Брайан МакГиллоуэй — новинки

Tony, Hugh and Karen thought they’d seen the last of each other thirty years ago. Half a lifetime has passed and memories have been buried. But when they are asked to reunite - to lay ghosts to rest for the good of the future - they all have their own reasons to agree. As they take the ferry from Northern Ireland to Scotland the past is brought in to terrible focus - some things are impossible to leave behind.

In The Last Crossing memory is unreliable, truth shifts and slips and the lingering legacy of the Troubles threatens the present once again.

Каждый роман Макгиллоуэя становился бестселлером как в Великобритании, так и в США. Брайан является лауреатом различным престижных национальных и международных литературных премий. Помимо романов, автор пишет киносценарии для телекомпании BBC. Накануне Рождества на железнодорожных путях в окрестностях североирландского городка Дерри нашли тело девочки-подростка. Ее должен был переехать поезд, что инсценировало бы самоубийство. Вот только на рельсы девчушка попала уже мертвой… Специалист по работе с трудными подростками сержант Люси Блэк хорошо знала погибшую и решила, что быстро найдет убийцу по горячим следам. Но чем дальше шло ее…

На опушке зимнего леса найдена маленькая девочка, бредущая в ночной рубашке и босиком, с руками, покрытыми кровью – и это не ее кровь… С этого момента она не сказала ни слова – девочка вообще ни на кого и ни на что не реагировала. Кроме, разве что, сержанта полиции Люси Блэк, которая нашла ее. Люси была занята розыском другого ребенка – дочери самого богатого человека в округе, – когда натолкнулась на эту потеряшку. Постепенно сержант Блэк пришла к выводу, что обе девочки каким-то образом связаны, и если найденная наконец-то заговорит, то отыскать другую будет несложно. Но когда она заговорит?.. И вот однажды девчушка открыла детскую…

Накануне Рождества на железнодорожных путях в окрестностях североирландского городка Дерри нашли тело девочки-подростка. Ее должен был переехать поезд, что инсценировало бы самоубийство. Вот только на рельсы девчушка попала уже мертвой… Специалист по работе с трудными подростками, сержант Люси Блэк хорошо знала погибшую и решила, что быстро найдет убийцу по горячим следам. Но чем дальше шло ее расследование, тем более сложным оказывалось это дело…

На опушке зимнего леса найдена маленькая девочка, бредущая в ночной рубашке и босиком, с руками, покрытыми кровью - и это не ее кровь...

С этого момента она не сказала ни слова - девочка вообще ни на кого и ни на что не реагировала. Кроме, разве что, сержанта полиции Люси Блэк, которая нашла ее. Люси была занята розыском другого ребенка - дочери самого богатого человека в округе, - когда натолкнулась на эту потеряшку. Постепенно сержант Блэк пришла к выводу, что обе девочки каким-то образом связаны, и если найденная наконец-то заговорит, то отыскать другую будет несложно. Но когда она заговорит?.. И вот однажды девчушка открыла детскую книжку со сказками, которую принесла ей Люси, и страшно испугалась, увидев на странице рисунок волка...

Detective Sergeant Lucy Black is visiting her father, a patient in a secure unit in Gransha Hospital on the banks of the River Foyle. He's been hurt badly in an altercation with another patient, and Lucy is shocked to discover him chained to the bed for safety. But she barely has time to take it all in, before an orderly raises the alarm - a body has been spotted floating in the river below...
The body of an elderly man in a grey suit is hauled ashore: he is cold dead. He has been dead for several days. In fact a closer examination reveals that he has already been embalmed. A full scale investigation is launched - could this really be the suicide they at first assumed, or is this some kind of sick joke?
Troubled and exhausted, Lucy goes back to her father's shell of a house to get some sleep; but there'll be no rest for her tonight. She's barely in the front door when a neighbour knocks, in total distress - his wife's sister has turned up badly beaten. Can she help?
In "Preserve The Dead", Brian McGilloway weaves a pacy, intricate plot, full of tension to the very last page. DS Lucy Black's third outing since the bestselling Little Girl Lost, confirms her as one of the decade's most original female detectives: strong, sensitive and ever determined.

Launched with the summer '04 award-winning best seller Brooklyn Noir, Akashic Books continues its groundbreaking series of original noir anthologies. Each book is comprised of all-new stories, each one set in a distinct neighborhood or location within the city of the book.

Reflecting a city still divided, Belfast Noir serves as a record of a city transitioning to normalcy, or perhaps as a warning that underneath the fragile peace darker forces still lurk.

Featuring brand-new stories by: Glenn Patterson, Eoin McNamee, Garbhan Downey, Lee Child, Alex Barclay, Brian McGilloway, Ian McDonald, Arlene Hunt, Ruth Dudley Edwards, Claire McGowan, Steve Cavanagh, Lucy Caldwell, Sam Millar, and Gerard Brennan.

From the introduction by Adrian McKinty & Stuart Neville:

"Few European cities have had as disturbed and violent a history as Belfast over the last half-century. For much of that time the Troubles (1968–1998) dominated life in Ireland's second-biggest population centre, and during the darkest days of the conflict--in the 1970s and 1980s--riots, bombings, and indiscriminate shootings were tragically commonplace. The British army patrolled the streets in armoured vehicles and civilians were searched for guns and explosives before they were allowed entry into the shopping district of the city centre...Belfast is still a city divided...

You can see Belfast's bloodstains up close and personal. This is the city that gave the world its worst ever maritime disaster, and turned it into a tourist attraction; similarly, we are perversely proud of our thousands of murders, our wounds constantly on display. You want noir? How about a painting the size of a house, a portrait of a man known to have murdered at least a dozen human beings in cold blood? Or a similar house-sized gable painting of a zombie marching across a postapocalyptic wasteland with an AK-47 over the legend UVF: Prepared for Peace--Ready for War. As Lee Child has said, Belfast is still 'the most noir place on earth.'"

The Nameless Dead

Little Girl Lost

The Rising

Bleed a River Deep

Taking its title from the name of the road down which condemned Donegal criminals were once led, 'Gallows Lane' follows Inspector Benedict Devlin as he investigates a series of gruesome murders in and around the Irish borderlands. When a young woman is found beaten to death on a building site, in what appears to be a sexually-motivated killing, Devlin's enquiries soon point to a local body-builder and steroid addict. But days later, born-again ex-con James Kelly is found nailed to a tree--crucified--having been released from prison and returned to his hometown to spread the word of God. Increasingly torn between his young family and his job, Devlin is determined to apprehend those responsible for the murders before they strike again.

The corpse of local teenager Angela Cashell is found on the Tyrone-Donegal border, between the North and South of Ireland, in an area known as the Borderlands. Garda Inspector Benedict Devlin heads the investigation: the only clues are a gold ring placed on the girl's finger and an old photograph, left where she died.