Рэй Целестин0.0 Los Angeles. Christmas, 1967. A devil is loose in the City of Angels . . .
A young nurse, Kerry Gaudet, travels to the City of Angels desperate to find her missing brother, fearing that something terrible has happened to him: a serial killer is terrorising the city, picking victims at random, and Kerry has precious few leads.
Ida Young, recently retired Private Investigator, is dragged into helping the police when a young woman is discovered murdered in her motel room. Ida has never met the victim but her name has been found at the crime scene and the LAPD wants to know why . . .
Meanwhile mob fixer Dante Sanfelippo has put his life savings into purchasing a winery in Napa Valley but first he must do one final favour for the Mob before leaving town: find a bail jumper before the bond money falls due, and time is fast running out.
Ida’s friend, Louis Armstrong, flies into the city just as her investigations uncover mysterious clues to the killer’s identity. And Dante must tread a dangerous path to pay his dues, a path which will throw him headlong into a terrifying conspiracy and a secret that the conspirators will do anything to protect . . .
Completing his American crime quartet, Ray Celestin's Sunset Swing is a stunning novel of conspiracy, murder and madness, an unforgettable portrait of a city on the edge.
Джон Харт4.1 Их было трое – родных братьев. Старший, Роберт, ушел на Вьетнамскую войну – и не вернулся. Средний, Джейсон, вернулся – но угодил на три года за решетку за хранение наркотиков. Младший, Гибби, только собирается идти воевать по призыву. И тут из тюрьмы выходит Джейсон…
Гибби нравится проводить время с братом. Родители запрещают ему это, не желая, чтобы с их младшим сыном случилось что-то плохое. Но от судьбы не уйдешь… Братья едут на пикник с виски и девушками. А через несколько дней одну из этих девушек – подругу Джейсона – зверски убивают. Джейсона арестовывают. Но Гибби не верит в виновность брата – за последнее время он слишком хорошо узнал его – и начинает сам докапываться до правды. И выясняет, что в прошлом Джейсона скрыто такое количество жутких секретов, что будущего у брата, скорее всего, уже не будет…
Жаклин Баблиц3.4 Тогда
Элис приехала в Нью-Йорк в свой восемнадцатый день рождения, имея при себе лишь украденную камеру и шестьсот долларов наличными. Она хочет начать все с чистого листа, но спустя месяц… становится последней неопознанной жертвой убийства.
Руби Джонс тоже пытается начать жизнь сначала; она объехала полмира, но не стала счастливее, а наоборот, почувствовала себя еще более одинокой. А потом она нашла тело Элис у реки.
И между двумя девушками возникла неразрывная связь.
Сейчас
Элис уверена, что Руби — ключ к разгадке тайны ее жизни… и смерти. А Руби, изо всех сил пытающаяся забыть то, что она видела тем утром, обнаруживает, что не может отпустить Элис. По крайней мере до тех пор, пока ее душа не успокоится и не найдет то, что ей необходимо.
S.A. Cosby3.2 Ike Randolph has been out of jail for fifteen years, with not so much as a speeding ticket in all that time. But a Black man with cops at the door knows to be afraid.
The last thing he expects to hear is that his son Isiah has been murdered, along with Isiah’s white husband, Derek. Ike had never fully accepted his son but is devastated by his loss.
Derek’s father Buddy Lee was almost as ashamed of Derek for being gay as Derek was ashamed of his father's criminal record. Buddy Lee still has contacts in the underworld, though, and he wants to know who killed his boy.
Ike and Buddy Lee, two ex-cons with little else in common other than a criminal past and a love for their dead sons, band together in their desperate desire for revenge. In their quest to do better for their sons in death than they did in life, hardened men Ike and Buddy Lee will confront their own prejudices about their sons and each other, as they rain down vengeance upon those who hurt their boys.
Provocative and fast-paced, S. A. Cosby's Razorblade Tears is a story of bloody retribution, heartfelt change - and maybe even redemption.
“A visceral full-body experience, a sharp jolt to the heart, and a treat for the senses…Cosby's moody southern thriller marries the skillful action and plotting of Lee Child with the atmosphere and insight of Attica Locke.” ―NPR
Abir Mukherjee5.0 Calcutta, 1923 When a Hindu theologian is found murdered in his home, the city is on the brink of all-out religious war. Can officers of the Imperial Police Force, Captain Sam Wyndham and Sergeant Surendranath Banerjee track down those responsible in time to stop a bloodbath? Set at a time of heightened political tension, beginning in atmospheric Calcutta and taking the detectives all the way to bustling Bombay, the latest instalment in this ‘unmissable’ (The Times) series presents Wyndham and Banerjee with an unprecedented challenge. Will this be the case that finally drives them apart?
The naked corpses of Aylmer and Mary Younis are discovered in their home. The only clues are a note written in blood and an eerie report of two spectral figures departing the crime scene. Officer Jill Ferriter is charged with investigating the murders while her colleague Alex Cupidi is on leave, recovering from post-traumatic stress.
AN ELABORATE SCAM
The dead couple had made investments in a green reforestry scheme in Guatemala, resulting in the loss of all their savings. What is more disturbing is that Cupidi and Ferriter's disgraced former colleague and friend Bill South is also on the list of investors and the Younis's were not the only losers.
AN UNLIKELY KILLER
Despite being in counselling and receiving official warnings to stay away from police work Cupidi finds herself dragged into the case and begins to trawl among the secrets and lies that are held in the fishing community of Folkestone. Desperate to exonerate South she finds herself murderously compromised when personal relationships cloud her judgement.
Pacey, intense and riddled with surprising twists, The Trawlerman shows that deceit can be found in the most unlikely places. The brooding waters of the Kent coastline offer an ominous backdrop for this lively page-turner of corruption, mental health and the complexities of human connection.
Симон Бухгольц0.0 Twenty floors above the shimmering lights of the Hamburg docks, Public Prosecutor Chastity Riley is celebrating a birthday with friends in a hotel bar when twelve heavily armed men pull out guns, and take everyone hostage. Among the hostages is Konrad Hoogsmart, the hotel owner, who is being targeted by a young man whose life and family have been destroyed by Hoogsmart’s actions.
With the police looking on from outside their colleagues’ lives at stake and Chastity on the inside, increasingly ill from an unexpected case of sepsis, the stage is set for a dramatic confrontation and a devastating outcome for the team all live streamed in a terrifying bid for revenge.
Котаро Исака4.1 Из Токио в Мориока отправляется скоростной поезд — синкансэн. На первый взгляд, все его пассажиры — вполне обычные люди, едущие по своим обычным делам. Но кое-кто оказался здесь далеко не случайно…
Сатоши — кажется безобидным школьником, и при этом 100% психопат. Умный, хитрый и очень опасный.
Кимура — бывший киллер, а теперь простой работяга и алкоголик в завязке.
Мандарин и Лимон — двое наемников экстра-класса.
Судзуки — добродушный школьный учитель.
Нанао — «самый неудачливый убийца в мире», прозванный так потому, что вся его жизнь — это вечная череда неприятностей.
Мальчик — сын крупного мафиозного босса.
И кое-кто еще, со своим особым заданием…
Эти люди в целом никак не связаны друг с другом, и привели их сюда разные обстоятельства. Но одна лишь случайность — и линии их жизней сплетутся в тугой клубок. Далеко не все из них доедут до своей остановки. Потому что очень трудно сойти живым с поезда убийц…
Саша Наспини3.4 Laura scompare nel nulla il 12 agosto del ’99, a otto anni. Viene ritrovata in un container il 6 ottobre del 2013. Adesso di anni ne ha ventidue. Luca sta cenando con suo padre, i carabinieri irrompono, portano via l’uomo. Le accuse mosse nei confronti dello stimato professor Carlo Maria Balestri sono gravissime: dietro la facciata di un antropologo di fama si nasconde il Male. Suo figlio non può che assistere alla scena, impotente. Cosa succede se un giorno scopri che la persona che ti ha generato è un mostro? Ossigeno è la storia di ciò che resta. La cattura del maniaco non è la fine di un incubo: segna l’inizio di nuove vite. L’esperimento perverso del professor Balestri continua: non imprigiona più delle bambine in una scatola di ferro, ci sono altre gabbie con le quali in molti devono confrontarsi. Per esempio quella genetica, del sangue, da cui Luca non ha via d’uscita. E com’è parlare a una figlia sopravvissuta a quattordici anni di reclusione? Laura sorride, si comporta come una ragazza normale. Ma a volte è colta da una sorta di raptus: dopo essersi persa nella città entra in un bar qualsiasi e si chiude in bagno. Se può, resta lì anche per un’ora. È il suo modo per riprendere fiato e poi tornare all’aperto, in apnea. Qualcuno è lì, la sta seguendo e lei lo sa. La domanda che continua a risuonare è questa: chi ha rinchiuso chi?
Sacha Naspini porta aria nuova nel romanzo italiano: un soffio di mistero e poesia.
Dopo il successo di Le Case del malcontento l’autore offre ai lettori nuove emozioni, nuovi brividi, nuove sorprese e nuovi turbamenti.
Самира Седира0.0 A prizewinning, riveting (The New York Times Book Review) psychological suspense novel inspired by a true story about a couple in an insular French village whose lives are upended when a family of outsiders moves in.
Anna and Constant Guillot live with their two daughters in the peaceful, remote mountain village of Carmac, largely deaf to the upheavals of the outside world. Everyone in Carmac knows each other, and most of its residents look alike--until Bakary and Sylvia Langlois arrive with their three children.
Wealthy and flashy, the family of five are outsiders in the small town, their impressive chalet and three expensive cars a stark contrast to the modesty of those of their neighbors. Despite their differences, the Langlois and the Guillots form an uneasy, ambiguous friendship. But when both families begin experiencing financial troubles, the underlying class and racial tensions of their relationship come to a breaking point, and the unthinkable happens.
With piercing psychological insight and gripping storytelling, People Like Them asks: How could a seemingly normal person commit an atrocious crime? How could that person's loved ones ever come to terms with it afterward? And how well can you really know your own spouse?
Антти Туомайнен3.7 Роман одного из самых успешных современных писателей Финляндии Антти Туомайнена «Фактор кролика» — увлекательный рассказ в жанре комедийного криминального триллера о том, что происходит, когда в упорядоченную, математически выверенную жизнь математика страховой компании вторгаются непреодолимые обстоятельства, странные персонажи и не поддающиеся никаким вычислениям чувства. Не ждите обычных для скандинавской криминальной драмы жанровой заданности, жестокости и мрачности обстановки. Антти Туомайнен переворачивает все с ног на голову. В парке приключений, который достался главному герою в наследство от брата, скучать не придется никому.
Майкл Крэйвен5.0 Detective Sergeant Washington Poe is in court, fighting eviction from his beloved and isolated croft, when he is summoned to a backstreet brothel in Carlisle where a man has been beaten to death with a baseball bat. Poe is confused - he hunts serial killers and this appears to be a straightforward murder-by-pimp - but his attendance was requested personally, by the kind of people who prefer to remain in the shadows.
As Poe and the socially awkward programmer Tilly Bradshaw delve deeper into the case, they are faced with seemingly unanswerable questions: despite being heavily vetted for a high-profile job, why does nothing in the victim's background check out? Why was a small ornament left at the murder scene - and why did someone on the investigation team steal it? And what is the connection to a flawlessly executed bank heist three years earlier, a heist where nothing was taken...
Linwood Barclay3.0 It's a deadly race against time...
Tech billionaire Miles has more money than he can ever spend, but he can't buy more time. Diagnosed with a terminal illness, he is forced to take a long hard look at his past.
Somewhere out there, Miles has children who don't know it, but they might be about to inherit the good and bad from him — possibly his fortune, or possibly something more sinister.
Шэрон Болтон0.0 A golden summer, and six talented friends are looking forward to the brightest of futures - until a daredevil game goes horribly wrong, and a woman and two children are killed.
18-year-old Megan takes the blame, leaving the others free to get on with their lives. In return, they each agree to a 'favour', payable on her release from prison.
Twenty years later Megan is free.
Let the games begin . . .
Richard & Judy bestseller Sharon Bolton is back, with her twistiest thriller yet.
Стив Кавана4.0 A DEADLY PROSECUTOR
They call him the King of Death Row. Randal Korn has sent more men to their deaths than any district attorney in the history of the United States.
A TWISTED RITUALISTIC KILLING
When a young woman, Skylar Edwards, is found murdered in Buckstown, Alabama, a corrupt sheriff arrests the last person to see her alive, Andy Dubois. It doesn't seem to matter to anyone that An
S.A. Cosby3.2 Ike Randolph has been out of jail for fifteen years, with not so much as a speeding ticket in all that time. But a Black man with cops at the door knows to be afraid.
The last thing he expects to hear is that his son Isiah has been murdered, along with Isiah’s white husband, Derek. Ike had never fully accepted his son but is devastated by his loss.
Derek’s father Buddy Lee was almost as ashamed of Derek for being gay as Derek was ashamed of his father's criminal record. Buddy Lee still has contacts in the underworld, though, and he wants to know who killed his boy.
Ike and Buddy Lee, two ex-cons with little else in common other than a criminal past and a love for their dead sons, band together in their desperate desire for revenge. In their quest to do better for their sons in death than they did in life, hardened men Ike and Buddy Lee will confront their own prejudices about their sons and each other, as they rain down vengeance upon those who hurt their boys.
Provocative and fast-paced, S. A. Cosby's Razorblade Tears is a story of bloody retribution, heartfelt change - and maybe even redemption.
“A visceral full-body experience, a sharp jolt to the heart, and a treat for the senses…Cosby's moody southern thriller marries the skillful action and plotting of Lee Child with the atmosphere and insight of Attica Locke.” ―NPR
Лаура Липман4.0 "With this tip of the hat to Stephen King's Misery, Dream Girl is funny and suspenseful, with a dread-worthy final twist." —People
“My dream novel. I devoured this in three days. The sharpest, clearest-eyed take on our #MeToo reckoning yet. Plus: enthralling." —Megan Abbott, Edgar Award-winning author of Dare Me and The Fever
Following up on her acclaimed and wildly successful New York Times bestseller Lady in the Lake, Laura Lippman returns with a dark, complex tale of psychological suspense with echoes of Misery involving a novelist, incapacitated by injury, who is plagued by mysterious phone calls.
In the end, has anyone really led a blameless life?
Injured in a freak fall, novelist Gerry Andersen is confined to a hospital bed in his glamorous high-rise apartment, dependent on two women he barely knows: his incurious young assistant, and a dull, slow-witted night nurse.
Then late one night, the phone rings. The caller claims to be the “real” Aubrey, the alluring title character from his most successful novel, Dream Girl. But there is no real Aubrey. She’s a figment born of a writer’s imagination, despite what many believe or claim to know. Could the cryptic caller be one of his three ex-wives playing a vindictive trick after all these years? Or is she Margot, an ex-girlfriend who keeps trying to insinuate her way back into Gerry’s life?
And why does no one believe that the call even happened?
Isolated from the world, drowsy from medication, Gerry slips between reality and a dreamlike state in which he is haunted by his own past: his faithless father, his devoted mother; the women who loved him, the women he loved.
And now here is Aubrey, threatening to visit him, suggesting that she is owed something. Is the threat real or is it a sign of dementia? Which scenario would he prefer? Gerry has never been so alone, so confused – and so terrified.
Chilling and compulsively readable, touching on timely issues that include power, agency, appropriation, and creation, Dream Girl is a superb blend of psychological suspense and horror that reveals the mind and soul of a writer.
Привожу документы, связанные с постановкой пьесы «Все мои сыновья» и трагической гибелью одного из актеров. Другой участник сейчас находится в тюрьме за преступление, которое не совершал. Настоящий убийца выдал себя. Он везде: в электронных письмах и коротких сообщениях, в списке приглашенных на благотворительный вечер маленькой девочки, больной раком. Каждый под подозрением.
Тарик Ашканани0.0 In this explosive thriller of bad choices and dark crimes, Detective Levine knew his transfer was a punishment—but he had no idea just how bad it would get.
Cooper, Nebraska, is forgettable and forgotten, a town you’d only stumble into if you’d taken a seriously wrong turn. Like Detective Thomas Levine’s career has. But when a young woman is found lying in the snow, choked to death, her eyes gouged out, the disgraced detective is Cooper’s only hope for restoring peace and justice.
For Levine, still grieving and guilt-ridden over the death of his girlfriend, his so-called “transfer” from the big city to this grubby backwater has always felt like a punishment. And when his irascible new partner shoots their prime suspect using Levine’s gun, all hope of redemption is shattered. With the case in chaos, and both blackmail and a violent drug cartel to contend with, he finds himself in a world of trouble.
It gets worse. The real killer is still out there, and he’s got plans for Detective Levine. And Cooper may just be the perfect place to get away with murder.
Элоиса Диас3.6 2001 год, Буэнос-Айрес. Аргентина переживает жесточайший экономический и политический кризис. На улицах столицы почти ежедневно вспыхивают волнения. Инспектор полиции Хоакин Альсада в ожидании скорого выхода на пенсию старается держаться подальше от политики. Но расследование дела об исчезновении молодой женщины, семья которой принадлежит к аргентинской элите, поставит его перед необходимостью сделать выбор, заставит столкнуться с призраками прошлого и напомнит о личной причастности к событиям одного из самых мрачных периодов в истории страны.
Алан Гиллеспи0.0 Cullrothes, in the Scottish Highlands, where Innes hides a terrible secret from his girlfriend Alice, a gorgeous, cheating, lying schoolteacher. In the same village, Donald is the aggressive distillery owner, who floods the country with narcotics alongside his single malt; when his son goes missing, he becomes haunted by an anonymous American investor intent on purchasing the Cullrothes Distillery by any means necessary. Schoolgirl Jessie is trying to get the grades to escape to the mainland, while Grandpa counts the days left in his life.
This is a place where mountains are immense and the loch freezes in winter. A place with only one road in and out. With long storms and furious midges and a terrible phone signal. The police are compromised, the journalists are scum, and the innocent folk of Cullrothes tangle themselves in a fermenting barrel of suspicion, malice and lies.
The Mash House uses multiple narratives to weave together the parallel lives of individuals in the village. Each fractured by the fears and uncertainty in their own minds.
Карин Нордин0.0 The raven cawed at him, craning its neck unnaturally. As it dug its hooked beak into the mess of dried grass and twigs that made up its nest, a shiny glimmer reflected off a low-hanging bulb. Kjeld edged closer to get a better look. It was a human tooth. With a silver filling.
Detective Kjeld Nygaard wants nothing more than to forget his family and Varsund, the small mining town he once called home, even exist. But while on suspension after his last case went disastrously wrong, his estranged father Stenar leaves a message on Kjeld’s phone claiming he’s seen a murder.
But with no evidence and Stenar suffering from Alzheimer’s, the local police think he must have imagined it. Kjeld can’t stop himself from investigating what actually happened, and soon discovers a body. But when the police start to suspect Stenar, it’s a race against time to discover the truth before it’s lost forever.
But will uncovering the truth expose family secrets that are best left buried?
Atmospheric and chilling, Where Ravens Roost is a gripping crime debut perfect for fans of J M Dalgliesh, Angela Marsons and Jo Nesbo.
Рахул Райна3.9 Решили похитить богача? А технику этого дела вы знаете?
Исключительно способный, но бедный Рамеш Кумар зарабатывает на жизнь, сдавая за детишек индийской элиты вступительные экзамены в университет. Не самое опасное для жизни занятие, но беда приходит откуда не ждали. Когда Рамеш случайно занимает первое место на Всеиндийских экзаменах, его инфантильный подопечный Руди просыпается знаменитым. И теперь им придется извернуться, чтобы не перейти никому дорогу и сохранить в тайне свой маленький секрет. Даже если для этого придется похитить парочку богачей.
Одна часть Гая Ричи, одна часть Тарантино, одна часть Болливуда, щепотка истории взросления и гарам масала. Украсить отрубленным мизинцем на шпажке и употреблять немедленно.
A young Japanese woman is found dead on the dockside, her throat slashed
Inspector Maximo Betancourt is working a new beat, one he didn’t ask for. Following the disappearance of his wife, his life and career have fallen apart.
A distinctive tiger tattoo is the only clue to her identity
Once a rising star of Singapore CID, Betancourt has been relegated to the Marine Division, with tedious dockyard disputes and goods inspections among his new duties.
Who is she? And why are the authorities turning a blind eye?
But when a beautiful, unidentified Japanese woman is found murdered in the shadow of a warehouse owned by one of Singapore’s most powerful families, Betancourt defies orders and pursues those responsible. What he discovers will bring him into conflict with powerful enemies, and force him to face his personal demons.
