Kategoria BISAC: Fiction >> Mystery & Detective - Hard-Boiled

Life has shifted for J. P. Beaumont. After a tragic accident that devastated--and ultimately disbanded--his Special Homicide Investigaton Team, he accepts that he has left homicide detection behind at this point, but he has a lot of unanticipated free time on his hands. He's keeping busy with renovations on the new house that he and his wife, Mel Soames, the newly appointed chief of police in Bellingham, Washington, have bought. But new fixtures and paint palettes can occupy only so much of Beau's daily life, and Mel is encouraging him to return to where he is needed: investigating...

The lost pulp crime novel by great American novelist Gore Vidal

Hired to smuggle an ancient artefact out of Egypt, Pete Wells finds himself the target of killers and femme fatales - and just one step away from triggering a revolution that will set Cairo aflame

In Book 10 of The Housewife Assassin series:

Housewife assassin Donna Stone s green thumb and for that matter, her trigger finger is put to the test when it s discovered that genetically enhanced corn containing a deadly brain-eating virus has been released into America s food chain."

New York Times Bestseller

Award-winning and New York Times bestselling author Laura Lippman's Tess Monaghan--first introduced in the classic Baltimore Blues--becomes involved in a complicated investigation that will force her to question her loyalties.

-Chilling, insightful, and edge-of-your seat exciting.---USA Today

For Tess Monaghan, the unsolved murder of a young federal prosecutor is nothing more than a theoretical problem, one of several cases to be deconstructed...

Two murders. Twenty years. Now the killer is back for more...

A darkly compelling debut crime novel. The start of a brilliant series, perfect for fans of Stuart MacBride, Val McDermid, and James Oswald.

DCI Matilda Darke has returned to work after a nine month absence. A shadow of her former self, she is tasked with re-opening a cold case: the terrifyingly brutal murders of Miranda and Stefan Harkness. The only witness was their eleven-year-old son, Jonathan, who was too deeply traumatized to speak a word.

Then a dead body is discovered, and the investigation leads back...

Boston Native Dermot Sparhawk is at it again. Dragged into yet another set of circumstances that he wants nothing to do with, Sparhawk is forced to call on all his connections and physical skills to keep from getting killed. It seems that an assassin is waiting around every corner and Sparhawk doesn't know why. To save his own life, he works the streets of Boston, asking questions, leveraging friendships, and persuading reluctant witnesses to tell him what he needs to know. He visits waterfront gin mills and basement AA halls in search of the truth. And the truth takes him from his native...

Every desperate housewife wants an alias. Donna Stone has one ... and it happens to be government-sanctioned. But Donna earned it the hard way. Her husband was killed the day she delivered their third child. To avenge her husband's murder, Donna leads a secret life: as an assassin. But espionage makes for strange bedfellows, and brings new meaning to that old adage, "Honey, I'm home..."

IN BOOK 2 OF THE HOUSEWIFE ASSASSIN SERIES:

A nuclear arms summit, hosted by a politically connected billionaire industrialist, provides the perfect opportunity for a rogue operative to assassinate the newly elected Russian president, on American soil.

Donna Stone's mission: seek and exterminate the shooter before all hell - and World War III - breaks out. Also on Donna's to-do list: file for divorce. Throw in a couple of killer play dates and a few naughty neighbors, and you've got a whole lot of fun.

IN BOOK 3 OF THE HOUSEWIFE ASSASSIN SERIES:

'Tis the season for murder, mayhem and mistletoe There will be no peace on Earth if Donna and Jack don't find a shipping container filled with heat-seeking missiles. Forget Santa Terror is coming to town...