Deborah Crombie4.0 It is the call Scotland Yard Superintendent Duncan Kincaid never expected — and one he certainly doesn't want. Victoria, his ex-wife, who walked out without an explanation more than a decade ago, asks him to look into the suicide of local poet, Lydia Brooke — a case that's been officially closed for five years. The troubled young writer's death, Victoria claims, might well have been murder.
No one is more surprised than Kincaid himself when he agrees to investigate — not even his partner and lover, Sergeant Gemma James. But it's a second death that raises the stakes and plunges Kincaid and James into a labyrinth of dark lies and lethal secrets that stretches all the way back through the twentieth century — a death that most assuredly is murder, one that has altered Duncan Kincaid's world forever.
Майкл Коннелли4.2 Известный кинопродюсер Тони Алисо обнаружен мертвым в багажнике собственного «роллс-ройса»...
Дело рук мафии?
Об этом свидетельствует каждая деталь убийства...
Однако Гарри Босх, после долгого перерыва вернувшийся в полицию, уверен – не так все просто.
Расследование этого жестокого преступления уводит его в блистательный, безумный и смертельно опасный Лас-Вегас – город огромных денег и неистового азарта, город, по сей день остающийся тайной столицей мафии.
И каждый шаг Босха в этом городе может стать для него последним...
Перес-Реверте А.4.0 Что может скрываться под обложкой старинного фолианта? Захватывающие приключения, запутанные интриги или запрещенные учения средневековых чернокнижников? Под ней живет целый мир, неподвластный ни огню, ни времени, ни воле своих создателей. Броситься в него с головой – опасно, но у Лукаса Корсо нет выбора. Он уже перешагнул порог опасного лабиринта, где его ждут помощники, которые гораздо страшнее врагов, и загадки, на которые опасно искать ответы. Как знать, во что охотнику за книгами обойдется очередная разгаданная тайна? Раз уж в дело вмешалась литература, произойти может, что угодно.
Jan Burke0.0 For reporter Irene Kelly it's a terrifying investigation - because it's so personal. Her husband, Detective Frank Harriman, has been kidnapped by terrorists who call themselves Hocus - deadly manipulators who give Irene three days to meet their demands before killing their hostage.
But Irene's biggest shock is yet to come - as she uncovers her husband's history, and learns of a horrific crime committed a decade earlier. As seconds slip away, Irene willingly steps into a trap set by two madmen with a score to settle. And when she does, someone is going to pay for the sins of the past.
Donald E. Westlake4.0 The multi-award-winning, widely-acclaimed mystery master Donald E. Westlake delivers a masterpiece with this brilliant, laser-sharp tale of the deadly consequences of corporate downsizing.
Burke Devore is a middle-aged manager at a paper company when the cost-cutting ax falls, and he is laid off. Eighteen months later and still unemployed, he puts a new spin on his job search -- with agonizing care, Devore finds the seven men in the surrounding area who could take the job that rightfully should be his, and systematically kills them. Transforming himself from mild-mannered middle manager to ruthless murderer, he discovers skills ne never knew ne had -- and that come to him far too easily.
Пенни Уорнер4.5 Thirty-seven year old journalist, Connor Westphal, has relocated from San Francisco to Flat Skunk, a mining-turned-tourist town in the foothills of the Sierras, to start up her own weekly paper. Suddenly, dead bodies begin turning up in the most unusual places, setting Connor on a hunt for a killer. You might say Connor has a sixth sense when it comes to investigating...but she only has four of the usual five senses. Connor Westphal is deaf. But being hearing impaired doesn't stop Connor from pursuing the murderer. Without sound to distract her, she attends to subtleties that others overlook and ultimately unravels the mystery.
Ли Чайлд3.9 В тихом городке Маргрейве появляется незнакомец, и в тот же день происходит первое за тридцать лет убийство. Кто бы стал сомневаться, что эти события неразрывно связаны между собой? Связь действительно есть, но совсем не та, что кажется на первый взгляд. Бывший военный полицейский Джек Ричер, обвиненный в убийстве, начинает собственное расследование и выясняет, что за благопристойным фасадом городка готовится изощренное преступление необыкновенного размаха.
Ли Чайлд - один из лучших современных авторов, работающих в жанре детектива-экшн. Его герой Джек Ричер стал поистине культовой фигурой, воплощением несгибаемого героя-детектива.
Лаура Липман3.8 Роман "Чарующий город" продолжает рассказ о приключениях отчаянной Тесс Монаган - бывшей журналистки, а ныне сотрудницы частного детективного агентства. Ее жизнь не назовешь скучной - она полна неожиданных событий, а порой и опасностей.
Алджин Хармец0.0 Eight-year-old David Greene has already run away twice since his parents got divorced. The third time started out no differently...except this time, David doesn't return. The police are anxious to charge a local homeless man with his death, but David's mother is convinced he is alive. With the help of a maverick police officer, she discovers David's trail, and she's led down a harrowing path of clues.
Sujata Massey0.0 Japanese-American Rei Shimura is a 27-year-old English teacher living in one of Tokyo's seediest neighborhoods. She doesn't make much money, but she wouldn't go back home to California even if she had a free ticket (which, thanks to her parents, she does.) Her independence is threatened however, when a getaway to an ancient castle town is marred by murder.
Rei is the first to find the beautiful wife of a high-powered businessman, dead in the snow. Taking charge, as usual, Rei searches for clues by crashing a funeral, posing as a bar-girl, and somehow ending up pursued by police and paparazzi alike. In the meantime, she manages to piece together a strange, ever-changing puzzle—one that is built on lies and held together by years of sex and deception.
Natalie Hevener Kaufman, Carol McGinnis Kay0.0 Finally in paperback and now fully revised and updated through "O" Is for Outlaw, the reader's companion to the world of Sue Grafton's Kinsey Millhone
With the cooperation of Sue Grafton, who provided unprecedented access to her working journals, authors Natalie Hevener Kaufman and Carol McGinnis Kay have created a fully dimensional biography of Kinsey Millhone that will answer every question readers have ever had. Here is a feast for Kinsey's fans, including such features as time lines, maps, floor plans, case logs, and photographs.
But this book is also a revealing journey into the mind and work habits of Kinsey's creator. You'll learn why Grafton chose to write detective fiction and how she responds to runaway plot lines and unruly characters. You will find out what titles she has discarded in the series, what she plans for Kinsey's future, and how she sees their evolving relationship. Ultimately, you'll understand why Grafton is so esteemed in the field of detective fiction and, from an analysis of her craft, why she has earned so prominent a place in American letters.
Ben Macintyre0.0 He is the Napoleon of crime, Watson.
He is the organizer of half that is evil and of nearly all that is undetected in this great city.
He is a genius, a philosopher, an abstract thinker. . . .
--Sherlock Holmes on Professor Moriarty in The Final Problem
The Victorian era's most infamous thief, Adam Worth was the original Napoleon of crime. Suave, cunning Worth learned early that the best way to succeed was to steal. And steal he did.
Following a strict code of honor, Worth won the respect of Victorian society. He also aroused its fear by becoming a chilling phantom, mingling undetected with the upper classes, whose valuables he brazenly stole. His most celebrated heist: Gainsborough's grand portrait of the Duchess of Devonshire--ancestor of Diana, Princess of Wales--a painting Worth adored and often slept with for twenty years.
With a brilliant gang that included "Piano" Charley, a jewel thief, train robber, and playboy, and "the Scratch" Becker, master forger, Worth secretly ran operations from New York to London, Paris, and South Africa--until betrayal and a Pinkerton man finally brought him down.
In a decadent age, Worth was an icon. His biography is a grand, dazzling tour into the gaslit underworld of the last century. . . and into the doomed genius of a criminal mastermind
Иан Усби0.0 Guilty Parties tells the whole story, accompanied by dozens of special features packed with information to surprise even the most avid fan. Classic puzzles like the locked-room mystery are analyzed and the Ten Commandments for the detective novel 1930s-style defined. Want to know what bean-shooters, roscoes, Chicago overcoat, nippers and buttons are? Look them up in the hard-boiled dictionary. Discover the stories of pulp fiction and film noir, or read about today's feisty female private eyes. Complete with a world round-up of current crime novels, full lists of Edgars, Daggers and other prizes, a detailed chronology and ideas for further reading, here is the perfect guide to crime and mystery writing, with 195 illustrations, 31 in color
Питер Робинсон4.3 Иногда даже в самом тихом омуте случаются экстраординарные события, вот и для маленькой йоркширской деревушки таким событием стала загадочная история о двух дамах из Розового коттеджа. Эту историю услышал и пятнадцатилетний, на то время, мальчик, который мечтал стать писателем, со временем она начала стираться из его памяти, но через многие годы он все-таки получил все ответы.
