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Wycliffe and the House of Fear (The Cornish Detective)
by W.J. BurleyThe Kemps were a Cornish Catholic family who had held on to Kellycoryk, their family home, for almost five hundred years. But it was beginning to look as though the present century would be their last. Roger, head of the shrinking clan, was desparate to save the house and land. His second marriage, to the shrewd and tough businesswoman, Bridget, offered a way out. Bridget, prosperous head of her own company, wanted to take Kellycoryk over for development and although Roger hated the idea Bridget refused to save the estate in any other way. Then - suddenly - Bridget disappeared and old memories began to be raked over. hadn't Julia, Roger's first wife (also a wealthy woman) disappeared mysteriously, presumably in a boating accident? Did Roger, his sister and his disturbed children know more about the past than had ever been revealed? Wycliffe, supposed to be recuperating from an illness in the neighbourhood, found there was too much that was intriguing about the Kemps for him to ignore.Read by Peter Kenny(p) 2010 Orion Publishing Group
Wycliffe and the Three Toed Pussy
by W. J. BurleyA case involving a dead woman with a deformed foot and a mysterious past requires all Superintendent Wycliffe's investigative skills.The peace of the village of Kergwyns in Cornwall has been shattered by a bizarre murder. A beautiful young woman has been shot. The only thing taken from the scene is the shoe and stocking from her left leg - exposing her deformed foot. Detective Superintendent Wycliffe uncovers evidence of an unhappy woman who routinely manipulated the men in her life. As half the men in the village have been known to visit her, and most have reason to lie about it, finding the murderer will not be easy. Wycliffe's task is complicated by the discovery of some clues in the form of crossword puzzles left by the victim herself. If Pussy knew she was going to die why did she make no effort to save herself? When several men have been incriminated in the murder Wycliffe begins to wonder if someone very powerful is stage-managing events . . .
Yesterday's Roses (The Parrish Novels #1)
by Heather CullmanIn post-Civil War San Francisco, a forward-thinking female physician falls in love with a man who may have murdered his wife Jake Parrish is Dr. Hallie Gardiner's last hope. She needs a wealthy and powerful benefactor to save her foundering mission hospital in Philadelphia, and Jake, known as Young Midas, is just the kind of person she's looking for. At Parrish's magnificent San Francisco mansion, Hallie is stunned to discover that his pregnant wife, Serena, is suffering from a severe emotional disturbance that has caused her to lose touch with reality. At times, she is violent and incoherent; at others, she is frighteningly lucid. Drawn into Serena's bizarre world, Hallie does her best to help. But not long after Serena has her baby, she is found dead. Is Jake Parrish a cold-blooded murderer? Or a grieving widower haunted by terrible memories of war? As she falls dangerously in love with the handsome ex-soldier, Hallie tries to ignore the whispers. Her efforts to heal Jake--and uncover the truth about his wife's death--backfire when someone threatens her life and her chance for future happiness.
You Bet Your Life: A Stella the Stargazer Mystery
by Christine T. JorgensenI turned, afraid to look. The young woman with the Hawaiian shirt leaned against me, her hand at her throat, her gray eyes terror stricken. Mystery
Zia Summer
by Rudolfo AnayaGloria's body is found drained of blood, and on her stomach has been carved the Zia sun symbol, which makes Sonny suspect witchcraft. His search for the truth pits him in a conflict between the ways of his ancestors and those of the city.
Zia Summer: Zia Summer, Rio Grande Fall, Shaman Winter, And Jemez Spring (The Sonny Baca Novels #1)
by Rudolfo AnayaChicano detective Sonny Baca mines the fertile spiritual terrain of the Southwest in his quest for his cousin's killer The great-grandson of a legendary lawman and gunfighter, thirty-year-old Sonny Baca hopes he possesses even a tenth of El Bisabuelo's courage. But instead of cleaning up New Mexico by hunting down dangerous desperadoes, the struggling PI looks for missing persons and deadbeat husbands. The game changes when his cousin Gloria--the first woman Sonny ever loved--is brutally slain. Her corpse is found drained of blood. A zia sun sign, the symbol on the New Mexican flag, is carved on her stomach. Gloria's husband, Frank Dominic, a politician making a run for mayor of Albuquerque, has a powerful motive for murder. But Gloria wasn't the first victim. A year earlier, another woman was slain in the exact same way. Is a serial killer on the loose? Or is this the handiwork of some satanic cult? Feeling his cousin's spirit crying out for justice, Sonny and his girlfriend, Rita, begin a search that takes them across New Mexico's polluted South Valley to an environmental compound in the mountains. As Sonny moves closer to the truth, he uncovers a chilling connection between his past and a very real and present evil. Wanted by the FBI, the brujo known as Raven plays mind games and changes shape at will. Will Sonny be able to stop his diabolical plan before the Southwest explodes in a nuclear holocaust? Zia Summer is a thrilling spiritual journey that doesn't hesitate to ask the big questions.
Absolute Power
by David BaldacciIn this #1 New York Times bestselling thriller, a burglar, Luther Whitney, breaks into a Virginia mansion, and witnesses a brutal crime involving the president—a man who believes he can get away with anything. In a heavily guarded mansion in the Virginia countryside, professional burglar and break-in artist Luther Whitney is trapped behind a two-way mirror. What he witnesses destroys his faith not only in justice, but in all he holds dear. What follows is an unthinkable abuse of power and criminal conspiracy, as a breathtaking cover-up is set in motion by those appointed to work for one of the most important people in the world -- the President of the United States.
Acceptable Risk
by Robin CookRobin Cook has always been on the cutting edge of the latest medical controversies. In Acceptable Risk, he confronts one of the most provocative issues of our time: personality-altering drugs and the complex moral questions they raise. Neuroscientist Edward Armstrong has managed to isolate a psychotropic drug with a strange and dark history--one that may account for the public hysteria during the Salem witch trials. In a brilliant designer-drug transformation, it is developed into an antidepressant with truly startling therapeutic capabilities. But who can be sure the drug is safe for consumers? Who defines the boundaries of "normal" human behavior? And if the drug's side effects are proven to be dangerous--even terrifying--how far will the medical community go to alter their standards of...Acceptable Risk.
The Accomplice
by Elizabeth IronsideJean Loftus has lived at Ashe House for more than 40 years. Its tidy contours, the soft colors of the garden, speak to an orderly, gracious, supremely English life. But when workmen unearth a skeleton from that garden, the skeletons from Jean's past begin rising to the surface. The life they speak of a childhood in Revolutionary Russia, chaotic years as a refugee between the two world wars was neither orderly nor English. Zita Daunsey, Jean's neighbor in this cozy Sussex town, would like to help Jean protect her secrets. But this task is made more difficult with the sudden arrival of a mysterious, aggressively inquisitive Russian student. What aging sin is Jean so anxious to conceal? And at what point does Zita become an accomplice to it?
Accustomed to the Dark
by Walter SatterthwaitSanta Fe private detectives Joshua Croft and Rita Mondragon have recently become much more than friends and business partners. When Rita is shot and wounded, perhaps mortally, by the same vicious psychopath who tried to kill her once before, Joshua sets out to find the man. His pursuit takes him from the mountains of New Mexico to a posh Denver suburb, from the bleak plains of Kansas to the sweltering depths of the Florida Everglades. Along the way, he meets a sleazy former prison inmate, an eighty-year-old computer expert, a brutal drug dealer, a somber homicide cop, and a hardened mercenary with a very peculiar hobby. As Joshua races across the length of the United States toward a final confrontation with a savage killer, he also travels back through his own past, to the beginning of his relationship with the woman who now lies near death.
Accustomed to the Dark: A Joshua Croft Mystery (The Joshua Croft Mysteries #5)
by Walter SatterthwaitThe &“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.
Acqua Alta (Guido Brunetti #5)
by Donna LeonAs Venice braces for a winter storm, the Italian sleuth Commissario Guido Brunetti finds out that an old friend has been savagely beaten at the palazzo home of a reigning diva. Then, as flood waters rise, a corpse is discovered. Brunetti must wade through the chaotic city to solve his deadliest case yet.
Act of Betrayal: A Britt Montero Mystery - Book Four (The Britt Montero Mysteries #4)
by Edna BuchananAs a hurricane bears down on Miami, a crime reporter confronts the mystery of her own father’s past: “[An] irresistible series” (Kirkus Reviews). When Miami crime reporter Britt Montero reports a missing teenager, she discovers that the case may be related to a string of unsolved disappearances. As Britt delves into the baffling case, an old mystery opens new wounds: she unexpectedly meets two men who knew her deceased father—who was executed long ago in a Cuban jail. Through them, Britt learns that he left a diary identifying the man who betrayed him. But the diary isn’t easily possessed: Anyone who finds it seems to be marked for murder. At the height of a terrifying category five hurricane, Britt needs to face the man who betrayed her father in order to uncover more than one truth, but her hunger for justice may turn her into the next victim. From the Edgar Award–nominated and Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Corpse Had a Familiar Face, this compelling crime thriller “deftly captures the matter-of-fact quality of the police beat” (The New York Times). “[An] extremely likable heroine.” —Publishers Weekly
Act of Betrayal
by Edna BuchananWhen Britt Montero begins to investigate the disappearance of a teenage boy, she discovers a pattern of missing youngsters of similar age and appearance. As Britt probes this baffling case, she meets people who once knew her father, and the mystery of his murder in Cuba years ago is reopened. She learns that her father left an explosive diary while he was in a Cuban prison and in it he named the killer who betrayed him. Suddenly, everyone wants the diary, and anyone who has it is marked for murder.
Acting Up (Hardy Boys Casefiles #116)
by Franklin W. DixonFrank and Joe have come halfway around the world to investigate sabotage on a movie set. India's culture and customs may be foreign to them, but when it comes to battling terror, neither brother is a stranger to danger. And as soon as they set foot in this land of mystery, it's bombs away over Bombay! Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.
After Effects: The Body Politic, A Going Concern, After Effects, And Injury Time (The Calleshire Chronicles #15)
by Catherine AirdIn this mystery by CWA Diamond Dagger winner Catherine Aird, Detective Inspector C. D. Sloan investigates a case of medical malpractice that looks a bit too much like foul play Muriel Ethel Galloway passed away at home, twitching and grasping at objects only she could see. Her family mourns, sad but unsurprised that an old woman suffering from heart disease should die suddenly. But when Mrs. Galloway's son receives an anonymous call alerting him that his mother's life was put in jeopardy by her doctors, he demands action from the Calleshire Police. As world-weary detective C. D. Sloan learns, Mrs. Galloway's passing was just one in a string of eerily similar deaths. Dozens of elderly patients suffering from heart disease have been "gently pushed" toward taking part in the Cardigan Protocol, a double-blind drug trial from the powerful pharmaceutical company Gilroy's. Something, it seems, is very wrong. But what might have been a simple malpractice case morphs into something much more complex when the doctor in charge of the trials goes missing and the headquarters of Gilroy's is burgled by animal rights activists. As Detective Sloan well knows, murder is never a simple matter.
Agatha Raisin and the Murderous Marriage
by M. C. BeatonAgatha Raisin and the Murderous Marriagecontinues the tradition in M. C. Beaton's beloved Agatha Raisin mystery series--now a hit show on Acorn TV and public television. After her first husband, Jimmy Raisin, stops her wedding and she is left jilted at the altar, he is found strangled to death, and Agatha Raisin must prove her innocence along with that of her intended. Agatha Raisin and the Murderous Marriage is a mystery filled with murder and mayhem, from bestselling author M. C. Beaton.
Agatha Raisin y la boda sangrienta (Agatha Raisin #Volumen 5)
by M.C. BeatonVuelve Agatha Raisin, la heroína más aclamada del cosy crime,con más de diez millones de lectores en todo el mundo. Increíble pero cierto. James Lacey, el soltero más deseado de los Cotswolds, se ha rendido al encanto de su vecina, la chispeante y cincuentona Agatha Raisin. El día de su matrimonio amanece brillante y despejado, pero el cuento de hadas dura poco: en el momento en que los tortolitos están a punto de darse el sí, Jimmy, el ex marido de la novia, al que creía muerto hace tiempo, irrumpe en la ceremonia... y Agatha intenta estrangularlo. Furioso, James rompe el compromiso. Así que cuando, al día siguiente, Jimmy aparece asesinado, y Agatha y James se convierten en los dos principales sospechosos, deberán trabajar juntos para limpiar sus nombres y arrojar luz sobre el asunto. Sobre la serie:«La imperfecta heroína de M. C. Beaton es una piedra preciosa.»Publishers Weekly «Las novelas detectivescas de M. C. Beaton, una maestra de la comedia negra escandalosa, ya son de culto.»The Times «El áspero sentido del humor y su retrato afectuoso, pero nada halagador de Agatha, unamujer arisca y que a menudo actúa como una adolescente, hacen de esta obra una flor digna de arrancarse.»Publishers Weekly «Cualquiera que esté interesado en unas horas de lectura inteligente y divertida, querrá conocer a la señora Agatha Raisin.»The Cleveland Pain Dealer«Si te gusta la astuta miss Marple de Agatha Christie, no podrás resistirte a Agatha Raisin, una cincuentona que no le teme a nada. [...] Esta serie es una golosina.»Version Femina «¡Un regalo universal!»Le Temps «Una heroína colorida [...], de la que nos enamoramos desde el primer capítulo.»Le Parisien
Agnes Mallory
by Andrew KlavanA decades-old mystery and the memory of a young girl haunt a reclusive man in a thrilling novel of suspense from an Edgar Award winner. He meets her in a stranger&’s backyard. Harry is a child walking home from school, and Agnes is a young girl playing in the creek behind her house. While their parents speak, the children play, and Agnes explains the supernatural. She uses cookie dough to make statues of ghosts, she tells him, which she sets free in the river. So begins an enchantment that will last the rest of Harry&’s life. Years later he is a disbarred lawyer, living a reclusive life outside a Westchester commuter town. Memories of Agnes, dead for a decade, haunt him. He befriends a shivering young runaway, an encounter which forces him to confront his past for the first time, unearthing a mystery which stretches back to the Holocaust, and revolves around that strange young girl he met so long ago.
Airframe: A Novel
by Michael CrichtonFrom the author of Jurassic Park, Timeline, and Sphere comes this extraordinary thriller about airline safety, business intrigue, and a deadly cover-up. #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "The pacing is fast, the suspense nonstop."--People At a moment when the issue of safety and death in the skies is paramount in the public mind, a lethal midair disaster aboard a commercial twin-jet airliner flying from Hong Kong to Denver triggers a pressured and frantic investigation in which the greatest casualty may be the truth. "A one-sitting read that will cause a lifetime of white-knuckled nightmares."--The Philaelphia Inquirer "The ultimate thriller . . . [Crichton's] stories are always page-turners of the highest order. . . . [Airframe] moves like a firehouse dog chasing a red truck."--The Denver Post "Dramatically vivid."--The New York Times
The Alaskan Adventure (Hardy Boys Mystery Story #138)
by Franklin W. DixonWhile Frank and Joe are visiting their friend David in Alaska, they witness many harmful "accidents". David's family's cabin is burned, a fishing boat is ruined, a building is blown up, and food is stolen and poisoned. A theme park promoter is in town to try to convince the residents to support bringing a park to the town. Many townspeople are in favor of the jobs the park will bring, and others fear the loss of their traditional living if the park brings modernity to the town. So, which side is harming people, those who want progress to quell the complaints, or those who don't to quell the support? Only Frank and Joe can solve the mystery.
Alchemist
by Peter JamesWhat doesn't kill you makes you stronger...Monty Bannerman's father is a leading genetic scientist, and Nobel Prize winner, whose company has just been taken over by what will soon be the world's biggest pharmaceutical giant. He had some misgivings about their company ethics - but ultimately, he needs their money, and they need his mind. Then a journalist comes to Monty's door, with a far-fetched story about the pharmaceutical company. She doesn't believe what she's being told for a moment - but within a few short weeks, events are making the apparently fantastic claims look horrifyingly like the truth.Behind the respectable facade of the multi-national company which calls itself the 'World's Most Caring Company' lies an outrage against the whole human race...'Peter James is getting better with every book.' Times'Peter James is one of the best crime writers in the business.' Karin SlaughterRead more from the multi-million copy bestselling author of the Roy Grace novels:Possession DreamerSweet Heart Twilight Prophecy Host Alchemist Denial The Truth Faith * Each Peter James novel can be read as a standalone*
Alex Cross Volumes 1-3: Along Came a Spider, Kiss the Girls And Jack & Jill (Alex Cross Ser.)
by James PattersonDiscover the first three books in #1 bestselling author James Patterson's #1 bestselling series. Along Came a Spider introduced Alex Cross, a homicide detective with a PhD in psychology. A murderous serial kidnapper determined to commit the crime of the century becomes every parent's bad dream - and Cross's nightmare. In Kiss the Girls, Cross faces two clever pattern killers who are collaborating, cooperating, competing - and they're working coast to coast. In Jack + Jill, a rhymed crime-scene not signed "Jack and Jill" puts Cross on notice that no citizen in the nation's capital - from schoolchildren to those who walk the corridors of power - will be safe until he can decode the scheme wrought by a pair of fiendish assassins.
Alias Grace: A Novel
by Margaret AtwoodThe bestselling author of The Handmaid's Tale and The Testaments reveals the life of one of the most notorious women of the nineteenth century in this "shadowy, fascinating novel" (Time). • A Netflix original miniseries.It's 1843, and Grace Marks has been convicted for her involvement in the vicious murders of her employer and his housekeeper and mistress. Some believe Grace is innocent; others think her evil or insane. Now serving a life sentence, Grace claims to have no memory of the murders. An up-and-coming expert in the burgeoning field of mental illness is engaged by a group of reformers and spiritualists who seek a pardon for Grace. He listens to her story while bringing her closer and closer to the day she cannot remember. What will he find in attempting to unlock her memories? Captivating and disturbing, Alias Grace showcases bestselling, Booker Prize-winning author Margaret Atwood at the peak of her powers.
Alias. Obra completa en colaboración
by Jorge Luis Borges Adolfo Bioy CasaresUN ACONTECIMIENTO LITERARIO La obra completa que escribieron juntos dos de los autores latinoamericanos más influyentes del siglo XX, ganadores del Premio Cervantes y del Nacional de Literatura CON PRÓLOGO DE ALAN PAULS «Borges y Bioy me enseñaron no sólo a escribir y leer, sino también a mirar el mundo».Antonio Muñoz Molina No ha existido en la literatura en español una amistad literaria tan notable y fértil como la que mantuvieron a lo largo de cincuenta años dos de los escritores latinoamericanos más influyentes del siglo XX: Jorge Luis Borges y Adolfo Bioy Casares. Cuando se conocieron, Borges era un autor de éxito, quince años mayor que Bioy, un joven fascinado por el surrealismo. Éste fue el comienzo de una asociación excepcional en la que inicialmente Borges adoptó el papel de mentor, pero poco a poco empezó a darse un aprendizaje mutuo. De esta colaboración surgieron una decena de títulos, entre los que se encuentran relatos fantásticos y novelas policíacas. El primero de sus libros en común, Seis problemas para don Isidro Parodi, está protagonizado por un singular detective que resuelve casos sin moverse de la cárcel. Todas estas obras extraordinarias, creadas no por Borges ni por Bioy sino por «un tercer escritor» que aúna las mejores cualidades de ambos, y publicadas bajo los alias de Bustos Domecq y Suárez Lynch o por sus identidades reales, se reúnen ahora después de mucho tiempo en un único volumen prologado por Alan Pauls. La crítica ha dicho:«La suya fue una escritura monstruosa por poco frecuente y por desatada, y su producto, los hijos de la imaginación de ese escritor que algunos llaman “Biorges”, monstruosos. [...] Borges más Bioy es deliciosamente barroco, y a menudo los argumentos yacen bajo una acumulación ingente de chistes públicos y privados, eufemismos torpes y travestismo lingüístico que los hacen incomprensibles».Patricio Pron, La Vanguardia «Dos grandes de la literatura en español regresan con su obra cómplice y conjunta, una sinergia creadora nunca igualada. [...] Una lectura fulgurante».Santiago Ortiz Lerín, La Opinión de Málaga «Eran el mismo otro: un tercer escritor, inasimilable a uno tanto como al otro, profundamente excéntrico. De ahí que Bustos Domecq y Suárez Lynch sean algo más que seudónimos. Son escritores de derecho, tan autores como los autores que los inventaron».Alan Pauls «Empezamos a escribir de un modo que no se parecía ni a Bioy ni a Borges. Creamos de algún modo entre los dos un tercer personaje [...]. Ese personaje existe, de algún modo. Pero sólo existe cuando estamos conversando».Jorge Luis Borges «Borges y Bioy Casares: la fiesta de dos monstruos. [...] No hay entretenimiento comparable al de descubrirlos».Luis Chitarroni, Clarín «Borges es el escritor en español más importante desde Cervantes».Mario Vargas Llosa «Me gustaría ser Adolfo Bioy Casares. Quisiera ser Bioy porque siempre lo admiré como escritor y lo estimé como persona».Julio Cortázar «Borges es uno de los autores más extraordinarios del siglo XX».The New York Times «Bioy Casares tiene un encanto, un siniestro ingenio y una tristeza repentina que sólo un gran maestro de las letras puede ofrecernos».John Updike, The New Yorker «Borges, visionario escéptico, nos fascina. [...] Cumple con nuestro anhelo esencial en cuanto a las razones por que leemos».Harold Bloom