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Police
by Jo Nesbø
Crime novel set in Oslo, Norway, featuring a detective who must solve a case full of unexpected twists and turns.
The tenth in the Oslo crime series featuring detective Harry Hole is the most sizeable entry yet; a twisting-turning saga that pits the gangly maverick against that most feared of serial killers, the ... (Wikipedia)
The Snowman
by Jo Nesbø
Detective Harry Hole investigates a series of grisly murders, with the help of a mysterious snowman.
In 1980, a married woman has illicit sex with a lover while her adolescent son waits in a car outside; their lovemaking is disturbed when they think somebody is looking at them from outside the ... (Wikipedia)
The Devil's Star
by Jo Nesbø
Murder mystery set in Oslo involving a mysterious pentagram symbol.
A young woman is murdered in her Oslo flat. One finger has been severed from her left hand, and behind her eyelid is secreted a tiny red diamond in the shape of a five-pointed star - a pentagram, the ... (Goodreads)
The Keeper of Lost Causes
by Jussi Adler-Olsen
A police detective investigates a mysterious disappearance, uncovering a sinister conspiracy.
Carl Mørck is demoted to Department Q, the cold case unit, after a raid goes wrong. One case, a suspected suicide, piques his interest. His investigations suggest that the woman, a rising politician, ... (Wikipedia)
The Angel's Game
by Carlos Ruiz Zafón
A writer's journey through a supernatural world of secrets and lies.
The Angel's Game is set in Barcelona in the 1920s and 1930s and follows a young writer, David Martin. In a once-abandoned mansion at the heart of Barcelona, Martín makes his living by writing ... (Wikipedia)
The Girl in the Spider's Web
by David Lagercrantz
A hacker teams up with a journalist to battle a criminal organization and save the world.
Computer scientist Frans Balder abandons a prestigious job in Silicon Valley and returns to Sweden to take custody of his autistic son August. Balder is informed by several law enforcement agencies ... (Wikipedia)
Dark Secrets
by Michael Hjorth
A psychological thriller about a series of murders that uncover dark secrets in a small Swedish town.
This book was published in the United Kingdom under the title Sebastian Bergman. It all begins with a call to the police. A sixteen-year-old boy, Roger Eriksson, has gone missing in the town of ... (Barnes & Noble)
Life After Life
by Kate Atkinson
A woman lives multiple lives, reflecting on choices and consequences and the power of love.
The novel has an unusual structure, repeatedly looping back in time to describe alternative possible lives for its central character, Ursula Todd, who is born on 11 February 1910 to an ... (Wikipedia)
Pet Sematary
by Stephen King
A family's terrifying journey of life and death, as the line between the living and the dead blurs.
Louis Creed, a doctor from Chicago , is appointed director of the University of Maine 's campus health service. He moves to a large house near the small town of Ludlow with his wife Rachel, their two ... (Wikipedia)
And the Mountains Echoed
by Khaled Hosseini
Interconnected stories of family and love, tracing the consequences of decisions made throughout life.
The novel opens in the year 1952. Saboor, an impoverished farmer from the fictional village of Shadbagh, decides to sell his three-year-old daughter Pari to a wealthy, childless couple in Kabul. ... (Wikipedia)
The Absent One
by Jussi Adler-Olsen
A criminal investigation uncovering the truth behind a series of cold cases.
In "The Keeper of Lost Causes," Jussi Adler-Olsen introduced Detective Carl Mørck, a deeply flawed but brilliant detective newly assigned to run Department Q, the home of Copenhagen’s coldest cases. ... (Goodreads)
The Sandman
by Lars Kepler
A gripping story of suspense, as a detective has to unravel the secrets of a mysterious serial killer.
The #1 internationally best-selling thriller from the author of, The Hypnotist, tells the chilling story of a manipulative serial killer and the two brilliant police agents who must try to beat him ... (Goodreads)
The Girl Who Takes an Eye for an Eye
by David Lagercrantz
A young woman's quest for justice, taking vengeance against those who have wronged her.
Lisbeth Salander is serving a two month jail sentence for the crimes she committed while protecting August Balder. After threats arise against her, she is transferred to maximum security Flodberga ... (Wikipedia)
The Client
by John Grisham
A young boy is thrust into a legal battle, as he tries to protect himself and his family.
Boyd Boyette, a United States Senator from Louisiana, goes missing. Because of his vocal opposition to a proposed major toxic landfill project by a company known to be Mafia-backed, murder is ... (Wikipedia)
I Am Pilgrim
by Terry Hayes
A former operative is called back into action to track down a terrorist plotting a global attack.
A breakneck race against time...and an implacable enemy. An anonymous young woman murdered in a run-down hotel, all identifying characteristics dissolved by acid. A father publicly beheaded in the ... (Goodreads)
Fractured
by Karin Slaughter
A thrilling story of a small town gripped in fear, as a detective attempts to unravel a series of murders.
Six months ago, Atlanta homicide detective Faith Mitchell's police captain mother was the focus of an investigation that resulted in her retirement and the firing of six narcotics officers. It was a ... (Wikipedia)
Criminal
by Karin Slaughter
A gripping crime thriller that follows a police detective's search for the truth behind a mysterious murder.
Will Trent is a brilliant agent with the Georgia Bureau of Investigation. Newly in love, he is beginning to put a difficult past behind him. Then a local college student goes missing, and Will is ... (Goodreads)
Her Fearful Symmetry
by Audrey Niffenegger
Two sisters explore a haunted London estate, uncovering secrets of a mysterious past.
Elspeth dies of leukemia. Her apartment, located beside Highgate cemetery in London, is left for the daughters of Edwina, her estranged twin sister. Elspeth's nieces, identical twins Julia and ... (Wikipedia)
Broken Harbor
by Tana French
A detective investigates a murder case in a ghostly housing estate, uncovering a web of secrets.
Mick “Scorcher" Kennedy is the star of the Dublin Murder Squad. He plays by the books and plays hard, and thatʼs how the biggest case of the year ends up in his hands. On one of the half-abandoned ... (Goodreads)
The Litigators
by John Grisham
Two small-time lawyers take on a big pharmaceutical company in a class-action lawsuit.
Oscar Finley and Wally Figg are ambulance chasers at a small law firm in the South Side of Chicago . , Their constant bickering is often mediated by Rochelle, their highly competent African-American ... (Wikipedia)
The Owl Always Hunts At Night
by Samuel Bjørk
A complex and twisted murder investigation that delves into the darkest corners of human nature.
When a young woman is found dead, the police are quick to respond. But what they find at the scene is unexpected. The body is posed, the scene laboriously set. And there is almost no forensic ... (Goodreads)
The Prisoner of Heaven
by Carlos Ruiz Zafón
A man's mysterious past entangles him in a web of secrets, love and revenge.
Daniel Sempere has settled into married life well and his son is shortly turning one year old. He is living above the family bookshop, Sempere & Sons with his elderly father, his wife Beatriz and son ... (Wikipedia)
A Trick of the Light
by Louise Penny
A murder mystery set in a small Quebec village, as a young detective uncovers secrets of the past.
"Hearts are broken," Lillian Dyson carefully underlined in a book. "Sweet relationships are dead." But now Lillian herself is dead. Found among the bleeding hearts and lilacs of Clara Morrow's garden ... (Goodreads)
The Beautiful Mystery
by Louise Penny
A priest and a nun join forces to solve a murder shrouded in secrets within a cloistered Quebec monastery.
No outsiders are ever admitted to the monastery of Saint-Gilbert-Entre-les-Loups, hidden deep in the wilderness of Québec, where two dozen cloistered monks live in peace and prayer. Ironically, for a ... (Goodreads)
Say You're Sorry
by Michael Robotham
A psychologist is drawn into a murder investigation when one of her patients confesses to a crime. Twists and turns abound in this psychological thriller.
Two missing girls. Two brutal murders. All connected to one farmhouse. Who is to blame? When pretty and popular teenagers Piper Hadley and Tash McBain disappear one Sunday morning, the investigation ... (Barnes & Noble)
Stoner
by John Williams
An academic's life of quiet desperation, finding solace in literature.
William Stoner is born on a small farm in 1891. After high school, the county agent advises he go to agriculture school. Stoner enrolls in the University of Missouri , where all agriculture students ... (Wikipedia)
How the Light Gets In
by Louise Penny
Detective Armand Gamache investigates a murder in a small Canadian town, uncovering secrets and lies.
Christmas is approaching, and in Québec it's a time of dazzling snowfalls, bright lights, and gatherings with friends in front of blazing hearths. But shadows are falling on the usually festive ... (Goodreads)
The Prince of Tides
by Pat Conroy
A man's search for solace and understanding in his troubled family's past.
Tom Wingo is a middle-aged man with a wife and three young daughters who has recently lost his job as a high school English teacher and football coach. He learns that his twin sister, Savannah, has ... (Wikipedia)
Shutter Island
by Dennis Lehane
A U.S. Marshal investigates a psychiatric hospital on a remote island, uncovering chilling secrets and an unexpected truth.
In 1954, widower U.S. Marshal Edward "Teddy" Daniels and his new partner, Chuck Aule, go on a ferry boat to Shutter Island, the home of Ashecliffe Hospital for the criminally insane, to investigate ... (Wikipedia)
The Cold Cold Ground
by Adrian McKinty
In 1981 Belfast, a detective investigates a series of murders while navigating the complexities of the Troubles.
McKinty’s previous book,, Falling Glass, was an Audible.com Best Thriller of 2011 , Northern Ireland, spring 1981. Hunger strikes, riots, power cuts, a homophobic serial killer with a penchant for ... (Barnes & Noble)
