A teacher is killed by a hit-and-run driver in the Belgian town Villette. Several witnesses claim that the car purposely hit her, so investigating judge Martine Poirot gets involved. The case turns out to have a historic connection and Martine suspects that the teacher was about to reveal an old secret that would have had a [...]

Inger Holt, a Norwegian TV celebrity is murdered in Australia. The Norwegian policeman Harry Hole is sent to Sydney to assist with the investigation, but also to escape from his problems with alcohol and to get some distance to the car crash, which he survived but a colleague was killed in.
Harry Hole and the Australian [...]

Several otherwise healthy people die of cardiac arrest within a short period of time in Sundsvall, Sweden. Is it a coincidence? Policeman Johan Axberg sees his friend Dr. Erik Jensen and when they discuss their jobs and experiences they both believe that something strange is going on. When they also find out that all the [...]

A baby is found abandoned and shortly thereafter the mom is found murdered nearby. The first task for the police is to find out who the child and woman are, which turns out to be a difficult task since no one seems to miss them.
We also get to follow a three-year-old girl who has been left [...]

A man is found murdered in a channel in Stockholm. He has no identification on him, and the body is impossible to identify. Axel Hake becomes responsible for the murder investigation and the only clue he has is an unusual tattoo that the victim has on his arm.
I like the author’s writing style and the [...]

Carpet Dealer Olsson from Oskarshamn, Sweden is murdered (hardly surprising considering the title) on a ferry in Turkey. Carpets play a central role and the novel starts with a fitting quote from Tam Sventon.
The Swedish Police travels to Istanbul and the murder is investigated in both Sweden and Turkey. It turns out that Carl-Ivar Olsson [...]

In this fourth novel about Inspector Roy Grace, Peter James has chosen to take us back to the horrors of the World Trade Centre catastrophe, which he does with a gentle hand and a lot of respect.
The hopelessly incompetent businessnanb Ronnie Wilson suddenly sees his chance to disappear The perfect way to slip away from [...]

 
I just love the book cover of this book. I was drawn to it instantly!
The writer Claude Izner is really the two sisters Liliane Korb och Laurence Lefèvre who are experts in french 19th century history and are Book Sellers in Paris. They´ve written 3 more books in this serie and are very popular in France.
The Murder in the Eiffeltower is [...]

In Michael Byrnes’s first novel, the religious-themed thriller The Sacred Bones, Jesus Christ’s remains are studied by geneticist Charlotte Hennesey. Her boss discovers that DNA extracted from the bones has peculiar powers. They inject Charlotte with the DNA, which miraculously cures her from cancer. As it turns out the DNA can repair damaged genes, and [...]

What better way to spend Easter than to read a religious-themed thriller? The Sacred Bones is Michael Byrnes’s first novel, and he skillfully blends fact and fiction to create a fast-paced page turner.
An ancient burial box is stolen from a crypt beneath the Temple Mount in Jerusalem, and the tensions quickly escalate between Muslims, Jews [...]