Fredrik Welin is a seventy-year-old retired doctor. Years ago he retreated to the Swedish archipelago, where he lives alone on an island. He swims in the sea every day, cutting a hole in the ice if necessary. He lives a quiet life. Until he wakes up one night to find his house on fire.

Fredrik escapes just in time, wearing two left-footed wellies, as neighbouring islanders arrive to help douse the flames. All that remains in the morning is a stinking ruin and evidence of arson. The house that has been in his family for generations and all his worldly belongings are gone. He cannot think who would do such a thing, or why. Without a suspect, the police begin to think he started the fire himself.

In the latest and most surprising novel in the bestselling Leonid McGill series, Leonid finds himself caught between his sins of the past and an all-too-vivid present.Seven years ago, Zella Grisham came home to find her man, Harry Tangelo, in bed with her friend. The weekend before, $6.8 million had been stolen from Rutgers Assurance Corp., whose offices are across the street from where Zella worked. Zella didn't remember shooting Harry, but she didn't deny it either. The district attorney was inclined to call it temporary insanity-until the police found $80,000 from the Rutgers heist hidden in her storage space.For reasons of his own, Leonid McGill is convinced of Zella's innocence. But as he begins his investigation, his life begins to unravel. His wife is drinking more than she should. His oldest son has dropped out of college and moved in with an exprostitute. His youngest son is working for him and trying to stay within the law. And his father, whom he thought was long dead, has turned up under an alias.A gripping story of murder, greed, and retribution, All I Did Was Shoot My Man is also the poignant tale of one man's attempt to stay connected to his family.

Scream all you want, no one can hear...

Inspector Logan McRae is looking forward to a nice simple case — something to ease him back into work after a year off on the sick. But the powers-that-be have other ideas...

The high-profile anti-independence campaigner, Professor Wilson, has gone missing, leaving nothing but bloodstains behind. There’s a war brewing between the factions for and against Scottish Nationalism. Infighting in the police ranks. And it’s all playing out in the merciless glare of the media. Logan’s superiors want results, and they want them now.

Someone out there is trying to make a point, and they’re making it in blood. If Logan can’t stop them, it won’t just be his career that dies.

About THE NEON JUNGLE, James Sandoe of the New York Herald Tribune said: “Very lively show... like reading Dostoevsky on a roller coaster.”

About THE DAMNED, MICKEY SPILLANE made the much quoted statement: “I wish I had written this book.”

And about DEAD LOW TIDE, Anthony Boucher of The New York Times said: “Writing is marked by sharp observation, vivid dialogue and... a sense of sweet warm horror.”

Now here is John D. MacDonald’s finest... ALL THESE CONDEMNED... a haunting novel of havoc and murder, written by the blond, baby-faced, ruthless young man who is passionately interested in humankind’s darker instincts!

Here is a new detective by Rex Stout, creator of the famous and beloved Nero Wolfe, who is the antithesis in many ways of his illustrious colleague, Nero. Where Wolfe is sedentary, Hicks is a dynamo of energy, where Wolfe is subtle. Hicks is brusque and direct; only in one thing are they alike — eccentricity.Alphabet Hicks, a lawyer more or less happy in disbarment, was content to make his living driving a taxi-cab until a certain woman happened to ride in his cab. This fare was the reason why Hicks left his cab and agreed to take a case, a case that turned out to have an intimate connection with the manufacture of plastics, and an even more intimate connection with some killings at a plastics laboratory some fifty miles from New York.That is the beginning, but by no means the end. This is a story with the pace of an airplane written with the skill of Rex Stout.

В настоящий сборник детективных повестей Г. Т. Рябова вошли остросюжетные произведения о правоохранительных органах, о чести, о подлости и долге. Герои, с которыми предстоит познакомиться читателю, не просто попадают в экстремальные ситуации, совершая подвиги или предательства, — они всегда и безусловно идут по острию, их жизнь — вечная и неизбывная проблема выбора.

Denzel Washington, Russell Crowe, Brian Grazer, Steve Zaillian, and Ridley Scott team to tell the true juggernaut success story of a cult hero from the streets of 1970s Harlem in American Gangster.Nobody used to notice Frank Lucas (Oscar® winner Washington), the quiet driver to one of the inner city’s leading black crime bosses. But when his boss suddenly dies, Frank exploits the opening in the power structure to build his own empire and. create his own version of the American Dream. Through ingenuity and a strict business ethic, he comes to rule the inner-city drug trade, flooding the streets with a purer product at a better price. Lucas outplays all of the leading crime syndicates and becomes not only one of the city’s mainline corrupters, but part of its circle of legit civic superstars.Richie Roberts (Oscar® winner Crowe) is an outcast cop close enough to the streets to feel a shift of control in the drug underworld. Roberts believes someone is climbing the rungs above the known Mafia families and starts to suspect that a black power player has come from nowhere to dominate the scene. Both Lucas and Roberts share a rigorous ethical code that sets them apart from their own colleagues, making them lone figures on opposite sides of the law. The destinies of these two men will become intertwined as they approach a confrontation where only one of them can come out on top.A novelization by Max Allan CollinsBased on the motion picture screenplay by Steven Zaillian