Джил Адамсон0.0 In 1903 a mysterious young woman flees alone across the West, one heart-pounding step ahead of the law. At nineteen, Mary Boulton has just become a widow—and her husband's killer. As bloodhounds track her frantic race toward the mountains, she is tormented by mad visions and by the knowledge that her two ruthless brothers-in-law are in pursuit, determined to avenge their younger brother's death. Responding to little more than the primitive fight for life, the widow retreats ever deeper into the wilderness—and into the wilds of her own mind—encountering an unforgettable cast of eccentrics along the way.
With the stunning prose and captivating mood of great works like Charles Frazier's Cold Mountain or early Cormac McCarthy, Gil Adamson's intoxicating debut novel weds a brilliant literary style to the gripping tale of one woman's desperate escape.
Майкл Шейбон3.7 В одном из отелей американского города Ситка, штат Аляска, выстрелом в висок убит талантливый шахматист. Расследование дела поручено двум неразлучным друзьям - детективам Меиру Ландсману и Берко Шемецу...
Изюминкой нового романа Майкла Чабона "Союз еврейских полисменов" является идиш - язык его предков. Замысел книги возник случайно. Однажды писатель обнаружил в кладовке разговорник для туристов "Как это сказать на идише?". Он представил, как здорово было бы, если бы эта книга когда-нибудь и впрямь пригодилась туристам, если бы и правда существовала страна, где все говорят на идише. И фантазия Чабона создала особый мир - колонию еврейских беженцев, которые пытаются обрести Землю обетованную за Полярным кругом.
Michael Dibdin0.0 When an advance scout for an American film company disappears, Aurelio Zen's most recent assignment in remote Calabria becomes anything but routine. Despite a savage attack that has scared the locals silent, Zen is determined to expose the truth. To make matters more complicated, a group of dangerous strangers, led by a rich, single-minded American have arrived to uncover another local mystery—buried treasure—and they will stop at nothing to achieve their goal. What ensues is a fiendishly suspenseful case that only Aurelio Zen could stumble into and only Michael Dibdin could have created: a wild thriller that takes us deep into a remote region of Italy and the darkest corners of human nature. From the Trade Paperback edition.
Кэти Эстилл0.0 "A promise can change a life. Even a small, casual promise extended without much thought or contemplation." So learns Sand Williams, who has returned to her childhood home in the Ozarks for a much- needed rest after years of working abroad as a journalist. She and her husband, Frank, a hydrologist who loves caves, have moved into a cabin that Sand inherited from her father on the beautiful Seven Point River. A mile upstream from Sand lives Norah Everston, and the two women couldn't be more different. The only thing they have in common is the boundary of their land, but when Norah asks Sand to look in on her children when she and her husband go traveling, Sand reluctantly agrees, because she grew up in the Ozarks believing that you helped your neighbor out.
The kids are Timothy and Dahlia, the children of Norah and Lyman by previous marriages. Lyman's daughter, Dahlia, eighteen and a winsome blonde, is working to raise funds for college, while Norah's son, Timothy, a big, handsome boy described as ""slow,"" goes to a special class in high school. The teenagers have never fully adjusted to their parents' marriage, and the family is also divided by the subject of religion and the very strict church that Norah and Timothy faithfully attend. The teenagers have never been left alone before, and Norah, who doesn't like Sand very much, has asked her to look after them for convenience sake.
Dahlia's Gone is the story of three remarkable women whose lives are profoundly changed by the murder of Dahlia Everston: Sand, who makes the grisly discovery;, Norah, the victim's grieving step-mother, who comes to blame Sand for the tragedy;, and Patty Callahan, who leads the investigation of Dahlia's brutal murder. Patti, the only female deputy in Weleda County, is a woman of secrets, secrets that include her intimate and influential relationship with Sand's deceased father, who was the owner and publisher of the local newspaper.
This mesmerizing narrative beautifully and suspensefully explores the aftermath of tragedy, and the process of facing the truth. In Dahlia's Gone, Katie Estill has created brought to life three unforgettable characters whose lives intersect in both dramatic and mysterious ways. Dahlia's Gone looks unflinchingly at what's been lost, but in the end this is a story about redemption, the beauty of hope, and the soul-healing friendship that can be forged among women.
Martin Cruz Smith0.0 Moscow lies deep under snow, and Arkady Renko is called in to handle a delicate matter: passengers riding the last metro of the night have reported seeing the ghost of Stalin on the platform edge. Not everyone, it seems, likes the fact that Stalin is dead.
But in the midst of a blizzard nothing is as it first appears to be. Renko’s girlfriend Eva and his adopted son, Zhenya, seem to be slipping into danger. The owner of a matrimonial agency wants her husband killed. An innocent ‘Russian Bride’ employs a garrotte. A chess grandmaster wanders into Renko’s life and leads him into the line of fire. Diehard Communists gather to sing along with Stalin. ‘Red Diggers’ uncover secrets buried for half century in a desolate forest and Renko discovers ghosts that have been waiting for him all his life...
As Russia swings more and more to the right, Renko is more and more out of step. Not only an original and deeply humane thriller, Stalin’s Ghost is also a wonderful evocation of the emerging New Russia.
