'A gripping read for those still pining for GONE GIRL' Elle's top five beach reads The photo shows a boy who was murdered a year ago. The caption says, 'I KNOW WHO KILLED HIM'. Detective Stephen Moran hasn't seen Holly Mackey since she was a nine-year-old witness to the events of Faithful Place. Now she's sixteen and she's shown up outside his squad room, with a photograph and a story. Even in her exclusive boarding school, in the graceful golden world that Stephen has always longed for, bad things happen and people have secrets. The previous year, Christopher Harper, from the neighbouring boys' school, was found murdered on the grounds. And today, in the Secret Place - the school noticeboard where girls can pin up their secrets anonymously - Holly found the card. Solving this case could take Stephen onto the Murder squad. But to get it solved, he will have to work with Detective Antoinette Conway - tough, prickly, an outsider, everything Stephen doesn't want in a partner. And he will have to find a way into the strange, charged, mysterious world that Holly and her three closest friends inhabit and disentangle the truth from their knot of secrets, even as he starts to suspect that the truth might be something he doesn't want to hear. From the multi-award-winning author of Sunday Times and New York Times bestseller In the Woods, The Secret Place is a searing novel of psychological suspense.
Petr Pálenský Book order







- 2015
- 2013
Nocturnal animals
- 384 pages
- 14 hours of reading
The novel that inspired the major motion picture Nocturnal Animals, directed by Tom Ford and starring Jake Gyllenhaal and Amy Adams, is a dazzling, eerie, riveting thriller of fear and regret, blood and revenge.
- 2013
In Broken Harbour, a ghost estate outside Dublin, two children and their father are dead. Scorcher Kennedy is given the case and at first he thinks it's simple: Pat Spain was a casualty of the recession, so he killed his children, and himself. But there are too many inexplicable details and the evidence is pointing in two directions at once. Scorcher's finding that the neat compartments of his life are now rapidly breaking down, and the sudden tangle of work and family is putting both at risk.
- 2012
In the Woods
- 608 pages
- 22 hours of reading
When he was twelve years old, Adam Ryan went playing in the woods one day with his two best friends. He never saw them again. Their bodies were never found, and Adam himself was discovered with his back pressed against an oak tree and his shoes filled with blood. He had no memory of what had happened. Twenty years on, Rob Ryan - the child who came back - is a detective in the Dublin police force. He's changed his name. No one knows about his past. Then a little girl's body is found at the site of the old tragedy and Rob is drawn back into the mystery. Knowing that he would be thrown off the case if his past were revealed, Rob takes a fateful decision to keep quiet but hope that he might also solve the twenty-year-old mystery of the woods.
- 2012
The Likeness
- 704 pages
- 25 hours of reading
Detective Cassie Maddox is still trying to deal with the events of In the Woods. She is out of the Murder Squad and has started a relationship with fellow detective Sam O'Neill but is too badly shaken to commit to Sam or to her career. Then Sam is allocated a new case, that of a young woman stabbed to death just outside Dublin. He calls Cassie to the murder scene and she finds the victim is strangely familiar. In fact, she is Cassie's double. Not only that, but her ID says she is Lexie Madison the identity Cassie used, years ago, as an undercover detective. With no leads, no suspects and no clues, Cassie's old undercover boss spots the opportunity of a lifetime: to send Cassie undercover in the dead girl's place. She could pick up information the police would never hear and tempt the killer to finish the job. So Cassie moves into Whitethorn House, poses as a post-grad student, and prepares to enter Lexie's world.
- 2010
The Rough Guide to London
- 496 pages
- 18 hours of reading
The Rough Guide to London is the essential travel guide with clear maps and coverage of London's unforgettable attractions. From the big hitters like the Tower of London and the London Eye to hidden gems like the Sir John Soane�s Museum and Highgate Cemetery the Rough Guide steers you straight to the unmissable sites of London, unearthing the best hotels, restaurants, traditional pubs, caf�s and nightlife across every price range. A guide for travellers and London locals alike, you'll find detailed coverage of the city�s fantastic free museums as well as the little-known nooks and crannies you should be exploring. The Rough Guide to London includes detailed accounts of all the palaces, museums and galleries, big and small, and why they�re worth (or not worth) visiting. There are specialist sections on nightlife, the gay and lesbian scene, classical arts and detailed information on the capitals best markets and shopping-spots, all written by London-based experts. Explore all corners of the city with authoritative background on everything from Jack the Ripper to top London clubs, relying on the clearest maps of any guide. Make the Most of Your Time with The Rough Guide to London
- 2010
Další z oblíbené a oceňované řady průvodců. Najdete v něm přehledné mapy měst se zaznačenými kulturními a historickými památkami, hotely, penziony, restauracemi a kavárnami, stejně jako mapy jednotlivých venkovských oblastí. Doporučí vám v daném místě vhodné ubytování a stravování s ohledem na stav vaší peněženky. Kromě erudovaných informací o pamětihodnostech a krásách krajiny nabízí také přehled historických událostí, seznámí vás s významnými osobnostmi, které v dané lokalitě žily, a provede vás po oblíbených turistických stezkách Anglie a Walesu. Publikace obsahuje barevnou fotopřílohu a desítky černobílých fotografií. Část nazvaná Základní informace přináší praktická doporučení a rady určení přímo českému čtenáři. Z anglického originálu „The Rough Guide to Britain“, 7.vydání, vydaného nakladatelstvím Rough Guides v roce 2008, přeložili a aktualizovali Petr Pálenský, Luděk Matyska, Simona Mazáčová, Jaroslava Novotná a Ina Leckie. Lektoroval Daniel Mahel. Sazba a barevná příloha Libor Jelínek, trivia, Brno. Obálka Jiří Mičkal. Fotografie Rough Guides. 886 stran + 32 stran barevné přílohy. První vydání.
- 2009
Arthur Conan Doyle napísal viac diel o svojom detektívovi, ako obsahuje tradičný "kánon“ Sherlocka Holmesa, t. j. kompletné dielo zahŕňajúce štyri romány a 56 poviedok, ktoré sme vydali v predchádzajúcich zväzkoch edície.Sherlock Holmes je postava, ktorá vedie pestrý literárny život a príležitostne si odskočí rozdať pár rád pri detektívnom pátraní v iných poviedkach, pátra po zločine na javisku v divadle, ako na starého známeho naňho narazíme pri čítaní eseje alebo novinového článku z pera A. C. Doylea. Všetky tieto nekanonické diela sa medzi holmesológmi označujú ako Apokryfy. Apokryfy Sherlocka Holmesa sú staro-nové, objavné a autentické sherlockovské zážitky určené pre všetkých holmesológov, fanúšikov a každého, kto si obľúbil postavu veľkého detektíva.
- 2003
Illuminatus! Part III Leviathan
- 253 pages
- 9 hours of reading
The ultimate weapon isn't this plague out in Vegas, or any new super H-bomb. The ultimate weapon has always existed. Every man, every woman, and every child owns it. It's the ability to say No and take the consequences. - Hagbard Celine, Leviathan Illuminatus! Part III cheerfully ushers in the apocalyptic high-camp conclusion of the Illuminatus! Trilogy. The 9th and 10th Trips are performed by a grand ensemble cast. The Appendices (which are most instructive) are performed by the incomparable Ken Campbell, bringing the audiobook trilogy full circle. The Illuminati has never looked so good. All Hail Eris!






