fb2В Эдинбурге лето, город принимает ежегодный фестиваль, на который съезжаются сотни тысяч гостей со всего мира… Как же инспектор Ребус ненавидит это время! Телефоны в полиции надрываются: уличные кражи, мошенничество, звонки с угрозами взорвать бомбу. А вот и нечто экстраординарное: в одном из закоулков средневекового «запретного города», замурованного под историческим центром Эдинбурга, обнаружен труп молодого мужчины. Судя по всему, здесь, в мрачном подземелье, был совершен ритуал мучительной казни. Что это — кара за предательство в назидание другим? Но кто тогда эти «другие»? Члены религиозной секты фанатиков, бойцы тайной террористической организации, участники преступных группировок? Джон Ребус докопается до истины, хотя и окажется на волосок от смерти, а узнав, кто его спаситель, еще раз удивится превратностям судьбы.
Любознательный человек часто задается вопросами, ответов на которые не существует. Просто потому, что проверить, «что будет, если…», невозможно. Кто победил бы в битве — Александр Македонский или Чингисхан? Кто быстрее и изящнее разобрался бы в тайне преступления — Шерлок Холмс или Эркюль Пуаро?.. Но на сей раз звезды современного мирового детектива и триллера воплотили в жизнь уникальную задумку — свели под одной обложкой главных персонажей своих романов. Впервые фантазии авторов сталкивают лицом к лицу Джека Ричера и Ника Хеллера, Грея Пирса и Коттона Малоуна, Линкольна Райма и Лукаса Дэвенпорта — кумиров миллионов читателей по всему миру. Противостояние героев — и их создателей… Кто победит?
Джон Ребус вернулся!
Пять лет отставки — немалый срок, особенно если тебя отстраняют от любимой работы. Но не такой человек инспектор Джон Ребус, время его нисколько не изменило. Он по-прежнему упрямец и анархист, так же независим с начальством, и никто из сослуживцев не знает, что выкинет Ребус в следующий момент. И даже роясь в пыли архивов отдела по расследованию нераскрытых преступлений, куда его сплавили, только бы с глаз долой, он умудряется в старом деле об исчезнувшей девушке найти следы, ведущие в день сегодняшний, и выйти на серийного убийцу.
Новый роман о знаменитом детективе, впервые выходящий на русском!
Джон Ребус вернулся!
Пять лет отставки — немалый срок, особенно если тебя отстраняют от любимой работы. Но не такой человек инспектор Джон Ребус, время его нисколько не изменило. Он по-прежнему упрямец и анархист, так же независим с начальством, и никто из сослуживцев не знает, что выкинет Ребус в следующий момент. И даже роясь в пыли архивов отдела по расследованию нераскрытых преступлений, куда его сплавили, только бы с глаз долой, он умудряется в старом деле об исчезнувшей девушке найти следы, ведущие в день сегодняшний, и выйти на серийного убийцу.
Новый роман о знаменитом детективе, впервые выходящий на русском!
На ближайшего помощника инспектора Ребуса совершено нападение. Пострадавший в коме, Ребус ломает голову над шифрованными записями в его записной книжке, пытаясь выйти на след преступников. Следов слишком много, все тянутся из прошлого, потом всплывает нераскрытое дело о пожаре в гостинице, из тумана загадок выступает мрачный призрак местного «авторитета», рэкетиры, ликвидаторы, картежники, педофил, не совсем умерший ресторатор — фанат Элвиса Пресли и отсидевший срок гипнотизер — брат Ребуса. Как связать концы с концами, как разгадать хитроумный ребус, который многие предпочли бы не разгадывать — в их числе, возможно, и сам Ребус?..
John Rebus stands accused: on trial for a crime that could put him behind bars for the rest of his life. Although it’s not the first time the legendary detective has taken the law into his own hands, it might be the last.
What drove a good man to cross the line? Or have times changed, and the rules with them?
Detective Inspector Siobhan Clarke faces Edinburgh’s most explosive case in years, as a corrupt cop goes missing after claiming to harbour secrets that could sink the city’s police force.
But in this investigation, it seems all roads lead to Rebus — and Clarke’s twin loyalties to the public and the police will be tested to their limit.
A reckoning is coming — and John Rebus may be hearing the call for last orders...
‘He’s gone...’
When his daughter Samantha calls in the dead of night, John Rebus knows it’s not good news. Her husband has been missing for two days.
Rebus fears the worst — and knows from his lifetime in the police that his daughter will be the prime suspect.
He wasn’t the best father — the job always came first — but now his daughter needs him more than ever. But is he going as a father or a detective?
As he leaves at dawn to drive to the windswept coast — and a small town with big secrets — he wonders whether this might be the first time in his life where the truth is the one thing he doesn’t want to find...
Michael Weston is an assassin with a problem. His latest job has been carried out with customary precision. Yet it has led the police straight to him. Has he been set up? Why? And by Whom? To answer these questions he must first track down his paymasters.
The suspects multiply like a particularly vicious virus. When Weston’s bullet hit home, the diplomat and a British junior minister, both with target. But the victim had enemies too, personal and professional. Weston knows his own reputation is at stake. He made a mistake once before and is still paying for it. Now he must become a different kind of hunter, working through his victim’s past towards the answers.
The trail will take him from Europe to North America, charting a grand conspiracy and the involvement of a pernicious religious cult. And all the time the hunter is also the hunted. Hoffer is an ex-cop with an obsession, hired to find the assassin and enact a dreadful revenge. But Hoffer has only one advantage over the rest... he knows the assassin’s weakness that could prove all too fatal.
What happens when the killer becomes a target? When he takes more risks than he should? If he’s not careful, someone is going to bleed Michael Weston dry.
The first retrospective of the CWA’s Dagger Award winners, brings together some of the greatest names in crime fiction to deliver a cutthroat collection of serial killers, grizzled detectives, drug dealers and master forgers.
Observe as a Senior Curator at the Tate Gallery constructs the perfect crime in Ian Rankin’s “Herbert in Motion”. Watch an unlikely romance sour into a deadly obsession in Stella Duffy’s “Martha Grace”. Face parents who discover their child has committed the unthinkable in Denise Mina’s “Nemo Me Impune Lacessit”. And in Jeffery Deaver’s “The Weekender” an intense hostage situation hits its peak in the most unlikely conclusion.
Keep your secrets close, and your daggers drawn.
Damon Mee was last seen in a blurred security video on the dance floor of a Kirkaldy nightclub. It was a routine missing persons case and it wasn’t even on his patch, but inspector John Rebus said he’d look into it as a favour to the boy’s father, a friend from his school days.
The ripples of the investigation widen rapidly. They lead to the club’s greasy owner, to a slightly bent casino croupier, to a drop-dead blonde whose name nobody seems to know, to a Hibs striker with a talent for goals and a weakness for gambling and, finally, to the shadowy men who call the shots in Edinburgh’s underworld.
When it’s over, Rebus has repaid a long overdue debt and his boss has received an unexpected but very welcome birthday present.
IN A HOUSE OF LIES...
Everyone has something to hide
A missing private investigator is found, locked in a car hidden deep in the woods. Worse still — both for his family and the police — is that his body was in an area that had already been searched.
Everyone has secrets
Detective Inspector Siobhan Clarke is part of a new inquiry, combing through the mistakes of the original case. There were always suspicions over how the investigation was handled and now — after a decade without answers — it’s time for the truth.
Nobody is innocent
Every officer involved must be questioned, and it seems everyone on the case has something to hide, and everything to lose. But there is one man who knows where the trail may lead — and that it could be the end of him: John Rebus.
Peppard and Jarman have a new grift that seems simple enough: Go to the airport. Imitate a hired driver by copying a name that they see in the crowd. Collect the passenger before the real drive does, take him to a secluded area and rob them. It seems like a simple plan to make some quick cash for these two amateurs — that is, until they finally meet a pro.
In this scorching crime hook-up, number one bestseller Ian Rankin and Scottish crime-writing legend William McIlvanney join forces for the first ever case of DI Laidlaw, Glasgow’s original gritty detective.
If the truth’s in the shadows, get out of the light...
Lawyer Bobby Carter did a lot of work for the wrong type of people. Now he’s dead and it was no accident. He’s left behind his share of enemies, but who dealt the fatal blow?
DC Jack Laidlaw’s reputation precedes him. He’s not a team player, but he’s got a sixth sense for what’s happening on the streets. As two Glasgow gangs go to war, Laidlaw needs to find out who got Carter before the whole city explodes.
The action of The Flood, a first novel by Ian Rankin, takes place over a period of twenty years in the life and slow death of a File mining community. At the heart of the novel are Mary Miller is an outcast, believed by some to have occult powers, and her bastard son, Sandy. Mary finds herself caught up in a faltering affair with a local schoolteacher, while Sandy falls in love with a strange gypsy girl. As the action moves towards a tense and unexpected climax, both mother and son are forced to come to terms with the past, in the growing knowledge that their small dramas are being played out against a much larger drama, a drama glimpsed only in symbols and flickering images — images of decay and regrowth, of fire and water, of the flood.
For recent college graduate Ronald Hastie, a job at the legendary Shakespeare and Company bookshop offers the perfect occupation during a summer abroad in Paris. Working part-time in exchange for room and board leaves plenty of freedom to explore the city once visited by his literary hero, Robert Louis Stevenson, and things only get better when he meets a collector who claims to have the original manuscripts of both the first draft of Jekyll and Hyde and the never-published The Travelling Companion (both thought to have been destroyed). Then Ron meets the man’s mysterious assistant, and a reckless obsession stirs inside him. As the life he knew back home in Scotland fades from memory, he desperately seeks the secret lying within Stevenson’s long-lost pages...
Bombs are exploding in the streets of London, but life seems to have planted more subtle booby-traps for Miles Flint. Miles is a spy. His job is to watch and to listen, then to report back to his superiors, nothing more. The job, affording glimpses into the most private lives of his victims, appeals to Miles. He doesn’t lust after promotion, and he doesn’t want action. He wants, just for once, not to botch a case.
Having lost one suspect — with horrific consequences — Miles becomes too involved with another, a young Irishwoman. His marriage seems ready to crumble to dust. So does his home. He is being pursued by ‘The Hell-Raiser of Fleet Street’, reporter Jim Stevens, who also has his sights set on MP Harry Sizewell.
Meanwhile, Miles, pursuing dreams of beetles and moles, is given one last chance for redemption — a trip to Belfast, which quickly becomes a flight of terror, murder and shocking discoveries.
But can the voyeur survive in a world of violent action?