Fat men's races and fall-out shelters, murder victims and loose women, cheerleaders and immigrants, celebrities and children in distress were just some of the urban curiosities splashed across the pages of city newspapers during the Speed Graphic era (1930s-1950s). Championed by acclaimed news photographers like Arthur Fellig (a.k.a. Weegee), the Speed Graphic camera produced a new visual style that was as blunt, powerful, and immediate as a left hook.

Driven by the desire to fill newspaper pages with sensational images, press photographers shot everything, day and night:...

Attorney Carmel Loan is beautiful, intelligent, ambitious - and used to getting what she wants. When she becomes infatuated with fellow barrister Hale Allen, she isn't going to let a little thing like his being married get in the way. So, through the contacts of an ex-client, she hired professional killer Clara Rinker to get rid of Allen's wife. Smart, attractive Rinker is the best hitwoman in the business - but things go wrong, and the shooting of a witness, a cop, brings DI Lucas Davenport into the case. Carmel Loan and Clara Rinker team up to clean up the loose ends - which includes...

Having spent the past two years in hiding following a daring and successful heist, a big-time robber is back in Minneapolis. Meanwhile, Lucas Davenport has problems of his own, targeted by a psychopathic pimp who blames him for the fact he's in a wheelchair. Only it's not Davenport he's after, it's his daughter.

The first woman is found on the riverbank. The second in an isolated farmhouse. Both have been savagely beaten, the skin flayed from their bodies, their throats cut. For both victims, there's a DNA match. But Charlie Pope, a convicted sex offender, has cut off his leg bracelet and disappeared.

The Iceman crept into the house on the edge of the lake. He killed the father first. Then the mother and child. And when his work was done, he set the house on fire. Lucas Davenport had tracked killers in cities across America, but the woods of rural Wisconsin are as dark and primal as evil itself.

Publikace představuje rozvojové aktivity probíhající uvnitř východního bloku a působení socialistických zemí ve světě, který se tehdy nazýval „třetím“. Spolupráce východoevropských satelitů SSSR a rozvojového světa vykazuje podobnost s oficiálními politikami Sovětského svazu, který do značné míry určoval ideologické pozadí rozvojové pomoci. Rozvojová spolupráce se stala i nástrojem mocenského soupeření USA a SSSR v době studené války, obě strany se s ohledem na odlišná ideologická východiska, ale pod záštitou stejné morální povinnosti...

V očích veřejnosti je za hrdinu: vrah, jehož oběťmi jsou usvědčení pedofilové. Dva muži jsou již mrtví - umučil je k smrti. Ani pro samotnou policii nejsou tyto případy prioritní. Většina vyšetřovatelů považuje pár mrtvých pedofilů za krok správným směrem. Podle kriminalistky Maeve Kerriganové by ale nikdo neměl mít dovoleno brát zákon do vlastních rukou. Mladá a nezkušená Kerriganová pevně věří, že vražda zůstává vraždou, ať už se oběť provinila jakýmkoliv hříchem. Se stupňujícím se vrahovým násilím je ale nucena přehodnotit, jak...