Деннис Лихэйн4.1 Американец ирландского происхождения Деннис Лихэйн — признанный мастер “нуара”, лауреат множества американских и зарубежных премий. Триллер, поставленный Клинтом Иствудом по его роману “Таинственная река” с Шоном Пенном, Тимом Роббинсом и Кевином Бэйконом в главных ролях, завоевал всемирную известность и удостоился двух “Оскаров”,“Золотого глобуса” и премии Каннского фестиваля.
Харлан Кобен4.0 Гибель жены стала для него трагедией.
Восемь лет не может он забыть ужас пережитого. Восемь лет вспоминает ту ночь, когда видел ее живой в последний раз.
Но теперь на его электронный адрес стали приходить письма, подписанные именем погибшей жены, - и он понимает: возможно, все, что он считал истиной все эти годы, - чудовищная ложь.
Он намерен раскрыть тайну случившегося, какой бы страшной она ни была.
Но кто-то снова и снова пытается остановить его...
Rick Riordan0.0 У Рика Риордана, учителя средней школы в Сан-Антонио плюс автора детективов, дела идут хорошо, даже великолепно. Первые два появления частного детектива из Сан-Антонио и профессора английского на полставки Треса Наварра («Большая красная текила», «Тустеп вдовца») были оценены «Шамусом», премиями Энтони Бучера и Эдгара По, а «Последний король Техаса» стал настоящим образцом жанра. А вот у самого Треса Наварра в «The Devil Went Down to Austin» всё плохо. Его полупарализованный брат Гаррет тайно заложил их общее ранчо в Остине, чтобы субсидировать интернет-стартап. Один из партнёров Гаррета, Руби Макбрайд, связался со скользким рейдером Мэттью Пенья, и они насмерть рассорили Гаррета с другим его партнёром и старым другом Джимми Доблером. Что касается Джимми, его день начался с разрыва с Руби, а закончился выстрелом в голову. Что ещё хуже, Джимми схлопотал его в своём пикапе-«шеви» у своего дома на берегу озера, в двух шагах от отдыхающего на пляже Гаррета. Всё, что требуется от Треса – это оправдать брата, найти настоящего убийцу (чьи имэйлы с подсказками чередуются с рассказом Треса, нагоняя жуть размером с Техас), спасти ранчо и, с помощью Майи Ли, знакомой красотки-адвоката, распутать клубок доблеровских семейных убийств, боли и страданий. Остроумный, отточенный как бритва, с сюжетом, не уступающим языку, «The Devil Went Down to Austin» рисует новый Техас, некогда бывший декорацией для песен заводного Джимми Баффета: высокие технологии, вероломство и текила. Ждите шедевра, ведь это Риордан. (Майкл Хадсон).
С. Дж. Розан0.0 S. J. Rozan is widely regarded as one of the finest crime writers to emerge in the past decade. Praised by critics and colleagues alike, her works have been finalists for most of the major awards and have won both the Shamus and the Anthony Awards for Best Novel. Now, with Reflecting the Sky, she has written her finest, most broad-ranging novel to date.
Lydia Chin, a Chinese-American private investigator in her late twenties, is hired by Grandfather Gao, one of the most respected figures in New York City's Chinatown, for what appears to be a simple task. Lydia, along with her professional partner Bill Smith, is to fly to Hong Kong to deliver a family heirloom to the young grandson of a recently deceased colleague of Grandfather Gao. They arrive in Hong Kong safely but before they can deliver the heirloom, the grandson is kidnapped and two, separate ransom demands are made. While the family of the kidnapped boy tries to freeze them out, Lydia and Bill must quickly learn their way around a place where the rules are different, the stakes are high, and the cost of failure is too dire to imagine.
Reflecting the Sky is a 2002 Edgar Award Nominee for Best Novel
Jan Grape0.0 When Austin police officer Zoe Barrow fatally shoots Jesse Garcia during a standoff, Internal Affairs has some hard questions--especially since Jesse was responsible for shooting Zoe's husband. Assigned to desk duty until she's cleared, Zoe attempts to piece together a series of strange and violent twists that will make--or break--her career.
Дэниз Хэмилтон0.0 Everything was set. Seventeen-year-old Marina Lu had even ordered custom-made gowns for the ten bridesmaids who, in several months' time, would have preceded her down the aisle at her storybook wedding.
There isn't going to be a wedding. Marina lies dead, alone in her shiny status car in a suburban shopping center parking lot, her two-carat diamond engagement ring refracting another abruptly shattered Los Angeles dream. Was her death merely a carjacking gone bad? Or is there more to the story?
Marina's murder chillingly introduces "Los Angeles Times" reporter Eve Diamond to a subculture of "parachute kids," the rich Asian teens who are left to their own devices in California while their parents live and work in Hong Kong. Seeking American education and political stability for their children, the affluent parents often leave only an elderly housekeeper in charge of their vulnerable offspring.
What was Marina's story? Why was she, at such a young age, marrying twenty-four-year-old Michael Ho? Why is Marina's father, banker Reginald Lu, so reluctant to provide information? As Eve delves deeper into the mysteries surrounding Marina's life and death, she stumbles upon a troubled world of unmoored youth and parental neglect.
But Marina, in many ways, would seem to have been among the fortunate. She had money and her parents had power. Eve soon discovers a dramatically more tragic subculture, where destitute young Asian immigrants live in virtual sexual slavery. The story of May-li and her journey from a poor farming home in Fujian, China, to a brothel in Los Angeles is one that Eve will fight to tell and will never forget.
A moving, noir-accented crime novel that opensa rare window to an intriguing subject, "The Jasmine Trade" is a passionate and polished debut from an exciting new author.
К. Дж. Эриксон0.0 Special Detective Marshall Bahr's hard years on the Minneapolis police force have taken their toll. A single father, he's sacrificed his marriage, friendships, and private life for the thrill of the hunt. But his flawless record is about to be challenged with a murder that cuts straight to the heart...
Mary Pat Fitzgerald still bore traces of the beauty that made the homecoming queen the most popular girl in the suburb of Edina--the last girl anyone would expect to find with a stomach full of gin, stabbed to death alongside a dangerous and remote footpath on the bluffs. With no clues and no suspects, Bahr's investigations is doomed to go unsolved--until the similar murder of another young girl leads the detective far from his home turf, and father still from the slaying ground of a mysterious killer who's orchestrating each of Bahr's moves with chilling, cold-blooded perfection...
Энди Страка0.0 What’s the PI series that Edgar winners Michael Connelly, Jeffery Deaver, Steve Hamilton, and Rick Riordan read when they want the best?
This one.
Thirteen years ago, NYPD Detective, Frank Pavlicek quit the force after a controversial shoot-out that left an unarmed African-American teenager dead. The divorced father of a teenage daughter, Pavlicek now works as a private investigator and hunts with a trained falcon. While hunting, he discovers the corpse of a black, teenage drug dealer with ties to his daughter. Unable to ignore the connections to his family or the shooting that cost his career, he goes after the killer to find the truth, save his daughter …and free himself from the shackles of his past.
The first novel in the blockbuster Frank Pavlicek series. An Anthony, Shamus, and Agatha Award nominee.
"Pavlicek is a breath of fresh air in the field of private eye fiction." Jeffery Deaver
"Highly recommended. I dare you to tell me I’m wrong," Michael Connelly
"A book this good, and this original, helps remind me why started reading mysteries in the fist place," Steve Hamilton
"Storytelling as sharp and strong as talons," Rick Riordan
Шарлин Харрис3.8 Вампир и телепатка…
Весьма необычная парочка влюбленных даже для "готского рая" - Французского квартала Нью-Орлеана. Но, как известно, недостатки есть у каждого мужчины - даже у вампира.
Например, плохая компания, имеющая привычку убивать молодых женщин.
Этого и следовало ожидать…
Но как с этим разбираться?!
Джефф Эбботт4.1 "Книга поражает, словно техасская молния" - такую оценку дал великолепному детективному роману Джеффа Эбботта известный американский писатель Рик Риордан.
На одной из яхт, пришвартованных на побережье Мексиканского залива, обнаружено тело мужчины. Полиция и представители власти испытали настоящий шок, когда оказалось, что это сын сенатора штата, который много лет назад оставил семью ради сомнительной карьеры порнозвезды.
Судье Уиту Мозли следует выяснить, было ли это самоубийством или Пит Хаббл стал жертвой хладнокровного убийцы, который использовал его как пешку в своей запутанной игре.
Пи Джей Пэрриш0.0 In Dead of Winter police detective Louis Kincaid investigates a series of gruesome murders - and is drawn into the nightmare mind of a killer.
Yep. In hip Hollywood, that kitsch old game is fast becoming the next "new" obsession -- and that calls for a party! Madeline Bean and her charming partner Wesley Westcott are determined to throw a gonzo Chinese New Year banquet. But among the hot mah-jongg tiles, the steamy dim sum, and the frosty Singapore slings, no one expects to find one of the players ice-cold dead!
Meanwhile, in one of the historic celebrity mansions that Wesley is restoring as a sideline, a well-aimed crowbar uncovers a stash of precious objects -- including an antique mah-jongg set. As Madeline pieces together how these two events are connected, she must separate the yin from the yang to uncover a killer. It doesn't take a fortune cookie to spell it out. There is always a price to pay...whether gambling at mah-jongg -- or murder.
Дэниел Сташовер4.0 While attempting to expose fraudulent medium Lucius Craig to New York's gullible society, master magician and escape artist Harry Houdini is faced with investigating a murder during one of Craig's fake seances, an event that Houdini himself attended. Original.
Пенни Уорнер0.0 Thirteen-year-old Becca and her friends Sierra, CJ, and Jonnie are determined to win the gold medal for Troop 13 at the Gold Rush Jamboee. But they face stiff competition from the other troops -- especially Troop 7, whose members love to pull pranks on them. When a mysterious clue hints at treasure buried in Camp Miwok's Haunted Caves, Becca and her friends are determined to get their hands on that, too -- even if it means sneaking from camp, hanging out with bats, and being threatened by robbers...
Майкл Даль0.0 Finn," he said, "Don't go in."
What was his problem? After days of climbing and trudging through the snow, I wasn't going to turn around now. I pushed past Uncle Stoppard into the cave and then froze. The murky light from the mouth of the tunnel gleamed on something a few feet in front of me. Something white lay on the floor of the cave. Bones.
Finn and his mystery-writer uncle head to Iceland in search of the Haunted City of Tquuli, where Finn's archaeologist parents were last seen before their odd disappearance eight years ago. Finn doesn't believe the creepy legends about the Haunted City and the ancient Vikings who lived there -- until a member of the rock-climbing expedition vanishes from inside a sleeping bag...one that was dangling a hundred feet from the base of an icy cliff!
Then another climber disappears, leaving a trail of footprints that abruptly end in a Þeld of snow. Is it modern-day murder, or the revenge of phantom Viking warriors?
Пени Р. Гриффин0.0 Charlotte is looking forward to spending the summer in her new home-she has her own bedroom, a nearby pool, a friendly neighbor, and there's a big block party coming up. Then her little brother suddenly starts asking for his new friend, "Susie." Is someone else playing with him? Someone only he can see? Soon Charlotte realizes that her all-too-normal house is haunted-by the ghost of a girl who doesn't realize that she's dead. . . .
"Has several strong appeals: new best friends solving a mystery together, a just-scary-enough ghost girl, and a deathless bond between sisters that provides the book with its resoundingly satisfying conclusion." (The Horn Book)
Tony Hillerman0.0 In this affectionate and unvarnished recollection of his past, Tony Hillerman looks at seventy-six years spent getting from hard-times farm boy to bestselling author. Using the gifts of a talented novelist and reporter, Hillerman draws brilliant portrait not just of his life, but of the world around him.
Max Allan Collins0.0 Footprints, a smoking revolver, broken glass . . . Whodunit? Get to the bottom of things with Max Allan Collins, who puts the enigmatic, endlessly fascinating world of the mystery genre under the magnifying glass in "The History of Mystery." Collins tracks the modern detective story from its birth in Allan Pinkerton's Memoirs to its fullest flowering in the fiction of Dashiell Hammett, Raymond Chandler, and Ross MacDonald. En route, Collins explores the rich narrative and visual history of detective comics and the legacy of mystery in radio, television, and film noir. Arguably the most comprehensive survey ever published, "The History of Mystery" is sure to please the most discriminating sleuth.
Jo Hammett, Richard Layman0.0 For more than forty years, since the day her illustrious father died, Jo Hammett has kept her silence. Now, for the first time, with uncompromising candor and profound admiration, she tells the story of Dashiell Hammett—Hollywood screenwriter and high-flying author of The Maltese Falcon and The Thin Man—as she knew him. In Jo Hammett's earliest recollections, although her already famous father exists outside the sphere of the daily life she shares with her mother and sister, he writes to Jo frequently and visits when he can. Jo's memories of him are golden: She recalls a trip to the Santa Anita racetrack in a chauffeur-driven limousine, where Hammett plays more on the horses than he can afford; she recalls a Depression-era excursion to Beverly Hills and a splurge that would have supported an entire family for a month—on a riding outfit. With more ambivalence, she remembers the 1950s, when she assumes her responsibility as the sole designated correspondent with her blacklisted, imprisoned father and her role as go-between for him and Lillian Hellman. The notorious Hammett-Hellman romance, Dash's rude flirtations, his heavy drinking, his attraction to Communism, his quirks and betrayals and paternal love—Jo Hammett neither blinks at her father's faults nor diminishes his humanity. In straightforward prose, with unaffected charm, she offers in this generously illustrated volume a revealing personal reminiscence that contributes immeasurably to Hammett biography.
Дж. Мики Хайден0.0 Acclaimed mystery and science fiction writer G. Miki Hayden brings her experience and reverence for the craft to readers in this authoritative guide to creating a compelling and commercially viable mystery.
Writing the Mystery begins with a thorough exploration of the genre, and then proceeds to take the reader step-by-step through the writing process, starting with character and plot development, the nitty-gritty of word choice, grammar, and sentence structure, maintaining pace, revealing killers, and tying up loose ends. G. Miki then goes one step further in guiding the reader through the post-writing process, explaining manuscript preparation, cover letters, acquiring an agent, and methods of successful promotion.
Writing the Mystery concludes each section with in-depth exercises, putting the lessons of the chapter into practice. The book also includes a special collection of interviews featuring such mystery major leaguers as Elmore Leonard, Sujata Massey, Dale Furutani, Laura Lippman, Seymour Shubin, and S.J. Rozan, who discuss the craft and offer their own valuable advice for the aspiring author.
Джеффри Маркс0.0 Rice Was on the Cover of Time: Craig Rice, the author of fourteen novels, countless short stories, and a number of true crime pieces, once rivaled Agatha Christie in sales. Rice's popularity with the reading public (FDR was a fan) landed her on the cover of Time in January 1946. While rumors about Rice continue to surface within the mystery community -- i.e. did she really write the Gypsy Rose Lee mysteries? -- the past fifty years have seen her fall into relative obscurity. "Rice was something of a mystery herself", Marks says. "Nearly every identification point about her was in dispute: her birth, her real name, her number of marriages, number of children, her canon of fiction, and the cause of her early death". Following a trail that led from Venice, Italy to Venice Beach, CA, Marks talked to a number of her contemporaries, her family, and her friends to find the answers to those questions. The biography, complete with footnotes, index, and eight pages of photographs (many never before published), covers her life and firmly establishes the oeuvre of Rice's novels and short story works.
