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Между строк by Boris Akunin
Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsВторой том переносит нас в Японию, 1878 года: ниндзя, гейши, самураи... Это история любви молодого дипломата Эраста Фандорина и роковой красавицы-ниндзя О-Юми, любви, изменившей всю его жизнь и напомнившей ему о себе через многие годы... -
![City on Fire by Don Winslow]()
City on Fire by Don Winslow
Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsTwo criminal empires together control all of New England.Until a beautiful woman comes between the Irish and the Italians, launching a war that will see them kill each other, destroy an alliance, and set a city on fire.Danny Ryan yearns for a more “legit” life and a place in the sun. But as the bloody conflict stacks body on body and brother turns against brother, Danny has to rise above himself... -
![La sospecha de Sofía by Paloma Sánchez-Garnica]()
La sospecha de Sofía by Paloma Sánchez-Garnica
Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsLa anodina vida de Sofía y Daniel cambia radicalmente cuando él recibe una carta anónima en la que se le dice que Sagrario, a la que venera, no es su verdadera madre y que si quiere conocer la verdad de su origen debe ir a París esa misma noche. Intrigado, pregunta a su padre por esta cuestión y él le recomienda que lo deje pasar, que no remueva el pasado...Categorized as:
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![The Mobster's Lament by Ray Celestin]()
The Mobster's Lament by Ray Celestin
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsLike every other mobster, the longer he stayed in the life, the closer he got to a shallow grave . . . New York, 1947. Mob fixer Gabriel Leveson needs to leave this city behind. But his plans to flee are upset when he’s given a job by the boss of all bosses, Frank Costello. A job he can’t turn down . . . Meanwhile, a killing spree in a Harlem flophouse has left an innocent black man on Death Row... -
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![An Extravagant Death by Charles Finch, James Langton]()
An Extravagant Death by Charles Finch, James Langton
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsIn what promises to be a breakout in Charles Finch's bestselling series, 'AN EXTRAVAGANT DEATH' finds Sir Charles Lenox traveling to Gilded Age Newport and New York to investigate the death of a beautiful socialite.Running Time => 8hrs. and 30mins...Categorized as:
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![Ármány és kézfogó by Gyula Böszörményi]()
Ármány és kézfogó by Gyula Böszörményi
Rated: 4.70 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsA naptár 1900-ról lassanként 1901-re vált, miként a négy esztendővel korábban elrabolt Hangay Emma ügye is hátborzongató fordulatot vesz. Ambrózy báró, az Osztrák-Magyar Monarchia első magándetektívje és hű segítőtársa, Mili kisasszony új nyomra lel, ám az ösvény, melyre ezáltal lépnek, sokkal tüskésebb, nyaktörőbb és veszélyesebb, mint azt bármelyikük is sejtené...Categorized as:
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![Murder Most Holy by Paul Doherty, P. Harding]()
Murder Most Holy by Paul Doherty, P. Harding
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsIn the early summer of 1379 in London, Sir John Cranston, Coroner of the city, is trapped into a wager with Signior Gian Galeazzo, Lord of Cremona, who challenges him to resolve a certain murder mystery within two weeks. Men have been found dead in the scarlet chamber of one of Cremona's manors... -
![The Heretic by Liam McIlvanney]()
The Heretic by Liam McIlvanney
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsSet in 1976, seven years after the murders recounted in Liam McIlvanney’s breakout novel, The Quaker, this new Glasgow noir novel is a standalone mystery featuring serial character, Detective Duncan McCormack.McCormack has returned to Glasgow after a stint with the Metropolitan Police in London. The reason for his return is left a lurking mystery throughout... -
![The Best of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle]()
The Best of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsThese fifteen short stories, chosen by David Stuart Davies, former Editor of Sherlock magazine, show the master detective Sherlock Holmes at his most ingenious...Categorized as:
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![Night Flight to Paris by David Gilman]()
Night Flight to Paris by David Gilman
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 14 ratings'Page-turning and gritty' DAILY MAIL. It is 1943 and for agents of the Special Operations Executive, a mission to Nazi-occupied Paris is a death sentence. So why has unlikely spy Harry Mitchell volunteered to return to the city he fled two years ago? The French capital is at war with itself...Categorized as:
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![The Bookseller of Inverness by S.G. MacLean]()
The Bookseller of Inverness by S.G. MacLean
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsAfter Culloden, Iain MacGillivray was left for dead on Drumossie Moor. Wounded, his face brutally slashed, he survived only by pretending to be dead as the Redcoats patrolled the corpses of his Jacobite comrades.Six years later, with the clan chiefs routed and the Highlands subsumed into the British state, Iain lives a quiet life, working as a bookseller in Inverness...Categorized as:
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![Metropolis by Philip Kerr, John Lee]()
Metropolis by Philip Kerr, John Lee
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsBerlin, 1928, the dying days of the Weimar Republic shortly before Hitler and the Nazis came to power. It was a period of decadence and excess as Berliners - after the terrible slaughter of WWI and the hardships that followed - are enjoying their own version of Babylon. Bernie is a young detective working in Vice when he gets a summons from Bernard Weiss, Chief of Berlin's Criminal Police...Categorized as:
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![Hidden Killers by Lynda La Plante]()
Hidden Killers by Lynda La Plante
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsThe brilliant new crime thriller from the BAFTA-winning writer behind the TV series Prime Suspect and author of Widows, now a major motion picture When WPC Jane Tennison is promoted to the role of Detective Constable in London’s Bow Street CID, she is immediately conflicted... -
![Nor Will He Sleep: An Inspector McLevy Mystery 4 by David Ashton]()
Nor Will He Sleep: An Inspector McLevy Mystery 4 by David Ashton
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsBASED ON THE LONG-RUNNING BBC RADIO 4 McLEVY DRAMA SERIES ...WHILE THE STREETS OF LONDON HAD SHERLOCK HOLMES, THE DARK ALLEYS OF EDINBURGH HAD INSPECTOR JAMES McLEVY ELEGANT AND CONVINCING' The Times | 'ASHTON IS THE DIRECT HEIR TO ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON' Brian Cox | 'EXCELLENT' The Sherlock Holmes Society | 'DRIPPING WITH MELODRAMA AND DERRING-DO' Herald 1887... -
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![Picture Her Dead by Lin Anderson]()
Picture Her Dead by Lin Anderson
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsShe began to scrape at the mortar. A few minutes later she was able to prise the edge of the brick loose. The resulting rush of foetid air made her gag, but she focussed her torch beam on the enlarged hole and peered inside. Her eyes widened in horror... -
![Judgment of The Witch by Robert McCammon]()
Judgment of The Witch by Robert McCammon
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsAfter a decade, New York Times bestselling author Robert McCammon returns with an epic novel of suspense that reinstates him as one of the great storytellers of our time.... The Carolinas, 1699: The citizens of Fount Royal believe their town is cursed by a witch... -
![Murder in Canton by Robert van Gulik]()
Murder in Canton by Robert van Gulik
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsA.D. 681Murder In Canton takes place in 680 A.D. Judge Dee, recently promoted to Lord Chief Justice, is sent incognito to Canton to investigate the disappearance of a court censor... -
![Evil Unveiled by Robert McCammon]()
Evil Unveiled by Robert McCammon
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratings"New York Times" bestselling author Robert McCammon continues his triumphant return with the conclusion of an epic tale of suspense that reinstates him as one of the great storytellers of our time....The Carolinas, 1699: After hearing damning testimony from the townspeople of Fount Royal, magistrate Isaac Woodward sentences the accused witch, Rachel Howarth, to death by burning... -
![Beretva és tőr by Gyula Böszörményi]()
Beretva és tőr by Gyula Böszörményi
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 10 ratings1900 verőfényes őszén Budapest székesfővárosa a mesés Perzsia uralkodóját látja vendégül. Muzaffer ed-din Qajar egész udvartartásával utazgat Európában, két marokkal szórva a pénzt és a kitüntetéseket. A magyar fővárosban négy kellemes napot szándékozik tölteni, amiről a sajtó részletesen be is számol, ám még a szemfüles firkászok sem találnak magyarázatot néhány érthetetlen történésre...Categorized as:
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![Leányrablás Budapesten by Gyula Böszörményi]()
Leányrablás Budapesten by Gyula Böszörményi
Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsBudapest, 1896.A város a millenniumi ünnepségek lázában ég. A békebeli Monarchia minden zugából tízezerszám tódulnak az emberek, hogy megcsodálják az ezeréves Magyarország egybehordott kincseit. Köztük van a Marosvásárhelyről érkezett, 16 éves Hangay Emma kisasszony is, akinek a rendezvények második napján nyoma vész...Categorized as:
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![February's Son by Alan Parks]()
February's Son by Alan Parks
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsBodies are piling up with grisly messages carved into their chests. Rival gangs are competing for control of Glasgow’s underworld and it seems that Cooper, McCoy’s oldest gangster friend, is tangled up in it all.Detective Harry McCoy’s first day back at work couldn’t have gone worse.New drugs have arrived in Glasgow, and they’ve brought a different kind of violence to the broken city... -
![Pandora's Boy by Lindsey Davis]()
Pandora's Boy by Lindsey Davis
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsFlavia Albia is a private investigator, always drawn to an intriguing puzzle - even if it is put to her by her new husband's hostile ex-wife. On the Quirinal Hill, Clodia Volumnia, a very young girl with stars in her eyes, has died, amid suggestions that she was poisoned by a love-potion... -
![Barriers to Entry by Ariel Lawhon]()
Barriers to Entry by Ariel Lawhon
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsAn inquisitive woman defies expectations to become the mother of forensic science in this absorbing short story by New York Times bestselling author Ariel Lawhon.You will have ninety minutes to solve the murder. A startling declaration by a new Harvard instructor: sixty-seven-year-old Frances Glessner Lee. It’s 1945...Categorized as:
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![Sunset Swing by Ray Celestin]()
Sunset Swing by Ray Celestin
Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsLos Angeles. Christmas, 1967. A devil is loose in the City of Angels . . .A young nurse, Kerry Gaudet, travels to the City of Angels desperate to find her missing brother, fearing that something terrible has happened to him: a serial killer is terrorising the city, picking victims at random, and Kerry has precious few leads... -
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![Dead Man's Blues by Ray Celestin]()
Dead Man's Blues by Ray Celestin
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsChicago, 1928. In the stifling summer heat three disturbing events take place. A clique of city leaders is poisoned in a fancy hotel. A white gangster is found mutilated in an alleyway in the Blackbelt. And a famous heiress vanishes without a trace.Pinkerton detectives Michael Talbot and Ida Davis are hired to find the missing heiress by the girl's troubled mother... -
![Nineteen Eighty by David Peace]()
Nineteen Eighty by David Peace
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsDecember 1980, the Yorkshire Ripper murders his thirteenth victim, while Assistant Chief Constable Peter Hunter struggles even deeper in the mire of a culture tainted with dark and sordid detail to solve one of the country's most hellish crimes... -
![Goldstein by Volker Kutscher]()
Goldstein by Volker Kutscher
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsVolker Kutscher, author of the international bestseller Babylon Berlin, continues his Gereon Rath Mystery series with Goldstein as a police inspector investigates the crime and corruption of a decadent 1930s Berlin in the shadows the growing Nazi movement.Berlin, 1931. A power struggle is taking place in Berlin's underworld...Categorized as:
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![A Trick of the Light: An Inspector McLevy Mystery 3 by David Ashton]()
A Trick of the Light: An Inspector McLevy Mystery 3 by David Ashton
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe third in David Ashton's series of McLevy books, A Trick of the Light sees McLevy team up with Arthur Conan Doyle to pursue a ruthless killer. It is 1860 and a Confederate officer, Jonathen Sinclair, arrives in Edinburgh with a sheaf of money to purchase a blockade-runner from Clydeside shipbuilders. He is betrayed to the Union forces and brutally shot dead by their secret agents... -
![The House at Helygen by Victoria Hawthorne]()
The House at Helygen by Victoria Hawthorne
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratings'DARK, DISTURBING AND UTTERLY COMPELLING' LIZ FENWICKAn atmospheric historical suspense novel rich with familial secrets. The House at Helygen is a twisted tale of dark pasts, murderous presents and uncertain futures.2019 When Henry Fox is found dead in his ancestral home in Cornwall, the police rule it a suicide, but his pregnant wife, Josie, believes it was murder... -
![Chains of Folly by Roberta Gellis]()
Chains of Folly by Roberta Gellis
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThat Nelda Roundheels had been murdered would have been of little interest to anyone - except that her body turned up in the bishop of Winchester's bedchamber with a letter to the bishop, from the king's most important enemy, rolled up in her breastband... -
![Peeler by Kevin McCarthy]()
Peeler by Kevin McCarthy
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWest Cork. November 1920. The Irish War of Independence rages. The body of a young woman is found brutally murdered on a windswept hillside. A scrap board sign covering her mutilated body reads 'TRATOR'. Traitor...Categorized as:
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![The Chariots of Calyx by Rosemary Rowe]()
The Chariots of Calyx by Rosemary Rowe
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsLibertus is in Londinium, at the invitation of the Roman Governor, when news arrives of the brutal murder of Caius Monnius, the city's chief corn-officer. Still reeling from the shock of catching sight of the wife he lost to slavery 20 years earlier, only to lose her again, the ever-inquisitive Libertus is, for once, uninterested in unmasking the murderer...Categorized as:
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![A Roman Ransom by Rosemary Rowe]()
A Roman Ransom by Rosemary Rowe
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsGlevum, AD 188. Lying in his sick bed, weak and disoriented, Libertus is strictly forbidden visitors. But when Marcus Septimus forces his way in, desperate to speak to the pavement-maker, Libertus knows that something is seriously wrong. Marcus's beloved wife Julia and their baby son have disappeared without a trace...Categorized as:
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![The Dragons of Archenfield by Edward Marston]()
The Dragons of Archenfield by Edward Marston
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsDOMESDAY IS COMINGIn 1086, England's mighty king, William the Conqueror, sends out surveyors and census takers to record the resources of his land and its people. Some welcome these inquisitive royal agents and their day of judgment. Others hate them. But wherever the king's men go they bring excitement; *and sometimes murder. . . -
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![The Mad Monk of Gidleigh by Michael Jecks]()
The Mad Monk of Gidleigh by Michael Jecks
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsAlone in his isolated, windswept chapel on the edge of Dartmoor, his only companions moor men and poverty–stricken serfs, who could blame the young priest, Mark for seeking affection from Jane, the local miller’s daughter? But when Jane’s body is found brutally stabbed, Mark is the obvious suspect—and the discovery that Jane was pregnant seems to confirm his guilt... -
![Mademoiselle Eiffel by Aimie K. Runyan]()
Mademoiselle Eiffel by Aimie K. Runyan
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsFrom the author of The School for German Brides and A Bakery in Paris, this captivating historical novel set in nineteenth-century Paris tells the story of Claire Eiffel, a woman who played a significant role in maintaining her family’s legacy and their iconic contributions to the city of Paris...Categorized as:
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![The Waxman Murders by Paul Doherty]()
The Waxman Murders by Paul Doherty
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsIn 1300, an English privateer named The Waxman was trapped and overrun by two powerful war cogs flying the streamers of the powerful Hanseatic League of North Germany. The ship was carrying a casket containing the Carta Mysteriosa, a collection of valuable and detailed maps and sea charts... -
![An Experiment In Treason by Bruce Alexander]()
An Experiment In Treason by Bruce Alexander
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsSir John Fielding has trailed a packet of controversial letters from London to the colony of Massachusetts. But when the suspect in the theft is found dead, Sir John turns his eye on the possible involvement of Benjamin Franklin... -
![True Crime by Max Allan Collins]()
True Crime by Max Allan Collins
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsBy the author of The Road To Perdition, this title sees Private Eye Nate Heller trying discover who the gunshot victim was, found next to the Biograph Theatre, the man the FBI confidently identified as John Dillinger. His search for the answer leads him into a confrontation with J. Edgar Hoover... -
![The Leper's Return by Michael Jecks]()
The Leper's Return by Michael Jecks
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsWhen a local goldsmith, Godfrey of Harwood, is found brutally murdered in his home, Furnshill and Puttock are called on to investigate. But when rumors begin spreading that patients from a local leper hospital might have been involved in Godfrey's murder, a series of vicious attacks on the unfortunate victims ensues, culminating in a disastrous fire at the hospital... -
![Todo lo mejor by César Pérez Gellida]()
Todo lo mejor by César Pérez Gellida
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsUna ciudad separada por un muro y unida por un sanguinario asesino. Dos investigadores que descubrirán que la crueldad no tiene límites.Una historia negra para iniciarse en el género Gellida.Viktor Lavrov es un joven talento perteneciente al KGB destinado en Berlín durante el periodo más crudo de la Guerra Fría... -
![The Haunted Abbot by Peter Tremayne]()
The Haunted Abbot by Peter Tremayne
Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsIn December of 666 A.D., Fidelma of Cashel and her companion Brother Eadulf, having completed their business with the Archbishop of Canterbury, make one final journey before returning to Ireland. At the insistence of Brother Botulf, a childhood friend of Eadulf, they detour from their trip to Eadulf's home village and make their way to Aldred's Abbey... -
![Badger's Moon by Peter Tremayne]()
Badger's Moon by Peter Tremayne
Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsWhen a woman is killed just before October's full moon--the Badger's Moon--villagers suspect that strangers staying at the abbey are to blame, and demand answers, before another woman falls victim to the full-moon killer... -
![Traitor by Rory Clements]()
Traitor by Rory Clements
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsThe Elizabethan navy has a secret weapon: an optical instrument so powerful it gives England unassailable superiority at sea. Spain will stop at nothing to steal it and seize the two men who understand its secrets - its operative William Ivory, known as the 'Queen's Eye', and its inventor, the maverick magician Dr Dee...Categorized as:
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![The Lost Girls of Rome by Donato Carrisi]()
The Lost Girls of Rome by Donato Carrisi
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsA grieving young widow, seeking answers to her husband's death, becomes entangled in an investigation steeped in the darkest mysteries of Rome.Sandra Vega, a forensic analyst with the Roman police department, mourns deeply for a marriage that ended too soon...Categorized as:
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![The Striker by Clive Cussler, Justin Scott]()
The Striker by Clive Cussler, Justin Scott
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsDetective Isaac Bell returns in the remarkable new adventure in the #1 New York Times–bestselling series. It is 1902, and a bright, inexperienced young man named Isaac Bell, only two years out of his apprenticeship at the Van Dorn Detective Agency, has an urgent message for his boss...Categorized as:
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![The Big Blowdown by George P. Pelecanos]()
The Big Blowdown by George P. Pelecanos
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsWashington DC, 1946. For two local young men, Pete Karras and Joey Recevo, the easiest way to find work after the war is by providing a little muscle for a local boss who runs a protection racket with the Mafia. The trouble with Pete Karras is that he is just too soft on his fellow immigrants, and the last thing the boss wants is for his mob to get soft... -
![Blonde Faith by Walter Mosley]()
Blonde Faith by Walter Mosley
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsEasy Rawlins, L.A.'s most reluctant detective, comes home one day to find Easter, the daughter of his friend Chrismas Black, left on his doorstep. Easy knows that this could only mean that the ex-marine Black is probably dead, or will be soon. Easter's appearance is only the beginning, as Easy is immersed in a sea of problems... -
![Romanzo Criminale by Giancarlo De Cataldo]()
Romanzo Criminale by Giancarlo De Cataldo
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsIt is 1977. A new force is terrorising Rome - a mob of reckless, ultraviolent youths known as La Banda della Magliana. As the gang ruthlessly take control of Rome's heroin trade, they begin an inexorable rise to power. Banda della Magliana intend to own the streets of Rome - unless their internal struggles tear them apart... -
![Sabotaje by Arturo Pérez-Reverte]()
Sabotaje by Arturo Pérez-Reverte
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 14 ratings¿Es el Guernica que conocemos el verdadero cuadro que pintó Picasso?¿Qué hacía Falcó en París en la primavera de 1937?Arturo Pérez-Reverte y Lorenzo Falcó vuelven con una historia de sabotaje...
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