Mason is an enforcer, keeping magical practitioners on the straight and narrow. His 'dog' Louie, is a faithful familiar who's proven over and over that he's a practitioner's best friend. But this time, Louie's in the line of fire when practitioners in San Francisco accidentally unleash a monster into the world.
Nina Reilly takes on the most dangerous and difficult case of her career in New York Times bestselling author Perri O'Shaughnessy's latest thriller. An ingenious blend of forensic science, history, and gripping suspense, Unlucky in Law pits the tough but compassionate attorney against the most unbeatable adversary of all: the law.Nina has just received a last-minute call from her old boss and mentor in Monterey County, California, where she is enjoying the breathtaking scenery and spending time with her boyfriend, P.I. Paul van Wagoner. Klaus Pohlmann is in desperate straits and begs Nina to take over ...
Superintendent Adam Dalgliesh was looking forward to a quiet holiday at his aunt's cottage on Monksmere Head. There would be long walks, tea in front of the fire, and, best of all, no corpses. But he reckoned without the discovery of crime-writer Maurice Seton's mutilated body.
"No sign of foul play". So concludes Dr Carr's post-mortem on Agatha Dawson, and the case is closed. But Lord Peter Wimsey is not satisfied and, with no clues to work on, begins his own investigation. No clues, that is, until the sudden and senseless murder of Agatha's maid.
El “Asesinato del Mes” de repente adquiri? una dimensi?n muy violenta y… realCada mes, Real Murders, una asociaci?n de aficionados al crimen de Lawrenceton, Georgia, se re?ne para discutir sobre un asesinato famoso. Sus miembros son de lo m?s exc?ntrico: Gifford Doakes, el especialista en masacres; Jane Engle, amante de las historias de terror victorianas; Perry Allison, fan de Ted Bundy…Durante la noche de la ?ltima reuni?n, la bibliotecaria local, Aurora «Roe» Teagarden, descubri? el cuerpo mutilado de Mamie Wright en la cocina de la sede del club. Est? segura de que el asesino pertenece a la asociaci?n, ya que el crimen guarda un parecido escalofriante con el Asesinato del Mes.Y como quiera que despu?s tuvieron lugar otros asesinatos de imitaci?n, el ?nico m?vil parece un aterrador y extra?o sentido de la diversi?n…
Transcurre el a?o 1949. Harto de ocuparse del hotel de su suegro situado a un paso del campo de concentraci?n de Dachau, en Alemania, y con su esposa ingresada en una instituci?n mental, el sard?nico detective Bernhard Gunther ha decidido ir tras los pasos de un famoso s?dico, uno de los muchos esp?as de las SS capaz de infiltrarse entrelas filas de los aliados y encontrar refugio en Am?rica. Pero, por supuesto, nada es lo que parece, y Gunther pronto se encontrar? navegando en un mar mortal habitado por ex-nazis que huyen de la persecuci?n y de organizaciones secretas constituidas con el objetivo de facilitar la hu?da a los verdugos del tercer Reich.
Young and athletic, London cycle courier Astrid Bell is bad luck – for other people. First Astrid's neighbour Peggy Farrell accidentally knocks her off her bike – and not long after is found bludgeoned to death. Then a few days later, Astrid is asked to pick up a package from a wealthy woman called Ingrid de Soto, only to find the client murdered in the hall of her luxurious home. For the police it's more than coincidence. For Astrid and her six housemates it's the beginning of a nightmare: suspicious glances, bitter accusations, fallings out and a growing fear that the worst is yet to come…Because if it's true that bad luck comes in threes – who will be the next to die?
The little girl was only five, much too young to die — a lost treasure who should have been cherished, not murdered.She could have been J.P. Beaumont's kid, and the determined Seattle homicide detective won't rest until her killer pays dearly. But the hunt is leading Beaumont into a murky world of religious fanaticism, and toward a beautiful, perilous obsession all his own. And suddenly Beau himself is a target — because faith can be dangerous…and love can kill.
A vivid tale of suspense from one of Sweden's finest crime writers.As spring arrives in the far north of Sweden, a young woman's body surfaces through the breaking ice of the River Thorne. At the same time, visions of a shadowy figure haunt the dreams of Rebecka Martinsson, a prosecutor in nearby Karuna. Could the body belong to the ghost in her dreams? And where is the dead girl's boyfriend?Joining forces once again with Police Inspector Anna-Maria Mella, Rebecka finds herself drawn into an investigation that stirs up long-dormant rumors of a German supply plane that went missing in 1943-and of Nazi collaborators in the town, where shame and secrecy shroud the locals' memories of the war.And on the windswept shore of a frozen lake lurks a murderer who will kill again to keep the past buried forever beneath half a century's silent ice and snow.
Francis Pettigrew's holiday turns to nightmare when he stumbles across a body on Boulter's Tussock – a rather alarming body at that, given to vanishing and reappearing in unexpected places.
The odd thing about Walter Schoen, German born but now running a butcher shop in Detroit, he's a dead ringer for Heinrich Himmler, head of the SS and the Gestapo. They even share the same birthday. Honey Deal, Walter's American wife, doesn't know that Walter is a member of a spy ring that sends U.S. war production data to Germany and gives shelter to escaped German prisoners of war. But she's tired of telling him jokes he doesn't understand—it's time to get a divorce. Along comes Carl Webster, the hot kid of the Marshals Service. ...
Peter Diamond, the traditionalist dinosaur of Bath CID, finds the low murder rate in the city a touch frustrating, so he decides to check whether a couple of suicides which his colleague is investigating have been accurately classified. On the outskirts of the city a woman is found unconscious in a hospital car park, but when she recovers she can't remember who she is or how she came to be there. Soon after she is released into the care of the local authority, Diamond has a 'proper' case to get his teeth into when a woman's body is found in the garden of a flat after a somewhat drunken party. None of the other guests knew her and it is not clear whether she slipped, jumped or was pushed, and with no clue as to her identity Diamond has a puzzle to satisfy his quirky talents. In a mystery of stunning complexity, Peter Lovesey amply demonstrates his gifts as the grand master of the contemporary whodunnit.
Ksi??ka jest ciekawa, czyta si? z przyjemno?ci? no i jak to krymina? bardzo wci?ga. Sama historia jest bardzo wzruszaj?ca, co osobi?cie mi przeszkadza, bo potwornie ?al mi by?o ofiar opisanego nieszcz??cia. Nie jest to ju? klasyczny krymina? w tradycyjnym rozumieniu. Taka zbrodnia jak ta przedstawiona w ksi??ke Karin Fossum, mo?e si? zdarzy? wsz?dzie. Poza tym, du?y nacisk zosta? po?ozony na cierpienie jakie wywo?a?a zbrodnia.W zma?ym, norweskim miasteczku dochodzi do tajemniczej zbrodni – kto? morduje Hindusk?. Nie wiadomo sk?d egzotyczna kobieta z Indii ...
A spiderweb of dangerous relationships is at the heart of this daring new novel from the #1 New York Times-bestselling author.Kinsey on Kinsey: "I know there are people who believe you should forgive and forget. For the record, I'd like to say I'm a big fan of forgiveness as long as I'm given the opportunity to get even first."– from V is for VengeanceA woman with a murky past who kills herself-or was it murder? A dying old man cared for by the son he pummeled mercilessly. A lovely woman whose life is about to ...
Una semana de vacaciones en una lujosa residencia de propiedad compartida, situada en un tranquilo paraje de Yorkshire, es justo lo que le conviene al comisario de Scotland Yard, Duncan Kincaid, agotado por una sobrecarga de trabajo. No obstante, en vez de las actividades relajantes, como excursiones y lectura, que ha programado, justo al d?a siguiente de haber conocido a todos los hu?spedes en un c?ctel de presentaci?n encuentra el, cad?ver del subdirector del establecimiento flotando en la piscina. No ser? el ?nico.?Qu? relaci?n pueden tener con las v?ctimas del ...
