Publication details not specified. 73 p. Classical work of Norwegian literature, by the author Hans Aanrud, published in 1903. It was translated into English in 1907 by Laura E. Poulsson, and illustrated by Norwegian artist Othar Holmboe. Aanrud's classic novel was translated again in 1935, under the title Sidsel Longskirt: A Girl of Norway. Illustrated by the famed artists...
660 tons of Semtex is detonated in a massive explosion in Libya. The operation seems to have gone smoothly, but within minutes of the explosion, CIA agent Richard Lawrence discovers that one shipment of the explosive has been hijacked. Days later, a glory-seeking 'Emir' broadcasts to the world that he is planning a massive terrorist strike against a U.S. landmark. And he gives...
When authorities in Alaska receive a disturbing call from a teenage girl, their investigation leads them to discover an entire family of researchers dead. Joe Rush is called to help examine the bodies. On the surface, it looks like a brutal murder/suicide. But the situation is nowhere near that simple — nor is it over. Upon closer investigation, Rush discovers the terrifying...
In the remote, frozen waters of the Arctic Ocean, the high-powered and technically advanced submarine U.S.S. Montana is in peril. Adrift and in flames, the boat — and the entire crew — could be lost. The only team close enough to get to them in time is led by Marine doctor and bio-terror expert Joe Rush. With only thirty-six hours before the surviving crew perish, Joe and his...
At the height of its power in World War two, the Imperial Japanese war machine controlled much of the Far East. Their early, almost un-checked conquests allowed them to loot vast unrecorded hoards of treasure and huge amounts of gold bullion from the banks. Consequently tons of gold and silver were buried, in one hundred and seventy five separate sites, including many of the...
2016. — 294 p. — ISBN: 1943402124. Brooklyn Justice is a wild ride through the streets of the Borough of Churches. Private investigator Nick Ventura knows trouble — but not how to keep his nose out of it. A pool of blood spreading across a casino poker table, a Buick plowing through a storefront with a dead detective aboard, a fatal rendezvous in the shadow of a Coney Island...
Four Tails Publishing Ltd., 2019. — 307 p. — ASIN B07KRNGV3R. Perched on a Welsh clifftop, the ancient, picturesque hamlet of Rhosddraig has its peaceful façade ripped apart when human remains are discovered under a pile of stones. The village pub, The Dragon's Head, run by three generations of women, becomes the focal point for those interested in the grisly find, and it’s...
It was a wet, bad year on the Old Western Trail. From Red River north and all along was herd after herd waterbound by high water in the rivers. Our outfit lay over nearly a week on the South Canadian, but we were not alone, for there were five other herds waiting for the river to go down. This river had tumbled over her banks for several days, and the driftwood that was coming...
While walking her poodle, Olivia Limoges discovers a dead body buried in the sand. Could it be connected to the bizarre burglaries plaguing Oyster Bay, North Carolina? At every crime scene, the thieves set up odd tableaus: a stick of butter with a knife through it, dolls with silver spoons in their mouths, a deck of cards with a missing queen. Olivia realizes each setup...
In the small coastal town of Oyster Bay, North Carolina, you'll find plenty of characters, ne'er-do-wells, and even a few celebs trying to duck the paparazzi. But when murder joins this curious community, the Bayside Book Writers are there to get the story... Olivia Limoges is the subject of constant gossip. Ever since she came back to town-a return as mysterious as her...
Olivia Limoges and the Bayside Book Writers are excited about Oyster Bay's newest resident: bestselling novelist Nick Plumley, who's come to work on his next book. But when Olivia stops by Plumley's rental she finds that he's been strangled to death. Her instincts tell her that something from the past came back to haunt him, but she never expects that the investigation could...
Iran is bracing for war and poised to make an armed grab for regional hegemony. Its leadership in Tehran is preparing to play a secret military trump card. Long in preparation, Iran's nuclear warfare program has yielded an array of weapons of mass destruction and delivery systems to drop nukes onto targets in the Middle East and as far away as the continental reaches of the...
Yucca Publishing, 2016. — 240 p. — ASIN B01HDVCTD4. On November 8, 1939, a nondescript German clockmaker named Georg Elser placed a bomb in a Munich beer hall where Hitler was scheduled to give a speech. His simple intent: to stop the impending onset of World War II. The bomb’s explosion missed the Führer by only minutes, still killing more than 150 members of the Nazi Old...
Yucca Publishing, 2016. — 240 p. — ASIN B01HDVCTD4. On November 8, 1939, a nondescript German clockmaker named Georg Elser placed a bomb in a Munich beer hall where Hitler was scheduled to give a speech. His simple intent: to stop the impending onset of World War II. The bomb’s explosion missed the Führer by only minutes, still killing more than 150 members of the Nazi Old...
A chilling adventure beneath the streets of London where WWII-era bombs, government conspiracies, and science — gone very very wrong — collide.* Beneath the streets of London lie many secrets. Subterranean rivers carve channels through darkened caverns. Hidden laboratories and government offices from WWII offer a maze of corridors and abandoned medical experiments. Lost in the...
Yucca Publishing, 2016. - 400 c. - ISBN10: 1631580833; ISBN13: 978-1631580833. It is more than just a fitting name for this outwardly innocent fishing village. Misery Bay is a picturesque fishing village on the Eastern shore of Nova Scotia, a seemingly idyllic location. But the islands and hidden coves hide something more sinister. Illegal immigrants and drugs are being...
Yucca Publishing, 2016. - 400 c. - ISBN10: 1631580833; ISBN13: 978-1631580833. It is more than just a fitting name for this outwardly innocent fishing village. Misery Bay is a picturesque fishing village on the Eastern shore of Nova Scotia, a seemingly idyllic location. But the islands and hidden coves hide something more sinister. Illegal immigrants and drugs are being...
2019. — 395 p. — (The Adulterer Series Book 1). — ASIN B07QBQZVXS. The Adulterer's Handbook is the story of a happily married man, desperately trying to prevent his wife from finding out about his affair. For months he is successful, but then things take a dark turn... A love story, a betrayal, an accident, a murder? You decide. Lee Bolton has it all: a wonderful wife who he...
(The Three Investigators). A Few Words From Alfred Hitchcock. Greetings and salutations! It is a pleasure to have you join me for another adventure with that remarkable trio of lads who call themselves The Three Investigators. This time a most unusual screaming clock leads them into a tangled web of clues, mystery and excitement. I imagine that you have already met The Three...
Bloodhound Books, 2019. A body washes up on a Blackpool beach, tortured and shot through the head. A man is found in an alleyway with his throat ripped open. A woman is murdered in a hospital bed. What connects them? DI Roz Kray’s private life is in turmoil as she struggles to unravel a baffling case and DCI Dan Bagley is hell-bent on making her working life a misery. Billy...
Penguin Booksm, 2016 - 272 c. - ASIN: B0191ZL2AQ After attending her father’s funeral, former Mossad agent Rachel Goldschmitt empties her bank account and disappears. But when she makes a cryptic phone call to her former handler, Ehud, the Mossad sends him to track her down. Finding no leads, he must retrace her career as a spy to figure out why she abandoned Mossad before she...
Penguin Booksm, 2016 - 272 c. - ASIN: B0191ZL2AQ After attending her father’s funeral, former Mossad agent Rachel Goldschmitt empties her bank account and disappears. But when she makes a cryptic phone call to her former handler, Ehud, the Mossad sends him to track her down. Finding no leads, he must retrace her career as a spy to figure out why she abandoned Mossad before she...
Penguin Booksm, 2016 - 272 c. - ASIN: B0191ZL2AQ After attending her father’s funeral, former Mossad agent Rachel Goldschmitt empties her bank account and disappears. But when she makes a cryptic phone call to her former handler, Ehud, the Mossad sends him to track her down. Finding no leads, he must retrace her career as a spy to figure out why she abandoned Mossad before she...
Eric disappeared when he was three years old. Ben looked away for only a second at the grocery store, but that was all it took. His brother was gone. Vanished right into the sticky air of the Florida Panhandle. They say you've got only a couple days to find a missing person. Forty-eight hours to conduct searches, knock on doors, and talk to witnesses. Two days to tear the world...
Ace Books Ink, 1965. - (The Man from U.N.C.L.E. 01) In Utangaville, Africa, it took two days. In Spayerwood, Scotland, it happened overnight. In each town, the people suddenly turned into mindless, babbling creatures who thrashed about wildly, uttering weird, half-human cries, then died. Doctors and scientists were baffled as to the cause. A sudden plague, some mysterious...
A novel (1984). After receiving news that his brother Mark has died in suspicious circumstances in the Pacific, marine biologist Mike Trevelyan discovers that Mark′s latest research may have discovered a lucrative source of manganese beneath the sea. With only two clues — a notebook in code and a lump of deep–sea rock — Mike's investigations trigger the start of a hazardous...
A novel (1984). After receiving news that his brother Mark has died in suspicious circumstances in the Pacific, marine biologist Mike Trevelyan discovers that Mark′s latest research may have discovered a lucrative source of manganese beneath the sea. With only two clues — a notebook in code and a lump of deep–sea rock — Mike's investigations trigger the start of a hazardous...
Windfall is a novel written by English author Desmond Bagley, and was first published in 1982. This is a novel about the source of a mysterious 40 million pound legacy. The main benefactor was a small college in the remote Rift Valley in Kenya. The heirs were the South African man Dirk Hendricks and the unknown, recently discovered, descendant, Henry Hendrix from California....
Windfall is a novel written by English author Desmond Bagley, and was first published in 1982. This is a novel about the source of a mysterious 40 million pound legacy. The main benefactor was a small college in the remote Rift Valley in Kenya. The heirs were the South African man Dirk Hendricks and the unknown, recently discovered, descendant, Henry Hendrix from California....
An Ash Carter Thriller. Heritage Books, 2018. A grisly discovery. A headless body, found on a causeway between Singapore and Malaya, gets assigned to ex-military investigator Ash Carter. Now working for the government, he needs to find out if this is just another drug-war punishment or something more. His search for answers takes him through Malaya as far as Penang. But with...
London: The Companion Book Club, 1966. - 224 c. Скан 600dpi. It is well written and delivered with perfect pace 60s action novel. Not exactly a crime novel, nor a thriller but an entertaining romp with a strong sense of the world in the 1960s from Hollywood to Belgrade, from the movies to Tito's Yugoslavia. Carefully mixing a brew of the shifting morality of the decade against...
London: The Companion Book Club, 1966. - 224 c. Скан 600dpi. It is well written and delivered with perfect pace 60s action novel. Not exactly a crime novel, nor a thriller but an entertaining romp with a strong sense of the world in the 1960s from Hollywood to Belgrade, from the movies to Tito's Yugoslavia. Carefully mixing a brew of the shifting morality of the decade against...
Bookouture, 2016. - 359 c. - ASIN: B01GK0CAR4 It’s the perfect Sunday. Summer sunshine, a barbecue with the kids. But a knock on the garden gate and two words, ‘HELP ME’, changes everything. When loving parents Rob and Wendy Turner let a dying man into their home, and do their best to help him, they think pure chance led him to their house. But soon their lives are threatened...
Bookouture, 2016. — 359 p. — ASIN B01GK0CAR4. It’s the perfect Sunday. Summer sunshine, a barbecue with the kids. But a knock on the garden gate and two words, ‘Help me’, changes everything. When loving parents Rob and Wendy Turner let a dying man into their home, and do their best to help him, they think pure chance led him to their house. But soon their lives are threatened...
Bookouture, 2016. - 359 c. - ASIN: B01GK0CAR4 It’s the perfect Sunday. Summer sunshine, a barbecue with the kids. But a knock on the garden gate and two words, ‘HELP ME’, changes everything. When loving parents Rob and Wendy Turner let a dying man into their home, and do their best to help him, they think pure chance led him to their house. But soon their lives are threatened...
A tense, gripping psychological thriller, with Hitchcockian overtones, perfect for fans of Gillian Flynn's GONE GIRL and Sophie Hannah. Lara Finch is living a lie. Everyone thinks she has a happy life in Cornwall, married to the devoted Sam, but in fact she is desperately bored. When she is offered a new job that involves commuting to London by sleeper train, she meets Guy and...
A tense, gripping psychological thriller, with Hitchcockian overtones, perfect for fans of Gillian Flynn's GONE GIRL and Sophie Hannah. Lara Finch is living a lie. Everyone thinks she has a happy life in Cornwall, married to the devoted Sam, but in fact she is desperately bored. When she is offered a new job that involves commuting to London by sleeper train, she meets Guy and...
A loving husband or a heartless killer…She'd know. Wouldn't she? For fans of Gone Girl and The Girl on the Train, an electrifying thriller that will take you into the dark spaces that exist between a husband and a wife.
G.P. Putnam's Sons Books for Young Readers, 2017. — 368 p. — ISBN10: 0399545255; ISBN13: 978-0399545252. I’ll Give You the Sun meets True Detective in this brilliant YA debut about saints, sisters, and learning to let go. Tess da Costa is a saint — a hand-to-god, miracle-producing saint. At least that’s what the people in her hometown of New Avon, Massachusetts, seem to...
G.P. Putnam's Sons Books for Young Readers, 2017. — 368 p. — ISBN10: 0399545255; ISBN13: 978-0399545252. I’ll Give You the Sun meets True Detective in this brilliant YA debut about saints, sisters, and learning to let go. Tess da Costa is a saint — a hand-to-god, miracle-producing saint. At least that’s what the people in her hometown of New Avon, Massachusetts, seem to...
G.P. Putnam's Sons Books for Young Readers, 2017. — 368 p. — ISBN10: 0399545255; ISBN13: 978-0399545252. I’ll Give You the Sun meets True Detective in this brilliant YA debut about saints, sisters, and learning to let go. Tess da Costa is a saint — a hand-to-god, miracle-producing saint. At least that’s what the people in her hometown of New Avon, Massachusetts, seem to...
Minotaur Books, 2019, 202 p., ISBN-10: 1250157722, ISBN-13: 978-1250157720 New York Times bestseller M. C. Beaton's cranky, crafty Agatha Raisin — now the star of a hit T.V. show — is back on the case again in Beating About the Bush. She won’t let any moss grow under her feet… When private detective Agatha Raisin comes across a severed leg in a roadside hedge, it looks like she...
Minotaur Books, 2013. — 304 p. — ISBN10: 0312640137, ISBN13: 978-0312640132. Gloria French was a jolly widow with dyed blonde hair, a raucous laugh and rosy cheeks. When she first moved from London to the charming Cotswolds hills, she was heartily welcomed. She seemed a do-gooder par excellence, raising funds for the church and caring for the elderly. But she had a nasty habit...
Minotaur Books, 2013. — 304 p. — ISBN10: 0312640137, ISBN13: 978-0312640132. Gloria French was a jolly widow with dyed blonde hair, a raucous laugh and rosy cheeks. When she first moved from London to the charming Cotswolds hills, she was heartily welcomed. She seemed a do-gooder par excellence, raising funds for the church and caring for the elderly. But she had a nasty habit...
Severn House Publishers, 2011. — 256 p. When the former crusader knight Geoffrey Mappestone is ordered by King Henry to deliver a series of mysterious letters to the restless western reaches of Wales, he agrees only reluctantly. His conviction that the simple mission hides something more sinister is strengthened when the letters’ scribe is murdered before the journey begins....
Severn House Publishers, 2010. — 256 p. — (Sir Geoffrey Mappestone-7). When the former crusader knight Geoffrey Mappestone and his friend Roger of Durham try to slip out of England to the Holy Land, a ferocious storm destroys the ship they are on and casts them ashore. The two knights are unwillingly thrust into the company of other shipwrecked passengers, and while attempting...
St. Martin's Paperbacks, 2010. — ISBN10: 031259979X; ISBN13: 978-0312599799. When a plane crashes into the Antarctic ice, exposing an enormous cave system, a rescue and research team is dispatched. Twenty-four hours later, all contact is lost. Captain Alex Hunter and his highly trained commandos, along with a team of scientists, are fast tracked to the hot zone to find out what...
A fast and funny caper in the tradition of Elmore Leonard, Carl Hiaasen, and the Coen Brothers, Gutshot Straight brings a fresh new talent into the crime fiction fold: Louis Berney. He’s already won raves for his short fiction collection The Road to Bobby Joe and Other Stories (Rivals the work of contemporary hotshots T.C. Boyle and Ralph Lombreglia — Chicago Tribune). With...
Berney takes his rightful place as heir to Elmore Leonard with this witty and nimble comedic thriller, a sequel to his first novel, Gutshot Straight (2010). Charles Shake Bouchon, once a getaway driver for the Armenian mafia in Southern California, wants to go straight. After a second stint in prison for grand theft auto, he’s bought a restaurant in Belize. The food’s good, but...
New York: Crown, 2016. — 304 p. — ISBN: 1101903732 (ISBN13: 9781101903735). Dodgers is a dark, unforgettable coming-of-age journey that recalls the very best of Richard Price, Denis Johnson, and J.D. Salinger. It is the story of a young LA gang member named East, who is sent by his uncle along with some other teenage boys — including East's hothead younger brother — to kill a...
New York: Crown, 2016. — 304 p. — ISBN: 1101903732 (ISBN13: 9781101903735). Dodgers is a dark, unforgettable coming-of-age journey that recalls the very best of Richard Price, Denis Johnson, and J.D. Salinger. It is the story of a young LA gang member named East, who is sent by his uncle along with some other teenage boys — including East's hothead younger brother — to kill a...
First published in 2009. Synopsis: It seems like a straightforward domestic murder until a bloodstained sliver of X-ray is found clutched in the dead woman’s fist - and it quickly becomes clear that this case is anything but ordinary. Thorne discovers that the victim’s mother had herself been murdered fifteen years before by infamous serial-killer Raymond Garvey. The hunt to...
A rainy night in south London. A gun is fired into a car which swerves on to the pavement, killing the person standing at a bus stop. It seems that a chilling gang initiation has cost an innocent victim their life. But the reality is far more sinister.
A rainy night in south London. A gun is fired into a car which swerves on to the pavement, killing the person standing at a bus stop. It seems that a chilling gang initiation has cost an innocent victim their life. But the reality is far more sinister.
A rainy night in south London. A gun is fired into a car which swerves on to the pavement, killing the person standing at a bus stop. It seems that a chilling gang initiation has cost an innocent victim their life. But the reality is far more sinister.
Flashpoint Publications, 2018. — 223 p. — ASIN B07K7SHRCT. Katia Billings, EMT with the Emergency Medical Services of Buxton Beach, NC, is one of the first to respond after a hurricane rips through the small island community. As she helps search for survivors, she and her fellow responders discover a secret that will haunt Katia the rest of her life. Lurking beneath the sand...
Soho Press, 2012. — 320 p. — ISBN: 9781616950620. Aimée Leduc' is the female private detective regularly featured in Cara Black’s novels. Rene Friant is her business partner, The action usually takes place in Paris. This time the Meizi Wu, Rene’s girl friend goes missing in one of Paris’ China towns. When our pair go looking for her they find the dead body of a young man and in...
Raven Books, 2014. — 154 p. — (Detective Pratt Mystery 01). — ISBN: 978-1-4598-0515-6. Detective Mervin Pratt is enjoying a quiet dinner at his favorite Italian restaurant when he's called in to assist at a murder scene at a popular downtown nightclub. The manager has been stabbed to death in his office. The lead investigator, Detective Gordon, no friend of Pratt's, sees it as...
Pub. by Fawcett Publications Inc. in 1965; ISBN: 978-1-4532-0840-3. Two con-men set up a scheme to relieve an obnoxious millionaire of some of his millions, with the help of his gorgeous secretary. A noir set in the 1960s, this is an exciting read.
Minotaur Books; First Edition/First Printing edition, 2017. — 352 p. — ISBN10: 1250051045; ISBN13: 978-1250051042. (Highway Quartet 4) She almost caught him once. Now, he’s back. For three years, Investigator Cassie Dewell has been on a hunt for a serial killer known as the Lizard King whose hunting grounds are the highways and truck stops where runaways and prostitutes are...
Minotaur Books; First Edition/First Printing edition, 2017. — 352 p. — ISBN10: 1250051045; ISBN13: 978-1250051042. (Highway Quartet 4) She almost caught him once. Now, he’s back. For three years, Investigator Cassie Dewell has been on a hunt for a serial killer known as the Lizard King whose hunting grounds are the highways and truck stops where runaways and prostitutes are...
Putnam's sons, 2018. — 384 p. Wyoming's new governor isn't sure what to make of Joe Pickett, but he has a job for him that is extremely delicate. Three British executives, all women, never came home from the high-end guest ranch they were visiting, and the British Embassy is pressing hard. Pickett knows that happens sometimes--these ranches are stocked with handsome young...
Crown, 2017. — 304 p. — ISBN10: 0451496329; ISBN13: 978-0451496324. For fans of Donna Tartt and Megan Abbott, a novel about a woman whose family and identity are threatened by the secrets of her past, from the New York Times bestselling author of She's Not There On a warm August night in 1980, six college students sneak into the dilapidated ruins of Philadelphia’s Eastern State...
Crown, 2017. — 304 p. — ISBN10: 0451496329; ISBN13: 978-0451496324. For fans of Donna Tartt and Megan Abbott, a novel about a woman whose family and identity are threatened by the secrets of her past, from the New York Times bestselling author of She's Not There On a warm August night in 1980, six college students sneak into the dilapidated ruins of Philadelphia’s Eastern State...
Bantam Dell, 2010. – 144 p. New York Times bestselling author Alan Bradley has enchanted readers worldwide with one of the most award-winning mystery series ever. Featuring the irresistible, incorrigible eleven-year-old Flavia de Luce, whom the Chicago Sun-Times called a delightful, intrepid, acid-tongued new heroine, the family de Luce lives on the once glorious, now crumbling...
Bantam Dell, 2011. – 136 p. New York Times bestselling author Alan Bradley has enchanted readers worldwide with one of the most award-winning mystery series ever. Flavia de Luce, a dangerously smart eleven-year-old with a passion for chemistry and a genius for solving murders, thinks that her days of crime-solving in the bucolic English hamlet of Bishop’s Lacey are over — until...
Bantam Dell, 2011. – 156 p. New York Times bestselling author Alan Bradley has enchanted readers worldwide with one of the most award-winning mystery series ever. In the hamlet of Bishop’s Lacey, the insidiously clever and unflappable eleven-year-old sleuth Flavia de Luce had asked a Gypsy woman to tell her fortune — never expecting to later stumble across the poor soul,...
Publisher: Bantam Dell, 2011. – 110 p. Language: English. Description: New York Times bestselling author Alan Bradley has enchanted readers worldwide with one of the most award-winning mystery series ever. It’s Christmastime, and the precocious Flavia de Luce — an eleven-year-old sleuth with a passion for chemistry and a penchant for crime-solving — is tucked away in her...
Amazon Digital Services LLC., 2019. — 137 p. — ISBN: 978-1-09-46629. In the woods that butt up against their quiet east Texas town, middle schoolers Lucas, Elijah and Tyler have spent the last three months building a secret treehouse. On the first night of spring break, they sneak out to finally spend the night in the finished project. Things quickly turn nightmarish when they...
Dundurn, 2013. — 280 p. — ISBN: 1459709721 (ISBN13: 9781459709720). Twisted tales of killers who almost got away with perfect murders. A man murders the first four infants he fathers with his lover, then tries again with a fifth. Two men have three things in common: each commits what seems like a perfect murder, each marries his victim’s wife far too soon, each has an overdue...
Joffe Books, 2016. — 295 p. — ASIN B01FDZK4IE. A suspense thriller with an almighty twist in the tale. How can an entire family disappear into thin air? An empty house on the edge of a small town...a teddy bear abandoned...a half drunk glass of wine...the Tv left on and all the computer equipment missing. Where have Hutchinson Kemp and his wife and two children gone? Detective...
Joffe Books, 2019. — 225 p. — ISBN: 139781789310818. He kills their wives. He destroys their families. Then he comes after the husbands. “Do you want to know who killed your wife?” he asks. Kelly Roth, FBI profiler, returns home to Syracuse to stop a sadistic serial killer. Three murders in three separate jurisdictions in central New York State have the same pattern: women...
Kindle Edition. — 2013. — 259 p. — (Sophia Burgess and Ray Stone #2). — ASIN B00AZY2EO6. "Daddy did it," says seven-year-old Amber Pyle. She's a rape victim, the worst her nurse, Sophia Burgess, can imagine. But, unlike her murdered mother and little brother, Amber might survive. Detective Ray Stone, Sophia's live-in boyfriend, is assigned the case and is more distressed than...
Kindle Edition. — 2017. — 296 p. — (Sophia Burgess & Ray Stone #3). — ASIN B06XZSSGVL. Elder abuse becomes a reality to nurse Sophia Burgess after her elderly friend is murdered and the father-in-law of a powerful man comes to the hospital with injuries that do not look accidental. When her superiors don’t see it her way and refuse to report the suspected abuse, Sophia’s...
Kindle Edition. — 2017. — 296 p. — (Sophia Burgess & Ray Stone #3). — ASIN B06XZSSGVL. Elder abuse becomes a reality to nurse Sophia Burgess after her elderly friend is murdered and the father-in-law of a powerful man comes to the hospital with injuries that do not look accidental. When her superiors don’t see it her way and refuse to report the suspected abuse, Sophia’s...
Kindle Edition. — 2017. — 296 p. — (Sophia Burgess & Ray Stone #3). — ASIN B06XZSSGVL. Elder abuse becomes a reality to nurse Sophia Burgess after her elderly friend is murdered and the father-in-law of a powerful man comes to the hospital with injuries that do not look accidental. When her superiors don’t see it her way and refuse to report the suspected abuse, Sophia’s...
Gerri Brightwell's The Dark Lantern opens in London in 1893. Sixteen-year-old Jane Wilbred, an orphan whose mother was hanged after being convicted of murder, has forged a letter in order to obtain a position as second housemaid for the Bentley family. She left her job working for a heartless and domineering mistress and traveled for five hours by train, hoping that her new...
Orion, 2016. - ISBN10: 1409100855; ISBN13: 978-1409100850. Erykah Macdonald has a nice life – the kind of life you’re meant to want. But on her twentieth wedding anniversary, she’s about to cross a line. Several hundred miles away in the shallow waters of a Hebridean island, a body is found. It’s been in the water long enough to make identification tricky but it’s clear this is...
Orion, 2016. - ISBN10: 1409100855; ISBN13: 978-1409100850. Erykah Macdonald has a nice life – the kind of life you’re meant to want. But on her twentieth wedding anniversary, she’s about to cross a line. Several hundred miles away in the shallow waters of a Hebridean island, a body is found. It’s been in the water long enough to make identification tricky but it’s clear this is...
Orion, 2016. - ISBN10: 1409100855; ISBN13: 978-1409100850. Erykah Macdonald has a nice life – the kind of life you’re meant to want. But on her twentieth wedding anniversary, she’s about to cross a line. Several hundred miles away in the shallow waters of a Hebridean island, a body is found. It’s been in the water long enough to make identification tricky but it’s clear this is...
Bloodhound Books, 2017. — 208 p. — ASIN B0727MS88T. A retired detective and a young woman are about to face their worst fears. Vicki Reiner is emotionally isolated and craves the fleeting happiness she experienced in the years prior to her college graduation. In an attempt to recapture this, she invites her old friend, Laurie, for a break at her deserted beachside home....
Bloodhound Books. — 2019. — (Leighton Jones 3). — ISBN: 978-1-912986-07-1. Two seven-year-old girls, Tina and Suzy, are playing in a dusty creek when a stranger appears and strikes up a conversation. He is sad that he doesn’t have a doll to play with, like the girls do, so Suzy hurries home to fetch one. When she returns, Suzy discovers both Tina and the stranger have vanished....
Ambassador International, 2014. Do not return to Texas! Marti Rushing gets the message, loud and clear. If she returns to Texas, her life is in danger. If she stays in Tennessee, she’s safe. But when she receives a letter telling her that Daniel, her ex-husband and the love of her life, is dying, she knows she has to defy the stalker and return to Texas to see him. Three years...
Ambassador International, 2014. DO NOT RETURN TO TEXAS! Marti Rushing gets the message, loud and clear. If she returns to Texas, her life is in danger. If she stays in Tennessee, she’s safe. But when she receives a letter telling her that Daniel, her ex-husband and the love of her life, is dying, she knows she has to defy the stalker and return to Texas to see him. Three years...
Ambassador International, 2014. DO NOT RETURN TO TEXAS! Marti Rushing gets the message, loud and clear. If she returns to Texas, her life is in danger. If she stays in Tennessee, she’s safe. But when she receives a letter telling her that Daniel, her ex-husband and the love of her life, is dying, she knows she has to defy the stalker and return to Texas to see him. Three years...
HQ Digital, 2017. — 195 p. — ASIN: B01N0A30QS. (The Den of Iniquity - Book 1) Welcome to the most notorious address in London… Beneath the airs and graces of the Ton lies The Underworld – London’s most scandalous gambling hall. The only thing darker and more debauched that the hall itself? The proprietor, Max Sinclair. As mysterious as the corners of the city he stalks, Max has...
HQ Digital, 2017. — 195 p. — ASIN: B01N0A30QS. (The Den of Iniquity - Book 1) Welcome to the most notorious address in London… Beneath the airs and graces of the Ton lies The Underworld – London’s most scandalous gambling hall. The only thing darker and more debauched that the hall itself? The proprietor, Max Sinclair. As mysterious as the corners of the city he stalks, Max has...
Killing customers just isn't good for business." My mother Nong's tone reflects the disappointment we all feel when a star employee starts to go wrong. Is there nothing to be done? Will we have to let dear Chanya go? The question can only be decided by Police Colonel Vikorn, who owns most of the shares in the Old Man's Club and who is on his way in his Bentley. "No," I agree....
Montlake Romance, 2019. — 344 p. — (Criminal Profiler 1). — ASIN B07H4J6T7X. She’s hunting. He’s watching. Special Agent Macy Crow is a survivor. After a vicious hit-and-run nearly kills her, she gets right back to work, and now she’s gunning for a spot on the FBI’s elite profiling team. As an audition, she offers to investigate the recently discovered bones of Tobi Turner, a...
Thomas & Mercer, 2022 — 338 p. A brilliantly researched reinvestigation into the nearly forgotten century-old murder that inspired one of the most seductive mysteries in the history of television and film... In 1908, Hazel Drew was found floating in a pond in Sand Lake, New York, beaten to death. The unsolved murder inspired rumors, speculation, ghost stories, and, almost a...
Thomas & Mercer, 2016. - 330 c. - ISBN10: 1503939952; ISBN13: 978-1503939950. Michael Flint is the heir hunter of last resort. A forensic genealogist and former clandestine agent specializing in high-end private investigations, he promises clients he can find anyone, anytime, anywhere — dead or alive. Laura Oakwood stands to lose more than $50 million in mineral royalties if...
Thomas & Mercer, 2016. - 330 c. - ISBN10: 1503939952; ISBN13: 978-1503939950. Michael Flint is the heir hunter of last resort. A forensic genealogist and former clandestine agent specializing in high-end private investigations, he promises clients he can find anyone, anytime, anywhere — dead or alive. Laura Oakwood stands to lose more than $50 million in mineral royalties if...
Thomas & Mercer, 2016. - 330 c. - ISBN10: 1503939952; ISBN13: 978-1503939950. Michael Flint is the heir hunter of last resort. A forensic genealogist and former clandestine agent specializing in high-end private investigations, he promises clients he can find anyone, anytime, anywhere — dead or alive. Laura Oakwood stands to lose more than $50 million in mineral royalties if...
A book with a punch equal to its publicity hype! Journalist Carcaterra tells with gripping force of his days growing up in the tough New York City neighborhood of Hell's Kitchen in the 1960s (the names have been changed to protect the innocent and the guilty). He and his three closest buddies engaged in petty crime until the day their tricks got out of hand and escalated into a...
Published by the author, 2014. — 270 p. — (The McKays 1). — ASIN B00IYJUGQC. Money and a handsome fiancé from a good family. What more could a girl want? Jamie McKay appears to have the perfect life, but things suddenly start to go horribly wrong. A sudden death and a run-in with a would-be killer leave her alone, afraid and a long way from home. Kat McKay, long estranged from...
In this thriller Kamal Pashwari, a billionaire from the Middle East decides the United States needs to be taught a lesson for his son’s death in a military encounter. He finds an ingenious way to steal and smuggle an old Russian suitcase nuclear weapon into the U.S. with an unknown target. Russia is terrified it will be blamed when they learn of the plot, and sends their top...
Avon, a division of HarperCollins Publishers Ltd, 2016. - 300 C. - ISBN10: 0008191816; ISBN13: 978-0008191818. 'I Devoured this story in one sitting' Louise Jensen, author of The Sister A teenage girl is missing. Is your daughter involved, or is she next? Your daughter is in danger. But can you trust her? When Karen Finch's seventeen-year-old daughter Sophie arrives home after...
Avon, a division of HarperCollins Publishers Ltd, 2016. - 300 C. - ISBN10: 0008191816; ISBN13: 978-0008191818. 'I Devoured this story in one sitting' Louise Jensen, author of The Sister A teenage girl is missing. Is your daughter involved, or is she next? Your daughter is in danger. But can you trust her? When Karen Finch's seventeen-year-old daughter Sophie arrives home after...
Cross Atlantic Publishing, 2018. — 328 p. — (David Wolf 12). — ASIN B07D4LNH9M. Colorado mountain detective David Wolf is back in the latest page-turning mystery that will leave your heart pounding and lungs pumping for air. A Rocky Points businessman goes missing, leaving behind an SUV drifted over in snow and a lot of questions for the Sluice-Byron County SD. But the answers...
Kingswell, 2012. — 142 p. — ISBN: 9781401304683 The final piece of the Derrick Storm trilogy from #1 New York Times bestselling author Richard Castle, available exclusively as an eBook short. Derrick Storm is back-this time, with a crack team of ghost CIA operatives. These former agents have all faked their own deaths and now work for the CIA on a strictly secret basis, taking...
320 p., Publisher: Titan Books (November 16, 2012) Paired once again with top journalist Jameson Rook, NYPD Homicie Detective Nikki Heat arrives at her latest crime scene to find an unidentified body stuffed inside a suitcase. Nikki is in for a big shock when this new homicide connects to the unsolved murder of her own mother. Will Nikki Heat finally be able to solve the dark...
In New York Times Bestselling author Richard Castle's newest novel, an illegal immigrant falls from the sky and NYPD Homicide Detective Nikki Heat's investigation into his death quickly captures the imagination of her boyfriend the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, Jameson Rook. When he decides to work the case with Heat as his next big story, Nikki is at first happy to have...
St. Martin's Griffin, 2016. - 368 c. - ISBN10: 1250074355; ISBN13: 978-1250074355. "Chamberlain's powerful story is a page-turner to the very end." -Library Journal Riley MacPherson has spent her entire life believing that her older sister Lisa committed suicide as a teenager. It was a belief that helped shape her own childhood and that of her brother. It shaped her view of her...
St. Martin's Griffin, 2016. - 368 c. - ISBN10: 1250074355; ISBN13: 978-1250074355. "Chamberlain's powerful story is a page-turner to the very end." -Library Journal Riley MacPherson has spent her entire life believing that her older sister Lisa committed suicide as a teenager. It was a belief that helped shape her own childhood and that of her brother. It shaped her view of her...
G.P. Putnam's Sons Books for Young Readers, 2016. - 464 c. - (Sea of Ink and Gold #1) - ISBN10: 0399176772; ISBN13: 978-0399176777. A stunning debut set in a world where reading is unheard-of, perfect for fans of Inkheart and Shadow and Bone Sefia knows what it means to survive. After her father is brutally murdered, she flees into the wilderness with her aunt Nin, who teaches...
G.P. Putnam's Sons Books for Young Readers, 2016. - 464 c. - (Sea of Ink and Gold #1) - ISBN10: 0399176772; ISBN13: 978-0399176777. A stunning debut set in a world where reading is unheard-of, perfect for fans of Inkheart and Shadow and Bone Sefia knows what it means to survive. After her father is brutally murdered, she flees into the wilderness with her aunt Nin, who teaches...
Baltimore. - Cemetery Dance Publications. - 2015. - 259 p. - ASIN B00XZCYZEM. Better weird than plastic… For a generation of horror fans, those four words signaled a momentous occasion: the arrival of a new issue of David B. Silva's seminal publication, The Horror Show. For nine years in the 1980s, Dave and his magazine published some of the biggest names in the genre and...
London: Simon & Schuster, 2011. — 464 p. — ISBN: 0857202952; ISBN13: 9780857202956. An unidentified female body is brought into the Los Angeles County morgue. The cause of death is still unclear. Her body bares no marks; except for the fact that her most intimate parts have been stitched shut. But what shocks the pathologist the most is that the killer had left something inside...
By Certain Members of the Detection Club. Map. Foreword By Simon Brett. ntroduction By Dorothy L. Sayers. Prologue The Three Pipe Dreams By G. K. Chesterton. Corpse Ahoy! By Canon Victor L. Whitechurch. Breaking the News By G. D. H. and M. Cole. Bright thoughts on Tides By Henry Wade. Mainly Conversation By Agatha Christie. nspector Rudge begins to form a Theory By John Rhode....
NY: Oxford University Press, 1993. - 143 p. Collection of short stories. Saki. Tea E. Waugh. Mr. Loveday's Little Outing S. Maugham. The Colonel's Lady R. Dahl. Mrs Bixby and the Colonel's Coat. F. Sargeson. They gave her a rise. R. Carver. The bath. H.E. Bates. Same Time, Same Place. S. Hill. A bit of singing and dancing.
Rudyard Kipling: My Own True Ghost Story. The Sending of Dana Da. In the House of Suddhoo. His Wedded Wife. A. Conan Doyle: A case of Identity. A scandal in Bohemia. The Red-Headed League. Egerton Castle: The Baron's Quarry. Stanley J. Weyman. The Fowl in the Pot. Robert Louis Stevenson: The Pavilion on the Links. Wilkie Collins: The Dream Woman. Anonymous: The Lost Duchess....
Rudyard Kipling: My Own True Ghost Story. The Sending of Dana Da. In the House of Suddhoo. His Wedded Wife. A. Conan Doyle: A case of Identity. A scandal in Bohemia. The Red-Headed League. Egerton Castle: The Baron's Quarry. Stanley J. Weyman. The Fowl in the Pot. Robert Louis Stevenson: The Pavilion on the Links. Wilkie Collins: The Dream Woman. Anonymous: The Lost Duchess....
Rudyard Kipling: My Own True Ghost Story. The Sending of Dana Da. In the House of Suddhoo. His Wedded Wife. A. Conan Doyle: A case of Identity. A scandal in Bohemia. The Red-Headed League. Egerton Castle: The Baron's Quarry. Stanley J. Weyman. The Fowl in the Pot. Robert Louis Stevenson: The Pavilion on the Links. Wilkie Collins: The Dream Woman. Anonymous: The Lost Duchess....
Rudyard Kipling: My Own True Ghost Story. The Sending of Dana Da. In the House of Suddhoo. His Wedded Wife. A. Conan Doyle: A case of Identity. A scandal in Bohemia. The Red-Headed League. Egerton Castle: The Baron's Quarry. Stanley J. Weyman. The Fowl in the Pot. Robert Louis Stevenson: The Pavilion on the Links. Wilkie Collins: The Dream Woman. Anonymous: The Lost Duchess....
At dawn one morning in 1933, an amateur dowsing team digging the banks of the Thames for precious metals unearths the body of a young woman with a priceless gold coin in her mouth and a missing toe. The case falls on Assistant Commissioner of Scotland Yard Joe Sandilands's turf, but he's been given another assignment — and a very high-profile one. London is hosting a historic...
Once more, Kristen Whitaker and the crew of the Seawolf are thrust center stage as the Russian Federation's plan to gain control over the world's oil supply unfolds. Kristen must come to grips with the demons in her past as she struggles with both personal and professional challenges. With the stakes higher than ever, the Seawolf and her crew find themselves fighting for...
In a bid to regain its superpower status, Russia enters a scheme with Iran and North Korea to control the world's oil reserves, weaken the West, and bring the world to the precipice of nuclear destruction. Standing in their way is the USS Seawolf, her Captain, and his newest crewmember, Lieutenant Kristen Whitaker. As a naval Academy graduate, brilliant engineer and gifted...
G.P. Putnam's Sons, 2017. — 368 p. — ISBN10: 0399171444; ISBN13: 978-0399171444. (A Jesse Stone Novel) The stellar new novel in Robert B. Parker's New York Times bestselling series featuring Paradise police chief Jesse Stone. Jesse Stone, still reeling from the murder of his fiancée by crazed assassin Mr. Peepers, must keep his emotions in check long enough to get through the...
G.P. Putnam's Sons, 2017. — 368 p. — ISBN10: 0399171444; ISBN13: 978-0399171444. (A Jesse Stone Novel) The stellar new novel in Robert B. Parker's New York Times bestselling series featuring Paradise police chief Jesse Stone. Jesse Stone, still reeling from the murder of his fiancée by crazed assassin Mr. Peepers, must keep his emotions in check long enough to get through the...
Harper Perennial, 2019. — 368 p. — ISBN: 0062864114 (ISBN13: 9780062864116). A haunting literary noir about a former pastor’s search to find a missing woman in the toxic, contradictory underbelly of southern California. “He was finished with church, with God, with all of it. But to find the girl, he has to go back.” In Mark Haines’s former life, he was an evangelical youth...
G.P. Putnam's Sons, 2019. — 368 p. — ISBN10: 0399574972; ISBN13: 978-0399574979. (A Jesse Stone Novel - Book 18) The opioid epidemic has reached Paradise, and Police Chief Jesse Stone must rush to stop the devastation in the latest thriller in Robert B. Parker's New York Times-bestselling series. When a popular high school cheerleader dies of a suspected heroin overdose, it...
G.P. Putnam's Sons, 2019. — 368 p. — ISBN10: 0399574972; ISBN13: 978-0399574979. (A Jesse Stone Novel - Book 18) The opioid epidemic has reached Paradise, and Police Chief Jesse Stone must rush to stop the devastation in the latest thriller in Robert B. Parker's New York Times-bestselling series. When a popular high school cheerleader dies of a suspected heroin overdose, it...
Little, Brown and Company, 2017. — 448 p. — ISBN10: 0316225983; ISBN13: 978-0316225984. Introducing Renee Ballard, a fierce young detective fighting to prove herself on the LAPD's toughest beat, from #1 New York Times bestselling author Michael Connelly. Renee Ballard works the night shift in Hollywood--also known as the Late Show--beginning many investigations but finishing...
Little, Brown and Company, 2017. — 448 p. — ISBN10: 0316225983; ISBN13: 978-0316225984. Introducing Renee Ballard, a fierce young detective fighting to prove herself on the LAPD's toughest beat, from #1 New York Times bestselling author Michael Connelly. Renee Ballard works the night shift in Hollywood--also known as the Late Show--beginning many investigations but finishing...
Part I. Police & Thieves. Mulholland Dive by Michael Connelly. Number by Naomi Hirahara. Dangerous days by Emory Holmes II. Midnight in Silicon Alley by Denise Hamilton. Part II. Hollywoodlandia. The method by Janet Fitch. Morocco junction by Patt Morrison. Over thirty by Christopher Rice. Once more, Lazarus by Hèctor Tobar. Part III. East of la Cienega. The golden gopher by...
Part I. Police & Thieves. Mulholland Dive by Michael Connelly. Number by Naomi Hirahara. Dangerous days by Emory Holmes II. Midnight in Silicon Alley by Denise Hamilton. Part II. Hollywoodlandia. The method by Janet Fitch. Morocco junction by Patt Morrison. Over thirty by Christopher Rice. Once more, Lazarus by Hèctor Tobar. Part III. East of la Cienega. The golden gopher by...
First comes love. Then comes marriage. Then comes murder. The addictive psychological thriller everyone's talking about! What if your life was built on a lie? When lawyer Lily marries Ed, she's determined to make a fresh start. To leave the secrets of the past behind. But when she takes on her first criminal case, she starts to find herself strangely drawn to her client. A man...
The Navy SEALs have been fighting terrorists around the world for more than a decade. And for all that time, the Bandito Platoon from SEAL Team Seven have been on continuous combat rotation. Now they have drawn a shipboard assignment off Central America-an easy day. But for a Navy SEAL, the only easy day was yesterday. "Act of Valor" goes deep into the secret world of today's...
First there was The Mercenary Option. Now IFOR, the surgical strike team led by former Navy SEAL Garrett Walker, returns in an explosive adventure charged with authenticity and suspense. Formed by a wealthy industrialist after the terror attacks on American soil, the Intervention Force is a professional strike team called in on missions others can't — or won't — undertake. IFOR...
Tensions flare in Northwest Asia and Op-Center races to prevent World War III in this chilling, ripped-from-the-headlines thriller from the authors of the USA Today bestseller Out of the Ashes. When a team of assassins murder a high-ranking North Korean general and his family in their sleep, making it look like a robbery, events are set in motion that could shake the balance of...
Tom Clancy's Op-Center is back with this new thriller written by the New York Times bestselling authors of Tom Clancy's Act of Valor and featuring a chilling, ripped-from-the-headlines scenario. Before 9/11 America was protected by a covert force known as the National Crisis Management Center. Commonly known as Op-Center, this silent, secret mantel guarded the American people...
G.P. Putnam's Sons; First Edition edition; 2019. — 352 p. — ISBN10: 0525535683; ISBN13: 978-0525535683. An Elvis Cole and Joe Pike Novel (Book 18) A brilliant new crime novel from the beloved, bestselling, and award-winning master of the genre--and Joe Pike's most perilous case to date. Joe Pike didn't expect to rescue a woman that day. He went to the bank same as anyone goes...
G.P. Putnam's Sons; First Edition edition; 2019. — 352 p. — ISBN10: 0525535683; ISBN13: 978-0525535683. An Elvis Cole and Joe Pike Novel (Book 18) A brilliant new crime novel from the beloved, bestselling, and award-winning master of the genre--and Joe Pike's most perilous case to date. Joe Pike didn't expect to rescue a woman that day. He went to the bank same as anyone goes...
Book language: EN, 223 p. "Read fifteen pages and you will find yourself captivated; read thirty and you will find yourself taken prisoner and reading late into the night. It has the vividness that only epic works of fantasy and imagination can achieve. What else can I say? This: read this book and the ordinary world disappears." – Stephen King *** 'It happened fast. Thirty-two...
PUFFIN BOOKS in association with Oxford University Press. 1987. 176 p. (no other information available) A gripping thriller from one of the best-selling writers. Tug wakes up in an unfamiliar place with people he doesn't recognize and is uncertain about his own identity.
On Christmas Day in 1893, every man, woman and child in a remote mining town will disappear, belongings forsaken, meals left to freeze in vacant cabins, and not a single bone will be found--not even the gold that was rumored to have been the pride of this town will be found either. One hundred and thirteen years later, two backcountry guides are hired by a leading history...
For fans of Stephen King, Dean Koontz, and Thomas Harris, picture this: a landscape of American genocide… 5 D A Y S A G O A rash of bizarre murders swept the country… Senseless. Brutal. Seemingly unconnected. A cop walked into a nursing home and unloaded his weapons on elderly and staff alike. A mass of school shootings. Prison riots of unprecedented brutality. Mind-boggling...
Now aware of the secret behind Wayward Pines, Ethan uses his role as sheriff to cooperate with Pilcher and protect his fellow residents from the dangers outside — and inside — the town. But a murder investigation puts Ethan on a path to change the way things are in Wayward Pine
Doubleday (Random House), 2006. — 272 p. — ISBN: 038551526X. A work of fiction that goes beyond standard parameters of Sherlock Holmes genre. Here the detective is in his 90s and is asked to take up a case. The book was well-received by both literary fans & critics. Its plot was used in the making of a memorable film, "Mr. Holmes".
Black Swan, 2017. — 290 p. — ISBN10: 0552779792; ISBN13: 978-0552779791. Vicky Seagrave is blessed: three beautiful children, a successful, doting husband, great friends and a job she loves. She should be perfectly happy. When she risks everything she holds dear on a whim, there’s only person she trusts enough to turn to. But Vicky is about to learn that one mistake is all it...
Black Swan, 2017. — 290 p. — ISBN10: 0552779792; ISBN13: 978-0552779791. Vicky Seagrave is blessed: three beautiful children, a successful, doting husband, great friends and a job she loves. She should be perfectly happy. When she risks everything she holds dear on a whim, there’s only person she trusts enough to turn to. But Vicky is about to learn that one mistake is all it...
Black Swan, 2017. — 290 p. — ISBN10: 0552779792; ISBN13: 978-0552779791. Vicky Seagrave is blessed: three beautiful children, a successful, doting husband, great friends and a job she loves. She should be perfectly happy. When she risks everything she holds dear on a whim, there’s only person she trusts enough to turn to. But Vicky is about to learn that one mistake is all it...
The first novel in the gripping Intercrime trilogy. Following a complicated but successful dismantling of a hostage situation, Detective Paul Hjelm is facing the prospect of a potentially career-ending investigation by Internal Affairs. Instead, he finds himself dropped into a new elite team of officers selected from across the country, whose mission is to find an elusive...
An anthology of stories. From some of the greatest literary minds of our time comes a collection of stories about dangerous women. With an unprecedented lineup of authors, Mysterious Press proudly presents an extraordinary collection of short stories. Lorenzo Carcaterra, Michael Connelly, John Connolly, Jeffery Deaver, Nelson DeMille, J.A. Jance, Andrew Klavan, Elmore Leonard,...
An anthology of stories. From some of the greatest literary minds of our time comes a collection of stories about dangerous women. With an unprecedented lineup of authors, Mysterious Press proudly presents an extraordinary collection of short stories. Lorenzo Carcaterra, Michael Connelly, John Connolly, Jeffery Deaver, Nelson DeMille, J.A. Jance, Andrew Klavan, Elmore Leonard,...
Summersdale Publishers, 2016. — 304 p. — ISBN10: 1849538832; ISBN13: 978-1849538831. All of these men and women were in good professions...and all of them were hiding dark secrets. Why do outwardly normal people commit horrendous crimes? In this collection of incisive profiles, veteran crime writer Carol Anne Davis turns the spotlight on men and women from respectable...
Summersdale Publishers, 2016. — 304 p. — ISBN10: 1849538832; ISBN13: 978-1849538831. All of these men and women were in good professions...and all of them were hiding dark secrets. Why do outwardly normal people commit horrendous crimes? In this collection of incisive profiles, veteran crime writer Carol Anne Davis turns the spotlight on men and women from respectable...
Tyndale Momentum, 2017. — 352 p. — ISBN13: 978-1496416827. One decision can end everything...or lead to unlikely redemption. Millions watched the CBS 60 Minutes special on Jack Barsky in 2015. Now, in this fascinating memoir, the Soviet KGB agent tells his story of gut-wrenching choices, appalling betrayals, his turbulent inner world, and the secret life he lived for years...
1966. Electronic text source data missing Billion-Dollar Brain is a 1966 Cold War spy novel by Len Deighton. It was the fourth to feature an unnamed secret agent working for the British WOOC(P) intelligence agency. The unnamed protagonist is ordered to Helsinki by Dawlish, his boss, to suppress a newspaper article, potentially embarrassing to the U.K. government, about to be...
London: The Companion Book Club, 1966. - 271 c. Скан 600dpi. The fourth Harry Palmer novel (in which he is still an unnamed narrator; the name was given him for the films) is the most dated of all of them. It relies on a plot device straight from James Bond or even The Man From UNCLE - the network of agents run by a computer. The novel begins with a Finnish journalist making...
London: The Companion Book Club, 1966. - 271 c. Скан 600dpi. The fourth Harry Palmer novel (in which he is still an unnamed narrator; the name was given him for the films) is the most dated of all of them. It relies on a plot device straight from James Bond or even The Man From UNCLE - the network of agents run by a computer. The novel begins with a Finnish journalist making...
Quercus Editions Ltd, 2020. - 424 p. - (Suspense). - PB ISBN: 978 1 52940 086 1. Pete Riley answers the door one morning to a parent's worst nightmare. On his doorstep is Miles Lambert, who breaks the devastating news that Pete's two-year-old, Theo, isn't Pete's real son - their babies got mixed up at birth.
Ballantine Books, 2017. — 352 p. — ISBN10: 0425285049; ISBN13: 978-0425285046. In the tradition of The Girl on the Train, The Silent Wife, and Gone Girl comes an enthralling psychological thriller that spins one woman’s seemingly good fortune, and another woman’s mysterious fate, through a kaleidoscope of duplicity, death, and deception. Please make a list of every possession...
Ballantine Books, 2017. — 352 p. — ISBN10: 0425285049; ISBN13: 978-0425285046. In the tradition of The Girl on the Train, The Silent Wife, and Gone Girl comes an enthralling psychological thriller that spins one woman’s seemingly good fortune, and another woman’s mysterious fate, through a kaleidoscope of duplicity, death, and deception. Please make a list of every possession...
Avon, 2016. - 416 c. - (DS Imogen Grey #2) - ISBN10: 0008172218; ISBN13: 978-0008172213. Can you keep a secret? ‘Diamond is the master of gripping literature.’ Evening Standard The Queen of Grip-lit is back… All hail the new Queen of Crime!’ HEAT ‘A web of a plot that twists and turns and keeps the reader on the edge of their seat. SUN Can you keep a secret? Your life depends...
Avon, 2016. — 416 p. — (DS Imogen Grey #2) — ISBN10: 0008172218; ISBN13: 978-0008172213. Can you keep a secret? ‘Diamond is the master of gripping literature.’ Evening Standard The Queen of Grip-lit is back… All hail the new Queen of Crime!’ Heat ‘A web of a plot that twists and turns and keeps the reader on the edge of their seat. Sun Can you keep a secret? Your life depends...
Avon, 2017. — 384 p. — ISBN10: 0062655809; ISBN13: 978-0062655806. In Tess Diamond’s gripping debut, when an elite negotiator and a security expert team up to solve a kidnapping, the only thing higher than the tension is the heat .. Maggie Kincaid left the FBI two years ago and didn’t look back...until now. A senator’s daughter has been abducted, and the nightmare set in motion...
Avon, 2017. — 384 p. — ISBN10: 0062655809; ISBN13: 978-0062655806. In Tess Diamond’s gripping debut, when an elite negotiator and a security expert team up to solve a kidnapping, the only thing higher than the tension is the heat .. Maggie Kincaid left the FBI two years ago and didn’t look back...until now. A senator’s daughter has been abducted, and the nightmare set in motion...
Primal Fear is the 1993 thriller novel by William Diehl about Aaron Stampler, an altar boy accused of murder and Martin Vail, the attorney defending him. It was adapted into a 1996 film of the same name, and stars Richard Gere and Edward Norton. The two characters also appear in two additional novels by Diehl, Show of Evil and Reign in Hell.
Ballantine Books, 1995. — 479 p. Italy, 1944: A squad of American soldiers on a dangerous secret mission is ambushed and slaughtered... and a fortune in gold vanishes. Hong Kong, 1959: An aging American colonel, haunted by his wartime past, is brutally murdered in a luxurious brothel. Atlanta, 1975: The last survivor of the fatal World War II ambush in Italy is executed at...
William Deal. Show of evil. Ballantine Books, 1996. — 416 p. It begins with a shocking, unsolved murder. In a small town in southern Illinois, the butchered body of Linda Balfour — with a cryptic code printed in blood on the back of her head — forges a gruesome link to the brutal murder of Bishop Rushman, the beloved Chicago clergyman who had been dismembered years before by...
Ballantine Books, 1989. — 416 p. Christian Hatcher, the licensed killer they call the Shadow Warrior, is out of jail and looking for the betrayer that got him there. With his body wasted and his spirit nearly crushed, Hatcher returns to Hong Kong and Bangkok — deadly stops on the heroine pipeline — and comes closer to a solution that he fears to discover.
Midnight Ink, 2016. - 336 c. - ISBN10: 0738749206; ISBN13: 978-0738749204. Mistaking a killer’s phone for her own, Sydney Ellison is drawn back to a past she thought she’d left behind for good After living through the media shaming of a political sex scandal when she was in college, Sydney Ellison fears notoriety above all. So when she stumbles onto a plot to assassinate a...
Midnight Ink, 2016. - 336 c. - ISBN10: 0738749206; ISBN13: 978-0738749204. Mistaking a killer’s phone for her own, Sydney Ellison is drawn back to a past she thought she’d left behind for good After living through the media shaming of a political sex scandal when she was in college, Sydney Ellison fears notoriety above all. So when she stumbles onto a plot to assassinate a...
Bookouture, 2019. — 236 p. — (The Oyster Cove Guesthouse 1). — ASIN B07NS6VVDM. Josie Waters has to admit she may have acted a bit hastily when she agreed to purchase the Oyster Cove Guesthouse – a charmingly gabled Victorian mansion on the breathtaking Maine coast – from elderly family friend Millie Sullivan. But Josie was desperate to flee Ohio and in particular her...
Quirk Books, 2013. — 176 p. — ISBN10: 1594746370 ISBN13: 978-1594746376 Return once more to a galaxy far, far away with this sublime retelling of George Lucas’s epic Star Wars in the style of the immortal Bard of Avon. The saga of a wise (Jedi) knight and an evil (Sith) lord, of a beautiful princess held captive and a young hero coming of age, Star Wars abounds with all the...
Quirk Books, 2013. — 176 p. — ISBN10: 1594746370 ISBN13: 978-1594746376 Return once more to a galaxy far, far away with this sublime retelling of George Lucas’s epic Star Wars in the style of the immortal Bard of Avon. The saga of a wise (Jedi) knight and an evil (Sith) lord, of a beautiful princess held captive and a young hero coming of age, Star Wars abounds with all the...
New York: Minotaur, 2017. — 20 p. — (Mike Bowditch 4.5). Legendary Maine woodsman and bush pilot Charley Stevens tries to convince young Mike Bowditch of the dangers awaiting rookie game wardens.
Forge Books; Reprint edition, 2013 - ASIN: B019NR37UA America is on the brink of crisis. Unless we can curb our dangerous appetite for foreign oil, petroleum-rich countries and speculators will bring our economy to its knees…long before CO2 emissions will devastate our ecosystem. The President has answered the call with the Dakota District Initiative, a top secret research team...
Forge Books; Reprint edition, 2013 - ASIN: B019NR37UA America is on the brink of crisis. Unless we can curb our dangerous appetite for foreign oil, petroleum-rich countries and speculators will bring our economy to its knees…long before CO2 emissions will devastate our ecosystem. The President has answered the call with the Dakota District Initiative, a top secret research team...
Forge Books; Reprint edition, 2013 - ASIN: B019NR37UA America is on the brink of crisis. Unless we can curb our dangerous appetite for foreign oil, petroleum-rich countries and speculators will bring our economy to its knees…long before CO2 emissions will devastate our ecosystem. The President has answered the call with the Dakota District Initiative, a top secret research team...
Dr. Christine Myers, a forensic scientist with the CIA, has investigated some of the most heinous crimes ever committed, but nothing could prepare her for the slaughter aboard the Dragon, a defecting North Korean nuclear submarine. On board, Christine and a team of Navy SEALs find all the crew members dead, some with their bodies smashed and mutilated, others poisoned from...
As they celebrate their high school graduation, four friends are involved in a hit-and-run accident. They dispose of the body, but a year later somebody starts sending them letters, saying:'I Know What you Did Last Summer'... Lois Duncan has received awards from the Mystery Writers of America and the Young Adult Library Services Association. Many of her books have been named...
Harper Paperbacks, 2016. — 480 p. — ISBN10: 0062279785; ISBN13: 978-0062279781. Internationally bestselling crime writer, Roni Dunevich, debuts Stateside with this electrifying espionage thriller — perfect for fans of Daniel Silva — about Alex Bartal, director of the Mossad’s Operations Branch, who is threatened by dark horrors of the past that refuse to stay buried. One of...
Harper Paperbacks, 2016. - 480 c. - ISBN10: 0062279785; ISBN13: 978-0062279781. Internationally bestselling crime writer, Roni Dunevich, debuts Stateside with this electrifying espionage thriller — perfect for fans of Daniel Silva — about Alex Bartal, director of the Mossad’s Operations Branch, who is threatened by dark horrors of the past that refuse to stay buried. One of...
Harper Paperbacks, 2016. - 480 c. - ISBN10: 0062279785; ISBN13: 978-0062279781. Internationally bestselling crime writer, Roni Dunevich, debuts Stateside with this electrifying espionage thriller — perfect for fans of Daniel Silva — about Alex Bartal, director of the Mossad’s Operations Branch, who is threatened by dark horrors of the past that refuse to stay buried. One of...
London: Joffe Books, 2019. — 211 p. — (Calladine & Bayliss 9). — ASIN B07R6B9468. Detectives Calladine and Bayliss hunt for a missing child in a mystery with a shocking ending. Sophie Alder is the three-year-old daughter of local factory owner, Richard Alder. Richard and his wife Annie are locals from the rough housing estate who’ve made it big. Plus, there’s a crime wave in...
708 p. American Psycho is a novel by Bret Easton Ellis, published in 1991. The story is told in the first person by Patrick Bateman, a serial killer and Manhattan businessman. The book's graphic violence and sexual content generated a great deal of controversy before and after publication.
In American Psycho, Bret Easton Ellis imaginatively explores the incomprehensible depths of madness and captures the insanity of violence in our time or any other. Patrick Bateman moves among the young and trendy in 1980s Manhattan. Young, handsome, and well educated, Bateman earns his fortune on Wall Street by day while spending his nights in ways we cannot begin to fathom....
CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2013. — 326 p. — (Mark Baines 3). — ISBN10: 148957297X, ISBN13: 978-1489572974. Mark Baines has spent the last year hiding from the group who framed him for murder. But when his routine flight crash-lands in Southampton, he suddenly finds himself on the run again. Nobody could have known he was on board, unless he has been betrayed...
2019. — 155 p. — (DI Helena Stratton Book 1). — ASIN B07PFLSZHM. He watches. He waits. He strikes. DI Helena Stratton has been through the wars on a previous case — torture that has scarred her for life, gifting her with nightmares. This new one is no different. On top of that… A partner she can’t stand. DS Andy Mald needs to buck his ideas up. A boyfriend she’s just ditched....
Collected short stories. — Harper Perennial, 2005. — 384 p. — (Best American Crime Reporting). — ISBN: 978-0060815516. The 2005 edition of The Best American Crime Writing offers the year's most shocking, compelling, and gripping writing about real-life crime, including Peter Landesman's article about female sex slaves (the most requested and widely read New York Times story of...
Collected short stories. — Orion, 2004. — 432 p. — (Best American series). — ISBN: 978-0-7528-6020-6. Since its inception in 1915, the Best American series has become the premier annual showcase for the country's finest short fiction and nonfiction. For each volume, a series editor reads pieces from hundreds of periodicals, then selects between fifty and a hundred outstanding...
In his introduction to the Best American Noir of the Century , James Ellroy writes, 'noir is the most scrutinized offshoot of the hard-boiled school of fiction. It's the long drop off the short pier and the wrong man and the wrong woman in perfect misalliance. It's the nightmare of flawed souls with big dreams and the precise how and why of the all-time sure thing that goes...
In his introduction to the Best American Noir of the Century , James Ellroy writes, 'noir is the most scrutinized offshoot of the hard-boiled school of fiction. It's the long drop off the short pier and the wrong man and the wrong woman in perfect misalliance. It's the nightmare of flawed souls with big dreams and the precise how and why of the all-time sure thing that goes...
In his introduction to the Best American Noir of the Century , James Ellroy writes, 'noir is the most scrutinized offshoot of the hard-boiled school of fiction. It's the long drop off the short pier and the wrong man and the wrong woman in perfect misalliance. It's the nightmare of flawed souls with big dreams and the precise how and why of the all-time sure thing that goes...
Winner of the Edgar Award for Best First Novel, this was the first thriller set in the world money market that was written by an actual financial expert. Paul Erdman’s fast-paced, suspenseful story centers on a billion-dollar, top-secret coup intended to protect the U.S. dollar. In settings that range from Washington, D.C., to London, Paris, Moscow, and Beirut, a cast of...
Jeff was a loving son to Mr and Mrs Reed. But when he went to Ashtaroth, they lost him. He took a new name. He cursed his parents and spurned their love. Forever. for Jeff is now a member of The Cult. The Souls for Jesus, the brainchild of the Master, Buford Hodges, a tax-deductible, multi-million dollar industry feeding on the minds and bodies of the young and vulnerable. Only...
After a mysterious schooner runs aground in an English harbor with no human passengers - only the dead captain, drained of blood - a series of bizarre nocturnal crimes takes place in London. It can only be the work of Count Dracula, and only one man can save the city: the great Sherlock Holmes.
Kembra Publications; 1 edition, 2012. - 230 c. - ASIN: B0085OMAGA A Mix of Murders forms Grahame Farrell's exciting debut within the true-crime genre, and treats the reader to fifteen in-depth accounts of 20th Century murders. Researched meticulously, and possessing a clear, eloquent style, this book explores cases such as that of William Bisset, an older, well-to-do gentleman,...
Kembra Publications; 1 edition, 2012. - 230 c. - ASIN: B0085OMAGA A Mix of Murders forms Grahame Farrell's exciting debut within the true-crime genre, and treats the reader to fifteen in-depth accounts of 20th Century murders. Researched meticulously, and possessing a clear, eloquent style, this book explores cases such as that of William Bisset, an older, well-to-do gentleman,...
Flatiron Books 2017. — 272 p. — ISBN10: 1250144841; ISBN13: 978-1250144843. My name is Amber Reynolds. There are three things you should know about me: I’m in a coma. My husband doesn’t love me anymore. Sometimes I lie. “A gripping debut with a brilliant twist, I LOVED it!” ―BA Paris, New York Times bestselling author of Behind Closed Doors “I read this in one compulsive gulp...
Flatiron Books; 1 edition, 2017. — 272 p. — ISBN10: 1250144841; ISBN13: 978-1250144843. My name is Amber Reynolds. There are three things you should know about me: I’m in a coma. My husband doesn’t love me anymore. Sometimes I lie. “A gripping debut with a brilliant twist, I LOVED it!” ―BA Paris, New York Times bestselling author of Behind Closed Doors “I read this in one...
Flatiron Books, 2017. — 272 p. — ISBN10: 1250144841; ISBN13: 978-1250144843. My name is Amber Reynolds. There are three things you should know about me: I’m in a coma. My husband doesn’t love me anymore. Sometimes I lie. “A gripping debut with a brilliant twist, I LOVED it!” ―BA Paris, New York Times bestselling author of Behind Closed Doors “I read this in one compulsive gulp...
Lake Union Publishing, 2017. — 300 p. — ISBN10: 1503943445; ISBN13: 978-1503943445. Bestselling authors make their suspense debut in this twisty, emotional thriller. Elementary school teacher Jacqueline “Jacks” Morales’s marriage was far from perfect, but even in its ups and downs it was predictable, familiar. Or at least she thought it was…until two police officers showed up...
Lake Union Publishing, 2017. — 300 p. — ISBN10: 1503943445; ISBN13: 978-1503943445. Bestselling authors make their suspense debut in this twisty, emotional thriller. Elementary school teacher Jacqueline “Jacks” Morales’s marriage was far from perfect, but even in its ups and downs it was predictable, familiar. Or at least she thought it was…until two police officers showed up...
Lake Union Publishing, 2017. — 300 p. — ISBN10: 1503943445; ISBN13: 978-1503943445. Bestselling authors make their suspense debut in this twisty, emotional thriller. Elementary school teacher Jacqueline “Jacks” Morales’s marriage was far from perfect, but even in its ups and downs it was predictable, familiar. Or at least she thought it was…until two police officers showed up...
The Eyre Affair is the first published novel by English author Jasper Fforde, released by Hodder and Stoughton in 2001. It takes place in alternative 1985, where literary detective Thursday Next pursues a master criminal through the world of Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre.
Graydon House; Original edition, 2020. — 336 p. — ISBN10: 1525805126; ISBN13: 978-1525805127. A North American bestseller! -The New York Times -USA Today -The Globe and Mail -The Toronto Star New York Times bestselling author Tarryn Fisher delivers a pulse-pounding, fast-paced suspense novel that will leave you breathless. A thriller you won’t be able to put down! “You’ll have...
Graydon House; Original edition, 2020. — 336 p. — ISBN10: 1525805126; ISBN13: 978-1525805127. A North American bestseller! -The New York Times -USA Today -The Globe and Mail -The Toronto Star New York Times bestselling author Tarryn Fisher delivers a pulse-pounding, fast-paced suspense novel that will leave you breathless. A thriller you won’t be able to put down! “You’ll have...
A sensitive political deal codenamed Gilgamesh, goes wrong at the beginning of the Iraq war. One by one the people who know about it are eliminated, except for two: Ali Hamsin, an Iraqi government translator who is kept hidden in Guantanamo Bay and Gerry Tate, a British intelligence agent. She is in prison for murder. Years later Ali Hamsin says he will reveal his secrets, but...
Caxton House. - 1937. - 447 p. A collection of crime fiction short stories featuring Madame Rosika Storey and her resourceful assistant Bella Brickley. Mme. Story unravels complex cases with thorough investigation and an understanding of human nature.
New York Times best selling author William R. Forstchen now brings us a story which can be all too terrifyingly real.a story in which one man struggles to save his family and his small North Carolina town after America loses a war, in one second, a war that will send America back to the Dark Ages.A war based upon a weapon, an Electro Magnetic Pulse (EMP). A weapon that may...
New York: John Lane Company, 1907. — 325 p. In addition to his writings on heraldry, Arthur Charles Fox-Davies published a number of works of fiction, including detective stories such this.
New York: The Macaulay Company, 1910. — 345 p. In addition to his writings on heraldry, Arthur Charles Fox-Davies published a number of works of fiction, including detective stories such this.
New York: John Lane Company, 1907. — 297 p. In addition to his writings on heraldry, Arthur Charles Fox-Davies published a number of works of fiction, including detective stories such this.
New York: John Lane Company, 1907. — 317 p. In addition to his writings on heraldry, Arthur Charles Fox-Davies published a number of works of fiction, including detective stories such this.
Viking, 2016. - 464 c. - ISBN10: 0670026336; ISBN13: 978-0670026333. New York Times bestselling author Tana French is “required reading for anyone who appreciates tough, unflinching intelligence and ingenious plotting” (The New York Times). She “inspires cultic devotion in readers...(The New Yorker) and is “the most important crime novelist to emerge in the past 10 years”...
Viking, 2016. - 464 c. - ISBN10: 0670026336; ISBN13: 978-0670026333. New York Times bestselling author Tana French is “required reading for anyone who appreciates tough, unflinching intelligence and ingenious plotting” (The New York Times). She “inspires cultic devotion in readers...(The New Yorker) and is “the most important crime novelist to emerge in the past 10 years”...
Viking, 2018. — 528 p. — ISBN10: 9780735224629; ISBN13: 978-0735224629. From the writer who "inspires cultic devotion in readers" (The New Yorker) and has been called "incandescent" by Stephen King, "absolutely mesmerizing" by Gillian Flynn, and "unputdownable" (People), comes a gripping new novel that turns a crime story inside out. Toby is a happy-go-lucky charmer who's...
Viking; First Edition edition, 2018. — 528 p. — ISBN10: 9780735224629; ISBN13: 978-0735224629. From the writer who "inspires cultic devotion in readers" (The New Yorker) and has been called "incandescent" by Stephen King, "absolutely mesmerizing" by Gillian Flynn, and "unputdownable" (People), comes a gripping new novel that turns a crime story inside out. Toby is a...
Caravel Books, 2007. — 140 p. God natt min älskade (1998). Translator: Laura A. Wideburg. Good Night, My Darling has been named ForeWord Magazine's Book of the Year 2007 for Translations. Translated from the original Swedish, Good Night My Darling is a mystery / thriller about hatred and revenge. Justine lives alone in a house by a lake, where she has lived all her life. It is...
Greenwich: Fawcett Publications Inc., 1972. — 224 p. — ISBN: 0449229785; ISBN13: 9780449229781. Paul Benjamin, a successful accountant in New York City, is enjoying a three-martini lunch when his home is broken into by a gang of drug addicts. For just a handful of money, they savagely beat Paul’s wife and daughter, leaving his wife dead and his daughter comatose. Grief-stricken...
Greenwich: Fawcett Publications Inc., 1972. — 224 p. — ISBN: 0449229785; ISBN13: 9780449229781. Paul Benjamin, a successful accountant in New York City, is enjoying a three-martini lunch when his home is broken into by a gang of drug addicts. For just a handful of money, they savagely beat Paul’s wife and daughter, leaving his wife dead and his daughter comatose. Grief-stricken...
Greenwich: Fawcett Publications Inc., 1972. — 224 p. — ISBN: 0449229785; ISBN13: 9780449229781. Paul Benjamin, a successful accountant in New York City, is enjoying a three-martini lunch when his home is broken into by a gang of drug addicts. For just a handful of money, they savagely beat Paul’s wife and daughter, leaving his wife dead and his daughter comatose. Grief-stricken...
Greenwich: Fawcett Publications Inc., 1972. — 224 p. — ISBN: 0449229785; ISBN13: 9780449229781. Paul Benjamin, a successful accountant in New York City, is enjoying a three-martini lunch when his home is broken into by a gang of drug addicts. For just a handful of money, they savagely beat Paul’s wife and daughter, leaving his wife dead and his daughter comatose. Grief-stricken...
Soho Teen, 2017. — 288 p. — ISBN10: 1616956968; ISBN13: 978-1616956967. Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre retold against the backdrop of San Francisco's most fabulous — and dangerous — elites. After losing her parents in a tragic accident, surfer girl Janie Mason trades the sunny beaches of Hawaii for the cold fog of San Francisco and new guardians — the Rochesters — she’s never...
Soho Teen, 2017. — 288 p. — ISBN10: 1616956968; ISBN13: 978-1616956967. Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre retold against the backdrop of San Francisco's most fabulous — and dangerous — elites. After losing her parents in a tragic accident, surfer girl Janie Mason trades the sunny beaches of Hawaii for the cold fog of San Francisco and new guardians — the Rochesters — she’s never...
Tor Books, 2019. — 331 p. — ISBN: 978-1250174611. Sharp, mainstream fantasy meets compelling thrills of investigative noir in Magic for Liars, a fantasy debut by rising star Sarah Gailey. Ivy Gamble was born without magic and never wanted it. Ivy Gamble is perfectly happy with her life – or at least, she’s perfectly fine. She doesn't in any way wish she was like Tabitha, her...
When a motor launch carrying the USS Ronald Reagan's top brass is attacked, the U.S. vows a swift reprisal. Enter skipper Brick Maxwell and his Roadrunners-the jocks who fly the F/A-18 Super Hornets. Their mission: a deep air strike in northern Yemen. But their target-the commander who masterminded the attack-has laid a deadly trap for Maxwell and his fellow warriors…
Brick Maxwell and his squadron of Roadrunners are flying cover for the President of Taiwan's jetliner when it's blown from the sky. Other than a slight shimmer of light preceding the catastrophe, there's no visible reason for the explosion. But Maxwell suspects that China has stolen the plans for the Black Star — a virtually invisible superstealth fighter plane. Now a...
Meet the fighter jocks who fly the F/A-18 Super Hornets of the aircraft carrier USS Ronald Reagan — in a novel of supersonic air combat so powerfully real, it could only have been written by a former Navy pilot. The Gulf War has been over for ten years. It's up to pilots like Brick Maxwell and his glory-seeking commander, Killer DeLancey, to keep the peace by a narrow margin —...
2019. An actress is murdered at a Hollywood house party and a naive young man stands accused. In this debut novel, greenhorn attorney Ezekiel Blackbird has something to prove as he struggles to establish his own practice in Los Angeles straight out of law school. Eager but insecure, Zeke would prefer to attract easier, high-paying corporate clients, but he can’t refuse the...
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016. — 934 p. — ISBN: 978-0-544-52718-8. Megan Abbott. The Little Man Steve Almond. Okay, Now Do You Surrender? Matt Bell. Toward the Company of Others Bruce Robert Coffin. Fool Proof Lyda Fitzpatrick. Safety Tom Franklin. Christians Stephen King. A Death Elmore Leonard. For Something to Do Ewan Lewis. The ContinentalOpposite Robert Lopresti. Street...
Two novels by two popular detective writers - Tess Gerritsen and Debra Webb, in the original language. Tess Gerritsen's Never Say Die Willy Jane Maitland traveled to Saigon to uncover what had happened to her father, missing in action twenty years ago. Instead she found intrigue – and murder. Only the rumpled and irreverent ex-soldier Guy Barnard seemed willing to help. But as...
New York, London: Quercus, 2015. — 512 p. — (Alice Madison #2). — ISBN: 1623656567 (ISBN13: 9781623656560). In the sequel to the riveting The Gift of Darkness, echoes of the decades-old Hoh River Boys kidnapping and murder continue to haunt Seattle Homicide Detective Alice Madison. After the nightmarish showdown in the woods with the madman Harry Salinger, Madison and the...
Bookouture, 2017. — 422 p. — ISBN10: 1786811138; ISBN13: 978-1786811134. An absolutely gripping thriller with a jaw-dropping twist (Detective Lottie Parker) (Volume 1) The hole they dug was not deep. A white flour bag encased the little body. Three small faces watched from the window, eyes black with terror. The child in the middle spoke without turning his head. ‘I wonder...
Bookouture, 2017. — 422 p. — ISBN10: 1786811138; ISBN13: 978-1786811134. An absolutely gripping thriller with a jaw-dropping twist (Detective Lottie Parker) (Volume 1) The hole they dug was not deep. A white flour bag encased the little body. Three small faces watched from the window, eyes black with terror. The child in the middle spoke without turning his head. ‘I wonder...
Bookouture, 2017. — 422 p. — ISBN10: 1786811138; ISBN13: 978-1786811134. An absolutely gripping thriller with a jaw-dropping twist (Detective Lottie Parker) (Volume 1) The hole they dug was not deep. A white flour bag encased the little body. Three small faces watched from the window, eyes black with terror. The child in the middle spoke without turning his head. ‘I wonder...
Bookouture, 2017. — 422 p. — ISBN10: 1786811138; ISBN13: 978-1786811134. An absolutely gripping thriller with a jaw-dropping twist (Detective Lottie Parker) (Volume 1) The hole they dug was not deep. A white flour bag encased the little body. Three small faces watched from the window, eyes black with terror. The child in the middle spoke without turning his head. ‘I wonder...
Amazon Digital Services LLC. — 2015. — 353 p. — (DS Jason Smith Detective Thriller. Book 5). — ASIN: B014ZY5DT4. The circus comes to town and children start to disappear. Detective Sergeant Jason Smith is persuaded to return to work after three weeks of a marijuana induced haze. Forced to endure the leadership of a new DI, the fulsome Bryony Brownhill, Smith is faced with the...
2019. — 223 p. — ASIN B07PG8VTS8. ‘My name is Miranda. I’ll be twenty-eight-years old soon, and I’m a serial murderer.’ ‘I might just kill again!’ From #1 bestseller Stewart Giles comes a completely stand-alone psychological thriller that you don’t want to miss. Miranda is a unique read, the best book yet by Stewart Giles. Sentenced to life in a secure hospital for the murder...
2017-2018. — (DC Harriet Taylor 1, 2, 3). The first three Detective Harriet Taylor Thrillers: The Beekeeper A shocking discovery starts a trail of mayhem on the Cornish coast. Alice Green is a beekeeper in the small Cornish village of Polgarrow. One evening, Alice finds something strange under the hollyhock bush in her garden. The gruesome discovery will change everyone’s...
Thomas & Mercer, 2016. - 448 c. - (Dr. Schwartzman Series Book 1) - ISBN10: 1503939308; ISBN13: 978-1503939301. Dr. Annabelle Schwartzman has finally found a place to belong. As the medical examiner for the San Francisco Police Department, working alongside homicide detective Hal Harris, she uncovers the tales the dead can’t tell about their final moments. It is a job that...
Thomas & Mercer, 2016. - 448 c. - (Dr. Schwartzman Series Book 1) - ISBN10: 1503939308; ISBN13: 978-1503939301. Dr. Annabelle Schwartzman has finally found a place to belong. As the medical examiner for the San Francisco Police Department, working alongside homicide detective Hal Harris, she uncovers the tales the dead can’t tell about their final moments. It is a job that...
Thomas & Mercer, 2016. — 392 p. — (Dr. Schwartzman, Book 1). — ISBN10: 1503939308; ISBN13: 978-1503939301. Dr. Annabelle Schwartzman has finally found a place to belong. As the medical examiner for the San Francisco Police Department, working alongside homicide detective Hal Harris, she uncovers the tales the dead can’t tell about their final moments. It is a job that gives her...
New York: Tom Doherty Associates / Forge Books, 2018. — 288 p. — ISBN13: 978-1250106698, ISBN10: 1250106699. Francis was running late for work when he found the suitcase and the odd card with an email on it. He knew he shouldn't bother but he couldn't resist. Now Francis is dodging bullets and doing his best to stay alive, wishing he had never bothered with that suitcase full...
Cincinnati: Tyrus Book, 2010. — 249 p. — ISBN: 1935562002; ISBN13: 9781935562009. Toby is twenty-five, with a couple of years of junior college, a wife and kid, and a trailer. He's living in Coyote Crossing, working as a part-time deputy. When he gets a call about a dead body in the center of town, he pins his tin star to his Weezer T-shirt, slips into a pair of sweatpants, and...
In a hidden control room a group of young technicians prepare missiles for launch. North Korea has deemed it politically necessary to reunite all of Korea under its flag, but to do so it must ensure there will be no retaliation from South Korea’s allies — primarily the United States. Using a stockpile of small nuclear devices it has secretly purchased or developed over the...
My name is Natalie Teeger. I’ve spent a good chunk of my life trying to figure out who I am, who I want to be, and what I want to do. Although I don’t have the answers to those questions, I’ve pretty much reconciled myself to the fact that I’m not going to be a rock star, a U.S. senator, or an international supermodel. I’m also probably not going to discover the cure to some...
Sal Cupertine is a legendary hit man for the Chicago Mafia, known for his ability to get in and out of a crime without a trace. Until now, that is. His first-ever mistake forces Sal to botch an assassination, killing three undercover FBI agents in the process. This puts too much heat on Sal, and he knows this botched job will be his death sentence to the Mafia. So he agrees to...
London. Macmillan. 1976. - 239 c. Tom "Babe" Levy is a runner in every sense: racing tirelessly toward his goals of athletic and academic excellence-and endlessly away from the specter of his famous father's scandal-driven suicide. But an unexpected visit from his beloved older brother will set in motion a chain of events that plunge Babe into a vortex of terror, treachery, and...
London: Macmillan, 1976. — 239 p. Tom "Babe" Levy is a runner in every sense: racing tirelessly toward his goals of athletic and academic excellence-and endlessly away from the specter of his famous father's scandal-driven suicide. But an unexpected visit from his beloved older brother will set in motion a chain of events that plunge Babe into a vortex of terror, treachery, and...
Riverhead Books, 2016. — 400 p. — ISBN: 1594632413 (ISBN13: 9781594632419). In a world beset by amassing forces of darkness, one organization — the Regional Office — and its coterie of super-powered female assassins protects the globe from annihilation. At its helm, the mysterious Oyemi and her oracles seek out new recruits and root out evil plots. Then a prophecy suggests that...
Riverhead Books, 2016. — 400 p. — ISBN: 1594632413 (ISBN13: 9781594632419). In a world beset by amassing forces of darkness, one organization — the Regional Office — and its coterie of super-powered female assassins protects the globe from annihilation. At its helm, the mysterious Oyemi and her oracles seek out new recruits and root out evil plots. Then a prophecy suggests that...
It begins in the small Iowa town of Steubenville, where a seemingly respectable citizen takes a head-over-heels tumble on a department store escalator. As if on cue, Cadillacs — 31 in all — start disappearing from lots in the San Francisco Bay area, as a team of scam artists use phone fraud, bank fraud, and pure criminal genius to do one California bank out of $1.3 million...
On a Hollywood studio lot a dancing bear does a little pickpocketing on the side. In Son Francisco the repo men of Daniel Kearny Associates ore on a nonstop campaign to repossess twenty-seven classic cars from twenty-seven people who will go to classic lengths to keep them. And in a fortress in the Big Sur wilderness a rich man vows to steal an ultraprecious collectors’ item....
Canelo USA, 2018. — 272 p. — (Campbell and Carter Mystery 6). — ASIN B07FD29RLL. A cold case, a guilty conscience, and four determined detectives… When children Josh and Dilys find a body in the woods on the outskirts of their small Cotswold village, they are too terrified to report it. But when, as adults, Josh discovers that his sister has kept a memento – the victim’s charm...
Headline, 2017. — 352 p. — ISBN10: 1472204514; ISBN13: 978-1472204516. (Inspector Ben Ross) The sixth Inspector Ben Ross mystery On a cold November night in a Deptford yard, dock worker Harry Parker stumbles upon the body of a dead woman. Inspector Ben Ross is summoned from Scotland Yard to this insalubrious part of town, but no witness to the murder of this well-dressed,...
Headline, 2017. — 352 p. — ISBN10: 1472204514; ISBN13: 978-1472204516. (Inspector Ben Ross) The sixth Inspector Ben Ross mystery On a cold November night in a Deptford yard, dock worker Harry Parker stumbles upon the body of a dead woman. Inspector Ben Ross is summoned from Scotland Yard to this insalubrious part of town, but no witness to the murder of this well-dressed,...
Headline, 2017. — 352 p. — ISBN10: 1472204514; ISBN13: 978-1472204516. (Inspector Ben Ross) The sixth Inspector Ben Ross mystery On a cold November night in a Deptford yard, dock worker Harry Parker stumbles upon the body of a dead woman. Inspector Ben Ross is summoned from Scotland Yard to this insalubrious part of town, but no witness to the murder of this well-dressed,...
New York: G.P. Putnam Sons, 2014. — 674 p. A North Korean ICBM crashes into the Sea of Japan. A veteran CIA officer is murdered in Ho Chi Minh City, and a package of forged documents goes missing. The pieces are there, but assembling the puzzle will cost Jack Ryan, Jr. and his fellow Campus agents precious time. Time they don’t have. The challenge facing President Jack Ryan is...
New York: G.P. Putnam Sons, 2014. — 674 p. A North Korean ICBM crashes into the Sea of Japan. A veteran CIA officer is murdered in Ho Chi Minh City, and a package of forged documents goes missing. The pieces are there, but assembling the puzzle will cost Jack Ryan, Jr. and his fellow Campus agents precious time. Time they don’t have. The challenge facing President Jack Ryan is...
G.P. Putnam's Sons, 2016. — 429 p. — (A Jack Ryan Novel). — ISBN10: 0399176810. — ISBN13: 978-0399176814. — The New York Times Best Sellers, issue №51 – 25 December It begins with a family dinner in Princeton, New Jersey. After months at sea, U.S. Navy Commander Scott Hagan, captain of the USS James Greer, is on leave when he is attacked by an armed man in a crowded restaurant....
Ballantine Books, 2016. — 368 p. — ISBN10: 0425284328; ISBN13: 978-0425284322. Acclaimed Swedish author Camilla Grebe makes her solo American debut with a psychological thriller as cunning in its twists as it is captivating in its storytelling — for fans of the celebrated crime fiction of Camilla Läckberg, Jo Nesbø, Ruth Ware, and Fiona Barton. Winter’s chill has descended on...
Ballantine Books, 2016. — 368 p. — ISBN10: 0425284328; ISBN13: 978-0425284322. Acclaimed Swedish author Camilla Grebe makes her solo American debut with a psychological thriller as cunning in its twists as it is captivating in its storytelling — for fans of the celebrated crime fiction of Camilla Läckberg, Jo Nesbø, Ruth Ware, and Fiona Barton. Winter’s chill has descended on...
Ballantine Books, 2016. — 368 p. — ISBN10: 0425284328; ISBN13: 978-0425284322. Acclaimed Swedish author Camilla Grebe makes her solo American debut with a psychological thriller as cunning in its twists as it is captivating in its storytelling — for fans of the celebrated crime fiction of Camilla Läckberg, Jo Nesbø, Ruth Ware, and Fiona Barton. Winter’s chill has descended on...
Greyson Media Associates, 2016. — 328 p. — ISBN10: 1683990021; ISBN13: 978-1683990024. What's done in the dark will be brought to the light... The silhouette stood at the edge of the woods like a spider watching a fly enter its carefully crafted web. Only a few more steps and she'd be within its grasp. Stacy Shaw has her whole life ahead of her. New job, new house and now a...
Greyson Media Associates, 2016. — 328 p. — ISBN10: 1683990021; ISBN13: 978-1683990024. What's done in the dark will be brought to the light... The silhouette stood at the edge of the woods like a spider watching a fly enter its carefully crafted web. Only a few more steps and she'd be within its grasp. Stacy Shaw has her whole life ahead of her. New job, new house and now a...
Greyson Media Associates, 2016. — 328 p. — ISBN10: 1683990021; ISBN13: 978-1683990024. What's done in the dark will be brought to the light... The silhouette stood at the edge of the woods like a spider watching a fly enter its carefully crafted web. Only a few more steps and she'd be within its grasp. Stacy Shaw has her whole life ahead of her. New job, new house and now a...
Science and mysticism, nature and greed collide in this mind-bending, compulsively readable thriller from the author of Tropic of Night and Valley of Bones , hailed by the Washington Post as "miracles of intelligent fiction… among the essential novels of recent years." Deep in the jungles of Colombia, an American priest is shot dead in his makeshift church. A few weeks later an...
A distinguished Shakespearean scholar found tortured to death… A lost manuscript and its secrets buried for centuries… An encrypted map that leads to incalculable wealth… The Washington Post called Michael Gruber's previous work "a miracle of intelligent fiction and among the essential novels of recent years." Now comes his most intellectually provocative and compulsively...
Chaz Wilmot is a painter born outside his time. He possesses a virtuosic command of the techniques of the old masters. He can paint like Leonardo, Goya, Gainsborough-artists whose works sell for millions-but this style of painting is no longer popular, and he refuses to shape his talent to fit the fashion of the day. So Wilmot makes his living cranking out parodies for ads and...
New York Times bestselling author Michael Gruber, a member of "the elite ranks of those who can both chill the blood and challenge the mind" (The Denver Post), delivers a taut, multilayered, riveting novel of suspense Somewhere in Pakistan, Sonia Laghari and eight fellow members of a symposium on peace are being held captive by armed terrorists. Sonia, a deeply religious woman...
A taught, high-concept thriller that humanizes the men and women behind military espionage. James Grundvig’s Dolphin Drone takes us into the complex underworld of global terrorism with razor-sharp plot twists, remarkable characters, and fascinating insight into the technological advancements of the US Navy. Using dolphin sonar-tracking technology, Ex-Navy SEAL Merk Toten...
Grand Central Publishing, 2009. — 453 p. In 1987, Alex Konevitch was thrown out of Moscow University for "indulging his entrepreneurial spirit." But by 1991, he was worth $300 million. On track to become Russia's wealthiest man, he makes one critical mistake: he hires the former deputy director of the KGB to handle his corporate security. And then his world begins to fall...
Thriller. Luke is only fourteen. Eliana is his whole world and for a fourteen year old, the burden is immense. You see, Eliana is being stalked. Stalked by a madman who wants nothing more than to see her dead. The madman knows things that no one should know and sees things that no one should see. He tells them if they say a word to anyone, they will both die. And Luke can't let...
Thriller. Luke is only fourteen. Eliana is his whole world and for a fourteen year old, the burden is immense. You see, Eliana is being stalked. Stalked by a madman who wants nothing more than to see her dead. The madman knows things that no one should know and sees things that no one should see. He tells them if they say a word to anyone, they will both die. And Luke can't let...
Thriller. Luke is only fourteen. Eliana is his whole world and for a fourteen year old, the burden is immense. You see, Eliana is being stalked. Stalked by a madman who wants nothing more than to see her dead. The madman knows things that no one should know and sees things that no one should see. He tells them if they say a word to anyone, they will both die. And Luke can't let...
Carina, 2016. - 183 c. - ISBN10: 0008205191; ISBN13: 978-0008205195. From the bestselling author of Between You and Me don't miss Lisa Hall's new gripping thriller. Don't. Trust. Anyone. It was supposed to be a fresh start. A chance to forget the past and embrace the future. But can you ever really start again? Or does the past follow you wherever you go...Steph and Mark have...
Carina, 2016. - 183 c. - ISBN10: 0008205191; ISBN13: 978-0008205195. From the bestselling author of Between You and Me don't miss Lisa Hall's new gripping thriller. Don't. Trust. Anyone. It was supposed to be a fresh start. A chance to forget the past and embrace the future. But can you ever really start again? Or does the past follow you wherever you go...Steph and Mark have...
Carina, 2016. - 183 c. - ISBN10: 0008205191; ISBN13: 978-0008205195. From the bestselling author of Between You and Me don't miss Lisa Hall's new gripping thriller. Don't. Trust. Anyone. It was supposed to be a fresh start. A chance to forget the past and embrace the future. But can you ever really start again? Or does the past follow you wherever you go...Steph and Mark have...
35 p. One of the Continental Op's most bizarre cases as he is faced with Miss Gabrielle Dain Leggett who has an unfortunate effect on the people around her: they die violently. FROM THE PUBLISHER The Continental Op is a short, squat, and utterly unsentimental tank of a private detective. Miss Gabrielle Dain Leggett is young, wealthy, and a devotee of morphine and religious...
Alfred A. Knopf, 1930. --166 p. Sam Spade is hired by the fragrant Miss Wonderley to track down her sister, who has eloped with a louse called Floyd Thursby. But Miss Wonderley is in fact the beautiful and treacherous Brigid O'Shaughnessy, and when Spade's partner Miles Archer is shot while on Thursby's trail, Spade finds himself both hunter and hunted: can he track down the...
First published on 19th November 1932 by Collier's Springfield (Ohio) and New York - P. F. Collier & Son. Private detective Sam Spade seeks an interview and finds a mystery in this short story - one of the 3 Sam Spade short stories by Hammett.
Aka The Christmas Murder. Classic English Cozy. What would an English murder be? Why, it must be a murder of a kind entirely peculiar to England, such as are the murders related in this particularly ingenious novel. And, naturally, it takes a foreigner to savour the full Englishness of a specifically English crime. Such a foreigner is Dr. Bottwink who plays a very important...
Aka The Christmas Murder. Classic English Cozy. What would an English murder be? Why, it must be a murder of a kind entirely peculiar to England, such as are the murders related in this particularly ingenious novel. And, naturally, it takes a foreigner to savour the full Englishness of a specifically English crime. Such a foreigner is Dr. Bottwink who plays a very important...
Faber and Faber Limited. First published in 1951. It combines traits of a classical Golden Age murder mystery – a group of guests in a snowed-in country house – with the realities of post-war Britain. In 2019 The Guardian included the novel in the list of Top 10 golden age detective novels.
32 p. Francis Pettigrew's holiday turns to nightmare when he stumbles across a body on Boulter's Tussock – a rather alarming body at that, given to vanishing and reappearing in unexpected places.
Alibi, 2016. - 305 c. - ASIN: B01AQNZQHC. In this white-knuckle thriller for fans of Lisa Gardner and Karin Slaughter, a brilliant, troubled forensic psychologist finds herself matching wits with a frighteningly talented sociopath. Dr. Iris Ballard’s glory days are behind her, so when Luke Hudson, her former FBI partner and onetime lover, asks for help constructing a...
Alibi, 2016. - 305 c. - ASIN: B01AQNZQHC. In this white-knuckle thriller for fans of Lisa Gardner and Karin Slaughter, a brilliant, troubled forensic psychologist finds herself matching wits with a frighteningly talented sociopath. Dr. Iris Ballard’s glory days are behind her, so when Luke Hudson, her former FBI partner and onetime lover, asks for help constructing a...
London: Mulholland Books, 2018. — 336 p. — ISBN: 1473642191 (ISBN13: 9781473642195). Three women have been found dead in East Anglia. The police deny a connection. TV news reporter Frankie smells a story... Ava knows that the threat is real. She's been kidnapped by someone claiming to be the killer: a stranger who seems to know everything about her. As Frankie follows the case,...
(first published 2004) Edition Language: English Literary Awards: Hammett Prize Nominee (2004) Bill Wyeth is a rising real estate attorney living the lofty heights of success. Then a tragic accident claims everything he has: his family, his fortune, his career. But this is Manhattan, and Bill has much further to fall. His downward spiral lands him at the table of Allison...
William Heinemann, 2007. — 464 p. — (Will Grayson and Helen Walker 1). — ISBN: 043401446X (ISBN13: 9780434014460). Will’s first thought when he saw the man’s face: it was like a glove that had been pulled inside out. When police detective Will Grayson and his partner, Helen Walker are called upon to investigate the violent death of Stephen Bryan, a gay Cambridge academic, their...
William Heinemann, 2007. — 464 p. — (Will Grayson and Helen Walker 1) — ISBN: 043401446X (ISBN13: 9780434014460). Will’s first thought when he saw the man’s face: it was like a glove that had been pulled inside out. When police detective Will Grayson and his partner, Helen Walker are called upon to investigate the violent death of Stephen Bryan, a gay Cambridge academic, their...
From the Emmy, PEN, Peabody, Critics' Choice, and Golden Globe Award-winning creator of the TV show Fargo comes the thriller of the year. On a foggy summer night, eleven people — ten privileged, one down-on-his-luck painter — depart Martha's Vineyard on a private jet headed for New York. Sixteen minutes later, the unthinkable happens: the plane plunges into the ocean. The only...
Output data is not determined. As my eyes gradually focused with the blood dripping down my face, all I could see was this big Kurt Russell wannabe pointing a freakin' gun at me in my own living room. The worst part? The son of a bitch looked like he was enjoying himself. So, I killed the bastard. Not really. Well, I did kill him, but it was self-defense. Hold on, I'm getting...
St. Martin's Press; 1st edition, 2019. — 384 p. — ISBN10: 1250133734; ISBN13: 978-1250133731. The instant #1 New York Times bestseller (January 2019) everyone is talking about! Looking to earn some easy cash, Jessica Farris agrees to be a test subject in a psychological study about ethics and morality. But as the study moves from the exam room to the real world, the line...
St. Martin's Press; 1st edition, 2019. — 384 p. — ISBN10: 1250133734; ISBN13: 978-1250133731. The instant #1 New York Times bestseller (January 2019) everyone is talking about! Looking to earn some easy cash, Jessica Farris agrees to be a test subject in a psychological study about ethics and morality. But as the study moves from the exam room to the real world, the line...
Novel - 853 Broadway New York, Soho Press, Inc., 2015. - 336 p. - HC ISPN 978-1-61695-486-4. In this standalone spy thriller, Mick Herron, creator of Slough House, introduced Tom Bettany, a man with a violent past and only one thing to live for Avenging his son's death. Tom Bettany is working at a meat processing plant in France when he gets a voicemail from an Englishwoman he...
Knopf; First Edition edition, 2016. - 352 c. - ISBN10: 0385349742; ISBN13: 978-0385349741. he new full-tilt, unstoppably hilarious and entertaining novel from the best-selling author of Skinny Dip and Bad Monkey When Lane Coolman's car is bashed from behind on the road to the Florida Keys, what appears to be an ordinary accident is anything but (this is Hiaasen!). Behind the...
Knopf; First Edition edition, 2016. - 352 c. - ISBN10: 0385349742; ISBN13: 978-0385349741. he new full-tilt, unstoppably hilarious and entertaining novel from the best-selling author of Skinny Dip and Bad Monkey When Lane Coolman's car is bashed from behind on the road to the Florida Keys, what appears to be an ordinary accident is anything but (this is Hiaasen!). Behind the...
Knopf; First Edition edition, 2016. - 352 c. - ISBN10: 0385349742; ISBN13: 978-0385349741. he new full-tilt, unstoppably hilarious and entertaining novel from the best-selling author of Skinny Dip and Bad Monkey When Lane Coolman's car is bashed from behind on the road to the Florida Keys, what appears to be an ordinary accident is anything but (this is Hiaasen!). Behind the...
Publisher: Harper Torch, Oxford University Press USA, 1990-2006. This is a collection 22 Novels by Tony Hillerman who was an award-winning American author of detective novels and non-fiction works best known for his Navajo Tribal Police mystery novels. Some of his works were made into big-screen and television movies. Tony Hillerman was born in Oklahoma in 1925. He joined the...
The prosecutor - Julia Valenciano. Young, ambitious and facing a case that could launch her career. The defendant - David Marquette. A successful Miami surgeon and devoted family man. The victims - Marquette's own wife and three small children. The plea - Not Guilty by Reason of Insanity. The perfect father and model husband, David Marquette seemingly just snapped. His...
London: Bookouture, 2018. — 268 p. — (Detective Rhodes and Radley 1). — ISBN: 978-1-78681-336-7. Don’t trust your friends. Don’t trust your family. Don’t trust yourself… The people of London fear for their lives when a twisted serial killer called The Cartoonist starts targeting young mothers, leaving their bodies on display in their homes with speech bubbles drawn from their...
Mulholland Books, 2016. - 352 c. - ISBN10: 031625956X; ISBN13: 978-0316259569. If the good guys can't save you, call a bad guy. When viral video of an explosive terrorist attack on San Francisco's Golden Gate Bridge reveals that a Federal witness long thought dead is still alive, the organization he'd agreed to testify against will stop at nothing to put him in the ground. FBI...
Mulholland Books, 2016. - 352 c. - ISBN10: 031625956X; ISBN13: 978-0316259569. If the good guys can't save you, call a bad guy. When viral video of an explosive terrorist attack on San Francisco's Golden Gate Bridge reveals that a Federal witness long thought dead is still alive, the organization he'd agreed to testify against will stop at nothing to put him in the ground. FBI...
Mulholland Books, 2016. - 352 c. - ISBN10: 031625956X; ISBN13: 978-0316259569. If the good guys can't save you, call a bad guy. When viral video of an explosive terrorist attack on San Francisco's Golden Gate Bridge reveals that a Federal witness long thought dead is still alive, the organization he'd agreed to testify against will stop at nothing to put him in the ground. FBI...
Original Swedish crime stories from the masters of Nordic noir including a never before published story by Stieg Larsson. Ever since Stieg Larsson shone a light on the brilliance of Swedish crime writing with his bestselling Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, readers have devoured this dark and compelling genre.
The House of Silk is a novel about the adventures of consulting detective Sherlock Holmes, written by English writer Anthony Horowitz and published on November 1, 2011 in North America, Europe and Russia. The book is dedicated to the writer's friend Jeffrey S. Joseph. According to the publishers, this is the first Holmes novel to be approved by the Conan Doyle Legacy Trust....
The House of Silk is a novel about the adventures of consulting detective Sherlock Holmes, written by English writer Anthony Horowitz and published on November 1, 2011 in North America, Europe and Russia. The book is dedicated to the writer's friend Jeffrey S. Joseph. According to the publishers, this is the first Holmes novel to be approved by the Conan Doyle Legacy Trust....
Thomas & Mercer, 2016. — 300 p. — ISBN10: 1503938166; ISBN13: 978-1503938168. Peace of mind is all Greg Cole has wanted since the murder of his twin sister, Scarlett. In his new sun-soaked Florida life, he thought he had found it. But when Scarlett’s killer is released early from prison with a cast-iron alibi, Greg realizes that his past is about to explode into his present,...
Thomas & Mercer, 2016. — 300 p. — ISBN10: 1503938166; ISBN13: 978-1503938168. Peace of mind is all Greg Cole has wanted since the murder of his twin sister, Scarlett. In his new sun-soaked Florida life, he thought he had found it. But when Scarlett’s killer is released early from prison with a cast-iron alibi, Greg realizes that his past is about to explode into his present,...
Thomas & Mercer, 2016. — 300 p. — ISBN10: 1503938166; ISBN13: 978-1503938168. Peace of mind is all Greg Cole has wanted since the murder of his twin sister, Scarlett. In his new sun-soaked Florida life, he thought he had found it. But when Scarlett’s killer is released early from prison with a cast-iron alibi, Greg realizes that his past is about to explode into his present,...
Merchant, 2009. — 188 p. — ISBN: 1603862331. First published in 1886, The Mystery of a Hansom Cab was a sensation, selling hundreds of thousands of copies worldwide. It has lost none of its page-turning power in the century since. Set in gold-rich Melbourne in the late nineteenth century, Hansom Cab tells a devilishly tricky tale of murder and intrigue.
2018. - 759 p. - ASIN B07M6HVCY8. The Silent Ones A retired detective must solve a string of child abductions before it’s too late One morning. One note. Three abductions: Ten years ago, former Seattle Police Detective Chase Grant assisted on a homicide case that led to the capture and imprisonment of one of the country’s deadliest serial killers. But even behind bars Dennis...
Black Rose Writing; 1 edition, 2017. — 204 p. — ISBN10: 1612968074; ISBN13: 978-1612968070. Olivia is excited for university. She will be on her own, in a new place hopeful to meet new friends. On the night she moves in, she is taken off the street by two masked men. She is placed in a room which is little more than a cell. A pink cell. A room made for a doll. She is now part...
Black Rose Writing; 1 edition, 2017. — 204 p. — ISBN10: 1612968074; ISBN13: 978-1612968070. Olivia is excited for university. She will be on her own, in a new place hopeful to meet new friends. On the night she moves in, she is taken off the street by two masked men. She is placed in a room which is little more than a cell. A pink cell. A room made for a doll. She is now part...
Black Rose Writing; 1 edition, 2017. — 204 p. — ISBN10: 1612968074; ISBN13: 978-1612968070. Olivia is excited for university. She will be on her own, in a new place hopeful to meet new friends. On the night she moves in, she is taken off the street by two masked men. She is placed in a room which is little more than a cell. A pink cell. A room made for a doll. She is now part...
Black Rose Writing; 1 edition, 2017. — 204 p. — ISBN10: 1612968074; ISBN13: 978-1612968070. Olivia is excited for university. She will be on her own, in a new place hopeful to meet new friends. On the night she moves in, she is taken off the street by two masked men. She is placed in a room which is little more than a cell. A pink cell. A room made for a doll. She is now part...
Near an isolated mansion lies a beautiful garden. In this garden grow luscious flowers, shady trees…and a collection of precious “butterflies”—young women who have been kidnapped and intricately tattooed to resemble their namesakes. Overseeing it all is the Gardener, a brutal, twisted man obsessed with capturing and preserving his lovely specimens. When the garden is...
2019. - 185 p. - ASIN B07P7BGQ4R. When recently divorced Cleo Kemp inherits a house in the small town of Crimson Falls, she jumps at the opportunity to start over in the seemingly idyllic location. A photographer struggling to find work, Cleo stumbles into the woods looking for a dead body announced on her police scanner. But she’s not prepared for what she finds -- the body of...
Blackwater by Conn Iggulden is a fast-moving story told by Davey, a man who has lived his life as a tragic victim, often suffering at the hands of those closest to him. The book starts with Davey standing in the cold, calm, dark, nocturnal sea at Brighton beach, wearing his best suit and reflecting on his awful life. Since childhood, his main tormentor has been his own brother,...
Blackwater by Conn Iggulden is a fast-moving story told by Davey, a man who has lived his life as a tragic victim, often suffering at the hands of those closest to him. The book starts with Davey standing in the cold, calm, dark, nocturnal sea at Brighton beach, wearing his best suit and reflecting on his awful life. Since childhood, his main tormentor has been his own brother,...
Albert Rossi would be the first to tell you that breaking into the world of professional assassination is no easy task. In almost any job, you are allowed to make the odd mistake, with red faces all round and perhaps a new office nickname. Not so with hit men. If assassins had a theme tune, it would be something solemn and deeply dignified. Adagio in G minor, perhaps. Soft rock...
Albert Rossi would be the first to tell you that breaking into the world of professional assassination is no easy task. In almost any job, you are allowed to make the odd mistake, with red faces all round and perhaps a new office nickname. Not so with hit men. If assassins had a theme tune, it would be something solemn and deeply dignified. Adagio in G minor, perhaps. Soft rock...
J. B. Lippincott Company. 1944. — 178 p. After-Dinner Story is a terrific collection of six short stories by the master of suspense, Cornell Woolrich. Everything from revenge for an unsolved murder, to a man convalescing who believes a man has murdered his wife but can’t get anyone to believe him, to pyromania, and a writer whose story eerily resembles an actual murder, make up...
J. B. Lippincott Company. 1944. — 166 p. The story follows “Bricky”, a hardened ten-cents-a-dance-girl who is disillusioned with life in New York City but is too scared to admit failure and return to her small-town home in Iowa. One night she meets Quinn, a troubled young patron who Bricky lets walk her home. They discover that they both come from the same town and the two...
J. B. Lippincott Company. 1948 — 165 p. Pregnant, abandoned by her lover, and desperate, Helen boards a train heading west. She meets Patrice, a happy young expectant mother traveling with her husband, Hugh, to meet his family for the first time. Patrice lets Helen try on her wedding band — just before the train crashes, killing Patrice and Hugh. Thinking Helen is their widowed...
J. B. Lippincott Company. 1942 — 167 p. A man is first accused, and then convicted, of murdering his wife. As his execution date approaches, his friends and a sympathetic detective frantically search for his alibi, a woman with whom he’d gone to a Broadway show the night of the murder. None of the people who saw them together recall the woman. This is one story from a...
Electric Monkey (2019), 172 p., ISBN: 978 1 4052 9384 6. Everyone in Fairview knows the story. Pretty and popular high school senior Andie Bell was murdered by her boyfriend, Sal Singh, who then killed himself. It was all anyone could talk about. And five years later, Pip sees how the tragedy still haunts her town. But she can't shake the feeling that there was more to what...
Zebra; Reissue edition, 2017. — 384 p. — ISBN10: 1420137883; ISBN13: 978-1420137880. (The Wyoming Series Book 2) Someone is watching... New York Times bestselling authors Lisa Jackson, Nancy Bush, and Rosalind Noonan join together in a gripping novel of suspense, as a long-guarded secret plunges three friends into a new nightmare. NO WARNING In the photograph, three teenaged...
Zebra; Reissue edition, 2017. — 384 p. — ISBN10: 1420137883; ISBN13: 978-1420137880. (The Wyoming Series Book 2) Someone is watching... New York Times bestselling authors Lisa Jackson, Nancy Bush, and Rosalind Noonan join together in a gripping novel of suspense, as a long-guarded secret plunges three friends into a new nightmare. NO WARNING In the photograph, three teenaged...
New York: Knopf, 2016. — 290 p. — ISBN: 1101874937 (ISBN13: 9781101874936). Acclaimed scientist Hope Jahren has built three laboratories in which she’s studied trees, flowers, seeds, and soil. Her first book is a revelatory treatise on plant life — but it is also so much more. Lab Girl is a book about work, love, and the mountains that can be moved when those two things come...
Detective 2012 28 2pages For LA producer Larry Brooker, this is the movie that could bring the fortune that has so long eluded him...For rock superstar, Gaia, desperate to be taken seriously as an actor, this is the role that could get her an Oscar nomination… For the City of Brighton and Hove, the publicity value of a major Hollywood movie being filmed on location, about the...
Harper, 2014. — 464 p. — ISBN10: 006213468X ISBN13: 978-0062134684 With Second Watch, New York Times bestselling author J. A. Jance delivers another thought-provoking novel of suspense starring Seattle investigator J. P. Beaumont. Second Watch shows Beaumont taking some time off to get knee replacement surgery, but instead of taking his mind off work, the operation plunges him...
Harper, 2014. — 464 p. — ISBN10: 006213468X ISBN13: 978-0062134684 With Second Watch, New York Times bestselling author J. A. Jance delivers another thought-provoking novel of suspense starring Seattle investigator J. P. Beaumont. Second Watch shows Beaumont taking some time off to get knee replacement surgery, but instead of taking his mind off work, the operation plunges him...
Happily married for over a year and more in love than ever, Darcy and Elizabeth can’t imagine anything interrupting their bliss-filled days. Then an intense snowstorm strands a group of travelers at Pemberley, and terrifying accidents and mysterious deaths begin to plague the manor. Everyone seems convinced that it is the work of a phantom — a Shadow Man who is haunting the...
Happily married for over a year and more in love than ever, Darcy and Elizabeth can’t imagine anything interrupting their bliss-filled days. Then an intense snowstorm strands a group of travelers at Pemberley, and terrifying accidents and mysterious deaths begin to plague the manor. Everyone seems convinced that it is the work of a phantom — a Shadow Man who is haunting the...
Echo Publishing, 2018. — 352 p. — (Detective Cardilini 1). — ISBN: 139781760683306. An atmospheric crime novel with a burning moral dilemma at its heart. When a boarding master at an exclusive boys’ school is shot dead, it is deemed accidental. A lazy and usually drunk detective is sent to write up the report. Cardilini unexpectedly does not cooperate, as he becomes riled by...
Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 2010. — 874 p. — (Detective Murdoch, #1) — eISBN: 978-0-7710-4320-8. In the cold Toronto winter of 1895, the unclad body of a servant girl is found frozen in a deserted laneway. Detective William Murdoch quickly finds out that more than one person connected with the girl’s simple life has something to hide.
Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 2005. — ISBN: 0771043996, ISBN13: 9780771043994. Women rich and poor come to her, desperate and in dire need of help – and discretion. Dolly Merishaw is a midwife and an abortionist in Victorian Toronto, but although she keeps quiet about her clients’ condition, her contempt for them and her greed leaves every one of them resentful and angry. So...
St. Martin's Press, 2017. — 352 p. — ISBN10: 125007584X; ISBN13: 978-1250075840. New York Times bestselling author Iris Johansen returns with another thriller. Margaret Douglas has worked hard to put her painful past behind her. Raised off the grid in an abusive home, her only escape was the nearby forest where she sought refuge whenever she could. There, in the peaceful woods,...
St. Martin's Press, 2017. — 352 p. — ISBN10: 125007584X; ISBN13: 978-1250075840. New York Times bestselling author Iris Johansen returns with another thriller. Margaret Douglas has worked hard to put her painful past behind her. Raised off the grid in an abusive home, her only escape was the nearby forest where she sought refuge whenever she could. There, in the peaceful woods,...
Faber and Faber Crime, 2012. — 272 p. — ASIN B006K6MVNM. Driving home from a party with his girlfriend and brother, all of them drunk and high on stolen pills, Billy Blackmore accidentally hits someone in the night. In a panic, they all decide to drive off. But the next day Billy wakes to find he has to cover the story for the local paper. It turns out the dead man was...
Faber and Faber Crime, 2012. — 272 p. — ASIN B006K6MVNM. Driving home from a party with his girlfriend and brother, all of them drunk and high on stolen pills, Billy Blackmore accidentally hits someone in the night. In a panic, they all decide to drive off. But the next day Billy wakes to find he has to cover the story for the local paper. It turns out the dead man was...
Faber and Faber Crime, 2012. — 272 p. — ASIN B006K6MVNM. Driving home from a party with his girlfriend and brother, all of them drunk and high on stolen pills, Billy Blackmore accidentally hits someone in the night. In a panic, they all decide to drive off. But the next day Billy wakes to find he has to cover the story for the local paper. It turns out the dead man was...
It all starts on the one-hundredth birthday of Allan Karlsson. Sitting quietly in his room in an old people's home, he is waiting for the party he-never-wanted-anyway to begin. The mayor is going to be there. The press is going to be there. But, as it turns out, Allan is not.Slowly but surely Allan climbs out of his bedroom window, into the flowerbed (in his slippers) and makes...
It all starts on the one-hundredth birthday of Allan Karlsson. Sitting quietly in his room in an old people's home, he is waiting for the party he-never-wanted-anyway to begin. The mayor is going to be there. The press is going to be there. But, as it turns out, Allan is not.Slowly but surely Allan climbs out of his bedroom window, into the flowerbed (in his slippers) and makes...
New York: Kensington Publishing Corp., 2004. — 597 p. — ISBN: 978-0-7860-3250-1. Michael Peterson was a decorated war veteran and bestselling novelist, his wife Kathleen a high-powered executive and devoted mother. They seemed to be the perfect couple, living a dream life — until the tragic night Michael found Kathleen at the bottom of the stairs in a pool of blood. He claimed...
Newton: Wings ePress, Inc., 2019. — 206 p. — ISBN: 978-1-61309-372-6. Over the years, young women have been disappearing from Buckton, WI. On a cold October morning skeletal remains are unearthed on the abandoned fields of Star Farm. With the previous owner, Rory Star, nowhere to be found, will Lieutenant John Grutner and his secretary, Gretchen Sands, ever solve this case?
Sourcebooks Landmark, 2016. — 336 p. — ISBN10: 1492633585; ISBN13: 978-1492633587. In the tradition of Defending Jacob or Drowning Ruth, this is a suspenseful debut that explores the ramifications of revenge, justice, and the aftermath of a terrible night in the lives of two families. It should have been just a quiet evening with friends. But Francis lost his brother that night...
Sourcebooks Landmark, 2016. — 336 p. — ISBN10: 1492633585; ISBN13: 978-1492633587. In the tradition of Defending Jacob or Drowning Ruth, this is a suspenseful debut that explores the ramifications of revenge, justice, and the aftermath of a terrible night in the lives of two families. It should have been just a quiet evening with friends. But Francis lost his brother that night...
Sourcebooks Landmark, 2016. — 336 p. — ISBN10: 1492633585; ISBN13: 978-1492633587. In the tradition of Defending Jacob or Drowning Ruth, this is a suspenseful debut that explores the ramifications of revenge, justice, and the aftermath of a terrible night in the lives of two families. It should have been just a quiet evening with friends. But Francis lost his brother that night...
Random House, 2012. — 528 p. — ISBN10: 0099561921. The first of two epic novels which tell the story of one of the most charismatic heroes history has ever known - Spartacus, the gladiator slave who took on and nearly defeated the might of Rome, during the years 73-71 BC. Historically very little is known about Spartacus. We know that he came from Thrace, a land north of...
Lane Parker hadn’t seen her childhood friend, Maggie Donaldson in years, yet when Maggie’s son went missing she knew who to call. Lane and her new best friend, criminal defense attorney, Ben Bellini won’t rest until Maggie’s son is found. Over the long Memorial Day weekend, Lane and Ben go on a road trip in search of Maggie’s son. On the way they, run into old friends, stumble...
Doubleday, 2019 — 596 p. In December 1972, Jean McConville, a thirty-eight-year-old mother of ten, was dragged from her Belfast home by masked intruders, her children clinging to her legs. They never saw her again. Her abduction was one of the most notorious episodes of the vicious conflict known as The Troubles. Everyone in the neighborhood knew the I.R. A. was responsible....
William Morrow, 2017. — 432 p. — ISBN10: 0062424963; ISBN13: 978-0062424969. (Decker/Lazarus Novels) In this thrilling chapter in Faye Kellerman’s bestselling series, Rina Lazarus makes a shocking discovery in the woods of her upstate New York community that leads her husband, police detective Peter Decker, through a series of gruesome, decades old, unsolved murders, pointing...
William Morrow, 2017. — 432 p. — ISBN10: 0062424963; ISBN13: 978-0062424969. (Decker/Lazarus Novels) In this thrilling chapter in Faye Kellerman’s bestselling series, Rina Lazarus makes a shocking discovery in the woods of her upstate New York community that leads her husband, police detective Peter Decker, through a series of gruesome, decades old, unsolved murders, pointing...
William Morrow, 2017. — 432 p. — ISBN10: 0062424963; ISBN13: 978-0062424969. (Decker/Lazarus Novels) In this thrilling chapter in Faye Kellerman’s bestselling series, Rina Lazarus makes a shocking discovery in the woods of her upstate New York community that leads her husband, police detective Peter Decker, through a series of gruesome, decades old, unsolved murders, pointing...
Minotaur Books, 2017. — 400 p. — ISBN10: 1250113695; ISBN13: 978-1250113696. "A tour de force – a gripping, twisting, furiously clever read that asks all the right questions, and keeps you guessing until the very end. I loved it." --Ruth Ware, bestselling author of The Woman in Cabin 10 In the summer of 1999, Kit and Laura travel to a festival in Cornwall to see a total eclipse...
Minotaur Books, 2017. — 400 p. — ISBN10: 1250113695; ISBN13: 978-1250113696. "A tour de force – a gripping, twisting, furiously clever read that asks all the right questions, and keeps you guessing until the very end. I loved it." --Ruth Ware, bestselling author of The Woman in Cabin 10 In the summer of 1999, Kit and Laura travel to a festival in Cornwall to see a total eclipse...
2011. In austerity-gripped Britain a few years in the future, intergenerational conflict arises as an ageing population strains the resources of the rest of society. As the Government resorts to ever harsher control measures, a self-serving and amoral politician first finds favour with the Prime Minister then supplants him, introducing draconian policies which turn the elderly...
2011. In austerity-gripped Britain a few years in the future, intergenerational conflict arises as an ageing population strains the resources of the rest of society. As the Government resorts to ever harsher control measures, a self-serving and amoral politician first finds favour with the Prime Minister then supplants him, introducing draconian policies which turn the elderly...
2011. In austerity-gripped Britain a few years in the future, intergenerational conflict arises as an ageing population strains the resources of the rest of society. As the Government resorts to ever harsher control measures, a self-serving and amoral politician first finds favour with the Prime Minister then supplants him, introducing draconian policies which turn the elderly...
St. Martin's Paperbacks, 2014. — 1024 p. — ISBN10: 1250029899 ISBN13: 978-1250029898 A sensational new chapter in the Dark-Hunter saga begins from #1 New York Times bestselling author Sherrilyn Kenyon As the twin to Acheron, Styxx hasn’t always been on his brother’s side. They’ve spent more centuries going at each other’s throats than protecting their backs. Now Styxx has a...
St. Martin's Paperbacks, 2014. — 1024 p. — ISBN10: 1250029899 ISBN13: 978-1250029898 A sensational new chapter in the Dark-Hunter saga begins from #1 New York Times bestselling author Sherrilyn Kenyon As the twin to Acheron, Styxx hasn’t always been on his brother’s side. They’ve spent more centuries going at each other’s throats than protecting their backs. Now Styxx has a...
Tor.com, 2016. - 112 c. - ISBN10: 0765392712; ISBN13: 978-0765392718. John Persons is a private investigator with a distasteful job from an unlikely client. He s been hired by a ten-year-old to kill the kid s stepdad, McKinsey. The man in question is abusive, abrasive, and abominable. He s also a monster, which makes Persons the perfect thing to hunt him. Over the course of his...
Tor.com, 2016. - 112 c. - ISBN10: 0765392712; ISBN13: 978-0765392718. John Persons is a private investigator with a distasteful job from an unlikely client. He s been hired by a ten-year-old to kill the kid s stepdad, McKinsey. The man in question is abusive, abrasive, and abominable. He s also a monster, which makes Persons the perfect thing to hunt him. Over the course of his...
Tor.com, 2016. - 112 c. - ISBN10: 0765392712; ISBN13: 978-0765392718. John Persons is a private investigator with a distasteful job from an unlikely client. He s been hired by a ten-year-old to kill the kid s stepdad, McKinsey. The man in question is abusive, abrasive, and abominable. He s also a monster, which makes Persons the perfect thing to hunt him. Over the course of his...
Two prostitutes are murdered in Tokyo. Twenty years previously both women were educated at the same elite school for young ladies, and had seemingly promising futures ahead of them. But in a world of dark desire and vicious ambition, for both women, prostitution meant power. Grotesque is a masterful and haunting thriller, a chilling exploration of women's secret lives in modern...
A Novel. Nothing in Japanese literature prepares us for the stark, tension-filled, plot-driven realism of Natsuo Kirino’s award-winning literary mystery Out. This mesmerizing novel tells the story of a brutal murder in the staid Tokyo suburbs, as a young mother who works the night shift making boxed lunches strangles her abusive husband and then seeks the help of her coworkers...
In a suburb on the outskirts of Tokyo, four teenage girls drift through a hot smoggy August and tedious summer school classes. There's dependable Toshi; brainy Terauchi; Yuzan, grief-stricken and confused; and Kirarin, whose late nights and reckless behaviour remain a secret from those around her. Then Toshi's next-door neighbour is found brutally murdered and the girls suspect...
In a suburb on the outskirts of Tokyo, four teenage girls drift through a hot smoggy August and tedious summer school classes. There's dependable Toshi; brainy Terauchi; Yuzan, grief-stricken and confused; and Kirarin, whose late nights and reckless behaviour remain a secret from those around her. Then Toshi's next-door neighbour is found brutally murdered and the girls suspect...
Thorndike Press, 2005. — 318 p. — (Inspector Faro 12). — ISBN: 0786269804. Jeremy Faro's plans of traveling across Germany with his writer companion Imogen Crowe are shattered when the life of the heir apparent of Luxoria is threatened. The boy is at a boarding school in Scotland and Faro is delegated by Royal Command to restore him to his troubled kingdom. The journey is...
London: Penguin Random House group UK, 2018. — 416 p. — (Aidan Waits 2). — ISBN: 0857524402 (ISBN13: 9780857524409). ‘I usually experienced the presence of a dead body as an absence, but in this case, it felt like a black hole opening up in front of me’ Disconnected from his history and careless of his future, Detective Aidan Waits has resigned himself to the night shift. An...
PublicAffairs; Reprint edition, 2016. - 280 c. - ISBN10: 1610396324; ISBN13: 978-1610396325. The definitive story of the greatest art theft in history. In a secret meeting in 1981, a low-level Boston thief gave career gangster Ralph Rossetti the tip of a lifetime: the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum was a big score waiting to happen. Though its collections included priceless...
PublicAffairs; Reprint edition, 2016. - 280 c. - ISBN10: 1610396324; ISBN13: 978-1610396325. The definitive story of the greatest art theft in history. In a secret meeting in 1981, a low-level Boston thief gave career gangster Ralph Rossetti the tip of a lifetime: the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum was a big score waiting to happen. Though its collections included priceless...
Macmillan Children's Books, 2010. — 320 p. The year is 1868, and Sherlock Holmes is fourteen. His life is that of a perfectly ordinary army officer’s son: boarding school, good manners, a classical education – the backbone of the British Empire. But all that is about to change. With his father suddenly posted to India, and his mother mysteriously ‘unwell’, Sherlock is sent to...
In these gripping and intense stories, Richard Lange returns to the form that first landed him on the literary map. These are edge-of-your-seat tales: A prison guard must protect an inmate being tried for heinous crimes. A father and son set out to rescue a young couple trapped during a wildfire. An ex-con trying to make good as a security guard stumbles onto a burglary plot. A...
Pamela Dorman Books, 2019. — 304 p. — ISBN10: 0525557652; ISBN13: 978-0525557654."No-one does suburban paranoia like Shari Lapena--this slowly unfurling nightmare will have you biting your nails until the end." --Ruth Ware, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Woman in Cabin 10 The new domestic suspense novel from the New York Times bestselling author of The Couple Next...
Pamela Dorman Books, 2019. — 304 p. — ISBN10: 0525557652; ISBN13: 978-0525557654."No-one does suburban paranoia like Shari Lapena--this slowly unfurling nightmare will have you biting your nails until the end." --Ruth Ware, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Woman in Cabin 10 The new domestic suspense novel from the New York Times bestselling author of The Couple Next...
Penguin Books; Reprint edition, 2017. — 336 p. — ISBN10: 0735221103; ISBN13: 978-0735221109.It all started at a dinner party... A domestic suspense debut about a young couple and their apparently friendly neighbors — a twisty, rollercoaster ride of lies, betrayal, and the secrets between husbands and wives... Anne and Marco Conti seem to have it all — a loving relationship, a...
Penguin Books; Reprint edition, 2017. — 336 p. — ISBN10: 0735221103; ISBN13: 978-0735221109.It all started at a dinner party... A domestic suspense debut about a young couple and their apparently friendly neighbors — a twisty, rollercoaster ride of lies, betrayal, and the secrets between husbands and wives... Anne and Marco Conti seem to have it all — a loving relationship, a...
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2017. — (Stockholm Noir 4). A lawyer, an ex-con, and his nephew team up to solve a grisly murder in this explosive crime novel by internationally bestselling Swedish author Jens Lapidus. When a house alarm goes off in Värmdö, an island in Stockholm’s archipelago, a security guard shows up expecting a break-in. But what he finds is far from...
In the killing cold of the far North something terrible was happening. Every eleven years, since time immemorial, women and children were being slaughtered with animalistic ferocity and eerily human precision. But it wasn't until a young anthropologist uncovered ancient records and put together garbled reports that a bizarre and deadly pattern began to emerge. It had been more...
The weapon the top-secret Russian Su-39 covert stealth bomber was far beyond anything the world had yet seen. Its increased maneuverability and firepower, combined with the ability to evade detection, made it a super-weapon that could turn the tides of war in favor of whoever was behind its controls. The threat russian hardliners and their counterparts in the Chinese Red Army...
It began when satellite photos revealed certain anomalies along the border of Saudi Arabia and Jordan — entire areas where there was no longer any sign of life. That, combined with reports from Iraq that some nomadic tribes had been decimated by a mysterious illness, could mean a global nightmare was becoming a reality — someone was perfecting a more effective, more deadly form...
Steel canisters left on the ocean floor by the Nazis could contain a deadly weapon, but as master diver Wages begins the salvage operation, he realizes that something even more sinister is trapped in those steel drums.
New York: Delta, 2006. – 131 p. Language: English. Solstorm(2003). Translator: Marlaine Delargy. On the floor of a church in northern Sweden, the body of a man lies mutilated and defiled–and in the night sky, the aurora borealis dances as the snow begins to fall.So begins Åsa Larsson’s spellbinding thriller, winner of Sweden’s Best First Crime Novel Award and an international...
New York: Delacorte Press , 2004. – 159 p. Language: English. Det blod som spillts (2004). Translator: Marlaine Delargy. It’s midsummer in Sweden — when the light lingers through dawn and a long, isolating winter finally comes to an end. In this magical time, a brutal killer has chosen to strike. A female priest — who made enemies and acolytes in equal number — has been found...
New York: Silver Oak, 2011. – 131 p. Language: English. Till dess din vrede upphör (2008). Translator: Laurie Thompson. A vivid tale of suspense from one of Sweden's finest crime writers. As spring arrives in the far north of Sweden, a young woman's body surfaces through the breaking ice of the River Thorne. At the same time, visions of a shadowy figure haunt the dreams of...
Broken Mind Publications, 2011. — 247 p. — ASIN B00589W0WY. Years ago, Mike Cole was an overweight kid that couldn’t get through the day without being bullied and picked on. School was hell for him and home was worse. Just when young Mike believes he can’t take any more of the abuse, he meets young Jerry. Jerry Garrett is new in town and presents himself at a moment when he is...
G.P. Putnam's Sons, 2017. — 368 p. — ISBN10: 0399174559; ISBN13: 978-0399174551. (A Stevens and Windermere Novel) They are the victims no one has ever cared about, until now. Agents Stevens and Windermere return in the blistering new crime novel from the fast-rising, multi-award-nominated suspense star. She was a forgotten girl, a runaway found murdered on the High Line train...
G.P. Putnam's Sons, 2017. — 368 p. — ISBN10: 0399174559; ISBN13: 978-0399174551. (A Stevens and Windermere Novel) They are the victims no one has ever cared about, until now. Agents Stevens and Windermere return in the blistering new crime novel from the fast-rising, multi-award-nominated suspense star. She was a forgotten girl, a runaway found murdered on the High Line train...
In a ripping spoof of the spy genre (Vanity Fair), Hugh Laurie tells the tale of a former Scots Guard-turned-hired gun, a freelance soldier of fortune, who also happens to be one hell of a nice guy. Thomas Lang is a James Bond for the 1990s, with the same ingredients, but brought bang up-to-date, and with much better jokes. Cold-blooded murder just isn't Thomas Lang's cup of...
The Gun Seller (1996) is the first novel by English actor, musician, comedian, and writer Hugh Laurie. It concerns former Scots Guards officer Thomas Lang and his reluctant involvement in a conspiracy involving international arms dealers, terrorists, the CIA, the MoD, beautiful women and fast motorcycles. Wary of becoming another "celebrity author", Laurie initially submitted...
1990. It is 1941. While the "war of chaos" rages in the skies above London, an unending fight against violence, murder and the criminal underworld continues on the streets below. One ordinary day, in an ordinary courtroom, forensic pathologist Dr. Keith Simpson asks a keen young journalist to be his secretary. Although the "horrors of secretarial work" don't appeal to Molly...
William Heinemann, 2017. — 304 p. — ISBN10: 1785151355; ISBN13: 978-1785151354. Donna Leon’s bestselling mystery novels set in Venice have won a multitude of fans for their insider’s portrayal of La Serenissima. From family meals to coffee bars, and from vaporetti rides to the homes and apartments of Venetians, the details and rhythms of everyday life are an integral part of...
William Heinemann, 2017. — 304 p. — ISBN10: 1785151355; ISBN13: 978-1785151354. Donna Leon’s bestselling mystery novels set in Venice have won a multitude of fans for their insider’s portrayal of La Serenissima. From family meals to coffee bars, and from vaporetti rides to the homes and apartments of Venetians, the details and rhythms of everyday life are an integral part of...
Published by Simon & Schuster, June 1953, 244 p. This is Ira Levin's first novel which is about a man who will stop at nothing, not even murder, to achieve his objective. This novel won the 1954 Edgar aAwardfor Best First Novel.
It is early evening, summer time and hot. Two eleven year old girls, Alice and Ronnie, are on their way home from a swimming party when they happen to see a baby’s stroller, with baby girl sleeping inside. Ronnie says to Alice: We have to take care of this baby. But what exactly does she mean? Four days later the body of little Olivia Barnes is discovered in a hut in...
William Morrow, 2019. — 352 p. — ISBN10: 0062390015; ISBN13: 978-0062390011.The revered New York Times bestselling author returns with a novel set in 1960s Baltimore that combines modern psychological insights with elements of classic noir, about a middle-aged housewife turned aspiring reporter who pursues the murder of a forgotten young woman. In 1966, Baltimore is a city of...
William Morrow, 2019. — 352 p. — ISBN10: 0062390015; ISBN13: 978-0062390011.The revered New York Times bestselling author returns with a novel set in 1960s Baltimore that combines modern psychological insights with elements of classic noir, about a middle-aged housewife turned aspiring reporter who pursues the murder of a forgotten young woman. In 1966, Baltimore is a city of...
An anthology of stories. The city is at the centre of all good crime writing: Los Angeles has Raymond Chandler, Chicago has Sara Paretsky and Mexico City has Paco Taibo. London has the contributors to London Noir who explore the dark underbelly of London and celebrate the triple by-passed heart of England's capital city. They reveal London to be a city of mayhem and depravity...
An anthology of stories. The city is at the centre of all good crime writing: Los Angeles has Raymond Chandler, Chicago has Sara Paretsky and Mexico City has Paco Taibo. London has the contributors to London Noir who explore the dark underbelly of London and celebrate the triple by-passed heart of England's capital city. They reveal London to be a city of mayhem and depravity...
It is 1884, and when a fellow landlady finds her lodger poisoned, Mrs Hudson turns to Sherlock Holmes.The police suspect the landlady of murder, but Mrs Hudson insists that her friend is innocent. Upon investigating, the companions discover that the lodger, a civil servant recently returned from India, was living in almost complete seclusion, and that his last act was to scrawl...
There is a fire and they are in There. They are in there… Black smoke stains a summer blue sky. A school is on fire. And one mother, Grace, sees the smoke and runs. She knows her teenage daughter Jenny is inside. She runs into the burning building to rescue her. Afterwards, Grace must find the identity of the arsonist and protect her family from the person who's still intent on...
Lupton enters the highly charged ring where the best psychological detective writers spar… Like Kate Atkinson, Patricia Highsmith and Ruth Rendell… Both tear-jerking and spine-tingling, Sister provides an adrenaline rush that could cause a chill on the sunniest afternoon.” —The New York Times Book Review When her mom calls to tell her that Tess, her younger sister, is missing,...
The gripping, moving story of a mother and daughter's quest to uncover a dark secret in the Alaskan wilderness, from the New York Times bestselling author of Sister and Afterwards. Thrillingly suspenseful and atmospheric, The Quality of Silence is the story of Yasmin, a beautiful astrophysicist, and her precocious deaf daughter, Ruby, who arrive in a remote part of Alaska to be...
London: The Companion Book Club, 1965. - 240 c. Скан: 600 dpi. An ex-SOE operative is hired to transport a businessman across half of Europe, with a deadline involving millions of pounds. It all starts off wrong, when the first body is found close to the starting point - and it gets more complicated, more tense, and more treacherous along the way. A good 60s thriller.
Killer Reads, 2019. — 200 p. — ASIN B07L9LKMGW. Lily’s gone. Someone took her. Unless she was she never there… A little girl has gone missing. Lily was last seen being tucked into bed by her adoring mother, Nova. But the next morning, the bed is empty except for a creepy toy rabbit. Has Nova’s abusive ex stolen his “little bunny” back for good? At first, Officer Ellie James...
Sourcebooks Landmark, 2017. — 320 p. — ISBN10: 1492635227; ISBN13: 978-1492635222. "Electrifying...a rollicking nineteenth-century thrill ride." ―Amy Stewart, New York Times bestselling author of Girl Waits with Gun "A Spunky Spy Saga." ― NPR Books A new novel from the USA Today Bestselling author of The Magician's Lie Inspired by the real story of investigator Kate Warne, this...
Sourcebooks Landmark, 2017. — 320 p. — ISBN10: 1492635227; ISBN13: 978-1492635222. "Electrifying...a rollicking nineteenth-century thrill ride." ―Amy Stewart, New York Times bestselling author of Girl Waits with Gun "A Spunky Spy Saga." ― NPR Books A new novel from the USA Today Bestselling author of The Magician's Lie Inspired by the real story of investigator Kate Warne, this...
Sourcebooks Landmark, 2017. — 320 p. — ISBN10: 1492635227; ISBN13: 978-1492635222. "Electrifying...a rollicking nineteenth-century thrill ride." ―Amy Stewart, New York Times bestselling author of Girl Waits with Gun "A Spunky Spy Saga." ― NPR Books A new novel from the USA Today Bestselling author of The Magician's Lie Inspired by the real story of investigator Kate Warne, this...
Tor Books, 2016. — 304 p. — ISBN10: 0765382431; ISBN13: 978-0765382436. Badly battered by an apocalyptic storm, the crew of the Arctic Promise find themselves in increasingly dire circumstances as they sail blindly into unfamiliar waters and an ominously thickening fog. Without functioning navigation or communication equipment, they are lost and completely alone. One by one,...
Tor Books, 2016. — 304 p. — ISBN10: 0765382431; ISBN13: 978-0765382436. Badly battered by an apocalyptic storm, the crew of the Arctic Promise find themselves in increasingly dire circumstances as they sail blindly into unfamiliar waters and an ominously thickening fog. Without functioning navigation or communication equipment, they are lost and completely alone. One by one,...
Tor Books, 2016. — 304 p. — ISBN10: 0765382431; ISBN13: 978-0765382436. Badly battered by an apocalyptic storm, the crew of the Arctic Promise find themselves in increasingly dire circumstances as they sail blindly into unfamiliar waters and an ominously thickening fog. Without functioning navigation or communication equipment, they are lost and completely alone. One by one,...
Balzer + Bray, 2017. — 336 p. — ISBN10: 006244588X; ISBN13: 978-0062445889. “Unforgettable and impossible to put down — this novel is heart-pounding suspense at its best. A stunning debut.” —Kami Garcia, #1 New York Times bestselling coauthor of Beautiful Creatures and author of The Lovely Reckless The Hidden Memory of Objects is a highly original and beautifully written debut...
Balzer + Bray, 2017. — 336 p. — ISBN10: 006244588X; ISBN13: 978-0062445889. “Unforgettable and impossible to put down — this novel is heart-pounding suspense at its best. A stunning debut.” —Kami Garcia, #1 New York Times bestselling coauthor of Beautiful Creatures and author of The Lovely Reckless The Hidden Memory of Objects is a highly original and beautifully written debut...
New York: Del Rey, 2018. — 367 p. — ISBN: 0399180168; ISBN13: 9780399180163. Carol Evers is a woman with a dark secret. She has died many times...but her many deaths are not final: They are comas, a waking slumber indistinguishable from death, each lasting days. Only two people know of Carol’s eerie condition. One is her husband, Dwight, who married Carol for her fortune, and —...
New York: Del Rey, 2018. — 367 p. — ISBN: 0399180168; ISBN13: 9780399180163. Carol Evers is a woman with a dark secret. She has died many times...but her many deaths are not final: They are comas, a waking slumber indistinguishable from death, each lasting days. Only two people know of Carol’s eerie condition. One is her husband, Dwight, who married Carol for her fortune, and —...
New York: Del Rey, 2018. — 367 p. — ISBN: 0399180168; ISBN13: 9780399180163. Carol Evers is a woman with a dark secret. She has died many times...but her many deaths are not final: They are comas, a waking slumber indistinguishable from death, each lasting days. Only two people know of Carol’s eerie condition. One is her husband, Dwight, who married Carol for her fortune, and —...
Jimmy Patterson, 2019. — 48 p. — (Stalking Jack the Ripper). In this irresistibly-priced short story, catch a glimpse of the inner struggles and triumphs that drive Stalking Jack the Ripper's endearing but troubled hero. Enigmatic, brooding, and darkly handsome, Thomas Cresswell has always been the one mystery Audrey Rose has never been able to fully solve. As brilliant...
Mark Castillo, captain of the submarine USS Pasadena, is tracking a brand new Russian missile submarine when sudden disaster tears him away from his quarry. Pasadena’s sonar watch has just detected a massive casualty aboard a Russian Victor-class fast attack — and the enemy boat is going down. Castillo races to the scene to help rescue the trapped sailors. He speaks with the...
Anchor, 2011. - 301 p. Readers will agree that this touching and dramatic new installment in Alexander McCall Smith’s beloved and best-selling series is the finest yet. In this story, Precious Ramotswe deals with issues of mistaken identity and great fortune against the beautiful backdrop of Botswana’s remote and striking Okavango Delta. Mma Ramotswe and Mma Makutsi head to a...
Orca Book Publishers, 2016. — 242 p. — (Riley Donovan Mystery 02). — ISBN: 978-1-4598-0935-2. When a football player from Riley Donovan's school falls to his death from the top of a recreation center, a hunch makes her wonder if he was pushed. But who would do such a thing, and why? Riley's detective aunt tells Riley to leave it alone, but that's not in Riley's nature. When her...
Simon & Schuster, 1997. — 152 p. Two young girls die of a cancer so severe, that only recent exposure to carcinogen can account for it. The Public Health Department fails to trace the source of the carcinogen, so it is up to Dr Michael Neef to try and find the cause of the deadly disease before any more fall victim to it.
Penguin Random House UK (2020), 183 p., ISBN: 9781473584099. Lizzie Kitsakis is working late when she gets the call. Grueling hours are standard at elite law firms like Young & Crane, but they’d be easier to swallow if Lizzie was there voluntarily. Until recently, she’d been a happily underpaid federal prosecutor. That job and her brilliant, devoted husband Sam — she had...
New York: HarperCollins Publishers Inc., 2015. — 326 p. — ISBN: 0062225464 (ISBN13: 9780062225467). From the author of the New York Times bestseller and 2014 Edgar and Anthony nominee Reconstructing Amelia comes another harrowing, gripping novel that marries psychological suspense with an emotionally powerful story about a community struggling with the consequences of a...
Ace Books Inc., 1965. - (The Man from U.N.C.L.E. 04) "Tell us all about Dagger!" That was the command thrown at Napoleon Solo and Illya Kuryakin by the unseen THRUSH agents who kidnapped and interrogated them with lie detectors. And from each U.N.C.L.E. agent came the same answer: "We know absolutely nothing of DAGGER." "You appear to be telling the truth," said the hidden...
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2013. — 240 p. — ISBN-10: 0374281092 ISBN-13: 978-0374281090. A Publishers Weekly Best Fiction Book of the Year. A Kirkus Reviews Best Fiction Book of 2013. A New York Times Notable Book of 2013. A Washington Post Notable Fiction Book of 2013. An NPR Best Book of 2013 . An ordinary life — its sharp pains and unexpected joys, its bursts of clarity and...
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2013. — 240 p. — ISBN-10: 0374281092 ISBN-13: 978-0374281090. A Publishers Weekly Best Fiction Book of the Year. A Kirkus Reviews Best Fiction Book of 2013. A New York Times Notable Book of 2013. A Washington Post Notable Fiction Book of 2013. An NPR Best Book of 2013. . An ordinary life — its sharp pains and unexpected joys, its bursts of clarity and...
McGovern Books, 2016. — 247 p. — (A Murder in Milburn 06). — ASIN: B01N7IAC5J. Nora Newberry’s big day is coming! And, with just weeks to go before her wedding, there is still so much to do. Getting it all done while running her diner seems like an impossible feat. Thankfully, she has Tina. Her support. Her positive outlook. Her…what?! She’s just signed them on to cater another...
McGovern Books, 2016. — 246 p. — (A Murder in Milburn 05). — ASIN: B01M7QII6A. Recently engaged and with a new diner to run, Nora Newberry has plenty to do in her hometown of Milburn, Wyoming. But when you’re given the chance to spend a weekend in Hawaii with friends…you take it! And, while it was tough to leave her fiancé and business behind, that’s just what she did! Of...
Edinburgh: Black & White Publishing Ltd., 2012. — 189 p. — ISBN: 978-1-84502-5625; ISBN: 978-1-845025632; ISBN: 978-1-84502-137-5. True crime from Dundee, covering the most fascinating and chilling cases from the last century Every town has its monsters. But only when their rage explodes and unspeakable crimes are committed do we realise we hold them in our midst. Some are...
"A fast-paced, gripping story set in a world of gruesome violence and perversity, where 'why?' is not a question and murder happens on a whim: but where a very faint ray of grace and hope lights up the landscape of salt and blood and ice. A tour de force of narrative tension and a masterful reconstruction of a lost world that seems to exist at the limits of the human...
Garner. — Red Adept Publishing, LLC., 2018. — 214 p. — ASIN B07GDNXRJF. Ret McCoy was always the new kid, but after three years in the small town of Riverton, he thinks his family may have finally settled. He and his friends have the perfect summer planned before they start seventh grade, and his new job at the local mortuary promises enough pocket money for all the sodas they...
New York: Penguin Books Ltd, 2017. — 280 p. — ISBN: 9781524714680 “Pretty Little Liars meets The Breakfast Club” (EW.com) in this “flat-out addictive” (RT Book Reviews) story of what happens when five strangers walk into detention and only four walk out alive. Pay close attention and you might solve this. On Monday afternoon, five students at Bayview High walk into detention....
The book of Larry McMurtry's Lonesome Dove tetralogy, Comache Moon takes us once again into the world of the American West.Texas Rangers August McCrae and Woodrow Call, now in their middle years, continue to deal with the ever-increasing tensions of adult life -- Gus with his great love, Clara Forsythe, and Call with Maggie Tilton, the young whore who loves him. Two proud but...
Dead Man's Walk is the first, extraordinary book in the epic Lonesome Dove tetralogy, in which Larry McMurtry breathed new life into the vanished American West and created two of the most memorable heroes in contemporary fiction: Augustus McCrae and Woodrow Call. As young Texas Rangers, Gus and Call have much to learn about survival in a land fraught with perils: not only the...
Lonesome Dove, by Larry McMurtry, the author of Terms of Endearment, is his long-awaited masterpiece, the major novel at last of the American West as it really was. A love story, an adventure, an American epic, Lonesome Dove embraces all the West – legend and fact, heroes and outlaws, whoeres and ladies, Indians and settlers – in a novel that recreates the central American...
The book of Larry McMurtry's Lonesome Dove tetralogy is an exhilarating tale of legend and heroism. Captain Woodrow Call, August McCrae's old partner, is now a bounty hunter hired to track down a brutal young Mexican bandit. Riding with Call are an Eastern city slicker, a witless deputy, and one of the last members of the Hat Creek outfit, Pea Eye Parker, now married to Lorena...
Harper, 2018. — 268 p. — ISBN10: 0062319787, 13 978-0062319784. №1 New York Times bestseller A Publishers Weekly Best Book of 2018 A Washington Post Notable Book of 2018 SCIBA Book Award Winner An Audiofile Best Audiobook of 2018 A Hudson Booksellers Best Book of 2018 A New York Public Library Best Book of 2018 A Chicago Public Library Best Book of 2018 Longlisted for the...
Harper, 2018. — 279 p. — ISBN10: 0062319787, 13 978-0062319784. №1 New York Times bestseller A Publishers Weekly Best Book of 2018 A Washington Post Notable Book of 2018 SCIBA Book Award Winner An Audiofile Best Audiobook of 2018 A Hudson Booksellers Best Book of 2018 A New York Public Library Best Book of 2018 A Chicago Public Library Best Book of 2018 Longlisted for the...
Esengo Publishing, 2017. — 212 p. — ISBN13: 978-0-9911008-6-6. Intrigue, suspense and a little romance. At last in Antarctica, Gabe Hunter and his team of research students go about their work to gather ice cores. Suddenly they are confronted by the appearance of a massive ice crevasse. This is no ordinary crack in the ice, they must travel miles to get around it. Just as they...
It was World War II's master weapon-and Hitler had it first. As Germany crumbled, Hitler feverishly raged against final defeat. Every qualified citizen in the Reich was committed to developing an atomic bomb. In 1945 they almost succeeded. The code name was The Haigerloch Project. The shock-a-second thriller of a brilliant scientist and a deadly spy threat into the most crucial...
Our top-secret weapon is missing. And America's top test pilot is missing, too. Full of a fierce, obsessive will to live, Tom Darby is about to test-fire the USA's ultimate weapon — when something goes tragically wrong. His F-15 fighter explodes in a ball of fire. He ejects into the killing heat of Death Valley. Crazed by injuries, he becomes a wild beast running for his life...
Dundurn, 2013. — 336 p. — ISBN: 1459707230; ISBN13: 9781459707238. A definitive compendium of Canada’s mass murderers and spree killers. Rampage: a state of anger or agitation resulting in violent, reckless, and destructive behaviour. In 1989, Marc Lépine mercilessly executed 14 female students at Montreal’s École Polytechnique to become Canada’s most notorious mass murderer....
Granite Cloud, 2016. — 262 p. — ISBN10: 1911079239; ISBN13: 978-1911079231. Heartbreak and transformation in the beauty of a Ukrainian village For seven-year old Angela, happiness is exploring the lush countryside around her home in western Ukraine. Her wild imagination takes her into birds and flowers, and into the waters of the river. All that changes when, one morning, she...
Granite Cloud, 2016. — 262 p. — ISBN10: 1911079239; ISBN13: 978-1911079231. Heartbreak and transformation in the beauty of a Ukrainian village. For seven-year old Angela, happiness is exploring the lush countryside around her home in western Ukraine. Her wild imagination takes her into birds and flowers, and into the waters of the river. All that changes when, one morning, she...
Granite Cloud, 2016. — 262 p. — ISBN10: 1911079239; ISBN13: 978-1911079231. Heartbreak and transformation in the beauty of a Ukrainian village For seven-year old Angela, happiness is exploring the lush countryside around her home in western Ukraine. Her wild imagination takes her into birds and flowers, and into the waters of the river. All that changes when, one morning, she...
To locate his missing friend, former urban archaeologist Cy Reed must piece together his shattered life and return to the one place on earth he truly fears… Manhattan. Soon, he's storming through flooded subway tunnels, discovering a lost laboratory, battling a mysterious man-eating beast, and scaling a mountainous skyscraper. But as he plunges deeper into the strange and murky...
Deep in the heart of Antarctica lies a forgotten military installation. Deadly secrets are secured behind its doors… including the remnants of a decades-old plot to devastate mankind. Disgraced treasure hunter Cy Reed is on the trail of an incredible treasure when a cargo ship mysteriously explodes. At the same time, a team of geologists makes an astonishing discovery that...
In 830 AD, a brilliant Maya architect constructed a massive vault deep within a hidden canyon. For centuries, it has protected an astonishing treasure … and a terrifying secret. Haunted by tragedy, Cy Reed leads a salvage expedition to one of the last untouched places on Earth. Meanwhile, a shaman senses a disturbing shift in the natural order. And a famous archaeologist...
A toxic mist rips across a secretive Israeli dig site, leaving Cy Reed's excavation in ruins. As dozens of people perish, a lethal artifact goes missing. Tormented by his father's legacy, Reed stages a daring recovery operation. At the same time, bizarre weather phenomena plague the globe. Billions of dollars vanish from U.S. government coffers. And a mysterious organization...
Celadon Books, 2019. — 336 p. — ISBN10: 1250301696; ISBN13: 978-1250301697.The Silent Patient is a shocking psychological thriller of a woman’s act of violence against her husband — and of the therapist obsessed with uncovering her motive. Alicia Berenson’s life is seemingly perfect. A famous painter married to an in-demand fashion photographer, she lives in a grand house with...
Celadon Books, 2019. — 336 p. — ISBN10: 1250301696; ISBN13: 978-1250301697. The Silent Patient is a shocking psychological thriller of a woman’s act of violence against her husband — and of the therapist obsessed with uncovering her motive. Alicia Berenson’s life is seemingly perfect. A famous painter married to an in-demand fashion photographer, she lives in a grand house with...
Little Brown and Company, 2008. — 275 p. — ISBN: 1408700883 (ISBN13: 9781408700884). After the oil company that employs Arthur Dashwood fails to protect him from a kidnap attempt in Baghdad, he returns to his traumatised family in London. But everything is not as it should be. Having quit the blistering heat and swimming pool luxury of Saudi Arabia for fear of terrorist attack,...
Atria/Emily Bestler Books, 2017. — 400 p. — ISBN10: 1476783519; ISBN13: 978-1476783512. (A Mitch Rapp Novel - Book 14) In the #1 New York Times bestselling series’ latest thriller, Mitch Rapp finds himself alone and targeted by a country that is supposed to be one of America’s closest allies. After 9/11, the United States made one of the most secretive and dangerous deals in...
Atria/Emily Bestler Books, 2017. — 400 p. — ISBN10: 1476783519; ISBN13: 978-1476783512. (A Mitch Rapp Novel - Book 14) In the #1 New York Times bestselling series’ latest thriller, Mitch Rapp finds himself alone and targeted by a country that is supposed to be one of America’s closest allies. After 9/11, the United States made one of the most secretive and dangerous deals in...
Mulholland Books, 2017. — 240 p. — ISBN10: 0316349151; ISBN13: 978-0316349154. The tense, chilling story of four women haunted by a childhood trauma. When they were children, Sae, Maki, Akiko and Yuko were tricked into separating from their friend Emily by a mysterious stranger. Then the unthinkable occurs: Emily is found murdered hours later. Sae, Maki, Akiko and Yuko weren't...
Mulholland Books, 2017. — 240 p. — ISBN10: 0316349151; ISBN13: 978-0316349154. The tense, chilling story of four women haunted by a childhood trauma. When they were children, Sae, Maki, Akiko and Yuko were tricked into separating from their friend Emily by a mysterious stranger. Then the unthinkable occurs: Emily is found murdered hours later. Sae, Maki, Akiko and Yuko weren't...
New York: Kensington Publishing Corp., 2006. — 429 p. — ISBN: 0-521-82792-2. Serial Killers. Justice will only be achieved when those who have not been injured by crime are as indignant as those who have...The man watched as the young pretty white girl glided out of her car. He thought about the woman he killed earlier that morning. He didn’t know her name — as usual. The one...
(1947) Miss Prissie Carmody has a full house. She was living quietly and happily with her ward, nineteen-year old Connie, in her South-west London flat when Prissie's second cousin appeared, his young wife in tow. Edris Tidson spent the war years as a banana grower on the Canary Islands, but now he and wife Crete are staying-perhaps permanently-with their frustrated but polite...
(1929) When Rupert Sethleigh's body is found one morning, minus its head, laid out in the village butcher shop, the inhabitants of Wandles Parva aren't particularly upset. Sethleigh was a blackmailing money lender and when the unconventional detective Mrs Bradley begins her investigation she finds no shortage of suspects. It soon transpires that most of the village seem to have...
(1949) The matchless detective and psychoanalyst Mrs Bradley is visiting the picturesque village of Spey in search of a local witch when Gerald Conway, a junior master at Spey College, is found murdered. Despised by both pupils and peers, there is no shortage of suspects but can the redoubtable Mrs Bradley use tact, wit and just a touch of black magic to make the boys and their...
Thomas Nelson, 2019. — 368 p. — ISBN: 0785228616 (ISBN13: 9780785228615). One woman is forced to question everything she knows in this domestic suspense novel from award-winning author Siri Mitchell. Georgie Brennan may be a world-class quantum physicist, but she grapples with life as a single mother after her husband is killed. When she receives a message from beyond the...
Mariner Books, 2016. — 144 p. — ISBN10: 0544779827; ISBN13: 978-0544779822. A writer's notebook becomes the key that unlocks memories of a love formed and lost in 1960s Paris. In the aftermath of Algeria's war of independence, Paris was a city rife with suspicion and barely suppressed violence. Amid this tension, Jean, a young writer adrift, met and fell for Dannie, an...
Mariner Books, 2016. — 144 p. — ISBN10: 0544779827; ISBN13: 978-0544779822. A writer's notebook becomes the key that unlocks memories of a love formed and lost in 1960s Paris. In the aftermath of Algeria's war of independence, Paris was a city rife with suspicion and barely suppressed violence. Amid this tension, Jean, a young writer adrift, met and fell for Dannie, an...
Pocket Books, 1984. — 337 p. — ISBN: 0671449524 (ISBN13: 9780671449520). Under the subways' roar, out of the deep, wet caves, comes the fury from Hell... In the bedrock beneath New York, a beautiful news reporter and a hard-bitten cop enter an eerie maze of abandoned tunnels, searching for a train that vanished with all aboard---over half a century ago. But under the city of...
Pocket Books, 1984. — 337 p. — ISBN: 0671449524 (ISBN13: 9780671449520). Under the subways' roar, out of the deep, wet caves, comes the fury from Hell... In the bedrock beneath New York, a beautiful news reporter and a hard-bitten cop enter an eerie maze of abandoned tunnels, searching for a train that vanished with all aboard---over half a century ago. But under the city of...
Pocket Books, 1984. — 337 p. — ISBN: 0671449524 (ISBN13: 9780671449520). Under the subways' roar, out of the deep, wet caves, comes the fury from Hell... In the bedrock beneath New York, a beautiful news reporter and a hard-bitten cop enter an eerie maze of abandoned tunnels, searching for a train that vanished with all aboard---over half a century ago. But under the city of...
Michael Joseph, 2015. — (Darby Mccormick 05). — ISBN13: 978-0718197919. The nail-biting new serial killer thriller from the critically acclaimed Chris Mooney, Fear the Dark. A KILLER WATCHES. A TOWN WAITS. Fear grips a town in Colorado as a murderer targets entire families in their own homes. As police and the FBI struggle to contain the situation, they bring in forensic...
Atria Books, 2016. — 304 p. — ISBN10: 1501118439; ISBN13: 978-1501118432. Zoe Whittaker is living a charmed life. She is the beautiful young wife to handsome, charming Wall Street tycoon Henry Whittaker. She is a member of Manhattan’s social elite. She is on the board of one of the city’s most prestigious philanthropic organizations. She has a perfect Tribeca penthouse in the...
Atria Books, 2016. — 304 p. — ISBN10: 1501118439; ISBN13: 978-1501118432. Zoe Whittaker is living a charmed life. She is the beautiful young wife to handsome, charming Wall Street tycoon Henry Whittaker. She is a member of Manhattan’s social elite. She is on the board of one of the city’s most prestigious philanthropic organizations. She has a perfect Tribeca penthouse in the...
Once Chase Malone waged war. Now he creates beauty, living as a reclusive painter in Mexico. Until a rich man hires Chase to do his wife’s portrait. And Chase finds out what beauty is really all about… Derek Bellasar is an international arms merchant who lives in a fortress-like mansion on the Riviera. Sienna is his wife and the woman whose incredible beauty Chase Malone must...
645 p. — ISBN10: 1439152810; ISBN13: 978-1439152812. From the New York Times and #1 internationally bestselling author of The Distant Hours, The Forgotten Garden, and The House at Riverton, a spellbinding novel of family secrets, murder, and enduring love. During a picnic at her family’s farm in the English countryside, sixteen-year-old Laurel Nicolson witnesses a shocking...
Pegasus Books, 2016. - 352 c. - ISBN10: 1681772086; ISBN13: 978-1681772080. A terrifying and heartbreaking new novel of guilt and innocence, from CWA Dagger-winner Steve Mosby. The hardest crimes to acknowledge are your own. Charlie Matheson died two years ago in a car accident. So how is a woman bearing a startling resemblance to her claiming to be back from the dead?...
Pegasus Books, 2016. - 352 c. - ISBN10: 1681772086; ISBN13: 978-1681772080. A terrifying and heartbreaking new novel of guilt and innocence, from CWA Dagger-winner Steve Mosby. The hardest crimes to acknowledge are your own. Charlie Matheson died two years ago in a car accident. So how is a woman bearing a startling resemblance to her claiming to be back from the dead?...
Pegasus Books, 2016. - 352 c. - ISBN10: 1681772086; ISBN13: 978-1681772080. A terrifying and heartbreaking new novel of guilt and innocence, from CWA Dagger-winner Steve Mosby. The hardest crimes to acknowledge are your own. Charlie Matheson died two years ago in a car accident. So how is a woman bearing a startling resemblance to her claiming to be back from the dead?...
Atria / 37 INK, 2016. - 384 c. - ISBN10: 1501133861; ISBN13: 978-1501133862. The award-winning author of The Last Town on Earth delivers a riveting and elegant police procedural set in 1948 Atlanta, exploring a murder, corrupt police, and strained race relations that feels ripped from today's headlines. Responding to orders from on high, the Atlanta Police Department is forced...
Atria / 37 INK, 2016. - 384 c. - ISBN10: 1501133861; ISBN13: 978-1501133862. The award-winning author of The Last Town on Earth delivers a riveting and elegant police procedural set in 1948 Atlanta, exploring a murder, corrupt police, and strained race relations that feels ripped from today's headlines. Responding to orders from on high, the Atlanta Police Department is forced...
2011. - 338 p. - ASIN B004U2UPOK. Rick Murcer is a New York Times and USA Today best selling author having sold over 850,000 books. Written in the tradition of James Patterson, JA Konrath, and Michael Connelly, this first book in the series will have you wanting more. Small-town detective/workaholic, Manny Williams, is thrilled with the prospect of finally taking the...
1998. Sixteen detective stories selected by the classic of the genre Jessica Fletcher. Adams Deborah. The Cadaver Waltzed at Noon. Black Veronica. Daughter of Compassion. Carlson P.M. The Uncrowned King of Ireland. Christmas Joice. Up the Garden Path. Cooper Susan Rogers. Ghost Busted. Dams Jeane. The Miser of Michely Hall. Dunlap Susan. A Surfeit of Deadlines. Granger Ann. A...
282publishing.com, 2019. — 202 p. If you thought you got away with it, think again. When a notorious criminal is found dead in his own home, his clothes soaked with blood, Detective Inspector Karen Heath is one of the first at the crime scene. For Karen, this is personal. She has a point to prove. Having returned from suspension, the eyes of the force are watching her every...
A story of suspense written serially by thirteen of Florida's most talented writers-including Dave Barry, Carl Hiaasen, and Elmore Leonard-features a riot in Coconut Grove, an appearance by Fidel Castro, and other strange happenings. 80,000 first printing. $60,000 ad/promo. Carl Hiassen. Dave Barry. Les Standiford. Paul Levine. Edna Buchanan. James W. Hall. Carolina Hospital....
A story of suspense written serially by thirteen of Florida's most talented writers-including Dave Barry, Carl Hiaasen, and Elmore Leonard-features a riot in Coconut Grove, an appearance by Fidel Castro, and other strange happenings. 80,000 first printing. $60,000 ad/promo. Carl Hiassen. Dave Barry. Les Standiford. Paul Levine. Edna Buchanan. James W. Hall. Carolina Hospital....
A story of suspense written serially by thirteen of Florida's most talented writers-including Dave Barry, Carl Hiaasen, and Elmore Leonard-features a riot in Coconut Grove, an appearance by Fidel Castro, and other strange happenings. 80,000 first printing. $60,000 ad/promo. Carl Hiassen. Dave Barry. Les Standiford. Paul Levine. Edna Buchanan. James W. Hall. Carolina Hospital....
By 13 women mystery authors. Thriller. The promise of discretion and pampering-and a long-overdue reconciliation with her mother-draws Caroline Blessing, the young wife of a newly-elected Congressman, to the fancy Phoenix Spa. But after her first night in the beautiful Blue Ridge Mountains, Caroline wakes to find the rich and famous guests in turmoil and under suspicion: the...
By 13 women mystery authors. Thriller. The promise of discretion and pampering-and a long-overdue reconciliation with her mother-draws Caroline Blessing, the young wife of a newly-elected Congressman, to the fancy Phoenix Spa. But after her first night in the beautiful Blue Ridge Mountains, Caroline wakes to find the rich and famous guests in turmoil and under suspicion: the...
By 13 women mystery authors. Thriller. The promise of discretion and pampering-and a long-overdue reconciliation with her mother-draws Caroline Blessing, the young wife of a newly-elected Congressman, to the fancy Phoenix Spa. But after her first night in the beautiful Blue Ridge Mountains, Caroline wakes to find the rich and famous guests in turmoil and under suspicion: the...
Publisher: Mira, 2010. – 137 p. Language: English. Description: The small town of Black Falls, Vermont, finally feels safe again - until search-and-rescue expert Rose Cameron discovers a body, burnt almost beyond recognition. Almost. Rose is certain that she knows the victim's identity.and that his death was no accident. Nick Martini also suspects an arsonist's deliberate hand....
Publisher: Mira, 2011. – 132 p. Language: English. Description: It was meant to be an adventure — a night alone on a remote Irish island. Archaeologist Sophie Malone never expected to find Celtic treasure or to end up in a fight for her life in a dark, desolate cave. Now, a year later, she's convinced answers to the mysteries of that night lie in Boston. Is the recent violence...
EBookPartnership.com, 2013. — 284 p. — ASIN B00HM9L8EO. Lucinda's 8 year old daughter Poppy went missing over 2 years ago and has never been seen since. Another little girl: 8 year old Amy Lewis has just become the latest victim. One day, Lucinda listens in secret to a conversation between her husband and a reclusive tycoon and hears something that she shouldn’t have. This...
He's the best cop they've got. When a drug bust turns into a bloodbath it's up to Inspector Macbeth and his team to clean up the mess. He's also an ex-drug addict with a troubled past. He's rewarded for his success. Power. Money. Respect. They're all within reach. But a man like him won't get to the top. Plagued by hallucinations and paranoia, Macbeth starts to unravel. He's...
Ambitious, brilliant, and beautiful, Alex Sondheim is the undisputed star of Wall Street — and she knows it. So it comes as no surprise when Levy Manhattan Investments taps her to take their prestigious firm to the next level. She can name her price, but can she live up to their expectations? Because behind the glittering facade of luxury offices, five-star dinners, and...
Ambitious, brilliant, and beautiful, Alex Sondheim is the undisputed star of Wall Street — and she knows it. So it comes as no surprise when Levy Manhattan Investments taps her to take their prestigious firm to the next level. She can name her price, but can she live up to their expectations? Because behind the glittering facade of luxury offices, five-star dinners, and...
Ballantine Books. 2008. 347 p. ISBN: 9780345509642. The electrifying global adventure that started in Katherine Neville’s groundbreaking novel, The Eight, continues in this long-anticipated sequel - The Fire. Blending exquisite prose and captivating history with nonstop suspense, Neville again weaves an unforgettable story of peril, action, and intrigue.
George Weidenfeld & Nicolson Limited, 1989. — 224 p. — (Johnny Black. Book 1). 1937, Devon. Johnny Black is a young and penniless pilot turned detective in the glamorous yet dangerous thirties. His girlfriend, the lovely Tracy Spencer-King, enlists him to help a friend, Diana Travers, and the unfolding tragedy becomes his first case. Diana’s sister, Deborah, died a few months...
Thomas & Mercer, 2016. - 386 c. - (Sydney Rose Parnell Series Book 1) - ASIN: B01B1OGQH4; ISBN: 1503936864. A young woman is found brutally murdered, and the main suspect is the victim’s fiancé, a hideously scarred Iraq War vet known as the Burned Man. But railroad police Special Agent Sydney Rose Parnell, brought in by the Denver Major Crimes unit to help investigate, can't...
Thomas & Mercer, 2016. - 386 c. - (Sydney Rose Parnell Series Book 1) - ASIN: B01B1OGQH4; ISBN: 1503936864. A young woman is found brutally murdered, and the main suspect is the victim’s fiancé, a hideously scarred Iraq War vet known as the Burned Man. But railroad police Special Agent Sydney Rose Parnell, brought in by the Denver Major Crimes unit to help investigate, can't...
Transworld Digital, 2019. — 356 p. — ISBN: 1473563844 (ISBN13: 9781473563841). After the sudden death of her husband, Tess Clarke is drowning in grief. All she has left is her son, Jamie, and she'll do anything to protect him - but she's struggling to cope. When grief counsellor Shelley knocks on their door, everything changes. Shelley is beautiful, confident and takes control...
Transworld Digital, 2019. — 356 p. — ISBN: 1473563844 (ISBN13: 9781473563841). After the sudden death of her husband, Tess Clarke is drowning in grief. All she has left is her son, Jamie, and she'll do anything to protect him - but she's struggling to cope. When grief counsellor Shelley knocks on their door, everything changes. Shelley is beautiful, confident and takes control...
Transworld Digital, 2019. — 356 p. — ISBN: 1473563844. After the sudden death of her husband, Tess Clarke is drowning in grief. All she has left is her son, Jamie, and she'll do anything to protect him - but she's struggling to cope. When grief counsellor Shelley knocks on their door, everything changes. Shelley is beautiful, confident and takes control when Tess can't bear to...
They're back... Laurel Hodges has changed her identity twice. She's been on the run for the past four years, trying to outdistance the gang members who blame her for the death of one of their own. She's finally found peace and stability in the small town of Pineview, Montana. But just when Laurel thinks she and her children are safe...the nightmare starts all over again. The...
Virgil Skinner served fourteen years for a murder he didn't commit. He's finally been exonerated, but he can't escape the gang he joined in order to survive. They'll do anything to keep him from telling what he knows. And if they can't get to Virgil they'll go after his sister and her kids. The California Department of Corrections needs someone to infiltrate another gang, one...
Grove Press, 2016. — 231 p. — ISBN10: 080212478X. — ISBN13: 978-0802124784. The Silent Cry follows two brothers who return to their ancestral home, a village in densely forested Western Japan. After decades of separation, the reunited men are each preoccupied by their own personal crises. One brother grapples with the recent suicide of his dearest friend, the birth of his...
Ace Books Ink, 1965. - (The Man from U.N.C.L.E. 03) The photos had already cost one life… … and as the men from U.N.C.L.E. saw them projected on a screen in Alexander Waverly's office, they realized they were seeing a new weapon which could mean the deaths of billions more. For those secret photos showed an awesome new THRUSH weapon in action — huge, silent aircraft so...
London: Head of Zeus Ltd., 2014. — 594 p. — eISBN 9781781857809. The little girl tells herself an hour is not so long to wait, and steps outside. The street is empty. Then she hears the car... Police Captain Faizal has just been told that his six-year-old daughter has been abducted. And he is not allowed to join the search - because his squad think he is the kidnapper....
London: Head of Zeus Ltd., 2014. — 565 p. — eISBN 9781781857823. A woman lies dead in an abandoned shed, but skeletons have lain undisturbed for centuries here at Gallows Hill, where Cape Town's gibbets once stood. Police profiler Dr Clare Hart soon discovers that a deadly, more recent secret lies hidden among those long-buried bones. Who was the woman in the green silk dress?...
During the Cold War, the Black Ghosts were the elite of the KGB. Now, after years in prison, their commander has reactivated them with the goal of overthrowing the powers-that-be and restoring the sleeping bear of Russia to her former glory. And he will declare his might by doing the impossible…
Sourcebooks Landmark, 2016. - 448 c. - ISBN10: 149263736X; ISBN13: 978-1492637363. "Do no harm" is easier said than done... Dr. Genevieve Summerford prides herself on her ability as a psychiatrist to understand the inner workings of the human mind. But when one of her patients is arrested for murder-a murder Genevieve fears she may have unwittingly provoked-she begins to doubt...
Sourcebooks Landmark, 2016. - 448 c. - ISBN10: 149263736X; ISBN13: 978-1492637363. "Do no harm" is easier said than done... Dr. Genevieve Summerford prides herself on her ability as a psychiatrist to understand the inner workings of the human mind. But when one of her patients is arrested for murder-a murder Genevieve fears she may have unwittingly provoked-she begins to doubt...
Dr. Carrie Bryant’s four years as a neurosurgical resident at White Memorial Hospital have earned her the respect and admiration from peers and staff alike. When given the chance of performing her first unsupervised brain surgery, Carrie jumps at the opportunity. What should have been a routine, hours long operation, turns horribly wrong and jeopardizes her patient’s life....
Paperback: 464 p. · Publisher: St. Martin's Paperbacks; Reprint edition (December 24, 2012) · ISBN10: 0312587546 Dr. John Meacham goes on a shooting spree the office, his business partner, staff, and two patients are killed in the bloodbath. Then Meacham turns the gun on himself. The blame falls on Dr. Lou Welcome. Welcome worked with Meacham years before as a counselor after...
Publisher: St. Martin's Paperbacks; ZZZ edition (November 27, 2007) · Language: English · ISBN10: 0312937741 In Boston, a disgraced medical student is sent to deliver a research paper that could save her career… In a hospital four thousand miles away, a reclusive scientist, dying from an incurable disease that threatens to make each tortured breath his last, is on the verge of...
Mass Market Paperback: 448 p. · Publisher: St. Martin's Paperbacks; First Edition edition (December 28, 2010) · ISBN10: 0312587503 Surgeon Nick Garrity, a vet suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder, spends his days and nights dispensing medical treatment from a mobile clinic to the homeless in D.C. and Baltimore. In addition, he is constantly on the lookout for his best...
2019. - 292 p. - ASIN B07R7F794G. Detective Tessa DeWitt is transfered to her old neighborhood and partnered with the notorious Lee Sands. They both have problems and a troubled past. Can they deal with their problems and each other?
JDP Press, 2019. — 114 p. — ASIN B07NP32SVS. Old houses hide old secrets. When Emma Winter agrees to help her childhood friend renovate her dreamhouse, she doesn't expect electrical shorts, flying ladders, and frightened workmen. All of that can be explained. An attraction to an enigma can't. Adam Chadwick is the biggest puzzle of all. He's a stranger in town, and he won't tell...
CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2014. — 296 p. — (Shelby Hope Novels 2). — ISBN13: 978-1495403910; ISBN10: 1495403912. The Dismal Swamp Canal. Beautiful. Serene. Eerie. Deadly. Shelby Hope, heading south in "Thief of Time," her friends' sailboat, finds herself in the wrong place at the wrong time. On a still muggy night while docked at the Dismal Swamp Welcome...
CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2014. — 296 p. — (Shelby Hope Novels 2). — ISBN13: 978-1495403910; ISBN10: 1495403912. The Dismal Swamp Canal. Beautiful. Serene. Eerie. Deadly. Shelby Hope, heading south in "Thief of Time," her friends' sailboat, finds herself in the wrong place at the wrong time. On a still muggy night while docked at the Dismal Swamp Welcome...
Paul Wilson & Ted Bell & M. Diane Vogt & Christopher Reich & Brad Thor & Raelynn Hillhouse & Robert Liparulo & Steve Berry & Katherine Neville & Douglas Preston & Lincoln Child. An anthology of stories Be prepared to be thrilled as you've never been before Featuring North America's foremost thriller authors, Thriller is the first collection of pure thriller stories ever...
Alibi, 2016. - 184 c. - ASIN: B01AQO16S4. In a fashionably cozy short mystery novel, Paula Paul introduces a tenacious heroine who leaves big-city life behind and returns to picturesque Santa Fe, New Mexico — where murder lands on her doorstep. Irene Seligman loves the warmth and beauty of her Southwest hometown, but only one thing could make her quit her prestigious job as an...
Translation from Swedish: Norlen Paul From the grand master of Scandinavian crime fiction — and one of the best crime writers of our time — a new critically acclaimed novel centered around the unsolved murder of Swedish Prime Minister Olof Palme in 1986. It's August 2007, and Lars Martin Johansson, chief of the National Bureau of Criminal Investigation in Sweden has opened the...
Random House, 2013. — 533 p. — ISBN: 978-1-4000-6788-6. A page-turning thriller for readers of Stephen King, Gillian Flynn, and Stieg Larsson, Night Film tells the haunting story of a journalist who becomes obsessed with the mysterious death of a troubled prodigy — the daughter of an iconic, reclusive filmmaker. On a damp October night, beautiful young Ashley Cordova is found...
Ace Books Inc., 1966. - (The Man from U.N.C.L.E 05) Napoleon and Illya search for a deadly secret in a dark castle, in this thrilling new U.N.C.L.E. novel by John T. Philifrent.
This anthology was edited by Michael Connelly. His essay is called "Once Upon a Midnight Dreary." A collection of stories by thriller master Edgar Allan Poe with essays by beloved and bestselling writers, to commemorate the 200th anniversary of Poe's birth. Authors involved include Michael Connelly, Jeffery Deaver, Nelson DeMille, Tess Gerritsen, Sue Grafton, Stephen King, Lisa...
This anthology was edited by Michael Connelly. His essay is called "Once Upon a Midnight Dreary." A collection of stories by thriller master Edgar Allan Poe with essays by beloved and bestselling writers, to commemorate the 200th anniversary of Poe's birth. Authors involved include Michael Connelly, Jeffery Deaver, Nelson DeMille, Tess Gerritsen, Sue Grafton, Stephen King, Lisa...
Signet, 1999. — 424 p. — ISBN: 0451198514 (ISBN13: 9780451198518). Twelve years ago Kaylie McMillan fell victim to serial killer John Cray's sick obsession -- and escaped. So did Cray. Twelve years later, the nightmare still haunts Kaylie, putting her sanity in jeopardy -- and her life at stake. Because Cray is still out there. And tonight, he's going to finish what he started...
Grand Central Publishing; Reprint edition, 2018. — 352 p. — ISBN10: 1538747200; ISBN13: 978-1538747209. (Agent Pendergast - Book 18) Preston & Child return with their #1 bestselling series, confronting FBI Special Agent Pendergast with the one challenge he never expected: a partner. After an overhaul of leadership at the FBI's New York field office, A. X. L. Pendergast is...
Viking, 2016. — 340 p. — ISBN: 9781590518144; ISBN: 9781590518151. A Very English Scandal is a true crime non-fiction novel. In 1979, former Member of Parliament, Jeremy Thorpe, stood trial over accusations that he hired a hitman to kill his alleged ex-lover, Norman Scott. A Very English Scandal chronicles Thorpe's early, secretive love life, at a time when sexual activity...
New York: Dramatists play service, 1972. — 68 p. — ISBN: 3150092183; ISBN13: 9783150092187. The action of the play occurs in an English industrial city, where a young girl commits suicide and an eminently respectable British family is subject to a routine inquiry in connection with the death. An inspector calls to interrogate the family, and during the course of his...
Seattle: Thomas & Mercer, 2017. — 428 p. — ISBN13: 9781542046435, ISBN10: 1542046432. Living decades apart, two women get caught in the web of an infamous serial killer. In 1938, at the height of the Great Depression, a madman hunts his victims through the hobo jungles of Cleveland, terrorizing the city. Ethel Harding, a prostitute struggling to survive both the cold streets...
Seattle: Thomas & Mercer, 2017. — 428 p. — ISBN13: 9781542046435, ISBN10: 1542046432. Living decades apart, two women get caught in the web of an infamous serial killer. In 1938, at the height of the Great Depression, a madman hunts his victims through the hobo jungles of Cleveland, terrorizing the city. Ethel Harding, a prostitute struggling to survive both the cold streets...
Penguin Press HC, 2013. — 477 p. — ISBN10: 1594204233, ISBN13: 978-1594204234. It is 2001 in New York City, in the lull between the collapse of the dot-com boom and the terrible events of September 11th. Silicon Alley is a ghost town, Web 1.0 is having adolescent angst, Google has yet to IPO, Microsoft is still considered the Evil Empire. There may not be quite as much money...
Penguin Press HC, 2013. — 477 p. — ISBN10: 1594204233, ISBN13: 978-1594204234. It is 2001 in New York City, in the lull between the collapse of the dot-com boom and the terrible events of September 11th. Silicon Alley is a ghost town, Web 1.0 is having adolescent angst, Google has yet to IPO, Microsoft is still considered the Evil Empire. There may not be quite as much money...
Fierce authentic action, masterful storytelling and a touchingly moving friendship combine in this gripping novel of suspense and revenge, set in an Italy plagued by kidnapping. Washed-up, a near alcoholic, ex-mercenary Creasy takes on the job of guarding the 11 year old daughter of an Italian industrialist. Delightful and intelligent, she penetrates his embittered cynicism to...
Lyrical Underground, 2016. - 342 c. - (A Jack Murphy Thriller) - ISBN10: 1601836392; ISBN13: 978-1601836397. Killing Has Become A Team Sport. To Win The Game, Detective Jack Murphy Will Have To Identify All The Players--Whatever The Cost. The body parts of a young woman have shown up in the town landfill and homicide detective Jack Murphy is on the case. But when the victim's...
Lyrical Underground, 2016. - 342 c. - (A Jack Murphy Thriller) - ISBN10: 1601836392; ISBN13: 978-1601836397. Killing Has Become A Team Sport. To Win The Game, Detective Jack Murphy Will Have To Identify All The Players--Whatever The Cost. The body parts of a young woman have shown up in the town landfill and homicide detective Jack Murphy is on the case. But when the victim's...
Lyrical Underground, 2016. - 342 c. - (A Jack Murphy Thriller) - ISBN10: 1601836392; ISBN13: 978-1601836397. Killing Has Become A Team Sport. To Win The Game, Detective Jack Murphy Will Have To Identify All The Players--Whatever The Cost. The body parts of a young woman have shown up in the town landfill and homicide detective Jack Murphy is on the case. But when the victim's...
G.P. Putnam's Sons Books for Young Readers, 2017. — 464 p. — ISBN10: 0399544933; ISBN13: 978-0399544934. (Project Nemesis - Book 1) Orphan Black meets Lord of the Flies in this riveting new thriller from the co-author of the Virals series. It's been happening since Min was eight. Every two years, on her birthday, a strange man finds her and murders her in cold blood. But hours...
G.P. Putnam's Sons Books for Young Readers, 2017. — 464 p. — ISBN10: 0399544933; ISBN13: 978-0399544934. (Project Nemesis - Book 1) Orphan Black meets Lord of the Flies in this riveting new thriller from the co-author of the Virals series. It's been happening since Min was eight. Every two years, on her birthday, a strange man finds her and murders her in cold blood. But hours...
G.P. Putnam's Sons Books for Young Readers, 2017. — 464 p. — ISBN10: 0399544933; ISBN13: 978-0399544934. (Project Nemesis - Book 1) Orphan Black meets Lord of the Flies in this riveting new thriller from the co-author of the Virals series. It's been happening since Min was eight. Every two years, on her birthday, a strange man finds her and murders her in cold blood. But hours...
Raucous Publishing, 2017. — 292 p. — ISBN10: 0993402682; ISBN13: 978-0993402685. (The Gripping Psychological Thriller with a Jaw-Dropping Twist) A new neighbour becomes a new friend. She looks up to you. She admires you, but is it you she wants? You begin to wonder if she wants your husband, or even your child. But then you realise, she wants your life. When Sharni and Tom move...
Raucous Publishing, 2017. — 292 p. — ISBN10: 0993402682; ISBN13: 978-0993402685. (The Gripping Psychological Thriller with a Jaw-Dropping Twist) A new neighbour becomes a new friend. She looks up to you. She admires you, but is it you she wants? You begin to wonder if she wants your husband, or even your child. But then you realise, she wants your life. When Sharni and Tom move...
Raucous Publishing, 2017. — 292 p. — ISBN10: 0993402682; ISBN13: 978-0993402685. (The Gripping Psychological Thriller with a Jaw-Dropping Twist) A new neighbour becomes a new friend. She looks up to you. She admires you, but is it you she wants? You begin to wonder if she wants your husband, or even your child. But then you realise, she wants your life. When Sharni and Tom move...
Raucous Publishing, 2017. — 292 p. — ISBN10: 0993402682; ISBN13: 978-0993402685. (The Gripping Psychological Thriller with a Jaw-Dropping Twist) A new neighbour becomes a new friend. She looks up to you. She admires you, but is it you she wants? You begin to wonder if she wants your husband, or even your child. But then you realise, she wants your life. When Sharni and Tom move...
Oldcastle Books, 2019. — 384 p. — ISBN: 978-0-85730-260-1, 978-0-85730-261-8. Sherlock Holmes remains the most famous of all fictional detectives. But he was not the only solver of crimes to patrol the gaslit streets of late Victorian and Edwardian London. The years between 1890 and 1914 were the heyday of the English (and American) story magazines and their pages were filled...
Pegasus, 2013, ISBN: 1605981869, 320 p. From the fertile crescent to the far east, the great adventures of Holmes and Watson during the three-year gap between Holmes's "death" and his dramatic return. What exactly happened during Sherlock Holmes's great hiatus after his supposed death and triumphant return three years later? Riccardi images his travels in Europe and Asia during...
Corvus, 2010. — 351 p. — (Fire and Ice #1). — ISBN: 978-1-848-87746-7. Amid Iceland’s wild, volcanic landscape, rumours swirl of an eight-hundred-year old manuscript inscribed with a long-lost saga about a ring of terrible power. A rediscovered saga alone would be worth a fortune, but, if the rumours can be believed, there is something much more valuable about this one....
A Foreign Legion thriller. Separated from his beloved wife during the war, Kriso Tovak believes her to be dead. Then, after the war — having joined the Foreign Legion — he learns she is still alive… Kriso plotting to desert the army to join his wife in Prague, is captured, court-martialled, and executed. But the shock doesn’t end there, as his execution triggers a sequence of...
The threat of nuclear war is imminent… In the afternoon of July 8th the Western powers were due to explode a Hydrogen Bomb in a remote area of Southern Algeria — code named Zone Zero. The zone, of course, had to be evacuated. Fort Ney was the smallest and loneliest Legion outpost in the zone, commanded by a young lieutenant who had stolen fifty thousand francs because of a...
Politics and Poker. that was the occupation and the preoccupation of the members of the White Cat Club. Once on the inside, a man's business was his own and nobody gave a damn if he was the mayor of the town or the champion poolplayer of the first ward. It was a noisy, crowded, masculine kind of retreat, which explained the sign that hung proudly over the door: "The White Cat...
I can’t recommend this book highly enough’ Martina Cole The first commuter train of the morning slowly rumbles away from platform seven of Queen St station. Everyone on board is sleepy, avoiding eye contact, reluctant to admit the day has begun. And then, as the train emerges from a tunnel, the screaming starts. Hanging from the bridge ahead of them is a body. Placed neatly on...
I can’t recommend this book highly enough’ Martina Cole The first commuter train of the morning slowly rumbles away from platform seven of Queen St station. Everyone on board is sleepy, avoiding eye contact, reluctant to admit the day has begun. And then, as the train emerges from a tunnel, the screaming starts. Hanging from the bridge ahead of them is a body. Placed neatly on...
Simon & Schuster UK, 2016. - 432 c. - ISBN10: 1471156583; ISBN13: 978-1471156588. ‘I can’t recommend this book highly enough’ Martina Cole The first commuter train of the morning slowly rumbles away from platform seven of Queen St station. Everyone on board is sleepy, avoiding eye contact, reluctant to admit the day has begun. And then, as the train emerges from a tunnel, the...
Avon, 2017. — 464 p. — ISBN10: 0008248834; ISBN13: 978-0008248833. Two couples. A doctor’s surgery. A deadly obsession. Who’s telling the truth? One evening, a wife asks her husband a question: who else would you go for, if you could? It is a simple question – a little game – that will destroy her life. Carly and Rob are a happy couple. They share happy lives with their...
Avon, 2017. — 464 p. — ISBN10: 0008248834; ISBN13: 978-0008248833. Two couples. A doctor’s surgery. A deadly obsession. Who’s telling the truth? One evening, a wife asks her husband a question: who else would you go for, if you could? It is a simple question – a little game – that will destroy her life. Carly and Rob are a happy couple. They share happy lives with their...
Avon, 2017. — 464 p. — ISBN10: 0008248834; ISBN13: 978-0008248833. Two couples. A doctor’s surgery. A deadly obsession. Who’s telling the truth? One evening, a wife asks her husband a question: who else would you go for, if you could? It is a simple question – a little game – that will destroy her life. Carly and Rob are a happy couple. They share happy lives with their...
Thomas & Mercer, 2016. — 211 p. — (The Light 2). — ISBN: 1503938727, ISBN13: 9781503938724. Nine months ago, Sara Adams awoke with no memory. The man holding her hand told her she’s a member of The Light, a tight-knit religious group led by the terrifying and charismatic Father Gabriel. As a woman in the community of The Light, her duty is to be unquestionably obedient and to...
Thomas & Mercer, 2016. — 209 p. — (The Light 1). — ISBN: 1503935159, ISBN13: 9781503935150. Sara Adams awakes blind, unable to remember the most basic details of her life, but her darkness seems a blessing when she discovers the terrors of The Light. Stella Montgomery investigates the news on the mean streets of Detroit, where she’s noticed a disturbing trend: young women are...
Doubleday, 2013. An older widow who loves her art and ballroom dancing classes, Joan Stanley stands accused by MI5 of passing government secrets to the USSR during the latter part of the Second World War and the years following. Joan's character is loosely based on Melita Norwood, who, at the age of 87, was identified as the most significant and longest-serving British KGB spy...
Amazon Digital Services LLC, 2019. — 173 p. — (A Natalia Nicolaeva Thriller). — ASIN B07NV7CCD4. Born into poverty in the heart of Eastern Europe, Natalia Nicolaeva dreams of a better life. When she is offered a job abroad, however, the promise of the outside world is as terrifying as it is thrilling. After gathering the courage to leave her tiny village, it doesn't take long...
Tea and crumpets and murder… Location scout and Jane Austen aficionado, Kate Sharp, is thrilled when the company she works for lands the job of finding locations for a new film adaptation of Pride and Prejudice, but then her boss, Kevin, fails to return from a scouting trip to England. Afraid that Kevin has slipped back into some destructive personal habits he struggles with,...
Dey Street Books, 2017. — 288 p. — ISBN10: 006241612X; ISBN13: 978-0062416124. “Extraordinarily suspenseful and truly gut-wrenching...A must-read.”—Gillian Flynn, author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Gone Girl In this superb work of literary true crime — a spellbinding combination of memoir and psychological suspense — a female journalist chronicles her unusual connection...
Dey Street Books, 2017. — 288 p. — ISBN10: 006241612X; ISBN13: 978-0062416124. “Extraordinarily suspenseful and truly gut-wrenching...A must-read.”—Gillian Flynn, author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Gone Girl In this superb work of literary true crime — a spellbinding combination of memoir and psychological suspense — a female journalist chronicles her unusual connection...
Bloodhound Books, 2018. — 246 p. — ASIN B07CLT1XV8. Julie is devastated to learn that her husband, Paul, is having an affair. It seems her life can’t get any worse - until she comes home to find his dead body in their bed. When the police establish he was murdered, Julie is the obvious suspect. To protect her son from the terrible situation, Julie sends the teenage boy to his...
Oneworld Publications, 2016. — 480 p. — ISBN10: 1780748892; ISBN13: 978-1780748894. Winner of the Glass Key Award Winner of the Danish Debutants Award Winner of the Harald Mogensen Prize for Best Danish Crime Novel A car is found crashed on a beach in the Canary Island resort of Fuerteventura. In the trunk is a cardboard box containing the body of a small boy — no one knows his...
Oneworld Publications, 2016. — 480 p. — ISBN10: 1780748892; ISBN13: 978-1780748894. Winner of the Glass Key Award Winner of the Danish Debutants Award Winner of the Harald Mogensen Prize for Best Danish Crime Novel A car is found crashed on a beach in the Canary Island resort of Fuerteventura. In the trunk is a cardboard box containing the body of a small boy — no one knows his...
Digital Manga Publishing, 2008, 250 p., ISBN-10: 1569707073, ISBN-13: 978-1569707074 As S, the high-ranking yakuza Munechika is using his own body to gather information for Shiba.
G.P. Putnam's Sons, 2017. — 400 p. — ( A Prey Novel 27) — ISBN10: 0399184570; ISBN13: 978-0399184574. Lucas Davenport’s first case as a U.S. Marshal sends him into uncharted territory in the thrilling new novel in the #1 New York Times-bestselling series. The man was smart and he didn’t mind killing people. Welcome to the big leagues, Davenport. Thanks to some very influential...
G.P. Putnam's Sons, 2017. — 400 p. — (A Prey Novel 27). — ISBN10: 0399184570; ISBN13: 978-0399184574. Lucas Davenport’s first case as a U.S. Marshal sends him into uncharted territory in the thrilling new novel in the #1 New York Times-bestselling series. The man was smart and he didn’t mind killing people. Welcome to the big leagues, Davenport. Thanks to some very influential...
Pan, 2007; 453 p. It is 1540 and the hottest summer of the sixteenth century. Matthew Shardlake, believing himself out of favour with Thomas Cromwell, is busy trying to maintain his legal practice and keep a low profile. But his involvement with a murder case, defending a girl accused of brutally murdering her young cousin, brings him once again into contact with the king’s...
Pan Books (4 Sep 2008), 481 p. Henry VIII has proclaimed himself Supreme Head of the Church and the country is waking up to savage new laws, rigged trials and the greatest network of informers ever seen. Under the order of Thomas Cromwell, a team of commissioners is sent through the country to investigate the monasteries. There can only be one outcome: the monasteries are to be...
New York: Simon & Schuster, Inc., 2013. — 288 p. — ISBN: 1451684754; ISBN13: 9781451684759. Twenty thrilling writers. One chilling mystery. More than twenty New York Times bestselling authors team up to create a first-rate serial novel — a collaboration among some of the most popular mystery and thriller writers in the English-speaking world today, producing a “well-told...
Signet. - 1999. - 384 p. - ISBN: 0451198484 (ISBN13: 9780451198488). Holly is about to collect on an inheritance from a family she's never met. In an imposing mansion, looming like a shroud above Long Island Sound, the Randall family is waiting. Tonight, Holly's fortune is coming at a terrifying price. "A chilling story, with fiendishly stunning twists that will keep readers...
Panel House Press, 2019. — 255 p. — (Blake Brier 1). — ASIN B07PVBHM36. When a heinous crime leads the FBI in search of answers, Blake Brier finds himself sucked back into a the life he left behind. ”If Lee Child’s Jack Reacher was an expert computer hacker, he’d be Blake Brier.” The first in the series, Unmasked is a gripping thriller, loaded with suspense and action. As Blake...
Golden Unicorn Enterprises, Inc., 2017. — 208 p. — ISBN10: 1939962986; ISBN13: 978-1939962980. Blake (Volume 10) ― Billionaire Unknown The Billionaire's Obsession ~ Blake Harper I was perfectly content with my life. My career was booming. I traveled. I did as much charity work as I possibly could for the homeless, and I was perfectly happy with the choices I'd made. At...
Golden Unicorn Enterprises, Inc., 2017. — 208 p. — ISBN10: 1939962986; ISBN13: 978-1939962980. Blake (Volume 10) ― Billionaire Unknown The Billionaire's Obsession ~ Blake Harper I was perfectly content with my life. My career was booming. I traveled. I did as much charity work as I possibly could for the homeless, and I was perfectly happy with the choices I'd made. At...
Camberley. - Death by Choc Lit. - 2017. - 304 p. - ISBN: 978-1-78189-340-1, 978-1-78189-341-8. He’s killed your child and kidnapped your wife. What would YOU do? There’s evil and then there’s Patrick Sullivan. A drug dealer, pimp and murderer, there are no depths to which Patrick would not sink, and Detective Inspector Matthew Adams has found this out in the most devastating...
2008 - 376 p. Year's Best Lists: LA Times "2008 crime fiction favorites" Durham Herald-Sun "Books selections from '08" Quotes and Reviews: "Black & White, Lewis Shiner's long-awaited return to the novel, is social realism so urgent and committed as to be an act of witnessing. Like books by Richard Price and George Pelecanos, Shiner's is both a page-turner and an urban...
London: Zaffre, 2019. — 279 p. — ISBN 978–1–78576–790–6, Hardback ISBN 978–1–78576–560–7. When Valens, a junior officer in the Roman Army, joins a crack squad of soldiers on a dangerous mission, little does he know what's in store for him. Tasked with rescuing the young Prince Sasan, who has been imprisoned in the impenetrable Castle of Silence, the troops set out across...
London: Simon & Schuster, 2011. — 528 p. — ISBN: 0857200380; ISBN13: 9780857200389. Columbine. Dunblane. Virginia Tech. Winnenden. But Saint Patrick's High? In his first hour back from a six-month leave of absence, Detective Jacob Striker's day quickly turns into a nightmare. He is barely on scene five minutes at his daughter's high school when he encounters an Active Shooter...
London: Simon & Schuster, 2011. — 528 p. — ISBN: 0857200380; ISBN13: 9780857200389. Columbine. Dunblane. Virginia Tech. Winnenden. But Saint Patrick's High? In his first hour back from a six-month leave of absence, Detective Jacob Striker's day quickly turns into a nightmare. He is barely on scene five minutes at his daughter's high school when he encounters an Active Shooter...
London: Simon & Schuster, 2012. — 532 p. — ISBN: 0857200402; ISBN13: 9780857200402. When Jacob Striker discovers that a string of suicides might be covered-up murders, his investigation leads to the Riverglen Mental Health Facility. The victims were patients of Dr. Erich Ostermann. When Striker discovers his friend Larisa Logan - a patient of Ostermann - has gone missing, his...
London: Simon & Schuster, 2012. — 532 p. — ISBN: 0857200402; ISBN13: 9780857200402. When Jacob Striker discovers that a string of suicides might be covered-up murders, his investigation leads to the Riverglen Mental Health Facility. The victims were patients of Dr. Erich Ostermann. When Striker discovers his friend Larisa Logan - a patient of Ostermann - has gone missing, his...
William Morrow, 2016. — 485 p. — (Will Trent 8). — ISBN-10 0062430211; ASIN B019WVPSUO. It's the most dangerous case of Will Trent's career. He knows this from the moment he sets foot in the abandoned Atlanta warehouse where a body lies on the floor - the body of an ex-cop. Bloody footprints leading away from the scene reveal that another victim, evidently a woman, was carried...
William Morrow, 2016. — 485 p. — (Will Trent 8). — ISBN-10 0062430211; ASIN B019WVPSUO. It's the most dangerous case of Will Trent's career. He knows this from the moment he sets foot in the abandoned Atlanta warehouse where a body lies on the floor - the body of an ex-cop. Bloody footprints leading away from the scene reveal that another victim, evidently a woman, was carried...
Pantheon, 2019. — 240 p. — ISBN10: 1524747823; ISBN13: 978-1524747824. (No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency Series - Book 20) In the latest book in the widely beloved No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency series, Precious Ramotswe takes on a case for a childhood acquaintance and finds that family relationships are always a tricky proposition — even for Botswana's premier female detective....
Pantheon, 2019. — 240 p. — ISBN10: 1524747823; ISBN13: 978-1524747824. (No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency Series - Book 20) In the latest book in the widely beloved No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency series, Precious Ramotswe takes on a case for a childhood acquaintance and finds that family relationships are always a tricky proposition — even for Botswana's premier female detective....
London. — Bookouture, 2018. — 371 p. — (Detective Beth Young 1). — ISBN: 978-1-78681-625-2. He’d found an angel for his collection. But one angel at a time was never enough... Detective Beth Young has just joined the Cumbrian major crimes team when a body is found posed in a ritualistic manner – arms spread and graceful wings attached – at a crumbling castle in the hills of the...
First published in Great Britain 1981 by Collins, 324 p. ISBN: — 0 330 26673 X. This novel is set in the Soviet Union during the Cold War and is the first book in a series featuring the character Arkady Renko, a Moscow homicide investigator.
While recording sound waves across the universe, NASA makes an astonishing discovery close to home. A strange audio transmission is detected in a remote region of northern Brazil. The transmission has no known source, and the signature has only been recorded on two other occasions: once from inside the Andromeda Galaxy. Determined to discover if the sound was produced by alien...
On a snowy night in December, former NASA engineer Ian Higgs is shot in cold blood on the streets of London, his death drawing the attention of governments on both sides of the Atlantic. Compounding the mystery, his daughter, Amanda, receives an ominous letter that her father mailed to her on the day he was murdered. Amanda is sure that clues contained in the letter will lead...
Would radical Islamic terrorists really detonate a nuke in the USA? Are they angry enough to murder hundreds of thousands or even millions of Americans in the name of Islam? If they could, you bet they would! And with nukes, it only takes one mistake by our security forces to create an unimaginable disaster. That's why navy captain George Adams takes things into his own hands....
Men are dying unexpectedly in Charlotte, North Carolina - all victims of bizarre accidents. No one will call these deaths murder. No one except small - town cop Melanie May. She sees the pattern: a serial killer targeting men who have slipped through the fingers of justice. Alone with her awful certainty, Melani risks her career to convince Connor Parks, a troubled FBI...
A new thriller from award-winning best-selling author Robert Stanek! The first book in the series, The Pieces of the Puzzle, was an instant Top 10 Mystery Bestseller and a #1 Fiction Bestseller in Audio. Now former NSA agent turned rogue operative Scott Madison Evers is back in an all new action thriller. Still a man on the outside looking in, Scott Evers is working security...
A thriller from award-winning best-selling author Robert Stanek. The first book in the series, The Pieces of the Puzzle, was an instant Top 10 Mystery Bestseller and a #1 Fiction Bestseller in Audio. In the heart of the Middle East, former NSA agent, Scott Evers, is drawn deep into an explosive terrorist plot. Two ships in the Mediterranean were destroyed, a Navy helicopter has...
Allison & Busby, 2017. — 280 p. — ISBN10: 0749021411; ISBN13: 978-0749021412. Cornwall, 1844. On a lonely moorland farm not far from Jamaica Inn, farmhand Shilly finds love in the arms of Charlotte Dymond. But Charlotte has many secrets, possessing powers that cause both good and ill. When she's found on the moor with her throat cut, Shilly is determined to find out who is...
Allison & Busby, 2017. — 280 p. — ISBN10: 0749021411; ISBN13: 978-0749021412. Cornwall, 1844. On a lonely moorland farm not far from Jamaica Inn, farmhand Shilly finds love in the arms of Charlotte Dymond. But Charlotte has many secrets, possessing powers that cause both good and ill. When she's found on the moor with her throat cut, Shilly is determined to find out who is...
Allison & Busby, 2017. — 280 p. — ISBN10: 0749021411; ISBN13: 978-0749021412. Cornwall, 1844. On a lonely moorland farm not far from Jamaica Inn, farmhand Shilly finds love in the arms of Charlotte Dymond. But Charlotte has many secrets, possessing powers that cause both good and ill. When she's found on the moor with her throat cut, Shilly is determined to find out who is...
Allison & Busby, 2017. — 280 p. — ISBN10: 0749021411; ISBN13: 978-0749021412. Cornwall, 1844. On a lonely moorland farm not far from Jamaica Inn, farmhand Shilly finds love in the arms of Charlotte Dymond. But Charlotte has many secrets, possessing powers that cause both good and ill. When she's found on the moor with her throat cut, Shilly is determined to find out who is...
Three unconnected crimes are about to be linked in the most chilling way imaginable. The abduction of a teenage girl, heading towards a bus stop. A woman shot, point-blank during a brutal robbery. A young man tortured, his body found wrapped in barbed wire. With nothing to indicate that the three are connected, NYPD detective Tom Harper and psychologist Denise Levene must look...
Three unconnected crimes are about to be linked in the most chilling way imaginable. The abduction of a teenage girl, heading towards a bus stop. A woman shot, point-blank during a brutal robbery. A young man tortured, his body found wrapped in barbed wire. With nothing to indicate that the three are connected, NYPD detective Tom Harper and psychologist Denise Levene must look...
Taut, tense and terrifying - American DevilL marks the thrilling debut of an outstanding new talent. The Progression of Love: his ultimate artistic creation. Now all he needs is seven beautiful women. For the violent killer stalking New York's streets, the trophies he will take from his victims are essential if he is to complete his masterpiece. That he also likes playing games...
Taut, tense and terrifying - American DevilL marks the thrilling debut of an outstanding new talent. The Progression of Love: his ultimate artistic creation. Now all he needs is seven beautiful women. For the violent killer stalking New York's streets, the trophies he will take from his victims are essential if he is to complete his masterpiece. That he also likes playing games...
Ballantine Books, 2018. — 352 p. — ISBN10: 1524797189; ISBN13: 978-1524797188.• A shocking discovery on a honeymoon in paradise changes the lives of a picture-perfect couple in this taut psychological thriller debut — for readers of Ruth Ware, Paula Hawkins, and Shari Lapena. “A psychological thriller that captivated me from page one. What unfolds makes for a wild, page-turning...
Ballantine Books, 2018. — 352 p. — ISBN10: 1524797189; ISBN13: 978-1524797188.• A shocking discovery on a honeymoon in paradise changes the lives of a picture-perfect couple in this taut psychological thriller debut — for readers of Ruth Ware, Paula Hawkins, and Shari Lapena. “A psychological thriller that captivated me from page one. What unfolds makes for a wild, page-turning...
It's a beautiful day for a regatta - until one of Sandhamn Island's most prestigious residents is killed aboard his sailing yacht. Oscar Juliander was a rich lawyer and deputy chairman of the prestigious Royal Swedish Yacht Club. While at first his death seems like a tragic accident, there is evidence of foul play. Police detective Thomas Andreasson teams up with local lawyer...
The tiny Swedish island of Sandhamn has always been a haven for lawyer Nora Linde. With trouble brewing in her marriage, she finds its comforts more welcome than ever, even in the depths of winter. That is, until her two young sons trip across a severed arm in the woods. The boys' gruesome discovery will once again connect Nora with her childhood friend Thomas Andreasson, now a...
The first book in Swedish author Viveca Sten's enormously popular Sandhamn Murders series. On a hot July morning on Sweden's idyllic vacation island of Sandhamn, a man takes his dog for a walk and makes a gruesome discovery: a body, tangled in fishing net, has washed ashore. Police detective Thomas Andreasson is the first to arrive on the scene. Before long, he has identified...
Soon to be divorced, attorney Nora Linde is finding her way as a single mother, and even falling in love again, when she's asked by her childhood friend Detective Thomas Andreasson to help in a disturbing investigation. Marcus Nielsen, a university student, has apparently committed suicide, but it's what he's left behind that's so suspicious and damning: his research into the...
Author: Steven Novella Publisher: THE GREAT COURSES Publication date: 2012 Number of pages: 238 Format / Quality: PDF No skill is more important in today's world than being able to think about, understand, and act on information in an effective and responsible way. What's more, at no point in human history have we had access to so much information, with such relative ease, as...
Fine Line Books; Revised, 2016. - 285 c. - ISBN: 1495413861; ASIN: B013H3U81M. Tormented detective Jake Roberts just killed a suspect in a firefight. Behind the ski mask was a sixteen-year-old girl. Cop-shop policy requires a visit to the precinct shrink after a shooting. Leaving the session in anger, Jake passes a beautiful woman entering the doctor’s office. Later that night,...
Fine Line Books; Revised, 2016. - 285 c. - ISBN: 1495413861; ASIN: B013H3U81M. Tormented detective Jake Roberts just killed a suspect in a firefight. Behind the ski mask was a sixteen-year-old girl. Cop-shop policy requires a visit to the precinct shrink after a shooting. Leaving the session in anger, Jake passes a beautiful woman entering the doctor’s office. Later that night,...
Fine Line Books; Revised, 2016. - 285 c. - ISBN: 1495413861; ASIN: B013H3U81M. Tormented detective Jake Roberts just killed a suspect in a firefight. Behind the ski mask was a sixteen-year-old girl. Cop-shop policy requires a visit to the precinct shrink after a shooting. Leaving the session in anger, Jake passes a beautiful woman entering the doctor’s office. Later that night,...
"Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead" is an absurdist, existentialist tragicomedy by Tom Stoppard, first staged at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in 1966. The play was adapted for a film released in February 1990, with screenplay and direction by Stoppard. The motion picture is Stoppard's only film directing credit: "[I]t began to become clear that it might be a good idea if I...
Acclaimed as a modern dramatic masterpiece, Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead is the fabulously inventive tale of Hamlet as told from the worm’s-eye view of the bewildered Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, two minor characters in Shakespeare’s play. In Tom Stoppard’s best-known work, this Shakespearean Laurel and Hardy finally get a chance to take the lead role, but do so in a...
Pegasus Books, 2016. - 384 c. - ISBN10: 1681772205; ISBN13: 978-1681772202. The famed writer and poet sails to London to engage the illustrious detective Auguste Dupin to solve a Poe family mystery, in a stylish and brilliantly constructed debut novel. Summer, 1840. Edgar Allan Poe sails from Philadelphia to London to meet his friend C. Auguste Dupin, with the hope that the...
Pegasus Books, 2016. - 384 c. - ISBN10: 1681772205; ISBN13: 978-1681772202. The famed writer and poet sails to London to engage the illustrious detective Auguste Dupin to solve a Poe family mystery, in a stylish and brilliantly constructed debut novel. Summer, 1840. Edgar Allan Poe sails from Philadelphia to London to meet his friend C. Auguste Dupin, with the hope that the...
Pegasus Books, 2016. - 384 c. - ISBN10: 1681772205; ISBN13: 978-1681772202. The famed writer and poet sails to London to engage the illustrious detective Auguste Dupin to solve a Poe family mystery, in a stylish and brilliantly constructed debut novel. Summer, 1840. Edgar Allan Poe sails from Philadelphia to London to meet his friend C. Auguste Dupin, with the hope that the...
Random House, 2017. — 272 p. — ISBN10: 0812989406; ISBN13: 978-0812989403. An unforgettable cast of small-town characters copes with love and loss in this new work of fiction by #1 bestselling author and Pulitzer Prize winner Elizabeth Strout. Recalling Olive Kitteridge in its richness, structure, and complexity, Anything Is Possible explores the whole range of human emotion...
Random House, 2017. — 272 p. — ISBN10: 0812989406; ISBN13: 978-0812989403. An unforgettable cast of small-town characters copes with love and loss in this new work of fiction by #1 bestselling author and Pulitzer Prize winner Elizabeth Strout. Recalling Olive Kitteridge in its richness, structure, and complexity, Anything Is Possible explores the whole range of human emotion...
Elizabeth Pennington has come to the war-torn South American country of Callivera to volunteer at a tiny mission. Kidnapped by the local rebels who are more interested in ransom than politics, she ends up at their camp in the Andes where she meets Finn MacGowan, member of the infamous Committee, a covert organization dedicated to destroying terrorism. MacGowan has been held...
Wild Yonder Press, 2019. — 210 p. — (Caribbean Dive Adventures 2). — ASIN B07PYF89SZ. Rising steeply from the turquoise waters of the Caribbean, the Dutch island of Saba is a sleepy paradise, the mountainous slopes dotted with little red-and-white cottages and the seas teeming with life. But this little oasis has a less tranquil history, many of its inhabitants having descended...
John Frist was a good soldier, until his Humvee was hit by an IED in Iraq. Discharged, he carries out one of the worst terror attacks in US history. Captured and brainwashed, he is remade by Project StrikeForce into a technologically enhanced super-soldier. Now he must find a former Mujahideen, Abdullah the Bomber, before Abdullah can strike the US with a terror attack of his...
John Frist was a soldier, a hero, and the victim of an IED attack in Iraq before his discharge. He returned home and committed a terrible act of domestic terrorism. Transformed by the StrikeForce technology, he saved New York City from a dirty bomb and nearly died in the process. For him, the ensuing two years has been a bone-wearying series of battles to protect the United...
Rim of the Pit is a mystery novel written by Hake Talbot, a pen name of Henning Nelms. Written in 1944, this is a classic 'locked room' mystery in the tradition of John Dickson Carr. It takes place in the far north where snow surrounds a group of desperate people, one of whom is bent on murder. In addition, this book contains a short story by Talbot called "The Other Side".
When Rogan Kincaid arrived at the mysterious island known as The Kraken, he expected to find a lavish party thrown by Jackson B. Frant for a dozen guests. Instead he found only young Nancy Garwood, who had been drugged and left in her bedroom. The rest of the mansion was completely deserted and all Nancy could remember was that somebody died at dinner-and she thought it was the...
Ballantine Books, 2003. — 400 p. — ISBN10: 0345457374; ISBN13: 978-0345457370. Ruth Young and her widowed mother, LuLing, have always had a tumultuous relationship. Now, before she succumbs to forgetfulness, LuLing gives Ruth some of her writings, which reveal a side of LuLing that Ruth has never known... In a remote mountain village where ghosts and tradition rule, LuLing...
Ballantine Books, 2003. — 400 p. — ISBN10: 0345457374; ISBN13: 978-0345457370. Ruth Young and her widowed mother, LuLing, have always had a tumultuous relationship. Now, before she succumbs to forgetfulness, LuLing gives Ruth some of her writings, which reveal a side of LuLing that Ruth has never known... In a remote mountain village where ghosts and tradition rule, LuLing...
An anthology of stories. A Tale of One City by Anne Perry. Four Calling Birds by Val McDermid. Thoroughly Modern Millinery by Marilyn Todd. The Lady Downstairs by Christopher Fowler. Old Bag Dad by Keith Miles. Rumpole and the Christmas Break by John Mortimer. Living with the Gilt by Judith Cutler. Window of Opportunity by Peter Lovesey. Love-Lies-Bleeding by Barbara Cleverly....
An anthology of stories. A Tale of One City by Anne Perry. Four Calling Birds by Val McDermid. Thoroughly Modern Millinery by Marilyn Todd. The Lady Downstairs by Christopher Fowler. Old Bag Dad by Keith Miles. Rumpole and the Christmas Break by John Mortimer. Living with the Gilt by Judith Cutler. Window of Opportunity by Peter Lovesey. Love-Lies-Bleeding by Barbara Cleverly....
An anthology of stories. A Tale of One City by Anne Perry. Four Calling Birds by Val McDermid. Thoroughly Modern Millinery by Marilyn Todd. The Lady Downstairs by Christopher Fowler. Old Bag Dad by Keith Miles. Rumpole and the Christmas Break by John Mortimer. Living with the Gilt by Judith Cutler. Window of Opportunity by Peter Lovesey. Love-Lies-Bleeding by Barbara Cleverly....
An anthology of stories. The most venerated and bestselling authors in the mystery world reveal how they created their most beloved serial characters. Introduction by Otto Penzler. Jack Taylor by Ken Bruen. Jack Reacher by Lee Child. Hieronymus Bosch by Michael Connelly. Charlie Parker by John Connolly. Elvis Cole and Joe Pike by Robert Crais: Making the Climb with Elvis Cole....
An anthology of stories. The most venerated and bestselling authors in the mystery world reveal how they created their most beloved serial characters. An anthology of stories. The most venerated and bestselling authors in the mystery world reveal how they created their most beloved serial characters. Introduction by Otto Penzler. Jack Taylor by Ken Bruen. Jack Reacher by Lee...
Edgar Allan Poe. The Murders in the Rue Morgue. Bret Harte. The Stolen Cigar Case. Jacques Futrelle. The Problem of Cell. Melville Davisson Post. The Doomdorf Mystery. Anna Katharine Green. Missing: Page Thirteen. Arthur B. Reeve. The Beauty Mask. Susan Glaspell. A Jury of Her Peers. Carroll John Daly. The False Burton Combs. Clinton H. Stagg. The Keyboard of Silence. Richard...
Edgar Allan Poe. The Murders in the Rue Morgue. Bret Harte. The Stolen Cigar Case. Jacques Futrelle. The Problem of Cell. Melville Davisson Post. The Doomdorf Mystery. Anna Katharine Green. Missing: Page Thirteen. Arthur B. Reeve. The Beauty Mask. Susan Glaspell. A Jury of Her Peers. Carroll John Daly. The False Burton Combs. Clinton H. Stagg. The Keyboard of Silence. Richard...
Oxford University Press, USA1996, ISBN: 0195085817 Hillerman, author of the Joe Leaphorn mysteries, and Herbert, editor of The Oxford Companion to Crime and Mystery Writing, trace this short-story genre from its beginnings in the hands of Edgar Allen Poe through its development by the likes of Erle Stanley Gardner, Mary Roberts Rinehart and Anthony Boucher to its current...
Noel, Noel! by Isaac Asimov. Christmas party by Rex Stout. Do your Christmas shoplifting early by Robert Somerlott. The necklace of pearls by Dorothy L. Sayers. Father crumlish celebrates christmas by Alice Scanlan Reach. The christmas masque by S. S. Rafferty. The dauphin’s doll by Ellery Queen. By the chimney with care by Nick O’Donohoe. The problem of the Christmas steeple...
Noel, Noel! by Isaac Asimov. Christmas party by Rex Stout. Do your Christmas shoplifting early by Robert Somerlott. The necklace of pearls by Dorothy L. Sayers. Father crumlish celebrates christmas by Alice Scanlan Reach. The christmas masque by S. S. Rafferty. The dauphin’s doll by Ellery Queen. By the chimney with care by Nick O’Donohoe. The problem of the Christmas steeple...
Balzer + Bray, 2017. — 259 p. — ISBN10: 0062498533, 13 978-0062498533. Goodreads Choice Awards Best of the Best. William C. Morris Award Winner. National Book Award Longlist. Printz Honor Book. Coretta Scott King Honor Book. №1 New York Times Bestseller! The book is in winners of 2018 Goodreads Choice Awards. "Absolutely riveting!" —Jason Reynolds. "Stunning." —John Green....
Balzer + Bray, 2017. — 248 p. — ISBN10: 0062498533, 13 978-0062498533. Goodreads Choice Awards Best of the Best William C. Morris Award Winner National Book Award Longlist Printz Honor Book Coretta Scott King Honor Book №1 New York Times Bestseller! The book is in winners of 2018 Goodreads Choice Awards. "Absolutely riveting!" —Jason Reynolds "Stunning." —John Green "This story...
Balzer + Bray, 2017. — 248 p. — ISBN10: 0062498533, 13 978-0062498533. Goodreads Choice Awards Best of the Best William C. Morris Award Winner National Book Award Longlist Printz Honor Book Coretta Scott King Honor Book №1 New York Times Bestseller! The book is in winners of 2018 Goodreads Choice Awards. "Absolutely riveting!" —Jason Reynolds "Stunning." —John Green "This story...
Berkley, 2016. - 336 c. - (The Lady Sherlock Series) - ISBN10: 042528140X; ISBN13: 978-0425281406. USA Today bestselling author Sherry Thomas turns the story of the renowned Sherlock Holmes upside down… With her inquisitive mind, Charlotte Holmes has never felt comfortable with the demureness expected of the fairer sex in upper class society. But even she never thought that she...
Berkley, 2016. - 336 c. - (The Lady Sherlock Series) - ISBN10: 042528140X; ISBN13: 978-0425281406. USA Today bestselling author Sherry Thomas turns the story of the renowned Sherlock Holmes upside down… With her inquisitive mind, Charlotte Holmes has never felt comfortable with the demureness expected of the fairer sex in upper class society. But even she never thought that she...
Berkley, 2016. - 336 c. - (The Lady Sherlock Series) - ISBN10: 042528140X; ISBN13: 978-0425281406. USA Today bestselling author Sherry Thomas turns the story of the renowned Sherlock Holmes upside down… With her inquisitive mind, Charlotte Holmes has never felt comfortable with the demureness expected of the fairer sex in upper class society. But even she never thought that she...
Atria/Emily Bestler Books, 2018. — 336 p. — (The Scot Harvath Series 18). — ISBN: 10147678941X; ISBN13: 978-1476789415. The newest thriller in the #1 New York Times, #1 Wall Street Journal, and #1 Publishers Weekly bestselling series! Across Europe, a secret organization has begun attacking diplomats. Back in the United States, a foreign ally demands the identity of a highly...
Atria/Emily Bestler Books, 2018. — 336 p. — (The Scot Harvath Series 18). — ISBN: 10147678941X; ISBN13: 978-1476789415. The newest thriller in the #1 New York Times, #1 Wall Street Journal, and #1 Publishers Weekly bestselling series! Across Europe, a secret organization has begun attacking diplomats. Back in the United States, a foreign ally demands the identity of a highly...
Simon Pulse, 2016. - 352 c. - ISBN10: 1481462008; ISBN13: 978-1481462006. Twin Peaks meets Pretty Little Liars in acclaimed author Maggie Thrash’s new Strange Truth series. It’s better to know the truth. At least sometimes. Halfway through Friday night’s football game, beautiful cheerleader Brittany Montague — dressed as the giant Winship Wildcat mascot — hurls herself off a...
Simon Pulse, 2016. - 352 c. - ISBN10: 1481462008; ISBN13: 978-1481462006. Twin Peaks meets Pretty Little Liars in acclaimed author Maggie Thrash’s new Strange Truth series. It’s better to know the truth. At least sometimes. Halfway through Friday night’s football game, beautiful cheerleader Brittany Montague — dressed as the giant Winship Wildcat mascot — hurls herself off a...
Hodder & Stoughton, 2018. — 300 p. — ISBN: 1473664497 (ISBN13: 9781473666375). What if you found out that you'd been married to a stranger? 'Never go there, Nuala. Please, never go there.' Nuala knows nothing of her husband James's past. He made her swear that she would never contact his family and never, EVER visit the place he was from. But now James is dead, and Nuala is...
1979. A westerner raised in Japan, he survived the destruction of Hiroshima to emerge as the world’s most artful lover and its most accomplished assassin. His greatest desire is to attain a state of effortless perfection… shibumi. But he is about to face his most sinister and corrupt enemy — a supermonolith of espionage and monopoly bent on destroying him…
Viking, 2015. - 304 c. - ISBN10: 0670016594; ISBN13: 978-0670016594. Reporter Sully Carter returns in a thrilling murder mystery of race, wealth, and family secrets When Billy Ellison, the son of Washington, D.C.’s most influential African-American family, is found dead in the Potomac near a violent drug haven, reporter Sully Carter knows it’s time to start asking some serious...
Viking, 2015. - 304 c. - ISBN10: 0670016594; ISBN13: 978-0670016594. Reporter Sully Carter returns in a thrilling murder mystery of race, wealth, and family secrets When Billy Ellison, the son of Washington, D.C.’s most influential African-American family, is found dead in the Potomac near a violent drug haven, reporter Sully Carter knows it’s time to start asking some serious...
Viking, 2015. - 304 c. - ISBN10: 0670016594; ISBN13: 978-0670016594. Reporter Sully Carter returns in a thrilling murder mystery of race, wealth, and family secrets When Billy Ellison, the son of Washington, D.C.’s most influential African-American family, is found dead in the Potomac near a violent drug haven, reporter Sully Carter knows it’s time to start asking some serious...
Lieutenant Danny Jabo is a young officer onboard the USS Alabama, a Trident submarine. When a mad man tries to stop the ship's vital mission, it's up to Danny and the rest of the heroic crew to stop him.
A riveting tale of warfare in the not too distant future. Tucker takes his technological know-how as a former nuclear submariner and masterfully weaves it into a sensational thriller that will leave you pondering the land- and sea-scape of armed conflicts yet to come. A gifted writer first, Tucker seamlessly maintains the perfect balance between exhilarating story-telling and...
Naperville: Sourcebooks Landmark, 2018. — 446 p. Tonight, Evelyn Hardcastle will be killed... again. It is meant to be a celebration but it ends in tragedy. As fireworks explode overhead, Evelyn Hardcastle, the young and beautiful daughter of the house, is killed. But Evelyn will not die just once. Until Aiden – one of the guests summoned to Blackheath for the party – can solve...
It is a secret that has been hidden for more than a half century… The clues have been scattered across the globe. Now someone has begun to piece them together — and the future of the world depends on his being stopped in time. In Maryland, a vicious gang breaks into the National Cryptologic Museum and steals a Nazi Enigma machine. In a London hospital, an Auschwitz survivor is...
They are the most valuable coins on earth… Only a handful still exist, each one worth millions… Now they have vanished from an impenetrable fortress… and the killings have begun. Somehow, impossibly, someone has invaded Fort Knox and stolen five of the world's last remaining Double Eagles — the $20 gold coin ordered destroyed by President Roosevelt during the Great Depression....
Mafia, a secret society and the world's greatest treasures all converge in James Twining's all new jaw-dropping thriller featuring reformed art thief Tom Kirk. It begins with a young man hanging from the Ponte Sant' Angelo Rome, his pockets weighed down with lead whilst the current of the river below slowly tightens the noose around his neck. Meanwhile, in Las Vegas, retired...
America’s worst nightmare has come true: a “cyber — Pearl Harbor” attack by unknown terrorists has crippled the nation’s power grid — and brought the land of the free to its knees. As widespread panic and violence ravage the country, its ruthless captors issue their ultimatums…and vow an apocalyptic reckoning. A defenseless nation scrambles to fight an invisible invasion. Chief...
Ruthless cyberhackers seize a US nuclear submarine, training its most powerful weapon on a target so unusual, yet so vulnerable, that a successful strike could change the face of the earth for millions of years. With the world held hostage, former NSA operative Lana Elkins must join forces with a mysterious computer mastermind — who might be working with the enemy — to avert...
Tyndale House Publishers, 2011. Andrew Jones was once one of the few surgeons in the world to have that rare, God-given ability called The Touch. But after failing to save his young fiancé, Faith, at the scene of a car accident, Jones abandons his gift and shuns the operating room. Lara Blair owns a Chicago-based biomedical engineering company developing a surgical tool that...
Bloodhound Books, 2016. — 250 p. — ISBN10: 0995511195; ISBN13: 978-0995511194. Who will live and who will die? DI Alec McKay is a man haunted by the loss of his daughter. As he obsesses over a missing person case that is going nowhere, McKay's investigation is interrupted when bodies start appearing on the Scottish Black Isle. Soon McKay and his team start to identify a...
Bloodhound Books, 2016. — 250 p. — ISBN10: 0995511195; ISBN13: 978-0995511194. Who will live and who will die? DI Alec McKay is a man haunted by the loss of his daughter. As he obsesses over a missing person case that is going nowhere, McKay's investigation is interrupted when bodies start appearing on the Scottish Black Isle. Soon McKay and his team start to identify a...
Bloodhound Books, 2016. — 250 p. — ISBN10: 0995511195; ISBN13: 978-0995511194. Who will live and who will die? DI Alec McKay is a man haunted by the loss of his daughter. As he obsesses over a missing person case that is going nowhere, McKay's investigation is interrupted when bodies start appearing on the Scottish Black Isle. Soon McKay and his team start to identify a...
Gallery Books, 2018. — 416 p. — ISBN10: 9781501194900; ISBN13: 978-1501194900. (Firefighters series - Book 1) From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the popular Black Dagger Brotherhood series comes a brand-new novel about arson investigator, Anne Ashburn, who is consumed by her troubled past, her family’s scorched legacy, and her current case: chasing a deadly...
Gallery Books, 2018. — 416 p. — ISBN10: 9781501194900; ISBN13: 978-1501194900. (Firefighters series - Book 1) From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the popular Black Dagger Brotherhood series comes a brand-new novel about arson investigator, Anne Ashburn, who is consumed by her troubled past, her family’s scorched legacy, and her current case: chasing a deadly...
What if China planned to invade the United States? What if they tricked us into telling them how? The Chinese economy is faltering. Civil unrest threatens the Communist leadership’s grip on power. But where some see a crisis, others see an opportunity… A CIA operative in Shanghai transmits two earth-shattering revelations to his contacts in Langley, and then goes missing....
There is evidence in the news almost every day. Territorial disputes in the South China Sea. China's ongoing military buildup. Cyber attacks on the US government. It's this century's cold war… until it turns hot. A CIA operative in Shanghai sends a message to Langley, and then goes missing. An inner-circle of Chinese government officials has set in motion plans to do the...
New York: Penguin Books, 2010. — 435 p. — (David Raker 1). — ISBN: 0141042435 (ISBN13: 9780141042435). It starts out as a sad but hopeless case of mistaken identity. A year after the death of her son Alex, Mary Towne is convinced she's seen him alive - and wants missing persons investigator David Raker to find him. Reluctant at first, but haunted by a loss of his own, Raker...
Harper Paperbacks, 2017. — 368 p. — ISBN10: 0062448854; ISBN13: 978-0062448859. From the New York Times bestselling author of The Wrong Man and Eyes on You comes a harrowing new psychological thriller about a successful self-help author who suddenly finds her life spiraling dangerously out of control. What would you do if you realized that your new husband, a man you adore, is...
Harper Paperbacks, 2017. — 368 p. — ISBN10: 0062448854; ISBN13: 978-0062448859. From the New York Times bestselling author of The Wrong Man and Eyes on You comes a harrowing new psychological thriller about a successful self-help author who suddenly finds her life spiraling dangerously out of control. What would you do if you realized that your new husband, a man you adore, is...
Thomas Nelson. - 2002. - 400 p. - ISBN: 0849943183 (ISBN13: 9780849943188). The most powerful weapon against evil is sacrifice. Attorney Scott Ellis is defending Lester Garrison, a 16-year-old accused of opening gunfire on a Sunday afternoon church gathering. At the same time, Scott's volunteer work at the local high school brings him into contact with Kay Wilson, an English...
Ace Books Ink, 1965. - (The Man From U.N.C.L.E. 02) His name was Tixe Ylno… The U.N.C.L.E files could tell nothing about him except for that code name. He could be anyone — a cab driver, a corporation executive, a scientist, a storekeeper…ANYONE! And he might be anywhere in the United States. But whoever or whatever he was, U.N.C.L.E. had to find him — because he controlled a...
2014. - 385 p. - ASIN B00IGBE20E. Nicholas Carr disappeared on his 18th birthday and the world has moved on. His girlfriend has gone to university, his friends have got jobs, the police have other things to look into. But his father, Richard, is still stuck on the three fingers the police dug up from a sodden Manchester wood. What happened to Nicholas on the night he...
Open Window, 2018. — 392 p. — ISBN10: 1946848980, ISBN13: 978-1946848987. Looking for peace, she found a nightmare… Fading movie star Christina Dawn has decided to start a new life, so she relocates from L.A. to a picturesque mountain town, hoping she'll find peace and tranquility there. Meanwhile, a man who has hunted a witness to a massacre for over fifty years has also...
GoOnWrite.com, 2017. — 227 p. — ASIN B0737XTDP8. Over a year has passed since the events in Blackwater Forest. Events that exposed the darkness hiding in Cainswell and Edom County as a whole. Sheriff Nate Lewis hoped the tragedy was behind him. Chalk it up to a bunch of crazy killers living in the woods and move on. But things happen for a reason, and soon Nate finds himself...
St. Martin's Publishing Group, 2022. A Flicker in the Dark is a dark psychological thriller about the daughter of a serial killer and the copycat killer who has emerged 20 years later.
Winning the Cold War is in the balance… A super-secret, off-the-books spy organization; a security-clearance starting at Top Secret and going up from there; an attack by giant squid during a thousand-foot dive while breathing an exotic gas; a cat's whisker escape from death during a three-day decompression — and that's just the first two chapters of "Operation Ivy Bells,"...
PerfectBound 2005. 276 p. The linguistic detective story of the decade... Winchester does a superb job of historical research that should entice readers even more interested in deeds than words.
William Morrow, 2017. — 496 p. — ISBN10: 0062664417; ISBN13: 978-0062664419.Recommended for summer reading by Amazon, New York Times, Time, Entertainment Weekly, Newsday, Miami Herald, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Edmond News, Rutland Herald, Seattle Times, AM New York, BookBub, and theREALbookspy.com The acclaimed, award-winning, bestselling author of The Cartel — voted one of the...
William Morrow, 2017. — 496 p. — ISBN10: 0062664417; ISBN13: 978-0062664419.Recommended for summer reading by Amazon, New York Times, Time, Entertainment Weekly, Newsday, Miami Herald, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Edmond News, Rutland Herald, Seattle Times, AM New York, BookBub, and theREALbookspy.com The acclaimed, award-winning, bestselling author of The Cartel — voted one of the...
"Maisie Dobbs" is divided into three sections: the first section deals with Maisie's initial investigation of Celia and what she's up to, and this section does read very much like a mystery novel the second section deals with how Maisie came to be noticed by Lady Rowan, her education, and her war experiences - this third of the book however reads more like a novel the last...
The Project Gutenberg, 2010, 117 p. EBook #34592, first published in 1940 (no other information available). Penny Parker starred in a series of 17 books written by Mildred A. Wirt Benson and published from 1939 through 1947. Penny was a high school sleuth who also occasionally moonlighted as a reporter for her father's newspaper. Penny’s father is a newspaper owner being sued...
Minotaur Books, 2016. - 272 c. - ISBN10: 1250103169; ISBN13: 978-1250103161. “Culled from the rarefied air of James Lee Burke, Greg Iles, and John Hart, Kevin Wolf has fashioned a painstakingly perfect tale of murder, angst, and the enduring power of the human spirit. If the late, great Pat Conroy had ever decided to write a mystery, this would be it.” ―Jon Land “Kevin Wolf’s...
Minotaur Books, 2016. - 272 c. - ISBN10: 1250103169; ISBN13: 978-1250103161. “Culled from the rarefied air of James Lee Burke, Greg Iles, and John Hart, Kevin Wolf has fashioned a painstakingly perfect tale of murder, angst, and the enduring power of the human spirit. If the late, great Pat Conroy had ever decided to write a mystery, this would be it.” ―Jon Land “Kevin Wolf’s...
Minotaur Books, 2016. - 272 c. - ISBN10: 1250103169; ISBN13: 978-1250103161. “Culled from the rarefied air of James Lee Burke, Greg Iles, and John Hart, Kevin Wolf has fashioned a painstakingly perfect tale of murder, angst, and the enduring power of the human spirit. If the late, great Pat Conroy had ever decided to write a mystery, this would be it.” ―Jon Land “Kevin Wolf’s...
A friendly fire incident in Afghanistan takes a serious toll… A drone, out of control, brings death and wreaks havoc on American soil… An apparently successful corporation comes under scrutiny… A memorable incursion behind corporate closed doors, led by an up-and-coming executive on a mission to find the truth about the lives lost to the very technology that was mandated to...
Cold War II has started with a vengeance. Or, as the American president calls it, Cold War 2.0, reflecting the impact technology has in the new age of espionage. Our country is now in the crosshairs of a renewed, unstoppable enemy intelligence operation. At Langley, a report causes turbulence, as it predicts Russia’s inconceivable plans based on the apparently random incursions...
It’s the new age of terrorism, where enemy interests employ the use of modern tools, weapons, tactics, and theories to achieve goals that have destructive, bone-chilling, and disturbing physical and emotional effects. Today’s terrorists are tech-savvy, manipulative, powerful, well-funded, and supported by entire networks of global experts. A Scottish offshore drilling platform...
Smashwords, 2010. — 175 p. — ISBN: 139781452373263. Todd Collins has failed in every job he's ever undertaken, but that all changes when he backs his jalopy in a shiny, new Porsche belonging to a drug dealer. When the police stop the drug dealer for a broken taillight that Todd has caused and discover a cocaine shipment, a West Coast kingpin holds Todd responsible. On the run...
This hypnotic thriller by the father of noir exposes its heroine to a waking nightmare. A panic-stricken young wife races against time to prove that her convicted husband did not murder his mistress. Writing in first person from her viewpoint, Woolrich makes us feel her love and anguish and desperation, as she becomes an avenging angel to rescue her husband from execution.
SalGad Publishing, 2019. Brand new Horror novel from acclaimed author Iain Rob Wright. Can you figure out the secrets of "the room" and escape before it's too late? Cheryl is about to learn that the people she works with are keeping a secret. One they are willing to kill for. Cheryl is the new girl at work, which is why she feels like she doesn't have a choice when she's asked...
Thriller. Ann Foster is feeling stuck in her small town of Traitor Bay. Her mother disappeared when she was young, leaving her in the care of her aunt and drug-dealing stepfather who recently died in prison. After she finds human remains on the beach while out running, a series of strange events soon follow. The sheriff downplays the importance of her discovery, but still asks...
Thriller. Ann Foster is feeling stuck in her small town of Traitor Bay. Her mother disappeared when she was young, leaving her in the care of her aunt and drug-dealing stepfather who recently died in prison. After she finds human remains on the beach while out running, a series of strange events soon follow. The sheriff downplays the importance of her discovery, but still asks...
Windblown Media, 2008. — 272 p. — ISBN10: 0964729245; ISBN13: 978-0964729247. Mackenzie Allen Philips' youngest daughter, Missy, has been abducted during a family vacation and evidence that she may have been brutally murdered is found in an abandoned shack deep in the Oregon wilderness. Four years later in the midst of his Great Sadness, Mack receives a suspicious note,...
Windblown Media, 2008. — 272 p. — ISBN10: 0964729245; ISBN13: 978-0964729247. Mackenzie Allen Philips' youngest daughter, Missy, has been abducted during a family vacation and evidence that she may have been brutally murdered is found in an abandoned shack deep in the Oregon wilderness. Four years later in the midst of his Great Sadness, Mack receives a suspicious note,...
Ballantine Books, 1987. — ISBN10: 0345344634, ISBN13: 978-0345344632. Hoping to earn the money necessary to break free of his wife, and start a new life with his beloved Lara, Boris devises a profitable smuggling scheme, not realizing that his wife and her brutal lover are plotting his demise.
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