В городе происходят бессмысленные и изощренные убийства. Илья и Сергей идут по следу убийцы. После множества опасностей они выясняют, что еще с древних времен, когда по Руси ходили кукловоды с вертепами и показывали кукольные представления, начинались эпидемии бессмысленных убийств. Этот «вирус» безумия мог жить в человеке многие десятилетия, но в какой-то момент просыпался… И тогда человек уже не знал, что творит, он убивал из озорства, для вес ...
Увлекательный роман, жесткий триллер со значительным элементом мистики. Сюжет его основан на мифах и легендах о существовании в подземельях Петербурга древнего народа чудь, который владеет несметными сокровищами. Контролирующие город преступные группировки борются за обладание этими сокровищами…
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Corey Logan was set up. She knows Nick Season’s terrible secret. Coming home from prison, all Corey wants is to be with her son. To get him back, she needs to make a good impression on the psychiatrist evaluating her. But Dr. Abe Stein doesn’t believe she was framed—until his well-heeled mother falls for the charming state attorney general candidate, Nick Season.As the dogs of war are unleashed, Corey and her son run ...
Tinseltown's awards season is in full swing, and everyone is obsessed with dressing up, scoring free swag, and getting invited to the biggest awards shows of the year. But when celebrity publicist Lyla Davis is killed, the festive mood comes to an abrupt halt. Apprentice private eye Dayna Anderson thinks she's uncovered the killer. Unfortunately, what starts as an open-and-shut case turns out to be anything but. Diving deeper into the ...
A note from bartender Brian McNulty, Raymond Ambler's friend, confidant, and sometimes adviser, sets the librarian sleuth off on a murder investigation, one that he pursues reluctantly until a second murder upends the world as he knows it. The second victim is a lady friend of McNulty's-and the prime suspect is McNulty himself. As Ambler pursues his investigation, he discovers that the murdered woman had a double life. Her intermittent ...
Nikolai 'Niki' Zorakoff has made a killing on the Soviet black market. He smuggles in luxury goods from the West – the blue jeans and perfumes that wealthy Muscovites simply can't do without – and sells them for small fortunes. But when the KGB takes an interest in Niki's operation, he knows he must run or die. So, with a forged passport and as much money as he can carry, Niki heads to the Russian haven of Odessa Beach. It is ...
In the sweltering heat of New Orleans, former Special Forces soldier-turned-bodyguard Charlie Fox faces her toughest challenge yet. Her lover, bodyguard Sean Meyer, has woken from a gunshot-induced coma with his memory in tatters. Working with Sean again was never going to be easy for Charlie, but a celebrity fundraising event in aid of still-ravaged areas of New Orleans should have been the ideal opportunity for them both to take things nice an ...