At a grand Reykjavik hotel the doorman has been stabbed in the dingy basement room. As the manager tries to keep the murder under wraps, a glum detective takes up residence in his hotel. As Erlendur quietly surveys the cast of grotesques who populate the hotel, the web of malice, greed and corruption that lies beneath its surface reveals itself.
On New Year's morning, 1975, Archie Jones sits in his car on a London road and waits for the exhaust fumes to fill his vehicle. Archie - working-class, ordinary, a failed marriage under his belt - is calling it quits, the deciding factor being the flip of a coin. When the owner of a nearby halal butcher shop (annoyed that Archie's car is blocking his delivery area) comes out and bangs on the window, he gives Archie another chance at life and sets in motion the events of the story. Set in post-war London, this novel of the racial, political, and social upheaval of the last half of the twentieth century follows two families - the Joneses and the Iqbals, both outsiders from within the former British empire - as they make their way in modern England
SOON TO BE A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE, MOTHERLESS BROOKLYN IS RELEASED IN CINEMAS DECEMBER 2019 'A detective novel of winning humour and exhilarating originality.' Sunday Times Lionel Essrog is Brooklyn's very own self-appointed Human Freakshow, an orphan whose Tourette's Disease drives him to bark, count, and rip apart our language in startling and original ways. Together with three veterans of the St Vincent's Home for Boys, he works for mobster Frank Minna. But when Frank is fatally stabbed and his widow skips town, Lionel attempts to untangle the threads of the case.
'Worth the wait. Harris's writing bears the hallmarks of honed perfection. This piece of literature is popular fiction only in the sense that it will sell. And sell.look no further for the chiller of the year' Peter Millar, The Times 'Insanely readable.No thriller writer is better attuned than Thomas Harris to the rhythms of suspense. No horror writer is more adept at making the stomach churn. compelling.truly shocking.a brilliant book' Mail on Sunday 'It is a gut-churning, nail-biting, skin-crawling, often lyrical triumph - addictive on every level.The plot is a helluva plot.The denouement is as exciting as the rest.If there's a better book this year, with truth, fantasy and a touch of erudition combined in prose which really does leap off the page, I'll eat my hat.' Francis Fyfield, Express 'No panting fan.could have hope for more.Hannibal is a great popular novel and a plausible candidate for the Pulitzer Prize' Guardian 'Well if this novel isn't the number one bestseller by this time next week, I'll eat my tongue.[it] is quite simply a compelling and brilliant thriller.it seems all too real and quite terrifying. Thomas Harris is a brilliantly clever author.Sentence for sentence there is nobody to match him.It is an incredible achievement.absorbing' Daily Mirror
In New York City, 1871, where crime and vice flourish, corruption is king, wealth stands on the shoulders of unspeakable want, there are no limits to larceny. The disinherited son of a millionaire sees his dead father alive and sets off a train of mystery and revelation that takes the reader into the heart of evil.
Knisternde Spannung und die Wohlanständigkeit der gepflegten Kreise sind die Ingredenzien dieses Thrillers, der fein ziselierte Psychologie mit literarischer Meisterschaft verbindet. In einem Wechselspiel von verdrängten Gefühlen und sich überstürzenden Ereignissen entsteht ein Szenario ohne jeden vermeintlichen Ausweg.
