Done reading these books:
18. 50, Hideo Yokoyama, 352 pages
19. Das Ewigkeitsprojekt, Caroline Hofstätter, 232 pages
20. Der Massai, der in Schweden noch eine Rechnung offen hatte (Sweet Sweet Revenge LTD), Jonas Jonasson, 416 pages
21. Tausendschön (Silenced), Kristina Ohlsson, 480 pages
22. Lacroix und die Toten vom Pont Neuf, Alex Lépic, 272 pages
23. Verborgen im Gletscher (The Darkness Knows), Arnaldur Indriðason, 265 pages
24. Die Menschen von A bis Z (Humans: An A-Z), Matt Haig, 192 pages
25. 1414°, Paul Bradley Carr, 400 pages
50:
Sochiro Kaji is a well respected police man of the Prefacture W, until the day the 49 year old man turns himself in, confessing the murder of his wife that suffered from Alzheimers and requested to be killed before she forgets their only son, who tragedly died to illness.
Even though the case seems clear, there is a three-day window between the murder and Sochiro Kaji turning himself in, and his testimony has holes in it that Detective Inspector Kazumasa Shiki wants to resolve - but higher-ups are eager to close the case quickly, as a policeman committing murder is already seen as a big public disgrage.
What has Sochiro Kaji done in those elusive three days and why does he seem to harbour a wish to die once he turns 50?
Great book. Not sure if this one exists in english but other books revolving around the same Prefeacture do.
Das Ewigkeitsprojekt:
Dr. Sarah Berger wakes up one day and is seemingly the last person on earth, as all houses in her neighbourhood and the nearby train station are bereft of any signs of life. Soon after she gets a message on her laptop that the company that she works for has put her, allegedly with her agreeing to it, into the so called Eternity Project - a fully immersive virtual reality, intented to be a workspace free of distractions.
But some things don't add up and Sarah needs to as herself how to break out and how much time has passed since the project started.
Pretty good book. Not available in english.
Sweet Sweet Revenge LTD:
A greedy galleryst is shocked when he finds out he has a son - and tries to get rid of him by leaving the 18 years old young man literally on his own in the desert. Due to lucky circumstances he manages to survive, become a Massai and get back to Stockholm where he teams up with Jennifer, ex-wife of the greedy galleryst and also with the founder of Sweet Sweet Revenge LTD to come up with, you guessed it, a revenge plan that revolves around forged paintings, flour suspicously placed in plastic bags and a goat, all placed in the cellar of the galleryst. But things go haywire and more weird stuff happens as a result.
Good book. Story is lass zany than The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared, which makes for a more guided storyline but some humour is lost as a result.
Silenced:
Second book revolving around Fredrika Bergman, investigative analyst. 15 years ago: A young girl gets ambushed and raped. Now, a man is killed by getting run over with a car, with the driver nowhere to be found; and a priest and his wife commit suicide - but everyone who knows them claim that it must be murder.
Both cases have very few leads but one thing becomes clear as the investigations go on - the cases are connected in some way and hide a plethora of dark secrets that have a ripple effect reaching from crimes of the past all the way to this current case that is not finished causing victims, either.
Good book. Also similiarly grim as the first book.
Lacroix und die Toten vom Pont Neuf:
Police commissioner Lacroix, by some called the "new Maigret" has just returned when a crime strikes Paris: a homeless person, a so called Clochard, has been killed in his sleep. The next night the same thing happens - and the similiarities to a case from thirty years ago are striking. Can oldschool Lacroix solve this case and the old unresolved one?
Great book. Feels more like a travel guide and french cuisine recommendation book at times but the characters are likeable and the case was compelling. There are more entries in the series that I will read later. Not available in english.
The Darkness Knows:
When a corpse emerges from a thawing glacier, Konráds interest rises. Now that he is retired from police work, he still feels bad about not being able to solve this cold case from decades ago. As such, he is doing some research on his own, taking testimonies from everyone who was a person of interest back then.
Average book. Mostly a lot of talking to several witnesses and meager payoff.
Humans: An A-Z:
Short guide for earth visitors, detailing the importance of wearing clothes, why short grass is worshipped and why peanut butter is the best food on earth.
Pretty good book intented to be read after The Humans by the same author.
1414°:
Journalist Lou McCarthy has made it her life mission to expose the dark secrets of the powerful men running Sillicon Valley. When two of the most well known tech giants kill themselves after she publishes a newspaper article that was also based on wrong information, the public blame falls onto her and she loses her job.
All she can do now is find the real killer and decide to support their cause or not.
Decent book. Ending is weak.