Books like King of the Rainy Country
Van der Valk, the Amsterdam police inspector, is asked to find a rich industrialist who has walked out of his life, and follows his trail across Europe.
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The Laughing Policeman
On a rainy November night in Stockholm, a gunman kills eight people on a city bus, among them a young detective from Martin Beck's squad.
Resurrection Men
John Rebus, sent back to police college after throwing a mug of tea at his boss, joins a team of washed-up detectives, and is secretly told to spy on them.
Dance Hall of the Dead
A Zuni boy is murdered and his Navajo friend vanishes, and Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn of the Navajo Tribal Police goes into the desert to find him before the killer does.
Faceless Killers
In the first Wallander novel, Inspector Kurt Wallander investigates the brutal killing of an elderly farming couple in rural Sweden, and a dying word sets off a wave of anti-immigrant violence.
Gone
DI Jack Caffery investigates a carjacking in Bristol in which an eleven-year-old girl was in the back seat, and the thief has done it before.
The Wench Is Dead
Laid up in an Oxford hospital with a bleeding ulcer, Chief Inspector Morse reads an old account of the 1859 murder of Joanna Franks on the Oxford Canal, for which two boatmen were hanged, and sets out to solve it again from his bed.
Jar City
An old man is found battered to death in his basement flat in Reykjavík, with a note on the body that reads 'I am him', and Inspector Erlendur, finding no motive, starts digging into the dead man's past.
Ratking
Aurelio Zen, a Rome police official parked in a dead-end job, is sent to Perugia to take over the kidnapping of Ruggiero Miletti, a powerful industrialist whose family seems in no hurry to get him back.
The Crow Trap
Rachael Lambert arrives at a remote cottage in the North Pennines to lead an environmental survey and finds her friend Bella, the farmer next door, dead in her barn. Two more women join the survey, and Inspector Vera Stanhope comes to ask questions.
Gorky Park
Three bodies are found frozen under the snow in Moscow's Gorky Park, their faces and fingertips cut away, and Arkady Renko, chief homicide investigator of the Moscow militia, suspects the case is one the KGB would rather he dropped.
Raven Black
On New Year's Eve in Shetland two teenage girls knock on the door of Magnus Tait, an old loner long suspected over a girl who vanished years ago. Days later one of them is found strangled in the snow, and Inspector Jimmy Perez takes the case.
The Steam Pig
In Trekkersburg, a town in apartheid South Africa, a mortuary mix-up shows that Theresa le Roux, a young white piano teacher, did not die naturally, and Lieutenant Tromp Kramer and his Zulu colleague Sergeant Mickey Zondi set out to learn why.