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The poppy.<br><br>Opium. Morphine. Heroin.<br><br>The Sumerians — thousands of years before the birth of Christ — knew of the powers of the wild poppy plant. Today 40% of the world's production is grown in Tasmania.<br><br>The Poppy fields of this island state are the most secure in the world. Or are they?<br><br>David Barron of the Federal Police is sent to check security and uncovers a seemingly simple plan to steal...
| Автор | Stuart Jackson E. |
Lima, 1970: a tremendous earthquake has just struck the Peruvian capital, and mayhem reigns. Tensions are high, with a population reeling from the disaster and mesmerized by the World Cup. Enter detective Simon Weiss, tasked with solving two seemingly unrelated murders: the crucifying and beheading of a Japanese man in a pool hall and an apparent murder-by-hanging of an elderly Jewish man. Joined by Lieutenant Kato Kanashiro, whose deep ties to Japanese-Peruvian culture inform the case in...
| Автор | Isaac Goldemberg |
New York Times bestselling author Janet Evanovich praised bestselling author Rhonda Pollero's first mystery Knock Off as «a great read with plenty of attitude!» Now paralegal Finley Anderson Tanner (F.A.T. to her enemies) is back for another sizzling adventure under the West Palm Beach sun. . .Finley knows it can't be good news when she's awakened at 5:40 a.m. by someone knocking on her door. Her hunch proves correct. Finley's pal Jane is hysterical and clad only in a...
| Автор | Rhonda Pollero |
Set during the Great Depression and based in part on real characters and a series of historical events, Toughs follows the story of Loretto Jones as he finds his life intertwined with the fate of Vince Coll, a 23-year-old Irish gangster who for a brief moment rose to the level of a national celebrity during his war with Dutch Schultz, Owen Madden, and Lucky Luciano. Tagged “Mad Dog Coll” after killing five-year-old Michael Vengelli in a botched assassination attempt, Coll was...
| Автор | Ed Falco |
This masterful historical novel by Deborah Noyes, the lauded author of Angel & Apostle, The Ghosts of Kerfol, and Encyclopedia of the End (starred PW) is two stories:The first centers upon the strange, true tale of the Fox Sisters, the enigmatic family of young women who, in upstate New York in 1848, proclaimed that they could converse with the dead. Doing so, they unwittingly (but artfully) gave birth to a religious movement that touched two continents: the American Spiritualists. Their...
| Автор | Deborah Noyes |
The Detective’s Garden: A Love Story and Meditation on Murder is set in Brooklyn in 1995. Originally from Slovenia, ex-NYPD Homicide Detective Emil Milosec, a man with a past poised to reclaim him is perennially on the outside. Elena, his beauty of a wife, has died, but she has filled pages of letters to him—which he has so far refused to read. Elena always remained elusive to him, and she still is.An ugly discovery among the leafy haven of their backyard garden unsettles the...
| Автор | Janyce Stefan-Cole |
Rebecca Sellen es una exitosa escritora que tiene poco tiempo para terminar su novela. A falta de ideas, trata de obtener la ayuda del inspector Ridley quien està investigando una serie de asesinatos en el área. Rebecca Sellen es una exitosa escritora que tiene poco tiempo para terminar su novela. A falta de ideas, trata de obtener la ayuda del inspector Ridley quien està investigando una serie de asesinatos en el área. La desaparición de su esposo y su hijo, junto a otras vicisitudes, hacen que...
| Автор | Marco Bruno |
"…a grave yet hilarious meditation on insanity, depression, companionship, and leaving everything behind."—Publishers Weekly "This is a ghost story of the highest order. A spellbinding work that isn't afraid to examine the wonderful, terrifying, and beautiful vulnerability of the human experience. "—Seth Fried, author of The Municipalists and The Great Frustration William Rook is an occultist living in a haunted brownstone in upstate New York. There he has encountered many...
| Автор | Dennis Mahoney |
―Al principio non c’era nulla, tranne la luce. Almeno così mi avevano raccontato, e anche che sarebbe stato così, precisamente quello che ho visto nei miei ultimi momenti. Ma non era proprio come speravo. Mi sentivo stranamente leggero, come se tutte le preoccupazioni che mi stavano logorando in quei giorni stessero svanendo . ―Al principio non c’era nulla, tranne la luce. Almeno così mi avevano raccontato, e anche che sarebbe stato così, precisamente quello che ho visto nei miei ultimi momenti....
| Автор | Dr. Juan Moisés De La Serna |
―En el principio no existía nada, salvo la luz. Al menos así me lo había contado, y también que sería eso, precisamente lo que vería en mis últimos momentos. Pero no era aquello tal y como esperaba. Extrañamente me sentía ligero, como si todas las preocupaciones que me estaban aprisionando estos días se hubiesen difuminado. ―En el principio no existía nada, salvo la luz. Al menos así me lo había contado, y también que sería eso, precisamente lo que vería en mis últimos momentos. Pero no era...
| Автор | Dr. Juan Moisés De La Serna |
Magic is real. Most mortals are seeing it for the first time. Some don't deal with change very well. There are a few mortals who have always seen the magic. Those are the ones Liv Beaufont is hunting down. They are potentially one of the Mortal Seven. Kayla Sinclair is also on the hunt. But she's aiming to kill. It's a race to find the Mortal Seven before they are murdered. And meanwhile, there's another crime that needs Liv's attention. Someone wants Father Time...
| Автор | Ксюша Ангел |
