• ADAIR, Gilbert:
  • [The Act of Roger Murgatroyd]
  • A Closed Book (B+)
  • The Death of the Author (A)
  • [The Key of the Tower]
• ADLER-OLSEN, Jussi:
  • Disgrace (US title: The Absent One) (B)
  • Mercy (US title: The Keeper of Lost Causes) (B+)
  • Redemption (US title: A Conspiracy of Faith) (B)
• ALEAS, Richard:
  • Little Girl Lost (B)
  • Songs of Innocence (B+)
• AMIS, Martin: Night Train (B-)
• AMPUERO, Roberto: The Neruda Case (B)
• ARAI Akira: A Caring Man (C)
• ARDAI, Charles:
  • Fifty-to-One (B+)
  • Little Girl Lost (B) (as Richard Aleas)
  • Songs of Innocence (B+) (as Richard Aleas)
• ARNOTT, Jake: The Long Firm (C+)
• AUGUSTO, Edyr: Hornets' Nest (B)
• AXELROD, George: Blackmailer (B)
• AYKOL, Esmahan: Hotel Bosphorus (B)
• BANKS, Iain: The Business (B)
• BARDIN, John Franklin:
  • The Deadly Percheron (B+)
  • Devil Take the Blue-Tail Fly (B+)
  • The Last of Philip Banter (B+)
• BENACQUISTA, Tonino:
  • Badfellas (B) (US title: Malavita)
  • Framed (B)
  • Holy Smoke (B)
• BENNETT, Ronan: Zugzwang (B)
• [BERRY, Jedediah: The Manual of Detection]
• BIOY CASARES, Adolfo: Where There's Love, There's Hate (B+) (with Silvina Ocampo)
• BIZZIO, Sergio: Rage (B)
• BLOCH, Robert:
  • Shooting Star (B)
  • Spiderweb (B+)
• BOILEAU-NARCEJAC: Vertigo (B+) (also published as: The Living and the Dead)
• BREWER, Gil: The Vengeful Virgin (B)
• CAIN, James M.:
  • The Butterfly (B-)
  • The Cocktail Waitress (B)
  • Double Indemnity (A)
  • Love's Lovely Counterfeit (B+)
  • Mildred Pierce (B)
  • The Postman always Rings Twice (A-)
  • Serenade (B)
  • Sinful Woman (B)
• [CAPPELLANI, Ottavio: Who is Lou Sciortino ?]
• CARLOTTO, Massimo:
  • At the End of a Dull Day (B+)
  • Bandit Love (B)
  • Death's Dark Abyss (B+)
  • The Goodbye Kiss (B+)
• CAROFIGLIO, Gianrico:
  • Involuntary Witness (B)
  • The Past is a Foreign Country (B-)
  • Reasonable Doubts (B)
  • Temporary Perfections (B)
  • A Walk in the Dark (B)
• CARTER, Stephen L.: The Emperor of Ocean Park (B)
• CHANDRA, Vikram: Sacred Games (B+)
• CHAVARRÍA, Daniel:
  • Adios Muchachos (B+)
  • [Tango for a Torturer]
• CHESSEX, Jacques: The Vampire of Ropraz (B+)
• CHURCH, James: A Corpse in the Koryo (B)
• CLAUDEL, Philippe: Grey Souls (US title: By a Slow River) (A-)
• COE, Jonathan: The Dwarves of Death (B)
• COLLINS, Max Allan: Seduction of the Innocent (B)
• CONDON, Richard: The Manchurian Candidate (B)
• CONRAD, Patrick: No Sale (B)
• DAENINCKX, Didier:
  • A Very Profitable War (B)
  • Murder in Memoriam (B)
• DAHL, Arne: Misterioso (B-)
• DANIELEWSKI, Mark Z.: House of Leaves (B)
• DAVYS, Tim: Amberville (B-)
• DENT, Lester: Honey in his Mouth (B)
• DE SANTIS, Pablo:
  • The Paris Enigma (B)
  • La traducción (B)
  • Voltaire's Calligrapher (B)
• DI FULVIO, Luca: The Mannequin Man (B)
• DRVENKAR, Zoran: Sorry (C)
• DUNCAN, Lois: I Know What You Did Last Summer (B-)
• EDOGAWA Rampo: The Fiend with Twenty Faces (B)
• EDWARDSON, Åke: Sun and Shadow (B-)
• ELLROY, James: American Tabloid (C+)
• FALETTI, Giorgio: I Kill (C-)
• FEARING, Kenneth: The Big Clock (B+)
• FERIĆ, Zoran: The Death of the Little Match Girl (B+)
• FFORDE, Jasper:
  • The Big Over Easy (B+)
  • The Eyre Affair (B+)
  • The Fourth Bear (B+)
  • First Among Sequels (B+)
  • Lost in a Good Book (B+)
  • One of Our Thursdays is Missing (B)
  • Something Rotten (B+)
  • The Well of Lost Plots (B+)
  • The Woman who Died a Lot (B+)
• FISCHER, Tibor: The Thought Gang (A)
• FRAYN, Michael:
  • Celia's Secret (US title: The Copenhagen Papers) (B+)
  • Headlong (A-)
  • Spies (B+)
• GHOSH, Amitav: The Calcutta Chromosome (B)
• GLAVINIC Thomas: Der Kameramörder (B+)
• GÓMEZ-JURADO, Juan: God's Spy (C-)
• HAAS, Wolf:
  • Auferstehung der Toten (B+)
  • Das ewige Leben (B+)
  • Der Knochenmann (B)
  • Komm, süßer Tod (B)
  • Silentium ! (B)
  • Wie die Tiere (B)
• HAGHENBECK, F.G.: Bitter Drink (B)
• HAMDOUCHI, Abdelilah: The Final Bet (B)
• HAMILTON, Hugo:
  • Headbanger (B)
  • Sad Bastard (B+)
• HARRIS, Robert:
  • Archangel (B+)
  • The Ghost (B)
• HIGASHINO Keigo: The Devotion of Suspect X (B-)
• INDRIĐASON, Arnaldur:
  • Jar City (B+)
  • Voices (B)
• ISAKA Kotaro: Remote Control (B)
• ISHIGURO, Kazuo: When we were Orphans (B+)
• IZZO, Jean-Claude:
  • Chourmo (B)
  • Solea (B)
  • Total Chaos (B+)
• JAMES, P.D.:
  • Death in Holy Orders (A-)
  • The Lighthouse (B+)
  • The Murder Room (B+)
  • The Private Patient (B+)
• JAPRISOT, Sébastien: Trap for Cinderella (B)
• JOLY, Eva: The Eyes of Lira Kazan (B), with Judith Perrignon
• JONCOUR, Serge: UV (B)
• JONQUET, Thierry: Mygale (UK title: Tarantula) (B)
• JUNGERSEN, Christian: The Exception (B+)
• KEENE, Day: Home is the Sailor (B)
• KEPLER, Lars:
  • The Hypnotist (B-)
  • The Nightmare (B)
• KERR, Philip:
  • Dark Matter (B)
  • If the Dead Rise Not (B+)
  • The One from the Other (B+)
  • A Quiet Flame (B)
  • The Second Angel (B-)
• KHADRA, Yasmina:
  • Autumn of the Phantoms (B)
  • Dead Man's Share (B+)
  • Double Blank (B)
• KING, Stephen:
  • The Colorado Kid (B)
  • Joyland (B)
• KIRINO Natsuo:
  • Grotesque (B)
  • Out (B)
  • Real World (B-)
• KISHI Yusuke: The Crimson Labyrinth (B)
• KITAKATA Kenzo:
  • Ashes (B+)
  • The Cage (B)
• KRABBÉ, Tim:
  • The Cave (B+)
  • The Vanishing (B+)
• KRAJEWSKI, Marek: The End of the World in Breslau (B)
• KURKOV, Andrey:
  • The Case of the General's Thumb (B)
  • Death and the Penguin (A-)
• KURZWEIL, Allen: The Grand Complication (B)
• LÄCKBERG, Camilla: The Ice Princess (B)
• LAPIDUS, Jens: Easy Money (B-)
• LARSSON, Åsa: The Black Path (B)
• LARSSON, Stieg:
  • The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest (B)
  • The Girl who Played with Fire (B)
  • The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (B+)
• LINDSAY, Jeff:
  • Darkly Dreaming Dexter (B)
  • Dearly Devoted Dexter (B)
  • Dexter by Design (B)
  • Dexter in the Dark (C+)
  • Dexter is Delicious (B)
  • Double Dexter (B)
• LINK, Charlotte: Die Täuschung (B-)
• LUCARELLI, Carlo:
  • Almost Blue (B+)
  • Carte Blanche (B+)
  • The Damned Season (B+)
• MACDONALD, Hector: The Mind Game (B-)
• MALLO, Ernesto:
  • Needle in a Haystack (B+)
  • Sweet Money (B)
• MANCHETTE, Jean-Patrick:
  • Fatale (B)
  • The Prone Gunman (B)
  • Three To Kill (B+)
• MARANI, Diego: The Last of the Vostyachs (A)
• MARGWELASCHWILI, Giwi: Officer Pembry (B+)
• MARKARIS, Petros:
  • Deadline in Athens (UK title: The Late-night News) (B)
  • Zone Defence (B)
• MARKSON, David:
  • Epitaph for a Dead Beat (B+)
  • Epitaph for a Tramp (A-)
• MARTÍNEZ, Guillermo:
  • The Book of Murder (B)
  • The Oxford Murders (B+)
• MATHEWS, Adrian: Vienna Blood (B)
• MAZYA, Edna: Love Burns (B)
• MELO, Patricia: In Praise of Lies (B)
• MEYER, Deon:
  • Blood Safari (B)
  • Dead at Daybreak (B+)
  • Dead before Dying (B)
  • Devil's Peak (B+)
  • Heart of the Hunter (B+)
  • Seven Days (B+)
  • Thirteen Hours (B)
  • Trackers (A-)
• MILLER, Wade: Branded Woman (B-)
• MIŁOSZEWSKI, Zygmunt: Entanglement (B)
• MITCHELL, David:
  • Ghostwritten (B)
  • number9dream (B)
• MIYABE Miyuki:
  • All She was Worth (B)
  • Crossfire (B)
  • The Devil's Whisper (B)
  • Shadow Family (B)
  • The Sleeping Dragon (B)
• MONTERO, Rosa: Tears in Rain (B-)
• MOROZZI, Gianluca: Blackout (B)
• MURAKAMI Ryu: In the Miso Soup (B-)
• NAKAMURA Fuminori:
  • Evil and the Mask (B)
  • The Thief (A-)
• NESBØ, Jo:
  • The Devil's Star (B)
  • Headhunters (B)
  • The Leopard (B+)
  • Nemesis (B)
  • The Redbreast (B+)
  • The Snowman (B)
• NESSER, Håkan: Borkmann's Point (B)
• NEUHAUS, Nele: Snow White must Die (B)
• NONAMI Asa:
  • The Hunter (B-)
  • Now You're One of Us (B)
• NOORT, Saskia: The Dinner Club (B-)
• NYKÄNEN, Harri: Nights of Awe (B)
• OSAWA Arimasa: Shinjuku Shark (C+)
• PADURA FUENTES, Leonardo:
  • Adiós Hemingway (B+)
  • Havana Black (B+)
  • Havana Blue (B+)
  • [Havana Fever]
  • Havana Gold (B)
  • Havana Red (B+)
• PARKES, Nii Ayikwei: Tail of the Blue Bird (B)
• PATHAK, Surender Mohan: The 65 Lakh Heist (B)
• PEACE, David: Tokyo Year Zero (B+)
• PEARS, Iain:
  • The Immaculate Deception (B)
  • Stone's Fall (B)
• PENNAC, Daniel:
  • Monsieur Malaussène (B)
  • Passion Fruit (B)
  • The Scapegoat (B)
  • Write to Kill (B+)
• PEPETELA: Jaime Bunda, Agente Secreto (B)
• PEREC, Georges: "53 Days" (-)
• PERSSON, Leif GW:
  • Another Time, Another Life (A-)
  • Between Summer's Longing and Winter's End (B)
• PIÑEIRO, Claudia:
  • All Yours (B)
  • Thursday Night Widows (B)
• POSADAS, Carmen: Child's Play (B-)
• RANKIN, Ian:
  • Black and Blue (B+)
  • Dead Souls (B+)
  • The Falls (B)
  • Fleshmarket Close (US title: Fleshmarket Alley) (B+)
  • A Good Hanging (B)
  • The Hanging Garden (B+)
  • Hide and Seek (B)
  • Knots and Crosses (B)
  • Let it Bleed (B+)
  • Mortal Causes (B)
  • The Naming of the Dead (B+)
  • A Question of Blood (B+)
  • Resurrection Men (B+)
  • Set in Darkness (B+)
  • Tooth and Nail (B+)
• REIG, Rafael:
  • Blood on the Saddle (B)
  • A Pretty Face (B)
• REJTŐ Jenő: Quarantine in the Grand Hotel (B)
• ROHMER, Sax: The Mystery of Dr. Fu-Manchu (B-)
• RONCAGLIOLO, Santiago: Red April (B)
• ROSLUND, Anders (with Börge Hellström):
  • Box 21 (B)
  • Three Seconds (B)
• ROYLE, Nicholas: Antwerp (B+)
• RUIZ ZAFÓN, Carlos: The Shadow of the Wind (B+)
• RUSSINOVICH, Mark: Zero Day (B-)
• SAER, Juan José: The Investigation (B+)
• SÁNCHEZ PIÑOL, Albert:
  • Cold Skin (B)
  • Pandora in the Congo (B)
• SCERBANENCO, Giorgio: A Private Venus (B+)
• SCHENKEL, Andrea Maria: The Murder Farm (B)
• SERNA, Enrique: Fear of Animals (B-)
• SIMENON, Georges:
  • The Engagement (B+)
  • Red Lights (B+)
  • The Strangers in the House (B+)
  • Three Crimes (B)
• SINIAC, Pierre: The Collaborators (B)
• SJÖWALL, Maj:
  • The Man who went up in Smoke (B) (with Per Wahlöö)
  • Roseanna (B+) (with Per Wahlöö)
• SKVORECKY, Josef: Two Murders in my Double Life (B)
• SOARES, Jô:
  • A Samba for Sherlock (B)
  • Twelve Fingers (B)
• SOLANA, Teresa:
  • A Not So Perfect Crime (B)
  • A Shortcut to Paradise (B)
  • The Sound of One Hand Killing (B)
• SOMER, Mehmet Murat: The Prophet Murders (B)
• SOMOZA, José Carlos:
  • The Art of Murder (B)
  • The Athenian Murders (B)
  • La dama número trece (B-)
  • Zig Zag (C+)
• SPARK, Muriel: Aiding and Abetting (B+)
• STANSBERRY, Domenic: The Confession (B+)
• STEPHENSON, Neal:
  • Cryptonomicon (A-)
  • Reamde (B+)
  • Snow Crash (B+)
  • Zodiac (B)
• STOPPARD, Tom: Hapgood (B+)
• SUZUKI Koji:
  • Dark Water (B)
  • Loop (B-)
  • Promenade of the Gods (B-)
  • Ring (B)
  • Spiral (B-)
• TABUCCHI, Antonio: The Missing Head of Damasceno Monteiro (A-)
• TAKAMI Koushun: Battle Royale (B)
• TAYLOR, Andrew: The American Boy (B+) (US title: An Unpardonable Crime)
• TAYLOR, Chad: Departure Lounge (B)
• TEMPLE, Peter: Truth (B+)
• DEN TEX, Charles: De macht van meneer Miller (B-)
• THILLIEZ, Franck: Syndrome E (C+)
• THOMAS, Scarlett: Dead Clever (B)
• TODOROV, Vladimir: Zift (B)
• TRIGELL, Jonathan: Cham (B)
• TUROW, Scott: Reversible Errors (B)
• VARGAS, Fred: Have Mercy on Us All (B)
• VERISSIMO, Luis Fernando:
  • Borges and the Eternal Orangutans (B+)
  • The Club of Angels (B)
  • O Opositor (B+)
• VIAN, Boris:
  • The Dead All Have the Same Skin (C+)
  • I Spit on Your Graves (B)
  • To Hell with the Ugly (B-)
• VIEL, Tanguy:
  • The Absolute Perfection of Crime (B-)
  • Beyond Suspicion (B)
• WALLENTIN, Jan: Strindberg's Star (C-)
• WANG Shuo: Playing for Thrills (B-)
• WESTLAKE, Donald E.: Memory (A-)
• WILCKEN, Hugo: The Execution (B-)
• WINTER, Ariel S.: The Twenty-Year Death (B+)
• WOOD, Ed:
  • Death of a Transvestite (B)
  • Killer in Drag (C)
• YOSHIDA Shuichi: Villain (B-)

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