quercus jul 2010 (8 Ergebnisse)

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Set in the world of day-time TV cook shows, a wonderfully funny black comedy about the real highs and lows of everyday life.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Private eye Spenser has never had any difficulty handling women. But when four stunningly beautiful trophy wives hire him to protect them against a blackmailer threatening to expose their infidelities, even he must admit that they look like trouble.Tracking down Gary Eisenhower, the blackmailer and serial adulterer, isn't too difficult - but almost in spite of himself Spenser finds that he quite likes the guy. Certainly the women, with their loose purse-strings and looser morals, and their loveless marriages to rich, powerful, corrupt men, are hard to feel sorry for.But a killing soon changes the complexion of the case, and draws Spenser into the world of Boston's moneyed aristocracy: a world of corruption, vice and murder. As the bodies start to pile up, Spenser must decide which of his friends he can trust.'One of the great series in the history of the American detective story' New York Times.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Laurie Graham's debut, set in the confines of 1962 before sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll all began - a hilarious yet tender portrait of a man butting at the walls of his existence.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'THE SENSE OF BEING INSIDE ONE OF THE GREAT SECRET SERVICES OF THE WORLD LEAPS FROM EVERY PAGE' Daily MailGripping spy fiction from the former Head of MI5. When MI5 officer Liz Carlyle arrives in Belfast, danger immediately follows - she quickly learns that the peace in the province is as precarious as everWho or what is The Fraternity MI5 officer Liz Carlisle suspects the group to be a front for renegade IRA men. Also it looks as though a plot is being hatched against the security forces.Liz and her colleague Dave Armstrong believe that a former French Intelligence officer is involved. But during their investigations, Dave goes missing. Liz fears the worst, especially when she discovers that the obvious suspects have all disappeared.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - THE SEQUEL TO THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER THE BROKEN SHORE, AND WINNER OF THE 2010 MILES FRANKLIN AWARD.------------------------------------------------------------------ -----------------\*WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION FROM VAL MCDERMID\*'This year's best thriller' Sunday Times'A thriller of dazzling richness' Guardian'Temple's award-winning The Broken Shore was good; this is better' Independent------------------------------------------------------------------------------ -----At the close of a long day, Inspector Stephen Villani stands in the bathroom of a luxury apartment high above the city. In the glass bath, a young woman lies dead.Villani's job as the head of the Victoria Police Homicide Squad is bathed in blood and sorrow. Incapable of constancy as a father and husband, damaged as a son, his life is his work. Now, over a few sweltering summer days, as fires burn across the state and his superiors and colleagues scheme and jostle, the girl's murder will collide with what seems on the surface to be another brutal gangland slaying and expose the darkness in the city's soul.Loved Truth and The Broken Shore, and want more Peter Temple Then check out the first of his Jack Irish thrillers, Bad Debts.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Adam Sabir has discovered the missing quatrains of Nostradamus, and the events they foretell are coming true. But there's one prophecy he can't fully decipher, and it warns of the imminent arrival of the Third Antichrist.Sabir's every move is the Corpus Maleficus, an ancient cabal devoted to serving the Antichrist. Disfigured, orphaned, groomed for cruelty and violence, they are prepared to do anything to stop him.As Sabir puzzles over the riddle, a descendant of the Mayans embarks on a dangerous journey. He must deliver a sacred codex to the Palace of the Masks. Only then can the secret of Nostradamus' prophecy be revealed.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'Carrion Comfort is one of the three greatest horror novels of the 20th century. Simple as that ' STEPHEN KINGCarrion Comfort penetrates the darkest recesses of the 20th century, as one man seeks to justify his belief that a secret society of powerful beings is behind many of the world's most horrific catastrophes. Ranking among the greatest reinventions of the vampire legend, this classic novel explores humanity's attraction to violence and what it means for our future.Readers love Dan Simmons' modern classic Carrion Comfort'Heart pounding' \*\*\*\*\*'Entertaining as hell' \*\*\*\*\*'Excellent horror from the master' \*\*\*\*\*'So many twists and turns' \*\*\*\*\*'Glorious' \*\*\*\*\*.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This tells the complete history of the world, based on the beliefs and writings of the secret societies. At the heart of the book is the belief that we can reach an altered state of consciousness previously achieved by Da Vinci, Washington and Newton.