Лора Липпман3.3 Однажды две сестры-подростка, Санни и Хизер, не вернулись домой. Исчезли без следа. Долгие годы их безуспешно разыскивала полиция, и даже родители девочек уже перестали надеяться вновь увидеть своих дочерей… И вот, спустя тридцать лет, в полицию попала женщина, сделавшая сенсационное признание: она – Хизер, одна из пропавших много лет назад сестер. В участок на опознание срочно приехала ее мать. И тут начались странности. Арестованная рассказала о таких деталях детства двух сестер, которые, казалось, давно должна была забыть, а вот действительно важные вещи не помнила напрочь… Хизер ли это? А если нет – то кто она и зачем выдает себя за нее?..
Ли Чайлд4.3 Военный полицейский в отставке Джек Ричер получает сигнал о помощи от Фрэнсис Нигли, его бывшей подчиненной из отряда спецрасследований. Она сообщает, что один из девяти членов отряда найден мертвым в пустыне неподалеку от Лос-Анджелеса. Судя по всему, его выбросили из самолета. С остальными сослуживцами из отряда потеряна всякая связь. Возможно, они все тоже мертвы. Кому и по какой причине могла понадобиться смерть этих людей? Ричер начинает расследование, осознавая, что его жизни тоже угрожает смертельная опасность...
Ли Чайлд - один из лучших современных авторов, работающих в жанре детектива-экшн. Его герой Джек Ричер стал поистине культовой фигурой, воплощением несгибаемого героя-детектива.
James Lee Burke0.0 Dave Robicheaux's beloved New Orleans is awash with corpses after Hurricane Katrina unleashes its f awesome power. In a city patrolled only by looters, all law and order gone, the survivors wait in trees or on rooftops for help that never comes.
In a landscape transformed into a violent wasteland, Robicheaux must investigate the shooting of two looters and find out why some very dangerous people are hunting a third. Is it because they unwittingly ransacked the house of a notorious mob boss? Or did a chance encounter with the father of a raped girl seal their fate? As Robicheaux starts to uncover a ruthless tale of greed, torture and murder, his own family comes under threat from a sinister psychopath, and the devastated city provides the perfect stage for a final confrontation between good and evil.
Robert Crais4.4 A wild-living young heiress slams into trouble in the L.A. night—the kind of trouble even her money can’t shut down. After her Aston Martin collides with a mysterious car, Larkin Conner Barkley attempts to help the accident victims—and becomes the sole witness in a federal investigation. Whisking her out of her Beverly Hills world is Joe Pike—ex-cop, ex-Marine, ex-mercenary—hired to shield Larkin from a relentless team of killers. But when a chain of lies and betrayals tightens around them, Pike drops off the grid and follows his own rules for survival: strike fast, hit hard, hunt down the hunters. . . .
William Kent Krueger0.0 Henry Meloux, Cork's friend and spiritual advisor, asks the Minnesota sheriff turned private investigator to find Henry's long-lost son. Cork tracks the man to the Canadian town of Thunder Bay, Ontario, where it turns out he's a prominent (if reclusive) industrialist. When someone tries to kill Henry, and the evidence points to his son, Cork digs deep into his old friend's personal history, where he uncovers truths that might be best left buried.
Тана Френч3.9 Детектив Роб Райан никогда и никому не рассказывал о самом страшном дне своего детства, когда двое его друзей бесследно исчезли в лесу, а самого его нашли лишь чудом. Он был весь забрызган кровью и не помнил абсолютно ничего. И вот теперь прошлое возвращается...
В том же лесу обнаружено тело жестоко убитой двенадцатилетней Кэти Девлин - и Робу вместе с напарницей Кэсси Мэддокс поручено расследовать это преступление. У Роба нет никаких зацепок - только смутные воспоминания и слухи, окружающие загадочную гибель девочки.
Но интуиция подсказывает: раскрыть тайну смерти Кэти он сможет, если восстановит в памяти то, что случилось с ним много лет назад в лесной чаще...
Лиза Лутц3.9 Добро пожаловать в семейное сыскное агентство Спеллманов!
Спеллманы с легкостью распутывают самые сложные и необычные дела - но с удовольствием используют свои таланты, держа под контролем друг друга.
Их девиз: "Спеллманы шпионят за Спеллманами, ищут компромат на Спеллманов и не прочь шантажировать Спеллманов!"
Изабелл, старшей дочери и наследнице семейного бизнеса, все надоело, и ее можно понять.
Она хочет обрести свободу. Однако ее родители так легко не сдаются.
Прежде чем покинуть агентство, Изабелл придется раскрыть безнадежное дело о мальчике, пропавшем двенадцать лет назад!
Невозможно?
Смешно. Для Спеллманов нет ничего невозможного!
Сэйки Маркус3.6 Много лет назад Дэнни и Эван решили ограбить ломбард.
Казалось бы - легкая и быстрая нажива...
Но налет превратился в кровавую бойню. Дэнни успел убежать - а его друг был арестован, взял все на себя и сел в тюрьму...
Прошли годы. Дэнни стал другим человеком - женился и почти забыл о прошлом.
Но однажды прошлое вернулось и напомнило о себе.
Вышедший из тюрьмы Эван явился к бывшему подельнику и потребовал заплатить по счетам.
Его условия: Дэнни в последний раз пойдет с ним на дело и поможет похитить сына владельца строительной компании.
Иначе Эван убьет не только самого Дэнни, но и его семью.
Дэнни делает вид, что согласен, но в то же время начинает собственную опасную игру...
Шон Черковер0.0 A disillusioned newspaper reporter turned private detective, Ray Dudgeon isn't trying to save the world. He just wants to do an honest job, and do it well. But when doing an honest job threatens society's most powerful and corrupt, Ray's odds for survival make for a sucker's bet. . . .
While working on a movie in Chicago, Hollywood locations manager Bob Loniski saw something he shouldn't have. Now he's a prosecution witness against a suspected member of the Chicago Outfit. Petrified, he comes to Ray for protection. Ray's mob contacts insist that they have no interest in Loniski, so he takes the bodyguard gig.
Then people start dying and everything goes to hell.
Ray's investigation leads to a stash of blackmail files involving the sex trade, Washington political corruption, and a deadly power struggle among Chicago's organized crime bosses-setting the FBI, the Chicago police, and the mob on his tail. He now holds evidence against top-ranking cops and politicians . . . but with the line between good and bad blurring, he doesn't know who he can trust.
If he does the right thing, Ray is sure to die. But if he doesn't, how can he live with himself?
From the back alleys of Chicago to the man-sions of Beverly Hills to the corridors of power in Washington, D.C., Sean Chercover's Big City, Bad Blood propels readers relentlessly forward on a bullet-fast, adrenaline-pumping ride they will not soon forget.
Крейг Макдоналд3.9 Гектор Ласситер - великий мастер детектива. Он знал Чандлера и Хэммета, ловил рыбу с Хемингуэем и перепортил немало голливудских старлеток... Этот пьяница и бузотер, любитель женского пола, обаятельный мачо сейчас пытается выгодно продать голову Панчо Вилья, мексиканского революционера, убитого при загадочных обстоятельствах.
Безумная гонка в лучших традициях криминального чтива, черная комедия вперемешку с грустной балладой об уходящей молодости, сплетение мифов и реальной истории, красочные персонажи, включая томную Марлен Дитрих и загадочного Джорджа W.(Буша),- такой динамичный и изысканный коллаж автор разворачивает на страницах этой книги.
The only female detective in the Miami PD's Homicide division, Joe Frye has memories that haunt her, and a past that not even her lover, detective Louis Kincaid, truly knows. It began when Joe was an ambitious rookie cop in a small Michigan town called Echo Bay....
The bones found in the woods were the first clue in a string of unimaginably brutal murders of young women. Plunged into a heated investigation -- and caught between the dictates of a reluctant local sheriff and the state police -- Joe soon uncovers the chilling truth: In the dead of winter in the Michigan woods, she must face down a predator who has chosen her as a worthy opponent -- or become his next victim.
Megan Abbott0.0 By the author of Dare Me and The End of Everything
A young woman hired to keep the books at a down-at-the-heels nightclub is taken under the wing of the infamous Gloria Denton, a mob luminary who reigned during the Golden Era of Bugsy Siegel and Lucky Luciano. Notoriously cunning and ruthless, Gloria shows her eager young protégée the ropes, ushering her into a glittering demimonde of late-night casinos, racetracks, betting parlors, inside heists, and big, big money. Suddenly, the world is at her feet—as long as she doesn't take any chances, like falling for the wrong guy. As the roulette wheel turns, both mentor and protégée scramble to stay one step ahead of their bosses and each other.
Кен Бруен, Джейсон Старр0.0 In a hilarious sequel to Bust, fugitive Angela Petrakos hooks up with a serial killer in Ireland, while failed New York businessman Max Fisher finds a new calling as a crack dealer. But will their paths cross again?
Дэвид Корбетт0.0 El Salvador: America’s great Cold War success story and the model for Iraq’s fledgling democracy–if one ignores the grinding poverty, the corruption, the spiraling crime, and a murder rate ranked near the top in the hemisphere. This is where Jude McManus works as an executive protection specialist, currently assigned to an American engineer working for a U.S. consortium.
Ten years before, at age seventeen, he saw his father and two Chicago cop colleagues arrested for robbing street dealers. The family fell apart in the scandal’s wake, his disgraced dad died under suspicious circumstances, and Jude fled Chicago to join the army and forge a new life.
Now the past returns when one of his father’s old pals appears. The man is changed–he’s scarred, regretful, self-aware–and he helps Jude revisit the past with a forgiving eye. Then he asks a favor–not for himself, but for the third member of his dad’s old crew.
Even though it’s ill-considered, Jude agrees, thinking he can oblige the request and walk away, unlike his father. But he underestimates the players and the stakes and he stumbles into a web of Third World corruption and personal betrayal where everything he values–and everyone he loves–is threatened. And only the greatest of sacrifices will save them.
“This big, brawny novel runs on full throttle from first to last page. Brutal and heartrendering, eloquent and important, this is a fully engrossing read.”
–Michael Connelly
“A Quiet American for the new century. Angry and impassioned, Blood of Paradise is that rare beast: a work of popular fiction that is both serious and thrilling.”
–John Connolly, New York Times bestselling author of Every Dead Thing
“David Corbett is a supremely gifted writer and Blood of Paradise reminds me of a Robert Stone novel. Its lyrical prose and exotic setting filled with damaged souls grasping for redemption any way they can combine in a tour de force that will haunt you long after you reach the end.”
–Denise Hamilton, nationally bestselling author of Prisoner of Memory
“If you’re looking for the best in contemporary crime fiction, this is it.”
–The Washington Post, on Done for a Dime
Robert Fate0.0 The second book in the popular Baby Shark series begins as 21-year-old Kristin Van Dur accepts an invitation to join a P.I. firm; but things go bad--fast. There are a dozen ways her life can turn even worse, but Kristin's instinct to survive keeps her alive even as mobsters hunt her down.
Артур Конан Дойл, Дэниел Сташовер, Jon Lellenberg, Charles Foley0.0 An annotated collection of the esteemed author's private correspondence includes letters shared with his mother that offers insight into his endless search for fulfillment and success outside of the Sherlock Holmes tales, his decision to leave his medical profession to write full time, and his forays into spiritualism. 50,000 first printing.
Patrick Anderson0.0 There’s been a revolution in American popular fiction. The writers who dominated the bestseller lists a generation ago with blockbuster novels about movie stars and exotic foreign lands have been replaced by a new generation writing a new kind of bestseller, one that hooks readers with crime, suspense, and ever-increasing violence. Patrick Anderson, The Washington Post’s man on the thriller beat, calls this revolution “the triumph of the thriller,” and lists among its stars Thomas Harris, Michael Connelly, George Pelecanos, Dennis Lehane, Sue Grafton, and Elmore Leonard.
In his provocative, caustic, and often hilarious survey of today’s popular fiction, Anderson shows us who the best thriller writers are–and the worst. He shows how Michael Connelly was inspired by Raymond Chandler, how George Pelecanos toiled in obscurity while he mastered his craft, how Sue Grafton created the first great woman private eye, and how Thomas Harris transformed an insane cannibal into the charming man of the world who made FBI agent Clarice Starling his lover.
Anderson shows Scott Turow inventing the modern legal thriller and John Grisham translating it into a stunning series of bestsellers. He casts a cold eye on Tom Clancy’s militaristic techno-thrillers, and praises Alan Furst and Robert Littell as world-class spy novelists. He examines the pioneering role of Lawrence Sanders, the offbeat appeal of Dean Koontz, the unprecedented success of The Da Vinci Code, and the emergence of the literary thriller.
Most of all, Anderson demands that the best of these novelists be given their due–not as genre writers, but as some of the most talented men and women at work in American fiction. Don’t trust the literary elites to tell you what to read, he warns–make up you own minds. The Triumph of the Thriller will convince many readers that we’ve entered an important new era in popular fiction. This book can be your guide to it.
Christiana Gregoriou0.0 Nominated for the Mystery Writers of America ‘Edgar Awards’! This book directly explores the three aspects of deviance that contemporary American crime fiction manipulates: linguistic, social, and generic. Gregoriou conducts case studies into crime series by James Patterson, Michael Connelly and Patricia Cornwell, and investigates the way in which these novelists correspondingly challenge linguistic norms, the boundaries of acceptable social behavior, and the relevant generic conventions.
