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by Derek B. Miller
Published Apr 2019
Read ReviewsA gripping and timely novel that follows Sigrid - the dry-witted detective from Derek B. Miller's best-selling debut Norwegian by Night - from Oslo to the United States on a quest to find her missing brother.
by Lucy Ribchester
Published Aug 2017
Read ReviewsDuring the dangerous days of World War II, Honey Deschamps is spending her days transcribing decrypted messages at Bletchley Park, when she starts to receive bizarrely coded packages. When everyone is keeping secrets, who can you trust?
by Thomas Rydahl
Published Jun 2017
Read ReviewsFor fans of Paul Auster, Raymond Chandler and Graham Greene comes this bold, prize-winning literary thriller.
by Charlotte Link
Published Jul 2015
Read ReviewsAn immersive, atmospheric crime novel from the multi-million-copy bestselling author, Charlotte Link.
by S J. Gazan
Published Nov 2014
Read ReviewsWinner of the Danish Crime Novel of the Decade, S.J. Gazan's debut novel The Dinosaur Feather is a classic of Scandinavian noir, from its richly imagined and deeply flawed characters to its scintillating exploration of one of the most fascinating aspects of contemporary dinosaur and avian research.
The Truth About the Harry Quebert Affair
by Joel Dicker
Published May 2014
Read ReviewsThe Truth About the Harry Quebert Affair is a fast-paced, tightly plotted, cinematic literary thriller, and an ingenious book within a book, by a dazzling young writer.
by D.E. Johnson
Published Sep 2013
Read ReviewsJohnson's immaculate plotting and high-tension writing make for a spellbinding read set in early twentieth-century Detroit.
by Lisa Brackmann
Published Jun 2011
Read ReviewsAmerican Ellie Cooper, deserted by her husband, has made a number of friends in China. But suddenly one of them disappears, and security organizations are hounding her for information. Contacted through an online role-playing game by a group claiming to be friends of Lao Zhang asking her for help, Ellie does the only thing she can - keep on ...
by Arnaldur Indridason
Published Sep 2010
Read ReviewsThe Reykjavik police are called on an icy January day to a garden where a body has been found: a young, dark-skinned boy is frozen to the ground in a pool of his own blood. Erlendur and his team embark on their investigation and soon unearth tensions simmering beneath the surface of Icelands outwardly liberal, multicultural society.
by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Published May 2010
Read ReviewsFrom the author of the international phenomenon, The Shadow of the Wind, comes The Angels Game, a new page-turner about the perilous nature of obsession, in literature and in love.
by Diana Abu-Jaber
Published May 2008
Read ReviewsA fingerprint expert's investigation of a series of crib deaths leads her back to the mystery of her own childhood.
by Per Petterson
Published Apr 2008
Read ReviewsWe were going out stealing horses. That was what he said, standing at the door to the cabin where I was spending the summer with my father. I was fifteen. It was 1948 and one of the first days of July.
by Henning Mankell
Published Feb 2006
Read ReviewsIn this latest atmospheric thriller, Kurt Wallander and his daughter Linda, just graduated from the police academy, join forces to search for a religious fanatic on a murder spree and soon find themselves forced to confront a group of extremists bent on punishing the world's sinners.
Don't Look Back: An Inspector Sejer Mystery
by Karin Fossum
Published Jun 2005
Read ReviewsCritically acclaimed across Europe, Karin Fossum's Inspector Sejer novels are masterfully constructed, psychologically convincing, and compulsively readable. They evoke a world that is at once profoundly disturbing and terrifyingly familiar.
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