Куча костей _ A Group of Bones

Mezhdunarodnyy bestseller Propavshiy rebenok. Plyushevyy mishka u dverey. I 48 chasov na poiski... Shotlandiya, nashi dni. Gulyaya po lesu so svoim ottsom i sobakoy, bessledno ischezayet semiletniy Konnor Rid. I tut zhe roditelyam mal'chika podbrasyvayut konvert s foto ikh sina, privyazannogo k stulu. A yeshche - plyushevogo mishku... Vedushchiy rassledovaniye starshiy inspektor Logan potryasen: eto slishkom pokhozhe na pocherk krovavogo man'yaka-pokhititelya Ouena Petri po prozvishchu "Mister Shepot". 10 let nazad imenno Loganu udalos' skhvatit' etogo monstra, ubivshego troikh detey. Togda tot vo vsem priznalsya - i byl navsegda zakryt v tyuremnoy psikhbol'nitse. Vprochem, telo yego posledney zhertvy tak i ne nashli... Vykhodit, libo Petri snova sovershil prestupleniye, proydya cherez steny psikhbol'nitsy, - libo u nego poyavilsya podrazhatel'. I v zapase u detektivov vsego dvoye sutok. Ved' "Mister Shepot" vsegda ubival detey rovno cherez 48 chasov posle togo, kak ikh rodnyye poluchali plyushevogo mishku...