Saturday brings Yom Kippur to Barnard's Crossing and Rabbi Small is preparing as usual. But his prayers and fasting are interrupted when a member of his congregation is found dead in his car. The police call it accidental. The insurance company calls it suicide. Only Rabbi Small's pregnant wife, Miriam, thinks it's murder. Now it's up to him to prove her right…***“Harry Kemelman has come through as a winner again… A good tale well told.” – The New York Times“Another Sholem Aleichem… An excellent storyteller… Here is detective work at its best.” – Detroit Press“Detailed with humor and intelligence. Top quality!” – Bestsellers“Wise and witty.” – Saturday Review
Cal Innes is fresh out of prison and ducking a past muddied with ties to local gang lord «Uncle» Morris Tiernan. But when Tiernan finds out Innes is working as an unlicensed PI and calls in a favor Innes doesn't owe, Innes is thrust into a cat-and-mouse game with Tiernan's psychotic son, Mo. Ordered to track down a rogue casino dealer who's absconded with a hefty chunk of cash, Innes finds that the case points north to Newcastle. With Tiernan's son on his tail and a Manchester cop determined to put Innes back in jail, Saturday's child has to work hard to keep living.
The Executioner poses as a convict to spring a man marked for death by a mystery assassin.Mack Bolan wants to know why a petty embezzler is the target of an international hit man. But Bolans plan is foiled by a group known as the Savannah Swingsaw — four female vigilantes who break him out instead, in a baffling move that fires the big warrior to blazing action.
From the New York Times bestselling author of Think Twice and Look Again comes an emotionally powerful novel about a split-second choice, agonizing consequences, and the need for justiceSusan Pressman volunteers as a lunch mom in her daughter Melly's school in order to keep an eye on Amanda, a mean girl who's been bullying her daughter. Her fears come true when the bullying begins, sending Melly to the bathroom in tears. Just as Susan is about to follow after her daughter, a massive explosion goes off in the kitchen, sending the room into chaos. Susan finds herself ...
Someone is stealing America's children, and the disappearances are shattering the structure of U.S. Society, leaving families in total despair.With the police and federal agencies handcuffed by laws and procedures, the situation is critical.Mack Bolan fears for these innocent lives at the hands of human predators. The Executioner searches high and low for targets in Chicago — and finds them: from a high-profile politician to a Mafia kingpin.
Lisa Gardner, the New York Times bestselling author of Hide and Gone, draws us into the venomous mind games of her most terrifying killer yet.Come into my parlor…For Kimberly Quincy, FBI Special Agent, it all starts with a pregnant hooker. The story Delilah Rose tells Kimberly about her johns is too horrifying to be true-but prostitutes are disappearing, one by one, with no explanation, and no one but Kimberly seems to care.Said the spider to the fly…As a member of the Evidence Response Team, dead hookers aren’t exactly Kimberly’s ...
A cry of mourning, intolerably loud, rose from beyond the willows and hung on the night air. A thrush whirred out of the thicket close to her face, and the cry broke and wavered again. It was the howl of a dog. She pushed through the thicket into an opening by the river, and found the body of Colonel Carterette with his spaniel beside it, mourning him.
Ein Roman, der alles bietet, was die Leser an Rita Mae Browns B?chern sch?tzen - den Charme und das Lokalkolorit der S?dstaaten, die unwiderstehlichen exzentrischen Charaktere, die k?stlich- scharfz?ngige Ironie. »Schade, da? du nicht tot bist« ist ?berdies von gro?em Reiz f?r alle, die Spannung der besonderen Art zu sch?tzen wissen - ein Thriller, der auf samtweichen Pf?tchen daherkommt und unversehens die Krallen zeigt.
Sidney Sheldon "Schatten der Macht,originaltitel "Memories of Midnight". Der Reederk?nig Demiris ist einer der gesch?ftlich erfolgreichsten M?nner Griechenlands. Reichtum und Macht bedeuten ihm alles, und, um sie zu erhalten und zu mehren, schreckt er weder vor Korruption noch vor Intrigen zur?ck. Als er durch Treulosigkeit seiner M?tresse in seiner Eitelkeit gekr?nkt wird, inszeniert er ein m?rderisches Spiel, in dem J?ger und Gejagte zu Opfern werden.
Gerard Logan ist Glasbl?ser und betreibt sein Metier mit Enthusiasmus. Er hat es schon weit gebracht — seine Kreationen sind Sammelst?cke, und sein Laden l?uft gut. Flexibel in hei?em, zerbrechlich in kaltem Zustand, durchsichtig und in allen Farben leuchtend — aus Glas sind seine Tr?ume gemacht.Die aber werden r?cksichtslos zerschmettert. Sein Freund, der Jockey Martin Stukely, hatte ihm kurz vor seinem Tod auf der Rennbahn ein Videoband ?bergeben lassen, das offensichtlich so hei?e Informationen enth?lt, da? alle Welt dahinter her ist. Insbesondere eine Verbrecherbande, der jedes Mittel recht ist, Scherben inklusive. Die Kassette wurde Logan geklaut — doch wer sollte ihm das glauben? Da ihm sein Leben lieb ist, macht sich Logan nun ebenfalls auf die Suche — nach einem Videoband, von dem er keine Ahnung hat, was es enth?lt.
Auf der Rennbahn von Ovrevoll in Norwegen verschwindet der britische Jockey Bob Sherman mitsamt den Tageseinnahmen.Als er wieder auftauct, ohne das Geld, aber mit einem Betonklotz am Bein und tot, ist David Cleveland, Chefermittler des Jockey Club in London, bereits tief in diesem mysteri?sen Fall verstrickt.Die Suche nach dem T?ter wird zu einer immer wilderen Jagd,bei der J?ger immer auch der Gejagte ist. Und schon bald erweist sich, da? der Diebstahl des Geldes nur von einer weitaus perfideren Schurkerei ablenken sollte, hinter der eines der ehrenwerten Mitglieder des Rennvereins von Ovrevoll steckt.
