At a grand Reykjavik hotel the doorman has been stabbed in the dingy basement room. As the manager tries to keep the murder under wraps, a glum detective takes up residence in his hotel. As Erlendur quietly surveys the cast of grotesques who populate the hotel, the web of malice, greed and corruption that lies beneath its surface reveals itself.
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.
In life she was a high-profile model. In death she is the focus of a media firestorm that's demanding action from Lucas Davenport. One of his own men is a suspect in her murder. But when a series of bizarre, seemingly unrelated slayings rock the city, Davenport suspects a connection that runs deeper than anyone had imagined --- one that leads to an ingenious killer more ruthless than anyone had feared ...
Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award. A compelling and complusively readable riff on the classic detective novel from America's most inventive novelist. Brooklyn's very own self-appointed Human Freakshow, Lionel Essrog is an orphan whose Tourettic impulses drive 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 small-time mobster Frank Minna's limo service cum detective agency. Life without Frank Minna, the charismatic King of Brooklyn, would be unimaginable, so who cares if the tasks he sets them are, well, not exactly legal. But when Frank is fatally stabbed, one of Lionel's colleagues lands in jail, the other two vie for his position, and the victim's widow skips town. Lionel's world is suddenly topsy-turvy, and this outcast who has trouble even conversing attempts to untangle the threads of the case while trying to keep the words straight in his head. Motherless Brooklyn is a brilliantly original, captivating homage to the classic detective novel by one of the most acclaimed writers of his generation.
'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
Μια ανεξήγητη όσο και επίμονη ανησυχία κυριεύει τη Ματίλντε Μοντερίσπολι όταν παρατηρεί πως η θήκη με τα νυστέρια του συζύγου της έχει μετακινηθεί πάνω στο τζάκι. Αυτό το στοιχείο, σε συνδυασμό με μία απρόσμενη επίσκεψη της αστυνομίας στο σπίτι της, την οδηγεί στο συμπέρασμα πως ο γιος της ο Αινείας -ένας μεσήλικας με παράξενη συμπεριφορά- θα μπορούσε να είναι ο περιώνυμος «δράκος της Φλωρεντίας» που κατακρεουργεί νεαρά ζευγάρια τις νύχτες. Όσο ο δράκος συνεχίζει ανενόχλητος τη δράση του τόσο η Ματίλντε βλέπει να πληθαίνουν τα ενοχοποιητικά στοιχεία κατά του γιου της. Η αρχική υποψία μετατρέπεται σιγά σιγά σε βεβαιότητα και η Ματίλντε αποφασίζει να φτάσει στα άκρα... Μέσα από τα (λιγοστά) λόγια και τις (παρατεταμένες) σιωπές της ηρωίδας της, η Λάουρα Γκριμάλντι δημιουργεί ένα λεπτοδουλεμένο ψυχολογικό θρίλερ που αποτελεί σημείο αναφοράς στο είδος της «μαύρης» λογοτεχνίας.
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.
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.
Kriminální román vychází ze skutečné události vražd mileneckých párů ve Florencii.
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