Alex Cross`s most terrifying - and emotional - case may destroy him. Alex Cross was a rising star in the Washington, , Police Department when an unknown man gunned down his wife. But his need for vengeance was placed on hold as he raised his children himself. Years later, Alex leaves the FBI to work as a full-time psychologist. His life finally feels like it`s in order - until Cross`s former partner, John Sampson, gives him a chilling phone call. Sampson is tracking a serial rapist whose brutal MO includes threatening his victims with terrifying photos. Now Cross and Sampson need the help of the rape victims to stop the predator. When the case triggers a connection to his wife`s death, Alex may finally catch the murderer. Is this a...
ISBN: 978-0-446-61905-9
Издательство:
Warner Books
Дата выхода: август 2011
At journey’s end would a new life begin? When Liane crossed the Atlantic and arrived in Europe, the future seemed bright and beautiful. Only the image of a face haunted her new life in France. Then the Second World War sent her on a fateful crossing, leaving her husband far behind. Suspended between two worlds, Liane was swept into a passionate affair, a bright brief moment of total happiness. Would the voyage seal her love for ever, or leave her stranded on the shores of heartbreak and despair?
ISBN: 978-0-7515-4245-5
Издательство:
Little, Brown and Company
Дата выхода: июль 2011
No one has a better perspective on life on both sides of the channel than Julian Barnes. In these exquisitely crafted stories spanning several centuries, he takes as his universal theme the British in France; from the last days of a reclusive English composer, the beef consuming `navvies` labouring on the Paris-Rouen railway to a lonely woman mourning the death of her brother on the battlefields of the Somme. Clever, wise, reflective and imaginative, these stories are permeated with understanding of what it has meant for generations from these islands to cross the Channel.
ISBN: 978-0-09-954015-1
Издательство:
Random House
Дата выхода: август 2011
Detective Alex Cross is planning his wedding to the woman he loves, Brianna Stone. But this blissful existence begins to unravel when Cross is called to the scene of the perfectly executed assassination of two of Washington DC`s most corrupt and publically hated political figures. As more crooked politicians are picked off with similar long-range shots, public opinion is divided - is the marksman a vigilante or a hero? Media coverage of the case explodes, and the FBI assigns agent Max Siegel to the investigation. As Cross and Siegel battle over jurisdiction, Alex receives a call from his deadliest adversary, Kyle Craig. The Mastermind is in DC and will not stop until he has eliminated Cross, and his family, for good.
ISBN: 978-0-09-952525-7
Издательство:
Random House
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2011
Thomas Love Peacock was an English novelist, poet, and official of the East India Company. In "Crotchet Castle" the author assembles a group of eccentrics, each with a single monomaniacal obsession, and derives humour and social satire from their various interactions and conversations.
ISBN: 978-5-517-00225-9
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: январь 2018
For a woman married to the vampire of her nightmares, the honeymoon`s over and reality Pia Thomason is torn between two Dark Ones: her husband Kristoff - who doesn`t trust her-and his best friend, Alec, who is MIA. So Pia goes back to her humdrum Seattle life, but fate has other plans. And she realizes that if she and Kristoff are going to be shackled together for better or worse, she may as well start to enjoy
ISBN: 978-0-451-22672-3
Издательство:
Penguin USA
Дата выхода: июль 2011
From its bravura opening onwards, "The Crow Road" is justly regarded as an outstanding contemporary novel. It was the day my grandmother exploded. I sat in the crematorium, listening to my Uncle Hamish quietly snoring in harmy to Bachs Mass in B. Minor, and I reflected that it always seemed to be death that drew me back to Gallanach. Prentice McHoan has returned to the bosom of his complex but enduring Scottish family. Full of questions about the McHoan past, present and future, he is also deeply preoccupied: mainly with death, sex, drink, God and illegal substances.
ISBN: 978-0-349-10323-5
Издательство:
Orion Publishers
Дата выхода: август 2011
A compulsively readable thriller that skillfully weaves together past and present to uncover the sinister secrets buried in the ancient stone quarries under Bath. Kit Parry is reluctant to take the job shoring up the ancient quarries beneath her hometown of Bath - a place as riddled with memories she`d rather forget as it is with Roman ruins. The miners certainly don`t want her there, and her burgeoning romance with lanky foreman Gary looks likely to complicate matters even further. But when dark developments threaten the spa town`s placid facade, Kit must face up to the past she`s tried so desperately to bury. Someone wants her out of Bath - that much is clear - but who was it that brought her childhood to an abrupt end in the summer of...
ISBN: 978-0-00-724713-4
Издательство:
HarperCollins Publishers
Дата выхода: август 2011
This lively account of Soviet foreign intelligence activity in Great Britain during the Cold War is based on documents newly released from the KGB archives, their crown jewels, as the KGB unofficially called its most valuable assets. Written by Nigel West, called by the Sunday Times the unofficial historian of the secret services and Oleg Tsarev, a former KGB lieutenant colonel, The Crown Jewels provides much new information on the activities of all the well-known British pro-Soviet spies, including Kim Philby, Guy Burgess, Donald Maclean, and Anthony Blunt, as well as many lesser-known spymasters and recruiters, reproducing many of their reports for the first time. The book adds unsuspected dimensions to the famous Cambridge ring...
ISBN: 978-0-300-07806-0
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2011
From one of our finest historians comes an outstanding exploration of the British monarchy from the retreat of the Romans up until the modern day. This compendium volume of two earlier books is fully revised and updated. The monarchy is one of Britain`s most revered institutions - but also one of its most tumultuous. In Crown and Country, David Starkey charts its rollercoaster history from earliest times to the present; from the courtly love of the Middle Ages, through the turbulent reign of the Tudors, to the chaos of the Civil War. Starkey brings this tempestuous story up to date in this complete history, guiding us through the Abdication Crisis to the dissolution of the marriage of Prince Charles and Lady Diana Spencer. He draws upon...
ISBN: 978-0-00-730772-2
Издательство:
Collins
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2011
The monarchy is one of Britain`s most venerable and revered institutions - but also one of its most tumultuous. In this substantially revised, updated and expanded volume, David Starkey charts its roller-coaster history from earliest times to the present. From the courtly love of the Middle Ages, through the turbulent reign of the Tudors, to the chaos of the Civil War that first unseated and then beheaded a king. Starkey brings this tempestuous story up to the present, guiding us confidently through the Abdication Crisis to the dissolution of the marriage between Prince Charles and Lady Diana Spencer. A new introductory chapter looks at the wedding of Kate Middleton and Prince William, as well as many notorious royal marriages of earlier...
ISBN: 978-0-00-743200-4
Издательство:
HarperCollins UK
Дата выхода: октябрь 2011
The civil war that is tearing England asunder in the year 1643 has not yet touched Dorcas Slythe, a secretly rebellious young Puritan woman living in the countryside south of London, who longs to escape the safe, pious tyranny of her father. The chance appears with the arrival of Toby Lazender, dashing scion of a powerful royalist family. It is he who renames her "Campion", awakening her to a bold, hitherto unknown and to a mysterious and perilous destiny. With the discovery of an intricately wrought gold seal—one of four that, when joined, will reveal a great secret and uncover an enormous fortune—Campion`s quest begins. Love, riches, and redemption await her at the end of her perilous adventure. Or death.
London, 1196. At the command of Richard the Lionheart, Sir John de Wolfe has left his beloved West Country for the Palace of Westminster, where he has been appointed Coroner of the Verge. But with the king overseas, embroiled in a costly war against King Philip of France, Sir John is dismayed to discover that the English court is a hotbed of greed, corruption and petty in-fighting. The murder of one of the palace clerks, stabbed in broad daylight and thrown into the River Thames, leads John to suspect that there`s a conspiracy underway to overthrow King Richard. And with the visit of the dowager Queen Eleanor fast approaching, the new Coroner must risk his life to prove his suspicions are right, root out the traitors within and prevent a...
ISBN: 978-1-84739-328-9
Издательство:
Simon & Schuster UK
Дата выхода: август 2011
Set in Salem, Massachusetts, 1692, a community stands accused of witchcraft, and in the mood of fear and recriminations that develops, men denounce their neighbours and truth is perverted by superstition.
ISBN: 978-0-14-118255-1
Издательство:
Penguin Books
Дата выхода: август 2011
Killing me won`t kill the beast are the last words of rapist-murderer Ronnie Joe Waddell, written four days before his execution. But they can`t explain how Dr. Kay Scarpetta finds Waddell`s fingerprints on another crime scene - after she`d performed his autopsy. If this is some sort of game, Scarpetta seems to be the target. And if the next victim is someone she knows, the punishment will be cruel and
ISBN: 978-1-4165-0540-2
Издательство:
Simon & Schuster UK
Дата выхода: август 2011
April 1193. England`s King Richard Lionheart languishes in a German prison, and treason scents the air. Richard`s younger brother, John, seizes Windsor Castle, and Dowager Queen Eleanor of Aquitaine summons her trusted personal "queen`s man", Justin de Quincy, to do the impossible - mediate a truce with her rebel son. Amid such fateful events, the murder of a Welsh peddler`s daughter seems small. But the cruel demise of the beautiful Melangell so troubles Justin that not even a threatened French invasion can keep him from investigating her death. Yet can he bring Melangell`s craven killer to justice?
ISBN: 978-0-345-44144-7
Издательство:
Random House (USA)
Дата выхода: июль 2011
