Sat, 08 Jan 2011 23:22:49 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.2 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/the-reversal-111-114516.html When Mickey Haller is invited by the Los Angeles County District Attorney to prosecute a case for him, he knows something strange is going on. Mickey s a defense lawyer, one of the best in the business, and to switch sides like this would be akin to asking a fox to guard the hen-house. But the high-profile case of Jason Jessup, a convicted child-killer who spent almost 25 years on death row before DNA evidence freed him, is an intriguing one - particularly since the DA s determination to re-charge and re-try him for the same crime seems doomed to failure. Eager for the publicity and drawn to the challenge, Mickey takes the case, with Detective Harry Bosch on board as his lead investigator. But as a new trial date is set, it starts to look like he s been set up, with the renewed prosecution merely a tactic to prevent Jessup from successfully suing the state and county for millions of dollars. To avoid humiliation, Mickey and Harry are going to have to dig deep into the past and find the truth about Melissa Landy and what really happened to her all those years ago.

Author: MICHAEL CONNELLY  Publisher: ORION]]> Sun, 19 Dec 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/art-of-murder-the-111-99348.html In all his years on the force, Detective Chief Inspector Pendragon had never seen a corpse like this one. After the initial horror, he recognised the reference to the surrealist painter, Magritte. But that made the crime even more sickening – accomplished, as it had been, with a sickening ferocity which placed it in another league from common or garden homicide. In the Whitechapel area of London in the 1880s, a person, who remains unidentified to this day, committed a series of sadistic murders of local prostitutes, which involved elaborate mutilation of the victims’ bodies. Although the contemporary crimes are not directed exclusively at female targets, there is grotesque similarity in the mindset of the two perpetrators – divided, as they are, by more than a century. But Pendragon is determined that his pathologically brilliant killer will not escape detection. THE ART OF MURDER reveals Michael White’s mastery of a crime genre that he is making uniquely his own.

Author: White, Michael  Publisher: Random House]]> Wed, 15 Dec 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/desire-111-65040.html A compulsive, edge-of-your-seat read from a bestselling author, combining glamour, thrills and dangerous passion Lisa Costello is leading a charmed life -- until she wakes up the morning after her glamorous Thailand wedding to find her new husband Josh dead in their bed, the murder weapon in her hand. She remembers learning at the wedding that Josh had been unfaithful, but she certainly doesn't remember killing him. As Lisa flees the scene for Europe, ex-FBI trainee Sam Murray is on her trail. Catching up with her, he's quickly convinced she's been set up, and they start to work out which of movie producer Josh's many enemies could be behind the hit. It's a race against time to unearth the truth and keep Lisa out of jail -- or gunned down by the professional assassin tailing them. And the danger only adds to the excitement of the passion brewing between them...

Author: BAGSHAWE, LOUISE  Publisher: HBP]]> Tue, 07 Dec 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/silent-scream-export-only--111-114486.html The brilliant new novel from the incomparable Karen Rose, in which an arson leads to murder and blackmail, and a desperate search for those responsible. Four college kids set fire to a supposedly empty condominium block. But when they see the young girl at an upper-floor window desperately banging on the glass, clawing to get out, they realise their mistake. Although they don t all agree, the group leave the girl to her certain death, little realising that someone is there, watching their every move. Someone who has a nasty habit of blackmail and sees an opportunity for profit which is far greater than any they have ever had before. For local fire fighter David Hunter, getting the blaze under control is hard enough, but when he finds the girl s body he realises that this arson attack has become a murder case and the homicide cops are immediately called in. Now, as David works with the cops, it s a race to find the arsonists, and the blackmailer, before events escalate out of all control.

Author: ROSE, KAREN  Publisher: HACHETTE GROUP]]> Tue, 07 Dec 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/caught-111-114449.html From the internationally NO.1 bestselling master of suspense comes a fast-paced, emotion-packed novel about guilt, grief, and our capacity to forgive. Seventeen-year-old Haley McWaid is a good girl, the pride of her suburban New Jersey family, captain of the lacrosse team, headed off to college next year with all the hopes and dreams her doting parents can pin on her. Which is why, when her mother wakes one morning to find that Haley never came home the night before, and three months quickly pass without word from the girl, the community assumes the worst. Wendy Tynes is a reporter on a mission, to identify and bring down sexual predators via elaborate and nationally televised sting operations. Working with local police on her news program Caught in the Act, Wendy and her team have publicly shamed dozens of men by the time she encounters her latest target. Dan Mercer is a social worker known as a friend to troubled teens, but his story soon becomes more complicated than Wendy could have imagined. In a novel that challenges as much as it thrills, filled with the astonishing tension and unseen suburban machinations that have become Coben's trademark, Caught tells the story of a missing girl, the community stunned by her loss, the predator who may have taken her, and the reporter who suddenly realizes she can't trust her own instincts about this case, or the motives of the people around her.

Author: COBEN, HARLAN  Publisher: ORPG]]> Tue, 07 Dec 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/adrenaline-111-114429.html Sam Capra is living the life of his dreams. A young American in London, he has a perfect flat, a perfect job with the CIA and a perfect wife, Lucy, who is seven months pregnant with their first child. But one sunny day, it all goes up in flames. Sam receives a call from Lucy while he s at work. She tells him to leave the building immediately, which he does? just before it explodes, killing those inside. Lucy vanishes, and Sam wakes up in a prison cell. Why did Lucy call him? Was she a loving spouse or an enemy operative? Is Sam s unborn child safe? Adrenaline coursing through his veins, Sam enters a frantic race to save his life and discover the truth about those he thought he knew so well.

Author: ABBOTT, JEFF  Publisher: LBUK]]> Tue, 07 Dec 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/the-day-of-the-jack-russell-export-airside-ireland--111-114432.html Black Books meets Lead Balloon meets Gavin and Stacey in this hugely entertaining follow-up to Mystery Man, from acclaimed author Bateman. The Small Shop Keeper With No Name is back. Hired to find the vandals responsible for spraying graffiti on an aspiring insurance magnate's advertising hoarding, he soon finds himself up to his ears in intrigue and battling to solve murders which echo in the corridors of power. With MI5 getting involved and everyone on the hunt for a missing Jack Russell, can Our Man Behind the Counter stay alive as well as keep his world renowned but criminally ignored No Alibis mystery bookshop afloat? 

Author: BATEMAN  Publisher: HBP]]> Tue, 07 Dec 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/full-dark-no-stars-111-114487.html I believe there is another man inside every man, a stranger... writes Wilfred Leland James in the early pages of the riveting confession that makes up 1992 , the first in this pitch-black quartet of mesmerising tales from Stephen King, linked by the theme of retribution. For James, that stranger is awakened when his wife Arlette proposes selling off the family homestead and moving to Omaha, setting in motion a gruesome train of murder and madness. In Big Driver , a cozy-mystery writer named Tess encounters the stranger is along a back road in Massachusetts when she takes a shortcut home after a book-club engagement. Violated and left for dead, Tess plots a revenge that will bring her face to face with another stranger: the one inside herself. Fair Extension , the shortest of these tales, is perhaps the nastiest and certainly the funniest. Making a deal with the devil not only saves Harry Streeter from a fatal cancer but provides rich recompense for a lifetime of resentment.When her husband of more than twenty years is away on one of his business trips, Darcy Anderson looks for batteries in the garage. Her toe knocks up against a box under a worktable and she discovers the stranger inside her husband. It s a horrifying discovery, rendered with bristling intensity, and it definitively ends A Good Marriage .Like DIFFERENT SEASONS and FOUR PAST MIDNIGHT, which generated such enduring hit films as The Shawshank Redemption and Stand by Me, FULL DARK, NO STARS proves Stephen King a master of the long story form.

Author: KING, STEPEHN  Publisher: HACHETTE GROUP]]> Tue, 07 Dec 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/pretty-little-things-111-114356.html A terrifying new standalone psychological thriller from the bestselling writer of „Retribution‟ Dozens of teenage girls are going missing in Miami. And for Special Agent Bobby Dees of Florida's Crimes Against Children squad their families' pain is all too real. So when thirteen-year-old Lainey Emerson doesn't return from her date with 'El Capitan', a mysterious figure she met online, he vows to do whatever he can to bring her back. But as the missing reappear, gruesomely murdered with clues pointing to a collection of abductees, it becomes chillingly clear there's a serial killer on the loose. It's every parent's worst nightmare and, with the murderer always one step ahead of the police, can Dees save Lainey before it's too late?

Author: JILLIANE HOFFMAN  Publisher: HARPER COLLINS]]> Tue, 07 Dec 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/too-many-nirders-111-114357.html The thrilling new novel from the author of “The Thorn Birds” One day, one city, twelve murders. The year is 1967 and the world teeters on the brink of nuclear holocaust as the Cold War goes relentlessly on. On a beautiful spring day in the little city of Holloman, Connecticut, chief of detectives Carmine Delmonico walks into the prestigious Chubb University halls to be greeted by a limp corpse clamped in a bear trap, all traces of life drained from it. And this is just the beginning. Twelve murders have taken place in one day and suddenly Carmine has more pressing matters on his hands than finding a name for his newborn son. Supported by his detective sergeants, and new team member – the meticulous Delia Carstairs – Delmonico embarks on what look likes an unsolvable mystery. All the murders are different. Are they dealing with one killer or many? And if twelve murders were not enough, Carmine soon finds himself pitted against the mysterious spy, Ulysses – who is giving local arms giant Cornucopia's military secrets to the Russians. Are the murders and espionage different cases, or are they somehow linked?

Author: COLLEEN MCCOLLOUGH  Publisher: HARPER COLLINS]]> Tue, 07 Dec 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/the-empror-s-tomb-111-114306.html The tomb of China`s First Emperor, guarded by an underground army of terra cotta warriors, has remained sealed for 2200 years. Though it`s regarded as one of the greatest archeological sites in the world, the Chinese government won`t allow anyone to open it. Why not? That question is at the heart of a dilemma faced by former-Justice Department operative Cotton Malone, whose life is shattered when he receives an anonymous note carrying an unfamiliar web address. Logging on, he sees Cassiopeia Vitt, a woman who`s saved his life on more than one occasion, being tortured at the hands of a mysterious man who has a single demand - "Bring me the artefact she`s asked you to keep safe." One problem: Malone doesn`t have a clue what the man is talking about, since Cassiopeia has left nothing with him. So begins Malone`s most harrowing adventure to date-one that offers up astounding historical revelations, pits him against a ruthless ancient brotherhood, and sends him from Denmark to Belgium to Vietnam then on to China, a vast and mysterious land where danger lurks at every turn.

Author: STEVE BERRY  Publisher: HODDER]]> Wed, 01 Dec 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/the-premier-murder-league-111-114274.html When DCP Ravi and his ACP Rahul are handed the case of the death of the Union Sports Minister and cricket board member S.N. Rao, little do they know that this is just one of the series of murders across the city. What unravels is a ruthless game of supremacy a deeper, more sinister plan to squash anyone coming in the way of setting up the twenty-twenty league and becoming one of the richest sporting bodies of the world! In the nexus between politicians and the cricket board, the players are just pawns and the real game a tamasha. About the Author Dr Geeta Sundar, did her schooling from St. Joseph s Convent Jabalpur, and her bachelor s and post graduation in medicine from Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose Medical College, Jabalpur. She began her practice as a Consultant in medicine at BL Kapoor memorial hospital Delhi. She has also done a course in medico-legal law. Several of her articles on health have appeared in leading magazines and newspapers like Femina, Times of India and Indian Express. She began her career as writer seven years ago and has published several books on health related issues. She has followed the game of cricket and enjoyed it since childhood. She loves it all test cricket, one -day and T20 too. It was natural then that when she started writing her first fiction, cricket automatically crept into it! Dr Geeta Sundar lives in Pune.

Author: DR. GEETA SUNDAR  Publisher: PENGUIN]]> Wed, 01 Dec 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/close-call-in-kashmir-111-114276.html I was told that your lives were in danger Badruddin said. Our lives are still in danger Mike said, because the people we re with are unlikely to set us free unless we give them what they want. Which is? The treasure, the amanat--that s what everybody is after, Noor said. Terrorist violence and a nightmare drive Shamsuddin Bandey, head priest of a shrine in Aishmuqam village in Jammu and Kashmir, to find out more about some of the 300-year-old scrolls kept in his family s custody for generations. But his actions arouse the suspicions of a top bureaucrat and a history professor. The corrupt duo believe the scrolls may point the way to a vast, buried treasure and they will stop at nothing to get it. Elsewhere, militants break into a museum in Srinagar and steal valuable artefacts to fund their war against India. They also kidnap a woman scientist. Along the way, others are drawn into the action: Michael Zutshi, an American professor nostalgic about his childhood spent in Kashmir, and Ashok Dalela, a CBI officer on the trail of the masterminds behind the illegal trade in antiques. A gripping thriller set in a time of trouble, Close Call in Kashmir will keep you on the edge of your seat.

Author: BHARAT WAKHLU  Publisher: PENGUIN]]> Wed, 01 Dec 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/the-secret-crown-111-114268.html -The latest blockbusting action adventure thriller from top ten bestseller -Kuzneski has always been a mega-selling thriller brand this new novel will delight fans and new readers alike with fast-paced, punchy, unputdownable chapters -Bavaria, 1886 King Ludwig II, infamous for his eccentric behavior, is declared insane by his government and removed from his throne. A day later, Ludwig's corpse washes up in the shallows of Lake Starnberg. Rumours about the cause of the tragedy abound, but few people know why Ludwig was really killed. Or what secret was silenced by his death. Germany, present day . . . Hidden among the crates in a newly discovered Nazi bunker are documents stamped with a black swan, the insignia of the murdered king. As a favour to a friend, Jonathon Payne and David Jones fly to Bavaria to protect the documents, but soon face a life-ordeath battle against an unknown enemy. From the depths of the Black Forest to the water canals underneath Ludwig's castles, the duo must solve the mystery behind the king's death or share his tragic fate.

Author: Chris Kuzneski  Publisher: PENGUIN]]> Wed, 01 Dec 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/the-apostle-111-76518.html Combining the Washington-insider excitement of a Baldacci with the feet-on-the-ground authenticity of a McNab, The Apostle is Brad Thor’s debut publication for Hodder. A new president means a new approach to counter-terrorism, and that means covert agent Scot Harvath is out of a job. But every politician has a secret, and when the daughter of a highly-connected family is kidnapped abroad, America’s new leader will agree to anything – even a crazily dangerous rescue plan– to keep his secret hidden. And there is only one man he can call on to execute the mission. The Apostle is a blistering novel of action and duplicity from the Number One New York Times bestseller Brad Thor.

Author: Thor, Brad  Publisher: Hachette Book Group USA]]> Tue, 30 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/our-kind-of-traitor-111-99133.html Britain is in the depths of recession. A left-leaning young Oxford academic and his barrister girlfriend take an off-peak holiday on the Caribbean island of Antigua. By seeming chance they bump into a Russian millionaire called Dima who owns a peninsula and a diamond-encrusted gold watch. He also has a tattoo on his right thumb, and wants a game of tennis. What else he wants propels the young lovers on a tortuous journey through Paris to a safe house in the Swiss Alps, to the murkiest cloisters of the City of London and its unholy alliance with Britain's Intelligence Establishment. The Author: John le Carré was born in 1931. His third novel, The Spy Who Came in from the Cold, secured him a world wide reputation, which was consolidated by the acclaim for his trilogy Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, The Honourable Schoolboy and Smiley’s People. His recent novels include The Constant Gardener, Absolute Friends, The Mission Song, and A Most Wanted Man. Our Kind of Traitor is his twenty-second novel

Author: JOHN LE CARRIE  Publisher: PENGUIN]]> Tue, 30 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/last-10-seconds-the-111-99346.html 36 HOURS AGO: A brutal serial killer is arrested on the streets of north London after a two-year reign of terror. Known as the Night Creeper, he’s earned his reputation by torturing five young women to death. 24 HOURS AGO: Undercover cop Sean Egan has infiltrated one of the country’s most notorious criminal gangs. Now he’s about to risk his life in a desperate bid to bring its members to justice. 12 HOURS AGO: DI Tina Boyd has discovered that the Night Creeper’s murders are part of a much larger criminal conspiracy. But her quest for the truth has brought her into contact with some very dangerous people who want to silence her – permanently. THE LAST 10 SECONDS: A man, a woman, a sadistic killer. As they race towards a terrifying confrontation only one thing is certain: they’re all going to have to fight very hard just to stay alive.

Author: Kernick, Simon  Publisher: Random House]]> Tue, 30 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/gone-111-99347.html Night is falling in the West Country as murder detective Jack Caffrey arrives to interview the distraught victim of a car-jacking. What he hears horrifies him. The car was taken by force, and on the back seat was a passenger. An eleven-year-old girl. Who is still missing. Before long the jacker starts to communicate with the police. And Caffrey becomes certain that he is planning to take another car. And another child. Who is the car-jacker? How is he chosing his targets? And - most urgent of all - can Caffrey find where the child has been hidden? Before it’s too late …

Author: Hayder, Mo  Publisher: Random House]]> Tue, 30 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/lost-and-found     -111-114019.html stan by Abul Razak, the object of whose hallucinogenic passion is Salim’s mother. Before the day is done, Salim finds that nothing back home could have prepared him for the fatal eventualities of his mission and his tryst with the compelling story of blood and tears that his captives have to tell.

Author: Surendaran, C P  Publisher: HARPER COLLINS]]> Tue, 16 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/boogiedown-111-64793.html Fierce and controversial, Detective Cassandra Maldonado played major hardball to join New York's most elite homicide squad. But she's never seen anything like the hauntingly brutal murder of FYSHBone, a rap superstar and media mogul. Cassandra's instincts tell her that Sabio Guzman, Bone's risk-addicted celebrity lawyer, is keeping secrets worth killing for. With the Feds, the city's biggest loan shark, and a vicious music tycoon all out to silence Sabio for good, the heat Cassandra feels for him is destined to bring explosive bad news. Soon their careers and lives are on the line. They're left with everything to lose, nowhere to hide-and one deadly last chance to uncover the truth . . .

Author: SERRANO, DANIEL  Publisher: HACHETTE]]> Sun, 14 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/the-promise-reissue--111-113801.html For Michael, handsome heir to a business empire, and Nancy, beautiful young orphan, the carefree days of innocence were drawing to an end. That fateful day after graduation, they sealed a bond for the years to come - a vow of love that would have to prove itself in the face of terrible tragedy.

Author: STEEL, DANIELLE  Publisher: HACHETTE]]> Sun, 14 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/a-death-in-calabria-111-95072.html One of the wildest and most beautiful regions in Italy, known for its rugged coastline and mountains, Calabria is also home to the deadly 'Ndrangheta. An organised Mafia crime operation more feared in Italy than the Cosa Nostra or the Camorra, it is shrouded in mystery.Chief Superintendent Michele Ferrara of Italy's elite Anti-Mafia Investigation Department is tasked with investigating the deaths of several Calabria citizens - some in New York, some in the small, isolated villages that dot the Calabrian countryside. To get to the bottom of the case, Ferrara has to infiltrate the village of San Piero d'Aspromonte, deep in the Calabrian mountains. And there, he must put his life on the line to learn more about a family at the centre of an ancient, bloody feud...

Author: GIUTTARI, MICHELE  Publisher: HACHETTE]]> Sun, 14 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/the-lake-house-new-format--111-95082.html Megabestselling James Patterson delivers an unputdownable thriller that will chill your spine even as your imagination soars above the clouds. Frannie O Neill s life turned upside down when she and FBI maverick Kit Brennan rescued six incredible children from the school that created them. Now the young flock wants to go back to the couple, and Frannie and Kit are suing for custody. But when the case involves the most extraordinary creatures ever to land on this earth, someone will ensure there is no happy ending. Only Max, the most remarkable of the winged children, knows that another, terrifying biological experiment is taking place in the labs of a brilliant but evil surgeon, Dr Ethan Kane. But to complete his experiment he needs the ultimate prize Max herself. And as the children dream of returning to the happy safety of the lake house, where for a few precious months they flew free, Kane moves ever closer.

Author: PATTERSON, JAMES  Publisher: HACHETTE]]> Sun, 14 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/the-bishop-must-die-export-only--111-113804.html As the threat of war hangs over England, Sir Baldwin and Bailiff Puttock must work desperately to prevent murder, in the latest thrilling mystery in this hugely popular series 1326. In France, King Edward II's estranged wife Queen Isabella shames him by refusing to return to England and humiliates him further by flaunting her adulterous relationship with the king's sworn enemy, traitor Sir Roger Mortimer. When the king hears she has betrothed their son to the daughter of the Count of Hainault, all England fears an invasion of Hainault mercenaries. Meanwhile the Treasurer of England's life is threatened. He has made many enemies in a long political life, and Sir Baldwin and Simon must do all they can to find the would-be assassin before he can strike.

Author: JECKS, MICHAEL  Publisher: HACHETTE]]> Sun, 14 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/ghostgirl:-homecoming-111-113805.html Charlotte Usher feels practically invisible at school, and then one day she really is invisible. Even worse: she's dead. And all because she choked on a gummy bear. But being dead doesn't stop Charlotte from wanting to be popular and to get the attention of the boy she loves; it just makes her more creative about achieving her goal.

Author: HURLEY, TONYA  Publisher: HACHETTE]]> Sun, 14 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/the-beach-house-new-format--111-113806.html An unforgettable story of wealth, betrayal, sex and murder The second that Columbia law student Jack Mullen steps down from the train at East Hampton, he knows that something is very wrong. As he greets his family, his kid brother Peter lies stretched out on a steel gurney, battered, bruised -- dead. The police are calling the drowning an accident. Jack knows that's wrong. Someone wanted his brother dead. But the establishment says otherwise. Jack tries to uncover what really happened on the beach that night, only to confront a wall of silence; a barricade of shadowy people who protect the privileges of the multi-billionaire summer residents. And when he discovers that his brother had nearly $200,000 in his bank account, Jack realises Peter wasn't just parking cars to make a living...THE BEACH HOUSE is a breathtaking drama of revenge and sexual intrigue - with a plot so absorbing and a finale so shocking it could only have come from the unique mind of James Patterson.

Author: PATTERSON, JAMES/JONGE, PETER DE  Publisher: HACHETTE]]> Sun, 14 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/storm-rider-export-airside--111-113807.html A gripping new racing thriller from bestselling author John Francome In life, horse-fancier and antiques dealer Glyn Cole caused a heap of trouble -- for his girlfriends, their jealous partners and his creditors. His two-year absence from the close-knit Berkshire horse community has been something of a relief. Broken bridges have been mended; lives have been rebuilt. And his disappearance has been a miracle for one individual in particular: the person who killed him. But now Glyn is back -- in bizarre circumstances. A record-breaking storm has ripped his corpse from its ingenious hiding place, thirty feet up in the air, concealed in a stand of dense conifers. How did he get up there and how did he die? Many have benefited from his absence -- but who is no longer sleeping so soundly at night? It seems that, even in death, bad boy Glyn is as much trouble as he ever was...

Author: FRANCOME, JOHN  Publisher: HACHETTE]]> Sun, 14 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/with-or-without-you-111-113833.html ‘I want to play a game with you.’ ‘A game?’ ‘Yes. Hope I can trust you.’ ‘Of course.’ She handed over a small envelope and said, ‘Open this the day I tell you to. And if you open it earlier, I will come to know about it.’ ‘What is in it?’ ‘A time bomb.’ Aarav will do anything to get to the top of his organization. He will betray his colleagues; submit incorrect reports; sleep with the sexy and crafty Sonali; even abandon his disapproving wife in the middle of a romantic trip to London. Sonali uses his ambitious streak, promising to take him right to where he wants to be, if he does what she says. In his mad scramble to the top, does Aarav know what he is getting into? Is it as rosy up there as he imagined? What is Sonali’s real game? With or without You is for all those who have struggled to keep their jobs from ruining their lives.

Author: PARTHA SARTHI BASU]]> Sun, 14 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/case-of-the-imaginary-detective-the-111-1193.html Rima Lanisell has a habit of losing things car keys, sunglasses, lovers, family members. Following the death of Rima's father, she goes to stay with her godmother Addison, a wildly successful, albeit eccentric, mystery writer. Addison's beach house seems the place to make sense of Rima's loss, yet she is soon caught up in a mystery of her own.

Author: Fowler, Karen Joy  Publisher: VIKING]]> Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/english-assassin-the-111-1196.html Art restorer and sometime spy Gabriel Allon is asked to visit Zurich, to clean the work of an Old Master for a millionaire banker. But when he gets there he finds the corpse of his client in a pool of blood beneath the masterpiece, and discovers that a secret collection of priceless paintings stolen by Nazis in the war is missing.

Author: Silva, Daniel  Publisher: PENGUIN]]> Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/typhoon-111-1198.html Hong Kong 1997 only a few short months of British rule remain before the territory returns to Chinese rule. It's a febrile place. And in that claustrophobic environment of uncertainty and fear the spooks are hard at work, jostling for position and influence.So when an elderly man emerges from the seas off the New Territories, claiming to know secrets he will share only with the Governor himself, a young MI6 agent, Joe Lennox, sees an opportunity to make his reputation.But when the old man, a highprofile Chinese professor, is spirited away in the middle of the night by Joe's superiors in collusion with the CIA, it's clear that there's a great deal more than a young spy's career at stake.The professor, it seems, holds the key to a sinister and ambitious plan that could have awesome and catastrophic repercussions for China in the twentyfirst century . . .

Author: Cumming, Charles  Publisher: MICHAEL JOSEPH]]> Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/dead-run-111-106097.html It should have been a simple journey. But a couple of unplanned detours lead Grace, Annie and Sharon deep in the northern woods. Then the car breaks down. The search for a landline and a mechanic leads them to Four Corners, a crossroads town. And place they soon wish they'd never stumbled on because something terrible happened in Four Corners.

Author: Tracy, P J  Publisher: PENGUIN]]> Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/treasure-of-khan-dirk-pitt-111-43810.html Rescuing an oil survey team from a freak wave on Russia's Lake Baikal is all in a day's work for adventurers Dirk Pitt and partner Al Giordino. Yet when their ship is sabotaged and the survey team vanishes, Pitt is forced to get to the bottom of a mystery with farreaching consequences. Soon he's on his way to Mongolia.

Author: Cussler, Clive  Publisher: PENGUIN]]> Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/dark-watch-oregon-files-111-43812.html Juan Cabrillo and his motley crew aboard the clandestine spy ship Oregon have made a very comfortable and very dangerous living from working for highpowered Western interests. But their newest clients are a consortium of Japanese shipping magnates, and their fortunes are being threatened by brutal pirates trawling the waters of Southeast Asia.

Author: Cussler, Clive  Publisher: PENGUIN]]> Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/plague-ship-oregon-files-5-111-43814.html Years ago, an ancient Phoenician statue known as the Navigator was stolen from the Baghdad Museum, and there are men who would do anything to get their hands on it. Their first victim is a crooked antiquities dealer, murdered in cold blood.

Author: Cussler, Clive  Publisher: MICHAEL JOSEPH]]> Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/quantum-of-solace-the-complete-james-b-111-111640.html Contains short stories such as View to a Kill, For Your Eyes Only, Quantum of Solace, Risico The Hildebrand, Rarity Octopussy, The Living Daylights, The Property of a Lady, and 007 in New York.

Author: Fleming, Ian  Publisher: PENGUIN]]> Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/fall-of-giants-:-part-1-of-century-trilogy-111-98045.html Fall of Giants is his magnificent new historical epic. The first novel in The Century Trilogy, it follows the fates of five interrelated families- American, German, Russian, English, and Welsh-as they move through the world-shaking dramas of the First World War, the Russian Revolution, and the struggle for women's suffrage. Thirteen-year-old Billy Williams enters a man's world in the Welsh mining pits...Gus Dewar, an American law student rejected in love, finds a surprising new career in Woodrow Wilson's White House...two orphaned Russian brothers, Grigori and Lev Peshkov, embark on radically different paths half a world apart when their plan to emigrate to America falls afoul of war, conscription, and revolution... Billy's sister, Ethel, a housekeeper for the aristocratic Fitzherberts, takes a fateful step above her station, while Lady Maud Fitzherbert herself crosses deep into forbidden territory when she falls in love with Walter von Ulrich, a spy at the German embassy in London... These characters and many others find their lives inextricably entangled as, in a saga of unfolding drama and intriguing complexity, Fall of Giants moves seamlessly from Washington to St. Petersburg, from the dirt and danger of a coal mine to the glittering chandeliers of a palace, from the corridors of power to the bedrooms of the mighty. As always with Ken Follett, the historical background is brilliantly researched and rendered, the action fast-moving, the characters rich in nuance and emotion. It is destined to be a new classic. In future volumes of The Century Trilogy, subsequent generations of the same families will travel through the great events of the rest of the twentieth century, changing themselves-and the century itself. With passion and the hand of a master, Follett brings us into a world we thought we knew, but now will never seem the same again.

Author: KEN FOLLET  Publisher: PENGUIN INDIA]]> Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/berlin-game-111-99189.html Long-awaited reissue of the first part of the classic spy trilogy, GAME, SET and MATCH, when the Berlin Wall divided not just a city but a world. East is East and West is West - and they meet in Berlin… He was the best source the Department ever had, but now he desperately wanted to come over the Wall. ‘Brahms Four’ was certain a high-ranking mole was set to betray him. There was only one Englishman he trusted any more: someone from the old days. So they decided to put Bernard Samson back into the field after five sedentary years of flying a desk. The field is Berlin. The game is as baffling, treacherous and lethal as ever…

Author: LEN DEIGHTON  Publisher: HARPER COLLINS]]> Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/winter-111-99190.html A Berlin Family, 1899–1945 Epic prelude to the classic spy trilogy, GAME, SET and MATCH, that follows the fortunes of a German dynasty during two world wars. Winter takes us into a large and complex family drama, into the lives of two German brothers - both born close upon the turn of the century, both so caught up in the currents of history that their story is one with the story of their country, from the Kaiser's heyday through Hitler's rise and fall. A novel that rings powerfully true, a rich and remarkable portrait of Germany in the first half of the twentieth century. In his portrait of a Berlin family during the turbulent years of the first half of the century, Len Deighton has created a compelling study of the rise of Nazi Germany. With its meticulous research, rich detail and brilliantly drawn cast of characters, Winter is a superbly realized achievement.

Author: LEN DEIGHTON  Publisher: HARPER COLLINS]]> Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/the-bricklayer-111-99191.html A blockbusting new thriller introducing maverick FBI agent Steve Vail. “Move over Jack Reacher, here comes The Bricklayer.” James Patterson STEVE VAIL IS A MAVERICK. A trained killer and former agent, Vail despises authority and he's never met a rule he didn't break. These days he's working as a bricklayer. Now, Deputy Kate Bannon of the FBI desperately wants his help. Because someone is killing their operatives - in complex, subtle, twisted ways - and the body count is rising fast. Someone holds a fatal grudge against the agency; someone who knows how it works, and wants a bloody revenge. And it might be an inside job. To stem the tide of murders, Vail must re-enter a world he hoped he left behind long ago - his own past.

Author: NOAH BOYD  Publisher: HARPER COLLINS]]> Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/adventures-of-sherlock-holmes-the-111-106091.html Problems involving a man with a twisted lip, a fabulous blue carbuncle and five orange pips tax Sherlock Holmes' intellect alongside some of his most famous cases, including A Scandal in Bohemia and The RedHeaded League.

Author: Doyle, Arthur Conan  Publisher: PENGUIN CLASSICS]]> Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/beneath-the-skin-111-106092.html One day you receive an anonymous note informing you that you're going to be killed. It might be a cruel joke or a hoax. But it isn't. What do you do? Three women Zoe, Jenny and Nadia of different ages, from different walks of life, rich, poor, married, single, happy, sad, face the same terrible threat. Three lives are turned upside down, secrets are exposed, relationships strained and shattered. And amid all the fear and threats, victims find themselves becoming the accused as the police search for what they have done, where they have been, to attract the unrelenting attention of someone who wants to kill them. And finally each of them must face one cruel question which is stronger, the desire to live or the desire to kill?

Author: French, Nicci  Publisher: PENGUIN]]> Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/bleeding-heart-square-111-106093.html 1934, London. Into the decaying culdesac of Bleeding Heart Square steps aristocratic Lydia Langstone fleeing an abusive marriage. However, unknown to Lydia, a dark mystery haunts Bleeding Heart Square. What happened to Miss Penhow, the middleaged spinster who owns the house and who vanished four years earlier? Why is a seedy plainclothes policeman obsessively watching the square? What is making struggling journalist Rory Wentwood so desperate to contact Miss Penhow? And why are parcels of rotting hearts being sent to Joseph Serridge, the last person to see Miss Penhow alive?

Author: Taylor, Andrew  Publisher: PENGUIN]]> Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/catch-me-when-i-fall-111-106094.html Holly Krauss lives life in the fast lane. A successful young businesswoman with a stable home life, she is loved and admired by all who meet her. But that's only one side of Holly. The other sees her take regular walks on the wild side where she makes evermore reckless mistakes.

Author: French, Nicci  Publisher: PENGUIN]]> Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/coldest-blood-the-111-106095.html A man lies hidden in an abandoned boat. Stifling screams, he draws a knife across his arm, letting the blood flow free. Soon he'll be dead and life can begin again. Three decades later Declan McIlroy, a 39yearold loner, is found frozen to death in his flat as Arctic temperatures grip cathedral city of Ely.

Author: Kelly, Jim  Publisher: PENGUIN]]> Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/curse-the-dawn-111-106096.html Cassie Palmer, the world's chief clairvoyant, just can't seem to stay away from trouble. After trying to come to an agreement with the Silver Circle the magical organisation that's been trying to kill her for years she finds herself kidnapped by one of its members.

Author: Chance, Karen  Publisher: PENGUIN]]> Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/death-in-holy-orders-111-106098.html When the body of a theology student is found on the East Anglian coast, his wealthy father demands a reexamination of the accidental death verdict. Commander Adam Dalgliesh agrees to help and returns to his childhood haunt only to find himself embroiled in intrigue, conflict and secrets.

Author: James, P D  Publisher: PENGUIN]]> Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/eye-contact-111-106099.html Eye Contact

Author: Mcgovern, Cammie  Publisher: VIKING]]> Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/grounds-111-106100.html King's College, Dublin, an ancient and thoroughly mediocre institution, is in crisis. It is also Seamus Joyce's alma mater. When Seamus is hired to provide a consultant's report on the university for a shadowy American consortium, he doesn't realize what he's in for a poisonous brew of sexual intrigue, professional backstabbing, corruption, and murder.

Author: Millar, Cormac  Publisher: PENGUIN]]> Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/heart-of-betrayal-111-106101.html When brutal terrorists strike Washington, the usual suspects are blamed. But this time, America's worst nightmare has come true the terror comes from within. Former 'black ops' soldier Jason March is the mastermind behind the vicious attacks. Only one man has the power to stop March's bloodlust the man who trained him Ryan Kealey.

Author: Britton, Andrew  Publisher: MICHAEL JOSEPH]]> Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/his-last-bow-the-casebook-of-sherlock-111-106102.html Includes stories of Sherlock Holmes adventures involving an illustrious client and a Sussex vampire; the problems of Thor Bridge and of the Lions Mane; puzzles concerning a creeping man and the threegabled house; and disappearances of secret plans and a lady of noble standing.

Author: Doyle, Arthur Conan  Publisher: PENGUIN CLASSICS]]> Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/hound-of-the-baskervilles-the-111-106103.html Some blame the death of Sir Charles Baskerville on the legend of a fearsome and ghostly hound that is said to have haunted his Devonshire family for generations. So when the services of famed detective Sherlock Holmes are engaged to ensure the safety of Baskerville heir Sir Henry, Dr Watson is surprised to find his friend dismissive of the matter.

Author: Doyle, Arthur Conan  Publisher: PENGUIN CLASSICS]]> Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/killing-me-softly-111-106104.html Alice Loudon has everything close friends, a loving boyfriend, a successful career. Then one day she meets a stranger while crossing the street and impulsively abandons her old, safe life for a passionate affair. It leads her into dark, dangerous territory ...Adam Tallis teaches her things about herself she never knew. But as she learns more about her lover, she enters his world of risk and transgression and begins to uncover a past filled with troubling secrets. Soon love and sexual obsession overwhelm her until they threaten everything her safety, her sanity and, finally, her life.

Author: French, Nicci  Publisher: PENGUIN]]> Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/land-of-the-living-111-106105.html Abbie Devereaux doesn't know where she is or how she got there. She's so terrified she can barely remember her own name and she's sure of just one thing that she will survive this nightmare. But even if she does make it back to the land of the living, Abbie knows that he'll still be out there, looking for her.

Author: French, Nicci  Publisher: PENGUIN]]> Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/last-assassin-the-111-106106.html Last Assassin, The

Author: Eisler, Barry  Publisher: PENGUIN]]> Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/lost-world-111-106107.html Unlucky in love, but desperate to prove himself in an adventure, journalist Ed Malone is sent to test the hottempered Professor Challenger on his bizarre South American expedition findings. But rather than being angry at his questions, Challenger invites him along on his next field trip. Will they survive the terrifying creatures on the island?

Author: Doyle, Arthur Conan  Publisher: PENGUIN CLASSICS]]> Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/man-on-the-boulevard-111-106108.html Madame Thouret had no trouble identifying her husband's body. What puzzled her was that he was wearing light brown shoes and a garish tie she'd never seen before. This story reconstructs the secret life of a vulnerable man who has made a desperate attempt to evade the failure and isolation of his rigidly conventional life.

Author: Simenon, Georges  Publisher: PENGUIN]]> Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/memoirs-of-sherlock-holmes-the-read-re-111-106109.html Sherlock Holmes' fame has also brought him notoriety and there are those in the criminal underworld who must move against him or find their schemes in ruins ... And it is in The Final Problem that Dr Watson has the sad task of telling the grisly, fatal and shocking tale that saw Holmes finally meet his match.

Author: Doyle, Arthur Conan  Publisher: PENGUIN CLASSICS]]> Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/moon-tunnel-111-106110.html Philip Dryden is reporting on an archaeological dig at the old POW camp, when a body is uncovered. But there is something odd the man appears to have been shot in the head, and the position indicates that he was trying to get into the camp, not escape it. It's a puzzle which excites Dryden far more than the archaeologists or the police.

Author: Kelly, Jim  Publisher: PENGUIN]]> Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/penguin-complete-sherlock-holmes-the-111-106111.html Sherlock Holmes is not only the most famous character in crime fiction, but arguably the most famous character in all fiction. This book contains sixty adventures that pit his wits and courage against foreign spies, blackmailers, cultists, petty thieves, murderers, swindlers, policemen (both stupid and clever), and his archnemesis Moriarty.

Author: Doyle, Arthur Conan  Publisher: PENGUIN]]> Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/rage-111-106112.html Eight years ago, psychologist, Alex Delaware evaluated two teenage boys charged with the murder of Kristal Malley. Now, one of the killers is out of prison and wants to meet up with Alex. Alex and Detective Milo Sturgis mean to find out. To do so, they will follow a trail of blood that will lead them to the heart of murderous betrayal.

Author: Kellerman, Jonathan  Publisher: PENGUIN]]> Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/return-of-sherlock-holmes-the-111-106113.html Three years have passed since Sherlock Holmes and his nemesis Moriarty vanished into the abyss of the Reichenbach falls. When Dr Watson meets a mysterious deformed man, the truth is revealed.

Author: Doyle, Arthur Conan  Publisher: PENGUIN CLASSICS]]> Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/riddle-of-the-sands-a-record-of-secret-111-106114.html First published in 1903, this classic seafaring adventure follows a daring investigation by two men who discover a terrifying plan to invade England. I didn't get at much that night. It was all so sudden. The only thing I could have sworn to from the first was that he had purposely left me in the lurch that day. I pieced out the rest in the next few days, which I'll just finish with as shortly as I can. Bartels came aboard next morning, and though it was blowing hard still we managed to shift the Dulcibella to a place where she dried safely at the midday low water, and we could get at her rudder.

Author: Childers, Erskine  Publisher: PENGUIN CLASSICS]]> Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/secret-smile-111-106115.html You meet a man You have an affair You finish it and you think it's over You're dead wrong It's only just beginning ...Miranda Cotton thinks she's put boyfriend Brendan out of her life for good. But two weeks later, he's intimately involved with her sister. Soon what began as an embarrassment becomes threatening then even more terrifying than a girl's worst nightmare. Because this time Brendan will stop at nothing to be part of Miranda's life even if it means taking it from her 

Author: French, Nicci  Publisher: PENGUIN]]> Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/shape-of-a-stranger-111-106116.html Shape of a Stranger

Author: Weisman, Francesca  Publisher: PENGUIN]]> Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/sherlock-holmes-boxed-set-111-106117.html Sherlock Holmes Boxed Set

Author: Conan Doyle, Arthur  Publisher: PENGUIN]]> Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/sign-of-four-the-read-red--111-106118.html A dense yellow miasma swirls in the streets of London as Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson accompany a beautiful young woman to a sinister assignation. For Mary Marston has received several large pearls one a year for the last six years and now a mystery letter telling her she is a wronged woman.

Author: Doyle, Arthur Conan  Publisher: PENGUIN CLASSICS]]> Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/silks-111-106119.html “Julian Trent, you have been found guilty by this court of perpetrating a violent and unprovoked attack on an innocent family including a charge of attempted murder. You have shown little or no remorse for your actions and I consider you a danger to society.” When defence barrister Geoffrey Mason hears the judge’s verdict, he quietly hopes that a long and arduous custodial sentence will be handed down to his arrogant young client. That Julian Trent only receives eight years seems all too lenient. Little does Mason expect that he’ll be looking Trent in the eyes again much sooner than he’d ever imagined. Setting aside his barrister’s wig, Mason heads to Sandown to don his racing silks. An amateur jockey, his true passion is to be found in the saddle on a Thoroughbred, pounding the turf in the heat of a steeplechase. But when a fellow rider is brutally murdered – a pitchfork driven through his chest – Mason’s racing life soon becomes all too close to his working life. The prime suspect is one of their brethren, champion jockey Steve Mitchell; the evidence is overwhelming. Mason is reluctant to heed Mitchell’s pleas for legal advice – but soon he finds himself at the centre of a sinister web of threat and intimidation. Mason is left fighting a battle of right and wrong, and more immediately, a battle of life and death… his own.

Author: Francis, Dick & Francis, Felix  Publisher: MICHAEL JOSEPH]]> Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/singing-to-the-dead-111-106120.html It's Christmas, and half the Partickhill police squad is down with flu. Not good timing, with a series of cyanide poisonings in the area, plus two small boys reported missing in the space of a few days. And then there's the monumental task of providing concert security for rock legend Rogan O'Neill.

Author: Ramsay, Caro  Publisher: PENGUIN]]> Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/stain-on-the-silence-111-106121.html James wasn't much more than a child when he had an affair with Lily. And now, twentyfour years later, Lily confesses to James that their affair led to a daughter, Kate. And Kate desperately needs her father's help she's wanted for murder. But there is no room for murder in James' life. He has a wife, a good job, a nice house in the country.

Author: Taylor, Andrew  Publisher: PENGUIN]]> Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/study-in-scarlet-a-read-red--111-106122.html Accompanying Sherlock Holmes to an illomened house in south London, Dr Watson is startled to find a dead man whose face is contorted in a rictus of horror. There is no mark of violence on the body yet a single word is written on the wall in blood. Dr Watson is as baffled as the police, but Holmes soon uncovers a trail of murder and lost love.

Author: Doyle, Arthur Conan  Publisher: PENGUIN CLASSICS]]> Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/thin-man-111-106123.html Thin Man

Author: Hammett, Dashiell  Publisher: PENGUIN]]> Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/two-faces-of-january-111-106124.html Two Faces Of January

Author: Highsmith, Patricia  Publisher: PENGUIN]]> Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/valley-of-fear-111-106125.html To the police it is a formidable case and they are grateful for the razor brain of the great detective Sherlock Holmes. There are perplexing details wedding ring missing together with one dumbbell, the odd behaviour of the widow and a card inscribed VV 341 lying by the faceless body.

Author: Conan Doyle, Arthur  Publisher: PENGUIN]]> Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/adventures-of-sherlock-holmes-111-106126.html Amid the foggy streets of sinister London and the even more sinister countryside, Sherlock Holmes and sidekick Watson once more solve the unsolvable. In 12 intriguing stories, the great mastermind of detection grapples with the extremes of treachery, duplicity, and murder.

Author: Conan Doyle, Arthur  Publisher: PENGUIN]]> Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/barred-window-the-111-106127.html It is 1993 and Thomas Penmarsh has lived in Finisterre, the house by the sea, all his life, he's only 48 and in 1967 he lost everything he valued. However now his controlling mother has died and he is master of the house. When Esmond, his cousin and childhood confidante, comes to live with him Thomas is overjoyed. But is Esmond all that he seems?

Author: Taylor, Andrew  Publisher: PENGUIN]]> Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/be-cool-111-106128.html A sequel to the highly successful Get Shorty, Be Cool offers a second entertaining instalment in the career of Chili Palmer originally a Miami loanshark but now a bigshot in Hollywood. Chili gets interested in the music business, acting for a girlsinger with a lot of soul. Trouble is, everything that happens to him strikes him as being material for another great movie.

Author: Leonard , E  Publisher: PENGUIN]]> Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/big-sleep-111-106129.html Los Angeles PI Philip Marlowe is working for the Sternwood family. Old man Sternwood, crippled and wheelchairbound, is being given the squeeze by a blackmailer and he wants Marlowe to make the problem go away. But with Sternwood's two wild, devilmaycare daughters prowling LA's seedy backstreets, Marlowe's got his work cut out.

Author: Chandler, Raymond  Publisher: PENGUIN]]> Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/bleeding-heart-square-111-106130.html 1934, London. Into the decaying culdesac of Bleeding Heart Square steps aristocratic Lydia Langstone fleeing an abusive marriage. However, unknown to Lydia, a dark mystery haunts Bleeding Heart Square. What happened to Miss Penhow, the middleaged spinster who owns the house and who vanished four years earlier?

Author: Taylor, Andrew  Publisher: PENGUIN]]> Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/blunderer-111-106131.html With the Savage Humor of Evelyn Waugh and the macabre sensibility of Edgar Allan Poe, Patricia Highsmith brought a distinct twentiethcentury acuteness to her prolific body of fiction. In her more than twenty novels, psychopaths lie in wait amid the milieu of the mundane, in the neighbor clipping the hedges or the spouse asleep next to you at night. Now, Norton continues the revival of this noir genius with two more of her lost masterpieces The Blunderer, first published in 1953 and hailed as her finest novel, about the rise and fall of a faithful suburban husband who plots his wife's demise in fantasies gruesome and eerily serene; and a later work from 1983, People Who Knock on the Door, a tale about blind faith and the slippery notion of justice that lies beneath the peculiarly American veneer of righteousness. Both novels, out of print for years, again attest to Highsmith's reputation as the poet of apprehension (Graham Greene).

Author: Highsmith, Patricia  Publisher: PENGUIN]]> Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/carol-111-106132.html The book tells the story of Therese Belivet, a stage designer trapped in a departmentstore day job, whose salvation arrives one day in the form of Carol Aird, an alluring suburban housewife in the throes of a divorce. They fall in love and set out across the United States.

Author: Highsmith, Patricia  Publisher: PENGUIN]]> Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/casebook-of-sherlock-holmes-111-106133.html Restored to life by popular demand after his last struggle with Professor Moriarty at the Reichenbach Falls, Sherlock Holmes dons his deerstalker again for twelve final adventures. With the affable Dr. Watson at his side, he employs pipe, violin and, of course, his astounding methods of scientific deduction, to solve the unsolvable in mysterious cases, including The Adventure of the Sussex Vampire, The Adventure of the Creeping Man and The Adventure of the Veiled Lodger.

Author: Conan Doyle, Arthur  Publisher: PENGUIN]]> Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/complete-jack-the-ripper-111-106134.html Explains the theories and facts surrounding the Whitechapel murders. This book sets the crimes firmly in their historical setting, examines the evidence comprehensively and scrupulously, disposes of a number of theories and legends and relates the murder to popular literature and to later similar sex crimes.

Author: Rumbelow, D  Publisher: PENGUIN]]> Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/complete-sherlock-holmes-111-106135.html Every one of the immortal Sherlock Holmes novels appears in this single volume, unabridged, embellished with beautiful original illustrations, and reasonably priced. The classic works include A Study in Scarlet, the very first Holmes adventure; The Sign of Four, where Holmes solves the case of a missing treasure in India; The Hound of the Baskervilles, in which Holmes and Watson find themselves involved in an ageold curse; and The Valley of Fear, with a battle between Holmes and his nemesis, Professor Moriarty. Remarkably affordable and complete. Reproductions of old illustrations are enchanting.Baltimore Sun.

Author: Conan Doyle, Arthur  Publisher: PENGUIN]]> Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/darkadapted-eye-a-111-106136.html Like most families, they had their secrets ...And they hid them under a genteelly respectable veneer. No onlooker would guess that prim Vera Hillyard and her beautiful, adored younger sister, Eden, were locked in a dark and bitter combat over one of those secrets.

Author: Vine, Barbara  Publisher: PENGUIN]]> Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/darkness-inside-the-111-106137.html Darkness Inside, The

Author: Rickards, John  Publisher: PENGUIN]]> Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/deep-water-111-106138.html The Great Revival of Interest in Patricia Highsmith continues with two works that reveal the chilling reality behind the idyllic facade of American suburban life. In Deep Water, set in the small town of Little Wesley, Vic and Melinda Meller's loveless marriage is held together only by a precarious arrangement whereby in order to avoid the messiness of divorce, Melinda is allowed to take any number of lovers as long as she does not desert her family. Eventually, Vic tries to win her back by asserting himself through a tall tale of murderone that soon comes true. The stories collected in Mermaids on the Golf Course are among Highsmith's most mature, psychologically penetrating works. As in the title story, in which a man's brush with death endows his everyday desires with tragic consequences, the warm familiarities of middleclass life becomes the eerie setting for Highsmith's chilling portrayals of violence, secrecy, and madness.

Author: Highsmith, Patricia  Publisher: PENGUIN]]> Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/dog-s-ransom-111-106139.html Long out of print, this Highsmith classic resurfaces with a vengeance. The great revival of interest in Patricia Highsmith continues with the publication of this novel that will give dog owners nightmares for years to come. With an eerie simplicity of style, Highsmith turns our nextdoor neighbors into sadistic psychopaths, lying in wait among white picket fences and manicured lawns. In A Dog's Ransom, Highsmith blends a savage humor with brilliant social satire in this dark tale of a highminded criminal who hits a wealthy Manhattan couple where it hurts the most when he kidnaps their beloved poodle. This work attesets to Highsmith's reputation as the poet of apprehension (Graham Greene).

Author: Highsmith, Patricia  Publisher: PENGUIN]]> Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/down-into-darkness-111-106140.html The naked body of a young woman is found hanging from a tree on a London roadside. Scrawled across her back, the words Dirty Girl. Detective Sergeant Stella Mooney and the AMIP 5 squad are faced with a murder as baffling as it is chilling.

Author: Lawrence, David  Publisher: PENGUIN]]> Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/edith-s-diary-111-106141.html In the neat little Pennsylvania house, with senile, dribbling Uncle George and her sly son Cliffie, Edith watches the stranglehold of everyday life tighten its grip. She retreats into her diary where she builds a perfect fantasy of a very different life.

Author: Highsmith, Patricia  Publisher: PENGUIN]]> Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/eleven-111-106142.html Eleven

Author: Highsmith, Patricia  Publisher: PENGUIN]]> Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/fallen-angel-111-106143.html DI Stacey Collins has seen the darker side of humanity all too often. A single mum and former child from the grim Blenheim estate, she knows only too well what terrors the world can hold. But even her jaded eyes have never witnessed a crime of such unspeakable horror. A body, broken and lifeless, is found in the gloom of a London church.

Author: Lewis, Kevin  Publisher: PENGUIN]]> Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/farewell-111-106144.html A warm day on Central Avenue, and Philip Marlowe's hunch about the man beside him is as vague as the heat waves that dance above the sidewalk. Moose Malloy stands six five and onehalf and weighs two hundred and sixtyfour pounds. After eight years in the pen, he wants little Velma back, and no cops or mobsters are ready to stand in his way.

Author: Chandler, Raymond  Publisher: PENGUIN]]> Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/found-in-the-street-111-106145.html When Ralph Linderman returns a stranger s wallet he found during a morning stroll through Greenwich Village, he is entirely unprepared for the complex maze of sexual obsession and disturbing psychological intrigue he is about to be drawn into. Patricia Highsmith, author of The Tremor of Forgery, Strangers on a Train, and The Cry of the Owl has once again created an unsettling thriller that explores the bleakest alleyways of human desire. Highsmith has been called one of the finest crime novelists by the New York Times and is now considered one of the most original voices in twentiethcentury American fiction.

Author: Highsmith, Patricia  Publisher: PENGUIN]]> Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/frankie-111-106146.html Homeless, streetwise and running away from a past she would rather forget, Francesca Mills is just another face on the streets of London. When a violent encounter leads to a man's death, however, Francesca Mills is forced to leave the harsh world that has become her home and forge a new life elsewhere.

Author: Lewis, Kevin  Publisher: PENGUIN]]> Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/game-for-the-living-111-106147.html Game For The Living

Author: Highsmith, Patricia  Publisher: PENGUIN]]> Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/get-shorty-111-106148.html Fear is a man's best friend. Chili Palmer is a debt collector for the mob in Miami. But when one of his clients skips to Hollywood he decides to take a short working holiday on the Boulevard of Broken Dreams. Compared to the movie people, Chili is a smalltime lowlife. But, as the fat cats are about to discover, he is also tired of showing respect to people he thinks are scum. 'Compellingly readable...Extremely funny, bursting with sustained passages of black comedy...a major American novel' Guardian.

Author: Leonard, Elmore  Publisher: PENGUIN]]> Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/hangover-square-a-story-of-darkest-ear-111-106149.html London 1939, and in the grimy publands of Earls Court, George Harvey Bone is pursuing a helpless infatuation with Netta who is cool, contemptuous and hopelessly desirable to George. George is adrift in hell, until something goes click in his head and he realizes that he must kill her.

Author: Hamilton, Patrick  Publisher: PENG MOD CLASSICS]]> Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/high-window-111-106150.html Philip Marlowe's on a case his client wants him to recover a rare gold coin called a Brasher Doubloon, missing from her late husband's collection. It becomes complicated when Marlowe finds that everyone who handles the coin suffers a run of very bad luck they always end up dead.

Author: Chandler, Raymond  Publisher: PENGUIN]]> Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/infiltrators-111-106151.html Two police officers transform into successful villians during their careers working for SO10, the Metropolitan Police undercover unit. This is a firsthand account of how two professional men infiltrate the criminal world, involving themselves in drugdealing, guns, stolen property and more.

Author: Etienne, Philip  Publisher: PENGUIN]]> Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100