Кристофер Джон Сэнсом4.5 Лондон, 1546 год. Переломный момент в судьбе всей английской нации…
В свое время адвокат Мэтью Шардлейк дал себе слово никогда не лезть в опасные политические дела. Несколько лет ему и вправду удавалось держаться в стороне от дворцовых интриг. Но вот снова к Мэтью обратилась с мольбой о помощи королева Екатерина Парр, супруга короля Генриха VIII. Беда как нельзя более серьезна: из сундука Екатерины пропала рукопись ее книги, в которой она обсуждала тонкие вопросы религии. Для подозрительного и гневливого мужа достаточно одного лишь факта того, что она написала такую книгу без его ведома – в глазах короля это неверность, а подобного Генрих никому не прощает. И Шардлейк приступил к поискам пропавшей рукописи, похищение которой явно было заказано высокопоставленным лицом, мечтавшим погубить королеву. А значит, и Екатерине, и самому адвокату грозит смертельная опасность…
Luke McCallin0.0 Yugoslavia, a German officer has been shot and killed. Along with him a young, beautiful filmmaker and photographer—a veritable hero to her people—has been brutally murdered.
Assigned to the case is military intelligence officer Captain Gregor Reinhardt. Already haunted by his actions in war and the mistakes he’s made off the battlefield, he soon finds that his investigation may be more than just a murder.
Maneuvering his way through a minefield of political, military, and personal agendas and vendettas, Reinhardt knows that someone is leaving a trail of dead bodies to cover their tracks. But those bloody tracks may lead him to a secret hidden within the ranks of the powerful that may destroy the very country Reinhardt has sacrificed so much to protect…
Andrew Taylor0.0 From the No. 1 bestselling author of The American Boy comes a brilliant new historical thriller set during the French Revolution.
Paris, 1792. Terror reigns as the city writhes in the grip of revolution. The streets run with blood as thousands lose their heads to the guillotine. Edward Savill, working in London as agent for a wealthy American, receives word that his estranged wife Augusta has been killed in France. She leaves behind ten-year-old Charles, who is brought to England to Charnwood Court, a house in the country leased by a group of emigre refugees. Savill is sent to retrieve the boy, though it proves easier to reach Charnwood than to leave. And only when Savill arrives there does he discover that Charles is mute. The boy has witnessed horrors beyond his years, but what terrible secret haunts him so deeply that he is unable to utter a word?
Кейт Мосс3.2 1912 год, Сассекс. В двенадцатилетнем возрасте Конни Гиф форд упала с лестницы и выжила лишь чудом. Теперь ей двадцать два, но она до сих пор не помнит ничего, что происходило с ней до страшного инцидента, кроме отдельных смутных обрывков. Конни живет со своим опустившимся отцом, некогда известным таксидермистом, в уединенном доме на заливаемых морем прибрежных пустошах. Однажды девушка находит в ручье неподалеку от дома тело утопленницы, и к ней постепенно начинает возвращаться память, но эти воспоминания не менее опасны, чем поднимающаяся к дому Гиффордов вода, грозящая гибелью его обитателям.
Дэн Дэйвис0.0 Winner of the 2015 Gordon Burn Prize and the 2015 CWA Non-Fiction Dagger
Shortlisted for the Orwell Prize and the James Tait Black Prize
Dan Davies has spent more than a decade on a quest to find the real Jimmy Savile, and interviewed him extensively over a period of seven years before his death. In the course of his quest, he spent days and nights at a time quizzing Savile at his homes in Leeds and Scarborough, lunched with him at venues ranging from humble transport cafes to the Athenaeum club in London and, most memorably, joined him for a short cruise aboard the QE2. Dan thought his quest had come to an end in October 2011 when Savile's golden coffin was lowered into a grave dug at a 45-degree angle in a Scarborough cemetery. He was wrong. In the last two and a half years, Dan has been interviewing scores of people, many of them unobtainable while Jimmy was alive. What he has discovered was that his instincts were right all along and behind the mask lay a hideous truth. Jimmy Savile was not only complex, damaged and controlling, but cynical, calculating and predatory. He revelled in his status as a Pied Piper of youth and used his power to abuse the vulnerable and underage, all the while covering his tracks by moving into the innermost circles of the establishment.
Пол Фишер4.2 Madame Choi, South Korea's most famous actress, is lured to Hong Kong, drugged and smuggled out on a ship. When her ex-husband, Shin Sang-Ok, Korea's most acclaimed director, goes to look for her, he vanishes too. The pair wake to find themselves in North Korea. They are imprisoned, tortured and brainwashed for five years, never seeing each other. Then they meet North Korea's murderous head of propaganda and next leader, Kim Jong-ll. He tells them they have a choice - go back to prison or make movies for him... This is the true story of how thelouple did as they were told - making a cult classic along the way - while secretly plotting a daring escape to the West.
Джилл Леови0.0 On a warm spring evening in South Los Angeles, a young man was shot and killed on a sidewalk minutes away from his home, one of hundreds of young men slain in LA every year. His assailant ran down the street, jumped into an SUV, and vanished, hoping to join the vast majority of killers in American cities who are never arrested for their crimes. But as soon as the case was assigned to Detective John Skaggs, the odds shifted. Here is the kaleidoscopic story of the quintessential American murder--one young black man slaying another--and a determined crew of detectives whose creed was to pursue justice at all costs for its forgotten victims. Ghettoside is a fast-paced narrative of a devastating crime, an intimate portrait of detectives and a community bonded in tragedy, and a surprising new lens into the great subject of murder in America--why it happens and how the plague of killings might yet be stopped.
Iain Overton0.0 SHORTLISTED FOR THE CWA NON-FICTION DAGGER
In some places, it's easier to get a gun than a glass of water.
In some places, you are allowed to carry concealed firearms into schools.
In some places, there are more guns than people to shoot them.
There are almost one billion guns across the globe today - more than ever before. Every minute of every day, someone somewhere is shot. Gun Baby Gun is a hard-hitting and urgent investigation into the gun's lifespan, into our hugely complex relationship with firearms and their undeniable, long-reaching and often hidden impact. Along the way, award-winning journalist Iain Overton unearths some stark truths about the everyday human cost of gun crime.
Asne Seierstad4.1 A harrowing and thorough account of the massacre that upended Norway, and the trial that helped put the country back together On July 22, 2011, Anders Behring Breivik detonated a bomb outside government buildings in central Oslo, killing eight people. He then proceeded to a youth camp on the island of Utøya, where he killed sixty-nine more, most of them teenage members of Norway’s governing Labour Party. In The Island, the journalist Åsne Seierstad tells the story of this terrible day and what led up to it. What made Breivik, a gifted child from an affluent neighborhood in Oslo, become a terrorist?
Bryan Stevenson4.3 A powerful true story about the potential for mercy to redeem us, and a clarion call to fix our broken system of justice—from one of the most brilliant and influential lawyers of our time
Bryan Stevenson was a young lawyer when he founded the Equal Justice Initiative, a legal practice dedicated to defending those most desperate and in need: the poor, the wrongly condemned, and women and children trapped in the farthest reaches of our criminal justice system. One of his first cases was that of Walter McMillian, a young man who was sentenced to die for a notorious murder he insisted he didn’t commit. The case drew Bryan into a tangle of conspiracy, political machination, and legal brinksmanship—and transformed his understanding of mercy and justice forever.
Just Mercy is at once an unforgettable account of an idealistic, gifted young lawyer’s coming of age, a moving window into the lives of those he has defended, and an inspiring argument for compassion in the pursuit of true justice.
