Laura Lippman is one of the most acclaimed authors of crime fiction writing today, the winner of every major award the genre has to offer. Now she dazzles once again with a riveting stand-alone novel that takes on the secret – and not-so-secret – lives of teenage girls, illuminating a dark tragedy with startling clarity and unique empathy. To the Power of Three The three girls have been inseparable best friends since the third grade – Josie, the athletic one; Perri, the brilliant, acerbic drama queen; and Kat, the beauty, who also has brains, grace, and a heart open to all around ...
Im tiefsten Gr?nland wird in einem r?tselhaften Schrein ein 50.000 Jahre alter Meteorit entdeckt. Der omin?se Stein enth?lt radioaktive Energien und wird schnell zum Objekt der Begierde von Attent?tern. Eine islamistische Terrorgruppe plant in London eine Atombombe zu z?nden, w?hrend ein gr??enwahnsinniger Industrieller die heiligen St?tten des Islam verseuchen will. Zwischen den Fronten bem?ht sich Juan Cabrillo mit seiner Crew aus den besten Milit?r- und Geheimagenten der Welt, den »heiligen Stein« unter seine Kontrolle zu bringen …
La muerte durante el sue?o de Jasmine Dent, aquejada de un c?ncer incurable, no extra?a a nadie, hasta que su vecino de escalera, el comisario de Scotland Yard Duncan Kincaid, intuye por ciertos indicios desconcertantes que su fallecimiento no ha sido causado por la enfermedad y ordena una autopsia. El diagn?stico es claro: muerte por sobredosis de morfina. ?Suicidio o asesinato? Asesinato. El hallazgo del diario ?ntimo de Jasmine, iniciado en la India, donde su padre estaba destinado, cuando s?lo ten?a diez a?os, y el testimonio de las personas que se mov?an a su alrededor, en el presente y en el pasado, constituir?n para Kincaid y su ayudante Gemma James el punto de partida de una laboriosa investigaci?n que pondr? en evidencia los designios ocultoslas ambig?edades, las desalmadas ambiciones y tambi?n la bondad de unos seres humanos. Todos ellos podr?an ser culpables, pero s?lo uno ser? se?alado por Kincaid.
John Connolly posee todas las cualidades con las que cualquier editor sue?a a la hora de dar a conocer a un autor: una primera novela que conmociona, una historia terror?fica muy bien tramada, personajes s?lidos y complejos (que adem?s aparecer?n en otras entregas), una aguda visi?n de la sociedad y un gran talento y fuste literarios. ?ste es, ni m?s ni menos, el caso de Todo lo que muere y del escritor irland?s Connolly. Que se preparen los adictos a la buena novela polic?aca. Una noche, Charlie «Bird» Parker, inspector ...
Conejo Blanco es mucho m?s que un juego. Es m?s que la vida y que la muerte. Y cualquiera puede sucumbir antes de que la partida acabe… y el asesino se lo lleve todo.Cuando una amiga apareci? brutalmente asesinada en su apartamento de Nueva Orleans, la ex detective de homicidios Stacy Killian relacion? su muerte con Conejo Blanco, un juego de rol de culto, oscuro, violento y adictivo.Stacy se hab?a visto expuesta en innumerables ocasiones al horror del crimen y era una realidad de la que trataba de alejarse, pero cuando conoci? ...
National bestselling author Lesley Kagen makes her hardcover debut with an extraordinary literary thriller, rendered through the eyes of an unforgettable eleven-year-old girl.During the summer of 1968, Shenandoah Carmody's mother disappeared. Her twin sister, Woody, stopped speaking, and her once-loving father slipped into a mean drunkenness unbefitting a superior court judge. Since then, Shenny-named for the Shenandoah valley-has struggled to hold her world together, taking care of herself and her sister the best she can. Shenny feels certain that Woody knows something about the night their mother vanished, but her attempts to communicate with her mute twin leave ...
When an alleged suicide victim's wife and six-year-old daughter go missing, private investigator Lincoln Perry and his partner, Joe Pritchard, pursue a theory that the man was actually murdered.
In a small New York town, a deranged young man holds over one hundred school children hostage. and he blames the school for what he's about to do.After a tense, thirty-six-hour police standoff, the gymnasium suddenly explodes into flames. Fortunately, all the students have escaped. All, that is, save ten-year-old Noah Corbin. Noah's mother, Haley, is frantic. Was her boy killed in the explosion? Did he somehow wander away from the scene, hurt and confused?Did someone take him?Haley hires ex-FBI agent Randall Shane because she needs the truth, however devastating the answers may be. But as Randall investigates, Haley is forced to admit a dark family secret.one that leads to a desolate area of the Rocky Mountains, where an entire county is owned by a cult that controls the leaders of the community: businessmen, government officials, even the police. Men who have grown rich and powerful in their secrecy. A secrecy they are sworn to protect. No matter what.
This is the story of Seattle police artist Maggie Barnes, whose remarkable artistic talents are the focus of an even more extraordinary psychic gift that she is determined to keep secret: a gift that has allowed her to work with crime victims, to feel what they feel, to create perfect portraits of their attackers. When the police are stymied by an elusive predator who blinds his victims to prevent them from identifying him, Maggie must be willing to risk much more than just her secret to draw the image of a killer no one has ever seen, and bring the brutal madman to justice. If you love books that blend passion, suspense, and the unexpected, you'll love this one.
Amazon.com ReviewJust when you thought it was safe to eat a hamburger again, Robin Cook – master of medical mysteries, deadly epidemics, and creepy comas-returns with an all too likely villain drawn right from current headlines: the American meat industry. If you've ever wondered where the E. coli bacteria comes from, and exactly how it can ravage the human body, destroying everything in its path, this is the book for you. As usual, Cook delivers solid information, well-researched medical arcana, and a scathing indictment of managed health care.His protagonist, Kim Regis, is an all-too-typical ego-driven ...
Na przyj?ciu u profesora Oksfordu spotyka si? trzech student?w – ?yd, Palesty?czyk i Rosjanin. Ich kolejne spotkanie ma miejsce 20 lat p??niej. S? agentami zwalczaj?cych si? tajnych s?u?b – Mossadu, KGB i egipskiego wywiadu cywilnego. Kto ma bomb? atomow?? Czy uda si? zdoby? uran konieczny do kontynuacji wy?cigu zbroje?? I czy zakochana c?rka jednego z nich mo?e pokrzy?owa? misterne plany?
«Dekker entrega otra novela absorbente… que con genialidad lleva al lector por un viaje lleno de conspiraciones inesperadas… un fascinador relato de gatos y ratones… una mezcla casi perfecta de suspenso, misterio y horror». – Publishers Weekly«?Tr3s es una extra?a historia llena de suspenso e imposible de dejar! Dekker supera a los maestros del g?nero de suspenso con una trama tan absorbente, tan eficaz, tan llena de vueltas y giros inesperados, que mantiene en vilo a los lectores hasta las ?ltimas p?ginas». – BOB LIPARULO Revista New Man«Bueno, bueno, bueno, imaginen qu? he ...
Fleeing New York to find refuge as a ranger in the remote backcountry of West Texas, Anna Pigeon stumbles into a web of violence and murder when fellow park ranger Sheila Drury is mysteriously killed and another ranger vanishes.
When a young doctor goes for his daily run in New York City 's Central Park and doesn't come back, NYPD detective April Woo is convinced that he's still alive. Trusting her usually solid instincts, she goes outside her jurisdiction and orders a massive search using the city's best K-9 tracking unit. But it isn't until a witness in the case is brutally murdered that April's hunch is taken seriously – by her superiors, by the mayor and by the already frenzied press. Only now, it just might be too late to beat the clock and stop an out-of-control killer on the most bizarre and disturbing crime spree the city has ever seen.
El presidente del banco FMI anuncia a toda la directiva que tiene c?ncer y pronto va a morirse, hay dos candidatos para ocupar su puesto, Alex y Roscoe. Alex es liberal, con ideas nuevas, pero Roscoe es conservador. La lucha entre ambos para llegar a la cima conduce a una trama muy interesante que empieza cuando desaparecen misteriosamente 6000 d?lares de la caja de la empleada Juanita N??ez, se nos revelan muchas inc?gnitas sobre el funcionamiento interno de un banco y c?mo una mala inversi?n puede llevarlo a la quiebra de la noche a la ma?ana.
La vida de Lynn Barrett se convierte en una pesadilla cuando a su hija Caitlin se le diagnostica un c?ncer de h?gado terminal. La escasez de ?rganos hace que incluso candidatos id?neos para un trasplante fallezcan mientras esperan que se les pueda realizar la operaci?n. Desesperada, Lynn recurre a un traficante de ?rganos que encuentra en Internet quien, curiosamente, enseguida le confirma que ha encontrado a una donante perfecta. Entre tanto, Roy Grace est? trabajando en un caso en que a los restos de tres j?venes que han aparecido en las profundidades de la costa de Brighton les faltan los ?rganos vitales… La pista llevar? a Grace a Ruman?a donde operan las mafias de traficantes de ?rganos de las que el detective sospecha.
It is China, 1938. Eighteen-year-old Rosalie Gilder flees Nazi-occupied Austria with her younger brother. Hidden among their belongings are a few precious family heirlooms, their only protection against the hard times that await them as they join Shanghai 's growing population of Jewish refugees.
Agent Mitch Rapp, the CIA's top negotiator, makes his way to the White House after a group of terrorists has gained access by means of a violent massacre. The US president has been evacuated to his underground bunker, leaving Mitch to unravel a master scheme designed to undermine an entire nation.
La v?spera del d?a en que Evie va a ser operada, su esposo, el doctor Harry Corbett, va al hospital con la esperanza de reconciliarse con ella tras una ?poca de indiferencia y mutismo. Pero cuando llega a la habitaci?n de Evie ya es demasiado tarde. Sin nada que hubiese podido hacer temer por su vida, Harry se la encuentra muerta y se convierte as? en el ?nico sospechoso del asesinato. Unos d?as m?s tarde, sin embargo, la mano asesina vuelve a actuar de modo tan audaz como desafiante, pero s?lo el doctor Corbett sospecha que las muertes no se est?n produciendo por causas naturales. Empieza aqu? una lucha desesperada para desenmascarar al monstruo homicida que tiene en jaque a todos los pacientes del hospital.Michael Palmer ha conseguido una sobrecogedora novela de intriga m?dica, un impresionante thriller protagonizado por el m?dico m?s siniestro aparecido en la literatura de terror desde los tiempos de Hannibal Lecter.
From Andrea Cremer's internationally best-selling Nightshade series, Calla Tor's brother Ansel tells his side of the betrayal and treachery depicted in Wolfsbane.Ansel's world is falling apart. The Nightshade pack led by his parents has been violently destroyed. His sister, Calla, abandoned her little brother, leaving him to answer for her crimes. And the Haldis pack that would have been his future is irreparably broken by Calla's betrayal. Suffering at the hands of the Keepers, Ansel is losing everything he's ever loved. The only chance he has to save himself means an alliance with his tormentors, and repaying Calla in full for her treachery. In this novella, find out why Ansel makes the decisions he does in Andrea Cremer's New York Times bestselling novel, Wolfsbane.
