What Have You Done?
The story is set in Vermont, a very small town near the border between the United States and Canada. It is said that the community is safe and that nothing usually happens that would require the police, but...
Literature - Thriller
Among the Hidden
Luke has never gone to school. He has never celebrated his birthday or slept at a friend’s house. In fact, Luke has never had friends. He is one of the Shadow Children, a third child forbidden by the...
Bad actors
This is the eighth instalment in the series about Jackson Lamb and his slow horses.
A key aide to the Prime Minister disappears without a trace, and it is none other than Claude Wheelan, former head...
Telling Tales
It is a novel starring Inspector Vera Stanhope, a character created by the author. The plot revolves around a murder: ten years have passed since the killing of Abigail Martel when a witness claims to have...
The Secrets of the Abbey
The author is a German, Jörg Bong, who divides his time between his home country and Brittany, France.
This is the eleventh book in a series featuring Commissaire Georges Dupin.
In one of the...
The Aosawa Murders
The novel has the appearance of a crime story, and although it focuses on several homicides, it goes beyond them. It recounts the murder of seventeen members of the same wealthy medical family; they die...
The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie
The book’s editors recommend “the use of one's imagination” in this book, and understandably so: Imagine an English stately home, where a relatively young widower lives with his...
The runaway Jury
A group of prominent lawyers accuses the major cigarette manufacturers of homicide following the death of a smoker. The tobacco industry is shaken: they know that a single judgment against them could...
Frequent Hearses
It is a thriller featuring the famous Gervase Fen, an Oxford professor and amateur detective. The core of the case revolves around a police report stating that a young aspiring actress drowned after...
Then there were three
Geoffrey Homes is the pen name of Daniel Mainwaring, novelist and screenwriter. He is best known for Eleven mi horca (Build My Gallows High) and its film adaptation, made by Mainwaring himself, Retorno al...