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Was geschah im Garten des Efeuhauses?
Toby Hennessy, 28, hat immer gedacht, dass das Schicksal es gut mit ihm meint. Er führt ein unbeschwertes, erfolgreiches Leben in Dublin. Bis er eines Nachts von Einbrechern in seiner Wohnung brutal zusammengeschlagen wird. Toby überlebt nur knapp; er ist körperlich und seelisch versehrt, kann sich nicht mehr auf seine Erinnerungen verlassen. Es erscheint ihm wie eine Zuflucht, in das alte, von Efeu umrankte...
2) Der Sucher
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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...
3) 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...
5) In the Woods
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Twenty years after witnessing the violent disappearances of two companions from their small Dublin suburb, detective Rob Ryan investigates a chillingly similar murder that takes place in the same wooded area, a case that forces him to piece together his traumatic memories.
6) The Likeness
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New York Times bestselling author Tana French, author of the forthcoming novel The Hunter, is “the most important crime novelist to emerge in the past 10 years” (The Washington Post) and “inspires cultic devotion in readers” (The New Yorker).
“Required reading for anyone who appreciates tough, unflinching intelligence and ingenious plotting.” —The New...
“Required reading for anyone who appreciates tough, unflinching intelligence and ingenious plotting.” —The New...
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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...
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In the aftermath of a brutal attack that left a woman in intensive care and her husband and young children dead, brash cop Scorcher Kennedy and his rookie partner, Richie, struggle with perplexing clues and Scorcher's haunting memories of a shattering incident from his childhood.
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"Back in 1985, Frank Mackey was a nineteen-year-old kid with a dream of escaping his family's cramped flat on Faithful Place and running away to London with his girl, Rosie Daly. But on the night they were supposed to leave, Rosie didn't show. Frank took it for granted that she'd given him the brush-off--probably because of his alcoholic father, nutcase mother, and generally dysfunctional family. He never went home again. Neither did Rosie. Then,...
10) 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...
11) The Trespasser
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The New York Times bestselling novel by Tana French, author of the forthcoming novel The Hunter, is “required reading for anyone who appreciates tough, unflinching intelligence and ingenious plotting” (The New York Times). She “inspires cultic devotion in readers” (The New Yorker) and is “the most important crime novelist to emerge in the past 10 years” (The Washington...
12) The Witch Elm
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"A brilliant new work of suspense from "the most important crime novelist to emerge in the past 10 years." (Washington Post) From the writer who "inspires cultic devotion in readers" (The New Yorker) and has been called "incandescent" by Stephen King, "absolutely mesmerizing" by Gillian Flynn, and "unputdownable" (People), comes a gripping new novel that turns a crime story inside out. Toby is a happy-go-lucky charmer who's dodged a scrape at work...
13) The hunter
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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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