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New York, 1908. Private detectives George Dillman and Genevieve Masefield plan to take a break from work upon the Cunard Line’s fleet with the offer of employment upon the Minnesota, a freighter and passenger vessel, which is bound for the Far East. Although the pair are investigating the possibility of a smuggling operation on the route, at first all appears to be smooth sailing, but the voyage takes a dire turn when a fiery Catholic missionary is murdered and it proves to be the first in a series of crimes that plague the crossing.

Diana ist Waise und lebt bei ihrer Großmutter. Neben der Schule bessert sie das Familieneinkommen durch gelegentliche Diebstähle auf. Als sie erwischt wird, ist die Strafe das Geschenk ihres Lebens: Sie darf ihre Schulden in einer Brauerei abarbeiten. Bald mischt Diana den Markt mit einzigartigen Craft-Bieren auf. Ein Lied auf das Leben und ein Roman über mutige Frauen.

A National Bestseller! “The perfect pick-me-up on a hot summer day.” —Washington Post “[A] charmer of a tale. . . Warm, witty and--like any good craft beer--complex, the saga delivers a subtly feminist and wholly life-affirming message.” —People Magazine A novel of family, Midwestern...

Kimmonen, mies vailla koulutusta ja töitä. Elää pitkät päivät vuokralla tekemättä mitään hyödyllistä. Kun sossu alkaa hengittämään niskaan, saa sankari pelastuksen viime tipassa. Kimmonen palkataan kriisipuhelin firmaan nimeltä Auttava Linja. Kimmosen työnkuva on simppeli: kuunnella ihmisten huolija puhelimitse ja pyrkiä löytämään ongelmiin ratkaisuja. Jonkin moisia ratkaisuja. Komedia ensimmäisen maailman ongelmista ja todellisista ongelmista, sisältövaroituksen voimin.

New York Times bestselling author of Descent and The Current Tim Johnston returns with an absorbing new crime novel set in a small Wisconsin town haunted by the unsolved disappearance of three boys in the 1970s. What if? What if Sean Courtland’s old Chevy truck had broken down somewhere else?...

Missouri native Allen Eskens' "stunning small-town mystery" (New York Times Book Review) is a necessary exploration of family, loyalty, and racial tension in America and "a coming-of-age book to rival some of the best, such as Ordinary Grace" (Library Journal, starred review). In a small...

Readers of Kate Atkinson will delight in this suspenseful and romantic debut novel about a woman haunted by nightmares and her grandmother's role in a doomed love triangle almost seventy years before. Death, accidental and early, has always been Abby Walters's preoccupation. Now thirty-three...