Tracy Whitney es joven y hermosa. Ha sido condenada a quince a?os de prisi?n por un delito que no cometi?. Una vez en libertad, busca vengarse de las fuerzas del crimen organizado, responsables de su condenada. Sus armas son las inteligencia, la belleza, y la firme determinaci?n de cumplir con su cometido, sin reparar en los medios utilizados.
John Rain, de profesi?n asesino, est? especializado en hacer trabajitos finos en los que sus v?ctimas parecen morir de forma natural. Aquel que le contrata sabe que es un hombre fiel a sus principios: trabaja en exclusiva; liquida ?nicamente al protagonista del juego, no a sus familiares, y no asesina a mujeres. Por eso, cuando tras finalizar un trabajo le piden wque se encargue de la hija del objetivo, empieza a sospechar que hay gato encerrado y decide investigar por qu? quieren matar a Midori. La investigaci?n le har? descubrir peligrosas conexiones entre el gobierno nip?n y la yakuza, que comprometer?n su anonimato y complicar?n su vida.
`Sidra sangrienta` es la historia de un crimen «con solera». Duke Donovan, un militar norteamericano de servicio en el Reino Unido, fue ahorcado en 1945 acusado de asesinato. ?l y otro soldado ayudaron en la cosecha de manzanas en una granja, en la que se produjeron algunos disturbios. El descubrimiento de un cr?neo humano en un barril de sidra condujo a la detenci?n y condena de Duke. Un ni?o refugiado, Theo, fue el principal testigo en el juicio. A?os despu?s, en 1964, Theo est? realizando un lectorado en una universidad y una muchacha norteamericana, Alice, que se presenta como la hija de Duke Donovan le convence para regresar al lugar de los hechos y tratar de demostrar la inocencia de su padre…
Another classic mystery from the 'Master of the Clever Twist'. One summer's day in 1981 a two-year-old girl, Tamsin Hall, was abducted during a picnic at the famous prehistoric site of Avebury in Wiltshire. Her seven-year-old sister Miranda was knocked down and killed by the abductor's van. The girls were in the care of their nanny, Sally Wilkinson. One of the witnesses to this tragic event was David Umber, a Phd student who was waiting at the village pub to keep an appointment with a man called Griffin. But Griffin failed to show up, and Umber never heard from him ...
Bestselling author Robert Ryan tells the story of the most ambitious robbery of the twentieth century, when seventeen men risked it all in their quest for adventure, success and fame.1963: an unarmed gang led by the dapper Bruce Reynolds holds up a Royal Mail train at a remote bridge in Buckinghamshire, escaping with millions. The group lay low in a nearby farm but, panicked by the police closing in they clear out, leaving behind numerous fingerprints. Outraged by the gang's audacity and under political pressure for quick arrests, the police move into top gear. As huge quantities of money start to turn up in forests and phone boxes, dumped by nervous middlemen, Scotland Yard begin to track down the robbers, one by one…
El hallazgo de un esqueleto humano enterrado en una colina en las afueras de Reykjavik pone en una situaci?n dif?cil al detective Erlendur y sus ayudantes: no s?lo necesitan recurrir a un equipo de arque?logos que emplear? varios d?as para recuperarlo en buenas condiciones, sino que adem?s ?stos les advierten desde las primeras paladas de que no se trata de un cad?ver reciente, y que probablemente puede corresponder a un enterramiento de unos sesenta a?os atr?s. Desde que conocen este dato, y sin saber a ciencia cierta la identidad del ...
A Christmas suspense story. When a young mother from Kansas travels to New York to be with her seriously ill husband at Christmas, her young son sees another woman steal his mother's wallet, and follows the thief into the subway. Thus begins a journey that will change all of their lives.
Psychologist-sleuth Alex Delaware hunts for clues to the death of an old flame, Sharon Ransom, a search that takes him through California 's wealthy enclaves and one family's dark past.
Four college students believed they were making a statement. They were activists, fighting to preserve the environment by burning down a new apartment complex. But they didn't realize that someone was watching. A blackmailer hides in plain sight, using people's secrets for personal gain, and when this criminal sets his sights on the four young arsonists, he begins his most deadly game yet.Firefighter David Hunter is devastated when he's too late to save a teenage girl from a Minneapolis fire. Authorities soon discover that it was a case of arson and homicide detective Olivia Sutherland and her partner Kane are assigned to the case. David and Olivia shared a night of passion some time ago, and sparks fly when they are drawn to one another again. But just as they begin to revisit that fateful night and address the events that tore them apart, David and Olivia are forced to pursue the blackmailer, whose horrific plans threaten to destroy those closest to them.
Hannah Bryson is a marine architect who's been given a fascinating assignment. A Russian nuclear submarine called The Silent Thunder has been purchased by the United States for exhibition in a museum. Hannah must create a schematic of the sub to check for hazards and design seamless modifications to make it safe for the thousands of expected visitors. Her brother, Connor, acting as her assistant, knows how much this work means to Hannah. But Connor discovers something on the sub – a mysterious message hidden behind one of the panels. And then in a brutal assault on the sub Connor is murdered and the chase is on for Hannah to find her brother's killer. Soon she discovers that she's being used as bait. Because what she doesn't even realize she knows could end her life as well.
Hunter Wesley Thornton-Payne III has perfected the role of bored playboy. When he attends a fundraiser for the Renaissance Women's Center hosted by Chicago's elite, intending to pick up information about a dangerous organization – he first has to find and terminate an assassin who is killing innocent Americans connected to an upcoming arms trade agreement. Abbie Blanton's mother falls prey to a mysterious illness, and Abbie turns to her investigative skills as a television news journalist. While attending a Chicago fundraiser, she leaves with more questions than she arrived with, and becomes the focus of a killer with a twisted sense of honor. As if her night hadn't gone badly enough, Abbie encountered a man she never forgot…and never wanted to see again. Abbie begins to realize Hunter isn't the superficial playboy he appears to be – but a dangerous operative with a tortured past whose success depends on destroying the best chance her mother has to survive.
"An extraordinary achievement" (Clive Barker) from the author of the acclaimed novel Threshold-this is the fiction debut that won the International Horror Guild Award for Best First Novel.
David Baldacci’s much-loved protagonists Sean King and Michelle Maxwell are having trouble adjusting to life in the wake of the terrible events that drove them to the brink in HOUR GAME. Dogged by hidden demons from her past, then almost killed in a barroom brawl, Michelle agrees to try therapy at a mental-health facility, where she simultaneously busts a criminal drug-dealing ring! Meanwhile, to right their shared career in the private security sector, Sean accepts an offer to investigate a mysterious death at a scientific think tank called Babbage Town, located suspiciously close to the CIA’s infamous ...
Lo llamaban el Coleccionista, porque segu?a el ritual de reunir a sus v?ctimas antes de deshacerse de ellas de la manera m?s atroz imaginable. La agente especial del FBI Maggie O'Dell le hab?a seguido la pista durante dos largos a?os, terminando por fin con aquel juego del gato y el rat?n. Pero ahora Albert Stucky se hab?a fugado de la c?rcel… y estaba preparando un nuevo juego para Maggie O’Dell.Desde que atrapara a Stucky, hab?a estado caminando sobre la cuerda floja, luchando contra sus pesadillas y la ...
La vida de Eddie Spinola toma un inesperado giro cuando prueba el MDT-48, una droga sint?tica desarrollada por un misterioso laboratorio. Sus efectos le permitir?n experimentar una inusitada actividad intelectual y f?sica que lo llevar?n a alcanzar el ?xito con el que siempre so??. Sin embargo, al mismo tiempo que comienza a vivir en un mundo de lujos exorbitantes y multimillonarias transacciones, Spinola padece los nefastos efectos secundarios de la droga y un terrible s?ndrome de abstinencia cuando empiezan a escasear sus suministros del f?rmaco. La b?squeda por conseguir nuevamente las dosis y evitar su propia muerte, lo conduce a rastrear el pasado del MDT-48 y a verse envuelto en una intensa trama de oscuros experimentos cient?ficos y una difusa cadena de asesinatos. Este es, sin duda, un apasionante y cinematogr?fico thriller que dejar? sin aliento a todos los lectores.
En 1972, tres adolescentes blancos -Alex, Billy y Pete- decidieron meterse en un barrio marginal de Washington. Esa incursi?n cambi? la vida de seis personas: a causa del enfrentamiento con tres chicos negros, Billy result? muerto y Alex seriamente herido.En 2007, Alex llora la muerte de su hijo ca?do en Iraq. De pronto, uno de los chicos negros que sobrevivieron al incidente del 72 contacta con ?l, abriendo la puerta a la reconciliaci?n al tiempo que otro superviviente sale de prisi?n con intenci?n de extorsionarle…
