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A riveting historical mystery – the second in the Akitada series – set amid the exquisite ritual and refined treachery of eleventh century Japan

From the author of The Dragon Scroll comes an ingenious new novel of murder and malfeasance in ancient Japan, featuring the detective Sugawara Akitada. The son of reduced nobility forced to toil in the Ministry of Justice, Akitada is relieved when an old friend, Professor Hirata, asks him to investigate a friend's blackmail. Taking a post at the Imperial University, he is soon sidetracked from his primary case by the murder of a young girl and the mysterious disappearance of an old man – a disappearance that the Emperor himself declares a miracle. Rashomon Gate is a mystery of magnificent complexity and historical detail that will leave readers yearning for more.

Charterpilot Matt Shore hat in seinem Leben schon größere Herausforderungen gemeistert, als betuchte Pferdebesitzer, Spitzenjockeys und — trainer von einem Rennplatz zum anderen zu befördern. Dachte er zumindest. Aber dann explodiert eine Bombe — zum Glück erst nach der Landung, die Betroffenen kommen mit dem Schrecken davon. Weitere Attentate folgen, und Matt Shore begreift: Da spekuliert jemand auf den Schrecken und schraubt die Spirale der Gefahr höher und höher.

As a militia movement invades Arizona 's Cochise County, a gun dealer dies mysteriously, and his stock of high-powered weapons vanishes, Sheriff Joanna Brady investigates two other murders that point to armed separatist Alton Hosfield, a probe that threatens her own life and those of her family.

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It is a cold January morning and Shetland lies buried beneath a deep layer of snow. Trudging home, Fran Hunters eye is drawn to a vivid splash of colour on the white ground, ravens circling above. It is the strangled body of her teenage neighbour Catherine Ross. As Fran opens her mouth to scream, the ravens continue their deadly dance. The locals on the quiet island stubbornly focus their gaze on one manloner and simpleton Magnus Tait. But when police insist on opening the investigation a veil of suspicion and fear is thrown over the entire community. For the first time in years, Catherines neighbours nervously lock their doors, whilst a killer lives on in their midst. Raven Black is a haunting, beautifully crafted crime story, and establishes Ann Cleeves as a rising talent in psychological crime writing.

Originally published under the pseudonym Jack Early, a murder mystery about a vengeful killer on a rampage includes bizarre killings, false accusations, and a motive that sets the hands of the clock back twenty-five years.

La tía abuela de V. I. Warshawski, Rosa, cita la detective a su fría casa suburbana. Rosa izo la infancia de V. I. Miserable y a la detective no le gusta el pedido de ayuda de su tía, para que demuestre que ella no hizo un desfalco de cinco millones de dólares de un priorato Dominicano.

Se desata un infierno cuando un adversario misterioso intenta sacar a Vic del caso arrojándole ácido a los ojos y quemando su apartamento. Cuando un amigo que está involucrado en el caso es brutalmente asesinado, empieza a parecer como sí las oraciones de Vic no fueran escuchadas.

Pero Warshawski continúa su investigación, incluso cuando las pistas indican las mismas conclusiones poco ortodoxas: Quizá los dominicanos estén encubriendo un escándalo financiero. Quizá toda la conspiración este bajo el patrocinio de un conglomerado internacional, o de Don Pasquale, el rey de la mafia de Chicago. Peor que todo es que alguien próximo de Vic puede estar involucrado: su oscuro y guapo amante inglés, Roger Ferrant o incluso la misma tía Rosa.

Nadkomisarz Pater powraca w kolejnym kryminale spółki Krajewski i Czubaj.

Jest lato 2007 roku, w tartaku nieopodal Wejherowa znaleziono zwłoki mężczyzny. Pater, żyjący już myślami o zbliżającym się urlopie w Grecji, dość niechętnie przystępuje do rozwikłania zagadki. Sprawy się komplikują, gdy na plaży zostaje odkryte ciało uduszonej dziewczyny, a morderstwo to przypomina Paterowi niewyjaśnioną sprawę sprzed kilku lat. Czy będzie to ostatnie śledztwo nadkomisarza? Co łączy niezidentyfikowane zwłoki z tartaku z zabójstwem na plaży? Czyżby na Wybrzeżu pojawił się copycut killer – seryjny morderca naśladujący popełnione kiedyś zbrodnie? Doskonale skonstruowana fabuła i rozwijająca się w zaskakującym tempie akcja gwarantują znakomitą lekturę, od której nie będzie można się oderwać.

Durante una visita a Abinger Mannor, un estudiante que asiste a un curso universitario sobre arquitectura muere en sospechosas circunstancias. Una joven viuda descubre con horror la vida secreta de su difunto marido. Un historiador sin dinero vive obsesionado por la figura de Ricardo III. A través de argumentos tan dispares, los cinco relatos que componen este volumen exploran las complejidades de la naturaleza humana y desvelan las oscuras maquinaciones de individuos de apariencia corriente que aspiran a alcanzar sus objetivos a cualquier precio.

En Recuerda que siempre te querré, Elizabeth George, autora de la popular serie de novelas protagonizadas por el detective Thomas Lynley y su fiel ayudante la sargento Barbara Havers, demuestra su talento para el relato breve con cinco historias de misterio que combinan la intriga, la sátira y el horror con sabia maestría. Cada uno de los relatos cuenta con una sugerente introducción donde la autora evoca el proceso de creación de los mismos.

Spring: a time of rebirth and celebration. And a time of death…for April is the cruelest month. When a young archaeologist studying on a site at Lerwick discovers a set of human remains – the island community is intrigued. Is it an ancient find – or a more contemporary mystery? Then an elderly is shot on her land in a tragic accident and Jimmy Perez is called in by her grandson – his own colleague Sandy Wilson. He finds two feuding families whose envy, greed and bitterness has divided the surrounding community. With Fran in London, and surrounded by people he doesn't know and a community he has no links with – Jimmy finds himself out of depth. Then another woman dies and as the spring weather shrouds the island in claustrophobic mists the two deaths remain shrouded in mystery.

This story is set in Japan, 1698. Sano Ichiro may be a samurai sleuth and the shogun's trusted advisor, but his growing power at court makes him – and his family – a target for treachery. And this time gruesome discovery brings especially tough questions. Lord Mori, heir to the shogun, is found grotesquely mutilated and murdered – with Sano's pregnant wife, Reiko, lying beside him naked and covered in blood. Sano seeks the truth behind the Rashomon-like accounts of the murder, the stakes are almost unbearably high, and the only piece of evidence is a white Chrysanthemum – stained red with blood.

Sherlock knows that Amyus Crow, his mysterious American tutor, has some dark secrets. But he didn't expect to find a notorious killer, hanged by the US government, apparently alive and well in Surrey — and Crow somehow mixed up in it. When no one will tell you the truth, sometimes you have to risk all to discover it for yourself. And so begins an adventure that will take Sherlock across the ocean to America, to the centre of a deadly web — where life and death are cheap, and truth has a price no sane person would pay ... 

"Pick up a Liza Marklund book, read it until dawn, wait until the store opens, buy another one." – James Patterson

"One of the most dynamic and popular crime writers of our time." – Patricia Cornwell

In the middle of the freezing winter, a journalist is murdered in the northern Swedish town of Lulea. Crime reporter Annika Bengtzon suspects that the killing is linked to an attack against an air base in the late sixties. Against the explicit orders of her boss, Annika continues her investigation of the death, which is soon followed by a series of shocking murders.

Annika quickly finds herself drawn into a spiral of terrorism and violence centered around a small communist group called The Beasts. Meanwhile, her marriage starts to slide, and in the end she is not only determined to find out the truth, but also forced to question her own husband's honesty.

"Redemption" is the phenomenal third instalment in Jussi Adler-Olsen's internationally bestselling "Department Q" series, which follows the "Sunday Times" smash hit "Mercy" and its sequel "Disgrace"

The prefect treat for all fans of the classic Scandinavian crime thriller in the vein of "The Killing" and "Borgen"! "For those suffering withdrawals from "The Killing". ("The Times").

Two boys, brothers, wake tied and bound in a boathouse by the sea.

Their kidnapper has gone, but soon he will return.

Their bonds are inescapable.

But there is a bottle and tar to seal it.

Paper and a splinter for writing; blood for ink.

A message begging for help…Her husband will not tell the truth: where he goes, what he does, how long he will be away. For days on end she waits and when he returns she must endure his wants, his moods, his threats. But enough is enough.

She will find out the truth, no matter the cost to him – or to herself. In Copenhagen's cold cases division Carl Morck has received a bottle. It holds an old and decayed message, written in blood.

It is a cry for help from two boys. Is it real?

Who are they and why weren't they reported missing?

Can they possibly still be alive? In 2013, the makers of the Stieg Larsson movies and "The Killing" will bring Jussi Adler-Olsen's "Department Q" novels, including "Mercy", "Disgrace" and Redemption", to the big screen. "The new "it" boy of Nordic Noir". ("The Times"). "Engrossing". ("Sunday Express"). "Adler-Olsen's fascination with abnormal psychology once again pays off". ("Sunday Times"). Jussi Adler-Olsen was born in Copenhagen and studied medicine, sociology, politics and film. He worked as a magazine editor and publisher before starting to write fiction. So far he has written three "Department Q" thrillers, which all hit the Danish bestseller lists on publication and stayed there ever since.

Elizabeth Black is a hero. She is a cop who single-handedly rescued a young girl from a locked cellar and shot two brutal kidnappers dead. But she's also a cop with a history, a woman with a secret. And she's not the only one.

Adrian Wall is finally free after thirteen years of torture and abuse. In the very first room he walks into, a boy with a gun is waiting to avenge the death of his mother. But that is the least of Adrian's problems.

He was safer in prison.

And deep in the forest, on the altar of an abandoned church, a body cools in pale linen. It is not the first to be found.

This is a town on the brink.

This is Redemption Road.

Brimming with tension, secrets, and betrayal, brilliantly evoking an America of small towns and remote landscapes, of the abandoned, the derelict and the desperate, this is a novel so chillingly suspenseful and a story so full of twists and turns that you simply cannot stop reading. It marks a new high point in the writing of this bestselling master of the literary thriller.

Ein zäher junger Jockey mit einer rauhen Vergangenheit und einer erfolgversprechenden Zukunft stolpert über Erpressung und manipulierte Rennen und erledigt gemeine Verbrecher mit Heldenmut und fotografischer Hexerei!

When Jake Russo is transferred from a New York City beat to a Florida retirement community, his reporting life slows down. Instead of covering life in the big city, he's stuck writing puff pieces about bridge games and shuffleboard. His biggest challenge? Sticking to his diet.

That all changes when an older resident mysteriously dies on the beach. Jake has to figure out why and how she died. With the help of his bumbling octogenerian cameraman, Jake will have to overcome his lack of confidence and find the truth. He'll discover love, conspiracy, and surprising secrets in Florida's retirement communities.

Light as a day at the beach, this playful mystery is an early buffet of flirtation, intrigue, and senior citizens gone bad.