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Date: 2005

Crime Crime Men who didn't love women

Stieg Larsson

2005

Harriet Vanger disappeared thirty-six years ago on a Swedish island owned by his powerful family. Despite the police deployment, no trace of the girl was found. She got away? The case is closed and the details are forgotten. But his uncle Henrik Vanger, a retired businessman, lives obsessed with solving the mystery before he dies.

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Crime Crime S is for Silence

Sue Grafton

2005

Just after Independence Day in July 1953 Violet Sullivan, a local good time girl living in Serena Station Southern California, drives off in her brand new Chevy and is never seen again. Left behind is her young daughter, Daisy, and Violet's immediate husband, Foley, who had been persuaded to buy his errant wife the car only days before...

Mystery Mystery The Historian

Elizabeth Kostova

2005

The novel reports a research of the last five centuries on Vlad Tepes, El Empalador, also known as Dracula, through the trips between a father and his daughter, in search of the whereabouts of his grave. It seems above all anyone who dares to go after the prince of the undead, weighs a curse worse than death.

Crime Crime Predator

Patricia Cornwell

2005

a disappearance of two sisters in Florida launches an investigation that will take Dr. Kay Scarpetta and her colleague Pete Marino to the unbalanced mind of a serial killer. But nothing is what it looks like and unexpected turns happen at a dizzy pace. The body of a girl with strange tattoos appears in Boston, the forensic psychologist hears disturbing information that may have some connection to that death, and Scarpetta is increasingly concerned about

Crime Crime See Delphi and Die (Falco 17)

Lindsey Davis

2005

On this occasion the stage of the Corrias de Marco Didio Falco is the beach of Ostia, where it is removed for the purpose of making some family visits and rest, and the case it faces is the mysterious disappearance of Infamia, a famous commentator of the amorites and misfortunes of the main Roman citizens. Of course, it is clear that many benefit from this timely disappearance, but the inquiries soon put Falco behind the lead of an enigmatic

Mystery Mystery Dearly Devoted Dexter

Jeff Lindsay

2005

Dexter is a killer of killers who, on different issues, escape the hands of justice, but has a special code inculcated by his adoptive father who taught him since he was a child to use his skills. Dexter follows the rules of Harry's code, which tells him how to kill (only criminals) without being caught.

History History The pale horseman

Bernard Cornwell

2005

Second book in the history of Uhtred, the lord of Bebbanburg, and his complicated relationship with Alfred the Great, king of Wessex in the ninth century, describing the fateful year in which the Danes captured the kingdom of Alfred and took him as a fugitive to the marshes of Athelney.

Fiction Fiction The hydrogenated

Juan Eslava Galán

2005

At the end of the 16th century a man named Alonso de Quesada, a manco writer who fought in the battle of Lepanto, arrived in Seville, and whose biographical circumstances coincided with those of Miguel de Cervantes. In the city he renews his relations with an old lover who is a widow, wakes up loving feelings in the Aldonza maid and meets some low-ground rogue.

Humor Humor The marbles, the "cuquis" and Mom's silly boyfriend

Alfonso Ussía Muñoz-Seca

2005

The cuckoo, the canicasy, the silly boyfriend of Mom is the new and deranging adventure of the Marquis of Sotoancho after his accidental wedding with Marsa. On this occasion, we will attend an exciting and challenging world of marbles championship on carpets of the Royal Tapices Factory for which the Marquis will be thoroughly trained by his faithful butler, Thomas. We will also see how the widow marquesa unremedied the charms of Uncle Pochito, a little silly and heavy relative of whom she falls in love.

Crime Crime Eleven on Top

Janet Evanovich

2005

Stephanie Plum is thinking her career as a fugitive apprehension agent has run its course. She's been shot at, spat at, cuffed at, fire-bombed, mooned, and attacked by dogs. Stephanie thinks it's time for a change. So she takes. She wants something safe and normal. But the kind of trouble she had at the bail bonds office can't compare to the kind of trouble she finds herself facing now...

Science fiction Science fiction Starship: Mutiny

Mike Resnick

2005

It is the year 1966 of the Galactic Age, about three thousand years in the future, and the Republic is at war with the Teroni Federation, an alliance of races resented by the military and economic growth of humans. Although the main battle scenarios are in the Spiral Arm and the Galactic Core, in the far-off Periphery, the Theodore Rosselvelt is one of the three ships in charge of protecting the Phoenix Cluster, a group of seventy-three inhabited planets.

Fiction Fiction Mr. Linh's granddaughter

Philippe Claudel

2005

Mr. Linh is an old man who left his people devastated by the war, taking only a small suitcase containing worn clothes, a yellowish photo, a handful of land from his country. In his arms lies a newborn baby. The child's parents died and Mr. Linh decided to seek a new life with his granddaughter Sang diù.

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Crime Crime The paper moon

Andrea Camilleri

2005

The last delivery of the popular mystery series finds the moody Inspector Montalbano even more harassed by the existential questions that have been tormenting him lately. But he doesn't have much time to get philosophical before the terrible murder of a man, shot in the face with his pants down, draws his attention.

Fiction Fiction The Book Thief

Markus Zusak

2005

In the village lived a girl who wanted to read, a man who played the accordion and a young Jew who wrote beautiful stories to escape the horror of war. After a while, the girl became a thief who stole books and gave away words. And with those words, a beautiful and cruel story was written.

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Crime Crime Still life

Louise Penny

2005

Three Pines is a remnant of peace, so when a very dear member of the community is found dead in the forest, the neighbors are perplexed and horrified.

Mystery Mystery Yours

Claudia Piñeiro

2005

A heart drawn with rouge, crossed by a "I love you" and signed "Yours," reveals to Inés that her husband deceives her. The following is not only a haunting and trickling police officer, but an unrelenting portrait of the middle-class family life.