In the cornfields of Nebraska a woman is found murdered, strung up on a pole, the victim of a deranged killer. It doesn’t take long for the police to realize a serial killer is on the loose—and that his spree has just begun.

Detective Mackenzie White, young, tough, smarter than the aging, chauvinistic men on her local force, finds herself called in grudgingly to help solve it. As much as the other officers hate to admit it, they need her young, brilliant mind, which has already helped crack cold cases that had left them stumped. Yet even for Mackenzie this new case proves an impossible riddle, something the likes of which she—and the local force—have ever seen.

With the FBI called in, together, an intense manhunt ensues. Mackenzie, reeling from her own dark past, her failed relationships, and her undeniable attraction to the new FBI agent, finds herself battling her own demons as her hunt for the killer takes her to the darkest places of her mind. As she delves into the killer’s mind, obsessing over his twisted psychology, she finds that evil truly does exist. She only hopes it will not be too late to extricate herself from it, as her entire life collapses around her.

As more bodies turn up dead and a frantic race against time ensues, there is no way out but to find him before he kills again.

A dark psychological thriller with heart-pounding suspense, BEFORE HE KILLS marks the debut of a riveting new series—and a beloved new character—that will leave you turning pages late into the night.

In woodland outside Ystad, the police make a horrific discovery: a severed head, and hands locked together in an attitude of prayer. A Bible lies at the victim’s side, the pages marked with scribbled corrections. A string of macabre incidents, including attacks on domestic animals, have been taking place, and Inspector Wallander fears that these disturbances could be the prelude to attacks on humans on an even more alarming scale.

Linda Wallander, in preparation to join the police force, arrives at Ystad station. Exhibiting some of the hallmarks of her father — the maverick approach, the flaring temper — she becomes entangled in a case involving a group of religious extremists who are bent on punishing the world’s sinners.

Inspector Thomas Lynley is mystified when he's sent undercover to investigate the death of Ian Cresswell at the request of the man's uncle, the wealthy and influential Bernard Fairclough. The death has been ruled an accidental drowning, and nothing on the surface indicates otherwise. But when Lynley enlists the help of his friends Simon and Deborah St. James, the trio's digging soon reveals that the Fairclough clan is awash in secrets, lies, and motives.Deborah's investigation of the prime suspect — Bernard's prodigal son Nicholas, a recovering drug addict — leads her to Nicholas's wife, a woman with whom she feels a kinship, a woman as fiercely protective as she is beautiful. Lynley and Simon delve for information from the rest of the family, including the victim's bitter ex-wife and the man he left her for, and Bernard himself. As the investigation escalates, the Fairclough family's veneer cracks, with deception and self-delusion threatening to destroy everyone from the Fairclough patriarch to Tim, the troubled son Ian left behind.

Дон Роберто Лучано, глава сицилийской мафии, соглашается выступить свидетелем обвинения на процессе Пола Кароллы, двадцать лет назад жестоко убившего сына дона. Но чуть ли не накануне судебного разбирательства все мужчины в семье Лучано оказываются убиты. Жена Роберто, ставшая внезапно вдовой, две ее невестки и внучка берут бразды правления в свои руки и объявляют врагам вендетту. Теперь они bella mafia, прекрасная мафия, и горе каждому, кто встанет у них на пути.

Je file un coup de périscope hors de ma tire et j'avise une Aronde qui se pointe à ma hauteur. L'espace d'une seconde, je me dis qu'il s'agit peut-être d'un coup fourré organisé par des malfrats qui en voudraient à mes os préférés, mais je décide que des truands ne klaxonneraient pas pour se signaler à mon attention et que, d'autre part, ils ne rouleraient pas dans une Aronde. Alors je lève le pied…

Figurez-vous qu'Alcide Sulfurik, plus connu dans les milieux de l'espionnage sous le matricule S 04 H2, a été kidnappé au retour d'une importante mission en Chine populaire par un commando de rebelles arabes dans l'aride pays de Kelsaltan !Connaissez-vous le Kelsaltan ?Il est situé très exactement à l'angle du golfe Persique et de l'avenue Raymond-Poincaré… C'est vous dire… Pour l'atteindre, il faut, à dos de chameau, traverser le grand Rasibus ou désert de la soif.Et, par ironie, il a fallu que pour accompagner votre valeureux SAN-ANTONIO dans cette mission périlleuse on fasse appel à Pinaud et surtout à BÉRURIER ! Je ne vous en dis pas plus… Joignez-vous à notre étrange caravane et venez visiter le sérail du cheikh BÉRURIER (qui est d'ailleurs un cheikh avec provision).

Figurez-vous qu'Alcide Sulfurik, plus connu dans les milieux de l'espionnage sous le matricule S04 H2, a été kidnappé au retour d'une importante mission en Chine populaire par un commando de rebelles arabes dans l'aride pays de Kelsaltan !Connaissez-vous le Kelsaltan ?Il est situé très exactement à l'angle du golfe Persique et de l'avenue Raymond-Poincaré… C'est vous dire… Pour l'atteindre, il faut, à dos de chameau, traverser le grand Rasibus ou désert de la soif.Et, par ironie, il a fallu que pour accompagner votre valeureux, SAN-ANTONIO dans cette mission périlleuse on fasse appel à Pinaud et surtout à BERURIER ! Je ne vous en dis pas plus… Joignez-vous à notre étrange caravane et venez visiter le sérail du cheikh BERURIER (qui est d'ailleurs un cheikh avec provision).

A young man falls to his death from a window in a student dorm in Stockholm, his loose shoe striking and killing the little dog being taken for his evening walk by an old man. It seems to be a mundane suicide — at least that’s what the police choose to think. But the young man is American, not Swedish, and there are a couple of odd things about his room when they search it...

From these tiny beginnings, Leif GW Persson slowly begins to unravel a puzzle that gets larger and larger as it becomes more and more complex, until it sweeps us into a web of international espionage, backroom politics, greed, sheer incompetence, and the shoddy work of Sweden’s intelligence force that leads to the murder of the prime minister.

The first novel in a dark and dazzling trilogy that has become the defining fictional account of the unsolved 1986 assassination of Swedish Prime Minister Olof Palme — an event that triggered the biggest criminal investigation in recorded history — “Between Summer’s Longing and Winter’s End” is a riveting insider’s combination of black satire, thriller, psychological drama, and police procedural by a writer universally acknowledged as Sweden’s leading criminologist.

GUNĀRS CĪRULISBEZALGAS ATVAĻINĀJUMSDarbs ieguvis trešo prēmiju Vissavienības un otro prēmiju republikāniskajā konkursā par Iekšlietu ministrijas iestāžu darbības atspoguļojumu literatūrā.Recenzents E. STRODS Māksliniece R. KLIECE «Liesma», 1981Rītausmā jūras līča viļņos šūpojas vientuļa jahta. Uz tās nav neviena cilvēka. Kas noticis — nelaimes ga­dījums, nolaidība, noziegums, neizprotama mistifikācija? Sos jautājumus Gunāra Cīru|a jaunajā detektīvromānā risina Inspektors Putriņš,' kurš pats lr pieredzējis burā­tājs un tāpēc labi pazīst gan negadījuma upuri, gan iespējamos vainīgos. Grāmata sniedz lasītājiem ne tikai interesanti samezglotu kriminālpavedienu, bet arī Ieskatu šai savdabīgajā sporta un jūras braucēju pasaulē.

Ради любви… На что можно пойти ради любви? Катя Петровская, капитан милиции, сотрудница пресс-центра УВД, вспомнила залитую кровью лестницу, пакет с его жутким содержимым в руках эксперта, заросшую крапивой канаву, нагнувшиеся до земли ветви яблонь с червивыми плодами, темную фигуру, всем своим весом налегающую на веревку, перекинутую через сук. Лицо, искаженное бешенством… Так на что можно пойти ради любви?.. Принимая участие в расследовании дела об убийстве двух молодых женщин, Кате пришлось заглянуть в черный омут человеческой души. Соприкоснуться с самым запретным, самым темным… И убедиться – реальность иногда превосходит самые страшные сны…

‘Bible John’ terrorized Glasgow in the sixties and seventies, raping and murdering three women he met in a local ballroom — and was never caught. Now a copycat is at work, nicknamed ‘Bible Johnny’ by the media, a new menace with violent ambitions. Inspector Rebus must proceed with caution, because one mistake could mean an unpleasant and not particularly speedy death.