Popular European Mystery Books
Find mystery books written by authors from Europe for the next part of the Read Around The World Challenge. (333)
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Holy Men of the Electromagnetic Age : A Forgotten History of the Occult by Raphael Cormack EN
EnglandDescription:
An international history of the uncanny in the 1920s and 1930s.
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Hunde von Riga : Thriller by Henning Mankell DE
SwedenDescription:
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
Description:
A selection of Dickens's detective stories and extracts from his novels.
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I Remember You by Yrsa Sigurdardottir EN
IcelandDescription:
A terrifying ghost story from the queen of Icelandic crime writing.
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In bocca al lupo by Mick Herron IT
Description:
Se un tempo sei stato una spia, sarai una spia per sempre. Vale per Jackson Lamb e i suoi uomini, i Brocchi o Slow Horses, agenti che si sono rovinati commettendo errori in servizio o cedendo a un vizio di troppo, e che l’Intelligence ha dovuto allontanare senza però riuscire mai a metterli a riposo. E vale per Dickie Bow. Un vecchio leone, per giunta cresciuto allo “Zoo” di Berlino durante la Guerra fredda. Un’ombra capace di infiltrarsi ovunque, di stare alle calcagna del suo obiettivo per mesi e carpirne i segreti. Almeno finché non viene trovato morto su un autobus vicino a Oxford. Jackson... continue
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In the Blink of an Eye : A Novel by Jo Callaghan EN
Description:
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 Forest by Edna O'Brien EN
IrelandDescription:
Based on a horrendous true crime, IN THE FOREST si the story of Mich O'Kane -- 'not all there in the head' it's said -- who shoots three people dead in the woods of Ireland. Edna O'Brien traces the events that lead to such horror. Mich O'Kane hears voices; he cannot stop mourning the death of his mother. Theft and other crimes lead him to a Christian Brothers borstal, then to a British prison. By the time he returns home, he is an institutionalised criminal incapable fo telling the truth even to himself. Single mother Eily lives with her you son Maddie in a house Mich camped out in after his m... continue
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In the Heat of the Moment by Viveca Sten EN
Description:
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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Innocence; or, Murder on Steep Street by Heda Margolius Kovály EN
Country: Europe / 
Czech Republic
Czech Republic
Description:
Czech Holocaust memoirist, literary translator and political exile Heda Margolius Kovly turned her pen to fiction. Inspired by Chandler, Kovaly knit her own terrifying experiences in early 1950s Socialist Prague: her husband's imprisonment and wrongful execution and her own persecution at his disgrace, into a smart and evocative psychological thriller-cum-detective novel. Set in and around a cinema where a murder was recently committed, follows the unfolding of the investigation while telling the stories of the women who work there as ushers, each of whom is forced to support herself.
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Jar City by Arnaldur Indridason EN
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An old man, murdered in his Reykjavik flat... Only a cryptic note and a photograph of a young girl's grave are left behind.. DID THE DEAD MAN'S PAST COME BACK TO HAUNT HIM? Inspector Erlendur discovers that several decades ago the victim was accused, but not convicted, of an unsolved crime. As he follows a fascinating trail of strange forensic evidence, Inspector Erlendur uncovers secrets that are much larger than the murder of one man - dark secrets that have been carefully guarded for many, many years... The acclaimed first installation in the bestselling Reykjavik Murder Mysteries series, J... continue