Bøger om Mystery

Under den årlige mad- og vinfestival i Marralee i det sydlige Australien forsvinder Kim Gillespie sporløst en forårsaften. Hendes etårige datter bliver fundet i en barnevogn for foden af pariserhjulet. Et år efter Kim Gillespies forsvinden er hendes venner og familie samlet for at fejre barnedåb. Med som gæst er Aaron Falk fra politiet i Melbourne, som også var på besøg, da Kim forsvandt. Og Kims ældste datter, der ikke har opgivet håbet om at finde sin mor, fordi sagen aldrig er blevet opklaret. Gensynet med Marralee, hvor det på ny er blevet festivaltid, bringer minder frem hos Aaron, og han begynder at grave i det lokale politis efterforskning af sagen. Selv befinder han sig ved en skillevej i livet. Også på den front udvikler ferien i de idylliske omgivelser sig helt anderledes end forventet.Mange sandheder om Kims forsvinden og hendes liv, efter at hun flyttede fra Marralee, er aldrig kommet frem i lyset. Hendes skilsmisse, depression og selvvalgte eksil i Adelaide med en ny mand. Hvad får en mor til at forlade sit barn? Og hvad skete der i virkeligheden med Kim Gillespie?EKSIL er tredje og sidste bind med politimanden Aaron Falk, som læserne lærte at kende i Jane Harpers internationale bestseller- og gennembrudsroman Tørke og efterfølgeren Skoven. Bøgerne kan læses selvstændigt.

”En litterær krimi af ypperste karat.” ★★★★★★ Fyens Stiftstidende ★★★★★★ Frk. Bogorm ★★★★★ Titlen ★★★★ Jyllands-Posten Små byer kan gemme på store hemmeligheder. Luke Hadler retter et gevær mod sin kone og deres barn, til sidst mod sig selv. Og trykker af. Indbyggerne i den lille australske by Kiewarra står hver dag over for valg, der kan medføre liv eller død. De er afhængige af regn, men har de sidste to år levet i tørke. Hvad sker der, hvis en af dem en dag bukker under for presset? Da politibetjenten Aaron Falk returnerer til barndomsbyen for at deltage i sin tidligere bedste ven Lukes begravelse, bliver han tvunget til at se mennesker i øjnene, han for år tilbage ikke kunne vente med at vende ryggen. Men han får brug for sine evner som betjent, da omstændighederne omkring familien Hadlers død viser sig mere og mere mystiske, og får Aaron til at tvivle på, at der var tale om selvmord. Som Aaron graver i sagen, ripper det op i en gammel historie tilbage til Arons tid som teenager i byen. Aaron og Luke delte en hemmelighed dengang. En hemmelighed, som Aaron troede, var begravet for længst, men som nu bliver vækket til live igen. “Denne fremragende debut holder læseren vågen til langt ud på natten.” Kirkus ”En blændende pageturner med en chokerende slutning.” Booklist JANE HARPER (f. 1980), australsk forfatter, fik sit gennembrud med debutromanen Tørke, der vandt adskillige litterære priser, heriblandt den største britiske krimipris, The Gold Dagger Award, og blev filmatiseret med Eric Bana i hovedrollen. Jane Harpers bøger er udgivet i over 40 lande og regnes for nogle af de bedste inden for den realistiske, psykologiske krimigenre.

THERE ARE POEMS TO BE BURNED AND A BOY TO BE KILLED. Paris, 1988. Freia Altena sits in Jardin du Luxembourg, watching over a boy who doesn’t know he is in danger. Death threats on library walls, scorched books on a shelf, and a blind battle with the past. Fighting for safety, Freia soon realises that there is a mystery far grander than expected, an intricate web of love and fury so beautifully dangerous that it threatens to burn everything down. A pen grazes paper, a tonearm scrapes on a record. For a moment, the world stands still and a whole world of art and passion lies buried just around the corner. Then, the clock spins again and the past has become the present and the future is but a poem in a book. Excerpt from the bookPerhaps Freia is not cut out for this. She closes her eyes and opens them again. Paris remains the same, trains arriving and departing in a mechanical cycle. The sight becomes a poem in bold letters, a verse presenting the fact that Freia cannot give up on this warm spring day, for there are higher stakes and longer threads connecting dots that cannot be snapped in two by her feeble hands. About the authorMette Marit Tjelle Holm is a Danish-Norwegian writer of poetry, short stories, and fiction. When she is not writing, she loves to listen to old records and read lots of books. With tea, of course. Secrets of a Poet is her first novel.

Springtime is well overdue and Olina literelly stumbles into another exciting adventure, on her daily walk in the forest. Why is the season of spring delayed? Who is the lost hare, and why is she lost?Come on, let's find out! Go ahead, just open the book...Great to read together.

In the small town Westhabit, where nothing of importance ever seems to happen, four boys go on a trip to the local lake on the edge of town. This is where things take a turn for the worse, as one of the boys disappears seemingly out of nowhere. The remaining three go on a journey through darkness, despair, confusion, and abnormality, in an attempt to find their lost friend and uncover what is really going on, in the, otherwise safe town, they know as home.

Eerie events are taking place in the rural idyll of Chessingham., and the police force ask the public for help to resolve the atrocities. Over a period of five years three murders are being committed with a possible connection to a mysterious event. Four local women have formed a study group, and in the course of events the four women, each with a special knowledge, assist the local police force in resolving the mysteries. Over time, they constitute an unofficial investigation team and starts - along with the police investigation - to form hypotheses on a small scale.Charlotte Andrews is reportedly in the process of writing a detective novel, for which she draws inspiration from the other members of the study group, and before long she begins concurrently with the development of her plot to investigate tracks on her own. Slowly mutual suspicion creeps in on the individual group member as to 'whodunnit'.The Chessingham Mysteries draws on elements from the genre categories of the detective novel, the psychological thriller, and in small scale, the fantastic literature. Immanent in this last category, we find 'the uncanny' element, which in the last instance is what brings the reader in doubt as to what is really at stake

The artwork in Nis Jessen's new version of "A Study in Scarlet" is based on - and selected from - his massive book (weighing 2 kilo and with 625 illustrations) that was published in 2005. This version is created as Nis Jessen's tribute to Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's genius that gave the world 125 years of intelligent and meaningful fictitious reading in at least 84 languages. Nis Jessen invested 8 years in research and artwork at his drawing table to show the most authentic atmosphere of Victorian London, hansom cabs, gaslight - with other words: Sherlock Holmes' world - but also the early Mormon settlements at Salt Lake City, Utah.