Ужасы и Мистика
Различные книги в жанре Ужасы и МистикаBleeding Hearts
Book 2 in the Kit O'Malley series.<br /> <br />Poison pens can draw blood. And that is exactly why TV presenter Rebecca Jones hires private eye Kit O'Malley to investigate the threats against her. But the trouble with being tenacious, tough, and too smart for her own good is that everybody else wants her on their team.<br /> <br />As if trying to keep Rebecca alive and on the air wasn't enough, Kit is beset by a clutch of other people's catastrophes that require her very particular skills to resolve.<br /> <br />And, as Kit is the detective who can't say no, before she knows it she is up to her eyes in the worst that Australia's criminal minds can throw her way.<br /> <br />Money laundering, sordid sexual shenanigans, abduction, political sleaze, and murder among Melbourne's movers and shakers threaten to swamp Kit as she picks her way through the morass of double-dealing, treachery, and outright greed.<br /> <br />As if that's not enough, the beautiful and sexy Alex Casenove sweeps back into her life, reminding Kit that love is almost as deadly as hate and that murder never happens at a convenient time.<br /> <br />Bleeding Hearts, the sequel to the highly acclaimed debut Blood Guilt, is a tightly plotted romp through the dark underbelly of Australia's most-cultured city, vibrantly demonstrating that even the heartless bleed.
Blood Guilt
Book 1 in the Kit O'Malley series.<br /> <br />Private investigator Kit O'Malley has had more exciting cases than following a wealthy client's husband, but Celia Robinson is paying big money to find out what the libidinous Geoffrey is up to with a blonde, a redhead and entrepreneur Ian Dalkeith and his group of shady businessmen.<br /> <br />Enduring a heatwave and fighting the inanimate objects that are out to get her are the hardest parts of Kit's assignment until a body is found in the Robinson's ornamental fish pond and everything takes a turn for the weird and nasty.<br /> <br />While the cops do their own thing, Celia's daughter Quinn hires Kit to find the killer and her mother's missing butler. What Kit doesn't count on is Quinn's determination to be involved in the case. To make matters worse she brings along her lawyer, Alexis Cazenove, who is as stunning as she is smart and has an extremely disconcerting effect on Kit's sense of balance.<br /> <br />After a near miss with a homicidal driver, Kit knows she's getting close to something – even if the truth seems to be that everyone has a secret. And then there's the question of just who the mysterious Mike Finnigan is following; is it Geoffrey, Dalkeith or Kit herself?
The Last Suitor
The time is an imaginary future, one and a half millennia after the collapse of our own civilisation.<br /> <br />Nicholas Raspero, the descendant of the Barons of Raspero and the possessor of wandlore secrets, has arrived in New Landern, the capital of Anglashia. Almost immediately he is drawn into the underworld when he defeats a group of thugs who attempt to rob him, thus making him an enemy of Jolly, the most powerful gangster in the city. Jolly therefore recruits Angela Ashton, the lovely actress, to act as bait for a trap he has set for Nicholas Raspero. Meanwhile, Nicholas has set his heart on Isabel Grangeshield of Grangeshield House – the wealthiest, most beautiful heiress in New Landern and the most obstinate.<br /> <br />For lovers of steampunk and fantasy, The Last Suitor will have you cheering for Nicholas Raspero, the wand-fighting hero, and wishing that you too could transport to the world of New Landern, where everyone who has a wand is not afraid to use it in a duel to maintain one's honour.
The Blood She Betrayed
Thrust into the technology-driven Earthlands, Shahkara must find the ancient Elnara death lantern – the only thing that can save her homeworld from the heart-devouring Taloners.<br /> <br />She enlists the help of geeky billionaire Max McCalden, but soon finds that, as a half-Taloner herself, her blood demands what she knows she can't have – a human heart.<br /> <br />Shahkara longs for love, but as deadly enemies attack at every turn, will her lust for Max destroy them both?<br /> <br />Or will she find the strength to free both worlds from a threat more horrific than the demons that share her blood?
Until Death
Is she a killer?<br /> <br />Libby Daniels wakes from a drug-induced sleep to see two men crouched over her mother's battered body. Already in shock, she flees when overhearing the men say, 'Libby killed her'.<br /> <br />His past will put them both in danger…<br /> <br />Conor Martin can't ignore the woman who takes refuge on his doorstep. He's been alone too long, hiding too long, afraid too long, not to recognise her desperation… and her need for love.<br /> <br />Trust is hard to give…<br /> <br />until past and present collide in a violent attack that forces them to confront their enemies… and their deepest fears.
Dangerous Deception
Some secrets are worth dying to protect…<br /> <br />Professor John Raymond lies paralysed and unable to speak.<br /> <br />His colleague, brilliant young medical researcher Breeanna Montgomery, is attacked by a shotgun-wielding stranger. Before the night is over, the man is killed, and Breeanna is fleeing from someone even more ruthless… and deadly.<br /> <br />Have those secrets already cost a life?<br /> <br />Rogan McKay's search for his missing brother forces him into a dangerous act of deception as the trail leads him to Breanna. When he confronts her, a shocking chain of events reveals her family's dark secrets.<br /> <br />One man's dream is another's nightmare…<br /> <br />Nothing Rogan discovers about this woman will be as astounding as the truth behind the experiment Professor Raymond was trying to hide…<br /> <br />In Dangerous Deception, survival depends on accepting who you are meant to be.
Deadly Tide
Her father is accused of murder…<br /> <br />Samantha Bretton takes over as skipper of her father's fishing trawler, the Sea Mistress, determined to clear his name.<br /> <br />His job is to find out the truth…<br /> <br />Brisbane cop Chayse Jarrett, guilt-ridden by the death of a young woman on his last assignment, goes undercover on the vessel, and soon realises that Samantha is hiding something.<br /> <br />Secrets that could implicate her father in more than murder.<br /> <br />Secrets that Chayse becomes reluctant to uncover.<br /> <br />Are friends really what they seem…<br /> <br />The case takes a sinister turn and Samantha is forced to relive the horrors of her past.<br /> <br />In a night as deadly and unpredictable as the ocean that threatens his life, Chayse finds new allies, but now faces danger from old and bitter foes.<br /> <br />Before that night has ended, even enemies will discover that things are not always as they seem…<br /> <br />In Deadly Tide, the truth proves to be a destructive force…
Black Ice
She fears the unknown…<br /> <br />Artist Kirri Smith is haunted by the memory loss she suffered in New Orleans, and fears what it may hide.<br /> <br />He has the answer to her past…<br /> <br />When American Daniel Brand walks into Kirri's art gallery on Queensland's Sunshine Coast, their encounter results in a startling revelation – one which will have tragic outcomes for Kirri's family.<br /> <br />The present holds dangers they could never imagine…<br /> <br />A past act of deception has created killers who will do anything to achieve their goal. Kirri and Daniel are flung into a nightmare of suspicion and lies when the killers' plan takes a terrifying new twist…<br /> <br />In Black Ice, obsession and lies threaten a second chance at love.
Dance with the Devil
A destructive force…<br /> <br />As Emma Randall prepares to bury one man, another enters her life with the force of the cyclone gathering around them.<br /> <br />A man fighting for his life…<br /> <br />Drew Jarrett, his feet and hands torn by nail wounds, stumbles onto Emma's isolated farm, with no clue to the identity of the man who has tried to kill him. Within days the killer strikes again.<br /> <br />An attraction that can't be denied…<br /> <br />Emma fights to deny her feelings for Drew, but the growing danger surrounding her and this mysterious stranger creates an intimacy between them she could never have imagined. As Emma and Drew join forces to find the killer, he holds hostage the most innocent life of all.<br /> <br />In Dance with the Devil, menace and love meet in a story as suspenseful as it is passionate.
Fatal Flaw
A city in danger. Thousands will die. What would you sacrifice to save them?<br /> <br />Operative Mark Talbert's father is murdered, the agency he works for has him hunting terrorists, and the only connection is the father of Julie Evans, the woman he loves.<br /> <br />Julie's father has placed her in the hands of a terrorist determined to unleash horror on an unprepared city. She needs someone she can depend on, but can she trust the man she loves?<br /> <br />People are dying; people who seem to have nothing in common, until Mark discovers his father's involvement in a decades-old crime. A killer is taking a calculated revenge that threatens Mark, Julie, and Julie's son.<br /> <br />Meanwhile the terrorists are making their final move.