Bonjour, Detective. Now watch your back.Very handsome and charming French detective Luc Moncrief joined the NYPD for a fresh start – but someone wants to make his first big case his last. Welcome to New York.BookShotsLightning-fast stories by James PattersonNovels you can devour in a few hoursImpossible to stop listeningAll original content from James Patterson

Clare Cosi's daughter, Joy, is interning-and falling- for a top New York chef when his kitchen turns cutthroat, and Joy becomes a murder suspect. Clare knows she must catch the real killer-even if it lands her in the hottest water of her life.

Rabbi David Small, the new leader of Barnard's Crossing's Jewish community, can't even enjoy his Sabbath without things getting stirred up in a most unorthodox manner: It seems a young nanny has been found strangled, less than a hundred yards from the Temple's parking lot – and all the evidence points to the Rabbi.

Halloween 1954, Mitternacht, die Stunde der Geister und Verstorbenen. Über die Friedhofsmauer zwischen der Stadt der Toten und der Filmstadt Hollywood klettert eine Leiche – oder ist es eine Puppe? Ein junger Science-Fiction-Schreiber und Drehbuchautor beobachtet dies …»In einer grandiosen Mischung aus Horrorstück, Detektivroman, Gesellschaftssatire und philosophischem Traktat über die fließenden Übergänge von Sein und Schein schildert Bradbury mit wohldosierter Steigerung von Spannung und Gruseleffekten seine haarsträubende Geschichte von der Stadt der (in der Fiktion) Lebenden, dem Studiogelände von Maximus Films, und der Stadt der Toten, dem direkt daneben liegenden Friedhof Green Glades, deren Grenzen im Laufe der rasanten Handlung immer weiter zusammenfließen. Das liest sich amüsant und spannend, gruselig und aufschlußreich zugleich, und das am besten in einer unheimlichen Nacht vom Anfang bis zum Ende in einem Zuge.«Westfalen-Blatt, Bielefeld»Eine Hollywood-Gruselgeschichte mit allen Merkmalen des reifen Bradbury-Sounds. Bradbury macht seine Leser süchtig nach mehr Bradbury.«Frankfurter Allgemeine ZeitungTitel der 1990 bei Alfred A. Knopf, New York,erschienenen Originalausgabe:›A Graveyard for Lunatics‹

Dagger Awards (nominee)When Commissario Guido Brunetti is visited by a young bureaucrat concerned to investigate the lack of official approval for the building of his apartment years before, his first reaction, like any other Venetian, even a cop, is to think of whom he knows who might bring pressure to bear on the relevant local government department. But when the bureaucrat rings him at work, clearly scared by some information he plans to give Brunetti, and is then found dead after a fall from scaffolding, something is clearly going on that has implications rather greater than the fate of Guido's own apartment. Brunetti's investigations take him into unfamiliar areas of Venetian life – drug abuse and loan-sharking – while the deaths of two young drug addicts and the arrest – and subsequent release – of a suspected drug-dealer, reveal, once again, what a difference it makes in Venice to have friends in high places.

A group of friends living in London’s Covent Garden are subjected to the whims of a dangerous prankster. At first, whilst disturbing, the tricks are funny. But as they continue they become more serious and violent, until finally someone lies dead.As the remaining friends struggle to manage their grief and identify the culprit, suspicion soon falls close to home and secrets furtively kept hidden are brought to light. Alliances are formed, and the once-cosy group begins to turn on each other. Could one of them really be capable of murder?

This Boston-based mystery stars smart and sassy Beantown Banner reporter Liz Higgins, who rails at being assigned only light news highlighted in front page teasers. She vows to change that by finding a missing mom and nailing front-page news in the process. Liz's quest takes her into Boston's lively Irish pub/Celtic music scene, the elegant Wellesley landscape, and as far as Fiji. Along the way, she courageously pursues a tangle of clues and falls for two very different men: the enigmatic forensics expert Dr. Cormack Kinnaird and the warmhearted Tom Horton, who pastes ads on the huge billboard that dwarfs Liz's tiny house on the edge of the Mass Pike.

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Set in the medieval town of Shrewsbury, this is the third in the compelling '-Martha Gunn' series – When a woman arrives in A and E clutching a child in a pink blanket, Martha Gunn is not quite ready to make the discovery that the evening has in store for her. The baby is dead, and not only that, it has been mummified. Post mortem reveals the child to be a new born, deceased for over five years and, despite the mysterious woman's protestations that it is called '-poppy', most certainly a boy. As always coroner Martha Gunn reserves judgement until she is able to get to the bottom of the case.

Victoria Warshawski es una investigadora privada que procede de los barrios del sur de Chicago, donde la inmigración, las drogas, los embarazos adolescentes y el absentismo escolar son una constante. Aquejada de cáncer, la entrenadora de baloncesto del instituto donde ella estudió le pide que asuma el control del equipo femenino, y Warshawski no puede negarse.El equipo está compuesto por adolescentes de minorías raciales, algunas de ellas con hijos, y todas procedentes de familias humildes. La mayoría de los padres de las chicas trabaja en By-Smart, una cadena de hipermercados que explota y discrimina a sus empleados.

La joven y bonita Junko Aoki nació con el don de la piroquinesis: la capacidad de provocar incendios por medio de la mente. Junko aprendió a controlar su poder y a utilizarlo para ajustar cuentas con los criminales a los que la justicia no pudo meter entre rejas.Un fortuito encuentro la llevará a buscar a una joven secuestrada por una banda de depravados. El macabro rastro de cadáveres que Junko deja tras de sí, atrae la atención de dos grupos muy diferentes: una sociedad secreta conocida como los Guardianes y la Brigada de Investigación de Incendios del Departamento de Policía de Tokio.La detective Chikako Ishizu afronta con desconcierto este caso. Su mente racional se va encontrando con evidencias de los poderes piroquinéticos de Junko, poderes en los que se resiste a creer. Abrumada por los numerosos cuerpos carbonizados que encuentra a medida que la investigación avanza, se adentrará cada vez más en un caso que desafía todas las leyes de la lógica.Entretanto, mientras la lucha que Junko libra contra el crimen gana en intensidad, ésta se va dando cuenta de que cada vez es más difícil decidir sobre la vida y la muerte de los inocentes que caen víctimas del fuego cruzado.

In the third novel of her captivating foxhunting series, Rita Mae Brown welcomes readers back for a final tour of a world where most business is conducted on horseback-and stables are de rigueur for even the smallest of estates. Here, in the wealth-studded hills of Jefferson County, Virginia, even evil rides a mount.The all-important New Year's Hunt commences amid swirling light snow. It is the last formal hunt of the season; therefore, participation is required no matter how hungover riders are from toasting the midnight before. On this momentous occasion, "Sister" Jane Arnold, master of the foxhounds, announces her new joint master and the new president of the Jefferson Hunt. And her choices will prove to be no less than shocking.The day's festivities are quickly marred, though, by what appears on the surface to be an unrelated tragedy. Sam Lorillard, former shining star and Harvard Law School alum, lies dead of a stab wound on a baggage cart at the old train station, surrounded by the outcasts and vagabonds who composed his social circle at the end of life. No one can remember when Sam started drinking, but the downward spiral was swift-and seemingly deadly.Murder is followed by scandal when Sister Jane discovers dishonest hunting practices going on in a neighboring club. Unsure whether to turn a blind eye or report the infringement to the proper authority, Sister and her huntsman, Shaker Crown, decide to investigate a little further, with the help of their trusty hounds. But when they come a little too close to the staggering truth-and uncover an unforeseen connection to Lorillard's murder-they realize they might not survive to see the next New Year's Hunt.Intricate, witty, and full of the varied voices of creatures both great and small, Full Cry is an astute reminder that even those with the bluest of blood still bleed red.

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At The Society for the Preservation of Pennsylvania Antiques, fundraiser Eleanor "Nell" Pratt solicits donations-and sometimes solves crimes. When a collection of George Washington's letters is lost on the same day that an archivist is found dead, it seems strange that the Society president isn't pushing for an investigation. Nell goes digging herself, and soon uncovers a long, rich history of crime.

Where there’s a will, there’s a way — and the grim, cold household, soggy with riches, waiting for the old man to die...

In this first Inspector Banks novel, a peeping tom is frightening the women of Eastvale; two young thugs are breaking into homes; and an old woman may or may not have been murdered. Inspector Banks investigates these cases, which weave together as the story reaches a tense climax.

A Sharon McCone mystery, in which the detective is hired by a reclusive photographer to find his missing roommate, and when she is found dead, McCone has to confront numerous suspects.

В клетке с приматом найден растерзанный труп девушки, изучавшей эволюцию видов. Одиннадцать человек арестованы за чудовищные преступления. Человек, жестоко расправившийся с невинными детьми, покончил с собой. Что стоит за беспричинными вспышками насилия? Когда в следующий раз сработает бомба замедленного действия? За расследование берутся Люси Энебель и Франк Шарко. Героям предстоит отправиться в джунгли Амазонии, где притаилось древнее зло, ждущее своего часа, чтобы, подобно бессмертной огненной птице, восстать из пепла.

Obscene graffiti, poison pen letters and a disgusting effigy greeted Harriet Vane on her return to Oxford. A graduate of ten years before and now a successful novelist, this should have been a pleasant, nostalgic visit for her. She asks her lover, Lord Peter Wimsey, for help.

Podczas wystawnego przyjęcia wydanego na cześć sędziego okręgowego Pinchasa Hornsztyka zostaje zamordowana jego żona Aleksandra, ambitna kobieta interesu. Uczestnicząca w przyjęciu Lizzi Badihi, "księżniczka miejscowego brukowca", postanawia podjąć prywatne śledztwo. Rozwikłanie zagadkowego zabójstwa staje się dla niej sprawą prestiżową. Frapująca intryga kryminalna, która zadowoli najwybredniejszych koneserów tego gatunku powieści, nie jest jednak jedyną zaletą książki. W miarę rozwoju akcji ciekawym przeobrażeniom podlega też sama jej bohaterka, głównie za sprawą niekonwencjonalnych przygód erotycznych. Czytelnik znajdzie tu też sporo ciekawych obrazków z życia współczesnej izraelskiej prowincji.