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
Макс Аллан Коллинз0.0 The newspapers dubbed her The Black Dahila. Nathan Heller knew her -- intimately -- as Elizabeth Short. To discover the identity of the fiend who destroyed her, Heller must lay bare the terrifying truth behind Hollywood's make-believe facade.
Марта С. Лоуренс0.0 When Matthew Fielding, the four-year-old son of a San Diego telecommunications mogul, turns up missing, the psychic skills of P.I. Elizabeth Chase are requested. The stakes are raised soon after Elizabeth begins her investigation when a wildfire breaks out in Rancho Santa Fe, the secluded community where Matthew and his family-and Elizabeth's own parents-live. Aided and abetted by the Santa Ana winds, flames rage out of control, consuming thousands of acres and dozens of homes.
Before the ashes can be cleared away, another fire blazes through everything in its path. Are the kidnapper and arsonist one and the same? Will Elizabeth be able to find the clues she needs in the dying embers around her? It's a race against time itself as man and nature combine to wreak destruction on Elizabeth's community and keep a little boy lost forever.
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).
Джон Стрэйли0.0 P.I. Cecil Younger works out of Sitka, Alaska, a land of perfect beauty and not-so-perfect lives, where there is nothing more dangerous than an unsolved crime—except maybe the man trying to solve it…
Three years ago someone brutally killed four people on the scow Mygirl. In a crowded courtroom Cecil Younger helped the accused go free. Now the man charged with the Mygirl murders has disappeared. As a storm bears down on the Alaskan coast, two people connected with the case die in separate, sudden, and bizarre explosions of gunfire.
Younger is certain that someone is trying to finish the grisly job begun on the Mygirl three years earlier. But to prove it he must chase down a wooden sloop on the wind-lashed sea. Out in the lethal storm Younger will come face-to-face with the shocking truth that has already twisted so many lives—and now could end his own.
Lyda Morehouse0.0 First the LINK--an interactive, implanted computer--transformed society. Then came the angels--cybernetic manifestations that claimed to be working God's will. But former cop Deidre McMannus has had her LINK implant removed--for a crime she didn't commit. And she's never believed in the angels. But all that will change when a man named Michael appears at her door.
Robert Westbrook0.0 In San Geronimo, New Mexico, Private Eye Howard Moon Deer and blind ex-police chief Jack Wilder investigate a bizarre, cannibalistic murder with ties to the ancient secrets of the Anasazi...
Джанет Лапьер0.0 Meet two new, fascinating Port Silva characters, Patience and Verity Mackellar, a mother-daughter private investigative team. Patience, a policeman's widow, has kept her late husband's PI agency. Verity, seeking refuge from a troubled marriage, joins her mother to do the legwork. Finding lost pets and exposing unethical doctors leads to more difficult and dangerous work. A lost child forces the duo undercover into a reclusive religious community. Amid the spectacular beauty of the Northern California's dramatic Mendocino Coast -- the Lost Coast -- two sets of mothers and daughters find their lives in jeopardy.
Дэвид Фулмер0.0 Storyville, 1907: In this raucous, bloody, red-light district, where two thousand scarlet women ply their trade in grand mansions and filthy dime-a-trick cribs, where cocaine and opium are sold over the counter, and where rye whiskey flows like an amber river, there's a killer loose. Someone is murdering Storyville prostitutes and marking each killing with a black rose. As Creole detective Valentin St. Cyr begins to unravel the murder against this extraordinary backdrop, he encounters a cast of characters drawn from history: Tom Anderson, the political boss who runs Storyville like a private kingdom; Lulu White, the district's most notorious madam; a young piano player who would come to be known as Jelly Roll Morton; and finally, Buddy Bolden, the man who all but invented jazz and is now losing his mind.
No ordinary mystery, Chasing the Devil's Tail is a chilling portrait of musical genius and self-destruction, set at the very moment when jazz was born.
Джеймс Сигел0.0 Following a dangerous string of clues, Riskin finds himself in hot pursuit of a little-known World War II criminal named Dr. Petoit, who, after promising sanctuary to hundreds of fleeing Jews in occupied France, led them to death in his own home. As Riskin uncovers his friend's own guilty part in these crimes, he himself comes face to face with the ultimate evil.
