The ​Touch

Daniel Keyes - Billy ​Milligan háborúi
Billy ​Milligannel, a megsokszorozódott személyiségű, ifjú, elmebeteg bűnözővel először a Szép álmokat Billy című kötetben találkozhatott az olvasó. Megdöbbentő történetét az teszi egészen különleges olvasmánnyá, hogy az első betűtől az utolsóig igaz. Billy, aki 1977-ben, az amerikai Ohioban fegyverrel elrabolt, majd megerőszakolt három nőt, valójában huszonnégy különböző korú, nemű és jellemű emberből áll. Elméje annyi darabra "esett szét" még gyermekkorában, szadista nevelőapja bántalmazásai miatt. Ez a könyv annak a harcnak a krónikája, amelyet Billy egyrészt az ellenséges külvilággal, másrészt saját belső személyiségével folytat. Miközben végigkövetjük élete stációit, idegenkedésünk és félelmünk Billytől észrevétlenül sajnálattá, sőt rokonszenvvé változik át. A tét óriási. Belehal-e Billy a küzdelmekbe, vagy sikerül-e végleg egybeolvadnia és évtizedek szörnyű megpróbáltatásai után elkezdenie normális, szabad, emberhez méltó életét?

Agatha Christie - One, ​Two, Buckle My Shoe
Even ​the great Poirot harbours a deep and abiding fear of the dentist, so it is with trepidation that he arrives at the celebrated Dr Morley’s surgery for an examination. Yet even Poirot couldn’t have guessed that only hours later he would be examining the dentist, dead in his surgery – an apparent suicide. Why would a successful dentist choose to kill himself on such a busy day? Poirot turns to the other patients for answers – but only finds other, darker questions. ‘A swift course of unflagging suspense leads to complete surprise.’ New York Times

Karin Slaughter - Fractured
Ansley ​Park is one of Atlanta’s most upscale neighborhoods—but in one gleaming mansion, in a teenager’s lavish bedroom, a girl has been savagely murdered. And in the hallway, her mother stands amid shattered glass, having killed her daughter’s attacker with her bare hands. Detective Will Trent of the Georgia Bureau of Investigation is one of the first on the scene. Trent soon sees something that the Atlanta cops are missing, something in the trail of blood, in a matrix of forensic evidence, and in the eyes of the stunned mother. When another teenage girl goes missing, Trent knows that this case, which started in the best of homes, is about to cut quick and deep through the ruins of perfect lives broken wide-open: where human demons emerge with a vengeance.

Dan Brown - The ​Da Vinci Code
Harvard ​professor Robert Langdon receives an urgent late-night phone call while on business in Paris: the elderly curator of the Louvre has been brutally murdered inside the museum. Alongside the body, police have found a series of baffling codes. As Langdon and a gifted French cryptologist, Sophie Neveu, begin to sort through the bizarre riddles, they are stunned to find a trail that leads to the works of Leonardo Da Vinci - and suggests the answer to a mystery that stretches deep into the vault of history. Unless Langdon and Neveu can decipher the labyrinthine code and quickly assemble the pieces of the puzzle, a stunning historical truth will be lost forever...

John Grisham - The ​Broker
In ​his final hours in the Oval Office the outgoing President grants a controversial last minute pardon to Joel Backman, a notorious Washington power broker who has spent the last six years hidden away in a federal prison. What no one knows is that the President issues the pardon only after receiving enormous pressure from the CIA. It seems that Backman, in his power broker heyday, may have obtained secrets that compromise the world's most sophisticated satellite surveillance system. Backman is quietly smuggled out of the country in a military cargo plane, given a new name, a new identity, and a new home in Italy. Eventually, after he has settled into his new life, the CIA will leak his whereabouts to the Israelis, the Russians, the Chinese and the Saudis. Then the CIA will do what it does best: sit back and watch. The question is not whether Backman will survive - there's no chance of that. The question the CIA needs answered is, who will kill him?

Dan Brown - Inferno ​(angol)
Dan ​Brown's new novel, Inferno, features renowned Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon and is set in the heart of Europe, where Langdon is drawn into a harrowing world centred around one of history's most enduring and mysterious literary masterpieces. As Dan Brown comments: "Although I studied Dante's Inferno as a student, it wasn't until recently, while researching in Florence, that I came to appreciate the enduring influence of Dante's work on the modern world. With this new novel, I am excited to take readers on a journey deep into this mysterious realm.a landscape of codes, symbols, and more than a few secret passageways."

Agatha Christie - Partners ​in Crime
Tommy ​and Tuppence Beresford are restless for adventure, so when they are asked to take over Blunt's International Detective Agency, they leap at the chance. Their first case is a success - the triumphant recovery of a pink pearl. Other cases soon follow - a stabbing on Sunningdale golf course; cryptic messages in the personal columns of newspapers; and even a box of poisoned chocolates, But can they live up to their slogan of 'Any case solved in 24 hours'?

Lawrence Block - The ​Burglar Who Studied Spinoza
Bookselling ​burglar Bernie Rhodenbarr doesn't generally get philosophical about his criminal career. He's good at it, it's addictively exciting—and it pays a whole lot better than pushing old tomes. He steals therefore he is, period. He might well ponder, however, the deeper meaning of events at the luxurious Chelsea brownstone of Herb and Wanda Colcannon, which is apparently burgled three times on the night Bernie breaks in: once before his visit and once after. Fortunately he still manages to lift some fair jewelry and an extremely valuable coin. Unfortunately burglar or burglars number three leave Herb unconscious and Wanda dead . . . and the cops think Rhodenbarr dunnit. There's no time to get all existential about it—especially after the coin vanishes and the fence fencing it meets with a most severe end. But Bernie is going to have to do some deep thinking to find a way out of this homicidal conundrum.

Daniel Keyes - Az ​ötödik Sally
Sally ​Porter az élet kellemetlen helyzetei ellen azzal védekezik, hogy elveszíti öntudatát. De ezzel nincs vége a dolognak. Mikor újra magához tér, új helyzetben találja magát. Az idő továbbhaladt és ő nem tud róla számot adni. Olyasmikre próbálják emlékeztetni, amiket tudtával nem követett el. Otthon olyan holmikat talál, amelyeket soha esze ágában sem volt megvásárolni. És amiket a férje összehazudott róla a válóperi tárgyaláson! Hogy hetekre eltünedezett, hogy hajlamos az erőszakra, hogy félmeztelenül táncolt egy mulatóban... El tudja ezt képzelni, dr. Ash? Igen, a pszichiáter el tudja képzelni. Ismeri ezt a betegséget, de szemtől szembe csak most találkozik vele először. Ez a többszörösen hasadt személyiség esete. A jámbor, félénk Sallyben négy további én lakozik, még saját nevük is van. Bella tömény érzékiség, Nola merő intellektualitás, Derry csupa jóindulat, Jinx pedig- tőle isten óvjon, ő maga a megtestesült agresszivitás. Ezeket a gyerekkorban lehasadt, önálló életre kelt személyiségdarabokat kellene szép sorjában visszaolvasztani a helyükre- létrehozni Sally valódi, gazdag, sokrétű személyiségét. A küzdelemnek dr. Ash számára is nagy a tétje. Ő is válságban van, belsőleg belerokkant a hivatásába, kiégett, házassága tragédiába torkollt. Sally esete a próbakő: meg tud-e újulni, képes-e még valódi együttérzésre? Meg tudja-e tehát egymást gyógyítani orvos és betege?

Michael Connelly - The ​Poet
The ​apparent suicide of his policeman brother sets Denver crime reporter Jack McEvoy on edge. Surprise at the circumstances of his brother's death prompts Jack to look into a whole series of police suicides and puts him on the trail of a cop-killer whose victims are selected all too carefully. Not only that, but they all leave suicide notes drawn from the poems of writer Edgar Allan Poe in their wake. More frightening still the killer appears to know that Jack is getting nearer and nearer. An investigation that looks like being the story of a lifetime, might also be Jack's ticket to a lonely end.

Caleb Carr - The ​Angel of Darkness
In ​one of the most critically acclaimed novels of the year, Caleb Carr-- bestselling author of The Alienist--pits Dr. Laszlo Kreizler and his colleagues against a murderer as evil as the darkest night. . . .

Robin Cook - Idegen ​test
Jennifer ​Hernandez, a végzős orvostanhallgató rossz hírt kap: nagymamája elhunyt egy csípőprotézis-műtét szövődményében egy újdelhi magánkórházban. Jennifernek kell intézkednie nagyanyja testének örök nyugalomra helyezéséről. A lány Indiába utazik, és ezzel kezdetét veszik azok a kalandok, amelyek során egyszerre kerül szembe az indiai korrupt bürokrácia dzsungelével és egy semmiféle gátlást nem ismerő csoport ravasz összeesküvésével. Jennifer nem hiszi, hogy nagyanyja természetes halált halt. Gyanakvását csak alátámasztja, hogy másik két hasonló haláleset is történt amerikai betegekkel indiai magánkórházakban. Az Indiába irányuló amerikai gyógyturizmus hatalmas nyereséget hoz a távol-keleti országnak, ám még ennél is nagyobb veszteségeket okoz az amerikai egészségügyben érdekelt cégeknek. Mivel dollármilliárdok forognak kockán, egyik oldal sem válogat az eszközökben, amikor saját üzleti érdekeiket kell megvédeniük. A gyilkosságtól sem riadnak vissza... Jennifer indiai nyomozásában barátai, köztük két igazságügyi orvos szakértő is részt vesz, akik egy illegális boncolás során bukkannak cáfolhatatlan bizonyítékokra, amelyek az idegenkezűséget támasztják alá... Robin Cook legújabb regénye amellett, hogy bővelkedik izgalmas kalandokban, az olvasót India titokzatos, spirituális, ám sokszor kegyetlen világába is elkalauzolja.

Daniel Keyes - Szép ​álmokat, Billy!
Csaló ​vagy áldozat? Ki volt Billy Milligan? A világ máig sem kapott határozott feleletet. Zseniális színjátékos, aki orránál fogva vezette egész Amerikát, a bíróságokat, a pszichiátereket? Vagy egy megkínzott és szétesett ember, akinek testében csakugyan több tucat, különböző személyiség lakott? Az író két éven át faggatta Billyt és környezetét, hogy földerítse, miért támadott és erőszakolt meg a fiatalember ismeretlen nőket. Hogy ő tette-e egyáltalán, vagy a benne lakozók valamelyike: a szenvtelen Arthur, a lezser Allen, a vad Ragen, esetleg Adalana, a leszbikus nő. Keyes páratlan nyomozása a megsokszorozódott személyiségek rég vitatott rejtélyét helyezi új megvilágításba. Az olvasó végigkövethet egy fantasztikus élettörténetet, s a végén maga is ítélhet: bűnös volt-e Billy Milligan?

Agatha Christie - The ​Mysterious Affair at Styles
Invalided ​home from the First World War, Lieutenant Hastings finds himself in a convalescent home very much to his disliking. Thankfully his old friend John Cavendish invites him to spend the rest of his sick leave at his family home. The beautiful Styles Court is home to John’s step mother Mrs Inglethorpe, and her new husband Alfred. Despite the tranquil surroundings Hastings begins to realise that all is not right. When Mrs Inglethorpe is found poisoned a murder investigation begins, and who better to investigate than war refugee Hercule Poirot, a retired Belgian detective.

Agatha Christie - Towards ​Zero
What ​is the connection between a failed suicide attempt, a wrongful accusation of theft against a schoolgirl, and the romantic life of a tennis player? To the casual observer, apparently nothing. When a houseparty gathers at Gull's Point, the seaside home of an elderly widow, earlier events come to a dramatic head.

Lawrence Block - The ​Burglar Who Liked to Quote Kipling
Bernie ​Rhodenbarr has gone legit -- almost -- as the new owner of a used bookstore in New York's Greenwich Village. Of course, dusty old tomes don't always turn a profit, so to make ends meet, Bernie's forced, on occasion, to indulge in his previous occupation: burglary. Besides which, he likes it. Now a collector is offering Bernie an opportunity to combine his twin passions by stealing a very rare and very bad book-length poem from a rich man's library. The heist goes off without a hitch. The delivery of the ill-gotten volume, however, is a different story. Drugged by the client's female go-between, Bernie wakes up in her apartment to find the book gone, the lady dead, a smoking gun in his hand, and the cops at the door. And suddenly he's got to extricate himself from a rather sticky real-life murder mystery and find a killer -- before he's booked for Murder One.

Michael Connelly - Echo ​Park
In ​1993 Harry Bosch was assigned the case of a missing person, Marie Gesto. The young woman was never found - dead or alive - and the case has haunted Bosch ever since. Thirteen years later Bosch is in the Open-Unsolved Unit when he gets a call from the DA's office. A man accused of two killings is willing to confess to several other murders in a deal to avoid the death penalty. One of his victims, he says, is Marie Gesto. Bosch begins to crack when he realises that he and his partner missed a clue back in 1993 which could have prevented the nine murders that followed the killing of Marie Gesto...

Tami Hoag - A ​Thin Dark Line
When ​a sadistic act of violence leaves a woman dead... When a tainted piece of evidence lets her killer walk... How far would you go to see justice done? From New York Times bestselling author Tami Hoag comes a taut, terrifying thriller as chilling as Night Sins, as nerve-shattering as Guilty as Sin. When murder erupts in a small Southern town, Tami Hoag leads readers on a frightening journey to the shadowy boundary between attraction and obsession, law and justice--and exposes the rage that lures people over... Pamela Bichon's killer is free, the case against him dismissed on a technicality. In the eyes of the law it doesn't matter that the prosecutor's key piece of evidence proves Marcus Renard's guilt beyond a shadow of a doubt. All that matters is that the evidence was never listed on a search warrant and it was seized by a detective with a questionable past and a nasty reputation. But the investigation isn't over--not for Cajun cop Nick Fourcade, who stands accused of planting the evidence. He's stepped over the line before and this case could push him over the edge. His orders are to move on, but obsession fills his mind with the nightmare images of Pamela Bichon's agonizing death, of Marcus Renard's arrogant triumph, and of his own capacity for exacting vengeance. Deputy Annie Broussard can't walk away from the homicide either. She found the body. She still hears the phantom echoes of dying screams, still feels the shadow of a woman taken by violence and denied justice. But pursuing the investigation will mean forming an uneasy alliance with Fourcade, a man she doesn't trust. It will mean subjecting herself to growing harassment from her fellow cops. And it will mean letting herself be drawn into the confidence of a suspected killer. As Fourcade challenges her again and again to reach deeper into the case and into her own soul, Annie will find herself at the center of a maze of treachery and deceit. And the closer she draws to the brutal truth, the deadlier the chase will become. The search for the truth has begun--one that will lead down a twisted trail through the steamy bayous of Louisiana, and deep into the darkest reaches of the human heart.

Tami Hoag - Still ​Waters
Hidden ​in the Minnesota farmlands, Still Creek seems to offer a sanctuary to Elizabeth Stuart and her son following her divorce, but the locals are distinctly cool towards the newcomers. Then, when Elizabeth becomes involved in a murder case, she finds there's more to the place than meets the eye.

Daniel Keyes - Flowers ​for Algernon
Charlie ​Gordon, IQ 68, is a floor sweeper, and the gentle butt of everyone's jokes, until an experiment in the enhancement of human intelligence turns him into a genius. But then Algernon, the mouse whose triumphal experimental tranformation preceded his, fades and dies, and Charlie has to face the possibility that his salvation was only temporary.