The macabre discovery of a truck full of dead Chinese in southern Texas brings together again the American pathologist Margaret Campbell with Li Yan, the Beijing detective with whom she once shared a turbulent personal and professional relationship. Forced back into an uneasy partnership, they set out to identify the Snakehead who is behind the 100-million-dollar trade in illegal Chinese immigrants which led to the tragedy in Texas — only to discover that the victims were also unwitting carriers of a deadly cargo. Li and Margaret have a biological time-bomb of unimaginable proportions on their hands, and an indiscriminate killer who threatens the future of humankind.

Tarp miškų įsikūrusio mažo miestelio gyvenimą gaubia mistinės paslaptys. Garsi vaikų rašytoja Laura Sniegė čia subūrusi literatų draugiją, kurios nauja nare tampa jauna mokytoja Ela Milana. Per žiemos pokylį rašytoja netikėtai dingsta savo namuose apstulbusių svečių akivaizdoje. Ela ima tirti šį įvykį ir kitus paranormalius reiškinius, susijusius su draugijos nariais. Nenorom ji įtraukiama į keistą psichologinį literatų žaidimą, kurio taisyklės išties grėsmingos… Intriguojantis romano siužetas supintas iš siaubo ir mistikos, detektyvo ir juodojo humoro elementų. Daugybę premijų pelniusio suomių autoriaus stilių kritikai įvardija kaip magiškąjį realizmą.

In this tour de force—part historical thriller, part modern adventure—from the New York Times bestselling author of I, Sniper, Bob Lee Swagger uncovers why WWII’s greatest sniper was erased from history… and why her disappearance still matters today.Ludmilla “Mili” Petrova was once the most hunted woman on earth, having raised the fury of two of the most powerful leaders on either side of World War II: Joseph Stalin and Adolf Hitler.But Kathy Reilly of The Washington Post doesn’t know any of that when she encounters a brief mention of Mili in an old Russian propaganda magazine, and becomes interested in the story of a legendary, beautiful female sniper who seems to have vanished from history.Reilly enlists former marine sniper Bob Lee Swagger to parse out the scarce details of Mili’s military service. The more Swagger learns about Mili’s last mission, the more he’s convinced her disappearance was no accident—but why would the Russian government go to such lengths to erase the existence of one of their own decorated soldiers? And why, when Swagger joins Kathy Reilly on a research trip to the Carpathian Mountains, is someone trying to kill them before they can find out?As Bob Lee Swagger, “one of the finest series characters ever to grace the thriller genre, now and forever” (Providence Journal-Bulletin), races to put the pieces together, Sniper's Honor takes readers across oceans and time in an action-packed, compulsive read.

American-born Thompson, who's lived in Finland for the past decade, offers a bleak look at the ravages of that country's long, dark winter as well as intriguing glimpses of Finnish culture in his solid U.S. debut, the first in a new crime series. Shortly before Christmas, Kari Vaara, the police chief of the Lapland town of Kittilä, gets a phone call informing him that the body of Sufia Elmi, a Somali refugee and minor film star, has been found in a snowfield on a reindeer farm. The victim has also been mutilated, perhaps raped, and a racial slur carved into her flesh. When Kari's ex-wife's lover becomes the prime suspect, Kari spurns the chance to recuse himself and presses on. The winter hazards of alcoholism, suicide and murder all play a part as Kari uncovers more suspects. Sufia's imperious father, Abdi Barre, who was a doctor in his native country and now runs a cleaning service, puts added pressure on Kari. Tangled smalltown relationships and lust also fuel this noirish thriller.

With just three novels to their credit-as well as rave reviews and a shelf full of awards-the duo known as P. J. Tracy are on the fast track to superstardom.Already major bestselling authors in the UK, the brilliant creators of the Monkeewrench team and their law-abiding counterparts on the Minneapolis PD are setting a new standard for the modern thriller, combining brilliant plotting, razor-sharp dialogue, and vivid characters into a potent brew. And now, with Snow Blind, this duo gives us their most original and irresistible novel yet.Nothing's bleaker than Minneapolis during the winter, the season that, to some longtime residents, lasts eleven months of the year. So what better way to bring a little cheer to the good people of the city than by sponsoring an old-fashioned snowman-building contest? In a matter of hours, a local park is filled with the innocent laughter of children and their frosty creations. But things take an awful turn when the dead bodies of Minneapolis police officers are discovered inside two of the snowmen- sending the MPD and Detectives Magozzi and Rolseth on high alert. The next day, Iris Rikker, the newly minted sheriff of rural Dundas County, comes across another dead cop. Fearing that Rikker's inexperience will hamper the investigation, Magozzi and Rolseth head north-in a blizzard-to hunt for clues. As Grace MacBride and her crack computer jocks at Monkeewrench comb cyber-murder websites for connections, a terrifying link emerges, connecting the dead cops, Magozzi and Rolseth, and Monkeewrench-a link that must be broken, before it's too late.

Pauvres âmes déchues.Il a fallu que je vous tue…Mai 1993. Deux sœurs, Alice, 20 ans, et Ambre, 21 ans, sont retrouvées mortes en bordure de Garonne. Vêtues de robes de communiantes, elles se font face, attachées à deux troncs d’arbres.Le jeune Martin Servaz, qui vient d’intégrer la PJ de Toulouse, participe à sa première enquête. Très vite, il s’intéresse à Erik Lang, célèbre auteur de romans policiers à l’œuvre aussi cruelle que dérangeante.Les deux sœurs n’étaient-elles pas ses fans ? L’un de ses plus grands succès ne s’appelle-t-il pas La Communiante ?… L’affaire connaît un dénouement inattendu et violent, laissant Servaz rongé par le doute : dans cette enquête, estime-t-il, une pièce manque, une pièce essentielle.Février 2018. Par une nuit glaciale, l’écrivain Erik Lang découvre sa femme assassinée… elle aussi vêtue en communiante. Vingt-cinq ans après le double crime, Martin Servaz est rattrapé par l’affaire. Le choc réveille ses premières craintes. Jusqu’à l’obsession.Une épouse, deux sœurs, trois communiantes… et si l’enquête de 1993 s’était trompée de coupable ?Pour Servaz, le passé, en resurgissant, va se transformer en cauchemar. Un cauchemar écrit à l’encre noire.Peur, soumission, mensonges, manipulationLe nouveau thriller de Bernard Minier

A catastrophic, unexplainable plane crash leaves three hundred and thirty dead — no survivors. Among the victims are the wife and two daughters of Joe Carpenter, a Los Angeles Post crime reporter. A year after the crash, still gripped by an almost paralyzing grief, Joe encounters a woman named Rose, who claims to have survived the crash. She holds out the possibility of a secret that will bring Joe peace of mind. But before he can ask any questions, she slips away. Driven now by rage (have the authorities withheld information?) and a hope almost as unbearable as his grief (if there is one survivor, are there others?), Joe sets out to find the mysterious woman. His search immediately leads him into the path of a powerful and shadowy organization hell-bent on stopping Rose before she can reveal what she knows about the crash.

One mistake is all it takes.Busted back to rookie after losing her gun in an interrogation gone bad, California Bureau of Investigation Agent Kathryn Dance finds herself making routine insurance checks after a roadhouse fire.But Dance is a highly trained expert in body language: her most deadly weapon is her instinct, and they can't take that away from her.And when the evidence at the club points to something more than a tragic accident, she isn't going to let protocol stop her doing everything in her power to take down the perp.Someone out there is using the panic of crowds to kill, and Dance must find out who, before he strikes again. .

Una e un quarto di notte. Petra Connor, l’affascinante detective della squadra Omicidi di Los Angeles, è svegliata da una telefonata del distretto di polizia: strage al Paradiso Club. Quattro morti. Adolescenti che avevano partecipato a un concerto hip-hop. Perché quell’orrendo massacro? Oltre al gravoso incarico di decifrare il rebus, Petra deve fare da baby sitter al ventiduenne dottorando Isaac Gomez, impegnato in una ricerca statistica sui crimini avvenuti in città dal 1991 al 2001. Il suo Q.I. è superiore alla media, come la sua timidezza e la miseria in cui versa la sua famiglia. E se fosse proprio il giovane e impacciato cervellone a fornire la chiave dell’enigma? Incrociando i dati risultano infatti sei efferati delitti commessi negli ultimi sei anni, tutti subito dopo la mezzanotte. E tutti il 28 giugno. L’assassino sembra divertirsi un mondo a fracassare il cranio delle vittime osservandone colare la materia grigia. Quale disegno segue la follia? E quale legame con la carneficina del Paradiso?

Sancho Bordaberri, propietario de la librería Beltza en Getxo, cansado de su fracaso como novelista de ficción y a punto de arrojar al mar su último manuscrito, decide “bajar a la calle y patearla”, escribir lo que “ocurre ante tus narices”. Bajo la identidad de Samuel Esparta, en homenaje a Sam Spade, se convertirá en “un investigador privado metido de cabeza en la serie negra con un crimen real” y no resuelto de 1935.Sancho Bordaberri, el protagonista de esta historia, dice al convertirse por arte de birlibirloque en el investigador privado Samuel Esparta: “Me he contratado a mí mismo”. Da toda la impresión de que esto es lo que ha hecho Ramiro Pinilla, contratarse para un divertimento a cuenta de su gusto por la novela negra de Hammett o Chandler, que practicó bajo seudónimo en sus inicios como escritor, y de las siempre sorprendentes posibilidades de un narrador-protagonista que anda a su vez escribiendo, o al menos dejando discurrir en su cabeza, la novela de lo que pasa. Un escritor hondo y de largo aliento como Pinilla se da permiso a sí mismo para algo así como jugar en clave policiaca a ponerle la gabardina a Cervantes o a cambiarle a Stendhal el espejo en el camino por la lupa, todo en el País Vasco de la posguerra y el estraperlo y como un experimento sin pretensiones, una tragicomedia con la España franquista al fondo. La caústica Koldobike, la inseparable empleada del librero, teñida de rubio para ajustarse al corsé de secretaria; el poeta falangista que desea a toda costa aprender el realismo literario; o ese singular personaje que traza planos de lugares contando pasos, son pequeñas y excéntricas criaturas que nos hacen sonreír tanto como las trazas de investigador de Bordaberri. Pinilla se ha divertido con este libro, donde incluso se ha permitido dejar la clave del misterio a unas orejas de soplillo, y la frase final, “estoy pensando en otros abismos insospechados a los que me puede conducir”, anuncia que éstas no serán probablemente las últimas andanzas de su Samuel Esparta.

Con los baúles cargados de libros que le entrega un familiar, el joven Sancho Bordaberri decide abrir, en plena posguerra, una modesta librería de lance en Getxo. Cuenta enseguida con la complicidad de Klodobike, una mujer entusiasta y vehemente. En el fondo, lo que quiere Sancho es ser escritor de novelas policiacas, pero nunca logra igualar a sus admirados Hammett o Chandler y las editoriales le devuelven todas sus historias. Hasta que un día descubre, con el enésimo manuscrito rechazado en las manos, que el único asesinato que ocurrió en Getxo, antes de la Guerra, está todavía sin resolver y que contar un caso real puede ser de gran ayuda para alguien sin imaginación. Sancho se convierte entonces en detective privado para aclarar quién quiso matar a los gemelos Altube encadenándolos en una roca para que la marea los ahogara. Durante sus pesquisas y entrevistas con los sospechosos, descubrirá que está escribiendo una novela real, con un estilo nuevo, en la que él es a la vez el narrador y el protagonista, un detective que a partir de ahora se llamará Samuel Esparta en homenaje a Sam Spade.

El mundo de una madre de clase media se desmorona por culpa de una simple instantánea. Cuando Grace Lawson recoge unas fotos de la familia recién reveladas descubre una, de hace al menos veinte años, en la que aparecen cinco personas. Grace no reconoce a cuatro de ellas, pero la quinta guarda un sorprendente parecido con su marido, Jack. Cuando éste ve la foto, niega ser él. Mas esa noche, mientras Grace lo espera en la cama, se marcha en coche sin dar explicación alguna y llevándose la foto. Conforme transcurren los días, ella duda cada vez más de sí misma y de su matrimonio y se plantea muchas preguntas acerca de su esposo.

The master of hard-boiled detective fiction is back — and better than ever — with Something’s Down There, a blade-sharp thriller set among the islands of the Caribbean.To the casual observer, Mako Hooker looks like any other grizzled fishing-boat captain trawling the Bermuda Triangle. He’s content with his nets in the water and a beer in the cooler, but he’s hardly your typical fisherman. Hooker is in fact a retired government operative taking a much-needed respite from his highly secret, highly lethal career in the States. But when local fishermen begin to fall prey to a mysterious sea creature the islanders dub “the eater,” he discovers the truth in that old saw about the spy game: You’re not retired from the Company until you’re dead.Is the monster a prehistoric beast rising from the depths? Or mines from a sunken WWII destroyer, only now shaken loose by the U.S. Navy’s depth charges? Or the work of someone with an agenda even more deeply undercover than Hooker’s?Hooker quietly begins to investigate with the help of his unwitting fishing partner, Billy Bright; a local movie heiress, the seductive Judy Durant; and Hooker’s old nemesis, Chana Sterling. The Company sent her as backup, but Hooker doesn’t trust power-hungry government agents too far — especially Chana, who once put a bullet in him for no good reason. As more boats arc mauled and the islanders begin to panic, the action heats up and the players multiply: a Hollywood film company arrives on the scene, eager to turn live footage of “the eater” into box-office payoff, and the heavyweight film executive in charge looks suspiciously like Tony Pallatzo, a Brooklyn mobster from Hooker’s violent past. As he moves steadily closer to the truth, Hooker realizes that someone (or something) is plotting to stop him, and only his rusty instincts will save him this time.A riveting story of criminal intrigue, greed, romance, and the mysteries of the deep, Something’s Down There showcases Mickey Spillane at his best.

Ben Green is a troubled young man, losing his mind and hearing voices. Worse than that, his nightmare is just beginning…Detective Inspector Summers hates dealing with drug addicts, thieves, violent men and women, rapists, child molesters and murderers. She wants to be a doctor in a surgery, saving the lives of the sick. Instead, she deals with the sick and twisted. Finally, she gets handed the case she wants, the reason she joined the force… Her investigations lead Summers closer to Ben, and his involvement to the case slowly becomes clear…Psychological Thriller — Contains adult content — Sex & Violence — 18+Copyright: James Ross