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Christie Agatha: Towards Zero

Скачать книгу (размер 1 462 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 288) Аннотация: Esteemed criminologist Mr. Treves notes that a good murder mystery begins long before the actual murder. Truer words have never been spoken, for a psychopathic killer insinuates himself with cunning manipulation into a quiet village on the river Tern. But who is his intended victim? And how and when will he reach the point of murder?

Crusie Jennifer: Welcome to Temptation

Скачать книгу (размер 2 115 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 416) Аннотация: Sophie Dempsey is content living a quiet life filming wedding videos until an assignment brings her to Temptation, Ohio. From the moment she drives into town, she gets a bad feeling; Sophie is from the wrong side of the tracks and everything in Temptation is a little too right. And when she has a runin with the town's unnervingly sexy mayor, Phineas Tucker, making a little movie turns out to be…

Janet Evanovich: Hot Six: A Stephanie Plum Novel

Скачать книгу (размер 1 727 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 340) Аннотация: Bounty hunter Stephanie Plum and Trenton vice cop Joe Morelli join forces to find the madman killer who shot and barbecued the youngest son of international black-market arms dealer Alexander Ramos. Carlos Manoso, street name Ranger, is caught on video just minutes before the crime occurs. He's at the scene, he's with the victim, and he's the number-one suspect. Ranger is former special forces…

Wilbur Smith: Cry Wolf

Скачать книгу (размер 2 033 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 400) Аннотация: The year is 1935, shortly before World War II. The «Wolf of Rome», Italy's army under Mussolini, is poised to invade Ethiopia, whose army is not only ill-equipped, but also severely outnumbered. Desperate to save his troubled land, Emperor Haile Selassie enlists American Jake Barton and Englishman Gareth Swales, two risk-takers who both share a taste for danger and the thrill of adventure. The…

Orson Scott Card: Shadow of the Hegemon (Ender, Book 6)

Скачать книгу (размер 2 360 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 464) Аннотация: he War is over, won by Ender Wiggin and his team of brilliant child-warriors. The enemy is destroyed, the human race is saved. Ender himself refuses to return to the planet, but his crew has gone home to their families, scattered across the globe. The battle school is no more. But with the external threat gone, the Earth has become a battlefield once more. The children of the Battle School are…

Agatha Christie: The Secret of Chimneys

Скачать книгу (размер 1 462 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 288) Аннотация: A bit of adventure and quick cash is all that good-natured drifter Anthony Cade is looking for when he accepts a messenger job from an old friend. It sounds so simple: deliver the provocative memoirs of a recently deceased European count to a London publisher. But the parcel holds ore than scandalous royal secrets. It contains a stash of letters that suggest blackmail — and lead to the murder of…

Agatha Christie: The Sittaford Mystery

Скачать книгу (размер 1 462 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 288) Аннотация: M-U-R-D-E-R. It began as an innocent parlor game intended to while away the hours on a bitter winter night. But the message that appeared before the amateur occultists snowbound at the Sittaford House was spelled out as loud and clear as a scream. Of course, the notion that they had foretold doom was pure bunk. Wasn't it? And the discovery of a corpse was pure coincidence. Wasn't it? If they're…

Rosamunde Pilcher: Winter Solstice

Скачать книгу (размер 2 564 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 504) Аннотация: In Winter Solstice Rosamunde Pilcher brings her readers into the lives of five very different people.... Elfrida Phipps, once of London's stage, moved to the English village of Dibton in hopes of making a new life for herself. Gradually she settled into the comfortable familiarity of village life — shopkeepers knowing her tastes, neighbors calling her by name — still she finds herself lonely.…

Agatha Christie: The Witness for the Prosecution

Скачать книгу (размер 1 462 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 288) Аннотация: A murder trial takes a diabolical turn when the wife of the accused takes a stand...A woman's sixth — and a loaded revolver — signal premonitions of doom...A stranded motorist seeks refuge in a remote mansion, and is greeted with a dire warning...Detective Hercule Poirot faces his greatest challenge when his services are enlisted — by the victim — in a bizarre locked-room murder. From the…

Terry Goodkind: Faith of the Fallen (Sword of Truth 6)

Скачать книгу (размер 4 073 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 800) Аннотация: Terry Goodkind author of the enormously popular Sword of Truth novels, has forged perhaps his best novel yet, pitting Richard Rahl and Kahlan Amnell against threats to the freedom of the world that will take them to opposite ends of the world to defeat the forces of chaos and anarchy. Emperor Jagang is rising once again in the Old World and Richard must face him, on his own turf. Richard heads…

Ian Rankin: The Black Book

Скачать книгу (размер 1 789 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 352) Аннотация: Five years ago, a mysterious fire burned Edinburgh's seed Central Hotel to ashes. Long-forgotten and unsolved, the case reappears when a charred body — with a bullet in its head — is found amongst the ruins. Inspector John Rebus knows that his superiors would rather he let sleeping dogs lie. He knows that part of the answer lies somewhere in a cryptic black notebook. Ane he knows that to solve…

Tom Stoppard: Tom Stoppard: Plays 4

Скачать книгу (размер 2 441 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 480) Аннотация: »Dalliance», «Undiscovered Country», «Rough Crossing», «On the Razzle», «The Seagull». This fourth volume of Tom Stoppard's work for the stage brings together five of his most celebrated translations and adaptations of plays by Arthur Schnitzler («Dalliance» and «Undiscovered Country»), Ferenc Molnar («Rough Crossing», a classic farce set aboard an ocean liner), Johann Nestroy («On the Razzle», a…

Agatha Christie: The Unexpected Guest

Скачать книгу (размер 1 544 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 304) Аннотация: Agatha Christie is the most widely published author of all time with her works outsold only by Shakespeare and the Bible. She is regarded by generations of fans as the greatest mystery writer ever, and her novels are read and cherished the world over. Clarissa, the young wife of a Foreign Office Diplomat, delights in tweaking the sensibilities of her more serious friends and for playing a game…

Ian Rankin: Dead Souls

Скачать книгу (размер 2 278 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 448) Аннотация: Stalking a poisoner at the local zoo, Edinburgh Police Inspector John Rebus comes across a paedophile taking pictures of children. When the social workers claim he is there for legitimate educational reasons, Rebus is faced with a dilemma — should he be outed to protect local kids or given a chance to start anew? As the locals begin a hate campaign he gets a call from the past — the son of a…

Jane Austen: Persuasion

Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: When Anne Elliot falls in love with a handsome and charming young man, she must make a wrenching decision. The man she loves is perfect in every way...except one: he lacks the wealth and social status that would make him a suitable match for Anne. At least, that is what friends and family persuade Anne to believe. So Anne breaks off the match and sends Wentworth away. But she can't help…

Matt Reilly: Ice Station

Скачать книгу (размер 2 686 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 528) Аннотация: Antarctica is the last unconquered continent, a murderous expanse of howling winds, blinding whiteouts and deadly crevasses. On one edge of Antarctica is Wilkes Station. Beneath Wilkes Station is the gate to hell itself... A team of U.S. divers, exploring three thousand feet beneath the ice shelf has vanished. Sending out an SOS, Wilkes draws a rapid deployment team of Marines-and someone else...…

Frederick Forsyth: The Phantom of Manhattan

Скачать книгу (размер 1 554 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 306) Аннотация: The stunning continuation of the timeless classic «The Phantom of the Opera». In «The Phantom of Manhattan», acclaimed, bestselling suspense novelist Frederick Forsyth pens a magnificent work of historical fiction, rife with the insights and sounds of turn-of-the-century New York City, while continuing the dramatic saga which began with Gaston Leroux's brilliant novel «The Phantom of the…

Glen Cook: Water Sleeps (Chronicles of the Black Company 8)

Скачать книгу (размер 2 441 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 480) Аннотация: Regrouping in Taglios, the surviving members of the Black Company are determined to free their fellow warriors held in stasis beneath the glittering plain. Journey there under terrible conditions, they arrive just in time for a magical conflagration in which the bones of the world will be revealed, the history of the Company unveiled, and new world gained and lost...all at a terrible price.

Agatha Christie: Black Coffee

Скачать книгу (размер 1 472 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 290) Аннотация: Nearly a quarter-century after her death, Agatha Christie remains the most popular mystery writer of all time. Now, in a celebrated publishing event, fans and newcomers alike are treated to another Christie novel. Created in 1930 as a stage play and faithfully adapted by Charles Osborne, Black Coffee brings back beloved detective Hercule Poirot to exercise his «little grey cells» one more…

Wilbur Smith: Hungry as the Sea

Скачать книгу (размер 2 549 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 501) Аннотация: Wilbur Smith sets his vividly realistic novels on the razor's edge between human courage and nature's wrath. InHungry As The Sea, this master storyteller takes us to the frigid South Atlantic, where one man fights for his life — and for redemption. Nicholas Berg is steaming out of Cape Town aboard the salvage tug Warlock. Once Berg ruled an ocean-going empire. Now, his future has come down to a…