Potrzask
Translated title: Trap
Author: Jez, Agnieszka
Genre: Horror / Crime
Year: 2025 | Pages: 336 | Origin: POL | BA Seq Num: 89724
A ritual murder referring to the dark history of the region or a spectacle prepared to distract the police? A body is found in a former quarry. The dead man's head was cut off and a wooden stake was driven into his chest.
Commissioner Sonia Kranz, looking at the scene of the crime, feels that it was prepared to push the investigation in the wrong direction. Associations with old rituals seem improbable - until it turns out that over three hundred years ago a ghost prowled in this very place, molesting women, scaring and killing animals.
The local community passed a posthumous sentence on him, beheading him and driving an aspen stake through his heart. Does the story recorded in the archives of Ksiaz Castle have any connection with the contemporary murder?
Or maybe the explanation will be the strange tattoo discovered on the murdered man's thigh? Sonia Kranz conducts an investigation, connecting dots that lie far apart. In her private life, she also deals with dots - she must finally decide whether to place the one, the most important one. What choice will he make?
Kusnierz
Translated title: Furrier
Author: Koscielny, Piotr
Genre: Horror / Crime
Year: 2024 | Pages: 556 | Origin: POL | BA Seq Num: 89737
The area around Wschowa is shaken by a series of brutal murders.
Investigators give the murderer the pseudonym Kusnierz. However, the time of political transformation in the country is not conducive to solving the case, and the degenerate remains unpunished for a long time. During the hunt for the psychopath, more people die. Finally, the perpetrator is caught. Many years later, psychiatrists are convinced that Kusnierz will not stop killing, and the only solution is to permanently place him in a center for beasts.
Over the years in isolation, the murderer falls into deeper and deeper depths of madness. He blames his wife and son for his imprisonment. During transport to Gostynin, he manages to escape. Why do the authorities conceal the fact of his escape? Will Commissioner Marek Mikulski manage to stop him before he settles the score of wrongs? Or maybe Kusnierz has understood his mistakes and will want to fix them? Is evil hereditary? Piotr Koscielny once again takes us to the dark corners of the human psyche, where the worst fears and darkest secrets are hidden
Medea z Wyspy Ognia
Translated title: Medea from the Island of Fire
Author: Knedler, Magda
Genre: Social Novel
Year: 2024 | Pages: 320 | Origin: POL | BA Seq Num: 89763
After the tragic events in Falkenberg Palace and the conflict with Johann, Medea moves to Breslau. She lives there comfortably, but she is not happy. In difficult times, she is helped by psychiatrist Horst Achilles Lange.
A feeling develops between them and they both plan a future together. Just before the outbreak of World War I, Horst receives a letter from a friend, whom he decides to help. Medea is left alone in Breslau. Her beloved sets off towards the Eastern Front and disappears.
No one knows what happened to him, and he himself has no idea that he left in the city, now transformed into a fortress, not only his fiancée
Otuleni syberyjskim wiatrem. Zdeptane nadzieje
Translated title: Wrapped in the Siberian Wind: Trampled Hopes
Series: Book 1
Author: Piasecka, Wioletta
Genre: Social Novel
Year: 2025 | Pages: 336 | Origin: POL | BA Seq Num: 89765
The fight for freedom is shadowed by love and sacrifice. In the Polish lands occupied by the Russian Empire, persecution of insurgents for their independence struggle continues. To make matters worse, a cholera epidemic spreads in Krzemieniec, reaping a deadly toll. Meanwhile, sisters Zofia and Jozefa Rzazewski enter the most beautiful time of youth, filled with passions, dreams, hopes, and disappointments.
Each experiences their first romantic failures in their own way. One day, an emissary, Szymon Konarski, arrives in Krzemieniec, trying once again to revive the Polish people's desire to fight for independence. Initially, people are reluctant to get involved, fearing persecution, confiscation of property, and exile deep into Russia.
A true story of love, struggle, hope, and the strength of women set against the turbulent backdrop of the partition period. A grand epic of Polish women's fates in a time of persecution, separation, and patriotic ideals
Zwierz
Translated title: Beast
Author: Koscielny, Piotr
Genre: Crime
Year: 2024 | Pages: 512 | Origin: POL | BA Seq Num: 89736
The body of a young girl is discovered in Wroclaw. An experienced police commissioner, Marek Mikulski, is assigned to the case. Soon, two more bodies are discovered in the forest near Wolow.
When the policeman discovers a mysterious letter attached to them, he begins to suspect that he is dealing with a serial killer. The psychopath, using the pseudonym Zwierz, warns that he will continue to murder. He commits cruel crimes, leaving no trace behind.
Is a perfect crime possible? Who is the mysterious Zwierz? What game is he playing?
Wody czerwone
Translated title: Red Waters
Author: Kunderman, Agata
Genre: Thriller
Year: 2024 | Pages: 448 | Origin: POL | BA Seq Num: 89714
In a small town on the Polish-Czech border, time passes slowly, and the residents have become accustomed to a gentle rhythm of life. However, the arrival of spring is accompanied by events that may forever disturb the peace of the local community. It is March 2022, when police officers from Ladek Zdroj are called to a mysterious discovery in the forest - barrels filled with a strange liquid. Toxic waste that could poison the soil and water is not all that the forest has been hiding for years. A human skeleton is discovered in one of the barrels. A testimony to a past that was supposed to be forgotten.
The prosecutor's office starts an investigation, headed by the ambitious Feliks Niemilko, who was sent to the province for his sins. Working with the prosecutor is a young policewoman, Anita Starska, who finds it hard to accept the fact that death and fear lurk in her beloved mountains. Will Niemilko and Starska discover the truth they must seek in the dark past? How will they cope with the fact that with each card they reveal, new mysteries and more macabre discoveries appear?
A hermetic community hiding its own secrets, huge money associated with garbage gangs and a past whose shadows do not let you forget about itself. All surrounded by picturesque mountains and forests that can be both a shelter and a nest of evil
Laska
Translated title: Grace
Author: Kantoch, Anna
Genre: Crime
Year: 2024 | Pages: 472 | Origin: POL | BA Seq Num: 89733
The year is 1955. Six-year-old Marysia is found in the forest, having disappeared a few days earlier. The girl is covered from head to toe in dried blood, but she does not remember what happened to her or how she managed to survive alone in the forest.
Thirty years later, the adult Maria works as a teacher in a local primary school and takes care of her dying aunt. The only memory of the traumatic events from the past is the mysterious figure of the Potato Man. The case returns when Wojtek, the class scapegoat, instead of a quiz, gives a drawing that looks deceptively like her companion from the forest.
The boy asks for help, and the same day he is found in the park, hanging from a branch.
When more victims appear, the police begin to look into the case seriously. However, Maria, convinced that the solution lies in her memory, begins her own investigation.
A masterfully constructed crime story set in the depressing winter of the eighties - as if the characters from True Detective had been transported to Smarzowski's House of the Evil. A novel by the winner of the Wielki Kaliber Award
Zbrodnia przed polnoca
Translated title: Crime Before Midnight
Author: Rogala, Malgorzata
Genre: Crime / Mystery
Year: 2025 | Pages: 368 | Origin: POL | BA Seq Num: 89730
Were they supposed to live happily ever after? Early Spring in Full Moon. After years, Antoni and his fiancée return to their hometown. The couple buy a house, get married in a church on a hill, and organize a wedding in a guesthouse by the lake. Antek's old friends and closest family are present at the party. When the party is in full swing, the bride dies in front of the guests. It soon turns out that she was poisoned. Who killed Judyta? What was the perpetrator's motive? Or maybe the girl died by mistake? Deputy Commissioner Monika Gniewosz and Senior Warrant Officer Tadeusz Sokol conduct an investigation, but the actions they take do not bring them even a step closer to solving the mystery. As if that were not enough, Kornelia, Monika's daughter, disappears. A race against time begins. The policewoman, torn between her professional duty and the desire to protect her loved ones, must once again fight for the safety of her family
Uwierz jej
Translated title: Believe Her
Author: Czornyj, Max
Genre: Crime / Thriller
Year: 2025 | Pages: 432 | Origin: POL | BA Seq Num: 89728
THIS STORY IS AS ADDICTIVE AS LOVE. YOU WILL FALL MADLY IN LOVE WITH ANTONIA. YOU WILL WANT TO SPEND EVERY FREE MOMENT WITH HER.
There's a corpse at Antonia's feet. And maybe there's nothing unusual about that. The police commissioner sees the deceased with his own eyes, and there's a lot to suggest that the man died an unusual death. The door was locked from the inside, and there were only two people in the room. He and Antonia... Antonia doesn't want to beat around the bush. She'll tell what happened, and yet she's certain she won't end up behind bars. But first she's going to ask the commissioner for something. Let him listen to her story. Then she can do whatever she wants. You, too, listen to this story. Antonia's requests can only be refused once. Once in a lifetime.
ARE ANTONIA AND HER COUSIN SAFE? AFTER ALL, THE REAFER IS STILL AT FREE - A CRUEL SERIAL KILLER WHO LEAVES A UNIQUE SIGNATURE ON HIS VICTIMS. A SIGNATURE OF MADNESS
Agnieszka i szlachcic
Translated title: Agnieszka and the Nobleman
Author: Feliksik, Gabriela
Genre: Social Novel
Year: 2025 | Pages: 304 | Origin: POL | BA Seq Num: 89753
Jadwiga is born in a poor peasant's cottage. When her mother dies, Duchess Helena Lubomirska arrives, seeking redress for the woman she brutally raped by Prince Lubomirski. She takes the child to her manor to raise her. The girl grows up with the duchess's children, unaware of the truth about her father. When the duchess's son becomes interested in Jadwiga, she quickly marries her off to a common peasant.
Bartosz brutally treats his wife, so she decides to flee from him. With the help of her friend, Klara Lubomirska, she travels to Kraków and takes the name Agnieszka Machówna. She meets and falls in love with a nobleman, Colonel Michal Taralski. She is willing to commit bigamy to escape her peasant life.
The novel is inspired by the life of a real-life figure, Agnieszka Machowna, who caused a huge scandal in 17th-century Poland
