Crime genre books (403)
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Mörder ohne Gesicht by Henning Mankell DE
SwedenDescription:
Auf einem abgelegenen Bauernhof ist ein altes Ehepaar überfallen und getötet worden. 'Ausländer, Ausländer!' waren die letzten Worte der sterbenden Frau. Als die Öffentlichkeit davon erfährt, wird Schonen von einer Welle ausländerfeindlicher Gewalt überrollt. Doch plötzlich führen die Ermittlungen in eine ganz andere Richtung ... Kommissar Wallanders erster Fall, mit dem Henning Mankell den Grundstein zu seiner Karriere als Erfolgsschriftsteller gelegt hat.
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Mother Dear : A Thriller by Nova Lee Maier EN
Country: Europe / 
Netherlands
Netherlands
Description:
There's only one thing worse than doing the unthinkable: what you're willing to do to hide it. Helen lives a decent, uncomplicated life. Satisfied in her career, she's raising three happy teenagers, and her family has the most envied house on the street. Admittedly, she's growing just a little disenchanted with her marriage to her workaholic husband, Werner. But that's nothing she can't fix. Then one day Helen comes home to something completely unexpected that threatens to shatter her carefully cultivated world. For disaffected, young petty criminals Ralf and Brian, it was a scheme to make som... continue
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Poland
England195.
Murder by Matchlight by E. C. R. Lorac EN
Description:
"Originally published in 1945 by Collins. "Permanent Policeman" was first published in MacKill's Mystery Magazine, March 1953"--Title page verso.
196.
Murder in Montego Bay by Paula Lennon EN
Description:
First book in the exceptional new detective series set in Montego Bay, Jamaica with two memorable lead protagonists: Jamaican detective Ray Preddy and Glaswegian detective Sean Harris. In Montego Bay, Jamaica, privileged Chinese-Jamaican brothers Lester and Carter Chin Ellis have enjoyed a sheltered life as the heirs to the iced desserts empire Chinchillerz. One fateful night, following a fiery encounter with local law enforcement the brothers are taken to Pelican Walk Police Station, where Lester is detained for drunk driving, while Carter is released without charge. Within minutes of leaving... continue
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Murder Mindfully by Karsten Dusse EN
GermanyDescription:
(Blurb on back of book)
"First off, I'm not a violent man. I didn't even kill anyone until I was forty-two."
"Björn has been given an ultimatum; repair his work-life balance, or his wife Katharina will leave him - and take their daughter.
He reluctantly starts a mindfulness class and, to his surprise, it's a revelation. He becomes calmer, more focused, and he's starting to understand what's really important in life. So when his client, the brutal crime boss Dragan Sergowicz, tries to interfere with his precious family time, Björn remembers... continue
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Murder on the Dance Floor: A Completely Gripping Historical Cozy Mystery by Helena Dixon EN
Description:
Kitty Underhay's dance card is full... of death. November 1933. Amateur sleuth-cum-dutiful granddaughter Kitty Underhay stifles a sigh of boredom as she attends the annual Hoteliers' Association Dinner and Dance on behalf of her grandmother, the proprietress of the Dolphin Hotel. She hopes the company of ex-army captain Matthew Bryant will enliven the otherwise dull evening. That is, until bullish and overbearing local councillor Harold Everton drops dead into his bowl of consommé. While the local police are still scrambling for their whistles, Kitty and Matt waste no time leaping into action.... continue
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Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie EN
Description:
On a three-day journey through the snowbound Balkan hills, Hercule Poirot must weed through an array of international suspects to find the passenger who murdered a gangster on the Orient Express.
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My Sister, the Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite EN
NigeriaDescription:
"Slasher meets satire in this darkly comic novel set in Nigeria about a woman whose younger sister has a very inconvenient habit of killing her boyfriends"--