A glamorous cruise on a luxurious ocean liner turns deadly in this thrilling novel from the ??Queen of Suspense?? and international bestselling author Mary Higgins Clark. Fleeing the humiliating arrest of her husband-to-be on the eve of their wedding, Celia Kilbride, a gems and jewellery expert, hopes to escape from public attention by lecturing on […]
The ?ÿNew York Times?ÿbestselling author and producer of the Fox television hit,?ÿBones, returns with a spectacular new Tempe Brennan novel. There are 206 bones in the human body. Forensic anthropologists know them intimately, can read in them stories of brief or long lives and use them to reconstruct every kind of violent end. 206 Bones […]
Every jury has a leader, and the verdict belongs?ÿ?ÿto him. In Biloxi, Mississippi, a landmark tobacco?ÿ?ÿtrial with hundreds of millions of dollars at?ÿ?ÿstake beginsroutinely, then swerves mysteriously off?ÿ?ÿcourse. The jury is behaving strangely, and at?ÿ?ÿleast one juroris convinced hes being watched. Soon?ÿ?ÿthey have to be sequestered. Then a tip from an?ÿ?ÿanonymousyoung woman suggests she is […]
With?ÿHeartsick, Chelsea Cain took the crime world by storm, introducing two of the most compelling characters in decades: serial killer Gretchen Lowell and her obsessed pursuer Portland Detective Archie Sheridan. The book spent four weeks on the?ÿNew York Times?ÿbestseller list and garnered rave reviews around the world. But the riveting story of Archie and Gretchen […]
NYPD criminalist Lincoln Rhyme joins his beautiful prot??g??, Amelia Sachs, in the hunt for the Coffin Dancer — an ingenious killer who changes appearance even faster than he adds to his trail of victims. They have only one clue: the madman has a tattoo of the Grim Reaper waltzing with a woman. Rhyme must rely […]
Michael Connelly has been attracting fans by the droves with his hard-boiled, edgy thrillers. A former crime reporter for the?ÿLos Angeles Times, Connelly combines a poets ear for language with a deep understanding of the criminal mind to create dark, dramatic stories that raise the thriller genre to a new level. In?ÿBlood Work, Connelly introduces […]
At night the summer sky stays light over Edinburgh. But in a shadowy, crumbling housing development, a junkie lies dead of an overdose, his bruised body surrounded by signs of Satanic worship. John Rebus could call the death and accident–but wont. Instead, he tracks down a violent-tempered young woman who knew the dead boy and […]
Unpleasant things are going on in an exclusive school for girls – things like murder! Late one night, two teachers investigate a mysterious flashing light in the sports pavilion, while the rest of the school sleeps. There, among the lacrosse sticks, they stumble upon the body of the unpopular games mistress — shot through the […]
Hell on earth. Thats what its like for Luce to be apart from her fallen angel boyfriend, Daniel. It took them an eternity to find one another, but now he has told her he must go away. Just long enough to hunt down the Outcasts – immortals who want to kill Luce. Daniel hides Luce […]
To be young, good-looking, carefree, working, single and a woman in a new city has its shares of trials and tribulations, surprises and joys. Nearly a decade ago, when journalist-columnist Sushmita Bose decided to move from Calcutta to Delhi, She was excited in an apprehensive kind of way. Soon, she would have to find her […]
Criminal defense attorney Mickey Hallers father was a legendary lawyer whose clients included gangster Mickey Cohen. But Dad also passed on an important piece of advice thats especially relevant when Mickey takes the case of a wealthy Los Angeles realtor accused of attempted murder: “The scariest client a lawyer will ever have is an innocent […]
The tough neighborhood of Dorchester is no place for the innocent or the weak. A territory defined by hard heads and even harder luck, its streets are littered with the detritus of broken families, hearts, dreams. Now, one of its youngest is missing. Private investigators Patrick Kenzie and Angela Gennaro don??t want the case. But […]
Given his contempt for authority, his tendency to pursue investigative avenues of his own choosing, and his habitually ornery manner, its a wonder that John Rebus hasnt been booted unceremoniously from his job as an Edinburgh cop. He certainly tempts that fate again in?ÿA Question of Blood, which finds him and his younger partner, Detective […]
A flamboyant party host is murdered in full view of a roomful of bridge players! Mr Shaitana was famous as a flamboyant party host. Nevertheless, he was a man of whom everybody was a little afraid. So, when he boasted to Poirot that he considered murder an art form, the detective had some reservations about […]
In his final hours in the Oval Office, the outgoing President grants a controversial last-minute pardon to Joel Backman, a notorious Washington power broker who has spent the last six years hidden away in a federal prison. What no one knows is that the President issues the pardon only after receiving enormous pressure from the […]