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.
In the author's words, this novel is an attempt at a comic family epic of little England into which an explosion of ethnic colour is injected. It tells the story of three families, one Indian, one white, one mixed, in North London and Oxford from World War II to the present day.
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.
Litva, 1941. Hannibal musí so svojou rodinou opustiť staré rodinné sídlo a ukryť sa pred hitlerovskými vojakmi v lese. Pri bombardovaní horárne, miesta, kde našli Lecterovci útočisko, však zomrú všetci dospelí. Nažive zostane len Hannibal a jeho sestrička Mischa, ktorých zajmú miestni banditi. Tí sa v horách nejaký čas ukrývajú spolu s deťmi: v drsných podmienkach trpia zimou a nedostatkom jedla. Hannibal prežije, no jeho sestra Mischa padne za obeť hladným banditom. Tu niekde sa začína odvíjať príbeh vraha s kanibalskými sklonmi... Po skončení vojny Hannibala nájde jeho strýko, slávny maliar, v sovietskom sirotinci. Vezme ho do Francúzska, kde chlapec žije s ním a jeho exotickou manželkou Lady Murasaki. Murasaki má na Hannibala dobrý vplyv, chlapec tak rozvinie svoje vlohy a stane sa najmladším človekom, ktorému sa kedy vo Francúzsku podarilo dostať sa na lekársku fakultu. Zázračné dieťa, ktoré krásne maľuje a obdivuje japonskú poéziu, však zo všetkého najviac túži po jednom. Po pomste.
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.
Seit Jahren werden in Florenz Liebespaare auf grausame Weise ermordet. Als sich die Polizei bei der Witwe Matilde nach ihrem Sohn Enea erkundigt, nistet sich ein schrecklicher Verdacht in Matilde ein.
