Popular European Crime Books
Find crime books written by authors from Europe for the next part of the Read Around The World Challenge. (157)
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Miss Smilla's Feeling of Snow by Peter Høeg EN
DenmarkDescription:
She thinks more highly of snow and ice than she does of love. She lives in a world of numbers, science and memories--a dark, exotic stranger in a strange land. And now Smilla Jaspersen is convinced she has uncovered a shattering crime... It happened in the Copenhagen snow. A six-year-old boy, a Greenlander like Smilla, fell to his death from the top of his apartment building. While the boy's body is still warm, the police pronounce his death an accident. But Smilla knows her young neighbor didn't fall from the roof on his own. Soon she is following a path of clues as clear to her as footsteps ... continue
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Mörder ohne Gesicht by Henning Mankell DE
SwedenDescription:
Auf einem abgelegenen Bauernhof ist ein altes Ehepaar überfallen und getötet worden. 'Ausländer, Ausländer!' waren die letzten Worte der sterbenden Frau. Als die Öffentlichkeit davon erfährt, wird Schonen von einer Welle ausländerfeindlicher Gewalt überrollt. Doch plötzlich führen die Ermittlungen in eine ganz andere Richtung ... Kommissar Wallanders erster Fall, mit dem Henning Mankell den Grundstein zu seiner Karriere als Erfolgsschriftsteller gelegt hat.
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Mother Dear : A Thriller by Nova Lee Maier EN
Country: Europe / 
Netherlands
Netherlands
Description:
There's only one thing worse than doing the unthinkable: what you're willing to do to hide it. Helen lives a decent, uncomplicated life. Satisfied in her career, she's raising three happy teenagers, and her family has the most envied house on the street. Admittedly, she's growing just a little disenchanted with her marriage to her workaholic husband, Werner. But that's nothing she can't fix. Then one day Helen comes home to something completely unexpected that threatens to shatter her carefully cultivated world. For disaffected, young petty criminals Ralf and Brian, it was a scheme to make som... continue
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Murder by Matchlight by E. C. R. Lorac EN
Country: Europe / 
United Kingdom
United Kingdom
Description:
"Originally published in 1945 by Collins. "Permanent Policeman" was first published in MacKill's Mystery Magazine, March 1953"--Title page verso.
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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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Country: Europe / United Kingdom
United Kingdom
Description:
When Jane Marple receives an unusual letter from Jason Rafiel, a week after his death, she is led into a web of suspense.
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Night by Elie Wiesel EN
RomaniaDescription:
Presents a true account of the author's experiences as a Jewish boy in a Nazi concentration camp.
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Night Boat to Tangier by Kevin Barry EN
IrelandDescription:
LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE IRISH TIMES NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER SHORTLISTED FOR IRISH BOOK AWARDS NOVEL OF THE YEAR A BOOK OF THE YEAR IN THE NEW YORK TIMES, NEW STATESMAN, TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT, BIG ISSUE, i, THE ATLANTIC and LITERARY HUB 'A true wonder' Max Porter 'Beautifully written’ Guardian It’s late one night at the Spanish port of Algeciras and two fading Irish gangsters are waiting on the boat from Tangier. A lover has been lost, a daughter has gone missing, their world has come asunder – can it be put together again?
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Night Driver by Marcelle Perks EN
Country: Europe / United Kingdom
United Kingdom
Description:
A most unlikely heroine, pregnant Frannie must stay one step ahead of her murderous pursuer on the darkest of roads in order to survive.