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Il villaggio degli assassini
by Faith Mortimer Monica R. Pelà ed Elisa ZanolliProtagonista de "Il villaggio degli assassini" è Diana Rivers, una scrittrice, attrice occasionale e detective dilettante. In un pittoresco villaggio cipriota, un gruppo teatrale di espatriati si riunisce per discutere il prossimo spettacolo, ma quando si alza il sipario si verifica un omicidio. Un ricattatore tormenta i membri del gruppo che sono divisi da gelosie, rivalità, tensione sessuale e tradimenti. Tutti sono alla ricerca della soluzione ai propri problemi, all'insaputa degli altri. Alcuni credono che tale soluzione sia l'omicidio. Riusciranno a trovare il ricattatore e quell'importantissimo "libriccino nero" che contiene il resoconto di tutti i loro misfatti? Al ritrovamento di un cadavere, Diana Rivers si trasforma in detective, iniziando a compilare una lista di sospettati. Dopo che la polizia dà inizio alle indagini, uno dei sospettati viene trovato impiccato: si tratta di un altro omicidio o di un suicidio? È stato qualcun altro a impiccarlo? In seguito alla visita a casa di uno degli abitanti, viene scoperto un antico congegno utilizzato in passato dagli assassini. Che sia quella l'arma del delitto? È possibile che un assassino viva nel cuore di questo villaggio di montagna, che prima era un luogo pacifico e idillico? Amore, odio, omicidio e drammaticità fanno parte di questo classico giallo storico. Con una lunga lista di sospettati, alcune svolte drammatiche e una strana falsa pista, il lettore viene lasciato col dubbio fino a quando non calerà il sipario. NB. Sebbene i romanzi gialli di Diana Rivers siano una "serie", possono essere letti in qualsiasi ordine come storie "a sé stanti".
Il volto della follia: Trilogia dello psicopatico II
by José Antonio Jiménez-BarberoContinua la storia di Ángel Salazar, il giovane psicopatico che, dopo il suo funesto passaggio per il centro minorile, viene ricoverato su richiesta del suo direttore, in un ospedale psichiatrico.Lì conoscerà Marta Savater, un'infermiera giovane ed inesperta, scelta dal capo reparto, il dottor Junqueras, per sorvegliare i movimenti dell'adolescente problematico. Tuttavia, una morte avvenuta in circostanze poco chiare, complicherà tutto... Il racconto ci immerge nella quotidianità di un reparto psichiatrico qualsiasi, offrendoci l'opportunità di conoscere realmente le situazioni che i professionisti della salute mentale devono affrontare in questo tipo di reparti. Inoltre, come nel romanzo che ha dato inizio alla trilogia, il protagonista si troverà in un nuovo caso di omicidio che metterà alla prova le sue straordinarie doti deduttive.
Il volto nell’ombra (L’albo da colorare segreto per adulti. Serie Gialli Confortevoli)
by Delia DobbsAnita potrà non essere la detective di alto livello che le grandi agenzie stanno cercando, ma è probabilmente la più determinata. Ma neanche nei suoi sogni più folli avrebbe immaginato quanto le sarebbe servito il suo intuito nella sua vita privata. Tornata a casa dopo mesi di lavoro su un caso ritenuto irrisolvibile per anni, scopre ben presto che la sua vita casalinga non è come dovrebbe. Suo fratello è scomparso, e sarà costretta a mettere da parte i sentimenti e mettere a frutto tutto ciò che ha appreso se vuole scoprire cosa gli è accaduto. Presto scopre l’esistenza di una donna misteriosa che crede potrà portarla dal fratello scomparso. Chi potrebbe essere, e perché nessuno è stato in grado di identificarla con precisione? Più Anita apprende sulla donna misteriosa e sugli intrighi che si è lasciata dietro, più si rende conto che suo fratello aveva un’altra vita di cui lei era all’oscuro. Nello scavare con costanza in cerca della verità, si avvicina sempre più a rivelare un segreto che va oltre tutto quello che avrebbe potuto immaginare, un segreto che ha ossessionato suo fratello per molti anni e ora sta ossessionando lei.
Ilium: A novel
by Lea CarpenterSet in the dark world of international espionage, from London to Mallorca, Croatia, Paris, and Cap Ferret: the gripping and suspenseful story of a young woman who unwittingly becomes a perfect asset in the long overdue finale of a covert special opThe young English narrator of Lea Carpenter&’s dazzling new novel has grown up unhappily in London, dreaming of escape, pretending to be someone else and obsessed with a locked private garden. On the eve of her twenty-first birthday, at a party near that garden, she meets its charismatic and mysterious new owner, Marcus, thirty-three years older, who sweeps her off her feet. Before long they are married at his finca in Mallorca, and at last she has escaped into a new role – but at what price? On their honeymoon in Croatia, Marcus reveals there is something she can do for him—a plan is in place and she can help with &“a favor.&”This turns out to be posing as an art advisor to a family on Cap Ferret, where Marcus asks her to simply &“listen.&” A helicopter deposits her at a remote, highly guarded and lavishly appointed compound on a spit of land in the Atlantic. It&’s presided over by an enigmatic, charming patriarch Edouard, along with his wife Dasha, children Nikki and Felix, and populated by a revolving cast of other guests—some suspicious, some intriguing, perhaps none, like her, what they seem.Brilliantly compelling, this is a spellbinding and unexpectedly poignant story of a long- planned, high-stakes CIA-Mossad operation that only needed the right asset to complete.
Ill Met By Murder: A Shakespeare in the Catskills Mystery (A Shakespeare in the Catskills Mystery #2)
by Elizabeth J. DuncanIt's the most important night of the year for costume designer Charlotte Fairfax and the Catskills Shakespeare Theater Company—the annual fund raising performance at the country estate of the wealthy widow Paula Van Dusen. This year, the company will give a moonlight performance of A Midsummer Night's Dream as part of the wedding celebrations for Paula's daughter, Belinda, and her fiance Adrian. But then Hugh Hedley, family friend of the Van Dusens and Adrian's rival in the cutthroat world of high-end Manhattan real estate, is found murdered with a stolen prop from the play.Paula, desperate to keep her daughter's name of out of the paper, enlists Charlotte's help, despite the fact that Charlotte's already got her hands full amidst her costume design responsibilities and finding a home for the company's new theater school. But Charlotte nevertheless throws herself into an investigation of shady business deals, a missing dog, and long buried family secrets because "though she be but little, she is fierce!" Ill Met by Murder, the second in Elizabeth J. Duncan's compelling mystery series, will satisfy every Shakespeare and mystery lover alike.
Ill Will (Micky Knight Mystery #7)
by J. M. RedmannFirst, do no harm. But as New Orleans PI Micky Knight discovers, not every health care provider follows that dictum. She stumbles into a tangle of the true believers to the criminally callous, who use the suffering of others for their twisted ends. In a city slowly rebuilding after Katrina, one of the most devastated areas is health care, and the gaps in service are wide enough for the snake oil salesmen--and the snakes themselves--to crawl through. First, her investigation is driven by anger, but then it becomes personal as someone very close to Micky uses her cancer diagnosis to go where Micky cannot, into the heart of the evil where only the ill are allowed. Micky is her only lifeline out. Can Micky save her in time to get to the medical treatment she desperately needs to survive? This is the seventh Micky Knight mystery.
Ill Will: A Novel
by Dan ChaonTwo sensational unsolved crimes—one in the past, another in the present—are linked by one man’s memory and self-deception in this chilling novel of literary suspense from National Book Award finalist Dan Chaon. “We are always telling a story to ourselves, about ourselves.” This is one of the little mantras Dustin Tillman likes to share with his patients, and it’s meant to be reassuring. But what if that story is a lie? A psychologist in suburban Cleveland, Dustin is drifting through his forties when he hears the news: His adopted brother, Rusty, is being released from prison. Thirty years ago, Rusty received a life sentence for the massacre of Dustin’s parents, aunt, and uncle. The trial came to epitomize the 1980s hysteria over Satanic cults; despite the lack of physical evidence, the jury believed the outlandish accusations Dustin and his cousin made against Rusty. Now, after DNA analysis has overturned the conviction, Dustin braces for a reckoning.Meanwhile, one of Dustin’s patients has been plying him with stories of the drowning deaths of a string of drunk college boys. At first Dustin dismisses his patient's suggestions that a serial killer is at work as paranoid thinking, but as the two embark on an amateur investigation, Dustin starts to believe that there’s more to the deaths than coincidence. Soon he becomes obsessed, crossing all professional boundaries—and putting his own family in harm’s way. From one of today’s most renowned practitioners of literary suspense, Ill Will is an intimate thriller about the failures of memory and the perils of self-deception. In Dan Chaon’s nimble, chilling prose, the past looms over the present, turning each into a haunted place.Advance praise for Ill Will “Dan Chaon’s new novel is subtly, steadily unnerving—like a scalpel slipping under your skin and prying it, ever so slowly, from the muscle beneath. Ill Will is a dark Möbius strip of a thriller that will leave you questioning what’s perceived and what’s imagined, and whether the reverberations of tragedy ever truly come to an end.”—Celeste Ng, author of Everything I Never Told You “Ill Will not only confirms Chaon as among our country’s finest writers but makes clear that he is one of our bravest and most inventive. He embraces risks that would have most novelists turning pale and making the sign of the cross. It’s stunning. Read it right now.”—Peter Straub, author of The Throat “Dan Chaon’s darkly stunning Ill Will ensnares you from its very first pages. It’s both a bone-chilling literary thriller and a complicated tale of family secrets and the strange and dangerous paths grief and guilt can take us on—and it is not to be missed.”—Megan Abbott, author of You Will Know Me “‘I believe in bad places,’ one narrator of Ill Will confesses, and he’s right. Dan Chaon’s damaged characters stalk the elusive truth and what may be a serial killer through a nightmarish Cleveland populated by drug addicts and sexual predators. Intimate and unsparing, this is one of the creepiest books I've ever read.”—Stewart O’Nan, author of Songs for the Missing “With impressive skill, across multiple narratives that twine, fracture, and reset, Chaon expertly realizes his singular vision of American dread.”—Publishers Weekly (starred review)Please note that sections of Ill Will incorporate unconventional formatting, spacing, and punctuation choices. These are intentional design elements in the ebook file.
Ill Wind
by James HiltonNot one of them knew it-or willed it-but each was to touch off an explosive event that would alter forever an unknown person's life! Death and murder in the Far East began the human chain. It was lengthened by the unsuspecting behavior of a disgraced civil servant ... by the antics of a much-married movie queen, a wealthy newspaper tycoon, a murderously-inclined Indian woman and an alarmingly handsome Rumanian youth ... One by one, as the links are added, James Hilton creates a powerful story of human passions to rank with his finest novels.
Ill Wind (An Anna Pigeon Novel #3)
by Nevada BarrLately, visitors to Mesa Verde have been bringing home more than photos--they're also carrying a strange, deadly disease. And once it strikes, park ranger Anna Pigeon must find the very human source of the evil wind.
Ill Wind: A Novel of Ecological Disaster
by Kevin J. Anderson Doug BeasonAn environmental disaster leads to global chaos in this science fiction thriller by the authors of Assemblers of Infinity. It is the largest oil spill in history: a supertanker crashes into the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco Bay. Desperate to avert environmental damage (as well as a PR disaster), the multinational oil company releases an untested designer oil-eating microbe to break up the spill. What the company didn&’t realize is that their microbe propagates through the air…and it mutates to consumer anything made of polycarbons: oil, gasoline, synthetic fabrics, plastics of all kinds. And when every piece of plastic begins to dissolve, it&’s too late . . . Praise for Ill Wind &“A high-action, best-seller-caliber disaster novel grounded in unsettlingly accurate science. . . . Using the standard disaster novel format of multiple characters and plot lines, Beason and Anderson maintain a suspenseful, breakneck pace that carries us to a thrilling finish.&” —Booklist&“A big, near-future disaster novel straddling the border between science fiction and technothriller, likely to appeal to fans of both.&” —Kirkus Reviews &“A real winner . . . [the authors&’] grasp of the science, the technology, and the political scene is unique.&” —Dr. D. Allan Bromley, former assistant to the president for science and technology
Ill Wind: A suspenseful mystery of the unruly American wilderness (Anna Pigeon Mysteries #3)
by Nevada BarrNature is close at hand - but then again, so is murder... Ill Wind is the third novel in Nevada Barr's gripping crime series featuring park ranger Anna Pigeon. Perfect for fans of Jo Nesbo and Sue Grafton.'Stirring... vivid... vibrant... intelligent' - New York Times Book ReviewWhen national park ranger Anna Pigeon needs to find peace, she turns to nature of solace. Lucky for her, she's been newly assigned to Mesa Verde National Park in Colorado. Anna is enthralled by its ruins: the ancient cliff dwellings of a vanished Native American civilisation. But Anna's reverie is shattered by an inexplicable illness affecting visitors to the popular landmark - and two mysterious tragedies: the death of a child... and the murder of a friend. Now she must find the very human source of the evil wind that is blowing through the ruins. For it threatens more innocent lives - including Anna's own... What readers are saying about the Anna Pigeon Mysteries: 'Nevada Barr has a fabulous way of writing and her descriptions of the beautiful landscapes and natural beauty of these parks is just wonderful''Well-constructed mystery which keeps you guessing until the end''Five stars'
Ill-Fated Fortune: A Magical Fortune Cookie Novel (Magical Fortune Cookie #1)
by Jennifer J. ChowThe first in the heart-warming and deliciously mysterious Magical Fortune Cookie series from Lefty Award-nominee Jennifer J. Chow.Felicity Jin grew up literally hanging onto Mom’s apron strings in their magical bakery in the quaint town of Pixie, California. Her mother’s enchanted baked goods, including puffy pineapple buns and creamy egg tarts, bring instant joy to all who consume them. Felicity has always been hesitant in the kitchen herself after many failed attempts, but a takeout meal gone wrong inspires her to craft some handmade fortune cookies.They become so popular that Felicity runs out of generic fortunes and starts making her own personalized predictions. When one customer’s ill-fated fortune results in his murder, Felicity’s suspiciously specific fortune has the police focusing on her as the main culprit. Now Felicity must find a way to turn her luck around and get cleared from suspicion.
Ill-Gotten Panes
by Jennifer McandrewsFIRST IN A NEW SERIES! Stained-glass aficionado Georgia Kelly packed up her city life for the quiet of small town Wenwood, New York. But the sleepy village's peace is about to get shattered--by murder... After a banking scandal loses Georgia her job and fiancé, she decides that a change of scenery will help piece her life back together. But escaping to her grandfather's house in the old-fashioned, brick-making Hudson River hamlet of Wenwood, New York, turns out to be less relaxing than she expects. Not only is the close-knit community on edge about their beloved brickworks being turned into a marina to draw in tourists, one of those most opposed to the project winds up dead--cracked over the head with a famous Wenwood brick. Georgia wouldn't be broken up over the news except for the fact that the main suspect is the deceased's biggest adversary--her grandfather. Now, to remove the stain from her grandy's record, Georgia will have to figure out who in town was willing to kill to keep the renovation project alive, before someone else is permanently cut out of the picture...
Illegal
by Paul LevineThe Edgar-nominated author acclaimed for clever writing and crackling courtroom scenes delivers a vividly realized thriller about a disgraced lawyer traveling the twisted border between justice and revenge in a desperate bid to clear his name.
Illegal Action
by Stella RimingtonThe third thriller from the former head of MI5, featuring MI5 officer, Liz Carlyle. Liz Carlyle has been transferred to Counter-Espionage, along with her research sidekick Peggy Kingsolving. Once the hub of MI5 operations, the department has been reduced in size since the end of the Cold War, and priority within the service is on counter-terrorism. Yet there is plenty for Liz to do. In fact, there are more spies operating in London today than during the height of East-West hostilities. This includes Russian spies, who continue to operate in number. What has changed is their targets — now they spy on the international financial community, as well as on the wealthy, influential Russian “oligarchs,” many of whom live in London. Liz learns of a Russian government plot to silence one of these oligarchs, Nikita Brunovsky, who is an increasingly vocal opponent of Putin. How he is to be kept quiet is unclear, but since the Foreign Office dreads any kind of incident, Liz is assigned to keep it from happening. To protect Brunovsky from his Kremlin foes, Liz goes undercover and joins the oligarch’s retinue as she tries to determine who around the Russian might be willing to betray him, and hoping at the same time to learn the identity of a certain Russian “illegal” operative working undercover.
Illegal Motion (Gideon Page #4)
by Grif StockleyArkansas attorney Gideon Page has no idea what's in store for him when he agrees to defend Dade Cunningham, the Razorback's star receiver, against a charge of rape.
Illegal: A Disappeared Novel
by Francisco X. StorkWhat does it mean to be illegal in the United States?Life in Mexico is a death sentence for Emiliano and his sister Sara.To escape the violent cartel that is after them, they flee across the border, seeking a better life in the United States and hoping that they can find a way to bring their pursuers to justice.Sara turns herself over to the authorities to apply for asylum.Emiliano enters the country illegally, planning to live with their father.But now Sara is being held indefinitely in a detention facility, awaiting an asylum hearing that may never come, finding it harder every day to hold on to her faith and hope. Life for Emiliano is not easy either. Everywhere he goes, it's clear that he doesn't belong. And all the while, the cartel is closing in on them...Emiliano sets off on a tense and dangerous race to find justice, but can he expose the web of crimes from his place in the shadows?Award-winning author Francisco X. Stork's powerful follow-up to Disappeared delves with his usual sensitivity into the injustice that hides under the guise of the law in the United States. This is a timely and moving story that takes an unsparing look at the asylum process and the journey to find a new life in the US.
Illegally Dead
by David WishartWhen Corvinus receives a letter, with a tantalising PS, from his adopted daughter, Marilla, mentioning there might have been a murder, he hot-foots it to Castrimoenium at once. Not that everyone agrees that Lucius Hostilius was murdered. Poison was apparently the means of death, but Lucius was terminally ill: it was only a matter of time. Although he hasn't any official investigative status, Corvinus can't resist doing a little amateur sleuthing. And he has barely begun when two other corpses turn up and he is formally on the case. Lucius had been suffering something of a personality change because of his illness, so there is no shortage of suspects among friends and family whom he had antagonised. But Corvinus goes up many a blind alley before arriving at the heart of the mystery. As we follow Marcus Corvinus, clue by clue, on his twelfth case, we allow ourselves to be pleasurably diverted by rumours of Meton's love life - and by an authentic recipe for fish pickle sauce . . .
Illegally Dead
by David WishartWhen Corvinus receives a letter, with a tantalising PS, from his adopted daughter, Marilla, mentioning there might have been a murder, he hot-foots it to Castrimoenium at once. Not that everyone agrees that Lucius Hostilius was murdered. Poison was apparently the means of death, but Lucius was terminally ill: it was only a matter of time. Although he hasn't any official investigative status, Corvinus can't resist doing a little amateur sleuthing. And he has barely begun when two other corpses turn up and he is formally on the case. Lucius had been suffering something of a personality change because of his illness, so there is no shortage of suspects among friends and family whom he had antagonised. But Corvinus goes up many a blind alley before arriving at the heart of the mystery. As we follow Marcus Corvinus, clue by clue, on his twelfth case, we allow ourselves to be pleasurably diverted by rumours of Meton's love life - and by an authentic recipe for fish pickle sauce . . .
Illegally Dead: The Travelling Detective (The Travelling Detective Series #1)
by Joan YarmeyElizabeth Oliver is a travel writer who somehow gets drawn into a mystery each time she is researching an article for a travel magazine. In Illegally Dead she happens upon the discovery of a skeleton in an old septic tank. Although she tells herself she doesn't have time to get involved, it isn't long before she is digging up long-buried secrets. When a second murder victim is found, Elizabeth's travel research provides clues to the disturbing truth behind the murders.
Illegally Iced (Donut Shop Mysteries #9)
by Jessica BeckDonut shop owner Suzanne Hart knows how to treat her customers. But sometimes life can get a bit sticky. When a spat she has with a local blacksmith―one that could have been solved with a handshake and a mixed dozen―ends with his murder, Suzanne is caught dead in her tracks. Suddenly everyone in April Springs has their eyes on her. And they're hungry with suspicion. <p><p> Left with little choice but to catch the killer herself, Suzanne starts lining up suspects. But her case is full of holes. How did the killer strike in the middle of the day without a single witness to the crime? Who knew that the humble blacksmith was actually an heir to a family fortune? The heat is on as Suzanne tries to solve the case and save her business. Can she have her cake-donut and eat it too?
Illicit Supply
by Don PendletonPROFIT AND LOSS American Secret Service agents lie dead along with Colombian police after a raid on a counterfeiting ring turns into a storm of destruction. Stony Man Farm fears something far worse is looming on the horizon-a plot to destabilize the major currencies around the world. Fake money is flooding into both American and Chinese economies, threatening to launch a financial apocalypse. Mack Bolan's hard probe begins in Medellín, where he lays a trail of concentrated hellfire as he pushes to uncover the mystery brokers behind a power play that's put global stability on life support. Wreaking havoc in the cross fire of drug soldiers and Russian mobsters, the Executioner has a financial incentive of his own: collect the Devil's dues...in blood and bullets.
Illicit Trade (The Valentin Vermeulen Thrillers #2)
by Michael NiemannThe “intriguing . . . highly entertaining” second novel in the series that follows a United Nations investigator into the shadows of deceit and danger (Publishers Weekly). When two poor Kenyan men visiting the US are found dead—one in jail, one on the street—it’s discovered that they both used forged UN documents to enter the country. And while Valentin Vermeulen’s superiors have no interest in the plight of undocumented immigrants, they do want him to stop the fraud. The clues take Vermeulen to a small-time hustler in Newark, New Jersey, who has one of the dead Kenyan’s passport and money. But Vermeulen isn’t the only one looking for him. It seems he just stumbled onto an extensive and vicious criminal network. And to survive, Vermeulen must do more than solve a case of fraud. He must solve a case of murder—in this breakneck-paced novel that was a finalist for 2017 Spotted Owl Award.
Illuminated
by Erica OrloffSome loves are not made to last . . . Like Romeo and Juliet, Heloise and Abelard were doomed from the start, and their romance was destined to pass into history. Yet when sixteen-year-old Callie Martin discovers a diary hidden within an antique book, their story - and hers - takes on another life. For the diary leads Callie to the brilliant and handsome August, who is just as mysterious as the secret the diary hides. Their attraction is undeniable. As the two hunt down the truth behind the diary - and that of Heloise and Abelard's ancient romance - their romance becomes all-consuming. But Callie knows it can't last . . . love never does. Will their love that burns as bright as a shooting star flame out, or will these star-crossed lovers be able to defy history? .
Illusion
by Andrew NeidermanAn ad exec&’s dream date drags her into a twisted conspiracy in this romantic suspense tale by the bestselling author of The Devil&’s Advocate. Twenty-six-year-old Jillian Caldwell is on the verge of a promotion at a New York City advertising agency. Her mother, however, is more concerned that Jillian is the only one of her children who isn&’t married or engaged. It&’s not that Jillian hasn&’t tried. The men she&’s dated were just terribly boring and predictable. She wants a man with an air of mystery . . . Thirty-year-old Ron Cutler is a confident man who knows what he wants. He needs someone to help him expand his chain of upstate department stores, but after meeting Jillian, he&’ll settle for a date. That is followed by a full-blown romance, and Ron eventually surprises her with an engagement ring. When Jillian discovers something about Ron she doesn&’t like—he&’s disappears. Phone calls don&’t help. There&’s no number in Ron&’s name. His department store has never heard of him. They do, however, know a John Cutler, and Jillian decides to dig deeper. To find answers, she begins a twisted journey through a family&’s past that will irrevocably change her future . . . &“A master of psychological thrillers.&” —V. C. Andrews