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Scott Frost is back with another explosive crime novel featuring Alex Delillo. As the heat rises, LA begins to experience a series of power blackouts. As the situation worsens, LAPD is put on tactical alert in preparation for nightfall. With every available cop on the streets, Lt. Alex Delillo and her partner, Harrison, are holding the fort at headquarters, waiting for the first homicide call. But when that call comes in, the voice on the other end isn’t a victim pleading for help. It’s a voice talking in riddles, pointing to a murder that is about to be committed once night falls. Delillo and Harrison pinpoint the call to an office in a brokerage firm in the building across the street. But as they arrive, only a ringing phone awaits them. It’s the caller again, warning them that it’s almost dark, and they don’t have much time to stop what is about to happen to the office’s occupant. Now the killer has Delillo’s attention and his plan is in motion. Dark is coming and it doesn’t wait for anyone. Can Delillo find the killer before it’s too late?

Lieutenant Alex Delillo must face a dangerous serial killer in Scott Frost''s fourth book for Headline. It starts with a body found lying in the centre of the Rose Bowl’s dark field, surrounded by thousands of empty seats. For Lieutenant Alex Delillo, it’s the beginning of a nightmare. The sixteen-year-old girl is found wrapped in a sleeping bag and as Delillo opens it she discovers that the body is frozen solid. The mystery deepens further when her partner, Harrison, recognises her as the daughter of a prominent lawyer who disappeared three years before. A search of the stadium reveals the only other clue – a copy of an etching by the nineteenth century artist Francisco Goya. It’s a picture of a dead woman in the exact same pose as the frozen young girl. The girl’s death is swiftly followed by others. All of the victims are prominent in the community and each body is posed as a copy of a Goya painting. For Delillo and Harrison, one thing is clear – their killer is treading in the footsteps of a great artist who despised the Establishment and now it seems no-one in power is safe. Not even their boss, Chief Chavez...

Set in the suburbs of simmering Los Angeles, NEVER FEAR is a fast-paced thriller featuring Alex Delillo, detective and single mother, which proves that Scott Frost is an exciting new addition to the crime arena.Seventeen years ago, three young women were murdered; their bodies dumped in the wasteland of the Los Angeles River. The serial killer was never found. Now Lieutenant Alex Delillo is forced to re-open the case after the brother she never knew existed, a private investigator, is found murdered. As Alex gets closer to the truth behind her brother''s murder, alarming flashbacks from her childhood start to plague her and she realises that the truth may lie closer to her life than she could have ever imagined. Alex will have to reach deep into her past to uncover the truth behind the killings and will have to use all her resources if she is to find out the truth before those that want to cover it up find her.

In Scott Frost''s outstanding third novel for Headline, Lieutenant Alex Delillo is embroiled in the sinister disappearance of an ex-LAPD officer last seen in war-ravaged Iraq.Cathy Salem is desperate for Lieutenant Alex Delillo''s help. Her husband, Jack, an ex-LAPD officer now working for a private security firm, has officially been listed as missing after he failed to return home from an eleven-month placement in Iraq. Cathy knows that he is in hiding in the States but it is all too apparent that he is too scared to come home. Her only clue to his whereabouts is a package sent by him to her, posted in Trona in Death Valley, with a letter inside it addressed to Alex. Alex barely remembers Jack Salem. They met once years ago and have never spoken since. Aware of Cathy''s distress but unable to see how she can help, Alex nevertheless agrees to look into Jack''s disappearance. It is only when Cathy herself vanishes and Alex is nearly run off the road whilst following a lead as to Jack''s whereabouts, that she realises that this goes far beyond a simple missing persons case...

A fast-paced, furious read, in RUN THE RISK Scott Frost delivers an exciting and explosive debut novel featuring Lieutenant Alex DelilloLieutentant Alex Delillo is at her wits'' end, her teenage daugher is playing up and her workload is backing up. A local shopkeeper is shot to death and an explosion almost kills her partner. When the prime suspect in the homicide dies in an elaborate suicide car bomb, Delillo is led to one man, an elaborate and skilled bomber, eager to play a game with potentially devastating consequences. As Alex tracks her prey, he strikes at Alex''s heart and takes the one person that she holds dear, Lacy, her daughter. Alex must use all her skills, training and knowledge to track the killer and find Lacy, but as the clock ticks downs, the terror escalates and Alex is led to a fiery showdown where she will be forced to make a choice that will change her life forever.

A riveting thriller from the screenwriter of Twin Peaks and The X-Files.   LAPD homicide detective and single mother Alex Delillo knows the risks of the job. But when a series of explosions is detonated by a serial bomber and Alex’s teenage daughter is kidnapped, she discovers the catastrophic stakes as well. The bomber’s next plan: to unleash his incendiary powers on live TV. No one can stop him—because no one can find him. What he’s igniting in Alex is more than a contest of wills and a race against time. It’s white-hot rage. And a mother’s revenge.

Detective Alex Delillo is in a state of shock. Turns out the unidentified body the cops found is that of her half-brother—one she never knew she had—and he’s the spitting image of her father. The father who walked out on his family…the same man suspected of killing three women seventeen years ago. As Alex begins to unravel her brother’s murder, her childhood comes into clearer focus. Soon she notices someone in the shadows, tracking her every move—and leaving a body count.

Dvadcat'' pyat'' let nazad Dehvid Linch i Mark Frost sveli ves'' mir s uma kul''tovym serialom "Tvin-Piks», raz i navsegda izmenivshim otnoshenie publiki k serial''noj kul''ture. Vmeste s agentom FBR Dejlom Kuperom zriteli pytalis'' razgadat'' zagadku: "Kto ubil Loru Palmer?» — i chetko usvoili: "Sovy — ne to, chem oni kazhutsya».V finale oborvannogo na poluslove vtorogo sezona Lora Palmer poobeshchala Kuperu, chto oni vstretyatsya cherez dvadcat'' pyat'' let. I vot chetvert'' veka spustya legendarnyj proekt vozobnovlyaetsya: tot zhe Mark Frost napisal scenarij tret''ego sezona "Tvin-Piks», tot zhe Dehvid Linch vzyalsya za s"emki. Serial, v kotorom my uvidim kak akterov pervyh dvuh sezonov (Kajl Maklahlen, SHeril Li, Dehvid Patrik Kelli, SHerilin Fenn, Dehvid Duhovny), tak i novye lica (Monika Belluchchi, Tim Rot, Naomi Uotts, Dzhim Belushi, Amanda Sejfrid, EHshli Dzhadd), vyjdet na teleehkrany v mae 2017 goda.Tem zhe, komu "Tajnoj istorii» okazalos'' malo, my predlagaem vernut''sya v "klassicheskij» Tvin-Piks i oznakomit''sya s vospominaniyami special''nogo agenta FBR Dejla Kupera, zafiksirovannymi Skottom Frostom — bratom Marka Frosta, osnovnogo scenarista seriala, i takzhe scenaristom v tom chisle neskol''kih serij sobstvenno "Tvin-Piks». Vy uznaete o perepiske yunogo Dejla Kupera s direktorom FBR EHdgarom Guverom, o tom, kak Kuper s mladyh let uvleksya sysknym delom i poluchil svoj pervyj diktofon, o znakomstve s agentom Uindomom EHrlom i o tom, kto zhe takaya ehta zagadochnaya Diana, kotoroj Kuper adresuet svoi zapisi v seriale Lincha…Perevod publikuetsya v novoj redakcii.

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