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В Аду все устроено для того, чтобы грешники получили воздаяние за свои проступки. Когда-то тут кипели котлы и полыхал огонь. Теперь же многое изменилось, так как страдания требуют более масштабного подхода. Попадающие сюда не помнят о своих преступлениях – и оттого любая кара кажется им несправедливой, а значит, вдвойне мучительной. Ведь как можно искупить свою вину, если даже не знаешь, в чем она заключается? В этом царстве боли есть сборщики информации. Их работа — фиксировать зверства в месте, где убийства — часть повседневной жизни. Томас Фул — один из таких сборщиков. Обычно он просто ставит на прибывающих донесениях штамп…

A new case of unsolvable murders brings Hell to Heaven in the explosive sequel to The Devil’s Detective. Hell is burning out of control. Thomas Fool, Hell’s first Information Man tasked with investigating the endless stream of violence in Hell, has been promoted to the head of the newly expanded Information Office. Now in command of a legion of Information Men, his new position finds him hated by demons and almost revered by humans. He alone has survived the wrath of demon and angel alike, but he stands alone and at the center of a brewing crisis. New on the scene is the Evidence, a shadowy department whose officers do not investigate;…

Debut novelist Simon Kurt Unsworth sends the detective novel to Hell. In The Devil's Detective, a sea change is coming to Hell . . . and a man named Thomas Fool is caught in the middle. Thomas Fool is an Information Man, an investigator tasked with cataloging and filing reports on the endless stream of violence and brutality that flows through Hell. His job holds no reward or satisfaction, because Hell has rules but no justice. Each new crime is stamped "Do Not Investigate" and dutifully filed away in the depths of the Bureaucracy. But when an important political delegation arrives and a human is found murdered in a horrific…

THE HOUSES ARE QUIET. IT IS THEIR RESIDENTS WHO ARE SCREAMING... "No-one could be that unhappy and be alive..." A chambermaid's seemingly innocent request is granted, an act of kindness that has dire consequences for the guest at THE ELMS, MORECAMBE. Human despair has a power of its own after death, and it is contagious... "I wish I had been right; I wish that it had been a man, or death alone, that had found her..." An unearthly light in an abandoned bungalow resolves the mystery of a missing child, but no human force has taken her. An entity that fishes for children is in THE MERRY HOUSE, SCALE HALL. But will it remain there? "Go beyond…