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Продолжение рассказа «Большой налёт»: брат одного из погибших налетчиков приходит в агентство и говорит, что знает, как разыскать организатора аферы.
Роберта Голда нельзя назвать начинающим писателем, но прежде у него всегда был соавтор, так что «12 тайн» – это его дебют. «Герметичный детектив» всегда увлекателен, но здесь автор расширяет замкнутое пространство, где происходят преступления и их расследования, до размеров маленького городка. Жители вымышленного Хадли, расположенного неподалеку от Лондона, хорошо знают друг друга, и потому даже спустя двадцать лет после зверского убийства двух подростков это преступление живо в памяти горожан....
Все начинается тогда, когда Лю Сюй, студентка Шанхайского медицинского университета, узнает, что ее подругу Вэнь Сюцзюань, отличницу и красавицу, происходящую из богатой семьи, медленно, день за днем, травит кто-то из однокурсников. Поначалу она не может поверить, что среди ее друзей – успешных студентов, будущих врачей – может быть убийца, но постепенно осознает, что в их группе прячется настоящий хищник, который не остановится ни перед чем. Так начинается расследование, которое растянется на...
Действие этой книги происходят в двух разных эпохах: путинской России и России времен Ивана Грозного – эта параллель выбрана не случайно, поскольку и тогда и сейчас закладывался фундамент для России на столетия вперед. Главная интрига: погоня за тайными знаниями-пророчествами о будущем. Для того, чтобы анализ получился предельно ясным и искренним, автором избран эзоповский язык. Герои из его книги реалистичны, есть выдуманные и настоящие лица. В то же время факты в ней реальные, происшествия...
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...
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...
Would you recognize a serial killer if you met one? Talked to one every day? Artist Lia Anderson doesn't, and neither does anyone else at the Mount Airy Dog Park. But a violent death brings Detective Peter Dourson into the close-knit group, and he is convinced someone is not who they seem. As the investigation uncovers secrets, Lia struggles with warring emotions while a killer watches and plans.
### 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...
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...
*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...
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...
Когда Анна получила работу мечты в журнале Suzanna, для нее открылась дверь в мир, который раньше она могла видеть лишь издалека. Гламурные девочки, бесплатные брендовые вещи и внимание. Очень много внимания. Ослепленная блеском глянца и атмосферой успеха, Анна не сразу понимает, что с этим журналом что-то не так… Постоянный стресс, слежка, ложь, манипуляции и даже убийство. Кто-то в редакции плетет дьявольскую интригу, и Анна оказывается в самом центре событий, втянутая в опасную игру, где...
Death on the Range When opportunity nocks… When a competitive archer is murdered at the training facility where Di has just started working, she's thrust into the middle of an unofficial investigation before she can even settle into her new life. With her roommate Mary and a Great Dane named Moo, she begins to unravel the mystery around the death of the victim, but can they solve the case before they find themselves in the killer's sights? A wholesome cozy murder for every sleuth in the family...
Carrie Singleton is just about done with Clover Ridge, Connecticut until she's offered a job as the head of programs and events at the spooky local library, complete with its own librarian ghost. Her first major event is a program presented by a retired homicide detective, Al Buckley, who claims he knows who murdered Laura Foster, a much-loved part-time library aide who was bludgeoned to death fifteen years earlier. As he invites members of the audience to share stories about Laura, he suddenly...
Один из участников онлайн-игры «Мир волшебников», Томас Геллерт, внезапно исчезает во время очередной игровой миссии. И хотя его персонаж остается онлайн в игре, самого Томаса как будто бы стерли с лица земли. Его последними словами в чате онлайн-игры были откровения, из которых следует, что наш мир – это виртуальный симулякр, подобный «матрице», и Томас только что был из него извлечен. Боевая подруга Томаса, Мина Хинриксен, безуспешно пытается привлечь внимание органов правопорядка к...
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...
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...
Второй роман Карла Ольсберга в дилогии о специальном отделе интернет-расследований под руководством Адама Айзенберга. Внезапное отключение электричества во всем Берлине в самый ответственный момент решающего футбольного матча в считаные часы приводит к транспортному, продовольственному и социальному коллапсу. Эта диверсия дает начало серии масштабных терактов, организованных группой хакеров-луддитов, предупреждающих об опасной зависимости человечества от технологий. Айзенберг и его группа...
**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...
«James Bond, with two double bourbons inside him, sat in the final departure lounge of Miami Airport and thought about life and death. It was part of his profession to kill people. He had never liked doing it and when he had to kill he did it as well as he knew how and forgot about it. As a secret agent who held the rare double-O prefix – the licence to kill in the Secret Service – it was his duty to be as cool about death as a surgeon. If it happened, it happened. Regret was unprofessional –...
Chris Ward is killed in a car accident with a pretty girl. His wife never suspected that Chris was having an affair and her feeling of betrayal makes her want to find out how long it had been going on. But her investigations lead her into danger as she is stalked by the evil Sons of Midnight.
"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...
«THERE are moments of great luxury in the life of a secret agent. There are assignments on which he is required to act the part of a very rich man; occasions when he takes refuge in good living to efface the memory of danger and the shadow of death; and times when, as was now the case, he is a guest in the territory of an allied Secret Service…»
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...