The secret ballot for murder…<P> Politics is a rough business – and Congressman Hamilton («Call Me Ham») Vair made it rougher. To reach his goal, he would use anything and anyone – blackmail, bribery, or a beautiful, not-so-dumb blonde. Everyone knew that. But suddenly there was a new and brutal question. Had the Right Honorable Mr. Vair been willing to plunge into murder?<P> "Do not miss WASHINGTON WHISPERS MURDER: It is terrifying and terrific." – Albuquerque Tribune
A ‘MAKING A MURDERER’ set in South Africa – a gripping true-crime story of murder and the justice system in the shadow of apartheidIn 1993, in the final, fiery days of apartheid, a 26-year-old white American activist called Amy Biehl was murdered by a group of young black men in a township near Cape Town. Four men were tried and convicted of the murder and sentenced to eighteen years in prison. A few years later they had been freed. Two of the men were subsequently employed by Amy’s parents to...
Dwa ciała na sudeckim szlaku. Ofiary to Miss Polski i syn generała… Ta podwójna zbrodnia wydarzyła się naprawdę! Schyłek lat dziewięćdziesiątych, Park Narodowy Gór Stołowych. Na szlaku zostają znalezione dwa ciała w zaawansowanym stadium rozkładu. Wszystko zdaje się wskazywać na atak niedźwiedzia. To, że ofiarami byli Miss Polski i syn wysokiego rangą oficera Wojska Polskiego, nie ułatwia zadania skierowanemu w góry miejscowemu śledczemu. Tymczasem w Warszawie Emil Stompor bierze udział w...
Trapped in what appears to be an endless bloodbath – vividly presented with Heffernan's meticulous historical research – three boys gradually begin to change until their close-knit childhood ties are little more than a fractured memory. By war's end, one boy is dead, one returns a physically crippled and emotionally compromised man, and the third comes home as an unfeeling psychopath. The novel turns on the subsequent murder of the psychopath, and the offer of redemption for the...
Wien 1912. Kurz nach einer Hochzeit in der Wiener Stanislaus-Kostka-Kapelle wird der Priester tot aufgefunden. Schnell stellt sich heraus: Er wurde ermordet. Da eine wertvolle Petrus-Statue verschwunden ist, drängt sich der Verdacht eines Raubmords auf. Kriminaloberinspektor Fried hat als Vater der Braut ein sehr persönliches Interesse daran, den Fall schnell aufzuklären. Seine Ermittlungen entwickeln sich zu einer Reise in die Vergangenheit des Priesters – in jene Zeit, als er noch kein...
Deals with sexism and the legal system of nineteenth-century Canada and delves into the duplicity surrounding the railway business of the time A well-researched and accurate portrayal of life in rural Ontario during the Victorian age Previous books in the series were well reviewed in Quill & Quire, National Post, Publishers Weekly, and the Globe and Mail The Globe and Mail wrote (of The Burying Ground), “Love the Murdoch Mysteries? Then you need to discover Janet Kellough’s terrific...
Wilkie Collins' The Woman in White, written in 1859, is considered to be among the first mystery novels and one of the finest examples of the sensation novel, a genre blending realism and gothic romance, and exploring the artificiality of identity. In it, a young protagonist, Walter Hartright, meets a mysterious woman dressed all in white on a London street at midnight. After helping her return home, he learns from police that she has escaped from an asylum. Later, Walter takes a job as an...
Welcome to the World’s Toughest Cops. This is a no holds barred look at a the people who risk their lives to serve and protect, in the front line of a war against drugs, gangs, gun crime, violence and smuggling.Vinnie takes the reader into the jungles of Colombia – where Sub-Lieutenant John Orejuela of the Special Ops Commando Unit leads a secret mission to take out a terrorist camp – and goes on patrol in the Californian suburb of Compton, following the cops caught up in a deadly cat-and-mouse...
Kontynuacja thrillera kryminalnego 2019 roku "Cisza białego miasta". Trylogia białego miasta sprzedała się w ponad milionowym nakładzie i stała się światowym fenomenem. "Władcy czasu" to spektakularne zakończenie wszystkich wątków rozpoczętych w "Ciszy białego miasta". To ostatni tom przepełnionej baskijską kulturą i tradycją fenomenalnej serii. Vitoria, rok 2019. Nieznany autor, ukrywający się pod pseudonimem Diego Veilaz, publikuje powieść historyczną Władcy...