Зарубежные детективы
Различные книги в жанре Зарубежные детективыThe Kingdom of Us
We all have a breaking point and Michael Richardson has reached his. His girlfriend has left him and he is being made redundant. Worse, he discovers that the businessman putting him out of work is the bully who tormented him as a child and attacked his 16-year-old sister. <br><br>Michael plots revenge but he needs an alibi for murder and who better than a psychologist to vouch for him? Enter Bronwen, who has a questionable dress sense and an even more questionable code of conduct. As their cat-and-mouse therapy sessions delve into his past he finds his life is changing, but not in the way he — or she — expects.
Shallow Graves
Shallow Graves is written by rock veteran and Texas music prophet Goat Carson. This is a madcap horror dramedy with a flavor all its own.<br><br>Hip, provocative, and wickedly playful, "Shallow Graves" follows a world-weary horror movie researcher as he stumbles into powerful secrets of the occult and profound mysteries of mankind…but just wants to stay alive. Clever, satirical, and thrilling, "Shallow Graves" has vivid fun with the idea that destiny and salvation can belong to the most reluctant and unlikely heroes.<br><br>Set in Hollywood and the Hamptons during the dead end of the 70's, Shallow Graves is a satirical retelling of the Parsival Legend. Our Holy Fool is the Professor, a half-breed orphan, who does research for horror films. He finds himself pitted against a cabal of satanic cults all vying for control of the clans at the great Feast of the Beast. Movie Stars, human sacrifice, East Hampton society and the living dead are strung together by thread of coincidence with needle sharp wit. The occult pulp fictions of our times are turned on their heads (the Spear of Destiny was stolen by Houdini at the turn of the century; Magdalene was black.) This dark satire on Hollywood, The DaVinci Code and The State of the Nation is a must read for all true fans of the bizarre.
96 Rocks
WKRX, 96 Rocks, is the modern workplace in Corporate America where management, empowered by non-compete agreements, holds the future of their employees in the palm of their hands and can crush them at any time. The employees sit back and worry about losing their jobs on a daily basis and wonder how they will earn a living in their chosen profession since they will be deprived of a living over the next 3 years due to their non-compete agreement. <br><br>Now Private Detective Ozzie Rivera is hired to investigate the murder of the Herman Pearson, nicknamed Herman Monster, the general manager of the station. He has plenty of clues and a multitude of motives that lead him towards 4 suspects in the murder. As Rivera probes the suspects, he also learns the lessons of greed in Corporate America and hears of more people in other industries who lose their jobs and and can't work in their industry due to their non-compete agreements that never expire. In the end, Rivera follows the irresponsibility of management and its abuse of power which leads him to the answers he needs.
For Evil to Flourish
A prominent politician is discovered hanged in a deserted factory. Was it suicide, as it appears, or the work of a group of vigilantes operating in the area? Police detectives Ann Morrison and Ian Hopkins investigate.
Fly In the Milk
It's March of 1978 and a battered, steaming wreck lays at the bottom of a 50-foot cliff. Former boxing champion and football star Johnny Beam is found crumpled and broken behind the steering wheel. Beam was a gambler, in trouble with the law—and now dead. Was it an accident? Suicide? Murder? How did the former hero end up like this? In the lily-white northern town of Zenith, Minnesota, only one thing was certain: Johnny Beam stood out like a fly in a bottle of milk. <br><br>Fly in the Milk is a work of crime fiction, a provocative tale of death, betrayal and hypocrisy spanning three generations.
The Downfall of a Hustler
Rich is no stranger to the game and the betrayal that comes with it. Rich and his crew have run Fellwood Homes Projects for a long time while trying to balance his relationship with his fiancée, Alexis. But when Alexis feels she’s not getting the attention she needs and things start to go wrong, she is forced to take action, and Rich is forced to fight back and stay clear of two dirty cops, Sergeant Giles and Officer Gratton, aka Spike, who is trying to tear him and his crew down. In the end, will Rich and his crew be able to stand tall in the street they help build, or will they fall at the hands of the law?
Head Of The Snake
Head of the Snake is the sequel to Death Is Not the Final Chapter. It is book 2 in the Jason Orr saga.
When Orr travels to Questa, New Mexico, to visit an old Army buddy’s ranch, what awaits him there shakes him to his core. In his passion to seek justice and answers for his friend, Orr sets out on a quest that will entangle him with some of the most ruthless cartels in the United States. Their illicit world of fentanyl trafficking and Orr’s drive to avenge a death puts them on a collision course. It ends in an isolated body strewn canyon in Taos County. When the bullets stop flying, Orr and his two new companions find themselves with a strange dilemma. The decision they make will either help them accomplish a dream of establishing a veteran’s horse ranch or land them in jail.
But Jason Orr can’t leave it there. He makes a risky call from a dead vatos cell phone to the head of the CJNG cartel. The call starts a conflict that his antagonist Joseph Lehan, the CEO of Sarnev International, would never see coming.
Thousands of miles away, during Orr’s time in Questa, Joseph Lehan gives a command to the head of his Moscow division while he is attending a meeting at Lehan’s Bermuda Estate. There are three men who escaped back to Moscow Lehan wants eliminated. Lehan’s division head is ordered to avenge the death of Lehan’s best friend and benefactor, Andre Sarnev.
Unfortunately for Lehan, this order pushes him over a line that no one should ever cross. In that region of the world, you don’t disrespect the Solntsevskaya Brotherhood. A mistake that would cost him dearly.
Between what Orr has set in motion and Lehan’s own vendetta, one of the world’s richest companies, Sarnev International, could soon be no more, but that is another story.
Demon Dancer
With the discovery of a young girl’s body by a group of young neighborhood boys, it became the starting point for what would be a lifetime of adventure. This adventure would be filled with the unexplainable and one that would become all-consuming for the young boy named Alex. The old wives’ tale of a crying woman who threw her children into the river became a search for answers and a journey to discover if the events actually occurred.
The old dance hall sat boarded up for over twenty years as it stood across the river from the brick pits, the area that served as the playground for the boys. When young Alex began hearing all the legends about a man in black—a man who would kidnap women from dances—curiosity got the best of him.
With this curiosity came obsession, one which would be the force that led the young man and his childhood buddies into pursuits beyond their imaginations. The further along they went into the realms, it wasn’t long before characters from past times began to manifest into his world—characters with malevolent intentions and an agenda that required the total destruction of the young man’s bloodline. The young boy came to know and understand that he was the focus of all that was evil and that it began many centuries ago in the holy land.
He learned of the man from the past whom people throughout history would refer to as the Demon Dancer. It would be the pursuit that would lead to…
