Publisher's WeeklyTerrible secrets lead basketball star David Baskin to fake his death while honeymooning in the tropics in this manipulative but otherwise engaging first novel. His bereaved bride, supermodel Laura Ayars, not sure that David's drowning was accidental, starts sleuthing-which proves dangerous when somebody begins killing people who may have the answers she wants. Meanwhile, David, fitted out with a new identity and appearance, tries out for his original team, the Boston Celtics, and ''replaces'' himself at his former position. Why he has faked his death is explained in the story's penultimate surprise. But why he risks ...
#1 New York Times bestselling author Sandra Brown is backwith a gripping story of obsession and its deadly consequences.After five long years in federal prison, Griff Burkett is a free man. But the disgraced Cowboys quarterback can never return to life as he knew it before he was caught cheating. In a place where football is practically a religion, Griff committed a cardinal sin, and no one is forgiving.Foster Speakman, owner and CEO of SunSouth Airlines, and his wife, Laura, are a golden couple. Successful and wealthy, they lived a charmed life before fate cruelly intervened ...
When Minneapolis homicide cops Rolseth and Magozzi are called to a derelict stretch of the Mississippi River, they see a bride, facedown, dead in the water. And when the Monkeewrench crew – computer geeks who made a fortune on games, now assisting the cops with special anticrime software – are invited by the FBI to investigate a series of murder videos posted to the Web, it's not long before the group discovers the frightening link between the unlucky bride and the latest, most horrific use of the Internet yet. Using their skills to scour the Net to prevent more killings, the team must race against the clock.before it's too late.
Earth, Wind Fire aren't just a band anymore…Used to be my greatest achievement was holding a job more than three days. Now suddenly I can shoot fireballs, chill your drink, or blow-dry your hair at fifty paces with a blink of my eye!It all started when this crazy scientist dropped something in my Grande Mocha Latte. Of course I got wicked sick. Next morning I'm waking up with this total hottie bending over me. He tells me 1)his name's Rome Masters, 2)he's a government agent and 3)I can control the four elements with a thought.He seems even less pleased by my (apparently irreversible) transformation than I am… Because now he'll have to kill me.
NYPD homicide detective John Corey has moved to Long Island, restlessly recuperating from wounds received in the line of duty when he's hired to consult on the murder of Tom and Judy Gordon, biologists who worked on Plum Island, the site of animal disease research for the Department of Agriculture. Were the Gordons murdered because they'd stolen some valuable new vaccine, or even a dreaded virus? They'd obviously outspent their income. Had they been running drugs? Corey doesn't think so, although an ice-chest missing from their home points to something forbidden. He teams up with Beth Penrose, detective, working ...
Watch your back Look both ways Because love is in the air And that means big trouble! Mysterious men have a way of showing up in Stephanie Plum's apartment. When the shadowy Diesel appears, he has a task for Stephanie – and he's not taking no for an answer. Annie Hart is a "relationship expert" who is wanted for armed robbery and assault with a deadly weapon. Stephanie needs to find her, fast. Diesel knows where she is. So they make a deal: He'll help her get Annie if Stephanie plays matchmaker to several of Annie's most difficult clients. But someone wants to find Annie even more than Diesel and Stephanie. Someone with a nasty temper. And someone with "unmentionable" skills. Does Diesel know more that he's saying about Annie Hart? Does Diesel have secrets he's keeping from Stephanie and the two men in her life – Ranger and Morelli? With Stephanie Plum in over her head, things are sure to get a little dicey and a little explosive, Jersey style!
The First Full Length Stephanie Plum Between-the-Numbers Novel from #1 Bestselling Author Janet Evanovich.Turn on all the lights and check under your bed. Things are about to get spooky in Trenton, New Jersey. According to legend, the Jersey Devil prowls the Pine Barrens and soars above the treetops in the dark of night. As eerie as this might seem, there are things in the Barrens that are even more frightening and dangerous. And there are monkeys. Lots of monkeys. Wulf Grimoire is a world wanderer and an opportunist who can kill without remorse and disappear like smoke. He’...
Agentka FBI, Kimberly Quincy, kocha swoj? prac?. Jest jednak w pi?tym miesi?cu ci??y i powinna zacz?? ju? my?le? nie tylko o sobie. Pewnego dnia zg?asza si? do niej m?oda prostytutka, informuj?c o zagini?ciu kole?anki. Okoliczno?ci, kt?re przedstawia, s? tak przera?aj?ce, ?e a? niewiarygodne. Kimberly, nie zwa?aj?c na sw?j stan, daje si? wci?gn?? w niebezpieczn? i wyrafinowan? gr? z sadystycznym morderc? zafascynowanym paj?kami.Liczba zaginionych kobiet ro?nie, wszystko wskazuje na to, ?e psychopata konsekwentnie realizuje sw?j plan, lecz poza ...
Najnowszy zbi?r opowiada? mistrza horroru, Stephena Kinga, zawiera 13 kr?tkich tekst?w, w tym wiele nowych, nigdy dot?d niepublikowanych. Niewielka wyrwa w otaczaj?cej nas rzeczywisto?ci potrafi sprawi?, ?e ?wiat staje si? przera?aj?cym i zadziwiaj?cym miejscem. Po zmroku, po zachodzie s?o?ca to, co oczywiste, staje si? inne, nierozpoznawalne i niepokoj?ce. Poznaj obsesje dr?cz?ce Gingerbread Girl i dw?ch s?siad?w, kt?rzy bez reszty zaanga?owani w sp?r o ziemi?, trafiaj? do naprawd? paskudnego miejsca. Przeczytaj o cz?owieku, kt?ry chcia? interweniowa? w przypadku przemocy ...
Na Morganville sp?yn??a cisza……przed krwaw? burz?, kt?rej zapobiec mo?e tylko ?miertelna siedemnastolatka…W Morganville zapanowa? spok?j. Claire mo?e wr?ci? na uniwersytet i sp?dza? czas ze swoim ch?opakiem, a Eve dostaje rol? w sztuce teatralnej. Lecz porz?dek zaprowadzony przez nie?mierteln? w?adczyni? miasta nie trwa d?ugo. Mno?? si? tajemnicze ataki na jej poddanych. Wkr?tce pojawia si? nowa groza – bunt i szale?stwo. Czy ?eby prze?y? kolejn? noc, Claire i jej przyjaciele b?d? musieli porzuci? miasto wampir?w?
Sier?ant Amy Callan i porucznik Caroline Cook mia?y ze sob? wiele wsp?lnego. Obie s?u?y?y w armii, obie sta?y si? ofiarami napastowania seksualnego, obie musia?y zrezygnowa? ze s?u?by – obie nie ?yj?. Ich cia?a znalezione we w?asnych ?azienkach, zanurzone w wojskowej farbie maskuj?cej. ?adnych ?lad?w przemocy, ?adnych oznak walki. Jack Reacher zna? ka?d? z kobiet. FBI zmusza go do wsp??pracy z grup? dochodzeniow?, w sk?ad kt?rej wchodzi Julia Lamarr, specjalistka od portret?w psychologicznych. Reacher kwestionuje opracowany przez ni? motyw zbrodni – zemst? – uwa?a, ?e jej przyczyn nale?y szuka? zupe?nie gdzie indziej. Jego teoria bierze w ?eb, gdy w podobny spos?b ginie nast?pna dziewczyna.
Luther es un especialista, un maestro en robo. Cerca ya de retirarse, planea su ultimo golpe: limpiar la fabulosa mansion de Walter Sullivan, uno de los hombres mas ricos del pais, de vacaciones en el caribe.La inesperada vuelta de la mujer complica el golpe y hace que Luther presencie un asesinato que apunta de lleno al presidente de los Estados Unidos.Acosado por los hombres del servicio de seguridad del presidente y por el sargento de policia, Luther debera salvar su pellejo y el de su hija.Baldacci ha sido el guinista de la pel?cula basada en su libro, dirigida y protagonizada por Clint Eastwood en el papel de Luther.
En el mundo del espionaje, poderes extraordinarios es un t?rmino que se utiliza para referirse al permiso que se le otorga a un agente secreto de mucha confianza para que en circunstancias extremadamente especiales viole las ?rdenes de su empleador si es absolutamente necesario para cumplir el objetivo de una misi?n de suma importancia.Poderes extraordinarios es una novela de suspenso escrita por un novelista catalogado como uno de los mejores escritores de thrillers del mundo, Joseph Finder, graduado en la universidad de Yale y Harvard.La novela narra la historia de Ben Ellison, quien ...
Doktor Frannie O’Neill spotyka w lesie niedaleko szpitala dziewczynk?. Jedenastolatka jest zadziwiaj?co silna i inteligentna. Ale nie to wprawia Frannie w najwi?ksze zdumienie… Kilka dni p??niej lekark? odwiedza agent FBI. Kieruje ?ledztwem w sprawie szokuj?cych eksperyment?w genetycznych prowadzonych w tajnym laboratorium.
In the jungles of Vietnam, Bob Lee Swagger was known as ‘Bob the Nailer’ for his high-scoring target rate at killing. Today the master sniper lives in a trailer in the Arkansas mountains, and just wants to be left alone. But he knows too much… about killing. The mission is top secret. Dangerous, patriotic, and rigged from the start. One thing goes wrong: double-crossed Bob has come out alive. Now he is on the run. His only allies: an FBI agent in disgrace and a beautiful woman. His only hope: find the elusive mastermind who set him up. Multi-layered with non-stop action, this hot-shock torcher of a thriller is addictive, exciting and right on target. A high-tech, high-ride reading experience.
"On the way to a lunch meeting of her local book discussion group, the Uppity Women, small-town Southern librarian Aurora "Roe" Teagarden is shocked and dismayed to find her sister-in-law, Poppy, lying bloody and dead right outside her own back door. Poppy had her flaws, certainly – she and her husband were having trouble staying faithful to each other – but she didn't deserve to be so brutally murdered." Investigating a case like this is never easy, of course, given the gossipy atmosphere of any small town, what with Poppy and her husband's extramarital affairs, the local police detective, who also happens to be a former boyfriend of Roe's, and his seemingly unresolved feelings of Poppy, and the need to protect Poppy's family. But Roe is also coping with a burgeoning romantic relationship as well as the sudden appearance of her teenaged half brother. All in all, it's a lot for one woman to have on her plate, even one as together as Roe.
Will Klein tiene su h?roe: su hermano mayor Ken. Una noche de calor agobiante aparece en el s?tano de la casa de los Klein una joven, antiguo amor de Will, asesinada y violada.El principal sospechoso es Ken.Ante la abrumadora evidencia en contra suya, Ken desaparece.Una d?cada despu?s de la desaparici?n, Will se ve mezclado en un inquietante misterio. Est? convencido de que Ken est? tratando de ponerse en contacto con ?l y de la existencia de un terrible secreto por el que alguien est? decidido a matar porque no se desvele.
In a city full of police controversies, hippie artist punk houses, and overzealous liberals, Portland, Oregon, is a place where even its fiction blurs with its bizarre realities.Brand-new stories by: Gigi Little, Justin Hocking, Christopher Bolton, Jess Walter, Monica Drake, Jamie S. Rich (illustrated by Joelle Jones), Dan DeWeese, Zoe Trope, Luciana Lopez, Karen Karbo, Bill Cameron, Ariel Gore, Floyd Skloot, Megan Kruse, Kimberly Warner-Cohen, and Jonathan Selwood.Editor Kevin Sampsell is a bookstore employee and writer. He is the author of a short story collection, Creamy Bullets (Chiasmus Press), and the upcoming memoir The Suitcase (HarperPerennial, summer 2009). He is also the editor of The Insomniac Reader (Manic D Press) and the publisher of the micropress Future Tense Books.
Lieutenant Eve Dallas faces a serial killer who offers his victims eternal youth by taking their life…After a tip from a reporter, Eve Dallas finds the body of a young woman in a Delancey street dumpster. Just hours before, the news station had mysteriously received a portfolio of professional portraits of the woman. The photos seemed to be nothing out of the ordinary for any pretty young woman starting a modeling career. Except that she wasn't a model. And that these photos were taken after she had been murdered.Now Dallas is on the trail of a killer who's a perfectionist and an artist. He carefully observes and records his victim's every move. And he has a mission: to own every beautiful young woman's innocence, to capture her youth and vitality-in one fateful shot…
Gabriel Allon has been hailed as the most compelling creation since 'Ian Fleming put down his martini and invented James Bond' (). A man with a deep appreciation for all that is beautiful, Gabriel is also an angel of vengeance, an international operative who will stop at nothing to see justice done. Sometimes he must journey far in search of evil. And sometimes evil comes to him. For Gabriel and his wife, Chiara, it was supposed to be the start of a pleasant weekend in London — a visit to a gallery in St. James's to authenticate a newly ...
Fabi?n Hightower llega de madrugada a casa despu?s de viajar toda la noche en coche. Saluda a su madre y se retira a su habitaci?n. Por la ma?ana, Alex, una atractiva y triunfadora mujer de negocios recientemente separada de su marido, acude a su trabajo y le comunican que su hijo ha muerto en Francia a consecuencia de un accidente de coche.Probablemente se trata de un error o de una confusi?n de nombres, Fabi?n est? en casa, en su habitaci?n…Pero efectivamente el joven ha muerto en tales circunstancias. ...
Manolito de la Cruz sabe que est? peligrosamente cerca de convertirse en vampiro. Lo ?ltimo que espera despu?s de ser llamado por el pr?ncipe Mikhail para regresar a su patria, los C?rpatos, era captar el aroma de su compa?era en MaryAnn Delaney.MaryAnn es humana, pero conoce demasiado bien todos los abrumadores instintos agresivos de los varones carpatianos. Y no son exactamente el tipo de hombres a los que preferir?a estar unida para toda la vida.MaryAnn, una consejera especializada en mujeres maltratadas, tiene una vida que le satisface, sin lugar para ...
