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Bella Benedict's five grown children are scattered around the world like a handful of precious jewels. Now she's dying and she has one last, secret wish. To bring her children home. And to give them what she once had: a marriage of passion.Wealthy playboy Max Benedict has no interest in long-term commitment. He had his heart broken once and that was enough. Instead, he travels the world, working as a sometime spy for the CIA. When he's asked to investigate a foreign threat against the president,...
| Автор | Joan Johnston |
She didn't want to need him.Murder brought self-help guru Rachel de Luca and Detective Mason Brown together. Their shared secrets drove them apart. But now they're together again in this riveting novella that begins where New York Times bestselling author Maggie Shayne's Sleep with the Lights On ended.She may have been blind for twenty years, but Rachel's always had an uncanny gift for seeing through people—and she distrusts her assistant's new boyfriend at first sight. Amy isn't interested in...
| Автор | Maggie Shayne |
Danger is all around her…What should have been a routine investigation for FBI profiler Evelyn Baine turns ominous when she’s kidnapped by a dangerous cult of survivalists. As her worst nightmares become a reality, she begins to question what she’s seeing. Because the longer she’s inside their compound, the more she realizes this group is not what it seems to be.The next terrorist threat is right beside her…As the FBI’s Hostage Rescue Team closes in, Evelyn suspects she's stumbled onto an...
| Автор | Elizabeth Heiter |
Ten victims, each with pale skin and long dark hair.All have been slashed across the throat, the same red lipstick smeared across their lips. In the mid-1980s the Snow White Killer terrorized the streets of Nashville, Tennessee. Then suddenly the murders stopped. A letter from the killer to the police stated that his work was done.Now four more bodies are found, marked with his fatal signature. The residents of Nashville fear a madman has returned, decades later, to finish his sick fairy tale....
| Автор | J.T. Ellison |
Talent borrows. Genius steals. Evil delegates. It's a hideous echo of a violent past. Across America, murders are being committed with all the twisted hallmarks of the Boston Strangler, the Zodiac Killer and Son of Sam. The media frenzy explodes and Nashville homicide lieutenant Taylor Jackson knows instantly that The Pretender is back…and he's got helpers.As The Pretender's disciples perpetrate their sick homages—stretching police and FBI dangerously thin—Taylor tries desperately to prepare for...
| Автор | J.T. Ellison |
“The best yet in the series… a standout in the romantic thriller subgenre." Publishers WeeklyDear Dr. Owens,If you are reading this letter, I am dead and I would be most grateful if you could solve my murder…Forensic pathologist Dr. Samantha Owens thought life was finally returning to normal after she suffered a terrible personal loss. Settling into her new job at Georgetown University, the illusion is shattered when she receives a disturbing letter from a dead man imploring her to solve his...
| Автор | J.T. Ellison |
They’re in this fight togetherBorder Patrol agent Desmond Jackson would gladly take a bullet for his partner. Instead, it’s Detroit border patrol agent Sherri Lopez who ends up wounded in a drug raid…then blindsided by a shocking diagnosis.The woman Dez secretly loves is a warrior now in a fight for her life. Strong and independent, Sherri won’t let anything defeat her—or let herself rely on Dez. Doesn’t she realize how good they are together? All Dez knows is he can’t lose her…or the friendship...
| Автор | Syndi Powell |
SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER‘I loved it … Persons Unknown is like walking on quicksand, for reader and detective alike' VAL MCDERMIDSecond literary thriller from bestselling author of MISSING, PRESUMED.A brutal murder. A detective with no one left to trust.A YOUNG MAN MURDEREDA city banker bleeds to death yards from a Cambridgeshire police headquarters.A DETECTIVE OUT OF HER DEPTHDI Manon Bradshaw’s world is turned upside down when the victim turns out to be closer to her than she could have...
| Автор | Susie Steiner |
Terror claws into the lives of an American family… On a quiet night in their tranquil suburban home, the Fulton family awakens to a nightmare. Four armed men force bank manager Dan Fulton to steal a quarter million dollars from his branch—strapping remote-detonation bombs on him, his wife, Lori, and their young son.A relentless reporter discovers an agonizing secret… The FBI moves swiftly with a major investigation while Kate Page, a reporter with a newswire service, digs deep into the story. In...
| Автор | Rick Mofina |
Forbidden relationships are the most tempting. And the most dangerous.It was a crime of passion–or so the police say. Valerie Solara has been charged with poisoning her best friend. The prosecution claims she's always been secretly attracted to Amanda's husband…and with Amanda gone, she planned to make her move.Attorney Izzy McNeil left the legal world a year ago, but a friend's request pulls her into the murder trial. Izzy knows how passion can turn your life upside down. She thought she had it...
| Автор | Laura Caldwell |
She’s protected him since the day he was born. Since the day the lie began. A long-ago act of kindness to a desperate woman changed Dr. Carrie Overton’s life forever. Before disappearing, the grateful stranger gave Carrie her newborn son. When the woman is murdered, the secret becomes Carrie’s alone.She has kept both it and her son, Sam, safe for sixteen years. But now a friend of Sam’s has gone missing. The police believe he’s a runaway, until he’s found dead, another teen disappears – and talk...
| Автор | Maggie Shayne |
Did Tom Riley arrest the wrong woman?For six years, the Sarasota Falls police chief has been hunting the cunning beauty involved in his partner's death. Now here she is, back in his New Mexico town, her face a match to the one on the wanted posters. But the woman Tom Riley knows as Rachel Ramsey insists her name is Heather Graves.Is Heather really as innocent as she claims? And what is he supposed to do about their undeniable mutual attraction? As his search for answers uncovers secrets in...
| Автор | Pamela Tracy |
They want revenge. They need each other.Detective Bobbie Gentry has one objective: to stop the serial killer who robbed her of her husband, her child and her life. Nick Shade understands Bobbie's pain–and her desire for vengeance. He's on a mission of his own, and the murderer known as the Storyteller is next on his list. Nick knows that the best way to find his target is to stick close to Bobbie. But as she becomes more and more reckless in her attempts to lure the Storyteller out of hiding, he...
| Автор | Debra Webb |
When the mutilated bodies of two sex-workers are found in Amsterdam, Chief Inspector van den Bergen must find a brutal murderer before the red-light-district erupts into panic.Georgina McKenzie is conducting research into pornography among the UK’s most violent sex-offenders but once van den Bergen calls on her criminology expertise, she is only too happy to come running.The rising death toll forces George and van den Bergen to navigate the labyrinthine worlds of Soho strip-club sleaze and...
| Автор | Marnie Riches |
‘Highly recommended’ JAMES OSWALD‘Deliciously dark and gritty’ CAROLINE MITCHELLYour darkest moment is your most vulnerable…Stephen Berry is about to jump off a bridge until a suicide prevention counsellor stops him. A week later, Stephen is dead. Found at the bottom of a cliff, DI Luc Callanach and DCI Ava Turner are drafted in to investigate whether he jumped or whether he was pushed…As they dig deeper, more would-be suicides roll in: a woman found dead in a bath; a man violently electrocuted....
| Автор | Helen Fields |
From award-winning author Jane Casey comes an exciting short detective story following Maeve Kerrigan and Josh Derwent.Everyone is capable of murder…‘I’ve killed my husband.’Those are the words Sheila Gleeson greets the police with when they arrive on her doorstep. There is a murder weapon, fingerprints, a confession. It’s clearly premeditated murder, end of story.Or is it?Because when detectives Maeve Kerrigan and Josh Derwent dig a little deeper, they realise things might not be quite what...
| Автор | Jane Casey |
Sequel de LA ZONA GRIGIA. Quando giocare d’anticipo, quando non sapere, è la miglior fortuna che si possa ottenere. Costretto a riparare altrove, in fuga da scomode verità, a Riley Webb non bastò Miami, non bastò la CIA, non bastò Katrina Zarkoskaya, “Elene”. E per gli agenti FBI che lo scovarono, ci volle ben altro che un confine delittuoso e una rischiosa messinscena. Qualcosa era sfuggito, di qualcuno non avevano tenuto conto. Ma a certi livelli è difficile si prendano iniziative senza...
| Автор | Manuele Migoni |
Attraverso il filtro allegorico del racconto, l'autore indaga sui risvolti sistematici della realtà, nel tentativo di rappresentarla nella sua forma più alta, più vera. Larry Belfiori, ex ufficiale della Royal Marines ora al soldo dei servizi segreti, è in trattative con Riley Webb, un individuo proveniente dai sobborghi della Londra più criminale. Trappole, depistaggi, complicità, sono all'ordine del giorno. Apparentemente, la finalità di tutto ciò sarebbe quella di rafforzare e direzionare...
| Автор | Manuele Migoni |
Costarica, primavera 2015, molti temporali. Musica rock di sottofondo. Uno strano suicidio di un parroco di provincia. Non convinti dalla frettolosa indagine delle autorità locali, l'ispettore Castillo, ex commissario di polizia che balbetta nei giorni piovosi, e lo Slavo, suo giovane aiutante dal passato oscuro, investigano sul caso. Le tracce raccolte si intrecciano con le disavventure universitarie della figlia prediletta dell’ispettore, con la violenza subita da una ragazza nel corso...
| Автор | Federico Montuschi |
Was verbindet eine Serie von Morden in Bologna und seiner Provinz? Sind es Serienmörder oder etwas anderes? Das herauszufinden, wird die Aufgabe von Polizeikommissar Stefano Zamagni und seinen Männern sein. Eine Frau wird tot aufgefunden und man hält es für Mord. Die Ermittlungen beginnen, aber die Polizei scheint in einer Sackgasse zu sein. Kurz darauf ereilt andere Menschen das gleiche Schicksal, und so werden gemeinsame Details entdeckt. Die Ermittler denken sofort an einen Serienmörder, bis...
| Автор | Federico Betti |
El autor escribió estos dos cuentos, ahora juntos, con variantes en la tercera edición, en 1994 y 1995, poco antes de que apareciera la moda de las novelas negras y policiacas italianas, Son obras basadas en las figuras de Vittorio D’Aiazzo, comisario y luego subjefe de policía, y Ranieri Velli, su ayudante y amigo, personajes que, uno u ambos, vuelven en otras obras novelas y cuentos de Guido Pagliarino: hace muy poco tiempo que ha salido de las imprentas de la editorial Genesi la última novela...
| Автор | Guido Pagliarino |
Quello che sto per raccontare, è esattamente il frutto dei miei ricordi. La storia più incredibile che io abbia mai vissuto, nonostante faccia parte del corpo di Gendarmerie Nationale (Polizia Nazionale Francese) da più di trent’anni. Alcuni di voi potrebbero pensare che sia esagerato ma, per non dimenticare di includere nessun dettaglio, mi sono affidato al mio taccuino, che porto sempre con me quando partecipo a qualche investigazione ufficiale. Il mio ruolo nella Interpol può sembrare di...
| Автор | Dr. Juan Moisés De La Serna |
Nueva York, atardecer del 30 de marzo de 1972. Durante un banquete político de las elecciones presidenciales estadounidenses, organizado por el candidato aspirante y senador Donald Montgomery, es asesinada con un arma de fuego una de sus seguidoras, una señora joven y rica, esposa del muy rico Peter White, una mujer persistente en el adulterio, que tuvo una relación en los años 50 con el italiano Vittorio D’Aiazzo, subinspector turinés, y en 1969 con su amigo Ranieri Velli: un individuo...
| Автор | Guido Pagliarino |
En las obras anteriores basadas en los personajes Vittorio D’Aiazzo y Ranieri Velli, «La furia de los insultados», «El monstruo de tres brazos» y «Los satanistas de Turín», ambos eran funcionarios de policía (o de la Seguridad Pública, como se denominaba antiguamente a esta), comisario el primero y su ayudante directo el segundo. En esta obra posterior, mientras que Vittorio sigue estando de servicio y ha ascendido al grado de subinspector, Ranieri ha dejado valerosamente el uniforme con su...
| Автор | Guido Pagliarino |