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Un Prisionero Dentro
by Alfred Bram Zoer J. M. NorthupDescripción del libro: ¿Qué tan lejos irías para defenderte… de tu propia madre? Tiffany es una chica de diecisiete años atrapada en una batalla por la existencia. Mientras trata de reclamar los derechos por su propia vida y mete, su abusiva madre lucha por mantener el control. Derramando todo su odio por el mundo sobre su hija, Tiffany sufre bajo el velo de preocupación de su madre mientras ella convence a todos de que las heridas de su hija son hechas por ella misma. Peleando para probar que no es mentalmente inestable y buscando escapar de su madre, Tiffany deberá tomar la elección decisiva sobre quién morirá y quién vivirá. ¿Pero qué tan lejos estará dispuesta a ir? ¿Y es acaso su alma el precio justo de la redención? A Prisoner Within (La Prisionera Interior) es una poderosa y convincente historia de manipulación, abuso y miedo.
Half Past Dead
by Zoe Archer Bianca D'ArcThere are good guys, there are bad boys, and then there are men with a danger all their own--these are the ones who take you places you never imagined. . . and will never forget. The Undying Heart by Zoe Archer Samuel Reed had no idea magic existed, until it almost destroyed him. Thirsting for vengeance against the enemy who made him something less than human, Sam returns to England and crosses paths with Cassandra Fielding. His best friends little sister has become a fearless woman on a dangerous mission of her own. And against all odds, she sees past what hes become, and stirs a desire he thought hed lost forever. . . Simon Says by Bianca DArc Special Forces soldier Simon Blackwell ended his affair with Mariana Daniels three years ago, but he hasnt stopped protecting her. Mariana has no knowledge of the dark, deadly creatures that lurk in the forest surrounding her clinic, or of the mysterious powers that make Simon the only one who can defeat them. But soon hell have no choice but to reveal the truth, and urge her to trust in an explosive passion that never faded. . .
Punching the Air
by Ibi Zoboi Yusef SalaamFrom award-winning, bestselling author Ibi Zoboi and prison reform activist Yusef Salaam of the Exonerated Five comes a powerful YA novel in verse about a boy who is wrongfully incarcerated. Perfect for fans of Jason Reynolds, Walter Dean Myers, and Elizabeth Acevedo. <p><p> The story that I thought was my life didn’t start on the day I was born <p> Amal Shahid has always been an artist and a poet. But even in a diverse art school, he’s seen as disruptive and unmotivated by a biased system. Then one fateful night, an altercation in a gentrifying neighborhood escalates into tragedy. “Boys just being boys” turns out to be true only when those boys are white. <p> The story that I think will be my life starts today <p> Suddenly, at just sixteen years old, Amal’s bright future is upended: he is convicted of a crime he didn’t commit and sent to prison. Despair and rage almost sink him until he turns to the refuge of his words, his art. This never should have been his story. But can he change it? <p> With spellbinding lyricism, award-winning author Ibi Zoboi and prison reform activist Yusef Salaam tell a moving and deeply profound story about how one boy is able to maintain his humanity and fight for the truth, in a system designed to strip him of both. <p> <b>A New York Times Bestseller</b>
Bombay Monsoon
by James W. ZiskinThe last thing Danny wants to see published is his obituary The year is 1975. Danny Jacobs is an ambitious, young American journalist who's just arrived in Bombay for a new assignment. He's soon caught up in the chaos of Prime Minister Indira Gandhi's domestic "Emergency." Willy Smets is Danny's enigmatic expat neighbor. He's a charming man, but with suspicious connections. As a monsoon drenches Bombay, Danny falls hard for Sushmita, Smets's beguiling and clever lover—and the infatuation is mutual. "The Emergency," a virtual coup by the prime minister, is only the first twist in the high-stakes drama of Danny's new life in India. The assassination of a police officer by a Marxist extremist, as well as Danny's obsession with the inscrutable Sushmita, conspire to put his career—and life—in jeopardy. And, of course, the temptations of Willy Smets's seductive personality sit squarely at the heart of the matter. Democracy is fragile and the lines of loyalty and betrayal often cross and cannot be untangled.Perfect for fans of Ken Follett and Steve Berry
Cast the First Stone: An Ellie Stone Mystery (Ellie Stone Mysteries #5)
by James W. ZiskinFebruary 1962: Tony Eberle has just scored his first role in a Hollywood movie, and the publisher of his hometown newspaper in upstate New York wants a profile of the local boy who's made good. Reporter Ellie Stone is dispatched to Los Angeles for the story. But when she arrives on set to meet her subject, Tony has vanished. The director is apoplectic, Tony’s agent is stumped, and the producer is found murdered. Ellie is on the story, diving headfirst into a treacherous demimonde of Hollywood wannabes, beautiful young men, desperately ambitious ingénues, panderers, and pornography hobbyists. Then there are some real movie stars with reputations to protect. To find the killer, Ellie must separate the lies from the truth, unearthing secrets no one wants revealed along the way. But before she can solve the producer’s murder, she must locate Tony Eberle.
Heart of Stone: An Ellie Stone Mystery (Ellie Stone Mysteries #4)
by James W. ZiskinIn the waning days of a lazy August holiday, Ellie Stone is enjoying a bright Adirondack-lake morning. Nearby, two men plummet to their deaths just a few feet short of the water of a dangerous diving pool. A tragic accident, it seems. But the police quickly establish that the two victims--one a stranger to the lake and the other a teenaged boy from a nearby music camp--surely didn't know each other. So how did they come to die together? Wading into a slippery morass of free-love intellectuals and charismatic evangelicals, Ellie's investigation forces her to navigate old grudges and cold war passions, lost ideals and betrayed loves. As usual, she sticks her nose where it's unwanted, rattling nerves and putting herself in jeopardy. But this time it's her heart that's also at risk.From the Trade Paperback edition.
No Stone Unturned: An Ellie Stone Mystery (Ellie Stone Mysteries #2)
by James W. ZiskinIn her second mystery, Ellie Stone--a young reporter in 1960s' upstate New York--plays by her own rules while searching for a killer, putting her own life at risk.A dead girl in the woods. Three little oil spots on the dirt road. A Dr. Pepper bottle cap in the shallow grave. And a young reporter, armed with nothing but a camera.Evening is falling on a wet, gray, autumn day in upstate New York. Ellie Stone, twenty-four-year-old reporter for a small local daily, stands at a crossroads in her career and in her life. Alone in the world, battling her own losses and her own demons, Ellie is ready to pack it in and return to New York a failure. Then she hears the dispatch over the police scanner.A hunter, tramping through a muddy wood north of the small town of New Holland, has tripped over the body of a twenty-one-year-old society girl half-buried in the leaves. Ellie is the first reporter on the scene. The investigation provides a rare opportunity to rescue her drowning career, but all leads seem to die on the vine, until Ellie takes a daring chance that unleashes unintended chaos.Wading through a voyeuristic tangle of small-town secrets, she makes some desperate enemies, who want her off the case. Dead if necessary.From the Trade Paperback edition.
Stone Cold Dead: An Ellie Stone Mystery (Ellie Stone Mysteries #3)
by James W. ZiskinDecember 21, 1960, the shortest day of the year: Fifteen-year-old Darleen Hicks slips away from her school bus as it idles in the junior-high parking lot, waiting to depart. Moments later the bus rumbles away without her, and she is never seen again.New Year's Eve 1960: The small upstate town of New Holland, New York, is in the grips of a severe cold snap, when Ellie Stone receives a late-night caller--Irene Metzger, the grieving mother of Darleen Hicks. She tells Ellie that the local police won't help her, that they believe Darleen has run off with some older boy and will return when she is ready. Irene has read Ellie's stories in the paper on an earlier murder case and believes Ellie is her last hope. Ellie Stone is on a chilling journey to a place of uncertainty, loss, teenage passion, and vulnerability--where Ellie's questions are unwanted and her life is in danger.From the Trade Paperback edition.
A Stone's Throw: An Ellie Stone Mystery (An Ellie Stone Mystery #6)
by James W. ZiskinEllie Stone, a young newspaper reporter in 1960s' upstate New York, investigates a double murder at an abandoned stud farm near glamorous Saratoga Springs.August 1962. A suspicious fire claims a tumbledown foaling barn on the grounds of the once-proud Tempesta Stud Farm, halfway between New Holland and Saratoga Springs, NY. The blaze, one of several in recent years at the abandoned farm, barely prompts a shrug from the local sheriff. That is until "girl reporter" Ellie Stone, first on the scene, uncovers a singed length of racing silk in the rubble of the barn. And it's wrapped around the neck of one of two charred bodies buried in the ashes. A bullet between the eyes of one of the victims confirms it's murder, and the police suspect gamblers. Ellie digs deeper.The double murder, committed on a ghostly stud farm in the dead of night, leads Ellie down a haunted path, just a stone's throw from the glamour of Saratoga Springs, to a place where dangerous men don't like to lose. Unraveling secrets from the past--crushing failure and heartless betrayal--she's learning that arson can be cold revenge.
Styx & Stone: An Ellie Stone Mystery (Ellie Stone Mysteries #1)
by James W. ZiskinEllie Stone is a professed modern girl in 1960s' New York City, playing by her own rules and breaking boundaries while searching for a killer among the renowned scholars in Columbia University's Italian Department."If you were a man, you'd make a good detective."Ellie Stone is sure that Sgt. McKeever meant that as a compliment, but that identity-a girl wanting to do a man's job-has throttled her for too long. It's 1960, and Ellie doesn't want to blaze any trails for women; she just wants to be a reporter, one who doesn't need to swat hands off her behind at every turn.Adrift in her career, Ellie is back in New York City after receiving news that her estranged father, a renowned Dante scholar and distinguished professor, is near death after a savage bludgeoning in his home. The police suspect a routine burglary, but Ellie has her doubts. When a second attempt is made on her father's life, in the form of an "accident" in the hospital's ICU, Ellie's suspicions are confirmed.Then another professor turns up dead, and Ellie's investigation turns to her father's university colleagues, their ambitions, jealousies, and secret lives. Ellie embarks on a thorny journey of discovery and reconciliation, as she pursues an investigation that offers her both a chance at redemption in her father's eyes, and the risk of losing him forever.
Turn to Stone: An Ellie Stone Mystery (An Ellie Stone Mystery #7)
by James W. ZiskinThis 1960s-era locked-room mystery takes Ellie Stone to Florence, Italy--a seemingly idyllic setting, which in this case has sinister undertones. Florence, Italy, August 1963. In Italy to accept a posthumous award for her late father's academic work, "girl reporter" Ellie Stone is invited to spend a weekend outside Florence with some of the scholars attending the symposium. A suspected rubella outbreak leaves the ten friends quarantined in the bucolic setting with little to do but tell stories to entertain themselves. Deciding to make the best of their confinement, the men and women spin tales, gorge themselves on fine Tuscan food and wine, and enjoy the delicious fruit of transient love. But the summer bacchanalia takes a menacing turn when the man who organized the symposium is fished out of the Arno. "Morto." As long-buried secrets rise to the surface, Ellie must figure out if one or more of her newfound friends is capable of murder.
Lure of the Arcane: The Literature of Cult and Conspiracy
by Theodore ZiolkowskiA study of the depiction of cults, conspiracies, and secret societies in literature from ancient Greek and Roman mysteries to the 21st century thriller.Fascination with the arcane is a driving force in this comprehensive survey of conspiracy fiction. Theodore Ziolkowski traces the evolution of cults, orders, lodges, secret societies, and conspiracies through various literary manifestations—drama, romance, epic, novel, opera—down to the thrillers of the twenty-first century.Lure of the Arcane considers Euripides’s Bacchae, Andreae’s Chymical Wedding, Mozart’s The Magic Flute, and Eco’s Foucault’s Pendulum, among other seminal works. Mimicking the genre’s quest-driven narrative arc, the reader searches for the significance of conspiracy fiction and is rewarded with the author’s cogent reflections in the final chapter. After much investigation, Ziolkowski reinforces Umberto Eco’s notion that the most powerful secret, the magnetic center of conspiracy fiction, is in fact “a secret without content.”“Conspiracies, whether attributed to mystery cults, Freemasons, Socialists, or Rosicrucians, pervade literature from Euripides to Umberto Eco, as Theodore Ziolkowski shows in Lure of the Arcane. Ziolkowski has read everything, taking even a 3,000-page German novel in his stride, and summarizes and analyses his material fascinatingly for lesser mortals.” —Times Literary Supplement (UK)“Ziolkowski is excellently placed to attempt the construction of a genre history . . . As such, his treatment of the literature and the array of texts included is predictably masterful, moving with ease from Greek and Roman mysteries in antiquity to the Medieval representations of the Knights Templar, through the Rosicrucian manifestoes and the German Enlightenment lodge novels, to the literary depictions of secret societies of Romantic Socialism.” —Nova Religio
Putney: A Novel
by Sofka ZinovieffIn the spirit of Zoë Heller’s Notes on a Scandal and Tom Perrotta’s Mrs. Fletcher, an explosive and thought-provoking novel about the far-reaching repercussions of an illicit relationship between a young girl and a man twenty years her senior.A rising star in the London arts scene of the early 1970s, gifted composer Ralph Boyd is approached by renowned novelist Edmund Greenslay to score a stage adaptation of his most famous work. Welcomed into Greenslay’s sprawling bohemian house in Putney, an artistic and prosperous district in southwest London, the musical wunderkind is introduced to Edmund’s activist wife Ellie, his aloof son Theo, and his nine-year old daughter Daphne, who quickly becomes Ralph’s muse.Ralph showers Daphne with tokens of his affection—clandestine gifts and secret notes. In a home that is exciting but often lonely, Daphne finds Ralph to be a dazzling companion, and while he worships her, he doesn't touch her. Their bond remains strong even after Ralph becomes a husband and father. But in the summer of 1976, when Ralph accompanies thirteen-year-old Daphne alone to meet her parents in Greece, their relationship intensifies irrevocably. One person knows of their passionate trysts: Daphne’s best friend Jane, whose awe of the intoxicating Greenslay family ensures her silence.Forty years later Daphne is back in London. After years lost to decadence and drug abuse, she is struggling to create a normal, stable life for herself and her adolescent daughter. When circumstances bring her back in touch with her long-lost friend, Jane, their reunion inevitably turns to Ralph, now a world-famous musician also living in the city. Daphne’s recollections of her childhood and her growing anxiety over her own daughter eventually lead to an explosive realization that propels her to confront Ralph and their years together.Told from three diverse viewpoints—victim, perpetrator, and witness—Putney is a subtle and powerful novel about consent, agency, and what we tell ourselves to justify what we do, and what others do to us.
Poison
by Bridget ZinnWhen sixteen-year-old Kyra, a potions master, tries to save her kingdom by murdering the princess, who is also her best friend, the poisoned dart misses its mark and Kyra becomes a fugitive, pursued by the King's army and her ex-boyfriend Hal.
Death on the Amazon
by Paul ZindelP.C.'s anthropologist dad invites P.C. and Mac along for a holiday boat trip down the Amazon, but Mr. Hawke's dream trip turns into a nightmare for everyone when they realize they're trapped on board a little steamer with a big killer.
The E-Mail Murders
by Paul ZindelWhen P.C. and Mackenzie are invited to join Mac's dad on a business trip in Monaco, they are thrilled. But their luxurious vacation is cut short when a serial killer thought to be long retired suddenly strikes again ... in their hotel.
The Gadget
by Paul ZindelNear the end of World War II, scientists in Los Alamos, New Mexico, are working on a project that will alter the fate of the world. Thirteen-year-old Stephen Orr is living at a top secret military base with his father who is building the atomic bomb.
The Lethal Gorilla
by Paul ZindelA scientist at the Bronx Wildlife Conservation Park turns up dead and P.C. and Mackenzie are sure that it's no accident. The only way to get a lethal dose of gorilla blood into an unsuspecting person is on purpose.
The Phantom of 86th Street
by Paul ZindelSerena hasn't been herself lately. She has been having sudden lapses of memory and acting like a completely different person - one she doesn't like very much. To add to her confusion, she knows that someone has been following her.
The Scream Museum
by Paul ZindelP. C. Hawke and his partner-in-sleuthing, Mackenzie, are shocked to learn that their friend Tom is accused of murdering the chief biologist of the Museum of Natural History.
The Square Root of Murder
by Paul ZindelWhen the Grim Reaper strikes the math department at a nearby university, P.C. and Mackenzie do some homework and discover that almost everyone-- parents, teachers, and students alike-- had a motive to get this nutty professor out of the way.
The Surfing Corpse
by Paul ZindelDid classmate Timmy Warner plunge to his death over a 300-foot waterfall, or was that Timmy spotted recently, alive and well, at Venice Beach? P.C. and Mackenzie are determined to find out.
When a Darkness Falls
by Paul ZindelFor Jack and Marjorie Krenner and their two small children, life in their new home among the rich and famous is a dream come true. Until slowly they wake to the fear that walks the night. And soon they know that nothing, not the iron gates nor the alarms nor the watchdogs, can protect them from a killer who is closer to home than they dare imagine.
Just Do This One Thing for Me
by Laura ZimmermannHilarious, heartbreaking, and sneaky suspenseful, Just Do This One Thing for Me is a timely novel about a rule-following daughter trying to hold her family together after her scammer mother disappears.&“Just do this one thing for me.&” Drew's mother says it more often than good morning. Heidi Hill has been juggling shady side hustles for all of Drew&’s seventeen years, and Drew knows that &“one thing&” really means all the necessary things her mother thinks are boring, including taking care of her fifteen-year-old sister and eight-year-old brother. In fact, Drew is the closest thing to a responsible adult they&’ve ever known. When their mother disappears on the way to a New Year&’s Eve concert in Mexico and her schemes start unraveling, Drew is faced with a choice: Follow the rules, do the responsible thing, and walk away--alone--from her mother's mess. Or hope the weather stays cold, keep the cons going, and just maybe hold her family together.
The Mystery in the Attic (Leveled Readers 4FOG)
by Tracy ZimmermanA story where a boy and girl learn the true identity of what is in their attic.
Closet: A Todd Mills Mystery
by R. D. ZimmermanOne of the earlier books, if not the first, in the Todd Mills mystery series. Todd's lover Michael is brutally murdered and Todd is a suspect.
The Orphanmaster
by Jean ZimmermanFrom a debut novelist, a gripping historical thriller and rousing love story set in seventeenth-century Manhattan It’s 1663 in the tiny, hardscrabble Dutch colony of New Amsterdam, now present-day southern Manhattan. Orphan children are going missing, and among those looking into the mysterious state of affairs are a quick-witted twenty-two-year-old trader, Blandine von Couvering, herself an orphan, and a dashing British spy named Edward Drummond. Suspects abound, including the governor’s wealthy nephew, a green-eyed aristocrat with decadent tastes; an Algonquin trapper who may be possessed by a demon that turns people into cannibals; and the colony’s own corrupt and conflicted orphanmaster. Both the search for the killer and Edward and Blandine’s newfound romance are endangered, however, when Blandine is accused of being a witch and Edward is sentenced to hang for espionage. Meanwhile, war looms as the English king plans to wrest control of the colony. Jean Zimmerman brings New Amsterdam and its surrounding wilderness alive for modern-day readers with exacting period detail. Lively, fast paced, and full of colorful characters, The Orphanmaster is a dramatic page-turner that will appeal to fans of Hilary Mantel and Geraldine Brooks. .
Savage Girl
by Jean Zimmerman"An over-the-top romp through 1870s America . . . compulsively readable." --Oprah.comJean Zimmerman's spectacular follow-up to The Orphanmaster has it all: Gilded Age romance, robber baron excess, detective story suspense, and a compelling female protagonist whom readers will fall in love with.In 1875, the Delegates, an outlandishly wealthy Manhattan couple on a tour of the American West, seek out a sideshow attraction called "Savage Girl." Her handlers avow that the wild, seemingly mute Bronwyn has been raised by wolves. Presented with the perfect blank slate to explore the power of civilized nurture, the Delegates take her back east to be introduced into high society. Cleaned up, Bronwyn is blazingly smart and darkly beautiful; as she takes steps toward her grand debut, a series of suitors find her irresistible--and begin to turn up murdered.
Savage Girl
by Jean ZimmermanA riveting tale from the author of The Orphanmaster about a wild girl from Nevada who lands in Manhattan's Gilded Age society Jean Zimmerman's new novel tells of the dramatic events that transpire when an alluring, blazingly smart eighteen-year-old girl named Bronwyn, reputedly raised by wolves in the wilds of Nevada, is adopted in 1875 by the Delegates, an outlandishly wealthy Manhattan couple, and taken back East to be civilized and introduced into high society. Bronwyn hits the highly mannered world of Edith Wharton-era Manhattan like a bomb. A series of suitors, both young and old, find her irresistible, but the willful girl's illicit lovers begin to turn up murdered. Zimmerman's tale is narrated by the Delegate's son, a Harvard anatomy student. The tormented, self-dramatizing Hugo Delegate speaks from a prison cell where he is prepared to take the fall for his beloved Savage Girl. This narrative--a love story and a mystery with a powerful sense of fable--is his confession.
The Sandbox
by David ZimmermanOperating Base Cornucopia. A three-hundred-year-old fortress in the remote Iraqi desert where a few dozen soldiers wait for their next assignment, among them Private Toby Durrant, a self-described "broke nobody." Then a deadly ambush touches off events that put Durrant in the middle of a far-reaching conspiracy. Insurgents massing in the nearby hills, a secretive member of military intelligence, an abandoned toy factory and a mysterious, half-feral child--Durrant must figure out the links between them if he's to survive. This blistering look at military life in "the sandbox" of Iraq marks the debut of a major new talent.
The Sandbox: A Novel
by David ZimmermanThis “gripping” and suspenseful novel of the Iraq War “will keep you turning the pages” (The New York Times). Operating Base Cornucopia is a three-hundred-year-old fortress in the remote Iraqi desert where a few dozen soldiers wait for their next assignment, among them Pvt. Toby Durrant, a self-described “broke nobody.” Then a deadly ambush touches off events that put Durrant in the middle of a far-reaching conspiracy. Insurgents massing in the nearby hills, a secretive member of military intelligence, an abandoned toy factory, and a mysterious, half-feral child—Durrant must figure out the links between them if he’s to survive. This blistering look at military life in “the sandbox” of Iraq is both a compelling mystery and a vivid evocation of an “isolated moonscape—a place as liable to produce hallucinations and heat exhaustion as it is to churn up sandstorms that last for days” (Los Angeles Times).
Johnny Montana: A Western Story
by Michael ZimmerHe is known as Johnny Montana. It is the name given to him by his fellow miners in the Redhawk mining district. Those working have been able to accumulate sizable caches of gold dust. The problem for the miners is how to get their gold out of the district. Brett Cutter and his gang of Cut-throats watch the roads and byways for miners trying to leave. Vacating miners are attacked and usually left dead after having been stripped of their gold.It is in the center of this growing tension and the certainty that their claim will soon be attacked that Johnny Montana’s mining partners agree that the best way to ward off an attack is for one of them to take out their gold on a packhorse. But the plan goes awry. No sooner has Johnny begun his desperate journey than behind him he hears the sounds of their camp being attacked by the Cut-throats. There will be pursuit, and he is only one against a horde of bloodthirsty thieves.Michael Zimmer is no stranger to a gripping Western story, and Johnny Montana may be his best yet, a wild ride of revenge, greed, and survival in the Wild West.
The Long Hitch: A Western Story
by Michael ZimmerMase Campbell has earned a reputation as a skilled wagon master, heading up freight trains for Kavanaugh Freight. Then one night in 1874 in Corinne, Utah Territory, he is stopped in the street by someone asking him for a match, and shot to death. Those who saw the murder either do not come forward or admit no knowledge. Buck McCready, captured at ten years of age by Indians, rescued by Mase, and raised by him, wants to find out who killed Mase and why. But there is not time for investigation because Jock Kavanaugh, owner of the freight line, has committed to a freight wagon race from Corinne to Virginia City and he needs Buck to replace Mase as wagon master. Buck believes that Mase was murdered because of the competition and that the murderer will probably be on the train. Buck is right about one thing: someone in the wagon crew is willing to do whatever is necessary to see the Kavanaugh venture fail.
Miami Gundown: A Western Story
by Michael Zimmer"Zimmer demonstrates why he’s one of the more interesting voices in Western fiction.” -Booklist"I've got something I want to say right up front,” says Boone McCallister, as he speaks into an Edison Dictaphone in 1937, "and that is that I did not feed David Klee to an alligator. That damned rumor has hounded me my whole life.”Back in 1864, with his father gone to fight for the South, young Boone embarks on a cattle drive with the McCallister’s Flat Iron Ranch in pioneer Florida, sending a herd of cattle to the Gulf port south of Tampa. Besides navigating dangerous cattle country, the headstrong, naïve Boone encounters vengeful Yankees, orders a hanging, braves alligators, and comes into contact with a group of swamp outlaws, the Klees, which begins a costly feud between the two families.When the Klees pillage and set fire to the Flat Iron Ranch, they also kidnap a comely slave girl, Lena. Against the odds, Boone must lead an operation to get her back, leading to a showdown in the middle of unfamiliar and unsettled outlaw territory that would one day become Miami.Skyhorse Publishing is proud to publish a broad range of books for readers interested in fiction that takes place in the old West. Westerns-books about outlaws, sheriffs, chiefs and warriors, cowboys and Indians-are a genre in which we publish regularly. Our list includes international bestselling authors like Zane Gray and Louis L’Amour, and many more. While not every title we publish becomes a New York Times bestseller or a national bestseller, we are committed to books on subjects that are sometimes overlooked and to authors whose work might not otherwise find a home.
The Night Watchman
by Richard ZimlerChief Inspector Henrique Monroe of the Lisbon Police Department is not your usual cop. Eccentric, elliptical – and stunningly observant – his peculiar behavior at crime scenes is legendary. But his colleagues put up with it because, in the end, Monroe’s the best of the best. But he has a double-sided secret. And when he’s called to investigate the brutal slaying of well-connected Portuguese businessman Pedro Coutinho, it’s not just the murder case that will unravel – but his own identity, too. As Monroe’s investigations lead him deep into a torrid world of shady political corruption and sexual violence, the details of the case trigger memories from his childhood in rural Colorado – memories he has travelled far, and worked hard, to hide. His behavior becomes even more upsetting and inappropriate than usual, and even his family – his wife, his brother and his two young boys – start to fear for the man they thought they knew. Henrique struggles to move his investigation forward whilst keeping the walls of his identity from crumbling. And then, another violent crime changes his life forever, destroying any chance he has of continuing to keep his secret . . . A chilling psychological mystery, The Night Watchman is a uniquely moving portrait of a troubled police detective and his family when a single crime reveals the damaging impact of abuse and the tragic truth about an entire nation.
The Seventh Gate
by Richard ZimlerBy the author of the critically acclaimed international hits The Last Kabbalist of Lisbon and The Warsaw Anagrams, this novel proves Richard Zimler's mastery of the "riveting literary murder mystery" (Independent on Sunday). It's Berlin, 1932. Sophie is a smart and sexually precocious fourteen-year-old coming of age during Hitler's rise to power. Forced to lead a double life when her father and boyfriend become Nazi collaborators, she reserves her dreams of becoming an actress for her beloved elderly neighbor, Isaac Zarco, and his friends, most of whom are Jews working against the government in a secret group called the Ring. When a member is sent to Dachau, she realizes there must be a Nazi traitor in the group. But who? Through successive mysteries, reversals, and surprises --and a race against time --The Seventh Gate builds to a shattering end. In its chilling but sensuous evocation of the time and place, Richard Zimler's novel is a love story and a tale of ferocious heroism
The Seventh Gate
by Richard ZimlerBy the author of the critically acclaimed international hits The Last Kabbalist of Lisbon and The Warsaw Anagrams, this novel proves Richard Zimler's mastery of the "riveting literary murder mystery" (Independent on Sunday). It's Berlin, 1932. Sophie is a smart and sexually precocious fourteen-year-old coming of age during Hitler's rise to power. Forced to lead a double life when her father and boyfriend become Nazi collaborators, she reserves her dreams of becoming an actress for her beloved elderly neighbor, Isaac Zarco, and his friends, most of whom are Jews working against the government in a secret group called the Ring. When a member is sent to Dachau, she realizes there must be a Nazi traitor in the group. But who? Through successive mysteries, reversals, and surprises --and a race against time --The Seventh Gate builds to a shattering end. In its chilling but sensuous evocation of the time and place, Richard Zimler's novel is a love story and a tale of ferocious heroism
The Seventh Gate
by Richard ZimlerA Novel of Berlin, Prophesy, and Unfinished PortraitsIn the Author's Note to his internationally bestselling novel, The Last Kabbalist of Lisbon, Richard Zimler described how he discovered a long-lost 16th-century manuscript in an Istanbul cellar written by a Portuguese kabbalist named Berekiah Zarco. More than 400 years later, Isaac Zarco becomes convinced by the pact between Hitler and Stalin - and other 'signs' - that an apocalyptic prophesy made by his ancestor is about to come terribly true. Is he mad to believe that by decoding these ancient kabbalistic texts he might be the one to save the world?Set in 1930s Berlin, during the Nazis' rise to power, The Seventh Gate brings together Sophie Riedesel, an intelligent, artistic, and sexually adventurous fourteen-yearold with Isaac Zarco and his friends, most of whom are Jews, ex-circus performers and underground activists. When a series of forced sterilizations, brutal murders and 'disappearings' to concentration camps decimates the group, Sophie must fight with all her ingenuity and guile to save all that she loves about Germany - at any cost. In its beautifully shaped portraits and in its chilling but sensuous evocation of Berlin in the 1930s, The Seventh Gate is at one and the same time a love story and tragedy - and a tale of ferocious heroism.
The Seventh Gate: A Novel
by Richard ZimlerA girl on the brink of adulthood. A city on the brink of war. “An intelligent and moving novel about the heartbreaking human condition” (Alberto Manguel, author of The Library at Night). It’s Berlin, 1932. Sophie is a smart and sexually precocious fourteen-year-old coming of age during Hitler’s rise to power. Forced to lead a double life when her father and her boyfriend become Nazi collaborators, she reserves her dreams of becoming an actress for her beloved elderly neighbor, Isaac Zarco, and his friends, most of whom are Jews working against the government in a secret group called the Ring. When a member is sent to Dachau, she realizes there must be a Nazi traitor in the group . . . Through successive mysteries, reversals, and surprises—and a race against time—The Seventh Gate builds to a shattering end. In its chilling but sensuous evocation of the time and place, Richard Zimler’s novel is a love story and a tale of ferocious heroism. “A moody, tightly constructed historical thriller that is both entertaining and instructive.” —The New York Times “Explosive and prophetic.” —Newsday “Mixing profound reflections on Jewish mysticism with scenes of elemental yet always tender sensuality, Zimler captures the Nazi era in the most human of terms, devoid of sentimentality but throbbing with life lived passionately in the midst of horror.” —Booklist (starred review) “Zimler excellently captures the gamut of tumultuous emotions in his intense and detailed portrait of a city destined for war, and his exceptionally drawn characters struggling to survive in a world gone mad make for an unforgettable story.” —Library Journal (starred review)
The Warsaw Anagrams: A Novel
by Richard ZimlerWarsaw, 1941--an exhausted and elderly psychiatrist named Erik Cohen makes his way home to the Jewish ghetto after being interned in a Nazi labor camp. Yet only one visionary man--Heniek Corben--can see him and hear him. Heniek soon realizes that Cohen has become an ibbur--a spirit. But how and why has he taken this form? As Cohen recounts his disturbing and moving story, small but telling inconsistencies appear in his narrative. Heniek begins to believe that Cohen is not the secular Jew he claims to be, but may, in fact, be a student of practical Kabbalah? of magic. Why is he lying? And what is the importance of the anagrams he creates for the names of his friends and relatives? Heniek traces his suspicions and comes to an astonishing conclusion?one that has consequences for his own identity and life, and perhaps for the reader's as well.
The Warsaw Anagrams: A Novel
by Richard ZimlerWarsaw, 1941--an exhausted and elderly psychiatrist named Erik Cohen makes his way home to the Jewish ghetto after being interned in a Nazi labor camp. Yet only one visionary man--Heniek Corben--can see him and hear him. Heniek soon realizes that Cohen has become an ibbur--a spirit. But how and why has he taken this form? As Cohen recounts his disturbing and moving story, small but telling inconsistencies appear in his narrative. Heniek begins to believe that Cohen is not the secular Jew he claims to be, but may, in fact, be a student of practical Kabbalah? of magic. Why is he lying? And what is the importance of the anagrams he creates for the names of his friends and relatives? Heniek traces his suspicions and comes to an astonishing conclusion?one that has consequences for his own identity and life, and perhaps for the reader's as well.
The Warsaw Anagrams: A Novel (Bride Series)
by Richard ZimlerThe bestselling author of The Last Kabbalist of Lisbon delivers a wartime thriller that’s “equal parts riveting, heartbreaking, inspiring, and intelligent” (San Francisco Chronicle). With his international-bestseller The Last Kabbalist of Lisbon, Richard Zimler made a name as a master of historical thrillers. In this chilling mystery, winner of the Marques de Ouro Prize, Zimler has woven a gripping tale in the tradition of The Shadow of the Wind. It is autumn, 1940, and the Nazis have sealed four-hundred-thousand Jews into the Warsaw Ghetto. Erik Cohen, an elderly psychiatrist, moves into a tiny apartment with his last remaining relatives. Then his beloved great-nephew Adam goes missing and his body is discovered tangled in the barbed wire, strangely mutilated. Soon afterward, another body turns up, this time a young girl. Could there be a Jewish traitor luring children to their deaths? With an unlikely hero and hair-raising suspense, The Warsaw Anagrams is a profoundly moving and darkly atmospheric thriller. “Part murder mystery and part historical fiction . . . Thrilling.” —The Boston Globe “A gripping, heartbreaking and beautiful thriller.” —Simon Sebag Montefiore, New York Times–bestselling author of The Romanovs “Spare but striking prose . . . Masterful.” —Newsday “A fast-moving, powerful and intellectual murder mystery set within wartime Warsaw Poland during World War II . . . Zimler provides layer after layer of intrigue and excitement. This is not simply a novel about the Holocaust. It is a murder mystery that will challenge the reader to uncover a frightening truth within a world turned upside down by war and genocide.” —New York Journal of Books
Así es como se mata (Un caso del comisario Mancini #Volumen 1)
by Mirko ZilahyLa nueva voz del thriller que está conquistando Europa. Tras el éxito de Dicker, Lemaitre y Dazieri, llega una nueva novela negra de alto impacto. «Un comisario que parece sacado de la serie de televisión Criminal Minds. Una novela tan inquietante que produce un inmediato efecto fan club.»Marta Cervino, Marie Claire «La justicia solo triunfará cuando el arado trace su último surco. Usted no me conoce. Nadie me conoce. Cómo me llamo no tiene importancia. Solo soy una sombra.» Roma, septiembre de 2008. La ciudad sufre una terrible ola de mal tiempo. Parece que toda el agua que cae torrencialmente del cielo pretende lavar el mal que hay sobre la superficie. Lejos de la gran ciudad turística y religiosa, en una Roma olvidada, aparecen los cadáveres de las víctimas de un asesino en serie. Solo hay un hombre capaz de liderar esa investigación tan delicada: el comisario Enrico Mancini, el único policía que ha asistido a los cursos sobre perfiles criminales en la central del FBI, en Quantico. Mancini atraviesa el peor momento de su vida, pero aun así es obligado a atrapar a «la Sombra», asesino atípico y esquivo que llena los cuerpos de sus víctimas con pistas, no para satisfacer sus instintos homicidas sino para conseguir un propósito lúcidamente maquiavélico. Todo en él tiene un significado, todo es un símbolo, y necesita una última pieza para terminar su rompecabezas: el propio Enrico Mancini. La opinión de la crítica:«Un thriller ambientado en una Roma tan oscura que parece la Los Angeles de James Ellroy.»Eva Grippa, La Repubblica «Larga vida al nuevo comisario del noir italiano. Enrico Mancini ha llegado para quedarse.»Il Fatto Quotidiano «Un extraordinario thriller de acción hecho de acero, óxido y lluvia.»Panorama «Una novela criminal larga y sangrienta, con una clara huella anglosajona.»L'Unità «Un asesino en serie tenebroso, una escritura poderosa y magistral que desvela el miedo que habita cada uno de nosotros, asustados lectores.»Il Corriere della Sera «Un debut penetrante: óptimo el ritmo de la historia, una trama perfecta, llevada hasta el final con habilidad, y unos personajes memorables.»Huffington Post «Así es como se mata, así es como se escribe.»Diario di una dipendenza «Una Roma lluviosa y desconocida, que merece la pena ser leída y así disfrutar de la maestría de Zilahy para sacar con pocas palabras los olores de las páginas.»Malapuella
La forma de la oscuridad (Un caso del comisario Mancini #Volumen 2)
by Mirko ZilahyLa gran novela negra que viene de Italia y conquista el mundo. «Una escritura que registra todos los matices del terror.»Il Corriere della Sera Roma está en manos de un asesino capaz de darle forma a la oscuridad. Sus siniestras obsesiones se materializan en el rito del asesinato; sus terribles visiones se convierten en realidad a través de sus víctimas. Porque el monstruo no se limita a matar: modela, da forma, transfigura a cada una de ellas en una criatura mitológica. Y los indicios que deja carecen de sentido aparente para quien no esté en condiciones de interpretarlos. Se necesita a un experto capaz de analizar la escena del crimen y trazar un perfil del asesino. Mientras aparecen nuevas obras del bautizado por la prensa como «El Escultor» en la Casita de las Lechuzas de Villa Torlonia, el parque zoológico y la laberíntica red romana de alcantarillado, el comisario Mancini es reclamado en su puesto. Tiene por delante el desafío más angustioso y letal de su carrera... o incluso de su vida. Tras el éxito internacional de Así es como se mata, Mirko Zilahy vuelve con un nuevo y perturbador desafío al lector, describiendo una Roma oscura y atormentada y traspasando los límites del thriller con una narrativa de insuperable intensidad. Reseñas:«Una novela impresionante con ecos dantescos.»Journal Frankfurt «Larga vida al nuevo comisario del noir italiano. Enrico Mancini ha llegado para quedarse.»Il Fatto Quotidiano La crítica dijo sobre Así es como se mata...«La leí sin parar... Es una novela fascinante, una novela clásica... Y buscas todo el tiempo que puedes hasta acabarla.»Ángel de la Calle (Semana Negra de Gijón) «Un thriller negrísimo: una escritura que registra todos los matices del terror. Un asesino en serie tenebroso, unestilo poderoso y magistral que desvela el miedo que habita en cada uno de nosotros.»Il Corriere della Sera «Un thriller ambientado en una Roma tan oscura que parece la Los Ángeles de James Ellroy.»Eva Grippa, La Repubblica «Un extraordinario thriller de acción hecho de acero, óxido y lluvia.»Panorama «Larga vida al nuevo comisario del noir italiano. Enrico Mancini ha llegado para quedarse.»Il Fatto Quotidiano «Una novela criminal larga y sangrienta, con una clara huella anglosajona.»L'Unità «Un debut de alto impacto: óptimo el ritmo de la historia, una trama perfecta, llevada hasta el final con habilidad, y unos personajes memorables.»Huffington Post «Así es como se mata, así es como se escribe.»Diario di una dipendenza «Un comisario que parece sacado de la serie de televisión Mentes criminales. Una novela tan inquietante que produce un inmediato efecto fan club.»Marta Cervino, Marie Claire
Into Thin Air
by Thomas ZigalMountain man, ex-hippie, and single father, Sheriff Kurt Muller feels like an outsider in his hometown of Aspen, Colorado. Old enough to remember Aspen's more rustic years, Muller can't quite get used to its new identity as "Glamour Gulch," where ski bums, Latino migrant workers, and extravagant jet-setters live in uneasy proximity. In this volatile mix, Muller finds his personal code of justice is more and more at odds with the compromises of elected office. But there's nothing ambiguous about a dead man floating down Roaring Fork River. A beautiful doctor identifies the John Doe as an acclaimed Argentine journalist, and Muller, drawn in by her stories of brutality and corruption in Argentina, skirts the edges of professional behavior--until she vanishes while under his protection. Implicated in her disappearance and suddenly the FBI's target in a drug-trafficking case based on his radical past, Muller searches desperately for a way to clear himself and protect his family from sinister forces on either side of the law. As he presses closer to the truth, Muller confronts Aspen's changing ethos and, ultimately, an unresolved family tragedy that has haunted his life.
Gossip Girl, Psycho Killer (Gossip Girl)
by Cecily Von ZiegesarWelcome to New York City's Upper East Side, where my friends and I live, go to school, play, and sleep-sometimes with each other. It's a luxe life, but someone's got to live it . . . until they die.So begins Gossip Girl, Psycho Killer, a re-imagined and expanded slasher edition of the first groundbreaking Gossip Girl novel, featuring all new grisly scenes and over-the-top gore by #1 New York Times bestselling author Cecily von Ziegesar. Just as in the original story, Serena returns from boarding school hoping to make amends with her BFF Blair Waldorf--things just haven't been the same since Nate Archibald came between them. But here's where our dark tale takes a turn: Serena decides that the only way for her to make things right with Blair is to eliminate Nate. If that means killing him, well, c'est la vie. Her attempted murder doesn't go unnoticed by Blair, however, who isn't about to let Serena kill whoever she wants-not when there's Cyrus Rose and Chuck Bass and Titi Coates and everyone else who's ever irritated Blair to get rid of first . . . .American Psycho's Patrick Bateman has met his match in Manhattan's newest, most fabulous trendsetting serial killers, Blair Waldorf and Serena van der Woodsen.
Deputy Yama: Volume 1 (Volume 1 #1)
by Yi ZhuLaoGuYanDon't think that without spring, a little hoodlum who collects protection fees at the school gates will be beaten up by others and become the Chief Executive of the Underworld — King Yama.This time, it's going to be very lively. To become the King of Hell and the Fighting Heavenly Court, reform the Underworld's system, and lead the dead spirits to resist the oppression of the Gods of the Heavenly Court. Howling Celestial Dog, Erlang Shen, Taurus Star, Titan … They all arrived, including Fuxi, Nuwa, and Yellow Emperor Xuanyuan. The Greek gods, the twelve Archangels, the Norse mythology.The last sentence was: I am the biggest in the world... Wahaha...
Deputy Yama: Volume 2 (Volume 2 #2)
by Yi ZhuLaoGuYanDon't think that without spring, a little hoodlum who collects protection fees at the school gates will be beaten up by others and become the Chief Executive of the Underworld — King Yama.This time, it's going to be very lively. To become the King of Hell and the Fighting Heavenly Court, reform the Underworld's system, and lead the dead spirits to resist the oppression of the Gods of the Heavenly Court. Howling Celestial Dog, Erlang Shen, Taurus Star, Titan … They all arrived, including Fuxi, Nuwa, and Yellow Emperor Xuanyuan. The Greek gods, the twelve Archangels, the Norse mythology.The last sentence was: I am the biggest in the world... Wahaha...
Deputy Yama: Volume 3 (Volume 3 #3)
by Yi ZhuLaoGuYanDon't think that without spring, a little hoodlum who collects protection fees at the school gates will be beaten up by others and become the Chief Executive of the Underworld — King Yama.This time, it's going to be very lively. To become the King of Hell and the Fighting Heavenly Court, reform the Underworld's system, and lead the dead spirits to resist the oppression of the Gods of the Heavenly Court. Howling Celestial Dog, Erlang Shen, Taurus Star, Titan … They all arrived, including Fuxi, Nuwa, and Yellow Emperor Xuanyuan. The Greek gods, the twelve Archangels, the Norse mythology.The last sentence was: I am the biggest in the world... Wahaha...
Deputy Yama: Volume 4 (Volume 4 #4)
by Yi ZhuLaoGuYanDon't think that without spring, a little hoodlum who collects protection fees at the school gates will be beaten up by others and become the Chief Executive of the Underworld — King Yama.This time, it's going to be very lively. To become the King of Hell and the Fighting Heavenly Court, reform the Underworld's system, and lead the dead spirits to resist the oppression of the Gods of the Heavenly Court. Howling Celestial Dog, Erlang Shen, Taurus Star, Titan … They all arrived, including Fuxi, Nuwa, and Yellow Emperor Xuanyuan. The Greek gods, the twelve Archangels, the Norse mythology.The last sentence was: I am the biggest in the world... Wahaha...
Hunt Ghosts With a System: Volume 2 (Volume 2 #2)
by Gui ZhiBiZhou Yang had accidentally acquired a strange system. Not only were there all kinds of mystical pill runes, there were also many ghost missions. The only way to increase his own abilities was to complete the quest to acquire ghost coins and buy items from the system. Would Zhou Yang, who possessed this strange system, become a God, or would a quest accidentally turn into a vengeful spirit?
Hunt Ghosts With a System: Volume 1 (Volume 1 #1)
by Gui ZhiBiZhou Yang had accidentally acquired a strange system. Not only were there all kinds of mystical pill runes, there were also many ghost missions. The only way to increase his own abilities was to complete the quest to acquire ghost coins and buy items from the system. Would Zhou Yang, who possessed this strange system, become a God, or would a quest accidentally turn into a vengeful spirit?
Hunt Ghosts With a System: Volume 3 (Volume 3 #3)
by Gui ZhiBiZhou Yang had accidentally acquired a strange system. Not only were there all kinds of mystical pill runes, there were also many ghost missions. The only way to increase his own abilities was to complete the quest to acquire ghost coins and buy items from the system. Would Zhou Yang, who possessed this strange system, become a God, or would a quest accidentally turn into a vengeful spirit?
City of Ghosts: Volume 1 (Volume 1 #1)
by ZhenyinfangSong Xiaofan was just an orphan growing up in a poor mountain village. In his growing up memory, there was a strange thing around him, that is, he could see all kinds of souls. The only thing that could make him feel gratified was that these souls did not interfere with his life. Until once, song Xiaofan agreed to a magic wand called Zhang Yuan. He went to the mountain village with him In dealing with a strange ghost event, song Xiaofan's ability was improved magically when he saw such a powerful ghost for the first time, and his life has changed greatly since then.
All These Things I've Done (Birthright #1)
by Gabrielle Zevin Ilyana KadushinSixteen year-old Anya's parents have been murdered because her father was the head of a notorious underworld gang. Now she is determined to keep herself and her siblings away from that world. But her father’s relatives aren't so keen to let them go. <p><p> When Anya’s violent ex-boyfriend is poisoned with contaminated chocolate - chocolate that is produced illegally by Anya’s criminal family - she is arrested for attempted murder. Disconcertingly, it is the new D.A. in town who releases her from jail, but her freedom comes with conditions. <p> The D.A. is the father of Win, a boy at school to whom Anya feels irresistibly drawn. Win’s father won’t risk having his political ambitions jeopardised by his son seeing a member of a crime family. She is to stay away with him. Anya knows she risks her freedom and the safety of her brother and sister by seeing Win again. Neither the D.A. nor the underworld will allow it. But the feeling between them is so strong that she may be unable to resist him . . .
Assassin's Masque (Palace of Spies #3)
by Sarah ZettelThings are turning around for seventeen-year-old Peggy Fitzroy, a once-orphaned spy. Her father is back from the dead, and her unwanted engagement has been called off for good. But when a mysterious veiled woman shows up, Peggy uncovers a fresh slew of questions about her past, present, and future. Now Peggy is back at the palace, unsure of the loyalties she thought she held. With the Jacobite uprising stalking ever closer to the throne, it's imperative that Peggy discover who she can really trust. Can she save herself and the royal family, or is she doomed as a pawn in this most deadly game?
Dangerous Deceptions (Palace of Spies #2)
by Sarah Zettel"A rollicking spy caper in corsets. . . . This witty romp will delight fans of historical fiction as well as mystery lovers." --Kirkus Reviews, starred review of Palace of Spies As a lady in waiting in King George's London court, Peggy has survived a forced betrothal, royal scandals, and an attempt or two on her life. And now she has a new problem: her horrible fiancé has returned to claim her! To save her neck, or at least her hand in marriage, Peggy joins forces with her cousin Olivia and her sweetheart, Matthew. But if she doesn't play her cards right, her career as courtier and spy might come to an end at the bottom of the river Thames . . .
Let Them Eat Stake
by Sarah ZettelIt's a dream for a "Vampire Chef"-cater the high-profile wedding of a 200-year-old vampire and a wealthy witch. So why did celebrity chef Oscar Simmons walk away from this gig? Charlotte agrees to take his place, even though she knows this event, thrown by power-hungry vampires and witches, could make (or break) her career, her restaurant, and her life. But when Simmons turns up dead, the groom's family starts vanishing, and the police start asking pointed questions, Charlotte fears she may have picked the wrong wedding to stake her reputation on...
A Mother's Lie
by Sarah ZettelA compulsive family drama about a mother's desperate search to reclaim her daughter from the horrors of her own past, perfect for fans of Then She Was Gone.
The Other Sister
by Sarah ZettelTwo sisters. One murder plan.An intense psychological thriller full of family secrets, perfect for readers of The Woman in the Window and Watch Me Disappear. Everyone thought reckless, troubled Geraldine Monroe was the bad sister-especially when she fled town after her mother's death twenty-five years ago. But people don't know the truth. Marie Monroe knows. She was there for their father's cruel punishments, the constant manipulation, the lies. Everyone thinks she's the perfect daughter-patient and kind, and above all obedient. No one would suspect her of anything. Especially not murder. Now Geraldine's home again, and she and Marie have united in a plan for the ultimate revenge. But when old secrets and new fears clash, everyone is pushed to the breaking point . . . and the sisters will learn that they can't trust anyone-not even each other."An exhilarating ride full of twists and turns, this page-turner will leave you guessing until the very end!" -Steena Holmes, New York Times bestselling author of The Forgotten Ones"Sarah Zettel's THE OTHER SISTER is as dark and twisted as they come; a compelling and sinister psychological thriller in which every character is deeply flawed, their desire for revenge understandable and relatable. With its intricate web of secrets long buried, readers won't be able to stop turning the pages!" -Karen Dionne, author of The Marsh King's Daughter
Palace of Spies (Palace of Spies #1)
by Sarah ZettelIntroducing Peggy Fitzroy, royal snoop. &“A rollicking spy caper in corsets . . . will delight fans of historical fiction as well as mystery lovers.&”—Kirkus Reviews (starred review) A warning to all young ladies of delicate breeding who wish to embark upon lives of adventure: Don&’t. Sixteen-year-old Peggy is a well-bred orphan who is coerced into posing as a lady in waiting at the palace of King George I. Life is grand, until Peggy starts to suspect that the girl she&’s impersonating might have been murdered. Unless Peggy can discover the truth, she might be doomed to the same terrible fate. But in a court of shadows and intrigue, anyone could be a spy—perhaps even the handsome young artist with whom Peggy is falling in love . . . &“The perfect balance of history and mystery, this novel is fantastic . . . Sarah Zettel is an author to watch, and readers will be eagerly awaiting the next Palace of Spies installment.&”—VOYA &“Zettel has created a dynamic, immensely likable heroine in Peggy, and she folds in history, both cultural and political . . . A sequel is in the works, and it will be eagerly anticipated by fans of Libba Bray.&”—Booklist &“A solid opening volley in a promising series.&”—Publishers Weekly &“The protagonist, clever and witty, makes a compelling heroine.&”—School Library Journal &“This combination of willful heroine and royal backdrop will appeal to history buffs and readers who like their subterfuge accessorized by a few frills and ruffles.&”—Bulletin
A Taste of the Nightlife
by Sarah ZettelCharlotte Caine isn't called "the Vampire Chef" because she's a member of New York's undead community-she just cooks for them. Her restaurant, Nightlife, is poised to take the top slot in the world of "haute noir" cuisine. But when a drunk customer causes a scene, a glowing review from the city's top food critic doesn't seem likely-especially when that customer winds up dead on Nightlife's doorstep. Now, with her brother under suspicion for the murder, Charlotte has to re-open her restaurant and clear her brother's name-before they both become dinner. .
As Time Unfolds: A Novel
by Barbara ZerfossBethany Miller’s past, present and future collide when she inherits a generational family journal spanning three centuries, is drawn into solving mysteries about her biological family’s past, and witnesses a desperate, silent plea from a girl’s soul-piercing eyes…right before the girl disappears.
The Black Jersey: A Novel
by Jorge Zepeda PattersonA fast-paced mystery where Murder on the Orient Express meets the Tour de France—someone’s killing off cyclists one by one. There are cyclists willing to die to win a single stage of the Tour, taking suicidal descents at more than 90 kilometers per hour, but now I know there are cyclists willing to kill to win. Marc Moreau, a professional cyclist with a military past, is part of a top Tour de France team led by his best friend, an American star favored to win this year’s Tour. But the competition takes a dark turn when racers begin to drop out in a series of violent accidents: a mugging that ends in an ankle being crushed, a nasty bout of food poisoning, and a crash caused by two spectators standing where they shouldn’t. The teams and their entourages retreat into paranoid lockdown even as they must continue racing each day. The mountain inclines grow steeper and the accidents turn deadlier: a suspicious suicide, an exploded trailer, a loose wheel at the edge of a cliff. Marc agrees to help the French police with their investigations from the inside and becomes convinced that the culprit is a cyclist who wants to win at any cost. But as the victim count rises, the number of potential murderers—and potential champions—dwindles.Marc begins to have the sickening realization that his own team has been most favored by the murderer’s actions, and in the final stages of the race Mark himself emerges as the only cyclist left who could possibly beat his best friend and win the Tour. Whom can Marc trust? Whom should he protect? What decision will he make if he’s asked to choose between justice, loyalty, and glory?Praise for The Black Jersey “Men, mountains, machines, speed, greed, and murder . . . Making a tour de force of the Tour de France, Jorge Zepeda Patterson does for cycling what Dick Francis did for horse racing. Warning! Strap on your helmets! This is no tale for wimps.”—Alan Bradley, author of the Flavia de Luce series “The world of competitive cycling is stressful enough without adding suspicious accidents to the mixture. But that is exactly what happens in this thrilling and intrigue-filled novel. The Black Jersey has the pace and excitement of a world-class race.”—Alexander McCall Smith, author of the No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency series“The Black Jersey is a joy from start to hair-raising finish line, even for someone like me who prefers a good meal to any kind of competitive sport. Bravo!”—M. L. Longworth, author of the Provençal Mystery series
Tales of the Witch
by Angela ZemanA collection of stories featuring the strangest sleuth in Wyndham-by-the-SeaWith her black clothes, black hair, and faithful black cat, Mrs. Risk incites rumors among the townsfolk of Wyndham-by-the-Sea, who whisper that she's a witch. She keeps to herself, plants strange things in her garden, and has an unerring ability to see into other people's minds. With her trusty assistant Rachel, Mrs. Risk keeps tabs on every corner of her small seaside town, sipping wine, hearing secrets, and occasionally breaking curses. Whether her powers are supernatural or merely deductive, no one can deny that they are real. In the seven stories of this volume, Mrs. Risk confronts murderous fishmongers, cursed restaurateurs, and a rock star marked for death. Mystery is rife in Wyndham-by-the-Sea, and only a witch has the power to see the truth.
The Witch and the Borscht Pearl
by Angela ZemanTheft and murder derail a comedienne's Catskills comebackWhen she meets Mrs. Risk, Rachel is eighteen, married, and living in fear. Her fishmonger husband is three decades older than her and intent on killing her slowly. Each day Rachel grows weaker--the result of pesticides that Ike sneaks into her food. Only the eccentric Mrs. Risk, whom the local children call a witch, sees Ike's plan. With a simple deception, she frightens Ike into having a heart attack, saving Rachel and winning herself a new assistant. The young fishwife's lifestyle is about to get a lot more interesting. Their first adventure together concerns Pearl Schrafft, a Borscht Belt comic whose career, as well as her ancient style of comedy, is on the skids. When her priceless pearl necklace vanishes and her manager drops dead, Rachel and Mrs. Risk step in. If they can't learn who has it in for the punch line queen, Pearl's Borscht Belt shtick won't be the only thing that's DOA.
Deadly Debut: A Mystery Anthology (Murder New York Style)
by Elizabeth Zelvin Triss Stein Terrie Farley Moran Anita Page Deirdre Verne New York Tri-State Chapter of Sisters in Crime Lina Zeldovich Clare Toohey Peggy EhrhartIt's curtains for Gotham in Deadly Debut, which takes the first bow in the Murder New York Style series. In these pages, a Bronx teen steeped in Poe confronts a tormentor; a recovering alcoholic sweeps up deadly secrets; and a gutsy lie shatters lives in post-war Queens. From a Brooklyn nanny's street smarts to a small grocer's grit, from a nightclub's belly dancers to a P.I. reared on jive, the characters in these twisted tales will keep you cheering.Written by members of the New York / Tri-State chapter of Sisters in Crime, the stories reveal New York City's dark and dramatic underbelly. Selected from the Chapter's first anthology, they offer bites of action-packed mystery that range in tone from fun to dark and in genre from cozy to noir. These sleuths, police officers, and private investigators are richly drawn and engagingly authentic.
Family Matters: A Mystery Anthology (Murder New York Style #3)
by Elizabeth Zelvin Triss Stein Terrie Farley Moran Cynthia Benjamin Lindsay A. Curcio Anita Page Cathi Stoler Deirdre Verne New York Tri-State Chapter of Sisters in Crime Stephanie Wilson-Flaherty Leigh Neely Clare Toohey Eileen Dunbaugh Lynne Lederman Catherine Maiorisi Fran Cox Kate Lincoln Roslyn Siegel Ellen Quint Anne Marie Sutton Dorothy MortmanIncludes a 2015 Derringer Award winning short story: "The Kaluki Kings of Queens."Come meet the relatives. As diverse in theme and mood as the city itself, these stories take us from from the explosive excitement of the New York City Marathon to a secret cellar in Queens, from the warmth of an immigrant culture to the moneyed New York art world, and from brutality and poverty to Wall Street's privileged thugs. What the families have in common is this: their lives have been changed forever by crime. Motives? The usual: jealousy and greed, rage and revenge, self-protection and politics, secrets and lies. Inside Family Matters: Murder New York Style, these twenty short stories by members of the New York / Tri-State chapter of Sisters in Crime and edited by Derringer Award winning author Anita Page, are as diverse in theme and mood as the city's neighborhoods. The sleuths, police officers, and investigators who grapple with crime inside these covers are richly drawn and engagingly authentic.
Fresh Slices: A Mystery Anthology (Murder New York Style #2)
by Elizabeth Zelvin Triss Stein Laura K. Curtis Terrie Farley Moran Cynthia Benjamin Anita Page Cathi Stoler Deirdre Verne Joan Tuohy New York Tri-State Chapter of Sisters in Crime Stephanie Wilson-Flaherty Leigh Neely Lina Zeldovich K.J.A. Wishnia Lois Karlin Clare Toohey Anne-Marie Sutton Eileen Dunbaugh Lynne Lederman Susan Chalfin Catherine Maiorisi Fran CoxSlices of life beyond the tourist's view. By turns funny, tough, and somber, the twenty-one helpings of New York attitude in Fresh Slices reveal neighborhoods both rich and poor, where oldtimers desperately protect their secrets and brand new arrivals indulge dangerous appetites. There is as much variety in tone and setting as in Gotham itself, and yet each of these crime stories also reflects the city's most infectious and unifying principle, that special combination of adaptability and assertiveness. The sleuths, police officers, and investigators in these pages are richly drawn and engagingly authentic. Written by local members of the New York / Tri-State chapter of Sisters in Crime, and edited by Agatha Award winning author Terrie Farley Moran, Fresh Slices is second in the Murder New York Style series and features tales from the most ethnically diverse and densely populated city in America.
Death Will Get You Sober
by Elizabeth ZelvinOn Christmas Day, Bruce Kohler wakes up in detox on the Bowery in New York City. He knows it's time to change his life, but how can he stay sober without dying of boredom? When homeless alcoholics start to die unexpectedly, Bruce is surprised to find he cares enough to want to find out why. Most of them had been down and out for many years, but Bruce's friend Guff was different: a cynical aristocrat with a trust fund and some secrets. Two old friends give Bruce a second chance and agree to help him with his investigation: his best friend, Jimmy, a computer genius and history buff who's been in AA for years, and Jimmy's girlfriend Barbara, a counselor who sometimes crosses the line between helping and codependency. Barbara works a night shift at the detox and confronts a counselor who might still be dealing drugs. Bruce gets a job temping for Guff's arrogant nephew. Between the three of them, suspects start piling up. The trail leads back to the detox. Or does it? In Death Will Get You Sober, Bruce discovers that the church basements of AA are a small world in the big city of New York.As he grapples with staying sober, he finds that not drinking is only the beginning of coming back to life--a life he finds he wants to keep when it's threatened by a killer. Debut author Elizabeth Zelvin has used her expertise as an addiction councilor to pen a riveting mystery filled with memorable, realistic characters who are as flawed as they are heroic.
Death Will Help You Leave Him
by Elizabeth ZelvinRecovering alcoholic Bruce Kohler and his friends face new challenges when a person they were sponsoring at Al-Anon becomes the prime suspect in her abusive boyfriend's murder.
The Boy Who Killed Demons: A Novel
by Dave ZeltsermanMy name s Henry Dudlow. I m fifteen and a half. And I m cursed. Or damned. Take your pick. The reason? I see demons. So begins the latest novel by horror master Dave Zeltserman. The setting is quiet Newton, Massachussetts, where nothing ever happens. Nothing, that is, until two months after Henry Dudlow s 13th birthday, when his neighbor, Mr. Hanley, suddenly starts to look . . . different. While everyone else sees a balding man with a beer belly, Henry suddenly sees a nasty, bilious, rage-filled demon. Once Henry catches onto the real Mr. Hanley, he starts to see demons all around him, and his boring, adolescent life is transformed. There s no more time for friends or sports or the lovely Sally Freeman instead Henry must work his way through ancient texts and hunt down the demons before they steal any more innocent children. And if hunting demons is hard at any age, it s borderline impossible when your parents are on your case, and your grades are getting worse, and you can t tell anyone about your chosen mission. A very scary novel written with verve and flashes of great humor, The Boy Who Killed Demons is Dave Zeltserman s most accomplished and entertaining horror novel yet.
A Killer's Essence: A Novel
by Dave Zeltserman&“A doozy of a doom-laden crime story&” from the author of Small Crimes—now a major film—and The Caretaker of Lorne Field (The Washington Post). Stan Green is a jaded New York City cop assigned to the most shocking homicide of his career—and he finds only one witness, a neurologically damaged recluse subject to demonic hallucinations. Then the murderer strikes again. Stan&’s best hope is a man who claims to be surrounded by ghoulish apparitions. And there&’s just a chance this witness isn&’t insane, but instead terrifyingly perceptive . . . Dave Zeltserman&’s grisly crime novel is backgrounded by the 2004 ALCS playoffs, when the Red Sox triumphed over the Yankees. A knuckle-whitening, surprising, and compelling trip into Stan&’s obsession with a brutal case, this serial-killer mystery is Zeltserman&’s darkest, most gripping work yet. &“Zeltserman&’s lean but muscular style, so evident in A Killer&’s Essence and The Caretaker of Lorne Field, is just as sharply honed here . . . Riveting.&” —The Boston Globe &“This eerie thriller deftly blurs the lines between madness and the perception of reality.&” —The Star-Ledger &“[A] chilling page-turner attuned to the most discerning of avid crime lovers. Well written and well paced. Recommended.&” —New York Journal of Books &“Zeltserman&’s signature creepiness is available here and there, but what really drives this novel is the engaging portrait of an honest, hardworking cop who, on the job and off, gives the best he&’s got, knowing how rarely it will be enough.&” —Kirkus Reviews
Baker's Dozen: Algunas mentiras son demasiado buenas para no contarlas
by Amey ZeiglerSe acercó, bajando el mentón, mirándola fijamente. Sus ojos tenían una profundidad que Andy nunca había visto antes. En sus pupilas se podía ver conocimiento, comprensión y... algo más. “Tu cinturón negro no te salvará siempre, sabes." Andy se dio la vuelta. Él continuó acechándola. Por alguna razón, su persistencia la irritaba. Ella golpeó con una mano su pecho. Era un roca. "No. Podría derribarte si tuviera que hacerlo." "Estoy seguro de que podrías". Una sonrisa arrogante comenzó en un lado de su boca, antes de extenderse hacia el otro. "Entonces, buenas noches." Se despidió de ella y se marchó. Cuando dobló la esquina y ya no le veía, Andy cogió su teléfono y llamó a Carla. "¿Qué quería ese tipo?" preguntó Carla. “Lecciones de kárate”. "¿Estás segura? Creo que él te quería a ti. Andy cambió de tema. “¿Qué quería tu madre?" Antes de que Carla respondiera, dos hombres enmascarados se apresuraron hacia Andy, la acorralaron arrebatándole el teléfono y el bolso. Inmediatamente soltó el móvil desechable, ¡pero su bolso! Todo lo que necesitaba estaba allí. No renunciaría a su bolso sin luchar.
Com Certeza Morrerá
by Amey ZeiglerEste livro vai te deixar intrigado tentando acompanhar quem é bom e quem é mau. Viajando pelo mundo tentando resolver um mistério, Christian e Andy encontram mais problemas do que esperavam. Cheio de ação e mistério, este livro mantém sua atenção presa nele do começo ao fim!
Seguramente vayamos a morir: Dos oportunidades en el amor, una oportunidad para vivir.
by Amey ZeiglerCon pantalones cortos de color caqui y una camiseta blanca, Christian esperaba a Andy al otro lado de la aduana. Sus bíceps de cincuenta centímetros, bronceados y tonificados se asomaban por las mangas cortas de su camiseta. Sus penetrantes ojos azules brillaban divertidos. Solo ver sus anchos hombros y su pelo rubio arena le debilitaban las rodillas. Olvidaos de las mariposas - cóndores adultos aleteaban en su estómago. Extendió los brazos. “Bienvenida a Madrid”, dijo con un perfecto acento castellano. Ella le contestó con una fuerte bofetada en la cara. Bajó las cejas y abrió los ojos como platos. "¿A qué ha venido eso?" Poniendo los brazos en jarra y levantando la barbilla dijo “Por no darme señales de vida durante seis meses”. "Tengo mis razones." Se frotó la mejilla sin afeitar. "Eso ha dolido." Ella le lanzó una mirada de soslayo. “Si realmente quisiera herirte, te habría dado una patada en el pecho. Esto es un saludo amistoso”. "Odiaría ver un saludo hostil". Frunció el ceño y le cogió el equipaje. “Esto pesa más que un hipopótamo. ¡Buah!, ¿qué hay aquí?" Ella se lo arrebató. “No me dijiste lo que íbamos a hacer, así que he traído todo lo que podría necesitar. Pero tendré que comprarme un vestido". Cruzándose de brazos, se detuvo junto al cartel de un anuncio de perfume del tamaño de una pared y señaló hacia el parking. "¿No has traído ropa?" "No." Apenas había metido ropa interior y un cepillo de dientes. Frunció el ceño. "Te dije específicamente que trajeras un vestido sexy". "Puedo comprarme un vestido en cualquier sitio".
Village-protective Immortal: Volume 1 (Volume 1 #1)
by Fei ZeiAt the south side of Liu Family Town, there was a ravine that the villagers talked about — Willow Ditch. Legend has it that Willow Ditch was very strange, with ghosts everywhere and Yin and Yang in chaos. When I was seven years old, I was accidentally caught by a wild wolf and dragged into the willow tree ditch. I did not expect to find out that I was destined to be the "out of Ma Xian`er" of the Third Madam Chang, who from then on went through endless tribulations, finally cultivating into an immortal technique, exorcising demons and reducing demons, subjugating the "White Immortal" who did all sorts of evil, and protecting the peace of Liu Town.
Village-protective Immortal: Volume 2 (Volume 2 #2)
by Fei ZeiAt the south side of Liu Family Town, there was a ravine that the villagers talked about — Willow Ditch. Legend has it that Willow Ditch was very strange, with ghosts everywhere and Yin and Yang in chaos. When I was seven years old, I was accidentally caught by a wild wolf and dragged into the willow tree ditch. I did not expect to find out that I was destined to be the "out of Ma Xian`er" of the Third Madam Chang, who from then on went through endless tribulations, finally cultivating into an immortal technique, exorcising demons and reducing demons, subjugating the "White Immortal" who did all sorts of evil, and protecting the peace of Liu Town.
Village-protective Immortal: Volume 3 (Volume 3 #3)
by Fei ZeiAt the south side of Liu Family Town, there was a ravine that the villagers talked about — Willow Ditch. Legend has it that Willow Ditch was very strange, with ghosts everywhere and Yin and Yang in chaos. When I was seven years old, I was accidentally caught by a wild wolf and dragged into the willow tree ditch. I did not expect to find out that I was destined to be the "out of Ma Xian`er" of the Third Madam Chang, who from then on went through endless tribulations, finally cultivating into an immortal technique, exorcising demons and reducing demons, subjugating the "White Immortal" who did all sorts of evil, and protecting the peace of Liu Town.
Yin Village: Volume 1 (Volume 1 #1)
by Fei ZeiOn the surface, I am a young man with knowledge from the countryside, but the secret in my heart will never be told to you. On the day I arrived in Liujiajia, the people in the terraced fields dug up a large amount of copper coins. What I didn't expect was that it was these copper coins that brought about this terrifying disaster …
Yin Village: Volume 2 (Volume 2 #2)
by Fei ZeiOn the surface, I am a young man with knowledge from the countryside, but the secret in my heart will never be told to you. On the day I arrived in Liujiajia, the people in the terraced fields dug up a large amount of copper coins. What I didn't expect was that it was these copper coins that brought about this terrifying disaster …
Decompression
by Juli ZehA psychological thriller in the tradition of Patricia Highsmith about two couples caught in a web of conflicting passions while deep-sea diving off the beautiful Canary IslandsIn the late 1990s, Sven Fiedler and his girlfriend, Antje, left Germany for the island of Lanzarote, rejecting what Sven considered a vulgar culture of materialism and judgment. The young couple set up a diving service catering to tourists eager to bask in the warm sunshine and explore the silent, gleaming marine paradise that makes this otherwise barren volcanic island such a remarkable retreat. Sven's approach was simple: take the mechanics of diving seriously, instruct his clients clearly, and stay out of their personal business as best he can. And life on the island goes smoothly until two German tourists--Jola von der Pahlen, a daytime soap star on the verge of cinematic success, and Theo Hast, a stalled novelist--engage Sven for a high-priced, intensive two-week diving experience. Staying in a guest house on Sven and Antje's property, the two visitors and their hosts quickly become embroiled in a tangle of jealousy and suspicion. Sven is struck by Jola's beauty, her evident wealth, and her apparently volatile relationship with the much older Theo. Theo quickly leaps to the conclusion that Sven and Jola are having an affair, but, oddly, he seems to facilitate it rather than trying to intervene. Antje, looking on, grows increasingly wary of these particular clients. As the point of view shifts from one character to the next, the reader is constantly kept guessing about who knows what, and, more important, who is telling the truth. A brutal game of delusion, temptation, and manipulation plays out, pointing toward a violent end. But a quiet one, down in the underwater world beneath the waves.
Empty Hearts: A Novel
by Juli ZehA prescient political and psychological thriller ripped from tomorrow's headlines, by one of Germany's most celebrated contemporary novelistsA few short years from now, the world is an even more uncertain place than it is today, and politics everywhere is marching rightward: Trump is gone, but Brexit is complete, as is Frexit. There's a global financial crisis, armed conflict, and mass migration, and an ultrapopulist movement governs in Germany. With their democracy facing the wrecking ball, most well-off Germans turn inward, focusing on their own lives. Britta, a wife, mother, and successful businesswoman, ignores the daily news and concentrates on her family and her work running a clinic specializing in suicide prevention. But her legitimate business is connected to a secret and far more lucrative operation known as The Bridge, an outfit that supplies terrorist organizations looking to employ suicide bombers. Using a complex candidate-identifying algorithm designed by Babak, a brilliant programmer and Britta's only employee, The Bridge has effectively cornered the market, and terrorism never takes place without Britta's services—which is why news of a thwarted suicide attack in Leipzig comes as a shock. Then The Bridge's database is stolen, driving Britta, Babak, and their latest recruit into hiding. On their heels is a new terrorist organization called the Empty Hearts, a group unlike any Britta and Babak have encountered before. Part suspenseful thriller, part wickedly effective social satire, Empty Hearts is a novel for our times, examining urgent questions of morality, politics, and culture and presenting a startling vision of a future where empathy is a thing of the past.
The FBI Killer
by Fiona Zedde Aphrodite JonesDirt poor, divorced, the mother of two young children, Susan Daniels Smith, 27, prayed for a handsome Prince Charming who would take her away from the squalor of her rural Kentucky community to live in romance and luxury. When a good-looking, big city FBI agent named Mark Putnam entered her life, Susan thought her prayers had been answered. She was dead wrong.Their relationship began when Susan agreed to be Putnam's paid informant in an investigation of her ex-husband's criminal friends, then quickly grew into an illicit affair that consumed their lives for nearly two years - until she became pregnant and threatened to expose Putnam, ruining his career and his marriage. On June 8, 1989, Putnam took her for a drive into the hills to discuss her demands of marriage. She was never heard from again.The FBI Killer recounts the bizarre events that forced Mark Putnam to confess to brutally killing his lover, then covering up his crime for over one year. The first agent in FBI history to be convicted of homicide, Putnam is now serving sixteen years in a federal prison.
Empties
by George ZebrowskiFrom acclaimed writer George Zebrowski, a tale of urban terrorWhat do you tell yourself when impossible things begin to happen? What can you say? You're a police detective, but maybe you're just not good enough and that's what you have to admit, whether you like it or not. You see evidence of things that can't be real, but you just don't observe well enough to explain it in any natural way. Can you ask rational questions and still be crazy? Does it help any that you know your mind is gone? You're trapped in a black comedy with a beautiful but fatal woman right out of an old poem by Keats, hoping to wake up from the nightmare, even if on a cold hillside--as long as you wake up sane.Detective William Benek is faced with an impossible crime; bodies are turning up without their brains, and without any indication of how the organs were removed. His only lead?an attractive woman?becomes more than a lead, and then drives him into a world of terror, where his sanity is questioned and he must stop a monster he can barely comprehend.Listed as a Best Book of 2009 by EDGE/Boston
Sensational (Spectacle #2)
by Jodie Lynn ZdrokEighteen-year-old Nathalie Baudin, ever-curious reporter at the Paris morgue, is no stranger to death—even discounting the supernatural visions that give her disturbing glimpses into the minds of killers. Paris, 1889.When the Exposition Universelle opens in Paris, Nathalie welcomes a much-needed break from the heartache of her friend's murder. The fair is full of sensational innovations, cultural displays, and marvelous inventions from around the world.But someone is celebrating the 100th anniversary of the guillotine with a gruesome display of their own: beheaded victims in some of the Exposition’s most popular exhibits.Haunted by the past and burdened with new secrets, Nathalie struggles to use her wits and her gift. Yet she and her friends must stop the killer before the macabre display features one of them...At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
Spectacle (Spectacle #1)
by Jodie Lynn ZdrokSpectacle is a YA murder mystery from debut author Jodie Lynn Zdrok in which a young reporter must use her supernatural visions to help track down a killer targeting the young women of Paris.Paris, 1887. Sixteen-year-old Nathalie Baudin writes the daily morgue column for Le Petit Journal. Her job is to summarize each day’s new arrivals, a task she finds both fascinating and routine. That is, until the day she has a vision of the newest body, a young woman, being murdered—from the perspective of the murderer himself.When the body of another woman is retrieved from the Seine days later, Paris begins to buzz with rumors that this victim may not be the last. Nathalie's search for answers sends her down a long, twisty road involving her mentally ill aunt, a brilliant but deluded scientist, and eventually into the Parisian Catacombs. As the killer continues to haunt the streets of Paris, it becomes clear that Nathalie's strange new ability may make her the only one who can discover the killer’s identity--and she'll have to do it before she becomes a target herself.At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
All in, Sinatra (Premio Mauricio Achar / Literatura Random House #Volumen 20)
by Pedro ZavalaAll in, Sinatra es un minucioso vértigo narrativo, una máquina de sentido en medio del desierto de burocracia. Un estallido. Génesis Montesinos es profesor de literatura en una universidad mexicana. Tiene 64 años de edad, es especialista en Francis Scott Fitzgerald y aficionado a Frank Sinatra. Ha dedicado su vida adulta al culto a los libros y a la corte de la academia. Su plan de carrera se ha cumplido: tiene un doctorado y un cubículo. También, un hastío absoluto. Por ello, decide viajar a Las Vegas y apostarlo todo. Y terminar con su insípida vida. No obstante, jugando al póquer, Génesis Montesinos gana cincuenta y tres mil dólares. Sin saber qué hacer con esta pequeña fortuna, comienza a despilfarrarla en blandos excesos: ropa, discos, alcohol, una sesión en un campo de tiro, un teléfono inteligente, pancakes y tocino. Calorías para el alma. Sus planes de suicidio se van desdibujando. Además, conoce a Lea, y él mismo empieza a sentirse borroso y vivo. Sin embargo, sobre las mesas de póquer de Las Vegas se juega mucho más que sumas millonarias. Los dueños del mundo apuestan vidas y cierran negocios transnacionales. Y el azar, o el destino, pondrá al profesor de literatura en el corazón de estas tinieblas. Así, en la tierra de los libres, podrá perder la libertad más alta: la posibilidad de elegir el momento y modo de su propia muerte.
El chico sin nombre
by Ricardo Zárate"Si empiezas a tener pesadillas estando despierto, eso significa que el siguiente eres tú." Álex ama a su hermano con todas sus fuerzas, y hallarlo significa encontrarse a sí mismo# Por él haría lo que fuera. Dante fue secuestrado hace muchos años y su ausencia ha dejado un gran vacío en la vida de sus padres y su hermano Álex. Cuando la policía desestima el caso por falta de evidencias, Álex se siente más desamparado que nunca y clama por justicia, pues está convencido de que Dante sigue vivo; entonces decide que ya es hora de encontrarlo por su cuenta. Lo acompaña Ana, su mejor amiga; también un agente que sabe más de lo que aparenta, y además su propia habilidad para manejar la deep web a su antojo. Pero destapará una espeluznante cloaca con la que habría preferido no toparse nunca. A un hijo que pierde a sus padres se le llama huérfano. A una madre que pierde a su hijo se le llama dolorosa. ¿Y a quien pierde asu hermano#? "¿Cuál es mi nombre?", es lo que se pregunta Álex todos los días. Cierta noche, Álex colapsa el sitio web del Sistema de Seguridad Nacional para denunciar a los cuatro vientos que las autoridades no han logrado hallar a los secuestradores de su hermano mayor, Dante, quien desapareció años atrás. A cambio de no ser procesado por el ataque cibernético, la policía le pide que colabore con ellos para localizar a los dueños de una página web que vende objetos personales de asesinos seriales. El sitio ahora intenta vender un anillo de oro perteneciente a un importante político recién asesinado. Álex acepta colaborar como pirata informático, pues intuye que ese incidente está relacionado con los criminales que secuestraron a Dante. Así entra en contacto con una comunidad marginal y clandestina amante de lo macabro y descubre secretos inenarrables que tienen que ver con grandes ambiciones políticas. Está dispuesto a todo con tal de hallar a su hermano, pero a qué costo#
Rímel
by Karla ZárateRímel es una novela minimalista, intrigante, perversa, donde cada página nos lleva a una obsesión, un descubrimiento y un nuevo enigma Lissa: solitaria, obsesiva, sumida de forma permanente en sus propios pensamientos, escucha todo el tiempo música. Pone pestañas postizas a domicilio. Kin: Cirujano plástico, amante de la piel y de la soledad en el bosque, escucha rock gótico y mantiene relaciones ocasionales con sus pacientes. Lissa y Kin son hermanos. Ella está obsesionada con él; Kin le teme y le rehúye, aunque al mismo tiempo la necesita. Desde pequeños construyeron una intensa complicidad, que los llevó a formarse un mundo aparte de los demás y a forjarse una realidad propia. Con el paso de los años, esa realidad compartida se vuelve cada vez más peligrosa, en especial cuando empiezan a desaparecer, sin dejar rastro alguno, algunas de las mujeres con las que se relacionan...
Now Entering Addamsville
by Francesca ZappiaFrom Francesca Zappia, the acclaimed author of Eliza and Her Monsters!When Zora Novak is framed for a crime she didn’t commit, she must track down the true culprit and clear her name before it’s too late. But in a small town obsessed with ghosts, getting people to believe the truth might prove to be impossible.Stranger Things meets Buffy the Vampire Slayer in this eerie murder mystery. “A darkly humorous, rapid-fire read in which the living are sometimes scarier than the dead.”—Kirkus When someone burns down the home of the school janitor and he dies in the blaze, everyone in Addamsville, Indiana, points a finger at Zora. Never mind that Zora has been on the straight and narrow since her father was thrown in jail. With everyone looking for evidence against her, her only choice is to uncover the identity of the real killer.There’s one big problem—Zora has no leads. No one does. Addamsville has a history of tragedy, and thirty years ago a similar string of fires left several townspeople dead. The arsonist was never caught.Now, Zora must team up with her cousin Artemis—an annoying self-proclaimed Addamsville historian—to clear her name. But with a popular ghost-hunting television show riling up the townspeople, almost no support from her family and friends, and rumors spinning out of control, things aren’t looking good. Zora will have to read between the lines of Addamsville’s ghost stories before she becomes one herself. Acclaimed author Francesca Zappia has a perfectly pitched teen voice that shines in this inventive novel. Now Entering Addamvsille is perfect for fans of Brittany Cavallaro, Victoria Schwab, and The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina. Includes interior spot illustrations from the author.
The Mystery of the Great Swamp
by Marjorie A. ZapfA young boy and his family living on the edge of the Okefenokee Swamp, Jeb discovers a strange and scary island he had never seen before. One day Jeb and his dog go out fishing and searching for the mysterious island with its beautiful Emerald Lake. A strong storm pushes Jeb to a place he had never been before. In his journey to find his way back home he unlocks the mystery to the Emerald Lake and the island.
The Barcelona Brothers
by Carlos Zanon John CullenA gritty noir set in Barcelona's savage underbelly.Epi Dalmau is a desperate man. Early one morning, he carries a duffle bag into a dingy bar in a rough neighborhood of Barcelona. Four other people are in the bar: his brother Alex, his good friend Tanveer, the bartender, and a Pakistani man who wandered in to use the restroom. Epi grabs a hammer out of his duffle bag and attacks Tanveer. After a brief struggle and a couple of blows, Tanveer lies dead on the floor and Epi flees the bar.Alex and the bartender plan to find and protect Epi, while blaming the murder on the unfortunate Pakistani man, who was simply in the wrong place at the wrong time. Meanwhile, Epi is hunting for Tiffany, the woman of his dreams and the reason behind the murder. What he'll do when he finds her, and what drove him to brutal violence are the subjects of Carlos Zanón's gritty, unflinching novel, set in a city tourists never see.The Barcelona Brothers is a hard look at what people are capable of when they have no other options, and a portrait of a modern, multicultural Barcelona.
The Big Bow Mystery
by Israel Zangwill E. F. BleilerOn a chilly December morning in Bow, a working-class area in London's East End, a landlady unsuccessfully attempts to rouse a tenant whose door is locked and bolted from the inside. The alarmed landlady calls upon her neighbor, a retired Scotland Yard detective, who breaks down the door to reveal the tenant with his throat cut and no weapon in sight. "It seems clear that the deceased did not commit suicide," the coroner declares at the inquest, adding, "It seems equally clear that the deceased was not murdered."So begins Israel Zangwill's darkly humorous mystery, which marked a turning point in detective fiction. Sealed-room mysteries had appeared before, but this inventive tale offered a novel exploitation of the genre's puzzling possibilities. The 1891 publication was serialized in the London Star, a tabloid notorious for its sensational coverage of the Jack the Ripper murders. Between installments, Zangwill engaged in a lively dialogue with his readers, who proposed solutions to the crime (none of them correct). As Publishers Weekly noted, "With a sardonic style and vivid, Dickensian characterizations of Victorian-era London, Zangwill still appeals to contemporary readers."