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After hunting for Easter eggs, there is nothing more exciting than a crime thriller.
We present the best for Easter.
1 / 10Percival Everett “The Trees”: On the shortlist for the Booker Prize 2022. USA, beginning of the 21st century: In the town of Money in the southern states, several men are murdered: mostly fat, stupid and white.
Next to each corpse appears a body bearing the features of Emmett Till, a black boy lynched in 1955.
© Hanser
2 / 10Hubertus Borck “The Clinic” – in the style of Sebastian Fitzek: A bicycle accident, hospital, coma.
When a young father is no longer in acute danger of losing his life, he suddenly dies.
The widow is convinced that he was killed.
Nobody believes her until forensic medicine confirms her suspicions © Rowohlt
3 / 10Patricia Highsmith "Two Strangers on a Train": Two strangers on the New York - Texas train discover and plan the perfect alibi... for two murders.
In a moment of inattention, Guy becomes Bruno's accomplice, taking him down a slippery slope from which there is no holding on, no morality, and no escape.
© Diogenes
4 / 10The classic spy novel “The Spy Who Came in from the Cold” by John le Carré: The British agent Alec Leamas is responsible for East Germany.
Undercover, he switches sides to protect his informants.
He realizes too late that he has become the pawn of an intrigue.
When the woman he loves is in danger, there is a dramatic showdown at the Berlin Wall.
© Ullstein
5 / 10Kurt Palm “The shark in the system”: The teacher Franziska Steinbrenner has finally won the custody battle over her daughter.
The police officer Philip Hoffmann is blackmailed by his ex-lover.
Meanwhile, a man sits in his apartment and seeks revenge.
An assault rifle with 42 bullets in the magazine leans next to him.
Three people whose lives are intertwined.
They don't know each other, but their paths will cross in a fatal way.
© Leykam
6 / 10The founders of the Swedish police crime thriller are a must: “The Dead in the Göta Canal” – A body is recovered from the Göta Canal.
She may have only been lying in the mud of the lock basin for a few days - you can still tell that the young woman was dark-haired and pretty.
According to the autopsy, she was abused before her death.
Crime scene: unknown.
© Rowohlt
7 / 10Michael Robotham “Thy will be done” cannot be missed.
The thriller series about psychotherapist Joe O'Loughlin, who suffers from Parkinson's disease, is more than exciting.
© Goldman
8 / 10Agatha Christie "Alibi - A Case for Poirot": Roger Ackroyd's great love Mrs. Ferrars is said to have murdered her first husband.
Now she is dead herself, having died of an overdose of Veronal.
Was it suicide?
Was she blackmailed?
In the newspaper, Ackroyd finds a final clue to the circumstances of her death.
But before he can share his knowledge, he is murdered.
© Atlantic Publishing
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9 / 10 “Verblendeung” is the start of Stieg Larsson's magnificent trilogy: What happened to Harriet Vanger?
Disappeared without a trace during a family reunion, her fate remains unknown for decades.
Until the journalist Mikael Blomkvist and the investigator Lisbeth Salander investigate on behalf of the uncle.
© Heyne
10 / 10Blood Moon by Jo Nesbø is his best Harry Hole crime novel to date.
Harry Hole has burned all his bridges behind him.
In Los Angeles, he is one of the countless stranded people who almost drinks himself to death.
Two young women are murdered in Oslo at the same time.
Inspector Katrine Bratt requests Harry Hole in vain because no one in the police is interested in the specialist in series of murders anymore.
© Ullstein
For many people, nothing is more relaxing than a crime thriller.
After work or on the weekend, track down evil and hunt down perpetrators.
Crime novels have been popular at Easter for years, especially in Norway.
In 2021, for example, two crime novels were in the top 5 annual book sales, including Sebastian Fitzek with “Playlist” and David Safier with “Miss Merkel: Murder in the Uckermark”.
For fans of thrillers and crime novels, we have put together exciting titles, including new books and classic recommendations.