Classic adventure of Sherlock Holmes as a parallel text in Russian and English!

The crime story takes place in 1992, just after the political transformation in former Czechoslovakia. Commissioner Krauz (very young, cheeky, quick and inexperienced, but promising) investigates a murder. The clues lead to the former communist political police and church services. In the new order, both the Church (preparing to return to big politics) and the former security officers who are...

Helena Pelletier has a loving husband, two beautiful daughters, and a business that fills her days. But she also has a secret: she is the product of an abduction. Her mother was kidnapped as a teenager by her father and kept in a remote cabin in the marshlands of Michigan’s Upper Peninsula. Helena, born two years after the abduction, loved her home in nature, and despite her father’s sometimes...

On a rainy November day, police detectives Pia Kirchhoff and Oliver von Bodenstein are summoned to a mysterious traffic accident: a woman has fallen from a pedestrian bridge onto a car driving underneath. According to a witness, the woman may have been pushed. The investigation leads Pia and Oliver to a small village, and the home of the victim, Rita Cramer.

In Somoza's new novel, A Study in Black, it all begins in June 1882, when a nurse, Anne McCarry, middle-aged, ugly, unmarried, arrives in Portsmouth, where she has accepted a position at the prestigious Clarendon House mental hospital. She is assigned to take care of a mysterious gentleman. This strange patient calls himself Mr. X, he cannot stand daylight, but he is endowed with extraordinary...

Since childhood, Tatyana was called Mystery, first by her father, then by her friends. So all her life she has been surrounded by complete mysteries and mysteries. Before she had time to move away from her previous task, the police assigned her a new one, which at first does not look serious, only very strange. Two female corpses have disappeared from the city morgue without a trace! Both of...

When the Norwegian ambassador to Thailand is found dead in a Bangkok brothel, Inspector Harry Hole is dispatched from Oslo to help hush up the case. But once he arrives Harry discovers that this case is about much more than one random murder. There is something else, something more pervasive, scrabbling around behind the scenes. Or, put another way, for every cockroach you see in your hotel...

Leipzig in den Nachkriegswirren 1920. Kriminalinspektor Paul Stainer kehrt aus der Kriegsgefangenschaft zurück, das Grauen der Schützengräben noch in den Knochen. Ein aufsehenerregender Fall zwingt ihn allerdings, sich mit der Gegenwart zu befassen: In der Villa eines Fabrikanten werden mehrere Menschen erschossen. Alles sieht nach einem missglückten Einbruch aus. Doch eine verängstigte Zeugin...

The Spider's Web, published in 1923 in the Viennese Arbeiter-Zeitung, is an eerie novel. Its theme is the formation of right-wing extremism and anti-Semitism, the spread of which Roth commented on in the newspaper articles of those years with ever-growing concern. While he follows these events from the outside as a journalist, he describes them in his novel from the perspective of a...

‘Express to Galicia’ is a new detective novel by Bohdan Kolomiychuk, in which tangled cases and dangerous investigations await the reader. Spring of 1906. During a vacation in Switzerland, Lviv police commissioner Adam Vistovych unexpectedly gets involved in a dangerous spy game in which not only human lives are at stake, but also the fate of empires.

Every time the streets erupt with communist demonstrations. The director of the Viennese police receives a message that at the same time two young states, the Republic of Poland and Soviet Russia, are demanding the extradition of a certain Adam Vistowicz, the chief commissioner from Lemberg, Galicia. Why did a humble policeman interest the highest diplomatic circles? Will it be possible to...

1905 year. The career of one of the best investigators of Galicia, Lviv commissioner Adam Vistovych, is on the rise. In order to help his younger colleague, Associate Professor Samkovsky, the commissar takes on a seemingly trivial matter. However, it turns out that its threads stretch far beyond the borders of Lviv and even beyond the borders of the empire.