Скачать книгу (размер 2 686 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 528) Аннотация: Thomas is a map-obsessed schizophrenic who spends his days and nights on a website called Whirl 360, believing he's employed by the CIA to store the details of every town and city in the world in his head. Then one day, he sees something that shouldn't be there: a woman being murdered behind a window on a New York street. When Thomas tells his brother Ray what he has witnessed, Ray humours him…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 707 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 336) Аннотация: Sookie has a murder investigation on her hands. A young girl has died at a vampire party — and it looks as though her lover, Eric, might be responsible. Eric swears he didn't do it, the police don't believe him, and even Sookie isn't so sure. Nor is she inclined to take his word for it, not having caught him enjoying the victim's blood minutes before she was killed. But something strange is going…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 360 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 464) Аннотация: Stoneybridge is full of holiday-makers in summer, its beaches are full of buckets and spades and sandcastles; but in winter it's cold and wild. Few choose to walk along the fine sands, the big round pebbles and the exposed rocky promontories that make up the wind-swept Atlantic coastline. Those who do can't help but see Stone House, the big house on the cliff; once falling into disrepair it is…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 707 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 336) Аннотация: Eleanor is the new girl in town, and she's never felt more alone. All mismatched clothes, mad red hair and chaotic home life, she couldn't stick out more if she tried. Then she takes the seat on the bus next to Park. Quiet, careful and — in Eleanor's eyes — impossibly cool, Park's worked out that flying under the radar is the best way to get by. Slowly, steadily, through late-night conversations…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 605 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 512) Аннотация: Andy Barber's job is to put killers behind bars. And when a boy from his son Jacob's school is found stabbed to death, Andy is doubly determined to find and prosecute the perpetrator. Until a crucial piece of evidence turns up linking Jacob to the murder. And suddenly Andy and his wife find their son accused of being a cold-blooded killer. In the face of every parent's worst nightmare, they will…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 320) Аннотация: The Prisoner of Heaven returns to the world of the Cemetery of Forgotten Books and the Sempere & Sons bookshop. It begins just before Christmas in Barcelona in 1957, one year after Daniel and Bea from The Shadow of the Wind have married. They now have a son, Julian, and are living with Daniel's father at Sempere & Sons. Fermin still works with them and is busy preparing for his wedding to…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 544 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 304) Аннотация: A grandfather brutally murdered in a post office raid. A corrupt politician fighting for his future. A police force up for sale. Three crimes leading to one question — who really runs Glasgow? Recently returned to work after the birth of her twins, DS Alex Morrow is called in to head the murder enquiry. The grandfather had helped the gunmen before being shot — was as it a moment of madness, a…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 523 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 496) Аннотация: London, May 1537. As those closest to the throne are locked in a fierce fight against those desperate to save England's monasteries from destruction, young Joanna Stafford faces a far more personal battle. When Joanna learns her cousin is about to be burned at the stake for rebelling against Henry VIII, she makes a decision that will change not only her life, but quite possibly the fate of a…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 707 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 336) Аннотация: We can hardly imagine a Britain without Elizabeth II on the throne. It seems to be the job she was born for. And yet for much of her early life the young princess did not know the role that her future would hold. She was our accidental Queen. As a young girl, Elizabeth was among the guests in Westminster Abbey watching her father being crowned, making her the only monarch to have attended a…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 278 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 448) Аннотация: Family life for Mia Channing has always been a carefully orchestrated balancing act. Her husband, Jeff, sees himself as the Larger than Life Patriarch and has always assigned their grown up children very specific roles. Jensen, the eldest, is the Unlovable Awkward One; Eliza, the Distant Smart One; and Daisy, the baby of the family, is the Special One. Mia's own role is that of Devoted Wife and…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 320) Аннотация: Max Frei has discovered that the one place he really fits in is the parallel world of Echo. In our world he's a loser, an insomniac with dubious social skills and an addiction to cigarettes. But in Echo, the reality is far stranger. There he is Sir Max, a superb magician and one of the powerful few chosen to defend the land against all possible enemies. And he's finally happy. But when one of his…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 033 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 400) Аннотация: Darkness never dies. Alina and Mal are on the run. Hunted and haunted, but together at last, they can't outrun Alina's past or her destiny forever. The Darkling has emerged from the Shadow Fold with a terrifying new power and he needs Alina to realise his dangerous plan. There are others who would like to use Alina's gift too. And as her power grows, somehow, she must choose between her country,…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 320) Аннотация: The Shadow Fold, a swathe of impenetrable darkness, crawling with monsters that feast on human flesh, is slowly destroying the once-great nation of Ravka. Alina, a pale, lonely orphan, discovers a unique power that thrusts her into the lavish world of the kingdom's magical elite — the Grisha. Could she be the key to unravelling the dark fabric of the Shadow Fold and setting Ravka free? The…
Скачать книгу (размер 3 176 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 624) Аннотация: 'Joe Abercrombie is doing some terrific work' George R. R. Martin, author of GAME OF THRONES. They burned her home. They stole her brother and sister. But vengeance is following. Shy South hoped to bury her bloody past and ride away smiling, but she'll have to sharpen up some bad old ways to get her family back, and she's not a woman to flinch from what needs doing. She sets off in pursuit with…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 952 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 384) Аннотация: Joel is fascinated by the magical art of Rithmatics, but unfortunately only a chosen few have the necessary gift and Joel is not one of them. Undaunted, Joel persuades Professor Fitch to teach him Rithmatic theory — and soon finds that his knowledge is put to the test when someone starts murdering the top Rithmatic students at his school. But can Joel work out the identity of the killer and stop…
Скачать книгу (размер 116 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 24) Аннотация: From mediaeval times to modern day, people have been endlessly fascinated by tales of the famous outlaw who allegedly robbed the rich to give to the poor. But who was Robin Hood really — aristocrat or commoner; hero or villain? Where did he really come from? Sheffield and Yorkshire claim him as their own son as much as Nottinghamshire ever did. Myths abound and in this book, with all the humour,…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 197 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 432) Аннотация: A series of seemingly random disappearances — stretching back to the millennium. A mother determined to find the truth. A retired cop desperate to get his old life back... It's been some time since Rebus was forced to retire, and now works as a civilian in a cold case unit. So when a long-dead case bursts back to life, he can't resist the opportunity to get his feet under the CID desk once more.…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 033 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 400) Аннотация: The fiery trails of tracer bullets, as a wounded Spitfire falls from the sky. A Jamaican plantation burns deep into the night. A handful of heroic Highlanders fight their way straight up a vertical cliff to stand on the Plains of Abraham in a fiery dawn. And a torch burns green, through the eerie surrounds of a Parisian cemetery, down into the mysteries of the earth. Four Outlander tales, each…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 686 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 528) Аннотация: Thomas is a map-obsessed schizophrenic who spends his days and nights on a website called Whirl360, believing he's employed by the CIA to store the details of every town and city in the world in his head. Then one day, he sees something that shouldn't be there: a woman being murdered behind a window on a New York street. When Thomas tells his brother Ray what he has witnessed, Ray humours him…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 462 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 288) Аннотация: In the year 2100, mankind on Earth, settlers in a lunar colony and aliens from the para-universe, a strange universe parallel in time to our own, are faced with a race against time to prevent total destruction of the Earth. The invention of the Inter-Universe Electron Pump has threatened the rate of hydrogen fusion in the sun, leading, inevitably, to the possibilty of a vast explosion — and the…