Island of the Mad
Laurie R. King
"Sherlock Holmes and I stood shoulder to shoulder, gazing down sadly at the tiny charred corpse."
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Sand
Wolfgang Herrndorf, translated by Tim Mohr
" Every single piece of evidence went against him, and the sum of the evidence was a death sentence."
The Pharaoh Key
Preston & Child
"Gideon Crew sat in the fourteenth-floor waiting room of Lewis Conrad, MD, restlessly drumming the tips of his left fingers against the back of his right wrist, waiting to find out whether he would live or die."
Can You Hear Me?
Elena Varvello, Translated by Alex Valente
"In August of 1978, the summer I met Anna Trabuio, my father took a girl into the woods."
The Sword of Justice
Lief G. W. Persson, Translated by Neil Smith
"It was Monday 3 June, but even though it was a Monday and he had been woken in the middle of the night, Detective Superintendent Evert Bäckström would always think of it as the best day of his life. "
The Shadow Killer
Arnaldur Indridason
"The woman who found the body was a widow of around fifty called Ólafía."
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