Added by: Kahena | Karma: 11524.33 | Fiction literature | 1 February 2012
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Two farmers cutting turf in the west of Ireland make a grisly discovery—the perfectly preserved severed head of a beautiful young woman with long red hair. Called out to the bog to investigate, Irish archeologist Cormac Maguire and American pathologist Nora Gavin are thrown together by their shared curiosity about her fate.
Cliff Hardy, with his PI license cancelled and his career in Sydney at an end, is preparing for a trip overseas. Cleaning out his office, he comes across an open file - an unresolved case from the 1980s. As he starts reading he's thrown back to his investigation of the disappearance of Justin Hampshire.
In this story we are again at Punchbowl Farm with the Thornton family, sharing their anxieties over a harvest which seems fated from the beginning. Capricious and sometimes violent weather conditions strike down into the little valley, undoing the sweated toil of weeks. And, when the energies of the whole family are being thrown into this one great emergency, Dion's own pet fox Toddy causes fresh anxiety and action in the effort to divert from him the suspicions of local poultry-owners.
One by one, children of New York's wealthiest are taken hostage. But the criminal doesn't crave money or power--he only wants to ask the elite if they know the price others pay for their luxurious lifestyles. And, if they don't, he corrects their ignorance--by killing them. To Detective Michael Bennett, it becomes clear that these murders are linked and must be part of a greater, more public demonstration. With the city thrown into chaos, he is forced to team up with FBI agent Emily Parker, and the two set out to capture the killer before he begins his most public lesson yet--a deadly message for the entire city to witness.
Added by: Kahena | Karma: 11524.33 | Fiction literature | 23 September 2011
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Nothing to Lose
At the start of bestseller Child's solid 12th Jack Reacher novel (after Bad Luck and Trouble), the ex-military policeman hitchhikes into Colorado, where he finds himself crossing the metaphorical and physical line that divides the small towns of Hope and Despair. Despair lives up to its name; all Reacher wants is a cup of coffee, but what he gets is attacked by four thugs and thrown in jail on a vagrancy charge. After he's kicked out of town, Reacher reacts in his usual manner—he goes back and whips everybody's butt and busts up the town's police force.
