Mystery books from United Kingdom
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Morte na Praia by Agatha Christie PT
Country: Europe / United Kingdom
United Kingdom
Description:
Arlena Stuart adorava o sol, e era freqüente ver seu lindo corpo bronzeado estendido na praia, o rosto pousado na areia. Só que desta vez não havia sol... ela tinha sido estrangulada. Desde a chegada de Arlena, Poirot tinha percebido algo diferente entre os veranistas, uma tensão sexual pairando no ar. Poderia um crime aparentemente passional ter sido ao mesmo tempo uma ação premeditada, muito mais perversa? Os álibis parecem perfeitos neste empolgante mistério à beira-mar.
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Murder on the Orient Express : A Hercule Poirot Mystery by Agatha Christie EN
Country: Europe / United Kingdom
United Kingdom
Description:
On a three-day journey through the snowbound Balkan hills, Hercule Poirot must weed through an array of international suspects to find the passenger who murdered a gangster on the Orient Express.
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Nine Lessons by Nicola Upson EN
Country: Europe / United Kingdom
United Kingdom
Description:
Chosen by Publishers Weekly as one of the Best Books of 2017 Josephine Tey is in Cambridge, a town gripped by fear and suspicion as a serial rapist stalks the streets, and in the shadow of King's College Chapel, Detective Chief Inspector Archie Penrose faces some of the most horrific and audacious murders of his career. The seventh novel in Nicola Upson's highly praised series featuring Josephine Tey takes the reader on a journey from 1930s Cambridge to the bleak and desolate Suffolk coast - a journey which will ultimately leave Archie's and Josephine's lives changed forever.
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None of This Is True by Lisa Jewell EN
Country: Europe / United Kingdom
United Kingdom
Description:
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author known for her “superb pacing, twisted characters, and captivating prose” (BuzzFeed), Lisa Jewell returns with a scintillating new psychological thriller about a woman who finds herself the subject of her own popular true crime podcast. Celebrating her forty-fifth birthday at her local pub, popular podcaster Alix Summer crosses paths with an unassuming woman called Josie Fair. Josie, it turns out, is also celebrating her forty-fifth birthday. They are, in fact, birthday twins. A few days later, Alix and Josie bump into each other again, this time ou... continue
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Penance by Eliza Clark EN
Country: Europe / United Kingdom
United Kingdom
Description:
On a beach in a run-down seaside town on the Yorkshire coastline, sixteen-year-old Joan Wilson is set on fire by three other schoolgirls.
Nearly a decade after the horrifying murder, journalist Alec Z. Carelli has written the definitive account of the crime, drawn from hours of interviews with witnesses and family members, painstaking historical research, and most notably, correspondence with the killers themselves. The result is a riveting snapshot of lives rocked by tragedy, and a town left in turmoil.
But how much of the story is true?
Compulsively readable, provocative, and distur... continue
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Country: Europe / United Kingdom
United Kingdom
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New York Times Bestseller Winner of the Women's Prize for Fiction World Fantasy Awards Finalist From the New York Times bestselling author of Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell, an intoxicating, hypnotic new novel set in a dreamlike alternative reality. Piranesi’s house is no ordinary building: its rooms are infinite, its corridors endless, its walls are lined with thousands upon thousands of statues, each one different from all the others. Within the labyrinth of halls an ocean is imprisoned; waves thunder up staircases, rooms are flooded in an instant. But Piranesi is not afraid; he understands t... continue
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Rock Paper Scissors by Alice Feeney EN
Country: Europe / United Kingdom
United Kingdom
Description:
INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER “Feeney lives up to her reputation as the “queen of the twist”...This page-turner will keep you guessing.” —Real Simple Think you know the person you married? Think again... Things have been wrong with Mr and Mrs Wright for a long time. When Adam and Amelia win a weekend away to Scotland, it might be just what their marriage needs. Self-confessed workaholic and screenwriter Adam Wright has lived with face blindness his whole life. He can’t recognize friends or family, or even his own wife. Every anniversary the couple exchange traditional gifts--paper, cotton,... continue
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Sherlock - Um estudo em vermelho by Arthur Conan Doyle PT
Country: Europe / United Kingdom
United Kingdom
Description:
Com introdução escrita pelo cocriador do seriado de TV: Steven Moffat - O sucesso da série Sherlock, da BBC, apresentou o lendário detetive de Arthur Conan Doyle a uma nova geração de fãs. O episódio de estreia da série foi inspirado na primeira história de Sherlock Holmes, Um Estudo em Vermelho, e esta edição, com introdução do cocriador da série, Steven Moffat, mostra aos fãs como tudo começou. Um Estudo em Vermelho é uma poderosa história de assassinato, suspense, pistas enigmáticas, rastros falsos e vingança. Aqui, o leitor irá conhecer os lendários personagens Sherlock Holmes, Dr. Watson ... continue