Historisk fiktion

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Historisk fiktion Boksammanfattningar

The Listeners

av Maggie Stiefvater

Her luxury hotel becomes a WWII internment camp. The water beneath it drinks in every sorrow.

3.70

17 000+

🏠 WWII Home Front 🏨 Luxury Hotel Fiction 💕 Enemies To Lovers 👥 Found Family 🎭 Secret Identity

Immersiv

The Listeners

Her luxury hotel becomes a WWII internment camp. The water beneath it drinks in every sorrow.

av Maggie Stiefvater 2025 382 sidor

3.70

17 000+ betyg

🏠 WWII Home Front 🏨 Luxury Hotel Fiction 💕 Enemies To Lovers 👥 Found Family 🎭 Secret Identity

Don Quijote

av Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

An aging gentleman reads himself into knighthood and recruits a practical farmer as his squire.

3.91

300 000+

🚶 Picaresque Adventure ⚔️ Chivalric Satire 📖 Book Within A Book 🤝 Master And Servant Duo 🎭 Delusional Protagonist

Immersiv

Don Quijote

An aging gentleman reads himself into knighthood and recruits a practical farmer as his squire.

av Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra 1615 1023 sidor

3.91

300 000+ betyg

🚶 Picaresque Adventure ⚔️ Chivalric Satire 📖 Book Within A Book 🤝 Master And Servant Duo 🎭 Delusional Protagonist

Den bortglömda trädgården

av Kate Morton

A foundling, a fairy-tale book, a walled garden. One woman uncovers the secret buried since 1913.

4.16

200 000+

🕰️ Multi-Timeline Mystery 🧩 Hidden Parentage 👩‍👩‍👧 Three Generations Of Women 📖 Fairy Tales Within 🌊 Coastal Gothic

Den bortglömda trädgården Sammanfattning

Immersiv

Den bortglömda trädgården

A foundling, a fairy-tale book, a walled garden. One woman uncovers the secret buried since 1913.

av Kate Morton 2008 648 sidor

4.16

200 000+ betyg

🕰️ Multi-Timeline Mystery 🧩 Hidden Parentage 👩‍👩‍👧 Three Generations Of Women 📖 Fairy Tales Within 🌊 Coastal Gothic

Syrenflickorna

av Martha Hall Kelly

Three women, one war, and a Nazi concentration camp where medical experiments stitch them together.

4.29

300 000+

⚔️ Women At War 🩺 Medical Experiments ✊ Resistance And Survival 🖤 Survivor Guilt 🧠 Perpetrator Psychology

Immersiv

Syrenflickorna

Three women, one war, and a Nazi concentration camp where medical experiments stitch them together.

av Martha Hall Kelly 2016 487 sidor

4.29

300 000+ betyg

⚔️ Women At War 🩺 Medical Experiments ✊ Resistance And Survival 🖤 Survivor Guilt 🧠 Perpetrator Psychology

Don’t Forget to Write

av Sara Goodman Confino

Banished to her matchmaker aunt, a coed discovers the old woman's secret life and her own voice.

4.48

78 000+

🕰️ Midcentury Womanhood ✡️ Jewish American Life 👵 Unlikely Mentorship 🏳️‍🌈 Hidden Queer Love 🫂 Found Family

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Don’t Forget to Write

Banished to her matchmaker aunt, a coed discovers the old woman's secret life and her own voice.

av Sara Goodman Confino 2023 334 sidor

4.48

78 000+ betyg

🕰️ Midcentury Womanhood ✡️ Jewish American Life 👵 Unlikely Mentorship 🏳️‍🌈 Hidden Queer Love 🫂 Found Family

The Templar Legacy

av Steve Berry

Cotton Malone, a bookseller and former spy, chases a Templar secret that could topple the Church.

3.84

57 000+

🛡️ Templar Conspiracy 🏰 Medieval Mystery 🔐 Cryptic Codes 🕵️ Secret Society 🗝️ Treasure Hunt

Immersiv

The Templar Legacy

Cotton Malone, a bookseller and former spy, chases a Templar secret that could topple the Church.

av Steve Berry 2006 511 sidor

3.84

57 000+ betyg

🛡️ Templar Conspiracy 🏰 Medieval Mystery 🔐 Cryptic Codes 🕵️ Secret Society 🗝️ Treasure Hunt

The Moor's Account

av Laila Lalami

A Moroccan slave on a doomed Spanish expedition to Florida survives to write the erased history.

4.04

13 000+

📜 Counter-History 📖 Fictional Memoir ⚖️ Colonial Reckoning 🌿 Indigenous Healing 💍 Intercultural Marriage

Immersiv

The Moor's Account

A Moroccan slave on a doomed Spanish expedition to Florida survives to write the erased history.

av Laila Lalami 2014 321 sidor

4.04

13 000+ betyg

📜 Counter-History 📖 Fictional Memoir ⚖️ Colonial Reckoning 🌿 Indigenous Healing 💍 Intercultural Marriage

Crossing to Safety

av Wallace Stegner

An aging writer remembers the wealthy couple who rescued his family, and the debts that followed.

4.16

51 000+

👥 Lifelong Friendship 📚 Literary Academia 💑 Marriage Over Decades 🩺 Illness And Caregiving 👑 Controlling Matriarch

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Crossing to Safety

An aging writer remembers the wealthy couple who rescued his family, and the debts that followed.

av Wallace Stegner 1987 335 sidor

4.16

51 000+ betyg

👥 Lifelong Friendship 📚 Literary Academia 💑 Marriage Over Decades 🩺 Illness And Caregiving 👑 Controlling Matriarch

Dogeaters

av Jessica Hagedorn

When a senator is murdered, his beauty-queen daughter trades her crown for a guerrilla's rifle.

3.61

3 000+

🎭 Polyphonic Fiction 🏛️ Postcolonial Literature 🇵🇭 Marcos-Era Philippines 🎪 Dark Political Satire 🪞 Colonial Mentality

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Dogeaters

When a senator is murdered, his beauty-queen daughter trades her crown for a guerrilla's rifle.

av Jessica Hagedorn 1990 272 sidor

3.61

3 000+ betyg

🎭 Polyphonic Fiction 🏛️ Postcolonial Literature 🇵🇭 Marcos-Era Philippines 🎪 Dark Political Satire 🪞 Colonial Mentality

The Starving Saints

av Caitlin Starling

A starving castle. Four saints with impossible bounty. The feast consumes its faithful from within.

3.58

22 000+

🏰 Medieval Horror 🦴 Body Horror ⛪ Religious Horror 🖤 Queer Horror 🏚️ Besieged Castle

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The Starving Saints

A starving castle. Four saints with impossible bounty. The feast consumes its faithful from within.

av Caitlin Starling 2025 352 sidor

3.58

22 000+ betyg

🏰 Medieval Horror 🦴 Body Horror ⛪ Religious Horror 🖤 Queer Horror 🏚️ Besieged Castle

The German Wife

av Kelly Rimmer

A German wife, an Alabama farm girl, and the lie that keeps both of them alive.

4.37

52 000+

🕰️ Dual Timeline 💍 Marriage Of Convenience ⚖️ Moral Compromise 😔 Survivor Guilt 👫 Protective Sibling

Immersiv

The German Wife

A German wife, an Alabama farm girl, and the lie that keeps both of them alive.

av Kelly Rimmer 2022 464 sidor

4.37

52 000+ betyg

🕰️ Dual Timeline 💍 Marriage Of Convenience ⚖️ Moral Compromise 😔 Survivor Guilt 👫 Protective Sibling

Angel Down

av Daniel Kraus

A WWI gravedigger finds an angel in No Man's Land; her gifts destroy whoever asks.

4.06

15 000+

🖤 Literary Horror 🪖 World War I 😇 Wish Gone Wrong 🤝 Deadly Bargain ⛪ Religious Horror

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Angel Down

A WWI gravedigger finds an angel in No Man's Land; her gifts destroy whoever asks.

av Daniel Kraus 2025 285 sidor

4.06

15 000+ betyg

🖤 Literary Horror 🪖 World War I 😇 Wish Gone Wrong 🤝 Deadly Bargain ⛪ Religious Horror

The Source

av James A. Michener

Beneath a Galilean mound, an archaeologist uncovers the violent, layered birth of a faith.

4.30

45 000+

🏺 Archaeological Fiction 📜 Epic Historical Saga ✡️ Biblical History 🌍 Holy Land Narrative 📚 Scholarly Fiction

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The Source

Beneath a Galilean mound, an archaeologist uncovers the violent, layered birth of a faith.

av James A. Michener 1965 1080 sidor

4.30

45 000+ betyg

🏺 Archaeological Fiction 📜 Epic Historical Saga ✡️ Biblical History 🌍 Holy Land Narrative 📚 Scholarly Fiction

Slewfoot

av Brom

A widow's pact with a horned spirit brings prosperity. Then the Puritans come with a noose.

4.20

100 000+

🐐 Folk Horror 📜 Colonial Witch Trials 🔥 Vengeful Witch 🌳 Forest Spirit 🩸 Blood Pact

Immersiv

Slewfoot

A widow's pact with a horned spirit brings prosperity. Then the Puritans come with a noose.

av Brom 2021 305 sidor

4.20

100 000+ betyg

🐐 Folk Horror 📜 Colonial Witch Trials 🔥 Vengeful Witch 🌳 Forest Spirit 🩸 Blood Pact

Grown Women

av Sarai Johnson

Four Black women, one unspoken wound, and the daughter who finally asks what happened.

4.29

4 000+

🏠 Multi-Generational Saga 💔 Intergenerational Trauma 👩‍👧 Mother-Daughter Conflict 🌿 American South 👩🏿 Black Women's Fiction

Immersiv

Grown Women

Four Black women, one unspoken wound, and the daughter who finally asks what happened.

av Sarai Johnson 2024 400 sidor

4.29

4 000+ betyg

🏠 Multi-Generational Saga 💔 Intergenerational Trauma 👩‍👧 Mother-Daughter Conflict 🌿 American South 👩🏿 Black Women's Fiction

The Secret Book Society

av Madeline Martin

A secret book society shields repressed Victorian women until an asylum swallows one of them.

4.07

31 000+

🏙️ Victorian London 📚 Secret Book Club 🤝 Female Solidarity 📖 Reading As Resistance 💔 Abusive Marriage

Immersiv

The Secret Book Society

A secret book society shields repressed Victorian women until an asylum swallows one of them.

av Madeline Martin 2025 336 sidor

4.07

31 000+ betyg

🏙️ Victorian London 📚 Secret Book Club 🤝 Female Solidarity 📖 Reading As Resistance 💔 Abusive Marriage

Underworld

av Don DeLillo

From a stolen 1951 home-run ball to the nuclear desert: Cold War America's secret life in reverse.

3.95

34 000+

🏛️ Postmodern Epic ⏪ Reverse Chronology ☢️ Cold War Paranoia 🔗 Interconnected Lives 🏷️ Talismanic Object

Immersiv

Underworld

From a stolen 1951 home-run ball to the nuclear desert: Cold War America's secret life in reverse.

av Don DeLillo 1997 827 sidor

3.95

34 000+ betyg

🏛️ Postmodern Epic ⏪ Reverse Chronology ☢️ Cold War Paranoia 🔗 Interconnected Lives 🏷️ Talismanic Object

Those Across the River

av Christopher Buehlman

When a Georgia town ends its pig tribute, hungry things across the river come for blood.

3.71

16 000+

🏚️ Southern Gothic 🐺 Werewolf Horror 🩸 Generational Curse 🤫 Dark Town Secret 🖤 Love And Monstrosity

Immersiv

Those Across the River

When a Georgia town ends its pig tribute, hungry things across the river come for blood.

av Christopher Buehlman 2011 357 sidor

3.71

16 000+ betyg

🏚️ Southern Gothic 🐺 Werewolf Horror 🩸 Generational Curse 🤫 Dark Town Secret 🖤 Love And Monstrosity

The Rose Bargain

av Sasha Peyton Smith

To save her family, Ivy enters a fae prince's bride contest but wants his rebel stepbrother.

3.94

69 000+

🧚 Faerie Bargains 👑 Marriage Competition 💔 Love Triangle ⚔️ Deadly Faerie Court 👯 Sister Devotion

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The Rose Bargain

To save her family, Ivy enters a fae prince's bride contest but wants his rebel stepbrother.

av Sasha Peyton Smith 2025 389 sidor

3.94

69 000+ betyg

🧚 Faerie Bargains 👑 Marriage Competition 💔 Love Triangle ⚔️ Deadly Faerie Court 👯 Sister Devotion

Last Twilight in Paris

av Pam Jenoff

A housewife finds a locket from 1944 and hunts through Paris for the prisoner she abandoned.

3.95

33 000+

🕰️ Dual Timeline Mystery 🌅 Postwar Reckoning 💎 Found Object Mystery 🤫 Silenced Woman 🕵️ Amateur Sleuth

Immersiv

Last Twilight in Paris

A housewife finds a locket from 1944 and hunts through Paris for the prisoner she abandoned.

av Pam Jenoff 2025 336 sidor

3.95

33 000+ betyg

🕰️ Dual Timeline Mystery 🌅 Postwar Reckoning 💎 Found Object Mystery 🤫 Silenced Woman 🕵️ Amateur Sleuth

Bluebird

av Sharon Cameron

Her father experimented on prisoners. The Americans want to recruit him. She wants him dead.

4.32

11 000+

🔗 Perpetrator's Daughter ⚖️ Post-War Reckoning 🎭 Assumed Identity 💕 Enemies To Lovers 🏠 Found Family

Immersiv

Bluebird

Her father experimented on prisoners. The Americans want to recruit him. She wants him dead.

av Sharon Cameron 2021 438 sidor

4.32

11 000+ betyg

🔗 Perpetrator's Daughter ⚖️ Post-War Reckoning 🎭 Assumed Identity 💕 Enemies To Lovers 🏠 Found Family

I, Medusa

av Ayana Gray

Born mortal among gods, Medusa finds escape in Athena's temple. Then Poseidon decides he wants her.

4.00

44 000+

🔥 Feminist Mythology 💢 Survivor's Rage 💕 Sapphic Love Story 🖤 Found Family ⚡ Predatory Gods

Immersiv

I, Medusa

Born mortal among gods, Medusa finds escape in Athena's temple. Then Poseidon decides he wants her.

av Ayana Gray 2025 336 sidor

4.00

44 000+ betyg

🔥 Feminist Mythology 💢 Survivor's Rage 💕 Sapphic Love Story 🖤 Found Family ⚡ Predatory Gods

Odyssey

av Stephen Fry

Cunning Odysseus outwits monsters and gods for twenty years to reclaim his waiting wife.

4.28

24 000+

🏛️ Homeric Retelling 👤 King In Disguise 💍 Faithful Wife 🐉 Monster Encounters 🎭 Witty Narration

Immersiv

Odyssey

Cunning Odysseus outwits monsters and gods for twenty years to reclaim his waiting wife.

av Stephen Fry 2024 448 sidor

4.28

24 000+ betyg

🏛️ Homeric Retelling 👤 King In Disguise 💍 Faithful Wife 🐉 Monster Encounters 🎭 Witty Narration

The Transit of Venus

av Shirley Hazzard

An Australian orphan loves a playwright she cannot have, blind to the astronomer who waits.

4.01

5 000+

🎭 Literary Tragedy 💔 Doomed Affair 🥺 Unrequited Love 🥀 Quiet Devastation 🇬🇧 Postwar England

Immersiv

The Transit of Venus

An Australian orphan loves a playwright she cannot have, blind to the astronomer who waits.

av Shirley Hazzard 1980 337 sidor

4.01

5 000+ betyg

🎭 Literary Tragedy 💔 Doomed Affair 🥺 Unrequited Love 🥀 Quiet Devastation 🇬🇧 Postwar England

The Turtle House

av Amanda Churchill

Her Japanese grandmother buried a lifetime of secrets. On a Texas rooftop, they press record.

4.03

6 000+

💔 Wartime Romance ⏳ Dual Timeline Narrative 🥀 Lost First Love 🖤 Intergenerational Trauma 🗾 Japanese Diaspora

Immersiv

The Turtle House

Her Japanese grandmother buried a lifetime of secrets. On a Texas rooftop, they press record.

av Amanda Churchill 2024 304 sidor

4.03

6 000+ betyg

💔 Wartime Romance ⏳ Dual Timeline Narrative 🥀 Lost First Love 🖤 Intergenerational Trauma 🗾 Japanese Diaspora

The Ballad of Black Tom

av Victor LaValle

A Harlem hustler's quest to avenge his father's police murder plunges him into cosmic horror.

3.82

35 000+

🐙 Lovecraftian Horror ⚖️ Systemic Racism 🚔 Police Brutality 👹 Monstrous Transformation 🏙️ 1920s Harlem

Immersiv

The Ballad of Black Tom

A Harlem hustler's quest to avenge his father's police murder plunges him into cosmic horror.

av Victor LaValle 2016 149 sidor

3.82

35 000+ betyg

🐙 Lovecraftian Horror ⚖️ Systemic Racism 🚔 Police Brutality 👹 Monstrous Transformation 🏙️ 1920s Harlem

The Quarry Girls

av Jess Lourey

1977 Minnesota. A teen sees a sheriff assault her friend in a basement. Then girls vanish.

4.01

100 000+

🏘️ Small Town Crime 👔 Predators In Power 💔 Adult Betrayal 🔍 Girl As Detective 🌑 Dark Coming-Of-Age

Immersiv

The Quarry Girls

1977 Minnesota. A teen sees a sheriff assault her friend in a basement. Then girls vanish.

av Jess Lourey 2022 335 sidor

4.01

100 000+ betyg

🏘️ Small Town Crime 👔 Predators In Power 💔 Adult Betrayal 🔍 Girl As Detective 🌑 Dark Coming-Of-Age

The Winemaker's Wife

av Kristin Harmel

Her grandmother drags her to France to unearth a wartime betrayal hidden in the champagne cellars.

4.23

100 000+

🕰️ Dual Timeline 🇫🇷 Occupied France 🍷 Wine And War 💔 Forbidden Love 🎭 Hidden Identity

Immersiv

The Winemaker's Wife

Her grandmother drags her to France to unearth a wartime betrayal hidden in the champagne cellars.

av Kristin Harmel 2019 385 sidor

4.23

100 000+ betyg

🕰️ Dual Timeline 🇫🇷 Occupied France 🍷 Wine And War 💔 Forbidden Love 🎭 Hidden Identity

The Apollo Murders

av Chris Hadfield

Apollo 18's covert mission turns deadly when a Soviet stowaway brings a radioactive secret aboard.

3.92

19 000+

🕵️ Cold War Thriller 🚀 Alternate Space History 🔬 Hard Sf 🎭 Hidden Identity 🤝 Enemies To Allies

Immersiv

The Apollo Murders

Apollo 18's covert mission turns deadly when a Soviet stowaway brings a radioactive secret aboard.

av Chris Hadfield 2021 480 sidor

3.92

19 000+ betyg

🕵️ Cold War Thriller 🚀 Alternate Space History 🔬 Hard Sf 🎭 Hidden Identity 🤝 Enemies To Allies

A Suitable Boy

av Vikram Seth

In 1950s India, a mother's hunt for a suitable husband clashes with her daughter's forbidden love.

4.11

50 000+

🏡 Family Saga 🇮🇳 1950s India 💍 Arranged Marriage 💞 Interfaith Love 🔥 Communal Tensions

Immersiv

A Suitable Boy

In 1950s India, a mother's hunt for a suitable husband clashes with her daughter's forbidden love.

av Vikram Seth 1993 1474 sidor

4.11

50 000+ betyg

🏡 Family Saga 🇮🇳 1950s India 💍 Arranged Marriage 💞 Interfaith Love 🔥 Communal Tensions

When the World Fell Silent

av Donna Jones Alward

A nurse's secret pregnancy. A widow's missing child. The Halifax Explosion binds two women's fates.

4.25

32 000+

🏥 Wartime Nursing 💍 Marriage Of Convenience 🏠 Found Family 🔥 Slow Burn Love 💔 Maternal Grief

When the World Fell Silent Sammanfattning

Immersiv

When the World Fell Silent

A nurse's secret pregnancy. A widow's missing child. The Halifax Explosion binds two women's fates.

av Donna Jones Alward 2024 376 sidor

4.25

32 000+ betyg

🏥 Wartime Nursing 💍 Marriage Of Convenience 🏠 Found Family 🔥 Slow Burn Love 💔 Maternal Grief

Lone Women

av Victor LaValle

A Black homesteader's steamer trunk holds a monster: her twin sister. The lock won't hold.

3.69

37 000+

🪓 Frontier Horror 🖤 Family Curse 🤝 Found Family 👹 Monstrous Sister 👩‍👩‍👧 Women's Community

Immersiv

Lone Women

A Black homesteader's steamer trunk holds a monster: her twin sister. The lock won't hold.

av Victor LaValle 2023 275 sidor

3.69

37 000+ betyg

🪓 Frontier Horror 🖤 Family Curse 🤝 Found Family 👹 Monstrous Sister 👩‍👩‍👧 Women's Community

Alaska by James A. Michener

av Steve Berry

For thirty thousand years, Alaska lures the desperate and the daring. The land always wins.

4.17

17 000+

🏔️ Epic Historical Saga 🌲 Alaskan Wilderness ⛓️ Colonial Exploitation 💰 Gold Rush 🪓 Frontier Survival

Alaska by James A. Michener Sammanfattning

Immersiv

Alaska by James A. Michener

For thirty thousand years, Alaska lures the desperate and the daring. The land always wins.

av Steve Berry 1988

4.17

17 000+ betyg

🏔️ Epic Historical Saga 🌲 Alaskan Wilderness ⛓️ Colonial Exploitation 💰 Gold Rush 🪓 Frontier Survival

The Patron Saint of Liars

av Ann Patchett

At a Kentucky home for unwed mothers, she finds a husband, a daughter, and the door.

3.90

70 000+

💜 Hidden Pregnancy 💔 Absent Mother 🏠 Found Family 😶 Ambivalent Motherhood 🎭 Unreliable Narrator

The Patron Saint of Liars Sammanfattning

Immersiv

The Patron Saint of Liars

At a Kentucky home for unwed mothers, she finds a husband, a daughter, and the door.

av Ann Patchett 1992 352 sidor

3.90

70 000+ betyg

💜 Hidden Pregnancy 💔 Absent Mother 🏠 Found Family 😶 Ambivalent Motherhood 🎭 Unreliable Narrator

The Book of Guilt

av Catherine Chidgey

Three cloned brothers, doted on and daily dosed, discover the cure is what kills them.

4.18

9 000+

🧬 Clone Protagonists 🇬🇧 Alternate Britain 💉 Medical Experimentation 📋 Bureaucratic Evil 😶 Quiet Dread

Immersiv

The Book of Guilt

Three cloned brothers, doted on and daily dosed, discover the cure is what kills them.

av Catherine Chidgey 2025 400 sidor

4.18

9 000+ betyg

🧬 Clone Protagonists 🇬🇧 Alternate Britain 💉 Medical Experimentation 📋 Bureaucratic Evil 😶 Quiet Dread

The Calamity Club

av Kathryn Stockett

A churchgoing spinster opens a brothel to rescue an orphan from a eugenics asylum.

4.60

100 000+

🏚️ Southern Fiction ✊ Feminist Historical 🤝 Found Family 👯‍♀️ Women Outcasts 👩‍🦳 Spinster Heroine

Immersiv

The Calamity Club

A churchgoing spinster opens a brothel to rescue an orphan from a eugenics asylum.

av Kathryn Stockett 2026 656 sidor

4.60

100 000+ betyg

🏚️ Southern Fiction ✊ Feminist Historical 🤝 Found Family 👯‍♀️ Women Outcasts 👩‍🦳 Spinster Heroine

The Cold Cold Ground

av Adrian McKinty

In 1981 Belfast, a Catholic detective tracks a killer swapping the severed hands of gay men.

3.91

16 000+

🔍 Police Procedural 🇮🇪 Northern Ireland Troubles 🌧️ Political Noir 🕵️ State Conspiracy ⚖️ Vigilante Justice

Immersiv

The Cold Cold Ground

In 1981 Belfast, a Catholic detective tracks a killer swapping the severed hands of gay men.

av Adrian McKinty 2012 11 sidor

3.91

16 000+ betyg

🔍 Police Procedural 🇮🇪 Northern Ireland Troubles 🌧️ Political Noir 🕵️ State Conspiracy ⚖️ Vigilante Justice

The Antidote

av Karen Russell

Bankrupted by a dust storm, a memory witch and motherless girl fake pasts for a town.

3.86

18 000+

🌪️ Dust Bowl Era 🧠 Memory Magic 🧙‍♀️ Witch And Apprentice 🪦 Buried Guilt 🏘️ Small Town Secrets

Immersiv

The Antidote

Bankrupted by a dust storm, a memory witch and motherless girl fake pasts for a town.

av Karen Russell 2025 432 sidor

3.86

18 000+ betyg

🌪️ Dust Bowl Era 🧠 Memory Magic 🧙‍♀️ Witch And Apprentice 🪦 Buried Guilt 🏘️ Small Town Secrets

In Memoriam

av Alice Winn

In 1914, two schoolboys cannot speak their love, so they go to war instead.

4.50

79 000+

🎖️ World War I 💔 Forbidden Love 💭 Mutual Pining 🪖 Trench Warfare 😞 Survivor's Guilt

Immersiv

In Memoriam

In 1914, two schoolboys cannot speak their love, so they go to war instead.

av Alice Winn 2023 382 sidor

4.50

79 000+ betyg

🎖️ World War I 💔 Forbidden Love 💭 Mutual Pining 🪖 Trench Warfare 😞 Survivor's Guilt

Workhorse

av Caroline Palmer

A fashion magazine assistant steals her way into a Fifth Avenue family whose glitter hides rot.

3.56

11 000+

🪜 Social Climbing 👠 Fashion Industry 🔪 Female Antihero 💔 Obsessive Friendship 🎨 Stolen Art

Immersiv

Workhorse

A fashion magazine assistant steals her way into a Fifth Avenue family whose glitter hides rot.

av Caroline Palmer 2025 560 sidor

3.56

11 000+ betyg

🪜 Social Climbing 👠 Fashion Industry 🔪 Female Antihero 💔 Obsessive Friendship 🎨 Stolen Art

The Hidden Hindu 3

av Akshat Gupta

An immortal learns his forgotten twin hunts sacred words to free every demon the gods ever killed.

4.10

2 000+

🏛️ Mythological Thriller 📜 Hindu Epic Retelling 👥 Good And Evil Twin ⚔️ Immortals At War 💔 Cursed Love Across Lives

Immersiv

The Hidden Hindu 3

An immortal learns his forgotten twin hunts sacred words to free every demon the gods ever killed.

av Akshat Gupta 2023 248 sidor

4.10

2 000+ betyg

🏛️ Mythological Thriller 📜 Hindu Epic Retelling 👥 Good And Evil Twin ⚔️ Immortals At War 💔 Cursed Love Across Lives

The Friend of the Family

av Dean Koontz

Bought as a toddler for a carnival freak show, she is freed by filmmakers who want a daughter.

4.26

13 000+

🏠 Found Family 🎪 Carnival Freak Show 💫 Supernatural Healing 🌿 Outsider Protagonist 🖤 Quiet Horror

Immersiv

The Friend of the Family

Bought as a toddler for a carnival freak show, she is freed by filmmakers who want a daughter.

av Dean Koontz 2026 381 sidor

4.26

13 000+ betyg

🏠 Found Family 🎪 Carnival Freak Show 💫 Supernatural Healing 🌿 Outsider Protagonist 🖤 Quiet Horror

Flashlight

av Susan Choi

A father vanishes from a moonless beach; decades later his daughter discovers North Korea stole him.

3.89

27 000+

🏠 Literary Family Saga 🕵️ Cold War Intrigue 🕳️ The Disappeared 💔 Generational Trauma 👩‍👧 Mother-Daughter Rift

Immersiv

Flashlight

A father vanishes from a moonless beach; decades later his daughter discovers North Korea stole him.

av Susan Choi 2025 464 sidor

3.89

27 000+ betyg

🏠 Literary Family Saga 🕵️ Cold War Intrigue 🕳️ The Disappeared 💔 Generational Trauma 👩‍👧 Mother-Daughter Rift

Mad Mabel

av Sally Hepworth

Eighty-one, a convicted killer in hiding, and the only suspect when a neighbor turns up dead.

4.36

100 000+

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