Noir Russian

Vodka Express takes readers on a visceral journey into the raw and fractured heart of Saint Petersburg—a city where faded imperial grandeur clashes violently with the brutal realities of its present, where the mean streets hold life cheaper than a bottle of vodka. Amidst this stark duality, Inspectors Dmitri Petrov and Manislov Illich forge an unlikely yet formidable partnership. Petrov, a master of subtle observation in a world quick to resort to force, must navigate this treacherous urban landscape like a deadly chess match. Alongside him stands his imposing partner, Manislov Illich, a ...

Dove, a recovering alcoholic covered in Emily Dickinson tattoos, serves up drinks and small talk at a casino in Vegas. Russell is a man on a roll. He claims to be a chain-restaurant manager, yet his tells point to different skills. The two leave together at the end of the night, but when all pretense is stripped away, they find themselves in a fight for their lives.

Nicolai Gogol's classic ghost story set in the streets of St. Petersburg in the 19th century.

Praise for Pattaya Heat: "IF YOU ENJOY OLD DETECTIVE STORIES, YOU'LL ENJOY THIS." "EXCELLENT BOOK AND A GREAT NEW DETECTIVE!" Welcome to Pattaya City, Thailand. This piss-poor paradise makes Las Vegas look like a PG-13 Disney movie. Pattaya is where Richy Sky has landed for a premature mid-life crisis. This is not where he wants to be, scraping by taking small-time PI jobs, mostly infidelity investigations. The fun, if you could call it that, can't last forever, and now Richy sees a way out -- a new job, one that pays very well. All he has to do is find a missing antique watch that's worth ...

Extensively revised by Nabokov in 1965 - 30 years after its original publication - Despair is the wickedly inventive and richly derisive story of Hermann, a man who undertakes the perfect crime: his own murder. One of the 20th century’s master prose stylists, Vladimir Nabokov was born in St. Petersburg in 1899. He studied French and Russian literature at Trinity College, Cambridge, then lived in Berlin and Paris, where he launched a brilliant literary career. In 1940 he moved to the United States, and achieved renown as a novelist, poet, critic, and translator.

RATCATCHER Book One of the acclaimed John Purkiss Spy Action Thriller series. When spies go rogue, they need to be stopped. That's where John Purkiss - the Ratcatcher - comes in. Purkiss's job is straightforward. Track down members of the intelligence services who are taking kickbacks, engaging in criminal activity, or otherwise abusing their positions, and bring them to justice. Straightforward doesn't mean easy... After a renegade British former intelligence agent, Fallon, is sighted in the Baltic city of Tallinn on the eve of a historic summit meeting between the Russian and Estonian ...

Named one of the Top 30 Mystery Novels of 2022 by The Strand Magazine! Winner of the Silver Falchion Award for Best Mystery What would you do if you found a bone record—a black-market Soviet recording made on an X-ray? What if you found it at the site of your father’s murder? "A wonderfully flawed protagonist and a complex mystery combine with current events in Zahradnik's best novel to date. The Bone Records had me hooked from page one." —Elena Taylor, award-winning author of All We Buried and the Eddie Shoes mystery series Grigg Orlov only has a few minutes reunited with his missing...

Bullets, Bombs, Lasers, Mayhem, Contract Killers, and Fun! 4.6 Stars on 159 Amazon Reviews and 4.7 Stars on Goodreads !!!! Lots of Fun. Exciting story. Check it out. The Russians know they must have the latest American hi-tech weapons if they are to avoid defeat in Ukraine, remain a world power, and not sink into Third World irrelevance. They dispatch their most deadly agent to steal the plans for the American's new mega-laser any way he can, but standing in his way are three old enemies: the US Secretary of Defense, the Head of the US Joint Special Operations Command, and their most lethal...

Son ex est de retour… et il veut se venger. Mais que fera-t-il en découvrant la vraie raison pour laquelle elle l’a quitté… Et l’existence de leur bébé secret ? La vengeance est un plat qui se savoure... très chaud. L’oligarque russe Alexei Rustanov ne rêve que d’une chose : laisser son passé derrière lui, y compris Eva St. James, la Texane impertinente qui lui a brisé le cœur sans pitié à l’époque où il n’était encore qu’un pauvre étudiant en master. Mais quand il la croise à un mariage huit ans après leur rupture tumultueuse, les passions s’enflamment...

In the heart of late winter's enchanting Saint Petersburg, my life takes an unexpected turn. At a lavish social event, I am abducted by the notorious Mikhail "Misha" Petrov, tearing me away from the warmth and opulence of my family's estate. As we travel through the snow-covered Russian landscape, I challenge Misha's motives and uncover a hidden strength within myself. Arriving at his luxurious mansion in Moscow, I brace myself for the trials ahead, unaware of the fiery passion that awaits us both. This captivating tale of love and danger will leave you breathless and yearning for more.

It begins at the end. Eli is dead—gunned down in a hail of bullets, framed for a crime he didn’t commit. But this isn’t where his story ends. It’s where it rewinds. In a world of cyber heists, mob wars, and covert betrayal, Echo spirals backward through time, peeling away each layer of Eli’s choices, until it lands at a single, pivotal moment: a phone call he didn’t answer. This time, he picks up. The second half of Echo charges forward from that one altered decision, hurtling through a parallel path of shifting loyalties and deadly consequences. But even with time on his side, ...

He's a rugged, battle-hardened soldier who spent four years in the Royal Guard, an elite military unit. I met the king and queen for the first time wearing leggings and a sweatshirt. But there's the way he looks at me. Like he knows every dirty thought I've had about him - and he likes them. There's the way my pulse skyrockets every time his hand brushes mine. I'm the ambassador's daughter. I know better than to mess around with a foreign head of state.

Amidst the crumbling facades of a once vibrant city, the line between hunter and hunted blurs as private detective Johnny Walker plunges into a deadly game. Hired by a distraught Russian oligarch whose youngest daughter has vanished, Johnny soon discovers that the missing girl is merely a pawn in a much larger conspiracy. Her two stunning sisters, entwined in a web of family lies and secrets, become instrumental in unraveling a plot that stretches far beyond Portland's borders. Meanwhile, Detective Sandy Jenkins, Johnny's girlfriend, wages a relentless war against the city's escalating ...

« Je ne sais pas pourquoi je suis tellement obsédé par toi, Willa Harper. Ni pourquoi je n’arrive pas à me défaire de l’idée que nous soyons ensemble. Mais une chose est certaine : quoi qu’il tente de nous séparer… je te retrouverai. » — Sawyer Grant Abandonnée de la fac de médecine. Fille de la folle du coin. Et, oh oui, membre ultra secret du club Je peux voir les fantômes. La toute dernière chose dont Willa a besoin, c’est que Sawyer Grant — le beau sportif qui a rendu sa vie infernale au lycée — revienne dans sa vie en rugissant sur une Harley. Mais le ...

Amidst the enchanting, perpetual twilight of Saint Petersburg's White Nights festival, a darker reality unfolds for Inspectors Dmitri Petrov and Manislov Illich. Their seemingly straightforward assignment--revisiting two long unsolved cold cases, soon uncovers a disturbing sequence of interconnected crimes. What began as routine soon takes a sinister turn, hinting that the truths they seek are far more perilous than they could imagine. An intricate and captivating mystery, it plunges readers into the heart of Saint Petersburg's hidden darkness. "With atmospheric prose and a sinister plot, ...

Юная Алекс классно проводит время у своего богатого старого любовника в Хэмптоне, среди дорогих вилл, частных пляжей, лазурных бассейнов и знойных вечеринок. Но однажды, после фатальной ошибки, «папик» выгоняет ее из дома, и теперь девушке необходимо самой заботиться о жилье и куске хлеба. Словно призрак, Алекс продолжает бродить по улицам Лонг-Айленда, от одного роскошного особняка к другому, мастерски плетет сети лжи, беспардонно вторгаясь в чужие жизни, сея хаос и разруху.

Ce sont deux nouvelles de Anton Tchekhov, extraites du recueil Le Moine noir. Ce livre audio est composé du Moine noir, et de L'orateur.

Весной 2024 года в мировой и российский кинопрокат выходит фильм Адама Купера Спящие псы — долгожданная экранизация романа Эуджена Овидиу Чировици "Книга зеркал" (переведенного на 39 языков "самого яркого литературного дебюта 2017 года") с Расселом Кроу и Карен Гиллан в главных ролях. Нью-йоркский литературный агент Питер Кац получает заявку на издание автобиографии под названием «Книга зеркал». К заявке приложено начало рукописи — некто Ричард Флинн вспоминает годы учебы в Принстоне, первую любовь, работу на знаменитого профессора психологии Джозефа Видера.

Мелкий бизнесмен Юрий Колокольцев, попавший в криминальную историю, соглашается обменяться документами с приятелем-милиционером, и под его именем пойти работать клерком в МВД. Самого же приятеля не прельщает подобного рода стезя, он разочаровался в профессии и мечтает уехать в Америку, хотя протекцию в аппарат министерства ему составил дядя – вице-премьер правительства. Юрию же некуда деваться: он разбил чужую машину, ранил человека, и теперь ему грозит тюремный срок.

Редактор, начав читать рукопись, не может от нее оторваться. Обычная на первый взгляд история любви и ревности становится закрученной детективной интригой, переплетенной со сложной психологической драмой. Особый интерес вызывает и то, что по словам самого Камышева его произведение автобиографично.