Douglas J. Preston

New York Times bestselling author Douglas Preston teams up with Italian investigative journalist Mario Spezi to present a gripping account of crime and punishment in the lush hills surrounding Florence, Italy. The Monster of Florence is a remarkable and h

The Monster of Florence

Psychotic killer Diogenes faces down his incarcerated FBI agent brother, while the Museum of Natural History reopens a long-closed tomb exhibit, a decision that coincides with a series of murders and sparks rumors about an ancient curse.

The Book of the Dead

Lincoln Child

Mörderische Flut

Riptide

Describes the history of the American Museum of Natural History--its founding, its special collections, and the scientists and curators who work there.

An Excursion Into the American Museum of Natural History

Dinosaurs in the Attic

La Danza de la muerte

When Grace Ozmian, the beautiful and reckless daughter of a wealthy tech billionaire, first goes missing, the NYPD assumes she has simply sped off on another wild adventure. Until the young woman's body is discovered in an abandoned warehouse in Queens, the head nowhere to be found. Lieutenant CDS Vincent D'Agosta quickly takes the lead. He knows his investigation will attract fierce scrutiny, so D'Agosta is delighted when FBI Special Agent A.X.L. Pendergast shows up at the crime scene assigned to the case. But neither Pendergast nor D'Agosta are prepared for what lies ahead. A diabolical presence is haunting the greater metropolitan area, and Grace Ozmian was only the first of many victims to be murdered ... and decapitated. As mass hysteria sets in, stoked by an ambitious tabloid reporter, Pendergast and D'Agosta find themselves in the crosshairs of an opponent who has threatened the very lifeblood of the city. It'll take all of Pendergast's skill to unmask this most dangerous foe -- let alone survive to tell the tale.

A végtelen éjszaka városa

O codex Maia

Klappentext: Ein dunkles Geheimnis. Ein eiskalter Plan. Special Agent Pendergasts persönlicher Fall! Auf dem Stammsitz seiner Familie macht Pendergast eine ungeheuerliche Entdeckung: Seine Frau Helen ist vor zwölf Jahren nicht durch einen Unfall ums Leben gekommen - es war ein heimtückisch geplanter Mord! Gemeinsam mit seinem besten Freund D'Agosta beginnt Pendergast zu ermitteln - und muss bald erkennen, dass Helen ihn aus vielen Gründen geheiratet hat, aber nicht aus Liebe ... Der zehnte Fall für Special Agent Pendergast - und dieses Mal ist es eine Frage der Ehre!

Schatten der Vergangenheit ; ein neuer Fall für Special Agent Pendergast

Fever

Klaus Fröba

Der Chemie-Krimi

Formula

Mario Spezi

The Monster of Florence, which was shortlisted for the prestigious CWA Gold Dagger Award for Non Fiction in 2010, is a true account of brutal serial murder in idyllic Florence. After settling in Italy in 2000, Douglas Preston discovered that the olive grove in front of his family's new home had been the scene of one of the most infamous double-murders in Italian history, committed by a serial killer who had never been found and was known only as the Monster of Florence. Preston, intrigued, met Italian journalist Mario Spezi, who had followed the case since the first murders in 1974, to learn more. This is the true story of their search for - and identification of - the man they believe committed the crimes, and their chilling interview with him. It's also the story of how Preston and Spezi themselves became embroiled in the case. Like one of Preston's bestselling thrillers, The Monster of Florence tells a gripping and harrowing story of murder, mutilation, suspicion and ruined lives - and at the centre of it, two brave writers trying to uncover the truth at all costs. This latest edition includes an explosive afterword about the much-publicised murder of a British student, Meredith Kercher, and its connection to the monster case.

Más allá del hielo

Includes reading group guide discussion questions and excerpt from Two graves (p. [453]-462)

Gideon's Corpse

Agent Pendergast involverer sig i sagen, da det forkullede lig af Jeremy Grove findes i et låst og barrikaderet rum. Havde han indgået pagt med Satan, som nu havde krævet sin løn, eller ....

La mano del diablo

Katharina Volk

Thriller

Der Krater

Zdeněk Hofmann

Údolí tyrannosaura

"#1 New York Times bestselling author Douglas Preston takes readers on an adventure deep into the Honduran jungle in this riveting, danger-filled true story about the discovery of an ancient lost civilization"--

A True Story

The Lost City of the Monkey God

"Preston and Child return with the next book in their #1 New York Times bestselling series featuring Special Agent Pendergast"--

The Obsidian Chamber

The New York Museum of Natural History receives their pilfered gem collection back ... ground down to dust. Diogenes, the psychotic killer who stole them in Dance of Death, is throwing down the gauntlet to both the city and to his brother, FBI Agent Pendergast, who is currently incarcerated in a maximum security prison. To quell the PR nightmare of the gem fiasco, the museum decides to reopen the Tomb of Senef. An astounding Egyptian temple, it was a popular museum exhibit until the 1930s, when it was quietly closed. But when the tomb is unsealed in preparation for its gala reopening, the killings and whispers of an ancient curse begin again. And the catastrophic opening itself sets the stage for the final battle between the two brothers: an epic clash from which only one will emerge alive.

Now, available for the first time together in a single volume: a digital-only, value-priced omnibus edition of the "Diogenes Trilogy": -- BOOK OF THE DEAD:A talented FBI agent, rotting away in a high security prison for a murder he did not commit. His psychotic brother, about to perpetrate a horrific crime. A young woman with an extraordinary past, on the edge of a violent breakdown. An ancient Egyptian tomb about to be unveiled at a celebrity-studded New York gala, an enigmatic curse released. Memento Mori.

Douglas J. Preston

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