This New Years Eve marks the end of a life-and the beginning of a nightmare for Kay Scarpetta.
Lying on a cot in his cell with Alexandre Dumass?ÿLe Grand Dictionnaire de Cuisine?ÿopen on his chest, Hannibal “The Cannibal” Lecter makes his debut in this legendary horror novel, which is even better than its sequel,?ÿThe Silence of the Lambs. As in?ÿSilence, the pulse-pounding suspense plot involves a hypersensitive FBI sleuth who consults psycho psychiatrist […]
“Fans of TVs?ÿC.S.I.: Crime Scene Investigation?ÿshould be in heaven” (People) stepping into the world of forensic anthropologist Dr. Temperance Brennan, star of Kathy Reichs electrifyingly authentic bestsellers. She works with the dead but she works for the living. “Down time” is not a phrase in Tempe Brennans vocabulary: in the midst of a sizzling North […]
As part of the search for a serial murderer nicknamed “Buffalo Bill,” FBI trainee Clarice Starling is given an assignment. She must visit a man confined to a high-security facility for the criminally insane and interview him.?ÿ That man, Dr. Hannibal Lecter, is a former psychiatrist with unusual tastes and an intense curiosity about the […]
New York Times?ÿbestselling author Patricia Cornwell returns to the chilling world of gutsy medical examiner Kay Scarpetta in this suspense fiction classic. Reclusive author Beryl Madison finds no safe haven from months of menacing phone calls — or the tormented feeling that her every move is being watched. When the writer is found slain in […]
When a dying millionaire hires Philip Marlowe to handle the blackmailer of one of his two troublesome daughters, Marlowe finds himself involved with more than extortion. Kidnapping, pornography, seduction, and murder are just a few of the complications he gets caught up in. “Chandler [writes] like a slumming angel and invest[s] the sun-blinded streets of […]
Mikael Blomkvist, crusading journalist and publisher of the magazineMillennium,?ÿhas decided to run a story that will expose an extensive sex trafficking operation between Eastern Europe and Sweden, implicating well-known and highly placed members of Swedish society, business, and government. But he has no idea just how explosive the story will be until, on the eve […]
A serial killer is loose in Richmond, specializing in attractive young couples whose bodies are inevitably found in the woods months later — minus their shoes and socks. After months of exposure to all the elements, all that remains of this killers victims has in every case left Chief Medical Examiner Dr. Kay Scarpetta unable […]
In?ÿFrom Potters Field, #1?ÿNew York Times?ÿbestselling author Patricia Cornwell enters the chilling world of Virginias Chief Medical Examiner Dr. Kay Scarpetta–and a bold, brilliant killer from her past.?ÿ Upon examining a dead woman found in snowbound Central Park, Scarpetta immediately recognizes the grisly work of Temple Brooks Gault. She soon realizes that Gaults murders are […]
Russia faces famine. The Soviets are forced to pin their hopes for survival on the U.S. But as the KGB and the CIA watch in horror, the rescue of a Ukrainian freedom fighter from the Black Sea unleashes savagery that endangers peace–and plunges leaders from Washington to Moscow into a web of overwhelming intrigue, terror, […]
The New York Times bestselling author of Firestorm, Iris Johansen, returns with a psychological thriller so terrifying, so relentlessly paced, it won??t leave you time to catch your breath before the next shock comes. A forensic sculptor is locked in a deadly duel with a serial killer determined to destroy her??one life at a time. […]
Modesty Blaise and Willie Garvin are now cult names in the thriller genre with well over a million copies of the Modesty Blaise series sold worldwide. Penguin India is delighted to present these bestselling books, now collectors items, in its new series??Retro Revival. El Mico is the power behind every major crime along the Mediterranean […]
The concept of law lies at the heart of our social and political life, shaping the character of our community and underlying issues from racism and abortion to human rights and international war. But what actually is law? A set of naturally occurring moral principles, or simply rules agreed by a particular society? What is […]
“Detective Dave Robicheaux is facing the most painful and dangerous case of his career. A troubled young woman breezes into his hometowns of New Iberia, Louisiana. She happens to be the daughter of Robicheauxs onetime best friend – a friend he witnessed gunned down in a bank robbery, a tragedy that forever changed Robicheauxs life.” […]
The media call him The Burning Man, a brutal murderer who has beaten four young women to death, before setting their bodies ablaze in secluded areas of Londons parks. And now the fifth victim has been found… Maeve Kerrigan is an ambitious detective constable, keen to make her mark on the murder task force. Her […]