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24 books with the same feel
Include books by the same authorBeastly Things
Donna Leon · 296 pages
When the body of man is found in a canal, damaged by the tides, carrying no wallet, and wearing only one shoe, Brunetti has little to work with. No local has filed a missing-person report, and no hotel guests have disappeared. Where was the crime scene? And how can Brunetti identify the man when he can't show pictures of his face? The autopsy shows a way forward: it turns out the man was suffering
A Carrion Death
Michael Stanley · 467 pages
Smashed skull, snapped ribs, and a cloying smell of carrion. Leave the body for the hyenas to devour—no body, no case.But when Kalahari game rangers stumble on a human corpse midmeal, it turns out the murder wasn't perfect after all. Enough evidence is left to suggest foul play. Detective David "Kubu" Bengu of the Botswana Criminal Investigation Department is assigned to the case.The detective's p
Children of War
Martin Walker
Bruno, chef de police in the French town of St Denis, is already busy with a case when the body of an undercover French Muslim cop is found in the woods, a man who called Bruno for help only hours before. But Bruno's sometime boss and rival, the Brigadier, doesn't see this investigation as a priority - there are bigger issues at stake. Bruno has other ideas. Meanwhile, a Muslim youth named Sami tu
Cast Iron
Peter May · 406 pages
"Peter May's new thriller--the red-hot finale to the cold-case Enzo Files"-- "In 1989, a killer dumped the body of twenty-year-old Lucie Martin into a picturesque lake in the west of France. Fourteen years later, during a summer heat wave, a drought exposed her remains--bleached bones amid the scorched mud and slime. No one was ever convicted of her murder. But now, forensic expert Enzo Macleod i
Havana Fever
Leonardo Padura · 286 pages
Mario Conde, a former police detective turned second-hand book dealer, finds a magazine clipping about a singer from the 1950s, Violeta del Río, and begins to investigate her mysterious retirement.
Blood Curse: The Springtime of Commissario Ricciardi
Maurizio de Giovanni · 343 pages
"Naples, 1931. In a working class apartment in the Sanita' neighborhood an elderly woman by the name of Carmela Calise has been beaten to death. When Ricciardi and Maione arrive at the scene they start asking the neighbors questions. No one wants to talk but slowly a few interesting facts slip out. Carmela Calise was moonlighting as a fortuneteller and moneylender. In her decrepit apartment she wo
The Bar on the Seine
Georges Simenon · 144 pages
Elegy for April
Benjamin Black, John Banville · 304 pages
1950s Ireland. As a deep, bewildering fog cloaks Dublin, a young woman is found to have vanished. When Phoebe Griffin, still haunted by the horrors of her past, is unable to discover news of her friend - Quirke, fresh from drying out in an institution, responds to his daughter's request for help.
Whisky from Small Glasses
Denzil Meyrick, D.A. Meyrick · 368 pages
Bone Mountain
Eliot Pattison · 640 pages
Disgraced former inspector, Shan Tao Yun, joins a group of reverent Tibetans returning a sacred artefact to its home. The outlawed monk who guides them is murdered and Shan discovers that the artefact has recently been stolen from the Chinese Army. But why is the army so desperate to find the artefact entrusted to Shan?
Kissed a Sad Goodbye
Deborah Crombie · 440 pages
Any Other Name
Craig Johnson · 317 pages
"Sheriff Walt Longmire had already rounded up a sizable posse of devoted readers when the A&E television series Longmire sent the Wyoming lawman's popularity skyrocketing. Now, with three consecutive New York Times bestsellers to his name and the second season of Longmire reaching an average of 5.4 million viewers per episode, Craig Johnson is reaching a fan base that is both fiercely loyal and ev
Closed for Winter
Jorn Lier Horst · 364 pages
"Ove Bakkerud, newly separated and extremely disillusioned, is looking forward to a final quiet weekend at his summer home before closing for winter but, when the tourists leave, less welcome visitors arrive. Bakkerud's cottage is ransacked by burglars. Next door he discovers the body of a man who has been beaten to death. Police Inspector William Wisting has witnessed grotesque murders before, bu
A Grain of Truth
Zygmunt Miloszewski · 380 pages
It is spring 2009, and prosecutor Teodor Szacki is no longer working in Warsaw--he has said goodbye to his family and to his career in the capital and moved to Sandomierz, a picturesque town full of churches and museums. Hoping to start a "brave new life," Szacki instead finds himself investigating a strange murder case in surroundings both alien and unfriendly. The victim is found brutally murder
Never End
Ake Edwardson · 308 pages
Detective Chief Inspector Erik Winter returns in a hard-boiled murder mystery about the dark and dirty underside of upstanding family life.There's a heatwave in Gothenburg. But while carefree school-leavers celebrate in the sunshine, tragedy waits to pierce the heady days of summer.It is late when nineteen-year-old Jeanette bids goodbye to her friends and sets off for home. She takes a shortcut th
Death on a Galician Shore
Domingo Villar · 320 pages
Payment in Blood
Elizabeth George · 374 pages
Detective Thomas Lynley and his partner are called in to investigate the murder of playwright Joy Sinclair at an isolated estate in the Scottish Highlands.
The Long Way Home
Louise Penny · 392 pages
At first enjoying a peaceful retirement, former Quebec homicide detective Armand Gamache reluctantly agrees to help a neighbor search for her missing estranged husband and teams up with two former colleagues on a search that reveals the workings of a psychologically damaged mind.
The Blind Man of Seville
Robert Wilson · 434 pages
A Seville police detective investigates the death of a man found bound and gagged in front of his TV with self-inflicted wounds testifying to his attempts to avoid the images in front of him.
Gallows Lane
Brian McGilloway · 312 pages
Taking its title from the name of the road down which condemned Donegal criminals were once led, 'Gallows Lane' follows Inspector Benedict Devlin as he investigates a series of gruesome murders in and around the Irish borderlands. When a young woman is found beaten to death on a building site, in what appears to be a sexually-motivated killing, Devlin's enquiries soon point to a local body-builder
A Beautiful Place to Die
Malla Nunn · 399 pages
Cooper is dispatched to Jacob's Rest, a remote town deep in the bush, to look into a murder report. Arriving at Old Voster's farm, he finds the white police captain dead face down in a creek. Three of the Afrikaner's sons are present at the scene. Trouble comes when another son, a member of the feared Special Branch, arrives.