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Near the start of this outstanding novel of psychological suspense from Edgar-winner Lippman (Life Sentences), Eliza Benedict, a 38-year-old married mother of two living in suburban Maryland, receives a letter from Walter Bowman, the man who kidnapped her the summer she was 15 and is now on death row. The narrative shifts between the present and that long ago summer, when Eliza involuntarily became a part of Walter's endless road trip, including the fateful night when he picked up another teenage girl, Holly Tackett. Soon after Walter killed Holly, Eliza was rescued and taken home. Eliza must now balance a need for closure with a desire to protect herself emotionally. Walter wants something specific from her, but she has no idea what, and she's not sure that she wants to know. All the relationships, from the sometimes contentious one between Eliza and her sister, Vonnie, to the significantly stranger one between Walter and Barbara LaFortuny, an advocate for prisoners, provide depth and breadth to this absorbing story.

Near the start of this outstanding novel of psychological suspense from Edgar-winner Lippman (Life Sentences), Eliza Benedict, a 38-year-old married mother of two living in…

Роман Every Secret Thing писательницы Лоры Липпман, съемки которого должны начаться уже в марте, рассказывает читателю о двух одинадцатилетних девочках, обвиняемых в смерти ребенка. Девочек сажают под арест, но в восемнадцать лет они выходят на свободу, и в городе начинается новая волна убийств детей. Героини становятся главными подозреваемыми и сейчас им нужно не только доказать свою невиновность, но и раскрыть тайну первого убийства.

Роман Every Secret Thing писательницы Лоры Липпман, съемки которого должны начаться уже в марте, рассказывает читателю о двух одинадцатилетних девочках, обвиняемых в смерти…

Do you think we celebrate the anniversaries of the great? It is they who celebrate the benchmarks of our destiny. So… A royal ball. A history quiz and a handsome prize awaiting its winner. But instead of a fairy we have the mysterious Abel’s “compass” whose prophecies were heeded by Russian emperors. At the crossroads of the four parts of the world is a XXI century Cinderella. Will the fairy tale spring to life?

Do you think we celebrate the anniversaries of the great? It is they who celebrate the benchmarks of our destiny. So… A royal ball. A history quiz and a handsome prize awaiting…

A promise made to a dying man leads forensics ace Enzo Macleod, a Scot who's been teaching in France for many years, to the study which the man's heir has preserved for nearly twenty years. The dead man left several clues there designed to reveal the killer's identity to the man's son, but ironically the son died soon after the father.

So begins the fourth of seven cold cases written up in a bestselling book by Parisian journalist Roger Raffin that Enzo rashly boasted he could solve (he's been successful with the first three). It takes Enzo to a tiny island off the coast of Brittany in France, where he must confront the hostility of locals who have no desire to see the infamous murder back in the headlines. An attractive widow, a man charged but acquitted of the murder--but still the viable suspect, a crime scene frozen in time, a dangerous hell hole by the cliffs, and a collection of impenetrable messages, make this one of Enzo's most difficult cases.

A promise made to a dying man leads forensics ace Enzo Macleod, a Scot who's been teaching in France for many years, to the study which the man's heir has preserved for nearly…

Граждане! Заплатите налоги – и спите спокойно! Между тем, пока вы спите, не дремлют налоговые службы, к спящему подкрадываются охотники до чужого добра: конкуренты-рейдеры, хищные чиновники, прочие стервятники.
Кто поможет человеку, который до сих пор верит в силу закона?
Стас Савельев, рыцарь без страха и упрека, герой романа «Аудитор». Его наступательный арсенал – не тупая сила, не сверхмощное оружие. Он – обладатель могучего интеллекта; он – знаток тонкостей закона, ему известны все нюансы практической работы налоговой и судебной системы. Он – аудитор экстра-класса, налоговый адвокат топ-категории.
Граждане! Не спите! Ваше имущество в опасности! Читайте супертриллер «Аудитор»: отличное развлекательное чтение и практическое руководство по оптимизации налогообложения одновременно. Здесь – вся правда об особенностях российской налоговой системы и аудита.
Евгений Сивков – директор аудиторской компании, бухгалтер в третьем поколении. Обладает огромным практическим опытом. За его плечами победы в таких судебных сражениях, в которых могли бы спасовать самые маститые столичные адвокаты. Теперь выясняется, что на эти темы можно написать замечательное художественное произведение, которое с огромным интересом прочитают самые широкие круги поклонников детективного жанра. Перед вами – первый в истории российской литературы налоговый триллер.
Citizens! Pay taxes and sleep quietly! When you’re sleeping, the tax services are keeping their eyes open, while the competitors-raiders, the predatory ofifcials and other vultures are creeping to you to grab your property.
Who will help a person who still believes in the power of the law?
Stas Saveliev, a knight without fear and without reproach, is a hero of the novel “Auditor”. His offensive arsenal is neither stupid strength nor superpower weapon. He possesses a great intelligence. He is an expert of law niceties, he is aware of all nuances of practical work of the tax and judicial systems. He is an auditor out of the top drawer, a tax lawyer of the top category. Does an unfriendly tax inspection threaten you? Stas repulses this attack. Does the “humane” Russian court is going to turn over your firm to the raiders? Stas shames the opponent. Are you pressed by the ofifcials-embezzlers? The knight of audit relieves you again.
Have some hired bandits joined the forcible takeover? If it is necessary, Stas will steamroller enemies as James Bond did it. He is endowed with strength and adroitness.
Citizens! Stay awake! Your property is in danger! Read this super thriller “Auditor”: it’s wonderful entertaining reading and at the same time it’s a practical guide for tax optimization. Here there is a great deal of truth of the Russian tax system and audit.
Evgeniy Sivkov is a director of the audit firm, an accountant in the third generation. He has a rich practical experience. He has won many judicial battles, in which the most venerable lawyers could give in. Evgeniy is a professional auditor, a popular lecturer, his seminars on the ways of tax optimization, the rules of work during the tax inspections are successful with professionals: both practicing accountants and businessmen.
It turns out now that it’s possible to write a wonderful novel based on these topics and it will be read with a great interest by a wide range of admirers of detective genre. In front of you there is the first tax thriller in the history of Russian literature.

Граждане! Заплатите налоги – и спите спокойно! Между тем, пока вы спите, не дремлют налоговые службы, к спящему подкрадываются охотники до чужого добра: конкуренты-рейдеры, хищные…

Laura Lippman, the acclaimed New York Times bestselling author of The Most Dangerous Thing, I’d Know You Anywhere, and What the Dead Know, returns with an addictive story that explores how one man’s disappearance echoes through the lives of the wife, mistress, and daughters he left behind.

When Felix Brewer meets Bernadette “Bambi” Gottschalk at a Valentine’s Dance in 1959, he charms her with wild promises, some of which he actually keeps. Thanks to his lucrative—if not all legal—businesses, she and their three little girls live in luxury. But on the Fourth of July, 1976, Bambi’s comfortable world implodes when Felix, newly convicted and facing prison, mysteriously vanishes.

Though Bambi has no idea where her husband—or his money—might be, she suspects one woman does: his mistress, Julie. When Julie disappears ten years to the day that Felix went on the lam, everyone assumes she’s left to join her old lover—until her remains are eventually found.

Now, twenty-six years after Julie went missing, Roberto “Sandy” Sanchez, a retired Baltimore detective working cold cases for some extra cash, is investigating her murder. What he discovers is a tangled web stretching over three decades that connects five intriguing women. And at the center is the missing man Felix Brewer.

Somewhere between the secrets and lies connecting past and present, Sandy will find the truth. And when he does, no one will ever be the same.

Laura Lippman, the acclaimed New York Times bestselling author of The Most Dangerous Thing, I’d Know You Anywhere, and What the Dead Know, returns with an addictive story that…

A man with dark thoughts on his mind is racing along the remote snowy roads of Hurmevaara in Finland, when there is flash in the sky and something crashes into the car. That something turns about to be a highly valuable meteorite. With euro signs lighting up the eyes of the locals, the unexpected treasure is temporarily placed in a neighbourhood museum, under the watchful eye of a priest named Joel.

But Joel has a lot more on his mind than simply protecting the riches that have apparently rained down from heaven. His wife has just revealed that she is pregnant. Unfortunately Joel has strong reason to think the baby isn’t his. As Joel tries to fend off repeated and bungled attempts to steal the meteorite, he must also come to terms with his own situation, and discover who the father of the baby really is.

Transporting the reader to the culture, landscape and mores of northern Finland Little Siberia is both a crime novel and a hilarious, blacker-than-black comedy about faith and disbelief, love and death, and what to do when bolts from the blue – both literal and figurative – turn your life upside down.

A man with dark thoughts on his mind is racing along the remote snowy roads of Hurmevaara in Finland, when there is flash in the sky and something crashes into the car. That…

Балтимор, штат Мэриленд, 1966 год.

37-летняя Мэдди Шварц еще в прошлом году была обеспеченной и счастливой женой, матерью, домохозяйкой. В нынешнем она – одиночка на побегушках в газете "Стар". Мэдди решила отказаться от почти двадцатилетнего брака и реализовать свои мечты, наполнить жизнь смыслом.

26-летняя Клео Шервуд была убита полгода назад, а тело нашли только сейчас. Но судьба негритянки никого не волновала и не волнует, кроме ее семьи. И кроме Шварц. В этой трагической истории начинающая газетчица увидела возможность пробиться на новом поприще – и уцепилась за нее.

Совершенно не подозревая, чем это может обернуться…

Балтимор, штат Мэриленд, 1966 год.

37-летняя Мэдди Шварц еще в прошлом году была обеспеченной и счастливой женой, матерью, домохозяйкой. В нынешнем она – одиночка на побегушках…

Lacey Flint, Sharon Bolton's enigmatic protagonist, has been living in a houseboat on the River Thames, and she's becoming a part of London's weird and wonderful riverboat community. Against her friends' better judgment, she's taken up swimming in the Thames, and she feels closer than ever to Detective Mark Joesbury, despite his involvement in a complicated undercover case. For the first time in her life, as she recovers from the trauma of the last few months, Lacey begins to feel almost happy.

Then, at dawn one hot summer morning while swimming down the river, Lacey finds the body of a shrouded young woman in the water. She assumes it was chance―after all, she's recently joined the marine policing unit, and she knows how many dead bodies are pulled out of the river every year, most the result of tragic accidents. But further investigation leads her policing team to suspect the woman's body was deliberately left for Lacey to find. Lacey's no longer a homicide detective, but as she begins to notice someone keeping a strangely close eye on her, she's inexorably drawn into the investigation.

Award-winning author Sharon Bolton has once again crafted a tightly plotted, utterly unpredictable thriller around one of the most compelling characters in crime fiction today, intensely private London police officer Lacey Flint, whose penchant for keeping secrets is only matched by her determination to uncover those of others.

Lacey Flint, Sharon Bolton's enigmatic protagonist, has been living in a houseboat on the River Thames, and she's becoming a part of London's weird and wonderful riverboat…

Rune seems to have finally made the first real step towards her dreams - she has secured a job working for a major network news department. From there, her career as a budding documentary maker can really take off.
However, nothing in Rune's life is ever that simple. She quickly becomes fascinated by the brutal murder of the network boss, and just as swiftly comes to the conclusion that the guy in the frame for the crime must be innocent. This, despite the mountain of evidence against him. But, trying to prove his innocence starts to become hazardous to her own health when a hitman comes to town with her name on a contract...
Full of twists and turns, and with a incredibly engaging central character, this is classic Deaver...

Rune seems to have finally made the first real step towards her dreams - she has secured a job working for a major network news department. From there, her career as a budding…

On the Fourth of July, Old Glory is flying high in Celebration Bay—until someone raises a red flag…

With Independence Day fast approaching, Liv Montgomery is swamped coordinating one of the town’s biggest festivals. In addition to the traditional July fourth events, the town stages a spooky Revolutionary War reenactment that can’t be missed. Every year, the ghost of local war hero Henry Gallantine—played by his eccentric descendant of the same name—appears at the top of the family mansion, kicking off the night’s revelries.

But Henry’s annual cameo goes awry after the ghost signals SOS instead of his traditional cue. When Liv rushes to the rescue, she finds Henry missing and a real dead body instead of a fake haunt. Now she will have to hunt down both a murderer and a missing person quickly before unwanted political fireworks ignite and someone else winds up as local history…

On the Fourth of July, Old Glory is flying high in Celebration Bay—until someone raises a red flag…

With Independence Day fast approaching, Liv Montgomery is swamped…

Two British environmental activists are discovered dead amongst the whale corpses after a whale-kill in Torshavn. The detective Hannis Martinsson is asked to investigate by a representative of the organisation Guardians of the Sea - who shortly afterwards is killed when his private plane crashes. Suspicion falls on Faroese hunters, angry at persistent interference in their traditional whale hunt; but the investigation leads Martinsson to a much larger group of international vested interests, and the discovery of a plot which could devastate the whole country.

Two British environmental activists are discovered dead amongst the whale corpses after a whale-kill in Torshavn. The detective Hannis Martinsson is asked to investigate by a…

No suspects. No persons of interest. Just a girl who was alive one day and dead the next.

Some places seem too beautiful to be touched by horror. Summit Lake, nestled in North Carolina’s Blue Ridge Mountains, is that kind of place. But two weeks ago, Becca Eckersley, a first-year law student and daughter of a powerful attorney, was brutally murdered there. Now the town is reeling with grief, and the police are baffled.

At first, investigative reporter Kelsey Castle thinks of the assignment as a fluff piece. But the savagery of the crime, and the efforts to keep it quiet, hint at something far more sinister than a random attack by a stranger. As Kelsey digs deeper, despite danger and warnings, she feels a growing connection to the dead girl. And the more she learns about Becca’s friendships, her love life—and her secrets—the more convinced she becomes that walking in Becca’s footsteps could lead her out of her own dark past…

No suspects. No persons of interest. Just a girl who was alive one day and dead the next.

Some places seem too beautiful to be touched by horror. Summit Lake, nestled in North…

The author of Independence Slay invites readers back to Celebration Bay for Halloween festivities with more tricks than treats... This October in Celebration Bay, you can't swing a black cat without hitting a haunted house. There are three finalists in the contest for the town's official Haunted House, and ten thousand dollars will go to the winner, with the rest of the contributions and proceeds funding a new community center. Event coordinator Liz Montgomery has invited her friend Jonathon Preston, the debonair CEO of a philanthropic organization, hoping he will award a grant to the center. After the Museum of Yankee Horrors wins first place, the transformed Victorian boarding house is vandalized--and among scattered mannequins of Hester Prynne, Lizzie Borden, and the Headless Horseman, a real dead body is found, one of the contest judges. Now in addition to playing host to Jon, Liz has to play detective and coordinate the clues to unmask a self-appointed judge, jury, and executioner...

The author of Independence Slay invites readers back to Celebration Bay for Halloween festivities with more tricks than treats... This October in Celebration Bay, you can't swing…

Анне Уиллис очень хочется уснуть.

Три месяца назад машина, за рулем которой была Анна, попала в аварию. Автокатастрофа унесла жизни двух человек, а третьего приковала к больничной койке. В надежде обрести покой и наконец избавиться от ненавистной бессонницы Анна переезжает из Лондона на удаленный шотландский остров Рам, где устраивается администратором в небольшой отель на берегу моря. Постояльцы гостиницы кажутся милыми, приятными людьми, но Анна никак не может отделаться от мысли о том, что за ней следят. Что это - просто наваждение или реальная угроза? Неужели кто-то в самом деле мечтает отомстить за аварию? Надвигается шторм, и отрезанный от всего мира остров становится для Анны ареной для борьбы с собственным прошлым.

Анне Уиллис очень хочется уснуть.

Три месяца назад машина, за рулем которой была Анна, попала в аварию. Автокатастрофа унесла жизни двух человек, а третьего приковала к…

Modern-Day Beijing. Mei Wang, 31, lives and works as a private detective in China's capital city. After her resignation from the Ministry for Public Security, Mei saw her status drop swiftly in the eyes of her former colleagues, her TV-star sister, and even her mother. But sharp, intuitive Mei has taken her valuable experience and her insider knowledge of the police and city politics and set herself up as a successful private investigator. Now, with her own car, her own business, even a male receptionist to reflect her well-to-do status, Mei Wang is ensconced in her own little corner of the biggest city in China.When Mei receives a call from the chief executive at Guanghua Record Company, she learns that one of Mr. Peng's top starlets -- the beautiful pop star Kaili -- has been missing for four days. Mei must find the starlet while keeping up the record company's facade that nothing is amiss. Though Kaili is a piece of Mr. Peng's moneymaking machine, Mei learns that she is also a troubled, mysterious young woman whom no one really knows. The discovery of a secret stash of letters in Kaili's apartment sets Mei on an investigation that will take her back to a troubled past that belongs not only to Kaili, but to the entire nation.

Meanwhile, in Gansu Province, a work camp laborer named Lin is finally released from eight years of forced labor on the outskirts of civilization. He angrily remembers the betrayal that cost him his youth and his sweetheart, who was torn from his life when he was sent to the work camp.

As Mei tries to retrace Kaili's steps, so does Lin retrace his own past...and he carries a secret to the case that no one would ever expect.

"Paper Butterfly," the second mystery featuring private detective Mei Wang, is as beautiful and lyrical as it is eye-opening.

Modern-Day Beijing. Mei Wang, 31, lives and works as a private detective in China's capital city. After her resignation from the Ministry for Public Security, Mei saw her status…

Ishmael Jones is faced with a dead body and a missing mummy in this highly entertaining, genre-blending mystery.

Death shall come on swift wings to whoever desecrates this tomb ...

Ishmael Jones and his partner Penny have been summoned to remote Cardavan House, home of the world's largest private collection of Ancient Egyptian artefacts, for the unveiling of George Cardavan's latest acquisition: a bone fide Egyptian mummy.

When a bloodstained body is discovered beside the empty sarcophagus, Ishmael is dismissive of the theory that the mummy's curse is to blame. Instead he sets out to uncover the human killer responsible. But how can Ishmael explain the strange, shuffling footsteps that creep along the corridors? Who is playing games with them ... and why?

Ishmael Jones is faced with a dead body and a missing mummy in this highly entertaining, genre-blending mystery.

Death shall come on swift wings to whoever desecrates this…

Цього разу Ернест Каннінґем опиниться на борту розкішного поїзда «Ган», що перетинає австралійську пустелю від Дарвіна до Аделаїди. Після публікації детективу йому запропонували стати почесним гостем дискусії письменників-детективістів. Ернест зі своєю дівчиною Джульєтт сідає в поїзд та опиняється серед усієї творчої еліти. Аж раптом стається вбивство. Вмить усі стають підозрюваними. І Ернест також. «Семеро письменників сідають у поїзд. У кінці шляху п’ятеро вийдуть із нього живими. Один буде в наручниках».

Книга «Усі в цьому поїзді — підозрювані» — це іронічний детектив, автор якого Бенджамін Стівенсон повсякчас ламає «четверту стіну» та кидає виклик усім сюжетним кліше. Дебютний роман Ернеста Каннінґема «Усі в моїй родині — вбивці» був настільки вдалим, що письменника запросили взяти участь в Австралійському фестивалі майстрів жанру.

Поїздка потягом, який перетинає Австралію з півночі до півдня, перетворюється на справжню кримінальну оказію, коли в одному з купе вбивають людину, що також прямувала на захід. Та як знайти винного, коли кожен у вагоні знає, як скоїти ідеальний злочин і не залишити жодних доказів?

Цього разу Ернест Каннінґем опиниться на борту розкішного поїзда «Ган», що перетинає австралійську пустелю від Дарвіна до Аделаїди. Після публікації детективу йому запропонували…

The old Victorian pier was once a thing of beauty. It's also where twenty-one-year-old Sophie Collier vanished eighteen years ago.

Francesca has spent the last twenty years haunted by the disappearance of her best friend. But when she receives a phone call from Sophie's brother saying that a body has been found, she knows she can't keep hiding from what happened. With her own secrets to keep, Francesca doesn't relish the idea of digging up the past or returning to Oldcliffe. But it is time to go back to where she grew up, and it looks like she isn't the only one there hiding truths.

The old Victorian pier was once a thing of beauty. It's also where twenty-one-year-old Sophie Collier vanished eighteen years ago.

Francesca has spent the last twenty years…

Joseph and Isabelle Winters seem to have it all: a grand home in Holt, New York, a trio of radiant daughters, and a sense that they are safe in their affluent corner of America. But when five-year-old Ellie disappears, the fault lines within the family are exposed: Joseph, once a successful businessman, succumbs to his demons; Isabelle retreats into memories of her debutante days in Savannah; and Ellie’s bereft sisters grow apart–Madeline reluctantly stays home, while Caroline runs away.

Fifteen years later, Caroline, now a New Orleans cocktail waitress, sees a photograph of a woman in a magazine. Convinced that it is Ellie all grown up, Caroline embarks on a search for her missing sister. Armed with copies of the photo, an amateur detective guide, and a cooler of Dixie beer, Caroline travels through the New Mexico desert, the mountains of Colorado, and the smoky underworld of Montana, determined to salvage her broken family.

Joseph and Isabelle Winters seem to have it all: a grand home in Holt, New York, a trio of radiant daughters, and a sense that they are safe in their affluent corner of America.…

Celebration Bay is full of yuletide cheer—but it’s hard to remain festive when someone’s out to slay Santa.

Tis the season, but no one in Celebration Bay is feeling jolly. The local holiday store has been taken over by the new Trim A Tree store, know as TAT by the locals. Their products are lewd, crude and plastic, not at all in keeping with the town’s tasteful, traditional celebration. The manager, Grace Thornsby, is a bitter middle-aged woman who gives new meaning to the name “Grinch”. And worst of all, she’s hired her own Santa to compete with the town’s official and beloved Santa.

But not for long . . . . someone is determined to get the town back to it’s good old fashioned values if it kills him . . . or anyone who stands in his way.

Celebration Bay is full of yuletide cheer—but it’s hard to remain festive when someone’s out to slay Santa.

Tis the season, but no one in Celebration Bay is feeling jolly. The…

A vicious murder puts Bernie Gunther on the trail of World War 2 criminals in Greece in this riveting historical thriller in Philip Kerr's New York Times bestselling series.

Munich, 1956. Bernie Gunther has a new name, a chip on his shoulder, and a dead-end career when an old friend arrives to repay a debt and encourages "Christoph Ganz" to take a job as a claims adjuster in a major German insurance company with a client in Athens, Greece.

Under the cover of his new identity, Bernie begins to investigate a claim by Siegfried Witzel, a brutish former Wehrmacht soldier who served in Greece during the war. Witzel's claimed losses are large , and, even worse, they may be the stolen spoils of Greek Jews deported to Auschwitz. But when Bernie tries to confront Witzel, he finds that someone else has gotten to him first, leaving a corpse in his place.

Enter Lieutenant Leventis, who recognizes in this case the highly grotesque style of a killer he investigated during the height of the war. Back then, a young Leventis suspected an S.S. officer whose connection to the German government made him untouchable. He's kept that man's name in his memory all these years, waiting for his second chance at justice...

Working together, Leventis and Bernie hope to put their cases--new and old--to bed. But there's a much more sinister truth to A killer has returned to Athens...one who may have never left.

A vicious murder puts Bernie Gunther on the trail of World War 2 criminals in Greece in this riveting historical thriller in Philip Kerr's New York Times bestselling series.…

The 1950s are on the horizon, and Archer is in dire need of a fresh start after a nearly fatal detour in Poca City. So Archer hops on a bus and begins the long journey out west to California, where rumor has it there is money to be made if you’re hard-working, lucky, criminal—or all three.

Along the way, Archer stops in Reno, where a stroke of fortune delivers him a wad of cash and an eye-popping blood-red 1939 Delahaye convertible—plus a companion for the final leg of the journey, an aspiring actress named Liberty Callahan who is planning to try her luck in Hollywood. But when the two arrive in Bay Town, California, Archer quickly discovers that the hordes of people who flocked there seeking fame and fortune landed in a false paradise that instead caters to their worst addictions and fears.

Archer’s first stop is a P.I. office where he is hoping to apprentice with a legendary private eye and former FBI agent named Willie Dash. He lands the job, and immediately finds himself in the thick of a potential scandal: a blackmail case involving a wealthy well-connected politician running for mayor that soon spins into something even more sinister. As bodies begin falling, Archer and Dash must infiltrate the world of brothels, gambling dens, drug operations, and long-hidden secrets, descending into the rotten bones of a corrupt town that is selling itself as the promised land—but might actually be the road to perdition, and Archer’s final resting place.

The 1950s are on the horizon, and Archer is in dire need of a fresh start after a nearly fatal detour in Poca City. So Archer hops on a bus and begins the long journey out west to…

Acclaimed bestselling novelist Kunihiko Hidaka is found brutally murdered in his home on the night before he's planning to leave Japan and relocate to Vancouver. His body is found in his office, a locked room, within his locked house, by his wife and his best friend, both of whom have rock solid alibis. Or so it seems.

At the crime scene, Police Detective Kyochiro Kaga recognizes Hidaka's best friend, Osamu Nonoguchi. Years ago when they were both teachers, they were colleagues at the same public school. Kaga went on to join the police force while Nonoguchi eventually left to become a full-time writer, though with not nearly the success of his friend Hidaka.

As Kaga investigates, he eventually uncovers evidence that indicates that the two writers' relationship was very different that they claimed, that they were anything but best friends. But the question before Kaga isn't necessarily who, or how, but why. In a brilliantly realized tale of cat and mouse, the detective and the killer battle over the truth of the past and how events that led to the murder really unfolded. And if Kaga isn't able to uncover and prove why the murder was committed, then the truth may never come out.

Malice is one of the bestselling—the most acclaimed—novels in Keigo Higashino's series featuring police detective Kyochiro Kaga, one of the most popular creations of the bestselling novelist in Asia.

Acclaimed bestselling novelist Kunihiko Hidaka is found brutally murdered in his home on the night before he's planning to leave Japan and relocate to Vancouver. His body is found…

"Having come thus far in his deliberations, Van Veeteren gave in to temptation and lit a cigarette. It was time to address the big question, and that would no doubt need a bit of extra effort. "

"Why? "

"Why in hell's name should anybody march up to somebody's door, ring the bell and shoot whoever opened it?"

A young woman shivers in the December cold as her mother's body is laid to rest in a cemetery. The only thing that warms her is the thought of the revenge she will soon take . . .

Then a middle-aged man is killed at his home, shot twice in the chest and twice below the belt. He had recently received a series of bizarre phone calls where an old song is played down the line - evoking an eerie sense of both familiarity and unease. Before the police can find the culprit, a second man is killed in the same way.

Chief Inspector Van Veeteren and his team must dig far back into each man's past - but with few clues at each crime scene, can they find the killer before anyone else dies?

"Having come thus far in his deliberations, Van Veeteren gave in to temptation and lit a cigarette. It was time to address the big question, and that would no doubt need a bit of…