While investigating a sorority member's death at her daughter's college, Claire Malloy discovers the sorority sisters are participants in many bizarre rituals and illegal activities-the kind Claire would not want her daughter to be caught dead in.

From the international bestselling author of Eeny Meeny comes the second thriller in the truly excellent series * featuring Detective Helen Grace."A man s body is found in an empty house.A gruesome memento of his murder is sent to his wife and children."He is the first victim, and Detective Helen Grace knows he will not be the last. But why would a happily married man be this far from home in the dead of night?The media call it Jack the Ripper in reverse: a serial killer preying on family men who lead hidden double lives.Helen can sense the fury behind the murders. But what she cannot possibly predict is how volatile this killer is or what is waiting for her at the end of the chase… "

Una joven estudiante, hija de un profesor universitario, se convierte en el eje de una compleja trama. Las equívocas relaciones que Elena Weaver mantiene con sus amigos y amantes despiertan un abanico de oscuros sentimientos: celos, obsesión, amor, pasión, envidia. Un profesor casado la acosa sexualmente, un joven sordo le profesa devoción, un especialista en Shakespeare la persigue, la primera esposa y la joven amante del profesor Weaver le guardan rencor… La muerte de Elena, asesinada mientras hacía footing una neblinosa mañana, tal vez solo fue la consecuencia inevitable de la extraña atracción que ejercía en hombres y mujeres. Ambientada en Cambridge, esta novela radiografía las inextricables facetas emocionales que solapadamente marcan el destino de las personas.

The Portobello area of West London has a rich personality – vibrant, brilliant in colour, noisy, with graffiti that approach art, bizarre and splendid. An indefinable edge to it adds a spice of danger. There is nothing safe about Portobello…Eugene Wren inherited an art gallery from his father near an arcade that now sells cashmere, handmade soaps and children's clothes. But he decided to move to a more upmarket site in Kensington Church Street. Eugene was fifty, with prematurely white hair. He was, perhaps, too secretive for his own good. He also had an addictive personality. But he had cut back radically on his alcohol consumption and had given up cigarettes. Which was just as well, considering he was going out with a doctor. For all his good intentions, though, there was something he didn't want her to know about…On a shopping trip one day, Eugene, quite by chance, came across an envelope containing money. He picked it up. For some reason, rather than report the matter to the police, he wrote a note and stuck it up on lamppost near his house:'Found in Chepstow Villas, a sum of money between eighty and a hundred and sixty pounds. Anyone who has lost such a sum should apply to the phone number below.'This note would link the lives of a number of very different people – each with their obsessions, problems, dreams and despairs. And through it all the hectic life of Portobello would bustle on.

Springtime in Chilson, Michigan,

means it's librarian Minnie

Hamilton's favorite time of year:

maple syrup season! But her

excitement fades when her

favorite syrup provider, Henry Gill, dies in a sugaring accident.

It’s tough news to

swallow...even if the old man

wasn’t as sweet as his product.

On the bookmobile rounds with

her trusty rescue cat Eddie, Minnie meets Adam, the old

man's friend, who was with

him when he died. Adam is

convinced Henry’s death wasn’t

an accident, and fears that his

own life is in danger. With the police overworked, it's up to

Minnie and Eddie to tap all their

resources for clues—before

Adam ends up in a sticky

situation...

Cincinnati homicide Detective Will Borders now walks with a cane and lives alone with constant discomfort. He's lucky to be alive. He's lucky to have a job, as public information officer for the department. But when a star cop is brutally murdered, he's assigned to find her killer. The crime bears a chilling similarity to killings on the peaceful college campus nearby, where his friend Cheryl Beth Wilson is teaching nursing. The two young victims were her students. Most homicides are routine, the suspects readily apparent. These are definitely not. Once again, this unlikely pair teams up to pursue a sadistic predator before he kills again. But finding him will mean uncovering some of the darkest secrets in a Midwestern metropolis where change is slow, tradition and history lay as thick as the summer humidity, and lethal danger can hide in the most respected places.

Joe Alex, popularny autor powieści kryminalnych, wyrusza do posiadłości swego przyjaciela, Iana Drummonda, gdzie w ciszy i spokoju zamierza napisać kolejną książkę. W trakcie jego pobytu u profesora dochodzi jednakże do morderstwa, a wśród podejrzanych ukrywa się sprawca…

Zdemaskowanie, uwięzienie, ucieczka, otumanienie narkotykami…Ze wszystkich elementów, charakterystycznych dla powieści szpiegowskiej, autor – mistrz zaskakującej intrygi i inteligentnego pastiszu – stworzył swą nową, brawurową historię, dziejącą się w czasie II wojny światowej.Jest rok 1941. Planując atak na ZSRR, Niemcy chcą uzyskać efekt całkowitego zaskoczenia. I choć wojska stoją już na granicy, agent „Wasser” otrzymuje zadanie wprowadzenia Rosjan w błąd. Na jego trop wpada specjalna grupa „Plan”, w której działa młodszy lejtnant Dorin…

– Imię: James. Wzrost: 183 cm. Waga: 76 kg. Budowa szczupła. Oczy niebieskie. Włosy czarne. Blizna na prawym policzku i na lewym ramieniu. Ślady po chirurgii plastycznej na grzbiecie prawej dłoni. Wszechstronny sportowiec. Nie używa przebrań. Języki obce: francuski i niemiecki. Dużo pali (specjalne papierosy z trzema złotymi paskami). Nałogi: pije, ale nie w nadmiarze, kobiety. Każde liczące się państwo ma akta Jamesa Bonda, brytyjskiego tajnego agenta. Śmiertelnie niebezpieczna rosyjska organizacja Smiersz postanowiła go wyeliminować? przynętą jest Tatiana Romanowa. Jej zadaniem jest zwabić Bonda do Stambułu i tam go uwieść, podczas gdy jej zwierzchnicy zajmą się resztą. Kiedy Bond wpada w pułapkę, rozpoczyna się gra, w której 007 jest zarówno stawką, jak i bagrodą.

Роман про удивительные российские выборы, про любовь, честь и достоинство. Дело происходит в небольшом волжском городе, выбранном для пробной реализации большого политического проекта. "Народ" и "партия" однако вовсе не едины, а разного рода политтехнологические экзерсисы порой работают непредсказуемо. Как то, впрочем, и должно быть в нашей богоспасаемой Отчизне. Благо чувство юмора и здорового пофигизма почти никогда не оставляют героев в предлагаемых им обстоятельствах.

El verano llega a su fin en una pequeña localidad rural de Noruega. Sus habitantes, acostumbrados a la tranquilidad de sus urbanizaciones rodeadas de bosques y lagos, no están preparados para lo que se avecina. Pequeños y terribles malentendidos comienzan a sucederse: llamadas de hospitales anunciando accidentes que no han ocurrido, periódicos que publican esquelas de ancianos que siguen vivos… presagios de que algo terrible está a punto de ocurrir. El mismo día que comienza todo, el inspector de policía Sejer recibe una extraña nota: «El infierno empieza ahora». Él y su compañero, el detective Jacob Skarre, se ponen manos a la obra para descubrir quién está detrás de tanta confusión. Probablemente ni siquiera el artífice de todo ello sea capaz de prever la marea de violencia que está a punto de desbordarse, porque, ¿quién sabe de qué es capaz la gente cuando ha perdido la sensación de seguridad?En Presagios, Karin Fossum consigue un retrato fascinante de una pequeña comunidad que se tambalea al borde del precipicio.

Murder in the city of sin…Brett Kavanaugh is a tattoo artist and owner of Vegas's hottest tattoo shop, The Painted Lady. And in her spare time, she does some sleuthing. After Brett and company ink Sin City's newest drag queens, they're invited to opening night at the strip's glamorous Nylon and Tattoos show-which ends in disaster when a stranger with a Queen of Hearts tattoo fatally injures Britney Brassieres with a champagne cork. And when another drag queen is found poisoned, it looks like someone's targeting Vegas's fabulous femmes…

A woman is murdered and the police have a prime suspect, but cannot prove it. Detective Jane Tennison fights to solve the crime and win the respect of her fellow, male, officers.

Special: distinguished by some unusual quality…Circumstances: a piece of evidence that indicates the probability or improbability of an event… Barbara Everette, homemaker living in a small town in Mississippi, had the perfect life. Perfect husband, perfect children, perfect house, perfect Christian Faith. She cooked and cleaned perfectly and managed all of the chores of the modern suburbanite, toting the kids, running the PTA, teaching kung-fu in the local dojo… Perfectly. But perfection has a price and the day came when Barbara snapped. She simply had to have “one weekend off.” God had to grant her that much. It said no where that she was a slave. Waving goodbye to her hapless, entirely undomestic husband, she set out on the quest for a weekend of peace and maybe some authentic Cajun food.Detective Sergeant Kelly Lockhart, New Orleans Homicide, had a perfect record on his latest case: not a single suspect. And there should be at least five or six, given the DNA traces on the many bodies. Furthermore, his sole really outstanding clue, a mysterious fish scale, had disappeared into the recesses of the FBI Crime Lab. But the old fortune-teller was sending him into the bayou, down in the land of authentic Cajun food, on the track of a mysterious pimp with the admonition to “watch for the Princess.” Or die.Barbara and Kelly were heading to a rendezvous that might be fate and might reveal the hand of God. There was more cooking in the swamps than jambalaya. Unknown to either, the mystery of the Bayou Ripper had Special Circumstances.

If you mix a liquid with gunpowder and ignite it, and it burns with a steady blue flame, then the liquid must be at least fifty percent alcohol; and that’s PROOF... That’s the way they proved a liquid was alcohol in the seventeenth century when distilled spirits were first taxed, and that’s what is meant by proof to this day.Tony Beach, wine merchant, knew his scotch, so to be asked to give his opinion of one particular bottle seemed harmless enough, but the bottle contained firewater of a highly-explosive nature... and Tony without intending it had set out on a one-way route into danger.From a harmless Sunday morning party at a racing stable and onwards to the edge of death, Tony comes nearer and nearer to a lethal adversary and also to unexpected knowledge of his own true self.

Philip St. Ives, the top professional go-between introduced last year in The Brass Go-Between, is back in action. In this new novel of intrigue, St. Ives is coerced by the Department of State into recovering the U.S. Ambassador to Yugoslavia. The diplomat has been kidnapped and is being held for a ransom of $1,000,000 and the release of a Nobel Prize-winning poet.

It’s a complicated assignment that becomes downright deadly as St. Ives finds himself involved with a Broadway actor, a 30-year-old millionaire, the poet’s breathtakingly beautiful daughter, and a sexy CIA agent.

Edgar Award-winner Bruce DeSilva returns with Liam Mulligan, an old-school investigative reporter for a dying newspaper in Providence, Rhode Island. Mulligan knows every street and alley, every priest and prostitute, every cop and street thug. He knows the mobsters and politicians – who are pretty much one and the same.Inspired by a true story, Providence Rag finds Mulligan, his pal Mason, and the newspaper they both work for at an ethical crossroad. The youngest serial killer in history butchered five of his neighbors before he was old enough to drive. When he was caught eighteen years ago, Rhode Island's antiquated criminal statutes – never intended for someone like him – required that all juveniles, no matter their crimes, be released at age twenty-one. The killer is still behind bars, serving time for crimes supposedly committed on the inside. That these charges were fabricated is an open secret; but nearly everyone is fine with it – if the monster ever gets out more people will surely die. But Mason is not fine with it. If officials can get away with framing this killer they could do it to anybody. As Mason sets out to prove officials are perverting the justice system, Mulligan searches frantically for some legal way to keep the monster behind bars. The dueling investigations pit the friends against each other in a high-stakes race against time – and snares them in an ethical dilemma that has no right answer.Providence Rag is a gripping novel of suspense by one of the rising talents in the mystery field.

Mary Higgins Clark, amerykańska królowa suspensu, i jej córka, autorka bestsellerów Carol Higgins Clark, po raz pierwszy połączyły siły, by stworzyć błyskotliwą i ekscytującą opowieść o skomplikowanej intrydze osnutej wokół porwania, które odbywa się w bożonarodzeniowej scenerii.Trzy dni przed świętami Bożego Narodzenia w Nowym Jorku zostaje uprowadzony dla okupu Luke Reilly, bogaty przedsiębiorca pogrzebowy. Wraz z nim zakładniczką porywaczy staje się jego pracownica Rosita, wychowująca samotnie dwóch małych synków. Śledztwo w sprawie ustalenia tożsamości przestępców i miejsca przetrzymywania zakładników prowadzi policja i FBI; pomaga też córka Luke'a, Regan – licencjonowany prywatny detektyw, oraz starsza pani Alvirah Meehan, znana od dawna jako odnoszący błyskotliwe sukcesy detektyw amator. Zrozpaczona żona Luke'a, Nora, słynna autorka powieści kryminalnych, przebywająca po złamaniu nogi w szpitalu, nie podejrzewa nawet, jaką rolę w porwaniu odegrała jedna z jej książek…

One afternoon after school, nine-year-old Emilie doesn't come home.After a frantic search, her father finds her backpack in a deserted alley.it is the backpack her deceased mother had given her a month before she died.Emilie would never leave that backpack behind voluntarily.A week later, a five-year-old boy goes missing.And then another.Meanwhile, Johanna Vik, a former FBI profiler with a troubled past and a difficult young daughter, is buried in crimes of the past, trying to overturn a decades-old false murder conviction. Police Commissioner Stubo has personal reasons for wanting to solve the case of the missing children: not long ago he lost his wife and only daughter in a terrible accident, and now all he has left is his young grandson. But when he tries to enlist Johanna to help him crack the case, she's resistant. However, when the bodies of the missing children start appearing in their family's homes with notes that say, "You got what you deserved," Johanna decides to help Stubo.While the rest of the Norwegian media is out hunting pedophiles,Stubo and Johanna manage to uncover a complex story of revenge. A singularly clever crime story combined with a serious discussion of children and our responsibilities towards them, What is Mine is the first installment in the the Stubo/Johanna crime series. Stubo and Johanna from one of the most original crime-solving teams ever.