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The charming and original story of a small, declining community’s struggle to survive in the shadow of an all-consuming metropolis, from from the multi-million copy bestselling author of The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared. 'A shot of serotonin in book form'...

'I entered instantly into the piercing clarity of these pages, utterly absorbed' JHUMPA LAHIRI 'Hypnotic . . . filled with unforgettable characters' SANDRO VERONESI 'An intense, moving book' DOMENICO STARNONE It is a June morning in Milan when Sandro abandons his flat, his job and the...

Rose has always been close to her father. Her mother died soon after she was born, so it’s been just the two of them for as long as she can remember. But a chance encounter days before she's due to get married leaves Rose questioning everything she has ever known. The man she trusts most in the world has been keeping a secret from her. And the truth will leave her with an impossible choice.

Murhamysteerin jäljet johtavat vanhalle majakalle. Syyshämärä on laskeutunut Sotenäsiin. Poliisin anayytikko Karl Ström lähtee viikonlopuksi Hållön retkeilymajalle aikomuksenaan viettää pari päivää kaikessa rauhassa ja saattaa loppuun keskeneräinen työtehtävä. Hänen iltakävelynsä päättyy kuitenkin karmivaan löytöön Marmorbassängenin uimarannalla: kylmässä vedessä viruu nuoren naisen ruumis. Tämä osoittautuu Yhdysvaltojen suurlähettilään tyttäreksi, Tricia Anderseniksi, ja käynnistyvä tutkinta saa paljon huomiota Valkoista taloa myöten.

Ike Schwartz, former spook and erstwhile sheriff of Picketsville, has his vacation interrupted when an old CIA buddy asks him to look into a pilot's disappearance. What looks like a simple missing person's case soon catapults Ike into an international thriller with intimations of terrorism that might threaten the nation and its leaders.

As a millworkers’ strike in the northern lumber town of Roberval drags on, tensions start to escalate between the workers—but when a lockout renews their solidarity, they rally around the mysterious and magnetic influence of Querelle, a dashing newcomer from Montreal. Strapping and unabashed, likeable but callow, by day he walks the picket lines and at night moves like a mythic Adonis through the ranks of young men who flock to his apartment for sex.

TV presenter Allis Hagtorn leaves her partner and her job to take voluntary exile in a remote house on an isolated fjord. But her new job as housekeeper and gardener is not all that it seems, and her silent, surly employer, 44-year-old Sigurd Bagge, is not the old man she expected. As they await the return of his wife from her travels, their silent, uneasy encounters develop into a chilling, obsessive relationship, and it becomes clear that atonement for past sins may not be enough.

Mirjamilla on hyväpalkkainen työ viestintätoimistossa, työsuhdeasunto Töölössä ja viikonloppulomat nuoren sileärintaisen poikaystävän kanssa. Sitten viestintätoimisto myydään Kiinaan, firman senioriporras irtisanotaan ja Mirjami saa ikävän puhelun kotoaan Pohjanmaalta. Pyörätuolissa istuva äiti - mumma - ja siskontytär Usva lemmikkikatraineen tarvitsevat nyt kipeästi Mirjamia. Espressot ja proteiinipäivät eivät kuitenkaan valmistaneet Mirjamia siihen, mikä häntä kotipaikkakunnalla odottaa.

Anna Fekete returns to the Balkan village of her birth for a relaxing summer holiday. But when her purse is stolen and the thief is found dead on the banks of the river, Anna is pulled into a murder case. Her investigation leads straight to her own family, to closely guarded secrets concealing a horrendous travesty of justice that threatens them all. How long will it take before everything explodes?

Dixie har skaffat en pojkvän men döljer det för alla. William har fått ett jobberbjudande och måste fatta ett stort beslut. Julie vänjer sig vid att vara mormor. Och Colleen får sitt livs chock.Livet i det idylliska lilla Seagrove är fullt av dramatik, överraskningar och hjärtevärmande ögonblick.