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Venom
by Joan BradyDavid Marion and the Freyl family return in a page-turning story of international suspense and intrigue by award-winning author Joan Brady.
Venom
by Fiona PaulLove, lust, murder, mayhem and high society converge in one thrilling debut Part Gossip Girl, part Edgar Allan Poe, and wholly beautiful, elegant and suspenseful, this novel set in Venice during the Renaissance is a true romantic thriller. When Cassandra Caravallo visits her friend Liviana's crypt and finds a murdered courtesan inside, her world is turned upside down. Before she knows it, Cass is involved with Falco, a grave-robbing artist, and on her way to discovering corruption in the elite Venetian society. But will she find the man who's been savagely murdering beautiful young girls before he finds her? Will she stay true to her fiance, who's off studying law in France? Or will she succumb to Falco's charms? Beauty, love, romance and murder combine in a novel that's as seductive and stunning as Venice itself.
The Venom Business: A Novel (Hard Case Crime Ser.)
by Michael Crichton John LangeA smuggler takes a job protecting London's most despicable businessmanCharles Raynaud feels at home in the jungle. A snake trapper, he makes a tidy profit selling poisonous creatures to the zoos of Europe, but it isn't just the snake trade that pays his bills. Raynaud is the finest artifact smuggler the world has ever known, and his particular talents are about to be put to the test.Between jobs in Paris, Raynaud meets an old drinking buddy. One of London's wealthiest, nastiest men, Richard Pierce has eyes on his late father's fortune and wants Raynaud to act as his bodyguard until he acquires it. But after the first attempts on Pierce's life, Raynaud begins to smell a rat. Has he been hired as a bodyguard, or a target?This ebook features an illustrated biography of Michael Crichton including rare images from the author's estate.
Venom House
by Arthur W. UpfieldInspector Napoleon Bonaparte investigates a mansion in the center of a man-made lake, where ghosts of aborigines are said to be...
Venomous: A Must Read Crime Thriller (The Adam Black Thrillers #3)
by Karl HillA Scottish special forces officer is recruited to help rescue the prime minister&’s daughter in this thriller by the author of Violation. Tasked with uncovering crucial information from a psychopath nicknamed &“The Red Serpent,&” Adam Black infiltrates one of Scotland&’s hardest prisons. A young woman has been abducted and the Red Serpent may have the answers to her whereabouts. But the clock is ticking. When Black is betrayed, his only option is to break out prison in order to find the woman and the identity of her abductor. Can Black rescue the woman and stop a deranged psychopath? Will he make it out of this alive? Black knows one thing for sure—there will be bloodshed.A great choice for fans of Lee Child, Mark Dawson, James Deegan, and Rob Sinclair. Venomous can be read as the third entry in the Adam Black Series or as an unmissable stand-alone.
Venomous Lumpsucker
by Ned BeaumanThe irresistible new novel by the Booker-longlisted author Ned Beauman - a darkly funny and incisive zoological thriller for the age of Extinction Rebellion.The venomous lumpsucker is the most intelligent fish on the planet. Or maybe it was the most intelligent fish on the planet. Because it might already be extinct. Nobody knows. And nobody cares. Except for two people.Mining executive Mark Halyard has a prison cell waiting for him if that fish has gone for good. And biologist Karin Resaint needs it for her own darker purposes. They don't trust each other, but they're left with no choice but to team up, pursuing the lumpsucker across the strange landscapes of near-future Europe. On the way, they are drawn into a conspiracy far bigger than one ugly little fish.Gripping and singular, Venomous Lumpsucker is a comedy about environmental devastation that asks: do we have it in us to avert the tragedy of mass extinction?And also: do we really need to bother?'A comic caper about our insanely decadent world careering through ecocide, Venomous Lumpsucker is bracingly, excoriatingly funny on our idiocy and the unquantifiable loss that we enable. It's also savagely, forensically serious on the reality of mass species loss, as illuminating as it is entertaining.' Martin MacInnes, author of Infinite Ground
Venomous Lumpsucker
by Ned BeaumanThe irresistible new novel by the Booker-longlisted author Ned Beauman - a darkly funny and incisive zoological thriller for the age of Extinction Rebellion.The venomous lumpsucker is the most intelligent fish on the planet. Or maybe it was the most intelligent fish on the planet. Because it might already be extinct. Nobody knows. And nobody cares. Except for two people.Mining executive Mark Halyard has a prison cell waiting for him if that fish has gone for good. And biologist Karin Resaint needs it for her own darker purposes. They don't trust each other, but they're left with no choice but to team up, pursuing the lumpsucker across the strange landscapes of near-future Europe. On the way, they are drawn into a conspiracy far bigger than one ugly little fish.Gripping and singular, Venomous Lumpsucker is a comedy about environmental devastation that asks: do we have it in us to avert the tragedy of mass extinction?And also: do we really need to bother?'A comic caper about our insanely decadent world careering through ecocide, Venomous Lumpsucker is bracingly, excoriatingly funny on our idiocy and the unquantifiable loss that we enable. It's also savagely, forensically serious on the reality of mass species loss, as illuminating as it is entertaining.' Martin MacInnes, author of Infinite Ground
Venomous Lumpsucker: WINNER of the Arthur C. Clarke Award 2023
by Ned BeaumanThe irresistible new novel by the Booker-longlisted author Ned Beauman - a darkly funny and incisive zoological thriller for the age of Extinction Rebellion.The venomous lumpsucker is the most intelligent fish on the planet. Or maybe it was the most intelligent fish on the planet. Because it might already be extinct. Nobody knows. And nobody cares. Except for two people.Mining executive Mark Halyard has a prison cell waiting for him if that fish has gone for good. And biologist Karin Resaint needs it for her own darker purposes. They don't trust each other, but they're left with no choice but to team up, pursuing the lumpsucker across the strange landscapes of near-future Europe. On the way, they are drawn into a conspiracy far bigger than one ugly little fish.Gripping and singular, Venomous Lumpsucker is a comedy about environmental devastation that asks: do we have it in us to avert the tragedy of mass extinction?And also: do we really need to bother?'A comic caper about our insanely decadent world careering through ecocide, Venomous Lumpsucker is bracingly, excoriatingly funny on our idiocy and the unquantifiable loss that we enable. It's also savagely, forensically serious on the reality of mass species loss, as illuminating as it is entertaining.' Martin MacInnes, author of Infinite Ground(P) 2022 Hodder & Stoughton Limited
La Venus de cobre (Serie Marco Didio Falco #Volumen 3)
by Lindsey DavisTercera entrega de la fascinante serie ambientada en la Antigua Toma y protagonizada por Marco Didio Falco. Roma, siglo I d.C. Marco Didio Falco, el investigador de la Antigua Roma, encarcelado por el emperador por un imperdonable error contable, odia compartir una celda con un roedor, aunque ser rescatado por su madre es casi tan embarazoso. Su novia de alta alcurnia no puede decidir si lo quiere, y la recompensa de Tito César por los servicios prestados ha quedado en papel mojado. Con la esperanza de una vida mejor, o al menos de un apartamento mejor, acepta nuevos clientes. Entre ellos, acepta trabajar para familiares de un acaudalado promotor inmobiliario, Hortensio, para encontrar a su asesino. Pero lo que Falco descubrirá es un semillero de crímenes en los negocios sin escrúpulos de Hortensio.
La Venus de cobre (Serie Marco Didio Falco #Volumen 3)
by Lindsey DavisTercera entrega de la fascinante y divertida serie de novela histórica ambientada en la Antigua Roma y protagonizada por Marco Didio Falco. Roma, siglo I d.C. Marco Didio Falco, el investigador de la Antigua Roma, encarcelado por el emperador por un imperdonable error contable, odia compartir una celda con un roedor, aunque ser rescatado por su madre es casi tan embarazoso. Su novia de alta alcurnia no puede decidir si lo quiere, y la recompensa de Tito César por los servicios prestados ha quedado en papel mojado. Con la esperanza de una vida mejor, o al menos de un apartamento mejor, acepta nuevos clientes. Entre ellos, acepta trabajar para familiares de un acaudalado promotor inmobiliario, Hortensio, para encontrar a su asesino. Pero lo que Falco descubrirá es un semillero de crímenes en los negocios sin escrúpulos de Hortensio.
The Venus Deal (California Century Mysteries #0)
by Ken KuhlkenWhile the rest of San Diego deals with the horrors and shortages of World War II, private investigator Tom Hickey is making his fortune moonlighting as half owner of Rudy's Hacienda, a downtown nightclub. That is, until the club's young jazz singer Cynthia Moon disappears and business drops precipitously. When Tom goes looking for Cynthia, he discovers her bizarre, tragic and dangerous family and a spiritualist cult led by her mother Venus. Can Hickey navigate the half-mad atmosphere of Venus' cult and find Cynthia? Can he save the girl from herself and the demons that haunt her, and still hold onto his business, his wife, and his daughter?
Venus Envy
by Rita Mae BrownAt thirty-five, Mary Frazier Armstrong, called "Frazier" by friends and enemies alike, is a sophisticated woman with a thriving art gallery, a healthy bank balance, and an enviable social position. In fact, she has everything to live for, but she's lying in a hospital bed with a morphine drip in her arm and a life expectancy measured in hours. "Don't die a stranger," her assistant says on her last hospital visit. "Tell the people you love who you are." And so, as her last act on earth, Frazier writes letters to her closest family and friends, telling them exactly what she thinks of them and, since she will be dead by the time they receive the letters, the truth about herself: she's gay. The letters are sent. Then the manure hits the fan in Charlottesville, Virginia, because the funny thing is, Frazier Armstrong isn't going to die after all.
Venus in Copper (Marcus Didius Falco #3)
by Lindsey DavisIn the heyday of the Roman Empire, a small accounting error has left Marcus Didius Falco sharing a cell with a large rat. But the Empire's most beleaguered investigator is finally bailed out, and promptly accepts a commission to help a family of freed slaves fend off a professional bribe. This is the third Falco mystery, set in first-century Rome. It follows Shadows in Bronze.
Venus Preserved: The Secret Books Of Venus (The Secret Books of Venus #4)
by Tanith LeeThe final novel in the alchemical thriller series set in an alternate Venice by the World Fantasy Award–winning author of A Bed of Earth. Centuries into the future, the sunken city of Venus has been salvaged from beneath the sea and rebuilt there under a dome, where it is supported by a vast network of computers that regulate weather, noise, and the most precious undersea commodity of all—air. It is here that a macabre experiment takes place. Conducted by geneticists at the university, the test consists of the resurrection of two lost souls, both murdered in their times: Jula, a first-century gladiatrix, and Cloudio del Nero, the eighteenth-century composer who met his fate in Lee&’s acclaimed first volume of the Secret Books of Venus series. An unexplained catastrophe occurs, claiming several lives. Was it merely an accident, computer failure, or has the trial unleashed an airborne virus? Or is there an even more sinister danger afoot, a force from beyond that threatens the survival of Venus itself? To answer these questions, a traveler from the surface is forced to confront mysteries in his own past that have remained buried, and to reveal the connection that ties him to the unavenged spirits wreaking havoc on the doomed city. &“The last of the four Secret Books of Venus is a tale of suspense and mystery.&” —Booklist
The Venus Throw: A Mystery Of Ancient Rome (Novels Of Ancient Rome Ser. #4)
by Steven SaylorOn a chill January evening in 56 B.C. , two strange visitors to Rome--an Egyptian ambassador and a eunuch priest--seek out Gordianus the Finder whose specialty is solving murders. But the ambassador, a philosopher named Dio, has come to ask for something Gordianus cannot give--help in staying alive. Before the night is out, he will be murdered. Now Gordianus begins his most dangerous case. Hired to investigate Dio's death by a beautiful woman with a scandalous reputation, he will follow a trail of political intrigue into the highest circles of power and the city's most hidden arenas of debauchery. There Gordianus will learn nothing is as it seems--not the damning evidence he uncovers, not the suspect he sends to trial, not even the real truth behind Dio's death which lies in secrets--not of state, but of the heart.
Venus triste: Una novela sobre la primera Miss México y la pasión que la condujo al crimen
by Ana RomeroMaría Teresa Landa ocupó en dos ocasiones las portadas de los principales periódicos del país: por ser reina de belleza y por ser una asesina. María Teresa Landa fue la ganadora en 1928 del concurso de belleza Señorita México, que la convirtió en la primera Miss México de lahistoria. Poco después contrajo nupcias con Moisés Vidal, un general de la Revolución venido a menos, que le ocultó que ya estaba casado con otra mujer, también llamada Teresa, con quien además tenía dos hijas. La mañana del 25 de agosto de 1929, María Teresa comenzó su día como cualquier domingo, serena y desenfadada, hasta que se encontró con este titular en Excélsior: «Acusan de bigamia al esposo de Miss México». Su vida dio un vuelco. Presa de la tristeza, la ira y los celos, tomó el revólver de su marido y descargó seis balas sobre él. La reina debelleza era ahora una asesina. La prensa nacional hizo eco de lo ocurrido bajo titulares que se referían a ella como la Viuda Negra. Ana Romero narra la historia de María Teresa con maestría y sensibilidad. No sólo hace eco de las notas de la época, sino que se mete en la piel del personaje para tratar de comprender su psiquis, sus anhelosy sus miedos, y nos ofrece un retrato fascinante de una mujer a quien la belleza llevó tanto a la gloria como a la ruina. «De manera ingeniosa, desnuda el proceso de escritura exhibiendo no sólo las reflexiones del narrador, sino combinando recursos y fuentes hasta convertirlos en parte fundamental de la trama.» -MÓNICA LAVÍN«Con un estilo fresco en que participan el humor y la ironía, invita a una reflexión sobre el devenir de las mujeres en México a lo largo de los últimos cien años.» -EDUARDO ANTONIO PARRA
Venus's Vanishing Vase: An I.P.P.I. Mystery Story
by Kristin O'Donnell TubbIn this story, four friends who are members of the InterPlanetary Private Investigators solve a mystery that takes place on the planet Venus.
Vera (Domaine Etranger Ser. #2)
by Elizabeth Von ArnimA handsome stranger enters Lucy Entwhistle's life on the very day of her father's death. Everard Wemyss is mourning the recent loss of his wife, and he and Lucy are drawn together in their shared experience of grief. A remarkable bond forms between the despairing couple, the thought of separation proves intolerable, and they are quickly married and settled into Everard's isolated country home, The Willows. But everything about the mansion is shadowed with the specter of Vera, its previous mistress. As Everard gradually becomes increasingly overbearing and abusive, Lucy begins to wonder about the circumstances of Vera's "accidental" death. This darkly comic novel by the author of Enchanted April is believed to have inspired the Daphne du Maurier classic Rebecca. Elizabeth von Arnim based Vera on her own ill-starred marriage to a member of the British aristocracy. Her 1921 novel offers a witty and compelling look at a sinister possibility of a marriage in which a self-absorbed bully can exploit a naïve young woman, and romantic delusions can keep a wife in thrall to her husband's tyranny.
Vera Kelly Is Not a Mystery (A Vera Kelly Story #2)
by Rosalie KnechtWinner of the 2021 Edgar Award – G.P. Putnam’s Sons Sue Grafton Memorial Award Finalist for the Lambda Literary Awards The “splendid genre-pushing” (People) Vera Kelly series returns in full force as our recently out-of-the-spy-game heroine finds herself traveling from Brooklyn to a sprawling countryside estate in the Caribbean in her first case as a private investigator. When ex-CIA agent Vera Kelly loses her job and her girlfriend in a single day, she reluctantly goes into business as a private detective. Heartbroken and cash-strapped, she takes a case that dredges up dark memories and attracts dangerous characters from across the Cold War landscape. Before it’s over, she’ll chase a lost child through foster care and follow a trail of Dominican exiles to the Caribbean. Forever looking over her shoulder, she nearly misses what’s right in front of her: her own desire for home, connection, and a new romance at the local bar. In this exciting second installment of the Vera Kelly series, Rosalie Knecht challenges and deepens the Vera we love: a woman of sparkling wit, deep moral fiber, and martini-dry humor who knows how to follow a case even as she struggles to follow her heart.
Vera Kelly: Lost and Found
by Rosalie KnechtA Star Tribune Best Book of Summer An iBooks and ALTA Journal Best Book of the Month and a Book Riot Best Crime Book of the Month One of Crime Reads' Most Anticipated Books of the Year Everyone’s favorite sleuth—Vera Kelly—is back and put to the test as she searches for her missing girlfriend. It’s spring 1971 and Vera Kelly and her girlfriend, Max, leave their cozy Brooklyn apartment for an emergency visit to Max's estranged family in Los Angeles. Max’s parents are divorcing—her father is already engaged to a much younger woman and under the sway of an occultist charlatan; her mother has left their estate in a hurry with no indication of return. Max, who hasn’t seen her family since they threw her out at the age of twenty-one, prepares for the trip with equal parts dread and anger. Upon arriving, Vera is shocked by the size and extravagance of the Comstock estate—the sprawling, manicured landscape; expansive and ornate buildings; and garages full of luxury cars reveal a privileged upbringing that, up until this point, Max had only hinted at—while Max attempts to navigate her father, who is hostile and controlling, and the occultist, St. James, who is charming but appears to be siphoning family money. Tensions boil over at dinner when Max threatens to alert her mother—and her mother’s lawyers—to St. James and her father’s plans using marital assets. The next morning, when Vera wakes up, Max is gone. In Vera Kelly Lost and Found, Rosalie Knecht gives Vera her highest-stake case yet, as Vera quickly puts her private detective skills to good use and tracks a trail of breadcrumbs across southern California to find her missing girlfriend. She travels first to a film set in Santa Ynez and, ultimately, to a most unlikely destination where Vera has to decide how much she is willing to commit to save the woman she loves.
Vera Wong's Guide to Snooping (A Vera Wong Novel)
by null Jesse Q. SutantoVera Wong is back and as meddling as ever in this follow-up to the hit Vera Wong's Unsolicited Advice for Murderers.…Ever since a man was found dead in Vera's teahouse, life has been good. For Vera that is. She&’s surrounded by loved ones, her shop is bustling, and best of all, her son, Tilly, has a girlfriend! All thanks to Vera, because Tilly's girlfriend is none other than Officer Selena Gray. The very same Officer Gray that she had harassed while investigating the teahouse murder. Still, Vera wishes more dead bodies would pop up in her shop, but one mustn't be ungrateful, even if one is slightly...bored.Then Vera comes across a distressed young woman who is obviously in need of her kindly guidance. The young woman is looking for a missing friend. Fortunately, while cat-sitting at Tilly and Selena's, Vera finds a treasure trove: Selena's briefcase. Inside is a file about the death of an enigmatic influencer—who also happens to be the friend that the young woman was looking for. Online, Xander had it all: a parade of private jets, fabulous parties with socialites, and a burgeoning career as a social media influencer. The only problem is, after his body is fished out of Mission Bay, the police can't seem to actually identify him. Who is Xander Lin? Nobody knows. Every contact is a dead end. Everybody claims not to know him, not even his parents.Vera is determined to solve Xander's murder. After all, doing so would surely be a big favor to Selena, and there is nothing she wouldn't do for her future daughter-in-law.
Vera Wong's Unsolicited Advice for Murderers
by Jesse Q. SutantoA lonely shopkeeper takes it upon herself to solve a murder in the most peculiar way in this captivating mystery by Jesse Q. Sutanto, bestselling author of Dial A for Aunties.Vera Wong is a lonely little old lady—ah, lady of a certain age—who lives above her forgotten tea shop in the middle of San Francisco&’s Chinatown. Despite living alone, Vera is not needy, oh no. She likes nothing more than sipping on a good cup of Wulong and doing some healthy detective work on the Internet about what her Gen-Z son is up to. Then one morning, Vera trudges downstairs to find a curious thing—a dead man in the middle of her tea shop. In his outstretched hand, a flash drive. Vera doesn&’t know what comes over her, but after calling the cops like any good citizen would, she sort of . . . swipes the flash drive from the body and tucks it safely into the pocket of her apron. Why? Because Vera is sure she would do a better job than the police possibly could, because nobody sniffs out a wrongdoing quite like a suspicious Chinese mother with time on her hands. Vera knows the killer will be back for the flash drive; all she has to do is watch the increasing number of customers at her shop and figure out which one among them is the killer. What Vera does not expect is to form friendships with her customers and start to care for each and every one of them. As a protective mother hen, will she end up having to give one of her newfound chicks to the police?
Veracity
by Laura BynumHarper Adams was six years old in 2012 when an act of viral terrorism wiped out one-half of the country's population. Out of the ashes rose a new government, the Confederation of the Willing, dedicated to maintaining order at any cost. The populace is controlled via government-sanctioned sex and drugs, a brutal police force known as the Blue Coats, and a device called the slate, a mandatory implant that monitors every word a person speaks. To utter a Red-Listed, forbidden word is to risk physical punishment or even death. But there are those who resist. Guided by the fabled "Book of Noah," they are determined to shake the people from their apathy and ignorance, and are prepared to start a war in the name of freedom. The newest member of this resistance is Harper -- a woman driven by memories of a daughter lost, a daughter whose very name was erased by the Red List. And she possesses a power that could make her the underground warriors' ultimate weapon -- or the instrument of their destruction. In the tradition of Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale, Laura Bynum has written an astonishing debut novel about a chilling, all-too-plausible future in which speech is a weapon and security comes at the highest price of all.
Verano de Kalashnikovs
by José Ignacio CabanaItzel y su hija Olga viven escondidas del mundo en una playa cercana a Acapulco. Huyen de algo terrible que les sucedió meses atrás en la Ciudad de México. Pero el paradisíaco estado de Guerrero nunca ha sido un sitio tranquilo. Su nombre y su historia se asocia a fiestas sin fin y numerosas estrellas que han pasado por aquí. Ahora las mafias pelean ferozmente por el privilegio de proveer al turismo de los paraísos artificiales que buscan sin saciedad. Y como en todas las grandes historias, lo más importante son sus protagonistas. Carlos es un expolicía español al que la Ciudad de México ha convertido en el guardaespaldas de un mirrey aficionado a las drogas duras y el dinero fácil. Violeta es la antigua compañera de patrulla de Carlos, una mujer que prefiere los clubs swinger al amor y que necesita sentir en su piel la adrenalina junto a su placa de policía. Cristina es un temible sicario que tomó su nombre de la primera prostituta a la que mató y que pondrá en contacto a todos los personajes de esta novela. En esta inolvidable novela de prosa hipnótica, se entrelazan los barrios más salvajes con los clubes más exclusivos de la Ciudad de México, en una red de historias sobre lo peligroso que resulta para sus personajes buscar los amores perdidos.
El verano de las flores silvestres
by Kathryn TaylorUna emocionante novela femenina de la autora de la serie «Daringham Hall». Zoe se enfrenta a una difícil decisión relacionada con una intervención quirúrgica muy arriesgada que debe salvarle la vida. Espontáneamente decide regresar a Cornualles, pues hace catorce años allí experimentó la mayor felicidad de su vida... y la peor pesadilla. Ahora, por fin está decidida a desvelar los secretos de aquel verano.