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Suzanne McLeod: The Cold Kiss of Death

Скачать книгу (размер 1 870 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 368) Аннотация: All Genny wants is to live the quiet life and to do her job at Spellcrackers.com but there's her tangled personal life to sort out first. She's being haunted by ghosts who want her help. Her witch neighbours want her evicted. Genny's sort-of-Ex — and now her new boss — can't decide whether he wants their relationship to be business or pleasure now he knows all her darkest secrets. And then…

Abercrombie Joe: Best Served Cold

Скачать книгу (размер 3 421 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 672) Аннотация: Mercenaries are a wonderful thing: they fight as you tell them, whom you tell them, and when you tell them, for nothing more precious or complicated than money. And Monzcarro Mercatto, and her brother (and lover) Benna Mercatto, are the two most successful, most popular, and most wealthy mercenaries in Styria... but wealthy, popular mercenaries are not such a good thing. In fact they're a…

Worden Blair: The English Civil Wars: 1640 — 1660

Скачать книгу (размер 1 054 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 208) Аннотация: The political upheaval of the mid-seventeenth century has no parallel in English history. Other events have changed the occupancy and the powers of the throne, but the conflict of 1640-60 was more dramatic: the monarchy and the House of Lords were abolished, to be replaced by a republic and military rule. In this wonderfully readable account, Blair Worden explores the events of this period and…

Chloe Neill: Some Girls Bite: A Chicagoland Vampires Novel

Скачать книгу (размер 1 870 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 368) Аннотация: Sure, the life of a graduate student wasn't exactly glamorous, but it was mine. I was doing fine until Chicago's vampires announced their existence to the world — and then a rogue vampire attacked me. But he only got a sip before he was scared away by another bloodsucker... one who decided the best way to save my life was to take it. Turns out my saviour was the master vampire of Cadogan House.…

Lynsay Sands: Tall, Dark and Hungry

Скачать книгу (размер 2 033 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 400) Аннотация: When book editor Kate C. Leever visits reclusive romance author Lucern Argeneau to try and persuade him to make more public appearances, she has no idea that he is a 612-year-old vampire. He agrees to her request, but isn't ready for what he has committed himself to — a romance book convention with some two thousand rabid female romance fans. SINGLE WHITE VAMPIRE is a hilarious romantic comedy…

Jeaniene Frost: Halfway to the Grave

Скачать книгу (размер 1 952 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 384) Аннотация: Half-vampire Catherine Crawfield is going after the undead with a vengeance, hoping that one of these deadbeats is her father — the guy responsible for ruining her mother's life. But when she's captured by Bones, a bounty hunter and a vampire, she finds herself forced into an unholy partnership. In exchange for his help in finding her father, and still astonished she hasn't ended up as his…

Preston Douglas: Cemetery Dance

Скачать книгу (размер 2 605 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 512) Аннотация: FBI Special Agent Aloysius Pendergast — recently returned to New York — and Lieutenant Vincent D'Agosta find themselves investigating the murder of a friend when reporter William Smithback and his wife Nora are brutally attacked in their apartment. The assailant is identified by eyewitnesses as their strange, sinister neighbour — a man who, by all accounts, died ten days earlier. Shunning the…

Charlaine Harris: All Together Dead: A True Blood Novel

Скачать книгу (размер 1 707 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 336) Аннотация: Sookie's beginning to get used to being surrounded by all varieties of undead, changeling, shapeshifting and other supernatural beings — but even she has her limits. She'd really like to take a while to get over being betrayed by Bill, her long-time vampire lover, and get used to her new relationship with the sexy shapeshifter Quinn — but instead, she finds herself attending the long-planned…

Stephen Coonts: The Assassin

Скачать книгу (размер 2 115 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 416) Аннотация: While on the trail of Al Qaeda lieutenant Abu Qasim, ex-burglar turned CIA operative Tommy Carmellini photographs an American mobster boarding a yacht in the harbour of the island of Capri. Tommy's boss, Jake Grafton, sends him to find the link, if there is one, between the mobster, Fioratti, and Al Qaeda. Meanwhile Fioratti is busy planning a terror-for-hire strike that will make him rich beyond…

David Marquand: Britain Since 1918: The Strange Career of British Democracy

Скачать книгу (размер 2 605 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 512) Аннотация: The history of democratic politics in Britain since the coming of universal male suffrage in 1918 is a dramatic one, crowded with events and colourful figures. As well as the great events of war and economic crises, and the quieter drama of constitutional change, this era has been studded with democratic protests of every sort. The story opens more than 350 years ago. The Levellers of the 17th…

Boris Akunin: The State Counsellor

Скачать книгу (размер 1 544 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 304) Аннотация: General Khrapov, newly appointed Governor-General of Siberia and soon-to-be Minister of the Interior, is murdered in his official saloon carriage on his way from St Petersburg to Moscow. The killer, disguised as Fandorin, leaves a knife thrust up to the hilt in his victim's chest and escapes through the window of the carriage. Can Fandorin escape suspicion? A battle of wills and ideals,…

Arturo Perez-Reverte: The Sun Over Breda

Скачать книгу (размер 1 462 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 288) Аннотация: Flanders, 1625. After his tussles with the Inquisition and the intrigue of the Spanish court, Captain Alatriste has returned to the mud and desperation of the long war in Flanders. This is Iñigo's first experience of war and the realities of hand to hand combat. It is on the battlefield that he will finally have the chance to become a man and prove his worth. The troops are weary and…

Andrew Pepper: Kill-devil and Water

Скачать книгу (размер 2 033 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 400) Аннотация: In London of 1840, the economy is sliding into recession; gangs of unemployed workers roam the streets; and a murderer prowls the capital's poor neighborhoods. Pyke, still grieving over the death of his wife and struggling to shoulder his responsibilities as a father, is in debtors' prison, having lost his home and reached the edge of bankruptcy. Fitzroy Tilling, now head of the new Metropolitan…

McMahon Katharine: Confinement

Скачать книгу (размер 2 115 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 416) Аннотация: 1849: Bess Hardemon arrives at the grimly Dickensian Priors Heath school, little knowing that she will one day end up as an inspiring and legendary headmistress — but at considerable personal cost. 1970: Sarah Beckett is delighted to gain a place at Priors Heath — as much for the pride of her parents as for herself — but will she fit in? The plight of a nineteenth century schoolteacher, trapped…

Robyn Sisman: A Hollywood Ending

Скачать книгу (размер 1 870 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 368) Аннотация: Paige Carson — starlet, diva, mess. The daughter of an 80s soap star and a rock god, it's no wonder Paige has no idea what 'normal' means. And Hollywood life isn't helping. She's sick of working with her latest co-star, a boorish Aussie heartthrob, sick of being told she's over-the-hill at 29, and sick of dates that are nothing more than PR stunts. So when she's offered a Shakespearean role on…

Kenneth Cameron: The Frightened Man

Скачать книгу (размер 1 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 320) Аннотация: Introducing an intriguing new hero in the world of crime fiction... American novelist Denton is an uncomfortable outsider in class-ridden turn-of-the-century England. But he is about to be plunged into the dark heart of a society where privilege and propriety hide unspeakable horrors. When a stranger turns up at his door declaring he has just seen Jack the Ripper, Denton dismisses his lurid…

Ian Rankin: A Cool Head

Скачать книгу (размер 646 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 128) Аннотация: My dad used to say to me, 'Try to keep a cool head and a warm heart'. At least I think it was my dad. I don't really remember him. Gravy worked in the graveyard — hence the name. He was having a normal day until his friend Benjy turned up in a car Gravy didn't recognise. Benjy had a bullet hole in his chest, but lived just long enough to ask Gravy to hide him and look after his gun. Gravy had…

George P. Pelecanos: The Way Home

Скачать книгу (размер 1 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 320) Аннотация: Hidden beneath the floorboards in a house he's remodeling, Christopher Flynn discovers something very tempting-and troubling. Summoning every bit of maturity and every lesson he's learned the hard way, Chris leaves what he found where he found it and tells his job partner to forget it, too. Knowing trouble when he sees it-and walking the other way-is a habit Chris is still learning. Chris's…

Kate Harrison: Old School Ties

Скачать книгу (размер 1 789 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 352) Аннотация: Your school days are supposed to be the best days of your life — and Tracey Mortimer has no argument with that. Sixteen years ago she was the most popular girl in school, ruled her own gang, and dated the cutest boy in her year. Now it's all rather different: she's 33, stuck in a dull marriage that's only tolerable because her husband is rarely at home. And although she dearly loves her two…

Coben Harlan: Gone For Good

Скачать книгу (размер 2 033 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 400) Аннотация: On October 17, eleven years ago, Julie Miller was found brutally strangled in the basement of her house in the township of Livingston, New Jersey. On that day, Will's brother, Ken Klein, became the subject of an international manhunt accused of the crime. He has not been seen since. Will has tried to get on with his life in the intervening years. He has a beautiful new girlfriend, Sheila, and a…