Ameryka po?owy lat trzydziestych ubieg?ego wieku. Paul Schumann, nowojorczyk niemieckiego pochodzenia, jest wykonawc? mafijnych wyrok?w. Podczas jednej z akcji wpada w pu?apk?. Dostaje jednak wyb?r: albo trafi na krzes?o elektryczne w Sing-Singu, albo dokona ostatniego zamachu, zabijaj?c – dla dobra ojczyzny – g??wnego architekta nazistowskiej remilitaryzacji, Reinharda Ernsta.W Berlinie Paul tropi Ernsta, uciekaj?c przed si?ami bezpiecze?stwa Trzeciej Rzeszy. Musi si? tak?e strzec wyj?tkowo przenikliwego detektywa, inspektora policji kryminalnej. Akcja, pe?na nieoczekiwanych zwrot?w, toczy si? w sercu niemieckiej stolicy gor?czkowo przygotowuj?cej si? do igrzysk olimpijskich 1936 roku i pragn?cej pokaza? ?wiatu pokojowe oblicze. Atutem powie?ci jest dba?o?? autora o szczeg??owy obraz epoki i oddanie atmosfery Niemiec d?awionych faszystowskim terrorem.
Z kalifornijskiego wi?zienia ucieka Daniel Pell, skazany na do?ywocie za wymordowanie rodziny zamo?nego biznesmena. Zbieg przyst?puje do realizacji swojego planu, zabijaj?c kolejne ofiary i manipuluj?c lud?mi, z kt?rych czyni pos?uszne sobie marionetki. Na czele po?cigu staje Kathryn Dance, agentka Biura ?ledczego Kalifornii. Aby odkry? zamiary psychopatycznego mordercy, zwraca si? o pomoc do kobiet nale??cych niegdy? do za?o?onej przez Pella grupy fanatycznie oddanych mu wyznawc?w. Odpowied? mo?e tak?e zna? ?pi?ca Laleczka, dziewczynka, kt?ra jako jedyna prze?y?a zbrodni? pope?nion? przez Pella przed siedmiu laty. ?eby wygra? pojedynek z bezwzgl?dnym zbrodniarzem, Kathryn Dance musi przedrze? si? przez labirynt k?amstw i przemilcze? i dotrze? do prawdy o przesz?o?ci.
A psychological thriller focusing on a young paranoid schizophrenic who escapes from a New England mental hospital in pursuit of a high-school teacher who testified at his murder trial, carrying with him a secret that will tear many lives apart during the course of one night.
The Monterey Peninsula is rocked when a killer begins to leave roadside crosses beside local highways-not in memoriam, but as announcements of his intention to kill. And to kill in particularly horrific and efficient ways: using the personal details about the victims that they've carelessly posted in blogs and on social networking websites. The case lands on the desk of Kathryn Dance, the California Bureau of Investigation's foremost kinesics-body language-expert. She and Deputy Michael O'Neil follow the leads to Travis Brigham, a troubled teenager whose role in a fatal car accident has inspired vicious attacks against him on a ...
John Pellam had been in the trenches of filmmaking, with a promising Hollywood career – until tragedy sidetracked him. Now he's a location scout, travelling the country in search of shooting sites for films. When he rides down Main Street, locals usually clamour for their chance at fifteen minutes of fame. But in a small town in upstate New York, Pellam experiences a very different reception. His illusionary world is shattered by a savage murder, and Pellam is suddenly centre stage in an unfolding drama of violence, lust and conspiracy in this less-than-picture-perfect locale.
Two men of words… One seeking only peace. The other, violence. Tate Collier, once one of the country's finest trial lawyers, is trying to forget his past. Now a divorced gentleman farmer, land developer, and community advocate in rural Virginia, he's regrouping from some disastrous mistakes in the realms of love and the law. But controversy – and danger – seem to have an unerring hold on Tate. Even as he struggles to rebuild his life, his alter ego is plotting his demise. Aaron Matthews, a brilliant psychologist, has turned his talents away from curing patients to far deadlier goals. He's ...
Detektyw Lincoln Rhyme, duma i chwa?a nowojorskiej policji kryminalnej, ?ciga nieuchwytnego, seryjnego morderc? zwanego Ta?cz?cym Trumniarzem. Ten niezwykle inteligentny zbrodniarz uderza znienacka, b?yskawicznie, zawsze w odmienny spos?b, po czym znika bez ?ladu. Tylko jedna z jego ofiar zauwa?y?a charakterystyczny szczeg??, o kt?rym przed ?mierci? zd??y?a powiedzie? policji. Ten szczeg?? to niezwyk?y tatua? na ramieniu mordercy, przedstawiaj?cy ?mier? ta?cz?c? z kobiet? przed otwart? trumn?.Co oznacza zagadkowy tatua?? Czy ta skromna wskaz?wka pomo?e Rhyme'owi ocali? kolejne ofiary dzia?aj?cego z ?elazn? konsekwencj? zab?jcy? Opromieniony s?aw? detektyw zdaje sobie spraw?, ?e oto trafi? na godnego siebie przeciwnika, najbardziej za? dr?czy go granicz?ce z pewno?ci? przeczucie, ?e ju? gdzie?, kiedy? go spotka?…
The powerful new thriller from the author of THE DEVIL'S TEARDROP and THE EMPTY CHAIR. In Jeff's most chilling and topical thriller to date, we meet the most powerful and modern of criminals, the uber-hacker. Trawling both on and off the Net, he can follow your every move, your every detail and your every communication. He can invade your life before taking it away from you. This is the novel that will stop you ever turning your computer on again. Ranged against this modern day mastermind are two new heros. Frank Bishop, a streetwise but very human cop, and his unwilling ally, Wyatt Gillette, a young, brilliant and idealistic hacker who found himself in prison, but now has been liberated to fight this incipient disaster.
A spring night in a small town in Wisconsin… A call to police emergency from a distant lake house is cut short… A phone glitch or an aborted report of a crime? Off-duty deputy Brynn leaves her family's dinner table and drives up to deserted Lake Mondac to find out. She stumbles onto the scene of a heinous murder… Before she can call for backup, though, she finds herself the next potential victim. Deprived of her phone, weapon and car, Brynn and an unlikely ally – a survivor of the carnage – can survive only by fleeing into the dense, deserted woods, on a desperate trek to safety and ultimately to the choice to fight back. The professional criminals, also strangers to this hostile setting, must forge a tense alliance too, in order to find and kill the two witnesses to the crime…
Once the nation's foremost criminologist and the ex-head of NYPD forensics, quadriplegic Lincoln Rhyme abandons his forced retirement and joins forces with rookie cop Amelia Sachs to track down a vicious serial killer.
Lincoln Rhyme and partner/paramour Amelia Sachs return to face a criminal whose masterful staging of crimes is enabled by a terrifying access to information…When Lincoln's cousin is arrested on murder charges the case against Arthur Rhyme is perfect – too perfect. Forensic evidence from Arthur's home is found all over the scene of the crime, and it looks like the fate of Lincoln's estranged cousin is sealed.At the behest of Arthur's wife Judy, Lincoln begrudgingly agrees to investigate the case. Soon Lincoln and Amelia uncover a string of similar murders and rapes with perpetrators claiming ...
Lincoln Rhyme is back, on the trail of a killer whose weapon of choice cripples New York City with fear.The weapon is invisible and omnipresent. Without it, modern society grinds to a halt. It is electricity. The killer harnesses and steers huge arc flashes with voltage so high and heat so searing that steel melts and his victims are set afire.When the first explosion occurs in broad daylight, reducing a city bus to a pile of molten, shrapnel-riddled metal, officials fear terrorism. Rhyme, a world-class forensic criminologist known for his successful apprehension of the most ...
The Coffin Dancer is America 's most wanted hit-man. He's been hired by an airline owner who wants three witnesses disposed of before his trial, and has got the first, a pilot, by blowing up the whole plane. Lincoln Rhyme has the task of keeping the witnesses safe and finding the Coffin Dancer.
On a freezing December night, with a full moon hovering in the black sky over New York City, two people are brutally murdered – the death scenes marked by eerie, matching calling cards: moon-faced clocks inves-tigators fear ticked away the victims' last moments on earth. Renowned criminologist Lincoln Rhyme immediately identifies the clock distributor and has the chilling realization that the killer – who has dubbed himself the Watchmaker – has more murders planned in the hours to come.Rhyme, a quadriplegic long confined to his wheelchair, immediately taps his trusted partner and longtime love, Amelia Sachs, to walk the grid ...
After a machine gun attack in the Washington, D.C., subway system leaves dozens of people dead, retired FBI document examiner Parker Kincaid must track down the assassin with the aid of only one clue-a ransom note demanding twenty million dollars to stop further massacres.
The Barnes Noble ReviewMay 2000The Empty Chair is the third – or, if you count a guest appearance in the millennial thriller The Devil's Teardrop, the fourth – novel to feature Lincoln Rhyme, the irascible forensic genius who became a quadriplegic when a cave-in at a crime scene damaged his spinal cord beyond repair. The series began in 1997 with The Bone Collector, which was recently made into a so-so film starring Denzel Washington. Every Rhyme novel to date has been characterized by authentic forensic detail and wild, even extravagant plotting, and the latest entry is no exception. The ...
When Detective Bill Corde looks at the beautiful face of the murdered girl in the mud, he does not know his own life is about to turn into a terrifyingly real nightmare. For the girl's killer is now on the trail of Corde and his unsuspecting family.
Special Agent Kathryn Dance – introduced in The Cold Moon – stars in the latest thriller from New York Times bestselling author Jeffery Deaver. When Special Agent Kathryn Dance is sent to interrogate the convicted killer Daniel "Son of Manson" Pell as a suspect in a newly unearthed crime, she feels both trepidation and electrifying intrigue. Pell is serving a life sentence for brutal murders years earlier that mirrored those perpetrated by Charles Manson in the 1960s. But Pell and his cult members left behind a survivor who – because she was in bed hidden by her toys – was dubbed the Sleeping ...
In a race against time, Lincoln and Amelia are recruited to track down a cargo ship carrying two dozen illigal Chinese immigrants, as well as the notorious human smuggler and killer – Youling the Ghost. Can they stop the Ghost before he murders again?
The stunning new Lincoln Rhyme thriller – by the number one bestselling author of THE VANISHED MAN and GARDEN OF BEASTS. Geneva Settle is a bright young high school student from Harlem writing a paper about one of her ancestors, a former slave called Charles Singleton. Geneva is also the target of a ruthless professional killer. Criminalist Lincoln Rhyme and his policewoman partner Amelia Sachs are called into the case, working frantically to anticipate where the hired gun will strike next and how to stop him, all the while trying to get to the truth of Charles Singleton, and the reason that Geneva has been targeted. For Charles Singleton had a secret – a secret that may strike at the very heart of the United States constitution, and have disastrous consequences for human rights today. And Sachs is going to have to search a crime scene that's 140 years old before she can stop the killer.
The New York Times bestselling author of The Stone Monkey is back with a brilliant thriller that pits forensic criminologist Lincoln Rhyme and his partner, Amelia Sachs, against an unstoppable killer with one final, horrific trick up his sleeve.The Los Angeles Times calls his novels "thrill rides between covers." The New York Times hails them as "dazzling," and The Times of London crowns him "the best psychological thriller writer around." Now Jeffery Deaver, America 's "master of ticking-bomb suspense" (People) delivers his most electrifying novel yet.It begins at a prestigious music school in New York ...
New York Times Kathryn Dance is in a race against the clock to track down the members of a domestic terrorist cell--and the lives of 200 people hang in the balance.After Sarah Lieberman's new tenants murder her in an attempt to steal her money, Sarah's housekeeper Carmel is determined to find Sarah's body so she can lay her soul to rest. But Carmel may discover that the truth is uncomfortably close to home ...When a brake failure leaves him temporarily stranded in a Colorado mountain town, John Pellam finds himself suddenly accused of murder.
From International Thriller Writers comes WATCHLIST: two powerful novellas featuring the same thrilling cast of characters in one major suspenseful package. THE CHOPIN MANUSCRIPT and THE COPPER BRACELET are collaborations of some of the world’s greatest thriller writers, including Lee Child, Joseph Finder, Lisa Scottoline, and Jeffery Deaver, who conceived the characters and set the plots in motion. The other authors each wrote a chapter and Deaver then completed what he started, bringing both novellas to their startling conclusions.In the first novella, THE CHOPIN MANUSCRIPT, former war crimes investigator Harold Middleton possesses a previously unknown score ...
Internationally bestselling author Jeffery Deaver delivers the latest sensational thriller in his wildly popular Kathryn Dance series.Newsweek calls Jeffery Deaver a 'suspense superstar,' and in his new novel, he lives up to the accolades once again as he sets his heroine Kathryn Dance on a quest to stop an obsessive stalker from destroying a beautiful young country singer.Kayleigh Towne is gorgeous with a voice that is taking her to the heights of the country pop charts. Her hit single 'Your Shadow' puts her happily in the spotlight, until an innocent exchange with one of her fans leads Kayleigh into a dark and terrifying realm. The fan warns, 'I'm coming for you,' and soon accidents happen and people close to Kayleigh die. Special Agent Kathryn Dance must use her considerable skills at investigation and body language analysis to stop the stalker – but before long she learns that, like many celebrities, Kayleigh has more than just one fan with a mission.
