Pretend You Don't See Her

By Mary Higgins Clark

Pretend you do not See Her is the tale of Lacey Farrell, a emerging big name on Manhattan's high-powered genuine property scene. Lacey turns into the witness to a homicide and hears the demise phrases of the sufferer, a girl who's confident that her attacker was once after a diary her daughter had saved up till the day she supposedly took her personal existence. Lacey provides the diary to the police -- yet now not sooner than she makes a replica for herself.

Obliged to renounce her relatives, her activity, her very identification, Lacey is positioned within the Witness safeguard software. She needs to imagine a brand new lifestyles, at the very least until eventually the killer are available and taken to trial...But she quickly realizes that her sanctuary isn't secure. Lacey is stuck in a race opposed to time as she attempts to discover what occurred sooner than she is killed herself...

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The Deep: A Novel

By Nick Cutter

From the acclaimed writer of The Troop—a ebook that's “utterly terrifying” (Clive Barker). “Fans of unflinching bleakness and all-out horror will love this novel….Each new surprise is freshly disturbing.” (Publishers Weekly, starred review)

A unusual plague referred to as the ‘Gets is decimating humanity on a world scale. It factors humans to forget—small issues initially, like the place they left their keys, then the not-so-small issues, like the way to force or the letters of the alphabet. Their our bodies overlook find out how to functionality involuntarily. there is not any cure.

yet some distance lower than the outside of the Pacific Ocean, a common healer hailed as “ambrosia” has been came across. in an effort to learn this phenomenon, a unique examine lab has been outfitted 8 miles lower than the sea’s floor. but if the station is going incommunicado, a courageous few descend in the course of the lightless fathoms in hopes of unraveling the mysteries lurking at these crushing depths…and might be to come across an evil blacker than something you'll most likely think.

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Déjà Vu: A Technothriller: The Saskia Brandt Series

By Ian Hocking

Winner of the pink Adept Award for technological know-how Fiction

Note: this is often the 2011 variation. An up to date variation from Unsung tales is accessible (2014).

It is 2023. Scientist David Proctor is operating for his lifestyles. On his path is Saskia Brandt, a detective with the eu FIB. She has questions. questions on a bomb that exploded again in 2003. yet anyone is searching her too. The clues are within the shattered stories of her earlier lifestyles.

Déjà Vu takes the reader on a startling trip via a potential destiny, even though electronic minds, and during the results of the alternatives we make. it's the debut novel through Ian Hocking.

'[Hocking's] layering of the narrative is considerate and how he makes occasions from assorted a long time replicate one another indicates quiet ability. it is a small-press book; as such, it most likely will not get the publicity it merits. greater publishers will want to take note.' -- Jon Courtenay Grimwood, writing within the dad or mum

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The Bone Orchard (Mike Bowditch, Book 5)

By Paul Doiron

Within the aftermath of a kin tragedy, Mike Bowditch has left the Maine Warden carrier and is operating as a fishing advisor within the North Woods. but if his mentor Sgt. Kathy Frost is pressured to kill a bothered conflict veteran in an obvious case of "suicide by way of cop," he starts having moment concepts approximately his determination.

Now Kathy unearths herself the objective of a central authority inquiry and outrage from the lifeless soldier's platoon associates. quickly she reveals herself within the attractions of a sniper, to boot. whilst the sergeant is shot outdoor her farmhouse, Mike joins the search to discover the mysterious guy dependable. to take action, the ex-warden needs to plunge into his friend's mystery past—even as a stunning lady from Mike's personal prior returns, throwing into jeopardy his tentative romance with natural world biologist Stacey Stevens.

As Kathy Frost lies near to dying and a deadly shooter stalks the blueberry barrens of critical Maine, Bowditch is pressured to confront the alternatives he has made and make certain, as soon as and for all, the type of guy he actually is, within the Bone Orchard by way of Paul Doiron

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Jack i Jill (Alex Cross, Book 3)

By James Patterson

James Patterson (ur. 22 marca 1947 w Newburgh w stanie Nowy Jork) - amerykański pisarz, autor thrillerów i powieści kryminalnych.

James Patterson należy do ścisłej czołówki najpopularniejszych autorów amerykańskich; obok książek Dana Browna, Johna Grishama i Stephena Kinga jego powieści najczęściej pojawiają się na światowych listach bestsellerów. Początkowo pracował w przedsiębiorstwie reklamowym. Sławę przyniósł mu wydany w 1993 roku mystery alongside got here the Spider zekranizowany jako W sieci pająka, z Morganem Freemanem w roli głównej. To także literacki debiut ulubionego bohatera Pattersona - Alexa Crossa, czarnoskórego policjanta i psychologa prowadzącego własną praktykę a wcześniej detektywa waszyngtońskiej policji, oraz agent FBI, który specjalizuje się w tropieniu seryjnych zabójców. W rolę Crossa Freeman wcielał się dwukrotnie, wcześniej także w filmie Kolekcjoner, który powstał na podstawie Kiss the ladies. Pisarski styl Pattersona wyróżnia szybkie pace narracji, punktowane bardzo krótkimi rozdziałami.

Niedługo po sukcesie książki W sieci pająka Patterson odszedł z firmy i poświęcił się wyłącznie karierze pisarskiej. W 2006 James Patterson sprzedał ponad 12 milionów książek w Ameryce Północnej. W sumie jego powieści zostały już wydane w nakładzie ponad 220 mln egzemplarzy na całym świecie. Zdobył nagrodę im. Edgara Elana Poe oraz inne prestiżowe wyróżnienia. Jego książki wielokrotnie pojawiały się na szczytach na listach bestsellerów w ny Times.

Patterson pisze książki również ze współautorami takimi jak Maxine Patero, z którą współtworzy serię książek Kobiecy klub zbrodni, czy Andrew Grossem i często powtarza, że współpraca z innymi przynosi nowe i interesujące pomysły do jego opowieści.

Ufundował nagrodę web page Turner Awards. Patterson przekazał ponad six hundred tys. dolarów na przedsiębiorstwa, szkoły i inne instytucje, które promują czytanie książek.

Druga seria jego książek, wspomniany Kobiecy Klub Zbrodni, doczekała się emisji w telewizji. Na kanwie tej serii powstał także cykl gier komputerowych, tzw. hidden gadgets (ukryte obiekty), wydanych m.in. przez studio "I- play/Oberon Media" z siedzibą w Nowym Jorku.

Patterson otrzymał stopień kawalera big apple College.

Miejsce urodzenia: Newburgh, Nowy Jork, united states, mieszka w Palm seashore, na Florydzie z żoną, Susan i synem, Jackiem.

Cykl z Aleksem Crossem

1 W sieci pająka / Pająk nadchodzi / Oto nadchodzi pająk (1992, alongside got here A Spider)

2 Całuj dziewczęta / Kolekcjoner (1994, Kiss the Girls)

3 Jack i Jill (1996, Jack & Jill)

4 Kot i Mysz / Gra w kotka i myszkę (1997, Cat and Mouse)

5 Łasica (1999, Pop is going the Weasel)

6 Róże są czerwone (2000, Roses are Red)

7 Fiołki są niebieskie (2001, Violets are Blue, luźno powiązane z poprzednią)

8 Cztery ślepe myszki (2002, 4 Blind Mice)

9 Wielki zły wilk (2003, the massive undesirable Wolf)

10 Na szlaku terroru (2004, London Bridges, luźno powiązane z poprzednią)

11 Mary, Mary (2005, Mary, Mary)

12 go (2006, Cross)

13 Podwójna gra (2007, Double Cross)

14 Tropiciel (2008, pass Country)

15 Proces Alexa Crossa (2009, Alex Cross's Trial) (wspólnie z Richard DiLallo)

16 Ja, Alex move (2009, I, Alex Cross)

17 W krzyżowym ogniu (2010, pass Fire)

18 Zabić Alexa Crossa (2011, Kill Alex move) (w Polsce nie wydana)

19 Uwolnić Alexa Crossa (Free Alex go, 2012) (w Polsce nie wydana)

20 Boże narodzenie Alexa Crossa (Merry Christmas, Alex pass, 2012) (w Polsce nie wydana)

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Polar Star

By Martin Cruz Smith

He made too many enemies. He misplaced his celebration club. as soon as Moscow’s best legal investigator, Arkady Renko now toils in obscurity on a Russian manufacturing facility send operating with American trawlers in the course of the Bering Sea. but if an adventurous girl team member is picked up lifeless with the day’s trap, Renko is ordered by means of his captain to enquire an coincidence that has the entire marks of homicide. Up opposed to the distinguished Soviet forms once again, Renko needs to back turn into the obsessed, committed cop he was once in Gorky Park and clear up a chilling secret fraught with foreign complications.

“Stunning.”
–The long island occasions e-book Review

“Impossible to place down . . . a publication of heart-stopping suspense and complicated plotting, but additionally a meticulously researched, bold literary paintings of significant distinction.”
–The Detroit News

“Martin Cruz Smith writes the main creative thrillers of an individual within the first rank of mystery writers.”
–The Washington publish publication World

“Gripping . . . absorbing.”
–The Philadelphia Inquirer

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Moonraker (James Bond 007)

By Ian Fleming

As the tremendous patriot and conflict veteran who’s bankrolling Britain’s top-secret Moonraker rocket application, Sir Hugo Drax may be above reproach. yet there’s extra to this enigmatic millionaire than he shall we on. while M suspects Drax of dishonest at playing cards in an unique gentleman’s membership, he sends Bond in to enquire. yet exposing the deception purely enrages Drax—and now 007 needs to outwit an offended guy with the facility to unfastened a nuclear warhead on London.

The mysterious loss of life of the pinnacle of defense at Drax’s missile base offers Bond the best chance to move undercover to determine the mystery time table of the meant British conflict hero. With assistance from one other agent, the lustrous Gala model, 007 learns the reality approximately Drax’s conflict scars, his wartime allegiances—and his murderous plans for the deployment of Moonraker.

The textual content during this version has been restored via the Fleming relatives corporation Ian Fleming courses, to mirror the paintings because it used to be initially published.

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Rogue Male (New York Review Books Classics)

By Geoffrey Household

1930-something: a certified hunter is passing via an unnamed significant eu kingdom that's within the thrall of a vicious dictator. The hunter wonders even if he can penetrate undetected into the dictator’s inner most compound. He does. He has the capability objective in his websites and is brooding about no matter if to tug the set off while safety catches up with him. Imprisoned, tortured, doomed to a painful loss of life, the hunter makes a unprecedented and harrowing break out, fleeing via enemy territory to the security of his local England. yet that protection is delusive: his pursuers are usually not diverted from their revenge via nationwide borders; the British govt can't safeguard him with out seeming to propose his deed. The hunter needs to flee society, and he is going literaly underground, like a fox to its earth. The hunter has develop into the hunted.

Geoffrey Household’s Rogue Male is a vintage mystery and a triumph of suspense. defined through loved ones as a “bastard offspring of Stevenson and Conrad,” the e-book isn't any much less impressive as an exploration of the entice of violence, the psychology of survivalism, and the decision of the wild.

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