ON THE VERY LAST DAY EVER, EVERYTHING WILL HAPPEN The symptoms have been studied, the diagnosis is confirmed, the prognosis is bleak. The universe will cease to exist in just twelve hours – just twelve hours, during which time all of the loose ends must be tied up, all of the Big Questions answered and all of the Ultimate Truths revealed. It promises to be a somewhat hectic twelve hours. During which… a Brentford shopkeeper will complete a sitting room for God. A Chiswick woman will uncover the Metaphenomena of the Multiverse. An aging Supervillain will put the finishing touches ...
Where SUN AND SHADOW took place in the cold of winter, NEVER END takes the seasonally diametrically opposite milieu of a summer heatwave, making the book perfect beach holiday reading. The inappropriately named Chief Inspector Erik Winter is called in to investigate an attack on a teenage girl returning home after enjoying the weather at the local beauty spot. The girl seems reluctant to reveal much about her ordeal, only reporting it to the police after destroying vital evidence.After a second, more serious attack, Winter realises the crimes are similar to an unsolved case from years ago ...
rom the acclaimed author of STILL MISSING comes a psychological thriller about one woman’s search into her past and the deadly truth she uncovers.All her life, Sara Gallagher has wondered about her birth parents. As an adopted child with two sisters who were born naturally to her parents, Sara’s home life was not ideal. The question of why she was given up for adoption has always haunted her. Finally, she is ready to take steps and find closure.But some questions are better left unanswered.After months of research, Sara locates her birth ...
Linwood Barclay is back with more unexpected twists and superb characters in a spine-tingling, mesmerizing thriller about a husband whose wife disappears, along with everything he thought he knew about their life together.David Harwood, a reporter in Promise Falls, New York, is stressed out. The newspaper he works for is outsourcing jobs to India, he can't get a solid lead on the corrupt for-profit prison moving to town, and his wife, Jan, is struggling with a bout of depression. As a much-needed break, David and Jan decide to take their four-year-old son, Ethan, to a local amusement ...
Twenty years after her father's plane crashes in the jungles of Southeast Asia, Willy Jane Maitland is finally tracking his last moves. Willy knows she can't proceed without the help of ex-army officer Guy Barnard. But in a place where truth has many faces, she suspects even Guy has hidden motives. What she is prepared for are the shocking secrets and undeniable attractions.
From Publishers WeeklyWoods's latest (after Palindrome) is a slick thriller set in Manhattan's Upper East Side, the stomping ground of Stone Barrington, a well-bred but unpretentious detective who, in a city of several million people, always ends up in the right place at the right time. Late one evening, as Stone trudges home from Elaine's Restaurant, popular TV newscaster Sasha Nijinsky plummets 12 stories from her terrace and lands on a heap of dirt 20 yards away from him-remarkably, still alive. Stone fails to apprehend the person who flees Sasha's penthouse and, after the ambulance carrying her collides with ...
When a monster named Isaac McQueen—taken down by Eve back in her uniform days—escapes from Rikers, he has two things in mind. One is to pick up where he left off, abducting young victims and leaving them scarred in both mind and body. The other is to get revenge on the woman who stopped him all those years ago.
Estocolmo. Nova es una joven activista de Greenpeace. Una noche entra en una casa en el centro de la ciudad aprovechando que los due?os no est?n para realizar una «acci?n de protesta». Pero cuando entra se encuentra con un espect?culo escalofriante: el due?o de la casa, Josef K. Larsson y su mujer han sido brutalmente asesinados y sus cuerpos yacen en la cama, junto a su perro, tambi?n muerto.Amanda es la polic?a al cargo de la investigaci?n de los cr?menes en casa de Josef K. Larsson. Al principio cree que Nova podr?a ser la autora del crimen y decide investigarla.Finalmente Nova es detenida por la polic?a, pero en realidad lo que ocurre es que ella les ayuda a encontrar al verdadero asesino.
Qu? har?a un padre por proteger a su hijo? ?Hasta d?nde estar?a dispuesto a llegar? ?Le espiar?a??Llegar?a a mantenerle localizado permanente por el GPS de su m?vil? Es lo que hacen Tia y Mike Baye, aunque vigilarle as? no impedir? que Adam, su hijo de 16 a?os, desaparezca tras el suicidio de su mejor amigo. Ambos se lanzar?n a una ag?nica b?squeda, mientras van conociendo con espanto que, en el fondo, no saben nada de la vida de su hijo.
Las cartas que Kyla escrib?a a su marido, el sargento Richard Stroud, hablaban de otro mundo, de un amor que se extend?a por oc?anos enteros y un?a a la joven pareja para siempre. Pero la tragedia acab? con el matrimonio demasiado pronto y Kyla se qued? sola con su hijo reci?n nacido. Richard le dej? s?lo una caja de metal que conten?a sus cartas de amor.Trevor Rule hab?a sido el mejor amigo de Richard y al que el difunto le hab?a dejado las cartas de su esposa. Con cada l?nea que le?a, Trevor se enamoraba m?s y m?s de la mujer dulce y apasionada que las hab?a escrito. Ahora ten?a que hacerla ver lo que sent?a y convencerla de que ambos ten?an derecho a ser felices superando la tragedia de la muerte de Richard.Pero Trevor ocultaba un secreto que podr?a poner en peligro el amor por el que tanto estaba luchando.
Od ?mierci Elizabeth z r?k seryjnego zab?jcy min??o osiem lat, ale m?ody lekarz David Beck nie potrafi o niej zapomnie?. Niespodziewanie poczt? elektroniczn? otrzymuje niezbity dow?d, ?e jego ?ona nadal ?yje. Jak to mo?liwe, skoro jej cia?o zosta?o zidentyfikowane ponad wszelk? w?tpliwo??? "Bez po?egnania" – "Trzy dni przed ?mierci? matka wyzna?a – to by?y niemal jej ostatnie s?owa – ?e m?j brat wci?? ?yje" – tak zaczyna si? najnowszy thriller Cobena. Od dnia, w kt?rym brat Willa Kleina, Ken, zamordowa? Juli?, jego by?? sympati?, min??o jedena?cie lat. ?cigany mi?dzynarodowymi listami go?czymi, dos?ownie zapad? si? pod ziemi?. Z czasem rodzina uzna?a go za zmar?ego. Przegl?daj?c dokumenty rodzic?w, Will natrafia na ?wie?o zrobione zdj?cie Kena. Wkr?tce potem znika Sheila, narzeczona Willa.
Praised for her "swift-moving and sexually-charged" plots and "fabulous paranormal twists" (Midwest Book Review), New York Times bestselling author Christine Feehan now tracks the desperate steps of a wanted woman-betrayed, avenging, and dangerously irresistible.Gator Fontenot of the Special Forces paranormal squad can't refuse an urgent request to save the elusive Iris Johnson, a victim of the same horrific experiments that warped Gator. Now unleashed, she's a flame-haired weapon of unimaginable destructive powers, a walking time bomb bent on revenge in the sultry bayous of New Orleans, and hunted by a shadowy assassin. It's Gator's job to reel Iris in. But can two people haunted by violent betrayals trust the passion that soon ignites between them? Or is one of them just playing another seductive and deadly night game?
Science and mysticism, nature and greed collide in this mind-bending, compulsively readable thriller from the author of Tropic of Night and Valley of Bones , hailed by the Washington Post as "miracles of intelligent fiction… among the essential novels of recent years."Deep in the jungles of Colombia, an American priest is shot dead in his makeshift church.A few weeks later an Indian shaman called Moie arrives in south Florida, armed only with a bag of totems and the fearsome power of Jaguar, his god.In Miami, retired detective Jimmy Paz, his wife, and his seven-year-old ...
New York Times bestselling author Stephen Hunter returns with his most riveting Bob Lee Swagger volume to date. The stakes are high – and personal because this time, Swagger's daughter's life is at stake. Forced off the road and into a crash that leaves her clinging to life in a coma, Nikki Swagger had begun to peel back the onion of a Southern Fried scandal. Corrupt constabulary, meth lab crackers, and deranged evangelicals rear their ugly heads and when Swagger picks up where Nikki left off, his swift sword of justice is let loose. All of it is set against the backdrop of the excitement and insanity that only a weeklong NASCAR event can bring to the backwoods of a town as seemingly sleepy as Bristol, VA. A master at the top of his game, Hunter provides a host of riveting new reasons to read as fast as we can. Stephen Hunter is the bestselling author of THE 47TH SAMURAI, HAVANA and PALE HORSE COMING, among other titles.
In her gripping novels, New York Times bestselling author Carla Neggers combines action, intrigue, romance and adventure like no one else…Archaeologist Sarah Dunnemore is prepared for almost anything when she returns to her family home in Night's Landing, Tennessee…except the news that her twin brother, Rob, has just been seriously wounded in a sniper attack in Central Park. She rushes to New York to be with him, only to come up against no-nonsense Nate Winter, who was slightly wounded in the attack.In his work as a deputy U.S. marshal, Nate is the best, ...
