Kategoria BISAC: Fiction >> Thrillers - Historical

From Gone, Baby, Gone to Mystic River to Shutter Island to The Given Day, the phenomenal Dennis Lehane has proven himself to be one of the most versatile and exciting novelists working in America today--whether he's breaking new ground with uniquely inventive psychological suspense, redefining the detective story, or bringing a bygone era to life with sweeping and masterful historical fiction. He's back with Live by Night, an epic, unflinching tale of the making and unmaking of a gangster in the Prohibition Era of the Roaring...

Julia Probyn-an old friend of many readers-is sailing off the west coast of Scotland. On the desolate island of Erinish Beg, she and her cousin are startled to see a sky-blue pole rise up out of the ground at their feet. Military Intelligence sends Colonel Jamieson to investigate this find. The action moves from the Erinishes to a tweed-shop in Tobermory, an archaeological dig on Lewis, an island off the County Mayo, and finally to a dramatic end in the Scillies. The mystery of the sky-blue pole is solved soon enough; but there is much journeying, heart-searching and danger for Julia...

Conrad de Lancey has seen enough of evil: the shadow of fear on the faces of innocents; the roar of tanks through empty streets; the sudden lull before the slaughter begins. Franco's bloody insurrection taught this Englishman all about hell. Arriving in his mother's country, the now Nazi Germany, Conrad is sick at heart. Even Berlin--infamous haven of decadence and vice--salutes fascism. Himmler's black-shirted troops rule the city, and every...

Cascade A&E Magazine: ..".unlike any other novel...elements of reality that make the harder-to-believe moments even more chilling."

Calliope Writers Workshop: ..".adventurous and fantastical..."

Don Hansen, Director of Public affairs/Media/Publications, CA. State Univ. Stanislaus: ..".The book offers readers a glimpse into...

Bestselling author Stephen Hunter takes on one of the most shocking crimes in American history when his celebrated hero ex-Marine sniper Bob Lee Swagger follows the smallest hint of a lead to its staggering conclusion--about the fateful third bullet that ended the life of President John F. Kennedy. . . .

"There's a touch of Angela Carter about Beatrice Hitchman's beguiling debut--a sly, erotic thriller concerned with doubleness and duplicity."--The Guardian

"Sumptuous . . . part Moulin Rouge, part Alfred Hitchcock."--Grazia

Mesdames et Messieurs, presenting La Petite Mort, or, A Little Death . . .

A silent film, destroyed in a fire in 1914 at the Pathe studio, before it was seen even by its director.

A lowly seamstress, who makes the costumes she should be wearing, but believes her talent--and the secret she keeps too--will soon get her...