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Murder at the Residence

Murder at the Residence
  • Author(s): Stella Blómkvist, Quentin Bates
  • Genre(s): In Translation, Crime, Noir
  • Era(s): Early 21st Century

(Stella Blómkvist Book 1) It’s New Year and Iceland is still reeling from the effects of the financial crash when a notorious financier is found beaten to death after a high-profile reception at the President’s residence. The police are...

Murder Below Montparnasse

Murder Below Montparnasse
  • Author(s): Cara Black
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Mystery
  • Era(s): Modern

When Aimee’s long-term partner and best friend Rene leaves their detective agency for a new job in Silicon Valley, Aimee knows she can handle the extra workload. At least, that’s what she tells herself. But all bets are off...

Murder in Amsterdam

Murder in Amsterdam
  • Author(s): Ian Buruma
  • Location(s): Amsterdam
  • Genre(s): Crime, Nonfiction
  • Era(s): Modern

It was the emblematic crime of our moment: On a cold November day in Amsterdam, an angry young Muslim man, Mohammed Bouyeri, the son of Moroccan immigrants, shot and killed the celebrated and controversial Dutch filmmaker Theo van Gogh,...

Murder in Belleville

Murder in Belleville
  • Author(s): Cara Black
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Mystery
  • Era(s): Modern

When April in Paris means riots and firebombs. Tensions run high in the working-class neighbourhood of Belleville when a hunger strike to protest against strict immigration laws escalates. Aimée Leduc is trying to help her old friend Anaïs, the...

Murder in Mykonos

Murder in Mykonos
  • Author(s): Jeffrey Siger
  • Location(s): Mykonos
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): Modern

Mykonos has always had a romantic reputation, until the body of a blonde female tourist is discovered on a pile of bones under the floor of a remote mountain church. When the island’s new police chief – the young,...

Murder in Passy

Murder in Passy
  • Author(s): Cara Black
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Mystery
  • Era(s): Modern

The village-like neighbourhood of Passy, home to many of Paris’ wealthiest residents, is the last place you would expect a murder. But when Aimee Leduc’s godfather Morbier asks her to check on his girlfriend that’s exactly what she does...

Murder in Prague

Murder in Prague
  • Author(s): Aviezer Tucker
  • Location(s): Prague
  • Genre(s): Mystery
  • Era(s): Modern

The body of the owner of the largest antique book store in Prague is found next to the Old-New Synagogue. Former dissident and current police officer, Inspector Jan Mazal is on the case. The investigation unfolds against the backdrop...

Murder in the Bastille

Murder in the Bastille
  • Author(s): Cara Black
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Mystery
  • Era(s): Modern

Aimee Leduc is all dressed up in her new Chinese silk jacket for dinner at an elegant restaurant in the Bastille district, but is chagrined to see the woman at the very next table wearing an identical jacket. When...

Murder in the Midi

Murder in the Midi
  • Author(s): Cecilia Peartree
  • Location(s): The South of France (Le Midi)
  • Genre(s): Mystery

Isabelle doesn’t expect a summer job in the south of France to turn into a nightmare. But even before she encounters the mysterious Nathan Freelander at the wheel of a boat on the Canal du Midi, she is already...

Murder in the Sentier

Murder in the Sentier
  • Author(s): Cara Black
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Mystery
  • Era(s): Modern

Once filled with fashionable mansions the historic Sentier district of Paris has nowadays fallen on hard times, housing the rag trade alongside sleazy nightclubs. Aimée Leduc finds herself drawn to the area when a woman, newly released from prison,...

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