Майкл Коннелли4.1 Его повседневная работа — смерть и преступления. Потому что таков мир криминального репортера... Джек Макэвой гордится своим профессиональным презрением к человеческой жизни. Но это злодеяние касается его напрямую. Ведь последняя жертва таинственного маньяка, оставляющего возле трупов гениальные стихи, — его брат Шон. И у Джека есть все основания полагать, что он — следующий в этом кровавом списке...
Nevada Barr0.0 A raging forest fire in California's Lassen Volcanic National Park traps exhausted firefighters, including Ranger Anna Pigeon, in its midst. Afterward, Anna finds two from her group have been killed. One a victim of the flames. The other, stabbed through the heart. Now, as a rampaging winter storm descends, cutting the survivors off from civilization, Anna must uncover the murderer in their midst.
Linda Grant0.0 At U.C. Berkeley's plant genetics lab, precious specimens are being trashed and genetic material is disappearing. Student pranks? With a major grant coming up for renewal, it's not likely.
Then everybody's favorite staff member dies suddenly, and the lab's brainy researchers start squabbling like children. Shrewd private investigator Catherine Sayler wonders if the race for lucrative biotech breakthroughs caused this ugly rift. But the big question is: Are some of these budding genetic geniuses also experimenting with murder?
Маргарет Лоуренс0.0 The physical and emotional scars of the Revolutionary War are an important part of this tremendous new first mystery -- the most exciting debut since Laurie R. King and The Beekeeper's Apprentice. Like King's Mary Russell, the heroine of Lawrence's book is an unconventional woman, unwilling to be forced into an historical mold. Hannah Trevor is a gifted, educated midwife who carries wisdom and sorrow with her in equal measures: one husband and three children dead, another daughter born out of wedlock and deaf. When a young woman is raped and murdered, leaving behind a note that implicates her daughter's father, Hannah is the only person in the small Maine town of Rufford with enough insight and experience to uncover the truth.
Алан Расселл0.0 Holly Troy's mind is a complex maze of myth and reality, multiple personalities vying for time in the spotlight. As an artist, she is creative and compelling. As a witness, she is painfully unreliable, unsure of even which person she was the night of the murder. Even Holly can’t be sure of her own innocence. Homicide detective Orson Cheever never thought he would find himself playing psychologist to a Greek goddess in a modern-day murder investigation, but many of Holly's personalities come straight from classical mythology, from Cronos and Pandora to the Fates. As Cheever attempts to unravel truth from myth, he learns that there is even more to Holly than meets the eye. One personality in particular—that of a five-year-old girl—hits a little too close to home, and Cheever is forced to finally pull back the dark curtains of his own past in order to uncover the truth in this psychological thriller.
Dale Furutani0.0 It's Ken Tanaka's turn to stage a mock mystery for the Los Angeles Mystery Club and he's determined to do it right. Tanaka sets himself up as a fake P.I., office and all, only to have a femme fatale straight out of the movies try to hire him. Taking the case on a whim, Ken's detecting leads him to a mutilated corpse in a Little Tokyo hotel room.
Террис Макмэхан Граймс0.0 Theresa Galloway wants to have the Buppie -- Black Urban Professional -- life, but she keeps getting drawn into un-Buppie situations by her bossy, quick-tempered, delightfully pragmatic mother, Lorraine Barkley. Excellent portrayal of a black woman trying to do right by both her family and the 'hood.
Margaret Maron
Чарльз Тодд3.9 Июнь 1919 года. Инспектор Иен Ратлидж, получивший контузию в Первой мировой войне, вернулся в Скотленд-Ярд. Он пока еще не чувствует в себе достаточных сил, так необходимых для тяжелого расследования, которое на него возложили. Но служба есть служба. Он отправляется в небольшой городок Аппер-Стритем, где жестоко убит герой войны полковник Харрис. Найти убийцу - не только дело чести для Ратлиджа. Это еще и важное политическое задание, потому что за расследованием с пристрастием следят в Букингемском дворце.
Майкл Макгаррити0.0 It's been two years since an on-the-job shooting forced ex-Santa Fe chief of detectives Kevin Kerney to retire. He is drawn back into action when Terry Yazzi, his former partner and the man responsible for his wounds, pleads for Kerney's help. Yazzi's son, a soldier, has disappeared in the barren desert surrounding the White Sands Missile Range.
Kerney's investigation resurrects the long-forgotten thrill of the hunt—and other emotions surface after meeting the tough-but-beautiful Capt. Sara Brannon, the Army's investigating officer. Together, they uncover a crime far greater than an AWOL soldier: a conspiracy of death that snakes from the secretive world of military operations, to the cutthroat alleys of a Mexican border town, leading them to a final, shocking revelation that may cost them both their lives....
Майкл К. Уайт0.0 This extraordinarily engrossing literary mystery exposes a little-known chapter of 20th century history -- the detention in the U.S. of nearly 400,000 German prisoners of war during World War II. The landscape of rural Maine provided a surreal sort of shelter for these most reviled casualties during the war. While many prisoners served their time peacefully enough, some escaped and others -- like the brother of Wolfgang Kallick -- were simply reported to have died.
"A Brother's Blood" commences decades after the war, with Wolfgang Kallick's arrival in America to learn the details of his brother Dieter's death. When he discovers that Dieter escaped from the camp and was found dead months later, he vows to find out how his brother died. Libby, a flinty local woman who grew up during the war, is drawn into the drama, only to find that her family is implicated. After her brother is slain, Libby undertakes her own quest for solutions to both deaths -- suspecting they are somehow related -- and exposes a darkness beyond her imagining
Террис Макмэхан Граймс0.0 Theresa Galloway wants to have the Buppie -- Black Urban Professional -- life, but she keeps getting drawn into un-Buppie situations by her bossy, quick-tempered, delightfully pragmatic mother, Lorraine Barkley. Excellent portrayal of a black woman trying to do right by both her family and the 'hood.
Margaret Maron
Харлан Кобен4.1 Когда-то Майрон Болитар и Грег Даунинг соперничали и на баскетбольной площадке, и в любви... И теперь именно Майрону, спортивному агенту и талантливому детективу-любителю, предстоит расследовать загадочное исчезновение Грега, ставшего за эти годы звездой профессионального баскетбола.
Владелец клуба, за который играл Грег, не хочет ни скандала, ни вмешательства полиции. Болитар вскоре узнает, что исчезнувшего Грега шантажировала некая особа, именующая себя Карлой Уитни.
Однако прежде чем Болитару удается поговорить с Карлой, ее жестоко убивают...
Сьюзан Уэйд0.0 Walking Rain is one of the best debut novels of the year.--Mary Willis Walker, author of Under the Beetle's CellarEight years had passed since fate left its mark on her grandfather's ranch. Shedding her new name and identity, Amelia Rawlins came out of anonymity and back home--a place of childhood memories, a place where she could walk with her grandfather's spirit and carry on his work. But the horrors of the past also found a home there, and her return didn't escape the vengeful eyes of someone who thought Amelia had no right to be spared on that long-ago dreadful day.
Стивен Уомак0.0 FOOLS RUSH IN. . .
I'd done some crazy stuff off-and-on the last couple of years. My life had gone off in some weird directions. But nothing could match yanking a stoned, naked, sick seventeen-year-old girl out of a murder scene and sneaking her off under the nose of the police.
Harry James Denton is no fool. But his search for a rich runaway teen, Stacey Jameson, takes him to the seamy and very wild side of Nashville. Nobody's chain lays straight, a friend tells Harry. But Stacey's is especially twisted, with links that lead back to a family filled with secrets. Even a hardboiled P.I. like Harry isn't prepared for what awaits him in the depths of hard-core hell, where only he can save a lost girl before she destroys herself or lets a ruthless murderer do it for her.
"Steven Womack has done for male private eye fiction what Grafton and Paretsky did for women operatives in the Eighties, and if you haven't heard of him yet, you will."
--Mostly Murder
Виллетта Л. Хейсинг0.0 A reader's guide and checklist for Mystery Series written by women.More than 600 series detectives created by women over 3400 mystery titles in correct series order titles indexed by mystery type and series setting more than 500 new titles released in 1994 and 1995.
Дин Джеймс, Jean Swanson0.0 Mystery readers turn to this reference for its clear, concise profiles of women writers and their best-known books, mystery heroines and leading characters, pen names, writing styles and more. This revised and updated edition features profiles of Lilian Jackson Braun, Mary Higgins Clark, P.D. James, and other gifted writers--plus 70 new entries including Carol Higgins Clark, Susan Isaacs and Carol O'Connell.
Барбара Рейнольдс0.0 In a letter to her mother 75 years ago, Dorothy L. Sayers offered a first glimpse of the novel that launched one of our most admired detectives, Lord Peter Wimsey. Here is the long-desired collection of intimate thoughts and ideas that shaped the early years of this remarkable writer. These letters paint a revealing portrait of one of the most fascinating women of our time.
Ron Miller0.0 From Sherlock Holmes to Jane Tennison, it's all here: Interviews, essays, trivia, and hundreds of nostalgic photos make this a must-have for any fan of this long-running public television series.
