Anna Martini Volgorde van de boeken (chronologisch)

Dopo un violento combattimento con la malavita che li ha quasi uccisi, Locke e il suo fedele compare Jean fuggono dalla città in cui sono nati e approdano agli esotici lidi di Tal Verrar per curarsi le ferite. Ma neppure all'estremità occidentale del mondo civilizzato possono riposare, e presto tornano a dedicarsi a ciò che sanno fare meglio: rubare ai ricchi e intascare il ricavato. Questa volta il loro obiettivo è oltremodo ambizioso: la torre di Peccapicco, la casa da gioco più esclusiva e più sorvegliata che ci sia. I suoi nove piani attirano una clientela facoltosa, e per giungere fino alla cima servono buon credito, comportamenti bizzarri... e un gioco semplicemente impeccabile. Perché c'è una sola regola importante che Requin, lo spietato padrone di Peccapicco, fa rispettare rigorosamente: chi bara avrà la morte. Per nulla intimoriti, Locke e Jean hanno elaborato una strategia che comprende bugie, trucchi e inganni per tutti e nove i piani... su su fino al favoloso caveau di Requin. Sotto mentite spoglie, compiono la loro meticolosa ascesa verso un obiettivo ormai vicinissimo... Ma qualcuno a Tal Verrar ha scoperto il loro segreto. Qualcuno giunto dal passato, che ha tutte le intenzioni di far pagare ai due sfacciati malviventi i crimini commessi. Ora avranno veramente bisogno di ogni grammo di astuzia per salvare le loro anime prezzolate. E potrebbe non bastare...

"With the greatest heist of their career gone spectacularly sour, con artist extraordinaire Locke Lamora and his trusted partner, Jean, have barely escaped with their lives. Or at least Jean has. Locke is slowly succumbing to a lethal poison that no alchemist can cure. With the end nearing, Locke's only hope is to accept a mysterious Bondsmage's offer: act as a political pawn in the Magi elections, and in exchange be healed. But the lifesaving sorcery promises to rival even the most excruciating death, and Locke refuses. Until the Bondsmage invokes the name of Sabetha, the love of Locke's life ... and now his greatest rival. From his first glimpse of Sabetha as a fellow orphan and thief-in-training, Locke was smitten. But after a tumultuous courtship, she broke away. Now they will reunite in another clash of wills. Faced with his only equal in both love and trickery, Locke must choose whether to fight Sabetha--or woo her. It is a decision on which both their lives may depend"--Back cover

Everyone in the small town of Central City, Texas loves Lou Ford. A deputy sheriff, Lou's known to the small-time criminals, the real-estate entrepreneurs, and all of his coworkers--the low-lifes, the big-timers, and everyone in-between--as the nicest guy around. He may not be the brightest or the most interesting man in town, but nevertheless, he's the kind of officer you're happy to have keeping your streets safe. The sort of man you might even wish your daughter would end up with someday. But behind the platitudes and glad-handing lurks a monster the likes of which few have seen. An urge that has already claimed multiple lives, and cost Lou his brother Mike, a self-sacrificing construction worker fell to his death on the job in what was anything but an accident. A murder that Lou is determined to avenge--and if innocent people have to die in the process, well, that's perfectly all right with him. In THE KILLER INSIDE ME, Thompson goes where few novelists have dared to go, giving us a pitch-black glimpse into the mind of the American Serial Killer years before Charles Manson, John Wayne Gacy, and Brett Easton Ellis's American Psycho, in the novel that will forever be known as the master performance of one of the greatest crime novelists of all time.

Former government operative Cotton Malone teams with old heartthrob Cassiopeia Vitt on a dangerous mission to retrieve a priceless Chinese lamp from the third century B.C.E.

In New York, in the year 2007, Katherine Reckliss learns her grandmother's SOE radio has started picking up disturbing messages, warning that a V1 containing the Secret Fire - a weapon beyond all imagining that can wipe the enemies off the face of the earth - is being launched by the Nazis and its target is London.

In this electrifying sequel to "The Rosary Girls," Philadelphia detectives Jessica Balzano and Kevin Byrne are on the trail of a maniacal killer, who is recreating Hollywoods most famous murder scenes and casting real-life victims.

De bibliotheek van Alexandrië bezat de belangrijkste manuscripten van haar tijd. Toen zij 1500 jaar geleden afbrandde verdwenen al haar schatten van de aardbodem, maar sommige geloven dat er nog documenten gespaard zijn gebleven die de huidige drie monotheïstische godsdiensten op hun fundamenten zouden doen schudden. Een groep multimiljonairs, verzameld in de Orde van het Gulden Vlies, is bereid heel ver te gaan om in het bezit te komen van deze documenten. Cotton Malones bestaan wordt ruw verstoord als hij een e-mail ontvangt waarin staat: Jij hebt iets wat ik wil hebben. Je hebt 72 uur de tijd om het te vinden. Zo niet, dan zal je zoon sterven. Wanneer zijn winkel tot de grond toe afbrandt, weet Malone dat zijn geheimzinnige tegenstander tot alles in staat is om te krijgen wat hij wil: de sleutel tot de verloren bibliotheek van Alexandrië. Malone staat voor een duivels dilemma.

Philadelphia wordt opgeschrikt door de brute moord op een scholiere. Het meisje dat naar een katholieke school ging, wordt gevonden met in haar handen een rozenkans waarvan een deel van de kralen mist. Haar handen zijn aan elkaar vastgeklonken met een stalen bout. Als korte tijd later weer een katholiek meisje wordt gevonden met een rozenkrans waar een nog groter aantal kralen aan ontbreekt, weten rechercheur Kevin Byrne en zijn nieuwe partner Jessica Balzano dat ze voor een helse taak staan. Steeds dieper moet het duo doordringen in de geest van een zieke moordenaar waarbij hun eigen geloof op de proef wordt gesteld. Over enkele dagen is het Pasen, de dag van de wederopstanding. Terwijl het aantal kralen aan de rozenkransen afneemt, neemt het aantal slachtoffers toe.

Harry Fabian is a cockney wide boy trying to make it big in the Soho underworld of the 1930s. He is a Flash Harry in an expensive suit, a chancer operating in a cosmopolitan corner of the city where villains, spivs, prostitutes and strong-arm men thrive. But his ambition and reckless nature are pushing him towards more and more extreme acts - and a day of reckoning. Night And The City is a classic work of social-realist fiction that captures the vibrant yet seedy underbelly of London between the world wars.