Knisternde Spannung und die Wohlanständigkeit der gepflegten Kreise sind die Ingredenzien dieses Thrillers, der fein ziselierte Psychologie mit literarischer Meisterschaft verbindet. In einem Wechselspiel von verdrängten Gefühlen und sich überstürzenden Ereignissen entsteht ein Szenario ohne jeden vermeintlichen Ausweg.
SOON TO BE A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE, MOTHERLESS BROOKLYN IS RELEASED IN CINEMAS DECEMBER 2019 'A detective novel of winning humour and exhilarating originality.' Sunday Times Lionel Essrog is Brooklyn's very own self-appointed Human Freakshow, an orphan whose Tourette's Disease drives him to bark, count, and rip apart our language in startling and original ways. Together with three veterans of the St Vincent's Home for Boys, he works for mobster Frank Minna. But when Frank is fatally stabbed and his widow skips town, Lionel attempts to untangle the threads of the case.
In the author's words, this novel is an attempt at a comic family epic of little England into which an explosion of ethnic colour is injected. It tells the story of three families, one Indian, one white, one mixed, in North London and Oxford from World War II to the present day.
The third novel in the award-winning Reykjavik Murder Mysteries. The Christmas rush is under way in a big Reykjavik hotel when the police are called to the scene of a murder. The hotel doorman (and long-time resident of its basement) has been stabbed to death. With the hotel fully booked, the manager is desperate to keep the murder under wraps and his reputation intact. Detectives Erlendur and Sigurdur Oli discover that the dead man had had a childhood brush with fame and that two old 45s on which he had sung have become prized collectors’ items. Estranged from his family for decades, why had the man continued to pay secret visits to his boyhood home? As Detective Elinborg investigates a separate case of child abuse, and Erlendur continues to struggle both with his troubled family relationships and the ghosts of his own youth, their parallel stories probe deeper into the riddle of this latest Reykjavik Murder Mystery.
'Worth the wait. Harris's writing bears the hallmarks of honed perfection. This piece of literature is popular fiction only in the sense that it will sell. And sell.look no further for the chiller of the year' Peter Millar, The Times 'Insanely readable.No thriller writer is better attuned than Thomas Harris to the rhythms of suspense. No horror writer is more adept at making the stomach churn. compelling.truly shocking.a brilliant book' Mail on Sunday 'It is a gut-churning, nail-biting, skin-crawling, often lyrical triumph - addictive on every level.The plot is a helluva plot.The denouement is as exciting as the rest.If there's a better book this year, with truth, fantasy and a touch of erudition combined in prose which really does leap off the page, I'll eat my hat.' Francis Fyfield, Express 'No panting fan.could have hope for more.Hannibal is a great popular novel and a plausible candidate for the Pulitzer Prize' Guardian 'Well if this novel isn't the number one bestseller by this time next week, I'll eat my tongue.[it] is quite simply a compelling and brilliant thriller.it seems all too real and quite terrifying. Thomas Harris is a brilliantly clever author.Sentence for sentence there is nobody to match him.It is an incredible achievement.absorbing' Daily Mirror
In New York City, 1871, where crime and vice flourish, corruption is king, wealth stands on the shoulders of unspeakable want, there are no limits to larceny. The disinherited son of a millionaire sees his dead father alive and sets off a train of mystery and revelation that takes the reader into the heart of evil.
Kriminální román vychází ze skutečné události vražd mileneckých párů ve Florencii.
