Mystery genre books (677)


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My Annihilation by Fuminori Nakamura EN

Rating: 3 (1 vote)
Country: Asia / Japan flag Japan
Description:
What transforms a person into a killer? Can it be something as small as a suggestion? Turn this page, and you may forfeit your entire life. With My Annihilation, Fuminori Nakamura, master of literary noir, has constructed a puzzle box of a narrative in the form of a confessional diary that implicates its reader in a heinous crime. Delving relentlessly into the darkest corners of human consciousness, My Annihilation interrogates the unspeakable thoughts all humans share that can be monstrous when brought to life, revealing with disturbing honesty the psychological motives of a killer.

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My Darling Dreadful Thing by Johanna van Veen EN

Rating: 5 (4 votes)
Country: Europe / Netherlands flag Netherlands
Description:
In a world where the dead can wake and walk among us, what is truly real? Roos Beckman has a spirit companion only she can see. Ruth—strange, corpse-like, and dead for centuries—is the only good thing in Roos’ life, which is filled with sordid backroom séances organized by her mother. That is, until wealthy young widow Agnes Knoop attends one of these séances and asks Roos to come live with her at the crumbling estate she inherited upon the death of her husband. The manor is unsettling, but the attraction between Roos and Agnes is palpable. So how does someon... continue

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My Gal Sunday by Mary Higgins Clark EN

0 Ratings
Description:
A dashing ex-president and his young congresswoman bride become an irresistible sleuthing duo in four acclaimed stories from the #1 New York Times bestselling Queen of Suspense. Henry Parker Britland IV—wealthy, worldly, and popular—is enjoying an early retirement. His new wife, Sunday—as clever as she is lovely—has just been elected to Congress in a stunning upset victory that has made her a media darling. Henry and Sunday make a formidable team...and never more so than when they set out to solve baffling high-society crimes. From a long-unsolved case they reconstruct aboard the presidential ... continue

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My Name Is Red by Orhan Pamuk EN

Rating: 4 (5 votes)
Country: Asia / Turkey flag Turkey
Description:
** ORDER NIGHTS OF PLAGUE, THE NEW NOVEL FROM ORHAN PAMUK ** Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature Winner of the International IMPAC Dublin Award 'Wonderful' The Spectator 'Magnificent' Observer 'Sumptuous' New Yorker 'Unforgettable' Guardian My Name is Red is an unforgettable murder mystery, set amid the splendour of sixteenth century Istanbul, from the Nobel prizewinning author In the late 1590s, the Sultan secretly commissions a great book: a celebration of his life and his empire, to be illuminated by the best artists of the day - in the European manner. At a time of violent fundamental... continue

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My Sister, the Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite EN

Rating: 4 (155 votes)
Country: Africa / Nigeria flag Nigeria
Description:
"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"--

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My Sweet Girl by Amanda Jayatissa EN

Rating: 4 (1 vote)
Country: Asia / Sri Lanka flag Sri Lanka
Description:
'My Sweet Girl is like nothing else I've read. Set in San Francisco and Sri Lanka, this is a story about friendship, lies, and guilt. A stunning and original must-read' Samantha Downing, Sunday Times bestselling author of My Lovely Wife A girl in a new country. A dark secret left behind. A dead body which might tell all. Ever since she was adopted from an orphanage in Sri Lanka, Paloma has led a privileged Californian life: the best schools, a generous allowance and parents so perfect that Paloma fears she'll never live up to them. Now at thirty, Paloma has managed to disappoint her parents so... continue

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Mystère et chocolat by Jean Alessandrini FR

0 Ratings
Country: Europe / France flag France
Description:
Que se passe-t-il donc au 59 bis, rue Léon-Robinet ? Sidonie, la fille des nouveaux locataires, intriguée par les mystères qui règnent dans l’immeuble, décide de mener l’enquête. Est-il vrai qu’un monstre habite au sixième ? Qui distribue cet irrésistible chocolat dont plus personne ne peut se passer ? Qui sont ces inconnus à lunettes noires qu’on croise dans l’escalier ?

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Natural History : A Novel by Carlos Fonseca EN

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From Carlos Fonseca comes a dazzling, kaleidoscopic epic of art, politics, and hidden realities Just before the dawn of the new millennium, a curator at a New Jersey museum of natural history receives an unusual invitation from a celebrated fashion designer. She shares the curator's fascination with the hidden forms of the animal kingdom—with camouflage and subterfuge—and she proposes that they collaborate on an exhibition, the form of which itself remains largely obscure, even as they enter into a strange relationship marked by evasion and elision. Seven years later, after the death of the de... continue

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Navajo Justice by Aimée Thurlo EN

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Country: North America / Cuba flag Cuba
Description:
As top operative of the Gray Wolf Pack, Burke Silentman took on the most dangerous cases. His current assignment: protect Laura Santos. However, his client never said from what. So Burke moved in next to the beautiful target to provide personal surveillance, both day and night…. But could this woman be the true savior of the Navajo loner? Even while Burke was fighting an adversary that threatened to leave them both at death’s/em> door?