Детективы и триллеры на английском языке [A-J]

A Beginner s Guide to Murder
Grace, Meg and Daphne, all in their seventies, are minding their own business while enjoying a cup of tea in a cafe, when seventeen-year-old Nina stumbles in. She's clearly distraught and running from someone, so the three women think nothing of hiding her when a suspicious-looking man starts asking if they've seen her.



Once alone, Nina tells the women a little of what she's running from. The need to protect her is immediate, and Grace, Meg and Daphne vow to do just this. But how? They soon realise there really is only one answer: murder.



And so begins the tale of the three most unlikely murderers-in-the-making, and may hell protect anyone who underestimates them.
Год: 2021
Производитель: HQ
Артикул: 898015
ISBN: 9780008302658
Автор: Stopps Rosalind

A Better Man
The air is unbearably tense as Armand Gamache returns to the Surete du Quebec for his first day of work since being demoted from its command to head of homicide.



Amid blistering personal social media attacks, Gamache sets out on his first assignment. He has been tasked with finding a missing woman, but while he leads the search for Vivienne Godin, Three Pines itself is threatened when the river breaks its banks, and a province-wide emergency is declared.



As the waters rise, a body is discovered - and the victim's distraught father contemplates a murder of his own. Gamache is a father himself, and is haunted by a question . . . what would he do, if his child's killer might walk free?

Серия: A Chief Inspector Gamache Mystery
Год: 2021
Производитель: Hodder & Stoughton
Артикул: 975977
ISBN: 9781529386660
Автор: Penny Louise

A Big Boy Did It And Ran Away
Real Life sucks. He's thirty, his dreams of becoming a rock star are long gone, and he's just discovered that responsibility has no Escape key.



Back when they were students, just like everybody else, Ray Ash and Simon Darcourt had dreams about what they'd do when they grew up. In both their cases, it was to be rock stars. Fifteen years later, their mid-thirties are bearing down fast, and just like everybody else, they're having to accept the less glamorous hands reality has dealt them. Nervous new father Ray takes refuge from his responsibilities by living a virtual existence in online games. People say he needs to grow up, but everybody has to find their own way of coping. For some it's affairs, for others it's the bottle, and for Simon it's serial murder, mass slaughter and professional assassination.

Серия: Angelique De Xavier
Год: 2014
Производитель: Abacus
Артикул: 904568
ISBN: 9780349116846
Автор: Brookmyre Christopher

A Book of Bones
Join Charlie Parker as he returns to the dark side for another chilling case.

The new thrilling instalment of John Connolly's popular CHARLIE PARKER series.



He is our best hope.



He is our last hope.



On a lonely moor in the northeast of England, the body of a young woman is discovered near the site of a vanished church. In the south, a girl lies buried beneath a Saxon mound. To the southeast, the ruins of a priory hide a human skull.



Each is a sacrifice, a summons.



And something in the shadows has heard the call.



But another is coming: Parker the hunter, the avenger. Parker's mission takes him from Maine to the deserts of the Mexican border; from the canals of Amsterdam to the streets of London - he will track those who would cast this world into darkness.



Parker fears no evil.



But evil fears him . . .

Серия: Charlie Parker Thriller
Год: 2020
Производитель: Hodder & Stoughton
Артикул: 905414
ISBN: 9781473641990
Автор: Connolly John

A Book of Bones
He is our best hope.



He is our last hope.



On a lonely moor in the northeast of England, the body of a young woman is discovered near the site of a vanished church. In the south, a girl lies buried beneath a Saxon mound. To the southeast, the ruins of a priory hide a human skull.



Each is a sacrifice, a summons.



And something in the shadows has heard the call.



But another is coming: Parker the hunter, the avenger. Parker's mission takes him from Maine to the deserts of the Mexican border; from the canals of Amsterdam to the streets of London - he will track those who would cast this world into darkness.



Parker fears no evil.



But evil fears him . . .
Год: 2020
Производитель: Hodder & Stoughton
Артикул: 758283
ISBN: 9781473642034
Автор: Connolly John

A Brush with Death
Jodie 'Nosey' Parker is back!



When a body turned up at her last catering gig it certainly put people off the hors d'oeuvres. With a reputation to salvage, Jodie's determined that her next job for the village's festival will go off without a hitch.



But when chaos breaks out, Jodie Parker somehow always finds herself caught up in the picture. The body of a writer from the festival is discovered at the bottom of a cliff, and the prime suspect turns out to be the guest of honour, the esteemed painter Duncan Stovall.



With her background in the Met police, Jodie has got solving cases down to a fine art so she knows things are rarely as they seem.



Can she find the killer before the village faces another brush with death?
Год: 2021
Производитель: One More Chapter
Артикул: 898744
ISBN: 9780008436582
Автор: Leitch Fiona

A Certain Hunger
Dorothy Daniels has always had a voracious - and adventurous - appetite. From her idyllic farm-to-table childhood (homegrown tomatoes, thick slices of freshly baked bread) to the heights of her career as a food critic (white truffles washed down with Barolo straight from the bottle) Dorothy has never been shy about indulging her exquisite tastes - even when it lead to her plunging an ice pick into her lover's neck.



There is something inside Dorothy that makes her different from everybody else. Something she's finally ready to confess. But beware: her story just might make you wonder how your lover would taste sauteed with shallots and mushrooms and deglazed with a little red wine.
Год: 2022
Производитель: Faber and Faber
Артикул: 954047
ISBN: 9780571372324
Автор: Summers Chelsea G

A Change of Circumstance
Innocent or guilty. It's a matter of which lines you cross.



It's mid-winter and a body is discovered in a flat just outside Lafferton. It's a drugs overdose but something doesn't feel right. The place is entirely empty. Damp walls, bare floorboards. Not even a bed.



And then there's the man known as Fats. Preying on young children to run errands for him. Burner phones with instructions messaged through. Bribes followed by threats.



Can Serrailler finally break the drugs network that's spreading through the area or is it just too powerful for him?

Серия: Simon Serrailler
Год: 2022
Производитель: Vintage books
Артикул: 890923
ISBN: 9781529110531
Автор: Hill Susan

A Change of Circumstance
Simon Serrailler finds himself in devastating new territory as a sophisticated drugs network sets its sights on Lafferton and the surrounding villages.



DCS Simon Serrailler has long regarded drugs ops in the Lafferton area as a waste of time. Small-time dealers are picked up outside the local secondary school, they're given a fine or a suspended and away they go. And rinse and repeat. But when the body of a young drug addict is found in neighbouring Starly, the case pulls Simon into a whole new way of running drugs. The foot soldiers? Vulnerable local kids like Brookie and Olivia, who will give Simon a bitter taste of this new landscape...
Год: 2021
Производитель: Chatto & Windus
Артикул: 891622
ISBN: 9781784742775
Автор: Hill Susan

A Climate of Fear
A woman is found dead in her bath. The murder has been disguised as a suicide and a strange symbol is discovered at the scene.



Then the symbol is observed near a second victim, who ten years earlier had also taken part in a doomed expedition to Iceland.



How are these deaths, and rumours of an Icelandic demon, linked to a secretive local society? And what does the mysterious sign mean? Commissaire Adamsberg is about to find out.

Серия: Commissaire Adamsberg
Год: 2017
Производитель: Vintage books
Артикул: 891435
ISBN: 9781784702625
Автор: Vargas Fred

A Cold Blooded Business
Prudhoe Bay, Alaska: population 2, 000. Approximate number of families: zero. And America's largest oilfield...



In three months, the Prudhoe Bay oil operation has logged half a dozen drug overdoses, and one death: a man found floating face down in the company pool wearing full flight gear.



Now the Alaskan Royal Petroleum Company is in need of a discreet investigator on the inside. Someone who can navigate a flat-bed truck against Arctic wind at forty degrees below freezing and find out who is running a narcotic ring from within the company.



Sounds like a job for Kate Shugak...

Серия: Kate Shugak Investigation
Год: 2023
Производитель: Bloomsbury
Артикул: 963674
ISBN: 9781804549582
Автор: Stabenow Dana

A Cold Case in Amsterdam Central
Having been shot in the shoulder in the line of duty, Dutch police detective Lotte Meerman returns to work after four months of painful recovery - yet not all her colleagues are happy to see her.



But department politics take a backseat when Lotte is called to investigate a worker's fall from the roof on a building site in the centre of Amsterdam. Frank Stapel's tragic accident becomes suspicious when Tessa, his widow, discovers human bones in her husband's left-luggage locker at Amsterdam Central. To Lotte, this changes the course of her investigation from fatal accident to potential murder.



When forensics discover the skeleton dates back to the Second World War, the rest of the team are convinced that Lotte is wasting everybody's time by insisting this somehow ties in with the Frank's death, but then it is discovered that some of the bones are less than a decade old... and although vindicated for pursuing the cold case, Lotte finds that the investigation takes a dark and sinister turn, linking an old war crime to events in the much more recent past.
Год: 2017
Производитель: Constable
Артикул: 909744
ISBN: 9781472120663
Автор: de Jager Anja

A Cold Day for Murder
Kate Shugak is a native Aleut working as a private investigator in Alaska. She's five foot, one inch tall, carries a scar that runs from ear to ear across her throat, and owns a half-wolf, half-husky dog named Mutt. Resourceful, strong-willed, defiant, Kate is tougher than your average heroine and she needs to be to survive the worst the Alaskan wilds can throw at her.



Somewhere in twenty million acres of forest and glaciers, a ranger has disappeared: Mark Miller. Missing six weeks. It's assumed by the National Park Service that Miller has been caught in a snowstorm and frozen to death: the typical fate of those who get lost in this vast and desolate terrain. But as a favour to his congressman father, the FBI send in an investigator: Ken Dahl. Last heard from two weeks and two days ago.



Now it's time to send in a professional. Kate Shugak: light brown eyes, black hair, five foot one with an angry scar from ear to ear. Last seen yesterday...

Серия: Kate Shugak Investigation
Год: 2023
Производитель: Head of Zeus
Артикул: 963671
ISBN: 9781804549551
Автор: Stabenow Dana

A Cold Death
Small towns can hide big secrets, but Rocco Schiavone will do whatever it takes to bring them into the light. The second novel in the internationally bestselling series from Italian crime maestro Antonio Manzini.

In an elegant apartment in a chilly Alpine town a cleaning lady makes a gruesome discovery: the body of her employer hanging from a chandelier in a dark room in an apparent suicide.



Working the case is Deputy Police Chief Rocco Schiavone, banished from his beloved Rome to snowy, small-town Aosta. An incurable cynic, perpetually at war with the world - and the weather - Rocco is unconvinced that Esther killed herself.



Armed with his intuition and his inimitable brand of morality, he begins to hunt for a killer. But as he digs deeper into Esther's life Rocco is increasingly troubled by personal matters: his dissatisfied girlfriend Nora; the very vocal memory of his deceased wife, Marina; and a score that still needs settling back in Rome.

Серия: A Rocco Schiavone Mystery
Год: 2016
Производитель: 4th Estate
Артикул: 897387
ISBN: 9780008124335
Автор: Manzini Antonio

A Cold Death in Amsterdam
Amsterdam-based Lotte Meerman is a cold case detective recovering from the emotional devastation of her previous investigation. She is angry and mentally scarred - but being a police officer is the only thing she wants to do.



A tip-off leads Lotte to an unresolved ten-year-old murder case in which her father was the lead detective. ANd when she discovers irregularities surrounding the original investigation that make him a suspect, she decides to cover for him.



Now she has to find the real murderer before she's discovered, otherwise her father will be arrested and she will lose her job, the one thing in life that is keeping her focused and sane . . .

Серия: Lotte Meerman
Год: 2016
Производитель: Constable
Артикул: 909743
ISBN: 9781472120625
Автор: de Jager Anja

A Comedy of Terrors
Saturnalia, the Romans' mid-December feast, nominally to celebrate the sun's rebirth but invariably a drunken riot. Flavia Albia needs a case to investigate, but all work is paused.



The Aventine is full of fracturing families. Wives plot to leave their husbands, husbands plot to spend more time with their mistresses. Masters must endure slaves taking obscene liberties, while aggressive slaves are learning to ape dangerous masters. But no one wants to hire an investigator during the holiday.



Albia is lumped with her own domestic stress: overexcited children and bilious guests, too many practical jokes, and her magistrate husband Tiberius preoccupied with local strife. He fears a Nut War. Nuts are both the snack and missile of choice of tipsy celebrants, so there is a fortune to be made. This year a hustling gang from the past is horning in on the action.



As the deadly menace strikes even close to home, and with law and order paused for partying, Albia and Tiberius must go it alone. The Emperor has promised the people a spectacular entertainment - but Domitian himself is a target for the old criminals' new schemes. Can the Undying Sun survive the winter solstice, or will criminal darkness descend upon Rome?

Серия: Flavia Albia
Год: 2021
Производитель: Hodder & Stoughton
Артикул: 975986
ISBN: 9781529374339
Автор: Davis Lindsey

A Conspiracy of Silence
When a body is found in the grounds of a prestigious Wiltshire private school, DI Gillian Marsh takes on the case. The young groundsman, Bradley Watson, has been shot dead, pierced through the heart with an arrow.



As the investigation gathers pace, DI Marsh is frustrated to find the Whalehurst staff and students united in silence. This scandal must not taint their reputation. But when Gillian discovers pictures of missing Whalehurst pupil, fifteen-year-old Rachel Snyder, on Bradley's dead body - photos taken on the night she disappeared, and he was murdered - the link between the two is undeniable.



But what is Whalehurst refusing to reveal? And does Gillian have what it takes to bring about justice?
Год: 2020
Производитель: Headline
Артикул: 910392
ISBN: 9781786159762
Автор: Legat Anna

A Conspiracy of Tall Men
Linus Owen is a young professor of conspiracy theory at a small college just outside San Francisco. He teaches graduate-level classes on JFK and gives seminars on magic-bullet theories and how the symbols on the dollar bill reveal the presence of a secret government that is leading the world to ruin.



Linus's marriage is foundering and his wife, Claudia, an up-and-coming advertising executive, has gone to Chicago to visit her mother. But if Claudia is in Chicago, how is it that two FBI agents show up at Linus' office and inform him that Claudia has been killed in a plane crash on her way from New York to Brazil? And why did a man named Jeffrey Holden, the vice president of a major pharmaceutical company, buy her ticket and die beside her?



Enlisting the aid of Edward and Roy - his friends and fellow conspiracy theorists - Linus heads across the country in search of answers. Along the way, the trio encounters a legion of disturbing and provocative characters and clues, including an irascible talk show host, a mind-controlling drug, and art emerging link between Claudia's ad agency and the U.S, Government.



As their journey progresses, it becomes frighteningly clear they've left the realm of the academic and are tangled up in a dangerous, multilayered cover-up. Finally, deep in the heart of the American desert, stunned by an ominous revelation, Linus sees he has a new minion: to try to stay alive.
Год: 2014
Производитель: Hodder & Stoughton
Артикул: 975987
ISBN: 9781444779851
Автор: Hawley Noah

A Corruption of Blood
A Raven and Fisher Mystery: Book 3



Edinburgh, 1850. This city will bleed you dry.

Sarah Fisher is keeping a safe distance from her old flame Dr Will Raven. Having long worked at the side of Dr James Simpson, she has set her sights on learning to practise medicine herself. A notion everyone seems intent on dissuading her from.

Across town, Raven finds himself drawn into Edinburgh s mire when a package containing human remains washes up on the shores of Leith, and an old adversary he has long detested contacts him, pleading for Raven s help to escape the hangman.

Sarah and Raven s lives seem indelibly woven together as they discover that wealth and status cannot alter a fate written in the blood.

Серия: Raven and Fisher Mystery
Год: 2022
Производитель: Canongate
Артикул: 953649
ISBN: 9781786899897
Автор: Parry Ambrose

A Cursed Place
The tech company Public Square believes in 'doing well by doing good'. It's built a multi-billion dollar business on this philosophy and by getting to know what people want. They know a lot. But who else can access all that information and what are they planning to do with it?



Radio reporter William Carver is an analogue man in a digital world. He isn't the most tech-savvy reporter, he's definitely old school, but he needs to learn fast - the people he cares most about are in harm's way.



From the Chilean mines where they dig for raw materials that enable the tech revolution, to the streets of Hong Kong where anti-government protesters are fighting against the Chinese State, to the shiny research laboratories of Silicon Valley where personal data is being mined everyday - A Cursed Place is a gripping thriller set against the global forces that shape our times.

Серия: William Carver Novels
Год: 2021
Производитель: Two Roads
Артикул: 910186
ISBN: 9781529305210
Автор: Hanington Peter

A Danger to Herself and Others
Only when she's locked away does the truth begin to escape...



Seventeen-year-old Hannah Gold has always been treated like a grown up. As the only child of two New York professionals, she's been traveling the world and functioning as a miniature adult since the day she was born. But that was then. Now, Hannah has been checked into a remote treatment facility, stripped of all autonomy and confined to a single room.



Hannah knows there's been a mistake. What happened to her roommate that summer was an accident. As soon as the doctor and judge figure out that she isn't a danger to herself or others, she can get back to her life of promise and start her final year at school. Until then, she's determined to win over the staff and earn some privileges so she doesn't lose her mind to boredom.



But then she's assigned a new roommate. At first, Lucy is the perfect project to keep Hannah's focus off all she is missing at home. But Lucy may be the one person who can make Hannah confront the secrets she's avoiding - and the dangerous games that landed her in confinement in the first place.
Год: 2019
Производитель: Atom
Артикул: 904537
ISBN: 9780349003283
Автор: Sheinmel Alyssa

A Dangerous Crossing
England, September 1939

Lily Shepherd boards a cruise liner for a new life in Australia and is plunged into a world of cocktails, jazz and glamorous friends. But as the sun beats down, long-hidden secrets begin to surface. Her heart beats faster for the attention of handsome Edward, but is his heart already taken?



Australia, six-weeks later

The world is at war, the cruise liner docks, and Lily's desire for Edward is untameable. But something else is awry on this ship and Lily is determined to find out ....
Год: 2017
Производитель: Black Swan
Артикул: 891313
ISBN: 9781784162597
Автор: Rhys Rachel

A Dangerous Sky. Level 6
Award-winning original fiction for learners of English. At seven levels, from Starter to Advanced, this impressive selection of carefully graded readers offers exciting reading for every student's capabilities.



Eighteen-year-old Francesca comes to England to achieve her life-long ambition of learning to fly. The first lessons go really well and Doug, her instructor, describes her as a natural pilot. But when Doug's actions lead Francesca to question his motives, she starts to lose her confidence. Her dream of independence in the sky is in danger.

Серия: Cambridge English Readers
Год: 2013
Производитель: Cambridge
Артикул: 926889
ISBN: 9781107694057
Автор: Austen Michael

A Dark and Twisted Tide
Police sergeant Lacey Flint thinks she s safe.



She thinks her new job with the river police, and her new life on a house boat, will keep her away from danger. But she s wrong.



When Lacey discovers a body in the water, and sinister offerings appear in her home, she fears someone is trying to expose her darkest secret.



And the river is the last place she should be.
Год: 2014
Производитель: Corgi book
Артикул: 889615
ISBN: 9780552166386
Автор: Bolton Sharon

A Death in Tokyo
The third and penultimate novel in the Detective Kyoichiro Kaga series by bestselling Japanese crime writer Keigo Higashino



On the Nihonbashi Bridge in Tokyo stands the statue of a mythic beast - a kirin. One evening a man staggers onto the bridge and collapses beneath the winged creature. The patrolman on watch goes to rouse the man, who he presumes to be drunk - only to discover that the man had been stabbed in the chest. He is dead.



Meanwhile, a young man named Yashima is injured in a car accident nearby while trying to flee from the police. Found on him is the wallet of the murdered man.



But is he actually responsible for the crime? What is his connection to the victim? And why did the dying man drag himself from the crime scene to the Nihonbashi Bridge? Tokyo Police Detective Kyoichiro Kaga must piece together the answers to all of these questions in order to find the killer, but each answer he finds seems to throw up more questions ...



Taking us deep into the heart of Tokyo, and reintroducing the charming and ingenious Detective Kyoichiro Kaga, A Death in Tokyo is another mind-bending and hugely satisfying murder mystery from the modern master of classic crime.

Серия: Kyoichiro Kaga
Год: 2022
Производитель: Abacus
Артикул: 975991
ISBN: 9780349145365
Автор: Higashino Keigo

A Death in the Parish
It's been a few months since murder tore apart the community of Champton apart. As Canon Daniel Clement tries to steady his flock, the parish is joined with Upper and Lower Badsaddle, bringing a new tide of unwanted change. But church politics soon become the least of Daniel's problems. His mother - headstrong, fearless Audrey - is obviously up to something, something she is determined to keep from him. And she is not the only one. And then all hell breaks loose when murder returns to Champton in the form of a shocking ritualistic killing...

Серия: Canon Clement Mystery
Год: 2023
Производитель: Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Артикул: 975990
ISBN: 9781399607469
Автор: Coles Richard

A Delicate Truth
A counter-terror operation, codenamed Wildlife, is being mounted in Britain's most precious colony, Gibraltar. Its purpose: to capture and abduct a high-value jihadist arms-buyer. So delicate is the operation that even the Minister's Private Secretary, Toby Bell, is not cleared for it.



Suspecting a disastrous conspiracy, Toby attempts to forestall it, but is promptly posted overseas. Three years on, summoned by Sir Christopher Probyn, retired British diplomat, to his decaying Cornish manor house, and closely watched by Probyn's daughter Emily, Toby must choose between his conscience and his duty to the Service.



If the only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing, how can he keep silent?
Год: 2014
Производитель: Penguin
Артикул: 889162
ISBN: 9780241965184
Автор: Le Carre John

A Delicate Truth
A counter-terror operation, codenamed Wildlife, is being mounted in Britain's most precious colony, Gibraltar. Its purpose: to capture and abduct a high-value jihadist arms-buyer. So delicate is the operation that even the Minister's Private Secretary, Toby Bell, is not cleared for it.



Suspecting a disastrous conspiracy, Toby attempts to forestall it, but is promptly posted overseas. Three years on, summoned by Sir Christopher Probyn, retired British diplomat, to his decaying Cornish manor house, and closely watched by Probyn's daughter Emily, Toby must choose between his conscience and his duty to the Service.



If the only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing, how can he keep silent?

Серия: Penguin John le Carre Hardback Collection
Год: 2013
Производитель: Penguin
Артикул: 888349
ISBN: 9780241396360
Автор: Le Carre John

A Double Life
Who is Claire's Father?



A privileged man, surrounded by devoted friends and a family he adores?



Or the deranged killer who attacked Claire's mother and then vanished in thin air?



For thirty years Claire has been obsessed with uncovering the mystery at the heart of her life, and she knows her father's friends - wealthy, powerful, ruthless - hold the key to the truth.



They know where Claire's father is. And it's time their perfect lives met her fury.
Год: 2019
Производитель: Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Артикул: 910133
ISBN: 9781474607032
Автор: Berry Flynn

A Drink Before The War
Patrick Kenzie and Angela Gennaro are tough private investigators who know the blue-collar neighbourhoods and ghettos of Boston's Dorchester section as only natives can. Working out of an old church belfry, Kenzie and Gennaro take on a seemingly simple assignment for a prominent politician: to uncover the whereabouts of Jenna Angeline, a black cleaning woman who has allegedly stolen confidential Statehouse documents.

But finding Jenna proves easy compared to staying alive. The investigation escalates, uncovering a web of corruption extending from bombed-out ghetto streets to the highest levels of state government.



With slick, hip dialogue and a lyrical narrative pocked by explosions of violence, A Drink Before the War confronts a city in which institutionalized bigotry and corruption are often the norm, and the true nature of 'racial incidents' is rarely clear. Dennis Lehane's remarkable debut is at once a pulsating crime thriller and a mirror of our world, one in which the worst human horrors are found closest to home, and the most vicious obscenities are committed in the name of love.

Серия: Kenzie and Gennaro
Год: 2020
Производитель: Bantam books
Артикул: 972770
ISBN: 9780553818222
Автор: Lehane Dennis

A Dying Breed
Kabul, Afghanistan.



In a brilliantly plotted contemporary thriller with echoes of Graham Greene and John le Carre, William Carver, a veteran but unpredictable BBC hack, is thrown into the unknown when a bomb goes off killing a local official. Warned off the story from every direction, Carver won't give in until he finds the truth.

Patrick, a young producer, is sent out on his first foreign assignment to control the wayward Carver, but as the story unravels it looks like the real story lies between the shadowy corridors of the BBC, the perilous streets of Kabul and the dark chambers of Whitehall.



Set in a shadowy world of dubious morality and political treachery, A Dying Breed is a gripping novel about journalism in a time of war, about the struggle to tell the stories that need to be told - even if it is much easier not to.

Серия: William Carver Novels
Год: 2016
Производитель: Two Roads
Артикул: 910035
ISBN: 9781473625433
Автор: Hanington Peter

A Dying Light In Corduba
Nobody was poisoned at the dinner for the Society of Olive Oil Producers of Baetica, though in retrospect this was quite a surprise...



Inimitable sleuth Marcus Didius Falco is back with a vengeance. On one night, a man is killed and Rome's Chief of Spies left for dead. This leaves no one except Falco to conduct the investigation.

Серия: Falco
Год: 2013
Производитель: Arrow Books
Артикул: 885302
ISBN: 9780099515142
Автор: Davis Lindsey

A Fatal Crossing
November 1924. The Endeavour sets sail to New York with 2, 000 passengers - and a killer - on board.



When an elderly gentleman is found dead at the foot of a staircase, ship's officer Timothy Birch is ready to declare it a tragic accident. But James Temple, a strong-minded Scotland Yard inspector, is certain there is more to this misfortune than meets the eye...



Birch agrees to investigate, and the trail quickly leads to the theft of a priceless painting. Its very existence is known only to its owner and the dead man.



With just days remaining until they reach New York, and even Temple's purpose on board the Endeavour proving increasingly suspicious, Birch's search for the culprit is fraught with danger.



And all the while, the passengers continue to roam the ship with a killer in their midst.
Год: 2022
Производитель: Century
Артикул: 891065
ISBN: 9781529135695
Автор: Hindle Tom

A Fatal Crossing
November 1924. The Endeavour sets sail to New York with 2, 000 passengers - and a killer - on board .



When an elderly gentleman is found dead at the foot of a staircase, ship's officer Timothy Birch is ready to declare it a tragic accident. But James Temple, a strong-minded Scotland Yard inspector, is certain there is more to this misfortune than meets the eye.



Birch agrees to investigate, and the trail quickly leads to the theft of a priceless painting. Its very existence is known only to its owner... and the now dead man.



With just days remaining until they reach New York, and even Temple's purpose on board the Endeavour proving increasingly suspicious, Birch's search for the culprit is fraught with danger.



And all the while, the passengers continue to roam the ship with a killer in their midst.
Год: 2022
Производитель: Penguin
Артикул: 891149
ISBN: 9781529157840
Автор: Hindle Tom

A Fatal Grace
Winter in Three Pines, and the sleepy village is carpeted in snow. It's a time of peace and goodwill - until a scream pierces the biting air. A spectator at the annual Boxing Day curling match has been fatally electrocuted. Despite the large crowd, there are no witnesses and - apparently - no clues.



Chief Inspector Armand Gamache discovers a history of secrets and enemies in the dead woman's past. But he has enemies of his own, and as he is frozen out of decision-making in the Surete du Quebec, he has to decide who he can trust...

Серия: A Chief Inspector Gamache Mystery
Год: 2021
Производитель: Hodder & Stoughton
Артикул: 975998
ISBN: 9781529388183
Автор: Penny Louise

A Fatal Inheritance
London 1948: Eve Forrester is trapped in a loveless marriage, in a gloomy house, in a grey suburb.

Out of the blue, she receives a solicitor's letter. A wealthy stranger has left her a mystery inheritance but in order to find out more, she must travel to the glittering French Riviera.



Eve discovers her legacy is an enchanting villa overlooking the Mediterranean sea and suddenly, life could not be more glamorous.



But under the heat of the sun, all is not as it seems. Now, Eve must unlock the story behind her surprise bequest - before things spiral out of control...



A Fatal Inheritance is an intoxicating story of glamour, intrigue and desire, set against the razzle-dazzle of the French Riviera.
Год: 2019
Производитель: Black Swan
Артикул: 891314
ISBN: 9781784162603
Автор: Rhys Rachel

A Fatal Mistake
A brand new Ryder & Loveday mystery from global bestseller Faith Martin

Summer 1960, Oxford



In the glorious sunshine of Oxford, on a day when everyone should be celebrating, tragedy strikes when a university student is found floating in the river, dead.



Probationary WPC Trudy Loveday finds herself paired with coroner Clement Ryder to investigate and it soon becomes clear that this case is not going to be easy.



The witnesses all refuse to give a straight answer, each new lead sends them in a new direction and tales of other missing youngsters add further mystery to the investigation.



One thing is certain though, something doesn't seem quite right about the university's most popular student .
Год: 2022
Производитель: HQ
Артикул: 898127
ISBN: 9780008321086
Автор: Martin Faith

A Fatal Thaw
Eleven days ago, Roger McAniff bought himself a new Winchester 30.06 rifle. Ten days ago he went out to test it. Now nine people are dead. But only eight were killed by McAniff...



Stephen Syms. Patrick Jorgensen. Lyle and Lucy Longstaff. Lisa Getty. The Weiss family, John, Tina, and their two children. All slaughtered.



Considering she would have been his final victim, private investigator Kate Shugak almost regrets not killing Roger McAniff. But Lisa Getty was killed by a different rifle. Different rifle, different shooter. And Kate is tasked with tracking this unknown killer down before the case goes completely cold...

Серия: Kate Shugak Investigation
Год: 2023
Производитель: Head of Zeus
Артикул: 963672
ISBN: 9781804549568
Автор: Stabenow Dana

A Fine Madness
Danger and dissent stalk the streets and taverns of Elizabethan England. The Queen s chief spymaster, Francis Walsingham, and his team of agents must maintain the highest levels of vigilance to ward off Catholic plots and the ever-present threat of invasion. One operative in particular - a young Cambridge undergraduate of humble origins, controversial beliefs and literary genius who goes by the name of Kit Marlowe - is relentless in his pursuit of intelligence for the Crown. When he is killed outside an inn in Deptford, his mysterious death becomes the subject of rumours and suspicion that are never satisfactorily resolved.



Years later, Thomas Phelippes, a former colleague of Marlowe s and a man once much valued by Walsingham, finds himself imprisoned in the Tower. When he is visited by an emissary of the new king, however, it becomes clear that his long fall from favour may be reversed if he will furnish his monarch with every detail he is able to recall about his murdered friend s life and death. But just what is it that so fascinates King James about the famously mercurial playwright-spy, and does Phelippes know enough to secure his own redemption?



Virtuosic, gripping and meticulously researched, award-winning writer Alan Judd turns is at the peak of his powers in this remarkable novel about a literary genius whose short-life and violent death composed one of the most fascinating unresolved mysteries of all time.
Год: 2022
Производитель: Simon & Schuster
Артикул: 966456
ISBN: 9781471180248
Автор: Judd Alan

A Flicker in the Dark
Chloe Davis' father is a serial killer.

He was convicted and jailed when she was twelve but the bodies of the girls were never found, seemingly lost in the surrounding Louisiana swamps. The case became notorious and Chloe's family was destroyed.



His crimes stalk her like a shadow.

Now Chloe has rebuilt her life. She's a respected psychologist in Baton Rouge and has a loving fiance.

But she just can't shake a tick-tick-tick of paranoia that, at any moment, it might all come crashing down.



As does something darker.

It is the anniversary of her father's crimes, and Chloe is about to see her worst fears come true -

a girl she knows goes missing.



The nightmare has started again
Год: 2022
Производитель: Harpercollins
Артикул: 898806
ISBN: 9780008454487
Автор: Willingham Stacy

A Flicker in the Dark
Chloe Davis' father is a serial killer.

He was convicted and jailed when she was twelve but the bodies of the girls were never found, seemingly lost in the surrounding Louisiana swamps. The case became notorious and Chloe's family was destroyed.



His crimes stalk her like a shadow.

Now Chloe has rebuilt her life. She's a respected psychologist in Baton Rouge and has a loving fiance.

But she just can't shake a tick-tick-tick of paranoia that, at any moment, it might all come crashing down.



As does something darker.

It is the anniversary of her father's crimes, and Chloe is about to see her worst fears come true - a girl she knows goes missing.



The nightmare has started again
Год: 2021
Производитель: Harpercollins
Артикул: 898805
ISBN: 9780008454449
Автор: Willingham Stacy

A French Affair
Some secrets are too devastating to be told...



When Natalie Moore is killed in a freak accident in France her mother - the very poised and elegant Jessica - knows instinctively there is more to it.However, Natalie's father - the glamorous, high-flying Charlie - is so paralysed by the horror of losing his daughter, that he refuses even to discuss his wife's suspicions.



In the end, when their marriage is rocked by yet another terrible shock, Jessica decides to go back to France alone in search of some answers.When she gets to the idyllic vineyard in the heart of Burgundy she soon finds a great deal more than she was expecting in a love that is totally forbidden and a truth that will almost certainly devastate her life.



Set during one long hot summer in a sleepy world of wine, food and romance, A French Affair is a deeply sensual and passionate story of love, resistance, loyalty and betrayal.
Год: 2007
Производитель: Arrow Books
Артикул: 885125
ISBN: 9780099492337
Автор: Lewis Susan

A Gambling Man
Evoking the golden age of crime, and for fans of Raymond Chandler and Agatha Christie, comes the second book in the Aloysius Archer series, A Gambling Man from one of the world's bestselling thriller writers, David Baldacci.



A lucky roll of the dice



California, 1949. Aloysius Archer is on his way to start a new job with a renowned Private Investigator in Bay Town. Feeling lucky, he stops off at a casino in Reno, where he meets an aspiring actress, Liberty Callahan. Together, they head west on a journey filled with danger and surprises - because Archer isn't the only one with a secretive past.



A risk worth taking



Arriving in a town rife with corruption, Archer is tasked with finding out who is doing everything they can to disrupt the appointment of a top official. Then two seemingly unconnected people are murdered at a burlesque club. In a tight-lipped community, Archer must dig deep to reveal the connection between the victims.



All bets are off



As the final perilous showdown unfurls, Archer will need all of his skills to decipher the truth from the lies and finally, to prove she's a star in the making, will Liberty have her moment in the spotlight?



One of his finest books. Great character, great story, great portrait of an era

Bill Clinton on One Good Deed



One Good Deed represents David Baldacci's move into historical crime with a new character, ex- jailbird Aloysius Archer... Unsurprisingly, the talented Baldacci proves to be as adept in this new venture as he is in his contemporary-set novels

Financial Times

Серия: Aloysius Archer
Год: 2021
Производитель: Pan Books
Артикул: 839812
ISBN: 9781529061796
Автор: Baldacci David

A Gambling Man
Evoking the golden age of crime, and for fans of Raymond Chandler and Agatha Christie, comes the second book in the Private Investigator Archer series, A Gambling Man from one of the world s bestselling thriller writers, David Baldacci.



A lucky roll of the dice

California, 1949. Aloysius Archer is on his way to start a new job with a renowned Private Investigator in Bay Town. Feeling lucky, he stops off at a casino in Reno, where he meets an aspiring actress, Liberty Callahan. Together, they head west on a journey filled with danger and surprises because Archer isn t the only one with a secretive past.



A risk worth taking

Arriving in a town rife with corruption, Archer is tasked with finding out who is doing everything they can to disrupt the appointment of a top official. Then two seemingly unconnected people are murdered at a burlesque club. In a tight-lipped community, Archer must dig deep to reveal the connection between the victims.



All bets are off

As the final perilous showdown unfurls, Archer will need all of his skills to decipher the truth from the lies and finally, to prove she s a star in the making, will Liberty have her moment in the spotlight?



A Gambling Man is the second historical crime novel in David Baldacci s Private Investigator Archer series, following the Sunday Times top five bestseller One Good Deed.

Серия: Aloysius Archer
Год: 2021
Производитель: Pan Books
Артикул: 955492
ISBN: 9781529061802
Автор: Baldacci David

A Game of Ghosts
It is deep winter. The darkness is unending.



The private detective named Jaycob Eklund has vanished, and Charlie Parker is dispatched to track him down. Parker's employer, Edgar Ross, an agent of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, has his own reasons for wanting Eklund found.



Eklund is no ordinary investigator. He is obsessively tracking a series of homicides and disappearances, each linked to reports of hauntings. Now Parker will be drawn into Eklund's world, a realm in which the monstrous Mother rules a crumbling criminal empire, in which men strike bargains with angels, and in which the innocent and guilty alike are pawns in a game of ghosts...

Серия: Charlie Parker Thriller
Год: 2018
Производитель: Hodder & Stoughton
Артикул: 905347
ISBN: 9781473641907
Автор: Connolly John

A Game of Sorrows
It is 1628, Charles 1 is on the throne, and the British Crown is finally taking control of Ulster.

Returning to his rooms one night, Alexander Seaton is shocked to find a stranger standing there - a man who could be his double. His name is Sean O'Neill, and he carries a plea for help from Maeve O'Neill, forbidding matriarch of Alexander's mother's family in Ireland. All those who bear their blood have been placed under a poet's curse: one by one they are going to die. Only Alexander is immune, his O'Neill heritage a secret from all but his closest family.

Alexander travels to Ulster, to find himself at the heart of a family divided by secrets and bitter resentments. As he seeks out the author of the curse, he becomes increasingly embroiled in the conflict until - confronted with murder within his own family - his liberty and, finally, his life, are at stake.

Серия: Alexander Seaton
Год: 2019
Производитель: Quercus
Артикул: 976000
ISBN: 9781849162449
Автор: MacLean S. G

A German Requiem
The third in the late Philip Kerr's universally acclaimed Berlin Noir trilogy, A German Requiem sees detective Bernie Gunther enter the new and terrifying world of post-war Vienna.



In the bitter winter of 1947 the Russian Zone is closing ever more tightly around Berlin. So when an enigmatic Russian colonel asks Bernie Gunther to go to Vienna, where his ex-Kripo colleague Emil Becker faces a murder charge, Bernie doesn't hesitate for long. Despite Becker's unsavoury past, Gunther is convinced that shooting an American Nazi-hunter is one crime he didn't commit.



But Vienna is not the peaceful haven Bernie expects it to be. Communism is the new enemy, and with the Nuremberg trials over, some strange alliances are being forged against the Red Menace - alignments that make many wartime atrocities look lily-white by comparison.



Vividly evoking the atmosphere of postwar Vienna, A Germen Requiem brings all Philip Kerr's pace and mordant wit to the tangle of guilt, suspicion, and double-dealing that laid the foundations for the Cold War.

Серия: Bernie Gunther
Год: 2015
Производитель: Penguin
Артикул: 889293
ISBN: 9780241976913
Автор: Kerr Philip

A Gift of Poison
The fourth adventure in the Bronte Mysteries series from bestselling author Rowan Coleman, writing under the pen name, Bella Ellis.



Haworth 1847 - Anne and Emily Bronte have had their books accepted for publication, while Charlotte's has been rejected everywhere, creating a strained atmosphere at the parsonage.



At the same time, a shocking court case has recently concluded, acquitting a workhouse master of murdering his wife by poison. Everyone thinks this famously odious and abusive man is guilty. However, he insists he is many bad things but not a murderer. When an attempt is made on his life, he believes it to be the same person who killed his wife and applies to the detecting sisters for their help.



Despite reservations, they decide that perhaps, as before, it is only they who can get to the truth and prove him innocent - or guilty - without a shadow of doubt.

Серия: Bronte Sisters Mystery
Год: 2023
Производитель: Hodder & Stoughton
Артикул: 956033
ISBN: 9781529363425
Автор: Ellis Bella

A Good Enough Mother
The most dangerous lies are the ones we tell ourselves

Dr Ruth Hartland is the director of a highly respected trauma therapy unit. She is confident, capable and excellent at her job. But she is finding it hard to maintain.

Increasingly preoccupied by her son Tom's disappearance, Ruth is shaken when a new patient arrives at the unit - a young man who looks shockingly like him.

As a therapist, she knows exactly what she should do. But as a mother she makes a very different choice - a decision that will have profound consequences.
Год: 2020
Производитель: Faber and Faber
Артикул: 953815
ISBN: 9780571348398
Автор: Thomas Bev

A Good Father
Des is a good husband, a good father - a good man.



He encourages his wife's artistic endeavours, reads bedtime stories to his children every night, and holds down a well-paid job.



But appearances can be deceptive. His wife seems to be forgetting that her art is for his eyes only. Rumours at work are threatening his reputation as a devoted family man. And his kids don't seem to need him as much as they once did. Des is afraid.



Afraid of the world encroaching on his home.



Afraid of past mistakes catching up with him.



So afraid of losing control over his family that he is contemplating the unthinkable.



A Good Father is a dark and gripping novel that takes you into the mind of a man on the edge.
Год: 2022
Производитель: Penguin
Артикул: 889413
ISBN: 9780241987537
Автор: Talbot Catherine

A Good Marriage
When young lawyer Lizzie gets a call for help from an old friend accused of murdering his wife, she reluctantly says yes. Zach is the chief suspect in his wife, Amanda's, murder but there's no way he could be guilty - is there?



The further Lizzie dives into the glossy world of Brooklyn's Park Slope, the more she realises that things don't add up. Zach doesn't know the most basic details of his wife's past, and Amanda's friends barely know he exists.



And in uncovering the truth, Lizzie will be forced to confront dark secrets that lie at the heart of her own once perfect marriage...
Год: 2020
Производитель: Arrow Books
Артикул: 892304
ISBN: 9781787466524
Автор: McCreight Kimberly

A Grave for Two
Don't miss the start of a new series from the bestselling author of Modus



Selma Falck has lost everything. Her family has left her and her career as a high-flying lawyer is in ruins. Then one day, the man who is to blame for her downfall rings the doorbell, in desperate need of help. If she can do what he asks, Selma will have a chance at getting her old life back.



But when a body turns up, showing links to the case Selma is working, it becomes clear that she has become caught up in something she shouldn't have. And as another person is found dead, Selma must find the killer before it's too late...

Серия: Selma Falck series
Год: 2020
Производитель: Corvus
Артикул: 929578
ISBN: 9781786498519
Автор: Holt Anne

A Great Deliverance
The first novel in the best-selling Inspector Lynley mystery series.



Fat, unlovely Roberta Teys is found beside her father's headless corpse, wearing her best dress and with an axe in her lap. Her first words are: 'I did it. And I am not sorry' and she refuses to say more.



Inspector Thomas Lynley and DS Barbara Havers are sent by Scotland Yard to solve this particularly gruesome murder. And as they navigate their way around a dark labyrinth of secret scandals and appalling crimes, they uncover a series of shocking revelations that shatter the fa ade of the peaceful Yorkshire village.

Серия: Inspector Lynley
Год: 2012
Производитель: Hodder & Stoughton
Артикул: 976004
ISBN: 9781444738261
Автор: George Elizabeth

A Great Reckoning
Former Chief Inspector Gamache has been hunting killers his entire career and as the new commander of the Surete Academy, he is given the chance to combat the corruption and brutality that has been rife throughout the force. But when a former colleague and professor of the Surete Academy is found murdered, with a mysterious map of Three Pines in his possession, Gamache has an even tougher task ahead of him.



When suspicion turns to Gamache himself, and his possible involvement in the crime, the frantic search for answers takes the investigation to the village of Three Pines, where a series of shattering secrets are poised to be revealed ...

Серия: A Chief Inspector Gamache Mystery
Год: 2016
Производитель: Hodder & Stoughton
Артикул: 976005
ISBN: 9781529386554
Автор: Penny Louise

A Haunting at Holkham
The thrilling new novel from the acclaimed author of Murder on Mustique, based on the childhood described in her international bestseller Lady in Waiting.



January 1950. Lady Anne Coke, daughter of the 5th Earl of Leicester, is in Scunthorpe on a business trip when she is called home after a sudden death in the family. She returns to Holkham Hall to discover a mystery: her beloved grandfather has been found dead at the bottom of a flight of stairs with a valuable piece of jewellery in his pocket. No one can find a cause of death, and some even suspect foul play from the ghost who supposedly haunts the house. But Anne's suspicions are aroused; she grew close to her grandfather when they lived together during the war and she is determined to discover the truth.



During World War II, Holkham Hall was an army base with large sections out of bounds, and 11-year-old Anne was in the care of a new governess, whom she hated and believed to be deceitful. Although she had been told to stay away from certain parts of the house, Anne used the secret passageways and the cellars to move around unnoticed. And something she saw then could unlock the mystery of her grandfather's death now ...



Full of rich historical detail, this is a gripping novel of wartime secrets, intrigue and deceit.
Год: 2022
Производитель: Hodder & Stoughton
Артикул: 956034
ISBN: 9781529336412
Автор: Glenconner Anne

A Haunting at Holkham
January 1950. Lady Anne Coke, daughter of the 5th Earl of Leicester, is in Scunthorpe on a business trip when she is called home after a sudden death in the family. She returns to Holkham Hall to discover a mystery: her beloved grandfather has been found dead at the bottom of a flight of stairs with a valuable piece of jewellery in his pocket. No one can find a cause of death, and some even suspect foul play from the ghost who supposedly haunts the house. But Anne's suspicions are aroused; she grew close to her grandfather when they lived together during the war and she is determined to discover the truth.

During World War II, Holkham Hall was an army base with large sections out of bounds, and 11-year-old Anne was in the care of a new governess, whom she hated and believed to be deceitful. Although she had been told to stay away from certain parts of the house, Anne used the secret passageways and the cellars to move around unnoticed. And something she saw then could unlock the mystery of her grandfather's death now ...



Full of rich historical detail, this is a gripping novel of wartime secrets, intrigue and deceit.
Год: 2021
Производитель: Hodder & Stoughton
Артикул: 904930
ISBN: 9781529336405
Автор: Glenconner Anne

A Hero in France
Spring, 1941. Britain is losing the war.



Paris is occupied by the Nazis, dark and silent at night. But when the clouds part, and moonlight floods the city, a Resistance leader called Mathieu steps out to begin his work.



The fighters of the French Resistance are determined not to give up. These courageous men and women - young and old, aristocrats and nightclub owners, teachers and students - help downed British airmen reach the border with Spain. In farmhouses and rural churches, in secret hotels, and on the streets, they risk everything to open Europe's sealed doors and lead Allied fighters to freedom.



But as the military police heightens surveillance, Mathieu and his team face a new threat, dispatched from the Reich to destroy them all.

Серия: Night Soldiers
Год: 2017
Производитель: Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Артикул: 956035
ISBN: 9781474602921
Автор: Furst Alan

A High Mortality of Doves
1919. The Derbyshire village of Wenfield is still reeling from four years of war. Just when the village has begun to regain its tranquillity, a young girl, Myrtle Bligh, is found stabbed and left in woodland, her mouth slit to accommodate a dead dove - a bird of peace.



When two more women are found murdered in identical circumstances, Wenfield is thrown into a panic.



With rumours of a ghostly soldier with a painted face being spotted near the scene of the murders, Inspector Albert Lincoln is sent up from London to crack the terrible case - but with the killer still on the loose, who will be the next to die at the hands of this vicious angel of death?
Год: 2017
Производитель: Piatkus
Артикул: 908888
ISBN: 9780349413068
Автор: Ellis Kate

A Killer in the Family
Aisling's two sons, Ethan and Finn, mean everything to her.



Ever since becoming estranged from her own parents, though, she's always felt like a piece of her is missing.



Desperate to find answers - about her family, and herself - Aisling uploads her DNA to an ancestry website, and is thrilled when it finds a match.



But instead of finding answers, she comes face to face with a detective. Aisling's DNA is a match for a recent crime scene - the latest in a string of murders by a dangerous serial killer, known as 'the bonfire killer'. And the police have three lead suspects: her father, or one of her two sons.



Aisling would do anything for her family - but can she protect a killer?
Год: 2023
Производитель: Michael Joseph
Артикул: 972784
ISBN: 9780241471005
Автор: Lodge Gytha

A Killing in November
Ryan Wilkins grew up on a trailer park, a member of what many people would call the criminal classes. As a young Detective Inspector, he's lost none of his disgust with privileged elites - or his objectionable manners. But he notices things; they stick to his eyes. His professional partner, DI Ray Wilkins, of affluent Nigerian-London heritage, is an impeccably groomed, smooth-talking graduate of Balliol College, Oxford. You wouldn't think they would get on. They don't.



But when a young woman is found strangled at Barnabas Hall, they're forced to.



Rich Oxford is not Ryan's natural habitat. St Barnabas's irascible Provost does not appreciate his forceful line of questioning. But what was the dead woman doing in the Provost's study? Is it just a coincidence that on the night of her murder the college was entertaining Sheik al-Medina, a Gulf state ruler linked to human-rights abuses in his own country and acts of atrocity in others?



As tensions rise, things aren't going well. Ray is in despair. Ryan is in disciplinary measures. But their investigation gradually disentangles the links between a Syrian refugee lawyer now working in the college kitchens, a priceless copy of the Koran in the college collection and the identity of the dead woman.

A Killing in November introduces an unlikely duo from different sides of the tracks in Oxford in a deftly plotted murder story full of dangerous turns, troubled pasts and unconventional detective work.

Серия: DI Wilkins Mysteries
Год: 2022
Производитель: Riverrun
Артикул: 910315
ISBN: 9781529415704
Автор: Mason Simon

A Kind of Anger
The last time anyone saw Lucia Bernardi, she was driving at top speed away from a Swiss villa - leaving the body of her murdered Iraqi lover behind. Now she has vanished, along with a potentially explosive set of papers, and disgraced journalist Piet Maas has been sent to follow her trail to the South of France. But finding her is just the start of his problems. Soon, amid a cast of con men, secret agents and revolutionaries, he must decide whether to land the scoop of his lifetime - or follow Lucia into ever more dangerous waters.

Серия: Penguin Modern Classics
Год: 2023
Производитель: Penguin
Артикул: 972785
ISBN: 9780241606179
Автор: Ambler Eric

A Kiss After Dying
Utterly compulsive, totally original and with a truly jaw-on-the-floor twist, this is a thriller like no other



Charming and handsome, Ricky Manfredi is living an idyllic playboy life when, out of the blue, he bumps into a shy pretty girl named Hannah.



That's not her real name.



Ricky has always had his pick of women. But when chance brings them together a second time, he finds himself irresistibly drawn in.



Which is exactly how she planned it.



It's not long before, to the surprise of them both, Ricky and Hannah are falling for each other. But Hannah knows that can't be allowed to happen.



Because murder is only the first stage of her plan...
Год: 2022
Производитель: Penguin
Артикул: 888777
ISBN: 9780241510513
Автор: Banker Ashok

A Kiss After Dying
It takes a long time to plan the perfect revenge.



Hannah has been working on it for decades.



It has to look like they bumped into each other by accident.



And he has to fall in love with her for real.



But even the best-laid plans can be blown apart in a second.



Because Hannah isn't the only one playing a very deadly game...
Год: 2022
Производитель: Penguin
Артикул: 931676
ISBN: 9781405949590
Автор: Banker Ashok

A Kiss Before Dying
Dorothy meets a handsome young man with an eye for her inheritance while she is in her sophomore year. They are to be married and her life will be blissful; but Dorothy is pregnant and her fiance's plans are ruined, for Dorothy would be disinherited if her father discovered the truth.



So the young man provides his bride to be with some pills that will solve the problem. Soon there will be no baby - and perhaps no Dorothy either... A Kiss before Dying, Levin's first novel, earned him the 1954 Edgar Award for Best First Novel and is regarded as a modern classic.
Год: 2011
Производитель: Corsair
Артикул: 905040
ISBN: 9781849015912
Автор: Levin Ira

A Legacy of Spies
Peter Guillam, staunch colleague and disciple of George Smiley of the British Secret Service, otherwise known as the Circus, has retired to his family farmstead on the south coast of Brittany when a letter from his old Service summons him to London. The reason? His Cold War past has come back to claim him. Intelligence operations that were once the toast of secret London are to be scrutinised by a generation with no memory of the Cold War. Somebody must be made to pay for innocent blood once spilt in the name of the greater good.



Interweaving past with present so that each may tell its own story, John le Carre has given us a novel of superb and enduring quality.

Серия: Penguin John le Carre Hardback Collection
Год: 2022
Производитель: Penguin
Артикул: 888350
ISBN: 9780241396384
Автор: Le Carre John

A Lonely Man
When two men meet in a bookshop in Berlin they begin an uneasy friendship. Patrick has a sensational story to tell: a ghostwriter for a Russian oligarch recently found hanged, he says the people who killed his boss are now following him



A twist on the cat-and-mouse narrative, A Lonely Man is about the search for identity and the elastic nature of truth. As the two men s association hurtles towards tragedy, Robert is forced to confront whether actual events are the only things that give a story life, and if some stories are too dangerous to tell
Год: 2022
Производитель: Faber and Faber
Артикул: 953914
ISBN: 9780571341221
Автор: Power Chris

A Long Night in Paris
When an Israeli tech exec disappears from Charles de Gaulle airport with a woman in red, logic dictates youthful indiscretion. But Israel is on a state of high alert nonetheless. Colonel Zeev Abadi, the new head of Unit 8200's Special Section, just happens to have arrived on the same flight.



For Commissaire Leger of the Paris Police, all coincidences are suspect. When a second young Israeli from the flight is kidnapped, this time at gunpoint from his hotel room, his suspicions are confirmed - and a diplomatic crisis looms. As the race to identify the victims and the reasons behind their abductions intensifies, a covert Chinese commando team watches from the rooftops, while hour by hour the morgue receives fresh bodies from around Paris.



This could be one long night in the City of Lights.
Год: 2019
Производитель: MacLehose Press
Артикул: 904889
ISBN: 9780857058812
Автор: Alfon Dov

A Maiden's Grave
The ultimate thriller writer's first large-scale, ticking clock standalone thriller. An escaped convict takes hostage a bus of deaf children. He will kill one an hour . . .



A trio of desperate convicts has hijacked a bus carrying a group of deaf and mute schoolgirls who are now being held hostage in a disused slaughterhouse. FBI agent Arthur Potter is flown in to negotiate with the men, as are local police, state troopers, politicians and the media. Not everyone has the same agenda. And the killers will kill one innocent child an hour, on the hour, until their demands are met.
Год: 2016
Производитель: Hodder & Stoughton
Артикул: 905346
ISBN: 9781473631953
Автор: Deaver Jeffery

A Mask of Shadows
1889. The Scottish Play is coming home.



But before the darling couple of London theatre, Henry Irving & Ellen Terry, take their acclaimed Macbeth to the Edinburgh stage terror treads the boards.



A grisly message found smeared across the cobbles in blood, foretelling someone's demise.



As the bloody prophecies continue to appear Edinburgh's own beloved pair - Detective 'Nine-Nails' McGray & Inspector Ian Frey - enter the scene. Frey scoffs at this blatant publicity stunt, while McGray is convinced of supernatural affairs.



As they scrutinise the key players, they discover that Terry, Irving, and his peculiar, preoccupied assistant (one Bram Stoker) all have reasons to kill, or be killed...



But one thing is clear. By occult curse or human hand, death will take bow the night the curtain rises.

Серия: A Victorian Mystery
Год: 2017
Производитель: Penguin
Артикул: 972796
ISBN: 9781405926225
Автор: de Muriel Oscar

A Masterly Murder
The winter of 1353 has been appallingly wet, there is a fever outbreak amongst the poorer townspeople and the country is not yet fully recovered from the aftermath of the plague. The increasing reputation and wealth of the Cambridge colleges are causing dangerous tensions between the town, Church and University.



Matthew Bartholomew is called to look into the deaths of three members of the University of who died from drinking poisoned wine, and soon he stumbles upon criminal activities that implicate his relatives, friends and colleagues - so he must solve the case before matters in the town get out of hand...



The Cambridge college of Michaelhouse is in uproar in the November of 1353: Kenyngham the saintly but ageing Master has announced his retirement and with unseemly haste a Michaelhouse Fellow named Runham arranges his own 'election' as his successor. Within days he has dismissed several members of staff, including the redoubtable laundress Agatha, and is making life so unpleasant for the scholars that even Matthew Bartholomew believes his future as physician and teacher at the college is untenable.



While Matthew is helping Brother Michael, Proctor of the fledgling university, investigate some suspicious deaths, Runham himself is murdered and, although mourned by none, Matthew and Michael know they have to solve the mystery before any more damage is done to their beloved Michaelhouse.

Серия: Chronicles of Matthew Bartholomew
Год: 2017
Производитель: Sphere
Артикул: 909126
ISBN: 9780751569407
Автор: Gregory Susanna

A Matter of Honour
The opening of a letter leads to a desperate chase across Europe in A Matter of Honour by Jeffrey Archer, one of the world s bestselling novelists.



Adam Scott listens to the reading of his father s will, aware that the contents can only be meagre. The Colonel, after all, had nothing to leave except a letter he had never opened himself, a letter that can only bring further disgrace to the family name.



Against his mother s advice, Adam opens the letter, and immediately realizes his life can never be the same again. The contents leave him with no choice but to follow a course his father would have described as a matter of honour.
Год: 2022
Производитель: Pan Books
Артикул: 955429
ISBN: 9781529059991
Автор: Archer Jeffrey

A Matter of Murder
Two years ago, Miff Ferguson chose to opt out of the rat race. Since then he's been living rough and happily so. That is until now. For, as the first signs of winter approach, everything changes. While looking for shelter, Miff stumbles across the dead body of a young woman inside a dilapidated warehouse. Quickly realising he's not alone, and what's worse he's been spotted, Miff becomes embroiled in a game of cat-and-mouse with a killer that forces him to abandon his life on the streets and take refuge with his aunt and uncle in the village of Weston St Ambrose. But, despite his best efforts to lie low, trouble seems to follow him and when another dead body is discovered at a local farm, it's clear Miff is not free from danger.



With the clock ticking, Inspector Jess Campbell and Superintendent Ian Carter must join forces once again with the team of police at Bamford to piece together the puzzle before another innocent life is lost...
Год: 2020
Производитель: Headline
Артикул: 905155
ISBN: 9781472270627
Автор: Granger Ann

A Meditation on Murder
Enhance your enjoyment of the series as, for the first time, Robert Thorogood brings the characters to life on the page in an all-new locked-room mystery.



Aslan Kennedy has an idyllic life: leader of a spiritual retreat for wealthy holidaymakers on one of the Caribbean's most unspoilt islands, Saint Marie. Until he's murdered, that is. The case seems open and shut: when Aslan was killed he was inside a locked room with only five other people, one of whom has already confessed to the murder.



Detective Inspector Richard Poole is hot, bothered, and fed up with talking to witnesses who'd rather discuss his 'aura' than their whereabouts at the time of the murder. But he also knows that the facts of the case don't quite stack up. In fact, he's convinced that the person who's just confessed to the murder is the one person who couldn't have done it. Determined to track down the real killer, DI Poole is soon on the trail, and no stone will be left unturned.
Год: 2015
Производитель: Mira
Артикул: 899785
ISBN: 9781848453715
Автор: Thorogood Robert

A Midsummer's Equation
When a man's body is discovered at the base of some cliffs in the small resort town of Hari Cove, the police at first suspect a tragic accident, a misstep that cost the man his life. However, when the victim is found to have been a former policeman and that the cause of death was actually carbon monoxide poisoning, they begin a murder investigation.



Manabu Yukawa, the physicist known as 'Detective Galileo', is in Hari Cove to speak at a conference on a planned underwater mining operation, and finds himself drawn into the case. Did the murder have something to do with the fight of the small community to rebuild itself, or does it have its roots in the town's history?



In a series of twists as complex and surprising as any in Higashino's brilliant, critically acclaimed work, Yukawa uncovers the hidden relationship behind the tragic events that led to this murder.
Год: 2016
Производитель: Abacus
Артикул: 908841
ISBN: 9780349142326
Автор: Higashino Keigo

A Midwinter Promise
A Midwinter Promise by Sunday Times top ten bestselling author Lulu Taylor is a dramatic story of loss, grief and the legacy of secrets.



The past

A lonely and imaginative child, Julia loves her family's beautiful and wild Cornish home with all her heart. But, marked by dark troubles, she enters her adult years determined to leave and seek a new beginning in London. It's there she meets the handsome David. They fall in love but, when Julia becomes pregnant, even he can't stop the terrible echoes of the past from ringing in her ears. The only sound to be heard above the noise is the old Cornish house, calling her home



The present

For Julia's adult children, Alex and Johnnie, the house hides the history of their family within its walls. For Alex, it is full of memories of her late mother. For Johnnie, it is the house - rightfully theirs after Julia's death - that was stolen. With their father now lying in a hospital bed, time is running out for Alex and Johnnie to uncover the secrets of what happened to their mother all those years ago. Can they discover the truth before the house closes its doors to them forever?
Год: 2019
Производитель: Pan Books
Артикул: 902623
ISBN: 9781529029659
Автор: Taylor Lulu

A Minute to Midnight
A Minute to Midnight is the gripping follow up to Long Road to Mercy featuring Special Agent Atlee Pine from one of the world s most favourite thriller writers, David Baldacci.



Without Mercy.



At six years old, Atlee s twin sister, Mercy, was taken from the family home while Atlee was left for dead. Since that fateful night, Atlee has dedicated her life and career to catching those who hurt others.



Word of a killer.



Atlee has never stopped searching for answers about her sister. A notorious serial killer, locked in a maximum-security prison, continues to haunt her. Does he really know what happened to Mercy?



Quest for justice.



When Atlee oversteps the mark on the arrest of a dangerous criminal, the FBI gives her a leave of absence the perfect opportunity to return to where it all began.



Determined to finally uncover the truth, Atlee Pine s journey home turns into a rollercoaster ride of murder, long-buried secrets and lies . . . and a revelation so personal that everything she once believed is fast turning to dust.

Серия: Atlee Pine
Год: 2020
Производитель: Pan Books
Артикул: 955390
ISBN: 9781509874484
Автор: Baldacci David

A Morbid Taste For Bones
In 1137 the ambitious head of Shrewsbury Abbey has decided to acquire the remains of Saint Winifred for his Benedictine order. Brother Cadfael is part of the expedition sent to her final resting place in Wales, where they find the villagers passionately divided by the Benedictines offer for the saint s relics.



Canny, wise and all too worldly, Cadfael isn t surprised when this taste for bones leads to bloody murder. The leading opponent to moving the grave has been shot dead with a mysterious arrow, and some say Winifred herself dealt the blow. Brother Cadfael knows that a carnal hand did the killings, but he doesn t know that his plan to unearth a murderer may dig up a case of love and justice, where the wages of sin may be scandal or his own ruin.

Серия: Brother Cadfael Chronicles
Год: 2010
Производитель: Sphere
Артикул: 976020
ISBN: 9780751543827
Автор: Peters Ellis

A Morning For Flamingos
A routine assignment transporting two death-row prisoners to their executions goes fatally wrong, leaving Dave Robicheaux brutally wounded and his partner dead.



Obsessed with revenge, Dave is persuaded by the DEA to go undercover into the torrid sleepy depths of New Orleans, a volatile world of Mafia drug-running and Cajun voodoo magic. He becomes irrevocably snarled in the nightmarish web surrounding Mafia don Tony Cardo and must put himself against his own worst fears in order to survive.

Серия: Dave Robicheaux
Год: 2005
Производитель: Orion
Артикул: 909509
ISBN: 9781409155942
Автор: Burke James Lee

A Mortal Curiosity
The second novel in Ann Granger's wonderfully atmospheric Victorian mystery series.



Lizzie Martin, lady's companion, has been sent from London to the New Forest to comfort a young woman whose baby has tragically died. A sad enough task, but things take an even darker turn when a rat-catcher is found murdered in the garden, and the young woman is discovered beside the body, crying and covered in blood. Not knowing where else to turn, Lizzie calls upon her friend Inspector Ben Ross from Scotland Yard to solve the horrific crime.

Серия: Inspector Ben Ross Mystery
Год: 2008
Производитель: Headline
Артикул: 976021
ISBN: 9780755346936
Автор: Granger Ann

A Most Wanted Man
An illegal Muslim immigrant arrives in Hamburg with a traumatic past and the key to a fortune held in a private bank. He says his name is Issa. To the idealistic young human rights lawyer Annabel, determined to save him from deportation, he is a worthy cause. To the intelligence services of Britain, Germany and America, however, he is a potential jihadist - and a pawn between them as they seek to make a kill in the war on terror.



A Most Wanted Man is a gripping and disquieting story of paranoia, disillusionment and betrayal in the moral no-man's land of the post-9/11 world.

Серия: Penguin John le Carre Hardback Collection
Год: 2022
Производитель: Penguin
Артикул: 888092
ISBN: 9780241337288
Автор: Le Carre John

A Most Wanted Man
An illegal Muslim immigrant arrives in Hamburg with a traumatic past and the key to a fortune held in a private bank. He says his name is Issa. To the idealistic young human rights lawyer Annabel, determined to save him from deportation, he is a worthy cause. To the intelligence services of Britain, Germany and America, however, he is a potential jihadist - and a pawn between them as they seek to make a kill in the war on terror.



A Most Wanted Man is a gripping and disquieting story of paranoia, disillusionment and betrayal in the moral no-man's land of the post-9/11 world.

Серия: Penguin Modern Classics
Год: 2018
Производитель: Penguin
Артикул: 888050
ISBN: 9780241322420
Автор: Le Carre John

A Narrow Door
Now I'm in charge, the gates are my gates. The rules are my rules.



It's an incendiary moment for St Oswald's school. For the first time in its history, a headmistress is in power, the gates opening to girls.



Rebecca Buckfast has spilled blood to reach this position. Barely forty, she is just starting to reap the harvest of her ambition. As the new regime takes on the old guard, the ground shifts. And with it, the remains of a body are discovered.



But Rebecca is here to make her mark. She'll bury the past so deep it will evade even her own memory, just like she has done before. After all...



You can't keep a good woman down.
Год: 2021
Производитель: Orbit
Артикул: 905584
ISBN: 9781409170846
Автор: Harris Joanne

A Necessary Death
The snow is falling



Selma Falck is living a nightmare. Trapped in a burning cabin on a freezing snow-covered mountain, she has no idea where she is or how she got there. Bruised, bleeding and naked, she barely makes it out in time as the flames engulf the cabin. With no signs of human habitation nearby, the temperature rapidly dropping, and a blizzard approaching, how will she survive?



She s lost in the wilderness



As Selma fights the cold, the hunger and her own wounds, she eventually forms a frightening picture of the past six months. Not only does she have to find a way to stay alive, she needs to make it back to civilization, quickly. Murder has been committed, and a great injustice must be stopped. The very future of the nation itself is at stake



If the cold doesn t kill her, they will

Серия: Selma Falck series
Год: 2021
Производитель: Corvus
Артикул: 929273
ISBN: 9781786498540
Автор: Holt Anne

A Necessary Evil
India, 1920. Captain Sam Wyndham and Sergeant Banerjee of Calcutta Police must investigate the dramatic assassination of a Maharaja's son...



Sam Wyndham is visiting the kingdom of Sambalpore, home to diamond mines and the beautiful Palace of the Sun.



But when the Maharaja's eldest son is assassinated, Wyndham realises that the realm is riven with conflict. Prince Adhir was unpopular with religious groups, while his brother - now in line to the throne - appears to be a feckless playboy.



As Wyndham and Sergeant 'Surrender-not' Banerjee endeavour to unravel the mystery, they become entangled in a dangerous world. They must find the murderer, before the murderer finds them.

Серия: Wyndham and Banerjee series
Год: 2018
Производитель: Vintage books
Артикул: 891492
ISBN: 9781784704773
Автор: Mukherjee Abir

A Nest of Vipers
A Nest of Vipers is the twenty-first novel in Andrea Camilleri's irresistible Inspector Montalbano series.



On what should be a quiet Sunday morning, Inspector Montalbano is called to a murder scene on the Sicilian coast. A man has discovered his father dead in his Vigatan beach house, his body slumped on the dining room floor, his morning coffee spilled across the table, and a single gunshot wound at the base of his skull.



First appearances point to the son having the most to gain from his father's untimely death, a notion his sister can't help but reinforce. But when Montalbano delves deeper into the case, and learns of the dishonourable life the victim led, it soon becomes clear half of Vigata has a motive for his murder and this won't be as simple as the inspector had once hoped...

Серия: Inspector Montalbano mysteries
Год: 2021
Производитель: Picador
Артикул: 902543
ISBN: 9781529043990
Автор: Camilleri Andrea

A Noble Radiance
In a small village at the foot of the Italian Dolomites, a grave is discovered by the owner of a deserted farmhouse, which has been untouched for decades. While the body is badly decomposed, a valuable signet ring is found close by, providing the first vital clue which will lead Commissario Brunetti right to the heart of aristocratic Venice, to a family still grieving their abducted son.

Серия: A Commissario Brunetti Mystery
Год: 2022
Производитель: Penguin
Артикул: 972803
ISBN: 9781529158298
Автор: Leon Donna

A Painted House
In rural Arkansas, seven-year-old farm boy Luke Chandler lives in the cotton fields with his parents and grandparents.



When the cotton is ready to be harvested, the Chandlers hire a group of Mexicans and a family from the Ozarks to help harvest it.



For six weeks the group pick cotton, battling the heat, rain, fatigue, and sometimes each other. During this time, Luke sees and hears things no seven-year-old should witness.



Can he keep the secrets that could threaten his family's business and change their lives forever?



A Painted House is a moving story of one boy's journey from innocence to experience, drawn from the personal experience of legendary legal thriller author John Grisham.
Год: 2022
Производитель: Arrow Books
Артикул: 885519
ISBN: 9780099537021
Автор: Grisham John

A Perfect Spy
Magnus Pym - ranking diplomat, consummate Englishman, loving husband, secret agent - has vanished. Has he defected? Gone to ground? As the hunt for Pym intensifies, the secrets of his life are revealed: the people he has loved and betrayed, the unreliable con-man father who made him, the two mentors who moulded and shaped him, and now wish to claim this perfect spy as their own.



Described by le Carre as his most autobiographical novel, A Perfect Spy is a devastating portrayal of a man who has played different roles for so long, he no longer knows who he is.

Серия: Penguin John le Carre Hardback Collection
Год: 2020
Производитель: Penguin
Артикул: 888094
ISBN: 9780241337301
Автор: Le Carre John

A Perfect Spy
Magnus Pym - ranking diplomat, consummate Englishman, loving husband, secret agent - has vanished. Has he defected? Gone to ground? As the hunt for Pym intensifies, the secrets of his life are revealed: the people he has loved and betrayed, the unreliable con-man father who made him, the two mentors who moulded and shaped him, and now wish to claim this perfect spy as their own.



Described by le Carre as his most autobiographical novel, A Perfect Spy is a devastating portrayal of a man who has played different roles for so long, he no longer knows who he is.

Серия: Penguin Modern Classics
Год: 2018
Производитель: Penguin
Артикул: 888052
ISBN: 9780241322482
Автор: Le Carre John

A Place of Safety
Everyone deserves a second chance - or at least that's what ex-vicar Lionel Lawrence believes when he decides to open up the old rectory to a stream of young offenders. Lionel only wants to help these poor souls, but his good deed quickly spirals into a deadly mix of blackmail and murder.

Detective Chief Inspector Barnaby is sure he knows who is behind the disappearance of Lionel's latest young charge. Will this elusive suspect prove to be the incarnation of evil itself?

Серия: A Midsomer Murders Mystery
Год: 2016
Производитель: Headline
Артикул: 976026
ISBN: 9781472243706
Автор: Graham Caroline

A Presumption of Death
It's 1940, and while the Second World War rages on, Harriet Vane - now Lady Peter Wimsey - has taken her children to safety in the country.



But the war has followed them: glamorous RAF pilots and even more glamorous land-girls scandalise the villagers, and the blackout makes the night-time lanes as sinister as the back alleys of London.



Then the village's first air raid practice ends with a very real body on the ground - and it's not a war casualty, but a case of plain, old-fashioned murder. And it's not long before a second body is found . . .

Серия: Peter Wimsey and Harriet Vane
Год: 2003
Производитель: Hodder & Stoughton
Артикул: 909714
ISBN: 9781444792911
Автор: Sayers Dorothy Leigh, Paton Walsh Jill

A Promise of Ankles. A 44 Scotland Street Novel
The winds of change are blowing through Scotland Street. Though Bertie is getting older, he can't resist an adventure to escape his domineering mother, and Bruce, ever the navel-gazer, will have to bring his best self to navigate the complexities of the pas de deux. While Alexander McCall Smith's delightfully warm and witty comedy takes some surprising turns, the improbable adventures of this quirky cast of Scots will affirm the heart and joy in Edinburgh's New Town.

Серия: 44 Scotland Street
Год: 2021
Производитель: Little, Brown and Company
Артикул: 825125
ISBN: 9780349144719
Автор: McCall Smith Alexander

A Question of Belief
As Venice experiences a debilitating heatwave, Commissario Brunetti escapes the city to spend time with his family. For Ispettore Vianello, however, the weather is the last thing on his mind. It appears his aunt has become obsessed with horoscopes and has been withdrawing large amounts of money from the family business. Not knowing what to do, he consults Brunetti and asks permission to trail her.



Meanwhile, Brunetti receives a visit from a friend who works at the Commune. It seems that discrepancies have been occurring at the Courthouse involving a judge and an usher with a flawless track record. Intrigued, Brunetti asks Signorina Elettra to find out what she can while he's away.



When news reaches Brunetti that the usher from the Courthouse has been viciously murdered, he returns to investigate. But why would someone want a good man dead, and what might his death have to do with the Courthouse discrepancies?

Серия: A Commissario Brunetti Mystery
Год: 2011
Производитель: Arrow Books
Артикул: 972809
ISBN: 9780099547624
Автор: Leon Donna

A Question of Blood
Two seventeen-year-olds are killed by an ex-Army loner who has gone off the rails. The mystery takes Rebus into the heart of a shattered community. Ex-Army himself, Rebus becomes fascinated by the killer, and finds he is not alone. Army investigators are on the scene, and won't be shaken off. The killer had friends and enemies to spare and left behind a legacy of secrets and lies. Rebus has more than his share of personal problems, too. He's fresh out of hospital, but won't say how it happened. Could there be a connection with a house-fire and the unfortunate death of a petty criminal who had been harassing Rebus's colleague Siobhan Clarke?

Серия: Inspector Rebus
Год: 2012
Производитель: Orion
Артикул: 328629
ISBN: 9780752883663
Автор: Rankin Ian

A Question of Blood
A superb, highly suspenseful crime thriller from the No.1 Sunday Times bestselling author.

A Crime Too Close to Home . . .



At a private school, two teenagers are killed by an ex-Army loner who then turned the gun on himself. Finding the truth will take Detective Inspector John Rebus into the heart of a shattered community.



Ex-Army himself, Rebus becomes fascinated by the killer, and finds he is not alone. It seems the man had friends in high places and enemies to spare.



And Rebus has secrets of his own. He's fresh out of hospital, with newly bandaged hands, and won't say what happened. But after the death of a criminal he visited, who had been stalking DS Siobhan Clarke, Rebus is the prime suspect...

Серия: Inspector Rebus
Год: 2017
Производитель: Orion
Артикул: 905042
ISBN: 9781409175766
Автор: Rankin Ian

A Question of Guilt
In 1999, seventeen-year-old Tone Vaterland was killed on her way home from work.



Desperate for a conviction the police deemed the investigation an open-and-shut case and sent her spurned boyfriend, Danny Momrak, down for murder.



But twenty years later William Wisting receives a puzzling letter. It suggests the wrong man was convicted for Tone's death.



And the real murderer is still out there.



Wisting is quickly thrown into a terrifying race against time where he must find the sender, decipher this mysterious letter and catch the real killer - before they strike again . . .

Серия: Wisting
Год: 2022
Производитель: Penguin
Артикул: 890704
ISBN: 9781405941655
Автор: Horst Jorn Lier

A Question of Identity
How do you catch a killer who doesn't exist?



One snowy night in the cathedral city of Lafferton, an old woman is dragged from her bed and strangled with a length of flex.



DCS Simon Serrailler and his team search desperately for clues to her murderer. All they know is that the killer will strike again, and will once more leave the same tell-tale signature.



Then they track down a name: Alan Keyes. But Alan Keyes has no birth certificate, no address, no job, no family, no passport, no dental records. Nothing.



Their killer does not exist.

Серия: Simon Serrailler
Год: 2015
Производитель: Vintage books
Артикул: 885729
ISBN: 9780099554875
Автор: Hill Susan

A Quiet Flame
Posing as an escaping Nazi war-criminal Bernie Gunther arrives in Buenos Aires and, having revealed his real identity to the local chief of police, discovers that his reputation as a detective goes before him.

A young girl has been murdered in peculiarly gruesome circumstances that strongly resemble Bernie's final case as a homicide detective with the Berlin police. A case he had failed to solve.

Circumstances lead the chief of police in Buenos Aires to suppose that the murderer may be one of several thousand ex Nazis who have fetched up in Argentina since 1945. And, therefore, who better than Bernie Gunther to help him track that murderer down?

Серия: Bernie Gunther
Год: 2008
Производитель: Quercus
Артикул: 976030
ISBN: 9781847245588
Автор: Kerr Philip

A Quiver Full of Arrows
Quiver Full of Arrows is a collection of twelve exciting short stories from bestselling author, Jeffrey Archer.



Two friends fall under the spell of a New York beauty - with an unexpected outcome. A casual remark is taken seriously by a Chinese sculptor, and the British Ambassador becomes the owner of a priceless work of art. An insurance claims adviser has a most surprising encounter on the train home to Sevenoaks.



This marvellous collection of twelve stories ends with a hauntingly written, atmospheric account of two undergraduates at Oxford in the 1930s, a tale of bitter rivalry that ends in a memorable love story.
Год: 2024
Производитель: Pan Books
Артикул: 903315
ISBN: 9781447221869
Автор: Archer Jeffrey

A Rising Man
India, 1919. Desperate for a fresh start, Captain Sam Wyndham arrives to take up an important post in Calcutta's police force.



He is soon called to the scene of a horrifying murder. The victim was a senior official, and a note left in his mouth warns the British to leave India - or else.



With the stability of the Empire under threat, Wyndham and Sergeant 'Surrender-not' Banerjee must solve the case quickly. But there are some who will do anything to stop them...

Серия: Wyndham and Banerjee series
Год: 2017
Производитель: Vintage books
Артикул: 891401
ISBN: 9781784701345
Автор: Mukherjee Abir