When a high-profile businessman is blackmailed by a notorious magazine editor, his comfortable life is threatened by the salacious exposé. While attempting to field the scandal, the businessman's wife, seeking comfort, begins a secret affair with the wife of his best friend. Then the editor is found murdered, and the two couples have no choice but to descend into the murkiest depths of Peruvia…
The hazy days of Wimbledon are the unlikely first link in a terrifying chain of events. Alex Rider, reluctant teenage spy, is forced into hiding after his recce mission as a ballboy makes him a target for a murderous Chinese gang. Sent to the island Skeleton Key, Alex is thrown into further danger as from there, General Sarov - an insane Russian - has plans to destroy the world. Alone, with jus…
Di lingkungan tempat tinggalku, ada orang yang dijuluki Si Perempuan Rok Ungu”. Dia dipanggil begitu karena selalu memakai rok berwarna ungu. Awalnya, kukira Perempuan Rok Ungu masih muda. Mungkin karena tubuhnya mungil dengan rambut hitam sebahu. Kalau dilihat dari jauh, dia bisa kelihatan seperti anak SMP. Tapi, kalau dilihat baik-baik dari dekat, kelihatan jelas dia tidak muda. Pipinya …
Kenapa aku tidak bisa keluar dari pulau ini? Miyuki dibesarkan di Yuki-no-Shima, sebuah pulau terpencil yang konon dilindungi oleh Simatama-san, dewa penjaga pulau. Miyuki yang bermimpi menjadi artis akhirnya keluar dari pulau itu dan tinggal di Tokyo, meskipun ditentang oleh kedua orang tuanya. Setelah lama tidak pulang, akhirnya tahun ini Miyuki akan pulang bersama dengan Toshiaki, kekasi…
Seharusnya monster itu sudah mati… Cerita dimulai ketika Kazuki menerima surat undangan ungu yang indah dari seseorang yang dia bunuh lima tahun lalu. Tentu saja, dia kaget menemukan pendamping pada sahabatnya yang seharusnya sudah meninggal. Masalahnya adalah Noriko, teman lamanya sudah mati dan Kazukilah membunuhnya.
Roger Ackroyd knew too much. He knew that the woman he loved had poisoned her brutal first husband. He suspected also that someone had been blackmailing her. Then, tragically, came the news that she had taken her own life with an apparent drug overdose. However, the evening post brought Roger one last fatal scrap of information, but before he could finish reading the letter, he was stabbed t…
When two girls are abducted and killed in Missouri, journalist Camille Preaker is sent back to her home town to report on the crimes. Long-haunted by a childhood tragedy and estranged from her mother for years, Camille suddenly finds herself installed once again in her family's mansion, reacquainting herself with her distant mother and the half-sister she barely knows - a precocious 13-year-old…
When their thirteen-year-old daughter Barbara goes missing at summer camp, all eyes fall on the Van Laar family. They're cold, rich people. They own the camp. And it's happened to them before. Fifteen years ago their little boy, Bear, vanished without a trace. Two children lost to the same wilderness. Is it a tragedy… or a crime?
An isolated Scottish island, accessible to the mainland only twelve hours a day. A famous (some might say infamous) artist whose notoriously unfaithful husband disappeared after visiting her twenty years ago. A present-day discovery that intimately connects three people and unveils a web of secrets and lies. A masterful and propulsive novel that asks searing questions of ambition, power, gen…