Agatha Christie’s disturbing 1960s mystery thriller, reissued with a striking cover designed to appeal to the latest generation of Agatha Christie fans and book lovers.Gipsy’s Acre was a truly beautiful upland site with views out to sea – and in Michael Rogers it stirred a child-like fantasy.There, amongst the dark fir trees, he planned to build a house, find a girl and live happily ever after.Yet…
‘A captivating read.’ Mel Sherratt‘She trusted the man she loved. It was the most dangerous thing she had ever done …’No one can touch Del Williams – the hardest gangster in Soho. He’s got the monopoly on the drugs, the clubs and the girls – it’d be a mistake to underestimate him. The one person he’d take a bullet for is tough, beautiful Bunny Barker, mother of their daughter Star.Bunny is determi…
Черная полоса в жизни обермейстера полиции Лео Кройтнера, казалось, подходит к концу. Совсем недавно при производстве домашнего шнапса он едва не сжег дом, а за лихую езду на время лишился прав. И вот на костюмированном балу в пивной мельницы Мангфалль на его ухаживания ответила женщина, на взаимность которой он не смел и надеяться. Вечер обещал завершиться вожделенной близостью, но куда привести …
«…Казалось, что орнамент внутри круга, похожий на свернувшуюся змею, непрерывно вращается. Каждая извилина была ровно такой ширины, чтобы взрослый человек мог пройти по ней. Аэлис заглянула себе в душу: возможно, в искуплении она и не нуждалась, но чувствовала себя паломницей, как все те, кто приходит сюда, чтобы очиститься от зла, примириться с Высшим Существом, а значит, и с самим собой. Потом п…
New York Times bestselling author J.A. Jance brings her two best-loved series characters together as Beaumont and Brady investigate a pair of cases that cross state linesSeattle investigator J.P. Beaumont is working a series of murders in which six young women have been wrapped in tarps, doused with gasoline and set on fire. Their charred remains have been scattered around various dump sites, crea…
Lavinia Greenlaw’s mesmerising debut novel about growing up in the surreal banality of mid-’70s Essex.Lavinia Greenlaw puts before us the monochrome, immemorial middle England of the 1970s in all its dowdy glory, and has us see through the mercurial, bewitching Mary George’s eyes how a seemingly static landscape is suddenly illuminated by the most vivid bursts of energy, colour and drama. Punk’s t…
It’s Chief Medical Examiner Dr Kay Scarpetta’s birthday, and while she’s enjoying a leisurely morning, a man is shot dead five minutes from her house. The bullet tore through him as he unloaded groceries from his car. Yet nobody heard or saw a thing.It looks like the work of a serial sniper – one who leaves no trace except for tiny copper fragments, and whose seemingly impossible shots cause insta…
Jane Austen in the hands of queen of crime, Val McDermid. Get ready for a very different Northanger Abbey.Seventeen-year-old Catherine ‘Cat’ Morland has led a sheltered existence in rural Dorset, a life entirely bereft of the romance and excitement for which she yearns. So when Cat’s wealthy neighbours, the Allens, invite her to Edinburgh Festival, she is sure adventure beckons.Edinburgh initially…
They wrote it on the wall above my bed. Hello, it said, my name is May. Please talk to me.May has been moved to a care home after her stroke. She can’t communicate, all her words are kept inside. If she tries to point, her arms swing in wild directions, if she tries to talk, strange noises come out of her mouth.May is sharp, quick, and funny, but only her daughter Jenny sees this, and Jackie, a ne…
Напряженный детективный триллер, в котором мистика переплетается с обыденностью, яркие мифы и легенды cоседствуют с техасскими пустошами, а человек, которого ты знал десятки лет, может оказаться безжалостным кровожадным монстром. В парке маленького городка Флинт-Сити найден труп жестоко убитого одиннадцатилетнего мальчика. Все улики, показания свидетелей указывают на одного человека – Терри Мейтле…