Ужасы и Мистика
14439 кн.
In the course of a single week, everything Sam Reeves believed in, everything he knew, everyone he trusted, all would be put on the line. For a family he never knew he had. Detective Sam Reeves, a 34-year-old martial arts instructor, has a solid fifteen-year record as a good police officer with the Portland Police Department. For the first time, Sam is forced to take a life in the line of duty and despite the findings of «good shoot» he struggles to recuperate psychologically from the killing....
| Автор | Loren W. Christensen |
Asian scholar and black belt artist Connor Burke labors as a deshi—a student under the tutelage of a master warrior— a practice that draws him into the execution-style murder of a Japanese businessman in Brooklyn. Connor’s brother, an officer in the NYPD, enlists him to decipher the strange calligraphic writing left by the victim at the crime scene. The enigmatic message leads Connor to the lethal samurai heritage of a mysterious martial arts sensei, the foreboding world of a Tibetan...
| Автор | John Donohue |
Who killed the aspiring young actress, Megan Maguire, and just as importantly, why? Megan's parents hire R. A. Huber to find out. The seasoned sleuth and her spunky assistant Andi set about to unravel the obscure reason for the murder. The young victim's short life had revolved around an amateur theater group where she had played the lead character role of Vanity in the play From Sin to Virtue. Among the murder suspects are Megan's roommate, her employer, the Cubbyhole...
| Автор | Alice Zogg |
In the tradition of Sam Spade, Phillip Marlow and Travis Magee The Fall and Rise of Cain is a modern day Mystery Thriller. Retired in disgrace, Houston Police Detective, Richard Cain, left the Department when a brutal ambush crippled him and killed his partner. Two years after the gunfight that broke his body and spirit he is called back to the town that turned it's back on him. He must know who was responsible for his shattered life and lost friend. Seeking the help of his ex-wife and...
| Автор | Greg T. Nelson |
The famous city also has its downsides. Sometimes bad things happen. “Salzburg Crime Stories” contains 3 exciting short crime novels, written by Brigitte Lenz. Step into the exciting world of Inspector Martin Buchholz and his colleague Sandra Steiner.
| Автор | Brigitte Lenz |
Hauptkommissar Wolff Schmitt trainiert im Fitnessstudio in Erlangen. Und nebenan auf dem Altstädter Friedhof liegt eine Leiche. Eiskalt ermordet. Schmitt muss in einem komplizierten Fall ermitteln und gleichzeitig erfährt sein Liebesleben ungeahnte Höhepunkte …
| Автор | Gerd Hans Schmidt |
Had Mason Chase gone to sleep that night he might be dead. The fact that he didn't might make him wish he was dead. <br><br>With his family gruesomely murdered around him in their comfortable suburban home, he is arrested, charged and convicted of a crime he claims he did not commit. In fact there is evidence – strong evidence– to suggest that Mason's claims of innocence are in fact true. But a Texas jury decides against him, finding him guilty and...
| Автор | John Ph.D Crawley |
Young superheroes Alexa and Rachael Casaday return to that abandoned factory, the backdrop for the near fatal climax of Book 1: Super Kids. They rescue Isaac Fromme, the cruelly mistreated gentleman who vanished–imprisoned in a crypt beneath the crumbling building. Could Fromme be a vampire, one of the "good" ones? Why is this elusive man researching a grotesque creature originally thought to be a figment of local imaginations? The Casadays must use their...
| Автор | Michael Markey |
In the first chapter Rachel Penrose is standing trial for the murder of her fiancé, Steven Moretti, and in the last chapter, the trial continues and comes to a revealing end. The pages in between are the essence of the story. The evidence against Rachel is indisputable. Everyone is convinced of her guilt except her old friend Jonathan Lighthart, who believes in her innocence and hires R. A. Huber to find the real culprit. Huber accepts the challenge, which puts her and her...
| Автор | Alice Zogg |
Ein blutiger Mord an einem schwulen Restaurantbesitzer – Kate gerät beim Ermitteln bald an ihre sorgsam gehütete Grenze zwischen Beruf und Privatleben. Was kann sie tun, damit eine schwulenfeindliche Jury den gewalttätigen Angeklagten nicht einfach freispricht?
| Автор | Katherine V. Forrest |
New Orleans' private detective Luke Jacobs doesn't take too well to murders happening around him. He's been on a solid run of assisting local police with cases and maintains a strong reputation of doing good work. However, when a few bodies turn up in an area adjacent to his office and the post Katrina setting is still a disrupted mess, things get personal.<br><br>Luke is juggling a mixture of activities and has a recurrent dream of 19th century Southern...
| Автор | Ken Mask |
From the author of The Last Trip of the Magi, comes a perplexing mystery featuring colorful and unusual characters trapped in a maze of surprises and dead ends. <br><br>"Woe unto those who do not heed my warning." The newscaster prepares his viewers for the ferocious blizzard surging toward them. Most listen. A few do not. <br><br>"Only daredevils, fools, and the naïve come out in weather like this." The restaurant...
| Автор | Michael Lorinser |
Private investigator Andi is hired to look into the drowning accident of Kitty Ralph at Shore Haven. She sweet-talks R. A. Huber into coming out of retirement and reside undercover at the upscale senior community near the Ventura pier. Huber uncovers other suspicious deaths at the place. Only when Andi rides to Reno and Salt Lake City on her Harley-Davidson to interview relatives of recent victims, does the motive for the crime make sense. Andi and Huber confront the villain and barely escape...
| Автор | Alice Zogg |
They say you can't get to Heaven without passing through the Eternal Rest Funeral Home. And no one gets into Eternal Rest without passing muster with Elvis–the basset hound who's convinced he's the reincarnation of the King of Rock 'n' Roll. Brewing up a big ol' pitcher of Mississippi mystery, Peggy Webb's delightful new series is as intoxicating as the Delta breeze.Normally, Callie Valentine Jones spends her days fixing up the hairdos of the dead, but when the...
| Автор | Peggy Webb |
