1. Paul Cleave. Cleaner
Joe works as a janitor at the police station. He is quiet, calm, smiling, friendly ... But in his free time from work, he kills women. The calculating, cold-blooded maniac is what Joe becomes in the evenings. However, one day the beautiful Melissa turns him around. Which of them will be more cunning and more resourceful, and at the cost of how many lives will they be able to find out?
2. Mark Dugen. Giant's road
The protagonist, Al Kenner, is a monster and serial killer with a higher IQ than Einstein and a bloodlust more than a vampire. His life is a continuous psychological trap, a series of failed relationships, painful fights with himself and bouts of cold rage.
In total, there are ten corpses in the novel, ten mutilated bodies, including the grandparents of the protagonist - they were killed by Al Kenner as a child. Who perpetrated the massacre of the rest of the victims? Crazy Ripper Maniac? Or someone else?
3. Donato Carrisi. Prompter
Five girls disappear one by one. Five tiny burials were found at the edge of the forest. Each has a small hand. Left. From the very beginning of the investigation, the investigators have a feeling that they are being manipulated, because each new find sends them to a new killer. Mila Vasquez, a kidnapping specialist, is brought into the case. And then a theory arises that no one wants to believe ...
4. Nikolay Svechin. The case of the Varnavinsky maniac
Collegiate assessor Aleksey Lykov is now "vulnerable" to the underworld: having married his old love, the beautiful Varenka Nefedyeva, and becoming the father of two charming sons, the fearless Petersburg detective is investigating the case of the cruel Varnavinsky maniac. The victims of this "beast" are defenseless children, and, at any hour, the younger Lykovs will fall into the clutches of the monster ... Will the detective be able to cope with his own fears and catch the killer without risking the well-being of his own family? Nikolai Svechin's new retro detective is both a touching melodrama and a tough action game that makes you remember the best examples of the genre!
5. Vincent Bugliosi, Curt Gentry. Helter Skelter: The Truth About Charlie Manson
The true story of one of the most high-profile court cases of the 20th century - the group murder of actress Sharon Tate and her friends by the "Family" of Charles Manson. Monstrous details, religion and mysticism, a psychological portrait of the "California Ripper" and a documentary account of one of the longest lawsuits in history. The tragedy described in this book in Hollywood in the late 1960s has no statute of limitations; the names of its participants are still widely known, and the main characters have acquired the status of cult personalities over the years.
6. Yu Nesbo. Bat
Harry Hole flies to Sydney to help investigate the brutal murder of a Norwegian citizen. The Australian police do not take him seriously, and yet the case is much more complicated than it might seem at first glance. The ancient legends of the aborigines come to life, the spirit of death has spread over the earth the black wings of a bat, and Harry, like the hero who defeated the terrible serpent Bubbur, will have to fight an insidious enemy in order to overcome evil and avenge the death of his beloved.
7. Tess Gerritsen. Surgeon
He enters houses at night and silently enters the bedrooms of women who, awakening from sleep, find themselves in a revived nightmare. From what he does with his victims, it can be assumed that he is closely acquainted with medicine, and the newspapermen give him the nickname Surgeon. During the investigation, detectives Thomas Moore and Jane Rizzoli discover that the criminal is copying the handwriting of a serial maniac who was killed two years ago, and copying to the smallest details, known to very few. They decide to meet with the surviving victim of the murdered maniac - Dr. Catherine Cordell. It was she who shot her tormentor, and it seems she is the one who becomes the main target of the copycat. With each new murder, he gets closer and closer to her ...
Joe works as a janitor at the police station. He is quiet, calm, smiling, friendly ... But in his free time from work, he kills women. The calculating, cold-blooded maniac is what Joe becomes in the evenings. However, one day the beautiful Melissa turns him around. Which of them will be more cunning and more resourceful, and at the cost of how many lives will they be able to find out?
2. Mark Dugen. Giant's road
The protagonist, Al Kenner, is a monster and serial killer with a higher IQ than Einstein and a bloodlust more than a vampire. His life is a continuous psychological trap, a series of failed relationships, painful fights with himself and bouts of cold rage.
In total, there are ten corpses in the novel, ten mutilated bodies, including the grandparents of the protagonist - they were killed by Al Kenner as a child. Who perpetrated the massacre of the rest of the victims? Crazy Ripper Maniac? Or someone else?
3. Donato Carrisi. Prompter
Five girls disappear one by one. Five tiny burials were found at the edge of the forest. Each has a small hand. Left. From the very beginning of the investigation, the investigators have a feeling that they are being manipulated, because each new find sends them to a new killer. Mila Vasquez, a kidnapping specialist, is brought into the case. And then a theory arises that no one wants to believe ...
4. Nikolay Svechin. The case of the Varnavinsky maniac
Collegiate assessor Aleksey Lykov is now "vulnerable" to the underworld: having married his old love, the beautiful Varenka Nefedyeva, and becoming the father of two charming sons, the fearless Petersburg detective is investigating the case of the cruel Varnavinsky maniac. The victims of this "beast" are defenseless children, and, at any hour, the younger Lykovs will fall into the clutches of the monster ... Will the detective be able to cope with his own fears and catch the killer without risking the well-being of his own family? Nikolai Svechin's new retro detective is both a touching melodrama and a tough action game that makes you remember the best examples of the genre!
5. Vincent Bugliosi, Curt Gentry. Helter Skelter: The Truth About Charlie Manson
The true story of one of the most high-profile court cases of the 20th century - the group murder of actress Sharon Tate and her friends by the "Family" of Charles Manson. Monstrous details, religion and mysticism, a psychological portrait of the "California Ripper" and a documentary account of one of the longest lawsuits in history. The tragedy described in this book in Hollywood in the late 1960s has no statute of limitations; the names of its participants are still widely known, and the main characters have acquired the status of cult personalities over the years.
6. Yu Nesbo. Bat
Harry Hole flies to Sydney to help investigate the brutal murder of a Norwegian citizen. The Australian police do not take him seriously, and yet the case is much more complicated than it might seem at first glance. The ancient legends of the aborigines come to life, the spirit of death has spread over the earth the black wings of a bat, and Harry, like the hero who defeated the terrible serpent Bubbur, will have to fight an insidious enemy in order to overcome evil and avenge the death of his beloved.
7. Tess Gerritsen. Surgeon
He enters houses at night and silently enters the bedrooms of women who, awakening from sleep, find themselves in a revived nightmare. From what he does with his victims, it can be assumed that he is closely acquainted with medicine, and the newspapermen give him the nickname Surgeon. During the investigation, detectives Thomas Moore and Jane Rizzoli discover that the criminal is copying the handwriting of a serial maniac who was killed two years ago, and copying to the smallest details, known to very few. They decide to meet with the surviving victim of the murdered maniac - Dr. Catherine Cordell. It was she who shot her tormentor, and it seems she is the one who becomes the main target of the copycat. With each new murder, he gets closer and closer to her ...
