В настоящее издание включены романы Дж. Х. Чейза «Свобода – опасная вещь» и «Репортер», которые отчасти выбиваются из привычного для автора жанра «крутого детектива», но ничуть не уступают остальным произведениям мастера в динамичности сюжета и увлекательности. В центре повествования оказываются сын известного кинопродюсера Джей Дилейни, погруженный в странные фантазии и изнемогающий в тени отцовс…
Eager to start a family, Caroline Sommerville marries Dominic Santos in a whirlwind courtship. Then the unthinkable happens: her husband becomes the prime suspect in the murder of his business partner. With Dominic on the run from the police, Caroline is his last hope. Though she's only known him a short time, she's certain he was framed. But there's so much about him she doesn't know.And when a d…
Time to leap into the Cortina as Sam Tyler and Gene Hunt roar back into action in a brand new installment of Life on Mars.‘Smell that borstal whiff, Tyler. The heady aroma of body odour, spunk, and bunged up khazis. And that’s just the staff who work here.’It’s time to get tooled up as DI Sam Tyler and DCI Gene Hunt find themselves pursuing justice on the wrong side of the prison walls in this thi…
When U.S. Navy SEAL Chief Wes Skelly was sent to L.A. on assignment, he agreed to go on a blind date with beautiful single mother Brittany Evans, sister-in-law of a fellow SEAL.After all, he had been secretly in love for years, albeit with a woman who belonged to another man. So what did he have to lose? Plenty, it turned out. Because suddenly, the woman he thought he could never have was availabl…
Рене Реймонд, известный всему миру под псевдонимом Джеймс Хэдли Чейз, вышел из семьи отставного британского офицера, и отец прочил ему карьеру ученого. В 18 лет будущий писатель оставил учебу и навсегда покинул родительский дом. Он испробовал немало профессий, прежде чем стал агентом по распространению книг и основательно изучил книжный бизнес изнутри. Впоследствии Чейз вспоминал: «…Мне пришлось п…
‘Curious Incident’ meets ‘Catcher in the Rye’ in this crime-noir debut.The police said Nancy OD’d and she was a tramp. But she wasn’t; she was my friend. I didn’t see her Virgin Mary statue in her room, and I said some guy killed her and took it. Mr. Winkley was in the hallway meowing. The Colonel knew all about crimes. He said, Okay Willy we’ll conduct an investigation… There were a lot of suspec…
Подруги Слоун, Арди и Грейс – успешные юристы, долгое время служащие в компании «Трувив». Внезапная смерть генерального директора означает, что их босс, Гарретт Эймс, вскоре займет его место. Вокруг Эймса всегда вились слухи о том, как он обращается со своими сотрудницами. Эти слухи постоянно игнорировались и заметались под ковер мужчинами, стоящими у власти в компании. Однако теперь Слоун с подру…
As an experienced search-and-rescue tracker, Alex Gray had solved his share of mysteries.But beneath his cool Lakota demeanor, Alex was running from his own dark secrets…including a traumatic family history that connected him to a killer. Now someone from his past had returned to play a deadly game. And only one woman could help him…Sophie Brennan knew that Alex was the key to stopping the string …
The first secret is personal. The second one is a killer…This school reunion was a shot at redemption and maybe a second chance for army man Dylan Burkhart and his old flame, Ava North. But a secret-telling game turns up a murder confession, with the killer hiding among them…
DEFENDING THE INNOCENTSomeone was trying to kill Andrea Kirkland. And with good reason. For she was the only witness to a murder. A murder her mind refused to recall. A murder assistant D.A. John Cohen needed her to remember so that she could testify and put an end to the threats, the danger. Until then, John felt duty bound to protect her. Just until the murderer was found, he told himself. After…