Buchhandlung Thrill & Chill (Spezialbuchhandlung für Krimi und Kulinarik in 1060 Wien) : Rubrik:Crime and Mystery

Minette Walters: The chameleon`s shadow

MissChilli — 2008-08-07T08:38:00Z

Minette Walters: The chameleon`s shadow. € 11,30
Returning from the war in Iraq a changed man due to serious head injuries, British lieutenant Charles Acland rejects his former life and grows increasingly reclusive, suspicious, and aggressive, especially toward women, until he finds himself the prime suspect in a series of recent killings apparently motivated by extreme rage.
Under suspicion, Acland is forced to confront the real issues behind his isolation. How much control does he have over the dark side of his personality? Do his crippling migraines contribute to his rages? Has he always been the duplicitous chameleon that his ex-financee claims?

Qiu Xiaolong: Red Mandarin Dress

MissChilli — 2008-07-24T10:09:00Z

Qiu Xiaolong: Red Mandarin Dress. € 10,30
An early morning jogger found her. Clad in nothing but a red mandarin dress, she had been dumped on a traffic island. The death of a 'dancing girl' was unpleasant but only unusual in that she had been left so openly in the centre of town. She had probably angered one of the 'Mr Big Bucks' who were taking over and transforming Shanghai.
Inspector Chen is an intuitive investigator, a talented poet and an honourable man on the edge of a nervous breakdown. Desperate to find a way out of the perilous police career that had been chosen for him, he is on leave. Then another girl is found dead. With a serial killer on the loose, Chen is pulled back to work and into his most dangerous assignment yet.

John Burdett: Bangkok Haunts

MissChilli — 2008-06-19T10:20:00Z

John Burdett: Bangkok Haunts. € 10,30
Detective Sonchai Jitpleecheep has seen just about everything on his beat in Bangkok's crime-riddled District 8. But the terrifying snuff movie he's been sent anonymously is something else: the person who dies is Damrong, the beautiful woman he once loved and whom he still dreams about.
And there's more: slayings turn the ensuing investigation into a murder inquiry, and Sonchai into an obsessed and haunted man.
Sonchai's inquiries follow a dizzying route from his own apartment, where he sleeps next to his pregnant wife while his fantasies deliver him up to Damrong; to the backstreets of Phnom Penh, where street gangs are only the most visible threats; to the gilded rooms of the most exclusive men's club in Bangkok, whose members will do anything to explore their darkest fantasies...

Kathy Reichs: Bones to Ashes

edogawa — 2008-05-08T12:55:00Z

Kathy Reichs: Bones to Ashes. € 9,20
the latest Temperance Brennan-Novel
See the video on "Bones to Ashes" with the author: Link to video on the official Website of Kathy Reichs

Temperance Brennan, like her creator Kathy Reichs, is a brilliant, sexy forensic anthropologist called on to solve the toughest cases. But for Tempe, the discovery of a young girl's skeleton in Acadia, Canada, is more than just another assignment. Évangéline, Tempe's childhood best friend, was also from Acadia. Named for the character in the Longfellow poem, Évangéline was the most exotic person in Tempe's eight-year-old world. When Évangéline disappeared, Tempe was warned not to search for her, that the girl was "dangerous."

Thirty years later, flooded with memories, Tempe cannot help wondering if this skeleton could be the friend she lost so many years ago. And what is the meaning of the strange skeletal lesions found on the bones of the young girl?

Meanwhile, Tempe's beau, Ryan, investigates a series of cold cases. Three girls dead. Four missing. Could the New Brunswick skeleton be part of the pattern? As Tempe draws on the latest advances in forensic anthropology to penetrate the past, Ryan hunts down a serial predator.

Ruth Rendell: Not in the flesh

MissChilli — 2008-04-24T09:05:00Z

Ruth Rendell: Not in the flesh. € 11,30
From award-winning author Ruth Rendell without a doubt the grand dame of British crime fiction, (The Gazette) comes the chilling new Inspector Wexford novel.
Searching for truffles in a wood, a man and his dog unearth something less savourya human hand. The body, as Chief Inspector Wexford is informed later, has lain buried for ten years or so, wrapped in a purple cotton shroud. The post mortem cannot reveal the precise cause of death. The only clue is a crack in one of the dead mans ribs.
Although the police database covers a relatively short period of time, it stores a long list of Missing Persons. Men, women and children disappear at an alarming ratehundreds every day. So Wexford knows he is going to have a job on his hands to identify the corpse. And then, only about twenty yards away from the woodland burial site, in the cellar of a disused cottage, another body is discovered.
The detection skills of Wexford, Burden, and the other investigating officers of the Kingsmarkham Police Force, are tested to the utmost to see if the murders are connected and to track down whoever is responsible.

Simon Beckett: Written in bone

MissChilli — 2008-04-24T08:51:00Z

Simon Beckett: Written in bone. € 11,30
Forensic anthropologist Dr David Hunter is on the remote Hebridean island of Runa to inspect a grisly discovery. Hunter has witnessed death in many guises, but even he is shocked by what he finds: a body almost totally incinerated but for the feet and a single hand. Could it be a textbook case of spontaneous human combustion? The local police are certain it's an accidental death but Hunter is not convinced. Examining the scorched remains, he finds the evidence he feared. It's clear to him that this was no accident, this was murder. But as the small, isolated community considers the enormity of Hunter's findings, a catastrophic storm hits the island. The power goes down, communication with the mainland ceases, and then the killing begins in earnest. Exploding in a series of violent acts and shocking twists, this is the compelling new crime thriller from a brilliant British storyteller.

Robert Harris: The Ghost

MissChilli — 2008-04-24T08:37:00Z

Robert Harris: The Ghost. € 11,30
Britain`s former prime minister is holed up in a remote, ocean-front house in America, struggling to finish his memoirs, when his long-term assistant drowns. A professional ghostwriter is sent out to rescue the project - a man more used to working with fading rock stars and minor celebrities than ex-world leaders. The ghost soon discovers that his distinguished new client has secrets in his past that are returning to haunt him - secrets with the power to kill.

Louise Penny: The Cruellest Month

MissChilli — 2008-04-10T09:07:00Z

Louise Penny: The Cruellest Month. € 10,30
Easter in Three Pines is a time of church services, egg hunts and seances to raise the dead.
A group of friends trudges up to the Old Hadley House, the horror on the hill, to finally rid it of the evil spirits that have so obviously plagued it, and the village, for decades. But instead of freeing a spirit, they create a new one. One of their numbers dies of fright. Or was it murder? Enter Chief Inspector Armand Gamache and his team from the Surete du Quebec. As they peel back the layers of flilth and artiface that have covered the haunted old home, they discover the evil isn't confined there. Some evil is guiding the actions of one of the seemingly kindly villagers.
But Gamache has a horror all his own to confront. A very personal demon is about to strike.
Easter in Three Pines. A time of rebirth, when nature comes alive. But something very unpleasant has also come alive. And it become clear - for there to be a rebirth, there first must be a death.

Jeffery Deaver: The sleeping doll

edogawa — 2008-03-27T12:37:00Z

Jeffery Deaver: The sleeping doll. € 9,20
When Special Agent Kathryn Dance -- a brilliant interrogator and kinesics expert with the California Bureau of Investigation -- is sent to question the convicted killer Daniel "Son of Manson" Pell as a suspect in a newly unearthed crime, she feels both trepidation and electrifying intrigue. Pell is serving a life sentence for the brutal murders of the wealthy Croyton family in Carmel years earlier -- a crime mirroring those perpetrated by Charles Manson in the 1960s. But Pell and his cult members were sloppy: Not only were they apprehended, they even left behind a survivor -- the youngest of the Croyton daughters, who, because she was in bed hidden by her toys that terrible night, was dubbed the Sleeping Doll.
But the girl never spoke about that night, nor did the crime's mastermind. Indeed, Pell has long been both reticent and unrepentant about the crime. And so with the murderer transported from the Capitola superprison to an interrogation room in the Monterey County Courthouse, Dance sees an opportunity to pry a confession from him for the recent murder -- and to learn more about the depraved mind of this career criminal who considers himself a master of control, a dark Svengali, forcing people to do what they otherwise would never conceive of doing. In an electrifying psychological jousting match, Dance calls up all her skills as an interrogator and kinesics -- body language -- expert to get to the truth behind Daniel Pell.
But when Dance's plan goes terribly wrong and Pell escapes, leaving behind a trail of dead and injured, she finds herself in charge of her first-ever manhunt. But far from simply fleeing, Pell turns on his pursuers -- and other innocents -- for reasons Dance and her colleagues can't discern. As the idyllic Monterey Peninsula is paralyzed by the elusive killer, Dance turns to the past to find the truth about what Daniel Pell is really up to. She tracks down the now teenage Sleeping Doll to learn what really happened that night, and she arranges a reunion of three women who were in his cult at the time of the killings. The lies of the past and the evasions of the present boil up under the relentless probing of Kathryn Dance, but will the truth about Daniel Pell emerge in time to stop him from killing again?

Peter Robinson: Friend of the Devil

edogawa — 2008-03-15T09:58:00Z

Peter Robinson: Friend of the Devil. € 10,30
Assisting a neighboring precinct with an investigation involving the murder of a disabled woman, detective inspector Annie Cabbot makes an unexpected link between the case and another involving a teen's death, a discovery that reveals the work of a serial killer.

Donna Leon: Suffer the Little Children

edogawa — 2008-03-11T12:59:00Z

Donna Leon: Suffer the Little Children. € 11,30
16th Brunetti novel
When Commissario Brunetti is summoned to the hospital bedside of a senior paediatrician whose skull has been brutally fractured, he is confronted with more questions than answers. Three men burst into the doctors apartment in the middle of the night, attacked him and took his 18-month-old son - but why? As he investigates, Brunetti finds infertility, desperation, and babies for sale. Meanwhile, Inspector Vianello uncovers a scam between pharmacists and doctors in the city. And certain information about one's neighbours can lead to all kinds of corruption and all sorts of pain

Donna Leons new novel is as subtle and gripping as ever, set in a beautifully realised Venice, seething with small-town malice.

Val McDermid: Beneath the bleeding

MissChilli — 2008-02-29T10:48:00Z

Val McDermid: Beneath the bleeding. € 11,30
he race is on to uncover the identity of a murderer with nothing to lose - and everything to kill for.
When Robbie Bishop, star midfielder for the Bradfield Vics, is poisoned by a rare and deadly toxin, profiler Dr Tony Hill and trustes colleague DCI Carol Jordan have their work cut out for them. Robbie was adored, so the public wants answers - but the answers aren`t coming, and trails are running cold.
Then a bomb explodes in the football stadium, causing massive casualties - and another man dies from poisoning. Is there a link between the cases? And what are the motives for these crimes? The clock is ticking for Tony and Carol - and the death toll keeps rising....

Ian Rankin: Exit Music

MissChilli — 2008-02-29T10:42:00Z

Ian Rankin: Exit Music. € 10,30
It's late autumn in Edinburgh and late autumn in the career of Detective Inspector John Rebus. As he tries to tie up some loose ends before retirement, a murder case intrudes. A dissident Russian poet has been found dead in what looks like a mugging gone wrong. By apparent coincidence, a high-level delegation of Russian businessmen is in town - and everyone is determined that the case should be closed quickly and clinically.
But the further they dig, the more Rebus and DS Siobhan Clarke become convinced that they are dealing with something more than a random attack - especially after a particularly nasty second killing. Meanwhile, a brutal and premeditated assault on a local gangster sees Rebus in the frame. Has the Inspector taken a step too far in tying up those loose ends? Only a few days shy of the end to his long, inglorious career, will Rebus even make it that far?

Steve Mosby: The 50/50 Killer

MissChilli — 2008-02-29T10:16:00Z

Steve Mosby: The 50/50 Killer. € 10,30
Mark Nelson is a young police officer, newly assigned to the team of John Mackey - a highly-decorated and successful detective, and author of a bestselling true crime book based on his years of experience catching killers. Mackey is a legend in the force and it's a huge opportunity for Mark, who has dedicated his life to his job ever since the death of his girlfriend years before.
When a man is found burned to death in his own home, Mackey's team is thrown into an investigation that grows darker and more complex at every turn. The evidence points to a man known as the Fifty-Fifty Killer. His targets are young couples, who he stalks and subjects to a single night of torture and manipulation, testing and destroying the love between them. Only one of them ever survives until dawn. And his victims include a former member of Mackey's team.
Soon afterwards, a young man walks into a police station badly tortured and with his memory in tatters. He knows only that his girlfriend is still being held captive in the woods he's escaped from. But the team know that by fleeing, the man has sealed his girlfriend's fate. If they can't piece together his experience by daybreak then she will die in his place.
However, all is not what it seems ...

Stephen King: Blaze

MissChilli — 2008-02-21T11:11:00Z

Stephen King: Blaze.€ 9,20
Ursprünglich im Jahre 1972 geschrieben aber niemals veröffentlicht und jetzt von Stephen King alias Richard Bachman neu entdeckt: ein spannender Krimi, der den anderen Bachman Romanen "Thinner" und "The Regulators" in nichts nachsteht. Drafted 35 years ago in the same Olivetti typewriter Stephen King next used to write "Carrie". Ein früher Roman von Stephen King, jetzt erstmals veröffentlicht!
The new blockbuster from Stephen King´s crime noir alter-ego Richard Bachman. ...feels like an essential missing piece in King´s oeuvre...compelling! The Independent on Sunday Unwiderstehlicher Gangstergroove! Stern