Сью Графтон3.8 Она - женственная красавица с неженской профессией. С опасной профессией. Она - лучшая из частных детективов штата Калифорния. Штата хищниц-кинозвезд, акул-продюсеров, амбициозных режиссеров. Штата богатства и роскоши, изощренных интриг и закулисных войн.Это - ее новое дело. Дело, которое кажется абсолютно простым. Всего-то - отыскать то ли сбежавшую, то ли по каким-то причинам не подающую о себе вестей девушку. Однако неожиданно дело начинает набирать обороты - и становится лишь первым шагом в запутанном лабиринте преступлений. Преступлений опасных, изощренных и на первый взгляд не связанных между собой...
Сара Парецки4.0 Ви. Ай. Варшавски - звезда серии Сары Парецки о преступлениях в деловом мире и скрытой коррупции в Чикаго и одна из самых мужественных и самых убедительных персонажей женщин-детективов последней волны. Она подтверждает то, как умная и энергичная женщина может с легкостью ориентироваться в лабиринте детективного жанра. Ви. Ай. Варшавски полка остроумия, упрямства и уязвимости, и ее грубоватая нежность все больше привлекает с каждым новым романом Сары Парецки.
Сара Кодуэлл0.0 It seemed the perfect way to avoid three million in taxes on a five-million-pound estate: change the Trust arrangement. Everyone in the family agreed to support the heiress, Camilla Galloway, in her court petition - except dreary cousin Deirdre, who suddenly demanded a small fortune for her signature.
Then Deirdre has a terrible accident, which is the moment when the London barristers handling the trust - Cantrip, Selena, Ragwort and Julia - decide to summon their Oxford mentor Professor Hilary Tamar to Lincoln's Inn.
And when deadly accidents in the family escalate, Hilary is dispatched on the most perilous quest of all: to find the truth and unmask the killer...
John D. MacDonald0.0 First published between 1964 and 1984, John D. MacDonald's Travis McGee series continues to inspire bestselling authors today. Everyone from Stephen King to Jonathan Kellerman has paid homage to MacDonald's work, which defined the genre itself. RHPG now releases, for the first time in trade paperback and eBook, one of the most nail-biting of the wildly popular thrillers, in which Travis goes to a darker place than ever before.
Шарлотта МакЛауд0.0 Sarah investigates the death of con artist Charlie Daventer on his bathroom floor, when his title role acting replacement, old cousin Fred, insists murder was the cause. Her Aunt Emma's theater troupe is doing The Sorcerer, with Emma as Lady Sangazure. Husband Max away in Finland, Sarah sorts clues herself.
Jonathan Kellerman3.8 In the first Alex Delaware novel, Dr. Morton Handler practiced a strange brand of psychiatry. Among his specialties were fraud, extortion, and sexual manipulation. Handler paid for his sins when he was brutally murdered in his luxurious Pacific Palisades apartment. The police have no leads, but they do have one possible witness: seven-year-old Melody Quinn.
It's psychologist Dr. Alex Delaware's job to try to unlock the terrible secret buried in Melody's memory. But as the sinister shadows in the girl's mind begin to take shape, Alex discovers that the mystery touches a shocking incident in his own past.
This connection is only the beginning, a single link in a forty-year-old conspiracy. And behind it lies an unspeakable evil that Alex Delaware must expose before it claims another innocent victim: Melody Quinn.
Сьюзен Келли0.0 A promising debut in which freelance writer Liz Connors, full of warmth and happiness in her new Cambridge, Massachusetts, apartment, finds the young woman next door murdered. Liz calls her boyfriend who happens to be a police lieutenant. Solid police work by a new writer, who also happens to work for the Cambridge Police Department. - The Mystery Lover's Companion, Art Bourgeau
Дик Лохте0.0 This beloved, comedy-noir thriller teams up Leo Bloodworth, a hard-drinking, middle-aged Los Angeles PI with hypertension and a low tolerance for precious teenagers, with Serendipity Dahlquist, a bright and strong-willed roller-blading 14-year-old searching for her lost dog. But things quickly escalate, plunging the oddest of odd couples into the dark underworld of sunny Southern California and pitting them against one of the biggest, and most brutal, organized crime families in Mexico.
Эндрю Ваксс5.0 Новая клиентка Бёрка женщина - Флад - с невинным лицом, телом стриптизерши и навыками профессионального убийцы. Она нанимает Берка найти для нее чудовище, чтобы она могла убить того голыми руками. В этом социальном триллере частный детектив-преступник в команде с мстительницей ищет убийцу ребенка на дне Нью-Йорка, где все переулки слепы, а пентхаусы так же опасны, как и подвалы. Флад - первая книга серии о Берке, человеке живущем вне системы, профессиональном преступнике, который берется за заказы от тех, кто не может пойти к лицензированным частным детективам.
Nancy Pickard3.0 Jenny Cain was thrilled about the Liberty Harbor Restoration, a picturesque collection of shops, museums and restaurants. But when a runaway truck barreled into the project committee, it seemed someone in Port Frederick was out to sink Liberty Harbor. Then a wooden cross raised in unholy wrath made the message clear. Murderously clear. As director of the town's Civic Foundation, Jenny should have been glad when police detective Geof Bushfield reeled in a prime suspect. Unfortunately, it was the one person she was desperate to prove innocent. Fishing for a ruthless killer, she had to bait her trap fast - before the cold New England waters closed in over her own head!
Эрл Эмерсон0.0 "Emerson is at the top of his game, and very few are better."
--Mostly Murder
As sole heir to his beloved granddaddy's fortune, noble and naive Lance Tyner wants to use the money for the good of mankind. But some not-so-good specimens of the species--including Lance's conniving father, sleazy brother, and spoiled sister--have much more selfish plans in mind.
Now Lance has vanished. And P.I. Thomas Black must follow his trail into the sad and scary places where the dregs of humanity struggle to stay alive--and where men like Lance and Black too often end up dead. . . .
"Emerson is carving his own special niche among a new generation of private eye writers."
--The Washington Post Book World
