Stunningly beautiful, extraordinarily wealthy and sold to the highest bidder for the price of a dukedom-Sarah Vangelder wanted more than just a bartered marriage!
Sitting Marsh, a World War II town threatened by invasion, is overdue for a celebration. But when a stranger appears at a wedding-and is stabbed-sleuth Lady Elizabeth is on the case, and there's no shortage of suspects.
Elizabeth Lange is haunted by the loss of her sister, Leila, who died mysteriously. Invited to Cypress Point Spa by a friend, she finds herself confronted by a cast of characters who all had motives for the killing. And she quickly discovers her own life may also be under threat.
Rok 1982. Do Afganistanu okupowanego przez wojska sowieckie przybywa Jean-Pierre Debout, francuski lewicowy ideowiec, by pod przykrywk? pracy lekarza na bie??co informowa? KGB o dostawach broni i lek?w z terenu Pakistanu. Wskutek jego donos?w dochodzi do masakry jednego z oddzia??w partyzanckich. O prac? dla Rosjan nie podejrzewa go nikt opr?cz ?ony – Angielki Jane. Sytuacja zmienia si?, gdy w ten sam rejon trafia z misj? szkolenia rebeliant?w niegdysiejszy przyjaciel Jean-Pierre'a, kiedy? kochanek Jane, agent CIA Ellis Thaler. Dawna mi?o?? wybucha z now? si??, a rozgrywka polityczna mi?dzy m??czyznami staje si? r?wnie? rywalizacj? o uczucie pi?knej kobiety.
Dr Gary Lasch is found dead at his desk. The murder stuns his elite Connecticut community – especially when his beautiful young wife, Molly, is arrested and charged with his murder. Six years later, on Molly's release from prison, she reasserts her innocence in front of reporters gathered at the prison gates. Among them is an old schoolfriend, Fran Simmons, who is currently working as an investigative reporter for a true crime television series. Determined to prove her innocence, Molly convinces Fran to research and produce a programme on Gary 's death. Fran agrees, but in doing so, she has a second agenda – to learn the truth about her own father's suicide fourteen years earlier. Fran soon finds herself enmeshed in a tangled web of intrigue and menace – more deaths and more unanswered questions about Gary Lasch's death. As her investigation proceeds, there are those who know they must make a choice: face ruin, or eliminate Fran.
Serge Maisky has a record as long as your arm. In and out of jail all his life, he has dreamed for years of the Big Steal, that would set him up good. He recruits four professional accomplices and bribes one of the girls who works in the underground vaults of the Paradise City casino - for the take is going to be real heavy. No one is going to stand in his way, including the punk of a guard who appears at the time of the robbery. And it is just the tough luck of one of his partners-in-crime, if he gets shot in the belly, by the girl he was trying to rape. Or another partner, who is shot down by the cops. In fact, the lesser the number of partners, the more the share for Maisky. So when lovely, but sluttish Sheila and her unassuming husband, unwittingly take off with Maisky’s loot and bury it in their own garden, Maisky gets mad. mad….
Dana Evans ist Redakteurin und Moderatorin eines wichtigen Nachrichtenmagazins in Washington. Selbstbewusst, erfolgreich und karriereorientiert, l?sst sie sich von nichts bremsen, wenn sie eine gute Story wittert. Und scheut dabei auch die Gefahr nicht. Als in kurzer Zeit f?nf Mitglieder einer einflussreichen Familie ums Leben kommen, unter ihnen der angesehene Politiker Taylor Winthrop, den sie erst k?rzlich interviewt hat, glaubt sie nicht an einen Zufall. Ihre Recherchen bringen schnell ans Tageslicht, dass Winthrop in Wahrheit ein skrupelloser Mann war, der vor Betrug, Gewalt und Mordauftr?gen und schlie?lich sogar vor Hochverrat nicht zur?ckschreckte ...
Thomas Lynley ermittelt wieder! Nach Wochen der Einsamkeit fernab von London kehrt Thomas Lynley in die City zur?ck. Als Isabelle Ardery, eine Kollegin aus vergangenen Tagen, ihn um Unterst?tzung bei einem komplizierten Mordfall bittet, z?gert er nur kurz – und tut ihr den Gefallen. W?hrend Ardery im Laufe der Ermittlungen zusehends ins Kreuzfeuer der Kritik ger?t, besinnt Lynley sich seiner fr?heren St?rken. Und seiner genialen Ermittlungspartnerin Detective Sergeant Barbara Havers …
An einem fr?hen Dezembermorgen wird Guy Brouard — Million?r, M?zen und Frauenheld — ermordet an einem Strand der englischen Kanalinsel Guernsey aufgefunden. Verd?chtige und Motive gibt es mehr als genug. Nur die junge Amerikanerin China River hat keines. Doch alle Indizien weisen ausgerechnet auf sie. China hatte ihren Bruder aus Kalifornien nach Guernsey begleitet, um Guy Brouard die Architekturpl?ne f?r ein von ihm gestiftetes Museum zum Gedenken an die deutsche Besatzung der Insel im Zweiten Weltkrieg zu ?bergeben. Eine andere Verbindung existiert augenscheinlich nicht.Simon St. James, engster Vertrauter von Chief Inspector Thomas Lynley, ...
T. J. Jones is black, Japanese, and white; his given name is The Tao (honest!), and he's the son of a woman who abandoned him when she got heavily into crack and crank. As a child he was full of rage, but now as a senior in high school he's pretty much overcome all that. With the help of a good therapist and his decent, loving, ex-hippie adoptive parents, he's not only fairly even-keeled, he has turned out to be smart and funny.Injustice, however, still fills him with fury. So when big-deal football star Mike Barbour bullies ...
An invalid for most her life, Alice James is quite used to people underestimating her. And she generally doesn't mind. But this time she is not about to let things alone. Yes, her brother Henry may be a famous author, and her other brother William a rising star in the new field of psychology. But when they all find themselves quite unusually involved in the chase for a most vile new murderer—one who goes by the chilling name of Jack the Ripper—Alice is certain of two things:No one could be more suited to gather evidence about the nature of the killer than her brothers. But if anyone is going to correctly examine the evidence and solve the case, it will have to be up to her.
Thirty years ago two sisters disappeared from a shopping mall. Their bodies were never found and those familiar with the case have always been tortured by these questions: How do you kidnap two girls? Who – or what – could have lured the two sisters away from a busy mall on a Saturday afternoon without leaving behind a single clue or witness? Now a clearly disoriented woman involved in a rush-hour hit-and-run claims to be the younger of the long-gone Bethany sisters. But her involuntary admission and subsequent attempt to stonewall investigators only deepens the mystery. Where has she been? Why ...
Is Rachel Robinson the only one on campus who doesn't know who Devin Freedman is? No big deal except that the bad-boy rock star gets a kick out of Rachel's refusal to worship at his feet. And that seems to have provoked his undivided attention. Devin, the guy who gave new meaning to the phrase "sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll." Devin, the guy who somehow becomes wedged between her and the past she's kept hidden for years.It's up to this librarian to find out firsthand just how "bad" he really is. Because her secret – and her growing feelings for a man who claims he's bent on redemption – depend on his turning out to be as good as he seems. Which is really, really good.
'This is not my world. Something is wrong, askew. It is a Monday evening in October. I am Ellie Falkner, 34 years old and married to Greg Manning. Although two police officers have just come to my door and told me he is dead… 'It's devastating to hear that your husband has died in a horrific car accident. But to learn that he died with a mystery woman as his passenger is torment. Was Greg having an affair?Drowning in grief, Ellie clings to Greg's innocence, and her determination to prove it to the world at large means she must find out who Milena Livingstone was and what she was doing in Greg's car. But in the process those around her begin to question her sanity… and her motive. And the louder she shouts that Greg might have been murdered, the more suspicion falls on Ellie herself. Sometimes it's safer to keep silent when someone dies…
Jefferson Halliday leads a life of penury, playing a piano at a nondescript bar. Jeff’s troubles start when he rescues a junkie, Rima Marshall, from being cut open in the bar, by a drug-crazed maniac. After hearing Rima's voice, he is convinced that she can be groomed into a singer with himself as manager. But Jeff needs money to launch Rima, and what can be an easier way than a quick robbery to get the money? But a guard gets in the way and is shot dead by Rima. Since then, both are on the run. Jeff manages to return home, complete his engineering education and land a coveted contract with the city administration. He is also happily married, when out of the blue, Rima appears with a blackmail proposition…..
In his classic caper novels, Donald E. Westlake turns the world of crime and criminals upside down. The bad get better, the good slide a bit, and Lord help anyone caught between a thief named John Dortmunder and the current object of his intentions. Now Westlake's seasoned but often scoreless crook must take on an impossible crime, one he doesn't want and doesn't believe in. But a little blackmail goes a long way in… WHAT'S SO FUNNY?All it takes is a few underhanded moves by a tough ex-cop named Eppick to pull Dortmunder into a game he ...
When Max Fairbanks, a vastly wealthy and powerful magnate, catches John Dortmunder breaking into his Long Island mansion, he thinks he is dealing with some regular loser. It amuses him to deprive Dortmund of his lucky ring. In Westlake's ingenious and dazzling comic thriller, Fairbanks lives to regret that gratuitous humiliation. The engaging Dortmund gathers a band of cronies, and exacts revenge at a series of the rich man's fancy palaces, from a penthouse on Broadway to a fantasy retreat in Las Vegas.
Miami attorney Jack Swyteck is back in the lightning-paced thriller When Darkness Falls. This time Jack gets more than he bargained for when he defends a homeless man who calls himself Falcon.Falcon is full of contradictions. He lives in a car but he has access to a lot of cash. And he has an obsession with the Miami mayor’s daughter. First, Falcon threatens to jump from the top of the Bay of Biscayne bridge unless he can talk to Alina Mendoza. He ends up in jail, but surprisingly has the bail money and is on the ...
