From Publishers WeeklyBestsellers Patterson and Gross (Lifeguard) once again deliver what their fans expect in this slapdash revenge thriller. When mob godfather Dominic Cavello is finally brought to trial by FBI agent Nick Pellisante, his longtime nemesis, the accused is strangely unconcerned even as a parade of his former criminal associates finger him as having ordered a hit on a corrupt businessman. The gangster's plan to intimidate the decision-makers at his trial reaches its climax when he arranges for a bomb to blow up the bus transporting the jury. The sole survivor teams up with Pellisante to ...
From Publishers WeeklyWritten under the pen name J.D. Robb, this futuristic mysteryDset in New York City, year 2059Dshowcases veteran writer Nora Roberts's skills at their best. It's as tough, smart, sassy and successful as its heroine, police lieutenant Eve Dallas. The story opens in the upscale nightclub Purgatory, where Dallas discovers the brutally slain body of a fellow officer; another cop is murdered soon thereafter. Both men, it appears, were on the take, and both were connected to elusive criminal Max Ricker. Dallas 's investigation, which exposes crime and police corruption, puts both her reputation and ...
Jack Norton es un Caminante Fantasma, un francotirador gen?ticamente realzado con un sentido despiadado de la justicia, un fantasma bienvenido por el anonimato de la noche. Pero una misi?n de rescate a su hermano en la jungla lo ha dejado vulnerable a las fuerzas rebeldes. Su ?nica salvaci?n es su poder de telepat?a. Entonces se encuentra con Briony, una inusual belleza en una misi?n por s? misma. Pero comparten algo m?s que el calor bochornoso…Briony comparte los poderes de los Cazadores Fantasmas. Aunque es diferente. No sabe qu? es, o de qu? es capaz. Pero sus enemigos s?. Y el vuelo de Jack y Briony los llevar? a una espantosa conspiraci?n de mente y cuerpo, a trav?s del globo y dentro del coraz?n de la oscuridad, donde la sorprendente verdad es algo que ninguno de ellos podr?a haber previsto o de la que puedan escapar…
Despu?s de ser torturado, el ex SEAL y Caminante Fantasma, Jess Calhoun, regresa a su ciudad natal en Sheridan, Wyoming, donde posee una estaci?n de radio local. Sus intenciones son vivir tranquilamente, escribir canciones y realizar su fisioterapia.Saber Wynter contesta a un anuncio para la estaci?n de radio… el trabajo perfecto de noche para ella. Es afortunada al alquilarle a Jess, el segundo piso de la estaci?n, en donde tambi?n puede trabajar como un ama de casa de medio jornada.Jess pasa la mayor parte de su tiempo encerrado y aislado en su oficina privada. Pero frente a la fragilidad e inocencia de Saber se despierta en su alma, el poderoso deseo de protegerla, cuidarla y… amarla.
Comenz? como una misi?n para encontrar a un pol?tico muy conocido cuyo avi?n se estrell? en el Congo. Pero la riesgosa operaci?n tom? un giro inesperado cuando Mari, un miembro f?sicamente mejorado del equipo de rescate, fue tomada como reh?n por las fuerzas rebeldes.Ahora, encarcelada en un recinto aislado, Mari tiene s?lo una oportunidad para sobrevivir: escapar. Pero ella no contaba con Ken Norton, un experto asesino y un guerrero Fantasmas, que lucha para dejar atr?s las paredes de la prisi?n en una misi?n por s? mismo… una que involucra al propio pasado de Mari y al destino misterioso de su hermana gemela… y que unir? a Ken y a Mari en una pasi?n embriagadora que subir? las apuestas en el juego m?s mortal de supervivencia que ellos hayan jugado alguna vez.
John Katzenbach, maestro del suspenso psicol?gico, nos enfrenta de nuevo a una trama tan hipn?tica como las de El psicoanalista y La historia del loco.Matthew Cowart, un famoso y ya establecido periodista de Miami, recibe la carta de un hombre condenado a muerte que asegura ser inocente.Pese a su escepticismo inicial, Cowart empieza a investigar el caso, comprende que el acusado no cometi? los delitos que se le imputan y pone al descubierto mediante sus art?culos una informaci?n que permite al convicto Robert Earl Fergurson salir en libertad.Cowart obtiene entonces un premio Pulitzer por su tarea period?stica. Sin embargo, y para su horror, el escritor se percata de que ha puesto en marcha una tremenda m?quina de matar y que ahora le toca a ?l intentar, en una carrera contra el reloj, que se haga justicia fuera de los tribunales.
"One of those rare novels that have it all… I was swept away." – Sara GruenTwenty-five-year-old Julie Jacobs is heartbroken over the death of her beloved aunt Rose. But the shock goes even deeper when she learns that the woman who has been like a mother to her has left her entire estate to Julie's twin sister. The only thing Julie receives is a key – one carried by her mother on the day she herself died – to a safety-deposit box in Siena, Italy.This key sends Julie on a journey that will change her life forever – a ...
Reporter Matt Cowart's explosive investigative journalism succeeds in freeing a convicted rapist and murderer. But has his dedication to freeing "an innocent man" actually turned a ruthless killer loose again?
From Publishers WeeklyJust one look at Coben's latest stand-alone thriller (after No Second Chance) highlights the author's customary strengths (swift pacing, strong lead characters) but also his weaknesses, including limited originality and, in this case, a plot so complicated that many final pages are devoted to sorting it out. The premise is simple enough: suburban housewife Grace Lawson collects some pictures at the local Photomat; inexplicably, one is an old print depicting her husband, Jack, with other college students; when Grace shows the photo to Jack, he drives away-and disappears. Grace's hunt for her missing husband, whom ...
From Publishers WeeklyThe 11th adventure of Santa Teresa, Calif., PI Kinsey Milhone has a dark tone-due in great part to Kinsey's working this case mostly at night. Kinsey agrees to look into the 10-month-old death of Lorna Kepler, a young woman whose decomposed body was discovered in her cabin so long after death that it was impossible to determine the cause. Kinsey's client, Lorna's mother, who works the night shift in a 24-hour diner, suspects murder. So does Kinsey, especially after investigating Lorna's effects and her considerable assets, some unaccounted-for. An anonymously delivered pornographic tape adds to ...
Jim Rook, nauczyciel angielskiego w West Grove Community College w Los Angeles, obdarzony zdolno?ci? postrzegania zjawisk nadprzyrodzonych, ma od nowego roku now? podopieczn? – Indiank? Navaho Catherine Bia?y Ptak. Po jakim? czasie do szko?y z r??nych ?r?de? zaczynaj? nap?ywa? gro?ne sygna?y. Duch dziadka zapowiada nadej?cie tajemniczego zagro?enia ze wschodu; kto? demoluje szkoln? szatni?; policja znajduje nieludzko zmasakrowane zw?oki ch?opca Catherine. Rook dowiaduje si?, ?e Catherine jest rytualnie zar?czona z Indianinem z Arizony, kt?ry wys?a? za ni? demoniczn? besti? w celu ostrze?enia jej przed nawi?zaniem stosunk?w z m??czyznami. Ofiar? bestii pada narzeczona Jima. Demon, b?d?cy wcieleniem z?o?liwego india?skiego ducha Coyote, planuje masakr? wszystkich uczni?w Rooka…
Do wybrze?y Stan?w Zjednoczonych zbli?a si? statek z nielegalnymi chi?skimi imigrantami na pok?adzie.Przemytem tych ludzi kieruje nieuchwytny Kwang Ang, poszukiwany przez policj? wielu kraj?w. Okr?t tonie niedaleko brzegu, ale cz??ci imigrant?w udaje si? dotrze? do l?du. Kwang Ang znika w Nowym Jorku, a Lincoln Rhyme zostaje poproszony o pomoc w poszukiwaniach przest?pcy, kt?ry nie zawaha si? przed zg?adzeniem ka?dego, kto m?g?by go zidentyfikowa?. Wszystkim ocala?ym z katastrofy Chi?czykom grozi ?mier?. Rhyme musi uj?? morderc?, zanim ten do nich dotrze.
Agentka FBI, Rachel Walling, dostaje w ko?cu wiadomo??, kt?rej obawia?a si? przez lata – dowiaduje si?, ?e Poeta powr?ci?. Wiele lat temu pracowa?a nad t? s?ynn? spraw?, ?cigaj?c seryjnego morderc? wplataj?cego w swe ohydne zbrodnie fragmenty wierszy. Rachel nigdy nie zapomnia?a Roberta Backusa, zab?jcy, kt?ry nazywa? siebie Poet? – i najwidoczniej on r?wnie? jej nie zapomnia?.U Harry'ego Boscha r?wnie? dzwoni telefon. Emerytowany detektyw z policji Los Angeles dowiaduje si? od ?ony dawnego przyjaciela o jego ?mierci. Jej przyczyna wydaje si? naturalna, lecz przyjaciel mia? zwi?zek ...
W Edynburgu zagin??a studentka… Tyle ?e nie jaka? tam, a c?rka niezwykle zamo?nego i wielce wp?ywowego bankiera. Brak wszelkich ?lad?w, a detektyw inspektor John Rebus nabiera prze?wiadczenia, i? chodzi tu o co? wi?cej ni?li tylko wyskok zbuntowanej smarkuli, kt?rej do g?owy uderzy?y pieni?dze tatusia i nie tylko. Pojawiaj? si? dwa tropy: drewniana laleczka w pi?tnastocentymetrowej trumience, kt?r? kto? podrzuci? nad brzegiem strumienia i interaktywna gra internetowa, kt?r? zarz?dza tajemniczy cybernetyczny guru. Dramatyczne zdarzenia i zawzi?ty up?r detektywa, kt?ry woli s?ucha? starych longplay?w ni? plik?w MP3 powoduj?, ?e historia i wsp??czesno?? zaczynaj? si? z sob? miesza? i wzajemnie przenika?.
The New York Times bestselling author of the acclaimed Nina Reilly series returns with a bold and gripping new work, a masterful stand-alone that will delight devoted fans – and garner legions of new ones. This haunting and original tale of love, obsession, and the secrets that we keep – especially from ourselves – begins with a sudden, inexplicable vanishing.For ambitious, troubled architect Ray Jackson, the questions start one sultry California summer night when his wife, Leigh, disappears. No phone call, no ransom note, no body to reveal whether she has left of her own accord and is alive, or ...
Kate Brannigan, feisty Manchester-based PI, is back, investigating the bizarre case of the missing conservatories. Before Long she's up to her neck in crooked land deals, mortgage scams, financial chicanery – and murder. But when a favour for a friend puts Kate's own life in danger, bizarre is not the first word she thinks of…
When Irene Kelly's articles profiling missing children run in the Las Piernas Express, she anticipates the renewed public interest and the deluge of phone tips and remembered clues; she even anticipates the renewed pain of the anguished parents. What she doesn't expect is that the articles will set off a murderous chain reaction – and put her life in peril.Perhaps one of the more tragic disappearances in recent Las Piernas history was that of Jenny Fletcher, just shy of her fourth birthday. The body of Jenny's father, Richard, a graphic artist, was found bludgeoned in his studio; hours ...
New York Times bestselling author Karen Rose delivers another pulse-pounding suspense novel that ties into SCREAM FOR ME.Five teenage girls have been murdered. One survived, and only she can reveal the secrets of a disturbing ring of people who kidnap and sell teenage girls on the black market. But those responsible for the crimes will do whatever it takes to maintain her silence.Susannah Vartanian and Luke Papadopoulos have both sworn to stop the murderers for their own reasons. Susannah, the sister of the hero in SCREAM FOR ME, suffers from a mysterious past that is ...
