Tana French
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"Toby is a happy-go-lucky charmer who's dodged a scrape at work and is celebrating with friends when the night takes a turn that will change his life - he surprises two burglars who beat him and leave him for dead. Struggling to recover from his injuries, beginning to understand that he might never be the same man again, he takes refuge at his family's ancestral home to care for his dying uncle Hugo. Then a skull is found in the trunk of an elm tree...
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All but one member of the Spain family lies dead, and it's up to Mick "Scorcher" Kennedy to find out why. Mick must piece together why their house is full of cameras pointed at holes in the walls and how a nighttime intruder bypassed all the locks. Meanwhile, the town of Broken Harbor holds something else for Mick--disturbing memories of a childhood summer gone terribly wrong.
3) The searcher
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"Cal Hooper thought a fixer-upper in a bucolic Irish village would be the perfect escape. After twenty-five years in the Chicago police force and a bruising divorce, he just wants to build a new life in a pretty spot with a good pub where nothing much happens. But when a local kid whose brother has gone missing arm-twists him into investigating, Cal uncovers layers of darkness beneath his picturesque retreat, and starts to realize that even small...
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"Being on the Murder Squad is nothing like Detective Antoinette Conway dreamed it would be. Her partner, Stephen Moran, is the only person who seems glad she's there. The rest of her working life is a stream of thankless cases, vicious pranks, and harassment. Antoinette is savagely tough, but she's getting close to the breaking point. Their new case looks like yet another by-the-numbers lovers' quarrel gone bad. Aislinn Murray is blond, pretty, groomed...
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"It's a blazing summer when two men arrive in a small village in the West of Ireland. One of them is coming home. Both of them are coming to get rich. One of them is coming to die. Cal Hooper took early retirement from Chicago PD and moved to rural Ireland looking for peace. He's found it, more or less: he's built a relationship with a local woman, Lena, and he's gradually turning Trey Reddy from a half-feral teenager into a good kid going good places....
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"The photo on the card shows a boy who was found murdered, a year ago, on the grounds of a girls' boarding school in the leafy suburbs of Dublin. The caption says I KNOW WHO KILLED HIM. Detective Stephen Moran has been waiting for his chance to get a foot in the door of Dublin's Murder Squad--and one morning, sixteen-year-old Holly Mackey brings him this photo. "The Secret Place," a board where the girls at St. Kilda's School can pin up their secrets...
7) The likeness
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Six months after the events of In the Woods, Detective Cassie Maddox is still trying to recover. She's transferred out of the murder squad and started a relationship with Detective Sam O'Neill, but she's too badly shaken to make a commitment to him or to her career. Then Sam calls her to the scene of his new case: a young woman found stabbed to death in a small town outside Dublin. The dead girl's ID says her name is Lexie Madison--the identity Cassie...
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Back in 1985, Frank Mackey was nineteen, living in a small flat with his family on Faithful Place in Dublin's inner city. He and Rosie Daly planned to run away to London, get married, and break away from poverty and their old lives. But the night they were leaving, Rosie didn't show. Frank assumed that she dumped him and never went home again. Neither did Rosie. Now, twenty-two years, later Rosie's suitcase shows up in a derelict house on Faithful...
9) In the woods
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The debut novel of an astonishing voice in psychological suspense
As dusk approaches a small Dublin suburb in the summer of 1984, mothers begin to call their children home. But on this warm evening, three children do not return from the dark and silent woods. When the police arrive, they find only one of the children gripping a tree trunk in terror, wearing blood-filled sneakers, and unable to recall a single detail of the previous hours....
As dusk approaches a small Dublin suburb in the summer of 1984, mothers begin to call their children home. But on this warm evening, three children do not return from the dark and silent woods. When the police arrive, they find only one of the children gripping a tree trunk in terror, wearing blood-filled sneakers, and unable to recall a single detail of the previous hours....
10) Faithful Place
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"El detective Frank Mackey se encuentra de vuelta en la oscura maraña de relaciones que dejó atrás hace veintidós años cuando la maleta que pertenece a su primer amor, Rosie Daly, aparece detrás de una chimenea en una casa abandonada en Faithful Place. La acalorada tercera novela del escuadrón de asesinatos de Dublín." --
11) Totengleich
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(Autorisierte Lesefassung) Dem Tod wie aus dem Gesicht geschnitten
In einem verfallenen Cottage außerhalb von Dublin wird die Leiche einer jungen Frau gefunden. Die Polizistin Cassie Maddox kann kaum fassen, was sie zu sehen bekommt: Die Tote gleicht ihr bis aufs Haar. Wer ist diese Frau? Wer hat sie niedergestochen? Und hätte eigentlich Cassie selbst sterben sollen? Keinerlei Spuren oder Hinweise sind zu finden, und noch unter Schock wird Cassie...
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Ein Fremder, ein Dorf, ein Kind. Und eine Suche, die niemanden verschont.
Cal Hooper, ehemaliger Cop aus Chicago, hat sich in den Westen Irlands geflüchtet. Die Natur scheint friedlich, im Dorf nimmt man ihn freundlich auf. Da springt sein innerer Alarm an: Er wird beobachtet. Immer wieder sucht ein Kind seine Nähe. Auf den umliegenden Farmen kommen auf seltsame Weise Tiere zu Tode. Stück für Stück gerät Cal in eine Suche, die ihn tief in die...
13) Grabesgrün
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Wer bringt ein kleines Mädchen um und bahrt es auf dem Opferaltar einer Ausgrabungsstätte auf? Jede Spur, die die beiden jungen Dubliner Ermittler Rob und Cassie verfolgen, führt sie nur tiefer in ein Dickicht, in dem sich alle Gewissheiten in ihr Gegenteil verkehren. Und keiner darf erfahren, dass Rob vor vielen Jahren selbst etwas Furchtbares erlebt hat - im Wald bei ebenjener Ausgrabungsstätte ...
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Viking
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2018.
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"Toby is a happy-go-lucky charmer who's dodged a scrape at work and is celebrating with friends when the night takes a turn that will change his life - he surprises two burglars who beat him and leave him for dead. Struggling to recover from his injuries, beginning to understand that he might never be the same man again, he takes refuge at his family's ancestral home to care for his dying uncle Hugo. Then a skull is found in the trunk of an elm tree...