Холли Уотт0.0 A journalist must follow the clues, no matter how far that takes her.
Casey Benedict, star reporter at the Post, has infiltrated the lives and exposed the lies of countless politicians and power players. Using her network of contacts, Casey is always on the search for the next big story, no matter how much danger this might place her in, no matter what cost emotionally.
Tipped off by an overheard conversation at an exclusive London nightclub, she begins to investigate the apparent suicide of a wealthy young British man, whose death has left his fiancée and family devastated.
Casey's determined hunt for the truth will take her from the glitz of St Tropez to the deserts of Libya and on to the very darkest corners of the human mind.
Megan Abbott3.8 A mesmerizing psychological thriller about how a secret can bind two friends together forever...or tear them apart.
Kit Owens harbored only modest ambitions for herself when the mysterious Diane Fleming appeared in her high school chemistry class. But Diane's academic brilliance lit a fire in Kit, and the two developed an unlikely friendship. Until Diane shared a secret that changed everything between them.
More than a decade later, Kit thinks she's put Diane behind her forever and she's begun to fulfill the scientific dreams Diane awakened in her. But the past comes roaring back when she discovers that Diane is her competition for a position both women covet, taking part in groundbreaking new research led by their idol. Soon enough, the two former friends find themselves locked in a dangerous game of cat-and-mouse that threatens to destroy them both.
Никлас Натт-о-Даг4.2 Захватывающая, остроумная и невероятно красивая книга о темных временах жизни Стокгольма с лихо закрученным криминальным сюжетом и подробно описанным на основе исторических документов городским бытом XVIII века, прославившая начинающего автора, потомка древнего дворянского рода, Никласа Натт-о-Дага.
Дэн Фесперман0.0 In this gripping new work of suspense from the author of The Double Game, a young woman discovers a nefarious truth at the heart of the CIA's operations in postwar Berlin and goes on the run for her life; years later she's gruesomely murdered along with her husband, and her daughter begins to chase down these startling secrets from her past.
West Berlin, 1979. Helen Abell oversees the CIA's network of safe houses, rare havens for field agents and case officers amidst the dangerous milieu of a city in the grips of the Cold War. Helen's world is upended when, during her routine inspection of an agency property, she overhears a meeting between two people unfamiliar to her speaking a coded language that hints at shadowy realities far beyond her comprehension. Before the day is out, she witnesses a second unauthorized encounter, one that will place her in the sightlines of the most ruthless and powerful man at the agency. Her attempts to expose the dark truths about what she has witnessed will bring about repercussions that reach across decades and continents into the present day, when, in a farm town in Maryland, a young man is arrested for the double murder of his parents, and his sister takes it upon herself to find out why he did it.
Стив Кавана4.3 Этот серийный убийца сидит не на скамье подсудимых. А в кресле присяжного…
Он ждал этого момента всю свою жизнь. Его тринадцатое — и самое главное убийство. Сейчас на скамью подсудимых сядет человек, который должен быть признан виновным. А для этого сам он станет одним из присяжных. Тринадцатое дело для тринадцатого присяжного…
Джошуа Кейн уникален во всем. Он невероятно умен, изворотлив и находчив. Он не оставляет следов — если только ложные. Он не способен чувствовать боль. И — самое главное — у него есть цель. Великая миссия донести до людей правду об этой жизни. И если для этого кто-то должен умереть — что с того? Джошуа Кейн убивал много раз — и своими руками, и чужими. Второй вариант доставляет ему гораздо больше удовольствия. Пусть убивает закон — так вернее. А как провернуть такое, Кейн знает, как никто… И да свершится правосудие!
Люк Дженнингс3.8 We last saw Eve and Villanelle in a spy vs. spy race around the world, crossing powerful criminal organizations and dangerous governments, each trying to come out on top. But they aren't finished yet.
In this sequel, Eve, the former M16 operative and the novel's heroine, reveals a new side to her strengths, while coming ever closer to a confrontation with Villanelle, the evasive and skilled assassin Eve is hunting.
Killing Eve is a high-stakes, thrilling follow up to the newest voice in spy fiction that the world has been dying for. Jennings' deadly and sophisticated story will leave readers eager to see what happens when these two powerful women come head to head.
Стивен Мак Джонс0.0 Detroit ex-cop August Snow takes up vigilante justice when his beloved neighborhood of Mexicantown is caught in the crosshairs of a human traffickingscheme.
When the body of an anonymous young Hispanic woman dressed as Queen Marie Antoinette is dredged from the Detroit River, the Detroit Police Department wants the case closed out fast. Wayne County Coroner Dr. Bobby Falconi gives the woman's photo to his old pal August Snow, insisting August show it around his native Mexicantown to see if anyone recognizes her. August's good friend Elena, a prominent advocate for undocumented immigrants, recognizes the woman immediately as a local teenager, Isadora del Torres.
Izzy's story is one the authorities don't want getting around--and she's not the only young woman to have disappeared during an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) raid, only to turn up dead a few weeks later. Preyed upon by the law itself, the people of Mexicantown have no one to turn to. August Snow, ex-police detective, will not sit by and watch his neighbors suffer in silence. In a guns-blazing wild ride across Detroit, from its neo-Nazi biker hole-ups to its hip-hop recording studios, its swanky social clubs to its seedy nightclubs, August puts his own life on the line to protect the community he loves.
Тим Уиллокс0.0 During a weekend spree in Cape Town a young, rich Afrikaner fatally injures a teenage street girl with his Range Rover but is too drunk to know that he has hit her. His companions-who do know-leave the girl to die.
The driver's mother, a self-made mining magnate named Margot Le Roux, intends to keep her son in ignorance of his crime. Why should his life be ruined for a nameless girl who was already terminally ill? No one will care and the law is cheap. But by chance the case falls to the relentless Warrant Officer Turner of Cape Town Homicide.
When Turner travels to the remote mining town that Margot owns-including the local police and private security force-he finds her determined to protect her son at any cost. As the battle of wills escalates, and the moral contradictions multiply, Turner won't be bought and won't be bullied, and when they try to bury him he rediscovers, during a desperate odyssey to the very brink of death, a long-forgotten truth about himself ...
By the time Willocks' tale is finished, fourteen men have died, and he shows once again that he is the laureate of the violent thriller.
Элли Гриффитс4.0 Клэр Кэссиди - учительница английского языка и литературы в школе Talgarth High, где ранее жил загадочный писатель, автор готических романов Р. М. Холланд. Клэр - его большая поклонница и даже пишет его биографию, пытаясь раскрыть старые семейные тайны. Внезапно лучшая подруга Клэр, Элла, погибает от руки убийцы, а рядом с телом обнаруживают таинственную записку. Более того: полиция подозревает, что Клэр знакома с убийцей. Героиня в растерянности обращается к своему лучшему другу и поверенному - личному дневнику. Каков же ее ужас, когда на одной из страниц она замечает чужие слова, написанные незнакомой рукой!
Клэр оказывается втянута в серию таинственных преступлений, ведь Элла - не единственная жертва и под подозрением теперь каждый. Клэр почти уверена, что к ней явился "незнакомец", чтобы превратить ее жизнь в ад. Но возможно ли переписать конец истории?
Крис Хаммер3.4 In an isolated country town brought to its knees by endless drought, a charismatic and dedicated young priest calmly opens fire on his congregation, killing five parishioners before being shot dead himself.
A year later, troubled journalist Martin Scarsden arrives in Riversend to write a feature on the anniversary of the tragedy. But the stories he hears from the locals about the priest and incidents leading up to the shooting don't fit with the accepted version of events his own newspaper reported in an award-winning investigation. Martin can't ignore his doubts, nor the urgings of some locals to unearth the real reason behind the priest's deadly rampage.
Just as Martin believes he is making headway, a shocking new development rocks the town, which becomes the biggest story in Australia. The media descends on Riversend and Martin is now the one in the spotlight. His reasons for investigating the shooting have suddenly become very personal.
Wrestling with his own demons, Martin finds himself risking everything to discover a truth that becomes darker and more complex with every twist. But there are powerful forces determined to stop him, and he has no idea how far they will go to make sure the town's secrets stay buried.
A compulsive thriller that will haunt you long after you have turned the final page.
Клэр Эскью0.0 All the Hidden Truths is the story of a tragic shooting at an Edinburgh college and its aftermath. It is narrated by three women at the heart of the story - the mother of a victim and the mother of the shooter, and DI Helen Birch who is tasked in solving the case. The book is both a "knotty crime novel" and a story of grief "trying to make sense of something that defies reason".
Readers of Kate Atkinson, Denise Mina and Susie Steiner will love it – along with anyone who wants their fiction both moving and gripping.
Г. Д. Абсон0.0 MOTHERLAND is the first in a gripping series of crime novels set in contemporary St Petersburg, featuring sharp and intriguing policewoman, Captain Natalya Ivanova.
When the daughter of a Swedish billionaire goes missing in St Petersburg after a night out with a friend, Captain Natalya Ivanova is assigned the case but nothing is as straightforward as it seems.
Dark, violent and insightful, Motherland twists and turns to a satisfyingly dramatic conclusion.
Вики Ньюхам0.0 A twisted killer has a deadly riddle for DI Maya Rahman to solve in this pulse-racing thriller, the first in an addictive new series set in East London.
A headmistress is found strangled in her East London school, her death the result of a brutal and ritualistic act of violence. Found at the scene is a single piece of card, written upon which is an ancient Buddhist precept:
I shall abstain from taking the ungiven.
At first, DI Maya Rahman can’t help but hope this is a tragic but isolated murder. Then, the second body is found.
Faced with a community steeped in secrets and prejudice, and with a serial killer on her hands, Maya must untangle the cryptic messages left at the crime scenes to solve the deadly riddle behind the murders – before the killer takes another victim.
Ванда Симон0.0 Sam Shephard, a young sole-charge police constable in Mataura, is the main character in a new series of crime novels set in New Zealand. When a young mother in the town is brutally murdered (it seems to be a professional job), Sam is at the heart of the police hunt to find the killer. But then Sam's past relationship with the dead woman's husband is revealed. Sam is stood down from the case and is now a prime murder suspect. Frustrated, Sam loses her cool. She can't stop herself making murder inquiries and gets into serious trouble with her police superiors. But then the young constable stumbles onto something. The murdered woman was working as a journalist and had uncovered a local scandal. She'd been killed to keep her quiet. When Sam enters this world she's in real physical danger, until at last a conspiracy is uncovered and the killer revealed. Disillusioned, Sam prepares to leave town. What will she do next?
Алекс Даль4.5 This riveting psychological suspense debut by Alex Dahl asks the question, "how far would you go to hold on to what you have?"
Cecilia Wilborg has it all--a loving husband, two beautiful daughters, and a gorgeous home in an affluent Norwegian suburb. And she works hard to keep it all together. Too hard...
There is no room for mistakes in her life. Even taking home a little boy whose parents forgot to pick him up at the pool can put a crimp in Cecilia's carefully planned schedule. Especially when she arrives at the address she was given
and finds an empty, abandoned house...
There's nothing for Cecilia to do but to take the boy home with her, never realizing that soon his quiet presence and knowing eyes will trigger unwelcome memories from her past--and unravel her meticulously crafted life...
Марк Гриффин0.0 When Darkness Calls is the first in an unputdownable new crime thriller series starring forensic psychologist Holly Wakefield . For fans of Patricia Cornwell, Val McDermid, Robert Galbraith and the TV crime series Luther and Strike.
Do you dare to look into the eye of a serial killer...?
Holly Wakefield works for the NHS as a criminal psychologist specialising in serial killers. She has particular reason to be good at her job - but she keeps that to herself.
When DI Bishop from the Met Police approaches Holly to investigate a recent killing, Holly is horrified by the dismembered bodies and the way they have been theatrically positioned. More shocking still is when the pathologist reveals this is not the first time she has seen these mutilations. It means a serial killer is out there, and they're going to kill again - soon.
Holly is used to chasing serial killers. But this killer has something in common with Holly that she's kept hidden for as long as she can remember. And for the first time since she was a child, Holly is forced to face the darkness of her past...
A gripping thriller set in London, featuring a criminal psychologist who specialises in hunting serial killers, and has hidden reasons for being unnervingly good at her job . . .
Жаркий июньский день. На причале в Дептфорде подвешен за крюк труп мужчины, со следами ужасных пыток и с клеймом раба.
Несколько дней спустя к капитану Гарри Коршэму приходит сестра Тэда Арчера, его старого друга.
Она утверждает, что он собирался обнародовать правду, которая может нанести непоправимый ущерб британской рабовладельческой индустрии. А теперь и вовсе пропал... Чтобы узнать, что случилось с Тэдом, Гарри вынужден заняться расследованием и проникнуть в самое сердце заговора, который раскрыл Тэд.
Это расследование поставит под угрозу будущее Гарри в политике и счастье его семьи, заставит встретиться лицом к лицу с темными секретами из прошлого, которые способны уничтожить его.
Кэтрин Стедман3.5 Эрин мечтала о медовом месяце на Бора-Бора. Но вместо райского отдыха им с мужем Марком пришлось стать участниками смертельно опасного приключения. И все из-за сумки, которая зацепилась за их лодку… Сумки, в которой оказались пачки денег, бриллианты, пистолет и телефон с флешкой. Пара решает оставить находку себе. Эрин возвращается к съемкам документального фильма о трех заключенных, с которыми она планирует провести интервью. Но одна из них исчезает, едва выйдя на свободу. Тогда же Эрин обнаруживает на телефоне голосовое сообщение, в котором некто просит вернуть флешку в обмен на два миллиона евро. Но флешка пропала! Кто же мог ее украсть, если о находке знали только они с Марком? Или был кто-то еще? Кто-то незаметный, но все время бывший на виду… И когда Эрин узнает, кто это, ей придется поверить в жестокую правду…
Сорен Свейструп4.2 Копенгаген дрожит перед деяниями психопата. Его визитная карточка — каштановый человечек, фигурка из каштанов и спичек, которую он всякий раз оставляет на месте очередного кровавого преступления. Исследовав эти фигурки, криминалисты пришли к шокирующему выводу: на каштановых человечках оставлены отпечатки пальцев маленькой дочери известной женщины-политика. Но девочка пропала и предположительно убита год назад, а человек, признавшийся в этом злодеянии, уже сидит в тюрьме... Что это — случайность или чей-то хитроумный и жуткий расчет? Выяснить это должны два копенгагенских детектива. И выяснить быстро, поскольку всем ясно: неведомый маньяк только начал. И останавливаться не собирается...
Шелли Бурр Уэйк0.0 The tiny outback town of Nannine lies in the harsh red interior of Australia. Once a thriving center of stockyards and sheep stations, years of punishing drought have petrified the land and Nannine has been whittled down to no more than a stoplight, a couple bars, and a police station.
And it has another, more sinister claim to fame: the still-unsolved disappearance of young Evelyn McCreery nineteen years ago.
Mina McCreery's life has been defined by the intense public interest in her sister's case--which is still a hot topic in true-crime chat rooms and on social media. Now an anxious and reclusive adult, Mina lives alone on her family's sunbaked destocked sheep farm.
Enter Lane Holland, a young private investigator who dropped out of the police academy to earn a living cracking cold cases. Before she died, Mina's mother funded a million-dollar reward for anyone who could explain how Evelyn vanished from her bed in the family's farmhouse. The lure of cash has only increased public obsession with Evelyn and Mina--but yielded no answers.
Lane wins Mina's trust when some of his more unconventional methods show promise. But Lane also has darker motivations, and his obsession with the search will ultimately risk both their lives--and yield shocking results.
Compulsively readable, with an unforgettable setting and cast of characters, Wake is a powerful, unsparing story of how trauma ripples outward when people's private tragedies become public property, and how it's never too late for the truth to come out.
Шона Маклин0.0 'A gripping tale of crime and sedition' Sunday Times on The Black Friar
'The best historical crime novel of the year' Sunday Express on The Seeker
Captain Damian Seeker has gone north. Charged with preparing the way for the rule of the major-generals, he is now under the command of Colonel Robert Lilburne at York. But when Lilburne orders him to a small village on the North York moors with details of the stringent new anti-Royalist laws, Seeker finds that what should be a routine visit will reveal a plot to rival anything in scheming London
An invitation to dinner at the house of local businessman Matthew Pullan lifts the lid on the bubbling cauldron of grudges and resentment that is Faithly village. The local constable, drunk on the tiny bit of power he holds, using it to avenge old resentments. The hated lord of the manor, the last of a staunchly Royalist family who has managed to avoid suspicion of treachery - for now. The vicar on trial for his job and his home, accused of ungodly acts. And the Pullans themselves, proudly Puritan but disillusioned with Cromwell's government, respected and despised in Faithly in equal measure. The man for whom this unlikely gathering was organised - The Trier, the enforcer of Puritan morality for the local villages - hasn't shown up. And by the end of the night, on of those gathered around Matthew Pullan's table will be fatally poisoned.
Seeker must find out the motive behind the death - mushroom misidentification, petty revenge, or part of a larger plot against Cromwell's government in the north? But who in Faithly, if anyone, can he trust? And when the most painful part of his past reappears after eleven years, will the Seeker meet his match?
Жаркий июньский день. На причале в Дептфорде подвешен за крюк труп мужчины, со следами ужасных пыток и с клеймом раба.
Несколько дней спустя к капитану Гарри Коршэму приходит сестра Тэда Арчера, его старого друга.
Она утверждает, что он собирался обнародовать правду, которая может нанести непоправимый ущерб британской рабовладельческой индустрии. А теперь и вовсе пропал... Чтобы узнать, что случилось с Тэдом, Гарри вынужден заняться расследованием и проникнуть в самое сердце заговора, который раскрыл Тэд.
Это расследование поставит под угрозу будущее Гарри в политике и счастье его семьи, заставит встретиться лицом к лицу с темными секретами из прошлого, которые способны уничтожить его.
Abir Mukherjee4.3 India, 1921. Haunted by his memories of the Great War, Captain Sam Wyndham is battling a serious addiction to opium that he must keep secret from his superiors in the Calcutta police force.
When Sam is summoned to investigate a grisly murder, he is stunned at the sight of the body: he’s seen this before. Last night, in a drug addled haze, he stumbled across a corpse with the same ritualistic injuries. It seems like there’s a deranged killer on the loose. Unfortunately for Sam, the corpse was in an opium den and revealing his presence there could cost him his career.
With the aid of his quick-witted Indian Sergeant, Surrender-not Banerjee, Sam must try to solve the two murders, all the while keeping his personal demons secret, before somebody else turns up dead.
Set against the backdrop of the fervent fight for Indian independence, and rich with the atmosphere of 1920s Calcutta, Smoke and Ashes is the brilliant new historical mystery in this award-winning series.
C. J. Sansom4.4 Spring, 1549. Two years after the death of Henry VIII, England is sliding into chaos . . .The nominal king, Edward VI, is eleven years old. His uncle Edward Seymour, Lord Hertford, rules as Protector. The extirpation of the old religion by radical Protestants is stirring discontent among the populace while the Protector's prolonged war with Scotland is proving a disastrous failure and threatens to involve France. Worst of all, the economy is in collapse, inflation rages and rebellion is stirring among the peasantry. Since the old King's death, Matthew Shardlake has been working as a lawyer in the service of Henry's younger daughter, the Lady Elizabeth. The gruesome murder of the wife of a distant Norfolk relation of Elizabeth's mother, John Boleyn - which could have political implications for Elizabeth - brings Shardlake and his assistant Nicholas Overton to the summer assizes at Norwich. There they are reunited with Shardlake's former assistant Jack Barak. The three find layers of mystery and danger surrounding the death of Edith Boleyn, as a second murder is committed. And then East Anglia explodes, as peasant rebellion breaks out across the country. The yeoman Robert Kett leads a force of thousands in overthrowing the landlords and establishing a vast camp outside Norwich. Soon the rebels have taken over the city, England's second largest. Barak throws in his lot with the rebels; Nicholas, opposed to them, becomes a prisoner in Norwich Castle; while Shardlake has to decide where his ultimate loyalties lie, as government forces in London prepare to march north and destroy the rebels. Meanwhile he discovers that the murder of Edith Boleyn may have connections reaching into both the heart of the rebel camp and of the Norfolk gentry . . .
