European Crime/Mystery Fiction
Explore the best European crime and mystery fiction books. Discover gripping thrillers, detective novels, and suspenseful stories from top authors across Europe.
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Sidetracked
by Henning Mankell
The mystery thriller series that inspired the Netflix crime drama Young Wallander • From the dean of Scandinavian noir, the fifth riveting installment in the …
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Jar City
by Arnaldur Indridason
Inspector Erlendur Sveinsson investigates the killing of a solitary man, found murdered in his Reykjavik apartment, and discovers that the dead man had been accused …
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Voice of the Violin
by Andrea Camilleri
“You either love Andrea Camilleri or you haven’t read him yet. Each novel in this wholly addictive, entirely magical series, set in Sicily and starring …
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The Death of Achilles
by Boris Akunin
International intrigue, professional rivalry, the criminal underworld of nineteenth-century Moscow, and an irresistible femme fatale: if Erast Fandorin was hoping for a quiet homecoming, he …
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Don't Look Back
by Karin Fossum
The tranquility of a small, idyllic town is shattered when the body of a teenage girl is found, prompting an investigation by Inspector Sejer that …
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Missing
by Karin Alvtegen
Sibylla Forsenstrom doesn't exist. For 15 years she has been one of the homeless in Stockholm and takes every day as it comes. One night …
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The Flanders Panel
by Arturo PĂ©rez-Reverte
While restoring a fifteenth-century masterpiece, Julia, a young art expert in Madrid, stumbles upon a real-life mystery as she sets out to find the killer …
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The Empire of the Wolves
by Jean-Christophe Grange
Grange's riveting international bestseller rivals literate thrillers such as Martin Cruz Smith's "Gorky Park" and Peter Hoeg's "Smilla's Sense of Snow."
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La hermandad de la Sábana Santa
by Julia Navarro
Un incendio en la catedral de TurĂn, donde se venera la Sábana Santa, envuelve la muerte de un hombre al que habĂan cortado la lengua. …
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The Golden Section
by Pernille Rygg
Igi is being stalked. In the suburb of Oslo where she lives with her cross-dressing husband and their daughter, someone is spray-painting the walls of …
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The Name of the Rose
by Umberto Eco
In 1327, finding his sensitive mission at an Italian abbey further complicated by seven bizarre deaths, Brother William of Baskerville turns detective.
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Outsider in Amsterdam
by Janwillem Van de Wetering
When Piet Verboom is found dangling from a beam in the Hindist Society he ran, Detective-Adjutant Grijpstra and Sergeant de Gier of the Amsterdam police …
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Berlin
by Pierre Frei
Berlin, 1945, American Sector. Ben, 15, aspiring black marketeer, finds the body of a young, blonde, German woman on the line at Uncle Tom's Cabin …