Finurliga deckare, nagelbitande thrillers, romantik med cynisk slutknorr, samhällskritik, surrealism, utomjordingar, humoristiska rysare -- allt finns här, en exposé över Sveriges förmodligen mest missförstådda författarskap. Många av berättelserna har aldrig tidigare publicerats i bokform.
They call themselves the Brethren: three disgraced former judges doing time in a Florida federal prison.
One was sent up for tax evasion. Another, for skimming bingo profits. And the third, for a career-ending drunken joyride.
Here are Howard's greatest horror tales, all in their original, definitive versions. Some of Howard's best-known characters-Solomon Kane, Bran Mak Morn, and sailor Steve Costigan among them-roam the forbidding locales of the author's fevered imagination, from the swamps and bayous of the Deep South to the fiend-haunted woods outside Paris to remote jungles in Africa. The collection includes Howard
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Investigator Lacy Stoltz follows the trail of a serial killer, and closes in on a shocking suspect—a sitting judge—in “one of the best crime reads of the year.… Bristling with high-tech detail and shivering with suspense…. Worth staying up all night to finish” (Wall Street Journal).
In The Whistler, Lacy Stoltz investigated a corrupt j
In 1970, 23-year-old Willie Traynor took over the struggling Ford County Times in Mississippi. The paper thrived after he covered the brutal murder of a young mother by Danny Padgitt, who was tried and sentenced to life in prison. However, nine years later, Padgitt was paroled and returned to Ford County seeking revenge.
It is now six years since the secret disaster at Jurassic Park, six years since the extraordinary dream of science and imagination came to a crashing end—the dinosaurs destroyed, the park dismantled, and the island indefinitely closed to the public.
October 1946, Clanton, Mississippi
Pete Banning was Clanton, Mississippis favorite sona decorated World War II hero, the patriarch of a prominent family, a farmer, father, neighbor, and a faithful member of the Methodist church. Then one cool October morning he rose early, drove into town, and committed a shocking crime. Petes only statement about itto the sheriff, to his lawyers, to the judg
Mark, Todd, and Zola came to law school to change the world, to make it a better place. But now, as third-year students, these close friends realize they have been duped. They all borrowed heavily to attend a third-tier for-profit law school so mediocre that its graduates rarely pass the bar exam, let alone get good jobs. And when they learn that their school is one of a chain owned by a shady New
They are at the center of a multimillion dollar legal hurricane: twelve men and women who have been investigated, watched, manipulated, and harassed by high-priced lawyers and consultants who will stop at nothing to secure a verdict. Now that the jury must make a decision in the most explosive trial of the century, a precedent-setting lawsuit against a giant tobacco company.
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Cal Hooper thought a fixer-upper in a bucolic Irish village would be the perfect escape. After twenty-five years in the Chicago police force and a bruising divorce, he just wants to build a new life in a pretty spot with a good pub where nothing much happens.
WITH OVER A MILLION COPIES SOLD, read the Sunday Times and No.1 New York Times bestselling, record-breaking 2019 thriller that everyone is talking about - soon to be a major film.
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#1 BESTSELLER • The apocalyptic vision of a world blasted by plague and tangled in an elemental struggle between good and evil remains as riveting—and eerily plausible—as when it was first published. • The tie-in edition of the nine-part CBS All Access series starring Whoopi Goldberg, Alexander Skarsgard, and James Marsden.
A patient escapes from a biological testing fa
With a career that is spiraling out of control and a nasty drug habit that has taken her to rock bottom, NYC detective Veronika Brand is looking for a way out. When a call from Sweden interrupts her personal chaos, the foreign tongue of her distant Swedish relatives pulls her across the Atlantic with the lure of adventure and escape. But what she finds is far from the idyllic picture her grandmoth
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of A Discovery of Witches, a novel about what it takes to become a vampire.
On the battlefields of the American Revolution, Matthew de Clermont meets Marcus MacNeil, a young surgeon from Massachusetts, during a moment of political awakening when it seems that the world is on the brink of a brighter future. When Matthew offers him a chance at immortal
Frank Braun anländer till en liten alpby i Italien; han har för avsikt att i lugn och ro skriva. Det visar sig emellertid att en pastor från Amerika har återvänt till byn och fört med sig en kristen väckelserörelse. När han börjar manipulerar händelser, och tar sig friheten att leka med folk som om de vore marionetter, spårar tids nog allting ur i en fruktansvärd, grotesk och blodig upplösning.
E.T.A. Hoffmann (1776-1822) är en av tyska språkets främsta klassiker, en febrig drömmare med ohämmad fantasi och uppfinningsrikedom. Två av hans klassiska berättelser presenteras här tillsammans med en artikel om hans starka påverkan på Ingmar Bergman, skriven av den spansk-engelska litteraturvetaren Tatiana Fajardo.
År 2033. Länsdemokraterna förbereder sig inför vad som ser ut att bli partiets andra raka succéval. Vallöftet att minska kriminaliteten med 51 procent resulterar i desperata åtgärder.
Under skuggans blick är en dystopi om Sverige, med komponenter som inte känns så främmande som de borde vara.
A mysterious plague causing violent outbursts sweeps the nation, forcing three generations of women to confront their struggles. Chelsea Martin, trapped in an abusive marriage and unsupported by her narcissistic mother, sees the chaos of the illness as a chance to escape and reclaim her life.
"Ön utan namn" är Jörgen Salmoses nya spännande reseroman om änkemannen Lars Berg som tillsammans med svågern Rolf ger sig ut på en världsomsegling. I 58 täta kapitel berättas en vådlig historia med pirater, skeppsbrott, ond bråd död och stormande kärlek. En Nils Holgersson genom världen, en seglare genom nutidens skönhet och fasor.
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The seventh book in the Sunday Times bestselling, award-winning, Slough House series, featuring Mick Herron's much loved band of disgraced spies and their notorious leader, Jackson Lamb, 'the most fascinating and irresistible thriller series hero to emerge since Jack Reacher' (Sunday Times)