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From classic whodunits to Nordic noir: discover the most exciting new crime releases in April 2024.
Crime thrillers are popular in Norway at Easter.
In this country too, they are not only popular on these holidays, as the bestseller lists show week after week.
Numerous new crime thrillers are waiting for you with great excitement.
Whether classic whodunit in the style of Agatha Christie, cozy crime to feel good in your favorite place to read, or the somewhat harder novels, which often belong to the Nordic Noir genre.
Here we present you a selection of exciting new releases for April.
April 2024 attracts exciting new crime novels.
We present four titles to you.
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Crime stories in April 2024: Lavie Tidhar “Maror”
Tidhar provides a rich and complex portrait of political scandals, corruption, and crimes at the state and individual levels, which also extends to Israel's global activities.
It is an epic that legitimately evokes comparisons to Balzac and Dickens.
It also deals with morality and realpolitik and represents a kind of scandalous chronicle of Israel, coupled with a dark, sarcastic plea for its right to exist.
It evokes memories of Maror, the bitter herbs on the Seder plate that are meant to be consumed with bitterness according to the Book of Exodus, 12:8.
Israel, 1974-2008.
Two police officers lead us through almost four decades of Israeli history.
Cohen, the puppet master in the background, and Avi Sagi, who cannot resist the corrupting temptations of his job.
This story is the dark history of Israel.
The patriot Cohen only knows one task - to protect his state, even if that means accepting the bitterest realities and acting mercilessly accordingly.
Blurb/Suhrkamp
Lavie Tidhar “Maror”
Translated from English by Conny Lösch
2024 Suhrkamp, ISBN-13 978-3-518-47397-9
Price: Hardcover €22, 600 pages
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New crime novels in April 2024: Achilles “Only death is faster”
Hajo Schumacher and Michael Meisheit are behind “Achilles”.
This should ensure humorous tension.
The setting within the context of the marathon bubble also sounds good and should bring joy not only to everyone who picks up running shoes themselves.
On the publisher's website it says that the book is suitable for all fans of Tommy Jaud ("Complete idiot" and "You should!". Like the marathon itself, the book is expected to be fast-paced. Not just for Berlin fans, Berlin is the perfect place for crime novels, as crime award winner Johannes Groschupf
reveals in an interview with
Ippen.Media .
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Peer Pedes, an investigator at the Berlin LKA, was once a talented marathon runner.
When a hated colleague breaks his old records, his ego limps more than ever and he wants to show everyone his heels again.
He will take part in the Berlin Marathon – and win!
Blurb/Droemer
Achilles (Hajo Schumacher and Michael Meisheit) “Only death is faster”
2024 Droemer, ISBN-13 978-3-426-30964-3
Price: paperback €15.99, e-book €5.99, 400 pages (different format)
Lake Garda crime thriller in April 2024: Carlos Ávila de Borba “Commmissario Conti and greed at the lake”
Not Venice, as with Donna Leon, but Lake Garda provides the backdrop for a new crime novel release in April.
The second volume about Inspector Luca Conti takes you back to Lake Garda.
This time the inspector in Bardolino has to investigate.
For all fans of Italian crime thrillers, the book is worth a closer look.
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In Bardolino the people are in turmoil.
They are demonstrating against a company that wants to build a shopping center and casino on the fillet pieces directly on the lake.
The conflict escalates because the unscrupulous mailbox company goes to great lengths to get the building permit.
Commissario Luca Conti suddenly has to deal with the kidnapping of a judge.
When the community's architect is found murdered, Conti must unravel the web of corruption and greed at the lake.
Once again the trail leads him to Munich...
Blurb/Gmeiner Verlag
Carlos Ávila de Borba “Commmissario Conti and the greed at the lake”
2024 Gmeiner Verlag, ISBN-13 978-3-8392-0566-2
Price: can be pre-ordered, paperback €16, 312 pages
Excitement from Sweden: Tina Frennstedt “Cold Case – The Last Picture”
The fourth volume of the “Cold Case” series ensures high tension from the far north.
As a crime reporter for Swedish television, author Tina Frennstedt is very familiar with all the abysses.
Her crime novels are set in Österlen in southern Sweden.
With “Cold Case – The Missing Girl”), also published by Lübbe, she presented the best debut of 2019 in Sweden.
Photos of young women who have been missing for years appear on the “murderpix” platform.
One shows Jenny Ramsvik in a vehicle on the day she disappeared.
Jenny is one of Commissioner Tess Hjalmarsson's unsolved cases that is close to her heart.
For years she has wanted to be able to tell relatives what happened in order to help them in their grief.
Blurb/Lübbe
Tina Frennstedt “Cold Case – The Last Picture”
Translated from Swedish by Hanna Granz
2024 Lübbe, ISBN-13 978-3-7577-0044-7
Price: can be pre-ordered, paperback €17, 400 pages
“City of Dreams” by Don Winslow will be published in paperback in April 2024.