
The calls go unanswered because their recipients are all dead. Three cell phones ring in an opulent London apartment. Cruel is the Night by by Karo Hämäläinen, translated by Owen Witesman Or so it seems. Police Detective Kyoichiro Kaga investigates and finds himself caught in a tale of cat and mouse. His body is found in his office, a locked room, within his locked house, by his wife and his best friend, both of whom have rock solid alibis. Malice: A Mystery by Keigo HigashinoĪcclaimed bestselling novelist Kunihiko Hidaka is found brutally murdered in his home on the night before he’s planning to leave Japan. Accompanied by his sidekick, baby elephant Ganesha, Chopra navigates his way through the palatial Grand Raj Palace, a journey that leads him steadily to a killer. Inspector Chopra is called in and discovers a hotel full of people with a reason to want Burbank dead. But the man in charge of the investigation is not so sure. When American billionaire Hollis Burbank is found dead at Mumbai’s grandest hotel, the authorities are keen to label it a suicide. Murder at the Grand Raj Palace by Vaseem Khan The Last by Hanna Jamesonįor fans of high-concept thrillers, this breathtaking dystopian psychological thriller follows an American academic stranded at a Swiss hotel-along with 20 other survivors-as the world descends into nuclear war, who becomes obsessed with identifying a murderer in their midst after the body of a young girl is discovered in one of the hotel’s water tanks. And strange accidents keep them suspicious of each other, as one by one they all fall down. Sporadic cell-phone coverage and miles of ocean keeps the group trapped in paradise. Danger lurks in the lush forest and in the halls and bedrooms of the lonely mansion.
