Popular European Thriller Books
Find thriller books written by authors from Europe for the next part of the Read Around The World Challenge. (234)
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EnglandDescription:
A BBC Radio 2 Book Club Choice Shortlisted for the Irish Book Awards 2016Shortlisted for the Authors' Club Best First Novel Award 2017Longlisted for the John Creasey (New Blood) Dagger 20171950. A teenage girl is brutally murdered in a forest. But, somehow, her baby survives.1976. A mysterious and charming young man returns to the remote coastal village of Mulderrig, seeking answers about the mother who, it was said, had abandoned him on the steps of a Dublin orphanage.With the help of its oldest and most eccentric inhabitant, he will force the village to give up its ghosts. Nothing, not even ... continue
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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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I Let You Go by Clare Mackintosh EN
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At the scene of a tragic accident, life changes immediately for everyone involved. Finding it impossible to stay in Bristol, Jenna Gray moves to a remote cottage on the Welsh coast. She is desperate to escape the past, but is haunted by the accident, by the loss of her son, and by her own fears. DI Ray Stevens is determined to get to the bottom of this case. The investigation takes him away from his family and he finds himself growing closer to Kate Evans, a young and forthright detective on his team. But Jenna's past is about to catch up with her, with devastating consequences
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I'm Travelling Alone by Samuel Bjørk EN
NorwayDescription:
When the body of a young girl is found hanging from a tree, the only clue the police have is an airline tag around her neck. It reads âe~Iâe(tm)m travelling aloneâe(tm). In response, police investigator Holger Munch is immediately charged with assembling a special homicide unit. But to complete the team, he must track down his former partner, Mia KrÃ1⁄4ger âe" a brilliant but troubled detective âe" who has retreated to a solitary island with plans to kill herself. Reviewing the file, Mia finds something new âe" a thin line carved into the dead girlâe(tm)s fingernail: the number 1. She knows th... continue
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In the Blink of an Eye : A Novel by Jo Callaghan EN
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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
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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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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
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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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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.