Ужасы и Мистика
14439 кн.
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 |
The Keeper of the Astral Plane has vanished, allowing Slegna's Unbalanced minions to wreak havoc throughout the realms of Chimera. Oletha, the Supreme Being and ruler of the Balanced Realms, has set her faithful against them.<br /> <br />Oletha's chosen ones move through a series of arduous tasks to fulfill their destiny to become her disciples, while Slegna's disciples face difficulties of their own.<br /> <br />With each side struggling for control, the...
| Автор | Carl Read |
Xavier has seized control of the western realms and now he is looking east towards Frith, the hub of commerce in the southern kingdoms. But The Society disagrees. They encourage King Xavier to turn his armies north and destroy the auchs.<br /> <br />In the north the auchs are gathering to prepare for a war predicted by the prophet Afi while Queen Fittoreah of Frith prepares to defend Frith. Camille and the witches know they must support the auchs in their fight against their people...
| Автор | Steve Reilly |
Abra Forrester's life had been touched by the extraordinary. As a child, a mysterious Native American woman passed to her the shamanic gift of communicating with animals, a skill she later put to use as a volunteer tracker and animal rescuer in Arizona's Verde Valley. But all her adult life Abra longed for the chance to use her talents for a wholly different purpose. For twenty years she has lived under the shadow of her beloved father's murder at the hands of the nation's...
| Автор | Rebecca Reeves |
Arenia, now under the control of Xavier after Beth placedhim upon the throne, is not the only thing in the sights of it's new king but The Society want him to turn his attention north, to the threat of the hidden auchs.<br /> <br />Meanwhile, the young witch Camille decides to return with Aiyu, an auch and friend to Konungssonur to unite the witches and auchs as they prepare for a war they do not want.<br /> <br />Once peaceful now they must take up weapons in...
| Автор | Steve Reilly |
Die vierde (en laaste) aflewering in die reeks oor Mark Steyn, die Luiperd, een van Die Fabriek se topagente. Mark Steyn en sy mede-agent Lana Dubois is steeds aangetrokke tot mekaar, maar het onoplosbare verskille. Nou moet hulle noodgedwonge weer saamwerk aan ’n nuwe saak en word nie slegs fisieke nie, maar ook groot sielkundige eise aan hulle gestel. Wie vertrou jy? Wie is vriend en wie is vyand? Die spioenasiebedryf is immers bekend vir sy verskuiwende alliansies: Gister se vyand is vandag...
| Автор | François Bloemhof |
Pine Pienaar, Kat Harmse, die kleurryke Freislichs van Virginia . . . Piet Steyn se aanhangers ken die meeste van die hoofkarakters in sy jongste polisieroman. En weer is dit ’n verhaal barstens vol aksie en raaisels en . . . hormone! Propvol dwelms ook, want hierdie keer is dit die landwye toename van tik-verslawing wat ons polisiemane hoofbrekens besorg. Die tik-epidemie is so ’n onvoorsiene vloedgolf wat van die Wes-Kaap na Gauteng oorgespoel het dat niemand minder nie as kolonel Kat Harmse...
| Автор | Piet Steyn |
Sy is van die Valke, die polisie se afdeling vir prioriteitsmisdaad. Lydia Stander. Luitenant Lydia Stander. Toegewyd, gedrewe, slim en, ja, mooi ook. Nie dat enigeen van hierdie eienskappe dit vir haar maklik maak by die werk nie – dis ’n mannewêreld. Sy het egter ook deursettingsvermoë, en dit is deurslaggewend wanneer sy te make kry met ’n reeks moorde wat dalk iets gemeen het: ’n polisieman wat voor sy woonstel in Wonderboom-Suid geskiet is; die lyk van ’n gesiene sakeman in die...
| Автор | Dirk Jordaan |
’n Verbeeldingryke speurroman of ’n swart komedie; hoe mens dit ook al lees, hierdie verhaal met sy fantasmagoriese oomblikke beweeg teen ’n vaart wat lesers sal meesleur en vermaak. Die eksentrieke hoofkarakter met die haakneus, Agathe Gruber, het uitsonderlike psigiese opspoorgawes maar sy is nogal menssku. Gelukkig word die dinamiese, charismatiese eks-sanger Jesse haar bondgenoot. Die ontrafeling van die moord op Aga se ma, Rosalie Schwarzbraun, en op die olfaktoriese wetenskaplike Boas...
| Автор | Deborah Steinmair |
Grondeise tref die gemeenskap van Nieu-Skotland in Mpumalanga. Dit, en die ou seer van die uitwissing van ’n gesin, het almal op hol: Daar’s stadskind Erin wat nou haar familie moet kom ondersteun, oud-soldaat Andrew Buchanan, wie se gesin jare gelede uitsonderlik wreed uitgemoor is, die plaasadel-MacFarlanes met hul spogplase, wrokkige werkers met verbintenisse in hoë plekke en die plaaslike polisiediens – nie aldag ewe bedrewe of eerlik nie, maar sersant Elsie Redelinghuys vat nie nonsens...
| Автор | Malene Breytenbach |
Boek III in die Abel-trilogie maak ’n draai in Johannesburg, Brugge en Pakistan.In ’n motelkamer in Bez Valley dui bloed en hare in ’n bad op ’n slagting, maar daar is geen lyk nie. Wanneer ’n gelooide vel in formalien gevind word, weet Ella egter sy is weer op die spoor van die reeksmoordenaar Abel Lotz.Abel bevind hom in Brugge, by sy kubervriend Ignaz Bouts. Kort voor lank sit hy sy soektog voort na velle met tatoes vir die omslae van die tien volumes van sy Kosmiese Reise, nou met Ignaz se...
| Автор | Chris Karsten |
Voinjama Johnson, 28, is an ambitious investigative journalist at the Cape Town magazine Urban. Her life is messy, and to top it all, Vee’s been seeing things: a teenage girl in a red hat, more specifically, an unsettling hallucination that goes hand-in-hand with debilitating episodes which Vee is loath to call “panic attacks”. When Vee spots a photograph of the girl from her visions at a local hospital, she quickly launches an investigation, under the pretext of an article about missing...
| Автор | HJ Golakai |
Wanneer Sonja Daneel ná ’n motorongeluk bykom, ly sy aan geheueverlies. Sy onthou net die wolf voor haar in die pad. Sonder ’n idee van wie sy is of waar sy vandaan kom, ontmoet sy die mense van Hotel Njala op die plaas Wolwedans in die Hazyview-distrik en besef dat sy ’n ruk gelede aansoek gedoen het vir werk hier. Maar hoekom spesifiek by dié hotel waar die tyd gaan stilstaan het? Gou kom sy agter dat sy tevore, op die een of ander duister manier, by die hotel en sy mense betrokke was. Dan...
| Автор | Leon van Nierop |
Alex het ’n teorie oor chaos. Waar hy ook al gaan, volg dit hom. Dis hoekom hy joernalis geword het en hom nou in Tanzanië bevind. By ’n troue iewers tussen Dar es Salaam en Arusha ontmoet Alex vir Ranna, ’n vryskutfotograaf met ’n bos swart krulhare, ’n t-hemp wat sê Dr. Seuss is altyd reg, en ’n verlede waaroor sy nie praat nie. Alex wat lankal nie meer in Die Liefde glo nie, weet: dit is hoe dit voel. Maar dan haal die chaos hom in. Eers begin dit onophoudelik reën en paaie en dorpies spoel...
| Автор | Irma Venter |
Na twee jaar gevangenisskap in Togo weens wapensmokkelary word Johan Castelyn onverwags vrygelaat – op voorwaarde dat hy as diplomaat in Parys op die nuwe ambassadeur, Nerine Cloete, sal spioeneer. Kort voor haar aanstelling was Nerine, ’n lid van die opposisie, op die punt om ’n wapenskandaal oop te vlek. Nou moet sy egter buite partyverband optree – en Johan is daar om seker te maak dit gebeur.Terwyl die kantoor van die SA staatspresident ontken dat dié staatshoof in Parys was, doen gerugte...
| Автор | Quintus van der Merwe |
A dead soldier is discovered next to a waterhole in the Kruger National Park, and Captain Russell Kemp is called in to investigate. Kemp has problems of his own – he was transferred to this backwater for insubordination and is addicted to painkillers – but his gut still tells him something is wrong. Colonel de Lange of Millitary Intellegence insists that Johan Coetzee commited suicide and Kemp runs into trouble when he tries to continue his investigation. Johan’s sister, Erin, is certain that...
| Автор | Rob Marsh |
Les gardiens ont toujours aimé et protégé leur prêtresse par dessus tout, mais lorsqu'il s'agit de décider à qui elle appartient… La jalousie peut devenir un jeu dangereux. Parmi les frères immortels, il y en a un qui l'avait toujours aimé plus que les autres. Toya aurait lutté contre tout pour demeurer aux côtés de Kyoko, que ce soit les démons, ses frères ou son amour. Dans un instant de passion, Toya réclama enfin l'objet de son plus profond désir. Ce moment est à tout jamais modifié lorsque...
| Автор | Amy Blankenship |
Un romance paranormal entre un metamorfo y una fatel (personas con poderes sobrenaturales) en un escenario de lucha por el poder. En el origen de los tiempos, la Tierra estaba habitada por humanos, metamorfos y fateles. En apariencia, la paz reinaba entre los diferentes pueblos. Pero si hubiéramos rascado la superficie, habríamos descubierto una realidad muy diferente. Paciente y estratégicamente, las manadas animorfas rebeldes exterminaron uno a uno a todos los fateles. Los hicieron desaparecer...
| Автор | Virginie T. |
Com a dor e o medo causado por sua existência já um velho conhecido, Jeremy se acostumou às repercussões de ser o arcanjo da morte. Mas quando seu dever gera o ódio da única mulher que jamais poderá ter, ele descobre uma dor que corta mais profundamente do que qualquer espada. Apesar de o céu estar à beira da guerra, Jeremy desafia as ordens que lhe foram dadas para ficar e se manter ao lado de seus irmãos, e retorna a Kauai na esperança de encontrar conforto no respeito de seus companheiros...
| Автор | L. G. Castillo |