Роберт Уилсон3.4 На морском берегу в окрестностях Лиссабона обнаружено тело юной девушки. Расследуя ее гибель, инспектор Зе Коэлью обнаруживает, что убитая старшеклассница вела отнюдь не добродетельный образ жизни. Однако выясняется, что ни подозрительные дружки, ни окрестные наркоманы не имеют отношения к смерти Катарины Оливейры. Корни преступления уходят в далекое прошлое, каким-то загадочным образом с ним связано семейство Абрантеш, в эпоху диктатора Салазара обогатившееся на торговле с немцами. Но когда преступник оказывается за решеткой, а все средства массовой информации дружно превозносят Зе Коэлью, инспектор приходит к выводу, что настоящий убийца — совсем другой человек…
Англичанин Роберт Уилсон — автор уже десяти триллеров, которые сделали его фантастически популярным как в Европе, так и в Америке. За роман “Смерть в Лиссабоне” Уилсон удостоен премии Британской ассоциации авторов-детективщиков “Золотой кинжал” (1999), его “Севильский слепец” вошел в шорт-лист той же премии (2003). “Смерть в Лиссабоне” награждена еще и немецкой премией за лучший зарубежный детектив (2003), а “Немые и проклятые” — американской премией “Сыщик” интернет-журнала Mistery Ink за лучший европейский криминальный роман (2006).
Adrian Mathews0.0 Vienna, Winter 2026. A place filled with post-millennial excess: pollution, nco-Nazis, designer drugs, holographic TV, and ultra-intelligent environments. When a commodities broker named Leo Detmers winds up dead -- the victim of a seemingly random traffic accident -- his pregnant widow, Petra, turns to a tabloid columnist named Sharkey to look into what she believes was a calculated murder. But just who was Leo Detmers and who would want him dead? Beginning with a graffiti message on the wall of Leo's apartment, Sharkey peels back the layers of Leo's life and death, each revealing a larger, more chilling design. As he attempts to link puzzling coincidences and perilous secrets, Sharkey soon realizes he's in over his head, party to a conspiracy with roots in Vienna's dark past that could change the world forever.
Дэн Фесперман0.0 Investigator Petric makes his living from the dead. Lately business has been slow, what with the siege around Sarajevo. Condoned killing has displaced the crime of passion; his services with the civil police as a homicide investigator have been less in demand. Unluckily one premeditated death does land on the detective's desk. It is no abused lover or a distant sniper's victim but a government official - the chief of the interior ministry's police - shot dead at close range.In a thriller that recalls the first excitement of Martin Cruz Smith's Moscow and the Vienna of Graham Greene's The Third Man, author Dan Fesperman brilliantly renders the fragmented society and underworld of Sarajevo at war - the freelancing gangsters, guilty bystanders, drop-in correspondents, the bureaucrats frightened for their jobs and very lives - and he weaves through this torn cityscape one man's desperate, deadly pursuit of the wrong people in the worst places.
Caroline Carver0.0 Winner of the CWA Debut Dagger, CJ Carver's debut thriller is a dark and gripping story set in a town with a pitch-dark legacy of blood.
Journalist India Kane's trip to the Australian outback takes a horrifying turn when she arrives in the town of Cooinda to find that her best friend Lauren is missing.
Seemingly no one knows what has happened to her, but it's not long before India finds herself arrested for a double murder that she didn't commit, caught up in the dark past of a small town hiding a devastating truth - one that could destroy a family, a friendship, and a nation.
Set in the unforgiving landscape of the Australian outback, Blood Junction won the CWA's Debut Dagger and is CJ Carver's powerful and compulsive thriller about a woman on the run from a brutal killer, as well as from her own past.
Lindsey Davis0.0 Lumbered with working alongside reptilian Chief Spy, Anacrites, Falco has the perfect plan to make money: he will assist Vespasian in the Emperor’s "Great Census" of AD 73. His potential fee could finally allow him to join the middle ranks and be worthy of long-suffering Helena Justina. Unexpectedly confronted with the murder of a man-eating lion, Falco uncovers a bitter rivalry between the gladiators’ trainers. With one star gladiator dead, Falco is forced to investigate and the trail leads from Rome to the blood-soaked arena in North Africa.
Брайан Кэткарт0.0 Eighteen-year-old Stephen Lawrence, the son of Jamaican immigrants, was murdered on the night of 22 April 1993 whilst standing at a bus-stop, by a gang of white youths. Cathcart wrote a long piece about the murder and all its ramifications for Granta magazine (59), and this is the basis for his book: an account of the crime, the investigation and the criminal culture of South-East London that gave rise to the murderers.
James Lee Burke0.0 L'inspecteur de police Dave Robicheaux de New Iberia en Louisiane s'inquiète du retour au pays de Megan Flynn et de son frère Cisco. Leur enfance fut assombrie par l'horrible sort réservé à leur père Jack Flynn, un farouche syndicaliste retrouvé crucifié à la porte d'une grange. Ce crime est resté impuni, affichant la marque du silence de ceux qui ont laissé faire ou simplement tourné la tête, par indifférence ou par peur. Cisco est devenu un metteur en scène reconnu et influent et sa sœur une célèbre photographe. Dans le sillage de ce retour, les charognards ont flairé l'odeur du sang, de la haine et de la mort. Pourquoi Cisco protège-t-il Swede Boxleiter, un psychopathe engagé sur le plateau de son nouveau film financé par la mafia et le propriétaire terrien Archer Terrabonne dont la fille, Lila, noie ses secrets dans l'alcool ? Autour de ce brasier, les vieilles histoires du passé remontent à la surface entraînant règlements de compte, meurtres, vengeance, racisme. Le tout est orchestré par un ex-flic, essence même du mal, bien connu du FBI, peu empressé à collaborer avec la police de New Iberia.
Николас Блинкоу3.6 "«Манчестерская тусовка» – как всегда у Блинкоу, роман очень жизненный, своего рода социальный срез современной субкультуры, предлогом для которого служит детективный сюжет.
Действие происходит в двух временных пластах. Манчестерский следователь Дэйви Грин (этакий Жеглов минус романтика плюс пройдошистость и своеобразное мужланское чувство юмора) приезжает в Лондон и делает Джейку, менеджеру казино, предложение, от которого тот не сможет отказаться. Дело в том, что в начале 80-х Джейк был информатором Грина. И теперь пришла пора отдавать должок. Пласт «настоящего» перемежается сценками из прошлого Джейка и его друзей. Время и нравы изображены очень выпукло и достоверно, аж дрожь пробирает, но не от детективной интриги, а от мастерского описания язв современного общества, где понятия плохой/хороший переплетены настолько, что не всегда и разберешь."
Mina Denise2.0 Mental breakdown survivor Maureen is about to end her affair with a married man when she discovers his body in her living room, his throat slit. Suspected of murder, Maureen must act fast - before the real killer comes after her.
Joolz Denby4.0 A dark psycholgical thriller from a brilliant new talent, set in the out-on-the-edge world of alternative comedy. Meet Lenny Bruce in a Dress (aka Jamie Gee), an inspirational stand-up comic with enough cutting edge to rival Boadicea. The punters love her -- they think she's tough and in control, but they don't know the real Jamie. Inside she's lost, vulnerable and desperate for love -- something Lily Carlson finds out when she becomes her best friend and then her manager. And sassy, smart-talking, ambitious Lily soon realizes that looking after Jamie means more than just booking gigs -- it's a lifetime's commitment. Lily's up for it , though, even when she can no longer ignore the fact that Jamie's fatal flaw is men. The victim of a brutal past, she has an unerring ability to pick Mr Wrong, and, as Jamie lurches from one bastard to the next, Lily and beautiful Asian transvestite Mojo do the damage-limitation thing, making a sanctuary of their rundown old house. But they'd all reckoned without Sean Powers, a vicious psychopath with the face and body of a god, who threatens to smash the menage a trois that sustains them.
It's easy to see what makes Jamie fall so hard for Sean, but what's in it for him? And what does he really want from her? Dark, edgy and utterly convincing, Stone Baby is set to become the cult read of the year
Lindsey Davis0.0 Lumbered with working alongside reptilian Chief Spy, Anacrites, Falco has the perfect plan to make money: he will assist Vespasian in the Emperor’s "Great Census" of AD 73. His potential fee could finally allow him to join the middle ranks and be worthy of long-suffering Helena Justina. Unexpectedly confronted with the murder of a man-eating lion, Falco uncovers a bitter rivalry between the gladiators’ trainers. With one star gladiator dead, Falco is forced to investigate and the trail leads from Rome to the blood-soaked arena in North Africa.
What brings a child to kill another child? In 1968, at age eleven, Mary Bell was tried and convicted of murdering two small boys in Newcastle upon Tyne, England. Gitta Sereny, who covered the sensational trial, never believed the characterization of Bell as the incarnation of evil, the bad seed personified. If we are ever to understand the pressures that lead children to commit serious crimes, Sereny felt, only those children, as adults, can enlighten us.
Twenty-seven years after her conviction, Mary Bell agreed to talk to Sereny about her harrowing childhood, her terrible acts, her public trial, and her years of imprisonment-to talk about what was done to her and what she did, who she was and who she became. Nothing Bell says is intended as an excuse for her crimes. But her devastating story forces us to ponder society's responsibility for children at the breaking point, whether in Newcastle, Arkansas, or Oregon.
A masterpiece of wisdom and sympathy, Gitta Sereny's wrenching portrait of a girl's damaged childhood and a woman's fight for moral regeneration urgently calls on us to hear the cries of all children at risk.
Ian Rankin3.0 Bible John killed three women, and took three souvenirs. Johnny Bible killed to steal his namesake's glory. Oilman Allan Mitchelson died for his principles. And convict Lenny Spaven died just to prove a point. "Bible John" terrorized Glasgow in the sixties and seventies, murdering three women he met in a local ballroom--and he was never caught. Now a copycat is at work. Nicknamed "Bible Johnny" by the media, he is a new menace with violent ambitions.
The Bible Johnny case would be perfect for Inspector John Rebus, but after a run-in with a crooked senior officer, he's been shunted aside to one of Edinburgh's toughest suburbs, where he investigates the murder of an off-duty oilman. His investigation takes him north to the oil rigs of Aberdeen, where he meets the Bible Johnny media circus head-on. Suddenly caught in the glare of the television cameras and in the middle of more than one investigation, Rebus must proceed wiht caution: One mistake could mean an unpleasant and not particularly speedy death, or, worse still, losing his job.
Written with Ian Rankin's signature wit, style and intricacy, Black and Blue is a novel of uncommon and unforgettable intrigue.
Джанет Иванович4.3 Если любому другому агенту достаются интересные и выгодные задания, то Стефани Плам, как той Золушке из сказки, всегда что-нибудь такое, от чего одна только нервотрепка, тоска и головная боль. Вот и на этот раз ей поручено отыскать очень злостного преступника - старенького дядюшку Мо, хозяина кондитерской лавки и всеобщего любимца, оштрафованного за превышение скорости и не явившегося на суд. Правда, занимаясь поисками продавца сладостей, Стефани то и дело натыкается на трупы наркоторговцев и уворачивается от пуль таинственных людей в масках, идущих по ее следу...
Paul Johnston0.0 "Gorky Park" meets "Brave New World" in this award-winning debut novel of a serial killer lost in a supposedly perfect society overtaken by the Enlightenment.
Пол Бриттон5.0 The autobiography of Paul Britton, one of the foremost offender profilers in the world. What he searches for at the scene of a crime are not fingerprints, fibres or blood stains, he looks for the "mind trace" left behind by those responsible, the psycholgical characteristics that can help the police to identify and understand the nature of the perpetrator. Over the past dozen years, Britton has assisted the police in over 100 cases involving murder, rape, arson, extortion and kidnapping. Among them were he murder of Jamie Bulger on a lonely railway line in Liverpool, the abduction of baby Abbie Humphries, the brutal slaying of Rachel Nickell on Wimbledon Common and the notorious "House of Horror" in Gloucester. He has helped to solve some of Britain's mot baffling cases, and has also advised the FBI and the Russian Ministry of the Interior.
Бен Элтон4.0 Бен Элтон - прозаик, сценарист и комедиограф, один из наиболее популярных современных английских писателей, автор сценариев таких знаменитых комедийных сериалов, как "Мистер Бин" (Mister Bean), "Блэкаддер" (Blackadder) и "Тонкая голубая линия" (The Thin Blue Line). Каждая его книга - бестселлер. Романы "Попкорн" (Popcorn, 1996) и "Непостижимый" (Inconceivable, 1999) разошлись миллионными тиражами, "Звонок из прошлого" (Blast from the Past, 1998) принес Бену Элтону славу "короля смеха и интриги", а "Смерть за стеклом" (Dead Famous, 2001) был назван критиками "бриллиантом юмора".
Питер Лавси4.1 Члены литературного детективного клуба "Ищейки" привыкли разгадывать книжные преступления. Но на этот раз им пришлось стать свидетелями настоящих преступлений! Сначала у эксцентричного пожилого Майло Моциона обнаруживается похищенная из музея накануне бесценная старинная марка. А потом происходит загадочное убийство... ,
Но кто и зачем избавился от самого тихого и неприметного из "литературных детективов" ночного сторожа Сида Тауэрса? Как его труп попал на яхту все того же Моциона? Почему таинственный анонимный осведомитель пытается обвинить в этом преступлении еще одного члена клуба — преуспевающуюю галеристку Джессику Шоу?
Пока у Питера Даймонда больше вопросов, чем ответов. А навязчивые попытки дилетантов "Ищеек" помочь запутывают расследование все сильнее...
Christopher Brookmyre3.9 The book that gave us tartan noir: The novel which launched Christopher Brookmyre on an unsuspecting audience is being reissued with a new cover alongside other classic titles from the Abacus list in our 40th Anniversary year
Yeah, yeah, the usual. A crime. A corpse. A killer. Heard it. Except this stiff happens to be a Ponsonby, scion of a venerable Edinburgh medical clan, and the manner of his death speaks of unspeakable things. Why is the body displayed like a slice of beef? How come his hands are digitally challenged? And if it's not the corpse, what is that awful smell?
A post-Thatcherite nightmare of frightening plausibility, QUITE UGLY ONE MORNING is a wickedly entertaining and vivacious thriller, full of acerbic wit, cracking dialogue and villains both reputed and shell-suited.
Джанет Иванович4.3 Неунывающая и сексуальная Стефани Плам, агент по поимке сбежавших из-под залога преступников, ввязывается в очередную умопомрачительную авантюру. Казалось бы, все до неприличия просто: ей поручают совсем пустяковое дело - разыскать юного Кенни Манкузо, парня из приличной семьи, прострелившего колено своему лучшему школьному другу. Правда, некоторое время спустя дело здорово осложняется, поскольку лучшего друга Кенни находят мертвым. А потом Стефани начинают подбрасывать угрозы и… отрезанные части тела. Однако она готова распутать этот опасный клубок, потому что у нее есть помощник по кличке Рейнджер, верный 38-й калибр, баллончик со слезоточивым газом, электрошокер, наручники и страшное оружие массового поражения - бабушка Мазур, которая никогда не бросит внучку в беде. К тому же Стефани всегда может позвать на помощь неотразимого Джо Морелли. Ведь он не только "гроза всех женщин", но и опытный полицейский.
Antonia Fraser0.0 Antonia Fraser, a popular historian, has delved into archives across Europe to unravel the true story of the plot by fanatical Roman Catholics to blow up the Houses of Parliament and King James I at the opening of Parliament in 1605.
Вэл Макдермид3.8 Город Брэдфилд на севере Англии охвачен ужасом – в нем орудует жестокий серийный убийца, не оставляющий ни следов, ни улик. Полиция не желает признавать серьезность ситуации, пока не обнаруживается четвертый изуродованный труп. Только тогда к делу подключают психолога Тони Хилла, который вместе с инспектором Кэрол Джордан пытается проникнуть в больной мозг преступника и разгадать его мотивы.
Питер Лавси4.1 Самое необычное дело суперинтенданта Питера Даймонда. Полиция Бата поднята по тревоге — из тюрьмы cбежал Джон Маунтджой, приговоренный к пожизненному заключению за убийство шведской журналистки. Более того, он ухитрился вернуться в Бат и взять в заложницы дочь местного крупного полицейского чиновника. Единственное требование Маунтджоя — повторное расследование его дела. Он утверждает, что убийства не совершал.... Неужели Даймонд, который вел дело, совершил ошибку? Неужели из-за него пострадал невиновный? Шаг за шагом детектив пытается понять, что же упустил много лет назад…
Джанет Иванович4.0 Серия искрометно веселых романов о Стефани Плам принесла американской писательнице Джанет Иванович грандиозную популярность. Каждый роман о незадачливой охотнице за сбежавшими из-под залога преступниками - чтение неимоверно увлекательное, интригующее и поразительно смешное.
В первой книге Стефани поручено крайне ответственное задание: отыскать Джо Морелли, полицейского, обвиняемого в убийстве, а по совместительству совершенно неотразимого мужчину и настоящего мачо. Это дело не сулило бы особых хлопот, если бы не осложнялось тем, что когда-то этот самый Морелли сумел воспользоваться наивностью и неопытностью новоиспеченного детектива. Причем не один раз... Впрочем, находчивости и изобретательности мисс Плам не занимать, а неиссякающий оптимизм и безграничное чувство юмора всегда выручают ее из множества дурацких и нелепых ситуаций, в которые она почему-то все время попадает.
Laurence Shames0.0 When Joey Goldman's illegitimate father, a nefarious godfather from New York, heads to Key West, Joey has the bright idea of letting a Kew West reporter help write his memoirs, a book that no onethe Mafia, the FBI, or the real heir to Delgatto's family businesswants to see published.
Майнет Уолтерс4.1 Перерезанные вены и сверхдоза таблеток...
Похоже, решив расстаться с жизнью, хозяйка усадьбы "Кедровый дом" Матильда Гиллеспи действовала наверняка.
Явное самоубийство - у полиции нет в этом сомнений.
Питер Хёг3.8 Она читает снег, как раскрытую книгу. Она верит числам, но не верит людям. Особенно - официальным лицам, тем, кто пытается ей доказать, что мальчик-гренландец просто играл на крыше и случайно сорвался вниз. Потому что она знает, как сильно он боялся высоты. Потому что следы на снегу ведут прямо к краю. И это не следы играющего ребенка.
Она - Смилла Кваавигаак Ясперсен, полудатчанка-полуэскимоска, родившаяся в Гренландии, живущая в Копенгагене. Для нее с этой смерти начинается поиск ответов на вопросы, поставленные недомолвками, голосом на старой кассете, полосами на рентгеновском снимке. Поиск, который уводит ее все дальше: город - море - лед.
К Питеру Хёгу после выхода этой книги пришла всемирная слава. Слава тем более заслуженная, что и теперь, спустя пятнадцать лет после первой публикации, этот роман по-прежнему не с чем сравнить - он неповторим, как снежинка или кристаллик льда.
Doug J. Swanson0.0 "Big Town" is Dallas, perched precariously between could-be and has-been. Big Town is Doug J. Swanson's relentlessly taut, darkly hilarious debut novel. It shines a brilliant light into the dimmer corners of Dallas and introduces an extremely unlikely, extremely engaging hero, Jack Flippo. Jack Flippo was the hottest ticket in the Dallas DA's office until an affair with a drug dealer's wife ended his legal career and his marriage. Now he lives above a garage in a Dallas neighborhood that went from bust to bust without booming. He pays the rent by snooping for Hal Roper, the sort of attorney who runs ads in the TV listings. Hal assigns Jack to tape one of the many strange sexual interludes of motivational speaker Buddy George Jr., who's a fixture of late-night infomercials and Rotary Club breakfasts throughout the Dallas-Fort Worth area. But when Jack hears Buddy threatening his partner for the evening, he rushes to her aid, throwing a scare into Buddy and throwing Sharronda, the tough-talking innocent at Buddy's mercy, into his own reluctant care. He's also unwittingly foiled the plans of Buddy's icy yet steamy assistant, Paula Fontaine. With the aid of wannabe thug/talk-show host Teddy Tunstra II, Paula devises ever-more-byzantine schemes for fleecing Buddy, one of which results in the demise of Sharronda's spectacularly scruffy beau, Delbert, in the motel room just vacated by Buddy. The police run to Buddy for an explanation, Buddy runs to Paula for advice, and Paula sees a way to bleed him after all. Meanwhile, Jack realizes that Paula's at the center of this web only after she's snared him in it with a little liquor and a lot of sex. To save Sharronda from Paula's wrath - and himself from being implicated in Delbert's murder - Jack must find the killer and, harder still, outscheme Paula. Big Town is latter-day noir with a Texas twang, memorable for its pitch-perfect dialogue, its dead-on evocations of Dallas, and its large cast of quirky, convincing persona
Simon Shaw0.0 The Villain of the Earth marks the fourth appearance of Philip Fletcher - dedicated lecher, supreme egoist, professional actor, and occasional amateur murderer. Thwarted in yet another attempt at theatrical glory, Philip is forced to settle for a dubious avant-garde production of Antony and Cleopatra, directed by megalomaniac Russian boor Sergei "Shitski" Shustikov. Philip finds himself sharing the stage with not only a rusting car but also old flame Natasha, and she's shacked up with Shitski. Tempers flare, confrontations multiply, and then the inevitable happens - on opening night Shitski winds up dead. Can Philip sidestep yet another backstage homicide? After all, with his record the police won't have far to look for a prime suspect. It takes some very fancy footwork and all the amoral ingenuity at his disposal to keep his career on the rails - but then Philip, as he would be the first to point out, is a very good actor.
David Canter0.0 Every crime casts a unique shadow that may be interpreted to lead the police to the criminal responsible. This book looks at offender profiling that helps the police to identify and track individual criminals by the nature of their crime.
Патрисия Корнуэлл4.0 "Жестокое и странное" - один из лучших романов цикла о судмедэксперте Кей Скарпетте.
Маньяк Ронни Джо Уоддел наконец-то казнен. Но... вскоре после смерти Уоддела происходит новое убийство, в точности повторяющее все особенности его почерка!
Более того, один за другим при загадочных обстоятельствах гибнут люди, имеющие отношение к делу Уоддела, а у Кей пропадают важные записи...
Может быть, кто-то мстит за Уоддела?
Или в игру вступил имитатор?
Кей и ее партнер, опытный детектив Пит Марино, рассматривают и отметают версию за версией, но когда им удается проверить отпечатки пальцев подозреваемого, они делают ошеломляющее открытие, способное поразить даже человека с очень крепкими нервами...
Казненный маньяк жив - и снова вышел на охоту!
Поначалу Скарпетта и Марино оказываются верить фактам. Но для того чтобы поймать преступника, им все же придется поверить в невероятное...
Sarah Dunant0.0 A decade before her dazzling breakthrough novel, The Birth of Venus, author Sarah Dunant won Britain's prestigious Silver Dagger award for Fatlands, a Hannah Wolfe mystery.
In Fatlands, private investigator Hannah Wolfe, who's independent though not invincible, idealistic but definitely not naive, has taken on one of the less glamorous jobs in the security world -- chaperoning teenage rebel Mattie Shepherd around London. But Mattie's father is paying Hannah lots of money -- more than the job is worth, it seems. Or perhaps not. The girl's father is on the Animal Liberation Front's hit list. But why? When violence explodes, tearing the family apart, this is what Hannah must discover. Her obsession with the truth nearly kills her, wrecking her private life and dragging her into a vortex of lies and betrayal.
Michael Pearce0.0 After Miss Skinner, the niece of a U.S. presidential candidate struggling to keep Egyptian antiquities in Egypt, nearly lands in front of a Cairo tram, the Mamur Zapt, Captain Gareth Owen feels it prudent to keep an eye on her. Soon suspecting that many of the antiquities aren't really priceless, Owen must differentiate between the real and the fake--while solving a double murder.
Alexandra Artley0.0 While suffering an epileptic fit, Tommy Thompson had been shot by each of his daughters, June and Hilda. At their trial it became clear that for the previous 15 years Thompson had kept them and his wife enclosed in a world of extreme violence, superstition and mental illness all bound together by a terrible love. This is the harrowing reconstruction of their lives together and of the incidents that led Thompson's daughters to destroy him!
Колин Декстер3.9 Шведка Карин Эрикссон, путешествовавшая по Англии, пропала неподалеку от Оксфорда. Год спустя в полицию приходит письмо со стихами английского поэта XIX века “Найди меня” и записка “Почему меня никто не ищет?” с подписью туристки. Расшифровка анаграммы в стихах не оставляет у опытного инспектора сомнений: путь к разгадке исчезновения Карин лежит сквозь Оксфордский лес…
Liza Cody0.0 Eva Wylie may not be beautiful, but she's big and smart and tough. Working as a wrestler called the London Lassassin, all she wants is wrestling superstardom and to find her long-lost sister. She does a little investigating on her own, and ends up in the middle of a vicious London gang war fighting for her life.
Майнет Уолтерс4.0 The three women living in seclusion at an elegant Hampshire country house have long been fodder for village gossip...even whispers of a witches' coven. So when a faceless corpse of uncertain vintage is found in the Streech Grange ice house, Chief Inspector Walsh can't wait to make a case of it.
Lady of the manor Phoebe Maybury, still haunted by Walsh's relentless investigation of her husband's strange disappearance ten years ago, is calm. She and her two housemates--sensitive, charming artist Diana Goode and pretty, earthy Anne Cattrell--seem as puzzled as the police. But do they have something to hide?
While Walsh strives to nail Phoebe for murder, sexy young Detective Sergeant McLoughlin turns his attention to the exasperating and magnetic Anne. Soon his inquiry and his impulses will draw him into a tangled thicket of love, loyalty, and deadly intrigue.
Карл Хайасен3.8 "Крах "Волшебного королевства" - захватывающий триллер Карла Хайесена. Блестящий стилист и рассказчик, он также искусно владеет даром интриги и обладает незаурядным юмором. Мастерски закрученный сюжет книги держит читателя в напряжении до самого финала.
Карл Хайесен - уроженец Флориды, имеет репутацию выдающегося журналиста, прославившегося расследованием местных скандалов. Ведет свой раздел в газете "Майами геральд".
Charles Nicholl0.0 In 1593 the brilliant but controversial young playwright Christopher Marlowe was stabbed to death in a Deptford lodging house. The circumstances were shady, the official account—a violent quarrel over the bill, or "recknynge"—has been long regarded as dubious.
Here, in a tour de force of scholarship and ingenuity, Charles Nicholl penetrates four centuries of obscurity to reveal not only a complex and unsettling story of entrapment and betrayal, chimerical plot and sordid felonies, but also a fascinating vision of the underside of the Elizabethan world.
"Provides the sheer enjoyment of fiction, and might just be true." — Michael Kenney, Boston Globe
"Mr. Nicholl's glittering reconstruction of Marlowe's murder is only one of the many fascinating aspects of this book. Indeed, The Reckoning is equally compelling for its masterly evocation of a vanished world, a world of Elizabethan scholars, poets, con men, alchemists and spies, a world of Machiavellian malice, intrigue and dissent." — Michiko Kakutani, New York Times
"The rich substance of the book is his detail, the thick texture of betrayal and evasion which was Marlowe's life." — Thomas Flanagan, Washington Post Book World
Winner of the Crime Writer's Gold Dagger Award for Nonfiction Thriller
Барбара Вайн3.2 Пансионат, расположенный в разваливающемся здании бывшей школы, приютил множество странных людей. Хозяин дома – чудаковатый писатель, помешанный на метро и мечтающий посетить каждый метрополитен мира. Молодая скрипачка, сбежавшая от семьи и новорожденной дочери, и ее новый друг – флейтист, вместе с которым она теперь играет в переходах. Позабытый легкомысленной матерью мальчик, прогуливающий школу, чтобы кататься, как заправский экстремал, на крышах вагонов подземки. Причудливое сплетение судеб, перепутанных, словно линии метрополитена, ведет каждого к своей трагедии, и всех вместе – к драматической развязке...
Франсис Файфилд0.0 When the domineering wife of pharmacist Pip Carlton dies in her sleep, on one suspects Pip, even though he had access to all sorts of deadly poisons. But amateur sleuth Helen West and her friend Detective Constable Geoffrey Bailey soon become suspicious in this chilling tale of psychological terror.
Уолтер Мосли3.7 В Лос-Анджелесе конца 1940-х годов Изи Роулинса, чернокожего ветерана войны, только что уволили с работы на оборонном заводе. Изи пьет в баре у друга, размышляя, как он выплатит ипотеку, когда входит белый мужчина в льняном костюме, предлагающий хорошие деньги, если Изи просто найдет мисс Дафну Моне, белокурую красавицу, известную завсегдатаями черных джаз-клубов.
Mike Ripley0.0 A call for help from an old friend sends Fitzroy Maclean Angel on the road with a heavy metal band and in pursuit of a truck full of contraband.
Джон Босси0.0 Delving into a netherworld of treachery and intrigue in Elizabethan London, John Bossy attempts to solve a centuries-old mystery: who was "Fagot," the spy working within the French embassy in London to subvert Catholic efforts to overthrow Queen Elizabeth and her government? Bossy speculates on the spy's identity in a book that makes a major contribution to the political and intellectual history of the wars of religion in Europe and to the domestic history of Elizabethan England.
This 3rd Edition lightly revised in light of the sequel, Under the Molehill .
Реджинальд Хилл4.0 Реджинальд Хилл - английский писатель, житель Йоркшира, куда он поселил и главных героев почти всех своих романов. Известность ему принес роман "Общительная женщина" (1970), в котором он впервые познакомил читателей со своими героями - начальником уголовного розыска Эндрю Дэлзиелом и его молодым помощником Питером Паско. Эти яркие колоритные образы сразу полюбились читателям. За годы с 1972 по 1990-й Хиллом были написаны еще девять романов, в том числе "Детская игра" (1987) и "Прах и безмолвие" (1990).
Mike Phillips0.0 When journalist Sam Dean probes the murder of a former childhood friend, Aston Edwards, a prominent and controversial local politician, Dean uncovers a deadly maze of political intrigue, cover-ups, private vendettas, and violence
Патрисия Корнуэлл3.7 Город Ричмонд охвачен ужасом - жертвами маньяка стали уже четыре молодые женщины. Они погибли в невероятных мучениях, а убийца, кажется, издевается над полицией, оставляя подсказки на месте очередного преступления. За дело берется судмедэксперт Кей Скарпетта. В ходе расследования она выдвигает шокирующую версию относительно личности злоумышленника. Права она или нет - покажет время, ведь Кей предстоит столкнуться с убийцей лицом к лицу…
Simon Shaw0.0 A black farce which won the Crime Writers' Association's "Last Laugh" award. Mark Harvey never really intended to kill his wife Maddie, but life had been playing cruel tricks on him recently. Left with an inconvenient corpse on his hands, he faces a dilemma.
Джонатан Гудман0.0 In this true crime reprint, Jonathan Goodman focuses his masterful detective skills on a criminal case that has inspired several novels, among them John O'Hara's Butterfield 8, which became a major feature film. The discovery of Starr Faithfull's body on a Long Island beach in 1931 prompted front-page headlines on both sides of the Atlantic as the events leading to her death unfolded: her clandestine, sordid love affairs (one with a former Boston mayor) and unconventional sex life; her misuse of drugs and bootleg alcohol; and details of her stepfather's unsavory business ventures, including his involvement in a murder investigation. Mindful of the still unanswered question of whether her death resulted from accident, suicide, or murder, Goodman attempts to demystify this enigmatic case. The only author granted full access to the massive police dossier, Goodman unveils through his meticulous research a startling yet credible conclusion. Chilling crime-scene photographs supplement the text.
Колин Декстер3.8 Тело Джоанны Франкс было найдено в Оксфордском канале в среду двадцать второго июня 1859 года. Тело инспектора Морса – ещё, впрочем, вполне живое – было доставлено для лечения язвы в больницу «Джон Редклиф» субботним утром 1989 года. Следователя и преступление разделяет более чем вековой отрезок времени, но Морсу смертельно скучно лежать целыми днями на койке, поэтому он берется за дело.
Desmond Lowden0.0 In the sleepy Cathedral town of Whycliffe nothing much ever happens.
Life at the private boys’ prep school that Joffrey attends seems equally uneventful - until one day on the street outside he sees blood running from the back of a white van.
But eleven-year-old Joffrey has few friends. He is also a notorious liar, so his tormentors know better than to believe his tall tale.
But what if he is right?
Unknown to Joffrey, the criminal underworld is hatching a plot to steal money-printing paper on its way to the Bank of England, right in the middle of sleepy Whycliffe.
It will be worth a fortune.
The most hardened criminal of them all, Haskell, is determined that the plan succeed, no matter what the cost.
And Joffrey is about to find himself dangerously on his own and caught up in the terrifying conspiracy...
And he will need to grow up fast if he is to stay alive.
'The Shadow Run' is a pulsating crime thriller that will keep readers hooked from the first page to the last.
'Tightly plotted and brilliantly written.' - Robert Foster, best-selling author of 'The Lunar Code'.
Desmond Lowden became a runner at Britain’s famous Pinewood film studios, working his way up to writing a screenplay for the great comic actor Terry-Thomas. It was the beginning of a career in writing that saw him pen countless plays, screenplays and books. His novels include the thrillers ‘Sunspot’, ‘The Chain’, ‘Cry Havoc’ and – most famously –‘Bellman & True’, which was made into an acclaimed crime movie by George Harrison’s Handmade Films in 1987.
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Annette Roome0.0 Following a bitter divorce and separation from her son, Julia finds herself broken and alone.
Soon, she starts receiving a series of anonymous and menacing letters urging her to find her missing son in Venice.
Despite the danger involved, Julia has no choice but to follow the taunting messages.
With her miserable days in La Rivière still looming over her, she ventures to Italy on a train.
But she can’t shake the feeling that the letters were written by someone she knows, someone playing an awful and dangerous game.
Meanwhile, Julia meets a handsome stranger on the train, but does she dare fall for him?
In the mystical and unfamiliar city of Venice, who can she trust?
The journey to Venice brings a new friendship, an old confrontation and, above all, danger. But there is also the hope of happiness, if Julia can fight her way out of the conspiracy around her…
Mike Ripley0.0 The London Stock Exchange can be a peculiar and dangerous place when financial reputations are at stake and no end of shocking scams and insider dealings are lurking under the surface. Enigmatic band leader Fitzroy Maclean Angel is drawn into this intrigue and puts his knowledge to work.
Robert Lindsey0.0 As he proved in The Falcon & the Snowman, Robert Lindsey is a masterful journalist with a genius for suspense & an unerring eye for provocative stories. A Gathering of Saints is an astonishing report on one of this century's most puzzling, cunningly executed crimes. 16 pages of photos.
Michael Dibdin0.0 Police Commissioner Aurelio Zen has crossed swords with the establishment before - and lost. From the depths of a mundane desk job in Rome he is unexpectedly transferred to Perugia to take over a kidnapping case involving one of Italy's most powerful families. Gold Dagger Award winner.
Сара Парецки2.3 Роман современной американской писательницы Сары Парецки "Смертельный удар" - детективное расследование деятельности чикагской промышленной мафия, блестяще проведенное женщиной-детективом Ви. Ай. Варшавски.
Janet Neel0.0 Winner of the Crime Writers' Association's John Creasey Award for best first crime novel in 1988, Janet Neel's Death's Bright Angel took the traditional English detective story and placed it in a realistic, often cut-throat, setting of modern business and government intervention. In doing so, she created an endearing pair of investigators - high-flying Department of Trade civil servant Francesca Wilson and CID Inspector John McLeish - whose relationship and romance was to flourish over the course of seven novels. Janet Neel qualified as a solicitor after taking a law degree at Cambridge. She moved into industrial relations with the Department of Trade and Industry and has been a director of several public companies, including the London Stock Exchange. From 1994 to 1999 she was a governor of the BBC and in 2000 received a life peerage. She sits in the House of Lords as Baroness Cohen of Pimlico and is an active organiser of the Parliament Choir. She lives in Cambridge and is the current Chairman of the Arts Theatre.
Nancy Livingston0.0 Mr Pringle is persuaded by Mavis Bignell to accompany her on a holiday to Australia, where he has promised to look for a friend's missing grandchild. He becomes caught up in international drug trafficking and nuclear waste disposal.
Бернард Вассерштейн0.0 Hungarian-Jewish thief, Anglican priest, social reformer, member of Parliament, crooked speculator, international spy, right-wing revolutionary - Lincoln was all of these, and more, in the course of his life. His motivation, identities and activities are discussed in this book.
Барбара Вайн3.7 В старинном английском поместье Уайвис-холл, на кладбище домашних животных найдены останки молодой женщины и грудного ребенка. Полиция начинает расследование, которое затрагивает события десятилетней давности. Известие о страшной находке попадает в газеты – и моментально лишает покоя нескольких благополучных и респектабельных людей. Все это время они пытались вырвать из памяти некоторые страницы своего прошлого, но сделать это оказалось невозможно. Их мысли невольно возвращаются в те далекие времена, когда в Уайвис-холл съехалась бесшабашная компания молодых людей, проматывающая наследство одного из них – Эдама Верн-Смита. И эти воспоминания будят призраков...
Скотт Туроу3.8 Прокурор Расти Сэбич завел служебный роман с хорошенькой помощницей Кэролайн.
Обычная связь?
Теперь Расти - подозреваемый номер один в деле об убийстве своей любовницы.
Против него - все: обстоятельства, улики, отсутствие алиби.
И единственный, кто в силах помочь ему доказать свою невиновность и найти истинного убийцу Кэролайн, - талантливый адвокат, умеющий совершать невозможное!
Читайте международный бестселлер, который лег в основу сценария одноименного голливудского блокбастера с Харрисоном Фордом, Брайаном Деннехи и Гретой Скакки в главных ролях.
Рут Ренделл3.6 Виктор Дженнер считает себя невинной жертвой обстоятельств. Это правда, что он изнасиловал несколько женщин, но разве можно винить человека в том, что он не может себя контролировать? А выстрел в полицейского, на всю жизнь приковавший того к инвалидному креслу – просто-напросто трагическая случайность. Он никому не желал зла. Разве справедливо, что из-за этого досадного случая ему пришлось провести десять лет в тюрьме?
Выйдя на свободу, Виктор оказался в незнакомом и равнодушном мире – ни друзей, ни работы, ни планов на будущее. Судьба вновь сводит преступника с жертвой: Виктор знакомится с искалеченным им полицейским и его прекрасной невестой. Встреча дает ему надежду на новую жизнь, но вместо этого становится причиной новой череды ошибок и трагедий…
Филлис Дороти Джеймс3.7 В ризнице церкви обнаружены два трупа. Убийство? В этом нет сомнений. Но что связывает жертв – нищего бродягу Харри Мака и ушедшего на покой политика Пола Бероуна?
Многоопытный детектив Адам Дэлглиш, ведущий расследование, убежден: мотивы преступления следует искать в ближайшем окружении Бероуна. Ведь никто из обитателей этого роскошного дома не может объяснить, что именно делал сэр Пол глухой ночью в старинной церкви.
Красавица вдова, ее респектабельный брат, аристократка-мать, молчаливый шофер – похоже, каждый из них хранит какую-то тайну.
Neville Steed0.0 “Steed's style warm and chatty, the pace bracing” - Kirkus Reviews
Peter Marklin, owner of a Toy Emporium, finds his quiet life harshly interrupted when a collection of antique toys, worth over £20,000, is stolen. Faced with threats from their owner, he sets out to recover them but finds himself up against far more than the greed of unscrupulous collectors.
He’s in way over his head but at least the prospect of a countryside dig to excavate the remains of a crashed Spitfire can provide a little solace. Yet even this isn’t easy, and a growing resistance to the dig is being led by a local, indignant landlord.
When rather more than the plane and its pilot are unearthed, Marklin finds himself up to his neck in skeletons from the past — skeletons that lead to attempts on his life …
Tinplate is a classic mystery story from as master of the genre.
Winner of the Crime Writers’ Association John Creasy Memorial Award, 1987.
Neville Steed is the pseudonym of Norman Keith Sharam. He worked in advertising before setting up his own advertising agency. After six years he sold the business to become a novelist. He lives in Devon. Tin Plate is the first book in the Peter Marklin mystery series.
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John Bryson0.0 The story of the mysterious death of nine-week-old Azaria Chamberlain near Ayers Rock in 1980. While Azaria's mother claimed a dingo had taken her baby, she was widely disbelieved. The Chamberlains were Seventh-Day Adventists, and there were rumours that Azaria meant "Sacrifice in the Desert".
Paula Gosling0.0 Lieutenant Jack Stryker confronts a most frustrating case when Grantham University's most unpopular professor is murdered and more than one person will benefit from his bizarre death.
Dorothy Simpson0.0 While Alicia was a schoolgirl a jilted boyfriend had killed himself, and her parents had moved from Kent. When she turns up after twenty years she is welcomed back although nobody knows why she has returned. Within hours Inspector Thanet has to investigate her murder.
Роберт Ричардсон3.9 Кража редкой Библии XVI века, исчезновение лондонской актрисы, отсеченная человеческая рука, приколоченная к входной двери дома каноника, — во всем этом предстоит разобраться профессиональному драматургу, детективу-любителю Огастасу Мальтрейверсу. «Милосердие Латимера» — превосходный дебют писателя.
B.M. Gill0.0 As the jury deliberates the case against TV personality Edward Carne, on trial for his wife's murder, the accused man's fate lies with the twelfth juror, Robert Quinn, who has a deeply emotional interest in the outcome.
Рут Ренделл3.7 Детективы сделали Рут Ренделл знаменитой. Первую книгу она выпустила в 1964 году. Теперь Ренделл - лауреат десяти литературных премий, трижды лауреат престижной премии "Эдгар", а в 1976 году ей была присуждена премия "Золотая шпора" за выдающийся вклад в жанр психологического детектива.
Действие романа происходит в 80-е годы. Бежавшего из неблагополучной семьи ребенка подбирает на улице женщина. Она приводит мальчика к своей дочери, недавно лишившейся сына... Это история о том, как один неверный шаг может повлечь за собой целый ряд невероятных событий, взорвав привычное течение жизни обычных людей.
Элизабет Айронсайд0.0 A senior diplomat at the British High Commission in Delhi is found stabbed. When a security officer from the foreign office is sent from London to investigate, he soon finds that there is more to this murder than first imagined. The diplomat was involved in some decidely undiplomatic activities.
David A. Yallop0.0 'In God's Name' was denounced by the Vatican yet became an award-winning international bestseller. In this new edition, Yallop brings the story up to date and reveals new evidence that has been long buried concerning the truth behind the Vatican cover-up. This is a classic work of investigative writing whose revelations will continue to reverberate around the world.
John Hutton0.0 The murder investigation had nothing to do with Conrad. He was a model citizen, even a rather important one. He had, however, been under considerable strain recently: there was the uncertainty about his future, and his relationship with Stephanie, his wife, was not quite what it had once been.
Perhaps that explained why he had lied to the police. It had been such a small untruth, a simple dodge to escape the roadblock across the desolate moorlands where a girl's raped and mutilated body had been found. But it was to have a devastating effect on Conrad's life.
"A compelling novel. John Hutton uses crime to explore the complexities of human personality and the dangerous pitfalls of self-delusion. His psychology is impeccable, his writing sharp and often wryly comic, and his central character hauntingly believable." (B-O-T Editorial Review Board)
Уильям Макилванни0.0 The dying words of an alcoholic tramp set Jack Laidlaw onto the trail of a certain Tony Veitch, a young Glasgow student who he discovers has been missing for several days. This book is the sequel to Laidlaw and was the winner of the Crime Writers' Association Silver Dagger Award.
Эрик Райт0.0 It is a particularly puzzling murder case that Inspector Charlie Salter of the Metropolitan Toronto Police is assigned to solve: Professor David Summers has been found dead in his Montreal hotel room while attending a conference. The only tangible clues are a lipstick-marked glass and the whisky bottle that was used to crush Summer's skull - clues so banal that they present a challenge in themselves. This is #1 in Inspector Charlie Salter Series.
Peter Lovesey4.0 The year is 1921. A passionate affair between a romantic woman and her dentist has led to his wife's murder. The lovers take flight aboard the Mauretania and the dentist takes the name of Inspector Dew, the detective who arrested the notorious Dr. Crippen. But, in a disquieting twist, when a murder occurs aboard ship the captain invites "Inspector Dew" to nvestigate. This ingeniously plotted mystery won Lovesey the CWA Gold Dagger
Сильвия Тереза Хеймон0.0 In the cathedral of Angleby, in Norfolk, England, a choirboy lies dead, murdered and mutilated. Detective Inspector Benjamin Jurnet is in charge of the case and fears the killer may not be found quickly and that anti-Jewish feeling may arise to cause difficulties. He sets out to discover the truth--and the murderer.
Andrew Taylor0.0 A medieval script launches a modern treasure
hunt lightly dusted with black humor...
William Dougal is a postgraduate student of history with expensive tastes and low moral fibre. He is the sort who is as likely to commit murders as to solve them. Thus it is that when he stumbles on the garotted corpse of his detested tutor, he doesn't call the police. Instead, he slips away, intent on avoiding a row with his girlfriend. Naturally, his actions don't go undetected. Enter the suave James Hanbury with the reminder that the dead man was an authority on Caroline Minuscule, a Medieval script that may convey a very modern message. Douglas is pushed into--or rather drives his Morris Mini onto--a slippery slope which leads toward a cache of diamonds--and more murders....
""In William Dougal, Andrew Taylor has created one of the most attractive amateur detectives in fiction.""--Harriet Waugh, The Spectator.
And so his 1982 debut, the first of eight Dougal capers, won the John Creasey (Best First Novel) Award from the Crime Writers Association and was shortlisted for the 1983 Edgar Allan Poe Award.
Мартин Круз Смит3.6 В Парке Горького найдены три изуродованных трупа. За расследование берется молодой следователь
Аркадий Ренко. Он выясняет - здесь замешаны американские граждане с большими финансовыми возможностями. К делу подключается КГБ. Вскоре Ренко понимает - высокопоставленные чиновники делают все, чтобы препятствовать раскрытию преступления...
Колин Декстер4.1 The Dead of Jericho is Colin Dexter's fifth outing featuring the popular detective, Inspector Morse. <br> Morse switched on the gramophone to 'play', and sought to switch his mind away from all the terrestrial troubles. Sometimes, this way, he almost managed to forget. But not tonight...<br> Anne Scott's address was scribbled on a crumpled note in the pocket of Morse's smartest suit. <br> He turned the corner of Canal Street, Jericho, on the afternoon of Wednesday, 3rd October. <br> He hadn't planned a second visit. But he was back later the same day - as the officer in charge of a suicide investigation...
James Leigh0.0 Award-winning thriller. Over 500 young men are dying violently every year, an insurance conglomerate is losing millions, yet the world suspects nothing. How and why is it being committed? An investigator follows the trail to the Grand Canyon and finds he himself may have to become Ludi Victor IV - the ultimate Victor of The Game.
Илан Ставанс, Хакобо Тимерман0.0 The bestselling, classic personal chronicle of the Argentine publisher's ordeal at the hands of the Argentine government--imprisoned and tortured as a dissenter and as a Jew--that aroused the conscience of the world.
Jacobo Timerman (1923-1999) was born in the Ukraine, moved with his family to Argentina in 1928, and was deported to Israel in 1980. He returned to Argentina in 1984. Founder of two Argentine weekly news magazines in the 1960s and a commentator on radio and television, he was best-known as the publisher and editor of the newspaper La Opinión from 1971 until his arrest in 1977. An outspoken champion of human rights and freedom of the press, he criticized all repressive governments and organizations, regardless of their political ideologies. His other books include The Longest War: Israel in Lebanon, Cuba: A Journey, and Chile: A Death in the South.
The Americas, Ilan Stavans, Series Editor
Winner of a 1982 Los Angeles Times Book Prize
Selected by the New York Times for "Books of the Century"
With a new introduction by Ilan Stavans and a new foreword by Arthur Miller.
Генри Реймонд Фитцвальтер Китинг0.0 A princely state in India, 1930, under the British Raj. To Bhopore and its opulent Summer Palace comes a handful of Western visitors to meet the outrageous Maharajah and his entourage. There they met the Maharajah's heir, the sensual Porgy, and his English chorus-girl mistress. They meet the enigmatic chief minister--and the aloof British Resident, with his dignified little nine-year-old son. And before long they also meet sudden death....Various people in the Palace become suspects, and an imperturbable District Superintendent of Police is called in. But who will he find guilty of the murder of the Maharajah?
Эллис Питерс4.2 Очередной детектив из серии о брате Кадфаэле. Хроника третья. Роман переносит читателя в Англию XII столетия, в Бенедиктинский монастырь, где живет немолодой уже монах, многое повидавший на своем веку. Но жизнь преподносит загадки, и брат Кадфаэль снова и снова расследует самые странные и запутанные преступления.
Liza Cody0.0 Anna quit the London police force because it was a dead end for women, but her job with Brierly Security isn?t a whole lot livelier. Her boss doesn?t much approve of female investigators and her assignments tend toward the frustratingly genteel. The Jackson case doesn?t look like a big improvement. Ambitious, unpleasant young Deirdre Jackson has died, the apparent victim of a car accident on a lonely stretch of highway, and her parents want to know what their black-sheep daughter was up to in her last few months. Anna's job, she knows, is to ask a few questions, write a report, and collect the Jacksons? check. But the more questions she asks about Dee's life, the more questions arise about her death. Answering them could land Anna in the hospital . . . or the morgue. But it could also be her ticket out of the pink-collar ghetto.
Энтони Саммерс0.0 Conspiracy (on the John F. Kennedy assassination, '80, reissued as Not in Your Lifetime, '98), "Deserves to be read & taken seriously by all those who care about truth or justice." Prof. Robert Blakey, former Chief Counsel of the House Select Committee on Assassination.
Writing about the assassination of John F. Kennedy, Summers rejected the findings of the Warren Commission, claiming that Kennedy was killed by a right-wing conspiracy that could have included major organized crime figures, such as Johnny Roselli, Carlos Marcello, Santos Trafficante & Sam Giancana. Other figures possibly involved included David Ferrie, Gerry Patrick Hemming, Guy Bannister & E. Howard Hunt.
Дик Фрэнсис4.0 Сил Холли, получив тяжелую травму, вынужден сменить карьеру жокея на работу частного детектива. По поручению Жокейского Клуба он начинает расследование загадочных проигрышей и смертей лошадей-фаворитов из конюшни Джорджа Каспара, тренера с безупречной репутацией.
С первых шагов Сил ощущает противодействие и давление. Слишком значительные фигуры замешаны в скандал, слишком большие деньги брошены под копыта скаковых лошадей. Холли оказывается перед выбором: продолжать следствие и рисковать своей жизнью или отказаться от него, но навсегда потерять уважение к себе.
Колин Декстер4.1 Инспектор Морс мог бы провести отпуск в Греции вместо того, чтобы расследовать дело, признанное его коллегами безнадежным. Но уж больно его заинтересовало убийство помощника викария – тем более, что он видит здесь двойное убийство, ибо смерть самого викария, считающаяся самоубийством, может таковым вовсе не быть. И чем глубже Морс погружается в тайны благочестивых прихожан, тем больше растет список жертв...
David Serafin0.0 Investigative journalist Raul Santos plummets to his death from his 8th- floor Madrid flat. Did he jump, fall or was he pushed? A second body found in very gruesome circumstances adds to the workload of Superintendent Luis Bernal, who already has to cope with his pious wife and her appalling cooking, a demanding but loving young mistress, the suspicions of his political masters (who turn out to have very political ambitions) and the introduction of Spain's first female detective to his elite squad. Is there a secret police spying on the police? And just who in authority can be trusted? For this is Spain in "The Transition" (1975-1982) the period of national uncertainty between the end of decades of Fascism and the establishment of parliamentary democracy. With Government ministries and agencies concentrating on fighting each other for power in the new state, it soon becomes clear that political plotting takes precedence over mere murder enquiries. And one spectacular plot is about to come to fruition on Easter Saturday (Sabado Santo) at the tomb of the recently deceased General Franco.
Written during the years of "The Transition" by Oxford professor Ian David Lewis Michael under the pen-name David Serafin, this first novel to feature Luis Bernal was an critical success in Britain, America and Spain, where the Bernal books are also being republished. Saturday of Glory won the 1979 Crime Writers' Association's John Creasey Award for best first novel.
Lionel Davidson0.0 The Chelsea Murders (1978) was Lionel Davidson's seventh novel, earning him the Crime Writer's Association Gold Dagger Award and prompting the Daily Telegraph to declare, 'Lionel Davidson is one of the best and most versatile thriller writers we have.'
A terrifying, grotesque figure bursts into a young art student's room. Head covered with a clown's wig, face concealed by a smiling mask, it wears the rubber gloves of a surgeon. The girl is seized, chloroformed, suffocated and - horrifyingly - beheaded. This is only the beginning of a series of murders terrorising London's fashionable bohemia. The police target three avant-garde filmmakers. One of them is mocking the other two, and openly taunting the police as well. But which of them is behind these appalling crimes?
Fast paced, terrifying and gripping, this is a page-turning thriller from a master.
Peter Lovesey0.0 By her own confession, Miriam Cromer is a murderess. She is sentenced to death and the hangman travels to London to earn his fee. Then the Home Office is sent a photograph that casts doubt on the confession. The matter must be investigated, and fast. Sergeant Cribb is called in and his investigations produce nothing to ease the minds of the authorities. As he plunges deeper into the relationships and history of the small group connected with the murder, he becomes increasingly suspicious that something very different happened at Park Lodge, Kew Green, on 12th March, 1888.
Audrey Williamson0.0 This standard text gathers together in an accessible fashion an immense amount of historical material and new research on Richard III's alleged murder of his two nephews.
Джон Ле Карре4.2 Этой книгой Джон Ле Карре, признанный мастер "шпионского романа", подтвердил свою репутацию классика интеллектуального детектива. Триумф майора Смайли - поимка "крота", внедренного в руководство Интеллидженс сервис, - оборачивается новой проблемой. Высокопоставленный двойной агент оказывается лишь прикрытием занимающего еще более важное положение, а потому намного более опасного советского шпиона. Расследование заходит в тупик, и Смайли приходится просить о помощи находящегося в отставке своего лучшего сотрудника, прозванного за ум и сообразительность Достопочтенным Школяром.
Уильям Макилванни0.0 The unorthodox, complex, sardonically humorous, intriguing policeman Jack Laidlaw makes his debut in an engrossing tale of murder. In Glasgow, the city with the worst slums in Europe, a city of hard men, powerful villains, bitter victims and cynical policemen, Laidlaw uses unconventional methods.
Jonathan Gash0.0 Lovejoy knows that the legendary Judas Pair of flintlock pistols are just that--a legend. Or are they? By the time he finds out the truth, two people are dead, and Lovejoy has to pull a nifty scam to avoid the same fate. First in the Lovejoy series.
Рут Ренделл3.4 Ученый-психиатр Антони Джонсон думает, что знает о предмете своих исследований если не все, то очень многое. Он уверен, что душевнобольных, в силу особенностей их поступков, образа поведения и даже внешних черт, легко отличить от нормальных людей. По крайней мере, специалист всегда признает своего «пациента». Но подчас реальность вносит свои коррективы в сухую теорию. Антони и в голову не могло прийти, что его сосед по дому – немного нервный, но крайне приличный человек, всегда готовый оказать дружескую помощь, – психопат-маньяк, известный по полицейским хроникам как Кенборнский убийца. И что совсем скоро их пути пересекутся самым неожиданным образом…
James McClure0.0 Wolraad Steyn, his palms sweating, clasped and unclasped the hand that would plunge the dagger. His father noticed this and frowned. They were standing apart from the other dark-suited and solemn men gathered there in that farmhouse....
He who betrays the Brotherhood
will be destroyed by the Brotherhood!
The Brotherhood never forgets!
Its vengeance is swift and sure!
Never has a traitor escaped
his just punishment!
High in the mountains of LEsotho an elite secret organisation plots a terrorist outrage that could throw South Africa into political turmoil.
Патрик Александер3.8 Да-да. Это тот самый Жосс Бомон, которого великолепно сыграл неподражаемый Бельмондо в фильме `Профессионал`, на ночной сеанс которого мы бегали с однокурсницей десять лет назад, и потом с трудом доставали щемящую музыку Морриконе, под которую украдкой утирали слёзы, топчась к выходу из кинотеатра.
История эта настолько окружена ореолом страстной нежности на фоне хитроумных комбинаций непревзойденного спецагента, что может взять за живое даже неромантизированное молодое поколение. Это тот случай, когда внутреннее переживание о том, прервется ли ниточка жизни одного единственного человека, неизмеримо превышает эффект, производимый от гибели двух дивизий в тридцатисекундный промежуток времени современного американского боевика.
Николас Мейер3.7 Неопубликованные записки доктора Джона Ватсона, которые он разрешил напечатать только после своей смерти.
Беспристрастный рассказ о том, что же на самом деле случилось с гениальным сыщиком Шерлоком Холмсом после поединка с профессором Мориарти в Швейцарских Альпах.
Ф. Д. Джеймс3.7 Смерть провинциального священника Брэддли выглядит вполне естественно… но опытный детектив Адам Дэлглиш подозревает, что это — убийство. Однако кому и зачем понадобилось лишать жизни пожилого человека?
Вскоре Дэлглиш приходит к шокирующему выводу: убийство его друга — лишь звено в цепи загадочных смертей, к которым причастен безжалостный убийца…
Sara George0.0 Stated First American edition bound in blue cloth and purple boards. A VG+ copy in a VG+ dust jacket. Slight spine lean. Former owner's name stamp on the front endpaper. The dust jacket's inner flaps have creases.
