Spisovatel Mark Nykanen vytvořil postavu chladnokrevného, krutého vraha Ashleyho Stasslera, jehož zálibu ve vybírání a unášení celých rodin převyšuje jen jeho vášeň pro vytváření bronzových soch. Stassler přišel na hrůzný způsob, jak tyto své koníčky spojit, a výsledkem je tento bizarní a mimořádně kvalitní thriller, který dává nový význam termínu „plánování rodiny“.
Mark Nykanen, jehož díla je možné přirovnat k pracím Thomase Harrise, napsal knihu, jež oplývá temným smyslem pro humor stejně jako napětím a hrůzou. Projde Stasslerovi další únos, další mimořádně mučivé vraždy? Nykanen udržuje čtenáře v nejistotě až do poslední strany.
The year is 1855. The Crimean War is raging. The British government has fallen. The Empire seems to be hanging from a thread. Then the murders start. members of London's elite are found dead with names of assassin's who have failed to kill Queen Victoria. Based on actual attempts to kill Queen Victoria, Inspector of the dead brilliantly merges fact with fiction to bring a violent era of Victorian England to life.
Skutečně statečný muž je vždy klidný, nenechá se zaskočit, nic nenaruší vyrovnanost jeho ducha. V zápalu boje zachová klid. Zemětřesení jím neotřesou, směje se bouřím. Obdivujeme ho jako vskutku skvělého muže, jenž v zlověstné přítomnosti nebezpečí nebo smrti neztrácí rozvážnost, který v ohrožení života dokáže složit báseň. V komiksové verzi kultovní klasiky Bušidó ožívají tajemství života samurajů.
Meet Amy Winter: Detective Inspector, daughter of a serial killer. DI Amy Winter is hoping to follow in the footsteps of her highly respected police officer father. But when a letter arrives from the prison cell of Lillian Grimes, one half of a notorious husband-and-wife serial-killer team, it contains a revelation that will tear her life apart. Responsible for a string of heinous killings decades ago, Lillian is pure evil. A psychopathic murderer. And Amy's biological mother. Now, she is ready to reveal the location of three of her victims--but only if Amy plays along with her twisted game. While her fellow detectives frantically search for a young girl taken from her mother's doorstep, Amy must confront her own dark past. Haunted by blurred memories of a sister who sacrificed herself to save her, Amy faces a race against time to uncover the missing bodies. But what if, from behind bars, Grimes has been pulling the strings even tighter than Amy thought? And can she overcome her demons to prevent another murder?
The toughest cases hit closest to home. Alex Cross left his hometown, and some awful family tragedies, for a better life with Nana Mama in Washington, DC. He hasn't looked back. Now his cousin Stefan has been accused of a horrible, unthinkable murder, and Cross drives south with Bree, Nana Mama, Jannie, and Ali to Starksville, North Carolina, for the first time in thirty-five years. Back home, he discovers a once proud community down on its luck, and local residents who don't welcome him with open arms. As Cross steps into his family home, the horrors of his childhood flood back--and he learns that they're not really over. He brings all his skill to finding out the truth about his cousin's case. But truth is hard to come by in a town where no one feels safe to speak. Chasing his ghosts takes Cross all the way down to the sugarcane fields of Florida, where he gets pulled into a case that has local cops needing his kind of expertise: a string of socialite murders with ever more grisly settings. He's chasing too many loose ends--a brutal killer, the truth about his own past, and justice for his cousin--and any one of the answers might be fatal. In Cross Justice , Alex Cross confronts the deadliest--and most personal--case of his career. It's a propulsive, edge-of-your-seat thrill ride that proves you can go home again--but it just might kill you.
In the third Victorian mystery from prizewinning author David Morrell, the
notorious Opium-Eater Thomas De Quincey investigates a truly unprecedented
murder - the first to ever take place on the railways.
Bratři Adam a Will vyrazili lyžovat a vůbec je nenapadlo, že z husté vánice, která je zaskočila, už se jeden z nich nevrátí. O dvacet let později se na horské chatě blízko osudného místa sejdou čtyři lidé a je jisté, že někdo ví, co se tenkrát doopravdy stalo. Když se po sněhové bouři objeví Willovo tělo, začne drsná hra odhalující propletené příběhy plné spojitostí se zapomenutou historií.
Detective Alex Cross is being stalked by a psychotic genius, forced to play the deadliest game of his career. Cross' family - his loving wife Bree, the wise and lively Nana Mama, and his precious children - have been ripped away. Terrified and desperate, Cross must give this mad man what he wants if he has any chance of saving the most important people in his life. The stakes have never been higher: What will Cross sacrifice to save the ones he loves? Widely praised by the greatest crime and thriller writers of our time, Cross My Heart set a jaw-dropping story in motion. Hope to Die propels Alex Cross' greatest challenge to its astonishing finish, proving why Jeffery Deaver says nobody does it better than James Patterson.
