Browsing: International Mysteries

Animals

Killing Eve: Codename Villanelle

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The inspiration for the hit show Killing Eve! Recruited by a shadowy, elite group, catlike Oxana is made into a lethal assassin, codename Villanelle. Meanwhile, former MI6 operative Eve is sent on a hunt around the world to take her out. An “exceptional spy thriller” (Booklist).

Crime Fiction and Mysteries

A Tale of Two Murders

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Book one in a series: In 1830s London, young Charles Dickens is an ambitious journalist on the rise — but after a dreadful murder, he must team up with his boss’s daughter, charming Kate Hogarth, to search for a killer. “Mystery fans and history buffs alike should cheer” (Kirkus Reviews starred review).

Crime Fiction and Mysteries

The Coroner’s Lunch

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When septuagenarian Dr. Siri Paiboun becomes the national coroner of Laos, he launches an investigation into the grisly murder of a prominent politician’s wife. Meet “a wry, eccentric addition to the genre” (Booklist) in this “wonderfully fresh” start to a mystery series (The New York Times Book Review).

Conspiracies

The Banker’s Wife

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In a thriller hailed as “immersive, satisfying, tense” (Lee Child), a widow looks into her husband’s fatal crash in the Alps — and learns how far powerful people will go to hide their secrets. “First-rate… Slick, heart-hammering entertainment” (The New York Times Book Review).

Crime Fiction and Mysteries

Dead Cold

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A satisfying Southwestern procedural! Detective Temeke — a gruff British cop living in Albuquerque, New Mexico — investigates a house fire that concealed a murder… and pursues the husband who vanished soon after.