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Различные книги в жанре Зарубежные детективыToughs
Set during the Great Depression and based in part on real characters and a series of historical events, Toughs follows the story of Loretto Jones as he finds his life intertwined with the fate of Vince Coll, a 23-year-old Irish gangster who for a brief moment rose to the level of a national celebrity during his war with Dutch Schultz, Owen Madden, and Lucky Luciano. Tagged “Mad Dog Coll” after killing five-year-old Michael Vengelli in a botched assassination attempt, Coll was the subject of a shoot-to-kill order issued by New York City Police Commissioner Edward P. Mulrooney, a $50,000 bounty offered by Dutch Shultz and Owen Madden, and $30,000 in reward money from by the Patrolmen’s Benevolent Association and the city’s newspapers. Loretto and Vince are bound to each other by years spent in an orphanage and on the streets, but in the summer of 1931, with Loretto in love with newly-divorced Gina Baronti, and Vince in thrall to the beautiful Lottie Kriesberger, their world of tough guys in tough times is hurtling toward disaster, and Loretto finds himself faced with impossible choices.
Captivity
This masterful historical novel by Deborah Noyes, the lauded author of Angel & Apostle, The Ghosts of Kerfol, and Encyclopedia of the End (starred PW) is two stories:The first centers upon the strange, true tale of the Fox Sisters, the enigmatic family of young women who, in upstate New York in 1848, proclaimed that they could converse with the dead. Doing so, they unwittingly (but artfully) gave birth to a religious movement that touched two continents: the American Spiritualists. Their followers included the famous and the rich, and their effect on American spirituality lasted a full generation. Still, there are echoes. The Fox Sisters’ is a story of ambition and playfulness, of illusion and fear, of indulgence, guilt and finally self-destruction.The second story in Captivity is about loss and grief. It is the evocative tale of the bright promise that the Fox Sisters offer up to the skeptical Clara Gill, a reclusive woman of a certain age who long ago isolated herself with her paintings, following the scandalous loss of her beautiful young lover in London.Lyrical and authentic—and more than a bit shadowy—Captivity is, finally, a tale about physical desire and the hope that even the thinnest faith can offer up to a darkening heart.
Verwandlung
Verwandlung Dreya Love Buch 1 Eine Wandler-umgekehrter Harem-Reihe Das Überleben eines versuchten Mordes durch genetische Modifikation ließ FBI Special Agent Dreya Love mit einem neuen Leben zurück. Jetzt muss sie nur am Leben bleiben. Dreya Love bevorzugt es alleine zu arbeiten. Aber als ihre Freundin, eine Senatorentochter, umgebracht wird, ist sie gezwungen sich mit Detective Rhys Morgan zusammenzutun oder sie wird der ‚Rückseite der Hölle’ zugewiesen. Mehr Todesfälle mit mehr Leichen, die zu ihrem ersten Opfer passen, bringen Interpol Agent Quinn Kingston zum Team. Als ihre Ermittlung ein geheimes genetisches Forschungsprogramm, eine Vertuschung der Regierung und eine Warnung -‚geht weg’– enthüllt, wird der Fall tödlich. Die Jagd nach einem Killer, einer Edeldroge und einer unirdischen Zutat vereint diese drei auf eine Art und Weise, die sie sich nie vorstellen konnten. Bald entdecken sie, dass die Wahrheit zu einer Hölle führt, von der sie nie wussten, dass sie existierte. DR Verwandlung Dreya Love Buch 1 Eine Wandler-umgekehrter Harem-Reihe Die Dreya Love-Reihe ist ein High-Concept-Thriller, der den neuesten Trend in Liebesromanen, den umgekehrten Harem, mit Gestaltwandlung, einer Kriminalgeschichte und einer Spur Sci-Fi kombiniert. Das Überleben eines versuchten Mordes durch genetische Modifikation ließ FBI Special Agent Dreya Love mit einem neuen Leben zurück. Jetzt muss sie nur am Leben bleiben. FBI Special Agent Dreya Love bevorzugt es alleine zu arbeiten. Aber als ihre Freundin, eine Senatorentochter, umgebracht wird, ist sie gezwungen sich mit Detective Rhys Morgan zusammenzutun oder sie wird der ‚Rückseite der Hölle’ zugewiesen. Mehr Todesfälle mit mehr Leichen, die zu ihrem ersten Opfer passen, bringen Interpol Agent Quinn Kingston zum Team. Als ihre Ermittlung ein geheimes genetisches Forschungsprogramm, eine Vertuschung der Regierung und eine Warnung -‚geht weg’– enthüllt, wird der Fall tödlich. Die Jagd nach einem Killer, einer Edeldroge und einer unirdischen Zutat vereint diese drei auf eine Art und Weise, die sie sich nie vorstellen konnten. Bald entdecken sie, dass die Wahrheit zu einer Hölle führt, von der sie nie wussten, dass sie existierte. *** Die Dreya Love-Reihe ist ein Krimi mit umgekehrtem Harem und Gestaltwandlern, die eine starke, intelligente Heldin beinhaltet, deren Leben dauerhaft von einem Mordversuch verändert wird und sie als mehr zurückließ, als sie jemals zuvor war. Ihr neues Leben ist tiefgründiger und bedeutungsvoller, da sie 3 lebenslange Liebhaber annimmt, die mit ihr spannende Dramen, politische Intrigen und gefährliche Ereignisse durchstehen. Die Themen erbauen sich an Entdeckung, Veränderung und Anpassung durch diese widerstandsfähigen Charaktere. Wenn Sie eine tiefgründige Romanze wollen, die langsam brennt bis sie Feuer fängt, mit genug Wendungen, um Sie nicht zur Ruhe kommen zu lassen, dann werden Sie an Dreya Love Freude haben. Für das beste Erlebnis sollten die Bücher der Reihe nach gelesen werden.
Abre Los Ojos
Rebecca Sellen es una exitosa escritora que tiene poco tiempo para terminar su novela. A falta de ideas, trata de obtener la ayuda del inspector Ridley quien està investigando una serie de asesinatos en el área. Rebecca Sellen es una exitosa escritora que tiene poco tiempo para terminar su novela. A falta de ideas, trata de obtener la ayuda del inspector Ridley quien està investigando una serie de asesinatos en el área. La desaparición de su esposo y su hijo, junto a otras vicisitudes, hacen que todas las sospechas recaigan sobre ella primero y luego sobre su hija adoptiva. Pero la verdad nadie la sabrà hasta el final
Focus on Murder
The diary read, “It is settled. I am going to kill him.” And with these words begins as unusual and spectacular a mystery as anyone could ask for. Johnny Kendall, a photographer whose job has been squeezed out in a merger, sets up shop in a small state capital as a commercial photographer. He lands the job of taking pictures of corpses for the sheriff's office, and that is how he manages to be in on the ground floor of the attempted ax murder of Dr. Harry Rigmire in his weekend fishing lodge. Kendall’s busy camera catches all the evidence both in the unsuccessful attempted murder and in the successful one which follows. Peopled with characters spicy and salty by turn, displaying real novelty in both plot and method of detection, Focus on Murder is equally interesting in human terms.
Tough Cop
The crooks, the grafters, all of New York's underworld kept telling themselves that they never had it so good as they would now, with Johnny Devereaux retiring from the force after 21 years. Devereaux was a tough cop, tough to encounter and impossible to bluff.<P> Devereaux was doing a little chortling of his own. He was still young enough to enjoy life; he wanted to read some books, take a little trip, fulfill a few dreams. He was sitting in his car that evening, thinking about his beautiful future, when his beautiful future – in the form of Jennifer Phillips – opened the door of the car, sat down, and said, «Please hurry!»<P> So she was twenty years his junior – so what? She was very, very beautiful, she was in trouble, and Devereaux was ripe for romance. Or call it an automatic reflex, if you prefer to think of him as a tough cop; say he had been on the force so long that he responded mechanically to a try for assistance.<P> "Roeburt returned in his fourth to the tough-guy genre and a character modeled on the later Bogart." – Mike Nevins
A House in Naples
Charley's Rope was about frayed out. The caribinieri were after him, he had a bullet in his hip and no goddamn passport. Charley needed a passport bad. He needed that intricate piece of paper—signed, sealed, and innocent looking—the way only a G.I. in italy could need one. A G.I. deserter with a sweet fortune in blackmail lire and the carabinieri lusting to lay hands on him…
They All Ran Away
They All Ran Away—<P>Except Malcolm Hunter—the busiest body in town… And Evelyn, his lady—trapped by her dishonest millions and a taste for men alive… And lovely Ferne—a girl unfaitheful unto death, who coveted life…<P> Barney pursued them. He chased them through a labyrinth of horrors into the borrowed arms of a woman with a wrongway heart. For Barney’s task was to smash a killer’s grip on justice, and break a crime that meant murder for sale!
Mystery Rides the Rails
"Mystery" is about the «Silver Town Northern Railroad»– «…55 miles of track including sidings and loading spurs. Three narrow gauge engines, four combination coaches and thirty-five assorted freight cars…» It takes place in and around the Silverton area and some of the place and mine names are easliy recognizable actual onesand it is loosely based on at least one of the Otto Mear's roads.
Killer in Silk
The lady—the very rich, very beautiful lady—dazed with sleep, lifted herself on one elbow and pumped two shots at the man in her bedroom door. Later they found her, incoherent with shock, sprawled in the hallway over the pajama-clad body of her dead husband.<P> When they were able to question her, she said she thought she had fired at a prowler who had been terrorizing the neighborhood for the past few weeks. Thus began the Wilson affair, the ten-day sensation that had the press and the nation speculating excitedly over the burning question: Did Irene Wilson shoot her husband to death by accident—or with deliberate intent?<P> It took ten years—and a man in love—to provide the fantastic answer.