Jeffery Deaver

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Special agent Kathryn Dance and her partners at the California Bureau of Investigation hunt down escaped killer Daniel Pell, a self-styled Charles Manson. Pell is a master of control, who mesmerizes, seduces, and exploits people for his own murderous ends. Pell embarks on a mysterious and deadly quest once he's free.

"A businessman snatched from an Upper East Side street in broad daylight. A miniature hangman's noose left at the scene. A nine-year-old girl, the only witness to the crime. With a crime scene this puzzling, forensic expertise of the highest order is absolutely essential. Lincoln Rhyme and Amelia Sachs are called in to investigate. Soon the case takes a stranger turn: a recording surfaces of the victim being slowly hanged, his desperate gasps the backdrop to an eerie piece of music. The video is marked as the work of The Composer ... Despite their best efforts, the suspect gets away. So when a similar kidnapping occurs on a dusty road outside Naples, Italy, Rhyme and Sachs don't hesitate to rejoin the hunt. But the search is now a complex case of international cooperation--and not all those involved may be who they seem. Sachs and Rhyme find themselves playing a dangerous game, with lives all across the globe hanging in the balance"--

German-American Paul Schumann is a brilliant mobster hitman who gets caught and is offered a deal: hunt down and kill Reinhardt Ernst, the ruthless architect of Hitler's clandestine rearmament or face the electric chair. From a boarding house near the Tiergarten, a huge park in central Berlin also known as the Garden of Beasts, Schumann stalks Ernst while a Berlin police officer and the entire Third Reich apparatus search frantically for him.

Originaltitel: The Vanished ManOriginalverlag: Simon & Schuster 2003Aus dem Amerikanischen von Thomas HaufschildJeffery Deavers geniales Ermittlerpaar Lincoln Rhyme und Amelia Sachs lost seinen funften – und mit Abstand spannendsten – Fall: auf den Spuren eines Morders, dessen Metier das Unmogliche ist ...Qualvoll stirbt ein junges Madchen in einer New Yorker Musikschule. Der Tater flieht in einen fensterlosen Probenraum. Drinnen fallt ein Schuss, bevor die Polizei das Zimmer sturmen kann. Es ist leer… Fur Lincoln Rhyme, den gelahmten Ermittler, und seine ambitionierte Partnerin Amelia Sachs ist sofort klar: Es war nicht der letzte Mord dieses Taters. Zu demonstrativ und lustvoll missbraucht er die Tricks großer Magier wie Houdini oder wie David Copperfield, zu schlau sind seine Ablenkungsmanover. Und schon nach wenigen Stunden schlagt der Morder tatsachlich ein zweites Mal zu. Wieder liefert er einen beeindruckenden Beweis seiner Tauschungskunst und lasst die Ermittler ratlos zuruck: Was ist Trick, was ist Wirklichkeit? Die junge Magierin Kara wird als Beraterin hinzugezogen und klart Lincoln Rhyme uber die psychologischen Hintergrunde der Illusionswirkung und die Tricks der großen Konner auf: Rhyme und Sachs mussen zuerst den perfiden Plan hinter den vordergrundigen Effekten entschlusseln, um einen letzten grausigen Racheakt zu verhindern. Den akribisch geplanten Hohepunkt in der morderischen Glanzvorstellung eines psychopathischen Magiers..."Jeffery Deaver ist brillant!" Minette Walters"Perfekt recherchiert und spannend erzahlt. Dieser Thriller vereint alle Elemente hervorragender Spannungsliteratur - ein Volltreffer!" Booklist

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Mit der Ruhe in New Lebanon, Indiana, ist es vorbei, als zwei Studentinnen ermordet werden. Bei seinen Ermittlungen stoßt Detective Bill Corde zunachst auf die Finanzmisere des College-Direktors. Da kommt es in seinem eigenen Haus zu Ereignissen, die seine Familie in großte Angst versetzen. Bill befurchtet, dass der Tater ihn personlich in das Verbrechen verwickeln will. Als er sein privates Umfeld genauer unter die Lupe nimmt, wird er auf einen jungen Professor aufmerksam, der seiner Tochter Nachhilfestunden erteilt ...Der AutorJeffery Deaver gilt als einer der weltweit besten Autoren intelligenter psychologischer Thriller. Der fruhere Rechtsanwalt wurde durch seine Lincoln-Rhyme-Romane beruhmt. Seine Bucher haben ihm zahlreiche Auszeichnungen eingetragen. Er lebt in Virginia und Kalifornien.

n the follow-up to the nationally bestselling A Study in Sherlock, a stunning new volume of original stories from award-winning Sherlockians Laurie R. King and Leslie S. Klinger. The Sherlock Holmes stories by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle were recently voted as the top mystery series of all time, and they have enthralled generations of readers—and writers!

Now, Laurie R. King, author of the New York Times-bestselling Mary Russell series (in which Holmes plays a co-starring role), and Leslie S. Klinger, editor of the New Annotated Sherlock Holmes, have assembled a stellar group of contemporary authors from a variety of genres and asked them to create new stories inspired by that canon. Readers will find Holmes in times and places previously unimagined, as well as characters who have themselves been affected by the tales of Sherlock Holmes. The resulting volume is an absolute delight for Holmes fans both new and old, with contributions from Michael Connelly, Jeffery Deaver, Michael Dirda, Harlan Ellison, Denise Hamilton, Nancy Holder, John Lescroart, Sara Paretsky, Michael Sims, and more. The game is afoot—again!

Lincoln and Amelia are recruited to track down a cargo ship carrying two dozen illegal Chinese immigrants, as well as the notorious human smuggler and killer known as the Ghost. But when the capture goes disastrously wrong, Lincoln and Amelia find themselves in a race to stop the Ghost before he can track down and murder the two surviving families who have vanished deep into the labyrinthine world of New York City's Chinese community. Over the next forty-eight hours the Ghost ruthlessly hunts for the families while Rhyme, aided by a policeman from mainland China, struggles to find them before they die and Sachs pursues a very different kind of policework - forming a connection with one of the immigrants that may have consequences going to the core of her relationship with her partner and lover, Lincoln Rhyme.

Collects over thirty of the best entries in the Akashic noir series, including stories by Joyce Carol Oates, Michael Connelly, Lee Child, Jeffery Deaver, and T. Jefferson Parker.

Quadriplegic forensic criminologist Lincoln Rhyme and his partner, Amelia Sachs, engage in a two-day race against time when a twisted killer, exploiting the modern world's drive toward sustainable energy, uses an everyday energy source as a weapon.