Category: Thrillers Suspense

By Elizabeth Peters

ISBN-10: 0061136638

ISBN-13: 9780061136634

ISBN-10: 0380731215

ISBN-13: 9780380731213

Vicky Bliss, a mind with a physique like a centerfold, usually has a tricky time getting humans to take her heavily. but if it involves medieval heritage, this blonde attractiveness is familiar with her stuff---and she's a grasp at fixing mysteries that will flip the artwork international the other way up. Vicky gasped on the sight of the beautiful gold pendant her boss at Munich's nationwide Museum held in his hand. The Charlemagne talisman reproduction, in addition to a observe in hieroglyphs, used to be stumbled on sewn into the go well with pocket of an unidentified guy discovered useless in an alley. Vicky vows to discover the grasp craftsman who created it. it is a bold chase that takes her the entire method to Rome and during the dusty old facilities and moonlit streets of the main romantic urban on this planet. yet quickly she's trapped in a treacherous video game of intrigue which could rate her life---or her heart... Vicky Bliss, a mind with a physique like a centerfold, frequently has a tricky time getting humans to take her seriously.But by way of medieval background, this blonde good looks is aware her stuff---and she's a grasp at fixing mysteries that will flip the paintings international upside down.Vicky gasped on the sight of the beautiful gold pendant her boss at Munich's nationwide Museum held in his hand. The Charlemagne talisman reproduction, besides a word in hieroglyphs, was once stumbled on sewn into the go well with pocket of an unidentified guy came upon useless in an alley.Vicky vows to discover the grasp craftsman who created it. it is a bold chase that takes her all of the approach to Rome and during the dusty vintage facilities and moonlit streets of the main romantic urban on the earth. yet quickly she's trapped in a treacherous video game of intrigue which can expense her life---or her heart...Vicky Bliss, a mind with a physique like a centerfold, usually has a difficult time getting humans to take her heavily. but if it involves medieval background, this blonde good looks is familiar with her stuff---and she's a grasp at fixing mysteries that may flip the paintings global upside down.Vicky gasped on the sight of the beautiful gold pendant her boss at Munich's nationwide Museum held in his hand. The Charlemagne talisman reproduction, besides a observe in hieroglyphs, was once stumbled on sewn into the swimsuit pocket of an unidentified guy discovered useless in an alley.Vicky vows to discover the grasp craftsman who created it. it is a bold chase that takes her the entire approach to Rome and during the dusty vintage facilities and moonlit streets of the main romantic urban on the planet. yet quickly she's trapped in a treacherous video game of intrigue that can fee her life---or her heart...

By Erle Stanley Gardner

ISBN-10: 0345470435

ISBN-13: 9780345470430

Within the readers' court docket, not anyone items to a whole docket of Perry Mason. Virginia Baxter is the single witness nonetheless residing who can vouch for the authenticity of Lauretta Trent's will. Now, Lauretta has been murdered at the highway--after virtually being poisoned. stressed? simply imagine how Virginia's attorney, Perry Mason, needs to think. HC: Morrow.

By Kiflemariam Hamde

By Shannon Stacey

ISBN-10: 1599980010

ISBN-13: 9781599980010

ISBN-10: 1599980444

ISBN-13: 9781599980447

Fifteen years in the past, Gena Taylor and Travis Ryan have been compelled right into a marriage neither sought after, the fee they paid after one evening of ardour. yet what he believed to be a lie pressured Travis to stroll out of her existence presently thereafter, crushing Gena's goals of a fortunately ever after with the one guy she'd ever enjoyed. Fifteen years later, Travis and Gena meet back. simply now, she owns the hotel he is contemplating for his wedding-to one other lady. And this time, she's guarding her middle conscientiously. She's unlikely to permit him to harm her-or their daughter. regardless of their get to the bottom of to maintain issues impersonal, the prior comes speeding again and emotions they either proposal lengthy lifeless upward push from the ashes. yet there are different lives at stake now, together with that of the kid Travis as soon as suggestion used to be a lie.

By Walter Mosley

ISBN-10: 0316734586

ISBN-13: 9780316734585

Fearless Jones and Paris Minton, stars of the bestsellers Fearless Jones and worry Itself, go back in a high-velocity, larger-than-life mystery approximately relations, betrayal, and revenge."I'm in difficulty, Paris."Paris Minton has heard those phrases earlier than. They suggest just one factor: that his neck is at the line too. So after they are uttered through his lowlife cousin Ulysses S. furnish, Paris retains the door firmly closed. With relations like Ulysses-Useless to all people other than his mother-who wishes enemies?But hassle continually reveals an open window, and while Useless's mom, 3 Hearts, indicates up from Louisiana to appear for her son, Paris has no selection yet to trace down his wayward cousin.Finding a con artist like dead is less complicated acknowledged than performed. yet by way of his ear-to-the-ground good friend Fearless Jones, Paris will get a touch that lifeless could have increased his variety of firm to incorporate blackmail. Now he has disappeared, and Paris's venture is to find no matter if he's hiding from his vengeful victims-or already dead.Traversing the advanced panorama of Nineteen Fifties la, the place a flawed glance can get a black guy killed, Paris and Fearless locate determined girls, mystery lives, and multiple lifeless physique alongside the best way. worry of the darkish is stuffed with the sheer-nerve plotting and exceptional characterizations that caused The kingdom to credits Walter Mosley for "the most interesting detective oeuvre in American literature."

By John Case

ISBN-10: 0345480554

ISBN-13: 9780345480552

The bestselling writer of The Genesis Code and The 8th Day now moves his so much harrowing chord, with a chilling novel that pushes suspense to almost inhuman limits.

As a tv information correspondent, Alex Callahan has traveled to a couple of the main risky corners of the globe, masking famine, plague, and battle. He’s noticeable greater than his percentage of blood and demise, and is familiar with what it ability to be afraid. yet what he’s by no means identified is the phobia that grabs him whilst, on a tranquil summer time afternoon, he ceases to be an observer of the darkish aspect and, to his surprise, turns into enmeshed in it.

Separated from his spouse, and suffering to not develop into a stranger to his six-year-old dual sons, Alex is logging a few all-too-rare caliber time with the lads, once they vanish with no hint amid the hurly-burly of a nation-state Renaissance Fair.

Then the telephone name comes. A chilling silence; gradual, regular respiring; and the usual, plaintive voice of a child–“Daddy?”–complete the nightmare . . . and set in movement a juggernaut of frenzy and agony.

The longer the police seek, exhausting leads with out good fortune, the deeper Alex’s sure bet grows that point is operating out. And whilst, ultimately, telltale symptoms exhibit a hidden trend of unusual and ghoulish abductions, Alex vows to take advantage of his personal relentless investigative talents to rescue his youngsters from the shadowy determine dubbed The Piper.

Whoever this elusive stranger is, the profile that slowly emerges–from past crimes related to twins, from the zealously mystery international magicians, and from the eerie tradition of voodoo–suggests that The Piper is a predator in contrast to any other. A twisted soul hell-bent on enjoyable an unspeakably darkish dream. A fiend with a terrifying actual calling. What Alex Callahan is ultimate in on is a monster with a mission.

From the Hardcover edition.

By Don Lasseter

ISBN-10: 0786022213

ISBN-13: 9780786022212

He Had a manner With girls. . .

On June three, 1991, an deserted automobile used to be came upon on a hectic stretch of road close to Newport seashore, California. Its proprietor, Denise Huber, appeared to have vanished off the face of the earth. for 3 years her disappearance remained a secret, inspiring probably the most in depth missing-persons searches in background. All to no avail. as the purely guy who knew what occurred to Denise wasn't conversing. He wasn't via together with her but. . .

That might Freeze The Blood

On July three, 1994, in an prosperous suburb of Prescott, Arizona, a padlocked truck parked within the driveway of 37-year-old John Famalaro provoked suspicion. while professionals ultimately pried open its doorways, they discovered the nude, handcuffed corpse of Denise Huber filled right into a freezer—preserved perpetually within the throes of demise. inside of Famalaro's domestic have been Denise's own property besides well prepared "trophies" of alternative girl prey.

But it was once the revelations at Famalaro's...

By Jacob Williams (ed.)

Political journal established in Oxford, dedicated to controversy and unfastened speech.

No Offence completed nationwide reputation after it was once banned via the Oxford college pupil Union from Freshers' reasonable, in case it could actually "cause offence".

By Bill Sharpsteen

ISBN-10: 0520261933

ISBN-13: 9780520261938

The Docks is an eye-opening trip right into a significant madhouse of job that few outsiders ever see: the Port of la. In a ebook woven all through with riveting novelist element and illustrated with photos that catch the frenetic power of where, invoice Sharpsteen tells the tale of the folks who've made this port, the biggest within the nation, one of many nation's most crucial monetary firms. between others, we meet a pilot who parks ships, one of many first girls longshoremen, union officers and employers at odds over virtually every little thing, an environmental activist combating pollution within the "diesel demise zone," and people with the approximately most unlikely activity of implementing safety. jointly those tales paint a compelling photograph of a severe entryway for items entering the country--the Port of l. a. is a part of a fancy that brings in forty% of all our waterborne shipment and 70% of all Asian imports--yet person who is usually super weak. The Docks is an extraordinary examine an international inside our international within which we discover a microcosm of the exertions, environmental, and defense matters we jointly face.

By Agatha Christie

ISBN-10: 0006165516

ISBN-13: 9780006165514

ISBN-10: 0007121024

ISBN-13: 9780007121021

ISBN-10: 0060849517

ISBN-13: 9780060849511