When teenager Merrit Strait is admitted to hospital following an attempted suicide, psychologist Alan Gregory takes on the case. Meanwhile Merrit's sister lies in hospital near death where only experimental treatment might save her. When a body is found, evidence mounts implicating Merrit.
Amelia Peabody is Elizabeth Peters' best loved and brilliant creation, a thoroughly Victorian feminist who takes the stuffy world of archaeology by storm with her shocking men's pants and no-nonsense attitude!In this first Egyptian mystery, our headstrong heroine decides to use her substantial inheritance to see the world. On her travel, she rescues a gentlewoman in distress – Evelyn Barton-Forbes – and the two become friends. The two companions continue to Egypt where they face mysteries, mummies and the redoubtable Radcliffe Emerson, and outspoken archaeologist, who doesn't need women to help him solve mysteries – at least that's what he thinks!
Anthony Awards (nominee)"Masterful… deftly rendered and deeply satisfying. For days on end I woke with this story on my mind." – David Wroblewski"A very fine novel indeed." – Richard Russo"A highly original crime offering." – George Pelecanos"A great novel." – Dennis LehaneIn a small Mississippi town, two men are torn apart by circumstance and reunited by tragedy in this resonant new novel from the award-winning author of the critically-acclaimed Hell at the Breech.Larry Ott and Silas ''32'' Jones were unlikely boyhood friends. Larry was the child of lower middle-class white ...
Forensic psychologist Alex Cross's storied career in private practice, with the FBI and as a Washington, D.C., cop has brought him into contact with all kinds of seriously disturbed killers, but his 12th outing from bestseller Patterson (after 2005's Mary, Mary) may be the ultimate in lunatic deadliness. Beginning with a flashback to the murder of Cross's wife, Maria, Patterson quickly introduces Michael Sullivan (aka the Butcher of Sligo). What follows is a frenetically paced series of brutal rapes and killings by Sullivan, once employed by the mob as a freelancer and now at war with them. Cross ...
Cross (kros/ noun, verb, & adjective) means an ancient instrument of torture, or, in a very bad humour, or, a punch thrown across an opponent's punch.Jack Taylor brings death and pain to everyone he loves. His only hope of redemption — his surrogate son, Cody — is lying in hospital in a coma. At least he still has Ridge, his old friend from the Guards, though theirs is an unorthodox relationship. When she tells him that a boy has been crucified in Galway city, he agrees to help her search for the killer. Jack's investigations take him to many of his old haunts where he encounters ghosts, dead and living. Everyone wants something from him, but Jack is not sure he has anything left to give. Maybe he should sell up, pocket his Euros and get the hell out of Galway like everyone else seems to be doing. Then the sister of the murdered boy is burned to death, and Jack decides he must hunt down the killer, if only to administer his own brand of rough justice.
The latest gripping thriller from world class forensic anthropologist, Kathy Reichs, bestselling author of Bare Bones and Monday Mourning Temperance Brennan has a mystifying new case in this eighth novel from New York Times bestselling author and world-class forensic anthropologist Kathy Reichs. Tempe is called in to interpret the wounds of a man who was shot in the head, but while she tries to make sense of the fracture patterning, an unknown man slips her a photograph of a skeleton, telling her it holds the answer to the victim's death. Detective Andrew Ryan is also on the case and, ...
From New York Times bestselling author J.A. Jance comes a chilling tale of suspense, where romance turns deadly at the hands of a man whose heart is filled with…CRUEL INTENTOn a dating site, singleatheart.com, bored housewives can find romance with married men looking for sex without strings. But these "married singles" are flirting with more than just their vows. At the heart of this seemingly innocent service, a vengeful computer hacker is playing games with people's lives…and deaths.Ex-television journalist Ali Reynolds just wants a break from excitement. In the midst ...
In the summer of 1958, Dave Robicheaux and his half-brother Jimmie are just out of high school. Jimmie and Dave get work with an oil company, laying out rubber cables in the bays and mosquito-infested swamps all along the Louisiana-Texas coastline. They spend their off time at Galveston Island, fishing at night on the jetties, the future kept safely at bay, the past drifting off somewhere behind them. But on the Fourth of July, change approaches in the form of Ida Durbin, a sweet-faced young woman with a lovely voice and a mandolin. Jimmie falls instantly in love with her. ...
After Ann Nolan, a California beat cop, adopts the daughter of a notorious drug dealer, the ruthless father vows to take back his only child. In response, Ann flees across the country, changes her name, and starts a new life as an investigator for the Mercy Street Foundation, the billionaire-endowed organization dedicated to finding missing persons. As Emme Caldwell, she takes the lead on the Foundation's first case: Nineteen-year-old Belinda Hudson disappeared from her sorority house leaving behind only one cryptic clue. Retracing the vanished student's steps leads Emme to Heaven's Gate, a fertility clinic, and the mysterious Donor 1735.Belinda's legal guardian, Nick Perone, is determined to shadow Emme's every move as she searches for his niece. But the closer Emme gets to Donor 1735 and the chilling truth, the more apparent it becomes that she's escaped one dangerous man only to run head-on into another-one who's far more determined and every bit as deadly.
From Publishers WeeklyAs in her last romantic mystery, Still Waters, Hoag creates a pair of lovers who are so awful that they deserve each other. But this time she factors in an offensive theme: bad boys are to be tolerated, but bad girls are to be raped, mutilated and strangled. The "bad boy" is the hero, horror writer Jack Boudreaux. With antics like crashing a Corvette and swatting a smarmy evangelist preacher with a bag of fish, Jack charms Laurel Chandler. Laurel has returned to her hometown, Bayou Breaux, La., to lick her wounds after she blew ...
When record tycoon Max Goff travels to the village of Crybbe and decides to replace ancient stones that had fallen over, he unleashes a centuries-old evil.
El inspector Chen, de la Polic?a de Shangai, est? temporalmente alejado del Departamento. Trabaja ahora para un acaudalado hombre de negocios que pretende construir un gran complejo residencial, una creaci?n que logre evocar el brillo y el glamour de los lejanos a?os 30. Pero cuando el antiguo mienbro de la Guardia Roja, el novelista Yin Lige, es asesinado en su apartamento tras publicar una obra muy cr?tica con el r?gimen imperante, Chen deber? regresar al servicio activo para colaborar con su subalterno, el detective Yu, y detener as? al culpable. Un caso que dejar? entrever a Chen serias implicaciones pol?ticas.
Latinoam?rica es v?ctima de constantes desastes ecol?gicos: los rayos solares que atraviesan los agujeros de la capa ozono pueden quemar la piel humana en cuesti?n de minutos, muentras que los terremotos y los huracanes est?n a la orden del d?a. Un grupo de investigadores es enviado a una isla de las Gal?pagos con el objetivo de instalar unos detectores de actividad s?smica que permitan prevenir futuros se?smos y paliar de alg?n modo sus devastadores efectos. Como refuerzo y protecci?n, les acompa?a un equipo de soldados de la marina estadounidense.
La vida de Jane MacGuire parece cambiar para siempre en un segundo cuando, en un secuestro aparentemente azaroso, su amigo de la infancia pierde la vida y mientras Jane trata de salvar la suya, escucha una frase inquietante: «No la mates, imb?cil. No nos sirve muerta». De pronto, comienza a sospechar que ella era el verdadero objetivo del ataque. ?Por qu? la buscan? ?Qu? quieren de ella? A partir de ese momento Jane se ve envuelta en una terrible carrera contra el tiempo y ni siquiera su padre adoptivo, Joe Quinn, de la polic?a de Atlanta, podr? ayudarla. Finalmente, se ve obligada a aceptar la ayuda de Mark Trevor, un atractivo estafador por quien Jane tuvo una atracci?n en el pasado ?o no? Mark est? all?, dispuesto a cooperar -qui?n sabe por qu? oscuras razones- y ambos emprenden una traves?a hacia N?poles, perseguidos por un asesino obsesionado por un misterio de dos mil a?os de antig?edad que puede conmocionar al mundo entero.
El hallazgo del cad?ver de una joven con una nota entre sus dedos que dice "He estado bajo tierra y ya es hora de que vuelva a casa", enfrenta al jefe de la brigada de homicidios de Hamburgo, Jan Fabel, con los designios de una mente oscura y enferma. Cuatro d?as despu?s, dos cuerpos m?s aparecen en medio de un bosque, con unas notras entre sus manos que dicen "Hansel" y "Gretel", escritas con la misma letra roja, peque?a y obsesiva. Es evidente que los cr?menes hacen referencia a los cuentos folcl?ricos recopilados doscientos a?os atr?s por los hermanos Grimm. Pero los asesinatos de este cruel asesino en serie no son ning?n cuento de hadas…Finalista del premio Golden Dagger, el m?s prestigioso del mundo en la categor?a de novela criminal
?QU? PASAR?A SI UNA MA?ANA DESPU?S DE UNA BORRACHERA HORRIBLE, TE DESPERTARAS CON UNOS INCIPIENTES CUERNOS EN LA CABEZA?La vida de Ig Perrish es un verdadero infierno desde que su novia Merrin fuera asesinada un a?o atr?s, en un episodio que si bien le fue ajeno tendi? sobre ?l un manto de sospechas que nunca pudo sacudirse.Una ma?ana, despu?s de una fuerte borrachera, se encuentra con unos cuernos creciendo en su frente. Con el pasar de las horas descubrir? que tienen un extra?o efecto en la gente: ...
En pleno mes de agosto, el ispettore Vianello acude al despacho de Brunetti en busca de ayuda: su t?a se ha puesto en manos de un adivino y la familia sospecha que, mediante una serie de ardides, ?ste le est? sacando dinero. Mientras el detective escarba en un turbio negocio de manipulaci?n, plagado de falsos videntes, consultores astrales y tarotistas, tiene lugar un asesinato en la ciudad: el muerto es Araldo Fontana, un ujier del Tribunal de Justicia al que se estaba investigando por su participaci?n en una sutil trama de corrupci?n dentro de la monstruosa maquinaria judicial de Venecia. Brunetti se tendr? que valer de su intuici?n para navegar por un mundo de sugesti?n y descarado enga?o, as? como para enfrentarse a un caso de sangre, sobornos y sexo il?cito.
