Скачать книгу (размер 2 197 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 432) Аннотация: When a woman is burned to death in Grandal Field in Devon, it seems like a case of mistaken identity. Until DI Wesley Peterson learns of a legend involving a French woman who burned to death there in the thirteenth century. And when he discovers that records of a previous excavation on the site have vanished, and that two archaeologists involved in that dig died in tragic circumstances, Wesley…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 789 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 352) Аннотация: The double christening of her sisters' two kids gets Holly Bennett thinking. She would seriously love to have a baby one day, but for the first time in ages being adopted has become a stumbling block for her. Does she want to start a family of her own when she doesn't even know who she really is or where she's come from? With an on-off boyfriend who she's swiftly falling out of lust with, Holly…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 952 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 384) Аннотация: Alix, arrogant, middle-aged and angry comes home to the derelict port of Liverpool as her mother lies dying. Irritably resigned to living alone for the rest of her life she suddenly finds herself erotically attracted to a stranger. Joseph is an American architect who has come to the city to build a hotel. Refusing to accept that his wife has left him or the trauma of a war he once fought in, the…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 544 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 304) Аннотация: In the Ichidian Universe things were once greatly out of hand. No one was safe. No planet was left untouched by violence. People were dragged from their homes and killed in the streets, and a ruthless tyrant was bent on being the sole ruler. Those who opposed him formed an alliance and made a treaty to work together. They formed their own group called The League. An elite group of soldiers, the…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 115 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 416) Аннотация: 'There never was a Churchill from John of Marlborough down who had either morals or principles', so said Gladstone. From the First Duke of Marlborough — soldier of genius, restless empire-builder and cuckolder of Charles II — onwards, the Churchills have been politicians, gamblers and profligates, heroes and womanisers. The Churchills is a richly layered portrait of an extraordinary set of men…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 136 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 224) Аннотация: Worried about how you'll be able to afford all the things you love in the midst of the credit crisis? With almost twice as many people aged 18-24 as stressed by their financial situation as those aged over 55, and a third of 18-30 year olds cutting back on going out due to limited funds, THE LAZY GIRL'S GUIDE TO THE HIGH LIFE ON A BUDGET is an essential survival guide to living it up without…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 707 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 336) Аннотация: Tomb raider Simon Bonner wants out of the looting game... until a mysterious crystal lens lands on his doorstep. Legend has it that this lens holds the key to the archives of man — a Mexican tomb that explains the root of all knowledge. There's just one problem — he doesn't know how to use it. Museum curator Jillian Talbot's ability to see an object's history is her secret, so when Simon…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: 'I ought to tell you at the beginning that I am not quite normal having had a violent experience at the age of nine' Jessica Vye's 'violent experience' colours her schooldays and her reaction to the world around her a confining world of Order Marks, wartime restrictions, viyella dresses, nicely-restrained essays and dusty tea shops. For Jessica she has been told that she is 'beyond all possible…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 544 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 304) Аннотация: Inspector Singh is back, but this time on secondment to Bali. A bomb had been let off in the most touristy part of the island and Singh has been sent to help with security and anti-terrorist measures. But very soon the Bali police realise Singh has little to offer them in terms of experience in this field. He's much better suited to doing what he's good at — solving murder. Simple! So when a body…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 441 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 480) Аннотация: The 'book of the dead' is the morgue log, the ledger in which all cases are entered by hand. For Kay Scarpetta, however, it is about to have a new meaning. Fresh from her bruising battle with a psychopath in Florida, Scarpetta decides it's time for a change of pace. Moving to the historic city of Charleston, South Carolina, she opens a unique private forensic pathology practice, one in which she…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 441 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 480) Аннотация: Kay Scarpetta and her colleagues-Benton Wesley, Pete Marino, and her niece Lucy Farinelli-return to a series of forensic cases as haunting as any they have ever tackled. Working with the National Forensic Institute in Florida, Scarpetta and Marino examine the X-rays of a man who has died from a shotgun blast to the chest. But the pellets embedded show a strange 'pinball' pattern and the two can't…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 320) Аннотация: There's a very good reason to be afraid of the dark ...Alone on Dartmoor without a car, Erin O'Leary has gone to ground, hiding from Russian assassins. Her new neighbours are a disparate bunch: Gerald and Sylvia, whose social pretensions exceed their altered means; Ned and Lisa, newlyweds who only know each other from work and embittered Auriol, abandoned along with the dog. Crazy Betty, who…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 768 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 544) Аннотация: When a family heirloom is stolen — a small silver statue belonging to the only survivor of the Lusitania — Malachi, Gideon and Rebecca Sullivan are determined to recover the treasure. Their quest takes them from their home in Ireland to Helsinki, Prague and New York.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 789 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 352) Аннотация: To the doctors the woman in the ambulance was just another casualty, just more beautiful than most, more badly hurt. She was Daphne Fields, a famous author whose stories were drawn from her own struggle; to choose between the two men she loved.
Скачать книгу (размер 2 115 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 416) Аннотация: Hollywood, 1945. Shipping heir Ward Thayer and screen star Faye Price are reunited after a chance meeting two years earlier. Unable to forget the connection they shared and helpless to resist it, romance quickly sparks. But for Faye, daring and passionate, the life she's heading for with Ward is a threat to her ambition. How can she decide between Hollywood and motherhood? Is it right to choose…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 952 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 384) Аннотация: The Perfect Love... Jessica and Ian were a golden couple — young, glamourous, successful and deeply in love. Until one afternoon's casual faithlessness threatened their relationship, ended their days of happiness and nights of desire. Or so it seemed. But for Jessica and Ian, the lesson of love was only just beginning... A reprint of a novel which has been unavailable since 1987, about a young,…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 320) Аннотация: Deanna believed she had everything she'd ever wanted. Diamonds, a beautiful home, a handsome, successful husband who adored her. But Marc-Edouard led a jet-set life as an international lawyer and for three months — summer — Deanna would be alone. Until Ben found her. And together they found happiness on sun-drenched beaches. But they knew their dream had to end. They also knew that they couldn't…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 605 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 512) Аннотация: They say the road to Hell is paved with good intentions, but if you ask Castor he'll tell you there's quite a bit of arrogance and reckless stupidity lining the streets as well. And he should know. There's only so many times you can play both sides against the middle and get away with it. Now, the inevitable moment of crisis has arrived and it's left Castor with blood on his hands. Well, not his…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 278 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 448) Аннотация: A shocking double-murder scene greets Detective Inspector Philip Brennan when he is called to a flat in Colchester. Two women are viciously cut open and laying spreadeagled, one tied to the bed, one on the floor. The woman on the bed has had her stomach cut into and her unborn child is missing. But this is the third time Phil and his team have seen such an atrocity. Two other pregnant women have…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 462 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 288) Аннотация: What does Jenny Diski know about animals? She's really not sure. She remembers the animal books she read in her childhood; the cartoons she watched; the meals she ate; the strays she found; the animals who have lived and still live with her. She examines human beings, too, and the way in which we have looked at, studied, treated and written about the non-human creatures with whom we share the…