Art restorer and sometime spy Gabriel Allon is sent to Vienna to investigate a bombing and uncovers a portrait of evil stretching across sixty years and thousands of lives-and into his own personal nightmares.
ISBN: 978-0-451-21318-1
Издательство:
АСТ
Дата выхода: март 2012
Another day. Another death. Death du Jour. My God, how many such days would there be?` On a bitterly cold March night in Montreal, forensic anthropologist Dr. Temperance Brennan is exhuming the remains of a nun proposed for sainthood in the grounds of an old church. Just hours later, Tempe is called to the scene of a horrific arson. A young family has perished, and there seems to be no witness, no motive, no explanation. From the charred remains of the inferno, to a trail of sinister cult activity and a terrifying showdown during an ice storm, Tempe faces a nerve-shattering test of both her forensic expertise and her instinct for survival.
ISBN: 978-0-09-955652-7
Издательство:
Random House
Дата выхода: апрель 2012
Teaming up with longtime friends - NYPD`s Mike Chapman and Mercer Wallace - Assistant Alex Cooper investigates the disappearance of world-famous dancer Natalya Galinova, who has suddenly vanished backstage at Lincoln Center`s Metropolitan Opera House - during a performance. The three colleagues are soon drawn into the machinations of New York City`s secretive theatrical community, where ambition takes many forms, including those most deadly. Meanwhile, Alex is working on a very different case, using a creative technique to nab a physician who has been drugging women in order to assault them. As Dr. Sengor eludes capture, Alex must navigate the new investigative world of DFSA - drug-facilitated sexual assault - intent on proving him...
ISBN: 978-1-4165-1704-7
Издательство:
Simon & Schuster UK
Дата выхода: октябрь 2011
Agatha Christie’s most exotic murder mystery, reissued with a striking new cover to tie in with the highly anticipated film adaptation.The tranquillity of a cruise along the Nile is shattered by the discovery that Linnet Ridgeway has been shot through the head. She was young, stylish and beautiful, a girl who had everything – until she lost her life.Hercule Poirot recalls an earlier outburst by a fellow passenger: ‘I’d like to put my dear little pistol against her head and just press the trigger.’ Yet in this exotic setting nothing is ever quite what it seems…
Award-winning original fiction for learners of English. When Dr Leighton is murdered Inspector Frank Williams and Sergeant Kate Miller set out to track down her killer. Was it her husband, her son or her colleague? All had reasons to hate her Level 1.
ISBN: 978-0-521-70464-9
Издательство:
Cambridge University Press
Дата выхода: декабрь 2012
Hailed as one of the world`s supreme masterpieces on the subject of death and dying, The Death of Ivan Ilyich is the story of a worldly careerist, a high court judge who has never given the inevitability of his death so much as apassing thought. But one day death announces itself to him, and to his shocked surprise he is brought face to face with his own mortality. How, Tolstoy asks, does an unreflective man confront his one and only moment of truth?
ISBN: 0-553-21035-1
Издательство:
Random House (USA)
Дата выхода: апрель 2004
The twisted maze of Venice`s canals has always been shrouded in mystery. Even the celebrated opera house, La Fenice, has seen its share of death. But nothing so horrific and violent as that of world-famous conductor, Maestro Helmut Wellauer - poisoned during a performance of La Traviata. Even Commissario of Police, Guido Brunetti, used to the labyrinthine corruptions of the city, is shocked at the number of enemies Wellauer has made on his way to the top - but just how many have motive enough for murder? The beauty of Venice is crumbling - and evil can seep through its decaying stones.
ISBN: 978-0-09-953656-7
Издательство:
Random House
Дата выхода: июль 2011
Award-winning original fiction for learners of English. At seven levels, from Starter to Advanced, this impressive selection of carefully graded readers offers exciting reading for every student`s capabilities. Reporter Kate Jensen investigates the death of a karate master in a `dojo`, a karate training room in London. Another death quickly follows and Kate finds herself drawn into the mystery. The trail takes her to Japan, back to London, and back in time to a crime committed over thirty years earlier. Contains a paperback and 2 Audio CDs with complete text recordings from the book.
ISBN: 978-0-521-68633-4
Издательство:
Cambridge
Дата выхода: июль 2011
From the pen of master storyteller Anthony Horowitz comes a new series of myths and legends from around the world, retold in a contemporary voice, and illustrated with bold, graphic artwork. Packed with Horowitz`s signature action, humor, and suspense these collections feel fresh, modern, and perfect for today`s fast-moving audience. When life is over, and the conflicted souls of the dead wend their weary way down to the underworld, what do they see? A three-headed dog with slavering jaws, a bubbling swamp and a hangman`s noose, or simply darkness? From familiar stories like the Greek myth of Orpheus, to lesser known tales like the Viking legend of the poet Nornagest and his precious candle, or the story of the Indian Princess Savitri...
A gripping and topical espionage thriller in the vein of John le Carre and Robert Harris. The West is under threat. Russia has been granted sole access to the undersea Lomonosov Ridge in the Arctic Ocean - home to oil reserves even greater than Saudi Arabia`s. The US is determined to claim a share of the oil riches. The CIA send ex-KGB agent Anna on a mission to the brutal wilderness of Norilsk - the base of Russia`s Arctic development and a new floating nuclear station. She must disrupt their plans, but Intelligence reports that a Russian group are already planning to destroy the precious power station. But why are they risking everything to sabotage their own country`s resources? Is the US trying to force an outcome while keeping their...
ISBN: 978-0-7553-7339-0
Издательство:
Headline Publ.
Дата выхода: январь 2013
When a death at the big house is announced to the village of Compton Dando, few people are surprised, as The Golden Windhorse is home to some new-age oddballs. When the coroner deems the death an accident, it is something of a disappointment. But then another death is reported.
When it comes to Death, is there ever a best case scenario? In this disarmingly witty book, Julian Barnes confronts our unending obsession with the end. He reflects on what it means to miss God, whether death can be good for our careers and why we eventually turn into our parents. Barnes is the perfect guide to the weirdness of the only thing that binds us all.Selected from the book Nothing to be Frightened Of by Julian Barnes.
ISBN: 9781784872601
Издательство:
Vintage Classics
Дата выхода: ноябрь 2022
In the spring of 1948 Arthur Miller retreated to a log cabin in Connecticut with the first two lines of a new play already fixed in his mind. He emerged six weeks later with the final script of Death of a Salesman - a painful examination of American life and consumerism. Opening on Broadway the following year, Miller`s extraordinary masterpiece changed the course of modern theatre. In creating Willy Loman, his destructively insecure anti-hero, Miller himself defined his aim as being `to set forth what happens when a man does not have a grip on the forces of life.`
ISBN: 978-0-14-118274-2
Издательство:
Penguin Books
Дата выхода: октябрь 2011
Linnet Ridgeway is, beautiful and clever. But she has enemies. When she is shot dead on a boat in Egypt, it is fortunate that detective Hercule Poirot is also on the trip. Penguin Readers are written by specialist ELT authors. The language, vocabulary, style and content of every book is carefully graded to make sure it suits the learner`s own language Penguin Reader has a range of activities in the book and accompanying Factsheet to help increase comprehension and develop reading, writing, listening and speaking skills.
ISBN: 978-1-4082-7630-3
Издательство:
Pearson
Дата выхода: август 2011
Ivan Ilyich is wasting away. He lies alone, dosed up on opium and deceived by doctors, haunted by memories and regrets. His friends come to see him, their faces masks of concern. His faithful servant tends to his every need. But as he forces down false remedies and listens to empty promises, Ivan grows aware of one terrible truth. His wife and his children are not awaiting his recovery. They are waiting for him to die.
ISBN: 978-0-14-102360-1
Издательство:
Книжный мир
Дата выхода: июль 2011
As he drove his chief down to Kidlington, Lewis returned the conversation to where it had begun. `You haven`t told me what you think about this fellow Owens - the dead woman`s next-door neighbour.` `Death is always the next-door neighbour`, said Morse sombrely. The murder of a young A cryptic `seventeenth-century` love And a photograph of a mystery grey-haired It`s more than enough to set Chief Inspector E. Morse on the trail of a killer. And it`s a trail that leads him to Lonsdale College, where the contest between Julian Storrs and Dr. Denis Cornford for the coveted position of Master is hotting up. But then, Morse faces a greater, far more personal
ISBN: 978-0-330-45127-7
Издательство:
Picador USA
Дата выхода: август 2011
When a "perfect" couple commits double suicide, alarms go off in the offices of the high-tech matchmaking company. Investigation into a second couple`s double suicide reveals a stunning labyrinth of artificial intelligence, creative genius, and a melding of technology that does indeed deliver on the company`s guarantee of a perfect, lifelong mate.
ISBN: 978-0-307-27556-1
Издательство:
Random House (USA)
Дата выхода: июль 2011
Clever and witty art history-mystery featuring scholar and sleuth Jonathon Argyll, from the author of the bestselling masterpiece `An Instance of the Fingerpost`. The monastery of San Giovanni on Rome`s Aventine hill has few treasures - only a painting doubtfully attributed to Caravaggio. So Flavia di Stefano of Rome`s art police is surprised to receive a tip-off that a raid is being planned on the building. The raid happens, but the thieves are disturbed and snatch the wrong painting, a curious icon of the Madonna, remarkable only for the affection in which it is held by the local population. Or is this what the thieves wanted all along? Does the legend of the icon`s miraculous powers hold any clue? And who murdered the French dealer...
ISBN: 978-0-00-722921-5
Издательство:
HarperCollins UK
Дата выхода: август 2011
This new edition combines Tolstoy’s most famous short tale, “The Death of Ivan Ilyich”, with a less well known but equally brilliant gem, “Master and Man”, both newly translated by Ann Pasternak Slater. Both stories confront death and the process of dying: In “Ivan Ilyich”, a bureaucrat looks back over his life, which suddenly seems meaningless and wasteful, while in Master and Man, a landowner and servant must each confront the value of the other as they brave a devastating snowstorm. The quintessential Tolstoyan themes of mortality, spiritual redemption, and life’s meaning are nowhere more movingly and deftly explored than in these two tales. This unique edition also includes a critical Introduction and extensive notes...
Someone is killing off the competition in the world of chick lit-and the results are hilarious. (Andy Borowitz, author of The Borowitz Report: The Big Book of Shockers) Lola Somerville has a husband and a new apartment in Brooklyn, but what she really wants is for her novel to make a splash. Unfortunately it hasn`t even made a ripple. Then at a book party, Lola finds her author friend Mimi McKee with her throat slashed. When the bodies of It-Girl writers begin to pile up, Lola starts asking dangerous questions: Are the murders connected? Am I next? If not, um, why not? If I solve the mystery, then will my agent remember my name? As Lola digs deeper, the stakes grow higher. Will getting her hands on the killer - and the book deal bound to...
ISBN: 978-0-425-21524-1
Издательство:
Penguin Group
Дата выхода: июль 2011
