This book is the latest in The Worst Detective Ever series.
At the center of the series is actress Joey Darling. Famous for playing a television detective, Joey is taking a pause from Hollywood fame following a disastrous and public divorce. She takes refuge in the Outer Banks, North Carolina, and the last thing she expects is to find herself caught up in solving a crime. She’s not a real detective; she just plays one on TV. And yet, in each book in the series, Joey always finds herself caught up in a case, not to mention caught up in the arms of… no spoilers!
I love this series because it is whimsical. If you want a good laugh, this series is precisely the lighthearted romp you’re looking for.
I love a good detective story, and this is a great detective story. Pia Kirchhoff and Oliver von Bodenstein are detectives in the Hofheim regional police department near Frankfurt, Germany.
Their case begins with the murder of a Holocaust survivor. But the autopsy reveals a startling fact, and Pia and Oliver find themselves trying to untangle a web of deceit and revenge dating back to the end of the Second World War.
Nele Neuhaus's The Ice Queen is a character- and plot-driven mystery about revenge, power, and long-forgotten and covered up secrets from a time in German history that still affects the present.
The body of 92-year-old Jossi Goldberg, Holocaust survivor and American citizen, is found shot to death execution style in his house near Frankfurt. A five-digit number is scrawled in blood at the murder scene. The autopsy reveals an old and unsuccessfully covered tattoo on the corpse's arm―a blood type marker once used by Hitler's SS.
Pia Kirchhoff and Oliver Bodenstein are faced with a riddle. Was the old man…
A book about building a cathedral – really? Yes, really.
Ken Follett is an acclaimed thriller writer, but this epic tome – calling it a book doesn’t do it justice – is a major departure from the land of 20th-century thrillers. Instead, readers are transported back to 12th-century England during the reign of King Henry II. Set in the fictional town of Kingsbridge, the core of this novel is about the passion of a monk, Philip, and a mason, Tom, to build a magnificent cathedral.
But with every stone laid also comes a mountain of obstacles, political intrigue, and clashing ambitions in which Philip, Tom, and the other residents of Kingsbridge are swept up.
The "extraordinary . . . monumental masterpiece" (Booklist) that changed the course of Ken Follett's already phenomenal career-and begins where its prequel, The Evening and the Morning, ended.
"Follett risks all and comes out a clear winner," extolled Publishers Weekly on the release of The Pillars of the Earth. A departure for the bestselling thriller writer, the historical epic stunned readers and critics alike with its ambitious scope and gripping humanity. Today, it stands as a testament to Follett's unassailable command of the written word and to his universal appeal.
From 1931 to 1945, leaders of the SS, a paramilitary group under the Nazi party, sought to transform their organization into a racially-elite family community that would serve as the Third Reich’s new aristocracy. They utilized the science of eugenics to convince SS men to marry suitable wives and have many children.
Marriage and Fatherhood in the Nazi SS is the first work to significantly assess the role of SS men as husbands and fathers during the Third Reich.
