Rezension: Kate Atkinson: “Life after Life”

The first of Kate Atkinson’s books to feature her private investigator Jackson Brodie, “Case Histories” (2004), concerns three separate murders taking place in three different years, subtly braided together by a plot that Brodie must unravel.

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Rezension: Stephen Hunter: “The Third Bullet”

Probably the best-known fictional gun expert is former Marine sniper Bob Lee Swagger, hero of a dozen thrillers written by Stephen Hunter. And certainly the best-known gun crime in history is the assassination of President John F. Kennedy in Dallas on Nov. 22, 1963.

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Rezension: Keigo Higashino: “Salvation of a Saint”

Such is the promising premise of “Salvation of a Saint”, a crime thriller by Keigo Higashino, whose renown in Japan — dozens of novels, TV shows, movies — has reached such proportions as to make James Patterson seem a bit bashful.

Rezension: Gregg Hurwitz: “The Survivor”

Thirty-six-year-old war veteran Nate Overbay, back home in L.A., estranged from his wife and teenage daughter, suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder and newly diagnosed with Lou Gehrig’s disease, decides to kill himself.

Rezension: Deborah Crombie: »No Mark Upon Her«

The protagonists of yesteryear would have found it strange, all the family-talk indulged in by Deborah Crombie’smarried protagonists, Detective Superintendent Duncan Kincaid of Scotland Yard and Detective Inspector Gemma James of the Metropolitan Police.

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