Bird Mystery

Radu Anghel studiaza clarinetul la Liceul de muzica din Marele Oras, odinioara manastire de calugari franciscani. Surprinzator insa, lumea internatului, fascinant univers in miniatura, ascunde nu doar chicoteli si farse camaraderesti, ci si o crima oribila, pentru comiterea careia Anghel este invinovatit pe nedrept si condamnat la inchisoare. Experienta carcerala ii schimba fundamental viata, privindu-l de o cariera muzicala de exceptie si aruncindu-l intr-un virtej de drame si intimplari cu final neasteptat.

Twitch has three pet chickens, four pigeons, swallows nesting in his bedroom and a passion for bird-spotting. On the first day of the summer holidays, he arrives at his secret birdwatching hide to find police everywhere: a convicted robber has broken out of prison and is hiding in Aves Wood. Can Twitch use his talents for bird-spotting to hunt for the dangerous prisoner and find the missing loot?

A delightfully quaint mountain town, my cozy tearoom, a missing couple, and there’s something seriously weird about my bird. I didn’t expect to get wrapped up in a mystery through my husband… He’s dead. Retreat to the mountains, settle into my inherited family home and try to move on … a widow with kids and a parakeet. It was a good plan. It should have worked. I didn’t ask for a missing couple to complicate my first days, but there they were…or, rather, weren’t. I KNEW my detective husband was gone … but then here he was. Colorfully solving mysteries with me … he’s ...

تعرَّض منزل خالة "محمد" صديق المغامرين الثلاثة؛ محسن وهادية وممدوح لسطوٍ من نوعٍ غريب. وعن طريق المصادفة العجيبة اكتشف محمد هذا الحادث فتدخل المغامرون الثلاثة للوصول إلى اللصوص. فهل ينجحون في ذلك؟ وما هو الطائر الأزرق؟ وهل حقًا يوجد هناك طائرٌ لونه أزرق؟ "لغز الطائر الأزرق" هو واحد من سلسلة ألغاز المغامرون، وهي قصص ومغامرات تخوضها مجموعة من الأولاد، تسودها أحداث مثيرة ولحظات ممتعة وشيقة.

Detective Adam Reis has everything to prove and mistakes to fix. He enlists the help of local search and rescue and an unlikely tracker to help him find a murderer who fled into the winter Montana wilderness. An old recluse, Clay, comes out of the forest when asked to be a tracker. Clay has his own secrets to hide but reluctantly agrees to help the young detective.

Every parent knows the world can be scary. Lawyer Jen Sutton knows it better than most. And she’ll go to any length to protect her son from what – and who – lies outside their front door. Some might say she’s being overprotective. But isn’t it a mother’s duty to protect her child from harm? Jen has kept her secrets safe. Until the postcard arrives, signed by the one person she hoped would never catch up with her…and her new case begins to feel a little too close to home. One thing is clear: Jen has been found.

يواصل «تورو أوكادا» رحلته السريالية للبحث عن زوجته وقطتها. وبعد فترةٍ وجيزة، يكتشف مكان زوجته، لكن لا تتوقف رحلته للبحث عن ذاته في ذلك العالم الخيالي الموازي. تنتهي الرواية نهاية بوليسية كما بدأت، وتتركنا في حالة ذهول. إنها حكاية تشبه سقوط أحجار الدومينو، لكن ما هو الحجر الأول الذي سقط؟ هل هو اختفاء القط أم زوجته؟ أم هي المرأة التي اتصلت بـ«تورو» وأرادت التحدث معه لعشر دقائقٍ فقط؟

An early morning on a beach in Virginia. As he is taking his daily swim, Arman Bajalan - formerly an interpreter in Iraq - discovers a dead body. After surviving an assassination attempt that killed his wife and child, Arman has been given lonely sanctuary in the US. Now, sure that the murder is connected to his past, he knows he's still not safe. Seasoned detective Catherine Wheel and her fresh-off-the-beat partner have little to go on beyond a bus ticket in the man's pocket. It leads them to Sally Ewell, a local journalist as grief-stricken as Arman by the Iraq war.

Just because you have the soul of a poet, doesn't mean you can't have the heart of a killer.

Die Hütten sind geschlossen bis März – doch der Tod geht ein und aus. Raphael, von Verlusten in seiner Heimat Luxemburg gebeutelt, sucht in Südtirol einen Neuanfang. In der Abgeschiedenheit der Berge findet er in seinem Vermieter Luis einen echten Freund und kann endlich wieder durchatmen. Doch seine Suche nach Frieden wird zum Albtraum, als er beim Wandern auf mehrere Leichen stößt. Auch Luis' Erzfeind, mit dem dieser zuvor ein Handgemenge hatte, wird übel zugerichtet gefunden.

A mind-expanding, deeply humane tour of language(s) - and those who speak, study and invent them - by the best-selling author of Born on a Blue Day and Thinking in Numbers. Is vocabulary destiny? Why do clocks 'talk' to the Nahua people of Mexico? Will AI researchers ever produce true human-machine dialogue? In this mesmerizing collection of essays, Daniel Tammet answers these and many other questions about the intricacy and profound power of language.

The northwest corner of Yellowstone Park is closed for bear management, and Rachel, a bear biologist, is discovering some very startling animal behavior - grizzlies denning in June, swans at their wintering grounds in summer, and what appear to be Irish Elk, an extinct species, with huge, palmated antlers. There are also horrific mutations - young elk calves with no front legs, earless bear cubs, and eaglets without wings. What has gone wrong? Why is this area closed? Who’s covering up these animal abnormalities in the park?

Ein führender IS-Terrorist, dessen Ziel die Etablierung eines globalen Gottesstaates ist, gelangt in den Besitz eines todbringenden Erregers. Damit infizierte IS-Kämpfer tragen das tödliche Virus, unerkannt in der Masse des Flüchtlingsstroms, nach Europa. Eine Pandemie ungeahnten Ausmaßes bedroht die Menschheit.

Those two bad men, Lanky Len and Hefty Hugh, are back! They may be in the city instead of the farm, but they haven't changed their thieving ways. In fact, they're even more ambitious. They're planning to steal a monkey from the zoo and use it to pinch the Queen's crown. It's a pity for them that a certain crime-busting ladybird is holidaying in the very same city...and she's got a good idea that will ensure the dastardly pair won't get away with it!

Our dashing heroine, a famous revue artist, takes to the slopes with her coterie of admirers. Champagne flows and wherever Miriam goes she leaves a trail of gossip in her wake. Fellow ski-resort guests include the celebrated Russian ex-ballerina Natasha Nevkorina, whose beauty is matched only by her languor, Natasha's burly husband, nightclub owner Johnny DuVivien, and the wealthy Flahertés, a family that has made its money importing scents: handsome playboy Barney, his wife, Regan, their two obnoxious children and the governess Rosalie.

Après vingt-quatre années passées au bureau du shérif du comté d'Absaroka, dans le Wyoming, Walt Longmire aspire à finir sa carrière en paix. Ses espoirs s'envolent quand on découvre le corps de Cody Pritchard près de la réserve cheyenne. Deux années auparavant, Cody avait été un des quatre adolescents condamnés avec sursis pour le viol d'une jeune indienne, Melissa Little Bird, un jugement qui avait avivé les tensions entre les deux communautés.

A body in the river is all in a day's work for Detective Inspector Peter Johns and his sergeant, Paul Godwin. But things start to become more personal when Paul recognizes their key witness as a close childhood friend and Peter's son is detained for suspected child abduction. Peter and Paul discover they have more in common than they realized, and it becomes difficult to keep work and family life separated.

As part of an elite IP Crime Strike Force, NYPD lieutenant Max Valentin is in a relentless pursuit to outwit a cunning Chinese spy who will stop at nothing to steal quantum research from a New York City university. Unraveling the threads of a global conspiracy, where confidences are currency and trust is a rare commodity. Max and his team embark in a high-stakes battle for quantum supremacy. As tensions mount it is a race against time to unmask spies and protect secrets that can change the course of nations.

Three families are forever affected when their lives intertwine in unexpected ways, and they are forced to face their inner and outer demons. A detective is linked by his obsession with the killer he is searching for: a figure seemingly elusive but strangely present.

Vivendo em uma casa abandonada, Malorie e os filhos não sabem o que se passa do lado de fora. Sempre com as janelas e portas cobertas e sem comunicação com o exterior, o local é uma área isolada no meio do caos. Até o momento em que uma misteriosa neblina atinge a região e Malorie toma uma decisão que adiou por muito tempo. Após quatro anos trancados, Malorie e as crianças fogem da casa em um barco a remo na esperança de encontrar um lugar distante do surto que matou todos ao seu redor. De olhos tapados, os três encaram uma viagem assustadora rumo ao desconhecido.