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...
Literature - Thriller
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...
The Last One at the Wedding
Frank Szatowski is surprised when his daughter Maggie calls him for the first time in three years to invite him to her wedding. Maggie is going to marry the son of a wealthy magnate in a large mansion....
The Dark Knight I. Batman Begins
(Synopsis from the back cover):
«Bruce Wayne is dead. The young heir to the Wayne empire disappeared seven years ago. His vast fortune has been given away, and the crime wave that began with the...
The Mystery of the Yellow Room
A young journalist, gifted and highly intelligent, decides to investigate a case that has shaken public opinion due to its mysterious nature. In a room, a violent fight takes place. Those in the adjoining...