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Summer of the Big Bachi
ISBN: 9780440241546 / Angielski / Miękka (mass market paperbound / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In the foothills of Pasadena, Mas Arai is just another Japanese-American gardener, his lawnmower blades clean and sharp, his truck carefully tuned. But while Mas keeps lawns neatly trimmed, his own life has gone to seed. His wife is dead. And his livelihood is falling into the hands of the men he once hired by the day. For Mas, a life of sin is catching up to him. And now bachi the spirit of retribution is knocking on his door.
It begins when a stranger comes around, asking questions about a nurseryman who once lived in Hiroshima, a man known as Joji Haneda. By the end of the summer, Joji... In the foothills of Pasadena, Mas Arai is just another Japanese-American gardener, his lawnmower blades clean and sharp, his truck carefully tuned. Bu...
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32,80 zł |
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Murder for Revenge: 12 New Original Stories
ISBN: 9780440613558 / Angielski / Miękka / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This irresistible collection of original stories was born of a deliciously wicked idea: ask twelve of America's best writers to explore a single subject people willing, often gleefully so, to kill for revenge. The result is a star-studded gathering of fiction's finest, and an infinitely satisfying banquet of . . .Murder for Revenge.
In Lawrence Block's chilling contribution, a serial killer transforms one victim's brother into his greatest defender to his eternal regret Revenge more immediate sizzles in Mary Higgins Clark's "Power Play," as a dashing ex-president and his... This irresistible collection of original stories was born of a deliciously wicked idea: ask twelve of America's best writers to explore a single subje...
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94,43 zł |
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Murder for Love: 16 New Original Stories
ISBN: 9780440613589 / Angielski / Miękka / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Eight men and eight women the best writers in and out of the mystery field render their very own, original take on love gone wrong in this collection of stories. Animosity and affection intermingle dangerously in these delightfully deadly works by: William J. Caunitz, Carol Higgins Clark, Mary Higgins Clark, James Crumley, John Gardner, Faye Kellerman, Jonathan Kellerman, Elmore Leonard, Ed McBain, Michael Malone, Bobbie Ann Mason, Joyce Carol Oates, Sara Paretsky, Anne Perry, Shel Silverstein, and Donna Tartt.
An innovative anthology about men, women, and crimes of passion, Murder For... Eight men and eight women the best writers in and out of the mystery field render their very own, original take on love gone wrong in this collection ...
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78,00 zł |
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Murder and Obsession
ISBN: 9780440613619 / Angielski / Miękka / 464 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Kent Anderson * Edna Buchanan * Amanda Cross * James Crumley * Philip Friedman * James W. Hall * Ed McBain * Michael Malone * Joyce Carol Oates * Shel Silverstein * Eric van Lustbader Her toenails were bloodred, her lips were blue in Edna Buchanan's "The Red Shoes," a riveting tale that takes us into the life of a foot fetishist who steps into the middle of a murder....What happens when a hard-nosed insurance investigator lights up a joint and sniffs out a case of arson? It's a tale that only Elmore Leonard could tell, in "Sparks...".Elizabeth George reaches into English history in "I,...
Kent Anderson * Edna Buchanan * Amanda Cross * James Crumley * Philip Friedman * James W. Hall * Ed McBain * Michael Malone * Joyce Carol Oates * Shel...
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94,43 zł |
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Red Sky at Night
ISBN: 9780440613923 / Angielski / Miękka / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A full-throttle thriller anda powerful human drama of wounded love and the hurts that afflict the body, mind, and spirit
It was truly a crime against innocents. Eleven dolphins, part of an experiment in healing, are found slaughtered in their saltwater tanks. When Thorn, a Florida renegade who has lived a life of fierce freedom, investigates, he triggers a vicious attack that leaves him paralyzed from the waist down, plagued by unrelenting pain. Now Thorn is starting over in a wheelchair, bitter enough to drive his lover away, desperate enough to seek miracles on the fringes of... A full-throttle thriller anda powerful human drama of wounded love and the hurts that afflict the body, mind, and spirit
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94,43 zł |
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The General's Daughter
ISBN: 9780446513067 / Angielski / Twarda / 454 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Here is an intriguing and sophisticated murder mystery of an upstanding military officer - the base commander's daughter - who's been leading an unsavory double life. When a professional military woman with a pristine reputation is found raped and murdered, a preliminary search turns up certain paraphernalia, and sex toys that point to a scandal of major proportions, The chief investigator is reluctant to take the case when he learns that his partner will be a woman with whom he had a tempestuous affair and an unpleasant parting. But duty calls and intrigue begins when they learn that...
Here is an intriguing and sophisticated murder mystery of an upstanding military officer - the base commander's daughter - who's been leading an unsav...
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123,17 zł |
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Mary, Mary
ISBN: 9780446517386 / Angielski / Twarda / 372 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. With his sizzling dialogue and drop-dead surprises, Ed McBain has elevated the crime novel into fine art. Mary, Mary is vintage McBain. It is Christmas in Florida. The decorations are only slightly more false than the cheer, and a trial is going on - the kind of trial that grabs headlines and makes people wonder what kind of person could possibly represent the defendant. For in this case, the accused Mary Barton, is charged with the monstrous murder of three innocent young girls. Matthew Hope, the defense attorney who only represents people he believes innocent, believes the eccentric...
With his sizzling dialogue and drop-dead surprises, Ed McBain has elevated the crime novel into fine art. Mary, Mary is vintage McBain. It is Christma...
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160,11 zł |
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There Was a Little Girl
ISBN: 9780446517393 / Angielski / Twarda / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Matthew Hope has been shot - taking two bullets outside a bar in Calusa's seediest neighborhood. With Matthew in a postsurgery semicoma, the men and women who know him best go to the places he went, talk to the people he talked to, and desperately try to find out who wanted Matthew Hope dead. The sexy, tough investigator called Toots Kiley, the world-weary cop named Morris Bloom, and Warren Chambers, a strong black man who gets reminded every day that Florida is still the Deep South, start to get the picture: Matthew Hope had walked into a weird and wild world. Hope had been hired to close a...
Matthew Hope has been shot - taking two bullets outside a bar in Calusa's seediest neighborhood. With Matthew in a postsurgery semicoma, the men and w...
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151,90 zł |
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The Advocate's Devil
ISBN: 9780446517591 / Angielski / Twarda / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. When a popular pro basketball player is accused of rape, defense attorney Abraham Ringel thinks he has a "can't lose" case. But when he discovers his client may well be guilty, Abe faces the most painful dilemma of his life. Alan Dershowitz, America's most outspoken lawyer and author of Chutzpah, explores the complex ethical issues behind the law--of right and wrong, justice and the "best defense"--in a gripping first novel.
When a popular pro basketball player is accused of rape, defense attorney Abraham Ringel thinks he has a "can't lose" case. But when he discovers his ...
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224,71 zł |
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Cyanide Wells
ISBN: 9780446614214 / Angielski / Miękka / 358 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Fourteen years after his wife's disappearance branded him a murderer and ruined his life. Matthew Lindstrom receives an anonymous phone call revealing that Gwen is alive...and well aware of the wreckage she left behind. Seeking answers and revenge, he comes to the isolated town of Cyanide Wells. Here, where the surrounding thick forest conceals twisted paths and old sins, Matt begins to learn the details of Gwen's new life. But before he can confront her, his ex vanishes once more. Now Matt must join forces with Carly McGuire, a local woman with secrets of her own, and begin a desperate hunt...
Fourteen years after his wife's disappearance branded him a murderer and ruined his life. Matthew Lindstrom receives an anonymous phone call revealing...
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113,76 zł |
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How to Marry a Ghost
ISBN: 9780446616027 / Angielski / Miękka / 432 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Ghostwriter Lee Bartholomew heads to New York to be the maid of honor in her mother's wedding/ commitment ceremony (even though she's still married to Lee's father) and to interview for the job of ghostwriting an autobiography by aging rock legend Shotgun Marriott. But her time in the States doesn't go quite as she planned. First she learns she lost the ghostwriting job to a much younger, ambitious hustler named Bettina. Then the body of a man in a wedding dress washes up right after Lee's mom is married in a beautiful oceanside ceremony-and he turns out to be none other than Shotgun...
Ghostwriter Lee Bartholomew heads to New York to be the maid of honor in her mother's wedding/ commitment ceremony (even though she's still married to...
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129,28 zł |
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The Hot Rock
ISBN: 9780446677035 / Angielski / Miękka / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "The Hot Rock" introduces John Archibald Dortmunder, the thief whose capers never quite come off, as he and his convict friends plot to steal the fabulous Balaboma Emerald.
"The Hot Rock" introduces John Archibald Dortmunder, the thief whose capers never quite come off, as he and his convict friends plot to steal the fabu...
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69,75 zł |
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City of Bones
ISBN: 9780446699532 / Angielski / Miękka / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. On New Year's Day, a dog finds a bone in the Hollywood Hills--and unearths a murder committed more than twenty years earlier. It's a cold case, but for Detective Harry Bosch, it stirs up memories of his childhood as an orphan. He can't let it go. As the investigation takes Bosch deeper into the past, a beautiful rookie cop brings him alive in the present. No official warning can break them apart--or prepare Bosch for the explosions when the case takes a few hard turns. Suddenly all of L.A. is in an uproar, and Bosch, fighting to keep control, is driven to the brink of an unimaginable...
On New Year's Day, a dog finds a bone in the Hollywood Hills--and unearths a murder committed more than twenty years earlier. It's a cold case...
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77,96 zł |
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Murder at Ford's Theatre
ISBN: 9780449007389 / Angielski / Miękka (mass market paperbound / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. It was the site of one of the most infamous assassinations in American history. Now bestselling mystery master Margaret Truman premieres a new murder at Ford's Theater-one that's hot off today's headlines. The body of Nadia Zarinski, an attractive young woman who worked for senator Bruce Lerner-and who volunteered at Ford's-is discovered in the alley behind the theatre. Soon a pair of mismatched cops-young, studious Rick Klieman and gregarious veteran Moses "Mo" Johnson-start digging into the victim's life, and find themselves confronting an increasing cast of suspects. There's...
It was the site of one of the most infamous assassinations in American history. Now bestselling mystery master Margaret Truman premieres a new murder ...
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32,80 zł |
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Black Lightning
ISBN: 9780449225042 / Angielski / Miękka (mass market paperbound / 448 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "HIS MOST EFFECTIVE THRILLER TO DATE. . . A] COMPELLING READ."
--The Seattle Times For five years Seattle journalist Anne Jeffers has pursued the horrifying story of a sadistic serial killer's bloody reign, capture, trial, and appeal--crusading to keep the wheels of justice churning toward the electric chair. Now the day of execution has come. A convicted killer will meet his end. Anne believes her long nightmare is over. But she's dead wrong. . . . "ELECTRIFYINGLY SCARY." --San Jose Mercury News Within days, a similar murder stuns the city. As the butcher stalks his next... "HIS MOST EFFECTIVE THRILLER TO DATE. . . A] COMPELLING READ."
--The Seattle Times For five years Seattle journalist Anne Jeffers has pursued... |
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36,91 zł |
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Promise Me
ISBN: 9780451219244 / Angielski / Miękka (mass market paperbound / 512 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. #1 New York Times bestselling author Harlan Coben crafts a compelling thriller with an "ingenious plot"* as entertainment agent Myron Bolitar keeps a promise that ends in a nightmare...
As the school year winds down, Myron Bolitar is determined to help keep his friends' children safe from the dangers of drinking and driving. So he makes two neighborhood girls promise him that if they are ever in a bind but are afraid to call their parents, they must call him. Several nights later, the call comes at two a.m. The next day, a girl is missing and Myron is the last... #1 New York Times bestselling author Harlan Coben crafts a compelling thriller with an "ingenious plot"* as entertainment agent Myron Bolita...
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45,12 zł |
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Short Straw
ISBN: 9780451220844 / Angielski / Miękka (mass market paperbound / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. OUR FAVORITE LEGAL EAGLE RETURNS.
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR STUART WOODS CONTINUES WHAT HE STARTED IN SANTA FE RULES Stuart Woods delivers a compulsively readable novel of crosses and double-crosses, featuring a shrewd criminal lawyer and his shamelessly sexy wife-a true black widow. OUR FAVORITE LEGAL EAGLE RETURNS.
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR STUART WOODS CONTINUES WHAT HE STARTED IN SANTA FE RULES S... |
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41,01 zł |
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Stalking Ivory
ISBN: 9780451221681 / Angielski / Miękka / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. On a photography assignment in the northern territory of Mount Marsabit, American adventuress Jade del Cameron and her friends hope to film the area's colossal elephants. Instead, they discover the mutilated remains of four elephants and a man. Although the authorities suspect Abyssinian poachers and raiders in search of ivory and slaves, Jade has her own suspicions. Could it have been Harry Hascombe, her nemesis and unremitting suitor? Soon the Kikuyu boy accompanying her is captured by slave traders. Ultimately, it will take all of Jade's mettle to rescue her guide from slave traders,...
On a photography assignment in the northern territory of Mount Marsabit, American adventuress Jade del Cameron and her friends hope to film the area's...
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90,32 zł |
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Biting the Moon
ISBN: 9780451409133 / Angielski / Miękka / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In a unique departure from her acclaimed Richard Jury novels, bestselling author Martha Grimes presents -a lyrical coming-of-age journey- (Chicago Sun-Times) featuring two characters from her previous novels.
A nameless young woman awakes in a strange bed-and-breakfast with a message that her -Daddy- will soon return. Fearing the worst, she flees into the wilderness and meets Mary Dark Hope. Together, the two track down the one person who holds the key to the girl's identity: The man who abducted her. -A HARROWING ROAD TRIP.- --New York Times Book... In a unique departure from her acclaimed Richard Jury novels, bestselling author Martha Grimes presents -a lyrical coming-of-age journey- (C...
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90,32 zł |
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Gods Go Begging
ISBN: 9780452281158 / Angielski / Miękka / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Luminous... a beautiful book. Carolyn See
For Vietnam veteran Jesse Pasadoble, now a defense attorney living in San Francisco, the battle still rages: in his memories, in the gang wars erupting on Potrero Hill, and in the recent slaying of two women: one black, one Vietnamese. While seeking justice for the young man accused of this brutal double murder, Jesse must walk with the ghosts of men who died on another hill... men who were his comrades and friends in a war that crossed racial divides. Gods Go Begging is a new classic of Latino literature, a literary detective... Luminous... a beautiful book. Carolyn See
For Vietnam veteran Jesse Pasadoble, now a defense attorney living in San Francisco, the battle ... |
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98,53 zł |