Steve Mosby - Cry for help

In einer britischen Großstadt treibt ein perfider Killer sein Unwesen. Er bringt junge Frauen in seine Gewalt, fesselt sie an ihr Bett und schickt Freunden und Verwandten E-Mails oder SMS, in denen er sie in den Glauben lässt, dass alles in Ordnung sei. Kurz bevor die Opfer verdursten, kommen Anrufe, in denen eine schwache Stimme um Hilfe ruft. Auch der Journalist Dave Lewis bekommt eine solche SMS von seiner Freundin Tori, doch da diese nicht wie gewohnt mit Torxx unterzeichnet ist, schrillen bei ihm die Alarmglocken...

Jonathan Safran Foer - Eating Animals

Jonathan Safran Foer spent much of his teenage and college years oscillating between omnivore and vegetarian. But on the brink of fatherhood-facing the prospect of having to make dietary choices on a child's behalf-his casual questioning took on an urgency His quest for answers ultimately required him to visit factory farms in the middle of the night, dissect the emotional ingredients of meals from his childhood, and probe some of his most primal instincts about right and wrong. Brilliantly synthesizing philosophy, literature, science, memoir and his own detective work, Eating Animals explores the many fictions we use to justify our eating habits-from folklore to pop culture to family traditions and national myth-and how such tales can lull us into a brutal forgetting. Marked by Foer's profound moral ferocity and unvarying generosity, as well as the vibrant style and creativity that made his previous books, Everything is Illuminated and Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, widely loved, Eating Animals is a celebration and a reckoning, a story about the stories we've told-and the stories we now need to tell.

Kim Edwards - The Lake of Dreams

At a crossroads in her life, Lucy Jarrett returns home from Japan, only to find herself haunted by her father's unresolved death a decade ago. Old longings stirred up by Keegan Fall, a local glass artist who was once her passionate first love, lead her into the unexpected. Late one night, as she paces the hallways of her family's rambling lakeside house, she discovers, locked in a window seat, a collection of objects that first appear to be useless curiosities, but soon reveal a deeper and more complex family past. As Lucy discovers and explores the traces of her lineage from an heirloom tapestry and dusty political tracts to a web of allusions depicted in stained-glass windows throughout upstate New York-the family story she has always known is shattered, Lucy's quest for the truth reconfigures her family's history, links her to a unique slice of the suffragette movement, and yields dramatic insights that embolden her to live freely.

Edgar Hilsenrath - Der Nazi & der Friseur

»Ich bin Max Schulz, unehelicher, wenn auch rein arischer Sohn der Minna Schulz ...« So beginnt Edgar Hilsenraths berühmter Roman über den SS-Mann und Massenmörder, der in der Rolle seines Opfers Itzig Finkelstein schlüpft und ein angesehener Bürger und Friseursalonbesitzer in Tel Aviv wird.

Tess Gerritsen - The surgeon

A serial killer is on the loose in Boston. The victims are killed in a particularly nasty way: cut with a scalpel on the stomach, the intestines and uterus removed, and then the throat slashed. The killer obviously has medical knowledge and has been dubbed "the Surgeon" by the media. Detective Thomas Moore and his partner Rizzoli of the Boston Homicide Unit have discovered something that makes this case even more chilling. Years ago in Savannah a serial killer murdered in exactly the same way. He was finally stopped by his last victim who shot him as he tried to cut her. That last victim is Dr Catherine Cordell, who now works as a cardiac surgeon at one of Boston's prestigious hospitals. As the murders continue, it becomes obvious that the killer is drawing closer and closer to Dr Cordell, who is becoming so frightened that she is virtually unable to function. But she is the only person who can help the police catch this copycat killer. Or is it a copycat?

Elizabeth George - Wer dem Tode geweiht

Nach Wochen der Einsamkeit fernab von London kehrt Thomas Lynley in die City zurück. Als Isabelle Ardery, eine Kollegin aus vergangenen Tagen, ihn um Unterstützung bei einem komplizierten Mordfall bittet, zögert er nur kurz – und tut ihr den Gefallen. Während Ardery im Laufe der Ermittlungen zusehends ins Kreuzfeuer der Kritik gerät, besinnt Lynley sich seiner früheren Stärken. Und seiner genialen Ermittlungspartnerin Detective Sergeant Barbara Havers …
Ein neuer Fall für Thomas Lynley und Barbara Havers: komplex, raffiniert verwoben und rasend spannend.

Harry Mulisch - Das Attentat

Ein sechsfacher Schuss zerreißt die Stille einer Siedlung am Stadtrand. Bald darauf entdeckt die Familie des zwölfjährigen Anton Stenwijk vor ihrem Haus die Leiche des Kollaborateurs Fake Ploeg. In derselben Nacht werden Antons älterer Bruder und die Eltern von den deutschen Besatzern verladen und – wie sich später herausstellt – umgebracht; sie zünden das Haus an und nehmen Anton fest. Er verbringt die Nacht auf einer Polizeiwache, wo er im Dunkel einer Zelle auf eine verletzte Frau trifft. Obwohl er sie niemals sehen wird, verfolgt ihn die Erinnerung an ihr intensives Gespräch sein Leben lang.