• ADAIR, Gilbert:
  • [The Act of Roger Murgatroyd]
  • A Closed Book (B+)
  • The Death of the Author (A)
  • [The Key of the Tower]
• ALEAS, Richard: Little Girl Lost (B)
• AMIS, Martin: Night Train (B-)
• ARNOTT, Jake: The Long Firm (C+)
• AUGUSTO, Edyr: Hornets' Nest (B)
• AXELROD, George: Blackmailer (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:
  • Framed (B)
  • Holy Smoke (B)
• BENNETT, Ronan: Zugzwang (B)
• BREWER, Gil: The Vengeful Virgin (B)
• CAIN, James M.:
  • The Butterfly (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:
  • Death's Dark Abyss (B+)
  • The Goodbye Kiss (B+)
• CAROFIGLIO, Gianrico:
  • Involuntary Witness (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]
• CLAUDEL, Philippe: Grey Souls (US title: By a Slow River) (A-)
• COE, Jonathan: The Dwarves of Death (B)
• CONDON, Richard: The Manchurian Candidate (B)
• DANIELEWSKI, Mark Z.: House of Leaves (B)
• DE SANTIS, Pablo: El calígrafo de Voltaire (B)
• DI FULVIO, Luca: The Mannequin Man (B)
• EDWARDSON, Åke: Sun and Shadow (B-)
• ELLROY, James: American Tabloid (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+)
  • Something Rotten (B+)
  • The Well of Lost Plots (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-)
• HAMILTON, Hugo:
  • Headbanger (B)
  • Sad Bastard (B+)
• HARRIS, Robert:
  • Archangel (B+)
  • The Ghost (B)
• INDRIĐASON, Arnaldur: Jar City (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+)
• JAPRISOT, Sébastien: Trap for Cinderella (B)
• JONCOUR, Serge: UV (B)
• JONQUET, Thierry: Mygale (UK title: Tarantula) (B)
• JUNGERSEN, Christian: The Exception (B+)
• KEENE, Day: Home is the Sailor (B)
• KERR, Philip:
  • Dark Matter (B)
  • The One from the Other (B+)
  • The Second Angel (B-)
• KHADRA, Yasmina:
  • Autumn of the Phantoms (B)
  • Double Blank (B)
• KING, Stephen: The Colorado Kid (B)
• KIRINO Natsuo:
  • Grotesque (B)
  • Out (B)
• KISHI Yusuke: The Crimson Labyrinth (B)
• KITAKATA Kenzo:
  • Ashes (B+)
  • The Cage (B)
• KRABBÉ, Tim:
  • The Cave (B+)
  • The Vanishing (B+)
• KURKOV, Andrey: Death and the Penguin (A-)
• KURZWEIL, Allen: The Grand Complication (B)
• LUCARELLI, Carlo:
  • Carte Blanche (B+)
  • The Damned Season (B+)
• MACDONALD, Hector: The Mind Game (B-)
• 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 Oxford Murders (B+)
• MATHEWS, Adrian: Vienna Blood (B)
• MAZYA, Edna: Love Burns (B)
• MELO, Patricia: In Praise of Lies (B)
• MEYER, Deon:
  • Dead at Daybreak (B+)
  • Dead before Dying (B)
  • Heart of the Hunter (B+)
• MILLER, Wade: Branded Woman (B-)
• MITCHELL, David:
  • Ghostwritten (B)
  • number9dream (B)
• MIYABE Miyuki:
  • All She was Worth (B)
  • Crossfire (B)
  • Shadow Family (B)
• MURAKAMI Ryu: In the Miso Soup (B-)
• NESBØ, Jo: The Redbreast (B+)
• NESSER, Håkan: Borkmann's Point (B)
• NONAMI Asa::
  • The Hunter (B-)
  • Now You're One of Us (B)
• NOORT, Saskia: The Dinner Club (B-)
• OSAWA Arimasa: Shinjuku Shark (C+)
• PADURA FUENTES, Leonardo:
  • Adiós Hemingway (B+)
  • Havana Black (B+)
  • Havana Blue (B+)
  • Havana Red (B+)
• PEACE, David: Tokyo Year Zero (B+)
• PEARS, Iain: The Immaculate Deception (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" (-)
• 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)
  • A Question of Blood (B+)
  • Resurrection Men (B+)
  • Set in Darkness (B+)
  • Tooth and Nail (B+)
• REIG, Rafael: Blood on the Saddle (B)
• ROYLE, Nicholas: Antwerp (B+)
• RUIZ ZAFÓN, Carlos: The Shadow of the Wind (B+)
• SÁNCHEZ PIÑOL, Albert:
  • Cold Skin (B)
  • Pandora in the Congo (B)
• SIMENON, Georges:
  • Red Lights (B+)
  • The Strangers in the House (B+)
  • Three Crimes (B)
• SKVORECKY, Josef: Two Murders in my Double Life (B)
• SOARES, Jô:
  • A Samba for Sherlock (B)
  • Twelve Fingers (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-)
  • Snow Crash (B+)
  • Zodiac (B)
• STOPPARD, Tom: Hapgood (B+)
• SUZUKI Koji:
  • Dark Water (B)
  • Loop (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)
• 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+)
• VIEL, Tanguy: The Absolute Perfection of Crime (B-)
• WANG Shuo: Playing for Thrills (B-)
• WILCKEN, Hugo: The Execution (B-)
• WOOD, Ed:
  • Death of a Transvestite (B)
  • Killer in Drag (C)

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