Джим Фузилли0.0 At his daughter's request, P.I. Terry Orr searches for a gifted teenage boy who has disappeared only to meet with unexpected violence and unexpected realizations about himself, his past, and his own relationship with his daughter.
Лаура Липман0.0 The winner of every major literary award in crime fiction, Laura Lippman brings back her complex and vulnerably human Baltimore P.I., Tess Monaghan, in a tense, expertly spun tale of a family torn asunder by forces it can barely comprehend.
Mark Rubin's family is missing -- and the police can't do a thing because all the evidence indicates that his wife left willingly. So the successful furrier turns to Tess Monaghan, hoping she can help him find his wife and three children. Tess doesn't know quite what to make of Rubin, a wealthy Orthodox Jew who refuses to shake her hand and doles out vitally important information in grudging dribs and drabs. According to her client, he and his beautiful wife, Natalie, had a flawless, happy marriage. Yet one day, without any warning or explanation, Natalie gathered up their children and vanished.
California in the 1960s, and the winds of change are raging. Orange groves uprooted for tract houses, people flooding into Orange County, strange new ideas in the air about war, music, sex, and drugs, and new influences, ranging from Richard Nixon to Timothy Leary.
For the Becker brothers, however, the past is always present -- and it comes crashing back full force when the body of the lovely and mysterious Janelle Vonn is discovered in an abandoned orange-packing plant. The Beckers and the Vonns have a history, beginning years ago in high school with a rumble between the brothers of each clan.
But boys grow up. Now one Becker brother is a cop on his first homicide case. One's a minister yearning to perform just one miracle. One is a reporter drunk with ambition. And all three are about to collide with the changing world of 1968 as each brother, in his own unique way, tries to find Janelle's killer.
As suspects multiply and secrets are exposed, the three Becker brothers are drawn further into the case, deeper into the past, and closer to danger.
Дэниз Хэмилтон0.0 Shadowing a customs official for a story, Eve is a witness when gunfire erupts at LAX. A beautiful Asian woman is killed, and her little girl is swept away by the INS. Eve suspects the toddler is being used by smugglers who trade in human lives. With the return of her ex-lover, Eve has everything to lose as she races to protect the child from ruthless armed men—and may find herself caught in their sights.
С. Дж. Розан0.0 The secrets of a group of childhood friends unravel in this haunting thriller by Edgar Award winner S. J. Rozan. Set in New York in the unforgettable aftermath of September 11, Absent Friends brilliantly captures a time and place unlike any other, as it winds through the wounded streets of New York and Staten Island...and into a maze of old crimes, damaged lives, and heartbreaking revelations. The result is not only an electrifying mystery and a riveting piece of storytelling but an elegiac novel that powerfully explores a world changed forever on a clear September morning.
In a novel that will catch you off guard at every turn, and one that is guaranteed to become a classic, S. J. Rozan masterfully ratchets up the tension one revelation at a time as she dares you to ponder the bonds of friendship, the meaning of truth, and the stuff of heroism.
Дилан Шаффер0.0 Gordon Seegerman is a reluctant public defender by day and the Barry-obsessed singer in a Manilow cover band by night. When a routine misdemeanor case exposes corruption among his city's most prominent citizens, Seegerman finds himself having to act like a real lawyer for the first time in his life. Irresistible and irreverent, Misdemeanor Man will have you on the edge of your seat, rooting for the underdog and believing in the magic of Manilow.
Дж. А. Конрат4.2 Муж сбежал к тренерше по бодибилдингу...
Кредитные карты опустошены бесполезными покупками в "магазине на диване"...
Ну и как тут охотиться на гнусного маньяка по прозвищу Пряничный человек, терроризирующего Чикаго?
Присланные на подмогу полиции агенты ФБР - круглые идиоты, сутками составляющие совершенно нелепые психологические портреты подозреваемого... Единственная зацепка - то, что все жертвы в разное время принимали участие в скандальном телешоу... Джек Дэниелс и ее верный напарник, остроумный обжора Харб, бесстрашно вступают в войну с безумным убийцей.
А убийца тем временем уже готовится к охоте на Джек!
Кто победит?
Об этом читайте в первом из романов о лейтенанте Джек Дэниелс!
Рэйлин Хиллхаус0.0 A woman who smuggles, spies and lies, Faith Whitney can run just about anything through the seemingly sealed borders of Eastern Europe. Now powerful people want to use her skills to carry out a small part of a massive conspiracy. One fateful day the East German secret police kidnap Faith and make her an offer she can't refuse. If she smuggles a single package into Moscow, the Germans will tell her everything she's always wanted to know about her mysterious father. If she doesn't, she'll be exterminated. As Faith navigates the shadows and back alleys of Berlin and Moscow, she realizes she is being used as a pawn by two nations with very different goals, and her life is not the only thing at stake. Thrown into a plot that may change the course of history, Faith must use every bit of skill and contact she's accumulated through the years to find a way out of this deadly Rift Zone.
Harley Jane Kozak0.0 Los Angeles greeting-card artist Wollie Shelley is dating forty men in sixty days as research for a radio talk show host’s upcoming book, How to Avoid Getting Dumped All the Time. Wollie is meeting plenty of eligible bachelors but not falling in love, not until she stumbles over a dead body en route to Rio Pescado—a state-run mental hospital—and is momentarily taken hostage by a charismatic “doctor” who is on the run from the Mob. Wollie fears that her beloved brother, a paranoid schizophrenic living at Rio Pescado, is involved in the murder, so rather than go to the authorities, she decides to solve the crime on her own. As she meets up with an array of small-time crooks and swaggering mobsters only slightly more sinister than the men she’s been dating, Wollie realizes that “getting dumped” is the least of her problems. Finding true love, she discovers, sometimes means learning how to avoid getting killed . . .
Dating Dead Men will keep readers guessing until the final bullet is shot—and cheering for the irresistible Wollie as she makes her way out of confusion and into the welcoming embrace of Mr. Right.
Charlie Huston0.0 It’s three thousand miles from the green fields of glory, where Henry “call me Hank” Thompson once played California baseball, to the Lower East Side of Manhattan, where the tenements are old, the rents are high, and the drunks are dirty. But now Hank is here, working as a bartender and taking care of a cat named Bud who is surely going to get him killed.
It begins when Hank’s neighbor, Russ, has to leave town in a rush and hands over Bud in a carrier. But it isn’t until two Russians in tracksuits drag Hank over the bar at the joint where he works and beat him to a pulp that he starts to get the idea: Someone wants something from him. He just doesn’t know what it is, where it is, or how to make them understand he doesn’t have it.
Within twenty-four hours Hank is running over rooftops, swinging his old aluminum bat for the sweet spot of a guy’s head, playing hide and seek with the NYPD, riding the subway with a dead man at his side, and counting a whole lot of cash on a concrete floor.
All because of two cowboys, two Russian mafia men, and some of the weirdest goons ever assembled in one place. All because of Bud. All because once, in another life, in another world, the only thing Hank wanted was to take third base—without getting caught.
Барри Эйслер0.0 Critics praised Barry Eisler's first two novels, Rain Fall and Hard Rain, calling Japanese-American John Rain, the cynical, romantic, conscientious assassin, "one of the most memorable characters in recent thrillers" (San Jose Mercury News) and "a remarkable creation, a multifaceted killer with the soul of a poet" (Mystery Ink).
In Rain Storm, Rain has fled to Brazil to escape the killing business and the enemies who have been encircling him. But his knack for making death seem to have been of "natural causes" and his ability to operate unnoticed in Asia continue to create unwelcome demand for his services. His old employer, the CIA, persuades him to take on a high-risk assignment: a ruthless arms dealer supplying criminal groups throughout Southeast Asia.
The upside? Financial, of course, along with the continued chimera of moral redemption. But first, Rain must survive the downside: a second assassin homing in on the target; the target's consort-an alluring woman named Delilah with an agenda of her own; and the possibility that the entire mission is nothing but an elaborate setup. From the gorgeous beaches of Rio to the glitzy casinos of Macao to the gritty back streets of Hong Kong and Kowloon, Rain becomes a reluctant player in an international game far deadlier and more insidious than he has ever encountered before.
Дин Кунц4.0 Предсказание умирающего деда превратило жизнь Джимми Тока в непрерывное ожидание беды. Не один, а целых пять дамокловых мечей занесены над ним и его красавицей-женой, с которой впервые соединили его не обручальные кольца, а наручники клоуна-маньяка. Загадочный замысел Судьбы свел Джимми и раздираемую враждой цирковую семью в смертельном противостоянии. Под куполом небес он, как и любой из нас, ощущает себя гимнастом, идущим по проволоке над бездной небытия. Удастся ли ему завершить головокружительный маршрут, спасти от гибели себя и свою семью?
Дэниел Силва4.1 В венском офисе израильской разведки взорвалась бомба.
Одна из жертв взрыва - Эли Лавон, старый друг Габриэля Аллона.
Когда-то Аллон считался лучшим из лучших оперативников секретных служб.
Теперь он вышел в отставку, ведет тихую жизнь и не намерен возвращаться к прежней работе.
Однако если речь идет о покушении на жизнь друга - он готов действовать вновь.
Аллон начинает расследование - и вскоре понимает, что следы преступников ведут в трагическое прошлое его собственной семьи.
Алан Фюрст0.0 Set in May 1941 Dark Voyage is taut with suspense and pounding with battle scenes; it is authentic, powerful, and brilliant.
"In the first nineteen months of European war, from September 1939 to March of 1941, the island nation of Britain and her allies lost, to U-boat, air, and sea attack, to mines and maritime disaster, one thousand five hundred and ninety-six merchant vessels. It was the job of the Intelligence Division of the Royal Navy to stop it, and so, on the last day of April 1941 . . ."
May 1941. At four in the morning, a rust-streaked tramp freighter steams up the Tagus River to dock at the port of Lisbon. She is the Santa Rosa, she flies the flag of neutral Spain and is in Lisbon to load cork oak, tinned sardines, and drums of cooking oil bound for the Baltic port of Malmö.
But she is not the Santa Rosa. She is the Noordendam, a Dutch freighter. Under the command of Captain Eric DeHaan, she sails for the Intelligence Division of the British Royal Navy, and she will load detection equipment for a clandestine operation on the Swedish coast–a secret mission, a dark voyage.
A desperate voyage. One more battle in the spy wars that rage through the back alleys of the ports, from elegant hotels to abandoned piers, in lonely desert outposts, and in the souks and cafés of North Africa. A battle for survival, as the merchant ships die at sea and Britain–the last opposition to Nazi German–slowly begins to starve.
A voyage of flight, a voyage of fugitives–for every soul aboard the Noordendam. The Polish engineer, the Greek stowaway, the Jewish medical officer, the British spy, the Spaniards who fought Franco, the Germans who fought Hitler, the Dutch crew itself. There is no place for them in occupied France; they cannot go home.
From Alan Furst–whom The New York Times calls America's preeminent spy novelist–here is an epic tale of war and espionage, of spies and fugitives, of love in secret hotel rooms, of courage in the face of impossible odds. Dark Voyage is taut with suspense and pounding with battle scenes; it is authentic, powerful, and brilliant.
Роберт Ферриньо0.0 Frank Thorpe is set to board a plane at LAX for a much-needed vacation when he sees an obviously poor young boy knocked out of the way and senseless by an arrogant businessman rushing to a waiting Porsche.
Frank really needs some R & R. He’s just been fired—over a fatal screw up—from the covert operations “shop” he’s worked at for years. But Douglas Meachum—a hard-charging art dealer—needs to be made to feel something more than entitlement: nothing extreme, just a little wake-up call.
Given Frank’s background and his expertise in good guy/bad guy tactics, it’s easy for him to set up a scam involving some embarrassing revelations about a faked Mayan sculpture that Meachum sells to one of his clients. But the client isn’t someone who takes kindly to mistakes. She’s a ruthless social-climbing psychopath who, with her surfer-dude husband (the Thomas Alva Edison of designer pharmaceuticals), runs a huge drug operation. And she’s got an invincible thug duo—Vlad and Arturo—to carry out her notions of payback, which make Frank’s wake-up scheme seem positively genteel. What started out as a good (if slightly underhanded) deed quickly veers out of control. How Frank handles the chaos—
and what he himself hears in the wake-up call—is the fuel that drives this full-throttle, terrifically entertaining novel.
Хеннинг Манкелль3.9 На уединенном, окруженном лесами хуторе совершается чудовищное по жестокости убийство старика - бывшего полицейского. В расследование по собственной инициативе включается Стефан Линдман, коллега убитого, ожидающий операции по удалению раковой опухоли. Но, пытаясь таким образом убежать от собственного страха и смятения, он неожиданно для себя открывает иной ужас: оказывается, совсем рядом с ним и убийца, мстящий за зло, совершенное полвека назад, и нынешние наследники этого зла.
Борис Акунин4.5 15 марта 1878 года на рю де Гренель в Париже совершено страшное убийство. Убит лорд Литтлби и девять его слуг. Преступник не взял из дома ничего, кроме статуэтки бога Шивы и цветного платка. Расследование приводит комиссара полиции Гоша на роскошный корабль "Левиафан", плывущий в Калькутту. Убийца на корабле, но кто это? Среди подозреваемых, каждый из которых прячет свою тайну, английский аристократ, офицер Японской армии, беременная жена швейцарского банковского служащего и молодой русский дипломат с седыми висками… Время действия - 1878 год. Эрасту Фандорину - 22 года.
Карлос Руис Сафон4.4 Книга-явление.
Книга-головоломка.
Книга-лабиринт.
Роман, который заставляет читателя погрузиться в почти мистический мир Барселоны и перемещает его в совершенно иную систему координат.
Читателю предстоит вместе с главным героем встретить зловещих незнакомцев, понять и полюбить прекрасных и загадочных женщин, бродить по мрачным лабиринтам прошлого, и главное - раскрыть тайну книги, которая непостижимым образом изменяет жизнь тех, кто к ней прикасается.
Удивительная книга, в которой есть все: увлекательный сюжет, блестящий стиль и будоражащие воображение тайны. НАСТОЯЩАЯ ЛИТЕРАТУРА!
Иэн Рэнкин4.0 В частной школе в пригороде Эдинбурга бывший военный застрелил двух подростков, а затем покончил с собой. По мнению инспектора Ребуса, неясно в этом преступлении только одно - его причина. Но поиски мотивов заводят сыщика куда дальше, чем он предполагал. Инспектор буквально одержим загадочной личностью преступника. Отныне он - его душеприказчик, призванный разобраться в клубке тайн, которыми окутано прошлое самоубийцы. Между тем над Ребусом сгущаются тучи. Подонок, преследовавший его напарницу, сгорел заживо в собственном доме. А сам Ребус вышел из больницы с ожогами на руках.
Donna Leon4.5 When a wealthy Venetian woman is found brutally murdered, the prime suspect is her Romanian maid, who has fled the city. As she attempts to leave the country, carrying a considerable sum of money and forged papers, the maid runs into the path of an oncoming train and is killed. Case closed. But when the old woman's neighbour returns from abroad, it becomes clear that the maid could not have been the killer. Commissario Brunetti decides - unofficially - to take the case on himself. As Brunetti investigates, it becomes clear that the motive for the murder was unlikely to have been greed, rather that it had its roots in the temptations of lust. But perhaps Brunetti is thinking of the wrong deadly sin altogether...
