Sourcebooks nov 2011 (15 Ergebnisse)

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Taste the tradition--cook with heart and a dash of Irish magic.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Adventure, glamour, and mystery await in Cocaine Blues, a female detective novel set in dazzling 1920s Melbourne.When the Honourable Phryne Fisher tires of traipsing through London's dull elite society, she sets her sights on solving crime in Australia--and steps straight into a city simmering with secrets. No sooner has Phryne checked into the elegant Windsor Hotel than she's swept into a whirlwind of intrigue: poisoned wives, a cocaine smuggling operation, police corruption, and secret political plots.Phryne's daring investigation leads her from high society scandals to erotic encounters with the alluring Russian dancer, Sasha de Lisse. As tension rises like steam, Phryne races to protect herself and save other young women--before it's too late.Cocaine Blues is the book that launched the bestselling, award-winning Phryne Fisher Mysteries--now a global phenomenon and the inspiration behind the hit Netflix series Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries.'Phryne can not get enough of adventure and the reader can not get enough of Phryne.'--Deadly Pleasures.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Beatrice Bottomwell has NEVER (not once!) made a mistake. Meet Beatrice Bottomwell: a nine-year-old girl who has never (not once!) made a mistake. She never forgets her math homework, she never wears mismatched socks, and she ALWAYS wins the yearly talent show at school. In fact, Beatrice holds the record of perfection in her hometown, where she is known as The Girl Who Never Makes Mistakes. Life for Beatrice is sailing along pretty smoothly until she does the unthinkable she makes her first mistake. And in a very public way! 'The Girl Who Never Made Mistakes is a must read for any young (or old!) perfectionist. Beatrice Bottomwell is perfectly imperfect!'-Stephanie Oppenheim, Oppenheim Toy Portfolio 'Beatrice offers a lesson we could all benefit from: learn from your mistakes, let go, laugh, and enjoy the ride.'-JENNIFER FOSBERRY, New York Times bestselling author of My Name Is Not Isabella.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The past is never past on the mean streets of Phoenix, especially when the mercury hits a hundred and it's only April. Half a century after the unsolved murder of an FBI agent, the missing badge is found on the body of a dead transient. The case seems a perfect fit for David Mapstone, history professor turned Maricopa County deputy sheriff. That is, if he can get past a forced partnership with rival cold-case expert Sgt. Kate Vare and the FBI's strange stonewalling about the details of the agent's killing.To complicate matters, there are the crimes making history today, like the arrest of Russian mafia members in a multimillion-dollar fraud case. David's wife, Lindsey, star of the sheriff's Cybercrimes Bureau, was on the task force that busted the case wide open. But her triumph is short-lived when a hit in Scottsdale leaves three task-force members dead. Lindsey's life in danger, Sheriff Peralta stashes Lindsey and David in a safe house. That doesn't get the good 'History Shamus' off the hook, though, as Sheriff Peralta inexplicably demands that David solve the cold caseThe trail will take Mapstone to the most forlorn parts of Phoenix, as well as to San Francisco and picturesque southern Arizona, as he slowly uncovers the bloody secrets surrounding the mysterious FBI badge. He's got the brains and the leads. Now all he and Lindsey have to do is live long enough to bring justice to a fifty-year-old crime.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - It's the early 1980s. Even as President Suharto violently stifles dissent, the islands of Java and Bali are under the million-dollar development schemes of Western governments.Canadian veterinarian Abner Dueck wanted a mundane job. But when some cows die under mysterious circumstances, Dueck's life changes abruptly. Soon after, two of his friends are murdered.To unravel the mysterious deaths, Dueck must first understand the long shadow cast upon Indonesian life by the 1966 massacres; the complexities of their music; the demands and intrigues of love and conspiracy, death and mystery; and of course, the stories behind Indonesia's cultural heritage and personal identity.…

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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - As a howling blizzard blows down upon the sparsely-populated Benteen County seat of Buffalo Springs, Kansas, Sheriff English encounters a doll and a dead baby. Their bodies have been switched, but by whom And why The elderly coroner disclaims any knowledge, but seems uneasy when a swastika is revealed on the tiny corpse.Meanwhile, the sheriff's part-Cheyenne half-brother, 'Mad Dog' Maddox, has collected a naked body from the Sunshine Towers retirement home and is headed toward a treetop burial when he is diverted by the storm. In a makeshift mound nearby, Mad Dog's pet wolf-dog hybrid finds a child's skull, evidence of adult bones, and a fading ID for a living County Supervisor. Can the Hornbaker clan really be as gothic as it seems And what of the tiny woman in the red shoes back at the Towers who calls herself Dorothy.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A grizzled Lake Superior fisherman with a massive allergy to bees dies very early one morning alone on his boat. Was he stung to death John McIntire, retired from a career in military intelligence and striving to regain a place in his boyhood home after 30 years away, is serving as township constable. He questions the easy verdict. The town of St. Adele has little experience with violent death--or murder. Nor does McIntire, despite fighting in two world wars. Worse, all the suspects are friends and neighbors, men and women he grew up with 'talking Swede.' The dead man, last of a Norwegian family who came to raise apples in the struggling rural township sandwiched between the Huron Mountains of Michigan's Upper Peninsula and the southern shore of Lake Superior, had no real enemies despite his gruff temper. And he had little to leave aside from a heavily mortgaged boat. So, who wanted to kill him Saddened by violence striking Utopia, worried his British bride might cut and run, his task complicated by taciturn witnesses and six party telephone lines, the naturally humorous McIntire, while bringing a murderer to justice, struggles to evolve a new perspective on a rural community he has idealized for three decades.Rich in magnificent landscape, vivid characters stepping from a past both thoroughly Midwestern and multi-ethnic, and a secret-laden story, filled with laughter and warm insights, Past Imperfect offers a new voice of great promise reminiscent of the debuts of Steve Hamilton, A Cold Day in Paradise, and William Kent Krueger, Iron Lake.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'Ramsay demonstrates once again that he is a superb storyteller, adroitly mixing the spy and small-town mystery genres and shocking us with one walloping big surprise midway through the book.' --BooklistIt's midwinter and the Shenandoah Valley is poised on the brink of an unusually icy and snowy season. Alexei Kamarov's body is discovered in a forest within the Picketsville town limits. His driver's license identifies him as Randall Harris. The last Sheriff Ike Schwartz heard of Kamarov, he was reported missing--presumed dead in Russia--the victim of intelligence game-playing.Ike is not happy this piece of his past has resurfaced. Especially when Ike's former CIA colleague and friend Charlie Garland asks Ike to keep a lid on the investigation.Slowly, interagency rivalries emerge as local petty criminals vie with international assassins and plotters for attention. All the while, Buffalo Mountain looms in the background.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Desperate Jack Doyle accepts a sketchy job which leads to a deadly game of fixing horse races and murder--of the four-legged kind. One-time amateur boxer Jack Doyle, an irreverent and rebellious advertising account representative, goes to work one fine Chicago day and finds his desk--and his job--both gone. A two-time loser at the marriage game as well, Doyle, usually ultra-confident, fishes himself out of a bottle to take stock, realizing, 'with a thumping finality, that Life sure as hell did have his number and was crunching it'. At loose ends, Doyle accepts a most unusual offer from an acquaintance, Moe Kellman, 'furrier to the Mob', to fix a horse race. The context of making the deal, a Cubs game at storied Wrigley Field, sets the tone for the drama that follows. Thus begins a chain of events that will lead the FBI to Doyle's door where they 'co-opt' him into a quest after people who are maiming or killing thoroughbred horses for their insurance values. Their number one target is a loathsome media mogul who can't bear to lose at anything. Built upon recent factual events, spiced with satire and peppered throughout with engaging loonies, Blind Switch is a noteworthy first novel with a hero forced to ask in its ultimate line, 'Where have I gone right '.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Former Posadas County Sheriff Bill Gastner, now a New Mexico Livestock Inspector, is enjoying a day on Herb Torrance's ranch - soaking in the sun, counting a small herd of cattle, and thinking about meeting an old friend back in town for lunch. But suddenly a light breeze stirs the dust, a horse spooks, and Bill finds himself ferrying a broken cowpuncher in the back of his SUV, headed out to meet an ambulance.Moments later, Bill's day goes from bad to worse. He is summoned by undersheriff Estelle Reyes-Guzman to investigate an unattended death. Too impatient to wait for Bill, his friend George Payton decided to eat lunch on his own. A couple of bites later, he collapsed - dead of an apparent heart attack. But something isn't right.Then the small herd of cattle Bill had just counted is found wandering down a county highway. But there's no sign of cowpuncher Pat Gabaldon or his boss' $40,000 truck and livestock trailer. Forced into two tangled investigations, Bill faces one of the most complex cases in his 35-year career.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - On a blistering summer day, a bank robbery goes wrong, resulting in the deaths of all the hostages except Treva Williams. Pittsburgh psychologist and trauma expert Daniel Rinaldi is called in by the police to treat Treva. Soon an unforeseen series of events plunges the investigating officers, Sergeant Harry Polk, Detective Eleanor Lowrey, and Rinaldi into a vortex of mistaken identity, kidnapping, and surprising revelations about District Attorney Leland Sinclair's gubernatorial campaign. Is Sinclair somehow involved in the bank case Rinaldi's attention is diverted by the suicide of a young patient and his growing attraction to Eleanor, as the recently-divorced Harry Polk spirals into an alcohol-driven, self-destructive free-fall. Then sudden death threats against Sinclair fuel a new frenzy of accusations and political maneuvering, and Rinaldi begins to make connections. Soon, what he knows--or thinks he knows--will pull him toward a shocking and possibly lethal confrontation.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - After a second World Championship in four years, the Boston Red Sox have finally buried the Curse of the Bambino-- or have they Sox owner Louis Kenwood receives an extortion note signed 'Babe Ruth' claiming that the 2004 World Series was fixed--and demanding $50 million to keep the information from getting to the press and the Commissioner's office.If the allegation of a fix becomes public, Kenwood fears irreparable damage to the value of his franchise and to his legacy as Lucky Louie, a the man who finally brought a championship to Boston after 86 years. Thus, the Red Sox turn to private detective Sam Skarda to find out who's behind the extortion plot.Kenwood insists that his beautiful executive assistant Heather Canby accompany--and monitor--Sam on every step of his investigation. Unsure whom he can trust, Sam follows the clues to the Los Angeles underworld and then to the slums of Venezuela. Can he assemble all of the pieces to this puzzle before more lives are lost and scandal blasts the Red Sox Nation Green Monster is the second novel in the Sam Skarda series, following Amen Corner.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'In close-knit Posadas County, where everyone knows everyone's business, it turns out that some people can bury secrets, and some secrets are murderous.'--Kirkus ReviewsIt's Christmas in Posadas County. Undersheriff Estelle Reyes-Guzman is settling down to a quiet evening with her family, until her doctor husband gets a call from the retired chief-of-police: he's at a nearby motel, having pains. Then Estelle gets a call herself. She and ex-Sheriff Bill Gastner, who was visiting the Guzman home at the time, arrive at the motel parking lot. It appears that Eduardo had an exchange with two men and then collapsed, the men taking off in his car. An out-of-town couple, the woman on the verge of giving birth, were the only ones to witness the encounter, but something seems off in their story. This is the fourteenth in Havill's Posadas County mysteries.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'A well-crafted novel that will appeal to readers of mysteries, historical fiction, and genre westerns.'--BooklistThe railroad is coming to Leadville and its rich Rocky Mountain mines. Among those who will be on hand to celebrate the arrival of the Denver & Rio Grande is Ulysses S. Grant, 18th President of the United States and former commander of the Union armies.Like other residents in the Colorado boomtown this summer of 1880, Inez Stannert regards the news as mixed. With her business partnership in the Silver Queen Saloon shaky and the bonds of family slipping (her husband is still missing and her young son is still back East), Inez doesn't need the lawlessness of Leadville to turn, once again, into murder.But Inez isn't the only one with iron ties to the past. Some folks have wicked memories of the war, others have a stake in the competing railroad lines. And photographer Susan Carothers, Inez's friend, is caught in the deadly crossfire.Silver Rush Mysteries: Silver Lies (Book 1)Iron Ties (Book 2)Leaden Skies (Book 3)Mercury's Rise (Book 4)What Gold Buys (Book 5)A Dying Note (Book 6)Mortal Music (Book 7)Praise for the Silver Rush Mysteries: 'Plenty of convincing action bodes well for a long and successful series.'--Publishers Weekly STARRED review for Iron Ties'Meticulously researched and full of rich period details.her characters will stay will you long after you've finished the last page. Highly recommended.'--TASHA ALEXANDER, New York Times bestselling author for Mortal Music'One of the most authentic and evocative historical series around. Long live Inez!'--RHYS BOWEN, New York Times bestselling author for What Gold BuysWinner of the Colorado Book Award for Best Genre FictionArizona Book Award Honorable Mention for Best Mystery/Suspense Novel.…