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What do readers say about The City & The City?
imaginative and entertainingnoir detective novelmetaphysical crime noirnoir police procedural novelNAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE LOS ANGELES TIMES, THE SEATTLE TIMES, AND PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
When a murdered woman is found in the city of Beszel, somewhere at the edge of Europe, it looks to be a routine case for Inspector Tyador Borlú... Read more about The City & The City
I COULD NOT SEE THE STREET or much of the estate. We were enclosed by dirt-coloured blocks, from windows out of which leaned vested men and women with morning hair and mugs of drink, eating breakfast ...
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What do readers say about The Sins of the Fathers?
clean and flowsraw and grittymore cerebral than action-packedpulp fiction styleThe pretty young prostitute is dead. Her alleged murderer-a minister's son-hanged himself in his jail cell. The case is closed. But the dead girl's fatherhas come to Matthew Scudder for answers, sending the unlicensed private investigator in search o... Read more about The Sins of the Fathers
He was a big man, about my height with a little more flesh on his heavy frame. His eyebrows, arched and prominent, were still black. The hair on his head was iron gray, combed straight back, giving hi...
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What do readers say about The Black Echo?
slow to get movingcrisp and suspensefulreally good storya first novelAn LAPD homicide detective must choose between justice and vengeance as he teams up with the FBI in this "thrilling" novel filled with mystery and adventure (New York Times Book Review).
For maverick LAPD homicide detective Harry Bosch, the body i... Read more about The Black Echo
The smoke carried up from the Cahuenga Pass and flattened beneath a layer of cool crossing air. From where Harry Bosch watched, the smoke looked like a gray anvil rising up the pass. The late afternoo...
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What do readers say about Midnight Riot?
long rambling paragraphshumorous and wittypolice procedural meets fantasyclever and funny"Midnight Riot is what would happen if Harry Potter grew up and joined the Fuzz. It is a hilarious, keenly imagined caper."-Diana Gabaldon
Probationary Constable Peter Grant dreams of being a detective in London's Metropolitan Police. Too bad his su... Read more about Midnight Riot
IT STARTED at one thirty on a cold Tuesday morning in January when Martin Turner, street performer and, in his own words, apprentice gigolo, tripped over a body in front of the West Portico of St. Pau...
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What do readers say about In the Woods?
beautiful use of languagepolice procedural mysteryfirst person narrativelyrical and hauntingThe bestselling debut, with over a million copies sold, that launched Tana French, author of the forthcoming novel The Searcher and "the most important crime novelist to emerge in the past 10 years" (The Washington Post).
"Required reading for anyo... Read more about In the Woods
What I warn you to remember is that I am a detective. Our relationship with truth is fundamental but cracked, refracting confusingly like fragmented glass. It is the core of our careers, the endgame o...
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What do readers say about Faceless Killers?
choppy and jarringold school noirsolving a murderstraight to the pointThe mystery thriller series that inspired the Netflix crime drama Young Wallander
From the dean of Scandinavian noir, the first riveting installment in the internationally bestselling and universally acclaimed Kurt Wallander series.
It was a senseles... Read more about Faceless Killers
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What do readers say about The Bat?
filling in of blanksmatter-of-fact norwegian stylea rollicking good whodunitcrisp and engagingThe electrifying first installment of the Harry Hole series.
Inspector Harry Hole of the Oslo Crime Squad is dispatched to Sydney to observe a murder case. Harry is free to offer assistance, but he has firm instructions to stay out of trouble. The vi... Read more about The Bat
“I’m fine,” Harry Hole had lied. It was more than thirty hours since he had taken off from Oslo via London, and after the change of planes in Bahrain he had sat in the same bloody seat by the emergenc...
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What do readers say about Naked in Death?
police procedural/murder mysteryfuturistic romantic suspensemurder mystery/detective storyfuturistic mystery suspense romanceIn a world of danger and deception, she walks the line-between seductive passion and scandalous murder...Eve Dallas is a New York police lieutenant hunting for a ruthless killer. In over ten years on the force, she's seen it all-and knows her surviva... Read more about Naked in Death
Six hours before, she'd killed a man, had watched death creep into his eyes. It wasn't the first time she'd exercised maximum force, or dreamed. She'd learned to accept the action and the consequences...
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What do readers say about The Keeper of Lost Causes?
humour and mysterycomplex and interestingscandinavian crime fictiontoo graphic, too violentGet to know the detective in charge of Copenhagen's coldest cases in the first electrifying Department Q mystery from New York Times bestselling author Jussi Adler-Olsen.
Carl Mørck used to be one of Denmark's best homicide detectives. Then a hail of... Read more about The Keeper of Lost Causes
Homicide chief Marcus Jacobsen wasa slob when it came to keeping his office in order, but that didn’t bother him. The mess was just an external phenomenon; on the inside he was meticulously organized....
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What do readers say about The Laughing Policeman?
crisp and sparseclassic police procedurala well-written police proceduralvery slow movingThe incredible fourth novel in the Martin Beck mystery series finds Beck heading a major manhunt in pursuit of a mass murderer.... Read more about The Laughing Policeman
On the evening of 13 November it was pouring in Stockholm. Martin Beck and Kollberg sat over a game of chess in the latter's flat not far from the underground station of Skärmarbrink in the southern s...
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