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
Dr Ruth Galloway is in her late 30s. When she`s not digging up bones or other ancient objects, she lectures at a university in Norfolk. She lives, alone but happily so, in a bleak, marshy area called Saltmarsh overlooking the sea and Norfolk`s vast skies with her cats and Radio 4 for company. She`s a salty character - quirky. When a child`s bones are found in the marshes, near a dig that Ruth and her former boyfriend Peter worked on ten years before, Ruth is called upon to date them. They turn out to be bronze-age bones and DCI Harry Nelson, who called on Ruth for help, is disappointed. He had hoped they would be the bones of a child called Lucy who`s been missing, presumed dead, for ten years. He has been getting letters about her ever...
ISBN: 978-1-84724-958-6
Издательство:
Quercus Publishing (MacLehose Press)
Дата выхода: август 2011
Captain Thomas Forsyth?s tour of Afghanistan is cut brutally short when he is badly wounded by a roadside bomb. Returning home, to his mother ? a racehorse trainer and the ?First Lady? of racing ? Tom discovers the training business is on the edge, and facing a threat far more dangerous than a run of bad form. Tom finds himself on a very different, but just as deadly, battlefield where his military skills are tested . . . kill or be killed?
ISBN: 978-0-241-95426-3
Издательство:
Penguin Group
Дата выхода: июль 2011
Following the National Book Award–winning All the Pretty Horses, this second part of Cormac McCarthy`s Border Trilogy is not a sequel but a parallel story, set in the boot heel of New Mexico, hard on the frontier. "Sixteen-year-old Billy Parham is obsessed with trapping a renegade wolf that has crossed the border from Mexico to raid his father`s cattle ranch. By the time he finally succeeds, Billy has formed such a close bond with his prey that he decides to return the wolf to its home, and the two head off into the mountains. Billy returns months later to find that his parents have been murdered by horse thieves. He abducts his kid brother from a foster home, and they ride into Mexico to retrieve their property, encountering gypsies,...
No one has a better perspective on life on both sides of the channel than Julian Barnes. In these exquisitely crafted stories spanning several centuries, he takes as his universal theme the British in France; from the last days of a reclusive English composer, the beef consuming `navvies` labouring on the Paris-Rouen railway to a lonely woman mourning the death of her brother on the battlefields of the Somme. Clever, wise, reflective and imaginative, these stories are permeated with understanding of what it has meant for generations from these islands to cross the Channel.
ISBN: 978-0-09-954015-1
Издательство:
Random House
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
For a woman married to the vampire of her nightmares, the honeymoon`s over and reality Pia Thomason is torn between two Dark Ones: her husband Kristoff - who doesn`t trust her-and his best friend, Alec, who is MIA. So Pia goes back to her humdrum Seattle life, but fate has other plans. And she realizes that if she and Kristoff are going to be shackled together for better or worse, she may as well start to enjoy
ISBN: 978-0-451-22672-3
Издательство:
Penguin USA
Дата выхода: июль 2011
A compulsively readable thriller that skillfully weaves together past and present to uncover the sinister secrets buried in the ancient stone quarries under Bath. Kit Parry is reluctant to take the job shoring up the ancient quarries beneath her hometown of Bath - a place as riddled with memories she`d rather forget as it is with Roman ruins. The miners certainly don`t want her there, and her burgeoning romance with lanky foreman Gary looks likely to complicate matters even further. But when dark developments threaten the spa town`s placid facade, Kit must face up to the past she`s tried so desperately to bury. Someone wants her out of Bath - that much is clear - but who was it that brought her childhood to an abrupt end in the summer of...
ISBN: 978-0-00-724713-4
Издательство:
HarperCollins Publishers
Дата выхода: август 2011
From its bravura opening onwards, "The Crow Road" is justly regarded as an outstanding contemporary novel. It was the day my grandmother exploded. I sat in the crematorium, listening to my Uncle Hamish quietly snoring in harmy to Bachs Mass in B. Minor, and I reflected that it always seemed to be death that drew me back to Gallanach. Prentice McHoan has returned to the bosom of his complex but enduring Scottish family. Full of questions about the McHoan past, present and future, he is also deeply preoccupied: mainly with death, sex, drink, God and illegal substances.
ISBN: 978-0-349-10323-5
Издательство:
Orion Publishers
Дата выхода: август 2011
The civil war that is tearing England asunder in the year 1643 has not yet touched Dorcas Slythe, a secretly rebellious young Puritan woman living in the countryside south of London, who longs to escape the safe, pious tyranny of her father. The chance appears with the arrival of Toby Lazender, dashing scion of a powerful royalist family. It is he who renames her "Campion", awakening her to a bold, hitherto unknown and to a mysterious and perilous destiny. With the discovery of an intricately wrought gold seal—one of four that, when joined, will reveal a great secret and uncover an enormous fortune—Campion`s quest begins. Love, riches, and redemption await her at the end of her perilous adventure. Or death.
The monarchy is one of Britain`s most venerable and revered institutions - but also one of its most tumultuous. In this substantially revised, updated and expanded volume, David Starkey charts its roller-coaster history from earliest times to the present. From the courtly love of the Middle Ages, through the turbulent reign of the Tudors, to the chaos of the Civil War that first unseated and then beheaded a king. Starkey brings this tempestuous story up to the present, guiding us confidently through the Abdication Crisis to the dissolution of the marriage between Prince Charles and Lady Diana Spencer. A new introductory chapter looks at the wedding of Kate Middleton and Prince William, as well as many notorious royal marriages of earlier...
ISBN: 978-0-00-743200-4
Издательство:
HarperCollins UK
Дата выхода: октябрь 2011
London, 1196. At the command of Richard the Lionheart, Sir John de Wolfe has left his beloved West Country for the Palace of Westminster, where he has been appointed Coroner of the Verge. But with the king overseas, embroiled in a costly war against King Philip of France, Sir John is dismayed to discover that the English court is a hotbed of greed, corruption and petty in-fighting. The murder of one of the palace clerks, stabbed in broad daylight and thrown into the River Thames, leads John to suspect that there`s a conspiracy underway to overthrow King Richard. And with the visit of the dowager Queen Eleanor fast approaching, the new Coroner must risk his life to prove his suspicions are right, root out the traitors within and prevent a...
ISBN: 978-1-84739-328-9
Издательство:
Simon & Schuster UK
Дата выхода: август 2011
Set in Salem, Massachusetts, 1692, a community stands accused of witchcraft, and in the mood of fear and recriminations that develops, men denounce their neighbours and truth is perverted by superstition.
ISBN: 978-0-14-118255-1
Издательство:
Penguin Books
Дата выхода: август 2011
This is the second medieval mystery from Sharon Penman, following Justin de Quincy, knight in the service of Queen Eleanor. His duty is clear: to restrain his brother Prince John in his relentless quest for the throne, and his dangerous pacts with the French king. What does the murder of an innocent pedlar`s daughter in a churchyard in Cripplegate have to do with him? But little by little, Justin is ensnared in the case until he comes to feel the force of the dead girl, and thirsts to find her killer. But can he defend the Queen and solve the murder?
ISBN: 978-0-14-027076-1
Издательство:
Penguin Books
Дата выхода: октябрь 2011
April 1193. England`s King Richard Lionheart languishes in a German prison, and treason scents the air. Richard`s younger brother, John, seizes Windsor Castle, and Dowager Queen Eleanor of Aquitaine summons her trusted personal "queen`s man", Justin de Quincy, to do the impossible - mediate a truce with her rebel son. Amid such fateful events, the murder of a Welsh peddler`s daughter seems small. But the cruel demise of the beautiful Melangell so troubles Justin that not even a threatened French invasion can keep him from investigating her death. Yet can he bring Melangell`s craven killer to justice?
ISBN: 978-0-345-44144-7
Издательство:
Random House (USA)
Дата выхода: июль 2011
Killing me won`t kill the beast are the last words of rapist-murderer Ronnie Joe Waddell, written four days before his execution. But they can`t explain how Dr. Kay Scarpetta finds Waddell`s fingerprints on another crime scene - after she`d performed his autopsy. If this is some sort of game, Scarpetta seems to be the target. And if the next victim is someone she knows, the punishment will be cruel and
ISBN: 978-1-4165-0540-2
Издательство:
Simon & Schuster UK
Дата выхода: август 2011
- Lively account of the Crusaders, with exciting descriptions of the main people, places and battles, including the peasant’s crusade and the siege of Jerusalem. - Includes maps and timelines. - Vividly illustrated by Emmanuel Cerisier. - Young Reading Series Three are for confident readers who still need to gain the stamina needed for standard length books. - Part of the Usborne Reading Programme developed with reading experts at the University of Roehampton and a history consultant.
ISBN: 978-0-7460-7904-1
Издательство:
Usborne
Дата выхода: октябрь 2011
The first crusade was set in motion by Pope Urban II in 1095 and culminated in the capture of Jerusalem from the Muslims four years later. In 1291 the fall of Acre marked the loss of the last Christian enclave in the Holy Land. This Pocket Essential traces the chronology of the Crusades between these two dates and highlights the most important figures on all sides of the conflict. It covers the creation of the kingdom of Jerusalem and the other crusader states and their struggle to survive. It looks at the successes and failures of the Third Crusade and at the legendary figures of Richard the Lionheart and Saladin, explores the truth and the myths behind the orders of military monks like the Hospitallers and examines such strange...
They were the castrati-male sopranos whose glorious voices brought them adulation throughout Europe even as they were despised as monsters. For Tonio Treschi, the child of Venetian nobility, kidnapped and castrated in a murderous family conspiracy, only one thing would soothe his soul-revenge!
ISBN: 0-345-39693-6
Издательство:
Random House (USA)
Дата выхода: апрель 2004
In eighteenth-century Italy the Castrati recreated heaven on earth. Their exquisite voices soared above the glittering world of courtiers and nobility. Those who achieved fame were showered with riches and sexual favours, but their success also hid a terrible sadness. Tonio, of noble birth, is the victim of a vengeful brother. Disinherited and forced to join the ranks of the Castrati, he plans his revenge while striving to become the greatest of all singers. Guido, sacrificed to the knife at an early age, composes opera and dreams of the perfect voice to give it life. He discovers Tonio and becomes his teacher. As together they reach the very pinnacle of success, Tonio is pushed to the extremes of endurance as he tries to resolve his...
ISBN: 978-0-09-947138-7
Издательство:
Vintage Classics
Дата выхода: август 2011
Anna never knew werewolves existed until the night she survived a violent attacka and became one herself. After three years at the bottom of the pack, shead learned to keep her head down and never, ever trust dominant males. But Anna is that rarest kind of werewolf: an Omega. And one of the most powerful werewolves in the country will recognize her value as a pack memberaand as his mate.
ISBN: 978-0-441-01615-0
Издательство:
Penguin Group
Дата выхода: октябрь 2011
Charles Cornick is his pack’s enforcer and lives a harsh life, doing jobs other wolves can’t - or won’t. And his most recent task was rescuing Anna Latham from a life of brutality. This leaves him shot and wounded, but he’s happy to pay the price. Charles is strongly drawn to Anna, and her growing ‘Omega’ powers will see his people through dangerous times. Anna desperately needs her new mountainous home to be safer than the life she’s left behind. But when a rogue werewolf starts murdering hikers, Charles and Anna are sent into the winter forests to investigate. Charles is still weak and will need Anna’s strength as they discover a web of witchcraft that could drag down the whole pack. Including its leader Bran,...
ISBN: 978-1-84149-794-5
Издательство:
Orbit
Дата выхода: август 2011