Ужасы и Мистика
14439 кн.
Liisa is a young artist, orphaned at a young age. A family friend took her and raised her with their own children. She visits her father’s hometown in Drammen, Norway and returns to Waterbury, Connecticut with amnesia. She begins to get threatening phone calls and death threats. Her employer, a dear old family friend, is killed and her foster father and foster brother are shot. The messages only tell her that if she tells what she knows she and her friends will suffer. What does she know? Why is...
| Автор | Sioux Dallas |
Young and impetuous, Kristine Larkin sets out to fulfill her dreams of becoming an award winning journalist – never mind the consequences. With the help of an unexpected source, she uncovers the story of a lifetime. She charges full-steam ahead certain this byline will bring her the fame, fortune, respect and adoration for which she longs. More concerned with one-upping her rivals than the consequences of her actions, Kristine gets her byline but loses everything in the process – even who she...
| Автор | Kimberly Vinje |
Open gunfire in an elementary school with Cassidy “Trouble” Michaels around and you better run. Run for the hills, but don’t leave tracks and don’t take time to look back. She will track you down, send you to the pen, and throw away the key. You never know when she might strike because adventures and mishaps ambush her as well, but eventually, when you are not expecting it, she will catch up and when she does she arrives with force… the entire police force. About the Author: Kelly Rysten was...
| Автор | Kelly Rysten |
The discovery of a body floating in New York City’s East River leads to the re-opening of the murder of Lacy Wooden, an aspiring young dancer. As NYPD Lieutenant James Francis Moran and his team follow each clue, they are brought face-to-face with some of the city’s most influential powerbrokers. As each layer of the case is peeled away, the secret life of each of these individuals is revealed, as well as their mutually unbeknown connection to the deceased woman. Finding the murderer against...
| Автор | Joseph Sinopoli Steven |
Repression, Imprisonment, Escape . . . Ivey Jane Doede is about to turn eighteen and is trying to leave home. She lives with her younger brother, Louie, and parents in Kansas with nothing but miles of cornfields in every direction. Ivey’s mom is abusive and her father is an alcoholic. Family life gets worse after a religious cult comes into the neighboring town, offering salvation. “Escape to Anywhere Else” connects to that part in all our lives when numbing is no longer enough. Ivey Doede must...
| Автор | Robert Rippberger |
Donald Youngblood is a rich, bored ex-Wall Street whiz kid that returns to his East Tennessee hometown and on a whim gets a Private Investigator's license. Billy Two Feathers is a full-blooded Cherokee Indian, ex-convict and Don's best friend. Together they open Cherokee Investigations and for a few years just hang out. Then Don is summoned by the rich and powerful Joseph Fleet to find his missing daughter and son-in-law. All is not as it seems as Don and Billy go through the motions...
| Автор | Keith Donnelly |
It's a few days before Christmas, and Meg's grandfather is hosting a scientific conference on owls at the Caerphilly Inn. Most of the family are there, helping out in one capacity or another, including Meg's grandmother, Cordelia-invited by Grandfather in a rare gesture of peace-making, to share her expertise on rehabilitating large birds, including owls. An unexpectedly severe snow storm traps the conference-goers in the hotel, and one of the visiting ornithologists is murdered....
| Автор | Donna Andrews |
Von Tokio nach Hamburg Als die Eheleute Haubach tot in ihrer Wohnung in Hamburg-Altona gefunden werden, scheint der Fall auf den ersten Blick klar: Selbstmord. Deshalb hat man auch Inspektor Kenjiro Takeda, Mitarbeiter der Mordkommission Tokio und zurzeit als Hospitant in Deutschland tätig, zum Tatort geschickt. Doch Takeda ist skeptisch. Zu recht, wie sich bald herausstellt, denn es finden sich Spuren, die auf Mord hindeuten, und Verdächtige gibt es auch genug. Gemeinsam mit seiner deutschen...
| Автор | Ксюша Ангел |
The perfect books for when you have a few minutes to kill. If you've got the time, we've got the crime. Test your detective skills and powers of deduction with 80 of the best quick-read whodunits in the popular Five-minute Mysteries series. Here's the idea: take about five minutes and read a mystery. The stories – some about the crime, some about evidence left behind, or perhaps the getaway or the investigating detective, and so on – are told with all the clues you need to...
| Автор | Ken Weber |
When you have a few minutes to kill. Armchairs sleuths can test their powers of deduction with 40 of the best quick-read whodunits in this fifth volume of the popular Five-minute Mysteries series. Here's the idea. Readers take about five minutes to read a short mystery. Next, they must solve the question posed at the end by putting themselves in the shoes of the detective to examine the evidence and figure out who done it. All the clues they need are found somewhere in the story. A...
| Автор | Ken Weber |
40 more felonies to solve. Here is the perfect book for when you have a few minutes to kill. Test your powers of deduction with 40 of the best quick-read whodunits in the third installment of the popular Five-minute Mysteries series. Here's the idea: take about five minutes and read a mystery. The stories – some about the crime, some about the evidence left behind, or perhaps the getaway or the investigating detective, and so on – are told with all the clues you need to solve the...
| Автор | Ken Weber |
Древность далека и близка, время течёт по-разному. Кто сказал, что существование древних Богов невозможно и ныне? Вечная мечта каждого – жить вечно, есть те, кто расскажет, каково это. В центре повествования люди обыкновенные и наделённые редкими способностями. Два брата, царевич и беззащитная дочь мельника. Каждый по-своему велик и мелок, каждого манит золото и власть над людьми. Сам Сатана является соблазнять их. И как быть? Остаться отшельником или открыть сердце любви? Кому-то собственное...
| Автор | Татьяна Вячеславовна Иванько |
London, 1554. Light-fingered Jack Blackjack wakes in a tavern's yard with a sore head, his knife smeared with blood and a dead stranger lying beside him. Jack may have robbed the man but he's certain that he didn't kill him. Unfortunately, the man's purse contains something much more valuable than money and, as the prime suspect for the murder, everyone is on Jack's tail. He needs to get out of the city, and fast, but a rebel army is marching on London: the bridge is...
| Автор | Michael Jecks |
In der Nähe eines Waldstücks bei Västerås in Schweden finden Kinder eine Leiche. Bei der Identifizierung stellt sich heraus, dass der aufgefundene Junge Schüler eines Elitegymnasiums war und seit Tagen als vermisst galt. Da die örtliche Polizei mit dem Fall überfordert ist, reist der Stockholmer Kommissar Torkel Höglund an und nimmt gemeinsam mit seinem Team die Ermittlungen auf. Die Spuren der Tat führen zu mehr als nur einem dunklen Geheimnis … Doch auch ein alter Bekannter Torkels ist mit...
| Автор | Michael Hjorth |
“David Edge is a Chinese Whisper.” So Constable Carol Porter learns while digging into one of Edge’s cold cases, unsure if she’s investigating the crime, the crim or the ex-cop. But to petty thief Ben Bovell, Edge is his only friend, his hero, and the one person he can trust – to keep the promise he extracts from Edge when Ben walks into his daughter’s day-care centre wearing a bomb. In the aftermath, a cast of cops, crims, muscle for hire, sex workers, street kids and bystanders encounter Edge...
| Автор | Ross Gray |
June Wright wrote this lost gem in the mid-1950s, but consigned it to her bottom drawer after her publisher foolishly rejected it. Perhaps it was a little ahead of its time? Because while it’s a tour de force of the classic ‘country house’ murder mystery, it’s also a delightful romp, poking fun at the conventions of the genre. When someone takes advantage of a duck hunt to murder publisher Athol Sefton at a remote hunting inn, it soon turns out that...
| Автор | June Wright |
First published in 1948, when it was the best-selling mystery of the year in the author’s native Australia, Murder in the Telephone Exchange stars feisty young operator Maggie Byrnes. When one of her more unpopular colleagues is murdered — her head bashed in with a “buttinski,” a piece of equipment used to listen in on phone calls — Maggie resolves to turn sleuth. Some of her coworkers are acting strangely, and Maggie is convinced she has a better...
| Автор | June Wright |
Forensic reconstructionist Rory Moore sheds light on cold-case homicides by piecing together crime scene details others fail to see. Cleaning out her late father’s law office after his burial, she receives a call that plunges her into a decades-old case . . .   In the summer of 1979, five Chicago women went missing. The predator, nicknamed The Thief, left no bodies or clues behind—until police received a package from a mysterious woman named Angela Mitchell,...
| Автор | Charlie Donlea |
Meg's grandfather has been booked to give lectures on a cruise as part of the education/entertainment itinerary, and he's arranged for a passel of family members to join him. The passengers' vacation quickly becomes a nightmare when they wake up to find themselves broken down and in need of repairs. Things get even worse when a crew member announces to all that a woman has jumped overboard, leaving behind her shoes, shawl, and a note. The note reveals she's a disliked member...
| Автор | Donna Andrews |
Former North Carolina State Bureau of Investigation agent Rachel Carver blames herself for the collateral death of an innocent woman in her last case. Unable to accept her superior's attempts to cover up the incident, she turned in her badge. But when a former partner asks her to consult on a new murder case, she reluctantly agrees, traveling to a small remote mountain community, where she's tasked with leading a group of inexperienced detectives on a hunt for the killer. The trek has...
| Автор | Ксюша Ангел |
Nikolai 'Niki' Zorakoff has made a killing on the Soviet black market. He smuggles in luxury goods from the West – the blue jeans and perfumes that wealthy Muscovites simply can't do without – and sells them for small fortunes. But when the KGB takes an interest in Niki's operation, he knows he must run or die. So, with a forged passport and as much money as he can carry, Niki heads to the Russian haven of Odessa Beach. It isn't long before Niki makes contact with the...
| Автор | Ксюша Ангел |
In the sweltering heat of New Orleans, former Special Forces soldier-turned-bodyguard Charlie Fox faces her toughest challenge yet. Her lover, bodyguard Sean Meyer, has woken from a gunshot-induced coma with his memory in tatters. Working with Sean again was never going to be easy for Charlie, but a celebrity fundraising event in aid of still-ravaged areas of New Orleans should have been the ideal opportunity for them both to take things nice and slow. Until, that is, they find themselves thrust...
| Автор | Ксюша Ангел |
This collection of stories featuring Sherlock Holmes, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s most beloved character, includes fourteen adventures of Holmes and Dr. John Watson: The Adventure of the Cardboard Box, The Adventure of the Crooked Man, The Adventure of the Final Problem, The Adventure of the Greek Interpreter, The Adventure of the Musgrave Ritual, The Adventure of the Naval Treaty, The Adventure of the Resident Patient, The Adventure of the Yellow Face, The Adventures of the Stockbroker's...
| Автор | Sir Arthur Conan Doyle |
Verschwörung auf Japanisch. Im Hamburger Volkspark wird die Leiche eines jungen Japaners gefunden, der brutal hingerichtet wurde. Es handelt sich um Tetsuro Goto, einen japanischen Profifußballer, der beim HSV unter Vertrag stand. Inspektor Takeda und seine Kollegin Claudia Harms vermuten zunächst ein Verbrechen im Fußballmilieu. Doch dann finden sie mysteriöse Hinweise in der Vergangenheit des Spielers, die bis in hohe Yakuza-Kreise in Japan reichen. Der ungewöhnlichste Held im deutschen...
| Автор | Ксюша Ангел |