Hailed as "one of the best" ( Toronto Sun ) writers of contemporary suspense fiction, international bestselling author John Connolly returns with an electrifying novel featuring his acclaimed private detective, Charlie Parker.In South Carolina a young black man faces the death penalty for the rape and murder of Marianne Larousse, daughter of one of the wealthiest men in the state. It`s a case that nobody wants to touch, deeply rooted in old evil -- and old evil is Charlie Parker`s specialty. H`s about to enter a living nightmare, a dreamscape of sorrow haunted by the murderous specter of a hooded woman, by a black car waiting for a passenger that never comes, and by the sinister complicity of both friends and enemies in Larousse`s brutal...
ISBN: 978-0-7434-5639-5
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2012
Originally built to house the workers of Victorian London, Balaklava Street is now an oasis in the heart of Kentish Town and ripe for gentrification. But then the body of an elderly woman is found at Number 5. Her death would appear to have been peaceful but for the fact that her throat is full of river water. It falls to the Met’s Peculiar Crimes Unit, led by London’s longest-serving detectives, Arthur Bryant and John May, to search for something resembling a logical solution. Their initial investigations draw a blank and Bryant’s attention is diverted into strange and arcane new territory, while May finds himself in hot water when he attempts to save the reputation of an academic whose knowledge of the city’s forgotten...
ISBN: 978-0-553-81553-5
Издательство:
Bantam
Дата выхода: октябрь 2011
Far from fading with time, Kenneth Grahame`s classic tale of fantasy has attracted a growing audience in each generation. Rat, Mole, Badger and the preposterous Mr Toad, have brought delight to many through the years with their odd adventures on and by the river, and at the imposing residence of Toad Hall.
ISBN: 978-1-853-26122-0
Издательство:
Wordsworth Editions Ltd.
Дата выхода: апрель 2011
"The War of the Worlds" is one of the most frightening science fiction novels ever written. When a spaceship falls from the sky and lands in southern England, few people are worried. But when strange creatures climb out and start killing, nobody is safe.
ISBN: 978-1-4058-6524-1
Издательство:
Pearson
Дата выхода: декабрь 2011
Страшила, Железный Дровосек, Лев, маленькая девочка, занесенная ураганом в волшебную страну, и ее верный друг пес Тотошка - с этими героями русский читатель хорошо знаком по сказочной повести А. М. Волкова «Волшебник изумрудного города». Однако впервые они появились под пером другого автора, американского писателя Лаймена Фрэнка Баума (1856–1919). Примерявший на себя роли актера, журналиста, торговца Баум раз...
ISBN: 978-5-517-10697-1
Издательство:
RUGRAM
Дата выхода: ноябрь 2023
