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A mysterious eighteen-year-old and two meteorologists are visited by a seductive beauty and her rich husband. When two detectives are sent up to investigate their disappearance, the secrets of their past merge with those of the weather station and they get sucked into a vortex of mistrust, betrayal and murder.
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"Bogatai͡a zhenshchina ukhodit nenadolgo iz svoego doma v podmoskovnom poselke -- i ischezaet bessledno. Drugai͡a, zhivushchai͡a v glukhoĭ derevne, idet v les -- i ne vozvrashchaetsi͡a. O pervoĭ govori͡at, chto ona sbezhala ot neli͡ubimogo muzha.O vtoroĭ --chto ona zabludilasʹ. Chastnym detektivam predstoit vyi͡asnitʹ, pravda li ėto. Chto skryvai͡ut doma propavshikh? Pochemu sledy obeikh obryvai͡utsi͡a tak stranno? O novom rassledovanii...
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"Roman "Ubitʹ Bobrykina. Istorii͡a odnogo ubiĭstva", prinesshiĭ svoemu avtoru Aleksandre Nikolaenko premii͡u Russkiĭ Buker, byl prini͡at chitai͡ushcheĭ auditorieĭ protivorechivo. Rasskaz o ne vpolne zdorovom glavnom geroe Sashe Shishine s ego krovozhadnoĭ idee fixe odni sravnivai͡ut s russkoĭ klassikoĭ, drugie nazyvai͡ut ėksperimentalʹnym, nekotorye schitai͡ut bessoderzhatelʹnym, a kto-to rassmatrivaet kak metafizicheskoe vyskazyvanie....
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Laurie Moran's professional life is a success. Her television show Under Suspicion is a hit, both in the ratings and its record of solving cold cases. But her romantic break from former host Alex Buckley has left her with on-air talent she can't stand -- Ryan Nichols -- and a sense of loneliness, despite her loving family. Now Ryan has suggested a new case. Three years ago, Virginia Wakeling, a member of the Board of Trustees of the Metropolitan Museum...
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"The journalist Dima, who is pretending to be the librarian Nadia Mitrofanova to hide her identity from her lover, entered a secret society. Nothing illegal: there they help ordinary people who are in trouble. But good deeds do not remain unpunished. Murder occurs, and Nadia is in mortal danger. The girl hurries for help to Dima. Together they decide to find and expose the villain, but do not suspect that now their honor and lives are at stake ......
11) Chto ty natvoril
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"Izurodovannoe telo zhenshchiny naĭdeno v odnom iz potrepannykh moteleĭ Filadelʹfii. Dli͡a sudebno-medit͡sinskogo ėksperta Liama Dvaĭera podobnoe -- obychnye budni. Tolʹko v ėtot raz zhertvoĭ okazyvaetsi͡a ego li͡ubovnit͡sa, s kotoroĭ on rasstalsi͡a sovsem nedavno. Kto-to ne tolʹko s izoshchrennoĭ zhestokostʹi͡u raspravilsi͡a s devushkoĭ, no i ostavil na meste prestuplenii͡a nameki na uzhasnui͡u istorii͡u iz detstva Liama,...
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"When a Member of Parliament shows up at New Scotland Yard requesting an investigation into the suicide of the son of one of his constituents in the beautiful town of Ludlow, the Assistant Commissioner sees two opportunities in this request. The first is to have an MP owing him a favour, and the second is to get rid of Detective Sergeant Barbara Havers, whose career at the Met has been hanging by a thread for quite some time. So he assigns Havers...
13) Nemai͡a devochka
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An idyllic white, two-storey, beautiful house in Sweden. Inside, a family has been brutally murdered - mother, father and two young children all shot in broad daylight. And the killer has got away. Sebastian Bergman has been brought in to solve the crime, but with no credible suspects, he is at a dead end. Until he discovers that there was a witness to the crime. A young girl who saw it all happen, and she has disappeared. Bergman has to track the...