Welcome to the future… Where the cream of humanity has left for the outworlds, leaving the rest behind… Where genetically redesigned T. rexes have supplanted pit bulls… Where population control measures have created an underclass of Urchins, unlicensed children who have no rights — not even the right to exist… Where wireheads with chips in their brains live vicariously through the downloaded experiences of others… Where the UN has been turned into a brothel known as Dydeetown, peopled by clones of famous personalities from history and entertainment… Where a Dydeetown clone of Jean Harlow asks a down-and-out private eye named Sig Dreyer to find her missing lover. Though Sig loathes the idea of working for a clone, Harlow-c is paying in gold, and that's hard to turn down. Just a missing-person case… should be simple enough. But neither realizes that Sig's investigation will tip the first domino in a cascade of events that will turn their world upside down. DYDEETOWN WORLD whips the classic tropes of noir fiction and far-future cyberpunk into a relentlessly paced novel about freedom, friendship, and self-esteem. Beneath its hardboiled voice, its seamy settings, and violent events, are people trying to make a human connection…and changing the world in the process

New from 'a gifted writer' (VICTORIA THOMPSON) who brings mystery to 17th-century France. As the Four Musketeers race to save Porthos's servant from the gallows, they run afoul of Cardinal Richelieu, who is investigating a far more serious matter – a plot against the life of the king

The Caterer Meet Goldy Bear: a bright, opinionated, wildly inventive caterer whose  personal life has become a recipe for disaster. She's got  an abusive ex-husband who's into making tasteless threats, a rash of mounting bills that are taking a huge bite out of her budget, and two enticing  men knocking on her door. The Dish Now determined to take control of her life, Goldy  moves her business and her son to ritzy Aspen  Meadow Country Club, where she accepts a job as a  live-in cook. But just as she's beginning to think  she's got it made--catering decadent dinners and  posh society picnics and enjoying the favors of  Philip Miller, a handsome local shrink, and Tom Shulz,  her more-than-friendly neighborhood cop--the  dishy doctor inexplicably drives his  BMW into an oncoming bus. The Unsavory  Killer Convinced that Philip's bizarre  death was no accident, Goldy decides to do a little  investigating of her own. But sifting through the  unpalatable secrets of the dead doc's life will  toss her into a case seasoned with unexpected danger  and even more unexpected revelations--the kind that could get a caterer and the son she loves. . .killed

When Annie leaves the safety of her old bank job to become the full-time manager of her boyfriend's restaurant, what's meant to be the first day of the rest of her life might be the last day of someone else's

Chicago, 1947. Nathan Heller, formerly of the United States Marines, currently head of the A-1 Detective Agency, is settling happily into post-war suburban prosperity in the company of his lovely, pregnant wife. But when a client’s child turns up murdered, a detective who thinks he’s seen it all finds he hasn’t. The dead little girl is apparently the handiwork of a serial murderer whose lipstick-scrawled cry for help — “Catch Me Before I Kill More” — is a pledge Heller intends to help the killer keep. In the novella “Dying in the Post-War World,” Max Allan Collins — who, says best-selling suspense author Andrew Vachss, “blends fact and fiction like no other writer” — presents a fresh and powerful look at one of Chicago’s most famous crimes. In Dying in the Post-War World, Max Allan Collins ably demonstrates why Chicago Magazine has dubbed him “the master of true-crime fiction.” And Nathan Heller shows himself to be not only a classic private detective in the Hammett/Chandler tradition, but a man as well-flesh and blood, flaws and all

The novel's main character, David Selig, is an undistinguished man living in New York City. David was born with a telepathic gift allowing him to read minds. Rather than use his ability for any greater good, however, Selig squanders his power, using it only for his own convenience. At the beginning of the novel, David earns a living by reading the minds of college students so that he can better plagiarize reports and essays on their behalf. As the novel progresses, Selig’s power grows more and more weak, working sporadically and sometimes not at all, and Selig struggles to maintain his grip on reality as he begins to lose an ability on which he has long since grown dependent. Nominated for Nebula Award for Best Novel in 1972. Nominated for Hugo Award for Best Novel in 1973. Nominated for Locus Award in 1973

Given his line of work in the employ of a psychotic Brooklyn crime boss, Trent finds himself on the wrong end of too many bullets. Yet each time he’s killed, he wakes a few minutes later completely healed of his wounds but with no memory of his past identity. What’s worse, each time he cheats death someone else dies in his place. Sent to steal an antique box from some squatters in an abandoned warehouse near the West Side Highway, Trent soon finds himself stumbling into an age-old struggle between the forces of good and evil, revealing a secret world where dangerous magic turns people into inhuman monstrosities, where impossible creatures hide in plain sight, and where the line between the living and the dead is never quite clear. And when the mysterious box is opened, he discovers he has only twenty-four hours to save New York City from certain destruction

Detective Sergeant Logan MacRae has been bumped to D.I. Roberta Steel’s ‘Screw-up Squad’ after a raid he led on a warehouse rumored to be full of stolen property ended with no arrests and one officer critically injured. The backstabbing, limelight-stealing, laziest D.I. on Aberdeen’s police force, Steel’s team is made up of the ‘no-hopers,’ the most worthless or inexperienced members of the homicide department, and Logan will do anything to prove he doesn’t belong there. Including working overtime on two baffling cases: the murder by arson of six people, and the beating to death of a prostitute down by the docks, not a high priority compared to the fire. At least not until another prostitute ends up dead. Although both cases seem simple on the surface — turns out the fire’s victims are part of a drug dealer’s inner circle, and what fate is to be expected for working girls in Aberdeen’s red-light district? — in Stuart MacBride’s hands, what’s going on in this rainy Scottish city is bound to be much more complicated than it appears. A detailed authenticity combines with a dark Scottish sense of humor and a lively cast of characters in MacBride’s unputdownable second novel, confirming his status as a rising star of crime fiction

Midwinter, a freezing night in Leith, near Edinburgh's red light district. A policewoman's flashlight stabs the darkness in a snow-covered cemetery. The circle of light stops on a colourless, dead face. So begins the hunt for a serial murderer of prostitutes in Gillian Galbraith's third Alice Rice mystery, "The Dying of the Light". Partly inspired by the real-life killings of prostitutes in Ipswich, this novel explores a hidden world where sex is bartered for money and drugs. Off-duty, Alice's home life continues its uneven course. Her romance with the artist Ian Melville offers the prospect of happiness, but is plagued by insecurity. Her demented but determined neighbour, Miss Spinnell, offers a new challenge to Alice's patience at every meeting. This atmospheric thriller builds on the success of the first two Alice Rice mysteries, "Blood in the Water" and "Where the Shadow Falls", and it is Gillian Galbraith's most accomplished novel yet

Edgar® Award–winning author Aaron Elkins’s creation—forensics professor Gideon Oliver—has been hailed by theChicago Tribune *as “a likable, down-to-earth, cerebral sleuth.” Now, the celebrated Skeleton Detective is visiting friends at a vineyard in Tuscany when murder leaves a bitter aftertaste… *It was the unwavering custom of Pietro Cubbiddu, patriarch of Tuscany’s Villa Antica wine empire, to take a solitary month-long sabbatical at the end of the early grape harvest, leaving the winery in the trusted hands of his three sons. His wife, Nola, would drive him to an isolated mountain cabin in the Apennines and return for him a month later, bringing him back to his family and business. So it went for almost a decade—until the year came when neither of them returned. Months later, a hiker in the Apennines stumbles on their skeletal remains. The carabinieri investigate and release their findings: they are dealing with a murder-suicide. The evidence makes it clear that Pietro Cubbiddu shot and killed his wife and then himself. The likely motive: his discovery that Nola had been having an affair. Not long afterwards, Gideon Oliver and his wife, Julie, are in Tuscany visiting their friends, the Cubbiddu offspring. The renowned Skeleton Detective is asked to reexamine the bones. When he does, he reluctantly concludes that the carabinieri, competent though they may be, have gotten almost everything wrong. Whatever it was that happened in the mountains, a murder-suicide it was not. Soon Gideon finds himself in a morass of family antipathies, conflicts, and mistrust, to say nothing of the local carabinieri’s resentment. And when yet another Cubbiddu relation meets an unlikely end, it becomes bone-chillingly clear that the killer is far from finished… Review Praise for Aaron Elkins and the Gideon Oliver mysteries: “The whole world is Gideon Oliver’s playing field in Elkins’s stylish mysteries.” —*The New York Times Book Review “Lively and entertaining.”—The Seattle Times “A series that never disappoints.”—The Philadelphia Inquirer “Elkins is a master.”—The Dallas Morning News “No one does it better than Aaron Elkins.”—The San Diego Union-Tribune *

When a garbageman in California is found skinned alive, Remo and Chiun figure it's a dirty business. When the same man starts showing up in the company of a tipsy lady scientist, they know something's really rotten. But finding out the new face belongs to an old foe - a deadly enemy they killed themselves - they know trouble's heading right for their laps, and they've got to move fast to keep from landing down in the dumps . . . for good. Hot on a trail littered with peril, Remo and Chiun head for Moscow where the KGB, the scientist, and the once-dead enemy of Sinanju teach them just who's going to bury whom? As they waste away in a Soviet prison, America's future is coming to a head - a warhead. And with Remo and Chiun incarcerated, the U.S. is going to be incinerated . . . unless, somehow, the odds shift to give the good guys a fighting chance

Cory Taylor is one of Australia’s celebrated novelists, the author of the brilliant Me and Mr Booker (winner of the Commonwealth Writers Prize, Pacific region), and My Beautiful Enemy (shortlisted for the Miles Franklin Award). At the age of sixty, she is dying of melanoma-related brain cancer. Her illness is no longer treatable. As she tells us in her remarkable last book, Dying: A Memoir, she now weighs less than her neighbour’s retriever. Written in the space of a few weeks, in a tremendous creative surge, this powerful and beautifully written book is a clear-eyed account of what dying has taught Cory: she describes the tangle of her feelings, she reflects on her life, and she remembers the lives and deaths of her parents. She tells us why she would like to be able to choose the circumstances of her own death. Dying: A Memoir is a breathtaking book about vulnerability and strength, courage and humility, anger and acceptance. It is a deeply affecting meditation on dying, but it is also a funny and wise tribute to life

Varis Diri (Waris Dirie) pasakoja sukrečiančią gyvenimo istoriją. Vos dvylikos ji pabėgo iš suplanuotų savo vestuvių ir gimtųjų namų Somalyje. Po ilgų klajonių vargšei merginai nusišypsojo likimas ir ji tapo pasaulinio garso manekene. Tai buvo ir nuostabus sapnas, ir didžiausias košmaras. Pasiekusi savo karjeros viršūnę, per vieną interviu garsus supermodelis išdrįso prabilti apie mergaičių lytinių organų žalojimą, vykstantį daugelyje Afrikos genčių. Ji pati patyrė šį žiaurų ritualą sulaukusi vos penkerių

Gdzie się podział Mroczny Pasażer, drugie ja Dextera, wewnętrzny głos, który szepce mu do ucha z tylnego siedzenia i od czasu do czasu przesiada się za kierownicę, żeby zwieźć go do parku rozrywki, o jakim się nikomu nie śniło? Czy Dexter ma teraz sam wymierzać swoją sprawiedliwość innym potworom pechowcom, którzy wpadli w ręce jego, nie policji? Jak ma wybierać spośród och, jakże licznych w Miami kandydatów, tych, którzy najbardziej sobie zasłużyli na miejsce w jego skromnym panteonie? Dexter zostaje sam z bolesną świadomością, że bez Mrocznego Pasażera nawet jego niepośledni talent ma swoje granice… tym bardziej, że tropi go tajemniczy prześladowca

Zamieszkaną galaktykę ogarnęła dziwaczna i straszna inwazja, po części horda, po części epidemia i po części koszmar. A po części proroctwo. Potop istot zdolnych opętać umysły, dokonywać mutacji ciał, przekształcać materię i energię, drwić tak z nauki, jak i z wiary. Najeźdźcy nie są jednak obcymi. Dysfunkcja rzeczywistości otworzyła bramę wiodącą poza śmierć. I napływają przez nią potępieńcy, by podbić czas i przestrzeń…

Zdumiewający wszechświat edenistów — poddanych genetycznej modyfikacji ludzi połączonych telepatyczną więzią ze swymi inteligentnymi statkami i żywymi światami; wzmocnionych nanotechnologicznie międzygwiezdnych pilotów i wojowników… oraz przerażających starożytnych obcych tajemnic, które wykraczają poza ludzkie pojmowanie. Na Joshuy Calvercie, właścicielu kosmolotu „Lady Macbeth” ciąży przekleństwo fartu; na Ione Saldana, lordzie ruin, ciąży przekleństwo jej królewskiego pochodzenia; na kolonistach uwięzionych w cuchnących dżunglach świata zwanego Lalonde ciąży przekleństwo ich wiary; na całych planetach po prostu ciąży przekleństwo… Płytka danych pochodząca od dawno wymarłego gatunku Laymilów jest jedynym kluczem do zagadki nie znanego nauce zjawiska, inwazji, o jakiej nie słyszała historia. Laymile zwali je „dysfunkcją rzeczywistości”. Ale równie dobrze mogli je nazwać piekłem

Prace ziemne odsłoniły szkielet plezjozaura z napisem „Skończyć z próbami nuklearnymi”. Dyrektor budowy Kin Arad nie jest zaskoczona — ma dwieście dziesięć lat i zaczynała karierę w Kompanii, kładąc warstwy geologiczne na nowo budowanych planetach. Na swoim koncie ma też uformowanie łańcucha górskiego w kształcie własnych inicjałów. Gdy jednak dowiedziała się o istnieniu — wbrew prawom galaktycznym — płaskiej planety, nawet ją to zaintrygowało. A był to dopiero początek… W książce opublikowanej w 1981 roku pojawiają się zalążki pomysłów, które pisarz tak świetnie rozwinął później w niezwykle poczytnym cyklu „Świat Dysku”

Дебютное произведение Сергея Минаева, в середине нулевых получившее культовый статус. Главный герой — циник, наполненный самоотрицанием, принадлежит к новому поколению, которое должно было изменить мир. Но, кажется, мир изменил их. Топ-менеджер крупной компании прожигает свою жизнь и не может остановиться. Одна его часть хочет вырваться из порочного круга, другая — готова остаться в нем навсегда. Но жизнь сама расставит все точки и заставит каждого сделать выбор. Найдет ли главный герой свое место в обществе? Сможет ли стать настоящим человеком и не испортить себе жизнь? Роман Сергея Минаева невероятно точно уловил дух гламурных и сытых «нефтяных» годов и разошелся миллионным тиражом.. 18+