Jeffery Deaver Livres

« Un frisson par minute dans cette aventure en milieu sauvage ! » - The New York Times. Un appel téléphonique inattendu d’une maison de campagne du Wisconsin alerte la police. L’inspecteur McKenzie prend en charge l’enquête et découvre une scène macabre : deux personnes abattues. Les meurtriers sont présents et attaquent McKenzie, qui se retrouve désarmée et isolée. Elle s’enfuit dans la forêt avec une survivante, ne pouvant la laisser derrière elle. Traquées, les deux femmes vivent une épreuve terrifiante. En danger de mort, McKenzie doit compter uniquement sur son instinct de survie. L’auteur, Jeffery Deaver, ancien journaliste et avocat, a vu ses œuvres publiées dans plus de cent-vingt pays et traduites en vingt-cinq langues. Ses romans, souvent présents sur les listes des best-sellers, ont remporté de nombreux prix prestigieux, dont le Steel Dagger pour Le Rectificateur. Le Désosseur a été adapté au cinéma avec Denzel Washington et Angelina Jolie. La critique loue son talent pour créer une atmosphère de terreur et ses intrigues pleines de rebondissements. À sa sortie aux États-Unis, Instinct de survie a été couronné meilleur thriller de l’année par l’Association internationale des auteurs de thrillers. Traduit de l'anglais par Jean Esch.

Lincoln Rhyme était sans doute le criminologue le plus célèbre des Etats-Unis, capable de dresser le portrait complet d'un tueur à partir de quelques indices recueillis sur la scène du crime. Mais Rhyme, blessé lors d'une enquête, n'est plus qu'un grand paralysé, esprit brillant dans un corps inerte, infirme sarcastique dont la seule obsession est d'en finir avec cette vie. Jusqu'à la découverte d'un cadavre enterré au bord d'une voie ferrée, dont seule une main ensanglantée sort de terre. A regret, Rhyme va reprendre du service pour traquer l'assassin du fond de son lit. L'homme est lancé à la poursuite de nouvelles victimes et il faut, pour les sauver, déchiffrer au plus vite les traces qu'il sème sur son passage avec la volonté diabolique de brouiller les pistes. Avec Lincoln Rhyme, Deaver a créé un formidable personnage d'enquêteur, cynique, érudit et d'une précision méthodique. Le Désosseur est un terrifiant cocktail de suspense et de médecine légale. Un film, Bone Collector, adapté du Désosseur a été réalisé par Philip Noyce.

Une chance unique s'offre à Lincoln Rhyme, le célèbre criminologue tétraplégique : une intervention chirurgicale pourrait lui rendre partiellement sa mobilité. Mais rien ne se passe comme prévu, et Rhyme se trouve pris au piège d'une machination infernale. Pendant ce temps, la police locale piétine dans une affaire de meurtres. Le suspect, un adolescent surnommé le Cafard, a pris la fuite. Amelia Sachs, la coéquipière de Rhyme, persuade celui-ci de diriger l'enquête. Commence alors une course-poursuite haletante dans de lugubres marais, infestés d'insectes. Mais la capture de l'assassin n'est qu'un début...

Washington est en état de choc en apprenant qu'un tueur fou vient de tirer à l'aveugle dans une station de métro. Bilan : des dizaines de morts. Une lettre arrive bientôt sur le bureau du maire, lui annonçant que l'assassin, surnommé le Digger, sèmera la terreur si une rançon de 20 millions de dollars n'est pas remise à un complice. Mais ce dernier est tué accidentellement alors qu'il va récupérer l'argent. Sans autre indice que la demande de rançon, l'agent Margaret Lukas fait appel à Parker Kincaid, ancien agent du FBI spécialisé dans l'analyse graphologique. Ils ont une journée pour retrouver le Digger, implacable machine à tuer qui frappe toutes les quatre heures au coeur de la ville, où se déroulent les festivités du nouvel an.

Kathryn Dance, die neue Ermittlerin von Jeffery Deaver, steht vor ihrem ersten Fall: Der Psychopath Daniel Pell, der vor acht Jahren eine Familie ermordete, ist aus dem Gefängnis geflohen. Nur Dance kann verhindern, dass er sein Verbrechen von damals wiederholt und die überlebende Tochter erneut in Gefahr bringt.

Dans un abattoir désaffecté, au cœur des plaines du Kansas, trois criminels en cavale se sont retranchés, retenant en otages huit écolières sourdes-muettes et leurs enseignantes. Lou Handy, le meneur psychopathe, place très haut ses enchères meurtrières : il abattra une fillette par heure s'il n'obtient pas satisfaction. Pour Arthur Potter, le négociateur dépêché par le FBI, commence le bras de fer le plus éprouvant de sa carrière. Il trouvera une alliée en la personne de Melanie, l'une des enseignantes, atteinte du même handicap que ses élèves : un handicap qui peut aussi constituer un atout, puisque les ravisseurs ne comprennent pas le langage de leurs victimes... Cette course contre la mort, qui met en scène de façon remarquablement sensible et documentée l'univers des sourds-muets, nous mène sans une seconde de répit jusqu'à l'affrontement et au retournement ultimes.

En Californie, dans la Silicon Valley, royaume des nouvelles technologies, un jeu mortel a commencé. Peu avant les crimes, l'ordinateur des victimes subit un soft access : un inconnu s'y introduit via internet. Puis, grâce aux détails intimes stockés sur le disque dur, il tend son piège. Plus le meurtre est difficile à commettre, plus l'assassin semble se régaler. La police, en faisant appel à Wyatt Gillette, un hacker surdoué, se lance dans une partie de cache-cache avec le tueur en série. Une traque effrénée entre réalité et cybermonde qui les entraînera dans les profondeurs de l'internet, cet " Ailleurs Bleu " où chacun avance masqué.

A vingt et un ans, Rune rêve d'être réalisatrice de cinéma, mais elle n'a guère trouvé qu'un job médiocre d'assistante de production à Manhattan. Une explosion dans un cinéma de Times Square, où l'on donnait un film classé "X", lui inspire une idée : consacré un film à Shelly Lowe, la star du porno, principale interprète de ce film. Mais, alors qu'elle a recueilli les confidences de Shelly, dont l'ambition est de devenir urge véritable comédienne, cette dernière est tuée par l'explosion d'une seconde bombe. Rune, bouleversée, se jure de découvrir la vérité sur cette mort tragique. Et c'est elle qui dès dors va être à son tour menacée. Ce nouveau thriller de l'auteur du Désosseur (Bons collector au cinéma) nous plonge dans un suspense qui a enthousiasmé la critique américaine.

The Coffin Dancer, America's most wanted hit man, is back. He's been hired by an airline owner who wants three witnesses taken care of before his trial, and has got the first, a pilot, by blowing up his entire plane. Enter quadriplegic ex-cop Lincoln Rhyme, who can find forensic evidence to hang a man in the smallest debris, and his assistant Amelia Sachs. Their job is to keep the remaining two witnesses safe, and to find the Coffin Dancer before he finds them. Because he will find them, and anyone else who tries to get in his way.

The electrifying ninth Lincoln Rhyme thriller.

In his classic thriller The Bone Collector, Jeffery Deaver introduced readers to Lincoln Rhyme-the nation's most renowned investigator and forensic detective. Now, a new killer is on the loose: a criminal inspired by the Bone Collector. And Rhyme must untangle the twisted web of clues before the killer targets more victims-or Rhyme himself. THE SKIN COLLECTOR The killer's methods are terrifying. He stalks the basements and underground passageways of New York City. He tattoos his victims' flesh with cryptic messages, using a tattoo gun loaded with poison, resulting in an agonizing, painful death. When a connection is made to the Bone Collector-the serial killer who terrorized New York more than a decade ago-Lincoln Rhyme and Amelia Sachs are immediately drawn into the case. Rhyme, Sachs, and the NYPD must race against time to answer the many questions the investigation uncovers: Whom will the killer attack next? What is the message behind the victims' tattoos? Does the killer's own inking--a fanged centipede sporting a woman's face--hold any significance? And what is his ultimate mission? As time runs out, Rhyme discovers that the past has returned to haunt him in the most troubling way imaginable...

New York Times bestselling author Jeffery Deaver has long thrilled fans with tales of masterful villains and their nefarious ways, and the brilliant minds who bring them to justice. Now the author of the Lincoln Rhyme series has collected for the first time his award-winning, spine-tingling stories of suspense -- stories that will widen your eyes and stretch your imagination. A beautiful woman goes to extremes to rid herself of her stalker; a daughter begs her father not to go fishing in an area where there have been a series of brutal killings; a contemporary of the playwright William Shakespeare vows to avenge his family's ruin; and Jeffery Deaver's most beloved character, criminalist Lincoln Rhyme, is back to solve a chilling Christmastime disappearance. Diverse, provocative, eerie and inspired, this collection of Jeffery Deaver's best stories exhibits the amazing range and signature plot twists that have earned him the title "master of ticking-bomb suspense" (People). With nods to O. Henry and Edgar Allan Poe, these beautifully crafted pieces, never before compiled in one volume, pulse with subtle intrigue and Deaver's incomparable imagination.

New York Times bestselling author Jeffery Deaver, “the grand master of the plot twist” ( Booklist ), is back with more diabolical tales of suspense. Deaver, author of the Lincoln Rhyme series ( The Bone Collector , etc.), crafted first-rate thrills in the story collection Twisted . Here he presents sixteen more tales—including an all-new Lincoln Rhyme entry—spawned from his darkly brilliant imagination. From a stressed-out commuter to a death-row inmate, Deaver’s characters are never what they seem—and every jaw-dropping curveball he delivers is nothing less than “ingeniously devious” ( People ).

Lincoln and Amelia are recruited to track down a cargo ship carrying two dozen illegal Chinese immigrants, as well as the notorious human smuggler and killer known as the Ghost. But when the capture goes disastrously wrong, Lincoln and Amelia find themselves in a race to stop the Ghost before he can track down and murder the two surviving families who have vanished deep into the labyrinthine world of New York City's Chinese community. Over the next forty-eight hours the Ghost ruthlessly hunts for the families while Rhyme, aided by a policeman from mainland China, struggles to find them before they die and Sachs pursues a very different kind of policework - forming a connection with one of the immigrants that may have consequences going to the core of her relationship with her partner and lover, Lincoln Rhyme.

"Thirty years ago, police chief Edward Shank hunted down and killed the most notorious serial killer in Seattle's history: the Beacon Hill Butcher. Now, eighty years old and retired, Edward is giving up his Victorian home to his grandson Matt, an aspiring chef. While Matt is renovating it, he stumbles upon a gruesome cache. Matt must decide whether he should ignore the sinister secret, go to the police, or take matters into his own hands. And his family's past is feeding disturbing changes in himself as well ... Sam, his girlfriend, believes that her mother may have been killed by the Beacon Hill Butcher - even though the murder took place two years after Edward Shank gunned down the killer. But Sam's search is bringing her too close to the truth ... and right into the path of Matt's terrible secret"--Back cover.

Prepare to meet the most seductively female and shockingly fatal femme fatales, brought to you by seventeen of today’s finest authors of mystery and suspense fiction. Award-winning editor Otto Penzler presents a collection of short, sizzling masterpieces filled with thrilling tales that showcase how sexy and fierce the 'gentler sex' can be. In 'Third Party', a party girl takes you on a wild ride through the Paris night, while Nelson DeMille's 'Rendezvous' plunges you into a Vietnam jungle where the deadliest scourge is a woman. Elmore Leonard introduces a Depression-era teenage gun moll in 'Louly and Pretty Boy', who loves Pretty Boy Floyd more than robbing filling stations. Lorenzo Carcaterra's 'A Thousand Miles from Nowhere' features a smart blonde seeking slow-simmered vengeance, and Michael Connelly's 'Cielo Azul' reveals how a nameless woman found dead in Los Angeles can be the most lethal prey. Other riveting tales include a scorned lover claiming an old fling's heart, a mysterious woman offering a tempting suicide pact, and a she-demon rising from the grave. These and many other bad girls cast their criminal spells through the powerful voices of Joyce Carol Oates, John Connolly, Thomas H. Cook, Jeffrey Deaver, and more, in stories as irresistible as the anti-heroines that blaze through their pages.

Number one bestselling author and master of suspense Jeffery Deaver returns with the twelfth Lincoln Rhyme thriller.

Four novels selected and condensed by Reader's Digest.

DEAVER. DANGEROUSLY GOOD. A spring night in a small town in Wisconsin. A call to police emergency from a distant lake house is cut short. Is it a phone glitch or something more sinister? Off-duty deputy Brynn McKenzie leaves her family's dinner table to find out... ...And stumbles onto the scene of a heinous murder. Before she can call for backup she finds herself the next potential victim. Deprived of her phone, weapon and car, Brynn flees, along with the only survivor of the crime. These unlikely allies can survive only by escaping into the dense, deserted woods, on a desperate trek to safety. And ultimately to a life or death choice. Flight. Or fight? 'Confirms his status as one of the finest crime writers in the world . . . grabs the reader by the throat from the beginning. Superb.' Independent on Sunday

Geneva Settle is a bright young high school student from Harlem writing a paper about one of her ancestors, a former slave called Charles Singleton. Geneva is also the target of a ruthless professional killer. Criminalist Lincoln Rhyme and his policewoman partner Amelia Sachs are called into the case, working frantically to anticipate where the hired gun will strike next and how to stop him, all the while trying to get to the truth of Charles Singleton, and the reason that Geneva has been targeted. For Charles Singleton had a secret – a secret that may strike at the very heart of the United States constitution, and have disastrous consequences for human rights today. And Sachs is going to have to search a crime scene that’s 140 years old before she can stop the killer.

Down-and-out drunk Terry Lennox has a problem: his millionaire wife is dead and he needs to get out of LA fast. So he turns to his only friend in the world: Philip Marlowe, Private Investigator. He’s willing to help a man down on his luck, but later, Lennox commits suicide in Mexico and things start to turn nasty. Marlowe finds himself drawn into a sordid crowd of adulterers and alcoholics in LA’s Idle Valley, where the rich are suffering one big suntanned hangover. Marlowe is sure Lennox didn’t kill his wife, but how many more stiffs will turn up before he gets to the truth?

Renowned investigator and forensics expert Lincoln Rhyme is drafted to investigate the sniper-killing of a U.S. citizen in the Bahamas. While his partner, Amelia Sachs, traces the victim's steps in Manhattan, Rhyme leaves the city to pursue the sniper himself.

Lincoln Rhyme is back, and this time he’s in danger. A CITY IN TURMOIL Looming over the Manhattan skyline, a lone crane comes crashing down into the city, sending panic radiating across New York City. A DEADLY CONSPIRACY The NYPD believes a political group is behind the sabotage and turns to Lincoln Rhyme for help. He knows this is just the beginning. A RACE AGAINST TIME Lincoln Rhyme and Amelia Sachs must race to stop further attacks before more chaos is unleashed upon the city. Watching Rhyme from the shadows is the elusive assassin The Watchmaker, and he’s preparing to strike…

This fantastic new collection picks up where Dorothy L. Sayers left off, bringing together monumental, important,and entertaining works of short crime fiction published over eight decades from the era of the Great Depression to the first years of the twenty-first century.

The sun sets. The moon takes its place, illuminating the most evil corners of the planet. What twisted fear dwells in that blackness? What legends attach to those of sound mind and make them go crazy in the bright light of day? Only Suspense Magazine knows... Teaming up with New York Times bestselling author Jeffery Deaver, Suspense Magazine offers up a nail-biting anthology titled: "Nothing Good Happens After Midnight." This thrilling collection consists of thirteen original short stories representing the genres of suspense/thriller, mystery, sci-fi/fantasy, and more. Readers' favorites come together to explore the mystery of midnight. The 'best of the best' presenting these memorable tales, include: Joseph Badal, Linwood Barclay, Rhys Bowen, Heather Graham, Alan Jacobson, Paul Kemprecos, Shannon Kirk, Jon Land, John Lescroart, D. P. Lyle, Kevin O'Brien, and Hank Phillippi Ryan. Take their hands...walk into their worlds...but be prepared to leave the light on when you're through. After all, this incredible gathering of authors, who will delight fans of all genres, not only utilized their award-winning imaginations to answer that age-old question of why "Nothing Good Happens After Midnight"-they also made sure to pen stories that will leave you...speechless.

A killer flees the scene of a homicide at a prestigious Manhattan music school and locks himself in a classroom. Within minutes, the police have him surrounded. Then a scream rings out, followed by a gunshot. The police break down the door. The room is empty. Lincoln Rhyme and Amelia Sachs are brought in to help with the high-profile investigation. For the ambitious Sachs, solving the case could earn her a promotion. For the quadriplegic Rhyme, it means relying on his prot�g�e to ferret out a master illusionist they've dubbed 'the conjurer', who baits them with gruesome murders that become more diabolical with each fresh crime. As the fatalities rise and the minutes tick down, Rhyme and Sachs must move beyond the smoke and mirrors to prevent a terrifying act of vengeance that could become the greatest vanishing act of all.

Special Agent Kathryn Dance must use her considerable skills at investigation and body language analysis to stop a celebrity stalker set in the world of country music.

Lincoln Rhyme is back - and from his New York townhouse, he and Amelia Sachs must contend with a killer who seems to be targeting couples just as they start out on their lives together.

He is watching you. He knows you, better than you know yourself. And he is using his knowledge to plan your death. But you are not his only victim. He is also watching your killer. He is about to get away with the perfect murder . . .

Lincoln Rhyme is threatened by his cleverest opponent yet in the seventh in the series.

The sixth thriller in the Lincoln Rhyme series, set in Harlem and featuring one of Deaver's most spectacular twists.

The sixth thriller in the Lincoln Rhyme series, set in Harlem and featuring one of Deaver's most spectacular twists.

Acclaimed bestselling author Deaver takes readers on a brand-new adventure: a race to find and stop a professional criminal whose gruesome specialty lies in extracting information from his innocent victims by any means necessary.

The New York Times bestselling master of suspense returns to his beloved series, adapted for TV and featuring Justin Hartley, as reward seeker Colter Shaw races against the clock to save a flooding town from a full-fledged disaster, where the culprit lurks in the plain sight. A small town in Northern California is at risk of being destroyed by a failing levee, and Colter Shaw has been hired to locate a family swept away by the raging water, with just mere hours to survive. But is the levee at risk of failing from natural causes or is someone sabotaging it? With the help of his sister, Dorion, the duo must save the citizens before the old town washes out at the hands of a secret conspirer.

A devious collection of short stories from the master of misdirection, featuring appearances from Lincoln Rhyme and Colter Shaw.

The New York Times Bestselling master of suspense is back with a riveting thriller, as reward seeker Colter Shaw plunges into the woods and races the clock in a case where nothing is quite what it seems.

TENSION . . . An aging actor attempts to revive his career by entering a celebrity poker game for a reality TV show. Can he outwit his devious opponents, or is his fate doomed from the outset? CONSPIRACY . . . A successful crime writer dies under seemingly natural circumstances, but for one cop, doubts are lingering. There's certainly motive for murder - or is there more to the case than meets the eye? MURDER . . . Lincoln Rhyme is announced dead, shot by one of his suspects in cold blood. Is this the end of the line for the criminalist, or just another twist in the tale?

From the bestselling and award-winning master of suspense, the first novel in a thrilling new series! Colter Shaw is an itinerate "reward-seeker," traveling the country to help police solve crimes and private citizens locate missing persons. When he learns of a reward for a missing college student in Silicon Valley, he takes the job. The investigation quickly thrusts him into the dark heart of Silicon Valley and the cutthroat billion-dollar video gaming industry--and then a second kidnapping happens...and this victim turns up dead. The clues soon point to one video game, The Never Game, in which the player has to survive after being left abandoned. Is a madman bringing that game to life? If so, Shaw has to stop him before he strikes again...and before he figures out that Shaw is on his trail.

When a woman arrives home to her Manhattan apartment to find that her personal items have been rearranged while she slept, police initially dismiss her complaint. Nothing was stolen, and there's no sign of breaking and entering. But when the same woman turns up dead, Lincoln Rhyme and Amelia Sachs are brought in to investigate the murder. The soon learn that the murderer calls himself "the Locksmith." He is obsessed with locks, slipping into homes in the dead of night and tying his victims up with knots or locks, ultimately strangling them.Their hunt for the killer is interrupted when an internal investigation in the police force uncovers what seems to be a crucial mistake in one of Rhyme's previous cases. He is removed from the case, and must investigate the Locksmith in secret to untangle the mysteries behind the psychotic killer before he can set his ultimate trap.

Paul Schumann is a contract hitman for the mob in 1936. But with Prohibition over and the gang wars associated with it coming to an end, Schumann is finding less and less work. Then he is contracted for a hit. But this time, he's caught - and finds that he's been set up. He's taken to meet an official in Army Intelligence and given a choice: he can spend the rest of his life in jail, or he can help his country. He is to pose as a member of the 1936 Olympic team, travel to Berlin, and kill a high-ranking Nazi close to Hitler. Schumann has been picked because he's a second generation German-American and can speak the language fluently. Or at least that's what they lead him to believe

You wait, desperately, for news of your daughter. At last, the door opens. But it is not the negotiators, or the FBI. It is her kidnapper. And he has a gun . . . Two days ago, life was normal. How did it end like this? Every crime scene begins at the end. To know what happened, you must work backwards, piecing together the events that came before. The ultimate thriller writer, Jeffery Deaver puts your brain - and your nerves - to the ultimate test with THE OCTOBER LIST, in a masterful mystery that unfolds from the end back to the beginning with many a breath-taking twist along the way.

The gripping new thriller from the No.1 Sunday Times bestseller Jeffery Deaver

The fourth electrifying thriller in the Kathryn Dance series from master of suspense Jeffery Deaver. One mistake is all it takes. Busted back to rookie after losing her gun in an interrogation gone bad, California Bureau of Investigation Agent Kathryn Dance finds herself making routine insurance checks after a roadhouse fire. But Dance is a highly trained expert in body language: her most deadly weapon is her instinct, and they can't take that away from her. And when the evidence at the club points to something more than a tragic accident, she isn't going to let protocol stop her doing everything in her power to take down the perp. Someone out there is using the panic of crowds to kill, and Dance must find out who, before he strikes again . . .

Forensic detective Lincoln Rhyme is back with his most harrowing case yet in this newest installment of Jeffrey Deaver's New York Times bestselling series. A businessman snatched from an Upper East Side street in broad daylight. A miniature hangman's noose left at the scene. A nine-year-old girl, the only witness to the crime. With a crime scene this puzzling, forensic expertise of the highest order is absolutely essential. Lincoln Rhyme and Amelia Sachs are called in to investigate. Soon the case takes a stranger turn: a recording surfaces of the victim being slowly hanged, his desperate gasps the backdrop to an eerie piece of music. The video is marked as the work of The Composer... Despite their best efforts, the suspect gets away. So when a similar kidnapping occurs on a dusty road outside Naples, Italy, Rhyme and Sachs don't hesitate to rejoin the hunt. But the search is now a complex case of international cooperation--and not all those involved may be who they seem. Sachs and Rhyme find themselves playing a dangerous game, with lives all across the globe hanging in the balance.

Roadside crosses are appearing along the highways of the Monterey Peninsula, not as memorials to past accidents but as markers for fatalities yet to come...and someone, armed with information gleaned from careless and all-too-personal blog postings, intends to carry out those killings. Kathryn Dance and her C.B.I. team know when the attacks will take place, but who will be the victims? Her body language expertise leads her to a recent fatal car crash, and to the driver, Travis Brigham, a gaming-obsessed teen who's become the target of vicious cyberbullies. And when Travis disappears, Kathryn must lead a furious manhunt in the elusive world of bloggers and social networking, where nothing is as it seems...

Aaron Matthews is a man with a gift: he can talk anyone into doing almost anything. As a psychologist he used that talent to help people. Now he's using it against one man for revenge. With former trial lawyer Tate Collier as his target, the brilliant, ruthless Matthews knows the easiest way to destroy his adversary is to strike at the point of least resistance, which for Collier is his teenage daughter.

James Bond est de retour. Comme vous ne l’avez jamais vu. Tout commence par une étourdissante partie de baccara. Le Chiffre, mystérieux et puissant agent au service des Russes, joue au casino de royale-les-eaux pour financer ses sinistres projets. Mais un adversaire aux nerfs d’acier vient s’asseoir en face de lui. Son nom est Bond. James Bond. Mais cette partie endiablée n’est que la première épreuve. L’agent secret va devoir déployer toute son habileté et son courage pour mettre fin aux machinations des ennemis du monde libre. A moins qu’une épreuve plus diabolique que toutes les autres n’ait raison de lui : l’amour... Casino royale, le film, a lancé avec fracas l'incarnation de James Bond par Daniel Craig.

"The joy of fiction is the joy of the imagination. . . ." The best stories engage readers, compelling them to turn pages in anticipation of what comes next. Great literature is defined by its imagination, as demonstrated in this exceptional anthology, which redefines the boundaries of imaginative fiction. It features contributions from renowned writers like Peter Straub, Chuck Palahniuk, Roddy Doyle, and Joyce Carol Oates, among others, showcasing their craft and challenging misconceptions about genres. Curated by Neil Gaiman and Al Sarrantonio, who personally selected each story, the anthology sets a high standard for this "new literature of the imagination." The collection aims to present familiar themes in fresh, illuminating ways. Notable tales include Joe Hill's disturbing exploration of evil in "Devil on the Staircase," Lawrence Block's unique take on fishing in "Catch and Release," and Carolyn Parkhurst's dark sibling rivalry in "Unwell." Joanne Harris introduces ancient gods in modern New York in "Wildfire in Manhattan," while Richard Adams's "The Knife" delves into vengeance. Jeffery Deaver's "The Therapist" features a psychologist on a mission to save lives, and Neil Gaiman's chilling "The Truth Is a Cave in the Black Mountains" offers a haunting punishment for a grave crime. This visionary volume will transform readers’ perspectives and ignite a renewed appreciation for exceptional fiction.

John Pelham had a promising career in Hollywood until his drinking got in the way. Now, as he tries to pick up the pieces of his shattered career, he finds himself in the small town of Cleary, New York, looking for a new location for an upcoming film. But the town's inhabitants are less than excited. When his friend is murdered and the crime is covered up by the local police, John realizes just how far the town will go to keep its secrets hidden.

"Loaded with character and action and a very devious plot, Mistress of Justice is a top-notch legal thriller."--Mystery Lovers News Taylor Lockwood spends her days working as a paralegal in one of New York's preeminent Wall Street law firms and her nights playing jazz piano anyplace she can. But the rhythm of her life is disrupted when attorney Mitchell Reece requests her help in locating a stolen document that could cost him not only the multimillion-dollar case he's defending but his career as well. Eager to get closer to this handsome, brilliant, and very private man, Taylor signs on . . . only to find that as she delves deeper and deeper into what goes on behind closed doors at Hubbard, White & Willis, she uncovers more than she wants to kno--including a plentitude of secrets damaging enough to smash careers and dangerous enough to push someone to commit murder. Yet who is capable of going to that extreme? With her life on the line, Taylor is about to learn the lethal answer. . . . "The characters are well drawn, the plot is fast paced, and the writing avoids totally the usual trappings of blockbusterdom. . . . An intelligently written thriller."--Booklist

Praying for revenge...Psycho killer Michael Hrubek has escaped to find the woman who put him away. He'll show her what killing is all about...Praying for salvation...Lis knows he's out there. He's haunted every sleepless night, watching and waiting to take her to hell with him...And now Lis is Praying for Sleep.

"In the wilderness of Washington State, expert tracker Colter Shaw has located two young men accused of a terrible hate crime. But when his pursuit takes a shocking and tragic turn, Shaw becomes desperate to discover what went so horribly wrong and if he is to blame. Shaw's search for answers leads him to a shadowy organization that bills itself as a grief support group. But is it truly it a community that consoles the bereaved? Or a dangerous cult with a growing body count? Undercover, Shaw joins the mysterious group, risking everything despite the fact that no reward is on offer. He soon finds that some people will stop at nothing to keep their secrets hidden . . . and to make sure that he or those close to him say "goodbye" forever"--Provided by publisher

Watchlist features two thrilling novellas, The Chopin Manuscript and The Copper Bracelet, created by renowned authors like Lee Child and Jeffery Deaver. The first follows Harold Middleton as he uncovers a dangerous secret in a Chopin score, while the sequel plunges him into a nuclear crisis between India and Pakistan.

An anthology of twenty-five previously unpublished works includes contributions by such favorite genre authors as Stephen Coontz, Alex Kava, and Karin Slaughter, and a selection of up-and-coming writers.

A new collection of short fiction from the Mystery Writers of America presents an entertaining and baffling collection of twenty original stories set in hot climates by Loren D. Estleman, Jeffery Deaver, Carolyn Wheat, John Lutz, Tim Myers, Jeremiah Healy, Marilyn Wallace, and other notable writers. Reprint.

The third thriller in the Location Scout trilogy takes John Pellam to New York City.

Suitable for Holmes fans both new and old, this title comes with contributions from Michael Connelly, Jeffery Deaver, Harlan Ellison, Denise Hamilton, Sara Paretsky, Michael Sims, and more.

"As Detective Bill Corde looks down at the beautiful face of the murdered girl in the mud, he cannot know that his own life is about to turn into a terrifyingly real nightmare. Before Corde knows it, the girl's killer is trailing him and his unsuspecting family - his wife, his teenage son, his imaginative but vulnerable daughter Sarah. Sarah - who alone knows the identity of the man who took the life of the girl...the man who may be responsible for further deaths. And the lesson Bill Corde is about to learn - the lesson of her death - is an education that no one will ever forget." -- back cover.

James Bond returns in a contemporary new thriller by Number One bestselling author Jeffery Deaver.

Hollywood location scout John Pellam thought the scenic backwater town of Maddox, Missouri, would be the perfect site for an upcoming gangster film. Until real bullets leave two people dead and one cop paralysed. Pellam had unwittingly wandered onto the crime scene just moments before the brutal hits. Now the feds and local police want him to talk. Mob enforcers want him silenced. And a mysterious blonde just wants him. Trapped in a town full of sinister secrets and deadly deceptions, Pellam fears that deal will imitate art, as the film shoot - and his life - race toward a breathtakingly bloody climax. schovat popis

Rune seems to have finally made the first real step towards her dreams - she has secured a job working for a major network news department. From there, her career as a budding documentary maker can really take off. However, nothing in Rune's life is ever that simple. She quickly becomes fascinated by the brutal murder of the network boss, and just as swiftly comes to the conclusion that the guy in the frame for the crime must be innocent. This, despite the mountain of evidence against him. But, trying to prove his innocence starts to become hazardous to her own health when a hitman comes to town with her name on a contract... Full of twists and turns, and with a incredibly engaging central character, this is classic Deaver...

A serial novel featuring contributions by twenty-six masters of suspense follows detective Jon Nunn as he re-opens a ten-year-old case to discover if the wrong person was convicted and put to death for the murder of art curator Christopher Thomas.

Contains:Lake News - Barbara DelinskyThe Devil's Teardrop - Jeffery DeaverA Walk to Remember - Nicholas SparksThunderhead - Douglas Preston & Lincoln Child

'Murderous Affairs' beinhaltet drei spannende englische Originalkrimis des renommierten Autors Jeffery Deaver, die man garantiert nicht aus der Hand legen kann. Die ungekürzten Krimis in amerikanischem Englisch garantieren Lernen mit Nervenkitzel. Vokabelerklärungen auf jeder Seite erleichtern das Textverständnis. In die Geschichten sind Übungen zu Grammatik, Vokabeln und Inhalt eingestreut, die zusätzlich für unterhaltsamen Lernerfolg ganz nebenbei sorgen. Im Anhang befinden sich ein Wörterverzeichnis und die Lösungen zu allen Übungen. Für alle Fortgeschrittenen (Wissensstand Niveau B1 gemäß des Europäischen Sprachenzertifikats), die ihr Englisch auf spannende Weise verbessern wollen. Zum Inhalt: Nichts ist, wie es scheint, beweisen diese drei Krimis: Bei einem Date geht es plötzlich gar nicht mehr ums Flirten, ein scheinbar überforderter Psychiater stellt die Diagnose seines Lebens, und eine Dreiecksbeziehung der besonderen Art nimmt ein tödliches Ende...

Geniální kriminalista Lincoln Rhyme a mladá policistka Amélie Sachsová, kteří se čtenářům poprvé představili v bestselleru Sběratel kostí, řeší další zapeklitý případ: během pětačtyřiceti hodin musejí vypátrat profesionálního vraha, přezdívaného Tanečník. Tanečník má v této lhůtě zlikvidovat tři nepohodlné svědky v případu vlivného obchodníka se zbraněmi a již od prvního okamžiku nenechává nikoho na pochybách, že si důvtipem a inteligencí nezadá s Rhymem. Mezi oběma muži se na dálku rozpoutá nelítostná psychologická válka, plná zvratů a úskoků, která se neobejde bez těžkých ztrát na životech. Nervy drásající příběh dává nahlédnout do zákulisí americké policejní praxe a zároveň je brilantní sondou do duševního světa chladnokrevného zabijáka. V publikaci uvedeno chybně vydání třetí, správně je: vydání čtvrté

Nádherný den v Hollywood Hills a svatba pod širým nebem. Radostné přísliby šťastné budoucnosti rozdrtí tragická smrt jednoho z novomanželů. Ačkoli zprvu vše ukazuje na nešťastnou náhodu, agentka Carmen Sanchezová z Úřadu pro vnitřní bezpečnost a její parťák, bezpečnostní expert Jake Heron, objeví spojitost s dalšími dvěma vraždami. Závěr je jasný: tohle pátrání bude mnohem temnější, než čekali. Muže přezdívaného Líbánkový zabiják nezajímají jeho oběti; touží jen vytvořit vlastní morbidní umělecké dílo. Soustředí se na pozůstalé, jejich utrpení je jeho rozkoší. A teď svou hrůznou posedlost zaměřil na Carmen s Jakem. Líbánkový zabiják totiž dospěl k přesvědčení, že právě oni představují další dokonalý terč. Stačí jen jednoho zabít a pak s požitkem sledovat, jak se ten druhý hroutí. Predátor se vydává za svou kořistí a času je zoufale málo…

Carmen Sanchezová je tvrdá a nekompromisní federální agentka, která důsledně ctí literu zákona. Když je však napadena její sestra Selina, běžné vyšetřovací postupy náhle nestačí. Útok totiž souvisí se sérií brutálních vražd, jež právě vyšetřuje. Dostává se do úzkých, a tak žádá o pomoc profesora Jakea Herona – svérázného a brilantního bezpečnostního experta, ale i bývalého hackera. A pro něj nejsou předpisy nic než doporučení… Společně se snaží dopadnout útočníka, který je mate záhadným chováním i zdánlivou absencí motivu, a navíc neodpovídá žádnému psychologickému profilu zločince. Jejich jediným vodítkem je neobvyklé tetování a jistá posedlost, díky níž vrah získal svou přezdívku: Spider. Během následujících dvaasedmdesáti hodin se Sanchezová s Heronem ocitnou uprostřed smrtící šachové partie. Obětí je stále víc a nebezpečí narůstá. Pavučina vrahových intrik je však mnohem temnější a sahá mnohem hlouběji, než si kdokoli ze zúčastněných dokázal představit…

Nowe wydanie najsłynniejszej serii kryminalnej mistrza intrygi Jeffery'ego Deavera! Sparaliżowany kryminolog Lincoln Rhyme jest gotowy zrobić wszystko, żeby poprawić swoją kondycję. Kiedy centrum medyczne z Karoliny Północnej proponuje mu eksperymentalną operację chirurgiczną, która może przywrócić mu zdrowie, ale wiąże się z niebezpieczeństwem pogorszenia jego stanu, Rhyme postanawia zaryzykować. Przygotowania do zabiegu przerywa lokalna policja - w sennej okolicy dopiero co zamordowano nastolatka i porwano dwie kobiety. Sprawcą najprawdopodobniej jest Garrett - dziwny chłopak z sąsiedztwa, znany z powodu swej obsesji na punkcie robaków. Lincoln decyduje się pomóc policjantom i razem z detektyw Amelią Sachs rozpoczyna dochodzenie. W końcu udaje im się namierzyć zabójcę i odnaleźć jedną z ofiar. Garrett trafia do więzienia, ale Sachs ma wrażenie, że coś jest nie tak. Przeciwstawia się mentorowi, twierdząc, że chłopak jest niewinny. Postanawia uwolnić go z więzienia. Jej decyzja sprawia, że Rhyme stanie przed nowym wyzwaniem - zagadką porwania drugiej z kobiet, za którym chyba jednak nie stoi zatrzymany nastolatek