Maura Parolini Books

A memoir by American former actress and singer Jennette McCurdy about her career as a child actress and her difficult relationship with her abusive mother who died in 2013

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New York Times bestselling author Jeffery Deaver has long thrilled fans with tales of masterful villains and their nefarious ways, and the brilliant minds who bring them to justice. Now the author of the Lincoln Rhyme series has collected for the first time his award-winning, spine-tingling stories of suspense -- stories that will widen your eyes and stretch your imagination. A beautiful woman goes to extremes to rid herself of her stalker; a daughter begs her father not to go fishing in an area where there have been a series of brutal killings; a contemporary of the playwright William Shakespeare vows to avenge his family's ruin; and Jeffery Deaver's most beloved character, criminalist Lincoln Rhyme, is back to solve a chilling Christmastime disappearance. Diverse, provocative, eerie and inspired, this collection of Jeffery Deaver's best stories exhibits the amazing range and signature plot twists that have earned him the title "master of ticking-bomb suspense" (People). With nods to O. Henry and Edgar Allan Poe, these beautifully crafted pieces, never before compiled in one volume, pulse with subtle intrigue and Deaver's incomparable imagination.

Lincoln and Amelia are recruited to track down a cargo ship carrying two dozen illegal Chinese immigrants, as well as the notorious human smuggler and killer known as Youling - the Ghost. But when the capture goes disastrously wrong, Lincoln and Amelia find themselves in a race to stop the Ghost before he can track down and murder the two surviving families who have vanished deep into the labyrinthine world of New York City's Chinese community. Over the next forty-eight hours the Ghost ruthlessly hunts for the families while Rhyme, aided by a policeman from mainland China, struggles to find them before they die and Sachs pursues a very different kind of policework - forming a connection with one of the immigrants that may have consequences going to the core of her relationship with her partner and lover, Lincoln Rhyme.

In this full-bore detective tale of scandal and mayhem in the Big Apple, Colin Harrison whips up noir for the 90s, complete with a jaded newspaperman protagonist, a mysterious femme fatale, exhaustive travelogues of the meat-grinder labyrinth of Manhattan, and an elusive jade figurine. Harrison weds a literary sensibility to this tangled tale, but the pleasures of the novel come mainly from the conventional elements of all detective fiction: the assembling of apparently disconnected pieces into a coherent puzzle.

Sono pupe, pallottole e colpi in canna. Sono gli occhi neri e i nasi rotti dei gialli con protagonista Mike Hammer, veri hard-boiled, massicci e politicamente scorretti. Mickey Spillane, sceneggiatore di fumetti, ha creato un originale che ha ispirato troppi imitatori. Si diceva usasse la macchina da scrivere come una mitraglietta, producendo una cartella ogni cinque minuti, con spogliarelliste come pin-up per le sue copertine. In una nuova traduzione, la prima edizione integrale mai pubblicata in Italia, risorgono tre romanzi: Ti ucciderò (I, the Jury), La vendetta è mia (Vengeance is Mine!) e Una ragazza e una pistola (My Gun is Quick). Questa infausta trinità dimostra che uno è troppo poco e un quarto ucciderebbe. Quentin Tarantino li esalta, James Ellroy ne è entusiasta e Charles Bukowski li considerava esempi di sanguigna letteratura da strada. Negli anni Cinquanta scandalizzarono, ma oggi sono qui per farsi (ri)scoprire come classici della letteratura popolare. Mickey Spillane è tornato e non si leverà di torno facilmente.

It begins at a prestigious music school in New York City. A killer flees the scene of a homicide and locks himself in a classroom. Within minutes, the police have him surrounded. When a scream rings out, followed by a gunshot, they break down the door. The room is empty.Lincoln Rhyme and Amelia Sachs are brought in to help with the high-profile investigation and to ferret out a master illusionist they've dubbed "the conjurer." As the fatalities rise and the minutes tick down, Rhyme and Sachs must move beyond the smoke and mirrors to prevent a terrifying act of vengeance that could become the greatest vanishing act of all.

New York, 1936. L'America e il mondo intero guardano con apprensione all'ascesa di Hitler. A Paul Schumann, killer di origine tedesca al soldo di Lucky Luciano, viene fatta dall'FBI una strana proposta: l'immunità per tutti i suoi crimini in cambio di un ultimo omicidio, quello di Reinhard Ernst, uomo di fiducia del Fuhrer. A Berlino tutto è pronto per le Olimpiadi e Schumann, sotto le mentite spoglie di un giornalista sportivo, è sul transatlantico che porta la squadra americana in Germania. Ha 48 ore per eludere l'apparato di sicurezza nazista, individuare l'obiettivo ed eliminarlo. Intanto la polizia tedesca lavora per fermare la scia di sangue che Schumann si lascia alle spalle. Il maestro del thriller fa i conti con la Storia in un romanzo avvincente, dove nessuno è ciò che dice di essere.

Una donna è assassinata da Pathe, un hacker diabolico che l'ha adescata infiltrandosi nei file del suo computer. L'uomo ha infatti un programma che gli consente di entrare nella vita delle persone che conosce in rete, per poi attirarle nella sua trappola mortale. Vuole fare il numero più alto possibile di vittime, a partire dal capo dell'unità di polizia di Los Angeles che indaga sui crimini informatici. Per fermare questa follia omicida, il detective Frank Bishop decide di ricorrere a un altro hacker, detenuto per reati analoghi a quelli di Pathe. Inizia così una partita mortale fra l'hacker "buono" e il sadico killer...

Cornwall in the 1780s, when powerful forces of revolution and reaction are at large in the world. Tired from a grim war in America, Ross Poldark returns to his land and his family. But the joyful homecoming he has anticipated turns sour, for his father is dead, his estate is derelict, and the girl he loves is engaged to his cousin. But his sympathy for the destitute miners and farmers of the district leads him to rescue a half-starved urchin girl from a fairground brawl and take her homean act which alters the whole course of his life.