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S. J. Rozan

    Out For Blood
    Śmierć detektywa
    Winter and Night
    A Bill Smith-Lydia Chin Mystery: Concourse
    Reflecting the Sky
    Trail of Blood
    • Il manoscritto di Chopin

      • 235 stron
      • 9 godzin czytania

      Harold Middleton, un ex investigatore di crimini di guerra, entra in possesso di una partitura di Chopin. Ciò che non sa, però, è che tra quelle note scritte a mano si nasconde un segreto che potrebbe minacciare la vita di milioni di americani. Middleton viaggia dalla Polonia agli Stati Uniti per sciogliere il mistero del manoscritto, viene accusato di omicidio, inseguito dai federali e si trasforma ben presto nell'obiettivo di un temibile assassino. Ma la minaccia più letale proviene dal suo passato: un uomo ritorna nella sua vita, come un'ombra. Un uomo che tutti chiamano Faust. Un libro in cui i più grandi autori di thriller si alternano in un turbine di azione e suspense, ognuno firmando un diverso capitolo.

      Il manoscritto di Chopin2015
      3,5
    • Out For Blood

      • 368 stron
      • 13 godzin czytania

      'In twelve hours Lydia Chin will be dead...'The phone call comes in the early hours. If Bill wants his partner back he'll have to play the kidnapper's sadistic game to find her - and find her fast - before the psycho makes good his promise to kill her...

      Out For Blood2011
      3,2
    • Watchlist

      • 404 strony
      • 15 godzin czytania

      Watchlist is a unique collaboration by twenty-one of the world’s greatest thriller writers including Lee Child, Joseph Finder, David Hewson, S.J. Rozan, Lisa Scottoline, and Jeffery Deaver, who conceived the characters and set the plot in motion. In turn, the other authors each wrote a chapter and Deaver then completed what he started, bringing each novel to its startling conclusion.The Chopin Manuscript Former war crimes investigator Harold Middleton possesses a previously unknown score by Frédéric Chopin. But he is unaware that, locked within its handwritten notes, lies a secret that now threatens the lives of thousands of Americans.The Copper Bracelet Harold Middleton returns in this explosive sequel to The Chopin Manuscript as he’s drawn into an international terror plot that threatens to send India and Pakistan into full-scale nuclear war.Note: Print edition of the two original audio serialized novels,The Chopin Manuscript and The Copper Bracelet.

      Watchlist2010
      3,5
    • Trail of Blood

      All Families Have Secrets, But Some Can Be Deadly...

      • 512 stron
      • 18 godzin czytania

      Chinese-American detective Lydia Chin is hired by an old friend to investigate the recent theft of a cache of holocaust assets, thought to once belong to the Gilders.

      Trail of Blood2010
      3,7
    • A strong, aggravated man fingers the knife in his pocket while considering a pretty woman at the bar. But what becomes of his prey when they move to the bedroom? Elsewhere, a man discovers he visits the same hair salon as the victim of a gruesome murder. And a modern-day Don Juan has a hobby of marrying vulnerable women, getting access to their bank accounts, and then robbing them blind. A glittering line-up of our best writers (including Lee Child, Michael Connelly, Val McDermid, Edmund White and Patrick McCabe) weave fresh and memorable stories from a pair of classic themes- sex and crime. This tantalising collection abounds in dark-haired vixens and crimes of passion. Some stories are brooding, others twisted; some offer righteous satisfaction while others linger long in the mind. This innovative, exciting and intriguing book is a rare treat for fans of great fiction, whether it's high literature, good old-fashioned suspense, or anything in between.

      The dark end of the street : new stories of sex and crime2010
      2,7
    • Rezolutna Molly Murphy, pragnąca więcej niż jej pozwala urodzenie, od kilku miesięcy żyje w Nowym Jorku, marząc o samodzielności. Zainspirowana wcześniejszym sukcesem, postanawia zostać detektywem i uczyć się od doświadczonego Paddy'ego Rileya, który jednak sceptycznie podchodzi do jej ambicji. Molly, pragnąca odnaleźć zaginione osoby, nie spodziewa się, że wkrótce stanie w obliczu morderstwa, które będzie musiała rozwiązać sama. Niesympatyczny sierżant Wolski nie budzi jej zaufania, a obawiając się o bezpieczeństwo nowych przyjaciółek, Sid i Gus, woli działać w ukryciu. W jej życiu pojawia się także tajemniczy irlandzki dramaturg Ryan O’Hare, związany z grupą anarchistów pod przewodnictwem Emmy Goldman. Podczas śledztwa Molly odkrywa, że sama może stać się ofiarą. Finał jej poszukiwań przyniesie zaskakujące wydarzenia, które wstrząsną Ameryką we wrześniu 1901 roku. Autorka, Rhys Bowen, znana z umiejętności łączenia fikcji z faktami historycznymi, zdobyła uznanie za cykl o Molly Murphy, który umocnił jej pozycję w gatunku kryminału retro.

      Śmierć detektywa2003
      3,9
    • Winter and Night

      • 400 stron
      • 14 godzin czytania

      Private detective Bill Smith is hurtled headlong into the most provocative-and personal-case of his career when he receives a chilling late night telephone call from the NYPD, who are holding his fifteen-year-old nephew Gary. But before he can find out what's going on, Gary escapes Bill's custody and disappears into the dark and unfamiliar streets...Bill and his partner, Lydia Chin, try to find the missing teen and uncover what it is that has led him so far from home. Their search takes them to Gary's family in a small town in New Jersey, where they discover that one of Gary's classmates was murdered. Bill and Lydia delve into the crime-only to find it eerily similar to a decades-old murder-suicide...Now, with his nephew's future-and perhaps his very life-at stake, Bill must unravel a long-buried crime and confront the darkness of his own past...Winter and Night is the winner of the 2003 Edgar Award for Best Novel.

      Winter and Night2002
      3,9
    • Reflecting the Sky

      • 384 strony
      • 14 godzin czytania

      It's a great honor when Grandfather Gao, a family friend and elder in New York's Chinatown community, asks Lydia Chin and her partner Bill Smith to go to Hong Kong to deliver the ashes of an old friend for burial, a letter from that friend to his brother, and a vauable jade figurine for the friend's seven-year-old grandson.

      Reflecting the Sky2002
      4,0
    • It flows through the Bronx like a river between banks of faded elegance. And at the end of the avenue called the Grand Concourse is the place people go to die, the Bronx Home for the Aged.The only trouble is the people dying there are going before their time.Bill Smith has been hired by an old friend to investigate the brutal killing of a young security guard on the Bronx Home grounds.Going undercover, Smith wades out into a sea of violence and lies washing up against the old brick building. When a second murder is committed, Smith knows that there’s a method to the madness.With the help of bright, young Chinese-American investigator Lydia Chin, Smith uncovers a web of corruption that’s found a home in the Bronx. Now he has to figure out who will die next.

      A Bill Smith-Lydia Chin Mystery: Concourse1995
      3,9