This collection of short fiction contains chilling tales of suspense and narratives that embrace southern Appalachian locales and themes: a mountain healer skirmishes with a serial killer; a reincarnated murder victim seeks revenge; and honeymooners in the groom's ancestral home are having second thoughts.
What begins as an adventure soon becomes a nightmare...Locals claim it is haunted and refuse to put a single toe past the front door, but to siblings Peter, Celia, and Margaret, the Priory is nothing more than a rundown estate inherited from their late uncle-and the perfect setting for a much-needed holiday. But when a murder victim is discovered in the drafty Priory halls, the once unconcerned trio begins to fear that the ghostly rumors are true and they are not alone after all! With a killer on the loose, will they find themselves the next victims of a supernatural predator, or will they uncover a far more corporeal culprit?
Elena shocked anyone meeting her for the first time. In her skimpy dresses and bright jewellery, she exuded intelligence and sexuality, challenging all preconceptions. Until one morning, while out jogging, she is bludgeoned to death. Detectives Thomas Lynley and Barbara Havers investigate.
When Amy Klasse loses her TV job to a dancing chicken, handsome veterinarian Jake Elliott rescues her with an offer to be his receptionist. Jake just can't resist a damsel in distress, and Amy certainly doesn't mind Jake's charming sincerity.Then suddenly the job-stealing chicken disappears and Amy is suspected of foul play. Amy and Jake search for clues to prove her innocence. But will Jake be able to prove to Amy that love, too, is a mystery worth solving?
Detectives Mac Taylor, Danny Messer, Sheldon Hawkes, and Don Flack are called in to investigate a double homicide at a medium-security facility on Staten Island. Racial tensions turned the prison into a pressure cooker that finally boiled over in an all-too-lethal fashion, leaving two inmates dead. One of the killings is an open-and-shut case, complete with eyewitnesses; but the other, the murder of a former cop, defies easy answers. Initial investigation of the crime scene points to one cause of death, but the CSI team's scientific methods uncover something completely different – and wholly unexpected…On the other edge ...
Clare Cosi's daughter, Joy, is interning-and falling- for a top New York chef when his kitchen turns cutthroat, and Joy becomes a murder suspect. Clare knows she must catch the real killer-even if it lands her in the hottest water of her life.
Rabbi David Small, the new leader of Barnard's Crossing's Jewish community, can't even enjoy his Sabbath without things getting stirred up in a most unorthodox manner: It seems a young nanny has been found strangled, less than a hundred yards from the Temple's parking lot – and all the evidence points to the Rabbi.
Dagger Awards (nominee)When Commissario Guido Brunetti is visited by a young bureaucrat concerned to investigate the lack of official approval for the building of his apartment years before, his first reaction, like any other Venetian, even a cop, is to think of whom he knows who might bring pressure to bear on the relevant local government department. But when the bureaucrat rings him at work, clearly scared by some information he plans to give Brunetti, and is then found dead after a fall from scaffolding, something is clearly going on that has implications rather greater than the fate of Guido's own apartment. Brunetti's investigations take him into unfamiliar areas of Venetian life – drug abuse and loan-sharking – while the deaths of two young drug addicts and the arrest – and subsequent release – of a suspected drug-dealer, reveal, once again, what a difference it makes in Venice to have friends in high places.
This Boston-based mystery stars smart and sassy Beantown Banner reporter Liz Higgins, who rails at being assigned only light news highlighted in front page teasers. She vows to change that by finding a missing mom and nailing front-page news in the process. Liz's quest takes her into Boston's lively Irish pub/Celtic music scene, the elegant Wellesley landscape, and as far as Fiji. Along the way, she courageously pursues a tangle of clues and falls for two very different men: the enigmatic forensics expert Dr. Cormack Kinnaird and the warmhearted Tom Horton, who pastes ads on the huge billboard that dwarfs Liz's tiny house on the edge of the Mass Pike.
Set in the medieval town of Shrewsbury, this is the third in the compelling '-Martha Gunn' series – When a woman arrives in A and E clutching a child in a pink blanket, Martha Gunn is not quite ready to make the discovery that the evening has in store for her. The baby is dead, and not only that, it has been mummified. Post mortem reveals the child to be a new born, deceased for over five years and, despite the mysterious woman's protestations that it is called '-poppy', most certainly a boy. As always coroner Martha Gunn reserves judgement until she is able to get to the bottom of the case.
Victoria Warshawski es una investigadora privada que procede de los barrios del sur de Chicago, donde la inmigraci?n, las drogas, los embarazos adolescentes y el absentismo escolar son una constante. Aquejada de c?ncer, la entrenadora de baloncesto del instituto donde ella estudi? le pide que asuma el control del equipo femenino, y Warshawski no puede negarse.El equipo est? compuesto por adolescentes de minor?as raciales, algunas de ellas con hijos, y todas procedentes de familias humildes. La mayor?a de los padres de las chicas trabaja en By-Smart, una cadena de hipermercados que explota y discrimina a sus empleados.
La joven y bonita Junko Aoki naci? con el don de la piroquinesis: la capacidad de provocar incendios por medio de la mente. Junko aprendi? a controlar su poder y a utilizarlo para ajustar cuentas con los criminales a los que la justicia no pudo meter entre rejas.Un fortuito encuentro la llevar? a buscar a una joven secuestrada por una banda de depravados. El macabro rastro de cad?veres que Junko deja tras de s?, atrae la atenci?n de dos grupos muy diferentes: una sociedad secreta conocida como los Guardianes y la Brigada de Investigaci?n ...
At The Society for the Preservation of Pennsylvania Antiques, fundraiser Eleanor "Nell" Pratt solicits donations-and sometimes solves crimes. When a collection of George Washington's letters is lost on the same day that an archivist is found dead, it seems strange that the Society president isn't pushing for an investigation. Nell goes digging herself, and soon uncovers a long, rich history of crime.
Breslau, 1 stycznia 1937 roku, kwadrans na pi?t? rano. Eberhard Mock niespodziewanie dostaje rozkaz poprowadzenia ?ledztwa w sprawie morderstwa. Ofiar? jest m?oda kobieta – okaleczona, zgwa?cona i zabita, jej cia?o znaleziono w podrz?dnym hotelu, znanym jako miejsce schadzek. By?a cudzoziemk?, a w jej skromnym baga?u znajdowa?a si? maszyna do pisania z francuskimi znakami. Czy hitlerowskie w?adze s?usznie podejrzewaj? polityczny charakter zbrodni, przypuszczalnie wymierzonej w III Rzesz?? Jaki zwi?zek ze spraw? ma pi?kna czarnooka kobieta, kilkakrotnie widziana na granicy polsko-niemieckiej? Mock – tym razem w randze kapitana abwery – niech?tny nowym porz?...
Wielbiciele Raymonda Chandlera i Alistaira MacLeana – czas zrpbi? miejsce na p??ce: nadchodzi Artur Baniewicz!G?ra Trzech Szkielet?w to zaskakuj?ca do ostatniej strony, trzymaj?ca w napi?ciu historia polsko-ba?ka?skich przyg?d detektywa Ma?kosza, nawi?zuj?ca do najlepszych tradycji krymina?u i powie?ci sensacyjnej. Dynamiczna, filmowa wr?cz akcja, wyraziste postaci, pe?ne humoru dialogi, brawura i… mi?o?? – fascynuj?ca powie?? Artura Baniewicza to dobitny dow?d na to, ?e… Polak potrafi!Marcin Ma?kosz jest cz?owiekiem o bujnej przesz?o?ci, saperem i by?ym oficerem ...
In this first Inspector Banks novel, a peeping tom is frightening the women of Eastvale; two young thugs are breaking into homes; and an old woman may or may not have been murdered. Inspector Banks investigates these cases, which weave together as the story reaches a tense climax.
A Sharon McCone mystery, in which the detective is hired by a reclusive photographer to find his missing roommate, and when she is found dead, McCone has to confront numerous suspects.
Obscene graffiti, poison pen letters and a disgusting effigy greeted Harriet Vane on her return to Oxford. A graduate of ten years before and now a successful novelist, this should have been a pleasant, nostalgic visit for her. She asks her lover, Lord Peter Wimsey, for help.
Podczas wystawnego przyj?cia wydanego na cze?? s?dziego okr?gowego Pinchasa Hornsztyka zostaje zamordowana jego ?ona Aleksandra, ambitna kobieta interesu. Uczestnicz?ca w przyj?ciu Lizzi Badihi, "ksi??niczka miejscowego brukowca", postanawia podj?? prywatne ?ledztwo. Rozwik?anie zagadkowego zab?jstwa staje si? dla niej spraw? presti?ow?. Frapuj?ca intryga kryminalna, kt?ra zadowoli najwybredniejszych koneser?w tego gatunku powie?ci, nie jest jednak jedyn? zalet? ksi??ki. W miar? rozwoju akcji ciekawym przeobra?eniom podlega te? sama jej bohaterka, g??wnie za spraw? niekonwencjonalnych przyg?d erotycznych. Czytelnik znajdzie tu te? sporo ciekawych obrazk?w z ?ycia wsp??czesnej izraelskiej prowincji.
Neeve Kearny, c?rka emerytowanego komisarza nowojorskiej policji, jest w?a?cicielk? drogiego butiku z wytwornymi strojami od znanych projektant?w. Do najlepszych jej klientek nale?y Ethel Lambston, znana pisarka i publicystka o z?o?liwym pi?rze. Gdy Ethel przez kilka dni nie odbiera zam?wionej garderoby, Neeve zaczyna si? niepokoi?. Wielu ludzi, w?r?d nich by?y m?? pisarki i zach?anny bratanek, ucieszy?oby si?, gdyby autorka kontrowersyjnych artyku??w znikn??a na zawsze. Z?e przeczucia Neeve potwierdzaj? si? – w parku stanowym zostaje znalezione cia?o zamordowanej Ethel. Neeve, b?d?ca wa?nym ?wiadkiem w ?ledztwie, uczestniczy w skomplikowanym dramacie chciwo?ci, ambicji i bezwzgl?dnego d??enia do rozg?osu. Nie wie, ?e jej samej r?wnie? zagra?a ?miertelne niebezpiecze?stwo.
Dick Francis "Gef?lscht", originalausgabe: "In the Frame". Pferdemaler Charles Todd hat sich auf ein gem?tliches Wochenende bei seinem Cousin eingestellt. Dieser jedoch empf?ngt ihn tief verst?rt — denn vor wenigen Stunden ist gerade seine Ehefrau ermordet worden.Der Verdacht der Polizei f?llt schon bald auf Donald, der nicht die Kraft hat, die Vorw?rfe zur?ckzuweisen. Todd scheut weder M?he noch Gefahr, um Donalds Unschuld zu beweisen. Skrupellosen Kunsth?ndlern auf der Spur, reist er durch ganz Australien. Doch seine Nachforschungen bleiben nicht unbemerkt, und bald wird der Verfolger zum Verfolgten…
Edward Lincoln ist ein ber?hmter Schauspieler. Auf der Leinwand mimt er den mutigen Helden, den st?rmischen Liebhaber und liefert den Verbrechern halsbrecherische Verfolgungsjagden. Au?erhalb der Filmstudios ist er nichts als ein zufriedener Familienvater und gew?hnlicher B?rger. S?dafrika, wo Lincoln f?r seinen j?ngsten Film Werbung machen soll, ist nun allerdings nicht gew?hnlich. Dort lauern die Gefahren nicht nur vor der Kamera: eine bis oben mit Sprengstoff gef?llte Goldmine, ein Naturreservat voller Raubtiere und ein unheilvolles Gest?t feuriger Vollblutpferde, die kein einziges Rennen gewinnen… Seine beste Rolle spielt Lincoln ohne ...
Dick Francis "Gegenzug",original: "The Edge".Schauplatz dieser Geschichte voller Dramatik und Intrigen ist ein Million?rsexpre?, der die spektakul?re Landschaft Kanadas durchquert. An Bord sind reiche Pferdebesitzer, die ihre Pferde in Toronto, Winnipeg und Vancouver an den Start begleiten wollen. Und ein eiskalter Erpresser, f?r den Mord nur eine Alternative unter vielen darstellt.
The hardboiled world of James Hadley Chase, the thriller maestro, is recaptured in this new edition of tough and gritty tales.An early morning stroll in the park, or a lonely cross-country drive to Florida; evading arrest in war-torn Cuba, or sipping bourbon in the Bronx—it makes no odds, serious trouble lies just around the corner…. The sleazy jungle of lamp-lit streets, faded hotel lobbies and soulless freeways is the setting for a menagerie of typically brash Chase characters: all-metal blondes that weaken your resistance, merciless thugs in uniform and third-rate double-crossers.Fast-paced and crackling with ...
