About the book: 1996 / Day Keene is a famous American writer, author of many action-packed novels. His characters belong to different social classes of modern society. Along with the entertaining plot collisions, the writer’s works are marked by a deep interest in studying the lives of representatives of these classes, the reasons that motivate them to commit crimes. The novels “A Girl with a Bad Reputation” and “A Step to Murder” are published in Russian for the first time.