fb2Mažame Pačiulos miestelyje, Eskambijos apygardoje žiauriai nužudyta visų mylima vienuolikmetė mergaitė. Auka – baltaodė, be to, miesto tarybos nario dukra. Įtariamasis – juodaodis. Robertas Erlas Fergiusonas pripažįstamas kaltu ir nuteisiamas mirties bausme, tačiau savo kaltumą neigia. Reporteris Metjus Kovartas, patikėjęs nuteistuoju, ima narplioti žiaurų nusikaltimą.
A new novel by the Bram Stoker Award-winning author of THE TURTLE BOY.
On a scorching hot summer day in Elkwood, Alabama, Claire Lambert staggers naked, wounded, and half-blind away from the scene of an atrocity. She is the sole survivor of a nightmare that claimed her friends, and even as she prays for rescue, the killers—a family of cannibalistic lunatics—are closing in.
A soldier suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder returns from Iraq to the news that his brother is among the murdered in Elkwood.
In snowbound Detroit, a waitress trapped in an abusive relationship gets an unexpected visit that will lead to bloodshed and send her back on the road to a past she has spent years trying to outrun.
And Claire, the only survivor of the Elkwood Massacre, haunted by her dead friends, dreams of vengeance… a dream which will be realized as grief and rage turn good people into cold-blooded murderers and force alliances among strangers.
It’s time to return to Elkwood.
In the spirit of such iconic horror classics as The Texas Chainsaw Massacre and Deliverance, Kin begins at the end and studies the possible aftermath for the survivors of such traumas upon their return to the real world—the guilt, the grief, the thirst for revenge—and sets them on an unthinkable journey… back into the heart of darkness.
Moskau, 1953. In der Sowjetunion herrscht die nackte Angst. Stalins Letzte große Säuberungswelle wütet im Land. Die Staatssicherheit hat Ohren und Augen überall - und jeder denunziert jeden, in der Hoffnung, die eigene Haut zu retten.
Der hochdekorierte Kriegsheld und Offizier des NKWD Leo Demidow wird zu einem Kollegen geschickt. Fjodors kleiner Sohn ist ums Leben gekommen - und Fjodor besteht darauf, dass es kein Unfall war, sondern brutaler Kindsmord. Diese Behauptung kann die Familie das Leben kosten -denn die herrschende Ideologie sagt: Im real existierenden Sozialismus gibt es kein Verbrechen. Warum sollte in der perfekten Gesellschaft jemand Grund haben zu töten? Es gelingt Leo, den verzweifelten Vater zum Schweigen zu bringen - aber er selbst kann das tote Kind nicht vergessen.
Leo beginnt heimlich im Fall des ermordeten Jungen zu ermitteln - und stellt fest, dass einem bestialischen Killer immer mehr Kinder zum Opfer fallen. Aber seine Nachforschungen bringen Leo in tödliche Gefahr: Der Apparat bestraft die kleinste Abweichung mit gnadenloser Härte. Aus dem Karriere-Offizier wird ein Gejagter. Irgendwann hat er nur noch ein Ziel: den Mörder zu stoppen, ehe die NKWD-KoLlegen Leo selbst zur Strecke bringen ...
When the newly promoted captain of the NYPSD and his wife return a day early from their vacation, they were looking forward to spending time with their bright and vivacious sixteen-year-old daughter who had stayed behind.
Not even their worst nightmares could have prepared them for the crime scene that awaited them instead. Brutally murdered in her bedroom, Deena's body showed signs of trauma that horrified even the toughest of cops; including our own Lieutenant Eve Dallas, who was specifically requested by the captain to investigate.
When the evidence starts to pile up, Dallas and her team think they are about to arrest their perpetrator; little do they know yet that someone has gone to great lengths to tease and taunt them by using a variety of identities. Overconfidence can lead to careless mistakes. But for Dallas, one mistake might be all she needs to bring justice.
Grace lives a relatively normal life, aside from being an orphan, until she is abducted from her bed and experimented upon. This transforms her into a super-powered being with the ability to control fire. She has to come to terms with the raw destructive power of her ability and learn to control herself.
Grace finds that she isn’t the only person with these abilities and she also discovers that her past is much more complicated then she remembers. Her new volatile abilities force her to choose between either being alone or risking the safety of others.
King Suckerman is a sterling thriller that weaves the blaxploitation films, the drug deals, the soul music and the racial tensions that defined the seventies into a story of natural-born killers and two men who risk everything to bring them down.
Wilton Cooper is at a drive-in movie when he notices the ugly white boy walk into the projection booth. Seconds later he hears a gun goes off, perfectly timed to coincide with the movie’s noisy climax. When the boy struts coolly out, blood sprayed on the front of his cheap print shirt, Cooper knows he’s found his partner.
Dimitri Karras and Marcus Clay are old friends whose affection transcends the barriers of race. Clay is a Vietnam vet trying to make a go of his own small business, while Karras is drifting, playing pickup basketball and supporting himself with small-time drug dealing. When Karras takes Clay with him to make a buy from a new supplier, they cross paths with Wilton Cooper — and enter a world where merciless, unpredictable violence is the only certainty. Cooper cuts a swath of bloody mayhem that leads straight to Karras’s door, and Karras has the battle of a lifetime to keep his walk on the wild side from destroying his entire world.
Set in Washington, D.C., on the eve of the Bicentennial, King Suckerman is an unforgettable novel of morality, friendship, and unexpected consequences. This powerful novel confirms George Pelecanos as one of the great original talents in crime fiction.
Masao, einziger Sohn einer reichen japanischen Unternehmerfamilie, tappt ahnungslos in eine Falle. Der Achtzehnjährige ist mit Onkel und Tante nach Amerika gekommen, um die Asche seiner Eltern heimzuholen, die bei einem Flugzeugunglück das Leben verloren haben. Noch ganz benommen vom Tod der Eltern und von der Testamentseröffnung, die ihn zum Alleinerben des Industrieimperiums macht, hört Masao Bruchstücke eines Gesprächs, und ein furchtbarer Argwohn steigt in ihm auf: Will ihn sein Onkel aus dem Weg räumen, um in den Besitz der Firma zu kommen?
Ein erster Fluchtversuch Masaos endet kläglich, und in der Nacht darauf wird der Verdacht zur Gewißheit: Masao soll sterben. In letzter Sekunde gelingt es dem Jungen zu entfliehen. Er schlägt sich nach New York durch. Auf abenteuerliche Weise entkommt er auch dort immer wieder den Häschern seines Onkels. Die Flucht führt Masao weiter, quer durch die Vereinigten Staaten, von der Ostküste bis nach Los Angeles, und als Masao schon glaubt, es geschafft zu haben, steht Teruo Sato, der Onkel, vor ihm …
"Engrossing…
[with] meticulous characterizations." – People
"Like the atmosphere of casual malevolence in Shirley Jackson's 'The Lottery' or the contagious suspicion that fuels Rod Serling's 'The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street,' creepiness spreads like kudzu in Slaughter's small-town setting." – Washington Post Book World
"Karin Slaughter deserves all the praise she gets for her razor-sharp plotting and forensic detail. But for me the hook is in her characters and relationships.
They are right on the mark." – Michael Connelly
"The undertone of violence is pervasive, even at quiet moments, amplifying Slaughter's equation of intimacy with menace and placing her squarely in the ranks of Cornwell and Reichs." – Publishers Weekly
"A fast-paced thriller for those not faint of heart." – Library Journal
"It's not easy to transcend a model like Patricia Cornwell, but Slaughter does so in a thriller whose breakneck plotting and not-for-the-squeamish forensics provide grim manifestations of a deeper evil her mystery trumpets without ever quite containing." – Kirkus Reviews
"With Blindsighted, Karin Slaughter left a great many thriller writers looking anxiously over their shoulders.
With Kisscut, she leaves most of them behind…
It succeeds brilliantly." – John Connolly
"A tension-filled narrative with plenty of plot twists… This is just the ticket for readers who like their crime fiction on the dark side." – Booklist
"Impossible to put down… Slaughter hits all the buttons, providing an original and well-plotted story that doesn't let up until the final sentence." – Orlando Sentinel
"Karin Slaughter is an impressive new landmark on the thriller map." – Val McDermid
"Slaughter delivers a noir thriller complete with a brooding atmosphere that veers into Southern gothic tradition… [She] gives us an understanding about victims that only a well-constructed hard-boiled novel can. This is a novel that has staying power, because she makes us care so much about the characters." – Florida Sun-Sentinel
"Though her forensics and investigative writing place her in a league with Patricia Cornwell and Kathy Reichs, Slaughter's tweaking of the human condition is key to making her a uniquely original voice in the world of mystery and suspense." – Mississippi Clarion Ledger
"Karin Slaughter is a fearless writer. She takes us to the deep, dark places other novelists don't dare to go. Kisscut will cement her reputation as one of the boldest thriller writers working today." – Tess Gerritsen
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Amazon.com Review
When police chief Jeffrey Tolliver responds to a disturbance at a local skating rink, the last thing he expects is to have to shoot a 13-year-old girl who's holding a gun on a fellow student. Then Jenny Deaver's autopsy reveals two stunning facts: she did not bear the murdered newborn discovered in the rink's restroom, and she had recently been genitally mutilated. With his ex-wife, pediatrician Sara Linton, Jeffrey uncovers a child sex and pornography ring involving Jenny, her classmates, and their mothers-a horrific enterprise that culminated in the killing that Tolliver will never be able to forget. This taut, chilling thriller showcases Karin Slaughter's skill at plotting, pace, and narrative, and will linger in the reader's mind long after the stunning denouement. This is a terrific sequel to her debut, Blindsighted, with two protagonists whose complex relationship will no doubt be a featured subplot in her next offering.
From Publishers Weekly
Aptly named novelist Slaughter (Blindsighted) brings back her horribly scarred cast of Grant County, Ga., cops and coroners for more murder, mayhem and horrific sexual violence. Pathologist Sara Linton, who has been dating her ex-husband, police chief Jeffrey Tolliver, is witness to Tolliver's fatal shooting of a teenage girl when the girl threatens to shoot a 16-year-old boy in a standoff outside the local skating rink. A search of the rink turns up a dismembered fetus in a toilet; Sara's postmortem reveals the girl had a long history of abuse most gruesomely, her vagina is sewn shut. Working the case alongside Jeffrey is Det. Lena Adams, herself the victim of a recent abduction and rape, who is also trying, with difficulty, to come to terms with the death of her gay sister. Questioning Mark, the boy who was almost shot, Lena gradually uncovers a true horror show of pedophilia, incest and kiddie porn, an inverted world where parents rape their children before peddling them to strangers for money and blackmail. Slaughter adheres to the traditional mystery format, but turns up the shock factor tenfold, demonstrating that the deepest depravity can be business as usual in small towns as well as big cities. The undertone of violence is pervasive, even at quiet moments (" Lena was able to pull her hand away, but not before she felt Grace's thumb brush across the scar… The touch was tender, almost sexual, and Lena could see the charge Grace got out of it"), amplifying Slaughter's equation of intimacy with menace and placing her squarely in the ranks of Cornwell and Reichs. (Sept.) Forecast: Slaughter's much-praised first novel, Blindsighted, put her on the thriller map. Kisscut, a featured alternate selection of the Literary Guild, Doubleday Book Club, Mystery Guild and BOMC, could make her a bestseller. 10-city author tour.
Stone Barrington is back in New York, and after a rather harrowing sojourn in Key West, he's looking to stay closer to home and work on some simple divorce and custody cases for Woodman Weld. But when he crosses paths with a fetching Broadway actress-and sometime lip model- Stone gets a little more deeply involved with business than he'd expected. When his new lady love turns out to be a lady with a shady past, Stone and downtown cop Dino Bacchetti realize that her beauty may have an unusually high price…
Niezwykła powieść kryminalna – uczta dla miłośników fabuł detektywistycznych i wyrafinowanych nawiązań literackich, porównywana z "Imieniem róży" Umberto Eco. Efektowna intryga i wyraziste postacie.
Boston, rok 1865. Niespodziewana seria brutalnych morderstw wstrząsa miastem. W tym samym czasie niewielkie grono akademików kończy prace nad pierwszym amerykańskim przekładem Boskiej Komedii Dantego i zamierza odsłonić Nowej Anglii niesamowite wizje zawarte w tym dziele. Przedsięwzięciu temu sprzeciwiają się miejscowe władze, dopatrujące się w papistowskich treściach włoskiego arcydzieła niebezpieczeństwa dla spokoju protestanckiego miasta. Narażeni na groźby i szykany z ich strony członkowie Klubu Dantego – poeci i profesorowie uniwersytetu: Henry Wodsworth Longfellow, Olivier Wendell Holmes, James Russell Lowell i ich wydawca James T. Fields – starają się utrzymać swą translatorską misję w tajemnicy. W tym samym czasie policyjne śledztwo utyka w ślepym zaułku, akademicy zaś niespodziewanie odkrywają, iż zabójstwa wystylizowano zgodnie z "piekielnymi wzorami", uwiecznionymi w dziele włoskiego poety. Zadaniem członków Klubu Dantego stanie się powstrzymanie zabójcy – Nicolas Rey, jedyny czarny policjant w Bostonie, wbrew policyjnym regułom podejmie z nimi współpracę. Morderca okaże się być bliżej niż można było pomyśleć.
Przygotuj się na mocne wrażenia, jeśli chcesz go poznać. "Matthew Pearl jest wschodzącą gwiazdą współczesnej literatury – błyskotliwy, pomysłowy, wszechstronnie utalentowany autor "- Dan Brown, autor Kodu Leonarda.