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El Caserío de Stonebridge
by Carlos Corzo Fernández Peter C. BradburyUna novela que se sumerge la vida de todos sus personajes. Los estratos socioculturales y los estilos de vida de la Gran Bretaña que se combinan entre sí. Las costumbres, las historias y los conflictos que se cuadran y se pierden dentro de la enorme propiedad de un noble acaudalado y su perversa esposa, que se entrelazan y se disipan dentro de los largos y enredados corredores de la enorme mansión: Las personas que trabajan para ellos, sus amigos y sus amantes. Un homicidio imposible de descifrar por la mejor policía del mundo, y una tregua que al final, hace que todo cobre sentido.
Cases (Murder Room #99)
by Joe GoresIt's 1953, and Pierce Duncan leaves college an innocent. Seeking the freedom of the road, Dunc sets off to see America. His road trip brings strange, fateful encounters: with a savage Georgia chain gang; with a killer on a lonely Texas road; and with the darker side of the Las Vegas fight game. Finally, Dunc reaches San Francisco, a city seething with the unexpected.In the backstreets and along the freight lines, Dunc meets beautiful women, dangerous men . . . and murder. In California, home of the lost and the outcast, he joins up with the hard-nosed head of a private investigation agency, and his life changes for ever.A violence-marked love letter to a time in America now lost, Cases is as vivid as a lightning storm over a deserted highway, as unforgettable as a first kiss, as haunting as a dead woman's eyes.
Cases
by Joe GoresIn 1953 Pierce Duncan leaves college and sets off to see America. From Georgia, to Texas and on to San Francisco, Dunce's travels take him along back streets and freight lines where he meets beautiful women, dangerous men, and murder. In California, he teams up with the dynamic head of a private investigation agency where he will learn about being a man - and about brutal betrayal. Gores has written a violence-marked love story of a lost time in America.
Cases of Sherlock Holmes (adapted)
by Arthur Conan Doyle William KottmeyerFour Sherlock Holmes stories are re-told in an adapted version. They are: The Adventure of the Speckled Band, The Red-Headed League, The Adventure of the Six Napoleons, and The Empty House. The adapter explains that the final story is a blend of two of the original Holmes stories. A biography of Holmes is included.
The Cases of Susan Dare
by Mignon G. EberhartA mystery author finds her knowledge of murder put to practical useInside the lovely head of Susan Dare, grisly murder lurks. A mystery author who makes her living providing tidy solutions to imaginary crimes, Dare is enjoying a much-needed vacation when the mood at her host&’s house turns sour. Ugly secrets lurk in the Frame family&’s past, and jealousy stirs beneath the surface of their tranquil country estate. Dare makes plans to leave before her hosts turn on each other, but she is too late. On the morning of her departure, a gunshot echoes through the fog. Only a beautiful author with a head full of murder mysteries can pinpoint the killer. In this handful of elegant, classic stories, Mignon Eberhart&’s amateur detective proves her worth time and time again. Decades before Murder, She Wrote, Eberhart realized that those who write mysteries can solve them too.
Casey Templeton Mysteries 2-Book Bundle: Hate Cell / Old Bones
by Gwen MolnarIn Hate Cell, thirteen-year-old Casey Templeton has recently moved to the southeastern Alberta town of Richford. One night Casey seeks refuge from a snowstorm in an abandoned farmhouse and stumbles upon his nearly frozen, unconscious science teacher, Mr. Deverell. Casey attempts to revive his teacher and searches the house for something to make a fire. In the attic he makes a frightening discovery — an office filled with computers, a printer, and racist posters and flyers! Soon the RCMP and Casey’s hacker brother, Hank, get involved in the mystery, but it’s Casey who leads the investigation into a warped world where hate is marketed on the Internet and innocent people are preyed on by bigots and bullies. In Old Bones, while helping with a real dinosaur dig at the world-famous Royal Tyrrell Museum, Casey finds a piece of dinosaur tooth. Excited, he spends all afternoon looking for the rest of the tooth, but all he ends up getting is a nasty sunburn. Lying in his hotel room that night, trying to recover, he sees and hears two men in a nearby room planning a robbery of precious artifacts from the Tyrrell. As the summer comes to an end, Casey and his friend Mandy decide to relax and take a bicycle jaunt north of Drumheller. But on the road they accidentally meet up with the conspirators and soon find themselves in a grim situation. Casey has to use all his ingenuity and skills to escape so he can try to help thwart the planned heist. Can he do it? Includes Hate Cell Old Bones
Casey's Surprise
by Stacy Ray PhillipsWhen a small town Alaskan girl comes home to a mysterious death and the gorgeous hunk next door, cold nights sizzle and intrigue lurks around every corner! Stacy Ray Phillips presents her suspense-filled romance, Casey's Surprise, Book 1 of her new series, Burnt Bridge, Alaska.After years of traveling, Casey returns to the isolated Alaskan town she left behind to unravel the mystery behind her Aunt Bevvy's death. Surprises abound, but the biggest revelation of all is Colin, the boy next door.Colin has loved Casey forever, and now he finally has her attention. He's a settle-down kind of guy, and Casey is the woman he's been waiting for all these years.Can Casey figure out what happened to her aunt? Will she realize that the boy next door has grown into the man she never knew she'd been looking for, or will her wanderlust carry her far from home once again?Content Notes: Spicy, Romantic Suspense, Contemporary
Cash City (The Cain City Novels)
by Jonathan FredrickA West Virginia PI is out to avenge his son&’s murder in this debut crime novel. For the past seven years, Nick Malick has been haunted by the violent death of his young son. In his gut, Malick knows who did it. But the psychopath is in prison for another crime, scheduled to be released in a year. To exact his revenge, all Malick has to do is wait . . . and survive. Having lost his marriage and career in the wake of the tragedy, Malick scrapes by as a private investigator in the blue-collar town of Cain City, West Virginia. His latest case tasks him with finding a young woman gone missing. Seems simple enough. But when his investigation exposes a link between a corrupt police force and a powerful drug cartel, Malick finds himself at the center of an explosive criminal conspiracy. Turns out, when there&’s no one to trust and a whole lot of people want you dead, survival and revenge aren&’t so easy. &“Quick and nimble, peopled with unforgettable characters, Cash City provides everything I hope to find in a hard-boiled crime novel.&” —A.F. Carter, author of The Hostage
Cash Landing
by James GrippandoThe New York Times bestselling author of Cane and Abe and Black Horizon delivers a wild, suspenseful story inspired by actual events, in which a band of amateur thieves pulls off one of the biggest airport heists in history, with deadly consequences.Every week, a hundred million dollars in cash arrive at Miami International Airport, shipped by German banks to the Federal Reserve. A select group of trusted workers moves the bags through customs and loads them into armored cars.Ruban Betancourt has always played by the rules. But when the bank takes his house and his restaurant business goes bust, he is driven over the edge. He and his wife deserve more than what life has handed them, and he's come up with a scheme to get a little payback. Ruban, with the help of an airport insider, his cokehead brother-in-law, Jeffrey, and two ex-cons, surprise the guards transferring the money to the armored cars and speed off with $7.4 million in the bed of a pickup truck.Investigating the heist, FBI agent Andie Henning, newly transferred to Miami from Seattle, knows that the best way to catch the thieves is to follow the money. Jeffrey's drug addiction is as conspicuous as the Rolex watches he buys for dancers at the Gold Rush strip joint. And one of the ex-cons, Pinky Perez, makes no secret of his plan to own a swingers' club, which will give him carte blanche with his patrons' wives. Meanwhile, levelheaded Ruban is desperately trying to lie low and hold things together.But Agent Henning isn't the only one on their trail, and in mob-meets-Miami fashion, these accidental thieves suddenly find themselves in way over their heads and sinking fast.
Cash McCall: A Novel
by Cameron HawleyA financial adventurer becomes a hero to some, a villain to many, and a lover to one as he buys and sells companies in a thrilling game of wits and cunning in this New York Times bestseller from the author of Executive Suite Cash McCall is a believer in free enterprise, a man not yet forty who buys, sells, and merges companies to make huge profits in a postwar nation of conformist "company men." McCall is an enigma who operates out of an expensive tenth-floor suite in a Philadelphia hotel that he may or may not own. He's single, conducts secret business meetings, and is both envied and hated. No one knows where he came from. Grant Austen spent three decades building his plastics company. Now, as he seeks counsel from his banker and lawyer about selling out, he unwittingly triggers a whirlwind of corporate and financial maneuvering he doesn't fully understand. And his daughter, Lory, commits the cardinal sin of falling in love with Cash McCall, the man who's about to buy her father's company out from under him. But who is Cash McCall? A ruthless operator or a rugged individualist? Reminiscent of Ayn Rand's The Fountainhead, this is a novel about love, the free enterprise system, and one man's refusal to be anyone but himself.
Cash Out: A Novel
by Greg Bardsley“Cash Out is one of those novels that begs for more adjectives: relentless, madcap, polished, lean, vivid, warped, original, horrifying and hilarious in equal measure.” —Marcus Sakey, author of The Two Deaths of Daniel Hayes and The AmateurImagine a story by Ben Mezrich (The Accidental Billionaires, 21) of staggering financial improprieties infused with Tim Dorsey’s (Hurricane Punch, Gator A-Go-Go) zany, over-the-top pure insanity, and you might have something somewhat resembling Cash Out, the rollicking debut novel by Greg Bardsley. This is nonstop, mercilessly hilarious, no-holds-barred fiction for fans of The Hangover and Office Space—an outrageous tall tale that follows one desperate, disgruntled Silicon Valley exec through a his surreal three-day scramble to cash out his stock options and leave behind his hated high-tech job before outrageous villains (and even crazier friends) completely destroy him. Do you like the wildly satirical work of Tom Perrotta, Sam Lipsyte, and Gary Shteyngart? Do the ingenious comic caper novels of Elmore Leonard leave you breathless and exhilarated? Then get ready to Cash Out.
Cashed In
by Jackie ChanceHigh stakes on the high seas in the second Poker mystery. Amateur Texas Hold 'Em champ Belinda Cooley, aka "Bee Cool," boards a high-stakes poker cruise, and loses her cool when her fellow poker pros start disappearing. It seems someone is out to turn the card sharks into shark bait-and Belinda may be next.
The Cashmere Kid (Tish McWhinny Mysteries)
by B. ComfortA picaresque community is disturbed by a pair of crimes. When two murders occur after Tish McWhinny's niece, Sophie, imports a pedigreed Australian cashmere goat for her goat farm, Tish decides to investigate.
Casing the Copycat (Covert Cowboy Soldiers #5)
by Nicole HelmThey make the perfect team Until a killer targets them both Rancher Dunne Thompson spent his adult life trying to atone for his serial killer grandfather. When his friend&’s mysterious twin, Quinn Peterson, offers her help with his latest obsession—tracking down a copycat killer—it&’s a nonstarter. But Quinn&’s quick, unorthodox mind catches patterns Dunne hasn&’t seen. As attraction and danger collide, the clues lead to a suspect more surprising than Quinn herself…From Harlequin Intrigue: Seek thrills. Solve crimes. Justice served.Discover more action-packed stories in the Covert Cowboy Soldiers series. All books are stand-alone with uplifting endings but were published in the following order: Book 1: The Lost Hart TripletBook 2: Small Town VanishingBook 3: One Night StandoffBook 4: Shot in the DarkBook 5: Casing the CopycatBook 6: Clandestine Baby
Casino Moon: A Mystery
by Peter BlaunerA murder draws the son of an Atlantic City mobster deep into the world he has tried to escape fromRaised in the Atlantic City Cosa Nostra, Anthony Russo spent his life trying to escape the mob. But his stepfather has dreams for the boy--to be a consigliere or maybe even the capo of his own crew some day. So far, Anthony has stayed away, but one night at a dive called Rafferty's, not far from the glitz of the casinos, he gets sucked into the whirlpool of organized crime. His stepfather brings him there to kill a rival thug, and even though Anthony balks, the man ends up dead, with Anthony an accessory to the killing. As he falls deeper into the world of easy money and quick death, he must draw on talents he didn't know he had in order to survive. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Peter Blauner including rare photos and never-before-seen documents from the author's personal collection.
The Casino Murder Case: Phil Vance #8 (Philo Vance #8)
by S.S. Van DineBet on this Golden Age mystery from the author of The Dragon Murder Case. &“One is tempted to say that this is the best of the Philo Vance stories.&” —The New York Times The &“tremendous popularity&” of the Philo Vance series stems in part from author S. S. Van Dine&’s preference for ripping his plots from the headlines of the day (The New York Times). By the early &’30s, when Casino came around, those headlines included some creepy chemical discoveries and scandalous doings at secret Manhattan gambling dens, where rich folks knocked back cocktails and played roulette, snickering at both the Depression and the Volsted Act. Philo, of course, is no stranger to cocktails or to snickering, and he knows more about creepy chemicals than the management at Dow. This comes in handy when the owners of a secret Manhattan gambling den are poisoned, perhaps by some new and creepy chemical. As deliciously, irritatingly erudite as ever, Philo is in his element here, solving what one reviewer called an &“uncommonly subtle&” crime.Praise for the Philo Vance series &“With his highbrow manner and his parade of encyclopedic learning, Philo Vance is not only a detective; he is a god out of the machine.&” —The New York Times &“The Philo Vance novels were well-crafted puzzlers that captivated readers . . . the works of S.S. Van Dine serve to transport the reader back to a long-gone era of society and style of writing.&” —Mystery Scene &“Outrageous cleverness . . . among the finest fruits of the Golden Age.&” —Bloody Murder
Casino Royale (James Bond #1)
by Ian FlemingIn the first of Ian Fleming's James Bond novels, 007 declares war on Le Chiffre, French communist and paymaster of the Soviet murder organization SMERSH.<P> The battle begins in a fifty-million-franc game of baccarat, gains momentum during Bond's fiery love affair with a sensuous lady spy, and reaches a chilling climax with fiendish torture at the hands of a master sadist.
Casino Royale: There Is Only One Bond (Bull's-eye Ser.)
by Ian FlemingJAMES BOND declares war on Le Chiffre, French Communist and paymaster of the Soviet murder organization SMERSH.The battle begins for the ace secret agent in a fifty-million-franc game of baccarat...gains momentum in his fiery love affair with a sensuous lady spy...and reaches a chilling climax with fiendish torture at the hands of a master sadist.The critics give a winning hand to Ian Fleming’s superlative thriller of espionage, adventure, intrigue and murder—CASINO ROYALE“Hums with tension...Author Fleming keeps his incidents and characters spinning through their paces like juggling balls.”—Time“A speed-breaker for thrills with a big dramatic scene set in a crowded casino.” Atlanta Journal Constitution“Excitement enough to intrigue the most hardened reader.”—Newark News“Mounting suspense on every page.”—Houston Chronicle“It’s superlative, everything such a story should be...One can only beg for more from Mr. Fleming.”—Pensacola News-Journal
Casino Royale: A James Bond Novel (James Bond #1)
by Ian FlemingJAMES BOND PLAYS A DEADLY GAME OF CHANCE IN IAN FLEMING’S LEGENDARY FIRST 007 NOVEL“Le Chiffre” is a ruthless operative and the accountant for a soviet SMERSH cell in France, but he’s on the verge of disaster after gambling away his client’s money. Taking the last of his stash, he lures a dozen wealthy players to a high-stakes baccarat game, hoping to hustle his way whole.The British Secret Service would like to see this red thorn plucked from the hide of Europe, and sends their best card sharp, James Bond, to bankrupt Le Chiffre for good.With the cards running against him and SMERSH operatives threatening to kill him and his beautiful ally, Vesper Lynd, 007 needs his luck to turn before he wagers away their lives.
Casino Royale
by Ian FlemingBritish Secret Service agent James Bond, a.k.a. 007, is sent to play in a high-stakes baccarat game in an effort to take down Le Chiffre, a financier for the villainous SMERSH. Things get more complex when Bond is partnered with Vesper Lynd, a beautiful and smart MI6 employee with a dark secret. James Bond is one of the most iconic characters in 20th-century literature. In addition to the 12 novels and 9 short stories written by Ian Fleming, there have been over 40 novels and short stories written about the spy by other authors, and 26 films produced, starring actors such as Sean Connery and Daniel Craig as 007.Random House Canada is proud to bring you classic works of literature in ebook form, with the highest quality production values. Find more today and rediscover books you never knew you loved.
The Cask: A Detective Story Club Classic Crime Novel (Dover Mystery Classics Ser.)
by Freeman Wills CroftsA strange container is found on the London docks, and its contents point to murder The cask from Paris is bigger than the rest, its sides reinforced to hold the extraordinary weight within. As the longshoremen are bringing it onto the London docks, the cask slips, cracks, and spills some of its treasure: a wealth of gold sovereigns. As the workmen cram the spilled gold into their pockets, an official digs through the opened box, which is supposed to contain a statue. Beneath the gold he finds a woman&’s hand—as cold as marble, but made of flesh. He reports the body to his superiors, but when he returns, the cask has vanished. The case is given to Inspector Burnley, a methodical detective of Scotland Yard, who will confront a baffling array of clues and red herrings, alibis and outright lies as he attempts to identify the woman in the cask—and catch the man who killed her. This ebook features a new introduction by Otto Penzler and has been professionally proofread to ensure accuracy and readability on all devices.
Cask Strength (Agents Irish and Whiskey #2)
by Layla ReyneProfessionally, the FBI team of Aidan "Irish" Talley and Jameson "Whiskey" Walker is as good as it gets, closing cases faster than any team at the Bureau. Personally, it's a different story. Aidan's feelings for Jamie scare the hell out of him: he won't risk losing another love no matter how heart-tripping the intimacy between them. And loss is a grim reality with the terrorist Renaud still on their trail, leaving a pile of bodies in his wake. Going undercover on a new case gets them out of town and off the killer's radar. They're assigned to investigate an identity theft ring involving a college basketball team in Jamie's home state, where Jamie's past makes him perfect for the role of coach. But returning to the court brings more than old memories. As secrets and shocking betrayals abound, none may be more dangerous than the one Jamie's been keeping: a secret about the death of Aidan's husband that could blow his partner's world apart and destroy forever the fragile bonds of trust and love building between them. This book is approximately 61,000 words
Casket Case (Callie Parrish Mystery #3)
by Fran RizerWhen the town’s beloved pharmacist is found floating face-down in his hot tub, Callie suspects foul play. But while she feels like her investigation is leading her nowhere, someone else seems to think she knows too much. All signs point to a con game gone dangerously wrong. Now it’s up to Callie to catch a killer—before she winds up being fitted for her own casket.
El caso Alaska Sanders
by Joël DickerPor fin, la esperada continuación del fenómeno La verdad sobre el caso Harry Quebert.Más de 15 millones de lectores. PREMIO GONCOURT DES LYCÉENSGRAN PREMIO DE NOVELA DE LA ACADEMIA FRANCESAPREMIO LIREPREMIO QUE LEERPREMIO SAN CLEMENTEPREMIO INTERNACIONAL ALICANTE NOIR «Una voz napoleónica, que no escribe, boxea.»Laura Fernández, El Cultural «El principito de la literatura negra contemporánea.»Jesús Merino López, GQ «Sé lo que has hecho». Este mensaje, encontrado en el bolsillo del pantalón de Alaska Sanders, cuyo cadáver apareció el 3 de abril de 1999 al borde del lago de Mount Pleasant, una pequeña localidad de New Hampshire, es la clave de la nueva y apasionante investigación que, once años después de poner entre rejas a sus presuntos culpables, vuelve a reunir al escritor Marcus Goldman y al sargento Perry Gahalowood. En esta Ocasión contarán con la inestimable ayuda de una joven agente de policía, Lauren Donovan, empeñada en resolver la trama de secretos que se esconde tras el caso. A medida que vayan descubriendo quién era realmente Alaska Sanders, irán resurgiendo también los fantasmas del pasado y, entre ellos, especialmente el de Harry Quebert. Una nueva intriga literariamente adictiva, con la estructura en varios tiempos, las vueltas de tuerca y el ritmo trepidante que son el sello inconfundible de Joël Dicker, «un fenómeno planetario» (Babelia). La crítica ha dicho:«En el centro de la telaraña, tejida por un Dicker en estado de gracia, esta novela demuestra que el escritor está más curtido que nunca en el arte de construir un excelente trampantojo de suspense. [...] Un estilo potente que mantiene un ritmo excepcional.»Jean-Rémi Barland, La Provence «Bestseller a la vista.»Libération «Noches cortas, despertares difíciles; no digáis que no os hemos advertido: imposible parar de leer la nueva novela de Dicker. [...] Con el mismo talento de siempre, nos reencontramos con los fantasmas del pasado y caemos rendidos ante una aventura emocionante y nada predecible.»Le Parisien «Una novela maravillosa que vuelve a sumergirnos en el universo de Harry Quebert. Una narración minuciosa y una atmósfera única que hará las delicias de todos los lectores.»La Fringale Culturelle «Un thriller que demuestra una vez más que Dicker domina a la perfección el arte del suspense. [...] Con un estilo simple, efectivo y una narración impecable, logra mantener al lector hechizado a lo largo de casi seiscientas páginas. ¡Nuevo éxito a la vista!»A. M., Version Femina «La lista de premios literarios atiende expectante la última obra de Dicker.»Louis-Henri de La Rochefoucauld, L’Express «Dicker sabe de lo que habla, y nosotros, como lectores, queremos volver a mecernos en esa canción de la que ya conocemos el estribillo. Nos dejamos llevar con avidez hasta el corazón de una investigación donde, muy rápidamente, no solo caen las máscaras, sino que se desvelan los secretos de cada uno, como en una muñeca rusa.»Nathalie Depuis, Elle «Se pueden decir muchas cosas, y se han dicho, sobre Joël Dicker, pero no que no sepa lo que quiere, cómo conseguirlo y a quién se lo debe.»Juan Carlos Galindo, El País «Llega el fenómeno Dicker. El sucesor de Stieg Larsson y E. L. James: entretenimiento en vena.»Antonio Lozano, La Vanguardia
El caso Collini
by Ferdinand von SchirachEl caso Collini, que narra una historia criminal de una concisión y una desnudez sobrecogedoras, suscitó un encendido debate al revelar la existencia de grandes deficiencias de la justicia en Alemania. Primera novela de Ferdinand von Schirach -conocido por sus extraordinarios volúmenes de relatos Crímenes y Culpa-, El caso Collini suscitó un encendido debate sobre el funcionamiento de la justicia en Alemania y el libro, como sus dos anteriores, ocupó los primeros puestos en las listas de ventas en su país. Empleado diligente, de una discreción modélica, Fabrizio Collini trabajó como operario durante treinta y cuatro años en la Mercedes-Benz. Pero un día, ya jubilado, acude al legendario Hotel Adlon de Berlín, a dos pasos de la puerta de Brandenburgo, y asesina a sangre fría a un hombre anciano, sin motivo aparente. La defensa de Collini recae de oficio en el joven e inexperto abogado CasparLeinen, y lo que al principio parece una oportunidad para su incipiente carrera se convierte en un acuciante dilema profesional, ya que la víctima, un conocido y respetado empresario, es el abuelo de su primer amor, quien a su vez reaparece después de tantos años para pedirle que renuncie al caso. Así pues, Leinen no sólo se ve obligado a defender a un hombre que renuncia a defenderse y se niega a revelar el motivo del crimen, sino también debe resolver el conflicto de intereses. Su reputación y su carrera están en juego, más aún cuando el hallazgo de una pista apunta a un inquietante capítulo de la historia de la justicia alemana. La crítica ha dicho...«Von Schirach es capaz de atrapar al lector desde las primeras líneas y no soltarlo hasta la última página [...]. Su poder narrativo es irresistible.»La Repubblica «Es una pequeña joya: sagaz, incisiva y provocadora.»The Guardian «Un narrador magnífico.»Der Spiegel «Schirach tiene la lucidez de un jurista y el temperamento de un escritor de novela negra.»La Stampa «Escrita con un estilo sobrio y contenido que resulta extremadamente convincente. Von Schirach invita al lector a plantearse qué es la justicia.»The Scotsman