Varg Gyllander
Varg Gyllander, being a Swedish CSI expert has found his own branch among the successful Swedish crime writers. In his official profession he is the spokes person at the Swedish National Criminal Police . Therefore Gyllander knows what he is writing about. His experience...
"Top-of-the-line thriller writing . . . you might want to lock the door, just to be safe." ~ Jeffery Deaver, New York Times bestselling author
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Edward Shank is retired, widowed, and living a boring life in the old folks' home. The former Chief of Police...
From the author of the critically acclaimed New York Times bestselling Archie Sheridan/Gretchen Lowell thrillers: The first in a nail-biting new series featuring Kick Lannigan, a young woman whose complicated past has given her a very special skill set.
Famously kidnapped at age six, Kick...
The dead talk. To the right listener, they tell us all about themselves: where they came from, who they are, how they lived, how they died - and who killed them. Through forensic medicine, a corpse, the scene of a crime or a single hair can reveal the secrets that hold the truth and allow...
How the Best Parents Learn to Let Go So Their Children Can Succeed
In 2013, The Atlantic published Jessica Lahey's eye-opening and provocative essay, "Why Parents Need to Let Their Children Fail." Within days, the piece had been shared tens of thousands of times across all the social...
“the missing backstory to an ongoing foreign policy tragedy.”
Ian Johnson, Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times correspondent
“A lively and well-balanced examination of American muddling and vacillating in the Middle East. Highly recommended for readers interested in modern Middle East...
Every Tim Harford book is cause for celebration. He makes the ‘dismal science’ seem like an awful lot of fun.” - Malcolm Gladwell, author of “The Tipping Point”
An Observer Book of the Year, 2013
Tim Harford’s first book, the global bestseller The Undercover Economist, was a sensation...
WHEN PARIS WENT DARK is a spellbinding and revealing chronicle of Nazi-occupied Paris and evokes with stunning precision the detail of daily life in a city under occupation. The book has already received fantastic praise—including this enthusiastic endorsement from our own Stacy Schiff:
Sally Howard, a self-confessed child of the Western Sexual Revolution, sets out on a 'sexploration' through modern India, travelling by train, plane and auto-rickshaw.
From the heat of anti-rape protest on the streets of New Delhi to the cool hills of Shimla, playground of the Raj; from a...
When her Uncle Arthur dies, actress Phyllida Law returns to the tiny Scottish village of Ardentinny to look after her ma, Mego. Mego’s always been deliciously dotty. She once put a new packet of tights in the fridge (and the bacon in her sock drawer). But Mego’s older now and becoming ever...
Over the course of the twentieth century, two men came to define and shape modern art as we know it. On opposite ends of the spectrum, Pablo Picasso emphasized skill (pro-art) and Marcel Duchamp, a famous French provocateur in art and a chess player by avocation, emphasized jokes and ideas in...
Jane Laine used to know a lot about art. But that was before she started managing a prominent gallery, and long before she met "it" artist Ian Rhys-Fitzsimmons. Jane can't seem to put a finger on what exactly is so "it" about his work. In fact, as far as she can tell, he's a big fraud and his...
The New York Times Book Review: “Sooner or later, a historical crime novel is bound to drag you down some dark alley and into the nastiest, most lawless precincts of the period. Jean Zimmerman followed this tradition in her first novel, The Orphanmaster, a descent into the hellish criminal...
Love Like the Movies
Pocket, February 2014. North American.
UK: Macmillan. Italy: Fanucci/Leggereditore. Russia: AST Publishers. Brazil: Verus Editora. Czech: Mlada fronta. Slovak: Fortuna Libri.
Manuscript available.
Kensington Shaw has it all, a great job, a gorgeous fiancé and...
LA MUJER LOCA Novel
200 pgs.
Spain and Latin America: Seix Barral, 2014
Portugal: Planeta Manuscrito
Egypt: The General Egyptian Book Organization
Serbia: RDP B92
Julia works at a fish stand and goes about her everyday life in Madrid -single, no kids, and at first glance with no...
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THE STORY HOUR by Thrity Umrigar
Harper, September 2014, 320 pages
Exciting news! We have a new Thrity Umrigar novel!
From the critically beloved, best-selling author of The World We Found and The Space Between Us comes a profound, heartbreakingly honest...
Brain Candy for expectant parents!
Pregnancy is an adventure.
Lots of books tell you the basics—“the baby is the size of [insert fruit here].” But pregnant science writer Jena Pincott began to wonder just how a baby might tinker with her body—and vice versa—and chased down answers to...
Heineken has all the ingredients of an engrossing business tale: a drama-filled family story; a brand that is instantly recognized by millions around the globe; in an industry full of ebullient characters – not least Freddy Heineken, the flippant heir who made the brand, and whose spectacular...
Over 100,000 copies sold.
MY FATHER ALWAYS EMBARRESSES ME
Efraim’s dad is always embarrassing him. Sleeping in late, singing loudly on his bike, telling silly stories about dwarves in dresses, and acting scared at the movies. Then comes the most embarrassing moment of all: he bakes the...
Joanna's brain is like an amusement park at peak season, an analog twitter. You could also call it ADHD, and as long as she eats her meds, it isn't a major problem. At least not compared to having a mother who is trying in vain to write a new novel, and a father who's apathetically sitting in...
