fb2Dwójka uczniów ginie spalona żywcem podczas ranki w domku plażowym. Grozę sytuacji podkreśla fakt, że spaliło się jedynie łóżko, na którym leżeli, zaś dom pozostał nietknięty. Na ścianie utrwalił się fotograficzny wizerunek umierających. W mieszkaniu, które Jim wynajmuje od kolegi z pracy, ma miejsce podobne zdarzenie – w płomieniach staje kotka Jima. Wydaje się, że istnieje związek między tym wypadkiem, a XIX-wiecznym portretem tajemniczego mężczyzny, dagerotypisty Roberta Vane`a, który wisi w mieszkaniu. Jim stara się dowiedzieć czegoś więcej o Vanie. Okazuje się, że był on podejrzewany o wzniecanie pożarów, a nawet morderstwa. Tymczasem ktoś dybie na życie Jima, mają miejsce kolejne dziwne zdarzenia…
W październiku 1849 roku na małym cmentarzu w Baltimore odbywa się skromna uroczystość pogrzebowa z udziałem kilku zaledwie osób. Tak Ameryka żegna jednego ze swoich najwybitniejszych poetów i pisarzy – Edgara Allana Poego. Grób, w którym zostaje pochowany, pozostanie nie oznaczony. Opinia publiczna, prasa, a nawet znajomi zmarłego są zdania, że był on drugorzędnym pisarzem, doprowadzonym do smutnego końca przez chorobę alkoholową. Jedynie młody prawnik o nazwisku Quentin Clark, żarliwy wielbiciel talentu Poego, nie podziela tej opinii. By ocalić od zapomnienia tę postać i jej dzieło oraz wyjaśnić tajemnicę śmierci pisarza, rzuci na szalę własną karierę i reputację… Prowadząc prywatne śledztwo w tej sprawie, udaje się do Paryża. Tam niespodziewanie na jego drodze staje niebezpieczny – jak się wydaje – osobnik, podający się za pierwowzór detektywa Augusta Dupina, niezapomnianego bohatera Morderstwa przy Rue Morgue. Młody prawnik zostaje wplątany w sieć złowrogich machinacji, rozsnutą przez tajnych agentów, piękną morderczynię oraz skorumpowanych handlarzy niewolników… Przyszłość zawodowa i osobista Clarka jest poważnie zagrożona. Musi jak najszybciej uwolnić się od fatalnego związku z losem Poego!
Matthew Pearl (ur. 1975) jest absolwentem dwóch najbardziej prestiżowych uczelni amerykańskich: Harvardu i Yale. Ukończył filologię angielską i amerykańską oraz prawo. Wykłada literaturę i prowadzi warsztaty pisarskie na Uniwersytecie Harvarda, a także w Emerson College.
Billy Bob Holland, the protagonist of Cimarron Rose, is an attorney in the dusty Texas town of Deaf Smith. An ex-Texas Ranger (cop, not ball-player) who mistakenly killed his partner during a drug bust, Holland is jolted from his brooding when his estranged illegitimate son is accused of the rape and murder of a party girl. He takes the case, of course, and things get complicated mighty quick. On a hunch only a father could believe, Holland is sure his son is being railroaded. Doggedly pursuing the truth, he runs afoul of sadistic cops, a powerful family, and the euphoniously-named Garland T. Moon, a feral thug with something to hide. Luckily, the folks on his team are just as tough. Burke's book isn't gritty realism-Holland's dead partner visits him often-but the characters ring true in a weird way. They are quirky and appealing, and even the criminals make good company while the whodunit unfolds.
Covert agent Ryder McClintock had returned home for the first time in years only to come face-to-face with Julia Rousseau, the woman with whom he'd once shared a bed – then been forced to leave behind. Forgetting her had been impossible, but because of an accident, she was left with no memory.including the name of her baby's father. A little girl who looked remarkably like Ryder. But before he could tell Julia about their shared past, he needed to protect her and his daughter from someone determined to spoil their reunion. And as the threats escalated and Julia's memory returned, Ryder sensed her stalker's grudge ran much deeper than they realized…
Anita Blake is an expert on creatues of the night. She's dined with shapeshifters, danced with werewolves and been wooed — but not won — by Jean-Claude, the Master Vampire of the City. Now a darkly dangerous vampire named Alejandro has hit town and wants Anita for his human servant.
When the bones of a 12-year-old boy are found scattered in the Hollywood Hills, Harry Bosch is drawn into a case that brings up the darkest memories from his own haunted past. The bones have been buried for years, but the cold case doesn't deter Bosch. Unearthing hidden stories, he finds the child's identity and reconstructs his fractured life, determined that he not be forgotten. At the same time, a new love affair with a female cop begins to blossom for Bosch-until a stunningly blown mission leaves Bosch in more personal and professional trouble than ever before in his turbulent career. The investigation races to a shocking conclusion, leaving Bosch on the brink of an unimaginable decision-one that will leave readers breathless and hungry for Michael Connelly's next masterpiece.
Most of her, anyway. Her head is still missing.
Lieutenant CDS Vincent D'Agosta knows his investigation will attract fierce media scrutiny, so he's delighted when his old acquaintance FBI Special Agent A.X.L. Pendergast is assigned to the case.
But neither man is prepared for what lies ahead. A diabolical presence is haunting New York City and Grace is only the first of many victims to be murdered... and decapitated.
As mass hysteria sweeps the city, it will take all of Pendergast's skill and strength to unmask this most dangerous foe — let alone survive to tell the tale.
They are stronger, heal better, and think faster than any humans ever created — and they must be destroyed. But not even Victor Helios — once Frankenstein — can stop the engineered killers he’s set loose on a reign of terror through modern-day New Orleans. Now the only hope rests in a one-time “monster” and his all-too-human partners, Detectives Carson O’Connor and Michael Maddison. Deucalion’s centuries-old history began as Victor’s first and failed attempt to build the perfect human — and it is fated to end in the ultimate confrontation between a damned creature and his mad creator. But first Deucalion must destroy a monstrosity not even Victor’s malignant mind could have imagined — an indestructible entity that steps out of humankind’s collective nightmare with one purpose: to replace us.
Most cops question the living. But New York City’s Chief Medical Examiner Paul Konig finds his answers among the dead. Now, after a lifetime of strangled whores and mangled corpses, Konig thinks he has seen it all—until he comes up against a series of brutal sex crimes that are carving a bloody path across the battered city.
Piece by piece. he begins to put together a picture of the killer, vowing that this case would be his last. But fate has one final nightmare in store for Paul Konig… forcing him into a desperate race against time to save the beloved daughter he thought was lost forever… and who now may be terror’s next victim.
Winner of the 1977 Grand Prix de Littérature Policière’s International Prize!
En los circuitos internacionales del arte está en auge la llamada pintura hiperdramática, que consiste en la utilización de modelos humanos como lienzos. El asesinato de Annek, una chica de catorce años que trabajaba como cuadro en la obra "Desfloración", en Viena, pone en guardia a la policía y al Ministerio de Interior autriaco, que son presionados por la poderosa Fundación van Tysch para que no hagan público el crimen, ya que la noticia desencadenaría el pánico entre sus modelos y la desconfianza entre los compradores de pintura hiperdramática. Y mientras tanto, Clara Reyes, que trabaja como lienzo en una galería de Madrid, recibe la visita de dos hombres extranjeros que le proponen participar en una obra de carácter "duro y arriesgado"; el reto empieza en el mismo momento de la oferta, ya que la modelo debe ser esculpida también psicológicamente. De esta forma, Clara entra en una espiral de miedo y fascinación, que envuelve también al lector y lo enfrenta a un debate crucial sobre el valor del arte y el de la propia vida humana.
Tras el regreso de las vacaciones navideñas, Caleb Prentiss hace un macabro descubrimiento: durante su ausencia, una chica desconocida ha sido brutalmente asesinada en su dormitorio. Para él, un estudiante frustrado por el tedio de los estudios, ese suceso supondrá algo más que un incidente extraño y se convertirá en una obsesión a la que aferrar su oscura vida de universidad. Emprenderá una búsqueda desesperada por averiguar la identidad de la chica y del misterioso asesino, una búsqueda que no podrá abandonar ni siquiera cuando toda su vida empiece a derrumbarse a su alrededor.
En un viaje iniciático a través del misterio, el miedo y la desesperación, Piccirilli eleva el listón del terror con una obra maestra indiscutible. Clase nocturna es algo más que una historia, es una sobrecogedora experiencia que muchos lectores tardarán en olvidar.
After a rocky jaunt in Maine, Stone Barrington is settling back in New York City when an old client reaches out for help with a delicate matter. A feud they thought was put to rest long ago has reemerged with a vengeance, and reputations — and money — are now on the line.
As Stone sets out to unravel a tangled web of crime and secrets, his mission becomes even more complicated when he makes an irresistible new acquaintance. In both the underbelly and upper echelons of New York, everyone has something to hide — and if Stone has learned anything, it’s that history has a way of repeating itself...
Manchester-based, kick-boxing PI Kate Brannigan takes on the hard men of European organised crime as she battles to recover a Monet in a case that stretches love and loyalty to the limits. Manchester-based private eye Kate Brannigan is not amused when thieves have the audacity to steal a Monet from a stately home where she's arranged security. She's even less thrilled when the hunt for the thieves drags her on a treacherous foray across Europe as she goes head to head with organized crime. And as if that isn't enough, a routine industrial case starts leaving a trail of bodies across the Northwest, giving Kate more problems than she can deal with. Cleaning up the mess in Clean Break forces Kate to confront harsh truths in her own life as she battles with a testing array of villains in a case that stretches love and loyalty to the limits.
Dedicated, intuitive and utterly obsessive, DCI James Langton is ruthless in his pursuit of a gang of illegal immigrants, killers of a young prostitute. When he is horrifically, almost fatally injured by one of them, it falls upon DI Anna Travis to put her own career on hold as she nurses him through his intense frustration and desperation to bring his would-be murderer to justice. Then Anna is assigned to a different case, the brutal killing of a quiet, studious woman whose body was discovered by her daughter returning home from school. A senseless attack with no obvious motive or immediate suspect. Until, chillingly, the case becomes unexpectedly linked with Langton's and Anna finds herself under similar threat from those who almost destroyed his career and his life.
On the heels of the New York Times bestselling Dead Shot comes the most thrilling installment of the Kyle Swanson series yet, in which an attempt at a new peace in the Middle East is shattered by an unknown attacker, and only Swanson can find out who's responsible
At a 15th Century castle outside Edinburgh, Scotland, Sir Geoffrey Cornwell is brokering an unprecedented agreement. Prince Abdullah of Saudi Arabia and the Israeli Foreign Minister are scheduled to sign an historic peace treaty – that is, until their meeting is violently interrupted by a missile strike that leaves the Foreign Minister of Israel dead and Cornwell and the Prince injured.
Gunnery Sergeant Kyle Swanson is running covert missions in the mountains of Pakistan when he's called away from duty. He leaves for the U.K., where he thwarts another attempt on the prince of Saudi Arabia's life. The attackers are Middle Eastern, but they aren't working for Al Qaeda – they're employed by foreign operatives opposed to the peace agreement and determined to claim Saudi oil reserves for themselves by whatever means necessary. Meanwhile, out of hiding and back from the dead comes Juba, one of the deadliest terrorists in the world and Kyle Swanson's nemesis, who is determined to exact revenge on the man who nearly took his life.
With scenes of tremendous suspense that span the globe, Clean Kill puts Swanson in the sights of a group whose greed and vengeance know no limits. But their deadly ambitions also bring them into his sights, which is the wrong place to be.
The new short story from Karin Slaughter and Lee Child!
Jack Reacher and Will Trent
Twice the action.
Twice the drama.
Double the trouble.
Will Trent is undercover at Fort Knox. His assignment: to investigate a twenty-two-year-old murder. His suspect's name: Jack Reacher.
Jack Reacher is in Fort Knox on his own mission: to bring down a dangerous criminal ring operating at the heart of America’s military. Except now Will Trent is on the scene.
But there’s a bigger conspiracy at play – one that neither the special agent nor the ex-military cop could have anticipated. And the only option is for Jack Reacher and Will Trent to team up and play nicely. If they can…
