Премия Ниро (лауреаты) — 39 книг

Похитив из дома таинственного миллионера бесценную малоизвестную книгу Киплинга, обаятельный взломщик Берни Роденбарр встречает вместо «клиента», заказавшего кражу, загадочную даму в рыжем парике. Дамочка опаивает взломщика снотворным. Придя в себя, Берни обнаруживает, что его новая знакомая лежит трупом. Буквально – убитая! И герой втягивается в бешеный круговорот погонь, тайн и убийств, в которых не последнюю роль играют экзотический сикх и грозный служитель закона, подозревающий Берни во всех смертных грехах...

Похитив из дома таинственного миллионера бесценную малоизвестную книгу Киплинга, обаятельный взломщик Берни Роденбарр встречает вместо «клиента», заказавшего кражу, загадочную…

Boston landlady Harriet Sutton discovers a note about a conspiracy to murder someone--and the note must have come from one of her tenants. When one of her tenants is murdered, she becomes worried when the police investigate her son, a Vietnam veteran, considering him a victim of combat fatigue who would be capable of anything. She asks forensic psychiatrist, Dr. Basil Willing, to investigate.

Boston landlady Harriet Sutton discovers a note about a conspiracy to murder someone--and the note must have come from one of her tenants. When one of her tenants is murdered, she…

When Janet Mandelbaum is made the first woman professor at Harvard's English Department, the men are not happy. They are unhappier still when her tea is spiked and she is found drunk on the floor of the women's room. With a little time, Janet's dear friend and colleague Kate Fansler could track down the culprit, but time is running out....

When Janet Mandelbaum is made the first woman professor at Harvard's English Department, the men are not happy. They are unhappier still when her tea is spiked and she is found…

A spinster whose passion was bird-watching, a dotty peer who pinched pennies, and a baffling murder made the tiny village of Littlebourne a most extraordinary place. And a severed finger made a ghastly clue in the killing that led local constables from a corpse to a boggy footpath to a beautiful lady’s mansion.

But Richard Jury refused, preferring to take the less traveled route to a slightly disreputable pub, the Anodyne Necklace. There, drinks all around loosened enough tongues to link a London mugging with the Littlebourne murder and a treasure map that would chart the way to yet another chilling crime.

A spinster whose passion was bird-watching, a dotty peer who pinched pennies, and a baffling murder made the tiny village of Littlebourne a most extraordinary place. And a severed…

Emily Dickinson noted "death's tremendous nearness" in one of her poems. Of course, she'd been dead 100 years when her admirers came to Amherst to celebrate her at a memorial symposium.
Among them was Homer Kelly, distinguished Thoreau scholar and ex-detective, who had himself dealt with murder -- a form of death -- in the past. To his amazement he finds himself once again embroiled in sudden death when murder stalks the symposium.

Emily Dickinson noted "death's tremendous nearness" in one of her poems. Of course, she'd been dead 100 years when her admirers came to Amherst to celebrate her at a memorial…

This beloved, comedy-noir thriller teams up Leo Bloodworth, a hard-drinking, middle-aged Los Angeles PI with hypertension and a low tolerance for precious teenagers, with Serendipity Dahlquist, a bright and strong-willed roller-blading 14-year-old searching for her lost dog. But things quickly escalate, plunging the oddest of odd couples into the dark underworld of sunny Southern California and pitting them against one of the biggest, and most brutal, organized crime families in Mexico.

This beloved, comedy-noir thriller teams up Leo Bloodworth, a hard-drinking, middle-aged Los Angeles PI with hypertension and a low tolerance for precious teenagers, with…

When a maestro is murdered, Archie is flabbergasted when the gargantuan gourmet detective lifts himself out of retirement. Amid a juicy public scandal, Wolfe and Archie feast on suspects yet starve for facts—until the scanty clues finally arrange themselves like notes on a score, and Wolfe recognizes a dark melody that only a murder virtuoso could perform.

When a maestro is murdered, Archie is flabbergasted when the gargantuan gourmet detective lifts himself out of retirement. Amid a juicy public scandal, Wolfe and Archie feast on…

On Groundhog Day, Professor Peter Shandy digs into the past, bizarre circumstances around a century-old corpse. Peter is helped mostly by Ottermole and Cronk, with appearances from Grace and Phil Porble.

On Groundhog Day, Professor Peter Shandy digs into the past, bizarre circumstances around a century-old corpse. Peter is helped mostly by Ottermole and Cronk, with appearances…

The car fire didn't kill Navajo Tribal Policeman Delbert Nez, a bullet did. Officer Jim Chee's good friend Del lies dead, and a whiskey-soaked Navajo shaman is found with the murder weapon. The old man is Ashie Pinot. He's quickly arrested for homicide and defended by a woman Chee could either love or loath. But when Pinto won't utter a word of confession or denial, Lt. Joe Leaphorn begins an investigation. Soon, Leaphorn and Chee unravel a complex plot of death involving an historical find, a lost fortune...and the mythical Coyote, who is always waiting, and always hungry.

The car fire didn't kill Navajo Tribal Policeman Delbert Nez, a bullet did. Officer Jim Chee's good friend Del lies dead, and a whiskey-soaked Navajo shaman is found with the…

Murder pays no respect to rank...or the neighborhood. And so it happened that young aristocrat Timothy Wycliffe was bludgeoned to death in his elegantly furnished flat in Belgravia by a person or persons unknown. Unknown, in fact, for 30 years.Then the dead man's friend Peter Proctor -- once a young man on his way up in the diplomatic service, now a retired Member of Parliament -- seeks an antidote to boredom by attempting to write his own memoirs. Unfortunately, they seem to be creating more problems than he anticipated, and not just of the writer's-block variety. Peter keeps getting sidetracked by speculations on Timothy's death. The murder was allegedly accomplished by a beating from one of his boyfriends. But Peter can't accept so simple a solution, so he begins to probe the past. In so doing, he opens a fascinating window on British society during the 1950s and its changing -- and unchanging -- mores since.

Murder pays no respect to rank...or the neighborhood. And so it happened that young aristocrat Timothy Wycliffe was bludgeoned to death in his elegantly furnished flat in…

Denver homicide detective Cliff Janeway may not always play by the book, but he is an avid collector of rare and first editions. After a local bookscout is killed on his turf, Janeway would like nothing better than to rearrange the suspect's spine. But the suspect, local lowlife Jackie Newton, is a master at eluding the law, and Janeway's wrathful brand of off-duty justice costs him his badge.
Turning to his lifelong passion, Janeway opens a small bookshop -- all the while searching for evidence to put Newton away. But when prized volumes in a highly sought-after collection begin to appear, so do dead bodies. Now, Janeway's life is about to start a precarious new chapter as he attempts to find out who's dealing death along with vintage Chandlers and Twains.

Denver homicide detective Cliff Janeway may not always play by the book, but he is an avid collector of rare and first editions. After a local bookscout is killed on his turf,…

It is the kind of news that would normally send champagne corks flying at the Seattle Art Museum. A famous French art collector wants to give the museum an original Rembrandt! So why isn't Chris Norgren, curator of Renaissance and Baroque Art, smiling? Perhaps because the gift seems too good to be true. And there are conditions that make Chris nervous: The collector is the elderly Rene Vachey, one of the world's more controversial eccentrics. The Rembrandt has come out of nowhere - in fact, from a Paris junk shop - with no known history of ownership. Vachey will let Chris examine the painting, but he's not allowed to make scientific tests before he officially accepts the painting for the museum. Could the whole episode be a cruel hoax? Chris knows that if he authenticates the painting and it's a fake, he'll have embarrassed both himself and his museum. But if he rejects Vachey's gift, and the Rembrandt turns out to be real, he'll also look like a fool and Seattle will have lost a magnificent art treasure. Chris flies to France to leave a look for himself. The trip, which comes at an inconvenient time in Chris's shaky love life, soon takes a sinister and deadly turn. Chris must use all his wits and expertise in a perplexing quest for a killer, the evaluation of a painting that might or might not be a Rembrandt, and the untangling of a complex man's many-layered past. Old Scores is rich with European ambiance, fascinating art lore, and a compelling, insider's view of a rarefied world that few of us ever see. It is the work of a master.

It is the kind of news that would normally send champagne corks flying at the Seattle Art Museum. A famous French art collector wants to give the museum an original Rembrandt! So…

She Walks These Hills is another excellent book in the Appalachian series by Sharyn McCrumb. She again combines two stories - one in the present and one in the past along with a pinch of a ghost story, culminating in an overall satisfying novel.

She Walks These Hills is another excellent book in the Appalachian series by Sharyn McCrumb. She again combines two stories - one in the present and one in the past along with a…

1920 год... Шерлок Холмс и Мэри Рассел вступают в борьбу с могущественной организацией наркоторговцев, действующей под вывеской сектантского «Нового Храма в Господе»... Исход борьбы выглядит непредсказуемым: слишком могущественные и изощренные противники достались Холмсу и его молодой напарнице.

1920 год... Шерлок Холмс и Мэри Рассел вступают в борьбу с могущественной организацией наркоторговцев, действующей под вывеской сектантского «Нового Храма в Господе»... Исход…

Детектив Шон Макэвой, зациклившийся на деле о жутком убийстве студентки, покончил с собой.
С этим согласились все, кроме его брата-близнеца Джека, известного криминального репортера.
Он начинат собственное расследование и выясняет, что брата убили.
Теперь ему предстоит встреча с очень необычным и зловещим противником.

Детектив Шон Макэвой, зациклившийся на деле о жутком убийстве студентки, покончил с собой.
С этим согласились все, кроме его брата-близнеца Джека, известного криминального…

К Патрику и его напарнице Энджи обращается за помощью умирающий миллионер Тревор Стоун. За огромное вознаграждение он просит найти свою пропавшую дочь и единственную наследницу Дезире, которая находится в тяжелом душевном состоянии после недавней смерти матери. Попутно выясняется, что Тревор уже отправил на ее поиски одного известного сыщика, но тот тоже бесследно исчез. Начав расследование, Патрик и Энджи попадают в мир лжи и коррупции, где каждый неосторожный шаг может стать роковым.

К Патрику и его напарнице Энджи обращается за помощью умирающий миллионер Тревор Стоун. За огромное вознаграждение он просит найти свою пропавшую дочь и единственную наследницу…

Линкольн Райм - один из лучших криминалистов страны, гений в области судебной экспертизы. После несчастного случая он стал инвалидом, однако полиция не может обойтись без его помощи. Убийца, прозванный Собирателем Костей, находит своих жертв на улицах Нью-Йорка. Райму приходится использовать весь свой опыт и талант, чтобы остановить преступника.
С помощью очаровательной напарницы - полицейского детектива Амелии Сакс - ему предстоит пробиться через лабиринт вещественных доказательств, чтобы предотвратить очередное страшное преступление. Погоня за преступниками оборачивается борьбой умов. Время поджимает... Убийца должен быть пойман, пока еще не поздно...

Линкольн Райм - один из лучших криминалистов страны, гений в области судебной экспертизы. После несчастного случая он стал инвалидом, однако полиция не может обойтись без его…

Booted out of law school, young Okie Dunn returns home to the warm prairie town of Vernon with high hopes for the future. He finds, though, that the friendly world he left behind is falling apart--and not just because of the Great Depression.
When his childhood friend, Sheriff Dub Ready, is killed, Okie takes over the job, swearing to bring the killer to justice. But just who wanted Dub dead and why? And was his murder linked to the mysterious, brutal deaths of his parents two years before? Despite his best intentions, Okie discovers that upholding the law and finding the truth can be difficult, dangerous business, one that will pit him against lifelong friends, business associates, a cold-blooded killer...and even his own heart.

Booted out of law school, young Okie Dunn returns home to the warm prairie town of Vernon with high hopes for the future. He finds, though, that the friendly world he left behind…

Locals recognize the Sugar House as a stubborn and defiant legacy of the city's past that competes with Charm City's glitzy present. Tess thought she knew it, too--until she is forced to take on the most disturbing case of her accidental career. First there's her client, former barmaid Ruthie Dembrow, who seems to know Tess's father well, a little too well as far as his daughter is concerned. Then there's the nature of the crime she's asked to investigate--and its cast of characters. "Ever heard of a Jane Doe murder?" Ruthie asks Tess, and with that question there's no turning back. Fourteen months ago, Ruthie's low-life brother, Henry, killed a runaway over a bottle of glue. His confession put him away, but no one ever learned the girl's name. A month into his prison term, Henry met the same grim fate as his victim. Now Ruthie wants Tess to find out why. With just a few tantalizing and elusive clues, Tess sets off on a path that takes her from Baltimore's exclusive Inner Harbor to the city's seediest neighborhoods. But it's the shocking discovery of the runaway's true identity that turns Tess's hunt deadly. Suddenly, her supposedly solved murder case keeps turning up newer, fresher corpses and newer, scarier versions of the Sugar House--places that look so sweet and safe, but only from the outside. And every time Tess thinks she's done what she has to do to protect her family, this decidedly sour case ends up back on her doorstep, ready to claim another life.

Locals recognize the Sugar House as a stubborn and defiant legacy of the city's past that competes with Charm City's glitzy present. Tess thought she knew it, too--until she is…