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. 

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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). 

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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.

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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)

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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.

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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)

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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. 

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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)

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)

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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.

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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)

They all crossed into forbidden territory. They all tampered with the laws that lay down who should be loved and how. And how much.  ”Roy peels away the layers of her mysteries with such delicate cunning, such a dazzlingly adroit shuffle of accumulating revelations that to discuss the plot would be to violate it... Like a devotionally built temple. The God of Small Things builds a massive interlocking structure of fine, intensely felt details. A novel of real ambition must invent its own language, and this one does.” - John Updike, New Yorker.  “It is rare to find a book that so effectively cuts through the clothes of nationality, caste and religion to reveal the bare bones of humanity.  A sensational novel.” – Claire Scobie, Daily Telegraph. (Ote takakansitekstistä)''

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Arundhati Roy (born 1961, Assam, India) is an Indian author. She is best known for her novel The God of Small Things (1997), which won the Man Booker Prize for Fiction in 1997. This novel became the biggest-selling book by a nonexpatriate Indian author. She is also a political activist involved in human rights and environmental causes. 

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One of the greatest love stories ever told. For Jane Eyre, orphan and impoverished governess, the last person she should want is the only person she needs: her employer, Rochester. Not only is he socially inaccessible, he’s also a man of few words and many secrets – and one of his secrets is so terrible it could destroy everything he and Jane hold dear… (Takakansiteksti)