Laura Grimaldi Knihy

Kriminální román vychází ze skutečné události vražd mileneckých párů ve Florencii.

Seit Jahren werden in Florenz Liebespaare auf grausame Weise ermordet. Als sich die Polizei bei der Witwe Matilde nach ihrem Sohn Enea erkundigt, nistet sich ein schrecklicher Verdacht in Matilde ein.

When Detective Lucas Davenport is called to the white-stuccoed house, he knows it's for no usual case. For one thing, the victim is Alie'e Maison: as models go, one of the biggest. For another, there are a few small complications. Such as the drugs in her body and the fact that one of Lucas's own men is a suspect. Such as the surprise they find when they search the house: a second body, stuffed in a closet. The whole case is going to be like this, Lucas knows - secrets piled upon secrets, the ground shifting constantly under his feet. But even he cannot suspect the earth tremors he is about to feel, when an old lover comes back into his life ... whose own secrets may be the most dangerous ones of all...

Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award. A compelling and complusively readable riff on the classic detective novel from America's most inventive novelist. Brooklyn's very own self-appointed Human Freakshow, Lionel Essrog is an orphan whose Tourettic impulses drive him to bark, count, and rip apart our language in startling and original ways. Together with three veterans of the St. Vincent's Home for Boys, he works for small-time mobster Frank Minna's limo service cum detective agency. Life without Frank Minna, the charismatic King of Brooklyn, would be unimaginable, so who cares if the tasks he sets them are, well, not exactly legal. But when Frank is fatally stabbed, one of Lionel's colleagues lands in jail, the other two vie for his position, and the victim's widow skips town. Lionel's world is suddenly topsy-turvy, and this outcast who has trouble even conversing attempts to untangle the threads of the case while trying to keep the words straight in his head. Motherless Brooklyn is a brilliantly original, captivating homage to the classic detective novel by one of the most acclaimed writers of his generation.

In the author's words, this novel is an attempt at a comic family epic of little England into which an explosion of ethnic colour is injected. It tells the story of three families, one Indian, one white, one mixed, in North London and Oxford from World War II to the present day.

At a grand Reykjavik hotel the doorman has been stabbed in the dingy basement room. As the manager tries to keep the murder under wraps, a glum detective takes up residence in his hotel. As Erlendur quietly surveys the cast of grotesques who populate the hotel, the web of malice, greed and corruption that lies beneath its surface reveals itself.

In New York City, 1871, where crime and vice flourish, corruption is king, wealth stands on the shoulders of unspeakable want, there are no limits to larceny. The disinherited son of a millionaire sees his dead father alive and sets off a train of mystery and revelation that takes the reader into the heart of evil.

Litva, 1941. Hannibal musí so svojou rodinou opustiť staré rodinné sídlo a ukryť sa pred hitlerovskými vojakmi v lese. Pri bombardovaní horárne, miesta, kde našli Lecterovci útočisko, však zomrú všetci dospelí. Nažive zostane len Hannibal a jeho sestrička Mischa, ktorých zajmú miestni banditi. Tí sa v horách nejaký čas ukrývajú spolu s deťmi: v drsných podmienkach trpia zimou a nedostatkom jedla. Hannibal prežije, no jeho sestra Mischa padne za obeť hladným banditom. Tu niekde sa začína odvíjať príbeh vraha s kanibalskými sklonmi... Po skončení vojny Hannibala nájde jeho strýko, slávny maliar, v sovietskom sirotinci. Vezme ho do Francúzska, kde chlapec žije s ním a jeho exotickou manželkou Lady Murasaki. Murasaki má na Hannibala dobrý vplyv, chlapec tak rozvinie svoje vlohy a stane sa najmladším človekom, ktorému sa kedy vo Francúzsku podarilo dostať sa na lekársku fakultu. Zázračné dieťa, ktoré krásne maľuje a obdivuje japonskú poéziu, však zo všetkého najviac túži po jednom. Po pomste.