George Dawes Green0.0 Savannah may appear to be “some town out of a fable,” with its vine flowers, turreted mansions, and ghost tours that romanticize the city’s history. But look deeper and you’ll uncover secrets, past and present, that tell a more sinister tale. It’s the story at the heart of George Dawes Green’s chilling new novel, The Kingdoms of Savannah.
It begins quietly on a balmy Southern night as some locals gather at Bo Peep’s, one of the town’s favorite watering holes. Within an hour, however, a man will be murdered and his companion will be “disappeared.” An unlikely detective, Morgana Musgrove, doyenne of Savannah society, is called upon to unravel the mystery of these crimes. Morgana is an imperious, demanding, and conniving woman, whose four grown children are weary of her schemes. But one by one she inveigles them into helping with her investigation, and soon the family uncovers some terrifying truths—truths that will rock Savannah’s power structure to its core.
Moving from the homeless encampments that ring the city to the stately homes of Savannah’s elite, Green’s novel brilliantly depicts the underbelly of a city with a dark history and the strangely mesmerizing dysfunction of a complex family.
Анна Маццола3.8 Париж. Зима 1750 года. В надежде на лучшую жизнь бывшая проститутка Мадлен устраивается горничной в дом знаменитого часовщика Рейнхарта. По заданию полиции девушка должна выяснить, чем в действительности занимается часовщик, ведь по городу ходят упорные слухи, будто Рейнхарт создает свои диковинные механизмы — украшенных драгоценностями птиц, серебряных пауков, кроликов, летучих мышей — с помощью магии, бросая вызов законам природы. Но в доме часовщика Мадлен чувствует себя крайне неуютно: ей кажется, будто она постоянно под прицелом чужих глаз. События принимают еще более зловещий оборот, когда с улиц начинают исчезать дети. Мадлен, исполненная решимости выяснить правду, с ужасом понимает, что, возможно, имеет дело с заговором, который ведет в самое сердце Версаля. Но что лежит в основе этого заговора? Кто такая заводная девушка? И что на самом деле ищет Мадлен? «Заводная девушка» – это потрясающая история об одержимости, иллюзиях и цене свободы.
Васим Хан0.0 THE THRILLING NEW MYSTERY FROM THE AWARD-WINNING AUTHOR OF MIDNIGHT AT MALABAR HOUSE
Bombay, 1950
When the body of a white man is found frozen in the Himalayan foothills near Dehra Dun, he is christened the Ice Man by the national media. Who is he? How long has he been there? Why was he killed?
As Inspector Persis Wadia and Metropolitan Police criminalist Archie Blackfinch investigate the case in Bombay, they uncover a trail left behind by the enigmatic Ice Man - a trail leading directly into the dark heart of conspiracy.
Meanwhile, two new murders grip the city. Is there a serial killer on the loose, targeting Europeans?
Rich in atmosphere, the thrilling third chapter in the CWA Historical Dagger-winning Malabar House series pits Persis against a mystery from beyond the grave, unfolding against the backdrop of a turbulent post-colonial India, a nation struggling to redefine itself in the shadow of the Raj.
W.C. Ryan0.0 The drive leads past the gate house and through the trees towards the big house, visible through the winter-bared branches. Its windows stare down at Harkin and the sea beyond . . .
January 1921. Though the Great War is over, in Ireland a new, civil war is raging. The once-grand Kilcolgan House, a crumbling bastion shrouded in sea-mist, lies half empty and filled with ghosts - both real and imagined - the Prendevilles, the noble family within, co-existing only as the balance of their secrets is kept.
Then, when an IRA ambush goes terribly wrong, Maud Prendeville, eldest daughter of Lord Kilcolgan, is killed, leaving the family reeling. Yet the IRA column insist they left her alive, that someone else must have been responsible for her terrible fate. Captain Tom Harkin, an IRA intelligence officer and Maud's former fiancé, is sent to investigate, becoming an unwelcome guest in this strange, gloomy household.
Working undercover, Harkin must delve into the house's secrets - and discover where, in this fractured, embattled town, each family member's allegiances truly lie. But Harkin too is haunted by the ghosts of the past and by his terrible experiences on the battlefields. Can he find out the truth about Maud's death before the past - and his strange, unnerving surroundings - overwhelm him?
Simon Van der Velde0.0 The Past Never Dies
When his beloved little brother is stolen away, five-year-old Tommy Farrier is left alone with his alcoholic mam, his violent step-dad and his guilt. Too young to understand what has really happened, Tommy is sure of only one thing. He is to blame.
Tommy tries to be good, to live-up to his brother’s increasingly hazy memory, but trapped in a world of shame and degradation he grows up with just two options; poverty or crime. And crime pays.
Or so he thinks.
A teenage drug-dealer for the vicious Burns gang, Tommy’s life is headed for disaster, until, in the place he least expects, Tommy sees a familiar face…
Мишель Бюсси3.7 Мишель Бюсси входит в перечень самых читаемых писателей Франции. На родине он считается главной звездой детективного романа. Книги Бюсси издаются на 34-х языках. В основе его успеха лежат умение увлекать читателя в интригу и окунать в атмосферу места действия.
В новой книге данного автора искусная интрига дополнилась психологической глубиной и социальным звучанием. Кроме того, Бюсси использовал неожиданный детективный прием. На языке оригинала книга была опубликована в 2017 году.
Новый детективный роман писателя посвящен популярной нынче теме миграции. А именно беженцам, отправляющимся в Европу в поисках лучшей жизни. Но история далеко не типичная. Это ошеломляющий триллер, который переносит читателя из африканской пустыни в городские «джунгли» Марселя. Здесь есть убийство и неожиданные сюжетные повороты, заставляющие сомневаться в разгадке.
Морган Одик0.0 Un cadavre atrocement mutilé
suspendu à la façade d'un bâtiment.
Une ancienne ville soviétique envoûtante et terrifiante.
Deux enquêteurs, aux motivations divergentes,
face à un tueur fou qui signe ses crimes
d'une hirondelle empaillée.
Et l'ombre d'un double meurtre perpétré en 1986, la nuit où la centrale de Tchernobyl a explosé...
Morgan Audic signe un thriller époustouflant dans une Ukraine disloquée où se mêlent conflits armés, effondrement économique et revendications écologiques.
One beautiful morning, Zhang Dongsheng pushes his wealthy in-laws off a remote mountain.
It’s the perfect crime. Or so he thinks.
For Zhang did not expect that teenager Chaoyang and his friends would catch him in the act. An opportunity for blackmail presents itself and the kids start down a dark path that will lead to the unravelling of all their lives.
Dark, heart-stopping and violent, Bad Kids is the suspense thriller that has taken China by storm, proving that anyone has what it takes to become a killer.
Johana Gustawsson0.0 Queen of French Noir, Johana Gustawsson returns with the first in a startling new series – a dark, horrifying, powerful historical thriller with an extraordinary mystery at its heart and three women pushed so far beyond breaking point, they have only one way out…
1899, Belle Époque Paris. Lucienne’s two daughters are believed dead when her mansion burns to the ground, but she is certain that her girls are still alive and embarks on a journey into the depths of the spiritualist community to find them.
1949, Post-War Québec. Teenager Lina’s father has died in the French Resistance, and as she struggles to fit in at school, her mother introduces her to an elderly woman at the asylum where she works, changing Lina’s life in the darkest way imaginable.
2002, Quebec. A former schoolteacher is accused of brutally stabbing her husband – a famous university professor – to death. Detective Maxine Grant, who has recently lost her own husband and is parenting a teenager and a new baby single-handedly, takes on the investigation.
Under enormous personal pressure, Maxine makes a series of macabre discoveries that link directly to historical cases involving black magic and murder, secret societies and spiritism … and women at breaking point, who will stop at nothing to protect the ones they love…
