Зарубежный детектив
Черные секреты
Год выхода: 2024
ПРОДОЛЖЕНИЕ КУЛЬТОВОГО БЕСТСЕЛЛЕРА «ЕДИНСТВЕННЫЙ РЕБЕНОК» ОТ ВЕДУЩЕЙ ПИСАТЕЛЬНИЦЫ КОРЕЙСКОГО КРИМИНАЛЬНОГО РОМАНА. Четыре года назад Юн Хаён пыталась убить свою приемную мать. Сейчас ей почти семнадцать, и она старается жить как обычный подросток. Всё меняется, когда семья переезжает в городок Каннын. Гуляя по окрестностям в попытке развеять скуку, Хаён находит в одной из пещер школьный рюкзак. А вскоре обнаруживают и его хозяйку. Точнее, ее труп. Девочка, которую все считали сбежавшей из...
Умереть с первого взгляда
Год выхода: 2024
Серия: Звезды мирового детектива
Мошенничество в Интернете приобрело небывалый размах, превратившись в настоящую эпидемию. Детектив-суперинтендант Рой Грейс сталкивается с бандой хитроумных аферистов, орудующих на сайтах агентств знакомств по всему миру. Каково это – узнать, что человек, в которого ты влюбился, совсем не тот, за кого себя выдает, да вдобавок еще и лишиться всех своих накоплений и оказаться на улице? В полиции вынуждены признать, что шансы вернуть потерянное практически равны нулю, однако не все жертвы готовы...
Не переходи дорогу волку: когда в твоем доме живет чудовище
Год выхода: 2024
В свой 27-й день рождения Лиза узнает из новостей: в доме, где со своей новой семьей жил ее отец, нашли три трупа. Все застрелены из отцовского ружья. В течение нескольких часов Лиза пытается выяснить, чьи именно тела обнаружены. Если среди них есть отец, это значит, что она наконец в безопасности? Если отец убил свою новую жену и ее детей, виновата ли Лиза в их смерти? Ведь она никому никогда не говорила, что ее отец на самом деле – чудовище. Почему ее отец стал таким? Как справиться с...
Дамский справочник пакостей
Год выхода: 2024
Идеальная история для фанатов «Бриджертонов» и уютных детективов. Англия, 1865 год. Кэтрин Баском ведет колонку «Дамский справочник пакостей», в которой рассказывает о самых страшных преступлениях Лондона. Однажды ее статья помогает поймать убийцу, наводящего ужас на весь город. Кэтрин даже приходится сбежать в загородный дом, чтобы скрыться от обрушившейся на нее славы, где в первую же ночь она становится свидетельницей убийства. Привлекательный инспектор Эндрю Эвершем боится, что Кэтрин в...
Утес чайки
Год выхода: 2025
В МИРЕ ПРОДАНО БОЛЕЕ 30 МИЛЛИОНОВ ЭКЗЕМПЛЯРОВ КНИГ ШАРЛОТТЫ ЛИНК. НАЦИОНАЛЬНЫЙ БЕСТСЕЛЛЕР ГЕРМАНИИ № 1. Шарлотта Линк – самый успешный современный автор Германии. Все ее книги, переведенные почти на 30 языков, стали национальными и международными бестселлерами. В 1999–2023 гг. снято более двух десятков фильмов и сериалов по мотивам ее романов. Несколько пропавших девушек, мертвое тело у горных болот – и ни единого следа… Этот роман – беспощадный, коварный, загадочный – продолжение мирового...
Pumpkins in Paradise
Год выхода: 2013
Серия: A Tj Jensen Mystery (#1)
Between shopping for Halloween costumes, volunteering for the annual pumpkin festival, and coaching her girls to the state soccer finals, high school teacher Tj Jensen finds her good friend Zachary Collins dead in his favorite chair. When the handsome new deputy closes the case without so much as a “why” or “how,” Tj turns her attention from chili cook-offs and pumpkin carving to complex puzzles, prophetic riddles, and a decades’ old secret she seemed destined to unravel.
Большой налет
Год выхода: 1943
Серия: Большой налёт (#1)
Город был просто переполнен уголовниками со всей Америки, убийцы и грабители веселились в барах, дефилировали по улицам...
Что-то должно было произойти...
106 тысяч за голову
Год выхода: 1943
Серия: Большой налёт (#2)
Продолжение рассказа «Большой налёт»: брат одного из погибших налетчиков приходит в агентство и говорит, что знает, как разыскать организатора аферы.
Cat in a Sapphire Slipper
Год выхода: 2008
Серия: The Midnight Louie Mysteries (#20)
*Cat in a Sapphire Slipper* is the twentieth title in Carole Nelson Douglas's sassy Midnight Louie mystery series. The tough-talking, twenty-pound, tomcat PI is as feisty as ever as he and his gang try to keep his favorite roommate from losing her man. PR honcho Temple Barr's romance novelist aunt Kit has wound up in a romantic plot of her own. She's snagged one of the most eligible bachelors on the Strip, one of the elder Fontana brothers, a silver-tongued reputed ex-mobster with a heart of...
The Cat, the Quilt and the Corpse
Год выхода: 2009
Серия: Cats in trouble mystery (#1)
### From Publishers Weekly Sweeney (Pick Your Poison) launches the Cats in Trouble mystery series with a meandering whodunit. Jillian Hart is content making and selling cat quilts and living quietly in Mercy, S.C., with her three cats, Syrah, Chablis and Merlot. When Syrah is catnapped, Jillian finds not only the thief-thanks to a state-of-the-art alarm system installed by charming PI Tom Stewart-but also a murder mystery to solve. The cats are entertaining four-legged assistants, with traits...
Murder Strikes a Pose
Год выхода: 2014
Серия: A Downward Dog Mystery (#1)
Yoga instructor Kate Davidson tries to live up to yoga's Zen-like expectations, but it's not easy while struggling to keep her small business afloat or dodging her best friend's matchmaking efforts. When George, a homeless alcoholic, and his loud, horse-sized German shepherd, Bella, start hawking newspapers outside her studio, Kate attempts to convince them to leave. Instead, the three strike up an unlikely friendship. Then Kate finds George's dead body. The police dismiss it as a drug-related...
Desperate Housedogs
Год выхода: 2011
Серия: Pampered pets mystery (#1)
When Caro Lamont, former psychologist turned pet therapist makes a house call to help Kevin Blackstone with his two misbehaving German Shepherd dogs, she expects frantic dogs, she expects a frantic dog owner, she even expects frantic neighbors. What she doesn't expect is that two hours later the police will find Kevin dead, his dogs impounded; and that as the last person to see Kevin alive (well, except for the killer) she is suddenly a person of interest, at least according to Homicide...
A Borrowing of Bones
Год выхода: 2018
Серия: Mercy Carr Mysteries (#1)
The first in a gripping new series by Paula Munier, *A Borrowing of Bones* is full of complex twists, introducing a wonderful new voice for mystery readers and dog lovers. *Grief and guilt are the ghosts that haunt you when you survive what others do not....* After their last deployment, when she got shot, her fiancé Martinez got killed and his bomb-sniffing dog Elvis got depressed, soldier Mercy Carr and Elvis were both sent home, her late lover's last words ringing in her ears: "Take care of...
How to Wash a Cat
Год выхода: 2010
Серия: Cats and curios (#1)
"San Francisco has always been a beacon for second, third, and fourth-chancers." That's what my Uncle Oscar used to say. "There's nothing here to hold you back. You can do - or become - whatever or whoever you want." Oscar owned a small antique shop called the Green Vase, here, in San Francisco. His specialty was Gold Rush history. He'd acquired an extensive collection of artifacts from that time period, mostly due to his network of contacts in the construction industry. You see, after the...
Playing with Poison
Год выхода: 2012
Серия: Cue Ball Mysteries (#1)
**Playing With Poison was a Quarter Finalist in the Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award! Murder meets menopause. Take a guess which wins. ** **PRAISE for Playing With Poison** "I just love Jessie Hewitt. She is the bomb." Melina Mason, *Melina's Book Blog* "This was one of my favorite submissions so far. I loved the main character, Jessie Hewitt, a middle aged romance writer (ex-pool hustler) having the time of her life." *Amazon contest review* "These characters are a hoot!! A lighthearted cozy...
Murder at the Courthouse
Год выхода: 2015
Серия: The Hidden Springs Mysteries (#1)
After a few years as a police officer in Chicago, Michael Keane has no trouble relaxing into the far less stressful job of deputy sheriff in his small hometown. After all, nothing ever happens in Hidden Springs, Kentucky. Nothing, that is, until a dead body is discovered on the courthouse steps. Everyone in town is a little uneasy. Still, no one is terribly worried—after all the man was a stranger—until one of their own is murdered right on Main Street. As Michael works to solve the case it...
Yappy Hour
Год выхода: 2016
Серия: Roundup Crew Mystery Series (#1)
With side-splitting humor, an irresistable cast of characters--both human and canine--and an intimate small town setting, *Yappy Hour* is sure to delight fans of Rita Mae Brown and Diane Kelly. Every Friday night in the idyllic seaside town of Pacific Cove, CA, the Roundup Crew, a group of dog-loving friends, meet at a neighborhood wine bar for Yappy Hour. When Rachel, the owner, mysteriously leaves town and asks her sister, Maggie (who is neither pet friendly nor business savvy), to run the bar...
Beaglemania
Год выхода: 2011
Серия: Pet Rescue Mysteries (#1)
### From Publishers Weekly Animals play a passive role in Johnston's less than engaging first in a new series featuring Lauren Vancouver, who runs HotRescues, a private no-kill animal shelter in Granada Hills, Calif. After raiding a puppy mill, Lauren is certain that Efram Kiley, an animal care apprentice who'd abused his own dog and was working for her as part of a legal agreement, tossed beagle puppies down a drainpipe. When Efram is later found stabbed to death at Lauren's shelter, she...
Purr M for Murder
Год выхода: 2017
Серия: Cat Rescue Mysteries (#1)
Sydney McCall left behind an ex-fiance and a New York advertising job to return home to Deer Park, North Carolina and help her sister, Kat, run the local animal shelter, Friendly Paws. Determined to save the shelter from financial trouble, Sydney and Kat organize a cat cafe fundraising event at a local coffee shop. Things are looking up until their landlord, Trowbridge Littleton, threatens to shut down the event. When Sydney drops by his art gallery to make peace, she finds Kat--along with...
Drop Dead on Recall
Год выхода: 2012
When a top-ranked competitor keels over at a dog obedience trial, photographer Janet MacPhail is swept up in a maelstrom of suspicion, jealousy, cut-throat competition, death threats, pet-napping, and murder. She becomes a “person of interest” to the police, and apparently to major hunk Tom Saunders as well. As if murder and the threat of impending romance aren’t enough to drive her bonkers, Janet has to move her mother into a nursing home, and the old lady isn’t going quietly. Janet finds...
The Company of Cats
Год выхода: 1999
When millionaire Arthur Arbuthnot mistakes gossip maven Annabel Hinchby-Smythe for a decorator—and hires her to redecorate his apartment—the fiscally challenged Annabel can't refuse. When she sees Arbuthnot's tatty London flat, she knows anything will be an improvement. And any gossip she can dig up will be pure gold for the tabloids. But when Arthur is found dead, his frisky relatives begin to lick their chops. Arbuthnot's beloved tabby, Sally, was the only witness to the homicide—and the sole...
Canapés for the Kitties
Год выхода: 1996
Серия: Brimful Coffers (#1)
The cat's out of the bag: dead bodies are piling up in Brimful Coffers, a picturesque English village. Among the deceased is Boswell, a pet white rat. His killers were caught: Had-I and But-Known, two mischievous felines belonging to Lorinda Lucas, mystery writer. Unfortunately, the other victims were all too human--and their killer remains at large... The danger in Brimful Coffers was unforeseen when several authors created an informal writers' colony in this lovely town outside of London. In...
Reel Murder
Год выхода: 1985
Серия: Trixie dolan & evangeline sinclair mystery (#1)
Written by Marian Babson. When two grand dames of Hollywood, silent film star Eve Sinclair ('she put the sin in Cinema') and ex-hoofer Trixie Dolan set out for London to attend a film retrospective held in Eve's honour, they fully expect to be the centre of attention. What they don't expect is that all the lovely attention will be generated not by an appreciation of their talents but by a series of grisly murders associated with the retrospective. Even less do they expect to find themselves...
Cover-Up Story
Год выхода: 2012
Douglas Perkins of Perkins and Tate (Public Relations) Ltd believed that the business of a PRO was to put the client's best foot forward, and try to hide the other three cloven hooves. He even went on believing it when Black Bart and his Troupe of Hillbilly Singers were wished on the firm by their American associates, who had arranged for the Troupe to make a few appearances on English TV shows. The tangled personal relationships and professional jealousies within the Troupe soon gave Perkins a...