Jan Mellema Knihy

Niektoré tajomstvá majú radšej zostať hlboko skryté... Keď dostane detektív šéfinšpektor Erika Fosterová tip, že by kľúčový dôkaz vo veľkom drogovom prípade mohol byť ukrytý v zatopenom lome na okraji Londýna, nariadi jeho prehľadanie. Z hlbín však jej kolegovia vyzdvihnú nielen dôkazy k tomuto prípadu, ale aj kostru malého dieťaťa. Pozostatky sú rýchlo identifikované ako Jessica Collinsová. Sedem ročné dievča, ktorého zmiznutie zapĺňalo stránky novín pred dvadsiatimi šiestimi rokmi. Erika musí začať spájať čriepky z minulosti so súčasnosťou a vnárať sa stále hlbšie do rodinných vzťahov Collinsových aj do života vyšetrovateľky Amandy Bakerovej, ktorá si neprestala vyčítať, že zmiznutie dievčatka nedokázala vyriešiť. Erika skoro zistí, že toto vyšetrovanie bude určite jedno z najzložitejších a najnáročnejších v jej kariére. Niekto si totiž nepraje, aby bol prípad vyriešený. A urobí všetko pre to, aby Erikine pátranie zastavila...

* A Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, USA Today, and Publishers Weekly Bestseller * "Read the Orphan X series. You'll thank me later." --David Baldacci The New York Times bestselling Orphan X returns - just when Evan Smoak thinks he's done, his deadliest job yet pulls him back Into The Fire... Evan Smoak lives by his own code. Once he was known as Orphan X. Trained as an off-the-books government assassin and spoken about only in whispers, Evan Smoak was one of the most talented - and most feared - men in the Program. But he broke free and reinvented himself as The Nowhere Man, a figure shrouded in mystery, known for helping the truly desperate. If anyone is truly desperate, it's Max Merriweather. Max is at the end of his rope. His cousin has been brutally murdered, leaving Max an envelope that contains nothing but a mysterious key. However, someone really wants that key, badly enough that Max - and anyone he turns to - is in deadly danger. What seems like a simple job for The Nowhere Man turns out to be anything but. Behind every threat he takes out, a deadlier one emerges and Evan Smoak must put himself in greater danger than ever before as he heads once more Into The Fire.

Joe Enders is een doorgewinterde soldaat die geplaagd wordt door een verschrikkelijk schuldgevoel omdat hij de enige overlevende is van een bloedige confrontatie met de Jappen. Ben Yahzee, een sympathieke, trotse Navajo-indiaan, is codespreker, die als een van de weinigen de geheime militaire code beheerst, die is afgeleid van zijn moedertaal. De Navajo-code is gebaseerd op een van de grootste geheimen van de Tweede Wereldoorlog: in juli 2001 kreeg de chief van de Navajo-indianen uit handen van president George W. Bush een hoge onderscheiding voor de verdiensten van zijn volk in de Tweede Wereldoorlog.

Keď sa policajný detektív z Washingtonu, D. C. Ryan Kessler stane terčom Henryho Lovinga, okamžite sa aj s rodinou dostane pod vládnu ochranu. Loving je nemilosrdný nájomný zločinec, ktorého cieľom je na objednávku vytiahnuť informácie od obetí. Urobí čokoľvek, aby to dosiahol, neštíti sa únosu, mučenia ani zabíjania ich rodinných príslušníkov. Úlohou chrániť Kesslerovcov poveria agenta Corta. Je nekompromisný, absolútne oddaný tým, ktorí mu boli zverení, brilantný strategický hráč. Sám dobre vie, aký krutý vie byť tento páchateľ – pred šiestimi rokmi totiž zabil niekoho, kto mu bol veľmi blízky. V rodine narastá napätie a situácia vyvrcholí do smrteľného súboja medzi ochrancom a zločincom, v ktorom sa jeden snaží oklamať toho druhého. A keď sa Loving napriek všetkému úsiliu nebezpečne priblíži k svojej koristi, Corte sa musí rozhodnúť: ochráni svojich zverencov, alebo ich v mene osobnej pomsty nechá napospas vrahovi?

Microbiologist Colonel Jon Smith is sent with his fellow Covert-One operatives to discover why an American special forces team was savagely attacked and decimated by the normally peaceful residents of a farming village in northern Uganda.

Odd Thomas lives always between two worlds. He can see the lingering dead and knows that even in the chaos, there is order, purpose, and strange meaning that invites our understanding - but often thwarts it. Intuition has brought Odd Thomas to the quaint town of Magic Beach on the California coast. As he waits to learn why he has been drawn here, he finds work as cook and assistant to a once-famous film actor who, at eighty, has become an eccentric with as long a list of fears as he has stories about Hollywood's golden days. Odd is having dreams of a red tide, vague but worrisome. By day he senses a free-floating fear in the air of the town, as if unleashed by the crashing waves. But nothing Prepares him for the hard truth of what he will discover as he comes face to face with a form of evil that will test him as never before...

Ako policajt zlyhal. Teraz dostane šancu ako delikvent. Sex, drogy a Manchester – osudová trojica detektíva Aidana Waitsa. Po tom, čo sa prevalí jeho drogový priestupok, dostane na výber: buď definitívne skončí s policajnou kariérou a všade so sebou povlečie neslávnu minulosť, alebo sa pokúsi v utajení odhaliť najväčší manchesterský drogový gang a popritom dozrie na dcéru ministra spravodlivosti, ktorá sa v jeho prostredí ocitla. Nejde však len o drogy – všade naokolo miznú mladé dievčatá a objavujú sa mŕtvoly. Táto akcia je extrémne nebezpečná a Aidanovi začína dochádzať, čo všetko je v hre. Podarí sa mu vyloviť pravdu z temných vôd Manchesteru, keď sa v nich topí aj on sám? Aké tajomstvo vlastne skrýva?

No ordinary cop, he's never happier than when he's working undercover, consorting with criminals and fighting to bring them to justice. What they cannot know is that their enquiries will take them both into the heart of one of London's most notorious criminal gangs - and one of them into the rifle sights of the enemy.

Timothy Carrier, having a beer after work at his friend’s tavern, enjoys drawing eccentric customers into amusing conversations. But the jittery man who sits next to him tonight has mistaken Tim for someone very different—and passes to him a manila envelope full of cash. “Ten thousand now. You get the rest when she’s gone. ” The stranger walks out, leaving a photo of the pretty woman marked for death, and her address. But things are about to get worse. In minutes another stranger sits next to Tim. This one is a cold-blooded killer who believes Tim is the man who has hired him. Thinking fast, Tim says, “I’ve had a change of heart. You get ten thousand—for doing nothing. Call it a no-kill fee.” He keeps the photo and gives the money to the hired killer. And when Tim secretly follows the man out of the tavern, he gets a further shock: the hired killer is a cop. Suddenly, Tim Carrier, an ordinary guy, is at the center of a mystery of extraordinary proportions, the one man who can save an innocent life and stop a killer far more powerful than any cop…and as relentless as evil incarnate. But first Tim must discover within himself the capacity for selflessness, endurance, and courage that can turn even an ordinary man into a hero, inner resources that will transform his idea of who he is and what it takes to be The Good Guy. From the Hardcover edition.

After Detective John Calvino receives a signed confession to a shocking crime from 14-year-old Billy Lucas, he feels that somehow Billy has come home with him, to his family. Then another killing spree happens, just as and when John Calvino dreaded it would. Billy is safely locked away, but not the "ghost", if the ghost exists, that links these murders with past crimes, and with John Calvino. Anything could happen, and surely will-- again.

A fast-paced and emotionally devastating suspense novel from the bestselling author of Velocity,The Husband and The Good Guy

Ryan Perry owes his life to a heart transplant - but confronts an imminent and far darker death. In grave danger, alone with his beating heart and its secrets, can Ryan unlock the mystery of the enemy who threatens his very existence?

When Colorado carpenter Grady Adams spots two mysterious creatures in the woods near his house, he calls on his friend, veterinarian Cammy Rivers for advice. But like Grady, Cammy has never seen an animal resembling this beautiful species. But when the Department of Homeland Security puts a call out for Grady and Cammy because of these animals, the two risk everything to protect the innocent creatures.

Een Zuid-Afrikaanse forensisch psychologe krijgt naast haar bezigheden voor een documentaire over vrouwenhandel te maken met de moord op een aantal tienermeisjes in Kaapstad.

Twee mensen krijgen in de wildernis van Noord-Californië documenten in handen die het bewijs bevatten van misdadige bacteriologische experimenten.