Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury

Nowadays firemen start fires. Fireman Guy Montag loves to rush to a fire and watch books burn up.

Guy Montag was a fireman whose job it was to start fires…

The system was simple. Everyone understood it. Books were for burning … along with the houses in which they were hidden.

Guy Montag enjoyed his job. He had been a fireman for ten years, and he had never questioned the pleasure of the midnight runs nor the joy of watching pages consumed by flames… never questioned anything until he met a seventeen-year-old girl who told him of a past when people were not afraid.

Then he met a professor who told him of a future in which people could think… and Guy Montag suddenly realized what he had to do!….

Magiker och glas av Stephen King

 

Roland och hans följeslagare har med knappa livet undflytt staden Lud och bordat Blaine, ett tåg som kommer att ta dem till Kansas, av alla ställen, där spökstaden Topeka har blivit avfolkad av en superinfluensa, och där, vid sidan av Motorväg 70, ett smaragdpalats förtrollande reser sig. Innan Roland och medlemmarna av hans ka-tet fortsätter sin resa längs Ljusets/Strålens stig (?), måste Roland berätta historien som definierar honom både som man och hjälte, en riddarhistoria för länge sedan om trolldom/magi och ondska, om den vackra och oförglömliga Susan Delgado, om the Big Coffin Hunters och Reah of the Coos, för sina färdkamrater. Och när hans berättelse är slut konfronterar Roland en man som går under många namn, en man som darcles and tincts och som kanske äger nyckeln till Det mörka tornet.

Med gift i blodet av Val McDermid

 

Staden Bradfield befinner sig i chocktillstånd efter att stjärnskottet i stadens fotbollslag har blivit mördad genom en märklig förgiftning, till synes helt motivlöst. Inom kort exploderar en bomb på fotbollsstadion. Dussintals blir dödade, många fler skadade. Är detta ett terroristdöd eller attentat riktat mot fotbollslaget? Eller något ännu mer ondskefullt?

Tandooriälgen av Zac O’Yeah

 

Göteborg – några år in i framtiden. Klimatförändringar och ekonomiska omvälvningar har lett till en genomgripande ändring av världsordningen. Göteborg har döpts om till Gautampuri, staden har 20 miljoner invånare och är en del av den Sydasiatiska Unionen. Den omplacerade polisen – folktjänsteman Herman Barsk – arbetar i det svårt nedgångna Masthugget. En dag gör Barsk ett fasansfullt fynd på restaurang ”Tandooriälgen”, han hittar de tandoorigrillade liken av fyra män.

Döden genom vatten av Ruth Rendell

Systrarna Heather och Ismay är båda i trettioårsåldern och bor ihop. En trappa upp i samma hus bor deras schizofrena mamma som vårdas av sin syster. Systrarna pratar aldrig om det fruktansvärda som hände nio år tidigare då deras styvpappa, Guy, hittades drunknad i badkaret. Inte heller pratar de om att Heather var ensam hemma med Guy då det hände eller att hon var drypande blöt när hon mötte sin mamma och syster i trappan. Tillsammans har de diktat ihop en historia för polisen som ger Heather alibi och fallet avskrivs som en olycka. Men Ismay kan inte släppa taget om vad som hände och när Heather träffar en man känner systern att hon måste berätta för honom. I brist på mod talar hon in sina tankar på ett band. Samtidigt har hon själv kärleksproblem hennes älskade har lämnat henne för överklassflickan Eva. Heather försöker hjälpa sin syster genom att övertala Eva att lämna mannen. När Eva kort därefter hittas mördad i en park och Ismays band hamnar i orätta händer börjar sanningen till slut komma fram.

The memory of running by Ron McLarty

 

Award-winning actor and playwright Ron McLarty is well known for his performances of Recorded Books. He is also an accomplished author. In this wonderfully quirky novel–available exclusively as an audiobook–McLarry takes readers on a quest to find hope and redemption with an unlikely hero. Smithson Ide is 43 years old and weighs 279 pounds when his parents die in an accident. Lost in memories of childhood, Smithson uncovers his old Raleigh bicycle in the garage and begins a cross-country journey to find his beautiful, but tragically psychotic sister. Keenly aware of how ridiculous he must appear, Smithson nonetheless perseveres through a journey that is hilarious and horrifying. It Is a trip, he soon realizes, that might provide his last chance to become the person he has always wanted to be.

Things fall apart by Chinua Achebe

With over eight million copies in print, Chinua Achebe’s work is perhaps the best-known novel in African literature. No other book so powerfully illuminates the African experience. Driven by ambition, Okonkwo works tirelessly to gain prosperity and prestige in his village. But he is harsh as well as diligent. As he sees the traditions of his people eroded by white missionaries and government officials, he lashes out in anger. ”Things Fall Apart traces the growing friction between village leaders and Europeans determined to save the heathen souls of Africa. Its hero, a noble man who is driven by destructive forces, speaks a universal language.

In the woods by Tana French

 

When he was twelve years old, Adam Ryan went playing in the woods one sunny day with his two best friends. He never saw them again. Their bodies were never found, and Adam himself was discovered with his back pressed against an oak tree and his shoes filled with blood. He had no memory of what had happened. Twenty years later Adam – now using his middle name of Rob – is a detective with the Dublin police force. His colleagues don’t know about his past. He works as a team with Cassie Maddox, a smart, tough cookie; they are best friends as well as partners. When the body of a young girl is found at the site of an archaeological dig, Rob and Cassie get the case. And when they reach the crime scene, Rob realises it is the exact site of his childhood trauma. They also find a hairclip that he recognises as having belonged to his friend. Could there be a connection between that old, unsolved crime and this? Knowing that he would be thrown off the case if his past were revealed, Rob takes a fateful decision to keep quiet. Rob and Cassie are investigating the murder of Katy Devlin, but they both hope that they might also solve the twenty-year-old mystery of the woods.

The night watch by by Sarah Waters

 

Moving back through the 1940s, through air raids, blacked out streets, illicit liaisons, sexual adventure, to end with its beginning in 1941, The Night Watch is the work of a truly brilliant and compelling storyteller. This is the story of four Londoners – three women and a young man with a past, drawn with absolute truth and intimacy. Kay, who drove an ambulance during the war and lived life at full throttle, now dresses in mannish clothes and wanders the streets with a restless hunger, searching …Helen, clever, sweet, much-loved, harbours a painful secret …Viv, glamour girl, is stubbornly, even foolishly loyal, to her soldier lover …Duncan, an apparent innocent, has had his own demons to fight during the war. Their lives, and their secrets connect in sometimes startling ways. War leads to strange alliances …Tender, tragic and beautifully poignant, set against the backdrop of feats of heroism both epic and ordinary, here is a novel of relationships that offers up subtle surprises and twists.

I djävulens sällskap av Peter Robinson

Karen Drew hittas i sin rullstol, stirrande ut över havet, med avskuren hals. Kriminalkommissarie Annie Cabbot tar hand om fallet. Samma morgon hemma i Eastvale hittas en nittonåring våldtagen och strypt.
   Överkommissarie Banks hittar ett flertal misstänkta medan Annie kör fast direkt, tills hon får ett genombrott som leder utredningen i en chockerande riktning.
   Medan Banks och Annie gräver i det förflutna för att söka bakomliggande orsaker står det snart klart att de har två mördare mitt ibland sig och att vem som helst av dem kan slå till igen.