Kriminalroman. Pit Rehbein er død og sommerens hede har smeltet den sminke, som liget bar - men hvorfor bar liget sminke, det bliver en af opgaverne for den unge kommissær Ina Henkel.
Перуанский рыбак исчезает в открытом море. Полчища ядовитых медуз осаждают берега Австралии. В Канаде мирные киты превратились в агрессоров. На дне Норвежского моря появились миллионы червей с мощными челюстями - и они мешают нефтедобыче.
Различные учёные предполагают, что за этими аномалиями кроется нечто большее, - что-то натравливает обитателей морей на человека. Под вопросом оказывается дальнейшее существование рода человеческого. Но кто или что развязывает катастрофу, исходящую из океана? В поисках виновника учёные и военные сталкиваются с худшими из своих кошмаров и сознают: о подводном мире своей планеты мы знаем ещё меньше, чем о космосе...
The first in a gripping new crime series set in Germany - the Black Forest Investigations
Louise Boni, maverick chief inspector with the Black Forest crime squad, is struggling with her demons. Divorced at forty-two, she is haunted by the shadows of the past.
Dreading yet another a dreary winter weekend alone, she receives a call from the departmental chief which signals the strangest assignment of her career - to trail a Japanese monk wandering through the snowy wasteland to the east of Freiburg, dressed only in sandals and a cowl. She sets off reluctantly, and by the time she catches up with him, she discovers that he is injured, and fearfully fleeing some unknown evil. When her own team comes under fire, the investigation takes on a terrifying dimension, uncovering a hideous ring of child traffickers. The repercussions of their crimes will change the course of her own life.
Oliver Bottini is a fresh and exciting voice in the world of crime fiction in translation; the Rhine borderlands of the Black Forest are a perfect setting for his beautifully crafted mysteries.
В частной школе в пригороде Эдинбурга бывший военный застрелил двух подростков, а затем покончил с собой. По мнению инспектора Ребуса, неясно в этом преступлении только одно - его причина. Но поиски мотивов заводят сыщика куда дальше, чем он предполагал. Инспектор буквально одержим загадочной личностью преступника. Отныне он - его душеприказчик, призванный разобраться в клубке тайн, которыми окутано прошлое самоубийцы. Между тем над Ребусом сгущаются тучи. Подонок, преследовавший его напарницу, сгорел заживо в собственном доме. А сам Ребус вышел из больницы с ожогами на руках.
After the disastrous end to their last case, the Intercrime team - a specialist unit created to investigate violent, international crime - has been disbanded, their leader forced into early retirement. The six officers have been scattered throughout the country. Detectives Paul Hjelm and Kerstin Holm are investigating the senseless murder of a young football supporter in a pub in Stockholm, Arto Soderstedt and Viggo Norlander are working on mundane cases, Gunnar Nyberg is tackling child pornography while Jorge Chavez is immersed in research. But when a man is blown up in a high-security prison, a major drugs baron comes under attack and a massacre takes place in a dark suburb, the Intercrime team are urgently reconvened. There is something dangerous approaching Sweden, and they are the only people who can do anything to stop it.
It's thirty years after the end of the military dictatorship, and former Junta-opponent Favieros is a successful man. His building company is flourishing and preparations for the 2004 Olympic Games are in full flow. What, then, has made him decide to shoot himself on live television in front of a million viewers?
Nobody suspects foul play, with the exception of the methodical Inspector Costas Haritos, on medical leave, and looking for any excuse to relieve his boredom and to escape the suffocating atmosphere at home. The event awakens his curiosity, and propels him to launch his own investigation. Then, when two equally spectacular public suicides - of a politician and a famous journalist - take place, indifference turns to panic amongst the police, who have little to go on. Inspector Haritos is called upon to help unveil the secrets buried on the victims' past, and it seems that the key to the mystery is inextricably linked to the political scene in modern-day Greece.
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