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A Question of Blood
by Ian Rankin
A school shooting leads to a complex investigation for Inspector Rebus, uncovering secrets and corruption in Edinburgh's elite circles.
DI John Rebus , freshly treated for burned hands, faces trouble. A petty criminal who had been stalking DS Siobhan Clarke died in a fire on the night Rebus was injured. Rebus is known to have been at ... (Wikipedia)
Let It Bleed
by Ian Rankin
Detective John Rebus investigates a murder case that leads him to the seedy underbelly of Edinburgh's music scene.
Detective Inspector John Rebus and Frank Lauderdale start the book with a car chase across Edinburgh to apprehend kidnappers, culminating with the two youths they are chasing throwing themselves off ... (Wikipedia)
The Falls
by Ian Rankin
An Edinburgh detective's investigation of a serial killer, with a personal connection.
A student vanishes in Edinburgh and her wealthy family of bankers ensure Detective Inspector John Rebus is under pressure to find her. A carved wooden doll in a coffin found near her East Lothian ... (Wikipedia)
City of Bones
by Michael Connelly
Detective Harry Bosch investigates the murder of a young boy whose bones are found in the hills of Los Angeles.
Detective Harry Bosch tears open a 20-year-old murder case - with an explosive ending that leave all Bosch fans hungrily awaiting the next instalment. When the bones of a twelve-year-old boy are ... (Goodreads)
A Darkness More Than Night
by Michael Connelly
Detective Harry Bosch investigates a series of murders, uncovering secrets and lies in the process.
Terry McCaleb, the retired FBI agent who starred in the bestseller "Blood Work," is asked by the LAPD to help them investigate aseries of murders that have them baffled. They are the kind of ... (Goodreads)
Red Bones
by Ann Cleeves
A murder mystery set in the Shetland Islands, where secrets and lies are uncovered in a tight-knit community.
An island shrouded in mist and a community with secrets buried in the past . . . When a young archaeologist studying on a site at Whalsay discovers a set of human remains, the island settlers are ... (Goodreads)
Cold Granite
by Stuart MacBride
Detective Logan McRae investigates the abduction and murder of young boys in Aberdeen, Scotland.
It is Logan McRae's first week back after being on sick leave for a year; courtesy of Angus Robertson (The Mastrick Monster) who carved him up with a knife. Someone is kidnapping children, murdering ... (Wikipedia)
One Step Behind
by Henning Mankell
A detective solves a murder mystery, uncovering a web of corruption in the process.
It is Midsummer's Eve. Three young friends meet in a wood to act out an elaborate masque. But unknown to them, they are being watched. With a bullet each, all three are murdered. Soon afterwards, one ... (Goodreads)
Restless
by William Boyd
A thrilling spy novel of international espionage, secrets, and espionage.
Eva, a young Russian woman, is recruited after her brother's death to work for the British secret service . During this time she falls for her mentor and boss, Lucas Romer. But all is not as it seems ... (Wikipedia)
The Sunne in Splendour
by Sharon Kay Penman
Historical fiction about the life of King Richard III, from his childhood to his death on the battlefield.
The story begins in 1459 with Richard as a young boy, and ends in 1485 with his defeat at the Battle of Bosworth Field . When their father is killed, Richard's older brother Edward leads the House of ... (Wikipedia)
Sovereign
by C.J. Sansom
A lawyer's quest to uncover the truth behind a mysterious death in Tudor England.
Set in the autumn of 1541, the novel describes fictional events surrounding Henry VIII's 'Progress' to the North (a state visit accompanied by the royal court and its attendants, the purpose of which ... (Wikipedia)
Blood Work
by Michael Connelly
A retired FBI agent unravels a mystery while struggling with his own mortality.
After receiving a heart transplant, retired FBI criminal profiler Terrell "Terry" McCaleb is contacted by Graciela Rivers, the sister of his donor Gloria, and asked to investigate her death, which ... (Wikipedia)
Birdsong: A Novel of Love and War
by Sebastian Faulks
A poignant love story set during World War I, exploring the impact of war on human relationships and the human psyche.
Birdsong has an episodic structure, and is split into seven sections which move between three different periods of time before, during and after the war in the Stephen Wraysford plot, and three ... (Wikipedia)
The Redbreast
by Jo Nesbø
Detective searches for clues to an elusive crime to find a killer terrorizing Oslo.
The Redbreast is a fabulous introduction to Nesbø’s tough-as-nails series protagonist, Oslo police detective Harry Hole. A brilliant and epic novel, breathtaking in its scope and design—winner of The ... (Goodreads)
Running Blind
by Lee Child
A former military policeman is tasked with tracking down a dangerous criminal, learning secrets about his own past along the way.
Women are being murdered nationwide by a killer who leaves no trace of evidence, no fatal wounds, no signs of struggle, and no clues to an apparent motive. All the victims have one thing in common: ... (Goodreads)
Atonement
by Ian McEwan
A tale of the consequences of a child's mistake, and how its effects ripple through generations.
Briony Tallis, a 13-year-old English girl with a talent for writing, lives at her family's country estate with her parents Jack and Emily Tallis. Her older sister Cecilia has recently graduated from ... (Wikipedia)
The Moonstone
by Wilkie Collins
A mystery novel, unraveling the secrets of an ancient Indian diamond.
Colonel Herncastle, an unpleasant former soldier, brings the Moonstone back with him from India where he acquired it by theft and murder during the Siege of Seringapatam . Angry at his family, who ... (Wikipedia)
Regeneration
by Pat Barker
Story of WWI soldiers & their experiences of trauma, set amidst the backdrop of a psychiatric hospital.
The novel begins as Dr W. H. R. Rivers , an army psychiatrist at Craiglockhart War Hospital , learns of poet Siegfried Sassoon 's declaration against the continuation of the war. A government board ... (Wikipedia)
The Crossing
by Cormac McCarthy
A father and son's perilous journey across a post-apocalyptic landscape.
Following All the Pretty Horses in Cormac McCarthy's Border Trilogy is a novel whose force of language is matched only by its breadth of experience and depth of thought. In the bootheel of New Mexico ... (Goodreads)
The Woman in White
by Wilkie Collins
A thrilling mystery of secrets and hidden identities, with a hero on a quest for the truth.
Walter Hartright, a young art teacher, encounters and gives directions to a mysterious and distressed woman dressed entirely in white, lost in London; he is later informed by policemen that she has ... (Wikipedia)
Nation
by Terry Pratchett
A story of courage and determination, as an island nation rebuilds its culture and identity after a devastating tsunami.
Alone on a desert island — everything and everyone he knows and loves has been washed away in a storm — Mau is the last surviving member of his nation. He’s completely alone — or so he thinks until ... (Goodreads)
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)
Echo Burning
by Lee Child
A former military man is hired for a dangerous job to protect a woman and her daughter from an abusive husband.
Jack Reacher breaks a bully's nose and finger after being repeatedly provoked in a Texas saloon, so when the bully turns out to be a local cop and shows up with three of his colleagues the following ... (Wikipedia)
Dust to Dust
by Tami Hoag
A small town is rocked by the murder of a young boy, and secrets are uncovered as the investigation unfolds.
Andy Fallon, Internal Affairs cop and son of police legend, "Iron" Mike Fallon, is found hanging nude in his bedroom, facing a mirror with the word "sorry" printed on it. Was it a suicide, an erotic ... (Wikipedia)
Pachinko
by Lee Min-jin
A saga spanning four generations of a Korean family living in Japan, struggling to survive and thrive amidst prejudice and poverty.
The novel takes place over the course of three books: Book I Gohyang/Hometown, Book II Motherland, and Book III Pachinko. In 1883, in the little island fishing village of Yeongdo , which is a ferry ... (Wikipedia)
Look Back in Anger
by John Osborne
A young man's disillusionment with post-war Britain and his stagnant marriage. A scathing critique of the British class system.
Electrifying in its urgency, cauterizing in its wit, this play blasted a gaping hole in the conventions of British drama. Jimmy Porter plays trumpet badly. He browbeats his flatmate, terrorizes his ... (Goodreads)
Arctic Chill
by Arnaldur Indriðason
A young immigrant boy is found murdered in the cold streets of Reykjavik, and Detective Erlendur must navigate the city's underworld to solve the case.
The 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 ... (Goodreads)
Prior Bad Acts
by Tami Hoag
A serial killer is on the loose and a prosecutor must confront her own past to solve the case.
New York Times bestselling author Tami Hoag returns with a thriller that begins with a shocking crime scene you’ll never forget and follows two relentless detectives on a manhunt that ends in a ... (Goodreads)
Batman: Nightwalker
by Marie Lu
After being arrested, Bruce Wayne is sentenced to community service at Arkham Asylum where he meets a mysterious girl and gets tangled in a dangerous game.
Before he was Batman, he was Bruce Wayne. A reckless boy willing to break the rules for a girl who may be his worst enemy. The Nightwalkers are terrorizing Gotham City, and Bruce Wayne is next on ... (Goodreads)
Hans Brinker, or the Silver Skates
by Mary Mapes Dodge
A heartwarming tale of a poor Dutch boy and his sister who dream of winning a skating race and buying their father a new pair of skates.
In Holland , poor but industrious and honorable 15 year-old Hans Brinker and his younger sister Gretel yearn to participate in December's great ice skating race on the canal . They have little chance ... (Wikipedia)
