15 little-known detectives with intricate plot

1. "The Spy Who Came in from the Cold" by John le Carré

Alec Leamas lives in Germany and works for British Intelligence during the Cold War. His agents are killed one by one in mysterious circumstances. Hero of the suspects who was behind it. But in order to get reliable evidence Alik will have to play a double game, because among his colleagues found traitors.

John Le Carré - a former diplomat and spy master detective. He loves to screw in political intrigue plot, telling the reader how to actually solve the problems at the state level.

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2. "Alienist" Caleb Carr

Future US president Theodore Roosevelt was appointed police chief NY at the end of the XIX century. At the same time, in wielding maniac who kills the boys and cripples their bodies. To catch a serial killer, authorities have attracted psychiatrist Laszlo Kreizler.

The doctor applies a revolutionary for that time, methods of analysis and tries to make the psychological and emotional portrait of the criminal. In search of a maniac it helps the artist and the first woman in the history of the United States, which allowed to work in the police.

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3. "Mystic River," Dennis Lehane

Three friends - Dave, Sean and Jimmy - did everything together. One day Dave was kidnapped. In captivity he had been subjected to violence. He managed to escape and return home. Only it was the not the child who knew his comrades. He kept to himself, and the friendship came to naught.

25 years later, Jimmy's lost daughter. Suspicion falls Dave, and to investigate the matter entrusted to Sean. Fate again brings the characters together, but now they are unlikely to be friends.

4. "Fine work," Sarah Waters

Victorian England - is not only a luxury ladies and gentlemen polite. In lurking corners of dirty streets and other live characters: crooks, thieves and want to profit at the expense of others.

Two of these rogues play mnogohodovki. Sue girl rubbed into the confidence of the rich lady, and then to present it to his partner. And Richard's task - to win over a rich woman, marry and get rid of it after to assign state. At first glance - the perfect plan, but on the way there are unforeseen circumstances.

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5. "An amazing riot of color," Clare Morrall

Disappointed in this, and having lost all hope for a brighter future, the heroine is focused on the past. mother's death riddle does not give her peace of mind. Kitty herself did not remember anything, because I was still a baby. Brothers and father constantly shirk its response to direct questions and do not reveal the secret.

These are even more awaken Kitty interest and desire to get to the bottom. Since unearth long-forgotten episodes, the heroine stumbles upon secrets that alter her vision of a family and herself.

6. "Darkness in a bottle", Jussi Adler-Olsen

"Darkness in a Bottle" - Scandinavian detective in the best sense of the word. A huge number of strands interwoven in a tangle. By the shores of Copenhagen nails the bottle, which is a note. Status of paper and the text leaves much to be desired. However, experts manage to determine that the message written at least 10 years ago.

One detail makes horrified. Instead of ink used human blood. How the message appeared in the sea, by whom it has been thrown out, and how it is related to a long-standing abduction of children, will have a special department to deal Q.

7. "Cruel words," Louise Penny

The Canadian backwoods village stands a hut in which lived a hermit. One autumn morning, his body suddenly are in a cafe. How he got there - is unclear, because the room was closed for the night. More questions is the motive. I killed did not have enemies.

Inspector Gamache entrust the investigation. With each new respondents, he realizes that behind the facade of a friendly society hides an entire web of mystery and innuendo. neighborliness illusion crumbles, and suspicion is almost every second.

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8. "Simple Grace" William Krueger

Some shocks speak easy. The novel's hero decided to tell about the terrible stories from childhood, only 40 years later. In the distant 60s of the last century, a small southern US town swept a wave of killings. She touched the family and the central character.

Frank and his younger brother decide for themselves to find out who is to blame for the tragedy. The boys had to drastically grow after a death. The final point in this story will put the author until the epilogue, holding in suspense until the very end.

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9. "The Fine Art of Death" by David Morrell

At the beginning of the XIX century, London was committed heinous murder. Soon villain we found and executed. 40 years later, the writer Thomas De Quincey published an essay in which he described the events of those terrible days.

As soon as his work was published, the city committed a similar crime in the streets. Police torn between multiple versions. Perhaps nearly half a century ago, they were executed in order, or at maniac appeared wannabe. They do not exclude and the possibility that the killer himself is de Quincey, who will now have to prove his innocence.

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10. "Alex," Pierre Lemaitre

In the midst of busy evening streets on a young girl to carry out attacks. It is pushed into a van and taken away somewhere. From witnesses of little: no one remembered anything. Identity stolen as criminals, is shrouded in mystery.

The detective, who entrust the matter, has no idea where to start looking, and with every hour spent hope of finding Alex melts alive. The more he learns the details, the less obvious who is the victim here. As soon as something is explained, the story takes on a new unexpected turn, knocking the legs out from under the ground.

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11. "The danger," Flynn Berry

Nora comes to visit her sister and finds her murdered in his own home. After the standard police procedures, she is waiting for the results, at least a tiny hint of a motive and perpetrator. But soon, the heroine realizes that officials specifically delaying the investigation and something from her hide.

Obsessed with catching the culprit girl decides that she can only get to the truth. And then begin to emerge on the surface is not the most pleasant of the facts biography her beloved sister and many people who at first glance seemed quite harmless.

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12. "Drought," Jane Harper

The hero arrives at a friend's funeral. He committed suicide after being deprived of life in almost all of his family members. But the offender's parents do not believe in this version and ask Aaron to find out what really happened.

In addition to this tragedy being played out here is another, more ambitious. For the second year in the already arid city does not fall even a centimeter of rainfall. On the inhabitants of pressing the unbearable heat and the constant feeling that is about to happen something terrible.

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13. "Before the fall," Noah Hawley

Private plane crashes. Among the survivors of the two: it is not clear how he got on board the distressed artist and four-year son of the richest tycoon. Hero thinks that the struggle for life is over at the moment when his child and saved, but wrong. He becomes the object of media attacks, which are passionately eager to find blame in the crash.

The FBI is also interested in so resonant case. When investigators begin to build a picture of the incident, the main question becomes what was the cause of the crash and death: a series of accidents, or specific error.

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14. "Bureau check," Alexander Archangel

In the early 80s the USSR was preparing for a long-awaited Olympics, listen Vysotsky did not know that before the collapse of the left some 10 years. Against this background, the hero of the novel, a graduate student of Moscow State University Alexey comes unexpected telegram because he rides on a hot summer Moscow.

There he will hold nine days, following the instructions of the mysterious mysterious incognito. No one from the family of a young man in his affairs are not committed, and they can only guess why he was suddenly so changed. Unlike many other heroes of the complicated story, Alex already knows the answer to. But the reader remains in the dark until the very end.

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15. "Seven deaths Evelyn Hardcastle," Stewart Torton

The hero wakes up in the forest, not knowing how he got there, and devoid of memory. Moreover, he does not know in whose body woke up, but I suspect that is not his. Find your way to the estate, he meets a benefactor, who tells him that he is part of an unusual game.

Aiden need to find a culprit of the death of the daughter of the house owner, who will die in the evening at the ball. If he fails, then the day will be repeated again and again, until the killer is not discovered. And every time the hero will wake up in a new body.

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