After being out of print for many years, this classic Mafia thriller returns in a new package. When Stacy Wyatt is broken out of prison and brought to Sicily, his only choice is to enter the mob. He is assigned to rescue a wealthy businessman’s daughter from a bandit kidnapper. It’s only when he's in too deep that he realizes the tables have turned, the job was a setup, and the only person left to trust is himself.
From Publishers WeeklyIn this top-notch fourth novel in Burke's series featuring ex-Texas Ranger attorney Billy Bob Holland, Billy Bob has moved his family and practice to the pastoral city of Missoula, Mont., the setting of his last adventure (Bitterroot, 2001), only to discover that the psychopathic ex-biker/rodeo clown, Wyatt Dixon (who buried Billy Bob's private investigator wife, Temple, alive), is out of prison on a technicality and claiming to be a born-again Christian. Billy Bob befriends alcoholic Desert Storm hero Johnny American Horse, a sometime breeder of horses and eco-activist who-when not in the drunk tank-is carrying ...
This anthology was edited by Michael Connelly. His essay is called "Once Upon a Midnight Dreary."A collection of stories by thriller master Edgar Allan Poe with essays by beloved and bestselling writers, to commemorate the 200th anniversary of Poe's birth. Authors involved include Michael Connelly, Jeffery Deaver, Nelson DeMille, Tess Gerritsen, Sue Grafton, Stephen King, Lisa Scottoline, Laura Lippman, and twelve others.***Few have crafted stories as haunting as those by Edgar Allan Poe. Collected here to commemorate the 200th anniversary of Poe's birth are sixteen of his best tales accompanied by twenty essays from ...
Anthony AwardsBarry AwardsEdgar AwardsMacavity Awards***When he was twelve years old, Adam Ryan went playing in the woods one sunny day with his two best friends. He never saw them again. Their bodies were never found, and Adam himself was discovered with his back pressed against an oak tree and his shoes filled with blood. He had no memory of what had happened. Twenty years later Adam – now using his middle name of Rob – is a detective with the Dublin police force. His colleagues don't know about his past. He works ...
The quiet scandal surrounding her parents' deaths 20 years ago sends Beryl Tavistock on a search for the truth from Paris to Greece. As she enters a world of international espionage, Beryl discovers she needs help and turns to a suave ex-CIA agent. But in a world where trust is a double-edged sword, friends become enemies and enemies become killers.
El comisario Bernal, de la Polic?a Judicial madrile?a, y su beata esposa Eugenia est?n pasando la Semana Santa en C?diz, donde ella medita sobre el divorcio que le ha solicitado su marido al tiempo que hace ejercicios espirituales en un convento. Aunque su visita a C?diz obedece a motivos personales, Bernal se ve obligado a intervenir en la investigaci?n policial a que da lugar el hallazgo del cad?ver de un submarinista en unas redes de pesca. Pero si el submarinista no se ha ahogado -cosa que demuestra la autopsia-, ?c?mo se ...
In her role as consort of Jean-Claude, the seductive Master Vampire of the City, Anita Blake is faced with a dangerous conflict of interest-and her struggle to control her fierce desires-when she is called in to assist with the search for a vampire serial killer preying on strippers. Reprint.
The internationally bestselling author shows off her superb talent with this brilliantly conceived, skillfully executed tale of suspense.In Karin Slaughter's exciting new thriller, an officer is shot point-blank in the Grant County police station and police chief Jeffrey Tolliver is wounded, setting off a terrifying hostage situation with medical examiner Sara Linton at the center. Working outside the station, Lena Adams, newly reinstated to the force, and Frank Wallace, Jeffrey's second in command, must try to piece together who the shooter is and how to rescue their friends before Jeffrey dies. For the sins of the past have caught up with Sara and Jeffrey – with a vengeance…Deftly interweaving present and past, Slaughter – dubbed "the new face of crime" by Book magazine – offers another brilliant knife-edge tale of suspense that cements her place among the most outstanding practitioners of crime fiction today.
Seit Jahrhunderten geh?rt die L?sung des R?tsels um den Stein der Weisen zu den ?ltesten Sehns?chten der Menschen. Denn hier liegt der Schl?ssel zum ewigen Leben und zu der geheimnisvollen Formel, die Blei in Gold verwandeln soll. Das uralte Voynich-Manuskript verspricht eine Antwort! Doch nun ist es verschwunden, und Indiana Jones bricht auf, um das unsch?tzbar wertvolle Dokument wiederzubeschaffen. Er setzt sich auf die F?hrte des fanatischen Wissenschaftlers Leonardo Sarducci, der das Manuskript gestohlen hat. Die Spuren f?hren in die W?ste -und in die ?lteste Krypta der Welt. Eine t?dliche Falle f?r Indiana Jones?Autor - Max McCoy, preisgekr?nter Journalist und Autor mehrerer Romane, lebt in Pittsburg, Kansas
Sarah Pribek, una detective de Mine?polis especializada en desapariciones, protege la identidad de una amiga suya, Genevieve. Ambas persiguieron, encontraron y mataron a Royce Stewart, violador y asesino de la hija de Genevieve, en una trama en la que se vio involucrado el marido de Sarah, que se encuentra en la carcel. Nadie del departamento de polic?a entiende el extra?o proceder de la detective, que est? protegiendo a una criminal, y un inspector llega a la ciudad para investigarla… Una historia donde las cosas no tienen las motivaciones correctas, o al menos las que se presume que deberian ser.
An action packed, razor sharp thriller featuring LA private eye Elvis Cole. Meet Elvis Cole. Vietnam Veteran, private eye who carries a.38 and is determined never to grow up. 15 year old Teri Hewitt has been left holding the babies now that her dad, Clark has disappeared without trace. She wants Cole to find him. The search reveals a chronically unemployed drug addict caught up in counterfeiting scams and mixed up with the Russian mafia and Vietnamese Gunmen. As the action heads towards a gunfight in Disneyland and Cole dodges his almost girlfriend's husband, Indigo Slam shapes up into the most entertaining and exciting American crime novel for years.
First it was a limo driver shot through the neck with a crossbow. Then it was a high-priced escort stabbed through the heart with a bayonet.Random hits, thrill kills, murderers with a taste for the finer things in life – and death – are making NYPSD Lieutenant Eve Dallas angry. And an angry Eve can be just as an efficient and dangerous predator as the killer.As time runs out on another innocent victim's life, Eve's investigation will take her into the rarified circle that her husband, Roarke, travels in – and into the perverted heart of madness…
After Paige Winterbourne is ousted as leader of the American Coven of Witches, all she wants to do is hide under her duvet for a few months. Let the supernatural world manage without her, see if she cares… But fate, of course, has other plans. A murderer is on the loose – someone with superhuman skills. When Paige learns that the killer is targeting children, she realises she has to get involved in the covert investigation. And so Paige – desperate to protect those she loves – is thrown into a world of arrogant Cabal leaders, drunken necromancers, sulky druid gods and pretentious leather-clad vampires. Luckily, she has a female werewolf and a certain renegade sorcerer on her side…
La antrop?loga forense Temperance Brennan es una de las primeras personas en acudir al monte donde acaba de estrellarse un peque?o avi?n de pasajeros. Casi todos ellos eran estudiantes que formaban parte de un equipo de b?isbol, y entre las v?ctimas tambi?n podr?a encontrarse Katy, la hija de Tempe.Asustada la doctora decide investigar los motivos de la tragedia y, a partir de ese momento, se ver? envuelta en una conspiraci?n dirigida a entorpecer por todos los medios su trabajo y acabar con su vida.
The phenomenal series set in a future New York City returns as NYPSD Lt. Eve Dallas hunts for the killer of a seemingly ordinary history teacher-and uncovers some extraordinary surprises. Craig Foster's death devastated his young wife, who'd sent him to work that day with a lovingly packed lunch. It shocked his colleagues at the private school, too, and as for the ten-year-old girls who found him in his classroom in a pool of bodily fluids-they may have been traumatized for life.Eve soon determines that Foster's homemade lunch was tainted with deadly ricin, and that Mr. Foster's ...
Sick of hearing about vampires? So is Meena Harper.But her bosses are making her write about them anyway, even though Meena doesn't believe in them.Not that Meena isn't familiar with the supernatural. See, Meena Harper knows how you're going to die. (Not that you're going to believe her. No one ever does.)But not even Meena's precognition can prepare her for what happens when she meets – then makes the mistake of falling in love with – Lucien Antonescu, a modern-day prince with a bit of a dark side. It's a dark side a lot of ...
Torture.Ghost detainees.And a massive cover-up that continues even today.This is the propulsive thriller that only former CIA operative turned bestselling novelist Barry Eisler could write.Marooned in a Manila jail after a bar fight fatality, black ops soldier Ben Treven gets a visit from his former commander, Colonel Scott Horton, who explains the price of Ben's release: Find and eliminate Daniel Larison, a rogue operator from Ben's unit who has stolen ninety-two torture tapes from the CIA and is using them to blackmail the U.S. government.But other players are ...
Carlos Fuentes w tej niedu?ej, ale fascynuj?cej bogactwem nastroj?w i przemy?le? opowie?ci, m?wi, ?e "wszystko, co ukryte, czeka po prostu na nasze uwa?ne spojrzenie". Pozornie banalny romans, stanowi?cy g??wny w?tek powie?ci, eksploduje dramatyzmem, sk?aniaj?c czytelnika do zastanowienia si? nad zagadk? mijaj?cego czasu i odradzaj?cej si? w kolejnych wcieleniach mi?o?ci.Zag??biaj?c si? w "podw?jny", stworzony przez Fuentesa ?wiat, znajdujemy odpowied? na pytania, kt?re przed nami stawia. Ale mo?e nie b?dzie to odpowied? jednoznaczna, lecz inna dla ...
In early spring of 2059, Lieutenant Eve Dallas is called off planet to face a grueling ordeal – giving a seminar at the largest police conference of the year, to be held in a swanky resort. A resort which just happens to be owned by her husband, Roarke, of course.Even though Eve can't quite see it that way, it's supposed to be at least partly a vacation. But work intrudes in the form of a bloody homicide, and Eve is off and running. The case is complicated by Eve's personal history with the victim – and by the killer's history with Roarke. As danger closes in and the body count rises, Eve must find a way to stop the cycle of violence and revenge, and shove the past back where it belongs.
A nine year old boy is found raped and murdered at the bottom of a well near a beach resort in southern Italy. A Senegalese itinerant peddler is accused in what looks like a hopeless case taken on by Guido Guerrieri, counsel for the defence. Faced with small-town racism fuelled by recent immigration from Africa, Guido attempts to exploit the esoteric workings of the Italian courts. More than a perfectly paced legal thriller, this is a relentless suspense novel that goes way beyond the genre.
