Триллеры
Различные книги в жанре ТриллерыA Small Town
Perry is one of America’s premier thriller writers and the Mysterious Press’s best-selling author. Perry’s previous novel, The Burglar —which follows a young burglar as she realizes she must solve a string of murders, or else become the next victim—was more local, set in LA. A Small Town is centered in small-town Colorado but features action-packed sequences across the country. Perry’s 2016 novel, Forty Thieves , was a finalist for the Strand Critics Award for Best Novel and was named one of Booklist’s Top 10 Crime Novels of the Year. A String of Beads was a national bestseller. In a New York Times Book Review “By the Book” interview, Stephen King named Perry among a list of “unheralded writers” we should be reading. Perry co-wrote two books in a #1 New York Times bestselling series with Clive Cussler. Poison Flower was named one of the 101 Best Crime Novels of the Past Decade by Booklist ; Vanishing Act was named one of the 100 best mysteries of the twentieth century by the Independent Mystery Booksellers' Association; and Metzger’s Dog was voted one of the best 100 thrillers ever by NPR listeners. We have a significant investment in Perry, with seven previous titles in print and a guaranteed marketing spend/travel budget for each book. We will continue to promote the backlist through BookBub and other promotions. Perry is a Goodreads author with over 67,000 ratings and 6,000 reviews.
The Club
For fans of Donna Tartt’s The Secret History , Joël Dicker’s The Truth About the Harry Quebert Affair , Leila Slimani’s The Perfect Nanny , and Patricia Highsmith’s The Talented Mr. Ripley , The Club is a tantalizing mix of literary writing and a propulsively suspenseful narrative.Like Herman Koch’s breakthrough New York Times -bestseller The Dinner , The Club has been a huge success in Europe and now is poised to capture a big American readership. Like The Dinner it explores the seediness behind the veneer of bourgeois respectability, and is set in the elite world of Cambridge University, among upper class and social climber students—and their families.Würger is one of Germany’s most highly regarded young writers, and the winner of the prestigious lit.Cologne prize for debut fiction. This novel was a huge indie bookstore and word-of-mouth success in Germany, selling over 50,000 hardcover copies there and staying on the bestseller list for months—and the momentum is continuing with the paperback. Würger’s second novel, Stella (which Grove also acquired) has been the subject of major international publishing auctions, and was a strong six-figure deal in Germany. Grove is thrilled to be bringing this brilliantly talented writer to American readers. Würger himself studied at Cambridge, where he boxed for the university team and was a member of the Pitt Club. He knows this world intimately. He also speaks perfect English and will be available for interviews and profiles. The book explores questions of privilege, sexual violence on campus, and takes the reader into the upper echelons of a world of privilege and hedonism. The Pitt Club is a real institution: a private members’ club at Cambridge, similar to the Skull and Bones Club at Yale University in the United States. Its past members allegedly include King George V, economist John Maynard Keynes, and actor Eddie Redmayne. A talented journalist who works as a war reporter for Der Spiegel , Würger was named one of Medium ’s “Top 30 Journalists Under 30” in 2010 and awarded a CNN Journalist Award in 2013. He has reported around the world, including warzones in Afghanistan, Libya, the Ukraine, and the Middle East. The novel is translated by highly regarded translator Charlotte Collins, who is best known for her translation of International Booker shortlisted Robert Seethaler’s A Whole Life . Charlotte studied at Cambridge and once was a waitress for a dinner of the members of the Pitt Club, so it is particularly fitting that she be the one to translate this novel.
The Unknown Terrorist
From the internationally acclaimed author of Gould’s Book of Fish comes an astonishing new novel, a riveting portrayal of a society driven by fear. What would you do if you turned on the television and saw you were the most wanted terrorist in the country? Gina Davies is about to find out when, after a night spent with an attractive stranger, she becomes a prime suspect in the investigation of an attempted terrorist attack. In The Unknown Terrorist, one of the most brilliant writers working in the English language today turns his attention to the most timely of subjects — what our leaders tell us about the threats against us, and how we cope with living in fear. Chilling, impossible to put down, and all too familiar, The Unknown Terrorist is a relentless tour de force that paints a devastating picture of a contemporary society gone haywire, where the ceaseless drumbeat of terror alert levels, newsbreaks, and fear of the unknown pushes a nation ever closer to the breaking point.
Charlie Johnson in the Flames
In his critically acclaimed New York Times Notable Book, Michael Ignatieff tells a story of striking contemporary relevance that has drawn comparisons to the novels of Graham Greene and Robert Stone's Dog Soldiers. Charlie Johnson is an American journalist working for a British news agency somewhere in the Balkans. He believes that over the course of a long career he has seen everything, but suddenly he finds himself more than simply a witness. A woman who has been sheltering Charlie and his crew is doused in gasoline and set on fire by a retreating Serbian colonel. As she stumbles, burning, down the road, Charlie dashes from hiding, throws her down rolling her over and over to extinguish the flames, burning his hands in the process. Believing the woman's life to have been saved, Charlie is traumatized by her death. Something snaps. He now realizes he has just one ambition left in life: to find the colonel and kill him.
Impurity
A playful and macabre narrative tour de force, structured like a matryoshka doll, Impurity weaves a complex web of interlocking narratives in multiple voices and a variety of forms. The bestselling author Alice Livingston is dead, leaving her philosopher husband, Antoine, dealing with a legacy towards which he has felt increasingly estranged. Confronted with his wife’s much reported disappearance, Antoine revisits their past relationship: open and liberated on the outside, but constrained and even deviant on the inside. The news of the day (the death of JFK Junior, the self-immolation of a Buddhist monk, etc.) announced by the television running in the novel’s background gradually becomes significant in the lives of the protagonists – as revealed in Alice’s last book. As narrators of the novel become less and less reliable, good intentions become corrupted, appearances prove to be deceiving, and Impurity’s multiple plots come to a gripping, asphyxiating conclusion.
Ghost Kicker
In the future, criminals are sent to one of two places. The worst of the worst are sent to the city of Gehenna with no chance of return. Others are sent to Dusk City to pay for their crimes. But what happens when a Los Angeles cop is sent to Dusk – a world full of the bad guys that he put away?
BOGUS
A very young Amad was sent away from his home in Libya to «become a man» at a Jihadist camp in Afghanistan. BOGUS tells Amad's story as he slowly spirals into the depths of his insanity. His adventures, sexual episodes, and a winding plot show his mental regression. An undetectable additive, designed to kill, is placed inside of capsules of a generic prescription drug. As the circle tightens around him, he is caught, tried and imprisoned. Only then will we see how his mind perceives the world and especially the world that he has created.
The Serpent and the Eagle
'The Serpent And The Eagle' is an adventure surrounding the search to uncover the lost treasure of Moctezoma. The protagonists include a brilliant anthropologist, albeit an irreverent, iconoclastic, sardonic gadfly; a vicious, psychopathic billionaire; a corrupt Roman Catholic Cardinal who would seize the treasure for the Church and use it to turn Mexico into a rigid Catholic Theocracy. A woman scientist offers a steely challenge to our brainy anthropologist. Their relationship gradually evolves and becomes integral to our narrative. Juxtaposed with these characters is an ancient Azteca priesthood, still extant, who will go to any length to safeguard the treasure. These hold to the ways of the ancient Azteca, central to which is «the flowery death». Sacrificial victims' hearts are ripped out of their living flesh and are offered as a propitiation to Huitzilopochtli, the fearful God of War. Interspersed with the text is a corroborative element of rich, well researched historical detail. The pace never slackens. None will ever say that 'The Serpent And The Eagle' is boring.
The Archangel of a Black Feather
WHEN REVEREND LARRY MURPHY'S RAVAGED BODY is found on the North Shore Mountains, a sudden search ignites an intriguing investigation that will involve the young new comer Claudio Verallo and his family. Lured by the compelling figures of Detective Kevin and the experienced sensitive Meredith, the youth will discover that a more serious matter is hunting both the forest and the city.. something dating back to the seventeenth century, when the first Spanish settlers set their feet on the native land. History, navigation, astronomy, numbers and religious scrolls will intertwined with supernatural symbols and forensic examinations, storming an enquiring cursing all those wishing to come closer to the foreboding truth…a worldwide revelation. Italy, Spain and France will gradually connect with North America, fusing the ancient world with the new world in a combined unique destiny. A daring expedition, a mysterious portrait and an old trial, will guide the growing number of protagonists along a bloody line of dark terror. A real nightmare shrouded in a remote ancestral never dying lagoon, where the eye of the universe is ready to disclose its grotesque vision. Love and hate, hope and despair, good and evil…live and death will be confronted in a fast-paced fascinating narration, showing numerous twists reflecting our very life…because our worst nightmares come from the past.
