
By Rick Veitch
By Rick Veitch
By Juan Gabriel Vásquez
ISBN-10: 1491583282
ISBN-13: 9781491583289
ISBN-10: 1594487480
ISBN-13: 9781594487484
ISBN-10: 159463274X
ISBN-13: 9781594632747
Juan Gabriel Vásquez has been hailed not just as considered one of South America’s maximum literary stars, but in addition as the most acclaimed writers of his new release. during this gorgeously wrought, award-winning novel, Vásquez confronts the historical past of his domestic nation, Colombia.
In town of Bogotá, Antonio Yammara reads an editorial a few hippo that had escaped from a derelict zoo as soon as owned via mythical Colombian drug kingpin Pablo Escobar. the thing transports Antonio again to whilst the conflict among Escobar’s Medellín cartel and govt forces performed out violently in Colombia’s streets and within the skies above. again then, Antonio witnessed a friend’s homicide, an occasion that haunts him nonetheless. As he investigates, he discovers the numerous ways that his personal existence and his friend’s kinfolk were formed via his country’s contemporary violent earlier. His trip leads him all of the as far back as the Nineteen Sixties and a global close to switch: a time earlier than narco-trafficking trapped a complete new release in a residing nightmare.
Vásquez is “one of the main unique new voices of Latin American literature,” in response to Nobel Prize winner Mario Vargas Llosa, and The Sound of items Falling is his such a lot own, so much modern novel up to now, a masterpiece that takes his writing—and will take his literary star—even higher.
By Kenneth Cameron
ISBN-10: 1402280823
ISBN-13: 9781402280825
ISBN-10: 1409132706
ISBN-13: 9781409132707
"Part ancient fiction, half mental mystery, Cameron's paintings is all page-turner."-Library magazine, STARRED Review
Sherlock has not anything on this lady in Nineties big apple, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's spouse hunts down a serial killer...
New York, January 1896. Arthur Conan Doyle, the well known created of Sherlock Holmes, arrives together with his spouse Louisa on the Britannic inn in big apple for his first American journey. whereas Arthur prepares his lectures, Louisa turns into entranced via the colourful, harmful city brimming with debauchery and iniquity round each nook. whilst a woman's mutilated corpse turns up in a Bowery alley, Louisa acknowledges the sufferer as a person she's noticeable within the resort. passionate about the woman's ugly dying, Louisa starts off piecing jointly clues to bare a narrative of homicide and depravity—a tale that leads again to the resort itself and a madman who's staring at her each circulation.
From 5th Avenue's glitzy opulence to the smoky boy's membership of the hot York exhibit and the Tombs of reduce Manhattan, wintry weather at Death's resort is an electrifying story of a society stuck within the throes of a narrative transformation and one lady made up our minds to redeem it at no matter what cost.
Praise for Winter at Death's Hotel
"Louisa is an interesting creation...Conan Doyle's spouse is a shrewdpermanent selection because the novel's critical personality, embodying the fears and aspirations of ladies of the interval, and the creative plot doesn't scale down the horrors she has to confront."—Sunday Times (UK)
"A well-realized secret that indicates promise for destiny books within the series."—Sunday enterprise Post (UK)
By Travis Anderson
By Leah Stewart
ISBN-10: 1501103512
ISBN-13: 9781501103513
ISBN-10: 1501103520
ISBN-13: 9781501103520
ISBN-10: 1681412861
ISBN-13: 9781681412863
How a lot are you able to fairly find out about the lady subsequent door?
Ninety-year-old Margaret Riley is content material hiding from the realm. Stoic and self reliant, she hardly leaves the Tennessee mountaintop the place she lives, discovering convenience within the secret novels that maintain her company—until she spots a lady who’s moved into the long-empty condo around the pond.
Her neighbor, Jennifer younger, can also be seeking to conceal. at the run from her outdated lifestyles, she and her four-year-old son, Milo, have moved to a quiet city the place nobody from her earlier can locate her.
In Jennifer, Margaret sees either a possible better half for her loneliness and a secret to be solved. She thinks if she says the appropriate factor, tells the appropriate tale, Jennifer will open up, yet Jennifer refuses to discuss herself, her son, his lacking father, or her previous. annoyed, Margaret crosses increasingly more barriers in pursuit of the reality, threatening to solve the recent existence Jennifer has so painstakingly created—and demonstrate a few secrets and techniques of her own…
By Daiyu Amaya
By Patrice Fitzgerald
We survived, yet simply barely.
AIRBORNE is the tale of an outbreak that has been unleashed to complete the activity. to figure out what number will stay… and the way many will die.
Dr. Melissa Van Meer is flying again east to provide a presentation that can get her out of the lab and in entrance of the folk with money--money for delivers to fund her study into life-saving inoculations for kids in constructing international locations. She’s heard in regards to the flu that’s racing around the globe, yet isn’t alarmed. After her years turning out to be up in India, the place she obtained a few scars of her personal, she’s obvious some distance worse.
Until she will get on a airplane the place one after the other the passengers are dying.
The pilot is subconscious. the opposite medical professionals are long past. The airport is closed.
Melissa’s no hero. yet she’s all they’ve got.
ISBN-10: 0001056085
ISBN-13: 9780001056084
October at the island of Rhodes is a veritable paradise of privateness, good looks, and calm—or so Hercule Poirot has imagined. the truth is kind of assorted, because the arrival of famed Chanel good looks Valentine Chantry factors a ripple of malice to be felt around the island. She captivates not less than one married guy along with her wiles and beauty, as her brooding husband watches on. Poirot senses that somebody has homicide of their center, and he guesses correct. As issues come to a sad head, in basic terms Poirot the quiet observer can piece jointly what has occurred during this lover’s triangle.
By Shayla McBride