Ужасы и Мистика
14439 кн.
For outback mechanic Kevin Matheson, it's just another summer's day. Mulga wavering in the haze, sweat on his brow, bastard flies getting in his way.<br /> <br />And then the vampires arrive, leaving his life like road kill in their wake.<br /> <br />Caught between vicious nomadic bikers and their brutal foes from the coast, Kevin fights to save not only those he holds dearest, but his own soul.<br /> <br />But how far will he go to save the people...
| Автор | Jason Nahrung |
What if justice isn't enough?<br /> <br />Schalk Lourens got out his phone and started filming, something Pieterse taught him years ago. Keep a record. Do it yourself, boykie, every time. That way you can be sure. Cover your arse. Don't trust any of them.<br /> <br />Schalk began with Pieterse himself, what was left of him.<br /> <br /><b>Cape Town, South Africa.</b><br /> <br />Retired police chief Piet Pieterse has been...
| Автор | Natalie Conyer |
Thrust into the technology-driven Earthlands, Shahkara must find the ancient Elnara death lantern – the only thing that can save her homeworld from the heart-devouring Taloners.<br /> <br />She enlists the help of geeky billionaire Max McCalden, but soon finds that, as a half-Taloner herself, her blood demands what she knows she can't have – a human heart.<br /> <br />Shahkara longs for love, but as deadly enemies attack at every turn, will her lust for Max destroy...
| Автор | Cheryse Durrant |
In the heady days of the seventies, and at the tender age of nineteen, Decca Brand experimented with what was on offer – sex, drugs and intrigue. Far too much intrigue, it turns out, and of a sort that spells murder.<br /> <br />Fast forward nearly thirty years and Decca is confronted by dangerous figures from her past. Not only that, the stunning psychologist and divorcee has a blind date lined up with a married man.<br /> <br />And then things start to get complicated.
| Автор | Jane Clifton |
Commander Bryn Gideon and the crack Australian 'Redback Retrieval Team' rescue hostages from Pacific island rebels. American journalist Scott Dreher, researching computer war-game training, uncovers links between Western government agencies and known terrorist groups.<br /> <br />Meanwhile ritual killings in London and Tokyo, a bomb on a European train, an assassination on an Australian beach, and an attack on a US army base have half the world on high alert. The question...
| Автор | Lindy Cameron |
A rollicking good yarn that mixes detective fiction with Indiana Jones-style adventure.<br /> <br />When Professor Lloyd Marsden is found murdered in the Museum of Victoria, Special Detective Sam Diamond is assigned to catch the killer. Thrown into a world of obsessive collectors, strange poisons, funerary rites and ancient artefacts, Sam's photographic memory and cryptic crossword skills are invaluable tools in her investigation.<br /> <br />But when archaeologist...
| Автор | Lindy Cameron |
During World War II, due to a shortage of qualified pilots, Uncle Sam began a program of training thousands of military pilots. Among these were the Tuskegee Airmen, a unit of African-Americans eager to fly in combat. Fifty years later a Hollywood studio sets out to create a documentary about these brave airmen, featuring grizzled survivors of that long-ago era flying lovingly maintained vintage aircraft. And then…murder strikes on the movie set, and Hobart Lindsey, insurance...
| Автор | Richard A. Lupoff |
A 1928 DUESENBERG! Most of them were rich, most of them were beautiful, and now one of them was dead in an unexpected and particularly nasty way. Oh, and a perfectly maintained, priceless 1928 Duesenberg Phaeton, the royalty of collectible, classic automobiles, had disappeared. Where do you hide a totally recognizable Dusie? Insurance man Hobart Lindsey is back on the case…along with his sometime sparring partner and lover, homicide investigator Marvia Plum, Lindsey’s troubled mother, and a cast...
| Автор | Richard A. Lupoff |
WHEN A MAN’S PARTNER IS KILLED… So begins one of the most famous quotations in all of crime fiction. And just as the murder of Sam Spade's partner, Miles Archer, sets off the quest in the great Dashiell Hammett's greatest novel, so the murder of Hobart Lindsey's partner, Cletus Berry, sets off the quest in The Silver Chariot Killer, the sixth of Richard A. Lupoff's classic series of «Killer» mysteries. It's Christmas week in New York and Cletus Berry's body has been...
| Автор | Richard A. Lupoff |
Die berühmte Stadt hat auch Schattenseiten. Manchmal geschehen schlimme Dinge. „Salzburger Krimis“ enthält 3 spannende Kurzkrimis, geschrieben von Brigitte Lenz. Treten Sie ein in die spannende Welt von Kommissar Martin Buchholz und seiner Kollegin Sandra Steiner.
| Автор | Brigitte Lenz |
Мария покидает родную деревню и уезжает в большой город, где она устраивается медсестрой в местную больницу. Там она сталкивается с трудностями, которые проверяют ее на прочность.
| Автор | Лаврентий Крепак |
Prior to World War II, black actors were restricted to mainstream film roles as chauffeurs, maids, night club entertainers, and comic buffoons. But there was a second Hollywood, a BLACK Hollywood, where great producers and directors like Oscar Michaud created films with all-black casts for exhibition to black audiences. Some of the actors worked only in black productions. Others, like the talented Eddie Anderson, could play comic roles in white productions and serious roles in all-black films....
| Автор | Richard A. Lupoff |
Who WAS that gorgeous model? When a helicopter loses power and plunges into the icy waters of scenic Lake Tahoe, killing its only passenger, millionaire Albert Crocker Vansittart, what looks like a routine claim against a life insurance policy turns into a mystery for investigator Hobart Lindsey and his sometime collaborator Marvia Plum. The reason: half a century ago, the youthful Vansittart had come across a hardboiled mystery novel and become obsessed with the glamorous model who'd posed...
| Автор | Richard A. Lupoff |
Every wizard in Ethshar knew that if you needed something special, something difficult to find, that Gresh the Supplier was the man to see. He was expensive, but always delivered. So when the Wizards' Guild finally got fed up with the little green nuisances that called themselves «spriggans,» the Guild hired Gresh to fetch them the magic mirror that created the troublesome imps. The wizards thought finding it looked impossible. Gresh thought his methods would do the job. But no one had...
| Автор | Lawrence Watt-Evans |
Bob Bjorner is the last of the «red hot lefties» at radio station KRED in Berkeley, Calif. His paranoia makes him bring his personal lock to keep intruders out of the studio while he's on the air–but they get to him anyway! He opens his lunch, takes his first mouthful of sashimi, and falls over dead. Homicide detective Marvia Plum scrambles to the station in time to see broadcasters, engineers, and administrators trying to figure out what to do next. Bob Bjorner, Radio Red himself, is...
| Автор | Richard A. Lupoff |