
Spannende Leseproben über Verbrechen und deren HintergründeSie mögen Nervenkitzel? Gänsehaut im Lesesessel? Eiskalte Spannung im Kerzenschein? Dann entdecken Sie jetzt dunkle Geheimnisse und ungesühnte Verbrechen! Begegnen Sie charmanten Serienkillern zwischen True Crime und Fiction. Lesen Sie rein! Alle Leseproben zum Crime Day 2021 Bernhard Aichner, Jan Beck, Alex Beer, Christa von Bernuth, Cilla, Rolf & Molly Börjlind, Claire Douglas, Karsten Dusse, Horst Eckert, Marc Elsberg, Lucy Foley, Ragnar Jónasson, Charlotte Link, Karen M. McManus, Håkan Nesser und Alex Pohl.
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Hi, and thanks for stopping by my Goodreads page! I don't visit this site often, so the best way to reach me is via my website at www.karenmcmanus.com, or on Twitter/Instagram, where I'm @writerkmc. ——— Karen M. McManus is a #1 New York Times and international bestselling author of young adult thrillers. Her work includes the One of Us Is Lying series, which was turned into a television show on Peacock and Netflix, as well as the standalone novels Two Can Keep a Secret, The Cousins, You’ll Be the Death of Me, and Nothing More to Tell. Karen's critically acclaimed, award-winning books have been translated into forty-two languages and have sold more than seven million copies worldwide. To learn more, visit www.karenmcmanus.com or @writerkmc on Twitter and Instagram.

Ragnar Jonasson is author of the award winning and international bestselling Dark Iceland series. His debut Snowblind, first in the Dark Iceland series, went to number one in the Amazon Kindle charts shortly after publication. The book was also a no. 1 Amazon Kindle bestseller in Australia. Snowblind has been a paperback bestseller in France. Nightblind won the Dead Good Reader Award 2016 for Most Captivating Crime in Translation. Snowblind was called a "classically crafted whodunit" by THE NEW YORK TIMES, and it was selected by The Independent as one of the best crime novels of 2015 in the UK. Rights to the Dark Iceland series have been sold to UK, USA, France, Germany, Italy, Canada, Australia, Poland, Turkey, South Korea, Japan, Morocco, Portugal, Croatia, Armenia and Iceland. Ragnar was born in Reykjavik, Iceland, where he works as a writer and a lawyer. He also teaches copyright law at Reykjavik University and has previously worked on radio and television, including as a TV-news reporter for the Icelandic National Broadcasting Service. He is also the co-founder of the Reykjavik international crime writing festival Iceland Noir. From the age of 17, Ragnar translated 14 Agatha Christie novels into Icelandic. Ragnar has also had short stories published internationally, including in the distinguished Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine in the US, the first stories by an Icelandic author in that magazine. He has appeared on festival panels worldwide, and lives in Reykjavik.



Claire Douglas always wanted to write novels and, after many years of trying to get published, her dream came true when she won the Marie Claire Debut Novel Award in 2013 with THE SISTERS. Her second and third novels, LOCAL GIRL MISSING and LAST SEEN ALIVE (Penguin), are Sunday Times bestsellers.


English Charlotte Link (born 5 October 1963 in Frankfurt am Main) is a German writer. She is among the most successful contemporary authors writing in German. Charlotte Link is the daughter of a well-known German writer and journalist, Almuth Link. She wrote her first work, Die schöne Helena when she was just 16 years old and published it at the age of 19. She is known as much for novels about contemporary life as for psychological detective novels in the English manner. The books Sturmzeit, Wilde Lupinen and Die Stunde der Erben form a trilogy. These, among others, have been filmed for TV series for the German television station ZDF. Her novel, Am Ende des Schweigens was nominated in 2004 for the Fiction category of the Deutsche Bücherpreis (German Book Prize), while her book Die Rosenzüchterin, published in 2000, remained for several weeks at the top of the Spiegel Bestseller list. Charlotte Link now lives with her partner and dog in Wiesbaden. She is an active member of PETA and works for the street dogs of Turkey and Spain. Deutsch Charlotte Link (* 5. Oktober 1963 in Frankfurt am Main) ist eine deutsche Schriftstellerin. Sie gehört zu den erfolgreichsten deutschen Autorinnen der Gegenwart Charlotte Link wurde 1963 als Tochter der Autorin Almuth Link in Frankfurt am Main geboren. Ihr Abitur legte sie an der Christian-Wirth-Schule in Usingen ab. Weniger aus Familientradition - ihr Vater war Richter am Oberlandesgericht - vielmehr weil sie gegen Unrecht an Tieren vorgehen wollte, studierte sie sechs Semester lang Jura an der Universität Frankfurt.[1] Sie wechselte aber 1986 nach München zu den Fächern Geschichte und Literaturwissenschaft, die ihre literarische Arbeit unterfütterten.[1] An ihrem Erstlingswerk Die schöne Helena begann sie bereits mit 16 Jahren zu schreiben, sie konnte es dann mit 19 Jahren veröffentlichen.[2] Sie wurde sowohl mit Gesellschaftsromanen als auch mit psychologischen Spannungsromanen in englischer Erzähltradition bekannt. Die Titel Sturmzeit, Wilde Lupinen und Die Stunde der Erben sind eine Trilogie, die neben anderen Werken vom ZDF für das Fernsehen in dem Fünfteiler Sturmzeit verfilmt wurde. Der Roman Am Ende des Schweigens wurde 2004 in der Kategorie Belletristik für den Deutschen Bücherpreis nominiert, ihr 2000 erschienener Roman Die Rosenzüchterin führte mehrere Wochen die Spiegel-Bestsellerliste an. Die Gesamtauflage ihrer Romane liegt bei über 20 Millionen. 2014 erschien ihr Buch über die letzten Jahre ihrer an Krebs erkrankten Schwester Franziska, die sie während ihrer Krankheit begleitete. Charlotte Link lebt zurzeit mit ihrem Lebensgefährten in Wiesbaden. Als aktive Tierschützerin engagiert sie sich für PETA und die Straßenhunde der Türkei und Spaniens

I live in London, but love traveling - both in real life and on the page (hence the appearance of some far flung locations in my writing). My latest novel is The Invitation - set in the film world of the 1950s, along the Italian Riviera. My debut novel, The Book of Lost & Found, published in early 2015. You can find my Facebook page here: https://www.facebook.com/LucyFoleyAuthor and follow me on Twitter as: @lucyfoleytweets

Håkan Nesser is a Swedish author and teacher who has written a number of successful crime fiction novels. He has won Best Swedish Crime Novel Award three times, and his novel Carambole won the Glass Key award in 2000. His books have been translated from Swedish into numerous languages. Håkan Nesser was born and grew up in Kumla, and has lived most of his adult life in Uppsala. His first novel was published in 1988, but he worked as a teacher until 1998 when he became a full-time author. In August, 2006, Håkan Nesser and his wife Elke moved to Greenwich Village in New York. Series: * Inspector Van Veeteren * Inspector Barbarotti


