David Hewson
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Pub. Date
2016
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English
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Kim and Mia Timmers were just eleven years old when their family was killed. The sisters were accused of murdering the lead singer of a world-famous pop band in the Dutch fishing village of Volendam, believing him to be responsible for their family's deaths. The evidence seemed irrefutable at the time and the sisters were imprisoned in Marken, a local psychiatric institution. Now, ten years later, they are due for release. Pieter Vos, a detective...
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English
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Roman police detective Nic Costa has been sent undercover to Italy's beautiful, remote Calabrian coast to bring in the head of the feared mob, the 'Ndrangheta, who has offered to turn state witness for reasons of his own. Hoping to reel in the biggest prize the state police have seen in years, the infamous Butcher of Palermo, Costa and his team are aware the stakes are high. But the constant deception is taking its toll. Out of their depth in a lawless...
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English
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New-appointed District Sheriff Tristan Haraldsen and his wife Elsebeth are looking forward to the peaceful semi-retirement in the remote fishing village of Djevulsfjord on the stunningly beautiful island of Vagar. But when two boys go missing during the first whale hunt of the season, the repercussions strike at the heart of the isolated coastal community. As he pursues his investigations, Tristan discovers that the Mikkelsen brothers aren't the first...
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Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
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Vivid characters, great sense of place and atmosphere showcasing what this author does best: taking his reader to a European city and letting them breathe in the vibe in his wonderful descriptions of, in this case, Amsterdam life. With wonderfully colourful scenes from the flower market to the cemetery, the reader is taken on a sinister journey of a serial killer is on the loose in the city. A killer who leaves the victims with a trademark tattoo...
6) The killing
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English
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Through the dark wood where the dead trees give no shelter 19-year-old student Nanna Birk Larsen runs. Sarah Lund is looking forward to her last day as a detective with the Copenhagen Police department before moving to Sweden. But everything changes when Nanna is found dead.
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Pub. Date
2014
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English
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Anneliese Vos, 16-year-old daughter of Amsterdam detective, Pieter Vos, disappeared 3 years ago in mysterious circumstances. Her distraught father's desperate search reveals nothing and he leaves the police force. One day, while Vos is wasting time at the Rijksmuseum staring at a doll's house that seems to be connected in some way to the case, Laura Bakker, a misfit trainee detective, visits him. She tells him that Katja Prins, daughter of an important...
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Clipper Audio
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
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In a hidden studio in Rome, an art expert from the Louvre is found dead in front of a Caravaggio masterpiece. The suspect remains untouchable - protected by a sinister cult known as the Ekstasists - but Nic Costa is determined to crack the mysterious organization and catch the killer.
17) The wrong girl
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Pan Books
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Description
Sinterklaas, a beaming, friendly saint with a white beard, is set to mark his arrival in Amsterdam with a parade so celebrated it is to be watched live on television throughout the Netherlands. The city centre is closed to all traffic as a golden barge bears the saint down the Amstel river, surrounded by a throng of private boats full of families trying to get close. Amsterdam is bursting at the seams and the police are out in force, struggling to...
18) The killing III
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Pan Books
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
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Detective Inspector for homicide Sarah Lund is contacted by old flame Mathias Borch from National Intelligence. Borch fears that what first appeared to be a random killing at the docks is the beginning of an assassination attempt on Prime Minister Troels Hartmann. The murder draws attention towards the shipping and oil giant Zeeland, run by billionaire Robert Zeuthen. When Zeuthen's nine-year-old daughter Emilie is kidnapped, the investigation takes...
19) The killing II
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Publisher
Pan Books
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
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It is two years since the notorious Nanna Birk Larsen case. When the body of a female lawyer is found in macabre circumstances in a military graveyard, there are elements of the crime scene that take Lennart Brix back to an occupied Denmark. Brix knows that Lund is the one person he can rely on to get to the truth.