Jimmy, Dave y Sean crecieron juntos en la sección peligrosa de Boston. Veinticinco años después vuelven a reunirse, cuando la hija de 19 años de Jimmy es brutalmente asesinada. Sean, que ahora es policía, es asignado para resolver el caso. Además de desenredar este crimen, Sean deberá estar pendiente de su amigo Jimmy, quien busca vengarse del asesino de su hija. Conectado al crimen por una serie de circunstancias, Dave se ve obligado a enfrentarse con los demonios de su propio pasado. A medida que la investigación se concentra alrededor de estos tres amigos, se despliega una siniestra historia, que tiene que ver con la amistad, la familia y la inocencia perdida demasiado pronto.
Dennis Lehane
A protest group hits the headlines when unrest explodes into murder. Already on the scene, journalist Lindsay Gordon desperately tries to strike a balance between personal and professional responsibilities. As she peels back the layers of deception surrounding the protest and its opponents, she finds that no one – ratepayer or reporter, policeman or peace woman – seems wholly above suspicion. Then Lindsay uncovers a truth that even she can scarcely believe…
Val McDermid
Виктор Павлович Точинов
Они Охотники. Но свою дичь они ищут в каменных джунглях наших городов. Их добычей становятся те, кого они считает отбросами рас, генетическим мусором. А к таким они относят всех инородцев, всех, кто не принадлежит к Белой расе. И объявляют на них Охоту. Трепещите, потому что настал День Расы.Белой Расы.
Будимир
Чудесные цветы и необъяснимые убийства – что между ними общего?.. И все же общее есть: в смертельные раны своих жертв убийца вкладывает экзотические цветы. Это серийный маньяк – не сомневаются начальник «убойного» отдела Никита Колосов и сотрудница пресс-центра УВД Катя Петровская. И он явно хочет что-то сказать, совершая этот странный и страшный ритуал. Улики указывают на цветоводческую фирму «Царство Флоры». Но здесь тишь и гладь – флористы мирно возятся со своим пестрым, ароматным товаром, составляют букеты, композиции, панно… И лишь гобелен на стене офиса вызывает смутную тревогу: на нем крокусы, смилаксы, анемоны, гиацинты… Те самые цветы, что находят на телах убитых. Раскрыть тайну гобелена – значит понять логику преступника. И Никита с Катей находят разгадку. Вот только не слишком ли поздно? Ведь и для Колосова уже выбраны и приготовлены прощальные цветы…
Татьяна Юрьевна Степанова
«Верблюжий клуб» — группа детективов-любителей, убежденных, что правительство покрывает серьезные политические преступления.В его составе — интеллектуал из библиотеки конгресса, программист, ветеран Вьетнама и бывший разведчик.А председатель — таинственный «человек без прошлого», называющий себя Оливером Стоуном.Новое дело «Верблюжьего клуба» — расследование серии загадочных убийств высокопоставленных чиновников.Полиция и ФБР считают, что преступник выбирает жертву исключительно по социальному статусу и между убитыми нет никакой связи.Однако Стоун и его команда уверены: связь существует.
Дэвид Бальдаччи
Однажды утром четырнадцатилетняя Синтия проснулась – и поняла, что находится в пустом доме одна.Ее родители и брат просто исчезли – так, словно их никогда и не было.Куда они пропали? И почему бросили дочь?Живы ли они?Прошло много лет, но полиция до сих пор не дала ответов на эти вопросы.Пытаясь разгадать тайну. Синтия решает рассказать свою историю на телевидении.Решает, даже не подозревая, что этим невинным поступком подвергает себя смертельной опасности и превращает свою жизнь в непрерывный кошмар…«Исчезнуть не простившись» – потрясающий психологический триллер, который держит читателя в напряжении до последней страницы. Если вы любите Харлана Кобена, вам понравится и Линвуд Баркли!Питер РолинсонПотрясающе оригинальный триллер с крутыми, неожиданными сюжетными поворотами. Линвуд Баркли – имя, которое надо запомнить каждому поклоннику хорошей детективной прозы!Джозеф ФайндерБаркли делает в жанре психологического триллера примерно тоже, что сделал Стивен Кинг для романа ужасов, – привносит новый смысл в само понятие жанра!Джайлс БлантЧтение этой книги можно сравнить с катанием на «американских горках»! От сюрпризов автора захватывает дух.Роберт Крайс
Линвуд Баркли
Dan Brown
Dan Brown’s new novel, the eagerly awaited follow-up to his #1 international phenomenon, The Da Vinci Code, which was the bestselling hardcover adult novel of all time, will be published on September 15, 2009.The Lost Symbol will once again feature Dan Brown’s unforgettable protagonist, Robert Langdon.“The Lost Symbol is a brilliant and compelling thriller. Dan Brown’s prodigious talent for storytelling, infused with history, codes and intrigue, is on full display in this new book. This is one of the most anticipated publications in recent history, and it was well worth the wait,” said Sonny Mehta, Chairman and Editor in Chief of the Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group.Brown’s longtime editor, Jason Kaufman, Vice President and Executive Editor at Doubleday said, “Nothing ever is as it first appears in a Dan Brown novel. This book’s narrative takes place in a twelve-hour period, and from the first page, Dan’s readers will feel the thrill of discovery as they follow Robert Langdon through a masterful and unexpected new landscape. The Lost Symbol is full of surprises.”"This novel has been a strange and wonderful journey," said Brown. "Weaving five years of research into the story's twelve-hour timeframe was an exhilarating challenge. Robert Langdon’s life clearly moves a lot faster than mine."
В обычном маленьком городке живет обычный человек, медленно, но верно погружающийся в пучину черной ненависти к себе и окружающим. Нужен всего лишь повод, чтобы ненависть выплеснулась на волю потоком хлещущей крови. И когда повод находится, обычного человека, ставшего убийцей, уже не остановить…
Стивен Кинг
Маньяк жестоко расправляется с молодыми женщинами, сдирая с них лоскуты кожи. Ему противостоит юная Клэрис Старлинг, курсант Академии ФБР. Именно она, сумев войти в контакт с выдающимся ученым-психиатром доктором Лектером, которого содержат в больнице для невменяемых преступников, и находит убийцу-маньяка, жаждущего сшить себе костюм девушки из настоящей девушки.
Томас Харрис
The scene is set in Cambridge, with three case histories from the past: A young child who mysteriously disappeared from a tent in her back garden; An unidentified man in a yellow jumper who marched into an office and slashed a young girl through the throat; and a young woman found by the police sitting in her kitchen next to the body of her husband, an axe buried in his head. Jackson Brodie, a private investigator and former police detective, is quietly contemplating life as a divorced father when he is flung into the midst of these resurrected old crimes. Julia and Amelia Land, long having given up hope of uncovering the truth of what happened to their baby sister, Olivia, suddenly discover her lost toy mouse in the study of their recently-deceased father. Enlisting Jackson's help they embroil him in the complexities of their own jealousies, obsessions and lust. A woman named Shirley needs Jackson to help find her lost niece. Amidst the incessant demands of the Land sisters, Jackson meets solicitor Theo Wyre whose daughter, Laura, was murdered in his office and, now that the police case has been closed, is desperate for Jackson to help him lay Laura's ghost to rest. As he starts his investigations Jackson has the sinister feeling that someone is following him. As he begins to unearth secrets that have remained hidden for many years, he is assailed by his former wife's plan to take his young daughter away to live in New Zealand, and his stalker becomes increasingly malevolent and dangerous. In digging into the past Jackson seems to have unwittingly threatened his own future.This wonderfully crafted, intricately plotted novel is heartbreaking, uplifting, full of suspense and often very funny, and shows Kate Atkinson returning to the literary scene at the height of her powers.
Kate Atkinson
Once you start The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, there's no turning back. This debut thriller-the first in a trilogy from the late Stieg Larsson-is a serious page-turner rivaling the best of Charlie Huston and Michael Connelly. Mikael Blomkvist, a once-respected financial journalist, watches his professional life rapidly crumble around him. Prospects appear bleak until an unexpected (and unsettling) offer to resurrect his name is extended by an old-school titan of Swedish industry. The catch-and there's always a catch-is that Blomkvist must first spend a year researching a mysterious disappearance that has remained unsolved for nearly four decades. With few other options, he accepts and enlists the help of investigator Lisbeth Salander, a misunderstood genius with a cache of authority issues. Little is as it seems in Larsson's novel, but there is at least one constant: you really don't want to mess with the girl with the dragon tattoo.
Stieg Larsson
The year is 1906, and America is segregated. Hatred and discrimination plague the streets, the classroom, and the courts. But in Washington D.C., Ben Corbett, a smart and courageous lawyer, makes it his mission to confront injustice at every turn. He represents those who nobody else dares defend, merely because of the color of their skin. When President Roosevelt, under whom Ben served in the Spanish-American war, asks Ben to investigate rumors of the resurgence of the Ku Klux Klan in his home town in Mississippi, he cannot refuse. The details of Ben's harrowing story-and his experiences with a remarkable man named Abraham Cross-were passed from generation to generation, until they were finally recounted to Alex Cross by his grandmother, Nana Mama. From the first time hear heard the story, Alex was unable to forget the unimaginable events Ben witnessed in Eudora and pledged to tell it to the world. Alex Cross's Trial is unlike any story Patterson has ever told, but offers the astounding action and breakneck speed of any Alex Cross novel.
James Patterson , Richard DiLallo
В 1845 году экспедиция под командованием опытного полярного исследователя сэра Джона Франклина отправляется на судах «Террор» и «Эребус» к северному побережью Канады на поиск Северо-Западного прохода из Атлантического океана в Тихий — и бесследно исчезает. Поиски ее затянулись на несколько десятилетий, сведения о ее судьбе собирались буквально по крупицам, и до сих пор картина происшедшего пестрит белыми пятнами.Дэн Симмонс предлагает свою версию событий: главную угрозу для экспедиции составляли не сокрушительные объятия льда, не стужа с вьюгой и не испорченные консервы — а неведомое исполинское чудовище, будто сотканное из снега и полярного мрака.Напряжённый по атмосфере триллер сочетает в себе богатые исторические подробности с элементами мистики: сверхъестественное по силе и интеллекту существо, зверски убивающее (или похищающее) экипаж кораблей Эребус и Террор.
Дэн Симмонс
Впервые на русском — новый триллер от автора интеллектуальных бестселлеров «Заговор бумаг», «Ярмарка коррупции», «Торговец кофе». И впервые для Лисса — не на историческом, а на современном материале.Лем Алтик обнаруживает в себе неожиданный талант продавца энциклопедий. Он ненавидит это занятие, но другого способа заработать деньги на колледж у него нет. Все меняется, когда семейная пара, которую он несколько часов кряду убалтывал купить очередную энциклопедию, оказывается безжалостно убита у него на глазах — прямо в их обшарпанном трейлере, в разгар флоридского зноя. И киллер делает Лему предложение, от которого невозможно отказаться: либо юноша держит язык за зубами, либо обвинение в убийстве падет на него. В итоге Лем вынужден спасаться не только от харизматичного убийцы с его загадочной программой, но и от местной наркомафии, от коррумпированной полиции, от собственного начальства и от злобных гопников, они же коллеги по коммивояжерской команде…
Дэвид Лисс
New York Times bestselling author Jim DeFelice's unconventional hero, FBI Special Agent Andy Fisher, returns in a chilling novel of international terror within our national borders.North Korean scientists have developed a new weapon – the "E Bomb." It can render useless any electronic system within a ten-mile radius. Andy Fisher isn't sure such a device actually exists, but when a terrorist group claims to have acquired it – along with a cache of deadly sarin gas – he isn't going to take any chances.The threat is more immediate than Fisher suspects: the terrorists are already proceeding toward their objective. With the lives of millions hanging in the balance, as well as the leadership of the free world, Fisher races against the clock to stop a nightmarish plague from being unleashed…
Jim DeFelice
Stieg Larsson gleaned a remarkable degree of success before his too-early death in 2004. He had delivered to his publisher three remarkable crime novels; the initial book in his ‘Millennium’ sequence, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, had enjoyed an unprecedented success in his native Sweden before the translation took the UK by storm. Larsson had made a considerable mark as a crusading journalist, with a speciality in tackling political extremist groups. But he offered assistance to many people and groups who he felt were vulnerable – something of a modern hero, in fact.One of Larsson's key achievements as a writer was to create an innovative kind of heroine for the crime novel. His unconventional sleuth, the highly intelligent computer hacker Lisbeth Salander, is a confrontational young woman, whose Goth accoutrements sometimes alienate those around her (except the individuals she opts to have sexual relations with – strictly, that is, according to the rules she lays down). In the second book in the Millennium sequence, The Girl Who Played with Fire (as in its its predecessor), Lisbeth's closest ally is the older journalist Mikael Blomqvist, even though she has abruptly ended her emotional relationship with him. Lisbeth has left all she knows behinds her and has begun a relationship with a gauche young lover. But after a grim revenge run-in with a man who has abused her, she becomes a suspect in three murders, and is the subject of a nationwide search. Blomqvist, however, is convinced of her innocence (he has just been responsible for a blistering report on the sex trafficking industry in Sweden), and is determined to help her – whether she wants his help or not.As with Larsson’s earlier book, this is highly compelling fare, with tautly orchestrated suspense; it's often grisly and uncompromising (not a problem for many readers), and the massive text may be longer than is good for it, but Larsson admirers won't begrudge the late author a word,and will be impatient for the third (and, regrettably, concluding) book in the sequence.
Is the first lady trying to overthrow the president? Award-winning writer Kathleen Antrim's fictional response to this shocking premise is at the heart of her chillingly convincing political thriller, CAPITAL OFFENSE. Combining hot fiction with today's headlines, her debut novel is the gripping tale of Carolyn Alden Lane, who sacrifices her career and personal happiness in order to guide her husband's rise through the political ranks to the highest office in the land. The pay-off?
Kathleen Antrim
When a convenience store robbery goes horribly wrong the three young men who perpetrated the crime make a run for it. Hotly pursued by the police they crash into the suburban home of an accountant and take the family hostage, and before they know it, an armed siege ensues. This is the last thing the local sheriff wanted after all, he left the force in L.A. because of the stress, and this is about as stressful as it gets. But the gang have chosen the wrong accountant to hold hostage. He works for the Mafia and he holds all the local Family's financial records. Soon the mob are on the scene and a nightmarish, high tension three way stand off develops.
Robert Crais
The Barnes Noble ReviewMuch of Robert B. Parker's fiction – his recent Spenser novel, Potshot, is a notable example – has straddled the boundary between two traditional forms: the private-eye novel and the Western. Parker's latest, the spare, evocative Gunman's Rhapsody, represents his first attempt at a pure, unadulterated Western, moving from Boston and environs to Tombstone, Arizona and focusing on one of Spenser's true spiritual forebears: Wyatt Earp.Gunman's Rhapsody begins in 1879. Wyatt, whose exploits have already found their way into the dime novels of the period, has just arrived in Tombstone, accompanied by several of his brothers and his common-law wife, Mattie Blaylock. The Tombstone of this era is a semi-lawless boomtown located in the heart of the silver mine district. It also serves as a kind of crossroads, a meeting place for some of the iconic figures of the Old West, figures such as Johnny Ringo, Bat Masterson, Ike Clanton, Katie Elder, and the drunken, slightly demented gunfighter, Doc Holliday.A single romantic encounter dominates this rambling, almost plotless narrative: Wyatt's discovery of the love of his life: beautiful showgirl Josie Marcus, who happens to be engaged to Johnny Behan, the shady, politically connected Sheriff of Tombstone. Wyatt's affair with Josie – which takes on an obsessive, almost mythical dimension – forms the central element in an interlocking series of personal rivalries and political enmities that will culminate in the gunfight at the OK Corral, and in its bloody, extended aftermath.Parker's clean elegant style and essentially romantic sensibility prove perfectly suited to the peculiar material of this novel. Without a false note or wasted word, Parker recreates the ambiance of the West, bringing its saloons, jails, and gambling halls and its endless, wide-open vistas, to immediate, palpable life. He brings that same effortless authority to bear in describing the lives and motivations of violent, hard-edged men who live – and sometimes die – according to highly developed codes of personal behavior. The result is a fascinating historical digression that illuminates a piece of the American past while simultaneously illuminating the central concerns of Parker's large, constantly evolving body of work. (Bill Sheehan)
Robert B. Parker
Salander is plotting her revenge – against the man who tried to kill her, and against the government institutions that very nearly destroyed her life. But it is not going to be a straightforward campaign. After taking a bullet to the head, Salander is under close supervision in Intensive Care, and is set to face trial for three murders and one attempted murder on her eventual release. With the help of journalist Mikael Blomkvist and his researchers at Millennium magazine, Salander must not only prove her innocence, but identify and denounce the corrupt politicians that have allowed the vulnerable to become victims of abuse and violence. Once a victim herself, Salander is now ready to fight back.
The South American Jungle Guards Many Secrets… and a remarkable site nestled between two towering Andean peaks, hidden from human eyes for thousands years. Dig Deeper… through layers of rock and mystery, through centuries of dark, forgotten legends. Into Ancient Catacombs… where ingenious traps have been laid to ensnare the careless and unsuspecting; where earth-shattering discoveries – and wealth beyond imagining – could be the reward for those with the courage to face the terrible unknown. Something is Waiting here where the perilous journey ends, in the cold, shrouded heart of a breathtaking necropolis; something created by Man, yet not humanly possible. Something wondrous. Something terrifying.
James Rollins
Странные — и страшные — микроорганизмы становятся объектом научных исследований на Международной космической станции. Настолько страшные, что исследования оборачиваются серией жутких тошнотворных смертей, а сами микроорганизмы, получившие название «Химера», могут стать причиной чудовищной биокатастрофы на Земле; да что там катастрофа — под угрозой жизнь всей человеческой цивилизации! В борьбу с бедствием вступают врачи на Земле и астронавты в космосе, и прежде всего — астронавт-исследователь Эмма Уотсон. Тесс Герритсен и в этой книге остается мастером современного медицинского триллера, но плюс ко всему это еще и прекрасный женский (хотя и «космический») лирический (хотя и невероятно кровавый) роман о торжестве Любви.
Тесс Герритсен