Зарубежный детектив
Шелдон Скотт мчится выполнять очередное задание. Некая миссис Редстоун нуждается в услугах частного детектива.
Она устраивает пышную вечеринку и Шелл получает инструкцию «незаметно смешаться с гостями». А ещё ему сказали, что на вечере будет очень весело.
Там действительно было ну очень весело...
**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...
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.
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...
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"!
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...
### 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...
Исторический детектив, Приключения, Иностранные языки, Зарубежный детектив, Зарубежная приключенческая литература
### Amazon.com Review *Terrier* , Pierce returns to the Tortall universe (home to her Song of the Lioness, Immortals, Protector of the Small, and Daughter of the Lioness series). Want to learn more? Read an exclusive essay from Tamora Pierce below. *\--Daphne Durham* * * * **An Essay from Tamora Pierce** Sixteen-year-old Beka Cooper lives far removed from knights, palaces, and the nobility. Her world revolves around thieves, beggars, taverns, and the lowest of the low. She's a trainee for the...
For all its many crimes of passion and politics, Jerusalem has only once before been victimized by a serial killer. Now the elusive psychopath is back, slipping through the fingers of police inspector Daniel Sharavi. And one murderer with a taste for young Arab women can destroy the delicate balance Jerusalem needs to survive. *** They call the ancient hills of Jerusalem the butcher’s theater. Here, upon this bloodstained stage, a faceless...
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...
### 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...
$44 million. A Victorian mansion. And a young career woman with cats. The prospect sounded like a dream come true. What could possibly go wrong? How could a friendly town’s welcome turn into a case of poisoning, murder, and deceit? When Katherine “Katz” Kendall, a computer professional in New York City, discovers she’s the sole heir of a huge inheritance, she can’t believe her good fortune. She’s okay with the clauses of the will: Move to the small town of Erie, Indiana, check. Live in her...
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...
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.
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...
A youth is lying dead in Gray Square, Bloomsbury. Constable Wiseman is at the scene, as is the handsome Frank Merril, nephew of rich John Martin. Also there is May Nuttall, whose father was the best friend Martin ever had. A small, shabby man in an ill-fitting frock coat and large gold-rimmed spectacles pulls a newspaper advertisement from the deceased's waistcoat pocket. “At the Yard,” whispers the constable to Frank, “we call him The Man Who Knows.”
Топ-100 рейтингов Amazon. «Триллер года 2021» по версии читателей Amazon 10 лет назад он убил моего сына. Сегодня я выхожу за него замуж… Пронзительный, полный любви и ненависти психологический триллер о браке молодого мужчины и женщины на двадцать лет старше него. И о противостоянии двух матерей, которые были лучшими подругами, а стали заклятыми врагами. Затягивающий психологический триллер, который будет держать читательниц в напряжении до последней страницы. Десять лет назад любимый и...
The last thing 11-year-old Robin wants to hear is that his mother and her new husband are extending their honeymoon indefinitely. Not that staying with his Aunt Mags is so bad, but there's her boyfriend to contend with, and the members of the school gang are insisting that he complete a dare before they let him join the group. They want Robin to kidnap Mrs. Nordling's prize-winning cat when no one is home. Getting into the Nordling's house is easy, and Robin manages to find the cat and put him...
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...
*Dessert chef Casey Feldstein doesn’t know a knitting needle from a crochet hook. But after her aunt dies unexpectedly, leaving Casey to run her yarn retreat business, the sweets baker finds herself rising to the occasion—and trying to unravel a murder mystery* When Casey finds out that her late aunt’s business, Yarn2Go, has one more yarn retreat scheduled, she decides to go ahead and host the event, despite her complete lack of experience as a knitter. At least the retreat is on the beautiful...
Что скрывает за собой закулисье популярного ток-шоу, создающего звезд? Так ли просто стать айдолом, которого полюбят миллионы людей? Третий сезон популярного ток-шоу «Айдол» терпит убытки после смерти одного из трейни. Рейтинги и просмотры неумолимо падают, а компания отбивается от наплыва рассерженных зрителей. Руководителям приходит в голову замечательная идея. Если есть жертва, значит, должен быть и преступник? Новостные порталы взрываются от нового тизера спецвыпуска «Айдол: Разоблачение...
38-летний Рид Лоусон, блестящий профессор истории Европы в Колумбийском университете спокойно живет в пригороде Нью-Йорка с двумя дочерьми-подростками. Вся его жизнь резко переворачивается верх ногами, когда однажды ночью раздается стук в дверь и он обнаруживает в своем доме троих террористов, а затем просыпается в подвале Парижа, где его пытают. Они убеждены, что Рид – самый сильный шпион из всех, кого когда-либо нанимало ЦРУ. Он же убежден, что они взяли не того. Так ли это?С тайным сговором...
Он неуловим и необычайно умен. Решителен, храбр и неимоверно предан своему делу. Его вера в справедливость непоколебима. Он умеет мастерски перевоплощаться в кого угодно: в женщину, юного афроамериканца или аристократа, старуху или пожилого мужчину. Его имя – Ник Картер. Он – американский Шерлок Холмс, самый гениальный сыщик детективного мира. Ему противостоят опаснейшие виртуозы преступного мира: короли мафии, сильные мира сего, ученые, обернувшие свои знания во зло, неуловимые шпионы и агенты...
Современные любовные романы, Любовные детективы, Зарубежная современная проза, Зарубежный детектив, Зарубежная литература о любви, Остросюжетные любовные романы
Линда Ховард / Linda Howard Азартная игра / A Game of Chance, 2000 Его единственный шанс... Агент под прикрытием Ченс Маккензи знает, что лучший способ добраться до неуловимого террориста – использовать в качестве наживки его дочь. Поэтому он умело соблазняет Санни Миллер с целью узнать о местонахождении ее отца. Непричастность самой Санни под большим вопросом, влезть ей в доверие оказывается почти невозможно. Со всем обучением и опытом Ченсу очень трудно не обращать внимания на ее...