fb2A book in the Catfantastic series, 1990
Two of the biggest names in the fantasy field have put together a unique collection of fantastical cat tales for friends of furry felines. Cats work a special magic in these stories from the future, from the past, and from dimensions people never dream of.
Seventeen original stories about the 'city of cats'
Set in a world that exists on the same plane as humans, yet is hidden from us, Catopolis introduces readers to an assortment of cats, ranging from a feline Seer who must take destiny into her own paws to defeat a dictatorial tomcat thug…to a black cat who can call upon the powers of the 'big cats' to wage a war against evil…to a cat who would be king…to the ins and outs of cat politics and the perils of using mice as ballots…to a cat burglar looking for a musical treasure for his 'boss.'
Bosch investiga esta vez la muerta del ex pro filer del FBI. Terry McCaleb (protagonista de Deuda de sangre, libro que fue llevado al cine de la mano de Clint Eastwood). Sus indagaciones le inducen a sospechar que el tristemente famoso asesino en serie conocido como el Poeta -al que se daba por muerto-podría hallarse involucrado en la repentina defunción de McCaleb. Bosch decidirá entonces pedir la ayuda de la agente del FBI Rachel Welling, encargada en su día de la investigación de los crímenes cometidos por el Poeta.
An explosive new stand-alone thriller from #1 New York Times bestseller Harlan Coben
Wendy is a reporter on a mission: She's chasing down the lowest of the low-sexual predators-and exposing them on national television. Her big break comes when she nails a child advocate who works with abused and underserved children. She's there, cameras rolling, when the cops cuff him and the guy realizes his life is well and truly over.
Three months later, the perp is off the grid, missing and presumed dead after the father of a victim claims to have killed him. Wendy, proud to have taken the man down in front of a shocked television audience, has moved on to the story of a missing girl, Erin, in a nearby suburb. The whole country is obsessed with finding this child, and Wendy should be well on her way to journalistic superstardom.
Then is all comes unhinged: Wendy gets a phone call that changes everything. A group of local fathers, out of work and not above vigilante justice, begins to take matters into their own hands on Erin 's behalf. Secrets long-buried rise to the surface and Wendy begins to wonder if her assumptions that fateful night three months ago were based on solid investigative journalism-or if she has unwittingly been part of a grand manipulation aiming to destroy and innocent man.
A collection of stories
In 'Swingtime', Cody invites Lanie to one of his special parties and she finds a wildness within herself and an attraction to Cody that explodes like a firecracker. In 'Charity's Auction' Char wins her ex Dexter in the hospital's auction. He drives her to also bid on his nemesis and to plan a very naughty night. Caught between a vampire master and an alpha werewolf until they learn to settle their differences, all Jasmine can do is submit, and enjoy being trapped 'Between Tooth and Paw'. Two dangerously seductive master vampires, one sultry werewolf in heat, and the primal spell of the full moon-it's definitely 'Mating Season'. In 'Magical Menage' non-practising witch Madison Montgomery can't decide between the vampire and werewolf…is it possible to have them both? In 'Trouble for Three', a night out with the girls turns into more than fun when Anneke hooks up with two hot men bent on seduction.
Kate and Richard Ryan have the perfect marriage, except that they cannot have a baby, until Julianna Starr gives her child to them, but when Julianna molds herself in Kate's image-trying to steal Richard-the nightmare begins.
Homicide Detective Avery Black has been through hell. Once a top criminal defense attorney, she fell from grace when she managed to get a brilliant Harvard professor off—only to watch him kill again. She lost her husband and her daughter, and her life fell apart around her.
Trying to redeem herself, Avery has turned to the other side of the law. Working her way up the ranks, she has reached Homicide Detective, to the scorn of her fellow officers, who still remember what she did, and who will always hate her.
Yet even they cannot deny Avery’s brilliant mind, and when a disturbing serial killer strikes fear into the heart of Boston, killing girls from elite colleges, it is Avery that they turn to. It is Avery’s chance to prove herself, to finally find the redemption she craves. And yet, as she is soon to find out, Avery has come up against a killer as brilliant and daring as she.
In this game of psychological cat and mouse, women are dying with mysterious clues, and the stakes could not be higher. A frantic race against time leads Avery through a series of shocking and unexpected twists—culminating in climax that even Avery could not imagine.
A dark psychological thriller with heart-pounding suspense, CAUSE TO KILL marks the debut of a riveting new series—and a beloved new character—that will leave you turning pages late into the night.
En una cabaña aislada de Massachusetts, seis jóvenes dispuestos a morir se atrincheran esperando el asalto de agentes del FBI. En una zona boscosa de Washington, cerca del monumento a Franklin D. Roosevelt, aparece el cadáver de la hija de un senador.
Para Maggie O´Dell, agente especial del FBI encargada de la investigación, estos dos casos están lejos de ser rutinarios. Experta en la elaboración de perfiles criminales, Maggie aporta un enfoque psicológico en casos en los que intervienen presuntos asesinos en serie. De ahí que no acabe de entender por qué se le asigna la investigación de dos crímenes sin relación aparente.
Sin embargo, a medida que Maggie y su compañero, el agente especial R.J. Tully, se sumerjan en la investigación, descubrirán que ambos casos están unidos por un vínculo: el reverendo Joseph Everett, líder carismático de una conocida secta religiosa. ¿Es Everett un psicópata que utiliza su influencia para escenificar crímenes horrendos? ¿O es tan sólo la cabeza de turco de un asesino más astuto y retorcido que él?
Il est lui-même serial-killer quand il ne s’emploie pas à les traquer.
Lui, c’est Dexter, expert au service médico-légal de Miami. Un homme tout à fait moral : il ne tue que ceux qui le méritent. Mais aussi très méticuleux : il efface toute trace de sang après avoir découpé les corps. Un jour, il est appelé sur les lieux d’un crime perpétré selon des méthodes très semblables aux siennes. Dexter aurait-t-il rencontré son alter ego ? Ou serait-ce lui qui. Impossible.
Prawnik Ramsey Hunt, uciekając przed dziennikarzami po nagłośnionym przez media incydencie, szuka spokoju w odosobnionej chacie w Górach Skalistych. Wymarzony spokój nie trwa jednak długo – Hunt znajduje w lesie nieprzytomną dziewczynkę. Zabiera ranną do swojej chaty, ale w ślad za nią w pobliżu domu pojawiają się zabójcy. Nie tylko oni zagrażają życiu Ramseya i jego małej podopiecznej – oto Molly Santera, matka dziewczynki, znajduje ich w górskim domku i w pierwszej chwili bierze Ramseya za porywacza. Gdy mężczyzna wyprowadza matkę z błędu i zdobywa w końcu jej zaufanie, nie ma już czasu na podziękowania. Depczący im po piętach mordercy są blisko… Czy ich zleceniodawcą jest dziadek dziewczynki, boss podziemnego Chicago?
Lieutenant Eve Dallas is no party girl, but she's managing to have a reasonably good time at the celebrity-packed bash celebrating The Icove Agenda, a film based on one of her famous cases. It's a little spooky seeing the actress playing her, who looks almost like her long-lost twin. Not as unsettling, though, as seeing the actress who plays Peabody drowned in the lap pool on the roof of the director's luxury building. Now she's at the center of a crime scene-and Eve is more than ready to get out of her high heels and strap on her holster and step into the role she was born to play: cop.
В поисках родителей безымянный странник путешествует от планеты к планете. Но найти их – это не самое сложное испытание. Иногда, чтобы жить – нужно создать легенду. Иногда нужно понять, что война – это эхо мира. И всегда – всегда – мы убиваем то, что любим больше всего.
Beyrouth 2011. Un sniper s'apprête à abattre un homme qui déjeune. Il ne s'agit pas d'un contrat, mais d'une mission ; le tireur est un agent qui va l'accomplir pour son pays, la France. Mais dans son dos. S'il a une existence officielle au sein de la DGSE, Vincent agit dans l'ombre de l'ombre, au cœur de la Cellule Delta.
Entraînés à être des tueurs redoutables, des fauves agiles et rapides, les cinq agents de la Cellule Delta sont chargés des opérations spéciales dans lesquelles l'État français ne peut laisser traîner ses mains : Annie, Aymar, Hichad, Henry et Vincent ont un permis clandestin de tuer et une autorisation de chasse permanente.
C'est après les terroristes qu'ils courent : en faire des cibles avant d'en être la cible.
Informés que des islamistes radicaux étroitement liés à AQMI profitent du printemps arabe pour se fortifier, les Delta se préparent à rejoindre la Libye. À Benghazi précisément, où ils ont appris qu'une convention de terroristes venus de toute cette région du monde va se tenir dans le plus grand secret…
Pierre Martinet a passé vingt ans dans les unités parachutistes d'élite, dont cinq au célèbre Service Action de la DGSE (services secrets français). Avec DGSE Service Action, un agent sort de l'ombre (Éditions Privé, 2005), il a brisé le silence.
Pendergast — the world's most enigmatic FBI Special Agent — returns to New York City to investigate a murderous cult. William Smithback, a New York Times reporter, and his wife Nora Kelly, a Museum of Natural History archaeologist, are brutally attacked in their apartment on Manhattan's Upper West Side. Eyewitnesses claim, and the security camera confirms, that the assailant was their strange, sinister neighbor — a man who, by all reports, was already dead and buried weeks earlier. While Captain Laura Hayward leads the official investigation, Pendergast and Lieutenant Vincent D'Agosta undertake their own private — and decidedly unorthodox — quest for the truth. Their serpentine journey takes them to an enclave of Manhattan they never imagined could exist: a secretive, reclusive cult of Obeah and voodoo which no outsiders have ever survived.
Four years after Tom and Abby’s 12-year-old daughter vanishes, she is found alive but strangely calm. When the teen refuses to testify against the man connected to her disappearance, Tom decides to investigate the traumatizing case on his own. Nothing can prepare him for what he is about to discover.
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La violenta erupción de un volcán en Islandia obliga a desalojar una pequeña isla. Las cenizas y la lava sepultan una población. Sus habitantes se ven en la necesidad de iniciar una nueva vida en duras condiciones, y muchos abandonan la isla.
Treinta años después aquel trauma parece superado, pero el proyecto Pompeya del Norte decide desenterrar algunas de las viviendas. En las excavaciones de una de las casas, junto a objetos y utensilios cotidianos, se realiza un hallazgo sorprendente: cuatro cadáveres habían quedado ocultos por las cenizas todo ese tiempo sin que nadie sospechara de su existencia. Una abogada se ve forzada a investigar qué había ocurrido realmente con aquellos cuerpos y cómo habían llegado allí. La evidencia de un antiguo crimen hará aflorar una sórdida historia de violencia que parece no haber finalizado todavía, estremeciendo la aparentemente tranquila vida de un pueblo de pescadores.
Conducting a top secret investigation into the death of a fellow police officer has Lieutenant Eve Dallas treading on dangerous ground. She must put professional ethics before personal loyalties. But when a dead body is placed outside her home, Eve takes the warnning personally. With her husband, Roarke, watching her every move, Eve is drawn into the most dangerous case of her career. Every step she takes makes her question her own beliefs of right and wrong-and brings her closer to a confrontation with humanity's most seductive form of evil…
En París, un cirujano norteamericano puede al fin vengar el brutal asesinato de su padre.
En Londres, un policía de Los Ángeles colabora con Scotland Yard en la investigación de una serie de decapitaciones.
En Ginebra, una joven doctora se ve envuelta en una historia de amor que cambiará su vida.
En Nuevo México, una terapeuta acompaña a un paciente muy especial de vuelta a Suiza.
En Alemania, un selecto grupo de empresarios se prepara para celebrar un hecho histórico.