After alleged serial killer Edgar Roy is apprehended and locked away in a mental facility private investigators Sean King and Michelle Maxwell are called in by Roy`s lawyer - an old friend of Sean King - to look into the case. But their investigation is derailed before it begins: while en route to their first meeting with the lawyer, King and Maxwell discover his dead body. It is up to King and Maxwell to uncover the truth: is Roy a killer or not? Edgar Roy - an alleged serial killer held in a secure, fortress-like Federal Supermax facility - is awaiting trial. He faces almost certain conviction. Sean King and Michelle Maxwell are called in by Roy`s attorney, Sean`s old friend and mentor Ted Bergin, to help work the case. But their...
What should you do if the world has turned against you? When Father Anselm is asked this question by an old man at Larkwood Priory, his response, to claim sanctuary, is to have greater resonance than he could ever have imagined. For that evening the old man returns, demanding the protection of the church. His name is Eduard Schwermann and he is wanted by the police as a suspected war criminal. With her life running out, Agnes Aubret feels it is time to unburden to her granddaughter Lucy the secrets she has been carrying for so long. Fifty years earlier, Agnes had been living in Occupied Paris, a member of a small group risking their lives to smuggle Jewish children to safety - until they were exposed by a young SS Officer: Eduard...
ISBN: 978-0-349-12113-0
Издательство:
Little, Brown and Company
Дата выхода: август 2011
Heather should be happy. She`s finally got a boyfriend and although he was only supposed to be her "rebound guy", things have gotten serious fast ...She`s also actually passing her first college course, and better yet her dad`s moving out. On the down side, her boss, Dr. Veatch, may well be the most boring man on the face of the planet ...But that hardly seems reason enough to put a bullet through his head. Can Heather find her boss` murderer, answer Tad`s question, and get her landlord Cooper to realize that by letting her go, he`s making the biggest mistake of his life, all while maintaining a fifteen hundred calorie per day diet?
ISBN: 978-0-330-45586-2
Издательство:
Picador USA
Дата выхода: июль 2011
It`s the first day of the winter semester at New York College, and assistant dorm director Heather Wells has a lot more to worry about than roommate conflicts. One of the New York College cheerleaders has lost her head - literally - in the Fischer Hall cafeteria, and no one can find the rest of her. With the entire population of the dorm under suspicion for murder, it doesn’t look like anyone on campus, least of all Heather, who is starting night classes, is going to have a good semester. She’s got a decapitated cheerleader and a demoralized student body to deal with, as well as enough guy problems to make a normal girl seek shelter in a convent. With her ex insisting she has to be at his wedding - The Celebrity Wedding of the...
ISBN: 978-0-330-44909-0
Издательство:
Picador
Дата выхода: октябрь 2011
"New York Times" - bestselling author Garwood weaves magnificent stories of passion, adventure, and intrigue. Now she raises the heat and combines scorching romance with thrilling suspense as she introduces a new family: the Prescotts.
ISBN: 978-0-345-50078-6
Издательство:
Random House (USA)
Дата выхода: август 2011
Mark Renton has it all: he`s good-looking, young, with a pretty girlfriend and a place at university. But there`s no room for him in the 1980s. Thatcher`s government is destroying working-class communities across Britain, and the post-war certainties of full employment, educational opportunity and a welfare state are gone. When his family starts to fracture, Mark`s life swings out of control and he succumbs to the defeatism which has taken hold in Edinburgh`s grimmer areas. The way out is heroin. It`s no better for his friends. Spud Murphy is paid off from his job, Tommy Lawrence feels himself being sucked into a life of petty crime and violence - the worlds of the thieving Matty Connell and psychotic Franco Begbie. Only Sick Boy, the...
