Crime genre books (302)




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Tren nocturno by Martin Amis ES

Rating: 4 (1 vote)
Description:
Mike Hoolihan tiene nombre de hombre, voz profunda y modales que nadie definiría como femeninos, pero es mujer y le gustan los hombres, aunque siempre ha elegido a los que menos le convenían. Y luego ha tenido que ahogar sus tribulaciones en torrentes de alcohol. Pero en la actualidad está en dique seco, pues su hígado ya no puede soportar una sola gota más de consuelo. Y como Mike también es detective en el cuerpo de policía de una ciudad americana, tiene que enfrentarse ahora al peor caso de su vida sin nada que suavice un poco los atroces bor... continue

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True History of the Kelly Gang by Peter Carey EN

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Country: Oceania / Australia flag Australia
Description:
'I lost my own father at 12 yr. of age and know what it is to be raised on lies and silence...' To the authorities in pursuit of him, outlaw Ned Kelly is a horse thief, bank robber and police-killer. But to his fellow ordinary Australians, Kelly is their own Robin Hood. In a dazzling act of ventriloquism, Peter Carey brings the famous bushranger wildly and passionately to life.

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Una vida en juego by Albert Salvadó ES

Rating: 3 (1 vote)
Country: Europe / Andorra flag Andorra
Description:
Víctor Pons, un hombre de clase obrera, trabaja como jefe de seguridad del casino de La Rabassada, que se inauguraría en Barcelona en 1911. A partir de ese momento, Pons vivirá dos hechos trascendentales en su vida: se enamorará perdidamente de Carla Torr

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Vergeef me

Vergeef me by Anje Feliers NL

Rating: 4 (1 vote)
Country: Europe / Belgium flag Belgium
Description:
Superspannend! Het was nooit de bedoeling geweest, maar hij was tot over zijn oren verliefd op haar. En dat ze als docente op zijn school zou beginnen, maakte hun verhouding alleen maar spannender. Wanneer Yasmine de relatie plots verbreekt, probeert David hardnekkig tot haar door te dringen. Tevergeefs. Maar zij is alles voor hem. Hij zal haar nooit meer laten gaan... Hij keek de lege schoolgang in. Ze zou eindelijk luisteren naar hem. Hij zou er alles aan doen om haar voor zich terug te winnen. Niets of niemand kon hem nu nog tegenhouden. Voor hij de trap opging, haalde hij het geweer uit zi... continue

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When Women Kill by Alia Trabucco Zerán EN

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Novelist Alia Trabucco Zerán has long been fascinated not only with the root causes of violence against women, but by those women who have violently rejected the domestic and passive roles they were meant by their culture to inhabit. Choosing as her subject four iconic homicides perpetrated by Chilean women in the twentieth century, she spent years researching this brilliant work of narrative nonfiction detailing not only the troubling tales of the murders themselves, but the story of how society, the media and men in power reacted to these killings, painting their perpetrators as wi... continue


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Wild Houses by Colin Barrett EN

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Country: Europe / Ireland flag Ireland
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The riotous, raucous and deeply resonant debut novel from "one of the best story writers in the English language today" (Financial Times) Wild Houses follows two outsiders caught in the crosshairs of a small-town revenge kidnapping gone awry With his acclaimed and award-winning collections Young Skins and Homesickness Colin Barrett cemented his reputation as one of contemporary Irish literature's most daring stylists. Praised by the Oprah Daily as "a doyen of the sentence," and by the Los Angeles Times as a writer of "unique genius," Barrett now expands his canvas with a debut novel that conta... continue

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Written in Bone by Sue Black EN

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Our bones are the silent witnesses to the lives we lead. Our stories are marbled into their marrow. Drawing upon her years of research and a wealth of remarkable experience, the world-renowned forensic anthropologist Dame Sue Black takes us on a journey of revelation. From skull to toe, via the teeth, spine, chest, arms, hands, pelvis and legs, she delicately reverse engineers events, piecing together the evidence in our remains to discover thedetails of lives once lived. All that we eat, where we go, everything we do leaves a trace, a message that waits patiently in our bones for the forensic... continue