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Lindsay Boxer and friends must track down a deadly terror group who begins their killing spree by blowing up an expensive townhouse¿with the family still inside. In the meantime, a member of the club may be in some trouble of her own and Lindsay could be too late to save her.

Che cosa fai se la figlia della tua migliore amica è scomparsa... ed è solo colpa tua? Lisa è una donna come tante, che come tante cerca di essere una buona madre, una buona moglie, una buona lavoratrice. Come tante, annaspa per tenere insieme tutti i pezzi della sua vita. Non come Kate, la sua migliore amica, che non avendo impegni di lavoro può dedicarsi anima e corpo alla cura dei suoi figli, trovando persino il tempo di occuparsi dei problemi altrui. Una donna perfetta. Lisa sa di non essere perfetta, ma fa del suo meglio. Finché, in un giorno particolarmente difficile di una settimana estremamente dura, accade qualcosa di terribile. Basta un attimo di distrazione, un tragico errore, e la figlia tredicenne di Kate, che le era stata affidata per un giorno, sparisce nel nulla. La prima, sconvolgente ipotesi è che sia stata adescata da un maniaco sospettato di aver rapito e violentato un’altra adolescente nella stessa zona. Comincia così per Lisa un lungo calvario, fatto di accuse spietate da parte della pubblica opinione e di inevitabili sensi di colpa, che la spinge però a intraprendere un’indagine privata. Un’indagine che rivelerà l’orrore nascosto sotto l’apparente tranquillità della vita quotidiana...

As the only woman homicide inspector in San Francisco, Lindsay Boxer has to be tough. But nothing has prepared her for the brutal maniac who has begun a killing spree - slaughtering newlywed couples. Lindsay is sickened by the deaths, but her determination to bring the murderer to justice is threatened by a personal tragedy. So she turns to Claire Washburn, a coroner, Cindy Thomas, a journalist, and Jill Bernhardt, an attorney, for help with both crises, and the Women's Murder Club is born.

Join the Women's Murder Club on an exhilarating thrill ride as love and murder test their friendships like never before. Someone is killing the richest people in the city-and the Women's Murder Club will pay a high price for hunting him. At the party of the year, San Francisco's most glamorous couple is targeted by a killer-and it's the perfect murder. While Detective Lindsay Boxer investigates the high-profile killings, a saintly street preacher is brutally executed. Reporter Cindy Thomas inquires into this neglected case and discovers the victim may have had very dark secrets. As the search for two criminals tests the limits of the Women's Murder Club, Lindsay sees sparks fly between Cindy and Lindsay's partner, Detective Rich Conklin. The Club now faces its toughest challenge: Will love destroy all that the four friends have built?

When a Member of Parliament shows up at New Scotland Yard requesting an investigation into the suicide of the son of one of his constituents in the beautiful town of Ludlow, the Assistant Commissioner sees two opportunities in this request. The first is to have an MP owing him afavor, and the second is to get rid of Detective Sergeant Barbara Havers, whose career at the Met has been hanging by a thread for quite some time. So he assigns Havers to the case and, for good measure, partners her with the one person who shares his wish to see the back of her, Detective Chief Superintendent Isabelle Ardery. But Ardery has her own difficulties. She is not happy to be sent away from London, and as a result is in a rush to return. This causes her to overlook things, important things, and prevents her from uncovering an earlier crime that set everything in motion.

The 16th novel in the bestselling Alex Cross series They’ve come for Detective Alex Cross’s family. Now he’ll come for them. At a family celebration, Alex Cross hears the shocking news that his niece Caroline has been murdered. Grieving and furious, Cross’s investigation takes him to Washington D.C.’s wild underground subcultures – and reveals that Caroline wasn’t this killer’s only victim. Partnering with his girlfriend, Detective Brianna Stone, Cross finds himself confronting a world of unchecked power, where the capital’s most powerful people are hiding dirty, dangerous secrets that they’ll stop at nothing to protect. As they close in on the killer, the evidence begins to point to the unimaginable – a revelation that could rock the entire world…

The thrilling 9th novel in the phenomenal Alex Cross detective series

Chris Paget'S Well Ordered World Is Blown Apart By His Love For His Assistant, Terri, In The Sequel To Degree Of Guilt. Terri'S Ex Husband, Ricky, Is Determined To Destroy Them Both And Instigates A Child Custody Battle For Terri'S Four-Year Old Daughter, Accusing Terri Of Neglect And Paget'S Teenage Son Of Sexual Molestation. Then Ricky Is Murdered And Paget Finds Himself The Principle Suspect, On Trial For His Life. Eyes Of A Child Demonstrates Why North Patterson Is An International Bestselling Author. The Pace Is Superb, The Court Room Scenes Unsurpassable, But Most Importantly The Compelling Characters, Particularly Ricky, Terri'S Cunning And Amoral Husband, Show North Patterson As One Of The Strongest Storytellers Writing Today.

Armistead Maupin's Tales of the City has blazed a singular trail through popular culture -- from a groundbreaking newspaper serial to a classic novel to a television event that entranced millions around the world. The first of six novels about the denizens of the mythic apartment house at 28 Barbary Lane, Tales is both a wry comedy of manners and a deeply involving portrait of a vanished era.

Alex Cross must face the world's most dangerous agents, criminals, and assassins. The fate of the world rests in his hands. In broad desert daylight, a mysterious platoon of soldiers evacuates the entire population of Sunrise Valley, Nevada. Minutes later, a huge bomb detonates a hundred feet above the ground and lays waste to homes, cars, and playgrounds: a town annihilated in an instant. The Russian supercriminal known as the Wolf claims responsibility for the blast. Alex Cross is on vacation in San Francisco with his girlfriend, Jamilla Hughes, when he gets the call. World leaders have just four days to prevent an unimaginable cataclysm. Racing down the hairpin turns of the Riviera in the most unforgettable finale James Patterson has ever written, he confronts the truth of the Wolf's identity, a revelation that even Cross himself may be unable to survive.

When a world renowned scientist is found brutally murdered in a Swiss research facility, a Harvard professor, Robert Langdon, is summoned to identify the mysterious symbol seared onto the dead man's chest. His baffling conclusion: it is the work of the Illuminati, a secret brotherhood presumed extinct for nearly four hundred years - reborn to continue their bitter vendetta against their sworn enemy, the Catholic church. In Rome, the college of cardinals assembles to elect a new pope. Yet somewhere within the walls of the Vatican, an unstoppable bomb of terrifying power relentlessly counts down to oblivion. While the minutes tick away, Langdon joins forces with Vittoria Vetra, a beautiful and mysterious Italian scientist, to decipher the labyrinthine trail of ancient symbols that snakes across Rome to the long-forgotten Illuminati lair - a secret refuge wherein lies the only hope for the Vatican. But with each revelation comes another twist, another turn in the plot, which leaves Langdon and Vetra reeling and at the mercy of a seemingly invisible enemy... --back cover

"When the bady of eleven year old Thuy Sen is found in San Francisco bay, the police qwiftly charge Rennell and Payton Price with her grisly murder. A twelve person jury, helped along by an incompetent lawyer for the defence, is quick to find the brothers guilty - and to sentence them both to die for their crimes.

A powerful, compelling, vividly written Australian crime novel, perfect for fans of Peter May and Jane Harper

Gabriel Noone è un romanziere di successo che conduce da anni un programma radiofonico notturno. È in un momento di crisi creativa ed è stato abbandonato dall'uomo con cui viveva da anni. Un amico gli manda il memoriale di un tredicenne, Pete Lomax, che racconta le violenze subite in famiglia e la sua condizione di malato di Aids. Gabriel comincia a trascorrere ore al telefono con il ragazzo, fino a considerarlo una sorta di figlio. Ma quando Gabriel deciderà di andare a conoscere il giovane, la sua vita ordinata e le sue certezze verranno messe completamente in gioco, fino a dubitare dell'esistenza stessa di Pete.

È un momento difficile per il tenente Lindsay Boxer. Un sabato mattina, pur essendo fuori servizio, riceve una chiamata dal suo capo: a bordo del traghetto Del Norte è avvenuta una sparatoria. Quando giunge sulla scena del crimine, un colpo durissimo l'attende, ma l'indagine non può aspettare. Un testimone ha ripreso la strage con la videocamera inquadrando il colpevole, probabilmente uno squilibrato, che è riuscito a scappare e gira armato di una calibro 38. Lindsay si mette subito in caccia. E qui per lei comincia il peggio: prima è retrocessa a sergente, poi prende una cantonata mentre indaga sulla scomparsa di una bambina, e sul fronte sentimentale le nuvole si addensano. Le cose non vanno meglio alle sue amiche Cindy Thomas, giornalista del Chronicle, e Yuki Castellano, che rischia di perdere in un processo importante. Insomma, le donne del Club Omicidi sono in crisi, ed è solo l'inizio di una difficilissima partita in cui vince tutto chi si aggiudica l'ultima, imprevedibile mano...

Elfrida Phipps, sessantenne ex attrice di musical, è affranta dal dolore per la morte dell'uomo che ha sempre amato. Oscar Blundell, musicista in pensione, ha perso la moglie e la figlia in un tragico incidente. Uniti dalle avversità, Oscar e Elfrida decidono di lasciarsi alle spalle il passato e di trasferirsi in Scozia per ricucire le fila delle loro esistenze. Il primo Natale trascorso insieme ridà a entrambi la forza di ricominciare a vivere e di riassaporare la gioia dei sentimenti.

Jack Mullen is a driven student of the law. His brother Peter is a servant of the rich, parking the cars of the Hamptons' elite-and perhaps satisfying their more intimate needs as well. Then Peter's body is found on the beach. Jack knows the drowning was no accident, but someone's unlimited power and money have bought the cops, the judges, the system. Now Jack is learning a lesson in justice he never got in law school ... and his astonishing plan to beat the billionaires will have you reeling-and cheering-to the very last page.

Leaving behind her forensic pathology practice in South Carolina, Kay Scarpetta takes up an assignment in New York City, where the NYPD has asked her to examine an injured patient in a psychiatric ward. The handcuffed and chained patient, Oscar Bane, has specifically asked for her, and when she literally has her gloved hands on him, he begins to talk - and the story he has to tell turns out to be one of the most bizarre she has ever heard. He says his injuries were sustained in the course of a murder ... that he did not commit. Is Bane a criminally insane stalker who has fixed on Scarpetta? Or is his paranoid tale true, and it is he who is being spied on, followed and stalked by the actual killer? The only thing Scarpetta knows for certain is that a woman has been tortured and murdered - and that more violent deaths will follow...

When Saffyre Maddox was ten, something terrible happened, and she's carried the pain of it ever since. The man who she thought was going to heal her didn't, and now she hides, learning his secrets, invisible in the shadows. Owen Pick is invisible too. He's never had a girlfriend; he's never even had a friend. Nobody sees him. Nobody cares. But when Saffyre goes missing from opposite his house on Valentine's night, suddenly the whole world is looking at Owen. Accusing him, holding him responsible for Saffyre's disappearance

The nineteenth book in the Kay Scarpetta series, from No. 1 bestselling author Patricia Cornwell. 'America's most chilling writer of crime fiction' The Times Kay Scarpetta has arranged to meet an inmate at the high-security Georgia Prison for Women. The prisoner is a convicted sex offender and the mother of a vicious and diabolically brilliant killer. Against advice, Scarpetta is determined to hear this woman out - she believes she may hold some answers to the murder of her former deputy. But soon she finds connections to a string of grisly killings. As she learns more, Scarpetta is compelled to conclude that this is only the beginning of a terrifying terrain of conspiracy on an international scale. And she is the only one who can stop it . . . Praise for the groundbreaking series: 'One of the best crime writers writing today' Guardian 'Devilishly clever' Sunday Times 'The top gun in this field' Daily Telegraph 'Forget the pretenders. Cornwell reigns' Mirror 'The Agatha Christie of the DNA age' Express

Dr Kay Scarpetta returns to face new challenges in Patricia Cornwell's internationally acclaimed series.

The 'book of the dead' is the morgue log in which all cases are entered. For Kay Scarpetta, however, it is about to have a new meaning. Fresh from her battle with a psychopath in Florida, Scarpetta moves to South Carolina and opens a private forensic pathology practice. A string of brutal killings shatters her dreams of a quiet life.

1967, Lake City, Ohio. Tony Lord and Sam Robb, both in their teens, are best friends and athletic rivals. Twenty-eight years later, Tony is a successful San francisco attorney; sam is an assistant principal at Lake City High School. Sam has never left home, and Tony has never returned since the trauma that changed his life: the brutal murder of his first love, Alison, of which he was wrongly accused and which turned everyone, even Sam, against him. Now Sam is a suspect. One of his female students has been murdered. Tony, reluctantly but inevitably, comes back to defend him. At once, Tony is plunged into the unfinished business of his past. In the merciless arena of a murder trial, he must confront not only his fear that Sam is a murderer but also the buried truths that obscure the real meaning of Alison's death. Powerful in its portrayal of the complexities of male friendship, of the darkest recesses of love, and of the many ways in which the past stakes its claim upon the present, Silent Witness is that rare suspense novel which is far more - the kind of story we have come to expect from Richard North Patterson.

When Hadiyyah Upman disappears from London in the company of her mother, Detective Sergeant Barbara Havers is as devastated as the girl's father. They are her close friends as well as neighbours, but since the child is with her mother, nothing can be done. Five months later, Hadiyyah is kidnapped from an open air market in Lucca, Italy, and this triggers an investigation in the full glare of the media spotlight. Barbara's clever manipulation of the worst of London's tabloids forces New Scotland Yard to become involved. But rather than Barbara herself, her superior officer DI Thomas Lynley is assigned to handle a situation made delicate by racial issues, language difficulties, and the determination of an Italian magistrate to arrest and convict someone - anyone - for the crime.

A candid and intimate narrative unfolds in this engaging novel by a celebrated contemporary writer. The story delves into personal themes, offering readers a deep connection with the characters and their experiences. The author's distinctive voice and insightful storytelling invite exploration of complex emotions and relationships, making it a compelling read for those seeking authenticity in literature.

Copenhague, 1905. Severine Riis, esposa del pintor danés Viktor Riis, posa para él, siempre de espaldas. Para sobrellevar el silencio de las sesiones, comienza a escribir un diario con sus reflexiones íntimas. Bucarest, 1985. Joen Alsted, embajador de Dinamarca, hereda seis cuadros de Viktor y se relaciona con la familia Moore, donde su hija Freya cautiva a Sophia, su esposa, quien anhela ser madre. Londres, 2005. Tras la muerte de su marido, Sophia decide vender las obras de Riis, y el joven historiador del arte Peter Finch se encarga de su documentación. Freya, ahora casi treintañera, es invitada a la casa de Sophia, donde descubre los diarios de Severine. Esto desata una investigación sobre la vida y obra de Riis, con consecuencias inesperadas. Paula Vene Smith presenta una historia cautivadora en la que seis cuadros enigmáticos impactan la vida de varios personajes a través del tiempo. La autora explora la relación entre arte y vida, creando un caleidoscopio de emociones que atrapa al lector desde el inicio.

Michael Moore, incubo degli "Stupid White Men" di tutto il pianeta, è tornato più scatenato che mai con un obiettivo semplice e chiaro, per nulla ambizioso: l'uomo che si è intrufolato nella Casa Bianca grazie all'aiuto non proprio disinteressato dei suoi amici petrolieri deve sloggiare. Ma nell'occhio del ciclone non c'è solo il povero George W.: gli tengono compagnia sulla graticola quei famelici megaboss delle multinazionali che hanno rubato miliardi dai risparmi e dalle pensioni dei loro dipendenti, quei legislatori che hanno fatto a pezzi le libertà civili americane in nome della "sicurezza della patria", nonché quel certo cognato destrorso che riesce, un anno dopo l'altro, a rovinare i pranzi di famiglia con le sue idiozie.

Kay Scarpetta è tornata a Cambridge dopo un difficile caso, quando riceve una chiamata dal suo ex collega Pete Marino, che la informa del ritrovamento del corpo di una giovane donna sul campo da baseball del MIT. La vittima è Gail Shipman, un ingegnere informatico coinvolto in una causa milionaria contro una società di intermediazione finanziaria. Scarpetta sospetta che la morte di Gail non sia una coincidenza e teme un possibile legame con sua nipote Lucy. La causa della morte non è immediatamente chiara: il corpo è avvolto in un telo color avorio e disposto in una posa particolare, suggerendo l'operato di un killer esperto. Sul cadavere vengono trovate tracce di polvere fluorescente rossa, verde e blu, che collegano il caso a una serie di omicidi sessuali a Washington, attribuiti a un serial killer noto come Capital Killer, indagato dal marito di Kay, Benton Wesley. La famosa anatomopatologa e il suo team si trovano di fronte a uno scenario inquietante, che va oltre il semplice omicidio seriale, rivelando un legame con droghe sintetiche e tecnologia dei droni, coinvolgendo crimine organizzato e alte sfere governative. Questo è il ventunesimo caso di Kay Scarpetta, un'icona della narrativa thriller.

Nella quiete del crepuscolo di inizio settembre, Elisa Vandersteel, una ventitreenne, muore in un incidente in bicicletta lungo il fiume Charles. Sebbene sembri colpita da un fulmine, la bella giornata suggerisce un'altra causa. Kay Scarpetta, famosa anatomopatologa, riceve da giorni un messaggio vocale inquietante con una filastrocca inviata da un anonimo che si firma Tailend Charlie. Arrivata sulla scena della morte di Elisa, Kay riceve la settima filastrocca. Ha già informato il collega Pete Marino, il marito Benton Wesley e la nipote Lucy, ma quest'ultima, nonostante le sue abilità informatiche, non riesce a rintracciare Tailend Charlie o a capire come abbia accesso a informazioni private. È chiaro che l'anonimo è coinvolto nella morte della ragazza. Inoltre, altre due morti sospette per folgorazione convincono Kay dell'esistenza di un'arma letale che uccide a distanza, potenzialmente in grado di scatenare panico tra la popolazione se la sua esistenza venisse rivelata. Con Caos, Patricia Cornwell presenta il ventiquattresimo thriller con protagonista l'iconica Kay Scarpetta.