Emanuel Bove's first novel, My Friends, relates the story of Victor Baton, a wounded war veteran trying to reestablish his prewar lifestyle but avoid work. Living in a run-down boardinghouse, Baton spends his days searching working-class Paris for the modest comforts of warmth, cheap meals, and friendship, but he finds little. And despite his situa...more

The powerful story of one girl's indomitable spirit after surviving a land mine in war-ravaged southern Africa. It is the wise old woman of the village who teaches young Sofia about the secrets in the fire. Within the flames hide all things past and all things yet to be. But not even old Muazena can see the horrors the fire holds for Sofia and h...more

I'll Take You There is told by a woman looking back on her first years of college, at Syracuse in the 1970s. Her story, softened by the gauze of memory and the relief of having survived, nonetheless captures a harrowing ordeal of alienation and despair, heightened by a wrenching interracial love affair and her father's death. Cursed by insatiable y...more

Liza Marklund introduced savvy reporter Annika Bengtzon in her #1 international bestseller The Bomber. Now, step back to Annika's early days at a Stockholm newspaper, where her talent for uncovering the truth is just taking flight. The corpse of a young woman has been found in Stockholm's Kronoberg Park -- and the shocking, unsolved crime becomes ...more

A hurricane sweeps across Sweden leaving chaos in its wake. Two men lie dead in Stockholm, shot in the head at point-blank range. A young woman runs for her life, finding refuge in Paradise, a foundation dedicated to those whose lives are in danger. Newspaper sub-editor Annika Bengtzon is trying to piece her life back together following the violent...more

The sensational and utterly unforgettable thriller that exposes the soul of a culture...the heart of a people...and the mind of a killer... With more than half a million copies sold, The Bomber is the most successful book ever published in Sweden. Now Liza Marklund's extraordinary writing, bone-chilling plot, and irresistible heroine have created ...more