Зарубежный детектив
The Counterfeiter-Catching Cat
Год выхода: 2015
Серия: Beatrice Young Cozy Cat Mystery (#1)
Ashbrook, New Hampshire. Beatrice Young and her two cats are hot on a local counterfeiting case. With the help of her ex-husband, Matthew, and the sheriff, Beatrice and her two crime-solving cats fight to solve the mystery of who's producing the bills.
Purrs and Peril : A Norwegian Forest Café Cozy Mystery
Год выхода: 2018
Серия: A Norwegian Forest Cat Café Cozy Mystery (#1)
Lauren Crenshaw, and her Norwegian Forest Cat Annie, run the Norwegian Forest cafe in a picturesque town in Northern California. Lauren's cousin Zoe also helps out. When one of Annie's favorite customers is murdered, the three of them try to figure out "whodunit"!
Растратчик
Год выхода: 1944
«Все беды от женщин» – так можно было бы охарактеризовать сюжетную схему, которую автор использовал в большинстве своих книг. Однако у Кейна никогда до конца не ясно, кто кого искушает, ангел перед нами или демон в ангельском обличье. Любовные отношения между героями романов Кейна – это всегда огонь, страсть, кровь и... предательство.
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...
Fixing to Die
Год выхода: 2017
Серия: Southern Ladies Mysteries (#4)
**The *New York Times* bestselling author of ** the Cat in the Stacks Mysteries ** and *Digging Up the Dirt* returns with the latest Southern Ladies Mystery...** It's autumn down south, and An'gel and Dickce Ducote are in Natchez, Mississippi, at the request of Mary Turner Catlin, the granddaughter of an old friend. Mary and her husband, Henry Howard, live in Cliffwood, one of the beautiful antebellum homes for which Natchez is famous. Odd things have been happening in the house for years, and...
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...
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...
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...
Nine Lives to Murder
Год выхода: 1994
Someone is trying to kill leading British Shakespearean actor, husband, father, ladies man, and soon-to-be Knight of the Realm Winstanley Fortescue. The actor, rehearsing his starring role in the forthcoming play *Serpent in the Heather* , is conked on the head backstage. He falls off a ladder and lands on the resident Pest Control Officer, Montmorency D. Mousa (otherwise known as Monty), the company cat. When Fortescue comes to, he finds to his horror that he has been switched into Monty's...
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...
The Cat Next Door
Год выхода: 2002
Margot returns to her well-to-do family in England on the eve of her Aunt Chloe's murder trial—she is accused of fatally stabbing her twin sister with a kitchen knife in the garden. Nothing has been the same since Claudia's body was found: her 14-year-old daughter, Lynette, refuses to leave her bedroom, the paparazzi are relentless, and Tikki, the family's beloved Abyssinian, goes to stay with the neighbors. When another body, whom no one recognizes, shows up facedown in the pond while the...
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...
The Diamond Cat
Год выхода: 1995
A lifetime of craving more cuddly companionship than her hectoring mother has led fortyish Bettina Bilby to board her neighbors' felines for a long holiday weekend: an expectant tabby, a pampered blue-eyed Balinese, a depressed ginger Persian with a cod-liver-oil addiction, and Adolf, an imperious mouser with a patchwork face. But a freak storm sets the pigeon among the cats—a carrier bird downed on the doorstep with a tiny load of large flawless diamonds. And Bettina's dilemma escalates, as...
Romeow and Juliet
Год выхода: 2014
Серия: Whales and tails mystery (#1)
### Product Description Romeow and Juliet is the first in a cozy mystery series set on Madrona Island, a fictional island within the San Juan Islands off the coast of Washington State. As a fourth generation islander Caitlin Hart is struggling to make her way as the economy and culture of the island evolves toward a tourism based industry. Cait lives in a cabin on her aunt's oceanfront estate where she helps her aunt run Harthaven Cat Sanctuary. When she isn't working with the cats, she helps...
A Catered Murder
Год выхода: 2012
Bernadette Simmons wasn't sure what to expect when she left L.A.--and her no-good, cheating boyfriend--to move back in with her family in New York. And her sister Libby had no idea what she was in for when she hired Bernie to work for her catering business. But in between cutting up canapés and dishing up desserts, the two find themselves in the midst of a mystery they can really sink their teeth into. . . It's only been a few days since Bernie and Libby started working together at A Little...
Французский связной
Год выхода: 1971
Серия: Бестселлеры Голливуда
Знаменитый роман о поимке нью-йоркскими полицейскими преступников, занимающихся транспортировкой наркотиков из Франции, легший в основу одноименного фильма.
Проект
Год выхода: 2022
Девятнадцатилетняя Ло Денэм привыкла быть одна. После трагической гибели родителей она осталась со старшей сестрой Би. Но шесть лет назад Би бросила ее и присоединилась к загадочной благотворительной организации под названием «Проект Единство». Однажды Ло получает уникальный шанс взять интервью у лидера «Единства» Льва Уоррена. Она надеется, что эта возможность поможет узнать о судьбе своей сестры. Ло предстоит раскрыть страшную правду об истинных целях организации и о том, что случается с ее...
Между нами искра
Год выхода: 2021
Казалось бы, каких сюрпризов можно ожидать от вечеринки в честь сорокалетия свадьбы? Однако это в порядке вещей, когда речь идет об искрометном семействе, где верховодит неуправляемая, как природная стихия, Маргарет. Среди приглашенных — ее дочь Стелла с мужем Джорджем. Их брак распался, но супруги пока держат это в тайне. Чтобы не огорчать родителей, им придется вместе посетить торжество, а уж потом — гори все синим пламенем! Но эта семейка вообще кишит секретами, и буквально все родственники,...
Труп на рельсах
Год выхода: 1936
Он учуял, что в поезде идет облава, знал, что это означает. Откуда-то со стороны тепловоза донесся крик детектива железнодорожной полиции: "За ушко да на солнышко, ребятишки, за ушко да на солнышко!" Бродяги горохом посыпались с поезда. Он слышал их крики и ругань в темноте. А состав тем временем проползал мимо. Они всегда применяли на товарняках этот прием позволяли бродягам забраться в вагоны на станции, на запасных путях, но там их не вылавливали, иначе бы это превратилось в дурацкую игру в...
Б - значит Беглец
Год выхода: 1990
Серия: Кинси Милхоун
Мотель Оушен Стрит во Флорал Бич, Калифорния, находился, как ни странно, на улице Оушен, рукой подать до стены, спускающейся на три метра вниз, к океану. Пляж — бежевая полоса, затоптанная следами, которые каждый день смываются высоким приливом. Публика может попасть туда, спустившись по бетонной лестнице с металлическими перилами. Выступающий в воду деревянный пирс для рыбной ловли увенчан с ближайшего конца офисом управления портом, который выкрашен в ядовито-синий цвет. Семнадцать лет назад...