Moonstone PB
The Moonstone is one of the most famous suspense novels of all time: a masterpiece of construction and the ultimate page-turner, it introduced one of the world's most beloved genres, the detective story. At a party celebrating her eighteenth birthday, Rachel Verinder wears the stunning yellow diamond she unexpectedly inherited from her uncle, Colonel John Herncastle. She is not aware that the precious gem, known as the Moonstone, has been missing since it was plundered from a sacred Hindu shrine in southern India where her uncle had served with the British army fifty years ago. But someone knows the secret of the Moonstone and will go to desperate measures to retrieve it. When it goes missing later that night, suspicions are raised and accusations fly. Could it be a trio of mysterious Indian jugglers seen near the house? Or a love-struck housemaid suddenly behaving strangely? And there is Rachel herself, who becomes furious when her paramour, Franklin Blake, directs attempts to find
Behemoth PB
If the country's official mascot is an eagle, then its unofficial mascot is the elephant. While the eagle soars above the head of the nation from a dispassionate distance, the elephant stands with his feet on the ground with simplest of wretc...
Mørket, PB
Mørket er første bind i trilogien om Hulda Hermannsdottir fra Reykjavik Politi. Bogen er kåret til en af de 100 bedste krimier siden 1945 af The Times, og islandske Ragnar Jónasson har med trilogien om Hulda slået sit navn fast som ny nordisk krimistjerne. Hulda har været politiefterforsker i årtier, men nu er det slut. En fremadstormende, ung mand skal overtage hendes job og hendes kontor, og Hulda er tvunget på pension før tid. Da hendes chef giver hende mulighed for at vælge en cold case at fordrive den sidste tid med, er hun ikke i tvivl. Hun vælger sagen om en ung russisk kvinde, hvis håb om asyl og beskyttelse endte på en kold, mørk strand i Island. En hastig politiefterforskning konkluderede, at der var tale om selvmord, og sagen blev lukket uden postyr. Hulda opdager hurtigt, at en anden ung kvinde forsvandt i samme periode, og at ingen fortæller hele sandheden. Selv Huldas egne kolleger lader til at ville bremse efterforskningen. Tiden er knap, men Hulda vil gøre alt for
Sassy PB
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