William Olivier Desmond Poradie kníh (chronologicky)

One rainy morning Commissario Brunetti and Ispettore Vianello respond to a 911 call reporting a body floating near some steps on the Grand Canal. Reaching down to pull it out, Brunetti's wrist is caught by the silkiness of golden hair, and he sees a small foot - together he and Vianello lift a dead girl from the water. But, inconceivably, no one has reported a missing child, nor the theft of the gold jewellery that she carries. Brunetti is drawn into a search not only for the cause of her death but also for her identity, her family, and for the secrets that people will keep in order to protect their children - be they innocent or guilty. From the canals and palazzos of Venice to a Gypsy encampment on the mainland, Brunetti struggles with institutional prejudice and entrenched criminality to try to unravel the fate of the dead child.

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TWISTED is the second Petra Connor novel and a superb example of Jonathan Kellerman's mastery of the psychological thriller Detective Petra Connor is struggling with a baffling drive-past murder when Isaac Gomez, a young research prodigy, tells her he's found something she might want to see. His theory that there's a connection between six unsolved murders committed in the LAPD area over the past six years, all at around midnight on June 28, seems fanciful at first - but soon the links become clearer. Something evil has managed to conceal itself between the dry pages of the files: a series of killings so meticulously constructed that the mind behind them would have remained invisible without Isaac's sharp probing. And June 28 is just a month away - will Petra be able to stop the murderer from striking again?

From the acclaimed author of The Waters of Eternal Youth, Commissario Guido Brunetti dredges up dark secrets from Italy's anti-Semitic past in his captivating eleventh case. Mystery lovers everywhere are addicted to Donna Leon's ever-honorable Commissario Guido Brunetti and her portrayal of Venice's beautiful but sinister byways and canals. In Willful Behavior, Brunetti is approached for a favor by one of his wife's students. Intelligent and serious , Claudia Leonardo asks for his help in obtaining a pardon for a crime once committed by her now-dead grandfather. Brunetti thinks little of it-until Claudia is found dead. Soon, another corpse and an extraordinary art collection lead Brunetti to long-buried secrets of Nazi collaboration and the exploitation of Italian Jews-secrets few in Italy want revealed.

Meet Will Kelly. English teacher. Film fan. King of sandwich construction. Still in love with The One, desperately searching for An-Other One. In his decrepit flat, Will's lifeline is the telephone. There's Alice (who remembers his birthday), Simon (who doesn't), Martina (the one-night stand), Kate (the previous tenant of his rented Archway fleapit) and of course Aggi - the inimitable Aggi. His Legendary Girlfriend. Or is she? Two men, three women and a donkey called Sandy...basically it's your classic love hexagon.

Once upon a time, in the haunted city of Derry (site of Stephen King's IT and INSOMNIA), four young boys stood together and did a brave thing; something that changed them in ways they hardly understand. A quarter-century later, the boys are men who have gone their separate ways although they still get together once a year, to go hunting in the north woods of Maine. But this time a man comes stumbling into their camp, lost, disoriented and muttering about lights in the sky. Before long, these old friends will be plunged into the most remarkable events of their lives and a terrible struggle with a creature from another world. Their only chance of survival is locked in their past and in the boy they once rescued as a child.

Roused by a single drop of blood, Rosie Daniels wakes up to the chilling realization that her husband is going to kill her. And she takes flight. She begins to build a new life, but her husband is getting closer.

Betsy Tannenbaum, feminist defense attorney, is involved in the series of disappearances which are similar to those of 10 years ago, when the killer was caught-- or was he?

A newcomer opens a shop in Castle Rock. Bringing bargains as well as nightmares and disasters to the town.

Thad Beaumont čelí nočnej more v podobe Georgea Starka, ktorý sa oznamuje čudným zvukom — hlasom tisícov čvirikajúcich vrabcov. Thad, úspešný autor kriminálnych románov, písal pod pseudonymom George Stark, ktorý sa stal takmer samostatnou postavou, reprezentujúcou jeho „horšie ja“. Po prekonaní životnej krízy a šťastnom rodičovstve sa Thad rozhodne zbaviť Starka. Na pohrebe v Castle Rock však pozostalí oslavujú, že sa zbavili nepríjemného príbuzného, no Stark sa len tak ľahko nevzdáva. V Castle Rock je brutálne zavraždený vojnový invalid Homer Gamache a v jeho aute polícia nájde Thadove odtlačky. Našťastie má Thad alibi, no sériou ďalších vrážd v New Yorku a Washingtone sa jeho meno stále objavuje. Vyšetruje to šerif Pangborn, ktorý postupne stráca podozrenie voči Thadovi, no ocitá sa v chaose, ktorý nedokáže vysvetliť. George Stark, ako neľútostný zabijak, ničí všetkých, ktorí stoja medzi ním a Thadom. Thad mobilizuje všetky sily, aby ochránil rodinu a seba, zatiaľ čo sa nad jazerom Castle Lake objavujú sprievodcovia živých mŕtvol. Kto si prišiel po pomoc a koho si vyžiadali? Tento príbeh je hrôzostrašným odrazom zneužitia daru a pohľadu na temné hlbiny podvedomia.

Dva príbehy: 1.Langolieri /The Langoliers/ - poviedka, vychádzajúca z originálneho nápadu. Predstavte si, že letíte v lietadle, zaspíte a keď sa zobudíte, všetci cestujúci (okrem asi desiatich) sú preč. Zostali po nich len cennosti a zubné protézy pohádzané na zemi, v pilotnej kabínke nikto nie je a ešte taká drobnosť: stále letíte. Čo sa stalo? 2.Tajné okno, tajná záhrada /Secret Window,Secret Garden/- Úspešný spisovateľ trpí umeleckým blokom a keď mu na dvere zabúši šialenec z Mississippi, John Shooter, nastáva nová etapa v jeho živote. Tajomný cudzinec ho totiž obviní z najhoršieho zločinu na svete. Z umeleckej krádeže.

Ak si nespomenieš, neprežiješ. Ak si spomenieš, zomrieš. Derry nie je obyčajné malomesto. Pod jeho povrchom spí prastaré zlo. Vždy keď sa prebudí, na niekoľko rokov rozpúta v Derry a okolí smršť neopísateľných hrôz. Strašná sila, ktorú možno nazvať len To, ovláda obyvateľov, vraždí nevinné deti a zdá sa, že ju neuspokojí nič okrem najvyššej obete. Kto ju prinesie tentoraz? Skupinka priateľov, ktorí v Derry vyrástli, dnes žije roztrúsená vo všetkých kútoch sveta. Sú bohatí, úspešní aj slávni, ale nie sú šťastní. A najmä im chýba veľká časť spomienok na desivé udalosti z detstva. Kto im vymazal pamäť? Ak to chcú zistiť, musia sa opäť stretnúť s pradávnym zlom. Kedysi sa mu dokázali vzoprieť a prežiť. Ale dnes už nie sú deťmi a niečo podstatné, čo im kedysi pomohlo zahnať To, im chýba.