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Christopher Paolini: Inheritance

edogawa — 2011-11-09T10:15:00Z

Christopher Paolini: Inheritance € 17,70

Die Legende begann mit "Eragon"- nun endet sie mit "Inheritance".
Der vierte und letzte Teil der ursprünglich als Trilogie geplanten Reihe. Der Herbst wird magisch...

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Dan Brown: The Lost Symbol

edogawa — 2009-09-15T09:12:00Z

Dan Brown: The Lost Symbol. € 20,60
"This novel has been a strange and wonderful journey. Weaving five years of research into the story's twelve-hour timeframe was an exhilarating challenge. Robert Langdon's life clearly moves a lot faster than mine."
Dan Brown

"Nothing ever is as it first appears in a Dan Brown novel. This book's narrative takes place in a twelve-hour period, and from the first page, Dan's readers will feel the thrill of discovery as they follow Robert Langdon through a masterful and unexpected new landscape. The Lost Symbol is full of surprises."
Jason Kaufman, Dan Brown's longtime editor
Brown's editor at Doubleday, Jason Kaufman, said, in a statement, that the novel is "largely" set in Washington, D.C., but "it's a Washington few will recognize." Kaufman added that the book touches on "an unseen world of mysticism, secret societies, and hidden locations, with a stunning twist that long predates America," which comes as little surprise to Brown's fans.

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Lola Evans: Black Skin White Skin

edogawa — 2009-06-25T10:24:00Z

Lola Evans: Black Skin White Skin. € 8,99
How could Reverend Johnson, an Afro-American priest of a parish in San Antonio, Texas, suspect that his loving care for Amy Carlton, a 16-years-old prostitute and orphan would one day be his undoing. And almost fatal.

After Amy Carlton is found brutally murdered on March 13th, 1990, in an apartment close to the local presbytery, suspicion automatically falls on Reverend Johnson, as he and Amy were seen together entering the building on March 12th. After this incident Reverend Johnson suffers a heart attack and is brought to hospital, where he is threatened with death threats on the phone at night. Days later he is transferred to the State Prison of Houston, Texas, without the permission of his Afro-American lawyer, Mia Robbins, who asked a mere two days before for an extension of two weeks for the Reverend, in which the Court shall decide whether the verdict can be changed or not.

So Reverend Johnson is imposed with the death penalty, while the mysterious murder of young prostitutes in San Antonio continues. The next few weeks are sheer hell for the Reverend as he is severely maltreated several times and is forced to confess the murder of Amy Carlton, although he is innocent. Will Mia Robbins manage it to save the Reverend from the death penalty? Who really killed Amy on the night of March 12th ,1990? Is there a plot against the Reverend?

Colin Cotterill: Anarchy and Old Dogs

edogawa — 2009-06-02T09:49:00Z

Colin Cotterill: Anarchy and Old Dogs. € 12,20
The 4th Dr. Siri Investigation
When a blind, retired dentist is run down by a logging truck as he crosses the road to post a letter, Dr Siri Paiboun, official and only coroner of Laos, finds himself faced with his most explosive case yet. The dentist's mortal remains aren't nearly as intriguing as the letter in his pocket. Written in invisible ink and encrypted, the letter presents Dr Siri with an irresistible challenge. Enlisting the help of his old friend, Civilai, now a senior member of the Laos politburo; Nurse Dtui ('Fatty'); Phosy, a police officer; and, Aunt Bpoo, a transvestite fortune-teller, Dr Siri soon finds himself on the trail of an international plot to overthrow the government of Laos.

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Val McDermid: A Darker Domain

edogawa — 2009-04-11T10:44:00Z

Val McDermid: A Darker Domain (Nacht unter Tag, engl. Ausgabe) € 8,80
Past and present intertwine in this rare stand-alone novel of taut psychological dramaa brilliant exploration of loyalty and greed from the bestselling mistress of suspense.
Fife, Scotland, 1985. Heiress Catriona Maclennan Grant and her baby son are kidnapped. The ransom payoff goes horribly wrong and Grant is killed. Her son disappears without a traceuntil 2008, when a tourist in Tuscany stumbles upon dramatic new evidence that reopens the investigation.
Fife, 1984. At the height of the politically charged national miners' strike, Mick Prentice abandons his family to join the strikebreakers down south. Labelled a blackleg scab, he's as good as dead as far as his friends and relatives care. Twenty-three years later, a young woman walks into a police station to report Mick Prentice missing. Detective Karen Pirie, head of the Cold Case Review Team, wants to know why it's taken so long for anyone to notice.
For Pirie, already immersed in the Prentice investigation, a second foray into a 1980s investigation gone coldthis time, the Grant kidnappingoffers an opportunity to make her mark. But it's sure to come at an extremely high price. As she works to unravel these mysteries, two decades of secrets will lead Karen Pirie into a dark domain of violence and betrayaldarker than any she has yet encountered.

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Louise Penny: The Murder Stone

edogawa — 2009-03-26T15:30:00Z

Louise Penny: The Murder Stone. € 10,10
An Inspector Gamache Crime Novel
A brilliant, big, old-fashioned drawing-room mystery with a denouement worthy of Agatha Christie, from the international bestseller. Wealthy, cultured and respectable, the Finney family is the epitome of gentility. When Irene Finney and her four grown-up children arrive at the Manoir Bellechasse in the heat of summer, the hotel's staff spring into action. For the children have come to this idyllic lakeside retreat for a special occasion - a memorial has been organised to pay tribute to their late father. But as the heat wave gathers strength, it is not just the statue of an old man that is unveiled. Old secrets and bitter rivalries begin to surface, and the morning after the ceremony, a body is found. The family has another member to mourn. A guest at the hotel, Chief Inspector Armand Gamache suddenly finds himself in the middle of a murder enquiry. The hotel is full of possible suspects - even the Manoir's staff have something to hide, and it's clear that the victim had many enemies. With its remote location, the lodge is a place where visitors come to escape their pasts. Until the past catches up with them...

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Michael Connelly: The Brass Verdict

edogawa — 2009-03-25T15:36:00Z

Michael Connelly: The Brass Verdict. € 10,10
Detective Harry Bosch
When down-at-heel lawyer Mickey Haller gets the news that his old colleague Jerry Vincent has died, he also gets an unexpected windfall. Jerry had left instructions that Mickey should inherit all of his clients - putting Mickey's stalled career back on track at a stroke. Not only that, but Vincent was about to go to bat for Walter Elliott, the Hollywood mogul accused of brutally slaying his wife and her lover, in a trial that promises big fees and an even bigger place in the media spotlight. If Mickey could find the magic bullet and win that one against the odds, he'd really be back in the big leagues. The only problem is that Vincent was murdered, shot at close range in his office garage. And the detective handling the case - a certain Harry Bosch - is convinced the killer must be one of Vincent's clients. Suddenly Jerry Vincent's legacy is beginning to look more like a poisoned chalice, and Mickey is faced with the biggest challenge of his career: how to successfully defend a client who might just be planning to murder him.

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Linwood Barclay: Too Close to Home

edogawa — 2009-03-23T10:06:00Z

Linwood Barclay: Too Close to Home. € 9,20
real page turner, suspense, murder
When the Cutter family's next-door-neighbours, the Langleys, are gunned down in their house one hot August night, the Cutters' world is turned upside down. That violent death should have come so close to them is shocking enough in suburban Promise Falls, but at least the Cutters can console themselves with the thought that lightning is unlikely to strike twice in the same place. Unless, of course, the killers went to the wrong house At first the idea seems crazy. But gradually we discover that each of the Cutter family has a secret they'd rather keep buried. What was on that old computer teenage Derek and his friend Adam Langley had salvaged? And where is it now? What hold does a local professor and bestselling author have on Eileen Cutter? And what does Jim Cutter know about Mrs Langley that even her husband didn't? To find out who killed the Langleys and why, everybody's secrets are going to have to come out. But the final secret - the secret that could save them or destroy them - is in the one place nobody would ever think of looking...

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Donna Leon: About Face

edogawa — 2009-03-19T11:51:00Z

Donna Leon: About Face. € 25,70
Brunetti 18
At a dinner party given by his parents-in-law, Comissario Brunetti meets Franca Marinello, the wife of a prosperous Venetian businessman. He's charmed - perhaps too charmed, suggests his wife Paola - by her love of Virgil and Cicero, but shocked by her appearance. A few days later, Brunetti is visited by Carabinieri Maggior Filippo Guarino from the nearby city of Marghera. As part of a wider investigation into Mafia takeovers of businesses in the region, Guarino wants information about the owner of a trucking company who was found murdered in his office. He believes the man's death is connected to the illegal transportation of refuse - and more sinister material - in his company's trucks. No stranger to mutual suspicion and competition between rival Italian police departments, Brunetti is nevertheless puzzled by the younger man's paranoid behavior. Eventually Guarino agrees to email a photo of his suspect, but by the time the photograph arrives, he himself is dead. Was he killed because he got too close? And why is it that Franca Marinello has often been seen in company of the suspect, a vulgar man with Mafia connections and a violent past? Donna Leon's new novel is as subtle, gripping and topical as ever, bringing the sights, sounds and smells of Venice flooding to life.

Ein neuer Fall für Commissario Brunetti: Mafiöse Machenschaften und illegale Menschentransporte rund um Venedig sollen aufgedeckt und verhindert werden. Rivalitäten zwischen den einzelnen italienischen Polizeirevieren tragen nicht zur schnelleren Auflösung bei...Brunetti Nr.18

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Tom Rob Smith: Secret Speech.

edogawa — 2009-03-16T17:18:00Z

Tom Rob Smith: Secret Speech. € 16,60
Soviet Union, 1956: Stalin is dead. With his passing, a violent regime is beginning to fracture - leaving behind a society where the police are the criminals, and the criminals are innocent. The catalyst comes when a secret manifesto composed by Stalin's successor Khrushchev is distributed to the entire nation. Its message: Stalin was a tyrant and a murderer. Its promise: The Soviet Union will transform. But there are forces at work that are unable to forgive or forget Stalin's tyranny so easily, that demand revenge of the most appalling nature. Meanwhile, former MGB officer Leo Demidov is facing his own turmoil. The two young girls he and his wife Raisa adopted have yet to forgive him for his involvement in the murder of their parents. They are not alone. Now that the truth is out, Leo, Raisa and their family are in grave danger from someone with a grudge against Leo. Someone transformed beyond recognition into the perfect model of vengeance.From the streets of Moscow in the throes of political upheaval, to the wintry Siberian gulags and to Budapest, where a revolution will destroy as many innocent lives as the regime it is attempting to end, The Secret Speech is another stunning thriller from the author of the Booker- longlisted Child 44.

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Donna Leon: The Girl of his Dreams

edogawa — 2009-03-05T07:37:00Z

Donna Leon: The Girl of his Dreams. € 10,20
Commissario Brunettis siebzehnter Fall.
One rainy morning Commissario Brunetti and Ispettore Vianello respond to an emergency call reporting a body floating near some steps on the Grand Canal. Reaching down to pull it out, Brunetti's wrist is caught by the silkiness of golden hair, and he sees a small foot - together he and Vianello lift a dead girl from the water. But, inconceivably, no one has reported a missing child, nor the theft of the gold jewellery that she carries. Brunetti is drawn into a search not only for the cause of her death but also for her identity, her family, and for the secrets that people will keep in order to protect their children - be they innocent or guilty. From the canals and palazzi of Venice to a Gypsy encampment on the mainland, Brunetti struggles with institutional prejudice and entrenched criminality to try to unravel the fate of the dead child.

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Simon Kernick: The Murder Exchange

edogawa — 2009-02-25T13:13:00Z

Simon Kernick: The Murder Exchange. € 10,20
By the bestselling Author of "Relentless"
Five grand for a couple of hours work? It seems easy money, but the deal ex-mercenary Max Iversson is chasing has gone disastrously wrong. Two of his friends are dead. And now he wants to find out who's behind their killings. Detective Sergeant John Gallan is also looking for answers. He's investigating the fatal poisoning of a nightclub doorman. But leads are scarce and, when they do appear, so do bodies. As Iversson struggles to stay alive, Gallan keeps on digging, unearthing in the process a shocking crime that's been unsolved for a long, long time. What neither man knows is that they are heading towards a devastating confrontation that will see one of them staring down the wrong end of a gun.

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Richard Stark: Dirty Money

edogawa — 2009-02-25T13:09:00Z

Richard Stark: Dirty Money. € 20,50
Master thief Parker has unfinished business to conclude: Two million dollars are up for grabs but collecting them means returning to the scene of a heist turned sour. Just a week ago, Parker and his gang made off with the contents of a country bank, stirring up a hornet's nest of law-enforcement. Trapped on foot and much too near the crime scene, Parker was forced to stash the loot in the choir loft of an abandoned country church. Regardless of the still-present roadblocks and wanted posters, Parker knows he needs to recover the spoils before his murderous ex-confederates do. Of course, the cops are looking for the money, too. As are some New York thugs who've sniffed out what Parker is up to. And there's a resourceful female bounty hunter after a cut too. Remorseless as ever, Parker will do whatever it takes to redeem his prize, no matter who gets hurt in the process - his new getaway van may have 'Holy Redeemer Choir' emblazoned on its doors, but Parker's no choirboy...

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Richard Stark: Ask the Parrot.

edogawa — 2009-02-25T12:56:00Z

Richard Stark: Ask the Parrot. € 8,70
Winner of the Deutscher Krimipreis International
Parker, a professional thief, is on the run after a country town bank robbery goes wrong. There are road blocks everywhere and search parties with bloodhounds are in the woods. As they close in on Parker he is confronted by a local with a shotgun. But this citizen is not out to arrest him; he wants Parker to help him with his own nefarious plans. So Parker enters into a queasy partnership with an embittered recluse, whose only companion is a speechless parrot, and finds himself joining the posse looking for him! "Ask The Parrot" is a masterpiece of lean writing and tight plotting, the latest in Richard Stark's "Parker" series which has won him a universal following.

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Peter Temple: Shooting Star

edogawa — 2009-02-19T12:23:00Z

Peter Temple: Shooting Star. € 12,20
Anne Carson - fifteen, beautiful, and wayward - is abducted. Her rich family has closed ranks and summoned Frank Calder, ex-soldier and sacked police hostage negotiator. They want him to deliver the ransom money to the kidnappers. Frank wants them to call in the law, but the family refuses, since police bungling nearly cost the life of another Carson child kidnapped years before. But are the two kidnappings connected? And is greed the motivation? Revenge? Or could it be something else? To find out, Frank Calder must go beyond his brief. As Frank feverishly searches for suspects in the web of Carson family businesses and deals, marriages and indiscretions, rivalries and intrigues, he knows that if his instincts are wrong, the girl will surely die.

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