Ужасы и Мистика
14439 кн.
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 |
Ellie Simons ist Innenarchitektin, voller Selbstzweifel, humorvoll und übergewichtig. Um nicht allein zum Familientreffen zu müssen, mietet sie Mr. Bentley Haskell als männlichen Begleiter … Die dünne Frau ist ein süffi ger, spannender und witziger Roman über Tagträume und Gewichts probleme. Er wird besonders Leserinnen erfreuen, die die Anziehungskraft einer Schachtel Pralinen kennen.
| Автор | Dorothy Cannell |
Am Anfang scheint alles ganz klar zu sein: Die wohlsituierte geschiedene Victoria Talbot muss von ihrem Exmann – einem wahren Scheusal – ermordet worden sein. Doch der Verdacht ist schwer zu erhärten, egal wie sehr Detective Delafield und ihr Partner sich bemühen. Dennoch riskiert die Anklagevertretung einen Prozess mit nichts als Indizienbeweisen …
| Автор | Katherine V. Forrest |
Third in the PI series, Thicker than Water finds Kit O'Malley trying not to become too embroiled in the feud between three Melbourne crime families, while dealing with ghosts from her past, and a strange missing persons case.<br /> <br />The women's bar known as Angie's is the last place anyone expected to find the dead body of known-criminal Gerry Anders, and O'Malley soon discovers that helping her family of friends out of trouble can be just as dangerous as...
| Автор | Lindy Cameron |
Hodgkiss and the Shack in the Woods<br />Hodgkiss and the Wrong Rifle<br />Hodgkiss and the Open Door<br /> <br />In this, the eleventh volume of the Hodgkiss Mysteries, Edgar Hodgkiss is confronted with three examples of that most baffling of all forensic challenges … a body found in a locked room with no way in or out.<br /> <br />How can the killer leave the scene of the crime without a trace? These three cases demonstrate three different ways in which such...
| Автор | Peter Sinclair |
Hodgkiss and the Deadly Seance<br />Hodgkiss and the Meaningful Message<br />Hodgkiss and the Old Flame<br /> <br />Hodgkiss doesn't miss a trick. Three new adventures of that cranky, obnoxious, insufferable but remarkably observant and astute senior citizen.<br /> <br />A man who has accumulated incriminating information about members of the notoriously corrupt Kanundda Council dies in mysterious circumstances. Local legend had it that the man kept this...
| Автор | Peter Sinclair |
Nebenan ziehen neue Nachbarn ein. Mike ist Sportlehrere mit einem tollen Körperbau. Svenja ist eine attraktive Frau um die dreißig. Beide vertuschen nicht ihre Sexualität. Offen treiben sie es vor den Augen ihrer Nachbarn und animieren sie alsbald, mitzumachen....
| Автор | Nick Perado |
Romantikerin Stoner McTavish, die mit ihrer Liebsten Gwen und der Wüste von Arizona alle Hände voll zu tun hat, fühlt sich von einem Kojoten belauert. Dann kreuzt diese uralte Hopifrau auf und behauptet, ein jahrtausendealter Feldzug sei im Gange. Stoner hasst es: Warum gerade sie? Doch als es ernst wird, nimmt McTavish die Streitaxt auf und zieht los.
| Автор | Sarah Dreher |
Bangalore, Indien. Der Mord an einem vermögenden Anwalt ruft Inspector Gowda auf den Plan. Das ist sein Job, und er wird den Fall lösen, egal, wem er dafür auf die Füße treten muss. Im Zuge der Ermittlung rücken Umstände in den Blick, die verschiedenste Facetten der indischen Gesellschaft berühren. Doch dann wird die berufliche Fähigkeit des Inspectors plötzlich im Privaten gebraucht – und bei diesem Fall läuft Gowda die Zeit davon. Mit ausführlichen Glossar.
| Автор | Anita Nair |
If God is too indifferent, or too non-existent to take care of His creation, then clearly it's up to Me.'<br />Morgen Tanjenz is a lawyer with an overactive sense of justice. His mission in life is to reward the virtuous, punish the ignorant and avenge those who won't avenge themselves. His favourite pastime is 'life sculpture' – anonymously intervening in the lives of strangers to change their destiny in ways he thinks they deserve.<br />But Morgen...
| Автор | Adrian Deans |
Book 2 in the Kit O'Malley series.<br /> <br />Poison pens can draw blood. And that is exactly why TV presenter Rebecca Jones hires private eye Kit O'Malley to investigate the threats against her. But the trouble with being tenacious, tough, and too smart for her own good is that everybody else wants her on their team.<br /> <br />As if trying to keep Rebecca alive and on the air wasn't enough, Kit is beset by a clutch of other people's catastrophes...
| Автор | Lindy Cameron |
Book 1 in the Kit O'Malley series.<br /> <br />Private investigator Kit O'Malley has had more exciting cases than following a wealthy client's husband, but Celia Robinson is paying big money to find out what the libidinous Geoffrey is up to with a blonde, a redhead and entrepreneur Ian Dalkeith and his group of shady businessmen.<br /> <br />Enduring a heatwave and fighting the inanimate objects that are out to get her are the hardest parts of Kit's...
| Автор | Lindy Cameron |
