Category Archives: thrillers

darkly dreaming dexter — jeff lindsay

Dex­ter Mor­gan is, on the out­side a lov­able crea­ture. He is hand­some, well behaved, has a good job as an ana­lyst with the police and has sort of a girl­friend. He could be as nor­mal as a per­son is able to. But he is not. He has a dark side, a very dark side: his Dark Pas­sen­ger. And this pas­sen­ger is a ser­ial killer, with­out emo­tions and feel­ings. But it’s also a picky ser­ial killer because he only kills other mur­der­ers. That’s what Dex­ter been thought by his fos­ter dad Harry, a police­man. Dex­ter has to abide Harry’s rules to keep him­self out of trou­ble and to look as human as he can.
But trou­ble he is in: another ser­ial killer is on the loose and along the way Dex­ter notices the killer is mak­ing it per­sonal, too personal!

a knot garden — geoff nicholson

Richard Wis­den is a tele­vi­sion celebrity. He has his own gar­den shows and is very pop­u­lar. So why would he com­mit sui­cide in a hotel room? A ques­tion Libby Wis­den is des­per­ate to answer. In fact, she doesn’t believe he killed him self, she is con­vinced her late hus­band was mur­dered. Deter­ment and wealthy as she is, she hires dif­fer­ent peo­ple (a detec­tive, doc­tor, pho­tog­ra­pher to name a few) to fig­ure out spe­cific facts and insights con­cern­ing Richard’s death. Not an easy task, because along the way secrets, lies and unknown truths come to light and Richard’s life turns out to be as knot­ted as his gardens.

labyrinth — kate mosse

Alice and Alaïs are two women con­nected through time and secrets. Alice, liv­ing in 2005, finds a cave with two skele­tons in it. How old are these, why are they here and who are they? As soon as she dis­cov­ered them it is obvi­ous they are very impor­tant still to some peo­ple and Alice is now involved in a big web of deceit, crime and a very reli­gious cult full of secrets.
Many cen­turies ear­lier we fol­low Alaïs, a young woman with a free spirit but within walls. All the secrets Alice is strug­gling with start with her and through her eyes we will gather the infor­ma­tion to under­stand the secrets that should have been bur­ried for eternity.

monster — naoki urasawa

Two chil­dren, twins, are brought in the hos­pi­tal after their adop­tive par­ents are bru­tally mur­dered. The girl is in shock, the boy has severe head trauma. Doctor Kenzo Tenma, a Japan­ese man work­ing and liv­ing in Ger­many, saves the life of this young boy called Johan against the wishes of the direc­tor of the hos­pi­tal, and father of his fiancee Eva. Not a smart move in many ways. He dis­cred­its him­self with the direc­tor and with Eva, who lost her inter­est in Kenzo overnight, and sec­ondly, and most impor­tantly, he seems to have saved not just a boy, but a boy that proves to be a Monster.