Showing results for "Abridged" in Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

“Dazzling, passionate, a masterwork that ranks with Puzo’s best.” —Nicholas Pileggi, author of Wiseguys “One of his most satisfying works….A thoroughly entertaining posthumous present from one of the masters of popular fiction.” —Booklist Mario Puzo’s final masterwork. A...

Anthony Head, famed for his TV roles in Buffy and Little Britain, reads these stories inspired by one of the most successful BBC radio serials of the Twentieth Century.

Everything is strange about the haveli of Nawwab Rashid-uz-Zaman. His brother behaves like a toddler. Servants have to carry him everywhere. Strange voices of wild animals emit from within the haveli. And on top of it, Tariq, a dear friend of Nawwab has strange ways and an even stranger pet.

Lucas Davenport returns in one of the most startling Prey novels yet from the number-one-bestselling author...

The third, and final, installment in Mario Puzo's epic chronicle of the Corleone crime family—one of the most enduring lineages in American literature and cinema—achieves a stunning crescendo with a story that imagines the role of the Mafia in the assassination of a young...

In her most eagerly anticipated novel yet, Elizabeth George brings back Scotland Yard's Thomas Lynley to investigate a ruthless crime. After the senseless murder of his wife, Detective Superintendent Thomas Lynley retreated to Cornwall, where he has spent six solitary weeks hiking the bleak and...

Like millions of Americans, journalist Gus Bailey is drawn into the vortex of the O. J. Simpson trial. By day, Gus is a fixture at law offices, newspapers, courtrooms, and even judge's offices. By night, he is feted by celebrities who delight in the hottest news from the courtroom corridors. Interweaving fact and fiction surrounding "The Trial of the Century," Another City, Not My Own illuminates the meaning of guilt and innocence, of justice served and justice denied, and of the price of celebrity in today's America.

A survivor of childhood trauma, two marriages, twenty hard years with the Seattle P.D. and the bottle, Jonas Piedmont Beaumont has spent far too much time trolling the darker waters of human nature. In the wake of a devastating professional tragedy, he has decided, at long last, to pull the pin...

“Today’s foremost practitioner of the culinary whodunit.” —Entertainment Weekly “In the genre of culinary mystery writers, Davidson is a Julia Child among Betty Crockers, and there is no question that Double Shot is her best book.” —Denver Post New York Times bestseller Diane Mott...

Someone is brutally killing the women in Stone Barrington's life -- his date, his secretary and his neighbor are murdered within 24 hours of each other. Stone, the New York lawyer-turned-investigator and his best friend, Dino, being their dangerous search for the killer. Stone falls suspect to...

Admiral Jake Grafton takes his wife, Callie, along when the U.S. government sends him to Hong Kong to find out how deeply the American consul-general is embedded in a political money-raising scandal. And why not? Jake and Callie met and fell in love in Hong Kong during the Vietnam War, and the...

Rochelle Baxter was an artist recently arrived from Washington State, cruelly cut down in the early stages of a promising career. Now all that remains of her lies on a cold slab in the Cochise County morgue, and Sheriff Joanna Brady knows that murder has once again infected her small desert...

Julian Rhind-Tutt is Magnus Pym in this BBC Radio 4 full-cast adaptation of John le Carré’s superb spy novel Winner of AudioFile Earphones...

Benedict Cumberbatch reads five stories featuring the famous vegetarian railway detective, Thorpe Hazell, as heard on BBC Radio 4. In The Affair of the German Dispatch-Box, Hazell hatches a daring plan to retrieve a highly sensitive government document before it reaches the German Ambassador. In...

It's DS Logan McRae's first day back on the job after a year off on the sick, and it couldn't get much worse. Four-year-old David Reid's body is discovered in a ditch - strangled, mutilated and a long time dead. There's a killer stalking the Granite City and the local media are baying for blood. If that wasn't enough, Logan also has to contend with a new boss, DI Insch, who doesn't suffer fools gladly and thinks everyone's a fool.

Sydney Shaw hatte immer Pech mit ihren Dates. Bis sie Tom traf. Tom scheint perfekt: Er ist charmant, attraktiv und arbeitet als Arzt in einem Krankenhaus. Dann erschüttert der brutale Mord an einer Frau die Stadt. Die Polizei vermutet einen Serientäter dahinter, der sich mit seinen Opfern zu einem Date verabredet, bevor er zuschlägt. Sydney sollte sich sicher fühlen. Schließlich hat sie Tom. Aber sie wird das Gefühl nicht los, dass etwas mit ihm nicht stimmt. Jemand beobachtet sie auf Schritt und Tritt. Wenn sie der Wahrheit nicht schnell auf die Spur kommt, könnte sie das nächste Opfer sein.

Sadisten, Psychopathen, Serienmörder - die forensische Psychologin Anna Salomon weiß um die dunklen Abgründe der menschlichen Natur. Sie gilt als Ausnahmetalent in der Behandlung von Straftätern und ist bekannt dafür, die undurchdringlichsten Fassaden zu durchschauen. Doch niemand ahnt, was sich hinter ihrer eigenen verbirgt. Denn ausgerechnet in den Mauern eines Hochsicherheitsgefängnisses jagt Anna ihrer ganz persönlichen Heilung hinterher. Auf der Suche nach der Wahrheit ist sie bereit, alles zu riskieren. Nur: Sie ist nicht die Einzige, die ein gefährliches Spiel spielt.

An 87th Precinct novel -- Certain that someone is trying to kill her, Emma Bowles turns to another killer for protection, and only a dedicated cop trapped in a defective legal system can save her...

A violent criminal with a knack for evading justice. A beautiful victim with a secret to hide. Between them stands one good cop, torn between justice and the law. This rape case is an exception: The victim is more than willing to testify. And there’s abundant evidence to put the suspect behind...

High Crimes is journalist Michael Kodas's gripping account of life on top of the world--where man is every bit as deadly as Mother Nature. In the years following the publication of Into Thin Air, much has changed on Mount Everest. Among all the books documenting the glorious adventures in...