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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Manalive by G. K. Chesterton EN
EnglandDescription:
Light-hearted work introduces Innocent Smith, a bubbly, eccentric gentleman of questionable character, into the lives of a group of young disillusioned people -- and the result is inspired, high-spirited nonsense.
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Meddling Kids : A Novel by Edgar Cantero EN
SpainDescription:
Four former kid detectives have grown up and apart, each haunted by disturbing memories of their final night in an old haunted house. The time has come to get the team back together, face their fears, and find out what actually happened all those years ago at Sleepy Lake.
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Menneskefluene (The human flies) by Hans Olav Lahlum NO
NorwayDescription:
This is the first mystery in the hugely compelling, bestselling Norwegian crime series. Oslo, 1968. Ambitious young detective Inspector Kolbjorn Kristiansen is called to an apartment block, where a man has been found murdered. The victim, Harald Olesen, was a legendary hero of the Resistance during the Nazi occupation and at first it is difficult to imagine who could have wanted him dead. But as Detective Inspector Kolbjorn Kristiansen (known as K2) begins to investigate, it seems clear that the murderer could only be one of Olesen's fellow tenants in the building. Soon, with the help of ... continue
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Description:
Shortlisted for the Arthur C. Clarke Award Longlisted for the Goldsboro Books Glass Bell Award'Imagined with an impressively detailed three-dimensional solidity' Sunday Times'I loved it ... You could feel the chill of the wind ... Fantastic; it's a great book' Sara Cox, BBC Two 'Between the Covers''Stylish and thoughtful ... The eerie claustrophobia of the setting will stay with the reader for a long while.' Literary Review 'Unputdownable ... An extraordinary book ... as insightful and as premonitory as Orwell's 1984' Litro___________________________________________________Not all that is hidd... continue
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Miss Smilla's Feeling for Snow by Peter Høeg EN
DenmarkDescription:
"One snowy day in Copenhagen, six-year-old Isaiah falls to his death from a city rooftop. The police pronounce it an accident. But Isaiah's neighbour, Smilla, suspects murder. She embarks on a dangerous quest to find the truth, following a path of clues as clear to her as footsteps in the snow."--Cover.
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Miss Smilla's Feeling of Snow by Peter Høeg EN
Description:
She thinks more highly of snow and ice than she does of love. She lives in a world of numbers, science and memories--a dark, exotic stranger in a strange land. And now Smilla Jaspersen is convinced she has uncovered a shattering crime... It happened in the Copenhagen snow. A six-year-old boy, a Greenlander like Smilla, fell to his death from the top of his apartment building. While the boy's body is still warm, the police pronounce his death an accident. But Smilla knows her young neighbor didn't fall from the roof on his own. Soon she is following a path of clues as clear to her as footsteps ... continue
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Monk's Hood by Ellis Peters EN
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When a visitor to the abbey dies, Brother Cadfael faces a personal drama. For not only was the man poisoned by monk's hood oil, made in Cadfael's own laboratory, the dead man's widow is also the woman to whom Cadfael was betrothed before he took his vows.
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Mort sur le Nil by Agatha Christie FR
Description:
Ca n'est pas très joli de voler son fiancé à sa meilleure amie pour se marier avec lui. Et même si l'amie en question semble se résigner, la ravissante et riche Linnet Ridgeway a bien des raisons d'être inquiète... Surtout quand le hasard les rassemble, pour une croisière sur le Nil, avec d'inquiétants personnages, dans une lourde atmosphère de sensualité et de cupidité. Un petit revolver, un crime étrange, une énigme de plus à résoudre pour un passager pas comme les autres : Hercule Poirot.
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Morte na Praia by Agatha Christie PT
Description:
Arlena Stuart adorava o sol, e era freqüente ver seu lindo corpo bronzeado estendido na praia, o rosto pousado na areia. Só que desta vez não havia sol... ela tinha sido estrangulada. Desde a chegada de Arlena, Poirot tinha percebido algo diferente entre os veranistas, uma tensão sexual pairando no ar. Poderia um crime aparentemente passional ter sido ao mesmo tempo uma ação premeditada, muito mais perversa? Os álibis parecem perfeitos neste empolgante mistério à beira-mar.
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Poland