The Cuckoo's Egg
★★★★☆
In the early days of the internet, one astronomer turned part-time sysadmin uncovers a hacker trying to steal sensitive military information
Fiction or narratives that centre on criminal acts, and especially on the investigation of the crime either by amateur or professional detectives.
Maltese Falcon
★★☆☆☆
Private eye Sam Spade finds himself surrounded by several parties all vying to get hold of a jewel encrusted bird
Crooked House
★★★☆☆
The wealthy Aristide Leonides is dead, poisoned through his medicine. But who has poisoned him?
Tracers in the Dark
★★★☆☆
Relooking at cyber-security and privacy in the insidious world of the dark web
Hallowe'en party
★★★☆☆
A young girl is killed during a hallowe'en party, and Poirot is summoned to investigate
My Sister, The Serial Killer
★★★☆☆
Korede has to juggle her job as a nurse with her love for her murderous sister
The Keeper of Lost Causes
★★★★☆
A police detective is assigned a cold case to keep him occupied, and has breakthroughs using exceptional detecting skills
The Defense
★★★★☆
Eddie Flynn, a former con-artist turned lawyer, is trapped into defending a notorious Russian mobster
A German Requiem
★★★☆☆
The third in the Berlin Noir series; WW2 is done, and Bernie is still trying to eke out a living. He is called to Vienna to investigate a case, but is caught up in the complex interplay between Germans, the Allies, the Red Army and former Nazis in hiding
The Burglar in the Closet
★★★☆☆
Another heist gone wrong, as Bernie is hiding in the closet when a woman is murdered.
The A.B.C. Murders
★★★★★
Poirot tracks a serial killer with a peculiar modus operandi... he murders people in alphabetical order.
The Pale Criminal
★★★☆☆
Tracing a blackmailer leads Bernie Gunther to the trail of a series of missing young girls... and a plot to discredit Jews that goes all the way to the top
March Violets
★★★★★
Bernie Gunther, a private detective in 1930’s Berlin, has to solve the murder of a billionaire’s daughter