For everyone who is looking for atmospheric autumn reading, we have collected detective novelties from Ukrainian publications. Among them is the novel “new Agatha Christie” by Ruth Wea, the best-known Ukrainian thriller “Rose Medder” by Stephen King and the new one by Sary Pierce.
“Rose Medder”, Stephen King
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The best-selling book by Stephen King “Rose Medder”, published in 1995, was first published in Ukraine, which at the time was called the most brutal work of writing. The novel destroys the complex theme of domestic violence, which is much more difficult to talk about today, but there are at least 30 reasons for that. The main character, Rose Daniels, joins the role of a police officer who has beaten and humiliated her for ten years. You should arrive at an unknown place on Seredny Zahod, find a room, meet a person with whom you will fall in love. As if at the pawnshop she exchanges her old engagement ring for a painting, as if she wants it, the mysterious woman in the tunic wonders at Rose. The mystical picture gives Rose the opportunity to move into the other world and there help those who suffer.
“Rose Medder” is a motor-driven, complex book, as everyone who loves not only King, but stories about strong women deserves.
“Zero Days” by Ruth Weah
The new novel by Ruth Weah, “Agatha Christi of Our Hour”, one of the most popular current authors of psychological detective stories and thrillers, as she wrote “The Lady of Cabin No. 10”. Ruth Wea is 48 years old, she lives on the old coast of England and has a strong right to the creation of gloomy, lost stories, in the center of which there are women who waste in an unsafe situation, linked to murders.
The main characters of the book “Zero Days” are Jacinta and Gabe, fakhivs with penetration into security systems. Companies hire them to test their security systems, and the pair instead masterfully hack them. One day later, a man is killed, and Jacinta becomes one of the suspects. Having decided to take the plunge, she realizes that it’s time to find a killer and know who she can trust among family members, old friends and enemies… There are 400 pages on this page We will tell the story how the heroine runs into the police – and they learn a lot about her. Ruth Weah, in addition to telling stories and weaving unusual plots, makes this book worthy of all lovers of the detective genre.
“Sim Kosteliv. A Gothic novel from Prague”, Milos Urban
The publication of the novel by Milos Urban is a great reward for discovering modern Czech literature, and Urban is one of the most popular prose writers in the modern Czech Republic, a laureate of the prestigious literary award Magnesia Litera and the author of novels, which are most often screened in the Czech Republic. Similar to the novel “Sim Kosteliv”, which was published in 1998 and translated over 20 years in the world, appears in Prasia and immerses us in the alarming Gothic atmosphere of the place, and is best suited for reading in the spring.
The main intrigue of the novel revolves around a series of massacres that take place in the middle-century churches of Prague. The main hero, the secret misfortune in the name of K, who already loves his place, may decide who is a murderer and who is a victim, the first of whose power in life will be poorer. “Sim Kostel” will be appreciated by those who love gothic detective stories.
“Wilderness”, Sarah Pierce
A new novel by Sari Pierce, whose first two books, “Sanatorium” (2020) and “Retreat” (2022), became No. 1 bestsellers in the Sunday Times and New York Times. At the “Sanatorium,” Sarah Pierce introduced us to Elin Warner, a detective who, in the traumatic past, has been investigating paperwork. Pierce masterfully creates an atmosphere of motor-driven and cold tension, and the writing of his first novel, set in the Swiss Alps, was inspired by life in Switzerland and the history of sanatoriums in the region. Crans-Montana.
The plot of the new novel “The Wilderness” is set in Portugal, in the National Park, as one of the tourists, Kir Templer, knows. Detective Elin Warner gets drunk in that very park. Vaughn finds out about Kir's knowledge and sets her sights on the mysterious map painted as a girl. The locals of the camp nearby appear suspicious, the excessive nature is full of evil signs… Elin is trying to gather all the clues and understand what happened to Kir.
“All the Perfect Murders” by Peter Swanson
Tim, who loves ironic noir detective stories, has a lot of respect for the American author Peter Swanson (“Anniversary Girl to Replace the Heart” and “Better Killed in a Kind Way”). This fall, “The Old Lev's Revenant” will publish its new book, “All the Ideal Murders,” a detective story about detectives like those who work in the American province. Its main character is Malcolm Kershaw, a lover of detective stories and a bookstore lord in Boston. As if I’ve compiled a list of the most misunderstood evils of the genre – those that may be impossible to reveal. He called it “All the Ideal Murders.” Through several fates, an FBI agent showed up at the door of his bookstore, investigating a series of unsolved murders, which can be quickly guessed at the crimes from the old list. And, it seems, she’s not the only one who is obsessed with the book and spends her evenings on her own with a book in her hands. It looks like Mel will be followed by someone who knows a lot about him, who will reveal the darkest secrets that have been kept secret. To calm down, Mel himself begins to joke with the suspicious…
