On a January day the Reykjavik police are called to a block of flats where a body has been found: a young boy frozen to the ground in a pool of his own blood. The discovery of a stab wound on his stomach extinguishes any hope that this was an accident. Erlendur & his team embark on their investigation with little to go on.
Hailed by Washington Post Book World as “the best [translation] currently available" when it was first published, this second edition has been updated in honor of the 200th anniversary of Dostoevsky’s birth. With the same suppleness, energy, and range of voices that won their translation of The Brothers Karamazov the PEN/Book-of-the-Month Club Prize, Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky offer a brilliant translation of Dostoevsky's astounding pyschological thriller, newly revised for his bicentenniel. When Raskolnikov, an impoverished student living in the St. Petersburg of the tsars, commit... continue
Kommissar Van Veeteren und Inspektor Barbarotti auf der Spur eines Mörders, der alle zum Narren hält. Kommissar Van Veeteren - mittlerweile im Ruhestand, aber so legendär wie eh und je - bereitet sich innerlich darauf vor, seinen 75. Geburtstag zu feiern, als ein früherer Kollege auftaucht, um ihm von einem alten Fall zu berichten. Damals waren in einer Pension in Oosterby vier Menschen ums Leben gekommen, die nur eines gemeinsam hatten: die Mitgliedschaft in einem "Verein der Linkshänder". Da das fünfte am Treffen teilnehmende Mitglied verschwunden war, wurde der Mann schnell als Täter identi... continue
Antes de la Revolución había diez Familias, una para cada Poder.
Ahora solo quedan ocho.
Aura desapareció. De Dominio, la Familia Imperial, solo queda un mal recuerdo.
Casi veinte años después, los estudiantes del Liceo de la Guardia de Blyd se entrenan para proteger con su magia a una sociedad que hace años que vive en paz. Pero cuando la sombra de Dominio vuelve a sobrevolar el país, un grupo de estudiantes tendrá que enfrentarse a los secretos del pasado… sin revelar los suyos.
What's a lie among friends? It's murder--in this riveting thriller by Viveca Sten, bestselling author of Tonight You're Dead... It's Midsummer's Eve, the celebration of the longest day of the year, and on Sandhamn it's the longest party of the year. But the fun comes to a dead halt when a young reveler is murdered, a teenage girl is found drugged and dazed on the beach, and other young women vanish. So far, what links the victims is a mystery. For Nora Linde and her new boyfriend, Jonas Sköld, the crimes are personal: one of the missing girls is Wilma, Jonas's daughter. And her disappearance c... continue
Czech Holocaust memoirist, literary translator and political exile Heda Margolius Kovly turned her pen to fiction. Inspired by Chandler, Kovaly knit her own terrifying experiences in early 1950s Socialist Prague: her husband's imprisonment and wrongful execution and her own persecution at his disgrace, into a smart and evocative psychological thriller-cum-detective novel. Set in and around a cinema where a murder was recently committed, follows the unfolding of the investigation while telling the stories of the women who work there as ushers, each of whom is forced to support herself.
Le bruit saccadé de la machine à écrire le réveilla et il vit, comme d'habitude, les draps pâles du lit de sa femme de l'autre côté de la table de nuit. Qui avait décidé qu'il y aurait des lits jumeaux ? Après dix-huit ans, il n'aurait pu le dire avec certitude. D'ailleurs, les événements de cette époque-là étaient confus et, pour des raisons qu'il n'essayait pas de démêler, il préférait les chasser de sa mémoire. C'était probablement elle. Et il n'avait pas protesté. Il ne protestait jamais. En définitive, il ne leur était pas arrivé une seule fois de dormir ensemble.