The Leopard

Mordant Oslo police inspector Harry Hole returns from exile in Hong Kong to his old Nordic stomping grounds to track down a serial killer who drowns his victims in their own blood. Chilling brutality and suspenseful cat-and-mouse games reign in Jo Nesbø's follow-up to The Snowman, even during a side trip to sunny Africa.

June 19: On this day in 1816, the Shelleys, Lord Byron, and entourage gathered at the Villa Diodati on Lake Geneva to tell the ghost stories that would trigger Frankenstein. This most legendary of storm-tossed evenings inspired…

Very few debut novels exhibit the charm, assurance, emotional depth and bravura fabulation which the lucky reader will discover in Helene Wecker's

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