Now bereft of both youth and ambition, Detective Inspector Ray Lennox is recovering from a mental breakdown induced by occupational stress and cocaine abuse, and a particularly horrifying child sex murder case back in Edinburgh. On vacation in Florida, his fiancee Trudi is only interested in planning their forthcoming wedding, and a bitter argument sees a deranged Lennox cast adrift in strip-mall Florida. He meets two women in a seedy bar, ending up at their apartment for a coke binge interrupted by two menacing strangers. After the ensuing brawl, Lennox finds himself alone with Tianna, the terrified ten-year-old daughter of one of the women, and a sheet of instructions that make him responsible for her immediate safety. Lennox takes her...
ISBN: 978-0-099-53945-2
Издательство:
Random House
Дата выхода: март 2012
Death is my beat.` Those words, spoken by the narrator and hero of THE POET, Jack McEvoy, could also apply to Michael Connelly. Time and time again in these riveting pieces, we make the connection between Connelly the crime reporter and Connelly the novelist: `On the day I arrived in Los Angeles I sat in the newspaper editor`s office being interviewed for a job on the crime beat. The day before there had been a bank heist in which the thieves had gone into the city`s labyrinthine storm water tunnel system to get beneath the bank before tunnelling upward.` Years later that story would become THE BLACK ECHO. `Moments. They kept coming. One morning an editor called me and told me to swing by a murder scene on my way to the office. Just like...
ISBN: 978-0-7528-8154-6
Издательство:
Orion Books
Дата выхода: август 2011
"Tout devait être exactement ainsi, elle le comprenait à présent: cette femme, cet adolescent, leur indicible intimité dans cette maison suspendue au bord d`une nuit d`hiver, au bord d`un vide, étrangère à ce globe grouillant de vies humaines, hâtives et cruelles. Elle l`éprouva comme une vérité suprême. Une vérité qui se disait avec cette transparence bleutée sur le perron, le frémissement d`une constellation juste au-dessus du mur de la Horde, avec sa solitude face à ce ciel. Personne dans ce monde, dans cet univers ne savait qu`elle se tenait là, le corps limpide de froid, les yeux largement Elle comprenait que, dite avec les mots, cette...
ISBN: 978-2-07-041167-2
Издательство:
Gallimard
Дата выхода: май 2012
Penguin Readers are written by specialist ELT authors. The language, vocabulary, style and content of every book is carefully graded to make sure it suits the learner`s own language ability. Every Penguin Reader has a range of activities in the book and accompanying Factsheet to help increase comprehension and develop reading, writing, listening and speaking skills.
ISBN: 978-1-4082-7438-5
Издательство:
Pearson
Дата выхода: июль 2011
Crime and Punishment is one of the greatest and most readable novels ever written. From the beginning we are locked into the frenzied consciousness of Raskolmkov who, against his better instincts, is inexorably drawn to commit a brutal double murder.
ISBN: 978-5-519-49856-2
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: январь 2017
A desperate young man plans the perfect crime - the murder of a despicable pawnbroker, an old women no one loves and no one will mourn. Is it not just, he reasons, for a man of genius to commit such a crime, to transgress moral law - if it will ultimately benefit humanity? So begins one of the greatest novels ever written: a powerful psychological study, a terrifying murder mystery, a fascinating detective thriller infused with philosophical, religious and social commentary. Raskolnikov, an impoverished student living in a garret in the gloomy slums of St. Petersburg, carries out his grotesque scheme and plunges into a hell of persecution, madness and terror. "Crime And Punishment" takes the reader on a journey into the darkest recesses...
ISBN: 978-0-553-21175-7
Издательство:
Random House (USA)
Дата выхода: август 2011
Raskolnikov, a former student who is morbidly self-obsessed, murders an old woman money-lender with a borrowed hatchet in a desperate attempt to free himself from poverty. From the opening pages Dostoyevsky attaches us unflinchingly to his intense and mysterious anti-hero, creating a web of intimacy and tension which is increasingly claustrophobic. Crime and guilt - its traumatic and inevitable successor - are the central themes running through the novel and the notions of 'justifiable' murder and worldly retribution are depicted with a deft and razor-sharp precision.
ISBN: 0140621806
Издательство:
Penguin Books
Дата выхода: декабрь 2001
Crime and Punishment is one of the greatest and most readable novels ever written. From the beginning we are locked into the frenzied consciousness of Raskolnikov who, against his better instincts, is inexorably drawn to commit a brutal double murder. Powerful, brilliant, insightful and surprisingly engaging despite the fact that it is far from being a "light" read in either prose or content. In this novel Fyodor Dostoevsky explores the theme of redemption through suffering.
ISBN: 978-5-521-05811-2
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2017
"Crime Scenes" is a sparkling collection of short stories written by modern masters and mistresses of the crime fiction genre. Within these pages you will find tales of murder, mystery and mayhem in a great variety of styles and tones from the time-honoured whodunnit to the psychological chiller to the history mystery to the crime procedural to the noir thriller to the gangster epic and the darkly humorous narrative. This volume demonstrates clearly how the crime story has developed and matured over the last two hundred years or so into the exciting, thought-provoking and thoroughly entertaining form of fiction it is today. The impressive cast of contributors includes well-respected and well-established names such as Peter Lovesey,...
ISBN: 978-1-84022-093-3
Издательство:
Wordsworth Editions Ltd.
Дата выхода: июнь 2012
"Crime and Punishment" is one of the greatest and most readable novels ever written. From the beginning we are locked into the frenzied consciousness of Raskolnikov who, against his better instincts, is inexorably drawn to commit a brutal double murder. From that moment on, we share his conflicting feelings of selfloathing and pride, of contempt for and need of others, and of terrible despair and hope of redemption: and, in a remarkable transformation of the detective novel, we follow his agonised efforts to probe and confront both his own motives for, and the consequences of, his crime. The result is a tragic novel built out of a series of supremely dramatic scenes that illuminate the eternal conflicts at the heart of human existence:...
ISBN: 978-0-14-062351-2
Издательство:
Penguin Books
Дата выхода: июль 2011
"Crime and Punishment" is the story of a murder committed on principle, of a killer who wishes by his action to set himself outside and above society. A novel of fearful tension, physical, and psychological, it is pervaded by Dostoevsky`s sinister evocation of St Petersburg, yet in the life of its gloomy tenements and drink-shops provides moments of wild humour. "Crime and Punishment" was marked by Dostoevsky`s own harrowing experiences. He had himself undergone interrogation and trial, and was condemned to death, a sentence commuted to penal servitude. In prison he was particularly impressed by one hardened murderer who seemed to have attained a spiritual equilibrium beyond good and evil: yet witnessing the misery of other convicts also...
ISBN: 978-0-19-953636-8
Издательство:
Oxford University Press
Дата выхода: июль 2011
Mrs Everett was the last in a long line of gifted Victorian novelists who knew how to grip the reader through the invasion of everyday life by the abnormal and dramatic, leaving the facts to produce their special thrills without piling on the agony. `I always know`, says one of her characters, `how to distinguish a true ghost story from a faked one. The true ghost story never has any point and the faked one dare not leave it out.` From the chilling horror of "The Death Mask" to the shocking violence of "The Crimson Blind", from the creeping menace of Parson Clench to the mounting suspense of "The Pipers of Mallory", these thrilling stories were enthusiastically received by readers and critics when they first appeared, and are sure to...
ISBN: 978-1-84022-538-9
Издательство:
Wordsworth Editions Ltd.
Дата выхода: июль 2011
Nick Stone, ex SAS, now working for British Intelligence, is tough, resourceful, ruthless. Sarah is beautiful, steel willed, intelligent. As the pair are purued through the backwoods of the American South, Stones mission becomes a journey to the heart of a dark and deadly conspiracy to which only Sarah hold the key.
ISBN: 978-0-552-15236-5
Издательство:
Random House
Дата выхода: октябрь 2011
The second edition of this leading guide helps students to develop reflective thinking skills, improve their critical analysis and construct arguments more effectively. Written by Stella Cottrell, leader in the field with over 1/2 million book sales to date, this text breaks down a complex subject into easily understood blocks, providing easy-to-follow, step-by-step explanations and practice activities to develop understanding and practise your skills at each stage. Essential for students who are mystified by tutor comments such as `more critical analysis needed`, this is an invaluable tool for anyone wishing to develop advanced skills in this area and learn to apply them to tasks such as reading, writing and note-taking. Now in...
Angela Dawson, , appears to have it all: at thirty-seven, she owns a fabulous New York City apartment, a stunning seaside house on Nantucket, and enjoys the perks of her prosperous lifestyle. With her controlling interest in three busy specialty hospitals in NYC and plans for others in Miami and Los Angeles, Angela’s future looks very bright. But her climb to the top was rough, marked by a troubled childhood, a failed marriage, and the devastating blow of bankruptcy. Then a surge of drug-resistant staph infections in all three hospitals devastates Angela’s carefully constructed world. Not only do the infections result in patient deaths, but the fatalities cause stock prices to tumble. Will Angela be able to hold her empire together?...
ISBN: 978-0-330-45754-5
Издательство:
Picador USA
Дата выхода: июль 2012
It`s the year 1793, and Hanno Stiffeniis is a magistrate in Prussia. He has been called to investigate a spate of murders which has reduced the city to a state of terror, under the watchful gaze of his mentor, Kant. Four people have died, and there is no sign of an end to the killing spree. When the killer tries to murder him, the magistrate finds himself confronted by the demons of his own past. Therein lies the sinister source of those murders, and the true reason he has been enticed back to Hugely atmospheric, entertaining and intelligent, Critique of Criminal Reason is the first in a series of compelling crime novels set in Prussia featuring Hanno Steffeniis.
ISBN: 978-0-571-23290-1
Издательство:
Faber
Дата выхода: июль 2011
Itas just another day in the life of an average kid. If youare Alex Rider, that is. A con artist has realized there is big money in charitya the bigger the disaster, the greater the money flow! So that is what he will produce: the biggest disaster known to man, all thanks to genetically modified corn that can release a virus so potent it can knock out an entire country in one windy day. But Alex Rider will face whatever it takesagunfire, explosions, hand-to-hand combat with mercenariesa to bring down his most dangerous adversary yet. Often imitated, never equaled, the series that triggered a reading phenomenon is back, exhilarating and addictive as ever.
ISBN: 978-0-14-241719-5
Издательство:
Penguin Group
Дата выхода: август 2011
This is Volume Two of the "Border Trilogy". `"The Crossing", together with its predecessor "All the Pretty Horses", towers over most contemporary fiction. An American epic infused with a grand solemnity` - "Sunday Times". Set on the south-western ranches in the years before the Second World War, "The Crossing" follows the fortunes of sixteen-year-old Billy and his younger brother Boyd. Fascinated by an elusive wolf that has been marauding his family`s property, Billy captures the animal - but rather than kill it, sets out impulsively for the mountains of Mexico to return it to where it came from. When Billy comes back to his own home he finds himself and his world irrevocably changed. His loss of innocence has come at a price, and once...
ISBN: 978-0-330-51124-7
Издательство:
Picador
Дата выхода: октябрь 2011
Alex Cross was a rising star in Washington, DC, Police Department when an unknown shooter killed his wife, Maria, in front of him. Years later, having left the FBI and returned to practising psychology, Alex finally feels his life is in Until his former partner, John Sampson, calls in a favour. John is tracking a serial rapist in Georgetown and he needs Alex to help find this brutal predator. When the case triggers a connection to Maria’s death, could Alex have a chance to catch his wife’s murderer? Will this be justice at long last? Or the endgame in his own deadly obsession. From the man the Sunday Telegraph called ‘the master of the suspense genre’, CROSS is the ultimate, high-velocity, high-emotion thriller, and the one Alex...
ISBN: 978-0-7553-2317-3
Издательство:
Headline Publ.
Дата выхода: июль 2011
While investigating a massacre-style murder. Detective Alex Cross discovers a dangerous underworld right in the heart of Washington DC. Delving deeper, he is led on a life-threatening journey to the Niger Delta, where heroin dealing, slave trading and corruption are rife. At the centre of this terrifying world. Cross finds the Tiger - the psychopathic leader of a fearsome gang of killers who are not what they seem. As Cross tracks the elusive Tiger through Africa, he must battle against conspiracy and untold violence in a heart-stopping chase that finds him not only hunting for a horrific killer, but also fighting for his own survival. Формат: 11 см x 18 cм.
ISBN: 978-0-09-953893-6
Издательство:
Random House
Дата выхода: август 2011
Detective Alex Cross is planning his wedding to the woman he loves, Brianna Stone. But this blissful existence begins to unravel when Cross is called to the scene of the perfectly executed assassination of two of Washington DC`s most corrupt and publically hated political figures. As more crooked politicians are picked off with similar long-range shots, public opinion is divided - is the marksman a vigilante or a hero? Media coverage of the case explodes, and the FBI assigns agent Max Siegel to the investigation. As Cross and Siegel battle over jurisdiction, Alex receives a call from his deadliest adversary, Kyle Craig. The Mastermind is in DC and will not stop until he has eliminated Cross, and his family, for good.
ISBN: 978-0-09-952525-7
Издательство:
Random House
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2011