"Neil McMahon's thrillers have the precision of a surgeon's scalpel." – Michael Connelly***Late one hot summer night, a beautiful young actress named Eden Hale – only hours removed from breast-augmentation surgery, and writhing in pain – stumbles to the telephone and dials 911. Within minutes, an ambulance rushes her to San Francisco's Mercy Hospital. But by the time she arrives, she is dying, fast, of a mysterious, unrecognizable condition.Dr. Carroll Monks, the ER physician on duty, races to sort through her baffling symptoms in the few minutes he has left to save her. Monks has a sudden insight and, against the advice of his peers, risks a radical treatment, which will prove to be either a brilliant maneuver or a potentially deadly mistake. It fails. Eden Hale, vibrantly healthy and barely twenty-five years old, is dead.The fallout is immediate and intense. The plastic surgeon who operated on Eden – Dr. D. Welles D'Anton, whose reputation as a surgical guarantor of perfection and agelessness has conferred on him a guru-like status – blames Monks for her death. Criticism from Monks's hospital colleagues quickly follows and the threat of a lawsuit is not far behind. Monks's career is in jeopardy, but his own guilt and uncertainty are what haunt him worst of all.Convinced there's a hidden cause to Eden's death, Monks starts to delve into her past. Despite roadblocks that spring up in his path, he soon learns that the former prom queen was not the all-American girl she seemed to be: she was caught up in the world of pornography, and was even, possibly, having an illicit affair with D'Anton. Then Monks uncovers a secret that is far more frightening: other young women in D'Anton's care have wound up missing, dead, or horribly disfigured.In his search for the truth, Monks is drawn into a culture of unimaginable wealth and vanity – only to discover that he is being used as a pawn in a decadent game of glamour and cruelty, one that places him in the crosshairs of a deadly psychopath.

A fast-paced thriller and the grand finale of the gripping bestselling series featuring Admiral Arnold Morgan.When a terrorist bomb explodes in Boston 's Logan Airport, Admiral Arnold Morgan, the President's most trusted advisor, moves quickly to break the cell in the United States and ship the Islamic fanatics to Guantanamo Bay.In response, the Hamas high command, meeting in a terrorist cell in Gaza, hatches a vicious plan to assassinate the Admiral the minute he leaves the United States. Morgan's old nemesis, Ravi Rashood, leads this international attack and attempt to eliminate him. The exhilarating chase swirls through southern Ireland, London, and Scotland.Desperate to protect the Admiral at all costs, the President must summon the most dangerous Navy Seal team that the USA has to offer. This gripping and provocative thriller displays both Robinson and his hero Morgan at their peak.

Laura Lippman is one of the most acclaimed authors of crime fiction writing today, the winner of every major award the genre has to offer. Now she dazzles once again with a riveting stand-alone novel that takes on the secret – and not-so-secret – lives of teenage girls, illuminating a dark tragedy with startling clarity and unique empathy. To the Power of Three The three girls have been inseparable best friends since the third grade – Josie, the athletic one; Perri, the brilliant, acerbic drama queen; and Kat, the beauty, who also has brains, grace, and a heart open to all around her. But their last day of high school becomes their final day together after one of them brings a gun to school to resolve a mysterious feud. When the police arrive, they discover two wounded girls, one so critically that she is not expected to recover. The third girl is dead, killed instantly by a shot to the heart. What transpired that morning at Glendale High rocks the foundation of an affluent community in Baltimore ’s distant suburbs, a place that has barely recovered from an earlier, more comprehensible tragedy. For the shell-shocked parents, teachers, administrators, and students, healing must begin with answers to the usual questions – but only if the answers are safe ones, answers that will lead back to one girl and one family and absolve everyone else. For Homicide Sgt. Harold Lenhardt, this case is a mystery with more twists than these grief-stricken suburbanites are willing to acknowledge – and the sole lucid survivor, a girl with a teenager’s uncanny knack for stonewalling, strikes him as being less than honest. What is she concealing? Is she trying to protect herself or someone else? Even the simplest secrets can kill – and kill again if no one is willing to confront them. Breathtaking in its emotional depth, powerful, provocative, and consistently surprising, Laura Lippman’s To the Power of Three carries the crime novel into richer, more fertile territory. It is the crowning achievement to date in an already exemplary literary career.

„Tobula klasta“ – australų autorės R. James debiutinis romanas, jau verčiamas į 30 kalbų. Tai psichologinis trileris jaunimui, – tikra keršto anatomija. Pagrindinė romano veikėja, vienišė Katrina, naujojoje mokykloje susidraugavusi su žavia ir populiaria Alisa, pradeda atsigauti po baisios tragedijos ir vėl pamažėle ima džiaugtis gyvenimu. Tampa gerais draugais su Alisos vaikinu Robiu, susipažįsta su gabiu vienos grupės muzikantu Miku ir jį pamilsta. Regis, viskas puiku, bet... Gyvenimas ir vėl sudūžta, – dabar per Alisą, – tačiau nesibaigia, ir galų gale vėl nušvinta viltis.

Im tiefsten Grönland wird in einem rätselhaften Schrein ein 50.000 Jahre alter Meteorit entdeckt. Der ominöse Stein enthält radioaktive Energien und wird schnell zum Objekt der Begierde von Attentätern. Eine islamistische Terrorgruppe plant in London eine Atombombe zu zünden, während ein größenwahnsinniger Industrieller die heiligen Stätten des Islam verseuchen will. Zwischen den Fronten bemüht sich Juan Cabrillo mit seiner Crew aus den besten Militär- und Geheimagenten der Welt, den »heiligen Stein« unter seine Kontrolle zu bringen …

La muerte durante el sueño de Jasmine Dent, aquejada de un cáncer incurable, no extraña a nadie, hasta que su vecino de escalera, el comisario de Scotland Yard Duncan Kincaid, intuye por ciertos indicios desconcertantes que su fallecimiento no ha sido causado por la enfermedad y ordena una autopsia. El diagnóstico es claro: muerte por sobredosis de morfina. ¿Suicidio o asesinato? Asesinato. El hallazgo del diario íntimo de Jasmine, iniciado en la India, donde su padre estaba destinado, cuando sólo tenía diez años, y el testimonio de las personas que se movían a su alrededor, en el presente y en el pasado, constituirán para Kincaid y su ayudante Gemma James el punto de partida de una laboriosa investigación que pondrá en evidencia los designios ocultoslas ambigüedades, las desalmadas ambiciones y también la bondad de unos seres humanos. Todos ellos podrían ser culpables, pero sólo uno será señalado por Kincaid.

John Connolly posee todas las cualidades con las que cualquier editor sueña a la hora de dar a conocer a un autor: una primera novela que conmociona, una historia terrorífica muy bien tramada, personajes sólidos y complejos (que además aparecerán en otras entregas), una aguda visión de la sociedad y un gran talento y fuste literarios. Éste es, ni más ni menos, el caso de Todo lo que muere y del escritor irlandés Connolly. Que se preparen los adictos a la buena novela policíaca. Una noche, Charlie «Bird» Parker, inspector del Departamento de Policía de Nueva York, discute por enésima vez con su mujer y sale a tomar unas copas; cuando vuelve a casa, se encuentra a su mujer y a su hija de tres años salvajemente asesinadas. Entre los sospechosos figura el propio Parker, pero el crimen no podrá resolverse. Incapaz de superar los sentimientos de culpabilidad y expulsado del cuerpo de policía, Parker se convierte en un hombre atormentado, violento y deseoso de venganza. Cuando su ex jefe le pide ayuda para resolver el caso de una joven desaparecida, Parker acepta y se embarca en una investigación que le llevará hasta el sur de Estados Unidos, donde se las verá con el crimen organizado, con una extraña anciana que dice oír voces de ultratumba y con el «Viajero», un despiadado asesino en serie.

Conejo Blanco es mucho más que un juego. Es más que la vida y que la muerte. Y cualquiera puede sucumbir antes de que la partida acabe… y el asesino se lo lleve todo.Cuando una amiga apareció brutalmente asesinada en su apartamento de Nueva Orleans, la ex detective de homicidios Stacy Killian relacionó su muerte con Conejo Blanco, un juego de rol de culto, oscuro, violento y adictivo.Stacy se había visto expuesta en innumerables ocasiones al horror del crimen y era una realidad de la que trataba de alejarse, pero cuando conoció a Spencer Malone, el detective de homicidios encargado del caso, le pareció un policía novato y pagado de sí mismo, que no estaba a la altura de la misión. Por ello, se propuso atrapar por su cuenta al asesino. Sus pesquisas la condujeron al círculo íntimo del brillante creador de Conejo Blanco, Leo Noble, un hombre cuyo pasado ocultaba oscuros secretos.A medida que empezaron a acumularse los cadáveres y el juego avanzaba, Stacy y Spencer se vieron forzados a trabajar codo con codo. Pronto se encontraron atrapados en el escalofriante y desquiciado universo de un juego en el que Leo Noble y cuantos lo rodeaban eran sospechosos, y nadie, absolutamente nadie, se encontraba a salvo.

II y avait des mois et des mois que Bernard avait besoin d'en finir avec sa vie émaillée sans cesse d'erreurs et de renoncements. Pour y parvenir, il savait qu'il devait tuer et commettre le crime parfait. Il avait tout pesé, tout calculé, tout prévu. Non, vraiment, l'idée même qu'il pourrait échouer était absurde…Un suspense diabolique mené, comme toujours chez Frédéric Dard, de main de maître.

“Thomas Sweterlitsch is a superstar. …Tomorrow and Tomorrow is a brutal, beautiful book. Read it.”

—Jesse Kellerman, internationally bestselling author of Trouble

“Tomorrow and Tomorrow is a rich, absorbing, relentlessly inventive mindfuck, a smart, dark noir… a wild mash-up of Raymond Chandler, Philip K. Dick, and William S. Burroughs and, like their work, utterly visionary.”

—Stewart O’Nan, author of The Odds

Yesterday Can’t Last Forever…

A decade has passed since the city of Pittsburgh was reduced to ash.

While the rest of the world has moved on, losing itself in the noise of a media-glutted future, survivor John Dominic Blaxton remains obsessed with the past. Grieving for his wife and unborn child who perished in the blast, Dominic relives his lost life by immersing in the Archive—a fully interactive digital reconstruction of Pittsburgh, accessible to anyone who wants to visit the places they remember and the people they loved.

Dominic investigates deaths recorded in the Archive to help close cases long since grown cold, but when he discovers glitches in the code surrounding a crime scene—the body of a beautiful woman abandoned in a muddy park that he’s convinced someone tried to delete from the Archive—his cycle of grief is shattered.

With nothing left to lose, Dominic tracks the murder through a web of deceit that takes him from the darkest corners of the Archive to the ruins of the city itself, leading him into the heart of a nightmare more horrific than anything he could have imagined.

From Booklist

In the not-too-distant future, a mysterious explosion has reduced the city of Pittsburgh to rubble and ashes. A virtual-reality re-creation of it, the Archive, allows people to revisit the lost city and lost loved ones. John Blaxton, who lost his wife and unborn child, investigates deaths long since relegated to files in the Archive. Then he finds a murder victim not recorded in the Archive. Is the line between physical and virtual reality breaking down? Or is there some other—and possibly more sinister—explanation? A very good job of keeping cyberpunk (which has lost much of its original connection to punk culture) up-to-date in its extrapolation of cybernetics and culture.

—Roland Green

National bestselling author Lesley Kagen makes her hardcover debut with an extraordinary literary thriller, rendered through the eyes of an unforgettable eleven-year-old girl.During the summer of 1968, Shenandoah Carmody's mother disappeared. Her twin sister, Woody, stopped speaking, and her once-loving father slipped into a mean drunkenness unbefitting a superior court judge. Since then, Shenny-named for the Shenandoah valley-has struggled to hold her world together, taking care of herself and her sister the best she can. Shenny feels certain that Woody knows something about the night their mother vanished, but her attempts to communicate with her mute twin leave her as confused as their father's efforts to confine the girls to the family's renowned virginia estate.As the first anniversary of their mother's disappearance nears, her father's threat to send Woody away and his hints at an impending remarriage spur a desperate Shenny to find her mother before it's too late. She is ultimately swept up in a series of heartbreaking events that force her to come to terms with the painful truth about herself and her family.Told with the wisdom, sensitivity, and humor for which Lesley Kagen has become known, Tomorrow River is a stellar hardcover debut.

When an alleged suicide victim's wife and six-year-old daughter go missing, private investigator Lincoln Perry and his partner, Joe Pritchard, pursue a theory that the man was actually murdered.

In a small New York town, a deranged young man holds over one hundred school children hostage. and he blames the school for what he's about to do.After a tense, thirty-six-hour police standoff, the gymnasium suddenly explodes into flames. Fortunately, all the students have escaped. All, that is, save ten-year-old Noah Corbin. Noah's mother, Haley, is frantic. Was her boy killed in the explosion? Did he somehow wander away from the scene, hurt and confused?Did someone take him?Haley hires ex-FBI agent Randall Shane because she needs the truth, however devastating the answers may be. But as Randall investigates, Haley is forced to admit a dark family secret.one that leads to a desolate area of the Rocky Mountains, where an entire county is owned by a cult that controls the leaders of the community: businessmen, government officials, even the police. Men who have grown rich and powerful in their secrecy. A secrecy they are sworn to protect. No matter what.

Sommer in Los Angeles. Detective Robert Hunter und sein Partner Carlos Garcia sind auf der Suche nach einem Mörder, der ihnen mit jedem Mord ein Rätsel aufgibt.Das erste Opfer, der 50-jährige Staatsanwalt Derek Nicholson, lag nach einer Tumordiagnose bereits im Sterben. Nun wurde seinem Leiden auf bestialische Weise ein Ende bereitet. Jemand wollte ihn nicht so einfach sterben lassen und hat ihn grausam zu Tode gefoltert. Warum? Hunter und Garcia finden einen blutigen Tatort vor und eine »Skulptur« aus menschlichen Gliedmaßen, die Schattenfiguren an die Wand wirft: einen Hund und einen Raben. In der Mythologie symbolisieren diese Tiere »Lüge«.Kurz darauf wird ein weiteres Opfer gefunden: der 51-jährige Polizist Andrew Dupek. Auch hier hinterlässt der Täter rätselhafte Hinweise: Hunter und Garcia finden einen Kopf mit Hörnern und acht abgetrennte Finger. Und dann gibt es ein drittes Opfer. Hunters Ermittlungsansatz ist klar: Er muss wissen, was die drei Männer miteinander verband. Bislang weiß er nur eines: Er jagt einen unberechenbaren Täter. Einen kranken Geist. Ein Phantom.Als Hunter schon die Waffen strecken und den Fall dem FBI übergeben will, überschlagen sich plötzlich die Ereignisse.

Sommer in Los Angeles. Detective Robert Hunter und sein Partner Carlos Garcia sind auf der Suche nach einem Mörder, der ihnen mit jedem Mord ein Rätsel aufgibt.Das erste Opfer, der 50-jährige Staatsanwalt Derek Nicholson, lag nach einer Tumordiagnose bereits im Sterben. Nun wurde seinem Leiden auf bestialische Weise ein Ende bereitet. Jemand wollte ihn nicht so einfach sterben lassen und hat ihn grausam zu Tode gefoltert. Warum? Hunter und Garcia finden einen blutigen Tatort vor und eine »Skulptur« aus menschlichen Gliedmaßen, die Schattenfiguren an die Wand wirft: einen Hund und einen Raben. In der Mythologie symbolisieren diese Tiere »Lüge«.Kurz darauf wird ein weiteres Opfer gefunden: der 51-jährige Polizist Andrew Dupek. Auch hier hinterlässt der Täter rätselhafte Hinweise: Hunter und Garcia finden einen Kopf mit Hörnern und acht abgetrennte Finger. Und dann gibt es ein drittes Opfer. Hunters Ermittlungsansatz ist klar: Er muss wissen, was die drei Männer miteinander verband. Bislang weiß er nur eines: Er jagt einen unberechenbaren Täter. Einen kranken Geist. Ein Phantom.Als Hunter schon die Waffen strecken und den Fall dem FBI übergeben will, überschlagen sich plötzlich die Ereignisse.

This is the story of Seattle police artist Maggie Barnes, whose remarkable artistic talents are the focus of an even more extraordinary psychic gift that she is determined to keep secret: a gift that has allowed her to work with crime victims, to feel what they feel, to create perfect portraits of their attackers. When the police are stymied by an elusive predator who blinds his victims to prevent them from identifying him, Maggie must be willing to risk much more than just her secret to draw the image of a killer no one has ever seen, and bring the brutal madman to justice. If you love books that blend passion, suspense, and the unexpected, you'll love this one.