Teenager Benedict Juliard has no other ambition than to ride in steeplechases as an amateur jockey. Having agreed not to do anything that could destroy his father’s growing public service and political career, Ben finds himself targeted in an attack mounted by his father’s enemies.

Meet John Milton

He considers himself an artisan. A craftsman. His trade is murder.

Milton is the man the government sends after you when everything else has failed. Ruthless. Brilliant. Anonymous. Lethal. You wouldn't pick him out of a crowd but you wouldn't want to be on his list. But now, after ten years, he's had enough — there's blood on his hands and he wants out. Trouble is, this job is not one you can just walk away from.

He goes on the run, seeking atonement for his sins by helping the people he meets along the way. But his past cannot be easily forgotten and before long it is Milton who is hunted, and not the hunter.

1000 Yards

This 17,000 word novella is an introduction to John Milton, the most dangerous assassin in the pay of Her Majesty's government.

Milton is sent into North Korea. With nothing but a sniper rifle, bad intentions and a very particular target, will Milton be able to take on the secret police of the most dangerous failed state on the planet?

Detective Lindsay Boxer's long-awaited wedding celebration becomes a distant memory when she is called to investigate a horrendous crime: a badly injured teenage girl is left for dead, and her newborn baby is nowhere to be found. Lindsay discovers that not only is there no trace of the criminals - but that the victim may be keeping secrets. 

At the same time, Assistant District Attorney Yuki Castellano is prosecuting the biggest case of her life - a woman who has been accused of murdering her husband in front of her two young children. Yuki's career rests on a guilty verdict, so when Lindsay finds evidence that could save the defendant, she is forced to choose. Should she trust her best friend or follow her instinct? 

Lindsay's every move is watched by her new boss, Lieutenant Jackson Brady, and when the pressure to find the baby starts interfering with her new marriage to Joe, she wonders if she'll ever be able to start a family of her own.

Величайшая мечта профессора истории музыки Даниэля Паниагуа — найти рукопись Десятой симфонии Людвига ван Бетховена. Впрочем, нет никакой уверенности в том, что это произведение вообще было написано. Неожиданно молодой человек оказывается втянутым в расследование жестокого убийства знаменитого английского музыковеда. Перед самой смертью тот исполнил на частном концерте в Мадриде первую часть Десятой симфонии, якобы воссозданную им по бетховенским черновикам и наброскам. Но Даниэль уверен, что речь идет о подлинном произведении гениального композитора…

IN NOVEMBER 22, 1963, THREE SHOTSRANG OUT IN DALLAS, PRESIDENTKENNEDY DIED, AND THE WORLD CHANGED.WHAT IF YOU COULD CHANGE IT BACK? In this brilliantly conceived tour de force, Stephen Kingwho has absorbed the social, political, and popular culture of his generation more imaginatively and thoroughly than any other writertakes readers on an incredible journey into the past and the possibility of altering it. It begins with Jake Epping, a thirty-five-year-old English teacher in Lisbon Falls, Maine, who makes extra money teaching GED classes. He asks his students to write about an event that changed their lives, and one essay blows him awaya gruesome, harrowing story about the night more than fifty years ago when Harry Dunning's father came home and killed his mother, his sister, and his brother with a sledgehammer. Reading the essay is a watershed moment for Jake, his lifelike Harry's, like America's in 1963turning on a dime. Not much later his friend Al, who owns the local diner, divulges a secret: his storeroom is a portal to the past, a particular day in 1958. And Al enlists Jake to take over the mission that has become his obsessionto prevent the Kennedy assassination. So begins Jake's new life as George Amberson, in a different world of Ike and JFK and Elvis, of big American cars and sock hops and cigarette smoke everywhere. From the dank little city of Derry, Maine (where there's Dunning business to conduct), to the warmhearted small town of Jodie, Texas, where Jake falls dangerously in love, every turn is leading eventually, of course, to a troubled loner named Lee Harvey Oswald and to Dallas, where the past becomes heart-stoppingly suspenseful, and where history might not be history anymore. Time-travel has never been so believable. Or so terrifying.

From the co-author of the two-million copy mega-bestseller The Rule of Four comes a riveting thriller with a brilliant premise based on the 2012 apocalypse phenomenon—perfect for readers of Steve Berry, Preston and Child, and Dan Brown.

For decades, December 21, 2012, has been a touchstone for doomsayers worldwide. It is the date, they claim, when the ancient Maya calendar predicts the world will end.

In Los Angeles, two weeks before, all is calm. Dr. Gabriel Stanton takes his usual morning bike ride, drops off the dog with his ex-wife, and heads to the lab where he studies incurable prion diseases for the CDC. His first phone call is from a hospital resident who has an urgent case she thinks he needs to see. Meanwhile, Chel Manu, a Guatemalan American researcher at the Getty Museum, is interrupted by a desperate, unwelcome visitor from the black market antiquities trade who thrusts a duffel bag into her hands.

By the end of the day, Stanton, the foremost expert on some of the rarest infections in the world, is grappling with a patient whose every symptom confounds and terrifies him. And Chel, the brightest young star in the field of Maya studies, has possession of an illegal artifact that has miraculously survived the centuries intact: a priceless codex from a lost city of her ancestors. This extraordinary record, written in secret by a royal scribe, seems to hold the answer to her life’s work and to one of history’s great riddles: why the Maya kingdoms vanished overnight. Suddenly it seems that our own civilization might suffer this same fate.

With only days remaining until December 21, 2012, Stanton and Chel must join forces before time runs out.

In 1971, the state of Minnesota was rocked by the 'Butcher Boy' incident, as coverage of a family brutally murdered by one of their own swept across newspapers and television screens nationwide.

Now, in present-day New Orleans, Polly Deschamps finds herself at yet another lonely crossroads in her life. No stranger to tragedy, Polly was a runaway at the age of fifteen, escaping a nightmarish Mississippi childhood.

Lonely, that is, until she encounters architect Marshall Marchand. Polly is immediately smitten. She finds him attractive, charming, and intelligent. Marshall, a lifelong bachelor, spends most of his time with his brother Danny. When Polly's two young daughters from her previous marriage are likewise taken with Marshall, she marries him. However, as Polly begins to settle into her new life, she becomes uneasy about her husband's increasing dark moods, fearing that Danny may be influencing Marshall in ways she cannot understand.

But what of the ominous prediction by a New Orleans tarot card reader, who proclaims that Polly will murder her husband? What, if any, is the Marchands' connection to the infamous 'Butcher Boy' multiple homicide? And could Marshall and his eccentric brother be keeping a dark secret from Polly, one that will shatter the happiness she has forever prayed for?

Шестнадцатилетнюю Наташу нашли морозным утром в реке. К счастью, девушку удалось спасти. Она не помнит, что произошло в тот день, и ей кажется странным поведение друзей: они что-то скрывают. Сейчас главный вопрос для Наташи – как она оказалась ночью в реке и как с этим связаны ее лучшие подруги, Хейли и Дженни. Кто и почему хотел ее убить? А может, к глупому поступку подтолкнуло собственное безумие?…

A new terror is sweeping the streets of San Francisco. And the killers look a lot like cops ...

As Detective Lindsay Boxer investigates whether the perpetrators are brilliant impostors or police officers gone rogue, she receives a chilling warning to back off.

On the other side of the city, an innocent woman is murdered in broad daylight in front of dozens of witnesses. But there are no clues and no apparent motive.

With killers in disguise, a maniac murderer on the loose, and danger getting ever closer to Lindsay’s door, could this be one case too many for the Women’s Murder Club?

Henry Steadman is a successful surgeon with a thriving cosmetic practice in South Florida. He's divorced, but on good terms with his ex-wife and remains very active in his daughter's life. But you never know what's just around the corner. An out-of-town traffic stop goes violently wrong as the cop who was about to arrest Henry is shot repeatedly, and the killer escapes the scene. Henry is shell-shocked. To all the witness's eyes, he had the perfect motive to murder the cop.He seeks help from his only friend in the area, but what he finds there seals his fate. His friend has been butchered and Henry now knows someone is framing him for a double murder. A state-wide man-hunt is ordered. On the run, trying to avoid dead-ends, only one person believes Henry: sympathetic state-trooper Carrie, who has seen her fair share of tragedy.As Henry frantically figures out who would want to frame him, Carrie tries to keep the faith as more incriminating evidence against Henry surfaces. She has to lie to her own police force, praying that she has made the right choice. The trail of set-ups leads them to another father on a twisted path to revenge – and Henry must face up to just what it is he's been a part of.

Nochebuena de 1968, una prostituta se tira del campanario de la catedral de Murcia y evapora la tranquilidad etílica en la que vivía el policía alcohólico Julio Alsina. Por alguna extraña razón, el agente decide ir hasta el final de un caso en el que a nadie le interesa la verdad…

Este es punto de partida de 1969 la nueva y excelente novela (quizá su mejor obra) de Jerónimo Tristante. Este autor, habitual de la novela de género negro con su serie de Víctor Ros, ha logrado crear una novela original y clásica a la vez con un resultado alentador, propio de un buen artesano del género.

La nueva novela de este autor murciano consigue con gracia acoplar una, en principio, clásica trama del hard boiled americano en la Murcia de los últimos coletazos del franquismo, haciendo que los elementos de una se adapten con una facilidad pasmosa a la ambientación de la época. La trama ágil, llena de giros, incluso buenos momentos de acción nos adentra en las luchas intestinas del régimen, los cambios sociales y los adelantos técnicos (como la irrupción de la televisión en los hogares españoles), la Guerra Fría…

Los personajes principales están bien tratados y recreados con mimo y detalle, y junto con la historia muestran, eso sí, con el habitual artificio del thriller, el choque de una sociedad anclada en el pasado con la modernidad que se adentra irreversiblemente en ella.

Poco se puede decir de la originalidad y lo bien elegidos que están los elementos del suspense de la obra sin destriparla, por lo que me abstendré. Lo que sí haré, es recomendar esta novela original, bien construida y rematadamente entretenida que es la enésima muestra del excelente momento de la novela de género negro y thriller en España.

This is the first part of the “Red Riding Quartet”. It”s winter, 1974, and Ed Dunford’s the crime correspondent of the “Evening Post”. He didn’t know that this Christmas was going to be a season in hell. A dead little girl with a swan’s wings stitched to her back.

Один из ведущих мастеров британского нуара Дэвид Пис признает, что его интерес к криминальной беллетристике был вызван зловещими событиями, происходившими в его родном Йоркшире — с 1975 до 1981 г. местное население жило в страхе перед неуловимым серийным убийцей — Йоркширским Потрошителем. Именно эти события послужили поводом для создания тетралогии «Йоркширский квартет», или «Красный райдинг» (райдинг — единица административно-территориального деления графства Йоркшир), принесшей Пису всемирную славу.

«1974» — первый том тетралогии «Йоркширский квартет».

1974 год. Ирландская республиканская армия совершает серию взрывов в Лондоне. Иэн Болл предпринимает неудачную попытку похищения принцессы Анны. Ультраправые из «Национального фронта» проходят маршем через Уэст-Энд. В моде песни группы «Бэй Сити Роллерз». На экраны выходят девятый фильм бондианы «Человек с золотым пистолетом» с Роджером Муром и «Убийство в Восточном экспрессе» по роману Агаты Кристи.

Графство Йоркшир, Англия. Корреспондент криминальной хроники газеты «Йоркшир пост» Эдвард Данфорд получает задание написать о расследовании таинственного исчезновения десятилетней девочки. Когда ее находят зверски убитой, Данфорд предпринимает собственное расследование зловещих преступлений, произошедших в Йоркшире. Чем больше вопросов он задает, тем глубже погружается в кошмарные тайны человеческих извращений и пороков, которые простираются до высших эшелонов власти и уходят в самое «сердце тьмы» английской глубинки.

“Peace’s policemen rape prostitutes they are meant to be protecting, torture suspects they know cannot be guilty and reap the profits of organized vice. Peace’s powerful novel exposes a side of life which most of us would prefer to ignore.” – Daily Mail

“A writer of immense talent and power… If northern noir is the crime fashion of the moment, Peace is its most brilliant designer.” – The Times (London)

“Peace has found his own voice-full of dazzling, intense poetry and visceral violence.” – Uncut

“With a human landscape that is violent and unrelentingly bleak, Peace’s fiction is two or three shades the other side of noir.” – New Statesman

“Nineteen Seventy-Seven smacks of the stinking corruption of a brutal police force and a formidable sense of time and place.”

Second in the "Red Riding Quartet", this tale is set in Jubilee year. Its heroes, the half-decent copper Bof Fraser and the burnt-out hack Jack Whitehead are the only two who suspect that there is more than one killer at large among the Chapeltown whores.

1977 год. Год «двух семерок». Британия готовится к серебряному юбилею – 25-летию коронации Елизаветы II. В моде панк-рок – «Клэш» и «Секс Пистолз». Авиакомпания «Бритиш Эруэйз» совершает регулярные полеты Лондон-Нью-Йорк на сверхзвуковых «Конкордах». Опубликован роман Джона Ле Каре «Почетный школьник». Йоркширский Потрошитель собирает кровавую жатву.

В графстве Йоркшир убивают проституток. Сержант полиции Боб Фрейзер и журналист Джек Уайтхед пытаются во что бы то ни стало найти и остановить серийного убийцу. Их связывает одно: и полицейский и журналист влюблены в представительниц древнейшей профессии из йоркширского Чапелтауна. По мере того как убийства множатся, становится очевидным: Фрейзер и Уайтхед – единственные, кто подозревает, что чапелтаунский убийца действует не и одиночку.

“David Peace is the future of crime fiction… A fantastic talent.” – Ian Rankin

“[David Peace is] transforming the genre with passion and style.” – George Pelecanos

“Peace has single-handedly established the genre of Yorkshire Noir, and mightily satisfying it is.” – Yorkshire Post

“Peace is a manic James Joyce of the crime novel… invoking the horror of grim lives, grim crimes, and grim times.” – Sleazenation

“A tour de force of crime fiction which confirms David Peace’s reputation as one of the most important names in contemporary crime literature.” – Crime Time

“A compelling and devastating body of work that pushes Peace to the forefront of British writing.” – Time Out

“[Peace] exposes a side of life which most of us would prefer to ignore.” – Daily Mail

“A writer of immense talent and power… If northern noir is the crime fashion of the moment, Peace is its most brilliant designer.” – The Times (London)

“Peace has found his own voice-full of dazzling, intense poetry and visceral violence.” – Uncut

Third in the "Red Riding Quartet", this tale is set in 1980, when the Yorkshire Ripper murders his 13th victim. Assistant Chief Constable Hunter is drawn into a world of corruption and sleaze. When his house is burned down and his wife threatened, his quest becomes personal.

“Peace is a manic James Joyce of the crime novel… invoking the horror of grim lives, grim crimes, and grim times.” – Sleazenation

“[Peace] exposes a side of life which most of us would prefer to ignore.” – Daily Mail

“David Peace is the future of crime fiction… A fantastic talent.” – Ian Rankin

“British crime fiction’s most exciting new voice in decades.” – GQ

“[David Peace is] transforming the genre with passion and style.” – George Pelecanos

“Peace has single-handedly established the genre of Yorkshire Noir, and mightily satisfying it is.” – Yorkshire Post

“A compelling and devastating body of work that pushes Peace to the forefront of British writing.” – Time Out London

“A writer of immense talent and power… If northern noir is the crime fashion of the moment, Peace is its most brilliant designer.” – The Times (London)

“Peace has found his own voice-full of dazzling, intense poetry and visceral violence.” – Uncut

“A tour de force of crime fiction which confirms David Peace’s reputation as one of the most important names in contemporary crime literature.” – Crime Time

The intertwining storylines see the "Red Riding Quartet's" central themes of corruption and the perversion of justice come to a head as BJ the rent boy, lawyer Big John Piggott, and cop Maurice Oldfield, find themselves on a collision course that can only end in terrible vengeance.