Krimi

It's 1957 and James Bond (agent 007) has only just survived his showdown with Auric Goldfinger at Fort Knox.By his side is Pussy Galore, who was with him at the end. Unknown to either of them, the USSR and the West are in a deadly struggle for technological superiority. And SMERSH is back.The Soviet counter-intelligence agency plans to sabotage a Grand Prix race at the most dangerous track in Europe. But it's Bond who finds himself in the driving seat and events take an unexpected turn when he observes a suspicious meeting betweenSMERSH's driver and a sinister Korean millionaire, Jai Seong Sin.Soon Bond is pitched into an entirely different race uncovering a plan that could bring the West to its knees.Welcoming back familiar faces, including M and Miss Moneypenny, international bestselling author Anthony Horowitz ticks all the boxes: speed, danger, strong women and fiendish villains, to reinvent the golden age of Bond in this brilliantly grippingadventure. Trigger Mortis is also the first James Bond novel to feature previously unseen Ian Fleming material.This is James Bond as Fleming imagined him.

Shirley Homes is a private investigator. She is clever with computers, and knows London like the back of her hand. She laughs when people say, 'Was Sherlock Holmes your grandfather?' Sherlock Holmes, of course, was not a real person, but, like Sherlock,Shirley has good eyes, and good ears. And she knows the right questions to ask.And in the Lithuanian Case, the right questions are important. Because Shirley must find a missing person - Carrie Williams, aged fifteen. Where is she? Who is she with?

'For me, Watson, life is not so interesting,' says Holmes. 'I loved to read the newspaper, hoping to find some news of an interesting crime for me to investigate or a dangerous criminal for me to catch. Where are all those clever criminals these days?'Then, suddenly, a wild, excited young man runs up the stairs to Holmes' room. He has a story to tell about a strange crime that took place in Norwood. But who is the criminal? And is he dangerous? Life, for Holmes, suddenly starts to get interesting.

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Shirley Homes is a private investigator. She is clever with computers, and knows London like the back of her hand. She laughs when people say, 'Was Sherlock Holmes your grandfather?' Sherlock Holmes, of course, was not a real person, but, like Sherlock,Shirley has good eyes, and good ears. And she knows the right questions to ask.And in the Lithuanian Case, the right questions are important. Because Shirley must find a missing person - Carrie Williams, aged fifteen. Where is she? Who is she with?

Sonny ist auf der Flucht.Sonny Lofthus sitzt im modernen Hochsicherheitsgefängnis Staten in Oslo. Seine kriminelle Karriere begann, als sein Vater Ab sich das Leben nahm. Ab Lofthus war Polizist. Kurz vor seinem Tod gestand er, korrupt gewesen zu sein. Dieser Verrat zerstörteSonnys Leben.Jetzt, viele Jahre später, hört er von einem Mitgefangenen, dass alles ganz anders gewesen ist. Sonny will Rache. Er flieht aus dem Gefängnis, denn die Verantwortlichen sollen für ihre Verbrechen büáen.Der Spiegel-BestsellerJo Nesbos Krimiserie um Kommissar Harry Hole ist weltweit ein Hit. Auch mit Der Sohn stieg er in Norwegen, England, Dänemark und den Vereinigten Staaten ganz oben in der Bestsellerliste ein. Sein neuer groáer Kriminalroman ist ein elektrisierendes Dramaum Geheimnis und Sünde, Verrat und Rache, Gerechtigkeit und Erlösung.

A sorozat az ifjú nyelvtanulóknak készült: az angol nyelvű irodalom nagy, klasszikus köteteit dolgozza fel olyan formában, hogy az egyik hasábban az angol, míg mellette a magyar szöveg olvasható. Remek módja a szókincs fejlesztésének, és az olvasás révénfejlődik kifejezőkészségük is, miközben remekül szórakozhatnak a nagy klasszikusokon.

'What are you thinking, Amy?' The question I've asked most often during our marriage, if not out loud, if not to the person who could answer. I suppose these questions stormcloud over every marriage: 'What are you thinking? How are you feeling? Who areyou? What have we done to each other? What will we do?' Just how well can you ever know the person you love? This is the question that Nick Dunne must ask himself on the morning of his fifth wedding anniversary when his wife Amy suddenly disappears. Thepolice immediately suspect Nick. Amy's friends reveal that she was afraid of him, that she kept secrets from him. He swears it isn't true. A police examination of his computer shows strange searches. He says they aren't his. And then there are thepersistent calls on his mobile phone. So what really did happen to Nick's beautiful wife? And what was in that half-wrapped box left so casually on their marital bed? In this novel, marriage truly is the art of war...

Curtis Colt didn't kill that liquor store woman, and that's a fact. It's not right that he should have to ride the lightning - that's what prisoners call dying in the electric chair. Curtis doesn't belong in it, and I can prove it.' But can Curtis'sgirlfriend prove it? Murder has undoubtedly been done, and if Curtis doesn't ride the lightning for it, then who will? These seven short stories, by well-known writers such as Dashiel Hammett, Patricia Highsmith, and Nancy Pickard, will keep you on theedge of your seat.CEFR B2/C1Word count 26,500

Sonny's on the run. Sonny is a model prisoner. He listens to the confessions of other inmates, and absolves them of their sins. He's been lied to his whole life. But then one prisoner's confession changes everything. He knows something about Sonny'sdisgraced father. Sonny wants revenge. He needs to break out of prison and make those responsible pay for their crimes. Whatever the cost.

Ein Tierpfleger des Opel-Zoos im Taunus macht eine grausige Entdeckung: im Elefantengehege liegt eine menschliche Hand. Die dazu gehörige Leiche finden Kommissar Oliver von Bodenstein und seine Kollegin Pia Kirchhoff von der Hofheimer Kripo in einerfrisch gemähten Wiese gegenüber dem Zoogelände. Der Tote war ein Lehrer und vehementer Umweltschützer, der wegen seines Charismas von vielen Schülern glühend verehrt wurde - und von einigen Einwohnern der Stadt ebenso sehr gehasst. Doch liegt hier dasMotiv für einen Mord?

Eine Ladung Schrot aus dem eigenen Jagdgewehr beschert dem Frankfurter Oberstaatsanwalt ein schnelles, wennauch sehr hässliches Ende. Die schöne junge Frau, die tot am Fuá eines Aussichtsturms im Taunus liegt, ist viel zu unversehrt, um an den Folgen eines Sturzes gestorben zu sein. Kriminalhauptkommissar Oliver von Bodenstein und seine neue Kollegin PiaKirchhoff sind sich einig: Der erste Todesfall war ein Selbstmord, der zweite jedoch ein Mord. Bald häufen sich sowohl die Motive als auch die Verdächtigen. Doch was hat den Staatsanwalt in den Tod getrieben?

A comfortable, solid, middle-American town - inhabited by a serial killer...Children are disappearing, lost to the world, horrifically murdered.The best clue the detectives have - a serial killer from a century ago.Jack Sawyer, retired from the LAPD at 35, plagued by visions of another world.As a child, Jack visited the Territories, a menacing place of violence and madness, to save his dying mother. Now, if the latest child victim is to be saved, Jack must retrieve his lost childhood memories, and revisit the one place he hoped never to seeagain.

A második világháború vége Harry Clifton és Giles Barrington életébe nem a várva várt békét hozza el, hanem egy lehetetlen párharcot. A szavazás eredménye arról, hogy ki örökölje a Barrington-címet és a vele járó vagyont, döntetlen lett. A lordkancellármindent megváltoztató szavazata örökre rányomja bélyegét mindkettejük életére.Harry visszatér Amerikába, hogy a regényét népszerűsítse, míg szeretett Emmája egy kislányt keres: azt a kislányt, akit annak idején az apja irodájában találtak, a férfi halálának estéjén. Giles közben képviselőként a választásokra készül. Ám Sebastian,Harry és Emma fia lesz az, aki végül befolyásolhatja a nagybátyja sorsát. Az immár felcseperedett Sebastian Cambridge-be készül, az egyetemre. Egy rejtélyes módon felbukkanó Rodin-szobor azonban más irányba fordíthatja az életét, és akár halálosveszélybe is sodorhatja a fiatalembert.Jeffrey Archer (Majd az idő eldönti, Apám bűne) ötkötetesre tervezett regényfolyamának harmadik darabját a szerzőtől már megszokott, izgalmas, elképesztő fordulatokkal tarkított történetszövés jellemzi.

On highways across America, a tribe of people called The True Knot travel in search of sustenance. They look harmless - mostly old, lots of polyester, and married to their RVs. But as Dan Torrance knows, and tween Abra Stone learns, The True Knot arequasi-immortal, living off the 'steam' that children with the 'shining' produce when they are slowly tortured to death.Haunted by the inhabitants of the Overlook Hotel where he spent one horrific childhood year, Dan has been drifting for decades, desperate to shed his father's legacy of despair, alcoholism and violence. Finally, he settles in a New Hampshire town, an AAcommunity that sustains him and a job at a nursing home where his remnant 'shining' power provides the crucial final comfort to the dying. Aided by a prescient cat, he becomes 'Doctor Sleep.'Then Dan meets the evanescent Abra Stone, and it is her spectacular gift, the brightest shining ever seen, that reignites Dan's own demons and summons him to a battle for Abra's soul and survival . . .

The master of international intrigue and explosive action introduces a new hero for a new era of warfare . . . against a new kind of threat.Get ready to meet ex-Navy SEAL Max Moore.A terrorist bombing in Pakistan wipes out Max Moore's entire CIA team. As the only survivor, the former Navy SEAL plunges deeper into the treacherous tribal lands to find the terrorist cell, but what he discovers there leads him to a much darkerconspiracy in an unexpected part of the globe-the US/Mexico border.Here a drug war rages between the Juarez and Sinaloa cartels. The landscape is strewn with bodies, innocents and drug dealers alike, but is there an even deadlier enemy lurking in background? Into this deadly brew, Moore leads a group of speciallyselected agents whose daring actions reveal shocking answers and uncover an unholy plan-a strike against the very heart of Americ