Уильям Хоффман0.0 Set in Virginia in the 1980s, Tidewater Blood opens at the annual LeBlanc family celebration. Rich, pretentious, and proud, the LeBlancs operate a prosperous plantation and celebrate their heritage each year in grand old Southern fashion on the mansion's portico. But this year, the front of the mansion explodes and everyone on the portico is instantly killed. As the dust settles, all fingers point to embittered brother and ex-con Charles LeBlanc, who lives as a hermit outside town. When it seems he's going down on a murder rap, Charley flees to begin his own investigation. Charley must win the trust of one person after another--from his frat-boy lawyer to an old backwoods woman harboring a special hatred of the LeBlancs. Charley solves the crime moments before he faces imprisonment, but not before he learns long-hidden secrets about that illustrious LeBlanc blood. Crisp and cinematic, Tidewater Blood is a riveting and tightly constructed thriller.
"A first rate, page-turning thriller." --George Garrett
"Limpid and swift-moving, with a full complement of understated surprises: an exemplary presentation of the innocent man on the run for readers who want more texture then they can find in The Fugitive." --Kirkus Reviews
Кевин МакКолли0.0 A dark and serious Fargo-esque tale of murder in a small Midwest town, this remarkable, stunningly crafted novel marks the adult fiction debut of a critically acclaimed young writer.Long-term residents of Credibull, Minnesota, Clark and Maynard have been best friends for many, many years. Now well into their seventies, they plan to live out the rest of their lives in peace in their beloved hometown -- until fate steps in to reignite a scandal that has been buried in the town's lore for years.
In 1958, Credibull was stunned by the beating death of Albert Wilson. Although rumors of old grudges and drunken threats flew around town, the man suspected of Wilson's murder was never tried. Now the town is in a tailspin over the news that a famous true-crime writer will be visiting Credibull to research the murder -- and has vowed to make every effort to finally unmask the killer.
Ordinarily, this would be little more than gossip to the two old friends. Except Maynard happens to be the prime suspect in that long-ago murder. And unbeknownst to him, Clark holds the key to proving his innocence -- all a part of secrets he has promised never to relinquish.
"Praying to a Laughing God" is an engrossing, beautifully written novel that is at once the story of a friendship put to the ultimate test, a tale of old love lost and new love found, and a complex exploration of the fear of growing older, a dissection of familial relationships, and a lament for the death of small-town America.
Роберт Ноа0.0 The Marquis de Valfierno spent his life preparing to become the man who stole the Mona Lisa. We are introduced to him in Buenos Aires, where the criminal mastermind with exquisite taste in art and women has built a highly profitable business selling fake religious masterpieces to grieving widows. A botched love affair forces him to head for Mexico City, where he discovers new ventures and greater profits for his art. In Mexico, he begins to assemble the team that will move with him to Paris. He enlists such talents as those of Yves Chaudron, a master painter without a touch of creative instinct; young Miguel, a crippled street urchin; and Mme. Renard, a savvy woman of many faces. Valfierno will move his team to the scene of the crime, Paris. There he is tempted by nothing more than the imminent theft of the world's most celebrated painting. He could not have anticipated that this theft would be but the beginning
Доменик Стэнсберри0.0 Domenic Stansberry's award-winning novel tells the story of Niccolo Jones, a broken-down man plagued by his obsession with his brother Joe's ex-wife Marie. Set in the old Italian neighborhood of North Beach in San Francisco, the novel flashes back and forth between their childhood days in the 1950s and events thirty years later. The kids are adults now, and everything has changed.
Nick's story begins when Joe is murdered, igniting in Nick an unquechable desire for revenge. The crime also awakens Nick's memories of days gone by, particularily his own illicit feelings for Marie. But the price of passion is as costly now as it was for Nick thirty years ago; for The Last Days of Il Duce is as much about the secrets of the past as it is about the sins of the present.
Daniel Woodrell0.0 In the Ozarks, what you are is where you are born. If you're born in Venus Holler, you're not much. For Jamalee Merridew, her hair tomato red with rage and ambition, Venus Holler just won't cut it. Jamalee sees her brother Jason, blessed with drop-dead gorgeous looks and the local object of female obsession, as her ticket out of town. But Jason may just be gay, and in the hills and hollows of the Ozarks that is the most dangerous and courageous thing a man could be.
Enter Sammy Barlach, a loser ex-con passing through a tired nowhere on the way to a fresher nowhere. Jamalee thinks Sammy is just the kind of muscle she and Jason need.
