Jelena Preseren has finally found love and happiness with her new husband Ashinji Sakehera and his family, but her peaceful life is about to be turned upside down. Far to the south, the Soldaran Empire prepares for war against the elves and in the icy north, the arcane power of the Nameless One continues to grow… Set against a backdrop of impending war, shocking betrayals, and uneasy alliances, Griffin's Shadow is a story of courage and enduring love in the face of adversity.

Daniel Vartarian es el agente del FBI asignado al caso del asesinato de una joven en la localidad de Dutton, pueblo donde Daniel nació. El asesinato es exactamente igual a uno que ocurrió en el mismo lugar trece años atrás. Al investigarlo, Daniel reconocerá a aquella adolescente del pasado… Ha visto su rostro en una de las fotos que pertenecían al asesino en serie más cruel que haya conocido: su propio hermano Simon. Así, Daniel tendrá que enfrentarse a sus propios vecinos, a sus fantasmas familiares y a sus conflictos de adolescencia mientras investiga los viejos y nuevos crímenes con la ayuda de Alexandra, la hermosa hermana gemela de una de las víctimas del asesino.

¿Quién era ella?

La mujer destacaba entre la multitud, y Jim Neilson, sintiendo una gran atracción sexual, se acercó a ella.

¿Quién era él?

¿Quedaban huellas del joven Jaime, su compañero de juegos en el valle, del niño que había conocido tan bien y amado tanto?

Si ella pudiera llegar hasta el niño vulnerable que existía en el interior del hombre, ¿sería posible que reapareciera el Jaime que recordaba? ¿O todo lo que cabía esperar era una sola noche en los brazos de Jim? Tal vez de esa manera podría olvidar a Jaime de una vez para siempre…

Najnowsza powieść autorki bestsellerowego "Labiryntu" to przykuwający uwagę thriller o zemście i obsesji, rozgrywający się w barwnej scenerii południa Francji.

Październik 1891 roku. Léonie Vernier i jej brat Anatole opuszczają ciasne i tłoczne ulice Paryża i wyjeżdżają na południe, do tajemniczej wiejskiej rezydencji La Domaine de la Cade niedaleko Carcassonne. Tam, w prastarym lesie dziewczyna trafia na zrujnowany grobowiec, który kryje w sobie tajemnicę popełnionego przed ponad stu laty morderstwa. Léonie zanurza się w krainie zjaw i widm, w której życiem i śmiercią rządzi stara talia kart do tarota, obdarzona niezwykłą mocą.

Październik 2007. Meredith Martin postanawia zrobić sobie przerwę badaniach nad twórczością Claude'a Debussy'ego. Wybiera się z Paryża na południe, do pięknego hotelu położonego wśród lasów. Fascynuje ją historia tego miejsca, a szczególnie tragiczne wydarzenia z Halloweenowej nocy ponad sto lat temu, które wstrząsnęły mieszkańcami okolicy. W ten sposób jej los splata się z losami Léonie. Ale dopiero gdy ona także potyka się na ustronnej polanie, zdaje sobie sprawę, że tajemnice tego miejsca mają związek nie tylko z umarłymi…

W nowym, zapierającym dech thrillerze pióra Catherine Coulter agenci FBI, Savich i Sherlock, prowadzą jedną z najtrudniejszych spraw w swojej karierze, w której morderstwo i zemsta nierozerwalnie splatają się ze sobą. Akcja rozpoczyna się w chwili, gdy agentka FBI, Ruth Warnecki, wyrusza do jaskini w Zachodniej Virginii na poszukiwanie konfederackiego złota. Ruth nawet nie przeczuwa, że natknie się na przerażające morderstwo, które rozpocznie cały korowód śmierci związany z prestiżową Szkołą Muzyczną Stanislaus.

„Grzeszne rozkosze” to pierwsza część wielotomowego cyklu o Anicie Blake. Dzięki niemu jej autorka, Laurell Kaye Hamilton, zyskała całkiem spore uznanie. Dlatego niejedna osoba – w nadziei na udaną lekturę – sięgnie po wspomniane „Grzeszne rozkosze”, które zapoczątkowały popularną serię. Jednak czytając je szybko dochodzimy do konkluzji, że trzymamy w dłoniach dzieło pod niemal każdym względem przeciętne i tym samym zadowalające jedynie naprawdę mało wymagającego odbiorcę.

Akcja książki rozgrywa się w niedalekiej przyszłości, ale jest ona niestety w niewielkim stopniu odczuwalna. Na ten aspekt wpływa nieco fakt, że po raz pierwszy recenzowana lektura została wydana w 1993 roku. Sama fabuła stanowi mocno sztampową i pretensjonalną historię. W Stanach Zjednoczonych zalegalizowano wampiryzm, więc nieumarli mają prawo do względnie zwyczajnej egzystencji, a bezprawne ich zabijanie grozi karą. Wyjątek stanowią egzekutorzy, którym po uzyskaniu odpowiedniego zezwolenia, przysługuje możliwość zabicia wampira. I to jedynie w sytuacji, gdy ten postąpił nieprawidłowo, co z reguły oznacza pozbawienie życia człowieka.

Przewodnia bohaterka utworu to wspomniana Anita Blake, będąca egzekutorką oraz animatorką. Ta druga profesja wydaje się o wiele bardziej wyjątkowa i trudna, ponieważ tylko garstka ludzi skutecznie sobie z nią radzi, powołując do życia zmarłych. Anita jest całkiem młoda i atrakcyjna. Poza tym lubi swoją pracę. Autorka w znacznej mierze poradziła sobie z jej portretem psychologicznym, nadając bohaterce prawdziwego, ludzkiego charakteru. Nie mamy tutaj do czynienia z postacią, która niczego się nie boi. Wręcz przeciwnie – niejednokrotnie podczas wykonywania swojej pracy przepełnia ją strach i zwątpienie. Dodajmy jeszcze inne problemy natury psychicznej, jak i fizycznej (przykładowo, jest o wiele wolniejsza od swoich ofiar i łatwiej ulega ranom), otrzymując naprawdę zgrabnie wykreowaną bohaterkę. Jedyny problem stanowią czasami wybory Anity, które nierzadko są nazbyt heroiczne, aby stały się dla nas dostatecznie zrozumiałe

Defense attorney Paul Madriani gets caught in a web of deceit and murder involving Cold War secrets, a rare coin dealer who once worked for the CIA, and a furious assassin in one of the most entertaining novels yet in this New York Times bestselling series.

A woman pauses in the hallway of a darkened San Diego beach house at night – listening for just the right moment when she can flee before her companion notices that she's gone.

A man outside watches the same mansion, waiting for a sign that he can enter on his mission of blood and carnage.

So begins this riveting new tale about Paul Madriani and his latest case – that of Katia, a woman accused of an unlikely crime – a trial that will unravel a careful but horrifying conspiracy. Madriani soon realizes that he's signed onto something much more sinister than a botched heist. As he searches for the truth that will clear Katia's name, he finds himself on a path that takes him from Southern California to Costa Rica, and, ultimately, to a secret buried since Castro's rise to power.

Together with his partner, Harry Hinds, Madriani must piece together the threads of a decades-old conspiracy involving priceless gold coins, an aging American spy, a disaffected Russian soldier, and a forgotten weapon from the days of JFK and the Cuban Missile Crisis. As the separate strands of the story come together, Madriani finds information that will ultimately lead him to the one person who holds the key to it all: a man some call "The Guardian of Lies."

In this fascinating thriller from New York Times bestselling author Steve Martini, Paul Madriani faces his most challenging – and most urgent – case yet, a breathless story that combines fact and fiction and will hold readers captive until its final, explosive conclusion.

Aleksei Vassilievich Krylov, we want you on our side...

Let's face it, Alex: you were the KGB's top assassin, and they paid you off. Just as we might. A cushy lieutenant-colonelcy in Tokyo; riding pour le sport, a yacht, your pick of Eurasian dolls... Like? We can do better in the U.S.A., Alex — come on over, and bring your secrets with you...

That was FACE's pitch to the would-be defector, and it got results. Witness one hell of a nice courier slashed and dumped in a Tokyo alley.

Maybe agent Pete Brook could make jolly Alex's dream come true. Except what did Krylov really long for in America — wine, women and song... or a dramatic return to the murderer's trade?

You’ll find out in Ellery Queen’s GUESS WHO’S COMING TO KILL YOU — a superlative new thriller by the great suspense novelist...

Successful lawyer Mark Dooher has killed his wife of 20 years in order to marry a beautiful young female colleague. But suspicions of his guilt begin to tear his life apart, as the homicide chief gets closer to the truth.

The chief justice of the Supreme Court is about to be defamed, his career destroyed, by a powerful gossip website that specializes in dirt on celebs and politicians. Their top reporter has written an exposé claiming that he had liaisons with an escort, a young woman prepared to tell the world her salacious tale. But the chief justice is not without allies and his greatest supporter is determined to stop the story in its tracks.

Nick Heller is a private spy — an intelligence operative based in Boston, hired by lawyers, politicians, and even foreign governments. A high-powered investigator with a penchant for doing things his own way, he’s called to Washington, DC, to help out in this delicate, potentially explosive situation.

Nick has just forty-eight hours to disprove the story about the chief justice. But when the call girl is found murdered, the case takes a dangerous turn, and Nick resolves to find the mastermind behind the conspiracy before anyone else falls victim to the maelstrom of political scandal and ruined reputations predicated upon one long-buried secret.

It is said that everyone over a certain age can remember distinctly what they were doing when they heard that President Kennedy had been assassinated, or that Princess Diana had been killed in a Paris car crash, but I, for one, could recall all too clearly where I was standing when a policeman told me that my wife had been murdered.

Bill Russellis acting as a volunteer steward at Warwick races when he confronts his worst nightmare — the violent death of his much-loved wife. But worse is to come when he is accused of killing her and hounded mercilessly by the media. His life begins to unravel completely as he loses his job and his home. Even his best friends turn against him, believing him guilty of the heinous crime in spite of the lack of compelling evidence.

Bill sets out to clear his name but finds that proving one’s innocence is not easy — one has to find the true culprit, and Bill believes he knows who it is. But can he prove it before he becomes another victim of the murderer.

Guilty Not Guilty is a journey of greed and jealousy set against the grief of personal tragedy and loss, with many a twist and turn along the way.

The sizzling new erotic tale from New York Times bestselling author Lora Leigh

Marty Matthews swore she would never allow herself to be drawn into the secret, forbidden pleasures that the women she had grown up with enjoyed. Women whose husbands or lovers were members of the exclusive 'Club,' where they took a selected 'third' into their beds. Now, Marty is an FBI agent and her brand new case has put the one man she can't have in her sights.

Marty's boss is convinced Khalid is involved in a plot to derail talks between his uncle and the President to strengthen ties between the US and the Middle East, and he wants Marty to get close enough to Khalid to prove it. However, Khalid is a member of the Club and he offers to introduce her to the kind of guilty pleasure Marty swore she would never experience. And even though danger lurks around every corner, there is no way to escape the man who threatens not only her control, but her very heart.

Vampire hunter Anita Blake (known by the vampires she kills as “The Executioner”) is hired by the most powerful vampire in town to find out who has been murdering vampires.

Warren Ellis reimagines New York City as a puzzle with the most dangerous pieces of all: GUNS.

After a shootout claims the life of his partner in a condemned tenement building on Pearl Street, Detective John Tallow unwittingly stumbles across an apartment stacked high with guns. When examined, each weapon leads to a different, previously unsolved murder. Someone has been killing people for twenty years or more and storing the weapons together for some inexplicable purpose.

Confronted with the sudden emergence of hundreds of unsolved homicides, Tallow soon discovers that he’s walked into a veritable deal with the devil. An unholy bargain that has made possible the rise of some of Manhattan’s most prominent captains of industry. A hunter who performs his deadly acts as a sacrifice to the old gods of Manhattan, who may, quite simply, be the most prolific murderer in New York City’s history.

Warren Ellis’s body of work has been championed by Wired for its “merciless action” and “incorruptible bravery,” and steadily amassed legions of diehard fans. His newest novel builds on his accomplishments like never before, announcing Ellis as one of today’s most daring thriller writers. This is twenty-first century suspense writ large. This is GUN MACHINE.

Charlie Swift just pumped three.38-caliber bullets into a dead polar bear in his taxidermist girlfriend's garage. But he's a gun monkey, and no one can blame him for having an itchy trigger finger. Ever since he drove down the Florida Turnpike with a headless body in the trunk of a Chrysler, then took down four cops, Charlie's been running hard through the sprawling sleaze of central Florida. And to make matters worse, he's holding on to some crooked paperwork that a lot of people would like to take off his hands. Now, with his boss disappeared and his friends dropping like flies, Charlie has got his work cut out just to survive. If he wants to keep the money and get the girl too, he's really going to have to go ape…

Nominated for the Edgar Award for Best First Novel, Gun Monkeys is a fast, furious collage of wit and wise guys, violence and thrills-and a full-throttle run through the dark side of the Sunshine State.

The Barnes Noble Review

Much of Robert B. Parker's fiction – his recent Spenser novel, Potshot, is a notable example – has straddled the boundary between two traditional forms: the private-eye novel and the Western. Parker's latest, the spare, evocative Gunman's Rhapsody, represents his first attempt at a pure, unadulterated Western, moving from Boston and environs to Tombstone, Arizona and focusing on one of Spenser's true spiritual forebears: Wyatt Earp.

Gunman's Rhapsody begins in 1879. Wyatt, whose exploits have already found their way into the dime novels of the period, has just arrived in Tombstone, accompanied by several of his brothers and his common-law wife, Mattie Blaylock. The Tombstone of this era is a semi-lawless boomtown located in the heart of the silver mine district. It also serves as a kind of crossroads, a meeting place for some of the iconic figures of the Old West, figures such as Johnny Ringo, Bat Masterson, Ike Clanton, Katie Elder, and the drunken, slightly demented gunfighter, Doc Holliday.

A single romantic encounter dominates this rambling, almost plotless narrative: Wyatt's discovery of the love of his life: beautiful showgirl Josie Marcus, who happens to be engaged to Johnny Behan, the shady, politically connected Sheriff of Tombstone. Wyatt's affair with Josie – which takes on an obsessive, almost mythical dimension – forms the central element in an interlocking series of personal rivalries and political enmities that will culminate in the gunfight at the OK Corral, and in its bloody, extended aftermath.

Parker's clean elegant style and essentially romantic sensibility prove perfectly suited to the peculiar material of this novel. Without a false note or wasted word, Parker recreates the ambiance of the West, bringing its saloons, jails, and gambling halls and its endless, wide-open vistas, to immediate, palpable life. He brings that same effortless authority to bear in describing the lives and motivations of violent, hard-edged men who live – and sometimes die – according to highly developed codes of personal behavior. The result is a fascinating historical digression that illuminates a piece of the American past while simultaneously illuminating the central concerns of Parker's large, constantly evolving body of work. (Bill Sheehan)

The explosive sequel to GANGSTA has finally arrived!

Blood answers for blood on the streets of Harlem. It's been months since Lou-loc was brutally murdered on his way to freedom and the pain is still fresh. Gutter, Lou-loc's best friend, finds himself on a path to self destruction, vowing to eradicate the entire Blood faction in New York City in the name of his fallen comrade. Sharell urges him to abandon the suicide mission, but his oath won't allow it. Not even for the child they are expecting. But as Gutter slips further into madness, a shocking revelation brings Satin out. In the middle of all this is a man named Major Blood. He has been flown in from Cali with two very simple instructions. Shut down Harlem Crip, and execute El Diablo's murderer. Walk back into the mouth of madness in the not-to-missed sequel to GANGSTA.