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The Simple Art of Killing a Woman
2025 || Paperback || Patricia Melo || The Indigo Press
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Jim Callahan
De verloren zaak - Codewoord: Innovatis - Buiten diensttijd
2024 || Paperback || Martin Brouwers || Brave New Books
DE VERLOREN ZAAK
Er worden vijf moorden gepleegd en politierechercheur Jim Callahan wordt voor de haast onmogelijke taak gesteld de dader, of daders, te vinden. De zaak escaleert en hij en zijn teamleden komen in een levensgevaarlijke situatie terecht. Een meedogenloze moordenaar die even inventief als ongrijpbaar blijkt te zijn is hun tegenstander!
In deze thriller doet de jonge Callahan voor het eerst voor het grote publiek zijn opwachting als rechercheur bij het politiebureau van een midde...
The Black Eyed Blonde
A Philip Marlowe Novel
2015 || Paperback || Benjamin Black || Macmillan
'Maybe it was time I forgot about Nico Peterson, and his sister, and the Cahuilla Club, and Clare Cavendish. Clare? The rest would be easy to put out of my mind, but not the black-eyed blonde . . .'It is the early 1950s. In Los Angeles, Private Detective Philip Marlowe is as restless and lonely as ever, and business is a little slow. Then a new client arrives: young, beautiful, and expensively dressed, Clare Cavendish wants Marlowe to find her former lover, a man named Nico Peterson.Soon Marl...
Alias Grace
2019 || Paperback || Margaret Atwood || Little, Brown Book Group
By the author of The Handmaid's TaleNow a major NETFLIX seriesSometimes I whisper it over to myself: Murderess. Murderess. It rustles, like a taffeta skirt along the floor.' Grace Marks.
Female fiend? Femme fatale? Or weak and unwilling victim? Around the true story of one of the most enigmatic and notorious women of the 1840s, Margaret Atwood has created an extraordinarily potent tale of sexuality, cruelty and mystery. 'Brilliant... Atwood's prose is searching.
So intimate it seems to be wri...
Weeping Girl
2013 || Paperback || Hakan Nesser || Macmillan
A Swedish crime writer as thrilling as Mankell, a detective as compelling as Wallander . . .
HÃ¥kan Nesser's astonishingly successful Van Veeteren series continues with the eighth book, The Weeping Girl. Winnie Maas died because she changed her mind . .
. A community is left reeling after a teacher – Arnold Maager – is convicted of murdering his female pupil Winnie Maas. It seems the girl had been pregnant with Maager's child.
Years later, on her eighteenth birthday, Maager's ...
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The Girl on the Train. Film Tie-In
Film tie-in
2024 || Paperback || Paula Hawkins || Transworld
Rachel catches the same commuter train every morning. She knows it will wait at the same signal each time, overlooking a row of back gardens. She's even started to feel like she knows the people who live in one of the houses. 'Jess and Jason', she calls them. Their life - as she sees it - is perfect. If only Rachel could be that happy.And then she sees something shocking. It's only a minute until the train moves on, but it's enough. Now everything's changed. Now Rachel has a chance to become ...
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De Cock en de kus des doods
2024 || Paperback || Baantjer || De Fontein Romans & Spanning || met inkijkexemplaar
DE COCK EN DE KUS DES DOODS is deel 94 in de 'De Cock'-serie van Baantjer, rondom rechercheur De Cock van Bureau Warmoesstraat in Amsterdam.
Als Joyce Degenaar vermoord wordt aangetroffen, staat De Cock voor een raadsel. Wie zou deze geliefde en bekende Amsterdamse hebben willen vermoorden? Zij was actief in haar buurt en betrokken bij de Voedselbank. Daarnaast was ze ook lijsttrekker van Ons Mooi Amsterdam, een partij die zitting heeft in de gemeentepolitiek.
De aandacht van De Cock richt zic...
The Woman in White
2024 || Paperback || Wilkie Collins || Van Ditmar Boeken B.V.
Marian and her sister Laura live a quiet life under their uncle's guardianship until Laura's marriage to Sir Percival Glyde. Sir Percival is a man of many secrets. Hence, Marian and the girls' drawing master, Walter, have to turn detective in order to work out what is going on, and to protect Laura from a fatal plot.
Girl Missing
2024 || Paperback || Tess Gerritsen || Transworld Publishers Ltd
THE FIRST BODY IS A MYSTERY. And her corpse, laid out in the office of Boston medical examiner Kat Novak, betrays no secrets - except for a matchbook clutched in one stiff hand, seven numbers scrawled inside. And Kat's chief suspect is one of the town's most prominent citizens.THE FINAL BODY . . .
Third Man
2024 || Paperback || Graham Greene || Van Ditmar Boeken B.V.
'Graham Greene has wit and grace and character and story and a transcendent universal compassion that places him for all time in the top ranks of world literature' John le Carré The Third Man, Graham Greene's most iconic tale, takes place in post-war Vienna, a 'smashed dreary city' occupied by the four Allied powers.