Thomas H. Cook0.0 Book Description Eric Moore has reason to be happy. He has a prosperous business, a comfortable home, a stable family life in a quiet town. Then, on an ordinary night, his teenage son Keith is asked to babysit Amy Giordano, the eight-year-old
Джеймс Суэйн4.3 Рики Смит выпрыгивает с пятого этажа горящей гостиницы и остается в живых. Он играет в блэкджек и выигрывает двести тысяч. Играет в рулетку - кладет в карман четверть миллиона. Играет в кости - еще триста тысяч прибытку. Что стоит за этими выигрышами? А точнее, кто стоит за самым везучим игроком в мире? Разбираться с этим приходится, конечно же, Тони Валентайну - частному детективу, которому нет равных в разоблачении игорных мошенничеств. Но прежде...
Дон Уинслоу4.2 Полулатинос Арт Келлер, агент службы по борьбе с наркотиками, вырос в пригороде Сан-Диего и сам видел, как гибли от "травки" его друзья и родные. Готовя операцию по захвату могущественного мексиканского наркобарона, он совершает простительную для новичка ошибку - привлекает себе в помощники полицейского начальника дона Мигеля Барреру. Наркобарон побежден, но Баррера, воспользовавшись образовавшимся вакуумом власти, создает собственную организацию, еще более сильную и жестокую, чем только что уничтоженная. Келлер пытается исправить свой промах. Так начинается вендетта.
William Kent Krueger0.0 Back in the saddle as sheriff of Tamarack County, Cork O'Connor is lured to the nearby Ojibwe reservation on what appears to be a routine call -- only to become the target of sniper fire. Soon after, he's called to investigate a mutilated body found perched above the raging waters of Mercy Falls. The victim is Eddie Jacoby, a Chicago businessman negotiating an unpopular contract between his management firm and the local Indian casino. Sparks fly when the wealthy Jacoby family hires a beautiful private investigator to consult on the case. But once Cork discovers an old and passionate tie between one of the Jacoby sons and his own wife, Jo, he begins to suspect that dark, personal motives lurk behind recent events. Murder, greed, sex, and jealousy hide around every corner in this maze of danger. But somewhere beneath the turbulent Mercy Falls lies the truth -- and Cork is determined to find it....
Дэвид Розенфелт0.0 Book DescriptionFollowing the success of Bury the Lead, a Today show Book Club Pick selected by Janet Evanovich, David Rosenfelt delivers an exciting new mystery featuring Defense Attorney Andy Carpenter. Kenny Schilling is the new star running back
Стюарт Макбрайд4.0 На дне канавы найден обезображенный труп. Им оказался пропавший несколько месяцев назад четырехлетний Дэвид Рид. Сержант Логан Макрай начинает расследование. Ему необходимо как можно быстрее найти убийцу, так как исчезают дети, трупы множатся. Местные средства массовой информации жаждут крови. Сержант понимает что, он может оказаться следующим в списке жертв. Новый шедевр от обладателя премии «Золотой Кинжал» от Ассоциации детективных писателей Великобритании.
Брайан Фриман3.0 Бесследное исчезновение юной Рейчел потрясло маленький провинциальный городок.
Неужели она - новая жертва маньяка, год назад убившего другую девушку?
А может, Рейчел погибла от руки отчима - циничного и жестокого дельца, которого соседи подозревают в порочной страсти к девочкам-тинейджерам?
Пресса неистовствует.
Прокурор требует немедленно отыскать преступника.
Однако детектив Джонатан Страйд, расследующий дело, убежден: к исчезновению Рейчел причастны совсем другие люди.
Шаг за шагом он приближается к истине и распутывает клубок таких тайн, от которых кровь стынет в жилах даже у опытного полицейского...
How does a respectable young woman fall into Los Angeles' hard-boiled underworld?
Shadow-dodging through the glamorous world of 1950s Hollywood and its seedy flip side, Megan Abbott's debut, Die a Little, is a gem of the darkest hue. This ingenious twist on a classic noir tale tells the story of Lora King, a schoolteacher, and her brother Bill, a junior investigator with the district attorney's office. Lora's comfortable, suburban life is jarringly disrupted when Bill falls in love with a mysterious young woman named Alice Steele, a Hollywood wardrobe assistant with a murky past.
Made sisters by marriage but not by choice, the bond between Lora and Alice is marred by envy and mistrust. Spurred on by inconsistencies in Alice's personal history and possibly jealous of Alice's hold on her brother, Lora finds herself lured into the dark alleys and mean streets of seamy Los Angeles. Assuming the role of amateur detective, she uncovers a shadowy world of drugs, prostitution, and ultimately, murder.
Lora's fascination with Alice's "sins" increases in direct proportion to the escalation of her own relationship with Mike Standish, a charmingly amoral press agent who appears to know more about his old friend Alice than he reveals. The deeper Lora digs to uncover Alice's secrets, the more her own life begins to resemble Alice's sinister past -- and present.
Steeped in atmospheric suspense and voyeuristic appeal, Die a Little shines as a dark star among Hollywood lights.
Рэндалл Хикс0.0 A new attorney, Toby Dillon, hedges his bets by remaining the part-time tennis pro at the country club. Then his idyllic life changes when his two childhood friends, Brogan and Rita, Hollywood's glamour couple, ask his help in adopting a baby. The media's feel good story curdles into danger when the baby is kidnapped. When the expected ransom demand never arrives and the police turn up nothing, Toby and Brogan try to find answers on their own. First they think the baby's birth mother is responsible, but suddenly she's missing too, and their suspects start turning up dead. They soon learn there's more at stake than a kidnapping, and the answers may trace back to their shared childhood.
Дэвид Хосп0.0 Book DescriptionScott Finn, rising star at a Boston law firm, has worked hard to pull himself out of the Charlestown projects. When the body of his co-worker and old flame, Natalie Caldwell, floats to the surface of Boston Harbor, Finn is grief
Reed Farrel Coleman0.0 It’s 1983 and Reaganomics is in full swing. But beneath the facade of junk bonds and easy money, New York remains a gritty metropolis offering Nirvana with one hand and desolation with the other. Moe Prager, ex-NYPD cop turned reluctant P.I. is too busy reeling from a family tragedy to see what’s coming. He’s about to be sucked into a case that might deliver him what he’s always wanted or plunge him into purgatory.
Two years earlier, Moira Heaton, a young intern for an up-and-coming politico, vanished without a trace. Although there is no evidence supporting her boss’s involvement, rumors and whispers have conspired to stall his once-promising career. Now, in a last- ditch effort to clear his name, state senator Steven Brightman, with the clout of a wealthy backer, enlists Moe’s help. With twists and turns galore and Moe’s inimitable voice, The James Deans is an absorbing page- turner that will add to the burgeoning reputation of one of today’s most promising writers.
Charlie Huston0.0 Hank Thompson is living off the map in Mexico with a bagful of cash that the Russian mafia wants back and many, many secrets. So when a Russian backpacker shows up in town asking questions, Hank tries to play it cool. But he knows the jig is up when the backpacker mentions the money . . . and the family Hank left behind. Suddenly Hank’s in a desperate race to get to his parents in California before anyone can harm them. Along the way he’ll face Federales and Border Patrol, mafiosi and vigilantes, extortionists and drug dealers, and a couple of psychotic surf bums with an ax to grind. From the golden beaches of the Yucatán to the seedy strip clubs of Vegas, Charlie Huston opens a door to the squalid underworld of crime and corruption–and invites the reader to live it in the extreme.
Maureen Jennings3.0 After thirteen-year-old Agnes Fisher faints at school, her teacher, the young and still idealistic Amy Slade, is shocked to discover in the girl’s desk two stereoscopic photographs. One is of a dead baby in its cradle, and on the back Agnes has scrawled a terrible message. Worse, the other photograph is of Agnes in a pose captioned “What Mr. Newly Wed Really Wants.” When Agnes doesn’t show up at school the next day, her teacher takes the two photographs to the police. Murdoch, furious at the sexual exploitation of such a young girl, resolves to find the photographer – and to put him behind bars.
Night’s Child is the fifth novel in Maureen Jennings’s highly praised historical mystery series. Three of Jennings’s novels have been made into TV movies under the title Murder 19C: The Murdoch Mysteries. Bravo/CHUM is currently developing a series based on the character of Detective William Murdoch for broadcast in 2007.
Мэри Джейн Маффини0.0 Remembrance Day is a proud day for Camilla MacPhee's good friend, Mrs. Violet Parnell, one of five thousand Canadian women to go overseas during World War II. But the next day she has vanished. Camilla, with only a few letters and documents to guide her, follows her friend to Tuscany, chasing though historic towns, across high promontories and along steep mountain roads. Vanishing old partisans and Allied aircraft crash sites keep Camilla hopping as she tries to find Mrs. P. before someone with a deadly serious reason to keep the past hidden finds her first. The fifth Camilla MacPhee takes the irascible Ottawa lawyer's adventures to an exotic new locale, with the usual murderous results.
A KILLER WITH THE MOST CHILLING PEDIGREE OF ALL...
The Justice Department is hunting Sam Manelli, the godfather of one of America’s biggest crime families. Now an execution gone bad hands the government the ammunition they need. But they can’t do it without Dylan Devlin, the sociopathic hit man whose testimony will put Manelli away for good. Haunted by the crash that killed his wife and blinded his son, U.S. Marshal Winter Massey knows that safety is only an illusion. Now a man who couldn’t protect his own family has to keep a killer and his wife alive—at any cost.
But when the government’s witness protection program explodes in a horrifying hail of bullets and blood, Massey knows he’s up against a killer who can go anywhere, be anyone, and strike at any time. For Massey is about to be blindsided by an adversary more lethal than the mob, more dangerous than any psychopath—and he won’t see his killer coming…until it’s too late.
Джозеф Файндер3.6 Ник Коновер – генеральный директор крупной корпорации, вполне успешный бизнесмен, но в какой-то момент привычный уклад жизни начинает рушится. Умирает жена, и он остается с двумя детьми на руках. Его семье угрожает анонимный преступник, на работе он раскрывает заговор против себя и компании. Даже его новая пассия не вызывает у него доверия. К тому же возникает еще одна опасность в лице детектива убойного отдела, у которого есть личные основания для преследования Ника. Короче, кругом одни враги, но они и не подозревают, как далеко способен зайти Ник в защите своих интересов.
Джеймс Роллинс4.2 В Кельнском соборе во время праздничной службы происходит массовое убийство: все прихожане погибают мучительной смертью. Преступники, облаченные в монашеские рясы, похищают бесценную реликвию, хранившуюся в соборе с XII века, — кости библейских волхвов. Из Вашингтона для расследования преступления послана группа спецагентов секретной организации «Сигма» во главе с Греем Пирсом. Совместно с учеными Ватикана группе удается установить, что в убийстве и похищении замешан Имперский орден дракона — тайное братство алхимиков, корни которого уходят в глубь веков...
Vince Flynn5.0 For years, Mitch Rapp's bold actions have saved the lives of countless Americans. He has killed with impunity, tortured to avert disaster, and shown he will do whatever it takes to prevent terrorists from fulfilling their bloody wishes. His battles for peace and freedom have made him a hero to many, and an enemy to countless more. In the tangled, duplicitous world of espionage, there are those, even among America's allies, who want to see Mitch Rapp eliminated. They have decided the time has come.Now, the powerful father of a dead terrorist demands vengeance in its simplest form -- an eye for an eye, and Rapp instantly becomes the target of an international conspiracy. This time, he must use all of his vigilance and determination to save himself before he can turn his fury on those who have dared to betray him.
Мэтью Рейли0.0 An ancient secret...a team of heroes...the adventure of a lifetime.
A legend of the ancient world decrees that every 4,500 years, a terrible solar event will wreak worldwide destruction...but whoever sets the Golden Capstone atop the Great Pyramid at Giza will avert disaster and gain the ultimate prize: a millennium of world dominance.
Now the Sun is turning once again and nation will battle nation to retrieve the missing Capstone...but a group of small nations, led by super-soldier Jack West Jr., bands together to prevent any one country from attaining this frightening power. Thus the greatest treasure hunt of all time begins—an adrenaline-fueled race on a global battlefield.
Greg Rucka0.0 Only Greg Rucka, the thriller genre's most fearless writer, would dare create a spy so edgy, so explosive, so extreme, she should be rated X.
Tara Chace was once the most dangerous woman alive. And now that the international spy network thinks she's as good as dead, she's even more dangerous than ever.
Only one thing could coax Tara back into the game: a chance to vindicate herself. The torture and execution of Dina Malikov has set off a cutthroat grab for power in strategically crucial Uzbekistan. Tara's job is to slip into the country and extract Dina's pro-Western husband and their young son before they are murdered--by his ruthless sister.
But there are a couple of wild cards in the deck, including a missing mobile weapons system that can bring down a commercial airliner, not to mention powerful political careers. Now, as she vanishes into hostile territory with a man who may or may not be what he seems, Tara is going to find out that the war on terror is more terrifying than anyone knows. For in a battle where betrayal is a conventional weapon, loyalty is a weakness, and anyone--even a child--is a legitimate target: it's every spy, every woman, for herself.
Combine a thriller that defies every expectation with a heroine for whom nothing is out of bounds, and the result is Private Wars, a suspense novel so explosively realistic, it should be classified. "From the Hardcover edition."
Denise Mina0.0 Set in Glasgow in 1981, a time of hunger strikes, riots and unemployment that decimated the old industrial heartlands, The Field of Blood is the first in the tense Paddy Meehan series from Scotland's princess of crime, Denise Mina.
The vicious murder of a young child provides rookie journalist Paddy Meehan with her first big break when the suspect turns out to be her fiance's 11-year old cousin. Launching her own investigation into the horrific crime, Paddy uncovers lines of deception deep in Glasgow's past, with more horrific crimes in the future if she fails to solve the mystery.
Infused with Mina's unique blend of dark humor, personal insights and social injustice, the story grips the reader while challenging our perceptions of childhood innocence, crime and punishment, and right or wrong.
Арнальд Индридасон4.2 Арнальд Индридасон - один из самых известных и любимых в Европе исландцев. Поклонники жанра увлеченно наблюдают за необычными расследованиями Эрленда, полицейского детектива из Рейкьявика. ""Каменный мешок"" - продолжение нашумевшей ""Трясины"" - в 2005 году удостоен британской литературной премии ""Золотой кинжал"" как лучший криминальный роман. В пригороде Рейкьявика на строительном участке обнаружен полувековой давности скелет. Мысли Эрленда заняты тяжелым состоянием дочери, лежащей в больнице. Однако он считает, что убийство есть убийство, когда бы оно ни случилось, и методично собирает крошечные обрывки информации в осмысленную картину, извлекая из небытия печальные истории нескольких исландских семей в годы Второй мировой войны. И как незадачливый отец, и как талантливый следователь он выясняет, что темная сторона общества слишком медленно меняется к лучшему…
Саймон Керник3.8 Бывший полицейский Деннис Милн, обвиненный в преступлениях, которых не совершал, покинул страну и стал... наемным убийцей.
Узнав, что в Англии при загадочных обстоятельствах погиб его друг, Деннис решил вернуться и начать собственное расследование.
Против, него и бывшие коллеги, и продажные адвокаты, и могущественные "Короли криминального мира".
Но его не запугать.
Он сам - и следователь, и судья, и палач.
И остановить его может только смерть...
Ренни Айрт0.0 With the publication of the New York Times Notable Book River of Darkness, Rennie Airth established himself as a master of suspense. The Blood-Dimmed Tide, set in 1932, marks the return of the beloved Inspector John Madden, whose discovery of a young girl's mutilated corpse near his home in rural England brings him out of retirement despite his wife's misgivings. Soon he finds himself chasing a killer whose horrific crime could have implications far afield in a Europe threatened by the rise of Hitler. A riveting, atmospheric, multilayered mystery, this intense and intelligent tale more than delivers on the promise of Rennie Airth's first thriller.
Марк Биллингем3.2 Инспектор Том Торн в тяжелой депрессии после смерти отца, и его переводят на бумажную работу, чтобы не мешал в расследовании серьезных престкплений.
В Лондоне находят убитым уже второго бродягу, ночующего на улице. Полиция подозревает, что это дело рук серийного убийцы. Появление третьего трупа с такими же признакам насильственной смерти укрепляет в этом мнении. Но бездомные опасаются откровенничать с полицейскими, и тогда Торн, добившись разрешения начальства, под видом бродяги отправляется на улицу.
Торн знакомится с молодым наркоманом Торчком и его подругой Кэролайн, они вводят его в круг бездомных. Глядя изнутри на сложный мир бродяг, Торн смог распутать клубок преступлений и найти не только убийцу, но и заказчика.
