Originally published under the pseudonym Jack Early, a murder mystery about a vengeful killer on a rampage includes bizarre killings, false accusations, and a motive that sets the hands of the clock back twenty-five years.
La t?a abuela de V. I. Warshawski, Rosa, cita la detective a su fr?a casa suburbana. Rosa izo la infancia de V. I. Miserable y a la detective no le gusta el pedido de ayuda de su t?a, para que demuestre que ella no hizo un desfalco de cinco millones de d?lares de un priorato Dominicano.Se desata un infierno cuando un adversario misterioso intenta sacar a Vic del caso arroj?ndole ?cido a los ojos y quemando su apartamento. Cuando un amigo que est? involucrado en el caso es brutalmente asesinado, empieza a ...
"Wonderful – will stir the heart as easily as it coaxes a smile." – Day LeclaireWhirlwind WeddingsHis second wife?Andrew Fielding wants a mom and his daddy could use a wife. He thinks he's found the perfect woman for both of them: Megan Sanders – which is fine with Megan. The Fielding men have their attractions: one's as cute as a button, the other as sexy as they come! Together, they're the family Megan's always wanted! But convincing brooding widower Kane Fielding is less easy…He's determined to keep his distance and ensure his dark secret stays hidden. But to keep his son, Kane is prepared to do anything. Even the one thing he's promised he'll never do again.marry!Who says you can't hurry love?
Agatha Award (nominee)Publisher's WeeklyAn ingenious plot and sufficient flow of blood keep the pages flying in Harris's (Sweet and Deadly) third novel, as a series of killings patterned after celebrated murders is perpetrated on the small community of Lawrenceton, Ga. Twenty-eight-year-old Aurora (Roe) Teagarden, professional librarian, belongs to the Real Murders club, a group of 12 enthusiasts who gather monthly to study famous baffling or unsolved crimes. As a meeting is to begin, Roe discovers the massacred body of a club member. She recognizes the method of slaughter as imitating the very crime she was to ...
Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again…Working as a lady's companion, the heroine of Rebecca learns her place. Life begins to look very bleak until, on a trip to the South of France, she meets Maxim de Winter, a handsome widower whose sudden proposal of marriage takes her by surprise. She accepts, but whisked from glamorous Monte Carlo to the ominous and brooding Manderley, the new Mrs de Winter finds Max a changed man. And the memory of his dead wife Rebecca is forever kept alive by the forbidding Mrs Danvers…Not since Jane Eyre has a heroine faced such difficulty with the Other Woman. An international bestseller that has never gone out of print, Rebecca is the haunting story of a young girl consumed by love and the struggle to find her identity.
The end of the world was just the beginningCivilization has fallen, leaving California an unforgiving, decimated place. But Cass Dollar beat terrible odds to get her missing daughter back-she and Ruthie will be happy.Yet with the first winter, Cass is reminded that happiness is fleeting in Aftertime. Ruthie retreats into silence.Flesh-eating Beaters still dominate the landscape. And Smoke, Cass's lover and strength, departs on a quest for vengeance, one that may end him even if he returns.The survivalist community Cass has planted roots in is breaking apart, too. Its leader, Dor, implores Cass to help him recover his own lost daughter, taken by the totalitarian Rebuilders. And soon Cass finds herself thrust into the dark heart of an organization promising humanity's rebirth-at all costs.Bound to two men blazing divergent paths across a savage land, Cass must overcome the darkness in her wounded heart, or lose those she loves forever.
Depuis plusieurs ann?es, Sibylla vit dans l'ombre, fuyant le souvenir de son enfance malheureuse et les conventions d'une soci?t? dans laquelle elle ne se sent pas ? l'aise. Mais soudain, elle est catapult?e sur le devant de la sc?ne et fait la "une" des journaux: un homme a ?t? brutalement assassin?, un homme avec qui elle a pass? la soir?e, avec qui elle a ?t? vue. Tout le pays recherche la jeune femme comme t?moin - ou comme coupable? Traqu?e, seule, Sibylla se r?fugie dans un squat o? elle rencontre Patrik, un adolescent de quinze ans ? qui elle raconte son histoire et confie les secrets de son pass?. Ensemble, ils m?nent l'enqu?te pour retrouver le v?ritable assassin. Avec le personnage de Sibylla, Karin Alvtegen brosse un portrait tout en finesse d'une femme marqu?e par le manque d'amour, ? la recherche de son identit?. Consid?r?e en Su?de comme le plus grand auteur de romans policiers, elle a ?t? compar?e ? Henning Mankell.
Ty Hauck is shattered by the news. A close friend from his past, along with her husband and daughter, has been brutally murdered in her home by vicious intruders. Now he will risk everything he loves to avenge her death…A wealthy banker, seeing his world about to crumble around him, knows his family is in unfathomable danger…A U.S. government agent watches the sudden bank transfers of millions in cash and suspects that this is the first step in a plot to unleash a wave of global panic…Ty Hauck hunts the murderer of ...
Cop-turned-lawyer Stone Barrington tracks a mobster hiding deep inside the witness protection program in this next thriller in the New York Times-bestselling series.Stone Barrington is, once again, right at home in New York City; but this time he is joined by the tenacious Holly Barker from Orchid Blues, the lady police chief of Orchid Island, Florida. In Reckless Abandon, Holly finally makes it to Manhattan, hot on the trail of an evil fugitive from her jurisdiction. Stone is, well, glad to see her, right up until the moment when her presence creates a great danger to both ...
Durante una visita a Abinger Mannor, un estudiante que asiste a un curso universitario sobre arquitectura muere en sospechosas circunstancias. Una joven viuda descubre con horror la vida secreta de su difunto marido. Un historiador sin dinero vive obsesionado por la figura de Ricardo III. A trav?s de argumentos tan dispares, los cinco relatos que componen este volumen exploran las complejidades de la naturaleza humana y desvelan las oscuras maquinaciones de individuos de apariencia corriente que aspiran a alcanzar sus objetivos a cualquier precio.En Recuerda que siempre te querr?, Elizabeth George, autora de la popular serie ...
Chicago is the Windy City, and these days the winds of change are whipping Izzy McNeil's life all over the map. A high-profile job on Trial TV lands her in the hot seat. After a shocking end to her engagement, she finds herself juggling not only her ex-fianc?, but a guy she never expected. And a moonlighting undercover gig has her digging deep into worlds she barely knew existed.But all of this takes a backseat when Izzy's friend winds up brutally murdered. Suddenly, Izzy must balance the demands of a voracious media and the knowledge that she didn't know her friend as well as she thought.
Spring: a time of rebirth and celebration. And a time of death…for April is the cruelest month. When a young archaeologist studying on a site at Lerwick discovers a set of human remains – the island community is intrigued. Is it an ancient find – or a more contemporary mystery? Then an elderly is shot on her land in a tragic accident and Jimmy Perez is called in by her grandson – his own colleague Sandy Wilson. He finds two feuding families whose envy, greed and bitterness has divided the surrounding community. With Fran in London, and surrounded by people he doesn't know and a community he has no links with – Jimmy finds himself out of depth. Then another woman dies and as the spring weather shrouds the island in claustrophobic mists the two deaths remain shrouded in mystery.
This story is set in Japan, 1698. Sano Ichiro may be a samurai sleuth and the shogun's trusted advisor, but his growing power at court makes him – and his family – a target for treachery. And this time gruesome discovery brings especially tough questions. Lord Mori, heir to the shogun, is found grotesquely mutilated and murdered – with Sano's pregnant wife, Reiko, lying beside him naked and covered in blood. Sano seeks the truth behind the Rashomon-like accounts of the murder, the stakes are almost unbearably high, and the only piece of evidence is a white Chrysanthemum – stained red with blood.
Amazon.com ReviewLying on a cot in his cell with Alexandre Dumas's Le Grand Dictionnaire de Cuisine open on his chest, Hannibal "The Cannibal" Lecter makes his debut in this legendary horror novel, which is even better than its sequel, The Silence of the Lambs. As in Silence, the pulse-pounding suspense plot involves a hypersensitive FBI sleuth who consults psycho psychiatrist Lecter for clues to catching a killer on the loose.The sleuth, Will Graham, actually quit the FBI after nearly getting killed by Lecter while nabbing him, but fear isn't what bugs him about crime ...
They say bad things happen in threes. When her fianc?, Sam, disappears on the same day her mentor and biggest client is killed, hotshot Chicago attorney Izzy McNeil starts counting. But trouble keeps coming. Sam is implicated in the client's death, her apartment is broken into and it's not just the authorities who are following her.Now, to find Sam and uncover her client's murderer, Izzy will have to push past limits she never imagined. Lucky for her she's always thrived under pressure, because her world is falling apart. Fast. And the trail of half truths and lies is red-hot.
