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Uncle Sagamore and His Girls
Par Charles Williams. 1959
It&’s election season in Blossom County, and that means it&’s time for moonshineEducated at the racetrack, Billy has never had…
a firm grip on his ABCs, but he sure knows how to read a racing form. When a family court judge threatens to put the seven-year-old in a foster home, Billy and his father go to live in the countryside, at the wholesome little farm owned by Billy&’s Uncle Sagamore, where the air is pure, the grass is green, and the liquor from his hidden distillery is clear as water—and about 120 proof. But pressure from the law has kept Sagamore&’s still silent, and the stash of white lightning is starting to dwindle. To get his home-brewing operation back underway, Sagamore needs a distraction—and there&’s none better than local politics. When Uncle Sagamore throws his weight into the Blossom County elections, democracy will never be the same.Monster: An engrossing psychological thriller (Alex Delaware #13)
Par Jonathan Kellerman. 1999
Can Alex solve one of his most thrilling cases yet? New York Times No. 1 bestseller Jonathan Kellerman gives psychologist…
Alex Delaware a gruesome and twisting case to unravel in Monster, the gripping thirteenth instalment. Perfect for fans of Harlan Coben and David Baldacci.'Ingenious and horrifying' -The Sunday TimesA corpse is found in a car trunk. The victim was a twenty-five-year-old would-be actor called Richard Dada. He had been sawn in half. Eight months later, the body of Claire Argent, a psychologist at a hospital for the criminally insane, is discovered. She was mutilated in the same horrific way.Detective Milo Sturgis is put on the case and, when the incoherent ramblings of a patient locked up in a mental hospital for the criminally insane begin to make terrifying sense, he calls on psychologist Alex Delaware to help him delve into the muddy waters of insanity.Can Alex and Milo unravel this dark web of family secrets, vengeance and manipulation in time to stop further killing? What readers are saying about Monster: 'Intelligent and thought-provoking''Creepy, compelling and realistic''Another well written and intriguing Kellerman novel'Survival of the Fittest: An unputdownable psychological crime novel (Alex Delaware #12)
Par Jonathan Kellerman. 1997
Alex Delaware reveals a ghastly trail of slaughter... New York Times No. 1 bestseller Jonathan Kellerman writes a gripping thriller…
in Survival of the Fittest. Perfect for fans of Harlan Coben and Michael Connelly.'Fast-paced, well thought out, with an unexpected denouement' - Sunday TelegraphThe mentally disabled daughter of a diplomat is killed in cold blood in a deserted corner of the Santa Monica mountains. Her father adamantly denies the possibility of a political motive, which leaves LAPD detective Milo Sturgis and his friend Alex Delaware to pose the question: why? The father is so intent on controlling the investigation that Alex and Milo start to wonder if he wants to find the truth - or keep it buried.Within days, and after another killing, Alex finds himself ensnared in one of the darkest, most menacing cases of his career. Driven to find answers, Alex goes undercover, alone, to expose the smug brutality of a murderous conspiracy and a terrifying contempt for human life. What readers are saying about Survival of the Fittest: 'The plot is complex yet utterly believable, characters are as sharp as ever and the pace is breath-taking''If you want a book that will grip you from cover to cover, then this is it!''Five stars'Salamander (The St-Cyr and Kohler Mysteries #4)
Par J. Robert Janes. 1994
&“Gritty . . . captivating . . . An exceedingly clever novel that should appeal to World War II buffs as well as mystery…
readers&” (Booklist). In a packed movie theater, an usher notices two women enter and leave just before the show begins. Moments later, the theater goes up in flames, and 183 people perish in the stampede to escape. By the time investigators Jean-Louis St-Cyr and Hermann Kohler arrive from Paris, the charred bodies are frozen solid. It is two days before Christmas, 1942, and the people of Lyon are terrified. As the detectives try to unravel what happened in that packed movie house, the arsonists plan their next attack. Saving Lyon from fire will force St-Cyr and Kohler to confront the worst of human nature, in a city lorded over by one of the most infamous Nazis of the Second World War.The Turret Room
Par Charlotte Armstrong. 1965
In this &“chilling&” novel by an Edgar Award–winning author, a former mental patient seeks revenge against the powerful family that…
framed him (The New York Times). After years in a mental hospital, Harold Page has just been released. Now, he&’s looking for closure, hoping to confront those who put him away: his ex-wife&’s family. Instead, he&’s greeted at the Whitman home by a total stranger. But Edie, an empathetic visiting relative, knows all about Harold. He&’s the unfortunate soul the influential Whitman clan had institutionalized after an alleged assault. He&’s the &“madman&” police are hunting in a recent brutal crime. He&’s also an unwitting pawn in a dangerous family plot. Edie is certain of it. And there&’s only one way she can protect him: Hide Harold in the unused turret room of the Whitman mansion, only a heartbeat away from those who want to destroy him. As they collude to turn the tables on the family and unveil every secret and lie behind the Whitmans&’ deception, Edie fears the sanctuary she&’s given Harold could be the ultimate trap for both of them . . . &“Chilling . . . beautifully calculated . . . with a nicely adjusted sense of exactly when and how to turn the screw.&” —The New York TimesAccustomed to the Dark: A Joshua Croft Mystery (The Joshua Croft Mysteries #5)
Par Walter Satterthwait. 1996
The &“compelling&” conclusion of the Southwestern mystery series culminates in a showdown between the Santa Fe PI and the convict…
who shot the woman he loves (Booklist). Rita Mondragon is lying comatose and near death in a Santa Fe hospital, and her normally even-tempered partner and paramour, private detective Joshua Croft, is on a razor&’s edge. This is the second time Rita&’s been shot by Ernie Martinez—the first was years ago when he killed her husband and put Rita in a wheelchair—and now the recently escaped convict is on the run with his equally twisted cellmate Luiz Lucero. Despite a massive police manhunt, and warnings from the FBI and the DEA to back off, Croft sets out to capture the killers himself. As the crazed convicts leave a trail of murder and destruction behind them—from New Mexico to Las Vegas to Denver and across Kansas and Texas—one by one, their pursuers drop by the wayside. Suddenly a strange twist of fate has left only one man hunter remaining—Joshua Croft—in a breathtaking kill-or-be-killed climax in the Florida Everglades.A Touch of Death
Par Charles Williams. 1954
The score would be an easy one—if it weren&’t for the women involvedOut of work and dead broke, Lee Scarborough…
is a long way from his days as a football hero when he meets the sunbathing Diana James—an innocent-looking creature with a plan to make a fortune. A few months&’ back, her lover embezzled $120,000 from a bank, but disappeared before she could get her hands on the cash. The police think he&’s fled the state, but Diana is sure he&’s dead, and knows who killed him: his wife, Madelon Butler, a sadistic drunk who is capable of anything. The cash is inside Madelon&’s house, waiting to be stolen a third time, and all Diana needs is a patsy. Scarborough fits the bill. The plan sails along smoothly until Scarborough meets Mrs. Butler. By the time his luck runs out, he&’d rather face a dozen hulking linebackers than these two beauties, who have been driven to a frenzy by jealousy, greed, and lust.The Cavanaugh Quest
Par Thomas Gifford. 1976
Edgar Award nominee: Backwoods treachery links a string of grisly Minnesota murders Reporter Paul Cavanaugh is coming home from an…
afternoon tennis match when he sees an ambulance outside his building&’s door. A half hour earlier, the mild-mannered Larry Blankenship walked into the lobby, said hello to the doorman, and blew his brains out in front of the elevator bank, leaving behind a note apologizing for the mess. Cavanaugh retreats to his apartment to forget this disturbing scene, thinking the story is over when the police take away the body. But the suicide is only the beginning. A knot of death is tied tight around Blankenship&’s wife, Kim, an ice-cold beauty from the backwoods of northern Minnesota. As he investigates the string of deaths, Cavanaugh discovers a decades-old atrocity that may explain why the men who know Kim vanish faster than a sunny day in Minneapolis.God in Concord (The Homer Kelly Mysteries #Bk. 9)
Par Jane Langton. 1992
Walden Pond is not so tranquil when murder strikes, and it&’s up to scholar/sleuth Homer Kelly to restore balance in…
an &“unflaggingly entertaining&” mystery (Kirkus Reviews). Alice Snow is the first to die. In the morning, she and her friends at the Pond View Trailer Park watchsoap operas, worrying about the lives of TV&’s rich and powerful. A few hours later, a hiking Homer Kelly finds Alice lying outside her trailer, head smashed and heart stopped. Though her fellow Pond View residents do not realize it, their lives are in danger too. The state-owned park sits on Walden Pond, just north of the replica of Thoreau&’s log cabin. Where the philosopher once retreated to find nature is now a hive of humanity—hemmed in by a highway, a landfill, and the planned site of a new mini-mall. The trailer park stands in the developers&’ way, and when more Pond View residents die, Homer suspects murder. The developers have no qualms about killing Concord&’s past—might they murder its present too?Random Killer (The Pierre Chambrun Mysteries #14)
Par Hugh Pentecost. 1979
The night before an interview with a terrorist, a reporter is killed at the Beaumont Hotel For a madman with…
an itch to kill someone famous, there could be no better venue than the Beaumont Hotel—Manhattan&’s headquarters for the international elite. The omniscient manager Pierre Chambrun oversees the landmark, with the help of his press man, Mark Haskell. When the rich and famous arrive, Chambrun and Haskell can help them hide from the limelight or bask in it. But it&’s difficult to keep a low profile when death comes to call. Geoffrey Hammond is one of the world&’s most respected—and loathed—television journalists. A fearless questioner of presidents and kings, he is in New York preparing an interview with an infamous Middle Eastern terrorist. But when the room service waiter comes to collect his breakfast tray in the morning, the journalist has been strangled. It will take all Chambrun&’s powers to solve this mystery—especially since the future of the Middle East is at stake.Murder on Their Minds (The Kent Murdock Mysteries #16)
Par George Harmon Coxe. 1957
A routine assignment gets a PI killed, and Kent Murdock dives into the caseA thirty-eight year veteran of the Boston…
police force, Tom Brady has recently retired, and is beginning a new life as a private investigator. Struggling to make ends meet, he turns to newspaper photographer Kent Murdock, who recommends him to a society woman who is willing to pay big for his services. Brady&’s just wrapping up the case when he asks Murdock for a favor: photographing fourteen pages of important documents for safekeeping. Murdock agrees not to look too closely while he takes the pictures—a decision he regrets when the negatives are stolen and Tom Brady is found dead. Normally Murdock stays out of the way of the Boston police, but he gave Brady the assignment. To atone, he must unravel the mystery that cost his friend his life.The Dirty South: A Thriller (Charlie Parker #18)
Par John Connolly. 2020
&“Mr. Connolly&’s slam-bang thriller is studded with memorable characters and boasts cliffhangers within cliffhangers.&” —The Wall Street Journal &“Brilliant...Connolly is…
writing at the top of his game.&” —Publishers Weekly, starred review The New York Times bestselling author of A Book of Bones and &“one of the best thriller writers we have&” (Harlan Coben, #1 New York Times bestselling author) goes back to the very beginning of Private Investigator Charlie Parker&’s astonishing career with his first terrifying case.It is 1997, and someone is slaughtering young women in Burdon County, Arkansas. But no one in the Dirty South wants to admit it. In an Arkansas jail cell sits a former NYPD detective, stricken by grief. He is mourning the death of his wife and child, and searching in vain for their killer. Obsessed with avenging his lost family, his life is about to take a shocking turn. Witness the dawning of a conscience. Witness the birth of a hunter. Witness the becoming of Charlie Parker.Stardust: A Novel
Par Joseph Kanon. 2009
The acclaimed, bestselling author of The Good German and Los Alamos returns with his most absorbing and accomplished novel yet—a…
mesmerizing tale of Hollywood, postwar political intrigue, and one man's determination to learn the truth about his brother's death.Hollywood, 1945. Ben Collier has just arrived from war-torn Europe to find his brother has died in mysterious circumstances. Why would a man with a beautiful wife, a successful movie career, and a heroic past choose to kill himself? Ben enters the uneasy world beneath the glossy shine of the movie business, where politics and the dream factories collide and Communist witch hunts are rendering the biggest star makers vulnerable. Even here, where the devastation of Europe seems no more real than a painted movie set, the war casts long and dangerous shadows. When Ben learns troubling facts about his own family’s past and embarks on a love affair that never should have happened, he is caught in a web of deception that shakes his moral foundation to its core. Rich with atmosphere and period detail, Stardust flawlessly blends fact and fiction into a haunting thriller evoking both the glory days of the movies and the emergence of a dark strain of American political life.A Book of Bones: A Thriller (Charlie Parker #17)
Par John Connolly. 2019
Private Investigator Charlie Parker returns in this heart-pounding thriller as he seeks revenge against the darkest forces in the world,…
from &“one of the best thriller writers we have&” (Harlan Coben, #1 New York Times bestselling author) and the internationally bestselling author of the acclaimed The Woman in the Woods.He is our best hope. He is our last hope. He is our only hope. On a lonely moor in northern England, the body of a young woman is discovered. 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 darkness has heard the call. Charlie Parker has also heard it and from the forests of 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 the world into darkness. Parker fears no evil—but evil fears him. &“A seamless, expansive, and chilling blend of police procedural and gothic horror tale&” (Kirkus Reviews), A Book of Bones will keep you guessing until the very last page.The Nameless Ones: A Thriller (Charlie Parker #19)
Par John Connolly. 2021
&“One of the best thriller writers we have.&” —Harlan Coben, #1 New York Times bestselling author From the international and…
instant New York Times bestselling author of The Dirty South, the white-knuckled Charlie Parker series returns with this heart-pounding race to hunt down the deadliest of war criminals.In Amsterdam, four bodies, violently butchered, are discovered in a canal house, the remains of friends and confidantes of the assassin known only as Louis. The men responsible for the murders are Serbian war criminals. They believe they can escape retribution by retreating to their homeland. They are wrong. For Louis has come to Europe to hunt them down: five killers to be found and punished before they can vanish into thin air. There is just one problem. The sixth. With John Connolly&’s trademark &“dark, haunting, and beautifully told&” (Booklist) prose and breathless twists and turns, The Nameless Ones is an unputdownable thriller that will keep you on the edge of your seat.The grand opening of a gourmet market is soured by foul murder in this mystery full of &“fast fun, delightful…
characters&” (Library Journal). London&’s gourmet detective is contemplating an empty bank account and, worse, an empty stomach, when a phone call solves both problems at once. Over lunch, Desmond Lansdown, world-renowned actor and burgeoning restaurateur, hires the detective for a chef-hunt, sending him to Italy to eat until he can decide which cook Lansdown should hire. It&’s a demanding gig, but this detective is never one to shy away from hard work. However, it doesn&’t take long for this plush assignment to turn prickly. In between meals, the detective gets a feeling that someone is out to get him. A murdered magnate, stampeding buffalo, and a killer monk are conspiring to ruin his digestion—a shame, because it is vital to eat well when each meal could be your last.Cops Roberts and Brant come back swinging in book two of the &“hip, violent and funny&” crime novel trilogy set…
on &“the mean streets of southeast London&” (Publishers Weekly). South London&’s Chief Inspector Roberts and his partner, the reckless and thuggish Irish Detective Sergeant Brant, are at odds with who has it worse: Roberts, with a mortgage in Dulwich, a pregnant daughter in boarding school, and a dire medical diagnosis; or Brant, relegated to desk duty after getting knifed in the back, and living to see his complete Ed McBain collection destroyed by a psycho with a baseball bat. That particular nut job has been dubbed the Alien, a hit man so named for carrying out a skull-smashing job while watching Ridley Scott&’s sci-fi classic, and hanging around in the spatter to finish the film. But this time the carnage isn&’t confined to southeast London. As Brant heads to New York by way of Dublin to catch the couple who knifed him and the Alien goes to San Francisco to pay a surprise visit to his former girlfriend, Bruen&’s broad, brutal canvas once again shows why he&’s been hailed as one of &“the most original and innovative noir voices of the last two decades&” (Los Angeles Times Book Review).Rough Justice: A John Wells Mystery (The John Wells Mysteries #4)
Par Andrew Klavan. 1989
A tip from a dying cop puts a reporter on a long-closed murder caseEasy E.J. McMahon rests six feet underneath…
the playground at an elementary school in Little Italy. A one-time steakhouse owner with a gambling problem, his troubles started when a struggle broke out for control of a mob family, and E.J. backed the wrong man. E.J. fled to the airport, planning to hop a plane to Wyoming, but was met at the gate by two heavies with badges. As they dragged him out of the airport, he wailed that the men were not real cops. They put him under the cement while he was still breathing. Fifteen years later, newspaperman John Wells gets a call from a dying cop who wants to make a confession. Easy E.J. was wrong: They were cops, working on the mob payroll. Wells goes after the dead cop&’s partner, chasing a story so good that it might be worth getting buried alive.Verano negro (Serie Washington Poe #Volumen 2)
Par M. W. Craven. 2019
La fascinante y nueva entrega de la serie protagonizada por Washington Poe. M.W. Craven, autor ganador del Premio CWA Gold…
Dagger al mejor thriller del año. Tras El show de las marionetas, la nueva tormenta se aproxima. Jared Keaton, el chef de las estrellas. Encantador. Carismático. Psicópata...Jared se encuentra cumpliendo cadena perpetua por el brutal asesinato de su hija Elizabeth. Su cuerpo nunca fue hallado y Keaton fue condenado en gran parte por el testimonio del detective Washington Poe. Cuando una joven mujer se presenta a las puertas de una remota comisaría de policía con evidencias irrefutables de que ella es Elizabeth Keaton, Poe se encontrará con el dilema de una investigación que bien podría costarle mucho más que su propia carrera profesional.Con la ayuda de la única persona en la que confía, la brillante pero socialmente compleja Tilly Bradshaw, Poe emprende una carrera contra reloj para responder la única pregunta que importa: ¿Cómo puede una persona estar viva y muerta al mismo tiempo? Y de pronto, Elizabeth desaparece de nuevo, y todas las pistas de la investigación señalan otra vez a Poe. Reseñas:«Un thriller brutal y apasionante.»The Sun «La mejor trama de misterio del año.»Morning Star «Magistral e ingeniosamente sangriento, con un gran sentido de lugar.»Sunday Mirror «Los giros de la trama son brillantes y muy inteligentes, los toques de humor funcionan a la perfección, el lector disfrutará de este novela desde la página uno.»Michael J. Malone «Mike Craven es la nueva voz con más fuerza de la ficción criminal británica.»Caro Ramsay «Verano negro encierra un mecanismo muy inteligente.»La Vanguardia «Una trama retorcida y fascinante que te hipnotizará de principio a fin.»Marta entre libros«Una segunda entrega excelente donde M. W Craven comete un crimen casi perfecto.»LJ Zapico, Fantasymundo «Destinado a mantener al lector desvelado hasta horas intempestivas.»Mis lecturas reto «Tiene lo que hay que tener para que pases un buen rato, es muy absorbente,emocionante y adictiva y te deja buen sabor de boca incluso cuando temes por Poe.»El armario de Lu by Jane «Sin duda la segunda parte de la serie no defrauda.»El Mesón de Tiana «Un libro adictivo y sorprendente con una trama compleja, sangrienta y llena de girosque llevan el lector a dudar continuamente de la inocencia o culpabilidad de la persona condenada.»Hormiguero de libros «No hay ni una página en este libro que decepcione, el ritmo es perfecto.»Donostia Book Club «Por la trama, la ambientación en Cumbria, los personajes increibles, la forma de escribir, los capítulos cortos, la intriga, los giros, por todo ello, un libro más que recomendado e imprescindible para amantes de la novela negra.»Blog literario «Muy buena novela negra, con una trama muy compleja que se resuelve sin trucos, con un psicópata muy malo y unos personajes que te hacen sonreír más de una vez.»La isla de las mil palabrasThe Devil's Disciple (Hesperus Worldwide)
Par J. Keith Vincent, Shiro Hamao. 2011
The first English language translation of a chilling murder mystery by a prolific Japanese detective novelist ‘Prosecutor Tsuchida, I am…
being held here as a murderer. But the truth is that I am probably not that murderer. That's right. Probably.' While Shimaura Eizo sits in jail awaiting trial for the murder of a beautiful young woman, his erstwhile lover and initiator into a sinister, restless existence has risen in the ranks of the legal profession and is now the prosecutor on the case. Spinning a complex web of events and influences in this chilling murder mystery, Hamao probes the notion of guilt—both psychological and legal.