Peter Robinson4.0 When a drought drains the local Thornfield Reservoir, uncovering a long-drowned small village and the skeleton of a murder victim from the 1940s, Detective Alan Banks and Detective Sergeant Annie Cabot must investigate the decades-old crime and unmask an evil secret from the past.
Майкл Коннелли4.2 Дело об убийстве знаменитого адвоката прямо перед началом сенсационного судебного процесса может стоить детективу Гарри Босху карьеры - или жизни! Слишком уж запутаны следы, тянущиеся от жертвы к преступнику... Расследование заводит Босха то в лабиринты Интернета, то в роскошные особняки Лос-Анджелеса, то в темные переулки, где царит жестокость и насилие…
Один неверный шаг детектива — и тлеющие угли ненависти и подозрений вспыхнут чудовищным пожаром!
Как не допустить этого?!
Деннис Лихэйн4.2 Очередное дело в практике частного сыщика из Бостона Патрика Кензи выглядело совсем легким: припугнуть негодяя, пристающего к молодой женщине. Что он с помощью своего неизменного друга и соратника, громилы Буббы Роговски, и проделывает с большим удовольствием. Такие милые и порядочные девушки, как Карен Николс, рассуждает он, не должны страдать от наглости всяких самовлюбленных нахалов. Лишь несколько месяцев спустя Патрик с изумлением узнает, что, пока он был в отъезде, Карен Николс покончила с собой, бросившись вниз головой с высотного здания Бостонской таможни. А до этого, как выяснилось в ходе расследования, неоднократно задерживалась полицией за злоупотребление алкоголем и наркотиками и занятия проституцией.
Патрик в недоумении: не мог он так ошибиться в личности Карен. Он не успокоится, пока не выяснит, что с ней произошло. Вместе с ним странную тайну самоубийства мисс Николс будет распутывать Энджи Дженнаро, в которую Патрик давно и безнадежно влюблен.
Robert Crais0.0 Los Angeles is a city of perpetual reinvention. Inviting, with a promise of infinite hope, it can also be a glittering landscape of debilitating isolation. The city's lost souls take comfort in its promise--the notion that tomorrow could be the day to start all over again, to transform oneself into someone else. Someone more powerful, more beautiful, more daring.
At the core of "L.A. Requiem" is Joe Pike, a former cop with a past as dark and foreboding as his demeanor. His only stable relationship is with his partner of twelve years, Elvis Cole, a talented and quick-witted PI with skeletons in his own past.
When Pike's former lover is found dead at a reservoir in the Hollywood Hills, the duo is brought in by the woman's father to monitor the police investigation. But Pike's no stranger to the men and women in the LAPD's elite Robbery-Homicide Division, at least one of whom has been harboring a long-buried desire for revenge.
With a rich cast of characters reminiscent of Raymond Chandler's classic "The Long Goodbye", "L.A. Requiem" is the apotheosis of Crais's writing career--a gripping novel that envelops Cole and Pike in an ever-tightening web of conspiracies, secrets, and mortal passions that threatens to destroy their friendship, and leave one, or both, dead.
John Katzenbach0.0 Second Lieutenant Tommy Hart, a navigator whose B-25 was shot out of the sky in 1942, is burdened with guilt as the only surviving member of his crew. Now he is just another POW at the fiercely guarded Stalag Luft 13 in Bavaria.
Then routine comes to a halt with the arrival of a new prisoner: First Lieutenant Lincoln Scott, an African American Tuskegee airman who instantly becomes the target of contempt from his fellow soldiers. When a prisoner is brutally murdered, and all the blood-soaked evidence points to Scott, Hart is tapped to defend the soldier. In a trial rife with racial tension and raw conflict, where the lines between ally and enemy blur, there are those with their own secret motives, and a burning passion for a rush to judgment, no matter what the cost.
So far Meg Langslow's summer is not going swimmingly. Down in her small Virginia hometown, she's maid of honor at the nuptials of three loved ones--each of whom has dumped the planning in her capable hands. One bride is set on including a Native American herbal purification ceremony, while another wants live peacocks on the lawn. Only help from the town's drop-dead gorgeous hunk, disappointingly rumored to be gay, keeps Meg afloat in a sea of dotty relatives and outrageous neighbors.
And, in whirl of summer parties and picnics, Southern hospitality is strained to the limit by an offensive newcomer who hints at skeletons in the guests' closets. But it seems this lady has offended one too many when she's found dead in suspicious circumstances, followed by a string of accidents--some fatal. Soon, level-headed Meg's to-do list extends from flower arrangements and bridal registries to catching a killer--before the next catered event is her own funeral...
Марк Коггинс0.0 When the world's most innovative computer chess software is stolen, wisecracking, jazz bass-playing PI August Riordan is hired to find it.
Sifting through a San Francisco peopled with bruising, ex-NFL henchmen, transvestite techno geeks, and alluring, drug-addicted dominatrices, Riordan has got his work cut out for him.
But with a smart-ass attitude like Riordan's, nothing is easy ...
A darkly comic sojourn through a town unrecognizable from the Tony Bennett song and the Rice-a-Roni ads, The Immortal Game is a Shamus, Barry, and Independent Publisher (IPPY) award nominee.
Дэн Фесперман0.0 Investigator Petric makes his living from the dead. Lately business has been slow, what with the siege around Sarajevo. Condoned killing has displaced the crime of passion; his services with the civil police as a homicide investigator have been less in demand. Unluckily one premeditated death does land on the detective's desk. It is no abused lover or a distant sniper's victim but a government official - the chief of the interior ministry's police - shot dead at close range.In a thriller that recalls the first excitement of Martin Cruz Smith's Moscow and the Vienna of Graham Greene's The Third Man, author Dan Fesperman brilliantly renders the fragmented society and underworld of Sarajevo at war - the freelancing gangsters, guilty bystanders, drop-in correspondents, the bureaucrats frightened for their jobs and very lives - and he weaves through this torn cityscape one man's desperate, deadly pursuit of the wrong people in the worst places.
Born to a poor Inupiat girl in Chukchi, Alaska, north of the Arctic Circle, State Trooper Nathan Active was adopted and raised by a white family in Anchorage. Now, an unwelcome job reassignment has returned him to the stark, beautiful landscape of poverty-stricken Chukchi. Two suspicious suicides in the span of a week and rumors of trouble in the village and at the local copper mine lead Active to believe there is a killer at large. As a nalauqmiiyaaq, or someone regarded by the community as “halfwhite,” he must fight for every clue before the killer strikes again.
Робин Бёрселл0.0 Gruesome slasher murders are spreading terror in San Francisco. The pressure is on the police force to track down the killer before another young woman is found, throat cut, body abandoned. Homicide Inspector Kate Gillespie is picked to lead the search with her partner, old-timer Sam Scolari.
This is the case that could make Kate's career. But the next victim stops her in her tracks--Sam's ex-wife. All evidence points to him. He goes underground, leaving Kate alone to prove his innocence, or his guilt.
Kate has to find the killer before the cops find Sam. Complicating matters is Mike "Torrid" Torrance, the sexiest Internal Affairs officer ever to carry a badge. He's watching Kate, an assignment that brings them far closer than they expected. Without a partner she can trust . . . with a killer and a cop watching her every move . . . can Kate find the truth before it's too late?
Кэролайн Роу4.2 Испания, 1354 гол. Епископу Жироны Беренгеру необходимо приехать в Таррагону на совет епископов. Одолеваемый болезнями и попавший в немилость одновременно к королю Арагона и архиепископу Таррагоны, Беренгер с неохотой соглашается на эту поездку и просит своего личного лекаря Исаака сопровождать его. В довершение жена Исаака, несмотря на все уговоры, намерена ехать вместе с мужем и берет с собой Ракель, их с Исааком дочь. Однако настоящие неприятности еще впереди...
"Противоядие от алчности" - увлекательный исторический детектив канадского автора Кэролайн Роу (псевдоним историка и писательницы Мсдоры Сейл) из никла романов о расследованиях слепого лекаря Исаака из Жироны.
Кэролайн Хейнс3.0 No self-respecting lady would allow herself to end up in Sarah Booth's situation. Unwed, unemployed, and over thirty, she's flat broke and about to lose the family plantation. Not to mention being haunted by the ghost of her great-great-grandmother's nanny, who never misses an opportunity to remind her of her sorry state--or to suggest a plan of action, like ransoming her friend's prize pooch to raise some cash.
But soon Sarah Booth's walk on the criminal side leads her deeper into unladylike territory, and she's hired to solve a murder. Did gorgeous, landed Hamilton Garrett V really kill his mother twenty years ago? And if so, what is Sarah Booth doing falling for this possible murderer? When she asks one too many questions and a new corpse turns up, she is suddenly a suspect herself...and Sarah Booth finds that digging up the bones of the past could leave her rolling over in her grave.
Джерри Кеннили0.0 From Jerry Kennealy -- an acclaimed author, former police officer and veteran P.I. -- comes a thrilling new novel set in the high stakes world of art smuggling. A retired thief in the Witness Protection Program learns that there is no such thing as "protection". Because it takes a thief to catch a thief...and old habits die slowly.
Синклер Браунинг0.0 Trade Ellis' part-time P.I. practice is as dry as the desert -- until bull rider J.B. Calendar marries a candy heiress who's crazy to turn cowgirl. Abigail Van Thiessen has thirty-two years -- and a few hundred million dollars -- on her husband. So when she meets her untimely death on a romantic horseback trip with her newlywed stud, the cops suspect foul play. J.B. hires Trade to prove his innocence. Then Trade discovers another murder in town the same night Abby died -- and suddenly her investigation could come to the very deadliest of ends.
Val McDermid4.5 Winter 1963: two children have disappeared in Manchester; the murderous careers of Myra Hindley and Ian Brady have begun. On a freezing day in December, another child goes missing: 13-year-old Alison Carter vanishes from the isolated Derbyshire hamlet of Scardale. For the young George Bennett it is the beginning of his most difficult and harrowing case: a murder with no body, an investigation with more dead ends and closed faces than he'd have found in the inner city; an outcome that reverberates down the years. Decades later he tells his story to journalist Catherine Heathcote, but just when her book is poised for publication, Bennett tries to pull the plug. He has new information that he will not divulge, and that threatens the very foundation of his existence. Catherine is forced to reinvestigate the past, with results that turn the world upside down. A taut psychological thriller that explores, exposes and explodes the border between reality and illusion in a multilayered narrative that turns expectations on their head and reminds us that what we know is what we do not know...
Джон Коннолли3.8 "Полицейские и их семьи неприкосновенны", - нью-йоркский детектив Берд Паркер, как и многие его сослуживцы, привык к этой мысли и ни разу не усомнился в ее правоте, пока однажды, вернувшись домой, не обнаружил тела жены и дочери, растерзанных неизвестным маньяком. Начав собственное расследование, Паркер примет вызов Странника и, продираясь сквозь паутину зла, сплетенную преступной волей многих людей, будет зорко вглядываться в новые лица, пытаясь отыскать в них черты Зверя.
Барри Мейтланд3.6 Ева, жена крупного бизнесмена и знаменитого филателиста Сэмми Стерлинга, похищена. В обмен на ее возвращение преступники требуют у Стерлинга бесценную марку "Черная Шалонская головка" с изображением королевы Виктории. Попытка полиции подсунуть похитителям фальшивую марку завершается трагически - подделка обнаружена, а Ева Стерлинг жестоко убита.
Расследование дела поручено талантливому детективу Кэти Колла и ее старому другу и учителю Дэвиду Броку. Очень скоро они приходят к неожиданному выводу: аферу с похищением, возможно, задумала сама Ева.
Но тогда почему ее убрали?
И кто стоит за убийством?..
Ренни Айрт0.0 Upon its original publication, River of Darkness awed readers who look for intelligent, well-plotted psychological mysteries. This “fine, frightening piece of work” (Kirkus Reviews) introduces inspector John Madden who, in the years following World War I, is sent to a small village to investigate a particularly gruesome attack. The local police dismiss the slaughter as a botched robbery, but Madden detects the signs of a madman at work. With the help of Dr. Helen Blackwell, who introduces him to the latest developments in criminal psychology, Madden sets out to identify and capture the killer, even as the murderer sets his sights on his next innocent victims.
Колин Фалконер0.0 From International Bestselling Author Colin Falconer comes a new Crime Series: The London Babylon Series.
"They’ve enforced the law. Now they want Justice."
Rough Justice
by Colin Falconer
Catching the scrotes who shoot other drug dealers in the head in the front seat of their Corvettes in Camden at three in the morning - that’s one thing. When little girls are murdered, and you know who did it - and clever lawyers keep them out of stir - well, that’s something else. And when one of your own, fresh out of the Academy, gets kicked to death in some back alley and a guy who did it grins at you as he gets a Not Guilty verdict form an apathetic jury - well, patience starts to wear thin.
Madeleine Fox is the only woman working on the Area Major Incident Team so she has developed a thick skin. Her boss is a sexist pig, and a good cop. But even he’s showing signs of wear and tear.
Perhaps in a normal year they would all have got through it, just like every year before it. But this is no ordinary year.
Marenko always told her it was not her job to worry about the bigger picture. You did your job and you closed case files, because you can’t change the world and you’ll go crazy trying.
But that’s before the Candy Man; that’s before Michel de Bruin puts one of Marenko’s own family into a permanent vegetative state. Then certain people start to wonder about the laws they are supposed to serve.
And if they ought to lend justice a hand.
Tough, by turns bitterly funny and achingly poignant, ROUGH JUSTICE is the story of a London major crime squad in the year when justice is finally served - outside the courts.
