Freitag, 7. März 2014
Frank Schätzing - Limit
2025: Bahnbrechende Technologien haben die Raumfahrt revolutioniert. In
einem atemlosen Wettlauf fördern Amerikaner und Chinesen auf dem Mond
Helium-3, ein Element, das sämtliche Energieprobleme der Welt zu lösen
verspricht. Zur selben Zeit soll Detektiv Owen Jericho in Shanghai die
untergetauchte Dissidentin Yoyo ausfindig machen. Was nach Routine
klingt, entwickelt sich zu einer albtraumhaften Jagd, denn die ebenso
schöne wie anstrengende Chinesin ist im Besitz streng gehüteter
Geheimnisse und ihres Lebens nicht mehr sicher. Die Spur führt rund um
den Erdball - und zum Mond, wo eine Gruppe Weltraumtouristen eine
bedrohliche Entdeckung macht.
Montag, 16. Dezember 2013
Chris Kuzneski - The Lost Throne
Hewn into the towering cliffs of central Greece, the
Metéora monasteries are all but inacessible. The Holy Trinity is the
most isolated, its sacred brotherhood the guardians of a long-forgotten
secret.
In the dead of night, the sanctity of the holy retreat is shattered by an elite group of warriors, carrying ancient weapons. One by one, they hurl the silent monks from the cliff-top - the holy men taking their secret to their rocky graves.
Halfway across Europe, a terrified academic fears for his life. Richard Byrd has nearly uncovered the location of one of the Seven Ancient Wonders - the statue of Zeus and his mighty throne. But Byrd's search has also uncovered a forbidden conspiracy, and there are those who would do anything to conceal its dark agenda...
In the dead of night, the sanctity of the holy retreat is shattered by an elite group of warriors, carrying ancient weapons. One by one, they hurl the silent monks from the cliff-top - the holy men taking their secret to their rocky graves.
Halfway across Europe, a terrified academic fears for his life. Richard Byrd has nearly uncovered the location of one of the Seven Ancient Wonders - the statue of Zeus and his mighty throne. But Byrd's search has also uncovered a forbidden conspiracy, and there are those who would do anything to conceal its dark agenda...
Samstag, 30. November 2013
P.J. Tracy - Live bait
When elderly Morey Gilbert is found, lying dead in the grass by his
wife, Lily, it's a tragedy, but it shouldn't have been a shock - old
people die. But when she finds a bullet hole in his skull, the blood
washed away by heavy rain, sadness turns to fear. It looks like an
execution . . .
Soon a whole city is fearful as new victims are found, killed with the same cold precision. All elderly. All apparently blameless.
Detectives Gino and Magozzi, race to uncover a connection and their best hope of doing so may be Grace McBride, beautiful, damaged survivor of an earlier killing spree. And the answers, it seems, are buried in a terrible past.
Soon a whole city is fearful as new victims are found, killed with the same cold precision. All elderly. All apparently blameless.
Detectives Gino and Magozzi, race to uncover a connection and their best hope of doing so may be Grace McBride, beautiful, damaged survivor of an earlier killing spree. And the answers, it seems, are buried in a terrible past.
Mittwoch, 27. November 2013
John Hirst, Australiens bedeutendster Historiker, nimmt das Fernglas zur
Hand und Europa ins Visier. Fakten und Ereignisse bringt er in einen
fassbaren Zusammenhang und bietet einen einzigartigen Überblick über die
europäische Kulturgeschichte. Mit Humor erzählt er vom Ende des
römischen Schmierentheaters durch die Germanen, die unbeabsichtigt das
Weströmische Reich übernehmen oder wie 1066 die Normannen England
erobern und ihnen damit bis heute als Letzte ein Einfall in das
Inselland gelingt. Spannende, überraschende und witzige Einblicke in die
Entwicklung der europäischen Kultur - mit garantiertem Aha-Effekt.
Malcolm Mackay - The Necessary Death of Lewis Winter
A twenty-nine-year-old man lives alone in his Glasgow flat. The
telephone rings; a casual conversation, but behind this a job offer. The
clues are there if you know to look for them. He is an expert. A loner.
Freelance. Another job is another job, but what if this organisation
wants more? A meeting at a club. An offer. A brief. A target: Lewis
Winter. It’s hard to kill a man well. People who do it well know this.
People who do it badly find out the hard way. The hard way has
consequences. An arresting, gripping novel of dark relationships and
even darker moralities, The Necessary Death of Lewis Winter introduces a
remarkable new voice in crime fiction. The second book in the Glasgow
Trilogy How A Gunman Says Goodbye will follow soon . . .
Mittwoch, 30. Oktober 2013
Monika Zeiner - Die Ordnung der Sterne über Como
Wie viel Liebe verträgt eine Freundschaft? Dieser Roman handelt vom
verpassten und verspielten Glück und von dem Unglück, im rechten Moment
die falschen Worte gesagt zu haben. Er erzählt die Geschichte zweier
Männer und einer Frau, die ihre Freundschaft und ihre Liebe aufs Spiel
setzen. Tom Holler, halbwegs erfolgreicher Pianist und frisch getrennt
von seiner Frau, tourt mit seiner Berliner Band durch Italien. In Neapel
hofft er seine große Liebe wiederzutreffen: Betty Morgenthal. Doch je
näher ihre Begegnung rückt, desto tiefer taucht Tom in die Vergangenheit
ein. Denn vor vielen Jahren verunglückte Marc, sein bester Freund und
Bettys Lebensgefährte. Er hat keine andere Wahl, als die fatale
Dreiecksgeschichte noch einmal zu erleben. Berlin und Italien,
Leichtsinn und Schwermut, Witz und Dramatik, die lauten und die leisen
Töne – dieser Debütroman ist voller Musik.
Sonntag, 27. Oktober 2013
Boris Starling - Messiah
London is in the grip of a heatwave: airless days, strange steamy
nights and a killer stalking the streets. Wealthy men are being murdered
to some mysterious pattern, with no clues left behind, only corpses
with silver spoons in place of their tongues…
Set against this merciless butcher is DCI Red Metcalfe, an investigator with a celebrated ability to get under the skin and into the minds of the deranged killers he hunts. But as the city swelters and the body count rises, Red’s own tortured past begins to turn against him – and the city is safe for no one. Sometimes, it is said, it takes a killer to catch a killer…
Set against this merciless butcher is DCI Red Metcalfe, an investigator with a celebrated ability to get under the skin and into the minds of the deranged killers he hunts. But as the city swelters and the body count rises, Red’s own tortured past begins to turn against him – and the city is safe for no one. Sometimes, it is said, it takes a killer to catch a killer…
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