In the stew and dazzle of New York City, savvy, irreverent Fritz Malone–who Susan Isaacs called “the perfect balance of noir P.I. and decent guy”–is embroiled in a string of grisly murders that drags him behind the lurid headlines into the tangled affairs of some the city’s most beautiful people and their ugly truths. When two women linked with charismatic late-night TV personality Marshall Fox are found brutally slain in Central Park, Fox becomes the prime suspect and is charged with the murders. At the tabloid trial, one of Fox’s ex-lovers, Robin Burrell, is called to testify–and is instantly thrust into the media’s harsh spotlight. Shaken by a subsequent onslaught of hate mail, Robin goes to Fritz Malone for help. Malone has barely begun to investigate when Robin is found sadistically murdered in her Upper West Side brownstone, hands and feet shackled and a shard of mirror protruding from her neck. But it’s another gory detail that confounds both Malone and Megan Lamb, the troubled NYP

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Time's up for Bazza Mackenzie. His choke-hold on Portsmouth's cocaine market has earned him millions of pounds. Rich and well-connected, he boasts of being beyond the law. The police have mounted an operation code-named Tumbril to take him down, but when the detective in charge is nearly killed in a mysterious hit-and-run, it falls to Joe Faraday to put Mackenzie away. Tumbril is a career opportunity of a lifetime, but the team at the heart of the operation are fighting a war of their own. Then Faraday's son J-J is arrested on a supply charge after the death of a student from a heroin overdose, and Faraday finds himself totally isolated. Just who can he really trust... ?

Fées, sorcières, magiciens, korrigans, ogres, génies et autrescréatures fabuleuses peuplent nos contes. D'un coup de baguette,d'un mot, ou d'un geste, ils transforment le destin du personnage.Quand ils sont bienveillants, ils lui apportent le bonheur ;maléfiques, ils l'obligent à ruser et à se surpasser pour conna?treun sort meilleur... Mais c'est toujours après les avoir croisés quele héros accède à la légende... N'hésitez pas : à votre tour,partez à leur rencontre ! Voyage au pays des contes, cetteanthologie invite le lecteur curieux à découvrir neuf textesd'horizons littéraires variés : Andersen, Grimm et Perrault yc?toient des contes breton, proven?al et oriental. L'éditionpropose de nombreux exercices pour étudier les caractéristiques dumerveilleux.

In the sprawling, half-timbered mansion in the affluent suburb of Swinly Dean, Aristide Leonides lies dead from barbiturate poisoning. An accident? Not likely. In fact, suspicion has already fallen on his luscious widow, a cunning beauty fifty years his junior, set to inherit a sizeable fortune, and rumored to be carrying on with a strapping young tutor comfortably ensconced in the family estate. But criminologist Charles Hayward is casting his own doubts on the innocence of the entire Leonides brood. He knows them intimately. And he's certain that in a crooked house such as Three Gables, no one's on the level... 作者简介： AGATHA CHRISTIE is the world's best known mystery writer. Her books have sold over a billion copies in the English language and another billion in 44 foreign languages. She is the most widely published author of all time in any language, outsold only by the Bible and Shakespeare.

After a lull of four years, the 'silk stocking rapist' is back at work on the Upper East side, but this time Assistant DA Alexandra Cooper and Detective Mike Chapman have perfect DNA evidence to work with. They also have a much older case to work on - a skeleton has been found entombed in the wall of a house Edgar Allan Poe once lived in, but it turns out to be a relatively modern murder - from 1978. On the day the discovery of this body is leaked to the press, Alex gets a call that the silk stocking rapist has struck again, this time fatally. Or has he? The m.o. isn't precisely the same as the others, and it transpires that the victim worked in Poe's old house in 1978. Are the cases linked or is someone trying to silence possible witness to a thirty-five-year-old murder? With consummate skill, Linda Fairstein has created an outstanding crime novel, layered with the history of New York, the roller-coaster everyday life of a prosecutor and culminating with a surprising but satisfying denouement.

Lily Rabe throws herself enthusiastically into her narration; she sounds like she's having a ball, and listeners will, too. Rabe especially has fun with over-the-top Brazilian sexpot Adriana, making melodramatic pronouncements and calling everyone querida in a sexy, throaty exotic accent. She's also great as Emmy, the marriage-and-family–obsessed member of the trio: Rabe's sobbing, outraged delivery of Emmy's rant about her boyfriend dumping her for his personal trainer is simultaneously touching and hilarious. Leigh is the straight man of the group, but Rabe's performance conveys her doubts about her engagement realistically and sympathetically. This fun audio brings out the best in the novel. A Simon & Schuster hardcover (Reviews, Apr. 7). (June) 作者简介： Lauren Weisberger is the author of The Devil Wears Prada, which spent more than a year on the New York Times hardcover and paperback bestsellers lists. Her second novel, Everyone Worth Knowing, was also a New York Times/i> bestseller.

AGATHA CHRISTIE iS more than the mostpopular mystery writer of all time．In acareer that spans over half a century，her name iS synonymous with brilliantdeception，ingenious puzzles，and thesurprise denouement．By virtually inventingthe modern mystery novel she has earned her title as the Queen of Crime．Curious？Then you。re invited to read…

Gideon loved women ... to death. He seduced them, used them horribly, then discarded them, drained of their very lives. Until the day three women disobeyed him and dared to fight back, to seek revenge, leaving him in a pool of blood. Leaving them free at last from his depravity. The women don't know that Gideon can't be killed that easily. They don't know what he really is. He has returned to seek vengeance of his own, and their mere deaths will no longer be enough to sat- isfy him. He will make them pay dearly for crossing him. But firsthe will destroy everyone they love.

This is the story of a man named Charley who loses his job, leaves his family, and decides, one night, to end his life. Somewhere between this world and the next, he encounters his mother, who died years ago, and he spends one last day with her - a day he never had on earth. This 'ordinary' day covers the whole of their existence, and reveals how Charley, like many children, was constantly forced to choose between his mother and his father. He gets the chance many of us yearn for - to ask the questions never asked while our parents are alive. In the end, Charley learns how little he really knew about his mother, how her love saved their family, and how deeply he wants the chance to save his own.

In his first case since he left the LAPD's Open Unsolved Unitfor the prestigious Homicide Special squad, Harry Bosch is calledout to investigate a murder that may have chilling consequences fornational security. A doctor with access to a dangerous radioactivesubstance is found murdered in the trunk of his car. Retracing hissteps, Harry learns that a large quantity of radioactive cesium wasstolen shortly before the doctor's death. With the cesium inunknown hands, Harry fears the murder could be part of a terroristplot to poison a major American city. Soon, Bosch is in a race against time, not only against theculprits, but also against the Department of Homeland Security andthe FBI (in the form of Harry's one-time lover Rachel Walling), whoare convinced that this case is too important for the likes of theLAPD. It is Bosch's job to prove all of them wrong.

Lara Lington has always had an overactive imagination, but suddenly that imagination seems to be in overdrive. Normal professionaltwenty-something young women don't get visitedby ghosts. Or do they? When the spirit of Lara'sgreat-aunt Sadie mysteriously appears, she has onerequest: Lara must find a missing necklace that hadbeen in Sadie's possession for more than seventy-five years, because Sadie cannot rest without it. Lara and Sadie make a hilarious sparring duo, and atfirst it seems as though they have nothing in common.But as the mission to find Sadie's necklace leads tointrigue and a new romance for Lara, these very'different "twenties" girls learn some surprisingtruths from and about each other.

Edgar Roy-an alleged serial killer held in a secure,fortress-like Federal Supermax facility-is awaiting trial. He facesalmost certain conviction. Sean King and Michelle Maxwell arecalled in by Roy's attorney, Sean's old friend and mentor TedBergin, to help work the case. But their investigation is derailedbefore it begins-en route to their first meeting with Bergin, Seanand Michelle find him murdered. It is now up to them to ask the questions no one seems to wantanswered: Is Roy a killer? Who murdered Bergin? With help from somesurprising allies, they continue to pursue the case. But the morethey dig into Roy's past, the more they encounter obstacles,half-truths, dead-ends, false friends, and escalating threats fromevery direction. Their persistence puts them on a collision coursewith the highest levels of the government and the darkest cornersof power. In a terrifying confrontation that will push Sean andMichelle to their limits, the duo may be permanently parted.

Struggling through another Edinburgh winter Rebus finds himself sucked into a web of intrigue that throws up more questions than answers．Was the Lord Provost’S daughter kidnapped or just another runaway? Why is a city councillor shredding documents that should have been waste paper years ago?And why on each is Rebus invited to a clay pigeon shoot at the home of the Scottish Office’S rmanent Secretary? Sucked into the machine that iS modern Scotland．Rebus confronts the fact that some of his enemies may be beyond iustice．

In the 1680s the slave trade in the Americas is still in its infancy. Jacob Vaark is an Anglo-Dutch trader and adventurer, with a small holding in the harsh North. Despite his distaste for dealing in “flesh,” he takes a small slave girl in part payment for a bad debt from a plantation owner in Catholic Maryland. This is Florens, who can read and write and might be useful on his farm. Rejected by her mother, Florens looks for love, first from Lina, an older servant woman at her new master's house, and later from the handsome blacksmith, an African, never enslaved, who comes riding into their lives.

A group of students kidnap their teacher to "teach him alesson," but their plans go awry when he dies, leaving them in amorass of lies and guilt.

'On top of the tomb, seemingly driven through the solid marble - for the structure was composed of a few vast blocks of stone - was a great iron spike or stake. On going to the back I saw, graven in great Russian letters: The Dead Travel Fast' In this rich collection of thirteen macabre tales, Bram Stoker, creator of the Gothic masterpiece, Dracula, and one of the greatest exponents of the supernatural narrative, presents us with a weird and chilling variety of unsettling stories. Stoker's dramatic scenarios, from the opening tale of vampires, Dracula's Guest, which was omitted from the final version of Dracula, will thrill and engage the modern reader. In these pages you will encounter the devilishly dangerous haunted room in The Judge's House, the fatalistic tragedy in The Burial of the Rats, the terror of revenge from beyond the grave in The Secret of Growing Gold and the surprising twist in the tail in The Gypsy's Prophecy, amongst other strange and frightening episodes. This unique collectio

When World War Two is finally declared，the entwined Powell and Ronconi families face an uncertain future in Pontypridd+For three women in particular,there are hard choices tO make+Jenny Powell's husband Eddie abandoned her on their wedding night．His cou．sin Will，Tina Ronconi’S sweetheart，also enlists，and Bethan’S doctor husband is called up．But even worse for the Ronconis—as Italians，they are suddenly enemy aliens，and face being removed from their home and livelihood．Or can Gina’s passion for a bloody conchie’save their caf6 business?

Stefan Salvatore has come to terms with being a vampire. Theevents of the past few months have sobered him, and the fog of hisown blood lust has begun to lift. He travels to New York City tostart a new life, one that does not require him to kill humans tosurvive. Instead he feeds off of animals in Central Park. But thequiet life he envisioned is jolted when he runs into his brotherDamon, who has convinced New York high society that he is Italianroyalty. While Stefan is regaining his humanity, Damon hascompletely lost his. Stefan will do whatever it takes to protectDamon from himself, but there is another villain present. A vampirethat seeks revenge for a death the Salvatores are responsible for.Stefan and Damon will have to work together to fight the greatestevil yet.

PENGUIN POPULAR CLASSICS Jane Eyre escapes the cold charity of Lowood School to become governess to Mr Rochester's young ward. Plain but passion-ate, Jane gradually falls in love with her employer, but her discovery of Rochester's secret in the attic of Thornfield Hall threat-ens to destroy them both. PENGUIN POPULAR CLASSICS are the per-fect introduction to the world-famous PENGUIN CLASSICS series - which en-compasses the best books ever written,from Homer's Odyssey to Orwell's 1984 and everything in between. For a full list and ideas on what to read next, visit www.penguinclassics.com

The BBC is the world's most famous and powerful cultural institution and remains the gold standard for broadcasters on every continent. Uncertain Vision is the definitive account of the BBC in the last decade, an engrossing and penetrating take on the corporation at a critical and fascinating period in its history. Georgina Born has conducted the most extensiveindependent research ever inside the BBC. In this path-breaking book she blends together reportage and cultural history, social analysis and cultural criticism, offering both a panorama of the BBC's history and an intimate portrait of the people that make it up - producers and journalists, channel controllers and strategists. Uncertain Vision dissects director-general John Birt's policies to reveal how his 'new managerialism' undermined the creativity of the BBC and fuelled television's decline. It probes Greg Dyke's reign as director-general and the tumultuous events around the Hutton inquiry, and looks to