Ужасы и Мистика
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Daar ver onder in die Kaapse nag steel iemand skilderye waarop vroue in blou geklee is. En kaptein Bennie Griessel droom van verloofringe, en sy kollega Vaughn Cupido bekommer hom oor commitment. En die private eye Billy de Palma, “narcissist, psycho, real arsehole”, is besig met sy gewone onheilighede. Maar hier bo in Sir Lowryspas lê ’n vrou wat dit alles gaan verander. Sy is heeltemal kaal, uitgestrek by die groot uitkykpunt, haar kop na die noorde, haar voete na die suide. Iemand het haar...
| Автор | Deon Meyer |
A BBC Radio 2 Book Club Choice Shortlisted for the Irish Book Awards 2016 Shortlisted for the Authors' Club Best First Novel Award 2017 Longlisted for the John Creasey (New Blood) Dagger 2017 1950. A teenage girl is brutally murdered in a forest. But, somehow, her baby survives. 1976. A mysterious and charming young man returns to the remote coastal village of Mulderrig, seeking answers about the mother who, it was said, had abandoned him on the steps of a Dublin orphanage. ...
| Автор | Jess Kidd |
A REESE WITHERSPOON BOOK CLUB PICK!Addictive, dark, thrilling and full of twists! You won’t want to miss this mesmerising debut from a fresh new voice in psychological suspense.Perfect for fans of B. A. Paris, Shari Lapena and Liane MoriartyHow far would you go to make all your dreams come true?Amber Patterson is tired of being a nobody: an invisible woman who melts into the background. She deserves more. She deserves a life of wealth, luxury and leisure.Daphne Parrish is the golden girl of...
| Автор | Liv Constantine |
‘Beyond all doubt the puzzle in The Moving Finger is fit for experts’ The TimesThe quiet village of Lymstock seemed like the perfect place for Jerry Burton to recover from his accident. But shortly after his arrival he receives a letter accusing him of the unthinkable.He’s not the only one. Across the village people are receiving letters accusing them of terrible acts. It seems like just a cruel prank until one recipient is found dead, with a letter next to her reading ‘I can’t go on’.The...
| Автор | Agatha Christie |
How far would you go to save the ones you love?The first book in a gripping new crime series featuring DCI Anna Tate.When nine children are snatched from a nursery school in South London, their distressed parents have no idea if they will ever see them again. The community in the surrounding area is in shock. How could this happen right under their noses? No one in the quiet suburban street saw anything – or at least that's what they're saying.But DCI Anna Tate knows that nothing is...
| Автор | J. P. Carter |
Agatha Christie’s seasonal Poirot and Marple short story collection.First came a sinister warning to Poirot not to eat any plum pudding… then the discovery of a corpse in a chest… next, an overheard quarrel that led to murder… the strange case of the dead man who altered his eating habits… and the puzzle of the victim who dreamt his own suicide.What links these five baffling cases? The little grey cells of Monsieur Hercule Poirot!
| Автор | Agatha Christie |
HE WAS A SECRET AGENT WITH SPECIAL TRAINING…AND SHE WAS AT HIS MERCY Lila Monroe's ordinary world was shattered in an instant, when she became an unwitting witness to murder. If not for devastatingly handsome undercover agent Justin Vidal–code name: Lone Wolf–she'd already be dead. Now the only way to remain alive was to return to the scene of the crime and put her much-guarded trust in this mysterious stranger.Before long Lila's attraction to her newly appointed protector had...
| Автор | Carol Ericson |
The chilling psychological thriller from a top ten bestselling author.I’m the sister who got away. The lucky one. Until now.It is ten years since Ella's sister Miranda disappeared without trace, leaving her young baby behind. Chilling new evidence links Miranda to the horrifying Jason Thorne, now in prison for murdering several women. Is it possible that Miranda knew him?At thirty, Miranda’s age when she vanished, Ella looks uncannily like the sister she idolized. What holds Ella together...
| Автор | Claire Kendal |
TO WED AND PROTECTWhen she was entrusted with the young Collingwood heir, Juliana Goodhew never anticipated the atrocious murder of the toddler's parents or the reality of running for her life, baby in tow. Now she had no choice but to place her trust–and her life–in the hands of Hunter Sinclair, the enigmatic man who offered her every means of protection, even marriage.A wedded alliance with her reclusive guardian would reveal scandalous secrets and draw the killer from the shadows. But...
| Автор | Joyce Sullivan |
IN SAVING CELIAUnconscious and wearing a torn wedding dress, Celia Stevens washed up on the shores of Solitaire and threw Cameron Alexander's peaceful seclusion into complete chaos. Not only did her presence force him to reexamine his reasons for hiding out, but within days the walls around Cameron's hardened heart slowly began to crumble….HE'D SAVED HIMSELFCelia sensed her enigmatic captor had a dangerous past, one she'd be better off not learning. And yet, it was...
| Автор | Charlotte Douglas |
‘Claustrophobic and compelling’ KARIN SLAUGHTER ‘A rollercoaster with multiple twists’ DAILY MAIL ’A million dollar new story from a million selling author' SARAH PINBOROUGHSometimes your first love won’t let you go…When Lou Wandsworth ran away to France with her teacher Mike Hughes, she thought he was the love of her life. But Mike wasn’t what he seemed and he left her life in pieces.Now 32, Lou discovers that he is involved with teenager Chloe Meadows. Determined to make sure history...
| Автор | C.L. Taylor |
A horrific car crash has devastated Helen Pengilly’s family. Her daughter in a coma – and her husband Michael is missing.Alone and terrified, Helen’s memory is dragged back to that day 22 years ago. To protect their family, Helen and Michael both said they would forget what happened. But now it seems that there is someone who will stop at nothing to make them remember…ONE DIED… WHO LIED? Don’t miss this gripping, heart-wrenching thriller – perfect for fans of C.L. Taylor, Claire Douglas and Erin...
| Автор | C.J. Cooke |
Detective Bobbie Gentry was psyched when she was offered the opportunity to work with the FBI on a special task force in the search for a heinous serial killer known as the Storyteller. What she didn't expect was for the serial killer to follow her home on Christmas Eve…The Storyteller couldn't resist Bobbie no matter the risk. He murdered her husband and would have murdered her child but the little boy got away. Now Bobbie's fight for survival might just be more than he bargained...
| Автор | Debra Webb |
‘A tremendous read’ – The SunNow optioned for a major movie by the company behind Winter’s Bone, Babel, Being John Malkovich and the TV series True Detective.A compulsive debut that reveals how, even in the perfect family, nothing is as it seems…I've been following her for the past few days. I know where she buys her groceries, where she has her dry cleaning done, where she works. I don't know the colour of her eyes or what they look like when they're scared. But I will.Mia...
| Автор | Mary Kubica |
In this set of short stories, Poirot sets himself a challenge before he retires – to solve 12 cases which correspond with the labours of his classical Greek namesake…In appearance Hercule Poirot hardly resembled an ancient Greek hero. Yet – reasoned the detective – like Hercules he had been responsible for ridding society of some of its most unpleasant monsters.So, in the period leading up to his retirement, Poirot made up his mind to accept just twelve more cases: his self-imposed ‘Labours’....
| Автор | Agatha Christie |
Months after Lexie Rayburn faked her own disappearance, someone injected her with a drug that robbed her of her memories, and kidnapped her newborn baby.Now, the only hope for locating her daughter rested on the too-broad shoulders of Garrett O'Malley – the one man she swore she'd never set eyes on again. But someone would stop at nothing to ensure Lexie never learned the truth about her baby's disappearance.Still, as the danger escalated, Lexie wondered which posed a greater...
| Автор | Delores Fossen |
The daughter of an American millionaire dies on a train en route for Nice…When the luxurious Blue Train arrives at Nice, a guard attempts to wake serene Ruth Kettering from her slumbers. But she will never wake again – for a heavy blow has killed her, disfiguring her features almost beyond recognition. What is more, her precious rubies are missing.The prime suspect is Ruth’s estranged husband, Derek. Yet Poirot is not convinced, so he stages an eerie re-enactment of the journey, complete with...
| Автор | Agatha Christie |
Agatha Christie’s first ever murder mystery.With impeccable timing Hercule Poirot, the renowned Belgian detective, makes his dramatic entrance on to the English crime stage.Recently, there had been some strange goings on at Styles St Mary. Evelyn, constant companion to old Mrs Inglethorp, had stormed out of the house muttering something about ‘a lot of sharks’. And with her, something indefinable had gone from the atmosphere. Her presence had spelt security; now the air seemed rife with...
| Автор | Agatha Christie |
A typist uncovers a man’s body from behind the sofa…As instructed, stenographer Sheila Webb let herself into the house at 19 Wilbraham Crescent. It was then that she made a grisly discovery: the body of a dead man sprawled across the living room floor.What intrigued Poirot about the case was the time factor. Although in a state of shock, Sheila clearly remembered having heard a cuckoo clock strike three o’clock. Yet, the four other clocks in the living room all showed the time as 4.13. Even more...
| Автор | Agatha Christie |
The new Hercule Poirot novel – another brilliant murder mystery that can only be solved by the eponymous Belgian detective and his ‘little grey cells’.Since the publication of her first book in 1920, Agatha Christie wrote 33 novels, two plays and more than 50 short stories featuring Hercule Poirot. Now, for the first time ever, the guardians of her legacy have approved a brand new novel featuring Dame Agatha's most beloved creation.Hercule Poirot's quiet supper in a London coffee house...
| Автор | Sophie Hannah |
Winner of the Reddit Fantasy Award for Best Debut 2018‘The best fantasy debut of 2018’ WIREDA brilliantly imaginative epic fantasy debut, inspired by the bloody history of China’s twentieth century and filled with treachery and magic.When Rin aced the Keju – the test to find the most talented students in the Empire – it was a shock to everyone: to the test officials, who couldn’t believe a war orphan from Rooster Province could pass without cheating; to Rin’s guardians, who had hoped to get rich...
| Автор | R.F. Kuang |
The jaw-dropping new psychological thriller from the best selling author of The Boy in the ParkAmber is happy, she loves her husband David and their dog Sadie, she even loves her job as a junior editor on a local newspaper. But when the body of a young woman is found in a stretch of river near her home, Amber’s world begins to implode.The headaches that she has been struggling with seem to intensify and Amber begins to doubt her husband, why doesn’t he want to probe deeper into the story and why...
| Автор | A J Grayson |
The brand new gripping, gritty crime thriller from Kerry Barnes that will have you hooked.* * * * *The wrong choice may just get you killed…Mike Regan and Zara Ezra believe the so-called Governor is safely locked away – in Zara’s hangar. But less than twenty-four hours later, the Governor is loose and out there, wreaking havoc. After what Zara made him do to his own son, she knows he’ll be back with more than murder on his mind. Moving the families to a safe place was all the firm could do to...
| Автор | Kerry Barnes |
Agatha Christie’s audacious murder mystery, reissued with a striking cover designed to appeal to the latest generation of Agatha Christie fans and book lovers.One minute, silly Heather Badcock had been gabbling on at her movie idol, the glamorous Marina Gregg. The next, Heather suffered a massive seizure. But for whom was the deadly poison really intended?Marina’s frozen expression suggested she had witnessed something horrific. But, while others searched for material evidence, Jane Marple...
| Автор | Agatha Christie |