The Avenger
Edgar Wallace
Editora: Bu Classics Books
Sinopse
A headless body discovered on a film studio lot triggers a baffling investigation, revealing a tangled web of blackmail and a ruthless killer lurking behind the scenes.
Editora: Bu Classics Books
A headless body discovered on a film studio lot triggers a baffling investigation, revealing a tangled web of blackmail and a ruthless killer lurking behind the scenes.
Is the "Holy Pail" cursed? Every owner of the vintage Chappy Wheeler lunchbox―a prototype based on the 1940s television western―has died. And now Sterling Price, business tycoon and a client of Odelia Grey's law firm, has been fatally poisoned. Is it a coincidence that Price's one-of-a-kind lunch pail―worth over thirty grand―has disappeared at the same time?Treading cautiously since a recent run-in with a bullet, Odelia takes small bites of this juicy, calorie-free mystery―and is soon ravenous for more! Her research reveals a sixty-year-old unsolved murder and Price's gold-digging ex-fiancée with two married men wrapped around her finger. Mix in a surprise marriage proposal that sends an uncertain Odelia into chocolate sedation, and you've got an unruly recipe for delicious disaster.Ver livro
A Yorkshire cop's reunion with old friends is marred by murder in this mystery by "the finest male English contemporary crime writer" (Val McDermid). With his longtime girlfriend, Ellie, detective Peter Pascoe is off to Thornton Lacey for an exciting weekend reunion with a few of his college friends. However, upon arrival, he finds no cause for celebration. Instead, there's been a triple homicide, and one of his friends—the chief suspect—is missing. Pascoe is eager to assist with the case, but the local constabulary doesn't seem to welcome outside help. Meanwhile, Pascoe's superior, the incorrigibly rude Andy Dalziel, needs him back home to find the culprit behind a series of burglaries. Torn between two cases and two jurisdictions, Pascoe knows he must solve these cases quickly—if not for a sense of loyalty to his friends or duty to his job, then at least for his own sanity.Ver livro
Espionage and passionate erotic romance in a mysterious far away land. Aletta has returned and she’s going to rock Martin’s world. Her relationship with Peter in turmoil, Aletta needs to make some space to get her life back together and find the strength to fight for her love. Out of the blue she decides to visit her ex-boyfriend. He has always been there for her, even after she’d left him he’d remained her best friend and soul partner. Working as a teacher and an occasional reluctant spy in the mysterious Azerbaijan, Martin, had long given up hope of ever seeing Aletta again. Martin, and Aletta’s world is turned upside down, as they discover their passion has never died. Aletta’s return launches them on an erotic sex charged journey of self-discovery. Can she use her present to re-live her past and find the strength to face her future? Can Martin survive losing her again? "Girl Returned" follows the lives of six friends working in a the former Soviet Republic of Azerbaijan. Now an independent country, it’s oil and gas rich economy is powering it towards modernity at break neck speed. In the work hard-play hard environment of Baku, six friends live, work and love. An erotically sex charged comedy of errors. Girl Returned takes you to a place you will never want to leave, as you share in the loves, lives and dramas of thirty and forty something's trying to find their way in mysterious Azerbaijan.Ver livro
A shooter takes deadly aim, and throws a city into panic Psychologist Daniel Rinaldi is no stranger to trauma. A survivor of not one, but two attempts on his life by a deranged killer, the therapist also counsels trauma patients in his private practice, and contracts with the Pittsburgh Police to help victims of violent crime cope with their experience. When a sports mascot is gunned down mid-field by a sniper at a college football game he attends, Rinaldi becomes an accidental yet integral part of the investigation. To begin with, the victim in the costume is not the person who was supposed to be wearing it. When the actual "Teasdale Tiger" hears the news, he suffers a crippling panic attack and calls on Rinaldi to talk him through it. From there, Rinaldi seems to be in all the wrong places at all the wrong times, as the sniper continues his killing spree. Meeting with resistance from members of the Pittsburgh Police force and taking dangerous risks in pursuit of the killer, Rinaldi puts his career and his life in harm's way as he races to find a connection between the victims before the shooter strikes again.Ver livro
In the Tulsa underworld, everyone is connected. The consequences of Renaldo’s death reverberate through Gabriella’s life. As his mother seeks answers, she learns just how far she is willing to go to get revenge for her son’s murder. Meanwhile, unbeknownst to Gabriella, Cattle Cop Frankfort Corbin is on the case. After meeting Siriano in prison, Frank is tasked with uncovering what happened to Renaldo in order to destroy the organization he built. Frank quickly becomes ensnared in events that exceed his original mission. He meets the shrewd Kevin Alexander, who is on a collision course with fate and hellbent on destroying the Siriano Organization. Big cities can feel like small towns, and that is especially true for twins Jerilyn Kissee and Jeremy Hall. Jeremy can’t seem to escape the town he grew up in, finding himself back home after bad luck at the Vegas poker tables. Jerilyn can’t escape her dead-end job or her dead-beat husband Wayne. But when opportunity presents itself in the form of Deputy Tanner Brogdon, it does so with disastrous consequences that affect not only their lives, but Gabriella’s, Frank’s, and Kevin’s in this explosive conclusion to the Tulsa Underworld Trilogy.Ver livro
THE NIGHTMARE HAS JUST BEGUN. They thought the worst was behind them, but they were wrong. Very wrong. After surviving one brutal night against a creature they call the obayifo, Cent and Torres are unexpectedly reunited when both are recruited by the mysterious billionaire Harold Campbell to join his fight against the creatures that lurk in the shadows. For Cent, it’s an easy decision: Find and kill the obayifo and rid the world of their scourge. For Torres, it’s a little more complicated. There are forces turning her against people she trusts, with her future—and those of the people she loves—in the balance. From abandoned basements to dark sewers to secret complexes, Cent and Torres will be inducted into a world they didn’t even know existed until now. And it’s much, much more complicated and vastly more dangerous than they ever thought. After The Last Storm has receded, it’s time for The Gathering to begin …Ver livro