Mystery genre books (677)


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Hidden Camera by Zoran Zivkovic EN

Rating: 3 (1 vote)
Country: Europe / Serbia flag Serbia
Description:
A quiet undertaker cares for his exotic fish, and his silent bodies as they arrive. One day he receives a ticket to the movies, and the movie turns out to be of him! Convinced that he is being targeted by a TV reality show, he is dragged into a fantastic journey exploring love, death, and ultimate creativity.

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High Tide by Inga Ābele EN

Rating: 1 (1 vote)
Country: Europe / Latvia flag Latvia
Description:
Told more or less in reverse chronological order, High Tide is the story of Ieva, her dead lover, her imprisoned husband and the way their youthful decisions dramatically impacted the rest of their lives. Taking place over three decades, High Tide functions as a sort of psychological mystery, with the full scope of Ieva's personal situation and the relationship between the three main characters only becoming clear at the end of the novel. One of Latvia's most notable young writers, Abele is a fresh voice in European fiction, her prose is direct, evocative and exceptionally beautiful.

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Himself by Jess Kidd EN

Rating: 4 (3 votes)
Country: Europe / England flag England
Description:
A BBC Radio 2 Book Club Choice Shortlisted for the Irish Book Awards 2016Shortlisted for the Authors' Club Best First Novel Award 2017Longlisted for the John Creasey (New Blood) Dagger 20171950. A teenage girl is brutally murdered in a forest. But, somehow, her baby survives.1976. A mysterious and charming young man returns to the remote coastal village of Mulderrig, seeking answers about the mother who, it was said, had abandoned him on the steps of a Dublin orphanage.With the help of its oldest and most eccentric inhabitant, he will force the village to give up its ghosts. Nothing, not even ... continue

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Holy Men of the Electromagnetic Age : A Forgotten History of the Occult by Raphael Cormack EN

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Country: Europe / England flag England
Description:
An international history of the uncanny in the 1920s and 1930s.

195.

Homecoming by Kate Morton EN

Rating: 4 (4 votes)
Country: Oceania / Australia flag Australia
Description:
The highly anticipated new novel from the New York Times and #1 Globe and Mail bestselling author of The Clockmaker’s Daughter, a sweeping saga that begins with a shocking crime that echoes across continents and generations. Adelaide Hills, Christmas Eve, 1959 At the end of a scorching hot day, beside a creek in the grounds of a grand country house, a local man makes a terrible discovery. Police are called, and the small town of Tambilla becomes embroiled in one of the most baffling murder investigations in the history of South Australia. Many years later and thousands of miles away, Jess is a... continue

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How the One-Armed Sister Sweeps Her House : A Novel by Cherie Jones EN

Rating: 3 (9 votes)
Description:
Lala must deal with a chain of events that have terrible consequences when her petty criminal husband is interrupted in his attempt to rob one of the mansions in their "paradise" home of Baxter Beach, Barbados.

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How To Solve Your Own Murder by Kristen Perrin EN

Rating: 4 (1 vote)
Description:
'VERY funny' Jennie Godfrey 'Smart, twisty, and original' Heat 'Terrific' J. M. Hall 'Superb' Glamour 'Wildly original' Elly Griffiths 'Delightfully refreshing' Daily Mail FRANCES ALWAYS SAID SHE'D BE MURDERED. SHE WAS RIGHT. In 1965, Frances Adams was told by a fortune teller that one day she'd be murdered. Frances spent the next sixty years trying to prevent the crime that would be her eventual demise. Of course, no one took her seriously - until she was dead. For Frances, being the village busybody was a form of insurance. She'd spent a lifetime compiling dirt on every person she met, just ... continue

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Hunde von Riga : Thriller by Henning Mankell DE

Rating: 3 (1 vote)
Country: Europe / Sweden flag Sweden
Description:
Die Ermordung eines lettischen Kollegen führt Kommissar Wallander nach Riga. Dort gerät er in den Strudel des Kampfes zwischen Patriotismus, Besatzungsmacht und organisiertem Verbrechen.

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Hunted Down : The Detective Stories of Charles Dickens by Charles Dickens EN

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Country: Europe / England flag England
Description:
A selection of Dickens's detective stories and extracts from his novels.

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Hydra Head by Carlos Fuentes EN

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Description:
Carlos Fuentes, Mexico's leading novelist, author of The Old Gringo, Terra Nostra and The Death of Artemio Cruz, has produced what is probably the first Third World spy thriller, an action-filled, quick-paced novel of intrigue as contemporary as a headline. The Hydra Head has a constant political reality as backdrop: the permanent tension in the Middle East and the vast new oil resources of Mexico, the setting for a brilliant attempt to portray the diversity of one man's experience.