Stephen Mack Jones Bücher

Eine Leiche treibt im Detroit River. In einem Prinzessinnenkleid. Zur gleichen Zeit schickt die Einwanderungsbehörde Sondereinheiten nach Mexicantown, um Illegale zu deportieren. August Snow, einer gut gekühlten Margarita nie abgeneigt, kocht vor Wut. Höchste Zeit, dass jemand wieder für Gerechtigkeit eintritt ... Die Dinge stehen nicht zum Besten in Mexicantown. Die US-Einwanderungsbehörde macht willkürlich Razzien, die Einwohner leben in Angst. Als eine Leiche aus dem Detroit River gezogen wird, schaltet der Gerichtsmediziner Bobby Falconi seinen alten Freund August Snow ein. Denn die als Prinzessin verkleidete Tote war Opfer sexueller Gewalt und illegal im Land. Offenbar hatte die Einwanderungsbehörde sie aufgegriffen, doch wie ist sie dann im Fluss gelandet? Eine Spur der Korruption tut sich auf, die von der Behörde in die höchsten Kreise der Gesellschaft und zu einem internationalen Menschenhändlerring führt. Zeit für August Snow, die Samthandschuhe abzulegen und für ein bisschen gute alttestamentarische Gerechtigkeit zu sorgen.  »Ein Krimi mit einem Blick für soziale Fragen und einem sicheren Gespür für das Genre. Erfrischend anders.« Washington Post

A shadowy Detroit real estate billionaire. A ruthless fixer. A successful Mexicantown family business in their crosshairs. Gentrification has never been bloodier. Authentico Foods Inc. has been a part of Detroit’s Mexicantown for over thirty years, grown from a home kitchen business to a city block–long facility that supplies Mexican tortillas to restaurants throughout the Midwest. Detroit ex-cop and Mexicantown native August Snow has been invited for a business meeting at Authentico Foods. Its owner, Ronaldo Ochoa, is dying, and is being blackmailed into selling the company to an anonymous entity. Worried about his employees, Ochoa wants August to buy it. August has no interest in running a tortilla empire, but he does want to know who’s threatening his neighborhood. Quickly, his investigation takes a devastating turn and he and his loved ones find themselves ensnared in a dangerous net of ruthless billionaire developers. August Snow must fight not only for his life, but for the soul of Mexicantown itself.

A showcase anthology of the very best in horror and dark fantasy writing by modern masters of the macabre. Here is a hair-raising collection comprising some of the very finest in horror and dark fantasy. Drawing from both sides of the Atlantic, each volume features the work of some of the genres' biggest-selling names as well as their rising stars. In Dark Terrors I, tales by Peter Straub, Ramsey Campbell, Christopher Fowler, Kim Newman, Richard Christian Matheson, Graham Masterton, and Brian Lumley chill the blood.Contents:More Tomorrow by Michael Marshall SmithThe Puppets by Ramsey CampbellSampled by Steve Rasnic TemThe Hungry Moon by Graham MastertonLove Eats by Lisa MortonUzzi by Brian LumleySplatter of Black by Charles GramlichThe Laundry Imp by Christopher FowlerFood for Thought by Mandy SlaterScreens by Terry LamsleyAll My Friends Are Here by Charles WagnerEternity Ltd by Mark MorrisThe Lagoon by Nicholas RoyleAt the Crossroads, Burying the Dog by Jeff VanderMeerThe Travelling Salesman's Christmas Special by C. Bruce HunterA Feast at Grief's Table by Roberta LannesBleed by Richard Christian MathesonWhere the Bodies Are Buried 3: Black and White and Red All Over by Kim NewmanI've Come to Talk With You Again by Karl Edward WagnerFee by Peter Straub

Detroit ex-cop August Snow puts his life on the line to protect a friend from modern-day Templars sworn to protect the name of the Catholic church at all costs. Father Michael Grabowski, a Franciscan priest who has tended the spiritual needs of Detroit’s Mexicantown for forty years, has suddenly retired. August Snow, who has known the priest his whole life, finds the circumstances troubling—especially in light of the recent suspicious suicide of another local priest. What dark history is Father Grabowski hiding? The situation takes a turn for the deadly with the appearance at the Detroit diocese of a mysterious priest and combat vet calling himself Francis Dominioni Petra. The man comes from the Vatican, and as his armored guard circles closer and closer to Father Grabowski and his friends, August wants to know why. A terrible crime has been committed in the name of faith—but who is seeking justice, and who is trying to bury the truth and any of its witnesses? August grapples with his own ideas about his faith and his chosen family in this action-packed fourth installment in the Hammett Prize–winning series.