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Эдгар По обращается к Хэммету с просьбой расследовать одно дело.

Жизнь бывшего сотрудника ФБР Роберта Пайна, тяжело пережившего смерть жены, только-только начала налаживаться. Уютный дом. Отличная рыбалка, занятия в аэроклубе, работа над книгой – что еще нужно немолодому человеку, чтобы почувствовать себя счастливым? Но однажды на пороге его дома оказывается странная пара – дама. Готовая платить большие деньги за услуги…

It is a cold, rainy morning and out of the blue, ex-detective Robert Payne receives a phone call from an old friend. Steve Gray and Robert Payne grew up together in the small town of Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Now Steve is a Catholic priest, inviting Payne to the scene of a grisly crime. Another priest, Father Daly, has been murdered. As Payne investigates the priest's…

Smalltown Iowa becomes the site of a grisly string of voodoo related murders, and it's up to psychological profiler Robert Payne, in a new case, to uncover the identity of the killer and the secrets hidden in a seemingly quiet town.

The Frankenstein story is updated to the 21 century by the great American storyteller Dean Koontz. Now someone new is playing god. They are stronger, heal better and think faster than any humans ever created - and they must be destroyed. But not even Victor Helios can stop the engineered killers he has set loose on a reign of terror through modern-day New Orleans.…

The Frankenstein story is updated to the 21 century by the great American storyteller Dean Koontz. Now someone new is playing god. They are stronger, heal better and think faster than any humans ever created - and they must be destroyed. But not even Victor Helios can stop the engineered killers he has set loose on a reign of terror through modern-day New Orleans.…

Его визита ждут со страхом. Его ненавидят, его проклинают, ему угрожают.
Но Келлер всего лишь выполняет свой долг. Без таких, как он, остатки человечества просуществуют недолго.
И никто не знает, как же тяжко дается ему эта ужасная обязанность...

Девятилетний Джейсон подслушал разговор своего отца и его сожительницы. Он узнал, что его отец убил из-за своей любовницы свою жену, мать Джейсона. Отец мальчика Рой догадался, что мальчик подслушал это и теперь хочет прикончить и своего сына, но его сожительница Энджи хочет помешать убийству.

Jack Dwyer is a former cop who got the acting bug after he was cast in a local public safety commercial. He started acting lessons, quit his job, and applied for his private investigator’s license (in very nearly that order). He also took a security guard job to keep the wolves away. The novel opens with Dwyer on a riverside park murder site. He was called there by a panicked former girlfriend. A girlfriend who left him for another man, and a girlfriend Dwyer isn’t quite over.

The woman is nearly comatose when Dwyer arrives. She is distraught with grief and fear. The man who replaced Dwyer in her life is dead in the grass, and the gun that killed him is in her hand. The police arrive and everything fits neatly into a little package. No real investigation, other than into Jane Branigan—the girlfriend—and the case seems open and shut, but something about it bothers Dwyer. That something may be nothing more than his feelings for Jane, but Dwyer doesn’t think she did it.

New, Improved Murder is a seriously good private eye novel. Jack Dwyer is a likable, compassionate, sometimes self-doubting reluctant good guy, who tends to stand on the outside. He is working class top to bottom, and the world through his eyes is a harsh, troubled place, with just enough hope and romanticism to keep him from the maudlin.

The story is a straight shot. It is fast, dirty, and entertaining. The mystery is fine edged with enough clues for the reader to guess the killer, but nothing is in plain sight and it is doubtful most readers will guess it before the final pages. The supporting cast is a mixture of blackmailing psychopaths, prostitutes, nasty businessmen, broken children, and everyman scared; scared of life, death, and nearly everything else. The amazing thing, it is all this and funny, too. Not the story, or the characters, but rather Dwyer’s take on the world as seen through his semi-smart ass commentary and dialogue.