Maura Parolini Livres

A memoir by American former actress and singer Jennette McCurdy about her career as a child actress and her difficult relationship with her abusive mother who died in 2013

This is a breathtakingly original rendering of the Trojan War - a devastating love story and a tale of gods and kings, immortal fame and the human heart

'I can make good bad and bad badder, and most fun of all, really bad seem good.' Jeffery Deaver And that is exactly what he does in this superb collection. In 'Beautiful' former supermodel Kari's stalker has followed her through retirement to her new small town home. The police can do nothing. The only thing that will end the nightmare is the stalker's death or her own. In the Edgar-nominated 'Triangle' Pete finds a true crime book - and uses the lessons contained therein to kill Mo's lover. The award-winning 'Without Jonathan' introduces us to Marissa, about to go on the first date of her life since she married Jonathan, with a man she met through the personals. As she wonders whether she will ever truly fall in love again, the man she is about to meet is killing a housewife in another part of town... And in the brand-new 'The Christmas Present', we see a side of Lincoln Rhyme we've never met before.

Lincoln and Amelia are recruited to track down a cargo ship carrying two dozen illegal Chinese immigrants, as well as the notorious human smuggler and killer known as the Ghost. But when the capture goes disastrously wrong, Lincoln and Amelia find themselves in a race to stop the Ghost before he can track down and murder the two surviving families who have vanished deep into the labyrinthine world of New York City's Chinese community. Over the next forty-eight hours the Ghost ruthlessly hunts for the families while Rhyme, aided by a policeman from mainland China, struggles to find them before they die and Sachs pursues a very different kind of policework - forming a connection with one of the immigrants that may have consequences going to the core of her relationship with her partner and lover, Lincoln Rhyme.

A killer flees the scene of a homicide at a prestigious Manhattan music school and locks himself in a classroom. Within minutes, the police have him surrounded. Then a scream rings out, followed by a gunshot. The police break down the door. The room is empty. Lincoln Rhyme and Amelia Sachs are brought in to help with the high-profile investigation. For the ambitious Sachs, solving the case could earn her a promotion. For the quadriplegic Rhyme, it means relying on his prot�g�e to ferret out a master illusionist they've dubbed 'the conjurer', who baits them with gruesome murders that become more diabolical with each fresh crime. As the fatalities rise and the minutes tick down, Rhyme and Sachs must move beyond the smoke and mirrors to prevent a terrifying act of vengeance that could become the greatest vanishing act of all.

'Buy my stepfather's ghost' read the e-mail. So Jude did. He bought it, in the shape of the dead man's suit, delivered in a heart-shaped box, because he wanted it: because his fans ate up that kind of story. It was perfect for his collection: the genuine skulls and the bones, the real honest-to-God snuff movie, the occult books and all the rest of the paraphanalia that goes along with his kind of hard/goth rock.But the rest of his collection doesn't make the house feel cold. The bones don't make the dogs bark; the movie doesn't make Jude feel as if he's being watched. And none of the artefacts bring a vengeful old ghost with black scribbles over his eyes out of the shadows to chase Jude out of his home and make him run for his life...

In this full-bore detective tale of scandal and mayhem in the Big Apple, Colin Harrison whips up noir for the 90s, complete with a jaded newspaperman protagonist, a mysterious femme fatale, exhaustive travelogues of the meat-grinder labyrinth of Manhattan, and an elusive jade figurine. Harrison weds a literary sensibility to this tangled tale, but the pleasures of the novel come mainly from the conventional elements of all detective fiction: the assembling of apparently disconnected pieces into a coherent puzzle.

New York, 1936. L'America e il mondo intero guardano con apprensione l'inarrestabile ascesa di Hitler. A Paul Schumann, killer di origine tedesca, è stato catturato dall'FBI e gli viene fatta una strana proposta: le autorità federali gli offrono l'immunità per i suoi crimini in cambio dell'omicidio di Reinhard Ernst, uomo di fiducia del Führer. Paul ha quarantotto ore per individuare il suo obiettivo, eliminarlo, e intanto difendersi dall'apparato di sicurezza nazista. Intanto a Berlino, il detective Willy Khol lavora per fermare la scia di sangue che Schumann si lascia alle spalle.

Hai mai desiderato avere uno specchio magico a cui porre qualsiasi domanda? Grazie a "Specchio delle mie brame" potrai chiedere ciò che vuoi all'oracolo infallibile a cui si rivolgeva la regina di Biancaneve. Dalla saggezza eterna delle favole, popolate da fate, principesse, folletti e cavalli alati, provengono suggerimenti che, come per magia, ti indicheranno la strada da percorrere. Libera la fantasia, sfoglia le pagine e mettiti in ascolto. Come consultare "specchio delle mie brame": 1. tieni il libro chiuso tra le mani specchiandoti nella copertina. 2. concentrati sulla domanda che ti sta a cuore. 3. apri il libro a caso e leggi la risposta. 4. interpreta l'oracolo con la parte più magica di te: ti svelerà ciò che vuoi sapere.

Una donna è assassinata da Pathe, un hacker diabolico che l'ha adescata infiltrandosi nei file del suo computer. L'uomo ha infatti un programma che gli consente di entrare nella vita delle persone che conosce in rete, per poi attirarle nella sua trappola mortale. Vuole fare il numero più alto possibile di vittime, a partire dal capo dell'unità di polizia di Los Angeles che indaga sui crimini informatici. Per fermare questa follia omicida, il detective Frank Bishop decide di ricorrere a un altro hacker, detenuto per reati analoghi a quelli di Pathe. Inizia così una partita mortale fra l'hacker "buono" e il sadico killer...