Gu Cheng Li Sha Library

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By David Carr

From David Carr (1956–2015), the “undeniably incredible and dogged journalist” (Entertainment Weekly) and writer of the moment New York Times bestseller that the Chicago Sun-Times referred to as “a compelling story of drug abuse, depression, and, ultimately, hope.”

Do we keep in mind purely the tales we will be able to reside with? those that make us glance stable within the rearview reflect? In The evening of the Gun, David Carr redefines memoir with the revelatory tale of his years as an addict and chronicles his trip from crack-house usual to normal columnist for the hot York Times. equipped on sixty videotaped interviews, criminal and scientific documents, and 3 years of reporting, The evening of the Gun is a ferocious story that makes use of the instruments of journalism to fact-check the earlier. Carr’s research of his personal background finds that his odyssey via habit, restoration, melanoma, and lifestyles as a unmarried father or mother was once way more harrowing—and, in any case, extra miraculous—than he allowed himself to remember.

Fierce, gritty, and memorable, The evening of the Gun is “an odyssey you’ll locate difficult to fail to remember” (People).

By Robert Galbraith

Private investigator Cormoran Strike returns in a brand new secret from Robert Galbraith, writer of the number one overseas bestseller The Cuckoo's Calling.

By Jonathan Kellerman

The final of the grand outdated Fauborg resort in Beverly Hills is a tragic party for longtime buyers Alex Delaware and Robin Castagna, who move there one final time for cocktails. yet much more poignant—and curious—is a amazing younger girl in stylish clothes and darkish glasses, on my own there and ready in useless. days later, police detective Milo Sturgis comes looking his psychologist comrade’s insights a couple of grisly murder. To Alex’s surprise, the brutalized sufferer is similar appealing lady whose lonely hours sipping champagne on the Fauborg could have been her final. but if a sordid revelation eventually cracks the case open, the secrets and techniques that spill out can make Alex and Milo’s most sensible efforts to shut this crime not only very unlikely yet fatal.

By M. C. Beaton

By Stephen Booth

Who killed Laura Vernon?

The helicopters are halted. The canines are known as off. the hunt for gorgeous, teenaged Laura Vernon is over. Her physique is located, mutilated, within the forest.

When he's taking at the case, Ben Cooper is paired with a brand new companion: Diane Fry, a lady as tenacious as she is fascinating. the 2 detectives are like hearth and fuel. yet they have to learn how to interact to recognize a killer who's hiding in undeniable sight.

This relentless, atmospheric mystery is ideal for readers of New York Times bestselling authors Ian Rankin and Peter Robinson, and for audience of the hit television sequence The Killing.

By Ulrich Boser

Shortly after nighttime on March 18, 1990, males broke into the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston and devoted the biggest artwork heist in background. They stole a dozen masterpieces, together with one Vermeer, 3 Rembrandts, and 5 Degas. yet after hundreds of thousands of leads—and a $5 million reward—none of the work were recovered. worthy up to $500 million, the lacking masterpieces became one of many nation's such a lot awesome unsolved mysteries.

After the loss of life of famed paintings detective Harold Smith, reporter Ulrich Boser determined to soak up the case. Exploring Smith's unfinished leads, Boser travels deep into the paintings underworld and is derived throughout a extraordinary forged of characters, together with an excellent rock 'n' roll thief, a gangster who professes his innocence in rhyming verse, and the enigmatic overdue Boston heiress Isabella Stewart Gardner herself. Boser turns into more and more passionate about the case and at last uncovers startling new proof in regards to the identities of the thieves. A story of paintings and greed, of obsession and loss, The Gardner Heist is as compelling because the stolen masterpieces themselves.

By Mark Roberts

While a nine-year-old boy is left to die inside of a burning automobile on a sink property in Peckham, DCI David Rosen is drafted in to enquire. The younger boy has been seriously burned, and is now scuffling with for his lifestyles. As Rosen and his group start to scour the crime scene for forensic proof, they realize anything chilling; a graffiti photo of a sinister eye, drawn in beautiful element above the positioning of the wreckage - and in the back of it, a chain of mysterious markings, etched into the wall. might the markings signify a mystery code left via the killer - a code that would carry the foremost to the investigation?

Eleven-year-old Macy Conner is the one witness to the arson assault. Macy is an strange baby - deeply observant and articulate. however the extra Rosen examines her testimony, the extra he begins to question her model of occasions. quickly, Rosen starts off to determine that Macy isn't really the blameless, misplaced little woman she seems to be - there are darker forces at paintings one of the young ones of the property. DCI Rosen needs to struggle to get to the reality sooner than one other assault happens, and one other soul is taken.

By Carl Hiaasen

Chaz Perrone may possibly care extra approximately Hummers than hammerheads, yet he’s performed pretty much for himself as a marine biologist, doctoring water samples in order that an agribusiness wealthy person can proceed dumping fertilizer into the Everglades. while Chaz suspects that his spouse, Joey Perrone, has discovered his rip-off, he resolves to push her overboard a cruise liner into the seething Atlantic. but when Chaz is a subpar scientist, he’s an excellent worse killer. Joey, clinging blindly to a bale of Jamaican pot, is plucked from the sea by way of a rugged stranger. rather than speeding to the gurus, she seizes the chance to stick lifeless and, together with her new friend’s aid, screw with Chaz till he screws himself. upload in an ill-tempered detective with a penchant for albino pythons, an oddly hirsute bodyguard hooked on fentanyl, and an unscrupulous boss turning out to be uneasy approximately his lackey’s more and more erratic habit . . . and Chaz’s existence is set to get plenty extra fascinating.

By Gordon Brown

By way of revenge - timing is every thing. input the realm of a Glasgow legal as he rises to develop into the most robust crime lords within the united kingdom, basically to have all of it ripped clear of him. Imprisoned, then diminished to a existence in the street, he turns into hell bent on vengeance.