As NYPD Lt. Eve Dallas races to find a serial killer, shebecomes very involved with one of the suspects. Her overpoweringfeelings for a man she barely knows could jeopardize herinvestigation, her faith in herself--and her life. J.D. Robb is thepseudonym for bestselling author Nora Roberts.
Donna Leonas Commissario Guido Brunetti series grows morepopular in America with the publication of every new novel. In thisinstallment, Brunettias hopes of a refreshing family holiday in themountains are once again dashed when a gruesome discovery is madein Margheraaa body so badly beaten the face is completelyunrecognizable. Brunetti searches Venice for someone who canidentify the corpse, but he is met with a wall of silence. Then hereceives a telephone call from a contact who promises sometantalizing information. And before the night is out, Brunetti isconfronting yet another appalling, and apparently senseless,death.
In the stillness of a golden September afternoon, deep in thewilderness of the Rockies, a solitary craftsman, Grady Adams, andhis magnificent Irish wolfhound, Merlin, step from shadow intolight...and into an encounter with mystery. That night, a pair ofsingular animals will watch Grady's isolated home, waiting to maketheir approach. A few miles away, Camillia Rivers, a local veterinarian, beginsto unravel the threads of a puzzle that will bring to her door allthe forces of a government in peril. At a nearby farm, long-estranged identical twins come togetherto begin a descent into darkness...In Las Vegas, a specialist inchaos theory probes the boundaries of the unknowable...On a Seattlegolf course, two men make matter-of-fact arrangements formurder...Along a highway by the sea, a vagrant scarred by the pastbegins a trek toward his destiny. In a novel that is at once wholly of our time and timeless,fearless and funny, Dean Koontz takes readers into the momentbetween one turn of the world and the next, acros
From a tropical resort where visitors can become temporaryzombies, to a newly-made zombie determined to protect those heloves, to a cheerleader who won't let death kick her off the team,to a zombie seeking revenge for the ancestors who died on anAfrican slave ship-- Zombiesque invites readers to take awalk on the undead side in these tales from a zombie's point ofview.
China Bayles isn't happy when a Texas wind blows her husband'sex-wife, and the mother of China's stepson, into her herb shop.Sally is known to have a split personality and fall into constanttrouble with the law, but she claims she has nowhere else to turn.Now its up to China to weed out whatever it is Sally's running frombefore the truth catches up to them all.
"Nonstop action and a brillianly evocative setting make thisanother winner!" BOOKLIST Dr. Lewis Tunney, a brilliant historian who had stumbled onto aninternational art scandal, was brutally murdered in front of twohundred guests at an elegant party at the Smithsonian. When hisfiancee, Heather McBea, flies in from Scotland to learn more, MacHanrahan, the captain in charge of the case, takes a heatedinterest in her. And when two more murders are committed, Hanrahanhas reason to worry about Heather's sleuthing. But Heather isstubborn and insists on going her own way--right into the arms of akiller....
He died beneath the Statue of Freedom, clutching a 9-mm pistolin his hand. But as dawn rose, the politician would die again--in ahail of rumor and character assassination. Now one man suspects the shattering truth: that the congressman'ssuicide was a carefully planned murder. In the heart of the freeworld, a furious struggle begins: to reclaim a man's innocence,expose a woman's lie, and stop a chilling conspiracy of murder thatreaches halfway around the world. . . .
Donna Leonas mastery of plot, her understanding of Venetianmanners and mores, and above all her philosophical, unfailinglydecent protagonist have made the Commissario Brunetti mysteriesbestsellers around the world, including an ever-growing Americanaudience. In "The Death of Faith," Brunetti comes to the aid of ayoung nursing sister who is leaving her convent following theunexpected death of five patients. At first Brunettias inquiriesreveal nothing amiss, and he wonders whether the nun is simplycreating a smoke screen to justify abandoning her vocation. Butperhaps she has stumbled onto something very real and verysinisterasomething that puts her life in imminent danger.
Book De*ion Dean Koontz’s uniquetalent for writing terrifying thrillers with a heart and soul isnowhere more evident than in this latest suspense masterpiece thatpits one man against the ultimate deadline. If there were speedlimits for the sheer pulse-racing excitement allowed in one novel,Velocity would break them all. Get ready for the ride of yourlife. From Publishers Weekly Starred Review. A diabolic killer plays a harrowing game of catand mouse with a reclusive bartender in Koontz's latest grippingsuspense thriller. Billy Wiles, a 30-something bartender and formerwriter, is content with his solitary Napa County existencelistening to "beer-based psychoanalysis" from tavern regulars;visiting his hospitalized, comatose fiancée, Barbara; and carvingwood sculptures. But the simple life gets mighty complicated whenhe finds a note with a deadly, time-sensitive ultimatum: he mustchoose between the death of a young schoolteacher or an elderlyhumanitarian in six hours. Reluctant local s
Skeeve must deal with myth guided desires, fairy godfathers,and an offer he can't refuse in two of Robert Asprin's mostdelightful myth adventures.
When two male and two female supremely sensual, unspeakablycerebral humans find themselves under attack from aliens who wanttheir awesome quantum breakthrough, they take to the skies -- andzoom into the cosmos on a rocket roller coaster ride of adventureand danger, ecstasy and peril.
Book De*ion THERE ARE NO RULES IN THE DARK, NO PLACE TO FEEL SAFE, NO ESCAPEFROM THE SHADOWS. BUT TO SAVE THE DAY, YOU MUST... At no time does Moonlight Bay look more beautiful than at night.Yet it is precisely then that the secluded little town reveals itsmenace. Now children are disappearing. From their homes. From thestreets. And there's nothing their families can do about it.Because in Moonlight Bay, the police work their hardest to concealcrimes and silence victims. No matter what happens in the night,their job is to ensure that nothing disturbs the peace and quiet ofMoonlight Bay.... Christopher Snow isn't afraid of the dark. Forced to live in theshadows because of a rare genetic disorder, he knows the nightworld better than anyone. He believes the lost children are stillalive and that their disappearance is connected to the town's mostcarefully kept, most ominous secret -- a secret only he canuncover, a secret that will force him to confront an adversary atone with the most dan
Since the moment he showed up--gloriously naked—I 7ve beenhaving a hard time keeping my relationship with the clinic’S newestamnesiac patieni strictly professional．Damian might notremember his pastf but Sweet mamma lamma J he sure knows how topush alI my buttons．
戏剧与现实交错的杰作在雷格纳·希尔部推理小说《喜欢交际的女人》里，他创造的一对独特的侦探搭档也首度登场。一位是心宽体胖、好色贪怀、爱斗嘴耍活宝的刑事主任达尔齐尔，另一位则是教养优雅、学识丰富的警官帕斯科。自从柯南·道尔创造了华生医生作为神探福尔摩斯的搭档之后，推理小说家就经常使用这种对比手法，用一位“次要而平凡”的角色来衬托神探的不凡。这些二号人物有时候是侦探的朋友，有时候是记者，有时候是助手或忠仆，但多半不脱烘托主角的功能。但雷格纳·希尔采取了另外一种途径：他让侦探的搭档有能力也有作用，甚至是重要的互补，没有对方彼此都不是完整的；他又让两人的文化特质与思考形态南辕北辙，比较与冲突的趣味因而源源不绝。仅此一项，就是希尔对推理小说的重大贡献。希尔的小说结构复杂紧凑，在我们要读的
Donna Leonas multitude of fans around the world has grown witheach new Commissario Brunetti novel, and now mystery lovers in theUnited States can enjoy another compelling episode. In "FatalRemedies," Brunettias career is under threat when his professionaland personal lives unexpectedly intersect. In the chill of theVenetian dawn, a sudden act of vandalism shatters the quiet of thedeserted city, and Brunetti is shocked to find that the culpritwaiting to be apprehended at the scene is a member of his ownfamily. Meanwhile, he is also under pressure from his superiors tosolve a daring robbery with connections to a suspicious accidentaldeath. Could the two crimes be connected? And will Brunetti be ableto prove his familyas innocence before itas too late?
