Category: Crime

By Frederick Ramsay

Ike Schwartz and Ruth Harris needed to hold up a holiday in Las Vegas simply because on the final second, Ruth used to be required to visit Scone Island, Maine to settle an property. yet that job is quickly advanced by way of one, after which one other suspicious demise. First, an extended time period resident slips off a cliff. used to be he driven? Then the lady, who discovered the physique, is, in flip, came across on a foot direction useless from an obvious middle assault, but additionally with a now not simply defined head wound. Ruth unearths herself in brief forged as anyone of curiosity within the final loss of life. whilst issues appear to be slipping out of hand, Ike arrives simply in time to witness the invention of a 3rd body—Simon Weiss.

Weiss had come to the island to buy homes with an eye fixed to turning it right into a high-end lodge. His strategies and character so alienated the citizens that it truly is no shock his physique is located lower than the neighborhood pier, with a truly professionally positioned bullet gap in his brow. As his plans have been allegedly financed via the recent York mafia, it sort of feels noticeable who ordered the hit. This brings the FBI into play, to the misery of the neighborhood police.

With an array of suspects, reasons, or even the island’s historical past to confound the research, Ike, by way of neighborhood Deputy Sheriff, Tom Stone, and the capable, if quirky, advice of Ruth, get to the bottom of those 3 deaths, yet now not with no heavy bills to villains, citizens, and their young ones.

By James Patterson

Of the best villains James Patterson has ever created in a single booklet! mins after infantrymen evacuate a Nevada city, a bomb thoroughly destroys it. On holiday, FBI agent Alex move will get the decision: the blast used to be perpetrated through the Wolf. A supercriminal and Cross's deadliest nemesis, the Wolf threatens to obliterate significant towns, together with London, Paris, and long island. Then proof finds the involvement of a ruthless murderer often called the Weasel. may perhaps those darkish geniuses be operating jointly? Now with simply 4 days to avoid an incredible cataclysm, pass is catapulted into a world chase of striking risk - and towards the explosive fact in regards to the Wolf's id, a revelation that pass won't live to tell the tale.

By Dick Francis

From "the top author within the secret style" (Larry King) comes the tale of a jockey who discovers that his wasting streak is because of anything sinister.

By Donald E. Westlake

By Ian Rankin

A reliable Hanging includes twelve striking, gritty tales starring Detective Inspector John Rebus in his domestic urban of Edinburgh, as purely Ian Rankin can painting it: not only the tearooms and cobbled streets of the vacationer brochures, yet a contemporary city city with a whole diversity of criminals and their victims--blackmailers, peeping Toms, and multiple type of assassin. it is a urban like every different, a urban that provides start to crimes of ardour, injuries, and long-hidden jealousy, and a urban during which legal minds locate all of it too effortless to vanish into the shadows. As devoted readers of the sequence good understand, no one is best built to delve into Edinburgh's again alleys and smoky pubs than Rebus, and not anyone greater capable of remove darkness from his global than Ian Rankin.

By James Twining

It takes a thief to seize a killer . . .

Once one of many world's prime paintings thieves, Tom Kirk now operates at the different facet of the legislation. yet a grisly discovery on the website of the brazen robbery of a Da Vinci painting—a crime that bears the unmistakable hallmark of an outdated nemesis—entangles him in a deadly weave of a secret that blankets the globe . . . and reaches again via countless numbers of years of eu history.

In Spain, a pal, a grasp forger, suffers a brutal, bad death—while in ny the homicide of a popular legal professional drags FBI agent Jennifer Browne into the murky international of top of the range artwork forgery and the rotten middle of the worldwide public sale enterprise. And for Kirk, vengeance may well require him to go the road as soon as more—to discover the devastating secrets and techniques hidden within the writings of a power-mad emperor . . . and at the back of the main well-known smile within the world.

By Heinrich Böll

Fritz Tolm has risen to the main strong place in Germany. With reputation comes worry and vulnerability. Threats to his lifestyles are met with the all-pervasive "safety-net" of police defense and surveillance. Trapped in a home they dare now not depart, the place each customer is suspect and each item a possible bomb, Tolm and his kin wait to find whilst and the way terrorism will overtake them.

By James W. Hall

While her mom and dad have been murdered, Hannah Keller used to be 3,000 miles away, on depart from her task with the Miami Police division. Her family's merely survivor on that lethal day used to be Hannah's six-year-old son Randall. whereas fishing at the dock at the back of his grandparents' residence, the boy glimpsed the killers, and later came upon his grandparents' bullet-riddled our bodies. 5 years later the trauma of that day nonetheless haunts the boy. He lives in terror that the killers will go back for him. Hannah isn't any longer a cop yet now works complete time as a novelist, and is attempting to do no matter what she will be able to to heal her son's wounds. but if she gets a coded message it sounds as if from her mom and dad' killers, the whole episode explodes back. Teaming up with a maverick FBI agent from the Miami box workplace, Hannah starts to trace the killer. As she strikes deeper into the labyrinth, she discovers, to her horror, that she and her son are getting used as pawns in an difficult scheme - a seize designed to trap one of many world's deadliest assassins. Hannah and Randall turn into entangled in a sour feud, a burning vendetta, and the brain of a bloodthirsty expert killer.

By Dan Brown

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Harvard professor of symbology Robert Langdon awakens in an Italian sanatorium, disoriented and with out recollection of the earlier thirty-six hours, together with the beginning of the macabre item hidden in his property. With a continuing girl murderer trailing them via Florence, he and his imaginative healthcare professional, Sienna Brooks, are pressured to escape. Embarking on a harrowing trip, they have to get to the bottom of a chain of codes, that are the paintings of a super scientist whose obsession with the top of the area is matched simply by way of his ardour for the most influential masterpieces ever written, Dante Alighieri's The Inferno. 
 
Dan Brown has raised the bar once more, combining classical Italian paintings, heritage, and literature with state-of-the-art technological know-how during this sumptuously wonderful mystery.

By Pieter Aspe

Frank Lernout, manusje-van-alles bij een stoeterij, rooft de villa leeg van Paul Verfaille, een gerenommeerd theaterproducent. Hij ontdekt een aantal schokkende foto's, die genomen zijn in de folterkamers van de Chileense geheime dienst. Van In onderzoekt de diefstal met tegenzin. Hij heeft meer belangstelling voor een gemaskerde potloodventer die in de buurt van het concertgebouw is gesignaleerd. Die interesse neemt toe als Lorenzo Calandt, conciërge van het nieuwe concertgebouw, in de parkeergarage een afgerukte vinger aantreft internet op het second dat een toneelgezelschap een stuk instudeert. Het onderzoek leidt Van In naar de manege Amazone. Terwijl Van In de dochter van de eigenaar verhoort, gaat het complicated in de vlammen op. In het rokende puin treft de brandweer een verkoold lijk aan, waarvan de crimson ontbreekt. Een paar dagen later wordt ook Paul Verfaille vermoord teruggevonden. Zijn rechterhand werd afgehakt. Als ook de directeur van het toneelgezelschap spoorloos verdwijnt, vreest Van In het ergste. De puzzel valt stukje voor stukje in elkaar. De waarheid blijkt gruwelijker dan Van In zich had kunnen voorstellen.