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.

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.

Kyiv, 1919. World War I has ended in Western Europe, but to the East, six factions continue to vie for control of Ukraine. Amidst the political turmoil, young Samson Kolechko is forced to place his engineering career on hold. But in the city of Kyiv everything remains up for grabs and new opportunity lurks just around the corner . . .

In the early spring of 1919 at Samson Kolechko during a street pogrom, the Cossacks hacked to death his father, his ear was cut off. There are riots in Kiev, the city is again captured by the Bolsheviks, but they have almost no control over the situation. Citizens are being robbed by real and fake Red Army soldiers, on the outskirts of Kiev every now and then gangs of all kinds of atamans -...

Some mysterious documents fall into the hands of the protagonist of Andrei Kurkov's action novel The Good Angel of Death, Mykola Sotnikov. Hiding from people who want to take possession of them, he embarks on a journey to the Caspian Sea. The trip is very risky and dramatically changes the life of the hero.