Evan Hunter Books

When top TV comic Stan Gifford died there were plenty of witnesses - 40 million viewers, plus the studio crew and audience. Detectives Meyer and Carella had never had it so good, but when pretty Cindy Forrest undressed for bed, there was no one to watch - except her attacker.

...Bloom shook his head. The sad brown eyes looked even sadder. He sighed and then said, "You know anybody who might’ve wanted that little girl badly enough?" "What?" I said. "The little girl." "I don’t understand." "Badly enough to have killed the mother for it." "I still..." "The little girl's gone, Mr. Hope. Whoever killed Victoria Miller took the little girl with him." What begins as an ordinary one-night-stand for attorney Matthew Hope turns into a deadly mystery when the woman, a 60's rock star trying for a comeback, is brutally murdered, and her daughter turns up missing.

In the wake of a hurricane in south Florida, a rogue right-winger and his private band of fanatics plot to use the forthcoming storm to engineer a deadly scheme that, if successful, will change the world. Reprint.

Larry Cole has everything a man could want. He loves his wife, Eve, and is devoted to their two small sons. His career as an architect is both creatively satisfying and financially rewarding. His house in suburban Pinecrest Manor is attractive and comfortable.   But then Larry sees a new neighbor standing at the school bus stop. Margaret Gault is young, blond, beautiful—and married. She’s everything Larry didn’t realize was missing from his life, and he must have her. Maggie tells Larry she’s never been in love. But this isn’t about love. It’s about need and desire. Touch and taste and risk. And lies.   Larry and Maggie surrender to lust, knowing their secret motel rendezvous and lunch-hour trysts will amount to nothing; they will always be strangers to each other. But actions have consequences. And sometimes consequences can be deadly.   Author Evan Hunter adapted his riveting novel of infidelity into a film starring Kirk Douglas and Kim Novak. A torrid tale of sexual compulsion and the secrets lurking beneath the most placid of surfaces, Strangers When We Meet is an early masterpiece from the creator of the bestselling 87th Precinct series.

The beautiful blonde in the penthouse apartment was dead, her face and body laced with slashes from a paring knife -- grisly evidence of the terrible things the city can do to pretty young women. What sordid web of money, sex, and greed had ensnared Susan Brauer? The stack of unsigned erotic letters in her possession was the first clue. Then the murder of Susan's lover, a married lawyer in his sixties, leads the cops of the 87th to the women left behind: the lawyer's wife, his ex, his daughters. And for Detective Carella, his own father's senseless death in a bakery holdup sears through the intense summer heat -- and sends him on a fevered hunt for the one who made his mother a widow and shrouded his family in grief.

Evan Hunters neuer Roman „Das war im letzten Sommer“ bietet meisterhafte psychologische Portraits und eine packende Handlung. Vier junge Menschen erleben auf einer Ferieninsel eine heitere Idylle, die sich schnell in einen schockierenden Höhepunkt verwandelt. Der Roman thematisiert die verborgene Brutalität und das Chaos in einer modernen, scheinbar perfekten Gesellschaft.