Dace JudinaAmnēzijaDetektīvsērijas Izmeklē Anna Elizabete devītā grāmata. Cilvēka atmiņai ir aizsardzības mehānismi, kas ļauj regulāri nodzēst nevajadzīgo informāciju, jo visu atcerēties nav iespējams, un tas būtu pat kaitīgi. Tomēr reizēm cilvēki vai pat veselas tautas, lai kā pūlētos, nespēj ne atcerēties, ne aizmirst. Dienām, mēnešiem, gadiem…Annas Elizabetes un Mika Kaķīša medusmēnesi izjauc Rīgā uzradusies melno džipu banda, kuras ālēšanās biedē iedzīvotājus. Pēdējais upuris - četru auto pārbraukts akls vīrietis… Pēdas aizved līdz partijai Mājai un Ģimenei, kuras jaunais vadonis pārņēmis bojā gājušā miljonāra Pērkona idejas.Pastaigājoties ar suņiem, Kārlis Mežāju šosejas piesnigušajā grāvī atrod pagasta priekšnieces Lācītes apledojušo galvu. Izskatās, ka to kāds noplēsis. Naktīs Pūču salas parkā klīst dīvainas ēnas. Kādu rītu pie Bergu nama ārdurvīm klauvē pārsalusi, atmiņu zaudējusi meitene, bet pēc pāris dienām no profesora Mihailova klīnikas izbēg Zane, kura vēlas atriebties Annai Elizabetei par savu neizdevušos dzīvi un kļūdām…Jānis Roze 2018

After nearly thirty years in the same job, Inspector Kurt Wallander is tired, restless, and itching to make a change. He is taken with a certain old farmhouse, perfectly situated in a quiet countryside with a charming, overgrown garden. There he finds the skeletal hand of a corpse in a shallow grave. Wallander’s investigation takes him deep into the history of the house and the land, until finally the shocking truth about a long-buried secret is brought to light.

Here is an irresistibly charming tale, beautifully packaged in a small, illustrated and slipcased gift book. All’s quiet at the 87th Precinct on Christmas Eve... until Steve Carella’s fellow detectives appear with a kid who’s stolen a sheep, a robber with a bagful of gold, two guys fighting over a sack of frankincense, and a young couple who give birth to a baby boy at midnight!“And All Through the House” was first published in Playboy in December, 1984.

Peter Diamond, the Bath detective brilliant at rooting out murder, is peeved at being diverted to Professional Standards to enquire into a police car accident. Arriving late at the scene, he discovers an extra victim thrown onto an embankment — unconscious and unnoticed. Diamond administers CPR, but no one can say whether the elderly tricyclist will pull through.

But why had the man been out in the middle of the night with an urn containing human ashes? Diamond’s suspicions grow after he identifies the accident victim as Ivor Pellegrini, a well-known local eccentric and railway enthusiast. A search of Pellegrini’s workshop proves beyond question that he is involved in a series of uninvestigated deaths. While Pellegrini lingers on life support, Diamond wrestles with the appalling possibility that he has saved the life of a serial killer...

When the affable owner of a checkered-tablecloth restaurant in Little Italy is cut down by the bullets of a pair of ski-masked thugs, Fifth Precinct Police Detective Reardon has his hands too full to give a damn about some odd things going on uptown. For instance, why does a noted Madison Avenue art lover suddenly decide to sell his entire collection in an effort to raise a cool million? And why was a well-known Arab oil magnate assassinated?Almost too late, Reardon sees the connection between the deaths of a multi-millionaire and a smalltime restaurateur, and the fluctuations in the international markets for crude oil, fine art, and precious metals. And now that he knows the truth, just how long has he got to live?ANOTHER PART OF THE CITY is a brilliant, hard-hitting foray into Manhattan’s tangled web of twisting downtown streets and crooked uptown lives.

In 1975, six young people stormed the West German embassy in Stockholm, taking the entire staff hostage. They demanded the immediate release of members of the Baader-Meinhof group being held as prisoners in West Germany, but twelve hours into the siege, the embassy was blown up, two hostages were dead, and many others were injured, including the captors. Thus begins Leif GW Persson’s Another Time, Another Life.

The story, based on real events linked to the still-unsolved assassination of Swedish prime minister Olof Palme, picks up in 1989, as the seemingly unrelated stabbing death of a civil servant is investigated by officers Bo Jarnebring and Anna Holt. Under the supervision of their cantankerous, prejudiced, and corrupt superior, Evert Bäckström, the case gets surreptitiously swept under the rug, and the victim is tied to a string of sex-related crimes, despite evidence to the contrary.

Another ten years pass before the confounding truth about the murder victim is unearthed. Just as Lars Martin Johansson, a friend of Jarnebring’s, begins his tenure as the head of the Swedish Security Police, he inherits two files from his predecessor, one of which is on the murder victim — who turns out to have been a collaborator in the 1975 embassy takeover. Revealed now are not only the identities of the other collaborators but also the identity of the murderer: an intelligent, capable lawyer a heartbeat away from the top position in Sweden’s Ministry of Defense.

With masterfully interlaced plotlines pulled from the darkest corners of political power and corruption, Another Time, Another Life bristles with wit, insight, and intensity.

On peut tout exiger d'un bœuf…Sauf qu'il remplace un taureau.Fût-ce au pied levé !Par contre, on peut demander à un taureau de mon espèce de se comporter comme une vache !A preuve…Ah ! y a de quoi ruminer, je vous jure ! J'sais pas si vous avez envie, ou non, de lire ce livre.Moi, à votre place, j'hésiterais pas.P't'être parce que je sais ce qu'il y a dedans ?En tout cas, si vous souhaitez voir un San-Antonio partir à la recherche du plus gros diamant du monde avec une canne blanche, ratez pas cette recase, mes fils !Vous comprendrez alors pourquoi j'ai intitulé ce machin « Appelez-moi, chérie » !Chérie, parfaitement, avec un « e » muet !Heureusement que l'auteur, lui, ne l'est pas !

Arkādijs AdamovsAr niknu vējuRomānsRĪGA «LIESMA» 1980No krievu valodas tulkojusi Vizma Lāce mākslinieks Viesturs Grants Ar niknu vēju: Romāns No krievu vai. tulk. V. Lāce. — R.: Liesma, 1980. — 344. lpp.Populārā krievu rakstnieka Arkādija Adamova (dz. 1920. g.) detektīvromāna sižeta līnija savērpusies vairākos mezglos — dar­bojas gan viesnīcu apzadzējs, gan valsts mantas izlaupītajji, sika un liela mēroga spekulanti, vieglas dzīves tīkotāji. Romānā parādīta kriminālās meklēšanas darbinieku daudzveidīgā, sprai­gām un bīstamām situācijām bagātā darba ikdiena. 1975 © Tulkojums latviešu valodā, «Liesma», 1980Noskannējis grāmatu un FB2 failu izveidojis Imants Ločmelis