Скачать книгу (размер 2 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 452) Аннотация: Nobody likes The Complaints — they're the cops who investigate other cops. Complaints and Conduct Department, to give them their full title, but known colloquially as 'the Dark Side', or simply 'The Complaints'. Malcolm Fox works for The Complaints. He's just had a result, and should be feeling good about himself. But he's middle-aged, sour and unwell. He also has a father in a care home and a…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 707 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 336) Аннотация: Mike Mackenzie is a self-made man with too much time on his hands and a bit of the devil in his soul. He is looking for something to liven up the days and settles on a plot to rip-off one of the most high-profile targets in the capital — the National Gallery of Scotland. So, together with two close friends from the art world, he devises a plan to a lift some of the most valuable artwork around.…
Скачать книгу (размер 646 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 128) Аннотация: My dad used to say to me, 'Try to keep a cool head and a warm heart'. At least I think it was my dad. I don't really remember him. Gravy worked in the graveyard — hence the name. He was having a normal day until his friend Benjy turned up in a car Gravy didn't recognise. Benjy had a bullet hole in his chest, but lived just long enough to ask Gravy to hide him and look after his gun. Gravy had…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 523 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 496) Аннотация: It's late autumn in Edinburgh and late autumn in the career of Detective Inspector John Rebus. As he tries to tie up some loose ends before retirement, a murder case intrudes. A dissident Russian poet has been found dead in what looks like a mugging gone wrong. By apparent coincidence, a high-level delegation of Russian businessmen is in town — and everyone is determined that the case should be…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 381 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 272) Аннотация: 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,…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 686 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 528) Аннотация: Admirers of Edgar-winner Rankin's bestselling series featuring Edinburgh's Insp. John Rebus (Fleshmarket Alley, etc.) may be disappointed by this stand-alone suspense novel, which has more in common with the works of Frederick Forsyth and Robert Ludlum. Gordon Reeve, an ex–Special Forces soldier with serious anger management issues, has settled down to a tranquil second career running a survival…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 523 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 496) Аннотация: An illegal immigrant is found murdered in an Edinburgh housing scheme: a racist attack, or something else entirely? Rebus is drawn into the case, but has other problems: his old police station has closed for business, and his masters would rather he retire than stick around. Siobhan meanwhile has problems of her own. A teenager has disappeared from home and Siobhan is drawn into helping the…
Скачать книгу (размер 3 257 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 640) Аннотация: In Edinburgh verschwindet eine Studentin. Inspector Rebus ahnt, dass man Philippa Balfour nicht mehr lebendig finden wird. Die Befürchtung scheint sich zu bestätigen, als in der Nähe ihres Heimatorts ein kleiner Holzsarg mit einer geschnitzten Puppe gefunden wird. Denn seit 1836 gab es in Schottland immer wieder rätselhafte Todesfälle, die mit ähnlichen Funden…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 320) Аннотация: Twelve remarkable, gritty stories starring Detective Inspector John Rebus in his home city of Edinburgh, as only Ian Rankin can portray it: not just the tearooms and cobbled streets of the tourist brochures, but a modern urban metropolis with a full range of criminals and their victims--blackmailers, peeping Toms, and more than one kind of murderer. It's a city like any other, a city that gives…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 523 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 496) Аннотация: When the privileged daughter of a merchant banker disappears, a search through her e-mails uncovers her secret life-and a bizarre correspondence with an on-line game player who delights in macabre puzzles. The first game was for the girl. The next one is for Inspector John Rebus, a man haunted by the impenetrable riddles of his own troubled past. But the lead is soon complicated by an unexpected…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 278 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 448) Аннотация: On the eve of the first Scottish parliament in three hundred years, Edinburgh is a city rife with political passions and expectations. Queensbury House, the home of Scotland's new rulers, falls in the middle of John Rebus' turf, keeping him busy with ceremonial tasks. That quickly changes, however, when a long-dead body is discovered in a Queensbury House fireplace, a homeless man throws himself…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 789 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 352) Аннотация: Five years ago, a mysterious fire burned Edinburgh's seed Central Hotel to ashes. Long-forgotten and unsolved, the case reappears when a charred body — with a bullet in its head — is found amongst the ruins. Inspector John Rebus knows that his superiors would rather he let sleeping dogs lie. He knows that part of the answer lies somewhere in a cryptic black notebook. Ane he knows that to solve…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 278 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 448) Аннотация: Stalking a poisoner at the local zoo, Edinburgh Police Inspector John Rebus comes across a paedophile taking pictures of children. When the social workers claim he is there for legitimate educational reasons, Rebus is faced with a dilemma — should he be outed to protect local kids or given a chance to start anew? As the locals begin a hate campaign he gets a call from the past — the son of a…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 789 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 352) Аннотация: Bible John killed three women, and took three souvenirs. Johnny Bible killed to steal his namesake's glory. Oilman Allan Mitchelson died for his principles. And convict Lenny Spaven died just to prove a point. «Bible John» terrorized Glasgow in the sixties and seventies, murdering three women he met in a local ballroom--and he was never caught. Now a copycat is at work. Nicknamed «Bible Johnny»…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 365 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 269) Аннотация: When respected MP Gregor Jack is caught in a police raid on an Edinburgh brothel and his flamboyant wife Elizabeth suddenly disappears, John Rebus smells a set-up. And when Elizabeth's badly beaten body is found, Rebus is suddenly up against a killer who holds all the cards..
Скачать книгу (размер 1 411 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 278) Аннотация: In Edinburgh you're never far from a peaceful spot, or from a hellish one either. Now, in the heart of summer, in the midst of a nationalist festival, Inspector John Rebus is on the murder case of a young man left hanging in a spot where his screams would never be heard. To find the victim's identity — and his killer — Rebus searches from Edinburgh's most violent neighborhood to Belfast, Northern…