Maison d'édition: Classica Libris
An early spy thriller from the days of WWI. A man comes up with a new explosive, but then he quickly disappears. This sets in motion several spies from several countries, even Japan, searching for the missing inventor.
1920s. New York City. When a second immigrant woman turns up murdered in the Lower East Side, Ava Gold, the city’s first female detective, is summoned to crack the case. But this serial killer is savage, and Ava’s dangerous game of cat and mouse may just lead her too close to home.“A MASTERPIECE OF THRILLER AND MYSTERY. Blake Pierce did a magnificent job developing characters with a psychological side so well described that we feel inside their minds, follow their fears and cheer for their success. Full of twists, this book will keep you awake until the turn of the last page.” --Books and Movie Reviews, Roberto Mattos (re Once Gone) CITY OF GHOSTS (An Ava Gold Mystery—Book 4) is a new novel in a long-anticipated new series by #1 bestseller and USA Today bestselling author Blake Pierce, whose bestseller Once Gone (a free download) has received over 1,000 five star reviews. In the rough streets of 1920s New York City, 34 year-old Ava Gold, a widower and single mom, claws her way up to become the first female homicide detective in her NYPD precinct. She is as tough as they come, and willing to hold her own in a man’s world.Ava fights an uphill battle to get her precinct to take the murder of an immigrant woman seriously. But Ava refuses to give up, and when the case leads only to dead ends, she’s forced to take matters into her own hands Could her own husband’s murderer hold the secret to cracking the case open? And if he does—can Ava delve into her own past and catch the killer in time without being pushed to the edge?A heart-pounding suspense thriller filled with shocking twists, the authentic and atmospheric AVA GOLD MYSTERY SERIES is a riveting page-turner, endearing us to a strong and brilliant character that will capture your heart and keep you reading late into the night.Books #5 and #6 in the series—CITY OF DEATH and CITY OF VICE—are now also available.Voir livre
In No Name Volume 1 , Wilkie Collins introduces a gripping tale of identity, inheritance, and social injustice. After their father’s death, Magdalen and Norah Vanstone discover they are illegitimate and thus denied their rightful inheritance. Determined to reclaim what is theirs, Magdalen, the more resourceful sister, devises a daring plan to expose the deceit surrounding their birth. As they navigate a world that rejects them, alliances are formed and secrets unravel. This volume sets the stage for a complex narrative exploring themes of morality, class disparity, and the resilience of those cast out by society. Through twists and intrigue, Collins crafts a compelling story of survival and justice.Voir livre
John Wick meets Johnny Mnemonic in a nail-biting cyberpunk technothriller about a courier on the run from his own Guild Corporations fall, gangsters are killed, but no-one messes with the Couriers Guild. When Armand Pierce first became a courier ten years ago, he had an attaché case connected to a titanium cuff grafted into the bones of his wrist, and took an oath: the delivery is everything. He can run, fight—kill, if he needs to—but the package gets where it's going. It's the Guild's guarantee, and since the internet went down in the Cyber Wars, all business, legitimate or otherwise, depends on it. Otherwise, he dies. So Pierce knows he's in deep trouble when he arrives at his latest destination to find his payload missing, his case mysteriously empty. Something strange is going on: something that's already cost three couriers their lives, and threatens to upend the global order. And Pierce had better get to the bottom of it, before the Guild catches up to him.Voir livre
Twenty crime stories by the creator of Jack Reacher, never before collected For the past twenty years, Lee Child has been one of the bestselling authors in the world, thanks to the popularity of his iconic and instantly recognizable hero Jack Reacher. But even at the height of Reacher's fame, Child's short story writing was not confined to the series; throughout the course of his career, he published tales about a range of characters on both sides of the law, including assassins, a body guard, CIA and FBI agents, gangsters, and more. Meticulously plotted and packed with Child's trademark action and suspense, this collection shows the author's mastery of the short form. In "Ten Keys," a drug-dealing hit man feels that he must unburden his fears and guilt to a stranger. A rookie cop in "Normal in Every Way" is assigned to the department's file room, where he makes connections to historic dates that could lead to solving crimes. A methodical bodyguard quits his job when he's outsmarted. A military mission is planned to perfection. A potential worker for the Manhattan Project is carefully surveilled by an FBI agent. A killer preys on other killers. Taken together, these stories are a riotous calamity of criminals and crime fighters; individually, they are expertly crafted, piercing tales that hit hard enough to leave a mark.Voir livre
There’s been a murder. An eyewitness has come forward, and the killer has confessed. But there’s a problem. The two are conjoined twins, literally joined at the hip since birth. For the police, keeping the murderer in custody means locking up his innocent brother along with him—an untenable situation. The frustrated legal system wrestles with how to prosecute a murderer who is apparently immune from punishment, as any attempt to exact justice would surely affect his conjoined twin. It appears there can be no satisfactory outcome. That is until a surprising discovery is made.Voir livre
When forensic psychologist Dr. Mara Vexley wakes up in the hospital wing of an abandoned mental facility with no memory of how she got there, she’s told she was found wandering the island shoreline, barefoot and covered in blood. But the blood isn’t hers and the patient she was sent to evaluate, a mute serial arsonist named Jonas Vale, is missing. Mara begins to piece together fragments of her fractured memory as strange clues surface: cryptic journal entries in her handwriting, security footage that skips whenever Jonas appears, and a string of fires starting again across the mainland. The deeper she digs, the more she questions her sanity and whether she’s here to stop Jonas, or help him. But someone doesn’t want her to remember. And the island isn’t just isolated it’s rigged to trap anyone who tries to leave. As Mara’s mind begins to unravel, she must decide: is she the hunter… or the hunted?Voir livre
