Ужасы и Мистика
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'Glasgow comes alive in Ramsay's dark, vivid and daring thriller' VAL McDERMID ‘A cracker of a debut . . . Many shivers in store for readers followed by a shattering climax’ Times The Crucifixion Killer is stalking Glasgow, leaving victims’ mutilated bodies in a Christ-like pose. DCI Alan McAlpine is drafted in to lead the hunt, supported by local officers DI Anderson and DS Costello. But the past holds horrific memories for McAlpine. He last worked this beat some twenty...
| Автор | Caro Ramsay |
Four washed-up spooks. Two dead civilians. One remote and deadly outpost. Harry Tate is a loyal MI5 officer and a servant of the State. But when two civilians are shot dead during a drugs intercept gone wrong, he is forced to take an immediate posting to the Red Station. What he doesn’t know is that this remote Balkan outpost is a punishment and he won’t be going home. With an assassination team coming for him and invading Russian forces heading straight for the Red Station, Harry does...
| Автор | Adrian Magson |
'Hewson's inventiveness never flags' – The Sunday Times 'A great series' – Simon Kernick A young woman is found dead in a peat bog near the banks of the River Tiber. Teresa Lupo, a maverick pathologist, believes she has the victim of an ancient Roman ritual on her hands. She's wrong. This ritual killing is very recent history, the horror is still very much alive and Nic Costa needs to get to the bottom of it. The investigation draws Nic's...
| Автор | Дэвид Хьюсон |
Chie Miyazaki is wild and spoiled—the pampered child of a cadet line of the Imperial house of Japan. When she disappears in the United States accompanied by a slick Korean boyfriend, it sets off alarms among elite officials in Japan’s security apparatus. The Japanese want the problem solved quietly, so they seek out Connor Burke, prize student of Sensei Yamashita. Burke suspects that he’s being used, but he accepts the assignment out of honor for his revered sensei. A covert search and rescue...
| Автор | John Donohue |
[Japan] An intelligence analyst is murdered on temple grounds. [Manila] Two embassy guards go missing and a bizarre execution video is discovered by a special-forces team. [New York] Martial arts expert Connor Burke is hired as a consultant for an elite US Army training program. [Mindanao Philippines] A young Japanese ethnographer from Harvard University is kidnapped by a terrorist cell of Abu Sayeff. A renegade martial arts Sensei known as the Tengu has been recruited to train a splinter...
| Автор | John Donohue |
"Those of you who stay with Blas de Roblès's ultimately quite satisfying novel will find yourselves with a new European literary star to steer by."—Alan Cheuse, NPR A stolen diamond and three right feet, wearing shoes of a non-existent brand, that wash ashore in Scotland set into motion the first plot of Island of Point Nemo, a rollicking Jules Verne-like adventure narrative that crosses continents and oceans, involves multilingual codes, a world-famous villain, and...
| Автор | Jean-Marie Blas de Robles |
If you're going to fight bad guys, you might as well make them really mad at you! A few weeks ago, I had a good life—I was a respected Portland police detective and successful martial arts instructor. Then I shot somebody—then I shot two more people. It changed everything. Into this chaos stepped a man and an enchanting Vietnamese woman. Turns out he's my father who I thought was dead, and she's—wow. We got to know each over coffee and, oh yeah, fighting for our lives against...
| Автор | Loren W. Christensen |
Detective Sam Reeves is barely seated in a cab when he learns that during his two-week trip in Southeast Asia, hate crimes have rocked his city of Portland, including one very brutal lynching. As the crimes continue, thousands of fearful protestors march the streets, clashing with police and demanding more be done to put an end to the escalating violence! Reassigned to the Intelligence Unit following his “bad shoot” several months ago, Sam is quickly consumed day and night, trying to deal with...
| Автор | Loren W. Christensen |
Private Investigator Steve Cassidy has a knack for finding trouble in the most unusual places. This time around, he gets entangled in a new mystery during a romantic getaway!<br><br>On a relaxing weekend trip, Steve and his girlfriend Dawn board The Tour of True Terror sightseeing bus to discover the City of Dannenberg's deadly history. The three-hour excursion highlights crimes from the past century, allowing the anxious tourists an up-close look of each murder scene. Final...
| Автор | John Schlarbaum |
"In this town, nobody goes missing for long . . . Sooner or later, a body is found."<br><br>In March 1990, family man Barry Jones departed his small town home and headed to work in the city. He never arrived. Now seven years later, to collect his life insurance, his wife wants the courts to declare her absentee husband dead once and for all.<br><br>Enter P.I. Steve Cassidy. Hired to take a fresh look at this cold case, Cassidy must try to uncover new...
| Автор | John Schlarbaum |
A Memorable Murder<br>A Jennifer Malone Mystery<br><br>Payback's a bitch . . . in a blue and white dress<br><br>On a cool October morning, viewers are transfixed to their televisions for details of a gangland-style murder carried out during the live broadcast of The Nation Today. Upon identifying the dead man as Robert Barker, CEO of the country's largest pharmaceutical company, the police quickly discover clues indicating the killer is none other...
| Автор | John Schlarbaum |
"Don't let them kill me."<br><br>These are the first words spoken by elderly patient Helga Klemens to the transporter arriving to take her down for a simple hip surgery. Luke assures the frightened woman no one is going to harm her, chalking the bizarre declaration up to nerves and medication issues. After safely delivering her to the O.R., Luke's final words to Helga are, "Don't worry. You'll be fine," unaware she...
| Автор | John Schlarbaum |
The son of an Algerian immigrant, Idir is a disappointment to his doctor father. Torn between his wealthy school friends and his neighborhood pals, who range from petty thieves to professional criminals, Idir operates easily between worlds, and yet is at home nowhere. Without much effort, Idir becomes one of the Parisian upper crust’s most sought-out private dicks, thanks to his understanding of the needs of his privileged clients. The only thing standing in his way is Idir's...
| Автор | Jérémie Guez |
On the brink of a breakdown, two years after the death of his fiancée, Jim Hawkes quits his high-powered job in the city to rent a cottage in the Devonshire countryside seeking some well-needed rest. But Slyford St. James is far from the peaceful haven Jim was hoping for. Almost immediately, he is plagued by strange occurrences: a combination lock that won't open, loud noises in the attic, the figure of a little girl always just out of sight. His new village friends, Jed and Emma, are...
| Автор | Ксюша Ангел |
After her mother's death during a bank robbery when she was a child, Gemma Capello grew up to become one of the NYPD's elite hostage negotiators. In a family of cops, there's rarely a day when a Capello isn't facing down some form of threat. Still, despite their unpredictable schedules, they always find time for their annual family summer picnic. But this year, a sudden phone call changes everything. A heavily armed gunman has taken hostages at City Hall. Gemma races...
| Автор | Ксюша Ангел |
To a quiet life has come something truly extraordinary. Jared's seen the Lights since he was a child. Every night for a few minutes at 10pm a strange beacon would shine high up in the darkened factory opposite his tiny house. He ventured there one fateful night, and there he found the spectral creatures. Since then they've taken him to fantastical places, far away from the grey monotony of his life and the darkness of his past. All he's ever cared about is keeping the secret...
| Автор | Michael Liddy |
Camille, a fourteen-year-old witch, watches as her mother is burned at the stake. She flees, chased by Xavier, a member of The Society. When Camille finds the auch, Aiyu, he takes her into the mountains for protection. Xavier follows and finds the entrance to the high country. The Society plans to have King Leopold attack and destroy the auchs, but Leopold misreads the information. Leopold marches south to intercept an invasion from Greche. With Leopold out of the city The Society hatches an...
| Автор | Steve Reilly |
A deserted picnic ground near Melbourne. The killer, horrified and frozen with indecision, mistakes a firetruck for the authorities, and bolts.<br /> <br />Kate wakes from a dream holiday to discover her husband Matt is leaving her. Matt shares his joy with his friends – Paul, a womaniser, Lewis, an introvert struggling with relationships, and Jason, a family man who regularly travels interstate on business.<br /> <br />But not all is as it seems. Affairs, hidden...
| Автор | Lian Knight |
Blinded in the pursuit of revenge…<br /> <br />When pushed to the limits by a crooked copy who has been involved in the recent death of a prostitute and the machination of a secretive sect with connections within the Victorian Police Force, a psychiatrist develops an obsessive thirst for revenge which directly threatens his marriage and career, including his roles as a father and husband.<br /> <br /><i>An Eye For An Eye</i> explores the volatile nature of...
| Автор | Arthur Klepfisz |
Homicide Detective Inspector Michael Ballard is vigorously resisting retirement; not wishing to walk away from continuing to serve society by investigating and solving complex criminal cases.<br /> <br />The brutal murder of a factory owner has him and his partner applying their 'old school' policing skills to hunt down the killer.<br /> <br />But while Ballard is hunting the killer – is the killer hunting him?<br /> <br />An absorbing murder mystery...
| Автор | Harvey Cleggett |
Colin Fox is an enigma. Part Scottish, part Aboriginal, as a child he is caught up the Stolen Generation. What follows is a period of abuse and sorrow, but Fox's innate sense of decency and justice sees him not only survive but become a respected SAS warrior.<br /> <br />However fate deals Fox another bitter blow with the murder of his adopted family.<br /> <br />Bikie gangs, gun running, dog fighting, and a mind that is pure evil cross his path in his quest for...
| Автор | Bill Robertson |
What happens on tour stays on tour was the mantra for the southern hemisphere backpackers who swarmed Europe in the 1980s. Foreign countries had to be explored and devoured in every way possible.<br /> <br />Waikato-born Judy Williams worked hard for her big OE: London, Paris, Rome, Gallipoli; and her adventures were dutifully recorded in her diary.<br /> <br />A diary that also recorded how the obsessive Tugga Tancred and his Kiwi mates turned Judy's trip of a...
| Автор | Stephen Johnson |
The time is an imaginary future, one and a half millennia after the collapse of our own civilisation.<br /> <br />Nicholas Raspero, the descendant of the Barons of Raspero and the possessor of wandlore secrets, has arrived in New Landern, the capital of Anglashia. Almost immediately he is drawn into the underworld when he defeats a group of thugs who attempt to rob him, thus making him an enemy of Jolly, the most powerful gangster in the city. Jolly therefore recruits Angela Ashton,...
| Автор | A J McMahon |
Aussie child star, Billy Parsons, on contract with Universal Studios, goes missing in 1965 in Hollywood. Last seen walking alone down North Beaumont, the child vanishes without trace. One witness, Mrs Marjorie Femmer, claims to have spoken to Billy on the fateful day, but no one else saw the child. No further investigation is done by the police and the case is conveniently filed away.<br /> <br />Fifty years later, the case is reopened by the Los Angeles Police Department at the...
| Автор | Grant Peake |