of the story. That's only the beginning.

Каждую ночь выходит на улицы тот, кто не умеет ни жить, ни умереть. Тот, кто способен выдавать себя за человека, человеком себя не чувствуя. Он умеет властвовать, ненавидеть, лгать, убивать. Он умеет жить нашими жизнями. Он умеет пить нашу кровь.
Он - одинок и безжалостен в своем одиночестве. Возможно, тот, кто убьет его, окажет ему большую услугу. Однако убить того, кто не живет, будет очень непросто...
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