The Long and Faraway Gone

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Naoki Urasawa présente

The *Nameless Monster*, a mysterious children's picture book, holds the key to unlocking the secrets of Johan's past. The startling discovery that it was created by an official from the Czechoslovakian secret police leads Tenma to the ominously eerie Red Rose Manion - an estate with a dark and tragic history covered up and sealed away for decades. Meanwhile, a serial murderer in Prague has been identified as a beautiful blond woman. Who could she be and what is her connection to Johan?

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Jo Nesbø

The horrifically disfigured corpse of an Oslo police officer is found at the scene of a homicide whose trail went cold years before. The butchered officer was involved in the first investigation. It is the anniversary of the death. Within months, two more officers are killed the same way: at the scenes of the unsolved murders they investigated. The newest slayings are especially brutal. The media reaction is frenzied. The police are beginning to believe the murderer is using the hysteria he has created as bait for his next victims. As the bodies mount, so do the suspects: a maniacal child molester thought to have been killed in jail ... a young female police recruit whose eerie intensity may mask darker emotions ... a former police officer, removed from the force against his will ... This should be a case for Harry Hole. But Oslo's most brilliant, most unpredictable police detective is missing. And a severely wounded man lies in a coma at a hospital in the city. There's a police guard outside the room around the clock. The identity of the patient is kept secret.

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Patricia Lauber

Discusses the truth behind such beliefs as "Cats can see in total darkness," "Cats have nine lives," and "A cat signals its feelings with its tail."

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Cynthia Gallant-Simpson

"When a late-spring snowstorm buries quaint little Provincetown at the very tip of Cape Cod and a body is found at the foot of the Pilgrim Monument, the police assume that miserly curmudgeon Edwin Snow II jumped to his death. British newcomer, innkeeper Liz Ogilvie-Smythe however sees something incongruous about the death and suspects murder. Thus begins her new avocation as amateur sleuth and her fortuitous meeting and eventual crime solving relationship with handsome Irish cop James Finneran."