Philippe Safavi Book order (chronological)

Great Walls in China. Splendid and traditional homes in the People's Republic.

'Gruesome, seductive and creepily credible' The Times'I HAVE SINNED'The words are scrawled in blood at the most shocking murder scene Forensic Pathologist Maura Isles and Detective Jane Rizzoli have ever witnessed. The victim, a young woman, has been entirely drained of blood and horrifically dismembered.

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Nella Carolina del Nord, alla vigilia della Rivoluzione americana, la morte sembra più ineluttabile delle tasse. Nel 1772, la situazione è critica: a Boston si muore per le strade e nelle campagne si appiccano fuochi alle case. Fraser's Ridge, la tenuta di Jamie e Claire, non è immune a questa oscurità. Con la colonia in fermento, il Governatore Josiah Martin si rivolge a Jamie per ottenere aiuto. Rispettato da coloni scozzesi, immigrati tedeschi e tribù indiane, Jamie è visto come un pilastro della comunità. Il Governatore ha bisogno di qualcuno che unisca il paese, placando il risentimento dei coloni e garantendo la sicurezza del Re. James Fraser è l'uomo giusto per il compito. Tuttavia, Claire, sua moglie e viaggiatrice nel tempo, insieme a Brianna e Roger, porta una prospettiva inquietante: Brianna sa che il 18 aprile 1775 scoppierà la rivoluzione, portando a una guerra sanguinosa e all'indipendenza delle colonie, mentre coloro che rimarranno fedeli al Re subiranno gravi conseguenze. Queste due visioni del futuro non sono ben accolte da James e dalla sua famiglia, creando tensioni e dilemmi morali in un periodo di grande incertezza.

"Chew on this," says Melrose Plant to Richard Jury, who's in the hospital being driven crazy by Hannibal, a nurse who likes to speculate on his chances for survival. Jury could use a good story, preferably one not ending with his own demise. Plant tells Jury of something he overheard in The Grave Maurice, a pub near the hospital. A woman told an intriguing story about a girl named Nell Ryder, granddaughter to the owner of the Ryder Stud Farm in Cambridgeshire, who went missing more than a year before and has never been found. What is especially interesting to Plant is that Nell is also the daughter of Jury's surgeon. But Nell's disappearance isn't the only mystery at the Ryder farm. A woman has been found dead on the track-a woman who was a stranger even to the Ryders. But not to Plant. She's the woman he saw in The Grave Maurice. Together with Jury, Nell's family, and the Cambridgeshire police, Plant embarks on a search to find Nell and bring her home. But is there more to their mission than just restoring a fifteen-year-old girl to her family? The Grave Maurice is the eighteenth entry in the Richard Jury series and, from its pastoral opening to its calamitous end, is full of the same suspense and humor that devoted readers expect from Martha Grimes.

Imagine a drug that makes your brain function in a fantastically efficient way, tapping in to your fundamental resources of intelligence and drive. Imagine a drug that could make you read and remember entire books in a matter of hours, or learn a foreign language in a day. Imagine a drug that could make you process information so fast you can see the patterns on the stock market. Eddie Spinola is on such a drug. It's a pill called MDT-48. It's a Viagra for the brain, a designer drug that's redesigning his life. Eddie's not the only one doing MDT, but with his dealer shot dead and Eddie escaping with a large stash, he's the only one with a supply. And while the drug is helping Eddie make the sort of money he's only dreamed about, he's also beginning to suffer its side-effects ...