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Gardern Of Beasts
Paul Schumann corrects God"s mistakes. His first hit was revenge for his father"s murder - but then he found he had a talent for it. Now, he"s been offered theultimate job. One final target, and he can retire. Only his client isn"t the mob. It"s the US government. And if he succeeds, he could change the course of history.Jeffery Deaver"s breathtaking new thriller adds an epic twist to his trademark pace and suspense. Schumann"s mission will take him to the Berlin of Hitler"s Olympics, where danger and betrayal lurk everywhere. It"s a cat-and-mouse chase, with Schumann both cat and mouse, a man who thinks he has nothing to lose .
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The Twelfth Card
Sixteen-year-old geneva settle is running from death. she's just a bright high school kid researching a paper on her ancestors,but someone out there sees her as a threat.someone will stop at nothing to prevent her digging up the past.someone on a mission to kill....
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The Vanished Man
Lincoln Rhyme and Amelia Sachs are brought in to help with the high-profile investigation. For the ambitious Sachs, solving the case could earn her a promotion. For the quadriplegic Rhyme, it means relying on his prot
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Twisted
In 'Beautiful' a former supermodel's stalker has followed her through retirement to her new small town home. The only thing that will end the nightmare is his death. Or her own. The award-winning 'Without Jonathan' introduces us to Marissa, about to go on the first date of her life since she was married, with a man she found through the Internet. As she wonders whether she will ever truly fall in love again, the man she is going to meet is killing a woman on the other side of town... <br>And in the brand new 'The Christmas Present' we discover a side of Lincoln Rhyme we've never met before. Instantly gripping and impossible to put down, this collection of short will take your breath away time and time again.
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Death Of A Blue Movie Star
Twenty-one-year-old Rune is an aspiring filmmaker, but so far her only break has been scoring a job as an underpaid production assistant in Manhattan. Still, she's always on the lookout for the perfect topic for her own film--and she thinks she's found it when she witnesses the bombing of a triple-X movie theater in Times Square. Rune's got a great hook for her documentary: She plans to film it through the eyes of Shelly Lowe, the porn star whose movie was playing at the theater when it exploded. But just hours after Rune films a poignant Shelly reflecting on her dreams of becoming a serious actress, a second bomb silences the beautiful film star forever. Was Shelly in the wrong place at the wrong time--or was she the bomber's target all along? Rune vows to find out the truth behind the death of this blue movie star. But as she struggles to finish shooting her film, Rune's labor of love may be her final masterpiece--as a shooting of a more lethal kind threatens to write an ending to this story that no one wants to see...
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The Bone Collector
New York City is thrown into chaos by the assaults of the Bone Collector, a serial kidnapper and killer who gives the police a chance to save his victims from death by leaving obscure clues. The cops go to Lincoln Rhyme, an ex-NYPD forensics expert left paralysed after an accident on the job. Rhyme reluctantly postpones his ambitions towards suicide and puts together a forensic investigation team, enlisting as his eyes and ears young police officer Amelia Sachs. Rhyme digs deep into the only world he has left - his astonishing mind - and slowly begins to narrow the noose around the Bone Collector. But the kidnapper is narrowing his own noose - around Lincoln Rhyme.
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Mistress of Justice
Taylor Lockwood spends her days working as a paralegal in one of New York's pre-eminent Wall Street law firms and her nights playing jazz piano anywhere she can. But the rhythm of her life is disrupted when attorney Mitchell Reece requests her help in locating a stolen document that could cost him not only the multimillion dollar case he's defending but his career as well. Eager to get closer to this handsome, brilliant and very private man, Taylor signs on...only to find that as she delves deeper and deeper into what goes on behind closed doors at Hubbard, White & Willis, she uncovers more than she wants to know - including a plenitude of secrets damaging enough to smash careers and dangerous enough to push someone to commit murder. Yet who is capable of going to that extreme? With her life on the line, Taylor is about to learn the lethal answer...
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The Empty Chair
Renowned criminalist Lincoln Rhyme faces his ultimate opponent: a kidnapper and murderer dubbed the Insect Boy. But Rhyme is in for a surprise when he learns that catching a criminal is one thing...and keeping him is another. Now Rhyme, in North Carolina to undergo risky spinal cord surgery, finds himself hunting a ruthless killer in the heart of A southern swampland -- and going head-to-head with his protégé, Amelia Sachs, in a rivalry that tests the limits of both their expertise and their love.
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Speaking In Tongues
Aaron Matthews is a man with a gift: he can talk anyone into doing almost anything. As a psychologist he used that talent to help people. Now he's using it against one man for revenge. With former trial lawyer Tate Collier as his target, the brilliant, ruthless Matthews knows the easiest way to destroy his adversary is to strike at the point of least resistance, which for Collier is his teenage daughter