This is a second installment of something that looks like it is going to become a crime series. I read the first book, Tajemnica Domu Helclów, in December 2016, and during my recent visit in Toruń I found the second book in a bookshop. Our main character and self-proclaimed investigator is the wife of professor …
One of my Christmas gifts! It took me a while to read it, but I made it, my second completed book in German! Very proud of myself. Also I discovered or rather remembered that when I was learning English the first books I read in English were actually Grisham's book, so also sort of crime/court …
My random adventure with Inspector Rebus continues. This time I came upon the thirteenth book in the series. Rebus seems to have lost it and threw a mug of tea at his boss in the room full of his colleagues. This cannot go unpunished, so he's sent to Tulliallan, a police school, full of young …
It's been years since I read my previous Maigret, so I happily killed two birds with one stone and read a good crime as well as shrank my all too long Netgalley list by at least one title, making me feel a bit less like an evil person. It was a good old type crime, …
Continue reading Maigret and the Tall Woman – Georges Simenon
I do not have a TV, my friend always tells me that without a telly I cannot fully participate in British culture. Probably she's right, but every time I go to hers and we try to find something watchable on telly we fail miserably. So I consciously decided not to take part in that part …
Two gifts from my dear friend from studies. She knows I love good crime and she studied with me so obviously she knows I am still interested by the art and academia world, even if I no longer actively participate in it. The two books were perfect gift, I devoured both of them in one …
This one was something I rarely read - historical crime fiction, for some unknown reason I usually prefer myy crime to be contemporary, or at least 20th century. I probably was tempted to buy this one on one of the kindle sales, which is where I get most of my crime stash. The book is …
Continue reading The Devil in the Marshalsea – Antonia Hodgson
Beautiful Sylvia Kaye and another young woman had been seen hitching a ride not long before Sylvia's bludgeoned body is found outside a pub in Woodstock, near Oxford. Morse is sure the other hitchhiker can tell him much of what he needs to know. But his confidence is shaken by the cool inscrutability of the …
Detective John Rebus: His city is being terrorized by a baffling series of murders...and he's tied to a maniac by an invisible knot of blood. Once John Rebus served in Britain's elite SAS. Now he's an Edinburgh cop who hides from his memories, misses promotions and ignores a series of crank letters. But as the …
A young woman is found carved up and buried in a forest glade in a Stockholm suburb. She is identified as Rebecca Trolle, a student who went missing two years earlier. While Fredrika Bergman and her team try to find out why Rebecca met such a violent demise, more bodies are found in the same …
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