Ужасы и Мистика
14439 кн.
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 |
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 |
