El hallazgo fortuito de una fosa com?n, a orillas de un lago en el norte de Maine, pone al descubierto un espeluznante asesinato en masa cometido hace m?s de treinta a?os. Todos los miembros de una comunidad religiosa, los Baptistas de Aroostook, desaparecieron sin dejar rastro en 1964, y, ahora que sus cad?veres han vuelto al presente como una muda acusaci?n, alguien parece muy interesado en que el misterio quede sin resolver. Pero el pasado regresa con inusitada brutalidad. La primera v?ctima es Grace Peltier, una estudiante que, al investigar sobre el fanatismo religioso en el estado de Maine, ha ahondado en la vida y el enigm?tico final de la comunidad de Aroostook. En apariencia, Grace se ha suicidado, pero hay indicios de asesinato m?s que suficientes para que la familia solicite la intervenci?n del detective Charlie Parker, «Bird», el protagonista de las anteriores entregas de John Connolly.
Sisters Mary and Pamela O’Shaughnessy first saw print (under their pseudonym Perri O’Shaughnessy) in the June 1995 EQMM, as the second-place winners in MWA’s 50th Anniversary Short Story Contest. They’d already sold a book by that time, and after 13 successful books in thirteen years, they decided to take a year off. Now they’re back, with Show No Fear (Pocket Books).
Hay muchas formas de morir, pero unas son m?s aterradoras que otras… Un paseo por el bosque se convierte en algo siniestro para el jefe de polic?a Jeffrey Tolliver y la forense Sara Linton, cuando topan con el cuerpo de una joven. Las evidencias iniciales sugieren que ha sido asustada literalmente hasta la muerte. Pero cuando Sara comienza a hacer la autopsia, algo todav?a m?s horripilante sale a la luz… Algo que incluso conmociona a Sara. La detective Lena Adams es llamada durante sus vacaciones para resolver el caso, y la pista pronto conduce al condado vecino, una comunidad aislada, y a un terrible secreto.Aunque la policia lo ignora, no es la primera vez que ocurre, y quiz? tampoco sea la ?ltima. Aquella desdichada joven, sepultada en vida no es s?lo la v?ctima de un crimen atroz. Para su asesino es fruto de cumplir con su obligaci?n. Abby Bennett merec?a terminar as?, y tambi?n las otras, perseguidas y condenadas a pagar el precio de sus actos.
Half-demon Hope Adams has inherited not only a gift for seeing the past but a hunger for chaos--along with a talent for finding it wherever she can. Naturally, when she's chosen by a very dangerous group for a very dangerous mission, she jumps at the chance. As it turns out, Hope is a little too good at this job, and she soon finds it necessary to unleash her most potent primal instincts--and open herself, mind and body, to everything she most fears…and desires.
British Fantasy Society (nominee)A hotel offers a taboo service for its troubled clients, a vampire library attacks its readers, and a young man discovers the cutlery of the Marquis de Sade. Incarceration, incantations, romance, revenge and the end of the world occur in this collection of gothic tales.
Amazon.com ReviewJack Reacher, the taciturn ex-MP whose adventures in Lee Child's six previous solidly plotted, expertly paced thrillers have won a devoted fan base, returns in this explosive tale of an undercover operation set up by the FBI to rescue an agent investigating Zachary Beck, a reclusive tycoon believed to be a kingpin in the drug trade. The novel begins with a bang as Reacher rescues Beck's son from a staged kidnapping in order to get close to his father-and trace the connection between Beck and Quinn, a former army intelligence officer who tried to sell ...
Ex-astronaut Richard Baedecker sees everything he has ever done as merely preparation for something bigger and his quest for higher meaning leads him to a mysterious young woman who shows him the "places of power" in his own past.
Includes brand-new stories by: Diane Ayres, Cordelia Frances Biddle, Keith Gilman, Cary Holladay, Solomon Jones, Gerald Kolpan, Aimee LaBrie, Halimah Marcus, Carlin Romano, Asali Solomon, Laura Spagnoli, Duane Swierczynski, Dennis Tafoya, and Jim Zervanos.Carlin Romano, critic-at-large of the Chronicle of Higher Education and literary critic of The Philadelphia Inquirer for twenty-five years, teaches philosophy and media theory at the University of Pennsylvania. In 2006 he was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Criticism, cited by the Pulitzer Board for "bringing new vitality to the classic essay across a formidable array of topics." He lives in University City, Philadelphia, in the only house on his block.
Z kalifornijskiego wi?zienia ucieka Daniel Pell, skazany na do?ywocie za wymordowanie rodziny zamo?nego biznesmena. Zbieg przyst?puje do realizacji swojego planu, zabijaj?c kolejne ofiary i manipuluj?c lud?mi, z kt?rych czyni pos?uszne sobie marionetki. Na czele po?cigu staje Kathryn Dance, agentka Biura ?ledczego Kalifornii. Aby odkry? zamiary psychopatycznego mordercy, zwraca si? o pomoc do kobiet nale??cych niegdy? do za?o?onej przez Pella grupy fanatycznie oddanych mu wyznawc?w. Odpowied? mo?e tak?e zna? ?pi?ca Laleczka, dziewczynka, kt?ra jako jedyna prze?y?a zbrodni? pope?nion? przez Pella przed siedmiu laty. ?eby wygra? pojedynek z bezwzgl?dnym zbrodniarzem, Kathryn Dance musi przedrze? si? przez labirynt k?amstw i przemilcze? i dotrze? do prawdy o przesz?o?ci.
Una madre hace saltar por los aires la tumba de su propio hijo. ?ste muri? durante el servicio militar, v?ctima de una macabra broma. En la tumba se hab?an esculpido las usuales palabras an?nimas que se emplean en estos casos: «Ca?do en acto de servicio». Pero la madre no lo acepta. En la tumba de su hijo tiene que ser grabada, bien visible para todos, la verdad: «Asesinado por sus superiores».?ste es el comienzo de una larga serie de desesperados intentos por parte de Rajel para que se haga justicia. Como en otras novelas de Batya Gur que no pertenecen a la serie policiaca de Michael Ohayon, por la que es conocida en Espa?a, se ponen al descubierto las contradicciones y el lado oscuro de la sociedad israel?.
Kolejna powie?? sensacyjna z komisarzem Montalbano w roli g??wnej ??czy w?tek kryminalny z gorzko-ironicznym obrazem sycylijskiej prowincji. W miasteczku Vigata dziej? si? rzeczy zdumiewaj?ce: jeden z mafijnych boss?w koniecznie chce si? odda? w r?ce policji z?odzieje z niezrozumia?ych powod?w porzucaj? ci??ar?wk? z wielkim ?upem. Sprawy zaczynaj? przybiera? dramatyczny obr?t, kiedy ginie jedyny
Former profiler Alec Lambert would give anything to catch The Professor, a serial killer who lures his victims with Internet scams. Now working with reclusive scam expert Samantha Dalton, he finally has his chance. But as they draw ever closer to discovering The Professor's identity and stopping his murderous rampage, they realize Sam is the psychotic killer's new obsession – and possibly his next target.
An anthology of stories Martin H Greenberg and Brittany A KorenAssassins-are they born or made? Do they choose this role out of necessity, because they are forced to, or because they enjoy killling? And what do they do in their spare time?These are just a few of the questions answered in this all-original collection of twelve tales by fantasy's finest-focusing on killers of all kinds. From Vree, Tanya Huff's well-known assassin from her Quarters novels, to a woman whose father's vengeful spirit forced her down dark magic's bloody path, to an assassin seeking to escape his Master's death spell, here are spellbinding stories of murder and mayhem, and the shadowy figures who sell death for a living.
A state of emergency is declared across America as a new strain of bacillus sweeps across the nation with alarming speed and devastation — a combination of bubonic and various other plagues caused by incorrect disposal of the nation's waste products. There is no known antidote.When the President informs the nation that it's their duty to protect disease free zones, that's exactly what they do. The book then turns into a war between those who infected, those who , and those who everyone else is… the result is nothing short of a blood-bath.
Researcher Ruth Goldman has developed a vaccine with the potential to inoculate the world's survivors against the nanotech plague that devastated humanity. But the fractured U.S. government will stop at nothing to keep it for themselves.
First Earth was devastated by the machine plague, a runaway nanotechnology that devoured all warm-blooded organisms below altitudes of ten thousand feet. Then the remnants of humankind turned on one another, provoking a brief, furious world war and the invasion of North America. Now Russia and Chinese armies hold California against the battered forces of the U.S.-Canadian Alliance.Nanotech researcher Ruth Goldman and Cam Najarro — a former Army Ranger who helped her force an end to the war — have finally found some peace in a small, hidden village in the Rockies. But the arms race for weaponized nanotech has continued, and America is struck by a new contagion.Together with a small band of friends and rivals, Ruth and Cam must discover the source of the new plague — never suspecting that its creator is an old enemy they believe dead…
From Publishers WeeklyFrasier (Sleep Tight, etc.) has perfected the art of making a reader's skin crawl, which is evident from this book's very first scene, in which a medical examiner discovers in the midst of an autopsy that the cadaver he's working on is really a live person. Set in Savannah, Ga., this exceptional thriller follows the hunt for the deranged person who's drugging people so that their minds remain wide awake even as their bodies resemble death. The creepiness factor increases when Frasier introduces homicide detective Elise Sandburg, who was abandoned in a cemetery as a ...
