Top 5 Crime Fiction and Thrillers by Women
Created: 01/28/2022, 05:55
By: Jessica Bradley
The most exciting women's detectives and thrillers © Bernd Jürgens via www.imago-images.de
Suspense fiction is a male domain, but there are also women who write crime fiction as well as gripping thrillers.
I present 5 book tips today.
Women are
usually underestimated in
crime
and
thriller genres.
There are countless female authors who know their craft.
International, classic and modern, that's how they write novels of equal standing.
My five
book tips
for exciting afternoons.
Ann Cleeve's "Night of the Ravens"
Cover of "The Night of the Ravens" by Ann Cleeves © Rowohlt Verlag
Winter in the Shetland Islands.
When Fran Hunter finds the body of the sixteen year old, the village idyll is gone.
A culprit is quickly found.
The police arrest Magnus Tait, a shy oddball.
But then, during the Viking festival, Fran's little daughter Cassie disappears.
On the sofa was an open book, a paperback edition of Robert Frost's poems, probably school reading.
Excerpt from Ann Cleeve's "Night of the Ravens"
Ann Cleeves is a British author.
"The Night of the Ravens" is the first volume in the eight-part Shetland series.
In 2016, the novel was filmed by ARD.
Ann Cleeve's "Night of the Ravens"
Published in 2007 by Rowohlt Verlag, ISBN 978-3-499-24477-3
Price: paperback €8.95, number of pages 427
Nele Neuhaus "Snow White Must Die"
Cover "Snow White Must Die" by Nele Neuhaus © List/Ullstein Verlag
On a gloomy November day, construction workers find a human skeleton at the disused airfield in Eschborn, only a short time later a woman is pushed off a bridge onto the street.
The investigations lead Pia Kirchhoff and Oliver von Bodenstein into the past: many years ago, two girls disappeared in the small Taunus town of Altenhain.
A circumstantial process put the alleged perpetrator behind bars.
Now he has returned to his hometown.
When another girl goes missing, a witch hunt begins.
His former teacher had characterized him as a very good, ambitious student, to whom everything came easily, but who was also able to learn in an incredibly disciplined manner.
Excerpt from Nele Neuhaus "Snow White Must Die"
Nele Neuhaus' first books were self-published until 2008 when Ullstein Verlag discovered them.
She doesn't just write thrillers.
The author also publishes books for young people under her maiden name Nele Löwenburg.
Nele Neuhaus "Snow White Must Die"
Published in 2010 by Ullstein Verlag, ISBN 978-3-548-60982-9
Price: paperback 12€, number of pages 534
Carla Berling "Murder Chapel"
Cover of the crime novel "Mordkapelle" by Carla Berling © Heyne Verlag
On a picturesque summer evening, the cemetery chapel burns down.
When the local reporter Ira Wittekind arrives at the scene of the crime, she finds a gruesome scenario: in the ruins there is a wheelchair in front of the altar, the man in it is dead. It is the respected pharmacist Ludwig Hahnwald.
known to all as the beautiful Ludwig.
Ira Wittekind begins to research.
In doing so, she encounters a horrible injustice that was committed many years ago and was never avenged.
Elfie Schlueter has worked in the pharmacy for over twenty years.
When the conversation turned to Ludwig Hahnwald, she began to sob.
Excerpt from Carla Berling "Murder Chapel"
Carla Berling's career also began as a self-publisher.
She was so successful with her Ira Wittekind series that Heyne bought the books and is now re-publishing them.
Carla Berling also writes humorous books and gives dinner readings.
Carla Berling "Murder Chapel"
Published in 2017 by Heyne Verlag, ISBN 978-3-453-41996-4
Price: paperback €9.99, number of pages 399
Agatha Christie "Death in the Clouds" - A Hercule Poirot Novel
Agatha Christie © Lluís Real via www.imago-images.
Hercule Poirot hates flying.
Especially not with a body on board.
It takes his little brain cells to figure out how Marie Morisot died high above the clouds.
The master detective has the choice between a wasp and a blowpipe... But Poirot is only really amazed when he realizes why the lady had to believe it...
"Monsieur Poirot, do you mean to say that looking through this list has led you to the murderer?"
Excerpt from Agatha Christie's "Death in the Clouds"
Probably the most famous crime writer of the 19th century.
Whether with her character Hercule Poirot or Miss Marple, Agatha Christie is an integral part of the genre for most Kirmile readers.
Agatha Christie "Death in the Clouds"
Classic, published in 1937 - there are several translations and different editions
Karin Slaughter "Dead Eyes"
Cover of the thriller "Dead Eyes" by Karin Slaughter © Blanvalet Verlag
In the emergency room at Grady Hospital, Sara Linton has to attend to a young woman who was first tortured and abused - and then, apparently while fleeing her peniger, was hit by a car.
Even investigator Will Trent gasped at the violence the young woman was subjected to.
Visiting the scene of the accident, he finds a torture chamber deep underground... and the tracks of a second victim.
"Because people are assholes," Mary replied.
"Some people are just goddamn assholes."
Excerpt from Karin Slaughter's "Dead Eyes"
Karin Slaughter landed directly on the bestseller lists with her debut "Belladonna" in 2001.
Since then, the American thriller author has written one exciting novel after the other.
Sether has published a total of 14 books.
Karin Slaughter "Dead Eyes"
Published in 2013 by Blanvalet Verlag, ISBN 978-3-442-37478-6
Price: paperback €9.99, number of pages: 588
