In the 1930s Eliot Ness, the famous treasury agent who helped convict Al Capone, accepts a high-ranking public safety position in Cleveland, where the discovery of a dismembered torso soon plunges the city into a state of terror.
Civil War? Nulla in confronto. Kick-Ass? Un semplice riscaldamento. Cosa succederebbe se il più intelligente e forte supereroe al mondo fosse malvagio? Ecco a voi Nemesis!
“On his arm is Lady Pamela Sanderson, daughter of Baron Pembroke. They're on their way to a tony bash following a movie premiere, the latest James Bond.” Sherlock studied the sheikh's self-indulgent face, his dark eyes that saw nothing ...
... comet impacts while also triggering a sequence of deadly seismic events. Earthquakes. Eruptions. Tsunamis. The result has been an extinction-level event.” Town. Hall's. second-level. bay. window. shimmered,. became. a giant screen.
In utter disbelief, Miss Marple read the letter addressed to her from the recently deceased Mr. Rafiel—an acquaintance she had met briefly on her travels.
Luckily, they had a knife with them to cut the lifeboat free from its tether.” D.I. Callum Rutherford was quiet for a while, as he continued to look at the report she'd typed up.Trying to piece all the information together in a manner ...
Dad has moved out and Mom has checked out, leaving the door wide open for the beautiful, erratic Rachel to torment her "loser, loner" younger sister, Nadine.
"Detective Sandra Meinke does the real work off-hours.
Anthony was far from happy as Mr. Prendergast's secretary showed them into the conference room, and informed them that he would join them directly. Sheila had been the driving force, the one who had urged him on, the one who had ...
Anyone who felt like a rest could stay behind in their hotel , the Golden Boar , which had a very pleasant garden or could do a short excursion which would only take an hour , to a beauty spot nearby . She thought perhaps that she would ...
J. Davies, Athenian Propertied Families (Oxford, 1971), 260; Hatzfeld, Alcibiade, 23–25. 12. Plutarch, Life of Alcibiades, 8. This is another dubious anecdote, perhaps designed to show how Alcibiades' charm could excuse his antisocial ...
After Alexandria, the first book in this long-running series to hit the New York Times Bestseller list, Lindsey Davis brings her beloved characters and series back to Rome in a book that brings together a number of long-running plot threads ...
One of the Roman novels from the bestselling historical fiction Falco series.
Elliot Barrett's life is an enviable one.
George Macdonald , first stanza , ' A Lover's Thought of Love ' . " She smiled . “ Is there anything you don't know ? " “ I don't know who you are . ” He gave her a sober look . “ Why you came to me , your connection ...
This “mesmerizing” novel about a crime at an elite music school “calls to mind a David Lynch film” (The New York Times).
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Burton blew air through his teeth. “Lavelle turned that job into a joke." “It doesn't have to be. The right man, with ample authority, could restore credibility. You need someone with a higher profile.” He opened his briefcase and ...
When he is hired by the mayor of Cleveland to eliminate the city's crime and corruption, famed lawman Eliot Ness finds his new job threatened by the discovery of a series of dismembered corpses in a disreputable neighborhood.
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