Inkwizytor
Translated title: Inquisitor
Author: Smielak, Michal
Genre: Mystery
Year: 2025 | Pages: 520 | Origin: POL | BA Seq Num: 89720
A priest selling fake medallions with miraculous properties is burned alive in front of his church. The circumstances of the crime clearly indicate the return of the Inquisitor, a murderer who, according to the police, has been dead for two years?
At the same time, celebrity healer Jan Sarna receives a letter indicating that the previous order has been disrupted, and the murderer begins another bloody cycle. It quickly turns out that in this game, time is the most valuable currency, because from one day to the next and without any warning, the pyres begin to burn again.
How is it possible that the infamous Inquisitor has returned and returned to the path of crime? Or is his copycat responsible for the murder? Healers, healers and fortune tellers are struck with fear. The hunt begins.
Michal Smielak returns in the phenomenal and long-awaited sequel to The Quack
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?
Oblicza wampiryzmu
Translated title: Faces of Vampirism
Author: Flaga-Andrzejewska, Kaja
Genre: Short Stories
Year: 2024 | Pages: 214 | Origin: POL | BA Seq Num: 89746
14 illustrated stories about vampires set in different historical periods, presenting the ''life'' of the undead and the principles they should follow to survive
Dziewczyny wojenne
Translated title: War Girls
Author: Modelski, Lukasz
Genre: Short Stories / Social Novel
Year: 2025 | Pages: 440 | Origin: POL | BA Seq Num: 89743
11 incredible stories of extraordinary women.
Did they live in the city or in the countryside, did their lives look different, did they dream of something different? And suddenly a historical storm broke out and in one moment swept away their previous world. They all became warriors.
The war took away their youth and completely changed their lives. It brought new challenges that no one was prepared for, and which had to be faced. Dark times of difficult choices, heroic decisions and deeds that were paid for with blood - one's own, that of colleagues from the unit or those closest to them
Wiosna przynosi ukojenie
Translated title: Spring Brings Relief
Author: Wilczynska, Karolina
Genre: Social Novel / Family Saga
Year: 2024 | Pages: 304 | Origin: POL | BA Seq Num: 89766
Stop at Wrzosowa Polana, where the awakening nature greets the world with intense scents and colors, and brings solace to the inhabitants.
Diana tries to deal with the consequences of the fire, but her thoughts constantly revolve around what happened between her and Tobiasz. Should she tell her friend about everything? Or maybe it's better to forget?
Martyna can't come to terms with the changes and begins to regret the decisions she made. Krzysztof comes to her aid. What will come of it? Will the journalist finally manage to find peace?
Spring is also a difficult time for Greta. Her relationship with her daughter is far from good, but there is someone else nearby - little Julka, who finally has a chance to get her grandmother back
Perseidy
Author: Przydryga, Ewa
Genre: Crime / Mystery
Year: 2025 | Pages: 300 | Origin: POL | BA Seq Num: 89739
This one night can change your life. Or brutally end it. Traces of blood found at the crime scene give Justyna hope that Milena, her sister, is still alive. From the fragments of a nightmare from over twenty years ago, Justyna puts together an increasingly clear picture.
It turns out that on the night of the Perseids, a few months before her death, Milena and a group of friends go to a secluded Neolithic observatory, where she undergoes a mysterious ritual. However, not all of its participants will come out of the forest alive... Justyna stubbornly follows the secrets of her sister, although she knows that it may bring danger to her family.
Important clues lead to Obrzyce and a psychiatric hospital shrouded in a dark history. After opening the door behind which mass murders once took place, Justyna realizes that some secrets should remain buried alive. Forever
Opowiadania kresowe
Translated title: Borderland Stories
Author: Dorogusz-Doroszkiewicz, Antoni
Genre: Historical / Short Stories
Year: 2024 | Pages: 282 | Origin: POL | BA Seq Num: 89747
It happened in Kresy during the war, as well as fairy tales for children: 5 fairy tales for goodnight and Krolewska za Margerytke. I propose to readers a journey into the past - to the times when during World War II the eastern borders of Poland were under Soviet occupation, which settled there after the war. Reaching for the memories of witnesses, I look at this period from the perspective of the everyday life of people who found themselves in a situation completely new to them, exceeding all, even the darkest predictions. There is no great politics here, but there are small matters of everyday life, which have been fundamentally changed
Puste wygony
Translated title: Empty Fields
Author: Bulicz-Kasprzak, Kasia
Genre: Social Novel
Year: 2023 | Pages: 600 | Origin: POL | BA Seq Num: 89764
Tynczyn is covered with the gloomy clouds of occupation. In the new reality, people are convinced that just as one should not return to the past, it is better not to ask about the future. One must focus only on how to survive. Every evening, there is fear whether one will manage to survive the next day. The following days are like scraps torn from the bloody teeth of fate.
The young inhabitants of Tynczyn do not know everything about themselves yet, and they already have to pass an exam in maturity, decency, patriotism. Every day they lose hope and regain it anew. The war forces them to make decisions they would never have made, to choose paths they would never have taken. When the war dust settles, they will have to look each other in the eye and answer the question of what kind of people they are now
Opowiadania na jeden kes
Translated title: Bite-sized Stories
Author: Agaczewska, Izabella
Genre: Short Stories
Year: 2024 | Pages: 144 | Origin: POL | BA Seq Num: 89748
Bite-sized stories are short stories that will make you stop in your daily rush. You will stop to look at what surrounds you from a different perspective. Things that seem ordinary, but are so important in wandering here and now through the meanders of human fates. Sometimes a little thing bothers us and does not allow us to feel comfortable in our living space.
A small change can make us more joyful and open to happiness that is hidden in seemingly insignificant things. Sometimes it is not easy to notice them. Perhaps the stories included in the book will help you discover them. The time spent with the stories will be filled with reflection, emotion and a smile
Schronisko, które przestalo istniec
Translated title: The Shelter That Ceased to Exist
Author: Dolnoslaskie, Wydawnictwo
Genre: Thriller
Year: 2024 | Pages: 368 | Origin: POL | BA Seq Num: 89711
A young dentist, Maksymilian Rajczakowski, goes to the Karkonosze Mountains to take a break from his family problems. He is unaware of the secrets hidden in the wartime past of the mountains. Will he find what he is looking for?
The owner of the inactive Nad Snieznym Kotlami shelter dies in an unfortunate accident. Shortly after this tragedy, his nephew Maksymilian arrives on the scene. The man learns that before his death, his uncle was interested in the fate of another mountain shelter, which burned down in unexplained circumstances right after World War II.
As more facts come to light, Rajczakowski begins to suspect that his uncle's death was not an unfortunate twist of fate. Unaware of the danger lurking, he begins his own investigation. Soon he begins to receive threats from someone claiming to be the Spirit of the Mountains? If he does not solve the mystery in time, he will find himself in mortal danger.
The Shelter That Ceases to Exist opens a series of novels dedicated to the Karkonosze Mountains. These are suspenseful crime novels marked by family secrets, as well as a journey through forgotten trails of the past, dense with riddles and legends
