Englische Krimis & Thriller

 
  • Ripley wanted out. He wanted money, success, the good life - and he was willing to kill for it. This is the first novel to feature Patricia Highsmith's anti-hero, Tom Ripley
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    The Talented Mr. Ripley. Vintage Books
  • For a moment the two trains were side by side. In that moment, Elspeth witnessed a murder as she stared out of her window. But who, apart from Miss Marple, would take her story seriously? There were no suspects, no other witnesses - and no corpse.
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    4.50 From Paddington
  • In her riveting new thriller, Mary Higgins Clark tells the story of a young girl's murder and a sister's search to find the killer.
    3.
    Daddy's Little Girl
  • In a courtroom in Mississippi, a jury returns a shocking verdict against a chemical company accused of dumping toxic waste into a small town's water supply.
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    The Appeal
  • Ein kleines, verschwiegenes Tal in Kalifornien. Hier lebt seit den sechziger Jahren eine friedliche Hippie-Gemeinde. Nun soll ihr Dorf einem Stausee weichen. Man gibt ihnen genau fünf Wochen Zeit, um das Land zu räumen. Aber die Kinder von Eden sind keinesfalls bereit, alles aufzugeben. In ihrer Not kommen sie auf eine wahnwitzige Idee...
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    The Hammer of Eden. Ballantine Books
  • After two nuns are brutally attacked leaving one dead and the other critically injured, medical examiner Maura Isles and homicide detective Jane Rizzoli uncover an ancient horror in the chapel of nuns' convent that leads them toward the killer's identity.
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    The Sinner. Ballantine Books
  • Venetian detective, Commissario Brunetti, is drawn into an underworld of drugs and loan sharking in Donna Leon's latest book. The death of two young drug addicts, the arrest and subsequent release of the son of the detective's boss on suspicion of drug dealing reveal what a difference it makes in Venice to have friends in high places.
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    Friends in High Places. Feine Freunde, englische Ausgabe,  Band 9
  • The tranquillity of a cruise along the Nile was shattered by the discovery that Linnet Ridgeway had been shot through the head. She was young, stylish and beautiful. A girl who had everything until she lost her life.
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    Death on the Nile. Poirot,  Band 18
  • Millionaire Guy Brouard has been murdered on Guernsey, so Forensic Scientist Simon St. James and his wife Deborah travel to the island, where the specter of WW II still seems to hover over its inhabitants.
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    A Place of Hiding.
  • In 1989, Follett astonished the literary world with "The Pillars of the Earth," a sweeping epic novel set in 12th-century England that centered on the building of a cathedral and the hundreds of lives it affected. This sequel takes place in the same town of Kingsbridge, two centuries later.
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    World Without End. Dutton