Deborah Crombie4.0 It is the call Scotland Yard Superintendent Duncan Kincaid never expected — and one he certainly doesn't want. Victoria, his ex-wife, who walked out without an explanation more than a decade ago, asks him to look into the suicide of local poet, Lydia Brooke — a case that's been officially closed for five years. The troubled young writer's death, Victoria claims, might well have been murder.
No one is more surprised than Kincaid himself when he agrees to investigate — not even his partner and lover, Sergeant Gemma James. But it's a second death that raises the stakes and plunges Kincaid and James into a labyrinth of dark lies and lethal secrets that stretches all the way back through the twentieth century — a death that most assuredly is murder, one that has altered Duncan Kincaid's world forever.
Пенни Уорнер4.5 Thirty-seven year old journalist, Connor Westphal, has relocated from San Francisco to Flat Skunk, a mining-turned-tourist town in the foothills of the Sierras, to start up her own weekly paper. Suddenly, dead bodies begin turning up in the most unusual places, setting Connor on a hunt for a killer. You might say Connor has a sixth sense when it comes to investigating...but she only has four of the usual five senses. Connor Westphal is deaf. But being hearing impaired doesn't stop Connor from pursuing the murderer. Without sound to distract her, she attends to subtleties that others overlook and ultimately unravels the mystery.
Питер Робинсон4.3 Иногда даже в самом тихом омуте случаются экстраординарные события, вот и для маленькой йоркширской деревушки таким событием стала загадочная история о двух дамах из Розового коттеджа. Эту историю услышал и пятнадцатилетний, на то время, мальчик, который мечтал стать писателем, со временем она начала стираться из его памяти, но через многие годы он все-таки получил все ответы.
Peter Lovesey4.1 A rare stamp and a corpse are discovered in Bath within hours of each other. As he investigates, Inspector Peter Diamond discovers that both the person who found the stamp and the victim belong to the Bloodhounds, an elite group of mystery lovers, who now urge Diamond to bring the murderer to justice. But there’s a hitch: the body lies inside a padlocked houseboat and the only key is in the pocket of a man with an airtight alibi
Dale Furutani0.0 It's Ken Tanaka's turn to stage a mock mystery for the Los Angeles Mystery Club and he's determined to do it right. Tanaka sets himself up as a fake P.I., office and all, only to have a femme fatale straight out of the movies try to hire him. Taking the case on a whim, Ken's detecting leads him to a mutilated corpse in a Little Tokyo hotel room.
Мэри Уиллис Уокер5.0 For forty-six days, bus driver Walter Demming and eleven schoolchildren have been buried underground, held captive in the fortified compound of a fundamentalist cult. Deprived of daylight, fresh air and contact with the outside world, they endure the terrifying rants of the cult's leader, the charismatic Samuel Mordecai. He joyfully predicts the arrival of Armageddon - in exactly five days' time.
All attempts at negotiations have failed. Enter tenacious crime reporter Molly Cates, the only journalist ever to have interviewed Mordecai. It was the worst assignment of her life - until this one. She has gained his trust before, and she must try again. But this time the stakes are impossibly high. And she has just five days...
Шэрин Маккрамб4.0 She Walks These Hills is another excellent book in the Appalachian series by Sharyn McCrumb. She again combines two stories - one in the present and one in the past along with a pinch of a ghost story, culminating in an overall satisfying novel.
Jeff Abbott4.0 The debut of a devilishly funny new mystery series set in the South--brimming with scandals, slaughter, and sassy down-home wit. Jordan Poteet returns to his small East Texas hometown to care for his ailing mother, only to find himself confronted by family skeletons . . . and a murdered man in the local library.
Дин Джеймс, Jean Swanson0.0 Mystery readers turn to this reference for its clear, concise profiles of women writers and their best-known books, mystery heroines and leading characters, pen names, writing styles and more. This revised and updated edition features profiles of Lilian Jackson Braun, Mary Higgins Clark, P.D. James, and other gifted writers--plus 70 new entries including Carol Higgins Clark, Susan Isaacs and Carol O'Connell.
Майнет Уолтерс4.0 Обстоятельства дела казались простыми: Олив Мартин призналась в убийстве своей сестры и матери. В тюрьме она получила леденящее кровь прозвище "Скульпторша".
Вот и все, что было известно журналистке Розалинде Лей, когда она отправилась на первое свидание с Олив, отбывающей пожизненный срок в заключении. Могла ли Роз предвидеть, что эта встреча навсегда изменит ее жизнь?
Шэран Ньюман4.0 Средневековая Франция... Рыцарские турниры, на которых беззаботно развлекается парижская знать, размеренный быт ремесленников и торговцев, приглушенный шепот молитв и едва различимый шелест одежд обитателей монастырей... Но не все так спокойно и мирно в жизни добропорядочных горожан. Словно из темной преисподней стремительно восстает и врывается в их судьбы неведомая сила зла и скверны, сеющая смерть и страдания, насаждающая богохульство и порок. Кто он, этот носитель черных помыслов и коварных планов, осмелившийся извратить Священное Писание?
Ларри Сегрифф, Эд Горман, Мартин Гринберг0.0 As told from the viewpoints of the writer, editor, and critic, Robert Bloch, Lawrence Block, Charlotte MacLeod, Margaret Maron, Bill Pronzini, and others present an inside look at the world of mystery fiction. Overview covers everything from psychological suspense to PI novels to traditional mysteries. Over 300 illus.
Маргарет Марон2.9 Судья и следователь Дебора Нотт, герой бестселлеров Маргарет Марон, стала одним из самых любимых персонажей современной детективной прозы.
Адвокат Дебора Нотт совершает немыслимое, включаясь в гонку за место окружного судьи в округе Коллтон, где царят пережитки патриархата. Неожиданно дочь Дженни Уайтхед просит Дебору расследовать убийство матери, совершенное восемнадцать лет назад и оставшееся нераскрытым. Дебора принимается за дело, раскапывает опасные старые тайны... и кто-то пытается поставить точку в ее будущем - политическом и не только. Однако напугать и сбить со следа эту упорную женщину не так то просто...
Барбара Нили2.0 Barbara Neely’s Smart, Sassy and Groundbreaking Crime Novel
Blanche White is a plump, feisty, middle-aged African-American housekeeper working for the genteel rich in North Carolina. But when an employer stiffs her, and her checks bounce, she goes on the lam, hiding out as a maid for a wealthy family at their summer home. That plan goes awry when there’s a murder and Blanche becomes the prime suspect. So she’s forced to use her savvy, her sharp wit, and her old-girl network of domestic workers to discover the truth and save her own skin. Along the way, she lays bare the quirks of southern society with humor, irony, and a biting commentary that makes her one of the most memorable and original characters ever to appear in mystery fiction.
Nancy Pickard0.0 Pickard's sixth Jenny Cain mystery and first Pocket Books hardcover, Bum Steer, was widely acclaimed by critics and readers alike. Now, in I.O.U., Jenny explores her own family's unsettling, mysterious past, beginning with her mother's death--was it murder?
Сью Генри0.0 The winner of Alaska's world-famous Iditarod -- a grueling, eleven-hundred-mile dog sled race across a frigid Arctic wilderness---takes home a $250,000 purse.
But this year, the prize is survival.
Only the toughest and the most able come to compete in this annual torturous test of endurance, skill, and courage. Now, suddenly and inexplicably, the top Iditarod contestants are dying one by one in bizarre and gruesome ways. Jessie Arnold, Alaska's premier female "musher," fears she may be the next intended victim, but nothing is going to prevent her from aggressively pursuing the glory and the rewards that victory brings.
Dedicated State Trooper Alex Jensen is determined to track down the murderer before more innocent blood stains the pristine Alaskan snow. But Jensen's hunt is leading him into the frozen heart of the perilous wild that Jessie Arnold knows so well -- a merciless place far from any vestige of civilization, where nature can kill as fast as a bullet...and only the Arctic night can hear your final screams.
Mary Willis Walker0.0 Dog trainer Katherine Driscoll's father has written to her offering help in her financial crisis, although they haven't been together since she was a baby. But then he gets killed by a tiger and Katherine resolves to investigate and uncover long-hidden family secrets.
Тони Хиллерман, Ernie Bulow0.0 Hillerman discusses the craft of mystery writing, his approach to plot, characterization, and setting, and the wrinkles and twists that make his brand of fiction unique.
Шэрин Маккрамб0.0 Sheriff Spencer Arrowood keeps the peace in his small Tennessee town most of the time. Every once in a while, though, something goes wrong.
When 1960s folksinger Peggy Muryan moves to town seeking solitude and a career comeback, and she receives a postcard with a threatening message, her idyll is shattered. Then a local girl who looks like Peggy vanishes without a trace.
Although she was once famous, Peggy has no fondness for the old times. Those days are best left forgotten for Spencer Arrowood, too. But sometimes the past can't rest, and those who try to forget it are doomed to relive it...
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…
Джиллиан Гилл4.0 In this sensitive and revealing biography of Agatha Christie, Gillian Gill probes the mysterious private life and motivations of one of the bestselling authors of all time.
Carolyn Hart0.0 What better place for a murder than a college campus? When Annie Laurance teaches a course on the three great ladies of mystery--Christie, Mary Roberts Rinehart, and Dorothy Sayers--she quickly learns that murder is a subject most academic!
Джилл Черчилль0.0 It's So hard to Kill Good Help These Days. . .With three kids to raise on her own, Jane Jeffry sometimes needs a hand with the housework. But many of her complaining neighbors believe that the Happy Helper cleaning lady they all share wouldn't know a dustball if she was choking on it. That hardly seems reason enough, however, to do the disreputable domestic in.
So when the charwoman in question is discovered strangled to death with a vacuum cleaner cord, Jane decides to dig up the real dirt--if the tenacious single mom can find any time to spare between her PTA meetings and car-pooling duties. But despite her busy schedule, Jane is determined to tidy up the whole murderous mess--even if it means provoking a killer who may live as close as next door.
Генри Реймонд Фитцвальтер Китинг0.0 Keating succeeds in entertaining mystery buffs by gathering hundreds of facts and foibles from the world of crime writing. He features 20 great crooks, providing a run-down of great crimes in boarding schools, a catalogue of parodies and pastiches, a look at murders on trains, and a compendium of embarrassing mistakes.
Tony Hillerman4.8 At a moonlit Indian ruin—where "thieves of time" ravage sacred ground in the name of profit—a noted anthropologist vanishes while on the verge of making a startling, history-altering discovery. At an ancient burial site, amid stolen goods and desecrated bones, two corpses are discovered, shot by bullets fitting the gun of the missing scientist.
There are modern mysteries buried in despoiled ancient places. And as blood flows all too freely, Navajo Tribal Policemen Joe Leaphorn and Jim Chee must plunge into the past to unearth an astonishing truth and a cold-hearted killer.
Кэролайн Грэм4.0 Первая книга из серии детективных романов, посвященных расследованиям инспектора Барнаби, которые легли в основу знаменитого телесериала "Чисто английские убийства".
Кэролайн Грэм - пожалуй, единственный классик английского детектива нового времени, почти не известный российским читателям. Между тем именно ее называют в Англии прямой литературной наследницей Агаты Кристи и именно по ее романам снимается один из самых популярных в Великобритании и в России детективных телесериалов "Midsomer Murders" ("Чисто английские убийства"), который не сходит с телеэкранов уже восемнадцать сезонов.
Бэджерс-Дрифт производит впечатление образцовой английской деревушки - уютной и спокойной. Когда мисс Эмили Симпсон отправляется, как обычно, пройтись по лесу, она и предположить не может, что эта прогулка станет для нее последней.
Смерть пожилой леди выглядит совершенно естественной, однако старший инспектор Барнаби все же начинает расследование. И чем глубже он погружается во внешне благополучную деревенскую жизнь, тем яснее становится, что это безмятежное место хранит немало опасных тайн.
За эту книгу автор была удостоена престижной литературной премии "Macavity Awards" в номинации "Лучший детектив года".
Очень увлекательный детектив, пронизанный остроумием, словно солнечными лучами… не пропустите эту книгу.
Family Circle
Кэролайн Грэм обладает талантом изображать своих самобытных героев как живых и вместе с тем нагнетать страх и перемежать его юмором, и все это кружится в умопомрачительной пляске смерти.
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Nancy Pickard0.0 When Jenny Cain's future husband, policeman Geof Bushfield becomes disillusioned by all the domestic violence occuring in Port Frederick between husbands and wives, it is up to Jenny to help Geof find the answer.
Роберт Крейс3.7 Частный детектив Элвис Коул, ветеран вьетнамской войны, собирает фигурки сверчка Джимини Крикета и плакаты из мультиков Диснея. И хотя Элвис решил для себя, что не стоит становиться взрослым, он носит при себе "дэн-вессон" тридцать восьмого калибра и может вырубить любого, сжав в кулаке банковскую упаковку пятинентовиков. Его напарник, Джо Пайк, бывший спецназовец и полицейский, уволенный за превышение полномочий, готов в любой заварушке до последнею стоять плечом к плечу рядом с Элвисом. Тем более в тот момент, когда им противостоит наркомафия, похитившая ни в чем не повинного мальчугана.
Роберт Крейс - автор сериала об Элвисе Коулс, самом популярном частном детективе последнего десятилетия. Его книги продолжают печататься и перепечатываться огромными тиражами, они получали премии Энтони и Эдгара По, номинировались на многие другие престижные премии и не раз удостаивались титула "Лучшая книга года".
Bill Pronzini0.0 The prolific Pronzini not only writes a lot of mysteries (The Nameless Detective series), he obviously reads a lot of them toobut not all of what he reads is good. His 1982 Gun in Cheek was a wickedly humorous collection of unbelievable plots, poor characterization, unlikely language and just plain dumbness in his favorite genre; here he presents another collection, subtitled "an affectionate guide to more of the 'worst' in mystery fiction." Some writers (Harry Stephen Keeler, Michael Avallone) are roasted at length, and some are sideswiped, including even fine writers experiencing temporary lapses (Ed McBain, Joseph Wambaugh). Not perhaps for the general reader, this volume should appeal to addicts who, like Pronzini, will apparently read anything labeled "mystery." Sex, pulp mags, B-movies and "The Alternative Hall of Fame" are featured in wittily titled chapters with a postmortem, bibliography and index.
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.
Faye Kellerman0.0 The quiet, ordered world of a yeshiva in the California hills is shattered when a woman is brutally raped as she returns from the mikvah, the bathhouse where women perform their cleansing ritual. Detective Peter Decker of the LAPD has never heard anything like it. And although most of the community refuses to talk to him, Rina Lazarus, the only witness, does, steering him through the maze of confusing religious laws that thwart his investigation at every turn. As the trail grows cold, Decker's only getting closer to Rina and not to the rapist--or is he? Maybe Rina wa the intended victim all along. And the rapist may not stop with rape the next time...
Мэрилин Уоллес0.0 Carrie Rayborn is a transplanted New Yorker, trying to start a new life as a painter in San Francisco's Bay Area with her 17-year-old daughter Tricia. She soon learns it isn't easy being both a freelance artist and a single mother, but trouble really starts when Tricia is arrested for car theft and accused of shooting a young man named Clifford Hawkins. Although Tricia admits she was high on marijuana and was in the car Hawkins was shot from, she denies murdering him. The authorities are skeptical, and it is left for police detectives Goldstein and Cruz to sort out the puzzle. Hawkins, they discover, was not only a sadistic bully and rapist, but was also part of a crypto-military group named Oneida, bent on terrorist acts. It looks as if Hawkins may have been assassinated by his fellow members, but there are a few surprises in store for the detectives. This first novel is notable for the warmth and sensitivity it displays toward its characters, placing it above the average.
Марсия Мюллер, Билл Пронзини 0.0 1001 Midnights; The Aficionado's Guide to Mystery and Detective Fiction, written by authors Bill Pronzini and Marcia Muller, is a reference book for anyone interested in the Mystery genre. The book is 879 pages of mystery authors - listed alphabetically and giving descriptions of the authors' characters, lives and plots. The books are broken down by code within the genre: i.e., Action and Adventure, Comedy, Classic Sleuths, Private Eyes, Thriller and many more. There is information preceded by an * for titles which are especially notable and ** for "cornerstone works in the field."
