Harpercollins The Perfect Crime Морено-Гарсиа Сильвия, Khan Ausma Zehanat, Khan Vaseem

Around the world in 22 murders… • Murder • Blackmail • Revenge • From Lagos to Mexico City, Australia to the Caribbean, Toronto to Los Angeles, Darjeeling to rural New Zealand, London to New York - twenty-two bestselling crime writers from diverse cultures come together from across the world in a razor sharp and deliciously sinister collection of crime stories • Featuring Oyinkan Braithwaite, Abir Mukherjee, S.A. Cosby, Silvia Moreno-Garcia, J.P. Pomare, Sheena Kamal, Vaseem Khan, Sulari Gentill, Nelson George, Rachel Howzell Hall, John Vercher, Sanjida Kay, Amer Anwar, Henry Chang, Nadine Matheson, Mike Phillips, Ausma Zehanat Khan, Felicia Yap, Thomas King, Imran Mahmood, David Heska Wanbli Weiden and Walter Mosley

Энтони и Кэрол неделя в чудесном греческом отеле помогла залатать трещины, которыми пошёл их брак. А Джессика впервые провела столько времени, ни разу не навестив могилу своего мужа. Но пошедший не по плану рейс может заставить их всех столкнуться лицом к лицу с проблемами, которых они так долго избегали • Книга на английском языке • For Anthony & Carole, a week in a lovely Greek hotel has helped them mend the cracks in their marriage. For widowed Jessica, it's the longest she's ever gone without visiting her husband's grave. However when the flight doesn't go according to plan, they are each forced to face up to the very things they have been avoiding for so long

Book two of Ausma Zehanat Khan’s powerful, unforgettable new series, The Khorasan Archives • Sides must be chosen • Truths must be told • Freedoms will be fought for • To battle the cruel and controlling patriarchal force named the Talisman, members of a resistance group, the Companions of Hira, risked their lives to procure the Bloodprint – a sacred text that holds the power to overthrow this terrifying regime. Though they harnessed the magic known as the Claim, their plans now lie in ashes and their number scattered – with the two women at the centre of the plot – Arian and Sinnia – left facing the most harrowing tortures • Yet hope flickers in the darkness • The Bloodprint survived, secreted to Ashfall, seat of the Black Khan. But the Khan’s court is built upon shifting layers of intrigue and lethal conspiracy, with enemies whose motives are steeped in the shadows

Third instalment in Ausma Zehanat Khan's powerful epic fantasy quartet: a series that lies somewhere between N. K. Jemisin and George R.R. Martin, in which a powerful band of women must use all the powers at their disposal to defeat a dark and oppressive, patriarchal regime • When speech isn’t free, whose word can you trust? • The Companions of Hira used their wits and magic to battle against the Talisman, an organization whose hyper conservative agenda limits free thinking and subjugates women • They were defeated. But Arian continues to lead a disparate group of Companions in pursuit of the mystical artifact that could end the Talisman’s rule: The Bloodprint. For the arcane tome slipped out of their reach once more in the heat of battle. Through all they have endured, Arian’s band of allies has always remained united in the face of their enemy

The author of the acclaimed mystery The Unquiet Dead delivers her first fantasy novel - the opening installment in a thrilling quartet - a tale of religion, oppression, and political intrigue that radiates with heroism, wonder, and hope • A dark power known as the Talisman has risen in the land. Born of ignorance and persecution, it is led by a man known only as the One-Eyed Preacher. A superstitious patriarchy, cruel and terrifying, the Talisman suppresses knowledge and subjugates women. And it is growing • But there are those who seek to stop the oppressive spread of the Talisman. A resistance formed of the Companions of Hira - a group of rebels versed in the power of ancient scripture, a magic known as the Claim - believe they have discovered the key to destroying the One-Eyed Preacher and his fervid followers: The Bloodprint

The award-winning author of Gods of Jade and Shadow (one of the 100 best fantasy novels of all time, TIME magazine) returns with a mesmerising feminist Gothic fantasy, in which a glamorous young socialite discovers the haunting secrets of a beautiful old mansion in 1950s Mexico • He is trying to poison me. You must come for me, Noemi. You have to save me • When glamorous socialite Noemi Taboada receives a frantic letter from her newlywed cousin begging to be rescued from a mysterious doom, it's clear something is desperately amiss. Catalina has always had a flair for the dramatic, but her claims that her husband is poisoning her and her visions of restless ghosts seem remarkable, even for her • Noemi's chic gowns and perfect lipstick are more suited to cocktail parties than amateur sleuthing, but she immediately heads to High Place, a remote mansion in the Mexican countryside, determined to discover what is so affecting her cousin

The Jazz Age is in full swing, but it's passing Casiopea Tun by. She's too busy scrubbing floors in her wealthy grandfather's house to do anything more than dream of a life far from her dusty, small town in southern Mexico. A life she could call her own • This dream is impossible, distant as the stars - until the day Casiopea opens a curious chest in her grandfather's room and accidentally frees an ancient Mayan god of death. He offers her a deal: if Casiopea helps him recover his throne from his treacherous brother, he will grant her whatever she desires. Success will make her every dream come true, but failure will see her lost, for ever • In the company of the strangely alluring god and armed only with her wits, Casiopea begins an adventure that will take her on a cross-country odyssey, from the jungles of Yucatan to the bright lights of Mexico City and deep into the darkness of Xibalba, the Mayan underworld

Carlota Moreau: growing up in a distant and luxuriant estate, safe from the conflict and strife of the Yucatan peninsula, she is the only daughter of an eccentric, and dangerous, genius. His experiments, a motley group of hybrid monstrosities, are blindly loyal to their creator • Into Carlota's strange but perfectly balanced world comes Eduardo Lizalde, the charming, careless son of Doctor Moreau's patrons. In the sweltering heat of the jungle, amidst her father's secrets and her own awakening feelings, Carlota will begin asking questions that could ignite a conflagration

Когда гламурная светская львица Ноэми Табоада получает отчаянное письмо от своей кузины-новобрачной, умоляющей спасти ее от таинственной гибели, становится ясно, что что-то отчаянно не так. У Каталины всегда была склонность к драматизму, но ее заявления о том, что муж отравляет ее, и ее видения беспокойных призраков кажутся примечательными даже для нее • Шикарные платья Ноэми и безупречная губная помада больше подходят для коктейльных вечеринок, чем для любительского сыска, но она немедленно отправляется в Хай-Плейс, отдаленный особняк в мексиканской сельской местности, полная решимости выяснить, что так сильно влияет на ее кузину • Жесткая и умная, она обладает неукротимой волей, и она ничего не боится: ни нового мужа своей двоюродной сестры, который одновременно и грозен, и соблазнителен; ни его отца, древнего патриарха, который, кажется, очарован Ноэми; и ни самого дома, который начинает вторгаться в дом Ноэми

Ноэми, молодая девушка из богатой мексиканской семьи, живет в мире модных нарядов и ярких вечеринок. И когда она получает письмо с мольбой о спасении от сестры, недавно вышедшей замуж, ей приходится оставить привычную жизнь и отправиться в таинственный особняк на вершине горы. Там, среди туманов, она сталкивается с гнетущей атмосферой разорившегося поместья, непониманием, отторжением, а также первобытным ужасом, секрет которого тщательно охраняют обитатели Дома-на-Горе

Вас ждет история о Владыках смерти, живущих глубоко в недрах земли. Она – о потерянном троне, о жажде приключений, о чудовищах и магии. Чтобы узнать ее, нам предстоит отправиться в царство теней Шибальбу. Мы спустимся во тьму, где обитают повелители смерти, это они насылают на людей болезни и несчастья • Но наш рассказ начнется в Срединном мире, в землях смертных, где произрастает кукуруза и светит солнце. Все начнется с женщины, потому что это ее история. А дальше… • Впрочем, пусть все будет по порядку

Мехико. Жаркие семидесятые. Звонок в дверь, и простая просьба соседки приглядеть за котом перевернула жизнь Майте с ног на голову: пропажа хозяйки кота, спецслужбы, киллеры, правительственные агенты, пропавшие фотографии и эксцентричный боец "соколов", установивший слежку за девушкой. Теперь ей предстоит распутать этот опасный клубок событий и узнать, чего же стоит правда об исчезновении соседки. И готова ли Майте оказаться под прицелом?