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The Locked Door
08 $While eleven-year-old Nora Davis was up in her bedroom doing homework, she had no idea her father was killing women in the basement. Until the day the police arrived at their front door. Decades later, Nora’s father is spending his life behind bars, and Nora is a successful surgeon with a quiet, solitary existence.
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The Lost Symbol
08 $Follows Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon as he’s drawn into a dangerous conspiracy in Washington, D.C. Summoned to give a lecture, he finds his mentor, Peter Solomon, kidnapped and a cryptic invitation left behind. Langdon must decipher Masonic symbols and navigate a world of hidden history to save Solomon and uncover a long-lost secret.
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The Lovely Bones
08 $It is the story of a teenage girl who, after being raped and murdered, watches from a personal heaven as her family and friends struggle to move on with their lives while she comes to terms with her own death.
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The Maidens
020 $Our heroine Mariana is a grieving widow and group therapist who cares deeply for her niece, Zoe. So when one of Zoe’s friends is murdered, Mariana travels to Cambridge to support her—and to prove the guilt of Edward Fosca, the enigmatic professor who seems to have captured the admiration of everyone but Mariana.
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The Maidens
08 $A psychological thriller about Mariana Andros, a grieving group therapist who travels to Cambridge University to help her niece, Zoe, after her friend Tara is murdered.
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The Metamorphosis
07 $The Metamorphosis, also translated as The Transformation, is a novella by Franz Kafka published in 1915.
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The Midnight Library
08 $Matt Haig’s unique novel The Midnight Library ponders the infinite possibilities of life. It is about a young woman named Nora Seed, who lives a monotonous, ordinary life and feels unwanted and unaccomplished. One night, her despair reaches a peak and she commits suicide.
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The Murder Of Roger Ackroyd
015 $The murder victim, a wealthy widower who is stabbed to death in his study. Ackroyd was engaged to the recently deceased Mrs. Ferrars and received a letter from her just before his death. His murder sets the entire mystery in motion and uncovering the truth about his death drives the plot.
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The Naturals
08 $It is the first novel in the Naturals series, which follows Cassie, a teenager with a natural talent for profiling people based on a careful study of their behavior. Cassie meets other teenagers with similar abilities when she joins a special FBI program meant to use their skills to solve murders.
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The Perfect Son
08 $A high school girl has vanished from Erika’s quiet suburban neighborhood. The police suspect the worst–murder. And Erika’s teenage son, Liam, was the last person to see the girl alive. Erika has always sensed something dark and disturbed in her seemingly perfect older child.
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The Phone Booth At The Edge Of The World
08 $The Phone Booth at the Edge of the World is a poetic novel about a real telephone booth in Otsuchi, Japan, a rural town decimated by the 2011 tsunami. Known as the “Wind Phone,” the disconnected rotary telephone allows grieving family members to speak, in a way, to loved ones who have passed on.
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The Poppy War
08 $Fang Runin (“Rin”) is a war orphan in the Nikan Empire whose foster parents employ her in their opium smuggling. She secretly studies for a national test to escape an arranged marriage and places first in her province, which sends her north to Sinegard, the imperial capital and home of the military academy