Детектив
Молодой сотрудник элитной Стенхоупской клиники Алекс Петроу покончил с собой? Такова официальная версия случившегося. Но талантливый детектив Кэти Колла и ее старый друг и учитель Дэвид Брок убеждены - совершено убийство. Кому же помешал безобидный юноша, которого любили и пациенты, и врачи? В клинике у Алекса не было врагов... по крайней мере на первый взгляд. Однако Кэти и Дэвид знают,...
Предлагаем вниманию читателей новеллы знаменитого американского писателя Эдгара Аллана По. Полный неадаптированный текст новелл снабжен комментариями и словарем. Для студентов языковых вузов и всех любителей англоязычных детективов.
Edgar Poe was born the son of itinerant actors on January 19th, 1809 in Boston, Massachusets. Abandoned by his father and the later death of his mother, he was taken into the foster care of John Allan, a Virginia tobacco farmer. Now styled as Edgar Allan Poe, he distinguished himself at the University of Virginia but was equally adept at collecting debts from his assiduous gambling. His stepfather...
Zachary Quinto - best known for his role as the Nimoy-approved Spock in the recent Star Trek reboot and the menacing, power-stealing serial killer, Sylar, in Heroes - brings his well-earned sci-fi credentials and simmering intensity to this audio-exclusive novella from master storyteller John Scalzi. One day, not long from now, it becomes almost impossible to murder anyone - 999 times out of a...
My name is Amelia Gray. I'm the Graveyard Queen. Restoring lost and abandoned cemeteries is my profession, but I'm starting to believe that my true calling is deciphering the riddles of the dead. Legend has it that Kroll Cemetery is a puzzle no one has ever been able to solve. For over half a century, the answer has remained hidden within the strange headstone inscriptions and intric...
When you can see things others can't, where do you look for the truth? This paranormal murder mystery will have teens reading on the edge of their seats. Clarity "Clare" Fern sees things. Things no one else can see. Things like stolen kisses and long-buried secrets. All she has to do is touch a certain object, and the visions come to her. It's a gift. And a curse. When a teenage girl is fo...
El esperadisimo final de la Trilogia del Baztan, un exito que ya ha cautivado a mas de 200.000 lectores. Nunca lo habrias imaginado. Una mujer denuncia que la muerte subita de su nieta, oficialmente una muerte de cuna, le parece sospechosa tras el comportamiento extrano del padre de la nina, que ha sido detenido cuando intentaba robar el cadaver pronunciando palabras inconexas acerca de entrega...
Bobby Jones is playing golf... terribly. As his ball disappears over the edge of a cliff, he hears a cry. The ball is lost, but on the rocks below he finds a dying man. With his final breath the man opens his eyes and says, "Why didn't they ask Evans?". Bobby and his adventure-seeking companion Frankie set out to solve the mystery of the dying man's last words only to find their own lives in te...
El juicio contra el padrastro de la joven Johana Márquez está a punto de comenzar. A él asiste una embarazada Amaia Salazar, la inspectora de la Policía Foral que un año atrás había resuelto los crímenes del llamado basajaun, que sembraron de terror el valle del Baztán. Amaia también había reunido las pruebas inculpatorias contra Jasón Medina, que imitando el modus operandi del basajaun había ases...
Includes brand-new stories by: Jordi Sierra i Fabra, Imma Monso, Santiago Roncagliolo, Francisco Gonzalez Ledesma, Valerie Miles, David Barba, Isabel Franc, Lolita Bosch, Eric C. Aragon, Antonia Cortijos, Cristina Fallaras, Raul Argemi, Teresa Solana, and Andreu Martin. For some, Barcelona is a European enchantress of nouveau architecture, fusion tapas, and fine cava. To others, it’s a Gothic l...
Среди многочисленных произведений бельгийского писателя Жана Рэя (он же Раимон Жан Мари де Кремер) особое Место занимают сочинения, посвященные персонажу по имени Гарри Диксон. В 1930-е годы появилась многотомная эпопея о его приключениях. Рэй — по просьбе издателя, которому требовался - новый Шерлок Холмс», — создал образ сыщика-американца. За 9 лет вышло в свет 178 выпусков, с интервалом то дваж...
The monarchies of the Royal Vispasian Union have been bound together for two hundred years by laws maintained and enforced by the powerful Sun Chamber. As a result, nations have flourished but corruption, deprivation, and murder will always find a way to thrive. . . Receiving news of his father’s death Sun Chamber Officer Lucan Drakenfeld is recalled home to the ancient city of Tryum and rapidly e...
When you can see things others can't, what do you do when someone's watching you? Everybody knows about Clarity "Clare" Fern. She's the psychic girl in school, the one who can place her hands on something and see hidden visions from the past. Only Clare would rather not be a celebrity. She prefers hanging back, observing. Her gift is not a game to her. But then someone starts playing with he...
The woods outside of Kingsmarkham were lovely, dark, and deep. And they were about to vanish forever when the new highway cut through them. While Chief Inspector Wexford privately despaired about the loss of his hiking grounds, local residents and outsiders were organizing a massive protest. Some of them were desperate enough to kidnap five hostages and threaten to kill them. One hostage was W...
In need of a good adventure, Delaney Nichols takes the leap and moves to Edinburgh, Scotland to start a job at The Cracked Spine. She doesn't know much about what she's gotten herself into, other than that the work sounds exciting, and that her new boss, Edwin MacAlister, has given her the opportunity of a lifetime. Edwin has promised that she'll be working with "a desk that has see...
Pinion, Minnesota: a metropolis of all of seven hundred souls, for which the word "moribund" might have been invented. Nothing ever happened there and nothing ever would until the mayor of sorts (campaign slogan: "I'll Do What I Can") and a buddy come up with a scheme to put Pinion on the map. They'd heard of a place where a floating image of the Virgin Mary had turned the whole town into a shrine...
Начало 18 века. Рыжая Мэри, известная и опасная пиратка, гроза морей, волею судьбы знакомится с богатым, избалованным жизнью английским лордом. Движимые чувствами, а не разумом, они решили пожениться. Но пираты не прощают своей предводительнице такой измены, семья лорда так же не в восторге от этой партии. Молодожены отправляются в свадебное путешествие, где их ждет опасная встреча со смертельным...
Where is the Doctor? Everyone is hunting him. Honoré Lechasseur, a time sensitive "fixer", is hired by mystery woman Emily Blandish to find him. Lechasseur discovers that the Doctor is, in fact, a semi-mythical figure who has appeared off and on throughout Earth’s history. But what is his connection with London in 1949? And why is a mysterious group seeking "the cabinet of light," a device some...
WHEN JUSTICE FAILS, REVENGE FOLLOWS... Having just solved a difficult case in his home city of Tryum, Sun Chamber Officer Lucan Drakenfeld and his associate Leana are ordered to journey to the exotic city of Kuvash in Koton, where a revered priest has gone missing. When they arrive, they discover the priest has already been found - or at least parts of him have. But investigating the unusual de...
Ариадна Оливер обратилась за помощью к Эркюлю Пуаро. Знаменитый автор детективов устраивает игру в убийство в поместье сэра Джорджа Стаббса, но ей кажется, что затевается настоящее преступление.
The year is 1924, and Lieutenant Eric Peterkin, formerly of the Royal Fusiliers, is a new member of the Britannia―London’s most prestigious club. It's a family tradition, but an honor he's not sure he quite deserves. So, when a gentleman's wager ends with one man dead in the vault under the club, Eric is only too ready to tackle the mystery head on. Eric’s quest to resolve the murder quickly be...
Deep in the shadowy foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains lies a dying town. My name is Amelia Gray. They call me The Graveyard Queen. I've been commissioned to restore an old cemetery in Asher Falls, South Carolina, but I'm coming to think I have another purpose here. Why is there a cemetery at the bottom of Bell Lake? Why am I drawn time and again to a hidden grave I've discovered in the w...
Class reunions: a time for memories—good, bad, and, as Virgil Flowers is about to find out, deadly—in this New York Times bestselling thriller from John Sandford. Virgil knows the town of Trippton, Minnesota, a little too well. A few years back, he investigated the corrupt—and as it turned out, homicidal—local school board, and now the town’s back in view with more alarming news: A woman’s been...
At Gram’s Country Cooking School in Broken Rope, Missouri, Isabelle “Betts” Winston and her grandmother share the secrets of delicious home-style recipes. But there’s one secret they keep from their classes—their ability to talk to ghosts from the town’s colorful past… Betts and Gram agree to help their friend Jake at Broken Rope’s Historical Society by accommodating some foodie tourists for the n...
