Seattle Noir

7 best books like Seattle Noir (Curt Colbert): The Tiger's Wife, Dead Man's Folly, Grizzly Years: In Search of the American Wilderness, Life of the Beloved: Spiritual Living in a Secular World, Wolves at Our Door: The Extraordinary Story of the Couple Who Lived with Wolves, Saker min son behöver veta om världen, White Butterfly

The Tiger's Wife

Author	Téa Obreht
ISBN	0385343833

Weaving a brilliant latticework of family legend, loss, and love, Téa Obreht, the youngest of The New Yorker’s twenty best American fiction writers under forty, has spun a timeless novel that will establish her as one of the most vibrant, original authors of her generation.

In a Balkan...

Dead Man's Folly

Author	Agatha Christie
ISBN	1572705477

Whilst organising a mock murder hunt for the village fete hosted by Sir George and Lady Stubbs, a feeling of dread settles on the famous crime novelist Adriane Oliver. Call it instinct, but it's a feeling she just can't explain...or get away from. In desperation she summons her old friend, Hercule Poirot...

Grizzly Years: In Search of the American Wilderness

Author	Doug Peacock
ISBN	0805045430

For nearly twenty years, alone and unarmed, author Doug Peacock traversed the rugged mountains of Montana and Wyoming tracking the magnificent grizzly. His thrilling narrative takes us into the bear's habitat, where we observe directly this majestic animal's behavior, from hunting strategies,...

Life of the Beloved: Spiritual Living in a Secular World

Author	Henri J.M. Nouwen
ISBN	0824519868

While I love Nouwen, I was disappointed by this work. I found it to be a beautiful depiction of the Gospel message with one vital omission: Christ. He speaks of us as being (like the bread of the Eucharist) taken, blessed, broken, and given. It is a wonderful way of presenting the role we play in this world,...

Wolves at Our Door: The Extraordinary Story of the Couple Who Lived with Wolves

Author	Jim Dutcher
ISBN	0743400496

A lyrical and revealing memoir of living with wolves, from the creators of the Emmy Award winning Discovery Channel documentary.

For centuries, wolves have haunted the human imagination. It has been accepted as conventional wisdom that they are savage predators, creatures of nightmare....

Saker min son behöver veta om världen

Author	Fredrik Backman
ISBN	9137138669

English title: "Things my son needs to know about the world".


"Till min son. Jag ber om din förlåtelse redan nu. För alla gånger jag kommer skämma ut dig. För charterresorna. Cowboyhatten. 'Riktiga män väger över 90 kilo'-t-shirten. För att jag gör min pappa-hade-rätt-och-mamma-hade-fel-dans...

White Butterfly

Author	Walter Mosley
ISBN	0743451775

The police don't show up on Easy Rawlins's doorstep until the third girl dies. It's Los Angeles, 1956, and it takes more than one murdered black girl before the cops get interested. Now they need Easy. As he says: "I was worth a precinct full of detectives when the cops needed the word in the ghetto." But...