Steve Hamilton4.1 "I was the Miracle Boy, once upon a time. Later on, the Milford Mute. The Golden Boy. The Young Ghost. The Kid. The Boxman. The Lock Artist. That was all me.
But you can call me Mike."
Marked by tragedy, traumatized at the age of eight, Michael, now eighteen, is no ordinary young man. Besides not uttering a single word in ten years, he discovers the one thing he can somehow do better than anyone else. Whether it's a locked door without a key, a padlock with no combination, or even an eight-hundred pound safe ... he can open them all. It's an unforgivable talent. A talent that will make young Michael a hot commodity with the wrong people and, whether he likes it or not, push him ever close to a life of crime. Until he finally sees his chance to escape, and with one desperate gamble risks everything to come back home to the only person he ever loved, and to unlock the secret that has kept him silent for so long.
Steve Hamilton steps away from his Edgar Award-winning Alex McKnight series to introduce a unique new character, unlike anyone you've ever seen in the world of crime fiction.
Деннис Лихэйн3.7 Частный детектив из Бостона Патрик Кензи много чего перевидал на своем веку, но с таким столкнулся впервые. Девочка, дело о похищении которой он раскрыл двенадцать лет назад, снова пропала. На сей раз за помощью к сыщику обращается тетка Аманды — в отличие от беспутной матери она искренне любит племянницу. Патрик понимает, что не в силах ей отказать, тем более что у них с Энджи — его женой и верной помощницей — тоже растет дочь. В новом расследовании Патрик столкнется с равнодушием и лицемерием одних, жестокостью и подлостью других, станет свидетелем кровавых убийств и сам того не желая перейдет дорогу безжалостной русской мафии. Развязка этой драмы будет настолько неожиданной, что заставит детектива пересмотреть свои взгляды на жизнь. Его судьба совершит головокружительный вираж...
Луиза Пенни4.3 Шестая книга канадской писательницы из цикла о старшем инспекторе Армане Гамаше, принесшая Луизе Пенни четвертую из пяти премий Агаты Кристи!
Зима сковала Квебек морозом, укутала его в искрящийся снег, а старший инспектор Арман Гамаш берется за, пожалуй, самое необычное дело за всю свою блестящую карьеру – жестокое убийство, совершенное в одном из старейших зданий Квебека, библиотеке, хранящей историю англоязычной части городского населения. Это преступление открывает дверь в прошлое, где веками покоилась тайна… Гамашу предстоит сперва разгадать древнюю загадку, если он хочет найти библиотечного убийцу.
Дон Уинслоу3.3 Чон и Бен торгуют марихуаной, любят одну и ту же девушку по имени О и сражаются с мексиканским наркокартелем. Новый роман признанного мастера криминального жанра Дона Уинслоу "Особо опасны" динамичен, сатиричен и местами удивительно пронзителен, недаром автор все время вспоминает о двух самых романтичных и профессиональных гангстерах прошлого – Бутче Кэссиди и Санденсе Киде, которые так же лихо и безоглядно жили, боролись и любили. И недаром по роману снял фильм Оливер Стоун, который отлично умеет работать с такими лихими и яркими сюжетами.
C.J. Box0.0 Joe Pickett's in his last week as the temporary game warden in the town of Baggs, Wyoming, but there have been strange things going on in the mountains, and his conscience won't let him leave without checking them out: reports of camps looted, tents slashed, elk butchered. And then there's the runner who simply vanished one day. Joe doesn't mind admitting that the farther he rides, the more he wishes he could just turn around and go home. And he is right to be concerned. Because what awaits him is like nothing he's ever dealt with, like something out of an old story, except this is all too real and too deadly. When he'd first saddled up, he'd thought of this as his last patrol. What he hadn't known was just how accurate that thought might turn out to be.
Том Франклин3.5 Tom Franklin's extraordinary talent has been hailed by the leading lights of contemporary literature—Philip Roth, Richard Ford, Lee Smith, and Dennis Lehane. Reviewers have called his fiction "ingenious" (USA Today) and "compulsively readable" (Memphis Commercial Appeal). His narrative power and flair for character-ization have been compared to the likes of Harper Lee, Flannery O'Connor, Elmore Leonard, and Cormac McCarthy.
Now the Edgar Award-winning author returns with his most accomplished and resonant novel so far—an atmospheric drama set in rural Mississippi. In the late 1970s, Larry Ott and Silas "32" Jones were boyhood pals. Their worlds were as different as night and day: Larry, the child of lower-middle-class white parents, and Silas, the son of a poor, single black mother. Yet for a few months the boys stepped outside of their circumstances and shared a special bond. But then tragedy struck: Larry took a girl on a date to a drive-in movie, and she was never heard from again. She was never found and Larry never confessed, but all eyes rested on him as the culprit. The incident shook the county—and perhaps Silas most of all. His friendship with Larry was broken, and then Silas left town.
More than twenty years have passed. Larry, a mechanic, lives a solitary existence, never able to rise above the whispers of suspicion. Silas has returned as a constable. He and Larry have no reason to cross paths until another girl disappears and Larry is blamed again. And now the two men who once called each other friend are forced to confront the past they've buried and ignored for decades.
Paul Doiron3.7 Game warden Mike Bowditch returns home one evening to find a cryptic message on his answering machine from his father, Jack, who he hasn't heard from in two years. The next morning Mike gets a call from the police: a beloved local cop has been killed and his father is their prime suspect.
Coming to terms with his haunted past and desperate for answers, Mike and a retired warden pilot journey deep into the Maine wilderness to clear his father's name and find out why Jack is on the run. But the only way for Mike to save his father is to find the real killer before the killer finds him.
Грэм Мур3.4 В декабре 1893 года Лондон погрузился в траур. Погиб самый любимый и знаменитый человек Англии - Шерлок Холмс. А убийцей стал... создатель гениального сыщика - сэр Артур Конан Дойл.
А потом наступил 1901 год - и Конан Дойл "воскресил Холмса из мертвых". Воскресил так же решительно и неожиданно, как и "убил" когда-то. И вот что самое интересное: в своих дневниках он не упоминает о том, что заставило его вновь начать писать о Холмсе. Правда, после смерти Конан Доила один из дневников бесследно исчез. Прошли десятилетия - а его так и не нашли. Или... все же НАШЛИ?
Гарольд Уайт, литературовед и поклонник классических детективов, вступает в опасную игру - охоту за утраченным дневником Конан Дойла, этим "святым Граалем" шерлокианцев. Но когда при загадочных обстоятельствах погибает Алекс Кейл, ученый, исследователь творчества Конан Дойла, именно Гарольду предстоит призвать на помощь знания и таланты всех гениальных сыщиков прошлого - и начать поиски убийцы и дневника...
Уильям Райан3.9 Москва, 1936 год. В церкви обнаружено обезображенное дьявольскими пытками тело девушки. Не успевает капитан Королев установить личность погибшей, американской монахини, как в тиски палача попадает вор Тесак... Он готов выдать местонахождение иконы Казанской Божией Матери, которая уже стоила жизни невесте Христовой. Удастся ли Королеву, находясь под пристальным надзором НКВД, разыскать человека, затеявшего эти кровавые дознания?
Lou Berney0.0 Charles "Shake" Bouchon, professional wheel man is too nice a guy for the life he's led, but not nice enough for any other. So he agrees to run an errand for his former boss and lover, Alexandra Illandryan, formidable pakhan of the Armenian mob in L.A. All Shake has to do is deliver a package to Las Vegas and pick up a briefcase. But the package turns out to be a wholesome young housewife named Gina who's run afoul of Dick "The Whale" Moby, a murderous 300-pound strip club owner.
Shake decides to set Gina free and now the two of them are on the run to Panama, hoping to sell the valuable (and unusual) contents of the briefcase. But first Shake will have to out-maneuver two angry crime bosses, an Armenian thug plagued by erectile super-function, and a devious billionaire swindler. Not to mention, Shake will have to survive his own heart, since he's going to discover that Gina is more complicated than he thought.
Bruce DeSilva0.0 2011 Edgar Award Finalist for Best First Novel
Liam Mulligan is as old school as a newspaper man gets. His beat is Providence, Rhode Island, and he knows every street and alley. He knows the priests and prostitutes, the cops and street thugs. He knows the mobsters and politicians―who are pretty much one and the same.
Someone is systematically burning down the neighborhood Mulligan grew up in, people he knows and loves are perishing in the flames, and the public is on the verge of panic. With the whole city of Providence on his back, Mulligan must weed through a wildly colorful array of characters to find the truth.
Кит Томпсон0.0 Drummond Clark was once a spy of legendary proportions. Now Alzheimer’s disease has taken its toll and he’s just a confused old man who’s wandered away from home, waiting for his son to fetch him.
When Charlie Clark takes a break from his latest losing streak at the track to bring Drummond back to his Brooklyn home, they find it blown sky high—and then bullets start flying in every direction. At first, Charlie thinks his Russian “creditors” are employing aggressive collection tactics. But once Drummond effortlessly hot-wires a car as their escape vehicle, Charlie begins to suspect there’s much more to his father than meets the eye. He soon discovers that Drummond’s unremarkable career as an appliance salesman was actually a clever cover for an elaborate plan to sell would-be terrorists faulty nuclear detonators. Drummond’s intricate knowledge of the “device” is extremely dangerous information to have rattling around in an Alzheimer’s-addled brain. The CIA wants to “contain” him--and so do some other shady characters who send Charlie and Drummond on a wild chase that gives “father and son quality time” a whole new meaning.
With Once a Spy, Keith Thomson makes his debut on the thriller stage with energy, wit, and style to spare.
Val McDermid4.2 Meet Tony Hill's most twisted adversary - a killer with a shopping list of victims, a killer unmoved by youth and innocence, a killer driven by the most perverted desires ...
When teenager Jennifer Maidment's murdered and mutilated body is discovered, it is clear that there is a dangerous psychopath on the loose. But it's not long before Tony and DCI Carol Jordan realise it's just the start of a brutal and ruthless campaign targeting an apparently unconnected group of young people. Their chameleon-like killer is chatting with them online, pretending to share their interests and beliefs - and then luring them to their deaths.
But just when Tony should be at the heart of the hunt, he's pushed to the margins by Carol's cost-cutting boss and replaced by a dangerously inexperienced profiler. Struggling with the newly awakened ghosts of his own past and desperate for distraction in his work, Tony battles to find the answers that will give him personal and professional satisfaction in his most nerve-shattering investigation yet.
Psychologically gripping and relentlessly paced, 'Fever of the Bone' is the perfect introduction for those who have not yet discovered the damaged but brilliant criminal profiler Tony Hill and DCI Carol Jordan, best known from ITV's award-winning 'Wire in the Blood'.
Брайан Грули0.0 WHEN GRACIE McBRIDE, the wild girl who had left town eighteen years earlier, is found dead in an apparent suicide shortly after her homecoming, it sends shock waves through her native Starvation Lake. Gus Carpenter, executive editor of the Pine County Pilot, sets out to solve the mystery with the help of his old flame and now girlfriend, Pine County sheriff deputy Darlene Esper. As Gus and Darlene investigate, they can’t help but question if Gracie’s troubled life really ended in suicide or if the suspicious crime-scene evidence adds up to murder.
But in such a small town it’s impossible to be an impartial investigator—Gracie was Gus’s second cousin; Darlene’s best friend; and the lover of Gus’s oldest pal, Soupy Campbell. Yet with all the bad blood between Gus and Gracie over the years, Gus is easily distracted by other problems. His employer is trying to push him out, the locals are annoyed that his stories have halted construction on a new hockey rink, and Darlene’s estranged husband has returned to reclaim his wife.
When Gus tries to retrace Gracie’s steps to discover what happened to her in the eighteen years she was away from Starvation Lake, he’s forced to return to Detroit, the scene of his humiliating past. And though he’s determined to find out what drove Gracie back home, Gus is unprepared for the terrible secrets he uncovers.
The second book in Bryan Gruley’s irresistible Starvation Lake series, The Hanging Tree is a compelling story about family and friendship, sex and violence, and the failure of love to make everything right.
Sophie Hannah0.0 A heart-stopping novel of psychological suspense from the internationally bestselling author of The Wrong Mother and The Other Woman’s House
Ruth Bussey once did something wrong – horribly wrong – and was nearly destroyed by her punishment. Now, she has tentatively rebuilt her life and unexpectedly found love with a man named Aidan Seed. But Aidan also has a secret, and one day he confides in Ruth: years ago, he killed a woman named Mary Trelease. Ruth's initial horror turns to confusion when she realizes that she knows Mary Trelease, and Mary is very much alive. So why does Aidan insist that she’s dead?
The fourth book in Sophie Hannah’s beloved Zailer and Waterhouse series, The Dead Lie Down is a sophisticated, addictive page-turner that will appeal to fans of Laura Lippman and Tana French.
Julie Hyzy0.0 Chef Olivia Paras has too many eggs in one basket-and is feeling like a basket-case...
When NSA big shot Carl Minkus dies right after eating the dinner Olivia Paras's staff had prepared, all forks point to them. Now the Secret Service is picking apart the kitchen-and scrutinizing the staff's every move. The timing couldn't be worse with the White House Lawn Easter Egg Roll to prep for without access to a kitchen. Olivia must find the real culprit-before she cracks under pressure.
Джудит Рок0.0 Paris, 1686: When The Bishop of Marseilles discovers that his young cousin Charles du Luc, former soldier and half-fledged Jesuit, has been helping heretics escape the king's dragoons, the bishop sends him far away-to Paris, where Charles is assigned to assist in teaching rhetoric and directing dance at the prestigious college of Louis le Grand.
Charles quickly embraces his new life and responsibilities. But on his first day, the school's star dancer disappears from rehearsal, and the next day another student is run down in the street. When the dancer's body is found under the worst possible circumstances, Charles is determined to find the killer in spite of being ordered to leave the investigation.
А. Д. Скотт0.0 In the Highlands of 1950s Scotland, a boy is found dead in a canal lock. Two young girls tell such a fanciful story of his disappearance that no one believes them. The local newspaper staff—including Joanne Ross, the part-time typist embroiled in an abusive marriage, and her boss, a seasoned journalist determined to revamp the paper—set out to uncover and investigate the crime. Suspicion falls on several townspeople, all of whom profess their innocence. Alongside these characters are the people of the town and neighboring glens; a refugee Polish sailor; an Italian family whose cafÉ boasts the first known cappuccino machine in the north of Scotland; and a corrupt town clerk subverting the planning laws to line his own pocket.
Together, these very different Scots harbor deep and troubling secrets underneath their polished and respectable veneers—revelations that may prevent the crime from being solved and may keep the town firmly in the clutches of its shadowy past.
Деон Мейер3.7 В Кейптауне исчезла американская студентка. Опасаясь международных осложнений, высшие полицейские чины поручают расследование талантливому детективу Бенни Грисселу. У Гриссела лишь тринадцать часов, чтобы размотать клубок улик и версий, спасти девушку и раскрыть заговор, который угрожает всей стране.
Винс Флинн3.6 Митч Рэпп ничем не выделялся из массы американских студентов – кроме того, что был довольно многообещающим спортсменом. Но именно на него обратили самое пристальное внимание люди из ЦРУ. Они разглядели в нем качества, благодаря которым парень мог стать одним из лучших специалистов по физическому устранению самых зловещих и опасных террористов мира. Кроме того, эксперты "конторы" знали, что Рэпп не сможет им отказать, поскольку мечтает отомстить за смерть своей девушки, погибшей во время теракта. В результате Митч оказался в секретной школе, где готовят "убийц на службе у государства", ожидая свое первое задание…
Ной Бойд3.9 Снова и снова при загадочных обстоятельствах гибнут преступники, которых не сумело привлечь к ответственности ФБР.
Кто стоит за этими убийствами? Террористическая группировка, цель которой - дискредитировать спецслужбы? Или более прагматичные и циничные люди, планирующие нажиться на своих "акциях"?
Репутация ФБР - под угрозой. Самые опытные сотрудники, отправленные на поиски убийц, погибли.
И тогда замдиректора ФБР Кейт Бэннон решает: если правила больше не работают - значит, надо обратиться к тому, кто играет без правил.
Его зовут Стив Вэйл. Его с позором уволили из ФБР много лет назад. Но он - по-прежнему лучший из лучших!..
Марк Грэни4.4 Корт Серый Человек Джентри вернулся и снова в бегах от старых друзей... и новых врагов.
Четыре года назад Корт Джентри со скандалом ушел из ЦРУ и стал наемным убийцей по прозвищу Серый Человек. Его старый знакомый, русский торговец оружием, хочет заставить его выполнить миссию: убить президента Судана – Аббуда, человека, на котором лежит ответственность за геноцид в Дарфуре. Но у ЦРУ на Аббуда свои планы. Похоже, на этот раз миссия Джентри, оказавшегося между двух огней, обречена на провал.
Но он сделает все, чтобы остаться в живых и с честью выйти из сложившейся ситуации.
Daniel Silva4.7 An art restorer has been brutally murdered, and the newly discovered Rembrandt he was working on has disappeared. For spy turnedart restorer Gabriel Allon, it has been six months since he last did any spy work.
Reginald Hill0.0 Wolf Hadda's life has been a fairytale. From humble origins as a Cumbrian woodcutter's son, he has risen to become a successful entrepreneur, happily married to the girl of his dreams. A knock on the door one morning ends it all. Universally reviled, thrown into prison, abandoned by friends & family, Wolf retreats into silence.
Кейт Аткинсон4.0 После всех приключений в Кембридже и Эдинбурге Броуди возвращается в свой родной Йоркшир. Удалившийся, казалось бы, на покой частный детектив пытается выследить обчистившую его банковский счет липовую жену и отзывается, сам того не желая, на внезапное письмо из Новой Зеландии: "Меня удочерили, и я бы хотела спросить: вы не могли бы что-нибудь выяснить о моих биологических родителях?" Но сказать оказывается легче, чем сделать: ни в каких архивах родители Надин Макмастер не значатся, как и сам факт удочерения. Обзаводиться собакой Броуди тоже вовсе не планировал, а вот поди ж ты. Но чего он меньше всего ожидал от себя - так это что увлечется поэзией...
