Murderous Europe
Join a European World Tour of mystery and mayhem, exploring foreign countries through their famous literary detectives.
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 | FRANCE |
| Extraordinary People |
| Peter May’s Enzo Macleod, a Scots biologist teaching in Toulouse, wagers he can find out what happened to Jacques Gaillard -- a brilliant teacher who vanished 10 years ago -- by applying new science to an old case. |
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 | FRANCE |
| Murder in the Marais |
| Cara Black introduces P.I. Aimie Leduc, a French-American whose specialty is computer forensics -- when she attempts to deliver a deciphered photo to an old woman in Paris, she finds the woman dead, and a swastika carved into her forehead. |
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 | FRANCE |
| The Chalk Circle Man |
| When Fred Vargas’ unorthodox Commissaire Adamsberg sees blue chalk circles beginning to appear on the Paris sidewalks, he thinks they are far from amusing – and when such a circle is discovered around a woman with her throat slashed, his concerns are confirmed. |
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 | GERMANY |
| Self’s Punishment |
| Bernhard Schlink’s unconventional P.I., Gerhard Self, is a 68-year-old owner of a charismatic cat named Turbo -- when he’s summoned by an old friend and rival to investigate computer-hacking, he finds himself confronting old secrets and personal demons. |
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 | GREECE |
| Murder in Mykonos |
When Jeffrey Siger’s politically incorrect, detective Andreas Kaldis is promoted out of Athens to serve as police chief for Mykonos, he’s certain his homicide days are over -- but soon he’s soon staring at the remains of a young woman found on a pile of human bones inside a remote mountain church.
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 | GREECE |
| The Messenger of Athens |
| The battered body of a young woman is discovered at the foot of a cliff on the Greek island of Thiminos, and local police dismiss it as an accident -- but Anne Zouroundi’s Hermes Diaktoros, a stranger visiting from Athens, uses unorthodox methods of investigation to uncover the crime. |
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 | ITALY |
| Death at La Fenice |
| When evil rears its head in the beautiful floating city of Venice, Donna Leon’s Guido Brunetti, the suave vice-commissario of police, must use all of his admirable abilities to solve the deadly affair of a world-renowned conductor who died from cyanide poisoning during an intermission at La Fenice. |
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 | ITALY |
| The Rainaldi Quartet |
| In Paul Adam’s Cremona, Italy, a violin maker is stabbed through the neck with a chisel -- when his devastated friends discover that the dead man was obsessed with finding an immensely valuable Stradivarius violin, they decide to continue his quest. |
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 | ITALY |
| The Shape of Water |
| A local politician is found dead in his car in an extremely compromising position, and higher-ups want the case closed before there’s a public scandal -- enter Andrea Camilleri’s Police Inspector Salvo Montalbano, a man of moral integrity who, like any good Sicilian, loves to eat. |
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 | NETHERLANDS |
| Outsider in Amsterdam |
| When Piet Verboom is found dangling from a Hindist restaurant beam in a quiet Amsterdam street, Janwillem Van de Wetering’s Detective-Adjutant Gripstra and Sergeant de Gier of the Amsterdam police force are sent to investigate what looks like a simple suicide. |
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 | POLAND |
| Entanglement |
| Zygmunt Miloszewski’s Public Prosecutor Teodor Szacki, suffering from bureaucratic exhaustion, feels that life has passed him by -- but everything changes when he discovers the frightening power of an esoteric therapeutic method that may have resulted in a murder. |
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 | PORTUGAL |
| The Last Pope |
| When Luis Miguel Rocha’s London journalist Sarah Monteiro receives a letter implicating the 1978 killers of Pope John Paul I in the attempt on the life of John Paul II, she struggles to stay alive and keep the evidence out of the wrong hands. |
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 | RUSSIA |
| Gorky Park |
| Martin Cruz Smith’s chief homicide investigator Arkady Renko is cynical about everything except his profession -- now he’s assigned to a triple murder in a Moscow amusement center, battling the KGB, the FBI, and New York police as he performs the impossible. |
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 | RUSSIA |
| Volk’s Game |
| Brent Ghelfi’s Alekei “Volk” Volkovoy — a brutal killer maimed in Russia’s war against Chechnya — leads two lives: one as a powerful gangster with a hand in virtually all underworld rackets, the other as a covert military operative. |
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 | SLOVAKIA |
| Siren of the Waters |
| Michael Genelin’s Jana Matinova entered the Czechoslovak police force as young woman – when the Communist regime destroyed her husband, and her daughter’s respect for her -- now, she liaises with colleagues across the continent to uncover a vast human trafficking network. |
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 | SPAIN |
| A Blood Wedding |
| P. J. Brooke’s Sub-Inspector Max Romero is an outsider living in hot and steamy Granada, Spain -- struggling to please a demanding, paperwork-obsessed boss, gets pulled into the murder investigation of a young Muslim woman in his home village. |
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 | SPAIN |
| An Air of Murder |
| Roderic Jeffries’ brandy-loving Inspector Enrique Alvarez, Cuerpo General de Policia of Mallorca, is led to believe that the circumstances of a drowned woman’s death might be suspicious, but as usual, he refuses to accept the obvious. |
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 | SPAIN |
| Needle in a Haystack |
| Early one morning, Ernesto Mallo’s Buenos Aires police Superintendent Lascano looks into a report that two bodies have been dumped on a river bank -- and finds three. |
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 | SPAIN |
| The Blind Man of Seville |
| Robert Wilson’s Inspector Javier Falcon, a detective with the Grupo de Homicidios de Sevilla, has his life upended when he discovers a photo of his late artist father at the scene of a particularly brutal murder, and must conduct a double investigation. |
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 | TURKEY |
| Belshazzar’s Daughter |
| Barbara Nadel’s Istanbul police inspector, Cetin Ikmen, never without his brandy and cigarettes, has his hands full when an old man turns up dead in the rundown Jewish quarter. |
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 | TURKEY |
| Hotel Bosphorus |
| Esmahan Aykol’s Kati Herschel is a foreigner in Istanbul, and proud owner of the only mystery bookshop in town -- when the director of a film starring her old German school friend is found murdered, she cannot resist the temptation to start her own maverick investigation. |
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