Mark Mills

A beautiful Tuscan villa, a mysterious garden, two hidden murders -- one Renassance, one modern -- and a family riven by dark secrets combine in this evocative, intriguing mystery set in post-War Italy.

The Savage Garden

Conrad Labarde, a reclusive fisherman, finds his life transformed when he pulls up the body of a beautiful young woman in his fishing nets, in a story set against the backdrop of a small Long Island fishing community in 1947.

Amagansett

Waiting for Doggo

O Jardim das Sombras

"Adam Strickland, a somewhat aimless young scholar at Cambridge University, is called to his professor's office one afternoon and assigned a special summer project: to write a scholarly monograph about the famous Docci garden in Tuscany. Dedicated to the memory of a fifteenth-century nobleman's young wife, the garden is a mysterious world of statues, grottoes, meandering rills, and classical inscriptions. But Adam comes to suspect that something sinister lies buried in the garden's strange iconography. What if Lord Docci's wife was murdered, and her memorial garden is filled with pointers to both the method and the motive of the crime?"--English book jacket.

Ho kēpos tōn mysteriōn

Information Officer

A Tor. Com Original

Preparations

Sandra van de Ven

Een student kunstgeschiedenis legt een familiegeheim bloot als hij in 1958 in Toscane een tuin bestudeert.

De Toscaanse tuin

This anthology is an international collection of stories and essays by critically-acclaimed authors, chosen for their intellectual and emotional appeal. Each story or essay is one to six pages in length, making these authors' short works easily accessible to a wide reading public. It provides an exciting taste of global literature, with classic, modern, and avant garde short stories.Over 100 authors are presented, including Alice Walker, Yasunari Kawabata, Helen Vivien Viramontes, Anton Chekhov, Edgar Allan Poe, Ernest Hemingway, Charles Dickens, and Joyce Carol Oates, to name only a few.For those readers interested in an excellent collection of short stories by the world's most renowned writers.

An Anthology of 100 Masterpieces

Crafting the Very Short Story

A return to the period adventure thriller in Where Dead Men Meet reestablishes Mark Mills as a master storyteller for fans of William Boyd, Charles Cumming, or Robert Harris.Paris, 1937. Luke Hamilton-a junior air intelligence officer at the British Embassy-finds himself the target of an assassination attempt. A clear case of mistaken identity-or so it first appears. As Luke is hunted across a continent sliding toward war, he comes to learn that the answers lie deep in a past that predates his abandonment as a baby on the steps of an orphanage twenty-five years ago.From the author of the bestselling The Savage Garden, and set against a terrific backdrop of Europe on the cusp of the Second World War, this is a compelling novel, rich in adventure, espionage, secrets, and lies.

Where Dead Men Meet

Mark Mills, bestselling author of Amagansett, The Savage Garden, and The Information Officer, is renowned for blending riveting history, rich atmosphere, and thrilling suspense. Now, in House of the Hunted, Mills deftly unfolds a story of betrayal, love, and the inescapable pull of the past as an ex-spy finds himself drawn back into his treacherous former life. Côte d’Azur, France, 1935: As Europe moves inexorably toward war, Tom Nash feels pleasantly removed, pursuing a quiet writing career on an idyllic stretch of the French Riveria. A former intelligence operative for the British government, Tom now finds refuge among the lively seaside community of expats and artists, hoping to put the worst deeds from his job—and memories of the woman he once loved—far behind him. But Tom’s peaceful existence is shattered when an unknown hit man tries to kill him in his sleep. Tom is sure that somebody knows his secrets, and that this attempt on his life won’t be the last. Relying on his instincts for self-preservation, Tom suspects everyone of double-dealing, even people he considers his friends: the Russian art dealers from Paris, the exiled German dissidents, even his former boss and closest confidant. And as he plunges further into his haunted past, Tom feels himself turning into the person he used to be—a dangerous man, capable of anything. Combining vividly drawn characters and gripping acts of espionage, House of the Hunted is a superbly crafted novel by an exceptional and versatile storyteller. Praise for House of the Hunted “Suspenseful and romantic . . . reminiscent of some of the best spy novels of the past.”—CNN “A wild-fire hybrid of John le Carré and Ernest Hemingway . . . an excellent read for those who enjoy both espionage and literary thrillers.”—Bookreporter “[Mark] Mills is a polished stylist with a singular talent for capturing the defining moment when something precious is about to be lost forever.”—The New York Times Book Review “This is bloody brilliant. . . . A masterpiece of espionage fiction that fully thrills, while evoking a time and place with the assurance of Alan Furst’s forays into prewar Europe. This novel is beautifully crafted, breathless, and immensely satisfying.”—Olen Steinhauer, New York Times bestselling author of The Tourist and The Nearest Exit “Explosive . . . a terse, carefully plotted journey [that will] have you guessing until the very end.”—Oprah.com “Mesmerizing . . . [Mills’s] best work in an already accomplished career.”—The Independent

A Novel

House of the Hunted

The author of the best-selling Amagansett presents the story of World War II officer Max Chadwick, who is stationed on a strategically important, bomb-riddled Mediterranean island where the murder of a local woman threatens to shatter the precarious regional stability.

The Information Officer

Isabel Leite da Silva

Marlene Campos

José Luís Luna

Maré de azar

It takes one scruffy dog to show a man how to fall in love... No-one ever called Dan a pushover. But then no-one ever called him fast-track either. He likes driving slowly, playing Sudoku on his iPhone, swapping one scruffy jumper for another. He's been with Clara for four years and he's been perfectly happy; but now she's left him, leaving nothing but a long letter filled with incriminations and a small, white, almost hairless dog, named Doggo. So now Dan is single, a man without any kind of partner whether working or in love. He's just one reluctant dog owner. Find a new home for him, that's the plan. Come on...everyone knows the old adage about the best laid plans and besides, Doggo is one special kind of a four legged friend...and an inspiration.

The feel-good romantic comedy for dog lovers and friends

Waiting For Doggo

A riveting and evocative tale of passion and murder, set on the French Riviera in the 1930s, from the No. 1 bestselling author of The Savage Garden.

House of the Hanged

Anke Kreutzer

Long Island, 1947: Lillian Wallace, jüngste Tochter einer einflussreichen, wohlhabenden Familie, wird ertrunken aus dem Meer gefischt. Ihr heimlicher Geliebter, der Fischer Conrad Labarde, glaubt nicht an einen Unfalltod. Besprechung Long Island, 1947: Lillian Wallace, jüngste Tochter einer einflussreichen, wohlhabenden Familie, wird ertrunken aus dem Meer gefischt. 2 Männer glauben nicht an einen Unfalltod: Der unauffällige, aber mit einem untrüglichen Instinkt ausgestattete Polizist Tom Hollis, der nach dem Scheitern seiner Ehe und einer polizeiinternen Intrige in die Provinz abgeschoben worden ist, und Lillians heimlicher Geliebter, der baskische Fischer Conrad Labarde, ein hochdekorierter, aber psychisch schwer gezeichneter Kriegsveteran. Unabhängig voneinander stoßen beide Männer auf ein zurückliegendes, sorgfältig vertuschtes Verbrechen; Lillian musste sterben, weil sie Zeugin war und in ihrer Gewissensnot kurz davor, den Skandal ans Licht zu bringen. Ein intelligent gemachter, literarisch ambitionierter Krimi mit erschütternden Kriegs und packenden Angelszenen; zugleich ein fesselndes Gesellschaftsporträt. Uneingeschränkt empfohlen.

From the No. 1 bestseller and author of Richard & Judy pick The Savage Garden: an award-winning crime novel set in post-war New York for fans of Carlos Ruiz Zafon and Jed Rubenfeld

The Whaleboat House

‘Snow Falling on Cedars’ meets ‘The Shipping News’ in this enthralling literary crime novel set in post World War II Long Island.

A return to the period adventure thriller in WHERE DEAD MEN MEET re-establishes Mark Mills as: 'A master storyteller' Val McDermid. For fans of William Boyd, Charles Cumming or Robert Harris Paris, 1937. Luke Hamilton - a junior air intelligence officer at the British Embassy - finds himself the target of an assassination attempt. A clear case of mistaken identity, or so it first appears. As Luke is hunted across a continent sliding towards war, he comes to learn that the answers lie deep in a past that predates his abandonment as a baby on the steps of an orphanage twenty-five years ago. From the author of the bestselling THE SAVAGE GARDEN, and set against a terrific backdrop of Europe on the cusp of the Second World War, this is a compelling novel, rich in adventure, espionage, secrets and lies.

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