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An undercover detective takes the identity of a dead woman and infiltrates a group of friends, only to find herself becoming the person she's impersonating.
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The Searcher
Cal Hooper, a retired Chicago detective, buys a cottage in a remote Irish village for a quiet life, until a local kid asks him to find out what happened to a missing brother.
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.
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.
Mystic River
Three childhood friends in Boston are reunited by the murder of one of their daughters, and the investigation reopens wounds from a trauma they shared as boys.
Mr. Mercedes
Bill Hodges, a retired detective drifting through empty days, gets a gloating letter from the unknown man who drove a stolen Mercedes into a crowd of job seekers, and starts hunting him with a teenage neighbour and an unlikely ally.
The Guest List
On a remote island off the west coast of Ireland, guests gather for the wedding of a television star and a magazine publisher, and as a storm rolls in, old grudges surface and one of them is found dead.
Knots and Crosses
Detective Sergeant John Rebus, a former soldier, is drawn into the hunt for a killer of young girls in Edinburgh who has been sending him anonymous letters with knotted string and crosses.
The Scapegoat
An Englishman meets his French doppelgänger in a provincial railway bar, and wakes up having been forced to take over the stranger's life.
The Cold Cold Ground
In 1981, with Belfast rioting over the hunger strikes, Sergeant Sean Duffy, a Catholic in the mostly Protestant Royal Ulster Constabulary, is sent to a killing that looks paramilitary but may be the work of a serial killer.
The Cloisters
Ann Stilwell, fresh from a small college in Washington State, takes a summer job at The Cloisters, the Met's museum of medieval art in New York, where a curator and his assistant are researching the history of tarot.
Memory Man
A brutal hit on his first NFL play left Amos Decker unable to forget anything; sixteen months after finding his wife and daughter murdered, broke and adrift in his Ohio hometown, he learns that a man has walked into the police station and confessed.
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.