Anders Pieterse Książki

Concludes the fantasy series. The dragon charmer, Prospero's children.

An illegal immigrant is found murdered in an Edinburgh housing scheme: a racist attack, or something else entirely? Rebus is drawn into the case, but has other problems: his old police station has closed for business, and his masters would rather he retire than stick around. But Rebus is that most stubborn of creatures. As Rebus investigates, he must visit an asylum seekers' detention centre, deal with the sleazy Edinburgh underworld, and maybe even fall in love... Siobhan meanwhile has problems of her own. A teenager has disappeared from home and Siobhan is drawn into helping the family, which will mean travelling closer than is healthy towards the web of a convicted rapist. Then there's the small matter of the two skeletons - a woman and an infant - found buried beneath a concrete cellar floor in Fleshmarket Close. The scene begins to look like an elaborate stunt - but whose, and for what purpose? And how can it tie to the murder on the unforgiving housing-scheme known as Knoxland?

Piąta powieść najpopularniejszego brytyjskiego autora kryminałów. Tajemniczy pożar hotelu, niezidentyfikowane ciało i przerażająca noc, o której wszyscy usiłowali zapomnieć. Tylko John Rebus ma odwagę wrócić do tej sprawy. Od pewnego czasu inspektor Rebus ma wrażenie, że jego życie zamienia się w czarną komedię. Niespodziewanie w Edynburgu pojawia się jego brat, niedawno wypuszczony z więzienia. Jakby tego było mało, porzucony przez partnerkę Rebus musi spać na kanapie we własnym mieszkaniu, które wynajął wcześniej studentom. Wcale nie lepiej dzieje się na polu zawodowym: kogoś dźgnięto nożem, do Edynburga przyjeżdża skazany pedofil, a zaprzyjaźniony z Rebusem policjant zostaje brutalnie napadnięty i zapada w śpiączkę. Nawet jeśli brzmi to cynicznie, to ostatnie zdarzenie ma jednak swoje dobre strony. W ręce inspektora wpada notes policjanta z ciekawymi informacjami dotyczącymi prowadzonych śledztw. W tym zwłok znalezionych przed pięciu laty w ruinach spalonego hotelu i pocisku odkrytego w głowie ofiary. Oraz broni, z której został wystrzelony i o której Rebus wie więcej, niż powinien.

They call him the Wolfman - because he takes a bite out of his victims and because they found the first victim in the East End's lonely Wolf Street. Scotland Yard are anxious to find the killer and Inspector Rebus is drafted in to help, thanks to his supposed expertise in the modus operandi of serial killers. But his Scotland Yard opposite number, George Flight, isn't happy at yet more interference - it's bad enough having several Chief Inspectors on your back - and Rebus finds himself dealing with racial prejudice as well as the predations of a violent maniac. When Rebus is offered a serial killer profile of the Wolfman by an attractive female psychologist, it's too good an opportunity to miss. But in finding an ally, he may have given his enemies an easy means of attack.

Edinburgh is a city steeped in history and tradition, a seat of learning, of elegant living, known as the 'Athens of the North'. But that isn't all. The city's flip-side is a city of grudges, blackmail, violence, greed and fear - where past and present clash and old wounds fester. In any year Detective Inspector John Rebus can expect gang warfare, murder, assault and battery at the very least. In this collection he investigates the hanging of a student actor during the Festival, an arson attack on a bird watcher and the witnessing of an apparent miracle...

Czy chciałbyś przeżyć swoją własną autopsję? Spotkać Diabła? Popełnić samobójstwo z rozpaczy na zaśnieżonych równinach Minnesoty? Uciekać przed policją w towarzystwie Dillinger'a? Przejść przesłuchanie u tyrana w bananowej republice? Spotkać bardzo szczególnych wampirów? Stać się mordercą przez Internet? Nauczyć się nie ufać zwierzętom domowym? Mieć na karku zabójcę z innego świata? Poznać kingowską wizję piekła? Zbadać hotelowy pokój nawiedzany przez dziwne zjawisko? Zostać podwiezionym przez kierowcę-trupa? A może znaleźć mały talizman, który przyniesie ci szczęście? Wystarczy, że pozwolisz poprowadzić się Kingowi, który potrafi snuć opowieści równie dobrze, jak pisać powieści. Czternaście historii, które pozwolą marzyć, bać się i czerpać perwersyjną przyjemność z poznawania najstraszniejszych lęków, zmuszając do przewracania stron, zanim skończysz obgryzać paznokcie.

English fantasy at its finest, the first in this exciting new trilogy steps into the gap that exists between The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe and Clive Barker's Weaveworld. A mysterious, isolated house awaits sixteen-year-old Fern and her brother Will for the summer holidays. As the old house reveals its secrets, their familiar world starts to fracture, giving access to a magical and corrupt land destroyed thousands of years ago. For hidden in the house is a talisman which has been sought by the forces of good and evil for millennia. And only someone possessed of the Gift can use it. Soon, Fern finds herself being courted by the enigmatic wanderer, Ragginbone, and the sinister art-dealer, Javier Holt, who know that she has the Gift. Both want her to find the talisman, and use it to unlock the door, but what awaits her on the other side...? This is English fantasy at its finest. Prospero's Children steps into the gap that exists between The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe and Clive Barker's Weaveworld, and is destined to become a modern classic.

It is August in Edinburgh and the Festival is in full swing. A brutally tortured body is discovered in one of the city’s ancient subterranean streets and marks on the corpse cause Rebus to suspect the involvement of sectarian activists. The prospect of a terrorist atrocity in a city heaving with tourists is almost unthinkable. And when the victim turns out to be the son of a notorious gangster Rebus realises he is sitting atop a volcano of mayhem about to erupt.

Gregor Jack, MP, well-liked, young, married to the fiery Elizabeth - to the outside world a very public success story. But Jack's carefully nurtured career plans take a tumble after a 'mistake' during a police raid on a notorious Edinburgh brothel. Then Elizabeth disappears, a couple of bodies float into view where they shouldn't, and a lunatic speaks from his asylum... Initially Rebus is sympathetic to the MP's dilemma - who hasn't occasionally succumbed to temptation? - but with the disappearance of Jack's wife the glamour surrounding the popular young man begins to tarnish. Someone wants to strip Jack naked and Rebus wants to know why...

A junkie lies dead in an Edinburgh squat, spreadeagled, cross-like on the floor, between two burned-down candles, a five-pointed star daubed on the wall above. Just another dead addict - until John Rebus begins to chip away at the indifference, treachery, deceit and sleaze that lurks behind the facade of the Edinburgh familiar to tourists. Only Rebus seems to care about a death which looks more like a murder every day, about a seductive danger he can almost taste, appealing to the darkest corners of his mind -- BOOK COVER.

"Chang and Eng Bunker were the Siamese twins for whom the term was coined, one of the nineteenth century's most fabled human oddities. Now Darin Strauss has rescued the twins from the sideshow of history, drawing from their extraordinary conjoined lives a first novel of exceptional beauty."--Jacket