If you are a fan of revealing mysterious murders, looking for hidden evidence and mentally interrogating suspects, then this list of detectives will help you enrich your library.
So, TOP-10, detective stories that will make your brain work to the fullest.
“The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo,” Stig Larson
Fascinating combination: secret killings, family saga, love stories and financial intrigues.
We are talking about Harriet Vanger, who disappeared forty years ago, the young heiress of one of the richest families in Sweden ... and her eighty-year-old uncle, who decided to find out the truth about what really happened. The journalist Mikael Blomkvist, recently accused of libel to unearth everything about the disappearance of Harriet ... and about Lisbeth Salander, twenty-four-year-old brilliant hacker who decides to help Blomkvist in the investigation, takes up the case.
This is a contagious and exciting intellectual novel about society in its most hidden sense and about the intimate life of brilliantly realized characters. All of them are forced to face the dark sides of the world and their own biography.
The Silence of the Lambs, Thomas Harris
An assassin who is free, who knows that beauty is only skin, and an investigator trainee who is trying to save his own skin. Dr. Hannibal Lecter, is a former psychiatrist with unusual tastes and intense curiosity for the dark corners of the mind. His deep understanding of the killer will help the FSB Academy cadet Clarice Sterling in the investigation.
The legendary detective was no less talentedly filmed and earned the attention of millions of viewers.
“If Tomorrow Comes,” Sidney Sheldon
This is a story of intrigue and revenge. Tracy Whitney is young, beautiful and smart, and is about to “marry wealth and glamor.” Until they betrayed her.
The ruthless mafia gang set her up, and her beloved abandoned her. Only her ingenuity will save her life and help her fight. The idealist Tracy goes to jail for 15 years. She fights to destroy the untouchable criminal lords who put her there. Intelligence and beauty are her only weapons. During his confrontation, Tracy meets Jeffrey Stevensen, whose past is as colorful as hers.
Dead Swell, Johan Theorin
On a foggy summer day in the early seventies on the island of Öland a little boy disappears without any signs. For several days, family, police and volunteers have been looking for him. Twenty years later, the child’s mother, Julia, received an unexpected phone call from her father, old captain Gerlof Davidson. He asks her to come to Öland to help him investigate the disappearance.
Together they begin to unravel the mysteries of the past. Only now the heroine hears about the mythical Nils Kant, from whom the whole village once suffered. But he has long been dead and buried, long before the boy disappeared. However, he is sometimes said to wander around the island of Sweden at dusk. In the hour of darkness.
Body-Reading, Antonio Garrido
Based on real events.
In ancient China, only the most discerning judges achieved the coveted title of “body reader,” the forensics elite. Even at the risk of their own lives, they had a decree according to which no crime, even the most insoluble, would go unpunished.
Song Tzu was the first among them. The amazing story of a young man of low descent, whose passion and determination led him to this position. An outstanding student at the prestigious Ming Academy. His innovative methods and passion for justice arouse the curiosity of even the emperor himself, who challenges him to solve the atrocious crimes that threaten to destroy the imperial court one after another.
Dark Roads, Tony O’Dell
Harley Altmayer must be in college and "chasing" the girls. He must be freed from his enclosed city, hit by a coal "wake". Instead, he constantly reminds himself of how his life went bad. His mother is in prison for the murder of his father. Harley is an orphan with adult responsibilities and a hot, aggressive teen libido. He is only nineteen years old, messing around in Pennsylvania, taking care of his younger sisters, whose feelings for him range from emotional dependence to hatred.
Family secrets, lies and unspoken feelings kindle his inner fuse and spill over into a series of stunning surprises, tearing what remains of his family into shreds. Harley could never know that his sweet humor, his love for his sisters and his clumsy heroism will atone for them all.
The Collini Case, Ferdinand Von Schirach
Fabrizio Collini recently retired. He is a quiet, unpretentious person, seemingly not able to hurt anyone. And yet he brutally kills an outstanding industrialist in one of Berlin's most exclusive hotels.
Collini's case falls to Caspar Leynen, a defense attorney, a recent graduate who wants to start his career with an acquittal. Complications soon arise when Collini admits the murder, but refuses to tell his motive, much less talk to anyone. When Leinen searches for clues, he discovers a personal connection with the victim and a terrible truth at the core of Germany's legal system, which extends until World War II. But what is he willing to sacrifice to expose the lie?
Alien Country, Charles Cumming
A story about deceit and betrayal, conspiracy and atonement.
In Egypt, an elderly French couple is brutally murdered. A few days later, a carefully planned abduction takes place on the streets of Paris. Amelia Levana, the first female MI-6 executive, disappeared without a trace, six weeks before she should become the most powerful spy in Europe. This is the most serious crisis that MI-6 has faced in the last decade. Desperate to not only find her, but also to keep her disappearance a secret, the main British intelligence officers turn to one of their own: the demoted MI-6 officer, Thomas Kell, who was dismissed from service several months ago. Kell is given the last chance to atone for himself and to justify himself - to find Amelia Leuven at all costs. The trail leads Kella to France and Tunisia. So he finds himself on the path to personal and political disaster.
