Tuesday, September 28, 2010

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Mystery World Leaderboard October 2010

And here it is again, the Mystery World Leaderboard . At least four new titles have it in October 2010 made it to this list of the arte, "The World" and Radio Bremen published and selected by 19 critics and critics from Germany, Austria and Switzerland. Discussed the procedure of choice I have repeatedly reported elsewhere yes - the point system works once convincing. The placement is to get a book are listed before the title of the book - in parenthesis the placement of the previous month. And - as always - I added to the complete bibliographic data, detailed summaries, references to audio book versions and links to the Sample (if available).

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Don Winslow: Day of the Dead

Title: Day of the Dead: Crime Fiction / Don Winslow
from the U.S.. Chris Shepherd
Author: Winslow, Don, Shepherd, Chris [Translator]
edition: Dt. Erstausg.
Publisher: Berlin: Suhrkamp
Release Date: 20 September 2010
Pages / format: 689 p., 21 cm total
Title: Suhrkamp-Taschenbuch, 4200
Original title: The power of the dog [dt]
ISBN: 978-3-518-46200-3
Code: 46 200
Binding / Price: pb. : EUR 14.95
Tags: Mexico, drug crime, mafia, history from 1984 to 2004; fiction book illustration

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USA / Mexico / Central America: With great zest has the U.S. drug agent Art Keller made it, in the structures of the Mexican Drug Mafia to penetrate - with success. So much success that the drug depots fly up in rows and Narcotraficantes hunting open to him. After his colleague was tortured by the gangsters to death, vows revenge and start a kind of cellar ruthless and bloody campaign against the drug barons. Too late he realizes that he is thus making new enemies - and who sit in Washington. What became known as "Iran-Contra affair in the story, Keller witnessed a gigantic drug, money laundering and arms business. Faced with the choice to serve his government, or to follow his conscience, he meets a lonely decision - and comes across unexpected allies.

"The book of the decade." Lee Child

"An epic like The Godfather." Andrew Vachss

"From the first, heart-breaking set, I was hooked on this book." Ken Bruen

» Winslow is really fantastic, "James Ellroy

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Richard Price.

Cash Title: Cash: Roman / Richard Price
from the U.S.. Miriam Mandelkow
Author: Price, Richard; Mandelkow, Miriam [Translator]
Publisher: Frankfurt, M.: S. Fischer
Release Date: 21 May 2010
Pages / format: 521 p., 21 cm
Uniform Title: Lush Life [dt]
ISBN: 978-3-10-060810-9
EAN: 9783100608109 Binding
/ Price: PP: EUR 19.95

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three men attacked at night in the Lower East Side of two dark-skinned young people. One of the three is shot fleeing perpetrators. The principal witness Eric caught up with the police deeper into contradictions. Detective Matty Clark, however, soon come to doubt his guilt. Richard Price in the U.S. does in his hymnal acclaimed bestseller, the facade of bright, "new crumble," New York and shows the underlying cracks, under the Glamour hidden power and violence. "Cash" is an X-ray view of the Lower East Side, a great novel by a masterful contemporary chroniclers.

excerpt at S. Fischer Verlag

The novel is also available as an audiobook :

8 CD / 532 minutes
Format: Abridged reading
Speaker: Christian Berkel
Publisher: Dhv the Hörverlag
Release Date: 16.07.2010
ISBN-10: 3867176280
ISBN-13: 978-3867176286




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Jenny Siler: enhanced interrogation

Title: enhanced interrogation: Thriller / Jenny Siler
from the U.S.. Susanne Goga-Klinkenberg
Author: Siler, Jenny; Goga-Klinkenberg, Susanne [Translator]
edition: Dt. Erstausg.
Publisher: Frankfurt, M.: Fischer-Taschenbuch-Verl.
Release Date: 4 August 2010
Pages / format: 311 p., 19 cm total
Title: Fischer; 18 311
Uniform Title: The prince of Bagram prison [dt]
ISBN: 978-3-596-18311-1
EAN: 9783596183111 Binding
/ Price: pb. : EUR 8.95

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Afghanistan, Bagram military prison: Jenny Silers political thriller comes dangerously close to the truth.

Kat Caldwell has interrogated Arabic expert prisoners in Bagram Afghanistan. It receives the command to find a former inmate. The boy is said to have contact with terrorists. But is killed when a British soldier who wanted to testify to a death in the military prison in Bagram, Kat draws suspicion: while in reality their mission to the cover-up of torture and the elimination of a witness?

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Nii Parkes: The trace of the bee-eater

Title: The trace of the bee-eater / Nii Parkes
from the English by Uta Goridis
author : Parkes, Nii, Goridis, Uta [Translator]
edition: Dt. Erstausg.
Publisher: Zurich: Union Verl.
Release Date: July 2010
Pages / format: 220 p., 21 cm
title: Tail of the bluebird [dt]
ISBN: 978-3-293-00422-1
Binding / Price: pb. : EUR 16.90

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Accra: Sonokrom, a village in the hinterland of Ghana, has changed little in centuries. Here people still speak the language of the forest, aphrodisiac drink palm wine and walking with the spirits of the ancestors. But a disturbing discovery, and the simultaneous disappearance of a villager disturb the tranquility. Had not the mistress of the minister involved in the case, he would have been down long ago shelved. The townspeople Kayo, forensic experts and followers of scientific Reason, is charged with the education difficult for someone who believes in the supernatural and not necessarily at the same time is held by his superiors on a short leash. When the situation is always incredible, must see Kayo and his investigators that Western logic and political bureaucracy have their limits.

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David Peace: Tokyo, occupied city

Title: Tokyo, occupied city: a novel / David Peace
from the English by Peter Torberg
Author: Peace, David; Torberg, Peter [ Translator]
Publisher: London: Liebeskind
Release Date: 23. August 2010
Pages / format: 350 p., 22 cm
title: Occupied city [dt]
ISBN: 978-3-935890-74-8
Binding / Price: PP: EUR 22.00
Tags: Tokyo; occupation ; poisoning; education, history, 1948; fiction book illustration

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Verlag Tokyo 1948: sets by David Peace. In the second volume of his award-winning Tokyo trilogy, he can tell twelve people from a mysterious poisoning. Each, in their view, each with their own money to the truth. For no one can escape the dark shadows of the past.

Tokyo, 1948: In the ruins of war-torn city begins to rebuild, but it still prevail corruption and violence. People fight for survival, guilt-ridden and humiliated by U.S. occupation forces.

On a cold day in January, a man enters a branch of the Teikoku Bank in the quarter Shiinamachi. He identifies himself as a medical officer and deputy branch manager explained that there had been in the neighborhood of a case of dysentery and he was recruited by the Ministry of Health to vaccinate all people. The sixteen present bank employees to follow his instructions and drink the fluid administered. Twelve of them died immediately, while the other four become unconscious. The man robbed only a portion of the money stock and disappears without a trace. It begins the greatest manhunt in the history of Japan.

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Göhre Frank: The Chosen One

Title: The Chosen One / Frank Göhre
Author: Göhre, Frank
Edition: Original-Ausg.
Publisher: Bielefeld: Pendragon
Year: 2010
Pages / format: 258 p., 19 cm
ISBN: 978-3-86532-202-9
EAN: 9783865322029 Binding
/ Price: pb. : EUR 9.95

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Eloi The Chosen One has been linked. Now he owes money David. Drug money. The illegal Africans living in Hamburg gets a lot of pressure. Eloi and suddenly disappeared. Kidnapped. What role does Elois mother in the crime? Is the key to enlightenment in its turbulent past, which led her late 80s to a Canary Island? On the sunny island is a brilliant educator ruled over a group of hearing followers. And Elois mother was his playmate. Now it's about money, a lot of money. But also about justice, guilt and atonement from seemingly distant past ... After his

neighborhood trilogy (new edition in preparation) and the series final novel Zappa's last hit tells Frank Göhre in The Chosen next to a spectacular kidnapping the trials, tribulations of former school friends a chronicle of the last three decades in Hamburg and elsewhere.


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Derek Nikitas: pyre

Title: stake / Derek Nikitas
Translator from the American. Jens Seeling
Author: Nikitas, Derek; Seeling, Jens [Translator]
issue: 1 Ed
Publisher: Frankfurt, M.: Seeling
Release Date: June 2010
Pages / format: 365 p., 21 cm
Uniform Title: Pyres [dt]
ISBN: 978-3-938973-11-0
EAN: 9783938973110 Binding
/ Price: pb. : EUR 15.00

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Luc is a rebellious girl and is in a week sixteen. But her youth ends abruptly in the parking lot of a shopping center, as they witness must, as her father is killed in a botched robbery. The killer may flee, but the fact sparked an inferno that threatens to devour the women who come into contact with it: a mother whose life is increasingly Sinks into darkness, a pregnant bride rocker who longs for protection and security, a tough cop who is haunted by her own demons, and Luc himself caught up in the danger and the violence that surrounds them.

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Garry Disher: Stainless moon

title: Stainless Moon: An Inspector Challis novel / Garry Disher; over from d. Engl. Peter Torberg
Author: Disher, Garry; Torberg, Peter [Translator]
issue: 1
edition Publisher: Zurich: Union Verlag
Release Date: July 2010
scope / size: approx 448 S.
Uniform Title: Blood Moon [dt]
ISBN: 978-3-293-00420-7
EAN: 9783293004207 Binding
/ Prices: GB. : EUR 19.90

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fall droves of school-leavers to celebrate their conclusion On the Peninsula, and the Waterloo Police Department has its hands full. If that was not enough, two serious crimes Hal Challis and Ellen Destry hold its breath: The Inspector and his colleague have to investigate the brutal attack on the chaplain of a private school and the murder of a young woman who campaigned for the preservation of a fishing cottage.

Additional pressure is exerted by a famous politician who has openly with the police or an invoice. The fact that Hal and Ellen have been lately, a couple in love, makes things any easier - and does the bargain against the police regulations.

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Thomas Willmann: The valley of the shadow

Title: The dark valley: a novel / Thomas Willmann
Author: Will, Thomas
Publisher: München: love child
Release Date: 19 July 2010
Pages / format: 314 S., 22 cm
ISBN: 978-3-935890-71-7
Binding / Price: PP: EUR 19.80
Tags: Alps, village, confinement, murder, stranger, fiction, book illustration

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German mountain valley / Wild West: A gripping story of love and death, guilt and retribution. When setting a secluded valley in the Alps, the 19th Century. Will Thomas Mann has written a novel that seems to fall out of our time, however, with its mythic force grabs the reader and not a remote loslässt.In Valley surrounded by majestic mountains, lives a sworn borough.

One day a stranger named Greider in the plane. He pretends to be a painter and asks for lodging for the winter. After long hesitation him, the villagers have an accommodation in the house to the widow Gader. Soon after Greider exploration trains through the valley comes the first major snow and cuts off his back. Life in the village is slowly coming to rest tremble until a mysterious death series people. Only an accident of the youngest son of the burner farmers, the secret rulers of the valley, making the wood. Then one of his brothers is found dead in the mill ...

In "The Dark Valley", Thomas Willmann the narratives of classical literature at home and dress it in an artful, powerful visual language. This creates an atmospheric, gripping novel, in which the past becomes the present and a simple revenge story of exceptional literature.

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Jo Nesbø: Headhunter

Title: Headhunter: Thriller / Jo Nesbø. From Norwegian. Günther Frauenlob
Author: Nesbø, Jo; Frauenlob, Gunther [Translator]
Publisher: Berlin: Ullstein
Release Date: 16 July 2010
Pages / format: 301 p., 21 cm
Series title: Ullstein; 28 045
Uniform Title: Hodejegerne [dt]
ISBN: 978-3-548-28045-5
EAN: 9783548280455 Binding
/ Price: pb. : EUR 12.95

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Roger Brown enjoys as a headhunter in the business community an excellent reputation. No one knows that he steals from his clients, takes them to their works. At an art opening meets the Dutch Clas Brown Greve. Greve he seems the perfect choice as manager of a GPS company. The men come into the business, and so Brown learns that Greve has a long believed lost Rubens. The next Days Brown steals the precious paintings. But Greve proves to be stubborn opponents. A relentless pursuit begins.

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The novel is now published as audiobook :

4 audio CDs, abridged reading
Read by John Steck
Publisher: Hörbuch Hamburg
Release Date: July
2010 ISBN-10: 3869090375
ISBN-13: 978-3869090375

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