Val McDermid4.5 Winter 1963: two children have disappeared in Manchester; the murderous careers of Myra Hindley and Ian Brady have begun. On a freezing day in December, another child goes missing: 13-year-old Alison Carter vanishes from the isolated Derbyshire hamlet of Scardale. For the young George Bennett it is the beginning of his most difficult and harrowing case: a murder with no body, an investigation with more dead ends and closed faces than he'd have found in the inner city; an outcome that reverberates down the years. Decades later he tells his story to journalist Catherine Heathcote, but just when her book is poised for publication, Bennett tries to pull the plug. He has new information that he will not divulge, and that threatens the very foundation of his existence. Catherine is forced to reinvestigate the past, with results that turn the world upside down. A taut psychological thriller that explores, exposes and explodes the border between reality and illusion in a multilayered narrative that turns expectations on their head and reminds us that what we know is what we do not know...
Роберт Крейс4.2 Что нужно для того, чтобы попасть в список десяти самых опасных преступников Америки? Первое, быть маньяком. И, второе, совершить преступление, о котором заговорят все.
Лос-Анджелес, наше время. От подрыва самодельного взрывного устройства гибнет полицейский.
Для Кэрол Старки, детектива из отдела по борьбе с терроризмом, поймать и обезвредить преступника не просто служебный долг. В недавнем прошлом она сама стала жертвой такого взрыва, и только чудом ей удалось выжить. Опытный детектив не знает, что в кровавой игре, счет в которой открывает маньяк-убийца, ей предназначена ключевая роль.
Джанет Иванович4.2 Серия романов о Стефани Плам принесла широкую известность американской писательнице Джанет Иванович. Каждый роман о ней - чтение увлекательное, интригующее и веселое.
В `Горячей шестерке` работающая по розыску скрывающихся от правосудия нарушителей Стефани Плам оказывается в самой гуще криминальных разборок. Но природные качества - неунывающая натура, чувство юмора и безрассудная отвага - спасают молодую женщину в самых, казалось бы, безнадежных ситуациях. Вот только в своей собственной жизни Стефани, немного безалаберная и влюбчивая, никак не может разобраться. Кто же все-таки мужчина ее мечты - надежный и любящий Джо Морелли или опасный и дерзкий Карлос Мэнозо по прозвищу Рейнджер?!
Сара Кодуэлл5.0 Julia Larwood's Aunt Regina needs help. She and two friends pooled their modest resources and invested in equities. Now the tax man demands his due, but they've already spent the money. How can they dig themselves out of the tax hole? Even more to the point: Can the sin of capital gains trigger corporeal loss?
That's one for the sibyl, psychic counselor Isabella del Comino, who has offended Aunt Regina and her friends by moving into the rectory, plowing under a cherished garden, and establishing an aviary of ravens. When Isabella is found dead, all clues point to death by fiscal misadventure.
So Julia calls in an old friend and Oxford fellow, Professor Hilary Tamar, to follow a money trail that connects Aunt Regina to what appears to be capital fraud -- and capital crime. The two women couldn't have a better champion than the erudite Hilary, as once again Sarah Caudwell sweeps us into the scene of the crime, leaving us to ponder the greatest mystery of all: Hilary, him -- or her -- self.
Тим Коки0.0 Introducing a clever and gripping first mystery novel featuring an unconventional undertaker -- who also happens to be one of Baltimore's most eligible and charming bachelors.
"I was going along just fine, solemnly chaperoning the dead into their graves and pretty much otherwise minding my own business when the woman calling herself Carolyn James stuck her halfway pretty face into my life and scattered all hell to the wind."
What self-respecting undertaker would allow himself to get involved in a murder investigation, a series of dirty videos, a case of political blackmail, and police corruption, as well as one of the worst amateur theater productions in recent memory? None, unless your name happens to be Hitchcock Sewell, the most charming suspense hero to come along in years. And who knew an undertaker could look so good? In this fast-paced and enormously entertaining mystery, Hitch has gotten himself into more trouble than any self-respecting undertaker should. This funny, offbeat new mystery series is bound to delight fans of Elmore Leonard and Janet Evanovich.
