Popular European Mystery Books
Find mystery books written by authors from Europe for the next part of the Read Around The World Challenge. (117)
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De vleermuisman by Jo Nesbø NL
NorwayDescription:
Een Noorse politieman wordt naar Sydney gestuurd om zijn collega's bij te staan bij het oplossen van een moord op een Noorse jonge vrouw.
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Dead Simple: a Roy Grace Novel 1 by Peter James EN
Country: Europe / 
United Kingdom
United Kingdom
Description:
It was meant to be a harmless stag-night prank. A few hours later Michael Harrison has disappeared and his friends are dead. With only three days to the wedding, Detective Superintendent Roy Grace - a man haunted by the shadow of his own missing wife - is contacted by Michael's beautiful, distraught fiancâee, Ashley Harper. Grace discovers that the one man who ought to know Michael Harrison's whereabouts is saying nothing. But then he has a lot more to gain than anyone realizes, For one man's disaster is another man's fortune... Dead Simple is the stunning first novel in the number one bestsel... continue
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Death in Soho by Emily Organ EN
Country: Europe / United Kingdom
United Kingdom
Description:
It's the Roaring Twenties. London's bright young things are partying, Soho's nightlife is buzzing and Augusta Peel is hiding in her basement. She has a reason to hide there: it's home to her Bloomsbury workshop where she repairs old, neglected books. After a busy time during the war, all Augusta wants is peace and quiet - even if it is routinely disturbed by the tube trains beneath her feet. But events take a turn when Augusta agrees to chaperone 19-year-old Harriet Jones on a date. Failing to get her home on time, she ends up in a riotous nightclub. She can't imagine the evening getting much ... continue
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Death on the Nile : A Hercule Poirot Mystery by Agatha Christie EN
Country: Europe / United Kingdom
United Kingdom
Description:
The tranquillity of a cruise along the Nile was shattered by the discovery that Linnet Ridgeway had been shot through the head. She was young, stylish, and beautiful. A girl who had everything . . . until she lost her life. Hercule Poirot recalled an earlier outburst by a fellow passenger: "I'd like to put my dear little pistol against her head and just press the trigger." Yet in this exotic setting nothing is ever quite what it seems.
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Der Verein der Linkshänder by Håkan Nesser DE
SwedenDescription:
Kommissar Van Veeteren und Inspektor Barbarotti auf der Spur eines Mörders, der alle zum Narren hält. Kommissar Van Veeteren - mittlerweile im Ruhestand, aber so legendär wie eh und je - bereitet sich innerlich darauf vor, seinen 75. Geburtstag zu feiern, als ein früherer Kollege auftaucht, um ihm von einem alten Fall zu berichten. Damals waren in einer Pension in Oosterby vier Menschen ums Leben gekommen, die nur eines gemeinsam hatten: die Mitgliedschaft in einem "Verein der Linkshänder". Da das fünfte am Treffen teilnehmende Mitglied verschwunden war, wurde der Mann schnell als Täter identi... continue
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Country: Europe / United Kingdom
United Kingdom
Description:
Mike Mackenzie is a self-made man with too much time on his hands and a bit of the devil in his soul. He is looking for something to liven up the days and settles on a plot to rip-off one of the most high-profile targets in the capital - the National Gallery of Scotland. So, together with two close friends from the art world, he devises a plan to lift some of the most valuable artwork around. But of course, the real trick is to rob the place for all its worth whilst persuading the world that no crime was ever committed...
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Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead by Olga Tokarczuk EN
PolandDescription:
WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE "A brilliant literary murder mystery." —Chicago Tribune "Extraordinary. Tokarczuk's novel is funny, vivid, dangerous, and disturbing, and it raises some fierce questions about human behavior. My sincere admiration for her brilliant work." —Annie Proulx In a remote Polish village, Janina devotes the dark winter days to studying astrology, translating the poetry of William Blake, and taking care of the summer homes of wealthy Warsaw residents. Her reputation as a crank and a recluse is amplified by her not-so-secret preference for the company of animals ov... continue
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El maestro del Juicio Final by Leo Perutz ES
AustriaDescription:
Viena, 1909. Cuando aparece el cadáver del célebre actor Bischoff, que aparentemente se ha suicidado, todas las sospechas recaen sobre un oficial del ejército enamorado de la mujer del difunto, el barón Von Yocsch, como inductor de la muerte, pese a que este clama desesperadamente su inocencia. La sucesión de nuevos suicidios cada vez más enigmáticos que se producen en los siguientes días llevan a una indagación detectivesca que se remontará varios siglos para descubrir el origen maléfico de tan macabra epidemia... Esta deslumbrante joya literaria, que fusiona la literatura policiaca y la fant... continue
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Food of Ghosts by Marianne Wheelaghan EN
Country: Europe / United Kingdom
United Kingdom
Description:
Nothing ever happens on Tarawa, a coral atoll in the middle of the Pacific. Then a mutilated body is found in a children's nursery hut. Detective Sergeant Louisa Townsend from Edinburgh is on the island, helping train local police officers in basic detecting skills. She is asked to find the killer and jumps at the chance to be in charge of her first murder investigation. She marvels at the simplicity of the task ahead - after all, how difficult can it be to find the murderer on a desert island the size of a postage stamp and with only one road? But nothing on Tarawa is what it seems.