Retirement leaves Benjamín Chaparro preoccupied with a young woman’s murder decades earlier. Revisiting the investigation also revives his unspoken love for Irene, now a judge. Set against Argentina’s political violence, the novel connects the pursuit of justice with memory, passing time and desires left unfulfilled.
FBI agent Rachel Walling learns that the serial killer known as the Poet has returned. Harry Bosch, investigating an old friend’s death, follows a trail towards the same adversary. Their inquiries converge across Los Angeles and Nevada, forcing an uneasy partnership against a killer familiar with investigative methods.
A murdered preacher draws Stockholm lawyer Rebecka Martinsson back to Kiruna, where an old friend needs her help. Investigating the death means returning to a religious community and a past she had escaped. Beneath the northern winter, loyalties and concealed conflicts complicate the search for a killer.
A murder at the Louvre draws Robert Langdon and cryptologist Sophie Neveu into a trail of coded clues. Their investigation links works of art, secret societies and a contested religious mystery while turning the two investigators into targets.
A threatening letter gives psychoanalyst Frederick Starks a deadline to identify an enemy from his past. As the stranger dismantles his professional and private life, Starks must work out whom he harmed before the attack reaches the people around him.
A NASA discovery beneath Arctic ice could transform a closely fought presidential election. Sent to examine the evidence, intelligence analyst Rachel Sexton and scientist Michael Tolland uncover a deception. Their investigation becomes a struggle to survive long enough to expose the people protecting it.
In postwar Barcelona, Daniel Sempere chooses a mysterious novel in the Cemetery of Forgotten Books. His fascination with its author leads him through concealed histories and dangerous secrets, until the search for a writer begins to reshape his own life.
A murder at a scientific research centre brings symbologist Robert Langdon into an investigation linked to the Illuminati. Working with scientist Vittoria Vetra, he follows a trail through Rome as a threat to the Vatican turns historical clues into a race against time.
Private detectives Patrick Kenzie and Angela Gennaro are hired to find a missing cleaner and stolen documents. What looks like a straightforward job reveals a wider network of exploitation and political violence, forcing them to question the people paying for answers.
In Clanton, Mississippi, lawyer Jake Brigance defends Carl Lee Hailey, who has killed the two white men who sexually assaulted his young daughter. Racial violence and pressure around the trial put the defence and its participants at risk. Grisham's first novel introduces Jake Brigance; its subject matter includes violence against a child.
After a car crash, novelist Paul Sheldon is rescued by Annie Wilkes, a former nurse and devoted reader of his books. Her care becomes captivity when she discovers the fate of his fictional heroine and demands that he write a different future for the character.
Rusty Sabich, a senior prosecutor in Kindle County, is assigned to investigate the murder of a colleague who was once his lover. When the inquiry turns towards him, professional authority and private history become part of the same case. The novel opens the Presumed Innocent sequence featuring Rusty Sabich.
Members of a university mystery club visit an island marked by earlier murders and a ten-sided house. New deaths turn their interest in detective fiction into an urgent need to identify a killer. A mainland investigation examines the earlier case alongside the island's danger.
After years of silence, Lydia Harris hears from her sister in Rome and receives an Egyptian jackal-shaped game piece. A burglary makes the gift still more puzzling. Seeking answers, the nurse follows a trail from Rome to Cairo and the Valley of the Kings.
Ancient-language scholar Ben Messer receives scrolls written by a man who lived in the aftermath of Christ’s lifetime. As he studies them, his growing identification with their author unsettles his relationships and his sense of himself. A historical discovery becomes an increasingly personal mystery.
A powerful businessman becomes entangled in a blackmail plot that threatens the Panama Canal. An actor drawn into his orbit is caught between private ambitions and an international crisis. The novel turns a strategic waterway into the centre of a struggle over money, influence and survival.
Jack Torrance accepts a winter caretaking job at the isolated Overlook Hotel and moves there with his wife and son. Young Danny’s psychic perceptions reveal a disturbing past, while the hotel’s influence and the family’s existing tensions make their isolation increasingly dangerous.
Bullied at school and constrained by her mother’s religious severity, Carrie White begins to discover telekinetic abilities. Her hope of joining ordinary teenage life meets escalating cruelty, as the approach of the school prom brings private suffering and public humiliation together.
Alec Leamas is a British intelligence officer whose work in East Berlin has reached a crisis. His superior, Control, proposes one more operation. Entering a world of calculated appearances and incomplete information, Leamas must navigate the distance between the task he understands and the larger purposes of the service directing him. The Cold War setting frames a conflict between professional obedience and responsibility toward individual people.
James Wormold sells vacuum cleaners in pre-revolutionary Cuba and needs extra money for his daughter, Milly. Recruited as an informant by British intelligence, he supplies invented reports to meet his new employers’ expectations. When those reports are accepted as real intelligence, a private improvisation acquires dangerous consequences. Graham Greene’s spy satire connects family obligations with an institution’s willingness to believe useful information.