International Literary Fiction

The alumni of an international boarding school have gathered at a campground in rural New Jersey when a scream breaks the silence of the woods. Classmates are shocked to find journalist Angie Osborne suddenly dead. The medical examiner’s report isn’t what anyone expects. Oddly, the death scene reminds anthropologist Duncan McCloud of a thovile, a Sri Lankan ritual he’s spent years studying.

Varg Veum receives a surprise visit in his office. A woman introduces herself as his half sister, and she has a job for him. Her goddaughter, a 19-year-old trainee nurse from Haugesund, moved from her bedsit in Bergen two weeks ago. Since then no one has heard anything from her. She didn't leave an address. She doesn't answer her phone. And the police refuse to take her case seriously. Veum's investigation uncovers a series of carefully covered up crimes and pent-up hatreds....

In a quiet Dublin suburb, within her pristine home, Eleanor Costello is found hanging from a rope. Detective Chief Superintendent Frankie Sheehan would be more than happy to declare it a suicide. Four months ago, Frankie's pursuit of a killer almost ended her life. But the autopsy reveals poorly healed bones and old stab wounds, absent from medical records. A new cut is carefully, deliberately covered in paint. Eleanor's husband, Peter, is unreachable, missing. A search of the couple's home reveals only two signs of personality.

Private investigator Heredia spends his days reading detective novels; commiserating with his cat, Simenon; and peering out over the Mapocho River from his Santiago apartment. The city he loves may be changing, but Heredia can't stop chasing the ghosts of the past. This time, they've come to him...

Peru, the 1980s and 1990s: It was a cruel, bloody and terrifying era. The rebels of Sendero Luminoso ("Shining Path"), founded by philosophy professor, Abimael Guzman, slaughtered vilagers in the mountains and hung dogs from power lines, their carcasses canvases for Maoist slogans. The government responded with a corrosive mix of assasination, bribery and intrigue which brought down the rebel leader but triggered the fall of the president.

Lori Anderson is as tough as they come, managing to keep her career as a fearless Florida bounty hunter separate from her role as single mother to nine-year-old Dakota, who has leukaemia. But when the hospital bills start to rack up, she has no choice but to take her daughter along on a job that will make her a fast buck.

Ellie McEnroe is an Iraq War vet living in Beijing, where she represents the work of cutting-edge Chinese political artists. She has one bum leg, a taste for dumplings and beer, and a sweet-tempered rescue mutt for a roommate. She also has Chinese Domestic Security on her tail and a dwindling number of Percocets to get her through her bad days.

Already struggling to keep their tiny congregation afloat, two Mormon missionaries stationed in the dangerous Latin American neighborhood of Vila Barbosa suspect the worst when Marco Aurelio, a man they recently baptized, disappears from a crowded street market. When the neighborhood's corrupt police force shows no interest, Elder Toronto and Elder Schwartz decide to investigate Marco Aurelio's disappearance themselves.

Che cosa unisce Jordan Marsalis, fratello del sindaco di New York ed ex tenente di polizia, e Maureen Martini, commissario di polizia a Roma? Apparentemente nulla. Eppure, per strade e vicissitudini diverse, si troveranno uniti in un'indagine su un beffardo assassino che compone i corpi delle sue vittime come i personaggi dei Peanuts, dopo averle seviziate nei modi più efferati.

В детстве Байрон и Бенни были неразлучны, однако, повзрослев, брат и сестра не только отдалились друг от друга, но и вообще перестали общаться. Впервые за восемь лет они встречаются на похоронах Элинор, их матери, которая вместе с завещанием оставила им в наследство испеченный ею черный торт, символизирующий в их семье счастье и любовь, — оставила в надежде, что Байрон и Бенни сумеют преодолеть разногласия и восстановить былую дружбу.

NOBELPRISET I LITTERATUR 2012 Bönderna i Paradisets län har länge levt under svåra omständigheter. Regeringen har uppmanat dem att odla vitlök, men överproduktion gör snart grödan osäljbar. Bönderna kan bara med smärta se på när skörden ruttnar på fälten under den gassande solen. Missnöjet exploderar i ett våldsamt upplopp. I den skoningslösa våg av massarresteringar som följer krossas familjer, vänner och älskande. Vitlöksballaderna är en brutal och förgörande vacker roman, om en grupp bönders uppror mot den korrupta och maktfullkomliga kinesiska byråkratin under åttiotalet.

For decades, the Reverend Sammy Milton was a force in American politics. An outspoken leader of the Religious Right, Milton divided his time between evangelizing the lost and galvanizing conservative voters. His rhetoric was polarizing, his positions were divisive, and he garnered many enemies over the years. When news outlets carried word of his death, many openly expressed joy at his passing.

Mary Margaret “Mame” Blackwell yearns for a way out of the sleepy little town of Beckley. After a coal mine explosion kills her father in 1922, pretty little Mame is not willing to accept her mother’s hardscrabble plan for farming burley tobacco in rural West Virginia, but trying to survive in a nearly deserted coal mining town without a father in the early 1900s is anything but easy. When Mame eagerly leaves home on her first trip to Charleston at age 19, she meets tobacco heir Clint Paddington and sees her chance to move up in the world.

Louise och Magdalena är tvillingar. De har växt upp tillsammans, upplevt samma saker och delar gemensamma erfarenheter. Ändå har de helt skilda uppfattningar och minnen av vad som egentligen hänt. Genom Magdalenas och Louise olika perspektiv rullas en gripande familjehistoria upp. En historia om lögner och hemligheter och vilka konsekvenser det får när man väljer att hålla tyst om sanningen. Kristine Lorentzon arbetade i många år som tjänsteman inom den offentliga sektorn, innan hon blev författare och föredragshållare på heltid.

Mary Shields is a moody, acerbic probation officer dealing with some of Glasgow’s worst cases, and her job is on the line. Liam Macdowall was imprisoned for murdering his wife, and he’s published a series of letters to the dead woman, in a book that makes him an unlikely hero - and a poster boy for Men’s Rights activists. Liam is released on licence into Mary’s care, but things are far from simple. Mary develops a poisonous obsession with Liam and his world, and when her son and Liam’s daughter form a relationship, Mary will stop at nothing to impose her own brand of justice.

During the summer of 1997, a series of bombings terrorize Havana hotels. The targets are tourists, and the terrorists are exiles seeking to cripple Cuban tourism and kill the revolution. After Mano finds himself helpless to save one of the victims, his nemesis Colonel Emilio Perez of the National Revolutionary Police recruits him into Havana's top-secret Wasp Network of spies for a job that only he can perform - but for reasons he never would have believed or expected.

He’s seen something that could get him killed. But what? Freddie Makin is a spy for hire. For a year he’s been watching Jiang Cheng, an academic whose life seems suspiciously normal. To Freddie it’s just a job: he never asks who’s paying him and why - until the day someone is sent to kill him, and suddenly the watcher becomes the watched. On the run from whoever wants him dead, Freddie knows he must have seen something incriminating. The only trouble is, he has no idea what. Is the CIA behind all this - or does it go higher than that? Have his trackers uncovered his own murky past?

Prague in the 1950s is a city of numerous small terrors, of political tyranny, corruption, and surveillance. There is no way of knowing whether one's neighbor is spying for the government, or what one's supposed friend will say under pressure to a state security agent. A loyal party member might be imprisoned or executed as quickly as a traitor; innocence means nothing for a person caught in a government trap.

Instantly reminiscent of the work of Osamu Dazai and Patricia Highsmith, Fuminori Nakamura's latest novel is a dark and twisting house of mirrors that philosophically explores the violence of aesthetics and the horrors of identity. A young writer arrives at a prison to interview a convict. The writer has been commissioned to write a full account of the case, from its bizarre and grisly details to the nature of the man behind the crime.

Iris nya liv ska äntligen ta sin början. Livet hon längtat efter. Snart åker flyttlasset till Fårö, till den lilla campingen där hon och Filip var så lyckliga i somras. Där tänker de rusta upp stället inför den kommande säsongen och göra deras nya hem lämpligt för en barnfamilj – för om bara några månader ska två bli tre. De hinner inte ens inleda sitt efterlängtade samboskap förrän Iris pappa Ove kommer med upprörande nyheter – hennes mamma vill skiljas.