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Скачать книгу (размер 3 747 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 736) Аннотация: DI Thomas Lynley is still on compassionate leave after the murder of his wife. The discovery of a body in a Stoke Newington cemetery offers Isabelle Ardery, his temporary replacement at the Met, the chance to make her mark with a high profile murder investigation. Persuading Lynley back to work seems the best way to guarantee a result: Lynley's team is fiercely loyal to him and Isabelle needs…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 890 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 568) Аннотация: It is barely three months since the murder of his wife and Thomas Lynley takes to the South-West Coast Path in Cornwall, determined to walk its length in an attempt to distract himself from his loss. On the forty-third day of this walk, he sees a cliff climber fall to his death a death apparently witnessed by a surfer in a nearby cove. Shortly afterwards, Lynley encounters a young woman from…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 320) Аннотация: Fünf Kriminalgeschichten, in denen Elizabeth George ihr ganzes meisterhaftes Können entfaltet: Vom plötzlichen Touristentod im Herrenhaus bis zur Tragödie einer jungen Witwe, vom mörderisch eifersüchtigen Ehemann oder dem kleinen Schullehrer mit fiesem Karrieretick bis zu einem veritablen Spukhaus in bester Wohnlage. Dazu liefert die Autorin jeweils ihre ganz…

Скачать книгу (размер 4 073 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 800) Аннотация: The «New York Times» bestselling author explores new territory in the darker landscapes of human relationships in this gripping story of betrayal and devotion, war and remembrance, and love and loss on an isolated island in the English Channel.

Скачать книгу (размер 5 216 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 1024) Аннотация: When Eugenie Davies is killed by a driver on a quiet London street, her death is clearly no accident. Someone struck her with a car and then deliberately ran over her body before driving off, leaving nothing behind but questions. What brought Eugenie Davies to London on a rainy autumn night? Why was she carrying the name of the man who found her body? Who among the many acquaintances in her…

Скачать книгу (размер 3 829 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 752) Аннотация: Calder Moor is a wild and deadly place: many have been trapped in the myriad limestone caves, lost in collapsed copper mines, injured on perilous gritstone ridges. But this time, when two bodies are discovered in the shadow of the ancient circle of stones known as Nine Sisters Henge, it is clearly not a case for Mountain Rescue. The corpses are those of a young man and woman. Each met death in a…

Скачать книгу (размер 3 829 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 752) Аннотация: Balford-le-Nez is a dying seatown on the coast of Essex. But when a member of the town's small but growing Asian community, is found dead on its beach, his neck broken, sleepy Balford-le-Nez ignites. Working solo, without her long-time partner Detective Inspector Thomas Lynley, Sergeant Barbara Havers must probe not only the mind of a murderer and a case very close to her own heart, but the…

Скачать книгу (размер 3 339 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 656) Аннотация: Hailed as the «king of sleaze», tabloid editor Dennis Luxford is used to ferreting out the sins and scandals of people in exposed positions. But when he opens an innocuous-looking letter addressed to him at “The Source”, he discovers that someone else excels at ferreting out secrets as well. Ten-year-old Charlotte Bowen has been abducted, and if Luxford does not admit publicly to having fathered…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 360 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 464) Аннотация: Elena Weaver was a surprise to anyone meeting her for the first time. In her clingy dresses and dangling earrings she exuded a sexuality at odds with the innocence projected by the unicorn posters on her walls. While her embittered mother fretted about her welfare from her home in London, in Cambridge — where Elena was a student at St. Stephen's College — her father and his second wife each had…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 360 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 464) Аннотация: Award-winning author Elizabeth George gives us an early glimpse into the lives of Detective Inspector Thomas Lynley, forensic scientist Simon Allcourt-St. James, and Lady Helen Clyde in a superlative mystery that is also a fascinating inquiry into the crimes of the heart. Lynley, the eighth earl of Asherton, has brought to Howenstow, his family home, the young woman he has asked to be his bride.…

Скачать книгу (размер 3 013 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 592) Аннотация: Deborah and Simon St. James have taken a holiday in the winter landscape of Lancastershire, hoping to heal the growing rift in their marriage. But in the barren countryside awaits bleak news: The vicar of Wimslough, the man they had come to see, is dead — a victim of accidental poisoning. Unsatisfied with the inquest ruling and unsettled by the close association between the investigating…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 197 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 432) Аннотация: The career of playwright Joy Sinclair comes to an abrupt end on an isolated estate in the Scottish Highlands when someone drives and eighteen-inch dirk through her neck. Called upon to investigate the case in a country where they have virtually no authority, aristocratic Detective Inspector Thomas Lynley and his partner, Detective Sergeant Barbara Havers, grapple for both a motive and a murderer.…