Crime genre books (403)


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The Boy in the Headlights : (Munch and Krüger Book 3) by SAMUEL. BJORK EN

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Country: Europe / Norway flag Norway
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The bestselling series, a former Richard and Judy bookclub pick, returns with another chilling case. Munch and Krüger. An unexpected pairing. A brilliant team. Winter 1999. An old man is driving home. It is dark and cold, and his is the only car on the road. Suddenly his headlights catch an animal up ahead. He hits the breaks furiously. Just in front of his bonnet he finds a young boy with a set of deer antlers on his head. Fourteen years later, a woman is found brutally murdered. Her body hidden in the boot of a car. She is the first but she won't be the last. Holger Munch is glad for the wor... continue

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The Boy in the Suitcase by Lene Kaaberbol, Agnete Friis EN

Rating: 2 (1 vote)
Country: Europe / Denmark flag Denmark
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Nina Borg, a Red Cross nurse, wife, and mother of two, is a compulsive do-gooder who can't say no when someone asks for help—even when she knows better. When her estranged friend Karin leaves her a key to a public locker in the Copenhagen train station, Nina gets suckered into her most dangerous project yet. Inside the locker is a suitcase, and inside the suitcase is a three-year-old boy: naked and drugged, but alive. Is the boy a victim of child trafficking? Can he be turned over to authorities, or will they only return him to whoever sold him? When Karin is discovered brutally murdered, Nina... continue

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The Break by Katherena Vermette EN

Rating: 4 (2 votes)
Description:
International bestseller The Break is the first in Katherena Vermette's heart-rending, utterly immersive Indigenous family saga that includes The Strangers and The Circle. When Stella, a young Mé tis mother, looks out her window one evening and spots someone in trouble on the Break — a barren field on an isolated strip of land outside her house — she calls the police to alert them to a possible crime. But when they arrive, no one is there; scuff marks in the compacted snow are the only sign anything may have happened. In a series of shifting narratives, people who are connected, both directly ... continue

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The Broken River by Chris Hammer EN

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Country: Oceania / Australia flag Australia
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BURIED GOLD, OLD BONES. WHAT SECRETS LURK IN THE DEPTHS? A masterclass of small-town mystery and jaw-dropping twists from Chris Hammer, the international bestselling author of Scrublands, The Times Crime Book of the Year 2023 Dead Man's Creek and Crime Book of the Month (January 2024) Cover the Bones. A body has been discovered on the riverbanks of The Valley, a remote community in the hills of New South Wales. The gold mine at the heart of The Valley was once the lifeblood of this region, but it has been flooded for decades. Over the years, many have tried and failed to bring it back to life.... continue

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The Cage by Alberts Bels EN

Rating: 4 (1 vote)
Country: Europe / Latvia flag Latvia
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The Cage is an extraordinary story of mystery and suspense by one of Latvia's leading novelists. Edmunds Berz, a married man and a successful architect, disappears without a trace. The solution to his disappearance is one of the most ingenious in modern fiction.

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The Chestnut Man : The Chilling and Suspenseful Thriller Soon to Be a Major Netflix Series by Søren Sveistrup EN

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Country: Europe / Denmark flag Denmark
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A young woman is found brutally murdered in a playground and one of her hands is missing. Above her hangs a small doll made of chestnuts. Ambitious young detective Naia Thulin is assigned the case. Her partner, Mark Hess, is a burned-out investigator who's just been kicked out of Europol

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The Cleaner : A Thriller by Paul Cleave EN

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A police department janitor named Joe investigates what is thought to be the seventh Christchurch Carver murder, except that Joe knows for certain that the latest homicide is the work of a copycat killer.


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The Coroner's Lunch by Colin Cotterill EN

Rating: 4.5 (4 votes)
Country: Europe / England flag England
Description:
When an elderly doctor takes over as state coroner of newly formed Communist Laos in the late 1970s, he unexpectedly stirs the bureaucratic pot and unravels three complicated and intertwined murder plots his superiors want to sweep under the carpet.

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The Country of Toó by Rodrigo Rey Rosa EN

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This sumptuously written thriller asks probing questions about how we live with each other and with our planet. Raised on his wits on the streets of Central America, the Cobra, a young debt collector and gang enforcer, has never had the chance to discern between right and wrong, until he's assigned the murder of Polo, a prominent human rights activist--and his friend. When his conscience gives him pause and his patrón catches on, a remote Mayan community offers the Cobra a potential refuge, but the people there are up against predatory mining companies. With danger encroaching, the Cobra is fo... continue