Crime genre books (403)


101.

Endless Night by Agatha Christie EN

Rating: 4 (1 vote)
Country: Europe / England flag England
Description:
Gipsy S Acre Was A Truly Beautiful Upland Site With Views Out To Sea And In Michael Rogers It Stirred A Child-Like Fantasy. There, Among The Dark Fir Trees, He Planned To Build A House, Find A Wonderful Girl And Live Happily Ever After, Yet, As He Left The Village, A Shadow Of Menace Hung Over The Land. For This Was The Place Where Accidents Happened. Perhaps Michael Should Have Heeded The Locals Warnings: There S No Luck For Them As Meddles With Gipsy S Acre .


103.

Eté rouge by Daniel QUIROS FR

Rating: 3 (1 vote)
Description:
Côte du Pacifique, Costa Rica. Un Éden où les pinèdes sont massacrées afin de permettre la construction de villas luxueuses pour des investisseurs étrangers... et des caïds de la drogue. Un Éden où il fait terriblement chaud, où l’alcool ne peut faire oublier le sable, la poussière et le vent.C’est là, dans un tranquille village de pêcheurs, qu’est découvert sur la plage le cadavre d’une femme, surnommée l’Argentine.Don Chepe, ancien guérillero qui a lutté aux côtés des sandi­nistes, décide de retrouver l’assassin de son amie. Une enquête qui le conduit à découvrir les liens obscurs entre pass... continue

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Every Man Dies Alone by Hans Fallada EN

Rating: 5 (1 vote)
Country: Europe / Germany flag Germany
Description:
"Based on a true story, this sweeping saga tells the tale of a working class couple in Berlin who decide to take a stand against the Nazis. More than an edge-of-your-seat thriller, more than a moving romance, even more than literature of the highest order, it's a deeply moving story of two people who stand up for what's right, and for each other. Hans Fallada wrote Every Man Dies Alone in a feverish twenty-four days, soon after the end of World War II and his release from a Nazi insane asylum. He did not live to see his its publication"--Page 4 of cover.

105.

Everyone Here is Lying by Shari Lapena EN

Rating: 3 (1 vote)
Description:
THE NO.1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'The most addictive book I've read in ages...Just brilliant.' LISA JEWELL 'Fast paced, tightly-plotted and with twists so well executed they floored me. Loved every word!' CLAIRE DOUGLAS 'Genius. I loved it.' ANDREA MARA ------- Welcome to Stanhope - a safe neighbourhood. A place for families. William Wooler is a family man, on the surface. But he's been having an affair, an affair that ended horribly this afternoon at a motel up the road. So, when he returns to his house, devastated and angry, to find his difficult nine-year-old daughter Avery unexpectedly hom... continue

106.

Faceless Killers by Henning Mankell EN

Rating: 3.7 (1 vote)
Country: Europe / Sweden flag Sweden
Description:
A #1 international bestseller: This “exquisite novel of mesmerizing depth” launched the acclaimed Wallander Mysteries and BBC series starring Kenneth Branagh (Los Angeles Times). Early one morning, a small-town farmer discovers that his neighbors have been victims of a brutal attack during the night: An old man has been bludgeoned to death, and his tortured wife lies dying before the farmer’s eyes. The only clue is the single word she utters before she dies: “foreign.” In charge of the investigation is Inspector Kurt Wallander, a local detective whose personal life is in a shambles. His family... continue

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Faithful Place by Tana French EN

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Description:
'Breathtaking -- an elaborately twisted ballad of class resentments, family burdens, regret and passion' The Washington Post 'An author of exceptional talent and insight' Sunday Independent 'In all your life, only a few moments matter. I was lucky. I got to see one of mine face to face, and recognise it for what it was.' The course of Frank Mackey's life is set by one defining moment when he was nineteen. The time his girlfriend, Rosie Daly, failed to turn up for their rendezvous in Faithful Place, failed to run away with him to London as planned. Frank never heard from, or of, her again. Twen... continue


109.

Fiesta en la madriguera by Juan Pablo Villalobos ES

Rating: 5 (1 vote)
Description:
A Tochtli le gustan los sombreros, los diccionarios, los samuráis, las guillotinas y los franceses. Pero Tochtli es un niño y ahora lo que quiere es un nuevo animal para su zoológico privado: un hipopótamo enano de Liberia. Su padre, Yolcaut, un narcotraficante en la cúspide del poder, está dispuesto a cumplir todos sus caprichos. No importa que se trate de un animal exótico en peligro de extinción. Porque Yolcaut siempre puede. Tochtli vive en un palacio. Una madriguera recubierta de oro en la que convive con trece o quizá catorce... continue

110.

Fool Me Once by Harlan Coben EN

Rating: 4 (2 votes)
Description:
Horrified when she spots her husband--who was reported dead weeks earlier--playing with their toddler on her nanny cam, former special ops pilot Maya confronts deep secrets and deceit in her own past in order to discern the truth.