Florianne Vidal Knihy

Kam se ztratil autor rukopisu, který nikdo nesmí číst a každý se ho bojí?Hedvábník, druhá kniha z řady vysoce oceňovaných detektivních románů s Cormoranem Strikem a jeho energickou mladou asistentkou Robin Ellacottovou je strhující a čtivý příběh.Když zmizí spisovatel Owen Quine, jeho žena se obrátí na soukromého detektiva Cormorana Strika. Zpočátku se domnívá, že se na pár dní někam vypařil – už to v minulosti párkrát udělal –, a po Strikovi jen chce, aby ho našel a přivedl domů.Jenže Strikovi během vyšetřování začíná být čím dál jasnější, že za Quineovým zmizením se skrývá větší tajemství, než si jeho žena myslí. Romanopisec právě dokončil rukopis, v němž s jízlivou zlomyslností vykreslil téměř všechny své známé. Kdyby se román zveřejnil, zničil by leckomu život. Existuje tudíž spousta lidí, kteří ho mohli chtít umlčet.A ve chvíli, kdy je Quine nalezen brutálně zavražděný za bizarních okolností, začíná souboj s časem, v němž je třeba porozumět motivaci krutého vraha; vraha, který se nepodobá žádnému z těch, s nimiž se doposud Strike setkal…Nebezpečný rukopis. Brutální vražda. Napínavé vyšetřování.

On a train departing from Manchester, a woman sits among sleepy commuters, wiping away tears and trying to remain unnoticed. Emily has a happy marriage, a child, and a beautiful home. Yet, she has just abandoned it all, relying on a train ticket and a new name. Hours earlier, she had dressed quietly and left the bedroom without a glance at her husband, certain that if he woke, he would stop her from leaving. Her departure was surprisingly easy; all it took was some money and a few essentials in her bag, while she pushed aside thoughts of those she was leaving behind. Emily is determined to seek a new beginning, to build a life entirely opposite to the respectable one she has led until now. However, a shadow looms: the memory of her twin sister, Caroline, who has always hated her and seemingly tried to ruin her life at every turn. What secret binds the two sisters, and what event from their past casts a dark shadow over Emily's escape? Is it truly so simple to disappear and start anew?

Steve Martini crafts a gripping narrative that resonates with contemporary anxieties and future headlines. Jocelyn "Joss" Cole, a weary public defender from Los Angeles, seeks solace in the San Juan Islands of Washington State. Her only notable case involves a group of commercial fishermen afflicted by a mysterious illness that defies medical explanation, which Joss suspects is linked to industrial activities. Suddenly, Dean Belden, a wealthy entrepreneur, approaches her for legal assistance in establishing a business in the islands. Shortly after, Belden is summoned before a federal grand jury. Tragically, he dies in a catastrophic float plane explosion on Seattle's Lake Union just after his testimony, leaving Joss in the dark about the grand jury proceedings. Meanwhile, Gideon Van Ry, a nuclear fission expert at the Center for Nonproliferation Studies in Monterey, California, grapples with the unsettling disappearance of two tactical nuclear devices from a former Soviet storage facility. These weapons were last known to be packed for shipment to Belden Electronics, a company Gideon cannot trace. His only lead points to Joss Cole, the attorney who incorporated the elusive firm, intertwining their fates in a web of intrigue and danger.