Mystery genre books (392)


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2666 by Roberto Bolaño ES

Rating: 5 (1 vote)
Description:
A cuatro profesores de literatura, Pelletier, Morini, Espinoza y Norton, los une su fascinación por la obra de Beno von Archimboldi, un escritor alemán cuyo prestigio crece en todo el mundo. La complicidad se vuelve vodevil intelectual y desemboca en un peregrinaje a Santa Teresa (trasunto de Ciudad Juárez), donde hay quien dice que Archimboldi ha sido visto. Ya allí, Pelletier y Espinoza se enteran de que la ciudad es desde años atrás escenario de una larga cadena de crímenes; en los vertederos aparecen cadáveres de mujeres con señales de haber sido violadas y torturadas.

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A Beautiful Place to Die by Malla Nunn EN

Rating: 5 (3 votes)
Country: Africa / Eswatini flag Eswatini
Description:
Jacob's Rest, a tiny town on the border between South Africa and Mozambique, 1952. An Afrikaner police officer is found dead. Detective Emmanuel Cooper, an Englishman, begins investigating the murder following a trail of clues that lead him to uncover as

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A Disappearance in Fiji by Nilima Rao EN

Rating: 4 (3 votes)
Country: Oceania / Fiji flag Fiji
Description:
A charming debut historical mystery set in 1914 Fiji.

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A Land Without Jasmine by Wajdī Ahdal EN

Rating: 2 (3 votes)
Country: Asia / Yemen flag Yemen
Description:
A compulsive thriller that keeps the reader turning the page and provides a fascinating insight on life in Yemen.

5.

A Nearly Normal Family : A Novel by M.T. Edvardsson EN

Rating: 4 (2 votes)
Country: Europe / Sweden flag Sweden
Description:
"...A compulsively readable tour de force." —The Wall Street Journal New York Times Book Review recommends M.T. Edvardsson’s A Nearly Normal Family and lauds it as a “page-turner” that forces the reader to confront “the compromises we make with ourselves to be the people we believe our beloveds expect.” (NYTimes Book Review Summer Reading Issue) When the teenage daughter of responsible, upstanding parents is accused of murder, a family realizes that it isn’t love that will keep them together: it’s lies. Eighteen-year-old Stella Sandell stands accused of the brutal murder of a man almost fiftee... continue

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A Perfect Grave by Rick Mofina EN

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Description:
When Sister Anne McGrath, a much-loved community saint, is brutally murdered, Seattle Mirror reporter Jason Wade, who has a personal interest in the case, joins the investigation and makes a shocking discovery about Sister Anne's past that changes everything. Original.

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A Scandal in Bohemia by Arthur Conan Doyle EN

Rating: 5 (1 vote)
Description:
Sherlock Holmes, the world’s “only unofficial consulting detective”, was first introduced to readers in A Study in Scarlet published by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle in 1887.It was with the publication of The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, however, that the master sleuth grew tremendously in popularity, later to become one of the most beloved literary characters of all time. In this book series, the short stories comprising The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes have been amusingly illustrated using only Lego® brand minifigures and bricks. The illustrations recreate, through custom designed Lego models, t... continue

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A Series of Unfortunate Events #10: The Slippery Slope by Lemony Snicket EN

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In the perilous Mortmain Mountains, Klaus and Violet Baudelaire meet another well-read person, who helps them try to rescue Sunny from the villainous Count Olaf and his henchmen as they all near "the last safe place."

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A Series of Unfortunate Events #11: The Grim Grotto by Lemony Snicket EN

Rating: 4.5 (4 votes)
Description:
NOW A NETFLIX ORIGINAL SERIES Warning: Your day will become very dark—and possibly damp—if you read this book. Plan to spend this spring in hiding. Lemony Snicket is back with the eleventh book in his New York Times bestselling A Series of Unfortunate Events. Lemony Snicket's saga about the charming, intelligent and grossly unlucky Baudelaire orphans continues to provoke suspicion and despair in readers the world over. In the eleventh and most alarming volume yet in the bestselling phenomenon A Series of Unfortunate Events, the intrepid siblings delve further into the dark mystery surrounding ... continue

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A Series of Unfortunate Events #3: The Wide Window by Lemony Snicket EN

Rating: 4 (2 votes)
Description:
Dear Reader, If you have not read anything about the Baudelaire orphans, then before you read even one more sentence, you should know this: Violet, Klaus, and Sunny are kindhearted and quick-witted, but their lives, I am sorry to say, are filled with bad luck and misery. All of the stories about these three children are unhappy and wretched, and this one may be the worst of them all.If you haven't got the stomach for a story that includes a hurricane, a signalling device, hungry leeches, cold cucumber soup, a horrible villain, and a doll named Pretty Penny, then this book will probably fill yo... continue