Crime genre books (411)
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BelgiumDescription:
Superspannend! Het was nooit de bedoeling geweest, maar hij was tot over zijn oren verliefd op haar. En dat ze als docente op zijn school zou beginnen, maakte hun verhouding alleen maar spannender. Wanneer Yasmine de relatie plots verbreekt, probeert David hardnekkig tot haar door te dringen. Tevergeefs. Maar zij is alles voor hem. Hij zal haar nooit meer laten gaan... Hij keek de lege schoolgang in. Ze zou eindelijk luisteren naar hem. Hij zou er alles aan doen om haar voor zich terug te winnen. Niets of niemand kon hem nu nog tegenhouden. Voor hij de trap opging, haalde hij het geweer uit zi... continue
Latvia403.
We Know You Remember : A Novel by Tove Alsterdal EN
SwedenDescription:
A missing girl, a hidden body, a decades-long cover-up, and old sins cast in new light: the classic procedural meets Scandinavian atmosphere in this rich, character-driven mystery, awarded Best Swedish Crime Novel of the Year, that heralds the American debut of a supremely skilled international writer. It's been more than twenty years since Olof Hagström left home. Returning to his family's house, he knows instantly that something is amiss. The front door key, hidden under a familiar stone, is still there. Inside, there's a panicked dog, a terrible stench, water pooling on the floor. Upstairs ... continue
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We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families : Stories from Rwanda by Philip Gourevitch EN
Country: North America / 
United States of America
United States of America
Description:
In 1994 the Rwandan government implemented a policy for the Hutu majority to murder everyone in the Tutsi majority.
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When Women Kill by Alia Trabucco Zerán EN
Country: South America / 
Chile
Chile
Description:
Novelist Alia Trabucco Zerán has long been fascinated not only with the root causes of violence against women, but by those women who have violently rejected the domestic and passive roles they were meant by their culture to inhabit.
Choosing as her subject four iconic homicides perpetrated by Chilean women in the twentieth century, she spent years researching this brilliant work of narrative nonfiction detailing not only the troubling tales of the murders themselves, but the story of how society, the media and men in power reacted to these killings, painting their perpetrators as wi... continue
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Barbados407.
Wild Houses by Colin Barrett EN
IrelandDescription:
The riotous, raucous and deeply resonant debut novel from "one of the best story writers in the English language today" (Financial Times) Wild Houses follows two outsiders caught in the crosshairs of a small-town revenge kidnapping gone awry With his acclaimed and award-winning collections Young Skins and Homesickness Colin Barrett cemented his reputation as one of contemporary Irish literature's most daring stylists. Praised by the Oprah Daily as "a doyen of the sentence," and by the Los Angeles Times as a writer of "unique genius," Barrett now expands his canvas with a debut novel that conta... continue
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Written in Bone by Sue Black EN
ScotlandDescription:
Our bones are the silent witnesses to the lives we lead. Our stories are marbled into their marrow. Drawing upon her years of research and a wealth of remarkable experience, the world-renowned forensic anthropologist Dame Sue Black takes us on a journey of revelation. From skull to toe, via the teeth, spine, chest, arms, hands, pelvis and legs, she delicately reverse engineers events, piecing together the evidence in our remains to discover thedetails of lives once lived. All that we eat, where we go, everything we do leaves a trace, a message that waits patiently in our bones for the forensic... continue
409.
Country: Africa / 
South Africa
South Africa
Description:
Zinzi has a talent for finding lost things. To save herself, she's got to find the hardest thing of all: The truth.
Czech Republic