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Скачать книгу (размер 1 054 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 208) Аннотация: On a balmy summer's day in Oxford an old lady who once helped decipher the Enigma Code is killed. After receiving a cryptic anonymous note containing only the address and the symbol of a circle, Arthur Seldom, a leading mathematician, arrives to find the body. Then follow more murders — an elderly man on a life-support machine is found dead with needle marks in this throat; the percussionist of…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 115 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 416) Аннотация: Things are going well for young film-maker Evan Casher — until he receives an urgent phonecall from his mother, summoning him home. He arrives to find her brutally murdered body on the kitchen floor and a hitman lying in wait for him. It is then he realises his whole life has been a lie. His parents are not who he thought they were, his girlfriend is not who he thought she was, his entire…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 278 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 448) Аннотация: Walter Kotlar is the epitome of the American dream, the son of working class immigrants who attends Yale and becomes part of the establishment, but he is caught up in the '50s fear of the 'red menace' and forced to testify before the Committee on Un-American Activities. He seems a very unlikely Communist, but before the hearing is concluded he has disappeared — defected to the East — though not…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 952 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 384) Аннотация: One woman’s struggle to fit back into her old self. Amy Crane is in crisis. Six months after the birth of her baby, Amy still looks pregnant and can’t remember the last time she had a wax, or an orgasm. Motherhood is stirring up disturbing questions about her own childhood. And she suspects her boyfriend is cheating. Enter Alice, yummy mummy superior, on a mission to transform Amy’s body, and…

Скачать книгу (размер 565 Kb , формат fb2) Аннотация: Their eyes met across a crowded room. She was just a poor servant girl and he was the son of a rich industrialist. Er, no, this is a Christopher Brookmyre novel, although the eyes meeting across a crowded room part is true. Where it differs from the fairy tales is that the room in question was crowded with hostages and armed bank-robbers, and his eyes were the only part of him she could see…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 707 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 336) Аннотация: At an inn in the Berkshire Mountains of western Massachusetts, seven former schoolmates gather for a wedding. Nora, the owner of the inn, has recently had to reinvent her life following the death of her husband. Avery, who still hears echoes from a horrific event at Kidd Academy twenty-six years ago, has made a life for himself in Toronto with his wife and two sons. Agnes, now a history teacher…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 033 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 400) Аннотация: Dante Valentine’s working relationship with the Devil wasn't her choice — but you don't turn down a contract with Lucifer and live. Hired to kill fugitive Vardimal Santino, Dante's only allies are a demon familiar she doesn't trust and a small band of psychics. The thing is, Dante doesn't need friends, she needs a miracle. Because the first time Dante Valentine met Santino, she almost died.

Скачать книгу (размер 1 789 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 352) Аннотация: The second in the series of Alexander McCall Smith's daily novel about the residents of 44 Scotland Street.

Скачать книгу (размер 2 441 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 480) Аннотация: A new series of supernatural thrillers with a characteristic British flavour, from the acclaimed writer of «Lucifer» and «Hellblazer».

Скачать книгу (размер 3 502 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 688) Аннотация: Trudi Canavan, author of the bestselling Black Magician trilogy, embarks up on a wonderful new fantasy series set in a classical world of magic, heroes, gods and forbidden love.

Скачать книгу (размер 2 115 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 416) Аннотация: As a teenager Jane Bell had dreamt of playing in the casinos of Monte Carlo in the company of James Bond, but in her punk phase she'd got herself pregnant and by the time she reaches forty-six she's a grandmother, her dreams as dry as the dust her Dyson sucks up from her hall carpet every day. Then her son Ross, a researcher working for an arms manufacturer in Switzerland, is forced to disappear…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 115 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 416) Аннотация: J.W. Wells seemed to be a respectable establishment, but the company now paying Paul Carpenter's salary is in fact a deeply sinister organisation with a mighty peculiar management team. Paul thought he was getting the hang of it (particularly when he fell head over heels for his strangely alluring colleague Sophie), but death is never far away when you work at J.W. Wells. Unlike the stapler —…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 421 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 280) Аннотация: In Christopher Moore's ingenious debut novel, we meet one of the most memorably mismatched pairs in the annals of literature. The good-looking one is one-hundred-year-old ex-seminarian and 'roads' scholar Travis O'Hearn. The green one is Catch, a demon with a nasty habit of eating most of the people he meets. Behind the fake Tudor facade of Pine Cove, California, Catch sees a four-star buffet.…

Скачать книгу (размер 809 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 160) Аннотация: 'This is the story of a dinner party, a knot of people with pasts and connections which at first seem few but are later found to be many … The prevailing mood is urbane: the wine is poured, the talk continues, and all the time the ice on which the protagonists' world rests is being thinned from beneath by boiling emotions and ugly motives … No living writer handles the tension between formality…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 033 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 400) Аннотация: Vincent Ruiz (a supporting character in Robotham's debut, Suspect) is hauled out of the Thames with a bullet wound in his leg and no memory of a shooting, let alone how he wound up in the water in Robotham's fine, moody second thriller. Keebal, a nasty cop from internal affairs, hounds Ruiz from the start, and everyone seems to know something Ruiz doesn't. When psychologist Joe O'Loughlin (the…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 789 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 352) Аннотация: Colin Hollinghead is a young man going nowhere fast. Working for his dad might have seemed like a good idea at the time, but starting at the bottom in the widget-making industry has somehow lost its appeal. And now the business is in trouble. At least his father has a plan to turn things round — a new work force that will improve profit margins and secure the company's future for eternity. The…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 115 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 416) Аннотация: It was a junket, a freebie. A 'team-building' weekend in the highlands for lawyers, advertising execs, businessmen, even the head of a charity. Oh, and a journalist, specially solicited for his renowned and voluble scepticism — Jack Parlabane. Amid the flying paintballs and flowing Shiraz even the most cynical admit the organisers have pulled some surprises — stalkers in the forest, power cuts in…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 441 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 480) Аннотация: To his friends, his foes and even to himself it looks as though Tom Thorne's career is on the skids. On his last case he had seriously over-stepped the mark, and now gardening leave has been suggested and all he has to tend is a window box. So when it appears someone is targeting London's homeless community it seems perfectly natural for Thorne to take a step nearer to the gutter and go…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 381 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 272) Аннотация: Popular Gossip Girl character Jenny Humphrey is leaving Constance Billard to attend Waverly Academy, an elite boarding school in New York horse country where glamorous rich kids don't let the rules get in the way of an excellent time. Determined to leave her Manhattan past behind her, Jenny sets off to Waverly with big plans of reinventing herself. She'll be a goddess-she's a sophisticated city…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 789 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 352) Аннотация: Terrifying, dark and bold, Sarah Dunant's breakthrough psychological thriller transcends genres and audiences; it crosses all boundaries, encroaching on the darker side of sex and fantasy, male and female. Elizabeth Skorvecky has just come out of a long-term relationship with her boyfriend. Alone in her Victorian house, her only companions are her cat, a trashy crime novel she's translating from…