The first novel by Paul Auster. In three brilliant variations on the classic detective story, Paul Auster makes the well-traversed terrain of New York City his own, as it becomes a strange, compelling landscape in which identities merge or fade and questions serve only to further obscure the truth. (Backcover text)

Author

Paul Auster (born 1947, Newark, New Jersey) is an American writer and director whose writing blends absurdism, existentialism, crime fiction and the search for identity and personal meaning. Auster and his wife Siri Hustvedt live in Brooklyn, New York. 

Paul Auster, Wikipedia (en)

When the National Security Agency’s invincible code-breaking machine encounters a mysterious code it cannot break, the agency calls in its head cryptoghrapher, Susan Fletcher, a brilliant, beautiful mathematician. What she uncovers sends shock waves through the corridors of power. The NSA is being held hostage – not by guns or bombs, but by a code so complex that if realeased would cripple U.S. intelligence. Caught in an accelerating tempest of secrecy and lies, Fletcher battles to save the agency she believes in. Betrayed on all sides, she finds herself fighting not only for her country but for her life, and in the end, for the life of the man she loves… (Backcover text). 

Author

Dan Brown (born 1964, New Hampshire) is an American author of thriller fiction. In many of his books a Harvard symbologist, professor Robert Langdon, solves criminal activity by using his knowledge of cryptography, keys codes, symbols and conspiracy theories.

Dan Brown, Wikipedia (en)

Dan Brown, Official homepage

Two bodies, their throats cut with brutal precision, lie in a waste of blood in the dingy vestry of St Matthew’s Church, Paddington. One is an alcoholic tramp; the other, Sir Paul Berowne, is a baronet and a recently resigned Minister of the Crown. In an attempt to discover the truth Dalgliesh, with his new woman assistant, arrives to begin one of the most convoluted and difficult investigations of his career, one that will expose the darker recesses of the Berowne family history, which have long lain hidden beneath a veneer of prosperous gentility. (Backcover text)

Author

Phyllis Dorothy James (1920 - 2014) was an English crime writer. She rose to fame for her series of detective novels starring police commander and poet Adam Dalgliesh.

P.D. James, Wikipedia (en)

Don't imagine for one moment that I'm not watching you. . . The Metropole Hotel, Brighton. After a heady New Year's Eve ball, a woman is brutally raped as she returns to her room. A week later, another woman is attacked. Both victims' shoes are taken by the offender. Detective Superintendent Roy Grace soon realises that these new cases bear remarkable similarities to an unsolved series of crimes in the city back in 1997. The perpetrator had been dubbed 'Shoe Man' and was believed to have raped four women before murdering his fifth victim and vanishing. Could this be a copycat, or has Shoe Man resurfaced? When more women are assaulted, Grace becomes increasingly certain that they are dealing with the same man. And that by delving back into the past - a time in which Grace and his now missing wife Sandy appear happy together - he may find the key to unlocking the current mystery. Soon Grace and his team will find themselves in a desperate race against the clock to identify and save the life of the new fifth victim . . . (Backcover text)

Author

Peter James (born 1948, Brighton, UK) is an international best-selling British writer of crime fiction. He has written 35 novels, including the best-selling crime thriller series featuring Brighton-based Detective Superintendent Roy Grace, which have sold 18 million copies worldwide. James's books have been translated into 37 languages. 

Peter James, Wikipedia (en)

For Now, Forever. Tycoon Daniel MacGregor is wealthy, charming – and incredibly arrogant! He is also exactly the type of man that fiercely independent Anna Whitfield wants to avoid. Convincing Anna to marry him will be the biggest challenge of Daniel’s life. In from the Cold. As widowed Allanda Flynn nurses soldier Ian MacGregor back to health, their growing attraction turns into an all-consuming love affair. But even fighting in a war couldn’t prepare Ian for the fight he has on his hands trying to convince Allanda to be his bride… (Backcover text)

Why do we fall in love with the people we do? Why do we visit our mistakes on our children? What makes life truly beautiful? Set in New England mainly and London partly, On Beauty concerns a pair of feuding families - the Belseys and the Kippses - and a clutch of doomed affairs. It puts low morals among high ideals and asks some searching questions about what life does to love. For the Belseys and the Kipps, the confusions - both personal and political - of our uncertain age are about to be brought close to home: right to the heart of family. (Backcover text)

Främlingen är den första boken i en episk kärlekssaga. Andra världskriget är över och Claire Randall och hennes man reser till Skottland för att lära känna varandra igen efter krigsårens påtvingade separation. Vid en utflykt till häxringen Craigh na Dun hemsöks Claire av magiska krafter som ett viljelöst offer dras hon in i en klyfta i stenformationerna. Tidsresan har börjat. Året är nu 1743. Claire är en främling i en oförsonlig tid. De skotska klanerna kämpar ett blodigt frihetskrig mot den engelska kungamakten. Claire misstänks vara engelsk spion och tas till fånga av klanen MacKenzie. Hon möter nu Jamie Fraser som blir hennes beskyddare och älskare. Mellan dem växer en passion som är starkare än tid och rum. Claire inser att Jamie är mannen hon väntat på i hela sitt liv. Med fruktan ser hon fram mot den stund då hon måste välja mellan honom och att återvända till sin egen tid ... (Text på bakre pärm)--

Författare

Diana Gabaldon (född 1952 I Arizona, USA) är en amerikansk författare som är mest känd för Outlanderserien som sålts i mer än 20 miljoner exemplar världen över. Böckerna handlar om Claire Beauchamps och Jamie Frasers äventyr i 1700-talets Skottland.

Diana Gabaldon, Wikipedia (en) 

At age eighty-three and in failing health, Olivia Morrow knows she has little time left. The last of her line, she faces a momentous choice: expose a long-held family secret, or take it with her to her grave. Olivia has in her possession letters from her deceased cousin Catherine, a nun. These letters reveal that at age seventeen, Catherine gave birth to a son, and gave him up for adoption and they identify the father as Alex Gannon, a world-famous doctor and scientist. Now, two generations later, Catherine’s granddaughter Monica, stands as the rightful heir to what remains of the Gannon family fortune. But in telling Monica who she really is, Olivia would have to betray Catherine’s wishes and reveal the story behind Monica’s ancestry. As the pressure of Olivia’s impending choice weighs down on her, little does she realize that Alex Gannon’s grand-nephews – who are currently exploiting the Gannon inheritance to fund their profligate lifestyles – will stop at nothing to silence Olivia and prevent Monica from learning the secret. (Backcover text)

Author

Mary Higgins Clark, is an American author of suspense novels. Each of her 51 books has been a bestseller in the United States and various European countries, and all of her novels remained in print as of 2015, with her debut suspense novel, Where Are The Children, in its seventy-fifth printing.

Mary Higgins Clark, Wikipedia (en)

Mary Higgins Clark, Author's homepage

Mary Higgins Clark, Interview 2.4.2017 in Youtube

Under åren 1668-1676 brändes mer än 300 svenska kvinnor på bål som häxor – oskyldigt dömda, men med stöd i de gemmaltestamentliga lagar som hade införts i början på seklet. Det som började med en liten Älvdalenflickas fantasier spreds i resten av Dalarna, norrut mot Härjedalen, ned längs Norrlandskusten och nådde till slut Stockholm. Sammantaget vår historias största justitiemord. I sitt långa historiska reportage följer Jan Guillou spåret från häxornas och tidelagsmännens bål ända fram till våra dagars panikvågor kring påstådda massoffer av barn på svarta mässor, “förträngda incestminnen” och daghem som sägs varit hemliga mötersplatser för våldtäktssekter. Slutsatsen är inte uppmuntrande: vi tycks aldrig kunna lära av historien. Eller, vi tycks aldrig lära oss berätta historien begripligt och ocensurerat. (Text på bakre pärm) 

Författare

Jan Guillou (född 1944 i Södertälje) är en svensk författare och journalist. Bland Guillous mest kända verk är romanserien om underrättelseofficeren Carl Hamilton, romantrilogin om korsriddaren Arn Magnusson samt den delvis självbiografiska romanen Ondskan om livet på en internatskola. Guillou är verksam som kolumnist, och därefter en viktig opinionbildare i Sverige.

Jan Guillou, Wikipedia (sv)  

This isn’t just another book about business. It’s a book about changing the world. In this new business manifesto for our times, Richard Branson shares the stories of the people who are leading the way in transforming companies into a force for good, for people and for the planet. Throw the rulebook out of the window – it’s time to turn capitalism upside down. It’s time to Screw Business As Usual. (Takakansiteksti)