Russian Police

Forensics professor Gideon Oliver accompanies his wife to the Isles of Scilly, which dot the sea like an emerald necklace 30 miles off the Cornwall coast. Julie's been invited here by Russian expatriate Vasily Kozlov, scientist, millionaire, and eccentric. At his home, Star Castle, he regularly hosts a consortium of guests with differing opinions - which makes for some very heated arguments. While Julie's stuck indoors, Gideon looks forward to puttering around the Neolithic sites nearby. But before day one is through, a newer bone turns up, and all signs point to murder.

"Смерть мужьям!" - первый роман сериала о Родионе Ванзарове, талантливом, необычном сыщике и любимце барышень, а также о его друге Аполлоне Лебедеве, великом криминалисте. Петербург, 1895 год. В столице Российской империи стоит страшная, изнуряющая жара.

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Тихий, скучный городок в штате Колорадо всколыхнула трагедия: погибла женщина. По словам одного уважаемого свидетеля, она сама бросилась под колеса. Однако случайно оказавшийся на месте происшествия бывший военный полицейский Джек Ричер собственными глазами видел, как прохожий, с безучастным видом остановившийся рядом, вдруг толкнул жертву под автобус, затем схватил ее сумку и исчез. Ричер не может допустить, чтобы преступнику, каким бы ни был его мотив, сошло это с рук, и решает докопаться до правды.

Five intense and emotionally charged short stories about the interconnected lives of everyday people and the impact of how drug abuse, alcoholism, spousal abuse, police brutality, discrimination, racism, economics, and foreign intervention affect the daily lives of regular people and how they handle and deal with the hardships of their circumstances and how their fight for survival affects their communities and society as a whole. Immerse yourself in these emotional and gut-wrenching stories of ordinary people as they struggle and survive the harsh realities of life.

Ben Stone and Sharon Levin go to an academic conference on accounting in Malta, where Ben will be presenting a paper based on how accounting rules in the US can be used to manipulate company earnings to the benefit of the company. They arrive a few days early and spend some time traveling through Malta, Gozo, and Comino. At the conference dinner, a Maltese businessman asks Ben for help in using the accounting rules in the US to minimize his tax liability. Then, Ben is approached by a mysterious Russian who says he did business with the murdered man. Being an enforcement officer, Sharon ...

THIS IS A SHORT STORY Bill Jedburgh, formerly of the Royal Hong Kong Police and now a gun for hire is chilling out in Phuket shortly before Christmas, enjoying the nightlife and teaching an Open Water Scuba Diving Course. He strikes up a friendship with a charming codger called Clarence who makes him an unusual proposition. The Reliable Man is inclined to help but when some dodgy Russian gangsters turn up and start muddying the waters his blood begins to boil.

В Осло совершено жестокое убийство. В этом деле Харри Холе играет не совсем обычную роль - он возглавляет не расследование, а список подозреваемых. Сам он ничего не может сказать по данному поводу, поскольку переживает не лучшие времена и некоторые события последних дней напрочь выпали из его памяти.

From the winner of THE ARNOLD BENNETT INTERNATIONAL BOOK PRIZE 2022 A death in the family and an unremarkable house burglary suddenly catapult Taylor and Harding outside their comfort zone and into the murky world of the Security Services. The interest of MI5 and connections to a horrible death thirteen years earlier take the two detectives on a bizarre journey to an unknown destination with a frightful history. A risk-taking journalist uses criminal methods to try to get to the big story first, but has no idea exactly what he is getting into or of the dreadful consequences of his actions. ...

D.M. Sorlie is the author behind the Sue Lee Mysteries and the new prequel Sebastian books, weaving a gripping tapestry of espionage, science, and the looming shadow of war in this thrilling new mystery. Set against the backdrop of a tense Europe on the brink of conflict, our protagonist, Sebastian, finds himself entrenched in a perilous covert operation, summoned by none other than Winston Churchill himself. Tasked with a critical mission, Sebastian is to meet two distinguished nuclear scientists from the Joliot-Curie group—trailblazers who, back in 1934, had unveiled the explosive ...

When rock star Joshua Ravensong is accused of murder, Peyton must pit her professional reputation against a growing attraction for the legend. Although the evidence is solid against him, Peyton can't deny this is one bad boy she wants to save.

They call the pool at the Beverly Glen Hotel "the naked hooker." To the frustration of the Beverly Hills police department, the women there are so high class that it's impossible to distinguish guests and girlfriends from professionals. Women flock to the lavish hotel because it teems with film stars, businessmen - and America's richest criminals. Tonight, to detective Masao Masuto's chagrin, there is the body of a naked man in the pool.

A serial killer. An elaborate game of death. Who’s ready to play?A killer is loose in San Francisco, and he’s collecting body parts. FBI Agent Abby Kane believes a dead hiker found 10 miles north of the city is the key to solving those crimes. The more Abby digs, the more she begins to think the killer is playing an elaborate game and there’s an audience cheering him on. But to catch the monster, she’ll have to join in his twisted game. Grab Russian Hill, the first book in this fast-moving, action-packed trilogy.

Когда офицера полиции находят мертвым на месте давнего нераскрытого убийства, в расследовании которого он участвовал, это вряд ли может быть случайностью. Когда то же самое происходит с двумя его коллегами, принцип этих преступлений становится столь же ясным, сколь и пугающим. Ни одно из тех старых дел не было раскрыто.

Он проникает в дома по ночам и неслышно входит в спальни женщин, которые, пробудившись ото сна, попадают в оживший кошмар. Судя по тому, что он проделывает со своими жертвами, можно предположить, что он близко знаком с медициной, и газетчики присваивают ему прозвище Хирург.

V spokojnom i sonnom letnem Oslo soversheno ubijstvo, derzkoe i vyzyvayushchee. Vinovnik ostavil policii ne tol'ko orudie prestupleniya, no i malen'kij brilliant v forme pyatikonechnoj zvezdy, spryatav ego pod vekom pokojnogo. Vskore norvezhskuyu stolicu potryasaet chereda zagadochnyh sobytij, misticheski svyazannyh s cifroj pyat': o nej nastojchivo napominayut pyat' luchej zvezdy i izurodovannaya ladon'. Kazhdyj pyatyj den' policiya nahodit novuyu zhertvu tainstvennogo prestupnika, kotoromu vsyakij raz udaetsya uskol'znut' nezamechennym.

Ю Несбё, норвежский писатель и ведущий представитель северного нуара, не перестает удивлять. Ломая стереотипы, пренебрегая правилами жанра, он показывает человека так откровенно, как если бы мы сами смотрели в зеркало, боясь себе признаться: это я. "В моей голове нет и не будет никакой цензуры", - утверждает Несбё.

Inspector Porfiry Rostnikov is finding spring in Yalta to be quite lovely. But his time off is destined to be short-lived. A former colleague with emphysema has come south to improve his health. Instead Georgi Vasilievich has dropped dead from what appears to be heart failure. The inspector is not so sure.

Manhattan. FBI Special Agent Silver Cassidy, the head of a task force that's on a collision course with disaster, finds herself fighting impossible odds to stop a serial killer before he can kill again. Struggling to balance the hunt for a savage predator with the challenges of being a single mom, Silver finds herself thrust into a nightmare of brutality that will demand every ounce of determination she possesses to survive. ----- Q&A with Russell Blake Q: Silver Justice is a departure from your usual action/adventure thrillers. Why a police procedural/serial killer epic featuring a female ...

Знакомьтесь - семейство Морван: отец возглавляет французскую полицию, старший сын следует по стопам отца, младший -успешный финансист и наркоман со стажем, дочка - актриса-неудачница, зато пользуется успехом в качестве экскорт-girl. Члены семьи прочно привязаны друг к другу, тем более прочно, что объединяет их взаимная ненависть.