В древних каменных кругах Озерного края находят обугленные тела пожилых мужчин. Все жертвы сожжены заживо. И все указывает на то, что это дело рук одного человека, таинственного серийного убийцы, прозванного в прессе Камбрийским Сжигателем.
Он не оставляет улик, полиция в растерянности.
Пока на теле одной из жертв не находят вырезанное имя одного из детективов - Вашингтона По. Теперь опальный полицейский вынужден вернуться из отставки и вести расследование, в котором у него совсем нет желания участвовать.
Вместе с Тилли Брэдшоу, гениальной, но очень замкнутой женщиной-аналитиком из Национального агентства по борьбе с преступностью, Вашингтон По выходит на след убийцы. Очень скоро становится понятно, что у Сжигателя есть план, и детектив по какой-то причине играет в нем главную роль. В шокирующем финале Вашингтону предстоит усомниться во всем, что он знал о себе самом, и понять, что есть вещи намного хуже, чем быть сожженным.
Клэр Эскью0.0 All the Hidden Truths is the story of a tragic shooting at an Edinburgh college and its aftermath. It is narrated by three women at the heart of the story - the mother of a victim and the mother of the shooter, and DI Helen Birch who is tasked in solving the case. The book is both a "knotty crime novel" and a story of grief "trying to make sense of something that defies reason".
Readers of Kate Atkinson, Denise Mina and Susie Steiner will love it – along with anyone who wants their fiction both moving and gripping.
Кристобель Кент0.0 He stole her childhood. She'll take his future
What would you do if you accidentally encountered the man who once abused you?
And how would you get away with it?
Bridget's life is small and safe: she loves her husband, her son and works hard to keep her own business afloat. Then one day her world is changed forever. The music teacher who abused her walks into a shop with the teenager he's clearly grooming. Bridget is sent spiralling back into her past.
Anthony begins to stalk Bridget, trying to ensure her silence - until suddenly, she snaps.
And now Bridget must find away to deal with the aftermath of her actions...
Дерек Миллер0.0 “Ingenious. Humorous. Wonderful.”—Lee Child
A gripping and timely novel that follows Sigrid—the dry-witted detective from Derek B. Miller's best-selling debut Norwegian by Night—from Oslo to the United States on a quest to find her missing brother
SHE KNEW IT WAS A WEIRD PLACE. She’d heard the stories, seen the movies, read the books. But now police Chief Inspector Sigrid Ødegård has to leave her native Norway and actually go there; to that land across the Atlantic where her missing brother is implicated in the mysterious death of a prominent African-American academic. AMERICA.
Sigrid is plunged into a United States where race and identity, politics and promise, reverberate in every aspect of daily life. Working with—or, if necessary, against—the police, she must negotiate the local political minefields and navigate the backwoods of the Adirondacks to uncover the truth before events escalate further.
Refreshingly funny, slyly perceptive, American by Day secures Derek B. Miller's place as one of our most imaginative and entertaining novelists.
Бенджамин Вуд3.7 Двадцать лет Дэниэл пытается преодолеть последствия детской психологической травмы. Он не в силах забыть то, что случилось, когда ему было двенадцать. Единственный путь — попытаться понять, что же тогда произошло, разобраться с прошлым и наконец принять его. Но события, происшедшие в августе 1995 года, слишком поразительны, ужасны и необъяснимы…
Однажды утром за Даниэлом заезжает его отец Фрэнсис, чтобы провести с ним вместе пару дней и показать ему киностудию, на которой он работает. Но поездка с первых же часов пошла не так, а к вечеру путешествие, призванное сблизить отца и сына, превратилось в кошмар, словно выдуманный Стивеном Кингом, вот только разворачивается он в реальности. Невероятная, почти сюрреалистическая трагедия, случившаяся в те теплые августовские дни, станет преследовать Дэна всю жизнь.
Динамичный, трогательный, пугающий роман о том, что сегодня волнует многих — о том, как травмы детства определяют нашу жизнь, о тесном сплетении любви и насилия. Роман Бенджамина Вуда тревожен, элегантен и очень красив. Он соткан из искрящего электричеством напряжения, погружений в искаженное сознание взрослого и света надежды, что живет в душе ребенка.
Donna Leon0.0 "Your situation is always ambiguous, isn't it, Guido?," his father-in-law, Count Orazio Falier, observes of Donna Leon's soulful detective, Guido Brunetti, at the beginning of her superb 28th Brunetti novel, Unto Us A Son Is Given. "The world we live in makes that necessary," Brunetti presciently replies. Count Falier was urging his Venetian son-in-law to investigate, and preferably intervene in, the seemingly innocent plan of the Count's best friend, the elderly Gonzalo Rodríguez de Tejada, to adopt a much younger man as his son. Under Italian inheritance laws this man would then be heir to Gonzalo's entire fortune, a prospect Gonzalo's friends find appalling. For his part, Brunetti wonders why the old man, a close family friend, can't be allowed his pleasure in peace. And yet, what seems innocent on the Venetian surface can cause tsunamis beneath. Gonzalo unexpectedly, and literally, drops dead on the street, and one of his friends just arrived in Venice for the memorial service, is strangled in her hotel room--having earlier sent Gonzalo an email saying "We are the only ones who know you cannot do this," referring to the adoption. Now with an urgent case to solve, Brunetti reluctantly untangles the long-hidden mystery in Gonzalo's life that ultimately led to murder--a resolution that brings him way more pain than satisfaction.
Once again, Donna Leon brilliantly plumbs the twists and turns of the human condition, reuniting us with some of crime fiction's most memorable and enduring characters.
Belinda Bauer3.8 On a stifling summer's day, eleven-year-old Jack and his two sisters sit in their broken-down car, waiting for their mother to come back and rescue them. Jack's in charge, she'd said. I won't be long.
But she doesn't come back. She never comes back. And life as the children know it is changed for ever.
Three years later, Jack is still in charge - of his sisters, of supporting them all, of making sure nobody knows they're alone in the house, and - quite suddenly - of finding out the truth about what happened to his mother. . .
Рэй Целестин0.0 Ray Celestin heads to New York City, for the third book in his award-winning City Blues quartet, The Mobster’s Lament.
Fall, 1947. New York City.
Private Investigator Ida Davis has been called to New York by her old partner, Michael Talbot, to investigate a brutal killing spree in a Harlem flophouse that has left four people dead. But as they delve deeper into the case, Ida and Michael realize the murders are part of a larger conspiracy that stretches further than they ever could have imagined.
Meanwhile, Ida’s childhood friend, Louis Armstrong, is at his lowest ebb. His big band is bankrupt, he’s playing to empty venues, and he’s in danger of becoming a has-been, until a promoter approaches him with a strange offer to reignite his career . . .
And across the city, nightclub manager and mob fixer Gabriel Leveson’s plans to flee New York are upset when he’s called in for a meeting with the ‘boss of all bosses’, Frank Costello. Tasked with tracking down stolen mob money, Gabriel must embark on a journey through New York’s seedy underbelly, forcing him to confront demons from his own past, all while the clock is ticking on his evermore precarious escape plans.
Ray Celestin's third instalment in his multi-award winning City Blues Quartet is both a gripping neo-noir crime novel and a vivid, panoramic portrait of New York – from its tenements to its luxury hotels, from its bebop clubs to the bustling wharves of the Brooklyn waterfront – all set as the mob is rising to the height of its powers . . .
Джон Харви0.0 From the master of British Crime Writing comes Frank Elder’s last case.
'An expertly plotted and moving final act for an old-school investigator of the best sort, from a true master of the genre' Guardian Books of the Month
'This is wonderfully atmospheric crime writing – a tribute to Harvey’s exceptional talent' Daily Mail
‘The heavy manacles around the girl’s wrists, perhaps not surprisingly, looked very much like the ones that had been found on the studio floor. For a moment, she had a vision of the chain to which they were attached being swung through the air, taking on force and speed before striking home.Then swung again.’
When his estranged daughter Katherine appears on his doorstep, ex-Detective Frank Elder knows that something is wrong.
Katherine has long been troubled, and Elder has always felt powerless to help her.
But now Katherine has begun to self-destruct.
The breakdown of her affair with a controversial artist has sent her into a tailspin which culminates in murder.
And as Elder struggles to protect his daughter and prove her innocence, the terrors of the past threaten them both once more ...
‘Few writers have even approached Harvey’s grasp of atmosphere which, mingled with some sharpish social comment and utterly believable characters, makes them a must read’ - Crime Review
‘Sadly, this is Harvey’s last book after a 40-year crime writing masterclass.’ - Peterborough Telegraph
Джон Линкольн0.0 Meet Gethin Grey, crusading hero with problems of his own. His Last Resort Legals team investigates miscarriages of justice in and around Cardiff; on the side he gambles and struggles with a creaking marriage.
Izma M. was sent down for the brutal murder of Hannah Gold. In jail, he penned an acclaimed autobiography and attracted supporters convinced of his innocence; the charismatic Amelia Laverne among them.
Gethin is less convinced but he needs the money so when Amelia offers to fund an investigation to prove Izma's innocence, he takes on the case.
The stakes prove chillingly higher than Gethin ever imagined and Amelia shows herself to be a force of
nature, both mesmerising and destructive.
Дэвид Марк0.0 It's the coldest winter in Hull for years. When McAvoy is told by a concerned stranger that an elderly women hasn't been seen for a few days, he goes to check on her - only to find her body encased in ice: the heating off; the windows open; the whole house frozen over. It could be a macabre accident, but when McAvoy finds a series of cryptic messages, he senses murder. Someone watched her die.
As he starts to uncover the victim's story and her connections to a lost fishing trawler, his boss Trish is half a world away, investigating a mysterious death in Iceland. Hull and Iceland have traditionally been united by fishing - but in this case, they are united by a secret concealed for half a century, and a series of brutal killings that have never been linked. Until now - when the secrets of the dead have returned to prey on the living.
Abir Mukherjee4.3 India, 1921. Haunted by his memories of the Great War, Captain Sam Wyndham is battling a serious addiction to opium that he must keep secret from his superiors in the Calcutta police force.
When Sam is summoned to investigate a grisly murder, he is stunned at the sight of the body: he’s seen this before. Last night, in a drug addled haze, he stumbled across a corpse with the same ritualistic injuries. It seems like there’s a deranged killer on the loose. Unfortunately for Sam, the corpse was in an opium den and revealing his presence there could cost him his career.
With the aid of his quick-witted Indian Sergeant, Surrender-not Banerjee, Sam must try to solve the two murders, all the while keeping his personal demons secret, before somebody else turns up dead.
Set against the backdrop of the fervent fight for Indian independence, and rich with the atmosphere of 1920s Calcutta, Smoke and Ashes is the brilliant new historical mystery in this award-winning series.
Уильям Шоу0.0 A murdered migrant is the first big case for the embattled DS Alexandra Cupidi in a new series by the acclaimed author of The Birdwatcher.
No-one knew their names, the bodies found in the water. There are people here, in plain sight, that no-one ever notices at all.
DS Alexandra Cupidi has done it again. She should have learnt to keep her big mouth shut, after the scandal that sent her packing - resentful teenager in tow - from the London Met to the lonely Kent coastline. Even murder looks different in this landscape of fens, ditches and stark beaches, shadowed by the towers of Dungeness power station. Murder looks a lot less pretty.
The man drowned in the slurry pit had been herded there like an animal. He was North African, like many of the fruit pickers that work the fields. The more Cupidi discovers, the more she wants to ask - but these people are suspicious of questions.
It will take an understanding of this strange place - its old ways and new crimes - to uncover the dark conspiracy behind the murder. Cupidi is not afraid to travel that road. But she should be. She should, by now, have learnt.
Salt Lane is the first in the new DS Alexandra Cupidi series. With his trademark characterisation and flair for social commentary, William Shaw has crafted a crime novel for our time that grips you, mind and heart.
Peter Swanson4.0 Catching a killer is dangerous—especially if he lives next door
Hen and her husband Lloyd have settled into a quiet life in a new house outside of Boston, Massachusetts. Hen (short for Henrietta) is an illustrator and works out of a studio nearby, and has found the right meds to control her bipolar disorder. Finally, she’s found some stability and peace.
But when they meet the neighbors next door, that calm begins to erode as she spots a familiar object displayed on the husband’s office shelf. The sports trophy looks exactly like one that went missing from the home of a young man who was killed two years ago. Hen knows because she’s long had a fascination with this unsolved murder—an obsession she doesn’t talk about anymore, but can’t fully shake either.
Could her neighbor, Matthew, be a killer? Or is this the beginning of another psychotic episode like the one she suffered back in college, when she became so consumed with proving a fellow student guilty that she ended up hurting a classmate?
The more Hen observes Matthew, the more she suspects he’s planning something truly terrifying. Yet no one will believe her. Then one night, when she comes face to face with Matthew in a dark parking lot, she realizes that he knows she’s been watching him, that she’s really on to him. And that this is the beginning of a horrifying nightmare she may not live to escape. . .
Andrew Taylor4.3 The Great Fire has ravaged London, wreaking destruction and devastation wherever its flames spread. Now, guided by the incorruptible Fire Court, the city is slowly rebuilding, but times are volatile and danger is only ever a heartbeat away.
James Marwood, son of a traitor, is thrust into this treacherous environment when his ailing father claims to have stumbled upon a murdered woman – in the very place where the Fire Court sits. Then his father is run down and killed. Accident? Or another murder…?
Determined to uncover the truth, Marwood turns to the one person he can trust – Cat Lovett, the daughter of a despised regicide. Marwood has helped her in the past. Now it’s her turn to help him. But then comes a third death… and Marwood and Cat are forced to confront a vicious and increasingly desperate killer whose actions threaten the future of the city itself.
Дов Элфон0.0 Chinese gangsters and Israeli intelligence face off in Paris - Israel's bestselling book of 2017, perfect for fans of Homeland, John Le Carré and Mick Herron.
When an Israeli tech entrepreneur disappears from Charles de Gaulle airport with a woman in red, logic dictates youthful indiscretion. But Israel is on a state of high alert nonetheless. Colonel Zeev Abadi, the new head of Unit 8200's autonomous Special Section, who just happens to be in Paris, also just happens to have arrived on the same flight.
For Commissaire Léger of the Paris Police coincidences have their reasons, and most are suspect. When a second young Israeli is kidnapped soon after arriving on the same flight, this time at gunpoint from his hotel room, his suspicions are confirmed - and a diplomatic incident looms.
Back in Tel Aviv, Lieutenant Oriana Talmor, Abadi's deputy, is his only ally, applying her sharp wits to the race to identify the victims and the reasons behind their abduction. In Paris a covert Chinese commando team listens to the investigation unfurl and watches from the rooftops. While by the hour the morgue receives more bodies from the river and the city's arrondissements.
The clock has been set. And this could be a long night in the City of Lights.
Карин Бринар0.0 Inspector Albertus Beeslaar has left the ruthless city, only to have his hopes of finding peace and quiet in the Kalahari shattered by the brutal murder of artist Freddie Swarts and her adopted daughter.
But Freddie’s journalist sister Sara is not convinced that this was a typical farm attack.
Amid a spate of stock thefts, Beeslaar must solve this high-profile crime, all the while training his two rookie partners, Ghaap and Pyl.
After more murders, the disturbing puzzle grows increasingly sinister, as age-old secrets and hostilities surface, spurring the local inhabitants to violent action. No one is above suspicion, not least the mysterious Bushman farm manager and falconer, Dam.
Weeping Waters is Maya Fowler and Isobel Dixon’s translation of the Afrikaans bestseller Plaasmoord, a novel that peels away the layers of a landscape steeped in conflict, and hails the arrival of a bright new voice in South African crime fiction available in English.
Джанрико Карофильо0.0 The summer of 1992 had been exceptionally cold in southern Italy. But that’s not the reason why it is still remembered. On May 23, 1992, a roadside explosion killed the Palermo judge Giovanni Falcone, his wife and three police officers. A few weeks later judge Paolo Borsellino and five police officers were killed in the center of Palermo. These anti-mafia judges became heroes but the violence spread to the region of Bari in Puglia, where we meet a new, memorable character, Maresciallo Pietro Fenoglio, an officer of the Italian Carabinieri. Fenoglio, recently abandoned by his wife, must simultaneously deal with his personal crisis and the new gang wars raging around Bari. The police are stymied until a gang member, accused of killing a child, decides to collaborate, revealing the inner workings and the rules governing organised crime in the area. The story is narrated through the actual testimony of the informant, a trope reminiscent of verbatim theatre which Carofiglio, an ex-anti-mafia judge himself, uses to great effect. The gangs are stopped but the mystery of the boy’s murder must still be solved, leading Fenoglio into a world of deep moral ambiguity, where the prosecutors are hard to distinguish from the prosecuted.
Кэйго Хигасино0.0 International bestseller Keigo Higashino returns with his latest mindbender—newly transferred Tokyo Police Detective Kyoichiro Kaga is assigned to a baffling murder.
Detective Kyoichiro Kaga of the Tokyo Police Department has just been transferred to a new precinct in the Nihonbashi area of Tokyo. Newly arrived, but with a great deal of experience, Kaga is promptly assigned to the team investigating the murder of a woman. But the more he investigates, the greater number of potential suspects emerges. It isn’t long before it seems nearly all the people living and working in the business district of Nihonbashi have a motive for murder. To prevent the murderer from eluding justice, Kaga must unravel all the secrets surrounding a complicated life. Buried somewhere in the woman’s past, in her family history, and the last few days of her life is the clue that will lead to the murderer.
From the international bestseller Keigo Higashino, author of The Devotion of Suspect X, comes one of his finest works of crime fiction yet.
Хокан Нессер0.0 Ett antal svenska turister umgås ett par sommarveckor i Finistère i Bretagne i början på 2000-talet, två par och två löshästar, sex nyblivna vänner inalles. De badar, äter, gör utflykter och flirtar en smula över äktenskapsgränserna. Kvar finns några spridda foton, möjligen en gruppbild, en akvarell, och en anonym dagbok som skildrar deras eskapader.
Fem år senare börjar någon döda dem, en efter en, men först sedan kriminalinspektör Gunnar Barbarotti i Kymlinge brevledes förvarnats om morden. Det förblir ett uppmärksammat men ouppklarat mysterium och drevet mot den ansvarige polisen går i kvällspressen.
I den andra boken om Gunnar Barbarotti får vi på nytt möta den luttrade tvivlaren och intresserade bedjaren som vi lärde känna i romanen Människa utan hund. Hans yrkeskarriär förefaller honom alltmer dubiös medan tillvaron i övrigt plötsligt tycks full av nya möjligheter.
Under mottot ”lita aldrig på författaren” iscensätts här en spännande historia om kärlek, svartsjuka och hämnd.Till skillnad från första romanen om Gunnar Barbarott - Människa utan hund - som var en (familje)roman är En helt annan historia en kriminalroman...
Кей Радемахер0.0 Shot down during a routine operation, inspector Frank Stave had moved from the murder commission to combatting the black market that runs rife in post-war Hamburg. There, Stave is confronted with an enigmatic case: in the ruins of the bomb torn city, some women have found works of art from the Weimar periodright next to a corpse whose identity the murder commission seem desperate to conceal.
Shortly afterwards, Lieutenant MacDonald is confronted with another problem: mysterious banknotes are popping up on the black market, banknotes whose existence disturbs the secret plans of the Allies. The inspector soon discovers strange parallels between the two cases.
Андреа Камиллери3.5 La giornata comincia storta per Montalbano: intervenuto per sedare una rissa sulla spiaggia di Marinella ha colpito l’uomo sbagliato e poi, scambiato per uno degli aggressori, viene fermato dai carabinieri. Infine scopre che Adelina ha scambiato un galantuomo per ladro e gli ha sbattuto in testa una padella…
Approdato finalmente in ufficio il commissario viene informato di un anomalo sequestro: una ragazza è stata aggredita in una strada solitaria, narcotizzata e rilasciata dopo qualche ora illesa. La cosa si ripete dopo qualche giorno; questa volta la vittima del sequestro lampo è la nipote di Enzo, il proprietario della trattoria rifugio di Montalbano. L’unico filo che lega i due sequestri è l’età delle due donne, 30 anni, e il lavoro in banca. A questa indagine si affianca quella per l’incendio doloso di un negozio di elettrodomestici il cui proprietario, Marcello Di Carlo, pare essersi volatilizzato: fuga d’amore dopo un soggiorno alle Canarie, sparizione studiata per sottrarsi ai debitori o vendetta della mafia per pizzo non pagato? La vicenda all’inizio sembra banale, ma un terzo sequestro lampo - ancora una volta una ragazza che lavora in un istituto di credito - e il ritrovamento di un cadavere apre nuovi scenari. Di chi è il corpo? e dove è finita la fidanzata segreta di Di Carlo?
Sebbene il commissario si senta invecchiare, forte delle sue intuizioni e del suo agire fuori dagli schemi vede giusto e superando la soluzione a portata di mano - mai fidarsi delle apparenze - giunge alla verità. Grazie alla sua logica stringente, ma soprattutto alla sua capacità, quella sì che si avvale del peso degli anni, di comprendere moventi e sentimenti.
Хьелль Ола Даль0.0 The international bestselling godfather of Nordic Noir takes on one of the most horrific periods of modern history, in a stunning standalone thriller…
‘A masterclass in plotting, atmosphere and character that finely balances shocking twists’ The Times
In 1942, Jewish courier Ester is betrayed, narrowly avoiding arrest by the Gestapo. In a great haste, she escapes to Sweden, saving herself. Her family in Oslo, however, is deported to Auschwitz. In Stockholm, Ester meets the resistance hero, Gerhard Falkum, who has left his little daughter and fled both the Germans and allegations that he murdered his wife, Åse, who helped Ester get to Sweden. Their burgeoning relationship ends abruptly when Falkum dies in a fire.
And yet, twenty-five years later, Falkum shows up in Oslo. He wants to reconnect with his daughter. But where has he been, and what is the real reason for his return? Ester stumbles across information that forces her to look closely at her past, and to revisit her war-time training to stay alive…
Written with Dahl's trademark characterization and elegant plotting, The Courier sees the hugely respected godfather of Nordic Noir at his best, as he takes on one of the most horrific periods of modern history, in a exceptional, shocking thriller.
Мартин Хольмен0.0 Stockholm, 1936. Harry "Kvisten" Kvist var en gång en lovande mellanviktsboxare men arbetar nu som indrivare. När hans vän, prästen Gabrielsson, hittas brutalt mördad vid altaret i Katarina kyrka på Södermalm verkar polisen inte anstränga sig för att lösa fallet. Samtidigt som Stockholms kriminella strider om stadens malmar dras Kvisten in i en härva som har kopplingar ända ner till Tyskland. Ett Tyskland där nazismen sträcker ut sina långa armar i ett instabilt Europa.
Jørn Lier Horst4.2 En sporløs forsvinning er et mysterium i seg selv. Men hva om den som forsvinner etterlater seg noe som gjør mysteriet enda større? Det er den tiden på året. For 24. gang på rad finner William Wisting frem papirene fra da Katharina Haugen forsvant. Saken ble aldri løst, og hvert år siden har Wisting oppsøkt Katharinas ektemann, som befant seg utenbys på jobb og hadde et solid alibi. Den jevnlige kontakten mellom Wisting og Martin Haugen har etter hvert utviklet seg til et vennskap. Denne gang finner han imidlertid Haugens hus lukket og låst. På årsdagen for sin kones forsvinning er Martin Haugen selv sporløst borte. Samme dag får Wisting besøk på politihuset av den yngre etterforskeren Adrian Stiller, som arbeider med eldre og uløste saker i Kripos, såkalte cold cases. Den gamle Katharina-saken har forbindelse til en annen, gammel forsvinningsgåte. De to må gjøre felles sak, men samarbeidet med den kompliserte Adrian Stiller skal bli en utfordring for den erfarne Wisting. De to drevne etterforskerne må likevel finne et utgangspunkt de kan enes om, og bruke kreftene på å løse saken.
