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Another day dawns over the Houses of Parliament and Maxwell Murray, Chief of Staff, researcher and what sometimes feels like nanny to the hapless MP Eliot Oakcroft, has much to do. Invitations for Oakcroft to consider, party correspondence, and, here and there, some legitimate constituency business. All while keeping the honourable member for Middlebury-Mid out of trouble and the inevitable media spotlight.But today, theres something a little different. Miranda Cley is seeking Eliots help to free her mother from prison. After all, she cant have murdered Mirandas father, Charlie, if Miranda has just seen him alive and well. Max and his assistant Diana are on the case, wafting the scent of a possible career-making miscarriage of justice Eliots way. But as the mystery of Charlie Cleys disappearance unravels, it quickly becomes clear that investigating could jeopardise not just their careers but their very lives. Drawing on his own parliamentary history (with all due discretion, of course), David Weir brings us a witty new crime series set among the colourful power brokers of contemporary politics.

December, 1145. Hamelin Isenmongere, trader in iron and charcoal from Gloucester, is considered by many to be the most popular man in Worcester. Why then is he found on the quayside near his warehouse with his head beaten in? As the winter bites, Undersheriff Hugh Bradecote, Serjeant Catchpoll and Walkelin begin the hunt for a killer. However, matters are complicated when evidence leads them to Worcester Ccastle itself and the hunt for a spy in the midst of complicated political crosscurrents. Bradecote, Catchpoll and Walkelin must uncover whether the murder was an act of betrayal from close to home, or one that casts a shadow over the fight for Englands crown.

When Nico receives a phone call late at night, he tries to ignore it. A phone call at that time could only mean trouble. Sure enough, its Perillo of the local carabinieri. A woman was found dead in her home, and the only person at the scene of the crime only speaks English. Nico reluctantly agrees to help Perillo with the case. Judging by the crime scene, Perillo and Nico determine foul play was likely, and they dont have to look long for suspects. Following the death of her husband, the late Signora Nora had taken on a number of lovers, her two daughters arent on the best terms with her, and theres a lot to be gained from the sale of her residence. Nico and Perillo have their hands full as they try to solve the murder and restore peace to the otherwise sleepy Gravigna.First published as The Road to Murder. Travel to the cyprus-lined roads of Tuscany in this new installment of acclaimed author Camilla Trinchieris warm, engaging, and deliciously unpredictable mystery series.

Ex-NYPD homicide detective Nico Doyle investigates the murder of a local bartender in the Tuscan countryside.On a late October Sunday morning in Gravigna, local maresciallo Perillo is having breakfast with ex-NYPD detective Nico Doyle when he is called back to the station in Greve. Laura Benati, the young manager of Hotel Bella Vista, is worried-her bartender and good friend eighty-year-old Cesare Costanzi has been missing for three days.The next morning, Jimmy, co-owner of Bar AllAngolo, Gravignas local caf , where Nico is a frequent patron, runs out of gas on his way back from Florence. When Nico meets him to help, Nicos dog, OneWag, reacts to the smell coming from Jimmys trunk. Inside Nico finds a body wrapped in plastic: Cesare Costanzi, stabbed several times in the chest.Why would anyone kill Cesare, and how did he end up in Jimmys car? Thats for Nico to find out, as Perillo once again turns to Nico for help with the investigation.First published as Murder on the Vine.

Malti Patel is absolutely fine. Concussed and bruised, maybe, but fine. Certainly fine enough to not need her daughters soon-to-be-ex-husband, Nathan Whitlock, playing nurse in her home while she recuperates. And yet her doctor insists on in-home supervision for seven days, and with her daughter, Kavya, studying in India, Nathan proves too much of a do-gooder to let Malti rehabilitate alone. They want nothing to do with one another. But over the course of the week, as Malti grapples with the shadows of her past and Nathan ponders the wreckage of his marriage, they learn that they are the two people who know Kavya best - and the ones who have hurt her so deeply that shes left them both entirely.Rich with emotional depth, Some People paints a nuanced portrait of love, forgiveness and our timeless quest for understanding and acceptance.

When Nazi forces invade Oslo, quiet librarian Liv Dahl becomes an unlikely resistance leader, risking everything to safeguard secrets and lives. As danger tightens around her, Liv must outwit Gestapo agents, protect hidden allies, and navigate a forbidden romance with a mysterious spy. But when betrayal strikes and Liv is deported to Ravensbruck concentration camp, survival becomes her only mission. An unforgettable heart-wrenching story of a woman who dares to resist, and the quiet heroism that changes the course of lives including her own.

Its summer in London, and things are quiet. But while Holmes and Watson chafe at their inactivity, a train, carrying a vital encoded communication, is entering a tunnel in an obscure region of the Balkans - never to be seen again.The case of the disappearing train is only the beginning of the nations difficulties. The missing message must be found and decoded, and a diplomats wife must be rescued from the clutches of a pernicious blackmailer.The nation is in danger, and if a diplomatic scandal of disastrous proportions is to be avoided, Sherlock Holmes brilliance may not be enough.

A dark mystery for Sherlock Holmes. and of course Mrs Hudson!A man is accidentally knocked down outside 221B Baker Street by a carriage. His dying words are he has seen a man rise from the grave. At the same time a visitor arrives with a mystery of unparalleled international importance. The Viscount Wrexham is missing, presumed dead, in strange circumstances. In the North, rumours stir of a dead man haunting the moors. Broomheath Hall is, apparently, beset by ghostly lights and spectres. What does it all mean? Can arcane knowledge bring people back from the dead? And what is the connection with the Cumberland town of Alston? The redoubtable Mrs Hudson - Sherlock Holmes housekeeper and the Great Detectives best kept secret - and her assistant Flotsam are once again thrown into dark adventure full of gripping twists and murderous intrigue. Together with Holmes and Dr. Watson they must race against the forces of darkness to uncover the truth behind the mysterious document known as the Lazarus Testament. As mystery after mystery is slowly uncovered, everyones future hangs in the balance. The puzzle must be solved. But not before a slice of Dundee cake...

Winner of the Mishima Yukio Prize Winner of the Tsubota Joji Literature Prize Nominated for the Akutagawa PrizeTraveling Practice follows a novelist and his spirited niece as they embark on a walk across the Japanese countryside during the last days before the pandemic. Through their journey, the book masterfully explores themes of memory and the power of writing to capture fleeting moments and preserve them. Nominated for the prestigious Akutagawa Prize and winner of both the Mishima Yukio Prize and the Tsubota Joji Literature Prize, Traveling Practices quiet, reflective tone and focus on the characters inner lives elevate it beyond a simple travel story, establishing it as a significant work of literary fiction.

This is a story of love between a father and a son. 13-year-old Ved is a sweet, inquisitive boy living in a world where love must hide in plain sight. His adoptive father, Da, is his entire universe fiercely loving, fiercely protective, harbouring a secret that could destroy them both: Da is gay at a time when Section 377 makes homosexuality a crime. Set in an Indian metropolis in 2013, Da is a tender story of a boy caught between devotion and fear, chronicling the everyday courage it takes to love someone the world refuses to accept.

In the dozy Danish provinces, death hides among the dusty bricabracThe elderly volunteers at the second-hand shop keep dropping dead. Heart attacks. Strokes. A simple case of old age, say the police. Sad but inevitable.Newly retired Mrs Mortensen begs to differ. This "Danish Miss Marple" and her dachshund, Mortensen III, sniff a sinister pattern.Sharptongued, sharpeyed, and fueled by justice and cake, Mrs Mortensen launches her own probe, stirring gossip, grudges, and small-town spats. The deeper she digs, the surer she gets... someones picking off shop volunteers, one "oops" at a time.Can this tea-spiller out-sleuth a sly slayer before she (or Mortensen III) becomes the next "accidental" casualty?Forget Scandi Noir: this is hygge homicide with a giggle. Perfect for fans of cheeky whodunnits, Scandinavian mysteries and Hannah Hendys "The Dinner Lady Detectives".

She felt like a woman imprisoned in a luxurious room; to whom visitors are admitted; whose life goes on very much as it has always done; but who is conscious that if she lifted the thick carpet she would gaze down into a pit of wild beasts. Julia Glynn is the very model of a prim and well-conducted bourgeois Catholic wife, a regular Mass-goer and president of her local charitable society. Her crippled husband, Michael, is the richest man in town, held in awe by bankers and bishops alike. In his illness he is dutifully tended to by the household manservant, Stephen Lydon, and by his handsome young nephew, Doctor Jim. As Michaels condition worsens, their friend Father Victor proposes a pilgrimage to Lourdes. When Julia begins receiving a series of obscene anonymous letters detailing her sexual infidelities with Jim, her suspicions fall on the sinister Stephen, who both attracts and repels her. As the day of departure to Lourdes approaches, the heart of an Irish small town as watchful as the jungle is laid bare, its inhabitants stripped of their respectable clothes to reveal an elemental sensuality. The Pilgrimages depiction of sexual need in 1950s Ireland led to its banning by the Censorship Board in 1961. Retitled The Chameleons in 1965, it sold over 100,000 copies in America. This reissue restores Broderick to his rightful place alongside McGahern, OBrien and OFaolain, taking a new generation of readers on a unique pilgrimage of the body. A preface to the French edition by Julien Green is here translated for the first time.

Willie Ryan returns to his home town in the great central plain of Ireland, having escaped from the insane asylum where he was committed, and unvisited, by his devout Catholic family for twenty-five years. The given pretext for his commitment was an attack on his sister-in-law, Mary Ryan, wife of his brother Michael. The true reason: an affair with a hedonistic young man who introduced him to art, literature and music. In this exposee; of the petty bourgeois snobbishness, hypocrisies and pretensions of the little grocers republic of 1950s Ireland, nothing evil happens as long as it is not seen. Through Willies piercing vision, we see the truth of his brother Michaels grief and remorse, his nephew Chriss fear of freedom, and the perceptiveness of asylum nurse Halloran. As Willie prepares for death, he agrees to a private family mass, setting the stage for a confrontation with father Mannix, one of those complicit in putting him away.

Every city has its ghosts. Ravn just hunts the ones that still breathe.Former investigator, Thomas Ravnsholdtknown as Ravndrifts like wreckage along Copenhagens harbour, numbed by cheap liquor and old wounds. But his peace is shattered when a desperate young woman shows up, pleading for help: her brother has vanished after stealing millions.The trail leads Ravn from the windy docks of Copenhagen to Berlin, where ghosts of the Cold War still linger: Stasi files, double agents, and brutality that never truly came to an end. Ravn soon realises that the missing is not merely lost, but ensnared in a deadly web.Dark and unnerving, The Missing blends a classic disappearance mystery with Nordic Noir slow-burning tension. Perfect for fans of Jo Nesbs and Jussi Adler-Olsens haunted detectives.

Décimo romance de um dos autores mais inventivos da literatura brasileira contemporânea, autor de O cheiro do ralo e O livro dos mortos. Neste livro envolvente e extremamente engenhoso, Lourenço Muta

DA AUTORA DO BEST-SELLER INTERNACIONAL CASAMENTO PERFEITOAlexis Spencer chegou ao fundo do poço. No bastasse perder o emprego, o amor de sua vida resolveu terminar com ela. Sem saber o que fazer, resta-lhe amaldiçoar a Alexis mais jovem por ter feito escolhas to terriveis. Ela so no imaginava que suas palavras a fariam acordar em 2002, no meio de seu antigo campus universitario. Agora, ela ira precisar encarar a sua verso mais jovem e confrontar tudo o que acreditava saber sobre amadurecimento, arrependimentos e segundas chances enquanto tenta tomar as decises certas e mudar sua vida.Com humor e sensibilidade, Jeneva Rose nos conduz por uma jornada para aprender a amar quem fomos e quem nos tornamos.

When a "software error" erases Zala from the system, she discovers that officially, she and her newborn dont exist. As Zala fights desperately to prove her existence, and her child from adoption, she uncovers the Kafkaesque reality of Slovenias system one that erased 25,671 citizens on February 26, 1992. A chilling thriller about bureaucracy as violence, and one mothers battle against the state.

The follow-up to Murder in Chianti finds ex-NYPD detective Nico Doyle recruited by Italian authorities to investigate the murder of a prominent wine critic.One year after moving to his late wifes Tuscan hometown of Gravigna, ex-NYPD detective Nico Doyle has fully settled into Italian country life, helping to serve and test recipes at his in-laws restaurant.But the town is shaken by the arrival of wine critic Michele Mantelli in his flashy Jaguar. Mantelli holds his influential culinary magazine and blog over Gravignas vintners and restaurateurs. Some of Gravignas residents are impressed by his reputation, while others are enraged-especially Nicos landlord, whose vineyards Mantelli seems intent of ruining.Needless to say, Mantellis lavish, larger-than-life, and often vindictive personality has made him many enemies, and when he is poisoned, the local maresciallo, Perillo, has a headache of a high-profile murder on his hands-and once again turns to Nico for help.First published as The Bitter Taste of Murder.

How do you narrate life? In this vivid portrait of a summer day in the life of a London woman, Clarissa Dalloways preparations for an evening party initiate a unique stream of thoughts and memories. Accompanied by the chimes of Westminsters Big Ben, the interference of inner and outer voices allows us to experience the world of Clarissa in its rich plurality. Poetic, full of irony and audacity, Virginia Woolf explains how our memories and surroundings affect our reality and thus turns the conventional novel of her time upside down.Including an undiscovered foreword by Virginia Woolf. Englischsprachige Ausgabe Hochwertig ausgestattetes Taschenbuch Mit einem unentdeckten Vorwort von Virginia Woolf Mit einem personlichen deutschsprachigen Nachwort von Anne Sauer Hundert Jahre, nachdem Virginia Woolf ihren vierten Roman Mrs. Dalloway im Eigenverlag veroffentlicht hat, lese ich ihn also. Eine Frau Mitte dreiig mit entsprechend geformtem Hirn und gewachsenem Herzen, mit eigenen Erfahrungen und Erwartungen, die sich durch einen so bahnbrechenden Text wuhlt und fuhlt, die ihn heute ganz neu entdecken darf. Anne Sauer

Happiness is the second part of Yuri Felsens The Recurrence of Things Past trilogy, following the critically acclaimed Deceit. Both subtle and profound in its exploration of love, art, literature, and human frailty, Felsens trilogy traces the tormented romance of its protagonist alongside his artistic evolution, standing at the forefront of aesthetic and philosophical currents in European modernism.