In his introduction to the The Best American Noir of the Century, James Ellroy writes, “noir is the most scrutinized offshoot of the hard-boiled school of fiction. It’s the long drop off the short pier and the wrong man and the wrong woman in perfect misalliance.
Los Angeles, 1950 Red crosscurrents: the Commie Scare and a string of brutal mutilation killings. Gangland intrigue and Hollywood sleaze. Three cops caught in a hellish web of ambition, perversion, and deceit. Danny Upshaw is a Sheriff's deputy stuck with a bunch of snuffs nobody cares about; they're his chance to make his name as a cop..
He will predict your life… and your death. Don’t ever cross his palm with silver. He will reveal your most shameful secrets. He will predict your death. He is hiding a secret. He is hiding a monster.
Detective Sergeant Lloyd Hopkins can’t stand music, or any loud sounds. He’s got a beautiful wife, but he can’t get enough of other women. And instead of bedtime stories, he regales his daughters with bloody crime stories.
Fritz Brown’s L.A.–and his life–are masses of contradictions, like stirring chorales sung for the dead. A less-than-spotless former cop with a drinking problem–a private eye-cum-repo man with a taste for great music–he has been known to wallow in the grime beneath the Hollywood glitter. But Fritz Brown’s life is about to change, thanks to the appearance of a racist psycho who flashes too much cash for a golf caddie and who walked away clean from a multiple murder rap.
Los Angeles, 1958. Killings, beatings, bribes, shakedowns--it's standard procedure for Lieutenant Dave Klein, LAPD. He's a slumlord, a bagman, an enforcer--a power in his own small corner of hell. Then the Feds announce a full-out investigation into local police corruption, and everything goes haywire.
John Grisham’s first work of nonfiction, an exploration of small town justice gone terribly awry, is his most extraordinary legal thriller yet. In the major league draft of 1971, the first player chosen from the State of Oklahoma was Ron Williamson.
The ancient Toltecs believed that life as we perceive it is a dream. We each live in our own personal dream, and all of our dreams come together to make the Dream of the Planet. Problems arise when we forget that the dream is just a dream and fall victim to believing that we have no control over it.
William Stoner is born at the end of the nineteenth century into a dirt-poor Missouri farming family. Sent to the state university to study agronomy, he instead falls in love with English literature and embraces a scholar’s life, so different from the hardscrabble existence he has known.
To the Ends of the Earth, William Golding’s classic sea trilogy, tells the extraordinary story of a warship’s troubled journey to Australia in the early 1800s.
2009 PEN Translation Prize Finalist The logic of capitalism, boom and bust, is unremitting and unforgiving. But what happens to human feeling in a completely commodified world? In The Post-Office Girl, Stefan Zweig, a deep analyst of the human passions, lays bare the private life of capitalism. Christine toils in a provincial post office in post–World War I Austria, a country gripped by unemployment. Out of the blue, a telegram arrives from Christine’s rich American aunt inviting her to a resort in the Swiss Alps. Christine is immediately swept up into a world of inconceivable wealth and unleashed desire. She feels herself utterly transformed: nothing is impossible. But then, abruptly, her aunt cuts her loose.
Впервые на русском – «Тринадцатая сказка» Дианы Сеттерфилд – признанный шедевр современной английской прозы, книга, открывшая для широкой публики жанр «неоготики» и заставившая англо-американских критиков заговорить о возвращении золотого века британского романа, овеянного именами Шарлотты Бронте и Дафны дю Морье. Дебютный роман скромной учительницы, права на который были куплены за небывалые для начинающего автора деньги (800 тысяч фунтов за британское издание, миллион долларов – за американское), обогнал по продажам бестселлеры последних лет, был моментально переведен на несколько десятков языков и удостоился от рецензентов почетного имени «новой „Джейн Эйр”».
Gök ile yer arasında köprü kuran asa misali, Bâtın ile Zâhir arasında gidip geliyor insan" "Hazır mısın?" "Hiçbir zaman hiçbir şeye hazır olmadım." "Korkuyor musun?" "Korkmadığım anım da olmadı." "Neden buradasın?" "Nerede olduğumu hiç bilmedim. Belki de olabileceğim başka bir yer yoktu." "Başlayalım mı?" "Her başlangıç bir son… Yeni bir sona başlayalım."
Savaşı,küçük bir çocuğun gözünden anlatan, umut dolu bir roman!
Margaret Mazzantini'den, masal gibi güçlü ve pırıltılı bir roman...
Aşkta kötü şans diye bir şey var mıdır? Ya da aşk şansa mı bağlıdır?
Джесс и Джейсон. Такие имена дала Рейчел «безупречным» супругам, за жизнью которых она день за днем наблюдает из окна электрички. У них, похоже, есть все, чего совсем недавно лишилась сама Рейчел, – любовь, счастье, благополучие…
Все было готово для празднования пятилетнего юбилея супружеской жизни, когда вдруг необъяснимо пропал один из виновников торжества. Остались следы борьбы в доме, кровь, которую явно пытались стереть, — и цепочка «ключей» в игре под названием «охота за сокровищами»; красивая, умная и невероятно изобретательная жена ежегодно устраивала ее для своего обожаемого мужа.
«Правда о деле Гарри Квеберта» — хитроумный механизм ловушек и обманных ходов, созданный самим дьяволом. Дьяволу 27 лет, и его зовут Жоэль Диккер, виртуоз фальшивых концовок, ас мистификации, чемпион крутых поворотов, мастер романа в романе. Подробнее на livelib.ru: https://www.livelib.ru/book/1000775458-pravda-o-dele-garri-kveberta-zhoel-dikker
Пуаро едет на шикарном "Восточном экспрессе" и как всегда оказывается втянут в головоломную историю. В купе первого класса утром обнаружен труп мужчины.
