Книги жанра зарубежные детективы
A classic Agatha Christie short story, available individually for the first time as an ebook.A dowdy lover is cast aside by a shallow man in favour of a beautiful young woman in this gripping tale of jealousy and infidelity…
The Tarantula was a diamond – a diamond as big as a man’s greed: many men would fight for it, some would kill, some would die.Martin Taggart found it, after six years’ grubbing in the steamy disease-ridden mines of Brazil.Charles Caine claimed it – he had sponsored Taggart and that was the deal.Paolo Estavez coveted it, and flew Caine and his entourage deep into the Mato Grosso to seek it out.But …
Action thriller by the classic adventure writer set in Norway and Finland.When Giles Denison of Hampstead wakes up in an Oslo hotel room and finds the face looking back at him in the mirror is not his own, things could surely get no more bizarre. But it is only the beginning of a hair-raising adventure in which Denison finds himself trapped with no way to escape. One false move and the whole delic…
Devil's Cove, Michigan, hadn't been Jason Cooper's home for over ten years. Now the town's former troublemaker turned successful novelist had returned. He never expected to rekindle the flame of his first love…or put her in danger….Emily Brennan was powerless to resist her desire for Jason. Then someone began threatening her. Is it only coincidence that the mysterious stalker resembles the crimina…
One of Ray Bradbury’s classic short story collections, available in ebook for the first time.THE TOYNBEE CONVECTOR is a brilliant short story collection from one of the genre’s master storytellers. Several of the stories are original to this collection. Others originally appeared in the magazines Playboy, Omni, Gallery, Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, Woman's Day, and Weird Tales.Bradbury display…
Джек Ричер приезжает в Маргрейв с загадочной, но вполне мирной целью и… тут же попадает в полицейский участок. Оказывается, в этом тихом процветающем городке впервые за последние тридцать лет произошло убийство, а Ричер был замечен неподалеку от места преступления. На следователя его история не производит впечатления, так что задержанному еще придется доказать: он никого не убивал, по крайней мере…
A classic Agatha Christie short story, available individually for the first time as an ebook.A lawyer, a doctor and a clergyman are discussing the details of a peculiar case of a woman suffering from a multiple personality disorder. Remarkably, in an impossible feat of strength she strangled herself to death. A stranger who knew the woman overhears their conversation and reveals a disturbing truth…
A classic Agatha Christie short story, available individually for the first time as an ebook.Around the dinner table, Mrs Bantry recounts the tale of a dinner where everyone became ill and one young lady died from poisoning, after foxglove leaves had been mixed in with the sage and fed to everyone. The group decide that this mixed up stuffing was no accident and play twenty questions to deduce the…
Businesswoman Simone Hayes traveled to the exotic land of Nazaar to search for family. But instead of having the idyllic vacation she'd hoped for, she witnessed a murder that had far-reaching political implications. To escape with her life, Simone needed the protection of Nazaar's most powerful man…the sheik.Accustomed to wielding his authority, Sheik Markaz al Nazaari had traits that clashed agai…
A classic Agatha Christie short story, available individually for the first time as an ebook.A man confides in a friend that he has a fear of gypsies stemming from childhood nightmares. When he sees a gypsy in a red scarf he becomes unhinged. Encapsulated in fear he doesn’t listen to her warnings…
A serial killer is on the loose. His target? Lone Western women lured to Hong Kong by the promise of easy money. As The Butcher's killing spree escalates, bags of mutilated body parts are found all over the island – and more girls are disappearing.Taking on his first homicide case, Detective Johnny Mann is determined to stop The Butcher's brutal reign. Haunted by the memory of his father's death b…
In a riveting exploration of the power the past wields over the present, critically acclaimed author Antoinette van Heugten writes the story of a woman whose child’s life hangs in the balance, forcing her to confront the roots of her family’s troubled history in the dark days of World War II… It’s the stuff of nightmares: Nora de Jong returns home from work one ordinary day to find her mother has …
Автор мировых бестселлеров, признанный мастер захватывающих романов, Дуглас Кеннеди отправляет читателя в головокружительное путешествие. Робин знала, что ее муж Пол не идеален. Но он сказал: им крупно повезло, что они нашли друг друга. И она в это поверила. Он умный, страстный, талантливый. Или она хотела так думать. Отправляясь с мужем в Марокко, Робин уверена, что она наконец-то сможет забереме…
Рассказы об отце Брауне – это маленькие шедевры британского классического детектива, ставшие настоящим литературным феноменом. Об этом герое писали пьесы, сочиняли мюзиклы и даже рисовали комиксы. Рассказы Честертона не раз экранизировали в Англии и США, Германии и Италии, и неизменно экранизациям сопутствовал успех. И до сих пор читатели во всем мире снова и снова восхищаются проницательностью зн…
Юного скаута Эдвина высадили на безлюдный остров и поручили собрать грибы и ягоды для общего котла. Но его ждала находка иного рода – простреленный человеческий череп. Пытливый подросток понимает, что должен немедленно показать его своему соседу по дому и старшему другу, комиссару полиции Эверту Бекстрёму. Официальное следствие начинается с генетической экспертизы, которая устанавливает личность у…