Matt Stromsoe has come a long way since his wife and son were killed in an explosion meant for him. Wounded severely in both body and spirit, Stromsoe gave up the last thing that held any meaning for him — his job on the police force — and proceeded to hit rock bottom, hard.That was a lifetime ago, and finally the spiral of personal destruction and despair seems to have come to an end. The man responsible for the murders — Stromsoe’s best friend from childhood and his wife’s old lover — is behind bars and Stromsoe has put the past behind him, rescued from the abyss by a former colleague who offers him a job at his private security firm. Stromsoe’s first assignment is to protect local television personality Frankie Hatfield from a stalker. But the further Stromsoe is drawn into this case, the more he finds that the net of intrigue is wide and ultimately leads back to the man who killed his family. As events conspire against him, Stromsoe learns that prison is no safeguard against revenge.

Strach. Każdy z nas chciałby pozbyć się go raz na zawsze ze swojego życia. Egzystencja wydawałaby się wtedy o niebo łatwiejsza. Jednak ta książka uczy nas, że strach – jakkolwiek postrzegany przez większość ludzi jako coś negatywnego – tak naprawdę jest nam bardzo potrzebny. Co więcej, może nawet właśnie dzięki niemu do tej pory żyjemy.Jim Rook jest nauczycielem klasy specjalnej w Los Angeles. Jest bardzo lubiany przez uczniów, otwiera przed nimi świat, ukazuje nowe możliwości. Jim to postać niezwykle wyjątkowa. Ma rzadki dar – potrafi dostrzegać postacie przychodzące z zaświatów. Meksykanin Rafael Diaz to nowy uczeń w klasie Jima, który przeprowadza na części uczniów rytuał oparty na magii Majów, mający przepędzić z nich strach. Jeden z oczyszczonych zapada w śpiączkę, wkrótce rozpoczyna się seria bardzo brutalnych morderstw. Jim rozpoczyna walkę z czasem, aby zapobiec kolejnemu rytuałowi.Akcja horroru niewątpliwie trzyma w napięciu, wiele się dzieje. Chociaż niektóre sceny, cóż, wydawały mi się nieco komiczne. Jakoś nie przemawiało do mnie wyjście jednej osoby z wnętrza drugiej (ale w końcu nie jest to książka oparta na faktach autentycznych). Całość psuło mi odwoływanie się do kart tarota, ponieważ osobiście uważam to za kompletnie nieracjonalne i bezsensowne. Być może mam zamknięty umysł, albo karty do mnie nie przemawiają… W każdym razie nie każdemu musi to przeszkadzać. Ogólnie fabuła jest bardzo dobrze zbudowana, nie braknie urozmaiceń a poza tym, jak sama nazwa wskazuje, można się przestraszyć. Napięcie jest doskonale stopniowane, z początkiem każdego rozdziału odkrywamy nową tajemnicę i często nie sposób oderwać się od książki.Każdy bohater jest jedyny w swoim rodzaju. Uczniowie są bardzo różni od siebie, każda postać jest nam przybliżona, można odnieść wrażenie, że zna się tę doskonale dogadującą się ze sobą grupę ludzi. Postać Jima również bardzo intryguje ze względu na jego paranormalne zdolności. Równie ciekawa jest tajemnicza postać Rafaela Diaza.Książka ta skłania do rozmyślań nad samą istotą strachu. Czytelnik dochodzi do wniosku, że tak naprawdę strach jest bardzo potrzebny, a sama myśl o tym, że mogłoby się strachu nie odczuwać wręcz napawa przerażeniem. Podnoszę jej ocenę głównie z powyższego względu i sądzę, że warto ją przeczytać. Czytając nie unikniemy stawiania się na miejscu bohaterów. Strach jest nieodłącznym elementem życia każdego człowieka, choć próbujemy oszukać samych siebie i pozbyć się go. Ale za jaką cenę chcemy to zrobić?…

You are about to travel along the strange highways of human experience: the adventures and terrors and failures and triumphs that we know as we make our way from birth to death, along the routes that we choose for ourselves and along others onto which we are detoured by fate. It is a journey down wrong roads that can lead to unexpectedly and stunningly right destinations…into subterranean depths where the darkness of the human soul breeds in every conceivable form…over unfamiliar terrain populated by the denizens of hell. It is a world of unlikely heroes, haunted thieves, fearsome predators, vengeful children, and suspiciously humanlike robots.

Thomas Anders had been a respected businessman. He and his wife, Ava, were very active in charitable organizations especially for families and children. He is found dead in his bedroom in what appears to have been a kinky sex scene gone bad. His wife was on vacation with friends when he died. It doesn't appear that anyone broke into their home. The security system was bypassed by an expert. There are no signs of a struggle on Anders' body. Why would someone want to kill him?Lieutenant Eve Dallas and Detective Delia Peabody are assigned to the case. Because of his position in the community and the sensational death it quickly becomes a high profile case. His widow wants answers. So does Dallas. So she starts digging. Friends and relatives are shocked. Anders wasn't that type of person. He was conservative and comfortable. He adored his wife. They were a good couple.The Anders marriage wasn't as it appeared on the surface. In fact Ava Anders had been seeing a Licensed Companion by appointment a couple times a month. The LC is Dallas' and Roarke's friend Charles Monroe. She is forced to admit they had an open marriage because his sexual requests were twisted in ways she didn't want to share. She knew there were other women.The deeper they investigate, the more Dallas is sure that Anders' murder wasn't an impulse or accident but cold bloodedly planned out. She is even fairly sure she knows who planned it. Now she, Roarke, and Peabody have to figure out how it was carried out.J.D. Robb pulls a classic mystery theme out for Strangers in Death. It is a strong book, well crafted, and sticks true to the characters. While I am completely involved in all the different personal stories throughout the In Death series (this time the focus is on Charles and Louise), the better ones usually are the ones that put the mystery first and the personal second. The threads are there in this novel, and in a good story-telling fashion, the thrown out threads bind together is unanticipated ways.Enjoy – both the mystery and the personal stories.

Darcy Bright, a restless young artist, receives a surprising birthday present from his elusive half-sister Fin: a ticket to the Soviet Union housed in a leather money belt. Together only briefly during their youth, Darcy and Fin are both estranged by the distance between them, and yet inextricably bound by the secrets of their childhood. So when Fin—ostensibly in Moscow on a fellowship to paint industrial landscapes—invites Darcy to join her there, her wary brother doesn’t resist. Soon after his arrival in the bleak Soviet winter, Darcy, already engulfed in Fin’s mysterious new life there, becomes entangled in an extortion plot designed to change the course of Cold War history. And as the intricacies of their bond as brother and sister are revealed, Darcy uncovers Fin’s involvement in an unexpected cause of her own, leading to a confrontation with profound and deadly consequences. Atmospheric and suspenseful, “Stray Dog Winter” is a remarkable novel about love, passion, politics, and identity.

When Cindy finds a new-born baby in a rubbish bin, she can't imagine who would commit such a crime. Surely abandoning a baby is the biggest taboo of motherhood? The usual suspects – prostitutes, homeless women and drug abusers – aren't responsible. In fact, the culprit is a woman who appears almost as vulnerable as her own baby. As the case continues, Cindy realises she's in deep – her own life in danger – and there's only one person who can help, her father and boss, Lieutenant Peter Decker. They both know the key to a successful investigation is keeping a cool, professional head, but with a father and daughter detective team, can it ever be anything other than personal?

For Mack McKinley and his team of GhostWalker killing machines, urban warfare is an art. But despite a hard-won knowledge of the San Francisco streets, Mack knows from experience that too many things can still go wrong. Danger was just another part of the game – and now he's come face-to-face with a woman who can play just as tough. She's Jaimie, a woman with a sapphire stare so potent it can destroy a man. Years ago she and Mack had a history – volatile, erotic and electric. Then she vanished. But now she's walked back into Mack's life again, as a spy with more secrets than are good for her. Against all odds, she's hooking up with Mack one more time to take on an enemy that could destroy them both, or bring them back together in one hot, no-holds-barred adrenaline rush.

Her name is Pete Caldecott. She was just sixteen when she met Jack Winter, a gorgeous, larger-than-life mage who thrilled her with his witchcraft. Then a spirit Jack summoned killed him before Pete's eyes — or so she thought. Now a detective, Pete is investigating the case of a young girl kidnapped from the streets of London. A tipster's chilling prediction has led police directly to the child.but when Pete meets the informant, she's shocked to learn he is none other than Jack. Strung out on heroin, Jack a shadow of his former self. But he's able to tell Pete exactly where Bridget's kidnappers are hiding: in the supernatural shadow-world of the fey.Even though she's spent years disavowing the supernatural, Pete follows Jack into the invisible fey underworld, where she hopes to discover the truth about what happened to Bridget — and what happened to Jack on that dark day so long ago.

Ponowne spotkanie czytelników z bohaterem Stacji lodowej porucznikiem Shanem Schofieldem. Do tajnej podziemnej bazy Sił Powietrznych w stanie Utah, zwanej Sferą 7, gdzie amerykańska armia prowadzi badania nad śmiercionosnymi wirusami, przybywa z inspekcją prezydent USA. Goście nie zdają sobie sprawy, że miejsce to jest w rękach generała-renegata, który pragnie policzyć się z prezydentem i przechwycić władzę w kraju. Generał grozi zdetonowaniem ładunków jądrowych w największych miastach Ameryki, dzięki dostępowi do czarnej walizeczki prezydenta kontroluje cały amerykański arsenał nuklearny. Ochroną szefa państwa zajmuje się osobiście Shan Schofield. Tylko on jest zdolny przeciwstawić się rzeszom doborowych komandosów. W labiryncie podziemnych tuneli, hangarów i laboratoriów rozpoczyna się śmiercionośny pojedynek…

Młody nauczyciel Johnny Smith pada ofiarą groźnego wypadku samochodowego. Przez kilka lat pozostaje w szpitalu w stanie śpiączki. Kiedy jednak odzyskuje świadomość, że jest bogatszy o niezwykły talent – zdolność jasnowidzenia. Dzięki temu będzie mógł zdemaskować seryjnego mordercę, a także przewidzieć tragiczny w skutkach pożar. Dar jasnowidzenia popchnie go do dramatycznej konfrontacji z charyzmatycznym i bardzo niebezpiecznym kandydatem na stanowisko prezydenta Stanów Zjednoczonych…

Stanowisko zastępcy szeryfa w uroczym miasteczku na Florydzie wydaje się major Holly Barker kuszącą propozycją. Ale Orchid Beach wcale nie jest spokojne. Ani bezpieczne. Już pierwszego dnia Holly rozpoczyna śledztwo w sprawie zabójstwa. I przekonuje się, że mordercą może być ktoś, kogo zna…

From Publishers WeeklyIn his first novel, Flood, attorney-turned-novelist Vachss introduced Burke, the ex-con investigator who's not averse to working either side of the law. The book captured the brutal atmosphere of New York 's underbelly. This modern-day Robin Hood returns to that seamy world, complete with a merry band that includes a mute Mongolian strongman, a weird genius who lives in a junkyard, a transvestite prostitute and an intimidating dog named Pansy. Hired by a strangely alluring Mafia princess calling herself Strega ("witch" in loose translation), Burke must find a certain photograph of a child forced into a sex act. Plunged into the world of kiddie porn, he wreaks havoc on the perverts, pimps and pedophiles he despises, the true "bad guys" in his view of things. Despite its action and fast pace, the book is less compelling than the author's first, lapsing into a sort of predictability and short on the pulsing energy a thriller must sustain. 50,000 first printing.

SOMEONE IS STRIPPING JACK NAKED… Gregor Jack, MP, well like, young, married to the fiery Elizabeth to the outside world a very public sucess story. But Jack's carefully nurtured career plans take a tumble after a 'mistake' during a police raid on a notorious Edinburgh brothel. Then Elizabeth disappears, a couple of bodies float into viewwhere they shouldn't, and a lunatic speaks from his asylum… With his wife missing, his job on the line, and his sanity in doubt, Gregor Jack is ripe for revenge.

In this stunning follow-up to Brian Freeman's remarkable debut novel, Immoral, Detective Jonathan Stride discovers that there are only two ways to go in Las Vegas. You can hit the jackpot. Or you can get Stripped…They looked like isolated cases: a hit-and-run and a celebrity murdered during a fling with a prostitute. No one could ever imagine they'd be linked to a brutal crime in Las Vegas 's steamy past-and that the race against the clock to corner a determined serial killer would stir up secrets long thought buried with the dead. As detectives Jonathan Stride and Serena Dial are called separately to investigate, they have no idea what they're stepping into: a world where desperate ambition rules and loyalties know no bounds, and where their own uncharted emotions and sexual desires will reach an explosive conclusion.Shocking, twisted, with edge-of-your-seat suspense, Stripped pushes the limits of its heroes and keeps the reader turning ever page until the last plot twist.

1989 – the world holds its breath. The Soviet Union is on the brink of collapse, its eastern empire in a state of rebellion. Only a street trader, a drug dealer, a discredited young colonel and a woman, haunted by her past, stand between the world and Armageddon. STROIKA is the story of their friendship, love and betrayal, the quest for unparalleled wealth… and a coup which threatens them all.Stroika is a fast moving, atmospheric tale, charting the destruction of the old Soviet elite and rise of the new. Against the group gather dark and powerful forces determined to roll back perestroika and restore order to the Soviet Empire… even if it means Armageddon.

• International Bestseller• #1 Best Seller in Thrillers and Occult• Top 100 Overall Best Seller (Amazon.ca)• Top 100 Best Seller in Occult, Thrillers, Horror, & Mystery, Thriller & SuspenseFrom the international bestselling author that brought you CHILDREN OF THE FOG comes a terrifying new psychological thriller that will leave you breathless…“Submerged reads like an approaching storm, full of darkness, dread and electricity. Prepare for your skin to crawl.”—Andrew Gross, New York Times bestselling author of 15 SecondsTwo strangers submerged in guilt, brought together by fate…After a tragic car accident claims the lives of his wife, Jane, and son, Ryan, Marcus Taylor is immersed in grief. But his family isn’t the only thing he has lost. An addiction to painkillers has taken away his career as a paramedic. Working as a 911 operator is now the closest he gets to redemption—until he gets a call from a woman trapped in a car.Rebecca Kingston yearns for a quiet weekend getaway, so she can think about her impending divorce from her abusive husband. When a mysterious truck runs her off the road, she is pinned behind the steering wheel, unable to help her two children in the back seat. Her only lifeline is a cell phone with a quickly depleting battery and a stranger’s calm voice on the other end telling her everything will be all right.*SUBMERGED has a unique tie-in to Tardif’s international bestseller, CHILDREN OF THE FOG.