Лоренс Блок3.8 Частный детектив Мэтт Скаддер не раз распутывал дела, которые казались полиции безнадежными, и рисковал жизнью, чтобы помочь своим клиентам избежать тюрьмы.
Однако теперь он почти не сомневается: бродяга Джордж Садецки виновен в убийстве респектабельного юриста Глена Хольцмана. Улики настолько красноречивы, что полиция готова закрыть дело.
И все-таки по просьбе брата подозреваемого Мэтт берется за расследование.
Шаг за шагом он пытается установить связь между Садецки и его жертвой, чтобы определить мотив.
Но чем дальше Мэтт продвигается вперед, тем больше у него вопросов. И самые важные из них – кем в действительности был Глен Хольцман и какие опасные тайны скрывал?..
Джеремайя Хили0.0 When three members of the Foursome--a pair of wealthy, libertine couples--are found murdered by a peaceful Maine lake, Detective John Cuddy is hired to scour Maine's North Woods and Boston's meanest streets to find the killer. Reprint. NYT. K.
Marcia Muller0.0 Successful in her investigative work for All Souls Legal Cooperative, happy with her newly renovated house, and feeling somewhat more secure in her relationship with the mysterious environmental activist, Hy Ripinsky, Sharon is shocked to find herself suddenly faced with a wrenching ultimatum. No longer a small, informal co-op, All Souls has grown. New legal partners, exasperated with Sharon's free-wheeling ways, want to kick her upstairs with a raise, perks, and a "career opportunity" that will chain her to a desk forever. Offered a take-it-or-leave-it deal, Sharon is in turmoil. And to make matters worse, Hy has disappeared. His abandoned plane, wrecked rental car, and a road map point to RKI, a firm of international security consultants with a reputation for questionable, unorthodox tactics and clients engaged in controversial research. Sharon discovers that they hired Hy as a free-lance operative and that they, too, are looking for him. Determined to find out what has happened, Sharon pushes aside her career concerns at All Souls and plunges into a search that will force her to take unlikely sanctuary in her abandoned San Diego childhood home and find and unexpected ally in her wild, unpredictable brother John. From the drive-by hiring hall for illegal aliens in Imperial Beach to an opulent villa on the Mexican coast, she will track down every clue in a complex plot that builds to a breathtaking climax on the treacherous canyon trails that lead back across the border. There, in a no-man's-land where terrified pollos defy la migra in a desperate bid for freedom...and where decisions won't wait, Sharon must make the tough choices that put her own life, her own freedom, and everythingshe holds dear at deadly risk.
James Sallis0.0 Lew Griffin has quit the detective business and withdrawn to the safety of his old home in New Orleans' Garden District, where he copes with his past by transforming it into fiction. Following the death of a close friend, he returns to the streets-- not only the urban ones he has conquered but also those of the rural South that he escaped long ago-- to search for the runaway daughter he didn't know that his friend had. Griffin discovers that we rarely know anyone, even those closest to us. And he now finds that he must also face two things he most fears: memories of his parents and his own relationship with his now-vanished son. Moth is expansive, bursting with marvelous scenes and unforgettable characters, filled at once with the matter-of-fact violence of daily life and with redeeming human compassion.
Джудит ван Гисон0.0 When female lawyer Neil Hamel agrees to defend an elderly woman accused of murder, she's eager to have a crack at a homicide case. The Albuquerque police say that Martha Conover murdered the young woman who accidentally killed her grandson three years prior. For Neil, investigating the case raises troubling questions and brings grave danger.
Philbrick Rodman0.0 This explosive novel of family rivalry traces the meteoric rise of two brothers in a Boston political dynasty. Michael and Jack Fitzroy are in love with the same woman--Michael's seductive wife, Miriam, the daughter of a political kingmaker. But dirty politics, scorching sex, and shattering family secrets threaten to bring them down.
Эд Горман0.0 As a former celebrity tries to overcome his past mistakes and stage a comeback he faces a hell more terrifying than he could have ever imagined.
Стивен Уомак0.0 EDGAR AWARD winning author Steven Womack...
In book two of the P.I. Harry James Denton series, Harry finds his next case across the street, when a magnificent mansion in the funky part of town is torched. The blaze has all the earmarks of a local firebug, but this time someone is murdered. The bludgeoned and left-to-burn victim was a well-known psychotherapist...and the man that Harry's ex-wife, Lanie, was about to marry. Thanks to the doctor's will, which leaves a chunk of money to his fiancee, the cops think Lanie is the killer. It's up to Harry to match wits with the match-flicking maniac before his ex goes up the river...and more lives go up in flame....
Линн Хайтауэр0.0 Lena Padget was a mild-mannered grad student in a quiet Kentucky town until her sister was brutally murdered, and everything changed. Over the seven years that the killer has been in prison, Lena has honed her anger to a razor's edge, working as a private-eye for women too scared to help themselves. But with her sister's killer out of jail -- and high on the twisted beliefs of the religious cult that raised him -- Lena is suddenly her own most desperate client. Lena could give any of the tough chicks in mystery fiction, and not a few of the guys, a run for their money: While she may not carry a gun, she packs a lethal baseball bat. But on this go-round, she'll need every weapon she can muster to avoid becoming another lamb to the slaughter. Winner of the Shamus Award for Best First Private Eye Novel of 1993.
Randye Lordon0.0 Reluctantly on vacation in France, New York City PI Sydney Sloane is hoping for a quiet, relaxing time. But no sooner do she and her lover Leslie Washburn arrive than they find themselves in the midst of a murder investigation. Sydney's niece has married secretly, her husband Gavin's parents were killed in a suspicious car accident, the police are at her door and Gavin is nowhere to be found.
Сандра Уэст Проуэлл0.0 Phoebe Siegel has a brother who's a priest; her other brother was a cop and everyone thinks he killed himself. Her sister is a recovering drug addict. And Fee, as the folks in Billings, Montana, call her, is a divorced ex-cop with a private investigator's license. Things could be worse...and they're about to get that way. Just north of Billings, there's a place called Whispering Pines. It's a nice, gentle name, a fitting name for a rehab center. But what happens there is anything but gentle, and the things Phoebe finds out about the people who run it, about her brother, and about some of the other things that happen under the Big Sky, leave the pines anything but whispering. It begins in March, a month Fee usually takes as a vacation because everything awful that has ever happened to her has happened then. But the woman seeking help with her daughter has an ace up her sleeve. In the file she turns over there's a picture of a young woman wearing a silver Medic-Alert bracelet - and that little piece of jewelry belonged to Phoebe's dead brother. From City Hall to the run-down church where Fee's brother is pastor, from the closely guarded grounds of Whispering Pines to the back alleys of Billings, Phoebe establishes the links in the chain of events that have bound the innocent and led to cover-ups, bribery, and murder.
