Thriller genre books (480)
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Illuminae by Amie Kaufman, Jay Kristoff ES
AustraliaDescription:
Aquella mañana, Kady creía que terminar con Ezra sería lo más duro que tendría que hacer ese día. Por la tarde, su planeta fue invadido. Corre el año 2575 y dos megacorporaciones rivales entran en guerra por un planeta de los confines del universo. Lástima que a nadie se le ocurre avisar a la población... Bajo un diluvio de fuego enemigo, los ex novios Kady y Ezra - que ahora apenas se hablan - tratan de abrirse camino hasta la flota de evacuación mientras una nave militar enemiga les pisa los talones. Pero ese es el menor de sus problemas. Una plaga mortal ha mutado, con resultados aterradore... continue
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In Cold Blood by Truman Capote EN
Country: North America / 
United States of America
United States of America
Description:
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • The most famous true crime novel of all time "chills the blood and exercises the intelligence" (The New York Review of Books)—and haunted its author long after he finished writing it. On November 15, 1959, in the small town of Holcomb, Kansas, four members of the Clutter family were savagely murdered by blasts from a shotgun held a few inches from their faces. There was no apparent motive for the crime, and there were almost no clues. In one of the first non-fiction novels ever written, Truman Capote reconstructs the murder and the investigation that led to the capture, t... continue
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In the Blink of an Eye : A Novel by Jo Callaghan EN
EnglandDescription:
SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER • Two detectives: one human, one AI. And a case that will test them both. “Wildly original, heartfelt, funny, and properly thrilling, this is the kind of fresh and fearless debut I just adore.”—Chris Whitaker, author of All the Colors of the Dark, a Read with Jenna Book Club Pick Winner of the Crime Writers’ Association’s John Creasy New Blood Dagger Award and the Theakston Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year Kat Frank knows all about loss. A widowed single mother, Kat is a cop who trusts her intuition, honed through years of on-the-beat police work. Picked to lead a p... continue
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In the Heat of the Moment by Viveca Sten EN
SwedenDescription:
What's a lie among friends? It's murder--in this riveting thriller by Viveca Sten, bestselling author of Tonight You're Dead... It's Midsummer's Eve, the celebration of the longest day of the year, and on Sandhamn it's the longest party of the year. But the fun comes to a dead halt when a young reveler is murdered, a teenage girl is found drugged and dazed on the beach, and other young women vanish. So far, what links the victims is a mystery. For Nora Linde and her new boyfriend, Jonas Sköld, the crimes are personal: one of the missing girls is Wilma, Jonas's daughter. And her disappearance c... continue
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Netherlands146.
In wolfskleren by Simo Hiltunen NL
FinlandDescription:
In Helsinki vindt een gezinsdrama plaats: een politieagent vermoordt zijn vrouw en twee dochters, en pleegt daarna zelfmoord. Misdaadjournalist Lauri Kivi heeft zich in gezinsmoorden gespecialiseerd en krijgt de opdracht een diepgravend stuk over de zaak te schrijven voor het weekendkatern van zijn krant. Voor zijn onderzoek reist Lauri af naar zijn geboortestreek in Oost-Finland, waar de voorgaande jaren een golf aan gezinsdrama's heeft plaatsgevonden. Maar na terugkomst in Helsinki is hij ervan overtuigd dat er iets anders aan de hand is: deze moorden zijn zo geënsceneerd dat de va... continue
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Is Mother Dead by Vigdis Hjorth EN
NorwayDescription:
A cat and mouse game of surveillance and psychological torment develops between a middleaged artist and her aging mother, as Vigdis Hjorth returns to the themes of her controverdsial modern classic, Will and Testament 'To mother is to murder, or close enough', thinks Johanna, as she looks at the spelling of the two words in Norwegian. She's recently widowed and back in Oslo after a long absence as she prepares for a retrospective of her art.The subject of her work is motherhood and some of her more controversial paintings have brought aboiut a dramatic rift between parent and child. This new p... continue
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Island Witch by Amanda Jayatissa EN
Sri LankaDescription:
"Every once in a while, a book comes along that drops you into another world and takes you places you never could imagine. This is that book. An astounding accomplishment!" —R. L. Stine, author of Goosebumps Set in nineteenth-century Sri Lanka and inspired by local folklore, Island Witch follows the daughter of a traditional demon-priest—relentlessly bullied by peers and accused of witchcraft herself—tries to solve the mysterious attacks that have been terrorizing her coastal village. Being the daughter of the village Capuwa, or demon-priest, Amara is used to keeping mostly to herself. Influen... continue
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Jaag je ploeg over de botten van de doden by Olga Tokarczuk NL
PolandDescription:
In een afgelegen Pools dorpje vertelt de excentrieke zestiger Janina Duszejko over de dood van haar buurman en de andere vreemde gebeurtenissen van de laatste tijd. Janina leidt een teruggetrokken leven: ze houdt van de natuur, van astrologie en vertaalt de poëzie van William Blake. Wanneer leden van de lokale jachtvereniging dood worden aangetroffen, raakt ze als een Poolse Miss Marple betrokken bij het politieonderzoek.
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Jakt (Biobrikken Bok 1) by Ben Ormstad NO
Description:
Først kom overvåkningskameraene. På hvert hushjørne, i hver gate, utenfor hvert hjem. Ikke bare i Oslo og andre byer verden over, men også i ørkenen, jungelen og i dype skoger som Finnskogen. Det var bare begynnelsen. Nå klargjøres innføringen av en databrikke som sprøytes inn i hånden og registrerer alt om deg - gener og helsetilstand, hva du spiser og drikker, hvor du til enhver tid befinner deg, hvem du omgås, hva du liker og ikke liker. Alt privatliv vil forsvinne. For alltid. Om tre dager innføres den verden over - med tvang. Biobrikken. Makteliten vet tiden er knapp. Motstand ulmer i bef... continue