A forensic mystery of the 1950s – After starting their risky venture of a private forensic consultancy, Doctor Richard Pryor – now a Home Office pathologist – and forensic biologist Angela Bray have now become firmly established. An apparent bizarre suicide in a remote Welsh farm starts them on a new investigation, which is followed by an unusual request from the War Office. And when a Cotswold veterinary surgeon is charged with poisoning his ailing wife, can Pryor's expert evidence save him from the gallows?

Новый роман одного из самых талантливых писателей поколения 35-летних, финалиста премий «Русский Букер»-2008 и «Национальный бестселлер»-2009. Загадочное убийство на новогоднем корпоративе. Убит председатель совета директоров холдинга «А.Д.». Расследование поручают следователю по особо важным делам Главного следственного управления по Северо-Западному округу П.Б. Катаеву. Опрос свидетелей, поиск улик, оперативные мероприятия… Однако рутинная следственная работа приведет Катаева к удивительному открытию: не каждый подозреваемый виновен, но кто убийца, а кто жертва решает далеко не милиция…

This latest gem from the British master concerns the wreckage wrought on a variety of Londoners by a womanizing con man who speaks in rhymes. Here, as in A Sight for Sore Eyes (1999), Rendell’s genius is to create characters so vivid they live beyond the frame of the novel. She pushes the ordinary to the point of the bizarre while remaining consistently believable. Araminta “Minty” Knox, the fragile center of the plot, is a 30-something woman, alone and obsessed with hygiene, who works in a dry-cleaning shop. All the world is a petri dish for Minty, who sees germs everywhere, which she attacks with Wright’s Coal Tar Soap. She is equally tormented by the ghosts she imagines, her domineering “Auntie” and the man who took her virginity. Other characters hover on the borderline between transformation and disaster. Tory MP “Jims” Melcombe-Smith, in bed politically with the “family values” crowd, is simultaneously courting a gay lover. Working-class Zillah Leach, bored with her small children and smaller bank account, schemes to marry up, even at the risk of committing bigamy. This is not a whodunit in the sense of Rendell’s Inspector Wexford novels, but a study of crime’s origins and especially its consequences as they ripple out beyond the immediate victims. The plot is intricate but brisk, and Rendell nails her characters’ psychology in all its perverse logic. She has a travel writer’s sensitivity to setting, to the architecture, cemeteries, birds and vegetation of contemporary Britain. This is a literary page-turner, both elegant and accessible.

Addis Ababa is a sprawling melting pot of cultures where rich and poor live side by side in relative harmony — until they don’t.

Sidney Sheldon's After the Darkness is a 2010 novel by Tilly Bagshawe. Bagshawe began writing Sidney Sheldon works after the latter's death in 2007. After writing Mistress of the Game, Tilly Bagshawe once again recaptured the late Sidney Sheldon’s way of thriller writing in After the Darkness. The novel echoes the Bernie Madoff scandal in America.The author contends that she “[wrote] and research[ed] as Sidney did. I pretty much read all his work, dreaming it, and thought it to get it right. I tried very consciously to be true to him and sound like his voice.Grace Brookstein lived a luxurious lifestyle despite the economic free fall in the US. Then suddenly her billionaire husband Lenny mysteriously disappears in a tragic sailing accident. Along with Lenny's disappearance, Lenny's hedge fund, the Quorum, which has a $75 billion investment, is also missing and everyone believes that Grace stole the money. Lenny's death was ruled as suicide and Grace was convicted and imprisoned. Grace believed that she was framed. Now alone with no one to turn to, she is determined to find out who is framing her and is desperate for revenge. The book provides a brilliant description of the transformation of the quiet Grace Brookstein from an innocent young woman who had 'never even looked at the price tags of things' to a determined person who fights the world alone, on her own. Once Grace is convicted of money laundering, she is betrayed by her family and friends. She has no one to turn to and tries to commit suicide but she survives. This is when Grace starts to undergo a change. With the help of her cellmates, she flees from prison. The rest of the story deals with the way she reaches the culprit, the further betrayals she suffers and how she deals with the abominable situations she encounters in her way of taking revenge. On her way to truth, she realises that till now she had been living in a fantasy and the reality was something totally disparate.

It was all too frighteningly familiar. For the second time in his life, Alex Penn wakes up in an alcoholic daze in a cheap hotel room off Times Square and finds himself lying next to the savagely mutilated body of a young woman. After the first death, he was convicted of murder and imprisoned, then released on a technicality. But this time he has to find out what happened during the blackout and why-before the police do.Lawrence Block weaves his spell in this suspenseful taleof a man haunted by murders he hopes he hasn¹tcommitted… It was all too frighteningly familiar. For the second time in his life, Alex Penn wakes up in an alcoholic daze in a cheap hotel room off Times Square and finds himself lying next to the savagely mutilated body of a young woman. After the first death, he was convicted of murder and imprisoned, then released on a technicality. But this time he has to find out what happened during the blackout and why? before the police do.

Number 35 The Hill is an ordinary house in an ordinary street. But it is about to become infamous. When two police constables are sent to the house following a report of a domestic disturbance, they stumble upon a truly horrific scene. A scene which leaves one of them dead and the other fighting for her life and career. The identity of a serial killer, the Chameleon, has finally been revealed. But his capture is only the beginning of a shocking investigation that will test Inspector Alan Banks to the absolute limit.

There is a fire and they are in There. They are in there… Black smoke stains a summer blue sky. A school is on fire. And one mother, Grace, sees the smoke and runs. She knows her teenage daughter Jenny is inside. She runs into the burning building to rescue her. Afterwards, Grace must find the identity of the arsonist and protect her family from the person who's still intent on destroying them. Afterwards, she must fight the limits of her physical strength and discover the limitlessness of love.

Just back from an extended stay in London, Agatha Raisin finds herself greeted by torrential rains and an old, familiar feeling of boredom. When her handsome new neighbor, Paul Chatterton, shows up on her doorstep, she tries her best to ignore his obvious charms, but his sparkling black eyes and the promise of adventure soon lure her into another investigation.Paul has heard rumors about Agatha's reputation as the Cotswold village sleuth and wastes no time offering their services to the crotchety owner of a haunted house. Whispers, footsteps, and a cold white mist are plaguing Mrs. Witherspoon, but the police have failed to come up with any leads, supernatural or otherwise. The neighbors think it's all a desperate ploy for attention, but Paul and Agatha are sure something more devious is going on. Someone's playing tricks on Mrs. Witherspoon, and when she turns up dead under suspicious circumstances, Agatha finds herself caught up in another baffling murder mystery.

The tough and brassy Agatha Raisin is not a woman to sit at home wringing her hands. Soon she is off to north Cyprus to track down her ex-fiance. Instead of enjoying the honeymoon they once planned, however, they witness the murder of an obnoxious tourist in a disco, and James is as sullen as usual. Two sets of terrible tourists – one set posh and rude, the other nouveau riche and vulgar – surround the unhappy couple, arousing Agatha's suspicions. And, much to James's chagrin, she won't rest until she finds the killer. Unfortunately, it also seems the killer won't rest until Agatha is out of the picture. Agatha is forced to track down the murderer, try to rekindle her romance with James, and fend off a suave baronet, all while coping with the fact that it's always bathing suit season in north Cyprus.

After a home dye job ruins her hair, Agatha Raisin, the prickly yet lovable amateur sleuth, turns to the wonderful new hairdresser in the neighboring town for help. And as Agatha soon learns, Mr. John is as skilled at repairing her coiffure as he is at romancing her heart. But the charming Mr. John isn't all he appears to be. According to gossip around the salon and the village, some of his former clients seem to be afraid of him. Could Mr. John really be a ruthless blackmailer? When a murderer strikes at the busy salon, Agatha must discover the truth and the killer's identity before it's too late.

Marija Luize FišereAizdomu ēnāLiza nepamatoti tiek apvainota sava vīra, turīgā rūpnieka Bruno Hammera, noslepkavošanā. Pierādījumu trūkuma dēļ tiesa viņu attaisno. Pēc šī notikuma Līza maina identitāti. Viņas dzīvē ienāk divi liktenīgie vīrieši. Tomēr laimīga Līza kļūs vienīgi tad, ja izdosies noskaidrot, kas ir īstais nozieguma vaininieks…Jau vairākus gadu desmitus Marija Luīze Fišere ir pazīstama un iemīļota izklaides romānu autore. Miljoniem lasītāju visā pasaulē kļuvuši par šīs vācu rakstnieces talanta cienītājiem.ISBN 9984-557-39-1Noskanējis grāmatu un failu izveidojis Imants Ločmelis imantslochmelis@inbox.lvNo vācu valodas tulkojusi Helma Lapiņa Mākslinieks Andis Kalniņš© Alberts XII, 1997ISBN 9984-557-39-1© by Autor und Wilhelm Heyne Verlag, 1989

Thomas Lynley ya no es comisario de la policía de Londres. Tras el brutal asesinato de su mujer embarazada, no había ninguna razón para permanecer en la ciudad y en su puesto. Es por eso que decide volver a los parajes de su infancia e intentar recuperarse allí del golpe que acaba de recibir. Sin embargo, parece que no va a resultar nada fácil alejarse del crimen. Mientras se encuentra haciendo trekking por los campos de Cornualles, se tropieza con el cadáver del joven Santo Kerne, quien aparentemente se despeñó de un acantilado. Aunque en seguida se hace obvio que alguien manipuló el equipo de alpinismo del chico, Lynley decide investigar por su cuenta y no comparte toda la información que cae en sus manos con la verdadera encargada del caso: la subinspectora Bea Hannaford, una policía capaz y resolutiva, pero algo malcarada. Lo que sí hace es llamar a su antigua compañera Barbara Havers para pedirle ayuda. Havers que tiene órdenes de asistir a la subinspectora y de conseguir que Lynley reanude su actividad como detective en Londres, se dirigirá a Cornualles donde parece que hay una inacabable retahíla de sospechosos de haber podido matar a Kerne: amantes despechadas, padres decepcionados, surfistas expertos, antiguos compañeros de colegio y una madre demente. Cada uno de ellos tiene un secreto que guardar y por el que merece la pena mentir en incluso matar.

Alabama joins Mississippi as fertile Deep South soil for the Noir Series.

Gdańsk, upalne dni czerwca 2006 roku. Spokój panujący w luksusowym domu seniora "Eden" zostaje zburzony na skutek wydarzeń pełnych grozy.W jednym z apartamentów znaleziono zwłoki pensjonariusza na wózku inwalidzkim. Co dziwniejsze mężczyzna jest oskalpowany. Równocześnie z "Edenu" znika inny pensjonariusz. Sprawa trafia na biurko nadkomisarza Jarosława Patera, hazardzisty i krzewiciela poprawności językowej. Dlaczego zwłoki starego mężczyzny zostały okaleczone? Dlaczego ABW niespodziewanie przejmuje śledztwo, odsuwając od sprawy policjantów? Co się stało z zaginionym? Sytuację komplikuje wzajemna niechęć między nadkomisarzem a dyrektorem "Edenu", doktorem Lieblingiem, oraz traumatyczne wspomnienia Patera.Marek Krajewski znów udowodnił, że jest mistrzem powieści kryminalnej. Jego współpraca z Mariuszem Czubajem, znakomitym znawcą gatunku, zaowocowała powieścią intrygującą, napisaną żywym językiem i świetnie osadzoną w konwencji.