Mystery genre books (677)


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The Running Grave: Cormoran Strike Book 7 by Robert Galbraith EN

Rating: 5 (1 vote)
Country: Europe / England flag England
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'The work of a master storyteller' Daily Telegraph 'One of crime's most engaging duos' Guardian THE SUNDAY TIMES CRIME NOVEL OF THE YEAR 2023 ________ Private Detective Cormoran Strike is contacted by a worried father whose son, Will, has gone to join a religious cult in the depths of the Norfolk countryside. The Universal Humanitarian Church is, on the surface, a peaceable organisation that campaigns for a better world. Yet Strike discovers that beneath the surface there are deeply sinister undertones, and unexplained deaths. In order to try to rescue Will, Strike's business partner Robin Ell... continue

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The Sanctuary Sparrow by Ellis Peters EN

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Country: Europe / England flag England
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Discover Brother Cadfael: Former soldier. Benedictine monk. Amateur sleuth. The Cadfael Chronicles, by Diamond Dagger winner Ellis Peters, follow the mediaeval mysteries of one of classic crime's most unique detectives. In the Spring of 1140, a young man, pursued by a lynching mob, claims sanctuary just in time to save his life. Brother Cadfael believes the boy is innocent and sets out to prove it.

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The Sandman by Lars Kepler EN

Rating: 5 (2 votes)
Country: Europe / Sweden flag Sweden
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Two brilliant police agents must hold fast to their sanity to beat a manipulative serial killer at his own game and rescue a girl who went missing thirteen years earlier.

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The Saturday Night Ghost Club by Craig Davidson EN

Rating: 4 (1 vote)
Description:
A short, infectious, and bittersweet coming-of-age story in the vein of Stranger Things and Stand by Me about a group of misfit kids who spend an unforgettable summer investigating local ghost stories and urban legends. Finalist for the Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize. When neurosurgeon Jake Baker operates, he knows he's handling more than a patient's delicate brain tissue--he's altering the seat of consciousness, the golden vault of memory. And memory, Jake knows well, can be a tricky, quicksilver thing. When growing up in 1980s Niagara Falls, a.k.a. Cataract City--a seedy but magical, sl... continue

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The Scholar by Dervla McTiernan EN

Rating: 4 (1 vote)
Country: Europe / Ireland flag Ireland
Description:
From international #1 bestselling author of The Ruin and The Murder Rule comes a compulsive crime thriller set in the fiercely competitive, cutthroat world of research and academia, where the brightest minds will stop at nothing to succeed. When Dr. Emma Sweeney stumbles across the victim of a hit-and-run outside Galway University early one morning, she calls her boyfriend, Detective Cormac Reilly, bringing him first to the scene of a murder that would otherwise never have been assigned to him. The dead girl is carrying an ID that will put this crime at the center of a scandal--her card identi... continue

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The Secret History of Moscow by Ekaterina Sedia EN

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Country: Europe / Russia flag Russia
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Just released from a mental hospital, Galina, a young translator and recovering schizophrenic, doesn't quite believe her eyes when her pregnant sister abruptly gives birth and changes into a fleeing jackdaw. Yet others across the city witness similar transformations, including Yakov, a neighborhood detective assigned to investigate a disturbing epidemic of missing-person cases. When street artist Fyodor stumbles on a surprising clue to the avian mystery, Galina and Yakov follow him through a magic portal visible only in window reflections and into an underground world of forgotten misfits and ... continue

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The Secret Keeper by Kate Morton EN

Rating: 5 (2 votes)
Country: Oceania / Australia flag Australia
Description:
Withdrawing from a family party to the solitude of her tree house, sixteen-year-old Laurel Nicolson witnesses a shocking murder that throughout a subsequent half century shapes her beliefs, her acting career, and the lives of three strangers from vastly different cultures.

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The Secret of Chimneys by Agatha Christie EN

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Country: Europe / England flag England
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Wherever ravishing Virginia Revel went, death seemed sure to follow. First her husband died. The next to perish was a foreign prince whose ruthless power was matched by his scandalous passions. Then a bungling blackmailer followed them into the grave. Now on an isolated estate where a master murderer mingled with the aristocratic guests, Virginia could turn to only one person to prove her innocence and end her nightmare. And she could only pray that she had not put her life into the hands of the man who was out to take it.

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The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes EN

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Country: Europe / England flag England
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Includes poems of thwarted love and disappointment, of raw desire, of the stalking beast, 'eye-teeth/and muzzle/coated with blood'; poems that recognise 'we have too much to gain from the gods, and this is why/they fail to love us'; poems that tell of an obsessive lover coming to grief in a sequence that echoes the old murder ballads

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The Seven Dials Mystery

The Seven Dials Mystery by Agatha Christie EN

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Country: Europe / England flag England
Description:
Gerry Wade Had Proved Himself To Be A Champion Sleeper; So The Other House Guests Decided To Play A Practical Joke On Him. Eight Alarm Clocks Were Set To Go Off, One After The Other, Starting At 6.30 A.M. But When Morning Arrived, One Clock Was Missing And The Prank Had Backfired With Tragic Consequences. For Jimmy Thesiger In Particular, The Words Seven Dials Were To Take On A New And Chilling Significance&