Crime genre books (403)


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A Series of Unfortunate Events #11: The Grim Grotto by Lemony Snicket EN

Rating: 4.5 (4 votes)
Description:
NOW A NETFLIX ORIGINAL SERIES Warning: Your day will become very dark—and possibly damp—if you read this book. Plan to spend this spring in hiding. Lemony Snicket is back with the eleventh book in his New York Times bestselling A Series of Unfortunate Events. Lemony Snicket's saga about the charming, intelligent and grossly unlucky Baudelaire orphans continues to provoke suspicion and despair in readers the world over. In the eleventh and most alarming volume yet in the bestselling phenomenon A Series of Unfortunate Events, the intrepid siblings delve further into the dark mystery surrounding ... continue

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A Series of Unfortunate Events #3: The Wide Window by Lemony Snicket EN

Rating: 3 (1 vote)
Description:
Dear Reader, If you have not read anything about the Baudelaire orphans, then before you read even one more sentence, you should know this: Violet, Klaus, and Sunny are kindhearted and quick-witted, but their lives, I am sorry to say, are filled with bad luck and misery. All of the stories about these three children are unhappy and wretched, and this one may be the worst of them all.If you haven't got the stomach for a story that includes a hurricane, a signalling device, hungry leeches, cold cucumber soup, a horrible villain, and a doll named Pretty Penny, then this book will probably fill yo... continue

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A Series of Unfortunate Events #9: The Carnivorous Carnival by Lemony Snicket EN

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Description:
Everybody loves a carnival! Who can fail to delight in the colourful people, the unworldly spectacle, the fabulous freaks? A carnival is a place for good family fun - as long as one has a family, that is. For the Baudelaire orphans, their time at the carnival turns out to be yet another episode in a now unbearable series of unfortunate events. In fact, in this appalling ninth instalment in Lemony Snicket′s serial, the siblings must confront a terrible lie, a caravan, and Chabo the wolf baby. With millions of readers worldwide, and the Baudelaire′s fate turning from unpleasant to unseemly, it i... continue

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A Silent Fury : The El Bordo Mine Fire by Yuri Herrera EN

Rating: 3 (1 vote)
Description:
Mine fire industrial disaster nonfiction: from the author of Signs Preceding The End of The World

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A Study in Scarlet by Arthur Conan Doyle EN

Rating: 4 (6 votes)
Country: Europe / Scotland flag Scotland
Description:
The first of the Sherlock Holmes' adventures, this book introduces the great sleuth and explains how Dr. Watson and Holmes come to share rooms together and solve mysteries together.

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Abduction by Anouar Benmalek EN

Rating: 4 (1 vote)
Country: Africa / Morocco flag Morocco
Description:
Drawn together by the tortured memory of a massacre years ago, a shared experience binds Mathieu, Tahar and Aziz, and has repercussions for Meriem and Chehra, Aziz's wife and daughter. Chehra is abducted, and the kidnapper's brutal demands and threats of violent torture turn this into a tense thriller. But how far will Aziz go to save his family?

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Accidental Death of an Anarchist by Dario Fo EN

Rating: 4 (1 vote)
Country: Europe / Italy flag Italy
Description:
In its first two years of production in Italy, Accidental Death of an Anarchist was seen by over half a million people. The play concerns the case of an anarchist railway worker who, in 1969, 'fell' to his death from a police headquarters window.

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Accidents Happen and Other Stories

Accidents Happen and Other Stories by F.H. Batacan EN

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Country: Asia / Philippines flag Philippines
Description:
From the master of Filipino crime fiction, a genre-bending collection that documents murders, disappearances, and acts of violence in stories that range from procedural crime to horror to near-future noir F.H. Batacan’s first novel, Smaller and Smaller Circles, was an instant classic when it was published in 1999, a masterpiece of Filipino crime fiction that won the Philippine National Book Award. In this extraordinary and far-ranging story collection, she explores the darkest corners of human experience, depicting with pitch-black humor the systems of class and politics that her characters ar... continue

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Addis Ababa Noir by ed. Maaza Mengiste EN

Rating: 3 (1 vote)
Country: Africa / Ethiopia flag Ethiopia
Description:
Addis Ababa is a sprawling melting pot of cultures where rich and poor live side by side in relative harmony--until they don't.