Thriller

DCI Jack Logan returns in the 14th book from multi-million selling Scottish crime fiction sensation, JD Kirk.

After a day out with a group of her friends, Chloe Winters, disappears. Held prisoner in luxurious surroundings, forced into a degrading and isolated life, leaves her coping with depression and desperate loneliness.

Will Cochrane wakes up in a hotel room with blood on his hands. A woman has been brutally murdered in his bathtub, with his own bloody handprint nearby. Now he knows he's stepped into a wilderness of terror that is far more dangerous than anything he's ever faced. With no memory of the night before, Will is sure he is being framed, but he can find no evidence that another person, the real killer, was ever even in the room. Until this moment, Will had planned to adopt the sons of a deceased former colleague. But now he realizes he can't leave his old life so easily when he clearly still has a powerful enemy who is out for revenge. With local police, the FBI, and even his friends pursuing him, the clever and ruthless operative must track down his adversary, save the boys, and prove his innocence before it's too late.

From the creator of the hit television series Without a Trace, Hank Steinbergs Out of Range is an action-packed thriller in which a husband searches for his missing wifea hunt that leads him into a dangerous world of international espionage.Six years ago in Uzbekistan, journalist Charlie Davis was wounded when the government fired on a group of protestors he was covering on assignment. He and his pregnant wife, Julie, barely escaped with their lives.On a trip to Disneyland with their children, Julie vanishes. As Charlie soon discovers, this isnt a random abduction. The further he goes to find her, the more it becomes clear that Julie isnt quite the person she seems to be. Shes been harboring dark secrets that have come back to terrorize them all.Out of Range is a scintillating tale, full of twists and surprises that will keep you guessing until the final page.

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. The Innocence of Father Brown is the first of five collections of mystery stories by G.K. Chesterton which first appeared in 1911. Modest in appearance, Father Brown has a mysterious ability to see into the bleak abyss of the criminal mind. This skill, according to Father Brown himself, comes from his experience as a priest and a confessor. Absolute rationality is another one of his characteristics. He always seeks the natural explanation for any kind f phenomenon. Combining captivating stories and insightful commentary, The Innocence of Father Brown is a delightful read.

Counterspy Alexander Hawke is out to catch a villainous megalomaniac?a man obsessed with horrifying warfare experiments?in this latest mesmerizing thriller in Ted Bell's New York Times bestselling series, reminiscent of Clive Cussler and Daniel Silva.When a Cambridge professor is murdered, a victim of Chinese torture, Alex Hawke teams up with Scotland Yard colleague and friend inspector Ambrose Congreve to find the killer. But this death is only the beginning of a lethal game of geopolitical brinkmanship.Meanwhile, hostilities are escalating between China, North Korea, and the United States. In the East China Sea, a North Korean crew murders four U.S. sailors. Then China launches fighter jets and a megasubmarine more sophisticated than any seen before?military technology that might leapfrog everything the U.S. and Great Britain possess.With the situation edging towards global devastation, Hawke must pull off his most daring mission yet: infiltrate enemy territory and neutralize their advantage . . . or risk the outbreak of World War III.

The Scarlet Pimpernel written by Baroness Orczy. The novel is set in a village in Puritan New England. Hester believes herself a widow, but her husband, Roger Chillingworth, arrives in New England very much alive and conceals his identity The Scarlet Letter was the first, and the tendency of criticism is to pronounce it the most impressive, also, of these ampler productions. It has the charm of unconsciousness; the author did not realize while he worked, that this "most prolix among the tales" was alive with the miraculous vitality of genius. It combines the strength and substance of an oak with the subtle organization of a rose, and is great, not of malice aforethought, but inevitably.

Forensic anthropologist Bill Brockton has spent twenty-five years solving brutal murders?but none so horrific and merciless as his latest case: A ravaged set of skeletal remains found chained to a tree on a remote mountainside. But the shocking crime is only the beginning. Mid-case, the unthinkable happens: The deadliest criminal Brockton has ever foiled?the sadistic serial killer Nick Satterfield?escapes from prison, bent on vengeance.But simply killing Brockton isn't enough. Satterfield wants to make him suffer first, by destroying everything Brockton holds dear: his son, daughter-in-law, grandsons; even -Miranda, his longtime graduate assistant, now on the verge of completing her Ph.D. and launching a forensic career of her own.The dangers from all directions force Brockton to question two things on which he's based his entire career?the justice system and the quality of mercy?and to wonder: can the two coexist? If not, which will Brockton choose in his ultimate moment of truth?

A determined, (down on her luck,) mother caring for her handicapped son becomes entangled in a murderous conspiracy to keep a twenty year old secret buried in this blistering thriller, set during the tragic aftermath of Hurricane Sandy, from Andrew Gross, the New York Times bestselling author of 15 Seconds and No Way Back.While driving along a suburban back road, Hilary Blum, whos just lost her job and whose deadbeat husband has left her alone to care for her son with Aspergers, witnesses a freakish accident. A car ahead of her careens down a hill and slams into a tree. Stopping to help, she discovers the driver deadand a satchel stuffed with a half a million dollars.That money could prevent her familys ruin and keep her special needs son in school. In an instant, this honest, achieving woman who has always done the responsible thing makes a decision that puts her in the center of maelstrom of dark consequences and life-threatening recriminationsa terrifying scheme involving a twenty-year-old murder, an old woman whos life has been washed out to sea, and a powerful figure bent to keep the secret that can destroy him hidden.With everything to lose, everything she loves, Hilary connects to a determined cop from Staten Island, reeling from the disaster of Sandy, to bring down an enemy who will stop at nothing to keep what that money was meant to silence, still buried.

Publicado inicialmente em series diarias no Le Journal no ano de 1928 e em um volume unico em 1929, este romance policial e ambientado na Paris do inicio do seculo XVIII, onde um sequestro e cometido durante um desfile de alta-costura. A partir dai, e hora de Arsene Lupin entrar em cena. Uma aventura festejadissima a epoca da publicac