Los venecianos conocen bien el concepto de «acqua alta». Con ?l se?alan la crecida peri?dica de la marea que inunda las calles para deleite de turistas y pesadilla de vecinos. Entre esas aguas se mueve el comisario Brunetti, tratando de resolver cr?menes como el del doctor Semenzato, director del museo del Palacio Ducal, que aparece en su despacho con la cabeza aplastada por un llamativo resto arqueol?gico.Tan brillante, culto y melanc?lico como su ciudad, Brunetti tiene que investigar en esta ocasi?n las redes de contrabando que intervienen en el tr?fico internacional de arte, una actividad en la que la codicia puede llegar a tener escalofriantes consecuencias.
When the wife of one of Istanbul's most popular singers is found dead and his baby daughter missing, the newly-promoted Inspector Suleymon, scion of an aristocratic Turkish family, finds himself plunged into the vulgar, overblown world of Arabesk music, dominated by the ageing chanteuse, Tansu.
Reykjavik police detective Erlendur Sveinsson and his team investigate the murder of a dark-skinned Asian boy, found frozen in his own blood one midwinter day outside a rundown apartment block. The author imbues the self-doubting Erlendur with enormous depth, as an insecure father unable to show his love for his errant son and daughter as well as a troubled professional who’s made pain his constant companion. Indridason also lays bare the plight of Thai women brought to Iceland, married and soon divorced by Icelanders, left to raise their children alone in a culture, a climate and a language they don’t understand. On top of this national tragedy is the universal problem of bored, unsupervised youth, raised with no respect for authority and awash in fast food, rock music and violent computer games. Indridason has produced a stunning indictment of contemporary society.
Th?ra peered at the floor, but couldn't see anything that could have frightened Mark?s that much, only three mounds of dust. She moved the light of her torch over them. It took her some time to realize what she was seeing- and then it was all she could do not to let the torch slip from her hand. 'Good God,' she said. She ran the light over the three faces, one after another. Sunken cheeks, empty eye-sockets, gaping mouths; they reminded her of photographs of mummies she'd once seen in National Geographic. 'Who are these people?...
Mayhem is on the rise at the Witt’s End Resort, especially Cabin 14, where no guest ever leaves alive.Okay, is that a great hook or what? And the book is about-a death coach. Who solves murders.To add to it, the reason the guests never leave Cabin 14 is not that they're murdered. It's that-well, that would give it away.But let me just ask: have you ever heard a strange noise-when you know there's nothing there? A kitchen cabinet is open-and you now you didn't open it? A voice seems to whisper to you…but you know you're alone?Or are you? (Cue scary music.)Beth Solheim does not seem someone who believes in…well, whatever. Let her tell it.
Dick Francis "Au?enseiter",originaltitel "Longshot". John Kendall, Verfasser von Ratgebern f?rs ?berlebenstraining in Dschungel und W?ste, nimmt das Angebot an, die Biographie eines ber?hmten Pferdetrainers zu schreiben. Als er seine Recherchen auf dem Trainingshof im l?ndlichen Berkshire aufnimmt, mu? er erfahren, da? die d?steren Vorf?lle im lieblichen, l?ndlichen England den Gefahren des Dschungels in nichts nachstehen.
Blutsbande k?nnen sich manchmal als Fesseln erweisen. Der erfolgreiche Hindernisreiter Kit Fielding kann davon ein Lied singen. Dennoch springt er seiner Zwillingsschwester bei, als deren Mann, ein gesch?tzter Pferdetrainer, von der Regenbogenpresse in die Mangel genommen wird. Dem Schwager droht der Bankrott, wenn die Schreiberlinge mit ihrer Intrigenkampagne weitermachen. Doch als Fielding gegen die Schmierenjournalisten und deren Hinterm?nner vorgehen will, ger?t er selbst in Gefahr.
Prywant detektyw, Lew Archer, otrzymuje typowe zlecenie: ma odnale?? obraz skradziony z zamo?nego domu Biemeyer?w. Obraz jest dzie?em kalifornijskiego malarza, kt?ry rozg?os i s?aw? zdoby? dopiero po swym tajemniczym znikni?ciu. W trakcie poszukiwania zaginionego arcydzie?a wychodz? na jaw tajemnice bohater?w. Archer stopniowo rozwi?zuje zagadk?. Reakcj? na jego dzia?ania jest seria makabrycznych zbrodni.
Det. Roland March is a homicide cop on his way out. But when he's the only one at a crime scene to find evidence of a missing female victim, he's given one last chance to prove himself. Before he can crack the case, he's transferred to a new one that has grabbed the spotlight-the disappearance of a famous Houston evangelist's teen daughter.With the help of a youth pastor with a guilty conscience who navigates the world of church and faith, March is determined to find the missing girls while proving he's still one of Houston 's best detectives.
Early one September, three friends spend the weekend at a remote cabin by Dead Water Lake. With only a pale moon to light their way, they row across the water in the middle of the night. But only two of them return, and they make a pact not to call for help until the following morning. Inspector Sejer leads the investigation when the body is discovered. He is troubled by the apparent suicide and has an overwhelming sense that the surviving pair has something to hide. Weeks pass without further clues, and then in a nearby lake the body of a teenage boy floats to the surface.
Fred Vargas juega sus mejores cartas en una novela policiaca de arquitectura cl?sica y perfecta, que transcurre entre Par?s y la nieve de Quebec.El comisario Adamsberg se dispone a cruzar el Atl?ntico para instruirse en unas nuevas t?cnicas de investigaci?n que est?n desarrollando sus colegas del otro lado del oc?ano. Pero no sabe que el pasado se ha metido en su maleta y le acompa?a en su viaje. En Quebec se encontrar? con una joven asesinada con tres heridas de arma blanca y una cadena de homicidios todos iguales, cometidos por el misterioso Tridente, un asesino fantasmal que persigue al joven comisario, oblig?ndole a enfrentarse al ?nico enemigo del que hay que tener miedo: uno mismo. Adamsberg esta vez tiene problemas muy serios…
"One of the most startling and provocative mysteries I've read in years." – Carl Hiaasen"Read this book, savor the language – it's the last and the most compelling word in thrillers." – James EllroySurreal Bangkok, city of temples and brothels, where Buddhist monks in saffron robes walk the same streets as world-class gangsters, where bodies and souls are for sale or rent, and where the way you die may be more important than the way you live.Inside a locked Mercedes an African-American Marine sergeant is killed by a maddened python and a swarm of cobras. Two ...
At the start of Burdett's superb third mystery-thriller to feature Thai police detective Sonchai Jitpleecheep (after Bangkok 8 and Bangkok Tattoo), Jitpleecheep shows old friend Kimberley Jones, an American FBI agent, a vicious snuff film he's received depicting the murder of an ex-lover of his named Damrong. Jitpleecheep and Jones maintain their complex platonic relationship as, helped by Jitpleecheep's assistant Lek, they pursue Damrong's killers. The trail leads them to an important banker, an American teacher, a Buddhist and an exclusive men's club called the Parthenon. Jitpleecheep, who now lives with Chanya, a former prostitute pregnant with his child, is visited in an erotic way by Damrong's ghost, while his corrupt superior, police colonel Vikorn, orders Jitpleecheep to help start a porn film business. Expertly juggling elements that in lesser hands would become confused or hackneyed, Burdett has created a haunting, powerful story that transcends genre.
Killing customers just isn't good for business."My mother Nong's tone reflects the disappointment we all feel when a star employee starts to go wrong. Is there nothing to be done? Will we have to let dear Chanya go? The question can only be decided by Police Colonel Vikorn, who owns most of the shares in the Old Man's Club and who is on his way in his Bentley."No," I agree. Like my mother's, my eyes cannot stop flicking across the empty bar to the stool where Chanya's flimsy silver dress (just enough silk to cover ...
When a body is found floating in a canal, strangely disfigured and with multiple stab wounds, Commissario Brunetti is called to investigate and is convinced he recognises the man from somewhere. However, with no identification except for the distinctive shoes the man was wearing, and no reports of people missing from the Venice area, the case cannot progress.Brunetti soon realises why he remembers the dead man, and asks Signorina Elettra if she can help him find footage of a farmers’ protest the previous autumn. But what was his involvement with the protest, and what does it have ...
When Car Fairfax starts his mysterious new job, his sole duty seems to be to dine in expensive restaurants, but soon some odd coincidences and dangerous deceits open his eyes to the truth.
Uncle Henry has a history of heart trouble and doesn't wake up one morning. No one, even his physician, is surprised. But dear Aunt Gertrude, listening to Intuition, suspects Foul Play and insists on an autopsy. Since Aunt Gertrude is a cross between a battleship and a Victorian bulldog, an autopsy she gets. Surprise! Uncle Henry was, indeed, poisoned. The problem is that all of his relations have a motive. You see, Uncle Henry was not well liked at all; he took positive delight in thwarting his erstwhile relatives. They included two sisters, one sister-in-law, a niece, two nephews, and an attending physician who all had reason to hate him, and all benefited in one way or another from his unlamented passing.
The 12th mystery in the beloved Inspector and Charlotte Pitt Victorian mystery series, now a hardcover success. When a moneylender named William Weems is murdered, there is discreet rejoicing among those whose meager earnings he devoured. But the plot thickens when Inspector Pitt finds a list of London's distinguished gentlemen in Weems' office.
An omnibus of novelsThese three mysteries are exciting and insightful looks at life inside Nazi Germany – richer and more readable than most histories of the period. We first meet ex-policeman Bernie Gunther in 1936, in March Violets (a term of derision which original Nazis used to describe late converts.) The Olympic Games are about to start; some of Bernie's Jewish friends are beginning to realize that they should have left while they could; and Gunther himself has been hired to look into two murders that reach high into the Nazi Party. In The Pale Criminal, it's 1938, and Gunther has been blackmailed into rejoining the police by Heydrich himself. And in A German Requiem, the saddest and most disturbing of the three books, it's 1947 as Gunther stumbles across a nightmare landscape that conceals even more death than he imagines.
"Alaska's finest mystery writer" (Anchorage Daily News) has given readers a hero to cheer for. Alaska state trooper Sergeant Liam Campbell is the representative of law and order in the fishing village of Newenham-yet struggles to keep his own life on an even keel. Now, just when his future is starting to heat up, he delves into a case of a downed WWII army plane found mysteriously frozen in a glacier.
En Oslo el verano promete ser largo y caluroso. Las elevadas temperaturas del mes de mayo han sorprendido a los noruegos; entre ellos a Hanne Wilhelmsen, que ha sido enviada a investigar un macabro escenario criminal: una caseta abandonada en los arrabales de Oslo regada, literalmente, de sangre. En una de las paredes destacan ocho d?gitos escritos tambi?n en sangre. No hay rastro de la v?ctima. Aunque tampoco es seguro que haya una v?ctima humana hasta que se verifique la procedencia del fluido.Una semana m?s tarde, tambi?n un domingo, se reproduce ...
Someone has set fire to a cottage on the premises of the prestigious Black Lotus Temple in 1691, Japan, killing three sect members. Veteran samurai-detective Sano Ichiro, the Most Honourable Investigator of Events, Situations and People, is uncharacteristically quick to blame a delinquent orphan-girl found fleeing the scene. But his young wife, Reiko, has different ideas. After hearing rumours of ill doings within the sect, and using information privy only to a woman of the samurai class, Reiko finds that newcomers to the Black Lotus are mysteriously disappearing almost as quickly as the sect can convert them. Unfortunately for the ...
Dagger AwardsEager for physical action in the spirit-numbing wake of 9/11, VI Warshawski is glad to take on a routine stake-out for her most important client, Darraugh Graham. His ninety-one year-old mother has sold the family estate, but Geraldine Graham keeps a fretful eye on it from her retirement apartment across the road. When Geraldine sees lights there in the middle of the night, Darraugh sends V I out to investigate-and the detective finds a dead journalist in the ornamental pond. The man is an African-American; when the suburban cops seem to be treating him as a criminal ...
Forced to cope with her claustrophobia and to use all the skills she has developed above ground, park ranger Anna Pigeon enters the dangerous Lechuguilla Cavern in New Mexico's Carlsbad Cavern National Park to attempt a rescue and learns who she can trust and who can be saved.
Nathan Stein-once an attractive, cultured lawyer-has slipped into the dark world of his powerful father's corrupt practice. After one too many shady deals, he finds himself alone, sick in body and spirit. His career and life are careening out of control, and he's about to become the prime suspect in the murder of a young woman. As we follow him over a long day and night, Nathan encounters the friends, lovers, and family members he has betrayed. Lurching toward redemption, he must answer for his actions. Is he a murderer or the victim of an elaborate frame-up? Or do his sins go even deeper? A tale of chilling suspense that belies the elegance of its prose, Blood Acre is a compelling story of one man's harrowing search through the dark streets of the soul.
