Издания и произведения

Как часто вас одолевает ярость? А ненависть? А желание убить? Как часто мы думаем про себя, что "готовы убить того-то и того-то"? И что будет, если такое желание прорвет оболочку цивилизованности и вырвется наружу? Чья вина тяжелее? Убийцы или того, кто подтолкнул его?.. Душным летним днем преподаватель истории Сэмюэл Зайковски приходит на общее школьное собрание и открывает огонь. Убив трех школьников и коллегу, он стреляет в себя. Что это было? Приступ маниакального безумия? Расчетливый и продуманный поступок? Как вообще тихий, незаметный учитель истории мог совершить такое? Для полиции дело предельно ясно: еще один школьный инцидент с…

A stunning debut novel that unravels the hidden story behind a school shooting It should be an open-and-shut case. Samuel Szajkowski, a recently hired history teacher, walked into a school assembly with a gun and murdered three students and a colleague before turning the weapon on himself. It was a tragedy that could not have been predicted. Szajkowski, it seems clear, was a psychopath beyond help. Yet as Detective Inspector Lucia May- the only woman in her high-testosterone office in the Criminal Investigations Department-begins to piece together the testimonies of the various witnesses, an uglier and more complex picture emerges,…

"Every day the same question. A different uniform but the same question. They thought Lucia enjoyed being here. They thought that was why she kept coming back. But they were asking the wrong thing. She had found what she was looking for - she had found what she had been sent to discover - but she had found out more besides. The question was what to do about it. The question was whether to do anything at all." In the depths of a sweltering summer, teacher Samuel Szajkowski walks into his school assembly and opens fire. He kills three pupils and a colleague before turning the gun on himself. Lucia May, the young policewoman who is…