Ужасы и Мистика
Различные книги в жанре Ужасы и МистикаThe Underneath
With the assurance and grace of her acclaimed novel The Gloaming— which earned her comparisons to Patricia Highsmith—Melanie Finn returns with a precisely layered and tense new literary thriller. The Underneath follows Kay Ward, a former journalist struggling with the constraints of motherhood. Along with her husband and two children, she rents a quaint Vermont farmhouse for the summer. The idea is to disconnect from their work-based lifestyle—that had her doggedly pursuing a genocidal leader of child soldiers known as General Christmas, even through Kay's pregnancy and the birth of their second child—in an effort to repair their shaky marriage. It isn't long before Kay's husband is called away and she discovers a mysterious crawlspace in the rental with unsettling writing etched into the wall. Alongside some of the house's other curiosities and local sleuthing, Kay is led to believe that something terrible may have happened to the home's owners. Kay's investigation leads her to a local logger, Ben Comeau, a man beset with his own complicated and violent past. A product of the foster system and life-long resident of the Northeast Kingdom, Ben struggles to overcome his situation, and to help an abused child whose addict mother is too incapacitated to care about the boy's plight. The Underneath is an intelligent and considerate exploration of violence—both personal and social—and whether violence may ever be justified. "Finn does an excellent job of keeping the reader guessing, and the tension in the narrative always comes across as organic, never manipulative. The Underneath is an excellent thriller." —Michael Schaub, Star Tribune [/b]
Where the Ice Falls
Lacey McCrae tracks down a killer in the frozen hills of rural Alberta. When Zoe and her teenage daughter discover an ice-covered corpse at her boss’s mountain chalet, ex-Mountie Lacey McCrae trades her Christmas shopping for Victim Services duty. The dead man is Eric, an intern at the Calgary oil company where Zoe works. Reported missing after a blizzard a month earlier, he was presumed dead by misadventure. But his missing car and other inconsistencies point to a suspicious death. When someone close to Lacey goes missing in similar circumstances, she fears the two cases may be connected. With help from old RCMP colleagues and tips that Zoe swears came from a ghost, Lacey tracks a ruthless killer through the merciless winter wilderness.
Turning Secrets
Keeping secrets is a very bad idea. Former teenage runaway and new single mother Nadia Armstrong moves to Kingston to turn her life around. But six months after she rents a low-end apartment, her body is found at an isolated construction site. Major Crimes begins piecing together her last days, uncertain if it is a case of suicide or murder. To make matters more difficult, a member of the team is leaking information, putting Staff Sergeant Rouleau in a precarious position. Meanwhile, Officer Kala Stonechild’s niece, Dawn, is secretly corresponding with her father, who’s out on early parole and turns up in town uninvited.Dawn’s friend Vanessa is also keeping a dangerous secret – her relationship with an older man named Leo, who preys on young girls. And it’s not long before he has Dawn in his sights.
Du sollst nicht töten
Die Kommissare Kurt Stolze und Paula Reichmann treffen bei einer Tatortuntersuchung in einem Berliner Kellergewölbe auf zwei Leichen, die zu Tode gefoltert wurden. Ein Chirurg schuf in den Katakomben der Hauptstadt eine Parallelwelt, um an alleinstehenden Frauen Gesichtstransplantationen zu testen. Die beiden Ermittler finden unzählige Polaroid-Bilder, mit denen der Arzt seine Arbeiten dokumentierte. Der Fall scheint klar und gilt als abgeschlossen, doch dann geht die Mordserie weiter und die beiden Ermittler finden ein Geheimnis, das ihre Vorstellungen sprengt …
Вальс Личин
Каждый делает своё дело, ищет своё призвание. А если оно не одно, а несколько? Существует ли возможность заняться параллельно всем и сразу? Габи пока не знает, но имеет несколько призваний сразу и легко занимается развитием во всех направлениях, это очень проблемно, но выполнимо.
Prospect Avenue
Third book in the Border City Blues series, which is often compared to the HBO series Boardwalk Empire “This is a writer to watch” —Margaret Cannon, Globe and Mail Meticulously researched, with strict attention to historical detail Media-friendly author with experience in television, radio, and print interviews, as well as bookselling experience The series has been praised for its strong female characters who reach beyond formula-driven, male-dominated crime novels
Roses for a Diva
A music star attracts a secret admirer, who turns into a dangerous stalker, and then, perhaps, a killer. When soprano Marta Hendriks finds a bouquet of red roses in her dressing room after a performance, she’s surprised as well as charmed. The card only says «Roses for a Diva.» And as miles and performances rack up in her globe-hopping career, the bouquets continue to mysteriously appear. But then strange things start happening in her private life. She’s certain someone has been in her apartment, breaking her most treasured possession. After calling in private investigator Shannon O’Brien, Marta is shocked to discover her entire life has been invaded. When one of the other stars in a Roman production of Tosca is murdered, everyone realizes the situation is more dire than they had imagined. Who Marta’s stalker? What does he want? And where will he stop?
Presto Variations
2014 Arthur Ellis Award – Shortlisted Following the money trail gets Tate and Brown into a lot of trouble. Detectives Ray Tate and Djuna Brown are back from a vacation in Paris – fraudulently funded by a stolen State Police credit card. While waiting to find out if they’re going to be fired or jailed, the couple is assigned to the Green Squad, a dead-end job shuffling paper and counting contraband money. But while interrogating a money smuggler, Tate and Brown uncover a massive currency stash they hope will keep them out of jail. Their target is drug trafficker Laszlo «Marko» Markowitz, who has millions in cocaine profits to be laundered and shipped into Canada. As Tate and Brown try to penetrate the Markowitz organization, they uncover an underworld choking on its own profits and find a homicidal madman who has created the perfect blend of criminality and anarchy.
Too Hot to Handle
Poor Fiona Silk is broke again. Her romance writing career is tanking, and her tiny house in the lovely community of St. Aubaine may be sold for unpaid taxes. But Fiona’s new agent has a planFiona can write an erotic cookbook. This project would be easier if Fiona had a sex life or a working oven. Soon bad things start to happen to people, but, oddly, only when Fiona is nearby. Before long, her tiny home is in flames and the body count is rising. Will Canada’s most reluctant sleuth stop a killer before her own goose is cooked?