4th Estate The Marriage Plot Евгенидис Джеффри

The Coffin Dancer, America's most wanted hit man, is back. He's been hired by an airline owner who wants three witnesses taken care of before his trial, and has assassinated the first, a pilot, by blowing up an entire plane • Enter quadriplegic ex-cop Lincoln Rhyme, who can find enough forensic evidence to hang a man in the smallest debris, and his assistant Amelia Sachs. Their job is to keep the remaining two witnesses safe, and to find the Coffin Dancer before he finds them. Because when he finds them, he will kill them... and anyone else who tries to get in his way

У супружеской черты Лисбон пять дочерей: Тереза, Мэри, Бонни, Люкс и Сесилия. Соседи в них души не чают. Однако смерть самой младшей из сестер запускает вереницу событий, которые навсегда изменят жизни всех участников и наблюдателей. «Девственницы-самоубийцы» – это устрашающе ироничный и в то же время полный нежности роман Джеффри Евгенидиса, лауреата Пулитцеровской премии, воплощающий в себе образ молодого поколения, потерявшего невинность • Роман лег в основу одноименного фильма • Книга на немецком языке • Im Vorstadthaus der Familie Lisbon leben fünf schöne Töchter: die gescheite Therese, die pingelige Mary, die asketische Bonnie, die scharfe Lux und die blasse, lammfromme Cecilia. Als sich die jüngste von ihnen aus dem Fenster stürzt, beginnt das „Jahr der Selbstmorde“, das alle Beteiligten und Beobachter für immer verändern wird

Он наблюдает за тобой • Он знает тебя лучше, чем ты знаешь себя • И он хочет воспользоваться этим знанием, чтобы тщательно спланировать твою смерть • Но ты не единственная его жертва • От его взора не укрыться и твоему будущему убийце • Этот преступный гений замыслил идеальное преступление • "Разбитое окно" - восьмая часть из серии Джеффри Дивера про детектива на инвалидной коляске Линкольна Райма • Книга на английском языке • He is watching you • He knows you, better than you know yourself. And he is using his knowledge to plan your death • But you are not his only victim • He is also watching your killer. He is about to get away with the perfect murder

A killer flees the scene of a homicide at a prestigious Manhattan music school and locks himself in a classroom. Within minutes, the police have him surrounded. Then a scream rings out, followed by a gunshot. The police break down the door. The room is empty • Lincoln Rhyme and Amelia Sachs are brought in to help with the high-profile investigation. For the ambitious Sachs, solving the case could earn her a promotion. For the quadriplegic Rhyme, it means relying on his protege to ferret out a master illusionist they've dubbed The Conjurer, who baits them with gruesome murders that become more diabolical with each new crime • As the fatalities rise and the minutes tick down, Rhyme and Sachs must move beyond the smoke and mirrors to prevent a terrifying act of vengeance that could become the greatest vanishing act of all

Alma Classics edition of The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer contains 3,000 notes and 30 pages extra material • "And specially from every shires ende • Of Engelond to Caunterbury they wende, • The hooly blisful martir for to seke, • That hem hath holpen whan that they were seeke." • Assembling at the Tabard Inn in Southwark, a group of pilgrims begin their journey to Canterbury Cathedral. To entertain themselves on the long road, their host suggests that they regale each other with stories, with the teller of the best tale set to earn a free supper • The pilgrims correspond to all sections of medieval society, from the crusading knight to the drunken cook, and their tales span a range of genres, including the comic ribaldry and deception of 'The Miller's Tale' and the story of chivalry and courtly romance told by the Franklin

New York City is thrown into chaos by the assaults of the Bone Collector, a serial kidnapper and killer who taunts the police by giving them the chance to save his victims from death... if only they can solve the obscure clues he leaves behind before time runs out • The Bone Collector is striking terror amongst the residents of New York City. In desperation, the cops turn to Lincoln Rhyme, an ex-NYPD forensics expert left paralysed after an accident on the job. Rhyme reluctantly postpones his ambitions towards suicide and puts together a forensic investigation team, enlisting as his eyes and ears young police officer Amelia Sachs • Rhyme digs deep into the only world he has left - his astonishing mind - and slowly begins to narrow the noose around the Bone Collector

Lincoln and Amelia are recruited to track down a cargo ship carrying two dozen illegal Chinese immigrants, as well as the notorious human smuggler and killer known as the Ghost. But when the capture goes disastrously wrong, Lincoln and Amelia find themselves in a race to stop the Ghost before he can track down and murder the two surviving families who have vanished deep into the labyrinthine world of New York City's Chinese community • Over the next forty-eight hours the Ghost ruthlessly hunts for the families while Rhyme, aided by a policeman from mainland China, struggles to find them before they die and Sachs pursues a very different kind of policework - forming a connection with one of the immigrants that may have consequences going to the core of her relationship with her partner and lover, Lincoln Rhyme

Geneva Settle is a bright young high school student from Harlem writing a paper about one of her ancestors, a former slave called Charles Singleton. Geneva is also the target of a ruthless professional killer • Criminalist Lincoln Rhyme and his police officer partner Amelia Sachs are called into the case, working frantically to anticipate where the hired gun will strike next and how to stop him, all the while trying to get to the truth of Charles Singleton, and the reason that Geneva has been targeted • For Charles Singleton had a secret - a secret that may strike at the very heart of the United States constitution, and have disastrous consequences for human rights today. And Sachs is going to have to search a crime scene that's 140 years old before she can stop the killer

When a man is snatched from a New York street in broad daylight, the only clue is a miniature noose left on the pavement • By the time criminal forensic scientist Lincoln Rhyme is involved, a video of the missing man is already online, his dying breaths set to a grisly music by someone calling himself The Composer • Rhyme and fellow investigator Amelia Sachs must follow The Composer across the globe as he continues his horrifying creation, kidnapping further victims to add their last breaths to his piece • But with Rhyme and Sachs in a whole new world with its own rules, how can they possibly guess what danger they're in when the music finally stops?

With a will of steel, Florentyna Rosnovski is indeed Abel’s daughter • Inheriting all of her father’s drive but none of his wealth, she is in pursuit of an ambition that far exceeds either her father or his great rival William Kane – to be the first female president • Born into a life of luxury, Richard Kane is determined to carve his own path in the world whilst building a future with Florentyna, the woman he loves • With Florentyna’s ultimate goal only a heartbeat away, both are about to discover the shattering price of power as a titanic battle of betrayal and deception reaches out from the past – a blood feud between two generations that threatens to destroy everything they have fought to achieve

On November 4th 1605, a traitor was caught beneath the Houses of Parliament with a plot to kill the king. This is the extraordinary story of the Gunpowder Plot from its daring beginning to its grisly end, specially written for young readers who are growing in confidence. With colourful illustrations on every page, a timeline and list of key people

Работа под прикрытием • Королевская просьба • Гонка со временем • Америка, 1920-е. Сухой закон, платья до колен, шляпы-федоры, пистолеты-пулеметы…и интриги. Ирэн и Кай отправляются на драконьи состязания. В конфликт втянут молодой библиотекарь, и все это может плохо закончиться для таинственной Библиотеки. Баланс сил неравен; все может закончиться войной… • Ирэн и Кай пытаются заполучить редкую книгу. Чего они только не встретят на своем пути – гангстеров, шантаж, враждебные системы безопасности…И если все закончится плохо, то карьере Ирэн конец (и, по совместительству, ее жизни) • The Lost Plot – это четвертый роман Женевьевы Когман из цикла «Невидимая библиотека» • Книга на английском языке • The fourth title in Genevieve Cogman's witty and wonderful The Invisible Library series, The Lost Plot is an action-packed literary adventure