John Connolly posee todas las cualidades con las que cualquier editor sue?a a la hora de dar a conocer a un autor: una primera novela que conmociona, una historia terror?fica muy bien tramada, personajes s?lidos y complejos (que adem?s aparecer?n en otras entregas), una aguda visi?n de la sociedad y un gran talento y fuste literarios. ?ste es, ni m?s ni menos, el caso de Todo lo que muere y del escritor irland?s Connolly. Que se preparen los adictos a la buena novela polic?aca. Una noche, Charlie «Bird» Parker, inspector ...
Conejo Blanco es mucho m?s que un juego. Es m?s que la vida y que la muerte. Y cualquiera puede sucumbir antes de que la partida acabe… y el asesino se lo lleve todo.Cuando una amiga apareci? brutalmente asesinada en su apartamento de Nueva Orleans, la ex detective de homicidios Stacy Killian relacion? su muerte con Conejo Blanco, un juego de rol de culto, oscuro, violento y adictivo.Stacy se hab?a visto expuesta en innumerables ocasiones al horror del crimen y era una realidad de la que trataba de alejarse, pero cuando conoci? ...
"Todsicher", originaltitel: "Dead Cert". Der erste Kriminalroman von Dick Francis! Vieles mu? der Held einstecken, bevor er schlie?lich doch noch zu seinem wohlverdienten Happy-End kommt.Da? der Sturz des Jockeys Bill Davidson Zufall war, will sein Freund Alan nicht glauben. Zu gut kennt er die Welt des Rennsports, zu gut ist er mit den d?steren Machenschaften hinter den Kulissen der Rennbahn vertraut. Alan vermutet Sabotage und macht sich auf die Suche nach den Urhebern. Bis es zu einem atemberaubenden Showdown zwischen einem Pferd und einer ganzen Taxiflotte kommt…
National bestselling author Lesley Kagen makes her hardcover debut with an extraordinary literary thriller, rendered through the eyes of an unforgettable eleven-year-old girl.During the summer of 1968, Shenandoah Carmody's mother disappeared. Her twin sister, Woody, stopped speaking, and her once-loving father slipped into a mean drunkenness unbefitting a superior court judge. Since then, Shenny-named for the Shenandoah valley-has struggled to hold her world together, taking care of herself and her sister the best she can. Shenny feels certain that Woody knows something about the night their mother vanished, but her attempts to communicate with her mute twin leave ...
When an alleged suicide victim's wife and six-year-old daughter go missing, private investigator Lincoln Perry and his partner, Joe Pritchard, pursue a theory that the man was actually murdered.
Proving once again that she is a master of suspense, bestselling author Colleen McCullough returns with a riveting sequel to On, Off.The year is 1967, and the world teeters on the brink of nuclear holocaust as the Cold War goes relentlessly on. On a beautiful spring day in the little city of Holloman, Connecticut, home to prestigious Chubb University and armaments giant Cornucopia, chief of detectives Captain Carmine Delmonico has more pressing concerns than finding a name for his infant son: twelve murders have taken place in one day, and Delmonico is drawn into a gruesome web of ...
Rebus is drafted in by Scotland Yard to help track down a cannibalistic serial killer called the Wolfman, whose first victim was found in the East End of London's lonely Wolf Street. His London colleague, George Flight, isn't happy at what he sees as interference, and Rebus encounters racial prejudice as well as the usual dangers of trying to catch a vicious killer.When Rebus is offered a psychological profile of the Wolfman by an attractive woman, it seems too good an opportunity to miss.
In a small New York town, a deranged young man holds over one hundred school children hostage. and he blames the school for what he's about to do.After a tense, thirty-six-hour police standoff, the gymnasium suddenly explodes into flames. Fortunately, all the students have escaped. All, that is, save ten-year-old Noah Corbin. Noah's mother, Haley, is frantic. Was her boy killed in the explosion? Did he somehow wander away from the scene, hurt and confused?Did someone take him?Haley hires ex-FBI agent Randall Shane because she needs the truth, however devastating the answers may be. But as Randall investigates, Haley is forced to admit a dark family secret.one that leads to a desolate area of the Rocky Mountains, where an entire county is owned by a cult that controls the leaders of the community: businessmen, government officials, even the police. Men who have grown rich and powerful in their secrecy. A secrecy they are sworn to protect. No matter what.
The bestselling V.I. Warshawski novels have dazzled readers and earned the acclaim of critics everywhere. "V.I. Warshawski rules," writes Newsweek, crowning her "the most engaging woman in detective fiction." Of V.I.'s creator, the Chicago Tribune says "Sara Paretsky has no peer."Now Paretsky brings her incomparable storytelling brilliance to her most powerful Warshawski novel yet. Total Recall follows the Chicago P.I. on a road that winds back more than fifty years – and into an intricate maze of wartime lies, heartbreaking secrets, and harrowing retribution.For V.I., the journey begins with a ...
Der Fund einer Mumie sorgt f?r Unruhe in der laotischen Provinz.Dr. Siri, der dickk?pfige, brillante und einzige Leichenbeschauer von ganz Laos, muss in die Provinz. Dort sorgt ein bizarrer Fund f?r Unruhe in Houaphan, einer abgelegenen Bergregion: Nach einem Erdrutsch ragt ein mumifizierter Arm aus einem frisch verlegten Betonpfad. Siri soll herausfinden, was es mit der Sache auf sich hat. Allerdings ist es nicht dieser r?tselhafte Mordfall, der ihn vor Ort um den Schlaf bringt. Es ist die Discomusik, die jede Nacht an sein Ohr dringt. Woher kommt sie? Und warum scheint sie ...
This is the story of Seattle police artist Maggie Barnes, whose remarkable artistic talents are the focus of an even more extraordinary psychic gift that she is determined to keep secret: a gift that has allowed her to work with crime victims, to feel what they feel, to create perfect portraits of their attackers. When the police are stymied by an elusive predator who blinds his victims to prevent them from identifying him, Maggie must be willing to risk much more than just her secret to draw the image of a killer no one has ever seen, and bring the brutal madman to justice. If you love books that blend passion, suspense, and the unexpected, you'll love this one.
J'ai rencontr? ? travers le vaste monde et le long de ma vie bien des femmes exigeantes.Des qui me demandaient de remplacer leur mari au pied lev? ; des qui r?clamaient ceci et d'autres qui sollicitaient cela et toujours je me suis ?vertu? ? les satisfaire.Mais la frangine, ce coup-l?, attend vraiment l'impossible de votre San-A.ch?ri…Un impossible r?ellement… impossible…Mais moi, vous me connaissez ; rien ne peut m'arr?ter !Alors, poliment, je me penche sur le d?collet? de la poup?e et je susurre :« Mais voyons, ch?re amie, tout le plaisir est pour moi ! »
A Wall Street skyscraper had been invaded. Hostages were being held — and, with them, enough confidential banking data to imperil the entire world.Ugly, city-wide panic was inevitable until Able Team was called in. Carl Lyons, Pol Blancanales and Gadgets Schwarz were the only possible hardmen for such a mission.The invaders claimed to be FALN, the Puerto Rican terrorist group. But they were not who they said they were, and their huge quantity of devastating armament appeared to have come from. . . the Vietnamese.
In the seaside village of Cape Willington, Maine, Candy Holliday has an idyllic life tending to the Blueberry Acres farm she runs with her father. But, when an aging playboy and the newly crowned Blueberry Queen are killed, Candy investigates to clear the name of a local handyman. And as she sorts through the town's juicy secrets, things start to get sticky indeed…
Things start to boil over at the annual Lobster Stew Cook-Off when an award-winning recipe is stolen and a seven-time contest champion mysteriously disappears-leaving Candy no choice but to find out who in Cape Willington, Maine, would get steamed enough to break the law.
Cape Willington's annual Winter Moose Fest is in full swing when the sightings of a mysterious white moose-and rumors of a dead body found in the woods-send Candy scrambling to separate fact from fiction before she finds herself in the bullseye of a ruthless killer...
