"It's easy to see why Parker's snappy banter and cynical eye have kept fans turning pages for 25 years . . . his wisecracks, combined with Parker's shorthand flair for scathing characterization, make for a satisfying read," said Entertainment Weekly of last year's Hush Money. Now Parker presents Spenser with a deceptively dangerous and multi-layered case: Someone has been killing racehorses at stables across the south, and the Boston P.I. travels to Georgia to protect the two-year-old destined t...
NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE Funny and heartbreaking, this New York Times bestselling debut perfectly captures the maddening confusion of adolescence and the prickly nature of family with irony and unerring honesty. Harley Altmyer should be in college having the time of his life. He should be free from the backwards Pennsylvania coal town he calls home, with its lack of jobs and no sense of humor. Instead, he’s constantly reminded of just how messed up everything is... Harley’s mother is in pri...
'A truly brilliant and intelligent piece of Noir crime set in New Zealand' Goodreads review'Raw, authentic and gripping. Cop-turned-writer Nathan Blackwell has created a police procedural with a difference, and a compelling glimpse into the darker side of life' - EMMA VISKIC, bestselling author of Resurrection Bay___________________________________________Detective Buchanan remembers every victim.But this one he can't forget.The body of a woman has been found on a pristine New Zealand beach - ov...
Finn Ross has retreated to Scotland's remote Orkney Islands to find clarity about his dissolving career and marriage. On a twilit midsummer ramble, he discovers the body of a local eminent musician. His involvement in the case thwarts his desire to return to his native Belfast, and Finn decides to follow his own instincts as an investigative reporter to solve the crime. An enigmatic island girl and her grandmother join Finn in his pursuit of the truth, and all three find themselves caught in a w...
Fast-paced and intelligent, blending historical fact with persuasive fiction, The Sacred Bones is an addictively compelling thriller that calls into question many of modern religion's most deeply-held beliefs. Jerusalem is a ticking time bomb ...An ancient artefact is stolen from beneath Temple Mount. With thirteen Israeli soldiers dead, and the Palestinians outraged over the desecration of the sacred ground, tensions are running high. Detectives must work against the clock to identify the stole...
At once a hypnotic murder mystery, scathing literary parody, soap opera, and brilliant pastiche, Betrayals is an astonishing virtuouso performance by a modern master of literary gamesmanship in the tradition of Vladimir Nabokov and John Barth. The novel unforlds in a series of seemingly unrelated narratives, each written in a different style -- indeed, in a different genre. There is an obituary for a Scottish scientist and Nobel Prize winner, written by a colleague who clearly relishes his death...
En este libro tratare de llevarlo por un sendero donde el terror junto al poder tienen unos caminos trazados para que su vida despues de terminar de leer este manuscrito tenga un sentido mas activo y pueda detectar en cualquier momento una agresion que se dirija en su trayectoria . Usted se ha preguntado alguna vez. 'Cuando puede llegar mi muerte? El contenido de esta obra lo convierte en un manual de consultas por todo el material historico que nuestra investigacion pudo conseguir dentro del pr...
The eight-year-old boy had vanished from the car and - as if by slick, sick magic - had been replaced by a note on the steering wheel...'You don't love him'...At the height of summer a dark shadow falls across Exmoor. Children are being stolen from cars. Each disappearance is marked only by a terse note - a brutal accusation. There are no explanations, no ransom demands ...and no hope. Policeman Jonas Holly faces a precarious journey into the warped mind of the kidnapper if he's to stand any cha...
A Child of the Jago (Victorian, #106) (Academy Victorian Classic)
by Arthur Morrison
Morrison's descriptions of the fearful physical conditions are based directly on what he saw. He conjures up an extraordinarily vivid picture of a world which, even as he wrote, was about to vanish in one of the first of the slum clearance schemes.
Novela romantica y de misterio, que trata sobre la fraternidad entre un chico espanol y una chica otomana de finales del siglo XIX en Grecia. Los dos trataran de descubrir los misterios de muchas ruinas griegas que iran descubriendo poco a poco...hasta llegar a descubrir la Joya de Grecia...En esta novela he asegurado muchos misterios desde el primer capitulo hasta el ultimo.
"Un presunto asesino llamado Kingfisher está a punto de ir a juicio. El caso, que desencadena una inesperada violencia entre los abogados, los miembros del jurado y policías involucrados en el caso, ha paralizado la ciudad. La detective Lindsay Boxer de El club contra el crimen está en el ojo del huracán. Ahora se avecina una sorpresa que nadie vio venir."--
A simplified retelling of the classic story of the mischievous 19th-century boy in a Mississippi River town and his friends, Huck Finn and Becky Thatcher, as they run away from home, witness a murder, and find treasure in a cave.
