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Deuces Wild (Lieutenant Luis Mendoza #26)
by Dell ShannonLieutenant Luis Mendoza is faced with a crime close to home when his four-year-old twins are kidnapped. Not even Mendoza's crystal ball can help him while his colleagues explore every possible theory and lead. Are the twins being held for ransom? Or is the kidnapping a form of revenge? Mendoza has never been more human as a husband and father and more severely taxed as a detective...
Don't Stop for Hooky Hefferman
by Laurence MeynellA demented millionaire is convinced his awful son will be kidnapped for ransom, and Hooky Hefferman finds himself acting as companion and guard to the boy in a remote house on Exmoor. It looks like a cushy number, even if the youth is pretty intolerable. Hooky is drawn, as always, to the local inn, where he makes his usual acquaintances. But who are the real villains and what confusion will reign until they are finally unmasked? 'Don't Stop for Hooky Hefferman is in Mr Meynell's best vein, and that's as good a vein as they come' Eastern Daily Press
Doors
by Ed McBainA cautious New York burglar risks his neck for the score of a lifetime in this rollicking thriller by the bestselling author of the 87th Precinct series. Alex Hardy is the finest thief in New York City. A crib burglar, he robs apartments—never hotels, never offices, never liquor stores, never jewelers. Strictly apartments, and strictly during the day. He&’s paranoid, ready to cut and run as soon as a job turns sour—he&’s already been to prison once, and he doesn&’t plan on getting caught again—but he&’s about to get the offer of a lifetime, the big make he&’s always been looking for. How can he say no? This could set him up for life—but it could also send him back to Sing Sing for good. The stake revolves around Daisy, a one-legged hooker who spends Thursday afternoons at the home of a Westchester millionaire. It would be simple if Alex wasn&’t increasingly distracted by Jessica, his square neighbor who has no idea he&’s a burglar and seems to like him. Between these two very different women lies the biggest opportunity of Alex&’s life. Will he get his hands on it before the alarms start to sound? A heist story in the tradition of Lawrence Block or Donald E. Westlake, Doors is a brilliantly detailed story of how to steal—and why—from legendary Mystery Writers of America Grand Master Ed McBain.
El amigo
by Joakim ZanderEl autor del éxito internacional El nadador vuelve con otro trepidante thriller y demuestra una vez más por qué es un maestro del género. «Durante los últimos veinte años Henning Mankell ha marcado la pauta en este género. Ahora lo hace Zander.»WDR2 Jacob trabaja en la embajada sueca en Beirut cuando conoce al fotógrafo Yassim y quedan mutuamente fascinados. Pero una y otra vez Yassim desaparece y se enreda en contradicciones. Aunque Jacob no sabe si puede confiar en él, decide seguir los dictados de su corazón e involucrarse de lleno en una persecución sin tregua por toda Europa. En Estocolmo, Klara Walldéen nota que su mejor amiga, la reconocida abogada especializada en derechos humanos Gabriella Seichelmann, se comporta de manera extraña e inmediatamente percibe que algo no marcha bien. Pero no puede creer las acusaciones cuando, poco después, Gabi es arrestada en una operación antiterrorista. Los caminos de Klara y Jacob se cruzarán en Bruselas y juntos intentarán salvar a las dos personas que más quieren... Aunque no sepan si realmente lo merecen. Sobre la novela han dicho:«El nuevo thriller de Joakim Zander es una historia extraordinariamente emocionante... Si te gusta la acción este es tu libro.»Hallo Buch «Tras Stieg Larsson, Henning Mankell y Jens Lapidus, llega una nueva gran voz de la novela policiaca escandinava: Joakim Zander.»Metro «Zander ha escrito de nuevo una novela de suspense increíblemente apasionante y eficaz.»Der Kultur Blog
El jardín olvidado
by Kate MortonEn vísperas de la Primera Guerra Mundial una niña es abandonada en un barco con destino a Australia. Una misteriosa mujer llamada La Autora ha prometido cuidar de ella, pero desaparece sin dejar rastro... Un terrible secreto sale a la luz... En la noche de su veintiún cumpleaños, Nell O'Connor descubre que es adoptada, lo que cambiará su vida para siempre. Décadas más tarde, se embarca en una búsqueda de la verdad de sus antepasados que la lleva a la ventosa costa de Cornualles. Una misteriosa herencia que llega en el siglo XXI... A la muerte de Nell, su nieta Casandra recibe una inesperada herencia: una cabaña y su olvidado jardín en las tierras de Cornualles que es conocido por la gente por los secretos que estos esconden. Aquí es donde Casandra descubrirá finalmente la verdad sobre la familia y resolverá el misterio, que se remonta a un siglo atrás. La crítica ha dicho...«Memorias, intriga y secretos de familia entretejidos en un absorbente laberinto de tramas complementarias que nos arrastran a una lectura llena de fuerza, ternura y emoción. Con un estilo ágil y envolvente, Kate Morton nos conmueve con una magnífica historia difícil de olvidar.»María Dueñas «Kate Morton, [...] en la tradición de literatura clásica anglosajona, es el último fenómeno literario. [...] Atrapa a lectores con lazo por su manera de contar gustosa, minuciosa, victoriana.»El País Semanal «El jardín olvidado reúne todos los elementos de una auténtica novela romántica inglesa que tanto gusta a un tipo de lectores. [Presenta] claras evocaciones a Charles Dickens, Jane Austen o las hermanas Brönte.»La Vanguardia «Kate Morton nos arrastra a través de tres continentes en busca del verdadero nombre de una niña pelirroja abandonada en un muelle abrazada a su maleta. Es la historia de una saga de mujeres que no creían en los cuentos de hadas pero que los escribían.»Eugenia Rico «Una niña protagonista, el trasfondo histórico de la Primera Guerra Mundial, un thriller absorbente, una autora deslumbrante. Sigan a Kate Morton.»Alex Rovira «Morton posee una habilidad magistral para crear misteriosas historias en ambientes propios de leyendas. Cuando te adentres en el jardín que sugiere esta novela no querrás olvidarlo.»Mari Pau Domínguez «Me conmovió especialmente El jardín olvidado, en el que una autora desconocida para mí, Kate Morton, desgrana una magnífica historia escrita a la manera de los clásicos del XIX pero con un encanto actual.»Concha Quirós, Librería Cervantes (Oviedo) «No os dejéis engañar por la niña con la flor en la cubierta. El jardín olvidado es una absorbente novela de misterio que te atrapa en su laberinto mientras intentas desvelar los secretos de sus personajes.»Silvano Goz
Ellery Queen's Anthology Spring-Summer 1975
by Ellery Queen1 long novel, 2 short novels, 2 novelets, 9 short stories, all mysteries compiled by Queen (and the last one written by him).
Encyclopedia Brown and the Case of the Dead Eagles
by Donald J. SobolWhy is every crook and bully in Idaville brought to justice? Who is the secret brains behind the town's police force? Ten-year-old Encyclopedia Brown! He's back and no mystery baffles him. Once again the boy detective is challenged by an array of crooked characters who attempt to puzzle him--and you--as they leave behind them clues to the solution of their crimes. Match wits with Encyclopedia. You, too, can find the clues.
Family Affair (Nero Wolfe #46)
by Rex StoutWhen a bomb kills his favorite waiter from his favorite restaurant, sedentary sleuth and gourmand Nero Wolfe is determined to go to any length to find the killer.
Fatal Step
by Wade MillerDave Lee was shot dead as he rode the Joyland ferris wheel. As hard-boiled private investigator Max Thursday stalked Dave's killer, he encountered ... a high-powered sob sister, the sadistic king of a gambling syndicate, and a delicate, sphinx-like girl who packed a .38 revolver. The best Wade Miller mystery yet! A tough private eye relentlessly pursues a wily, cold-blooded gunman through an amusement park.
Fatal Step
by Wade MillerDave Lee was shot dead as he rode the Joyland ferris wheel. As hard-boiled private investigator Max Thursday stalked Dave's killer, he encountered ... a high-powered sob sister, the sadistic king of a gambling syndicate, and a delicate, sphinx-like girl who packed a .38 revolver. The best Wade Miller mystery yet! A tough private eye relentlessly pursues a wily, cold-blooded gunman through an amusement park.
Fatal Step
by Wade MillerDave Lee was shot dead as he rode the Joyland ferris wheel. As hard-boiled private investigator Max Thursday stalked Dave’s killer, he encountered … a high-powered sob sister, the sadistic king of a gambling syndicate, and a delicate, sphinx-like girl who packed a .38 revolver. The best Wade Miller mystery yet! A tough private eye relentlessly pursues a wily, cold-blooded gunman through an amusement park.
Freeze Frame: A Novel
by Robert R. Irvine Richard WaterhouseBob Christopher is Los Angeles' Channel Three television-news action reporter. His beat is the little people--the ones who get pushed around, find themselves in god-awful messes, and produce "human interest" for the insatiable maw of television. But this story was different from the first, when a tiny old lady told Christopher about the bulldozers that had leveled her home without reason or warning. That was ugly enough. What happened to the old lady a little while later was even nastier. And suddenly Bob isn't dealing with the little people any more. He finds himself in deep with big-time politics, a giant oil corporation, a group of wild American Indians, and a high-priced hooker--all out to make him a corpse before he can report the news.
Funny Money (Destroyer #18)
by Warren Murphy Richard SapirFROM THE BACK COVER: One man held the government to ransom, with undetectable counterfeit money which could ruin the U. S. Economy. His price - a NASA computer space programme approaching creative intelligence. His motive- an enigma, like Mr. Gordons himself. Bullets were powerless against him, and when Remo and Chiun were brought in, he raised his ransom to include their heads. Their only clue to his superhuman powers was the sexy scientific genius who invented the programme he wanted. But she proved more interested in researching Remo's potential.
Funny Money: Number 18 in Series (The Destroyer #18)
by Warren Murphy Richard SapirThe San Diego branch of the Secret Service is receiving some absolutely perfect counterfeit U.S. currency in the mail, and getting nervous. A flood of these bogus bucks could cripple the economy - which is just what Mr Gordons threatens to do unless he receives a computer program developed by NASA for use in unmanned space flights. Yet the program is virtually useless within a million miles of earth . . .Just who is this Mr Gordons? What is the source of his mysterious powers? And what is his relationship with the beautiful, brilliant scientist who heads the space research program? Only one man can crack the plot. Remo Williams is The Destroyer, an ex-cop who should be dead, but instead fights for the secret government law-enforcement organisation CURE. Trained in the esoteric martial art of Sinanju by his aged mentor, Chiun, Remo is America's last line of defence. Breathlessly action-packed and boasting a winning combination of thrills, humour and mysticism, the Destroyer is one of the bestselling series of all time.
Gently With Love (George Gently)
by Mr Alan HunterThe unflappable Inspector George Gently has become a household name through the hit BBC TV series starring Martin Shaw. These are the original books on which the TV series was based, although the George Gently in Alan Hunter's whodunits is somewhat different to his TV counterpart. He is more calculating, more analytical, and his investigations are even more enthralling.In this title:Gently sets out for the north of Scotland to help clear one of his oldest friends of a murder charge and reunite him with the woman he loves. A love story founders on the rocks of the wild coastline of western Scotland when a man falls to his death. Did he fall or was he pushed? The knife wounds on his body tend to suggest the latter. Although he knows his rank gives him no status in Scotland, Gently travels north to help out, the prime suspect being a close friend.Despite the fact that the evidence weighs heavily against him, Gently cannot bring himself to believe that his friend committed murder, even if the victim was a hated love rival. He must use all of his skill as a detective to find a way to prove his friend’s innocence. Highland hospitality, however, doesn’t always extend to cooperating with a murder investigation.
Ghost Stories and Mysteries
by J. S. LefanuMystery and supernatural fiction by writer many consider the greatest ghost story writer of all time. "The Room in the Dragon Volant" (the finest historical mystery of the Victorian era) and "The Evil Guest"; also "The Murdered Cousin," the first sealed-room story known. Most stories unavailable elsewhere.
Hammett
by Joe Gores'Not since Hammett and Chandler has anyone written quite as well as Joe Gores' Ross ThomasFrom Chinatown's dark alleys to the fog-shrouded Golden Gate, crooked politicians ran San Francisco. To Hammet, retired Pinkerton detective and struggling writer, it was all just grist to his fictional mill. Until the night his pal walked into a baseball bat. Then Hammett hung up his typewriter, put on his gumshoes and went out into the brawling, swaggering city to find the brutal murderer.
Hammett: The Prequel To Dashiell Hammett's The Maltese Falcon (Dover Crime Classics #Vol. 39676)
by Joe Gores"Gores . . . is as resourceful as the Master himself, and has dreamed up an evocative picture of San Francisco in 1928—with its beauty, its venality, its dirty cops and politicians. Try not to miss this book." — The New York Times Part thriller, part fictionalized history, part biography, this gripping tale centers on the legendary author of The Maltese Falcon. Recounted in colorful underworld argot by three-time Edgar Award winner Joe Gores, the story traces Dashiell Hammett's eager return to his career as a private investigator, as he attempts to uncover the truth behind the brutal murder of an old friend amid the bordellos and gambling dens of 1920s San Francisco. But many years behind a typewriter have dulled Hammett's detective skills even as they've sharpened his fear of death — leaving him all too aware that one misstep could end both his life and his hopes for literary immortality. The basis for a 1982 film adaptation by Wim Wenders, it offers a splendid introduction to Hammett's world. "Not since Hammett and Chandler has anyone written quite as well as Joe Gores." — Ross Thomas
Hardy Boys 27: The Secret of Skull Mountain
by Franklin W. DixonThere is a crisis in Bayport! Soon the city will be without water! Every night, water strangely disappears from the new reservoir near Skull Mountain. Frank and Joe Hardy join forces with a team of skilled engineers to solve the baffling mystery.From the Hardcover edition.
Harry's Game
by Gerald SeymourA Sunday Times '100 best crime novels and thrillers since 1945' pick!A British cabinet minister is gunned down on a London street by an IRA assassin. In the wake of national outcry, the authorities must find the hitman. But the trail is long cold, the killer gone to ground in Belfast, and they must resort to more unorthodox methods to unearth him. Ill prepared and poorly briefed, undercover agent Harry Brown is sent into the heart of enemy territory to infiltrate the terrorists.But when it is a race against the clock, mistakes are made and corners cut. For Harry Brown, alone in a city of strangers, where an intruder is the subject of immediate gossip and rumour, one false move is enough to leave him fatally isolated...
Harry's Game
by Gerald SeymourA Sunday Times '100 best crime novels and thrillers since 1945' pick!A British cabinet minister is gunned down on a London street by an IRA assassin. In the wake of national outcry, the authorities must find the hitman. But the trail is long cold, the killer gone to ground in Belfast, and they must resort to more unorthodox methods to unearth him. Ill prepared and poorly briefed, undercover agent Harry Brown is sent into the heart of enemy territory to infiltrate the terrorists.But when it is a race against the clock, mistakes are made and corners cut. For Harry Brown, alone in a city of strangers, where an intruder is the subject of immediate gossip and rumour, one false move is enough to leave him fatally isolated...(P)2013 Hodder & Stoughton
Harry's Game: A Thriller
by Gerald SeymourA British cabinet minister is gunned down on a London street by an IRA assassin. In the wake of a national outcry, the authorities must find the hitman. But the trail is long cold, the killer gone to ground in Belfast, and they must resort to more unorthodox methods to unearth him. Ill prepared and poorly briefed, undercover agent Harry Brown is sent into the heart of enemy territory to infiltrate the terrorists. . But when it is a race against the clock, mistakes are made and corners cut. For Harry Brown, alone in a city of strangers, where an intruder is the subject of immedate gossip and rumour, one false move is enough to leave him fatally isolated. . . .
High Stakes
by Dick FrancisSteven Scott is a successful, wealthy toy inventor. With the inspired guidance of horse trainer Jody Leeds, and the prowess of a beautiful black hurdler named Energise, he has become a leading racehorse owner. His winning streak is about to come to a fast end when he discovers Jody is a crook who's already taken him for a fortune--and won't hesitate to take Steven's life...
Hollywood and LeVine (The Jack LeVine Mysteries #2)
by Andrew BergmanA trip to the West Coast lands Jack LeVine in a tangled Hollywood murder webAfter nearly a decade of churning out hits, Warner Bros. screenwriter Walter Adrian wants a raise on his weekly $2,500 salary. He thinks a thousand dollars more is fair—but the studio&’s counteroffer is low, and dropping fast. Something is wrong, and he thinks it may have to do with communism. Though he insists he isn&’t a Red, Adrian has no way of proving it. He flees to New York to ask the advice of high school buddy Jack LeVine, private eye. LeVine is broke, and has no sympathy for his wealthy friend, but he agrees to fly West to investigate his old classmate&’s trouble. When he arrives, Adrian hangs dead from the gallows at the Western set on the Warners&’ backlot. Behind his friend&’s death LeVine finds a shadowy Cold War conspiracy, and a city far darker than anything Hollywood puts on screen.
Holy Terror: Number 19 in Series (The Destroyer #19)
by Warren Murphy Richard SapirRemo Williams is The Destroyer, an ex-cop who should be dead, but instead fights for the secret government law-enforcement organisation CURE. Trained in the esoteric martial art of Sinanju by his aged mentor, Chiun, Remo is America's last line of defence. In the past, Remo and Chiun have had to deal with every make of charlatan, thug and assassin. No problem. But a revered, berobed and bejeweled Indian Holy Man, the certified crazy Maharaji Gupta Mahesh Dor and the Blissful Master of the International Divine Bliss Mission? Legend has it that if a holy man is harmed within the sacred grounds of Patna, all of India will tremble and the heavens will crack. Big deal, just another troubleshoot for the boys.Then there is a death in Patna. A tremendous earthquake follows. The White House is shaken up. The TV crews arrive. All hell breaks loose. But Remo and Chiun have barely begun . . .Breathlessly action-packed and boasting a winning combination of thrills, humour and mysticism, the Destroyer is one of the bestselling series of all time.