The first of Kate Atkinson’s books to feature her private investigator Jackson Brodie, “Case Histories” (2004), concerns three separate murders taking place in three different years, subtly braided together by a plot that Brodie must unravel.
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Rezension: Stephen Hunter: “The Third Bullet”
Probably the best-known fictional gun expert is former Marine sniper Bob Lee Swagger, hero of a dozen thrillers written by Stephen Hunter. And certainly the best-known gun crime in history is the assassination of President John F. Kennedy in Dallas on Nov. 22, 1963.
Rezension: Keigo Higashino: “Salvation of a Saint”
Such is the promising premise of “Salvation of a Saint”, a crime thriller by Keigo Higashino, whose renown in Japan — dozens of novels, TV shows, movies — has reached such proportions as to make James Patterson seem a bit bashful.
Rezension: Gregg Hurwitz: “The Survivor”
Thirty-six-year-old war veteran Nate Overbay, back home in L.A., estranged from his wife and teenage daughter, suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder and newly diagnosed with Lou Gehrig’s disease, decides to kill himself.
Rezension: Deborah Crombie: »No Mark Upon Her«
The protagonists of yesteryear would have found it strange, all the family-talk indulged in by Deborah Crombie’smarried protagonists, Detective Superintendent Duncan Kincaid of Scotland Yard and Detective Inspector Gemma James of the Metropolitan Police.