Joseph Kanon0.0 In a dusty, remote community of secretly constructed buildings and awesome possibility, the world's most brilliant minds have come together. Their mission: to split an atom and end a war. But among those who have come to Robert Oppenheimer's "enchanted campus" of foreign-born scientists, baffled guards, and restless wives is a simple man, an unraveler of human secrets—a man in search of a killer.
It is the spring of 1945. And Michael Connolly has been sent to Los Alamos to investigate the murder of a security officer on the Manhattan Project. But amid the glimmering cocktail parties and the staggering genius, Connolly will find more than he bargained for. Sleeping in a dead man's bed and making love to another man's wife, Connolly has entered the moral no-man's-land of Los Alamos. For in this place of discovery and secrecy, hope and horror, Connolly is plunged into a shadowy war with a killer—as the world is about to be changed forever....
James Lee Burke0.0 When his illegitimate son is wrongly accused of murder, Billy Bob Holland stands alone against the ruthless powers controlling the small town of Deaf Smith, Texas, as his investigation uncovers deeply rooted, high-level corruption, violence, and murder.
Laura Lippman3.8 In New York Times bestselling author Laura Lippman’s electrifying thriller, PI Tess Monaghan discovers she might’ve gotten herself into a dangerous situation for which there’s no way out. . . .
PI Tess Monaghan is ecstatic to hear the news that business tycoon Gerard “Wink” Wynkowski wants to bring pro-basketball back to Baltimore. But when Wink’s checkered past—which runs the gamut from domestic abuse and compulsive gambling to armed robberies and even manslaughter—makes the front page of the Baltimore Beacon-Light, aka the “Blight” his project is jeopardized. No one is more surprised at the exposé than the editors of the paper who were certain they killed the piece. Hoping to uncover who hacked into their computers, the newspaper hires Tess.
But soon after the story on Wink runs, he’s found asphyxiated in his garage with his car’s engine running. Suicide appears to be the cause of his death—and everyone is blaming the “Blight” for airing his dirty laundry and sending him into the downward spiral that led to his demise. But the more Tess uncovers about Wink, the more she’s convinced that someone with an axe to grind wanted him dead and was willing to go as far as murdering him.
And if this all weren’t enough to keep her plate full, Tess must also find the lowlifes who roughed up her uncle—the same men who are intent on getting back a prized Greyhound dog which she’s currently looking after while her uncle recuperates. Now as Tess’s PI skills are put to the ultimate test, she must stay one step ahead of a diabolical
Lawrence Block0.0 "Keller on the Spot" is the eighth story about Keller, your basic Urban Lonely Guy and wistful assassin for hire. Like most of the its predecessors, it made its first appearance in Playboy, and in due course won the MWA Edgar Allan Poe award as best short story of the year. The life of a hired killer has its rewards, but the opportunity to be a hero is rarely one of them. Here Keller is unquestionably heroic, at least early on... "Keller on the Spot" is one of ten adventures that comprise the episodic novel, Hit Man.
Уилл Хоббс0.0 After a sailing ship breaks up on the rocks off Washington's storm-tossed Cape Flattery, Nathan McAllister, the fourteen-year-old son of the lighthouse keeper, refuses to believe the authorities, who say there were no survivors. Unexplained footprints on a desolate beach, a theft at the trading post, and glimpses of a wild "hairy man" convince Nathan that someone is hiding in the remote sea caves along the coast. With his new friend, Lighthouse George, a fisherman from the famed Makah whaling tribe, Nathan paddles the fierce waters of the Pacific--fishing, hunting seals, searching for clues. Alone in the forest, Nathan discovers a ghostly canoe and a skeleton that may unlock the mystery of ancient treasure, betrayal . . .and murder.
Барбара Брукс Уоллес0.0 Wealthy, orphaned Colley is kidnapped, placed in the awful Broggin Home for Boys, and put to work in a dangerous glass factory. Someone wants Colley dead, but that person has not counted on five scrappy boys, fellow inmates, who are determined that Colley will live.
John Morgan Wilson0.0 Following the death of his lover and a scandal involving his Pulitzer Prize-winning article, crime reporter Benjamin Justice has fallen into a hazy, alcoholic reclusiveness, hiding out in the West Hollywood neighborhood known as the Norma Triangle. He is called back to the world of the living by an unexpected, and unwelcome, visit from Harry Brofsky, his former boss. Brofsky wants Ben to do some background work (strictly off the record) with another reporter on the investigation of a seemingly motiveless killing outside a local gay bar.
Sucked in for reasons even he doesn't quite understand, Justice finds himself back in the life of gay bars, spurned lovers, dysfunctional families, and tawdry secrets--all the things he had been trying to escape. While fending off passes from his sexy, young female partner, he finds himself falling hopelessly in love with the man he must ultimately nail for murder--a killing that turns out to have far more personal and political implications than a simple bias crime.
"Simple Justice" is a subtly plotted mystery that takes a piercing look at not only violent crime but violations of the heart and soul in the sometimes glamorous, more often dark and dangerous gay life of West Hollywood.
Thomas H. Cook0.0 Attorney Henry Griswald has a secret: the truth behind the tragic events the world knew as the Chatham School Affair, the controversial tragedy that destroyed five lives, shattered a quiet community, and forever scarred the young boy. Layer by layer, in The Chatham School Affair, Cook paints a stunning portrait of a woman, a school, and a town in which passionate violence seems impossible...and inevitable. "Thomas Cook's night visions, seen through a lens darkly, are haunting," raved the New York Times Book Review, and The Chatham School Affair will cement this superb writer's position as one of crime fiction's most prodigious talents, a master of the unexpected ending.
Харлан Кобен4.1 Когда-то Майрон Болитар и Грег Даунинг соперничали и на баскетбольной площадке, и в любви... И теперь именно Майрону, спортивному агенту и талантливому детективу-любителю, предстоит расследовать загадочное исчезновение Грега, ставшего за эти годы звездой профессионального баскетбола.
Владелец клуба, за который играл Грег, не хочет ни скандала, ни вмешательства полиции. Болитар вскоре узнает, что исчезнувшего Грега шантажировала некая особа, именующая себя Карлой Уитни.
Однако прежде чем Болитару удается поговорить с Карлой, ее жестоко убивают...
Уилло Дэвис Робертс0.0 Cici is devastated when she learns that her friend, Brody, is being considered the prime suspect in the murder of a young girl in town and begins her own search to find the real murderer, in investigation that put her in danger
Dorothy Reynolds Miller0.0 Amanda is excited about spending the summer with her cousin Elinore's family, who live in a remote clearing in rural Pennsylvania. There Amanda learns that a mysterious man called Spook Wade lives nearby. Everyone believes that Spook killed little Bucky Mead 10 years ago. Amanda wants to find out the truth about Spook. When Elinore becomes too bossy, Amanda turns to her cousin Nelson and a new friend, Cynthia. Together, the trio sets out to discover the long-hidden secrets in the clearing.
Дэвид Хаусрайт0.0 Winner of the 1996 Edgar Award for Best First Novel. A Saint Paul PI investigates the murder of the man who killed his wife. Holland Taylor is comfortable in interrogation rooms. For years the cold dark cells of the St. Paul Police Department homicide squad were his turf, and with the help of his partner he wrung confessions out of countless killers. But that was long ago. Tonight Taylor is on the other side of the desk. Tonight he is the suspect. Taylor's career in the department ended after his wife and daughter were killed in a drunk driving accident. The culprit, John Brown, was sentenced to a measly six years for vehicular manslaughter, and Taylor vowed bloody vengeance in front of open court. After a few months of freedom, Brown is shot dead, and Taylor, now a private investigator, is called in as the obvious suspect. He didn't kill John Brown, but he will find out who did if-even it means tearing the Twin Cities apart from the inside out.
Дик Фрэнсис4.2 Трагизм работы детектива заключается в том, что порой приходится проливать свет на факты, которые ломают жизнь людям. Эту горькую истину еще раз подтвердило расследование, предпринятое бывшим жокеем, а ныне частным детективом Сидом Холли. Ведь главным подозреваемым оказывается его лучший друг, всеобщий любимец, звезда телевидения Эллис Квинт.
William Heffernan0.0 Paul Devlin, Inspector of Detectives for the mayor of New York City, probes the murder of a police captain, a hero cop rumored to be gay, and uncovers a deadly conspiracy of sex, blackmail, and death leading to the highest levels of government.
Rob MacGregor0.0 Will Lansa, raised by his white mother in Aspen, is spending the summer on the Hopi reservation with his father, the tribal police chief. The chief is investigating the murder of a man found near a sacred place. Some suspect it's the work of a powaqu, a powerful witch. Will's own investigation finds him caught up in ancient prophecies and mystical visions that suddenly place his life in jeopardy.
Nancy Springer0.0 Jamie Bridger's decision to find out who her real parents are causes anger and feigned ignorance on the part of her grandparents and leads her to danger and some surprising discoveries.
George Dawes Green0.0 Romulus Ledbetter has discovered a frozen corpse outside his front door. A fairly unusual circumstance as it is - but even more so as Romulus' front door is a cave in Central Park. A former musical prodigy, Romulus opted out of society and has been living a life of deluded paranoia in the cave for some time. His version of events, involving drug abuse, sexual deviancy and a criminally-inclined celebrity, are viewed with understandable scepticism by the police officers on the case. So Romulus has no choice but to find out what happened on his own...
Мэри Уиллис Уокер0.0 Texas reporter Molly Cates, whose book describes the horrifying career of serial killer Louie Bronk, realizes, shortly before Louie's execution, that he may be innocent and that her life is in danger.
Lisa Scottoline0.0 Grace Rossi is starting over after a divorce, and a part-time job with a federal appeals court sounds perfect. But she doesn't count on being assigned to an explosive death penalty appeal. Nor does she expect ardor in the court in the form of an affair with the chief judge. Then Grace finds herself investigating a murder, unearthing a secret bank account and following a trail of bribery and judicial corruption that's stumped even the FBI. In no time at all, Grace under fire takes on a whole new meaning.
Даг Эллин0.0 Tallifer the troubadour befriends a mysterious soldier, a Crusader who dances in the dark, when no music plays. Together, they face a threat from his past, that proves more deadly than a Saracen blade.
Nancy Springer0.0 Tuff’s father is gone and his mother can barely care for her pack of children in their riverside trailer. Dillon is the only person Tuff can rely on. Then Tuff’s life is shattered when his older brother is senselessly murdered. When he leaves home in search of Dillon’s killer his mother yells out a name--Penrose Leppo--Tuff’s father. Tuff finds a haven at Pen Leppo’s little shack of a store. As he desperately attempts to figure out who killed his brother, Tuff finds an ally in Pen--and most important, a friend who makes him realize that solving the murder won’t bring Dillon back.
Willo Davis Roberts0.0 Lewis and Alison's vacation should be lots of fun. Driving to Yellowstone in a motor home, seeing all the fantastic sights, getting to know their new neighbors...the trip should be a blast. It turns out to be anything but.
First they discover their hosts, the Rupes, have no interest in nutrition, manners, or their own children. Even worse, two strange men seem to be following them. Could they have something to do with the one-hundred-dollar bills little Billy Rupe keeps finding in the motor home? Lewis is afraid the answer is yes -- and he should be.
Laurie R. King0.0 In Laurie R. King's "A Grave Talent", the unthinkable has happened in a small community outside of San Francisco. A series of shocking murders has occurred, the victims far too innocent and defenseless. For lesbian Detective Kate Martinelli, just promoted to Homicide and paired with a seasoned cop who's less than thrilled to be handed a green partner, it's a difficult case that just keeps getting harder.
Then the police receive what appears to be a case-breaking lead: it seems that one of the residents of this odd colony is Vaun Adams, arguably the century's greatest woman painter and a notorious felon once convicted of a heinous crime.
But what really happened eighteen years ago? To bring a murderer to justice, Kate must delve into the artist's dark past—even if it means losing everything she holds dear.
Майнет Уолтерс4.0 Обстоятельства дела казались простыми: Олив Мартин призналась в убийстве своей сестры и матери. В тюрьме она получила леденящее кровь прозвище "Скульпторша".
Вот и все, что было известно журналистке Розалинде Лей, когда она отправилась на первое свидание с Олив, отбывающей пожизненный срок в заключении. Могла ли Роз предвидеть, что эта встреча навсегда изменит ее жизнь?
Стивен Уомак0.0 Ex-newspaperman turned private detective Harry James Denton needs any client he can get. It's just his luck that the first person to waltz into his Nashville office is the woman who stole his heart in college - then was stolen by another man. That man is rich surgeon and relentless gambler Conrad Fletcher. But by the time Harry catches up with him, Fletcher's gone from being in debt to being dead.
Lawrence Block0.0 "Keller's Therapy" appeared first in Playboy, and won an Edgar Allan Poe award as the best short story of the year. And it launched Keller on a continuing career as a series character
Joan Lowery Nixon0.0 Novelist Augustus Trevor has written a manuscript that reveals the darkest secrets of his guests. Whoever can solve Trevor's clues can have his story removed from the book. But when Trevor is bludgeoned to death, the survivors (along with the reader) are challenged to find both the manuscript and the murderer.
Барбара Брукс Уоллес0.0 Orphaned twice and all alone in the world, Taddy watches as Neezer and Lucky, two sinister thieves, steal his family's possessions, and then make him a virtual prisoner. With only table scraps and dry crusts of bread to eat, Taddy and another boy named Beetle are forced to work long, cruel hours carrying freezing, heavy blocks of ice for delivery in Lucky's ice wagon.
Then a neighbor, Mrs. Mainyard, tells lucky she'd like to hire Taddy during the day as a servant boy. His wages go to Lucky, but he's better fed. And once inside the sumptuous Mainyard mansion, Taddy sees the impossible - a boy who looks just like him. Can this be the mysterious twin he'd been told about?
Майкл Коннелли4.1 Смерть от передозировки на темном пустыре в Лос-Анджелесе... Рутинное дело для опытного полицейского. Вот только погибший – старый армейский друг Гарри Босха, а обстоятельствами его смерти почему-то очень интересуется ФБР. Убийство? Вероятнее всего – да. Но каковы его мотивы? И кто его совершил? Босх и его коллега из ФБР, агент Элинор Уиш, начинают расследование и вскоре понимают – из охотников они превратились в мишени неизвестного убийцы.
Маргарет Марон2.9 Судья и следователь Дебора Нотт, герой бестселлеров Маргарет Марон, стала одним из самых любимых персонажей современной детективной прозы.
Адвокат Дебора Нотт совершает немыслимое, включаясь в гонку за место окружного судьи в округе Коллтон, где царят пережитки патриархата. Неожиданно дочь Дженни Уайтхед просит Дебору расследовать убийство матери, совершенное восемнадцать лет назад и оставшееся нераскрытым. Дебора принимается за дело, раскапывает опасные старые тайны... и кто-то пытается поставить точку в ее будущем - политическом и не только. Однако напугать и сбить со следа эту упорную женщину не так то просто...
Дана Стабенов0.0 Kate Shugak returns to her roots in the far Alaskan north, after leaving the Anchorage D.A.'s office. Her deductive powers are definitely needed when a ranger disappears. Looking for clues among the Aleutian pipeliners, she begins to realize the fine line between lies and loyalties--between justice served and cold murder.
Бенджамин Шутц0.0 "Mary, Mary, Shut the Door" is paired with a series of spellbinding tales of violence and deceit, starring sleuths from all walks of life, each marked by the gripping psychological realism that is Schutz's trademark.
Chap Reaver0.0 In 1876, after interfering with the attempted lynching of a young Yahi Indian named Shanti, eighteen-year-old Reece finds his own life in danger and becomes intimately involved in the future of Shanti's people.
Ив Бантинг0.0 Twelve-year old Henry Coffin helps out his dad at the Coffin and Pale Detective Agency. Only one thing is missing: he's itching for the chance to work on a case of his own. And then beautiful, blonde Lily Larson walks in. In he dreaming? Lily wants them to find her mother -- who's lost for the fourth time! Henry knows he's close to solving the mystery when he stumbles upon a secret mileage log, the petals of a strange flower, and a painted wooden stork -- some very mysterious clues. What he doesn't know is that his search for Lily's missing mother may lead him into some very serious danger.
Peter Blauner0.0 This debut thriller charts the intermingled lives of Steven Baum, a probation officer with liberal ideas and Darryl King, his most uncontrollable client. The story of Baum and Darryl's inevitable collision unfolds against the background of a tense and racially divided city.
Лоуренс Блок3.8 Еще одна встреча с Лоуренсом Блоком и его героем. В романе "Пляска на бойне" (1991) частному детективу Мэту Скаддеру случайно попадает в руки видеокассета, где поверх кинобоевика оказывается записанный кем-то садистский порнофильм об истязании, изнасиловании и, в конце концов, убийстве неизвестного мальчика.
Как любой нормальный человек, наделенный острым чувством справедливости и любви к ближнему, Мэт Скаддер не может пройти мимо подобного акта злодеяния. И он начинает расследование...
Thomas Adcock0.0 Born and bred in Hell's Kitchen, Detective Neil Hockaday didn't think that much about an old geezer calling himself Picasso and babbling about slaughter on Tenth Avenue--until the killings began. Now it's up to Hock to stop a murderer who makes killing an art--real masterworks in paint, flesh, and blood. Original.
Теодор Тейлор0.0 Chip Clewt, known simply as the weirdo, lives like a hermit in the Powhatan Swamp, a National Wildlife Refuge that is at the center of a heated controversy between local hunters and environmentalists. A hunting ban on the Powhatan is about to expire. The environmentalists want to protect the wildlife; the hunters are oiling their guns. Then someone completely unexpected comes forward to spearhead the conservation effort--the weirdo.
Betsy Byars0.0 The Blossom family has an especially eventful weekend during which Junior Blossom loses the school hamster and Pap's dog Mud is put on trial for the hamster's murder!
"Byars captures the conflict and tension of courtroom drama, the ups and downs of personal relationships, and the rewards of lasting friendships."-- "School Library Journal," starred review.
Патрисия Корнуэлл3.7 Уик-энд приносит городу не отдых – но страх. Уже четыре женщины погибли от руки таинственного маньяка, проникшего в их дома. По какому принципу он выбирает свои жертвы? Как узнает об их жизни буквально все? Кей Скарпетта выдвигает очень необычную версию происходящего. Если она верна, маньяка удастся остановить. Однако ошибка не только погубит карьеру Кей, но и будет стоить жизни другим ни в чем не повинным женщинам...
Julie Smith0.0 When the smiling King of Carnival is killed at Mardi Gras, policewoman Skip Langdon is on the case. She knows the upper-crust family of the victim and that it hides more than its share of glittering skeletons. But nothing could prepare her for the tangled web of clues and ancient secrets that would mean danger for her--and doom for the St. Amants....
"Smith is a gifted writer."
THE WASHINGTON POST BOOK WORLD
--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
David Handler0.0 Wildly bestselling first-time novelist Cam Noyes writes with a lyrical voice like F. Scott Fitzgerald and looks like he leapt right out of a Ralph Lauren ad. The media's latest darling, he's having a ball running with the brat pack, posing for magazines, rolling in and out of beds, brawling in bars, swigging tequila, and snorting cocaine. But with such a busy schedule, Cam simply can't find the time to write his long-overdue second book. Enter Stewart "Hoagy" Hoag-ghostwriter of celebrity memoirs and reluctant amateur detective-to tackle Cam's tell-all expose of the dirty business behind megabuck book deals. But "cutthroat" takes on a whole new meaning as the bodies start piling up faster than the pages of the manuscript. If Hoagy doesn't act fast, there'll be no one left in publishing to tell the tale.
Пэм Конрад0.0 Zoe discovers that her house is occupied by the ghost of an eleven-year-old girl, who carries her back to the day of her death in 1870 to try to alter that tragic event.
Сьюзен Вулф0.0 "A world of captivating corruption...With a delicate blend of malice, suspense and sharp psychology, Wolfe winds up her story with a scene that explodes a number of myths."
SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE
When Leo Slyde--named partner, chief go-getter, "king of the billable hour" at the hottest corporate law firm in Silicon Valley--is found stabbed, the firm's newest associate, Howard Rickover is asked to play Nancy Drew. But he's got a dilemma, how can he trap a cunning murderer among lawyers who specialize in avoiding traps, and still bill enough hours to keep his job...?
James Lee Burke4.5 Ex-cop Dave Robicheaux: His wife had been murdered ... Now they're after his little girl...
From the Louisiana bayou to Montana's tribal lands,he's running front the bottle, a homicide rap, aprofessional killer ... and the demons of his past.
Alane Ferguson0.0 When, after a bizarre series of events, her best friend is accused of murdering her own baby brother and two other babies, Lauren, convinced of her friend's innocence, joins her in trying to solve the mystery and find evidence to clear her name.
David Stout0.0 As a fourteen-year-old black boy living in 1940s South Carolina, Linus Bragg should know better than to follow two white girls on bicycles. But something about Sue Ellen and Cindy Lou compels him. Whatever the reason, he follows the girls into the woods. It's the worst mistake he ever makes. When he comes into the clearing, both girls are dead and young Linus is the natural suspect. Forty years later, a nephew of Linus's returns to South Carolina, curious about this dark moment in his family's past. To find the fourth person who visited the clearing that day means re-opening a sinister chapter of the small town's history, which certain men thought had closed forever.
Stuart M. Kaminsky0.0 One Dead Commissar
At an icebound naval weather station in far Siberia, the young daughter of an exiled dies under suspicious circumstances. The high-ranking Commissar sent to investigate the mystery suffers a similar fate: he is murdered by an icicle thrust into his skull.
One Live Cop
Inspector Porfiry Rostnikov is dispatched to solve the Commissar's murder, with one caveat: he is not to investigate the girl's death. Even if all the clues tell him that the two cases are linked.
One Cold Killer
In a single, fateful day, Rostnikov will hear two confessions, watch someone die, conspire against the government, and nearly meet his own death. All under the watchful eye of the KGB -- and someone much closer and infinitely more terrifying.
Тимоти Финдли3.6 Роман «Ложь» привлекает внимание и с точки зрения его чисто литературных достоинств (он написан прекрасным языком, в лучших традициях англоязычной литературы), и с точки зрения мастерски закрученной интриги, и с точки зрения тонкого психологизма. Подзаголовок «Загадка» не случаен. Читатель действительно сталкивается с множеством цепляющихся одно за другое загадочных, странных событий, которые разъясняются лишь на самых последних страницах.
Старый миллионер Колдер Мэддокс найден мертвым на пляже гостиницы, где много лет подряд отдыхают летом одни и те же люди, причем выясняется, что умер этот человек не своей смертью. Фотограф Ванесса Ван Хорн, вовлеченная в лавину странных событий вокруг этой смерти, в конце концов докапывается до правды.
Соня Левитин0.0 Casssidy Keaton earns good grades, has lots of friends and a good home life. But having spent two weeks at summer camp, she begins her junior year a little bored -- and a little restless.
Ken Farquar had "fallen" for Cassidy at camp. Still, he's not sure he really fits in with her crowd -- and he's not sure he wants to anyway. Right now, all he knows is that he wants to be with Cassidy.
But one moonlit night, everything in their lives changes. While partying with their friends, Cassidy and Ken stumble upon a dead body. Suddenly, they are faced with the toughest decision of their lives.
Уилло Дэвис Робертс0.0 Pack up and leave? Tonight? When Megan has just one week of school left before summer vacation? Something doesn’t seem right.
Megan is used to moving. After all, she’s moved a dozen times in her twelve years. But this time, something is different. They’re leaving in the middle of the night, and Megan doesn’t even have a chance to say good-bye to her best friend. What’s worse, Megan can tell her mother is frightened. It’s almost as if they’re running away from something. But from what?
Deidre S. Laiken0.0 While police lieutenant George Murphy investigates the murder of an unknown teenage girl, whose battered body is discovered in the cemetary of the small town of Bakersville, New York, social worker Elizabeth Kern succumbs to an obsessive attraction to a potential psychopath
Aaron J. Elkins0.0 "The Skeleton Detective" is called to a French isle soon after an aristocrat drowns. But he soon finds that the case is eerily connected to another murder--way back during the Nazi Occupation of World War II France.
Susan Shreve0.0 Two sixth graders with a pretend psychiatry practice come upon a small mute child from an orphanage and determine they are going to use all their knowledge to help her to talk.
Larry Beinhart0.0 "Arresting . . . The man really can write." The New York Times Book Review.
Winner of the Edgar Award.
With the soul of a street kid, reluctant ties to the mob, and the mind of an ivy-league sharpie, Tony Cassella is more than a private investigator. He's a man with a mission -- to stay true to himself, the people he loves, and a personal code he can't always live up to.
When an old-line lawyer threatens to spill his guts to the SEC about his firm's dirty deals, Tony is hired by the top-drawer Wall Street firm to bug the secret testimony. But when the high-priced canary is found dead in a parking lot, Tony goes hunting for bigger game. But can he find the fat cat who killed the canary before he becomes the next birdie on the menu himself?
Барбара Вайн3.8 Вера Хильярд совершила ужасное преступление - и должна быть сурово наказана. Ее приговорили к казни через повешение - одну из последних англичанок за всю историю страны. А за сухими строками приговора потерялась печальная история обычной домохозяйки, которую все знали как благонравную и безобидную женщину. Но никто даже представить не мог, какую страшную семейную тайну долгие годы хранила Вера в самом дальнем и темном углу своей памяти. И чтобы скрыть эту тайну от окружающих, она была готова на все - даже на жестокое убийство. И на собственную смерть...
Барбара Вайн - псевдоним знаменитой "баронессы детектива" Рут Ренделл. С тех пор как в 1964 г. вышел в свет ее первый роман, она удостоилась множества наград, в числе которых: "Золотой кинжал" Ассоциации британских авторов детективов за лучший детективный роман (1976, 1986, 1987), "Бриллиантовый кинжал" за вклад в развитие жанра (1991), британская Национальная книжная премия Совета по искусствам в жанре художественной литературы (1980), три премии Эдгара Аллана По Ассоциации американских авторов мистических триллеров и др. В 1996 г. она стала кавалером ордена Британской империи, а в 1997 г. - баронессой и пожизненным пэром. Ее книги переведены на двадцать пять языков.
Robert Campbell4.0 First in the Jimmy Flannery series by Campbell. Paperback original first edition. Edgar Award winner for best paperback original novel of 1987.
Joan Lowery Nixon0.0 Stacy wakes up in a hospital room, in a body she doesn’t recognize. Her mother is dead—murdered—and Stacy is recovering from a gunshot wound. She is the sole eyewitness to the crime, but she has only a shadowy memory of the killer’s face. Will Stacy be able to regain a clear memory of that fateful day before the killer reaches her?
Jonathan Kellerman3.8 In the first Alex Delaware novel, Dr. Morton Handler practiced a strange brand of psychiatry. Among his specialties were fraud, extortion, and sexual manipulation. Handler paid for his sins when he was brutally murdered in his luxurious Pacific Palisades apartment. The police have no leads, but they do have one possible witness: seven-year-old Melody Quinn.
It's psychologist Dr. Alex Delaware's job to try to unlock the terrible secret buried in Melody's memory. But as the sinister shadows in the girl's mind begin to take shape, Alex discovers that the mystery touches a shocking incident in his own past.
This connection is only the beginning, a single link in a forty-year-old conspiracy. And behind it lies an unspeakable evil that Alex Delaware must expose before it claims another innocent victim: Melody Quinn.
Л. Р. Райт0.0 The Edgar Award-winning novel of hidden secrets, haunting guilt and murder--set in a town near Vancouver on Canada's Sunshine Coast. For no apparent reason a man murders his old acquaintance after only a short chat.
Уоррен Мерфи0.0 Thomas Collins is a commercial real estate agent with an insatiable sexual appetite. He'd do unspeakable things with a snake, a friend confides, if only he could get that low. Normally, that'd just be Mrs. Collins's business, but Mr. Collins is a policyholder of the Garrison Fidelity Insurance Company. A policyholder who seems to have disappeared.
San Francisco, 1985. The Mission was run-down, bean sprouts were a punchline, and Devlin "Trace" Tracy was on vacation. Until Groucho called and actually said "please." Being an insurance investigator on retainer means making certain sacrifices, and if Trace has to interview all the winsome, willing women in Thomas Collins' little black book?
Well, duty calls.
This is the award-winning fourth entry in the Trace series of mystery/suspense novels.
Патриция Виндзор0.0 Angry because he was confined in a school for disturbed juveniles for two years after witnessing a murder, upon his release eighteen-year-old Michael seeks to prove his innocence by tracking down the killer only he saw.
R. D. Rosen0.0 The Providence Jewels, an American League expansion team, have been taking a beating all season. Worse, relief pitcher Rudy Furth has just suffered a beating of a more lethal kind—and been left to die in the clubhouse whirlpool among whispers of mob corruption and violently lovesick fans.
When the police investigation stalls, veteran Providence center fielder Harvey Blissberg, who knew Furth as well as anyone, decides to play detective. While trying to keep his eye on the ball, and his head above water with the spunky, beautiful sports newscaster Mickey Slavin, Blissberg quietly stalks Furth’s killer through major-league locker rooms and the dark streets of Rhode Island’s capital city. Lots of ballplayers keep their batting averages above .300—but how many have chased a murderer at the same time?
Ross Thomas0.0 A long-distance call from a Texas city on his birthday gives Benjamin Dill the news that his sister—it’s her birthday, too, they were born exactly ten years apart—has died in a car bomb explosion. It’s the chief of police calling—Felicity Dill worked for him; she was a homicide detective. Dill is there that night, the beginning of his dogged search for her killer. What he finds is no surprise to him, because Benjamin Dill is never surprised at what awful things people will do—but it’s a real surprise to the reader. As Newsday said when the novel was first published, “One sure thing about Ross Thomas’s novels: A reader won’t get bored waiting for the action to start.”
Уоррен Мерфи0.0 Otto Penzler and the Mystery Writers of America present Grandmaster by Warren Murphy and Molly Cochran, winner of the Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best Paperback Original in 1985.
Two men, born on the same day on opposite sides of the world, driven to oppose each other--for only one man may be the Grandmaster.
Justin Gilead and Alexander Zharkov, two men driven by powerful forces they can neither understand nor deny--driven to fight each other in a battle for power that only one of them may win.
Gilead, a magnificent athlete, an American, a genius, and a spy. Zharkov, a master strategist, head of the feared secret service agency, Nichevo, a determined, ambitious man.
They first meet as ten-year-old chess prodigies-both lonely, both meaning to win, both born under the magical sign of the gold coiled serpent. They will come to know the uses of pleasure, the secrets of pain, the impact of evil turned upon itself. They will understand the deadly forces that grip the world in swift violence, sudden death. And they will finally know that only one man may be the Grandmaster.
Grandmaster is an extraordinary tale of spymasters and assassins, murder and intrigue played against a background of Far Eastern mysticism from Moscow to Washington, from Havana to Tibet.
Phyllis Reynolds Naylor0.0 Ellen had never been out of the low hill country of northeastern Mississippi. Since the death of her mother many years before, and the death of her younger brother only a year or so earlier, she and her father had shared their cabin and five acres of land alone. Except for Sleet, the horse that-because he feared lightning and thunder-had thrown and killed her brother. Ellen was terrified of Sleet. It was summer. Ellen's father's newest job-he had had many-was as a calendar salesman, so he was gone a great deal of the time. Her only contact with the outside world was through the telephone and news programs on the TV. The family's nearest neighbor was Granny Bo, an old woman full of stories of days past and dark forebodings about the present and future, which she read from signs and portents she clearly accepted as true. Ellen believed and shared Granny Bo's fears even when she did not want to. Then, stirring events in the nearby town, a stranger and his wife living in a nearby abandoned house, a kidnapping, and deeper and deeper questions in Ellen's mind about everyone she knew-including her father and Granny Bo-conspired to make Ellen face her fears and find her courage, just when it was most needed.
Will Harriss0.0 A los Angeles University librarian was found dead in his garage with a rare colonial first edition in his hand. Police don't think its bad but a friend is suspicious of murder.....
Элмор Леонард3.0 Джозеф Ла Брава, агент Секретной службы, переквалифицировавшийся в фотографа, еще мальчиком влюбился в кинозвезду Джин Шоу. Встретившись с ней двадцать пять лет спустя, он находит ее столь же сногсшибательной. Однако, соприкоснувшись с миром Ла Бравы, реальная жизнь актрисы стала сильно смахивать на сценарий одного из `ужастиков`, в которых ей приходилось сниматься.
Cynthia Voigt0.0 Think carefully. That’s the advice Jean Wainwright always gets from her beloved Aunt Constance, Jean’s guardian and headmistress at the boarding school where she lives. It’s advice that proves valuable when Jean finds herself spending the summer far from home, sorting out family papers for the reclusive Mr. Thiel, a trustee of Aunt Constance’s school and the widower of her childhood friend Irene Callender.
At Mr. Thiel’s isolated country estate, Jean is surrounded by bewildering questions from the past. Why is there such hatred between Mr. Thiel and his late wife’s brother? Was her death an accident? And what happened to their child, who disappeared after Irene Thiel’s death? Do the answers lie in the Callender papers? And will searching for the answers put Jean’s own life in
Томас Перри4.0 Прежде чем заняться литературным трудом, американский писатель Томас Перри сменил множество самых разнообразных профессий: от рабочего до продюсера на телевидении. Его первая книга "Ученик мясника" не только стала бестселлером, но и принесла автору в 1982 году престижную премию имени Эдгара По за лучший детективный роман года. "Собака Метцгера" - второй роман писателя. На русском языке романы публикуются впервые.
Rick Boyer0.0 "Boyer is up there with the best." The Boston Globe
A Doc Adams Thriller, winner of the Edgar Award for Best Mystery Novel of the Year.
First, a fishing trawler runs aground on the Massachusetts shore. Then a young scuba diver sent to investigate the wreck is found dead in the water. Doc Adams, a friend of the dead diver, sets out through the stormy seas and blood-flecked sands of Cape Cod to plumb a murder he should have prevented. There he uncovers a hidden treasure in illegal arms and is nearly killed in the process. Doc lets the world think he's dead, the better to hunt for the killers of his friend. But if he makes a single mistake, he'll be clam chowder.
Фредерик Форсайт4.2 Индийский студент Харкишан Рам Лал учится в Ирландии на врача. Ему не хватает денег и он устраивается разнорабочим в бригаду шотландцев по сносу старых зданий. Бригадир Большой Билли постоянно придирается к студенту и унижает его — и Рам Лал, потомок воинов-кшатриев, решает отомстить обидчику.
Стюарт Вудз4.2 «Полицейская сага» – роман-первенец широко известного американского писателя, вместивший в себя многообразный жизненный опыт и архивные изыскания. Сонный быт захолустного городка таит в глубине ненависть и преступление, отозвавшиеся в жизни его обитателей более чем через полвека.
William Bayer0.0 Circling high over Rockefeller Center is a peregrine falcon, the most awesome of the flying predators. She awaits a signal from her falconer. It is given: the bird attacks, plummeting from the sky at nearly 200 miles an hour, striking a young woman and killing her instantly.
So begins Peregrine, a chilling tale of obsession.
By chance, newscaster Pamela Barrett witnesses the slaying. Her impassioned account of it on television that evening thrills the falconer, a brilliant madman who identifies with his deadly bird. He becomes fascinated with Pam and enmeshes her in a bizarre and deadly scheme even as she finds herself drawn to him by an erotic need she doesn't understand.
As killing follows killing, the police and the media engage in cutthroat competition to find the murderer. Two falcons fight to the death above Central Park. Call girls, rich eccentrics, dealers in the black market for rare birds--all play their roles in this study of secret passion, desire, fulfillment, and ecstasy.
Л. А. Морс0.0 WINNER OF THE EDGAR ALLAN POE AWARD FOR BEST PAPERBACK ORIGINAL.
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Retired private eye Jake Spanner may have gotten old, but he hasn’t gone soft. When an old gangster Jake put away some forty years ago shows up at his door, it’s time for Jake to grab his hat and Browning automatic and get back to work.
Old? Sure. Slower to catch his breath? Maybe. But, sharp as a tack and with a lifetime of investigating know-how, Jake Spanner has nothing to lose and everything to prove. Sniffing out leads between Sunset Boulevard and the Hollywood Hills, Jake pulls in old friends to help. The work is hard; it’s gritty. So is Jake. And, with a three quarters of a million dollars ransom at stake, the bad guys don’t stand a chance.
With THE OLD DICK, author L.A. Morse creates a new kind of hero, one that laughs at death not because he’s too young to understand it, but because it’s right around the corner. It’s time to face it head on and maybe go out swinging.
Норма Фокс Мэйзер0.0 Fourteen-year-old Terri has lived with her father since the death of her mother in a car accident when she was four. Father and daughter move often, the reason for which becomes clear when Terri finds out that her mother is not dead, and that she was kidnapped by her father when her parents were getting a divorce.
K. Nolte Smith0.0 Humanitarian and social critic Dr. Martin Granger is dead. Was it a tragic accident, or a horrible murder? The principle witness in the case is Astrid Cain, a journalist out to expose him as a monster hiding under the sackcloth of sainthood. But there is another witness, an unknown lurker in the gloom.
Дик Фрэнсис4.0 Великолепные племенные лошади, фавориты крупнейших скачек, приобретаемые коннозаводчиком Джорджем Каспаром, почти сразу после покупки становятся никчемными аутсайдерами. Карьера Каспара на грани краха. По просьбе его жены Сид Холли, бывший жокей, а ныне частный детектив, берется выяснить, отчего так происходит. Он подозревает мошенничество и саботаж. Начав расследование, Холли не сразу понимает, что ввязался в чересчур опасную игру…
Joan Lowery Nixon0.0 Lauren is reluctant to participate in the séance, and she feels the first foreboding of evil shortly after the room is darkened. When the lights come back on, her fear turns to shock: Sara Martin is missing, even though all the doors and windows are locked from the inside. . . .
Ричард Норт Паттерсон0.0 The investigation of a politically powerful industrialist; the death of a key witness; the corruption of a federal agency. These are the explosive elements facing cynical young government lawyer Christopher Paget as he embarks on a mission that will hurl him into a brutal world of murder, kidnapping, and deception. From its intriguing beginnings to its stunning climax, international best-selling author Richard North Patterson’s first novel is a taut, gripping thriller about real people forced to face their inner fears and values.
William L. DeAndrea0.0 Criminologist Nicolo Benedetti travels to the small town of Sparta, New York to investigate a string of strange murders, the only clue being a succession of notes sent to the local newspaper, all signed HOG.
Joan Lowery Nixon0.0 She spots the masked man in the dark, lonely parking lot--but too late. Grabbed and drugged, Christina is kidnapped and held for ransom. When her family pays, she thinks her ordeal is over. But then she realizes that her family thinks she planned the kidnapping! How will Christina prove her innocence?
William L. DeAndrea0.0 Cobb's no stranger to following mysterious orders, so when he receives a telephone call asking him to visit a hotel room he obliges. The invitation, however, means a dead body, a sharp blow to the head, and suspicion from the police that he committed the crime. And while one of the detectives put on the case has known Cobb since he was a child, the other is convinced of his guilt. Can Cobb stay on point when the stakes are so high? Can he find the real killer and persuade the police of his innocence? And what do television ratings have to do with it all?
Кен Фоллетт4.1 1944 год. Высадка союзников в Нормандии под угрозой. Всеми силами они пытаются скрыть время и место начала операции. Ее успех полностью зависит от дезинформации противника.
Но агенту, известному под оперативным псевдонимом Игла, удается узнать правду.
Если он сумеет покинуть страну - союзнические силы ждет катастрофа. И тогда на поиски Иглы отправляется группа опытных контрразведчиков во главе с настоящим асом своего дела...
Robert Ross0.0 In “A French Finish, a fast-paced adventure which won the Edgar Allen Poe Award for the best new mystery in 1978, a retired Harvard art historian, Professor Emeritus Lewis Tewkesbury, with time on his hands, agrees to a crazy caper dreamt up by one of his former students, Nick Otter. Their audacious scheme: Create a perfect replica of King Louis XVI’s writing desk from the 18th century, build a bullet-proof back story concerning its ‘discovery’, and sell the forgery at auction to an unsuspecting buyer for millions. With a plot possessing more twists and turns than a woodworker’s drill bit, “A French Finish” combines insights into the arts of forgery along with ample dollops of art history, colorful characters, humor and high-jinks.
Элоиза Джарвис МакГроу0.0 While staying with relatives who live in an old inn, twelve-year-old Nels finds a secret passageway to a part of the building that no longer exists and meets a strange boy whose family is trapped in a leftover pocket of time.
James Patterson0.0 You are about to begin one of the classic American novels of suspense by the world's bestselling author. It begins with three terrifying murders in the South. It ends with a relentless and unforgettable manhunt in the North. In between is the riveting story of a chilling assassin, the woman he loves, and the beloved leader he is hired to kill with extreme prejudice.
Роберт Браун Паркер3.9 Казалось бы, что может быть проще, чем найти сбежавшую жену. Для частного детектива Спенсера - это мелкое заурядное дело. Даже он не мог предположить, что ситуация осложнится, поскольку в игре замешаны крупные деньги, высокопоставленные персоны и… кровь,пролитая на землю обетованную.
Грегори Макдональд4.0 Питер Флетчер, прилетевший из Рима в Бостон для поиска украденной у графа ди Грассии коллекции картин, через несколько часов после вселения в квартиру «по обмену», обнаруживает в своей гостиной тело красивой обнаженной девушки, убитой ударом в голову...
Ричард Пек0.0 Sixteen-year-old Gail is living the upper-class suburban life when she begins receiving terrifying phone calls and notes in her locker. And the calls keep coming. When she's attacked by the town's golden boy everyone refuses to take action against him and his powerful family. A frightening drama that deals with heavy teen issues and the idea of justice (or lack thereof) from bestselling author Richard Peck.
Rex Burns0.0 Detective Gabriel Wager of the Denver Police Department investigates the Rare Things Import Shop because of a tip that it was a front for marijuana smugglers who were spposedly smuggling the weed in at the rate of five-hundred to a thousand pounds a week. Alvarez was professional--and slippery. And Wager, working with a new partner, Detective Denby, wasn't finding that very easy, either.
Brian Garfield0.0 Since being forced into retirement by the CIA, Miles Kendig had tried everything in an effort to satisfy his hunger for excitement. But he could not recreate the ultimate conflict of life or death with no rules, the experience of pitting himself against the enemy with no holds barred.
Despite his bitterness at being shelved by the CIA, Miles was still scrupulously American--so when he found himself tempted by an offer from the Russians, he realized the time had come for him to put up or give up.
Miles has been waiting, carefully planning, for years--and, finally, he's ready. By threatening to expose the espionage secrets of the major powers, he set himself up as the quarry of an international manhunt. Now he would either prove to himself that after twenty-five years of playing the game he was still a winner, or he would meet his death at the hands of younger men.
John R. Feegel0.0 Myrl Caton is worth a lot more dead than alive, because of his life insurance, but only if his death is not a suicide. It is up to pathologist Jerry Leatherman to sift through the evidence and the suspects to determine whether it is murder or suicide. - The Mystery Lover's Companion, Art Bourgeau
Роберт К. О'Брайен3.9 Мира, который она знала, больше нет. Ядерная война унесла всех ее близких. Шестнадцатилетняя Энн Бёрден осталась совсем одна в изолированной долине, окруженной горами… а может, и на всей планете. Ужасно, не правда ли? Но по прошествии года Энн убеждается, что ошибалась. И что даже в этом изуродованном, вывернутом наизнанку мире может быть кое-что пострашнее одиночества.
Грегори Макдональд3.9 Вот уже несколько недель Флетч проводит свое время на берегу океана, на пляже, оккупированном молодыми наркоманами, с целью проведения журналистского расследования. Правда, уже вышли все сроки представления статьи в редакцию, и потому редактор сильно нервничает...
Джон Клири0.0 An IRA conspiracy to steal Vatican treasures with the help of an Irish-American journalist, working as a Vatican press spokesman goes awry. The Pope, on a nocturnal visit to the galleries, becomes a more attractive prize. Christopher Kay is the consummate narrator for a wide-ranging cast of multi-continental characters. Penny whistle and Irish drum signal the end of each side, heightening the tension in this intriguing and thought-provoking story.
Jay Bennett0.0 An eighteen-year-old boy who witnesses a murder decides to keep quiet after he is threatened by the killer, but finds his silence increasingly hard to bear.
Paul E. Erdman0.0 Fact sometimes trails in the footsteps of fiction, and so it is that events in the real world have followed much the course predicted by Paul Erdman's famous novel. Written when the first Arab oil embargo sent shock waves through our carefully balanced and delicately tuned economic system, THE BILLION DOLLAR SURE THING describes a plot to control the world's monetary assets.
Tony Hillerman5.0 Two Native-American boys have vanished into thin air, leaving a pool of blood behind them. Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn of the Navajo Tribal Police has no choice but to suspect the very worst, since the blood that stains the parched New Mexican ground once flowed through the veins of one of the missing, a young Zuñi. But his investigation into a terrible crime is being complicated by an important archaeological dig . . . and a steel hypodermic needle. And the unique laws and sacred religious rites of the Zuñi people are throwing impassable roadblocks in Leaphorn's already twisted path, enabling a craven murderer to elude justice or, worse still, to kill again.
Харлан Эллисон3.2 Она увидела как во дворе их дома медленно и хладнокровно убили женщину. Ножом. Она была одним из двадцати шести свидетелей этой страшной сцены и, как и все остальные, ничего не сделала, чтобы остановить убийцу. И она увидела ещё кое-что. В сгущающемся тумане ей привиделись огромные горящие красные глаза и безобразная ухмылка хищного лица. Это было лицо самого города, нового, кровавого Бога. Бога тумана и уличного насилия. Бога, требующего поклонения, и предлагающего на выбор — смерть в качестве жертвы или жизнь в роли вечного свидетеля гибели других несчастных. Бог, соответствующий нашему времени. Бог улиц и толпы...
