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Cuando Emelie, de 25 años, es encontrada asesinada en su apartamento en el norte de Estocolmo -la misma semana en que su violento ex compañero y padre de su hijo sale de prisión en un permiso de fin de semana- la detective Vanessa Frank parece entrever que el culpable está claro. Pero hay algo en el sospechoso que le da a Frank la impresión de que le falta algo. ¿Quién más podría atacar tan frenéticamente a la joven, un ataque que la dejó con más de veinte puñaladas en el estómago? ¿Podría el ataque estar relacionado con la creciente red digital de hombres que quieren castigar a las mujeres, los llamados "incels"? Estos célibes involuntarios viven en los rincones más oscuros de Internet y están unidos en su violenta misoginia. Cuando se presenta una sobreviviente de un ataque sexual, Vanessa Frank comienza a tirar del hilo y a vincular algunos ataques violentos e impactantes, descubriendo este grupo en la sombra. Son perdedores confesos que quieren a toda costa la disponibilidad sexual de las mujeres y, sin embargo, al mismo tiempo, expresan disgusto por la promiscuidad. Se sienten maliciosamente con derecho a recibir sexo y atención de lo que perciben como el sexo más débil. Su agresión acumulada ha llevado a estos hombres solitarios y odiosos a una violencia extrema. En sus propias palabras, han armado la guerra de género. ¿Hay un líder o son simplemente varios grupos caóticos sin relación entre sí? La pregunta que Vanessa Frank debe hacerse es, ¿qué haces cuando el odio echa raíces? Si más de uno de ellos es capaz de asesinar, ¿podrían ser capaces de un tiroteo masivo organizado?

Estrecho de Gibraltar, 1940. En el epicentro de una tormenta, el capitán González rescata a un grupo de náufragos alemanes. Cuando cesa el temporal, el cabecilla le obsequia con un emblema de oro macizo. De la conversación con ellos, González no olvidará dos palabras: traición y salvación. En torno a este emblema gira la aventura de Paul, un joven huérfano que vive con su madre y sus tíos, los barones von Schroeder. Una revelación oculta sobre la extraña muerte del padre de Paul precipitará una peligrosa investigación en el Múnich de entreguerras. Ni siquiera su amor por Alys, una intrépida fotógrafa judía, acabará con su obsesión por descubrir qué le sucedió realmente a su padre.

Emily Walker hates having her carefully crafted world disrupted by anyone, most of all her legendary nemesis, Jack Bennett. He’s the opposite of the wonderful heroes she dreams up in her double life as a romance writer, which is why Emily was perfectly happy when Jack left Rome, Kentucky, mid-school year with his fiancée. The last thing Emily saw coming was Jack’s return at the start of the summer after calling off the wedding and ending his relationship, but he’s here to stay—as her colleague and her neighbor. Jack is glad to be back, eager to renovate his house and work on the next mystery novel under his bestselling pen name. But when he realizes he’s now neighbors with the one woman who has always pushed his buttons, he discovers something he’s even more excited about—thwarting Emily and her petty plans to sabotage his return. With their chemistry-fueled animosity at an all-time high, Emily accidentally sends an email to their school’s principal that could reveal her secret literary side hustle. She needs to steal back her manuscript, and Jack—she hates to admit—is just the man to help her. Surprisingly, he agrees. Will their unlikely alliance put an end to their rivalry? Or could it lead to a steamy plot twist they never saw coming?

The Young Man is Annie Ernaux’s account of her passionate love affair with A., a man some 30 years younger, when she was in her fifties. The relationship pulls her back to memories of her own youth and at the same time leaves her feeling ageless, outside of time— together with a sense that she is living her life backwards. Amidst talk of having a child together, she feels time running its course, and menopause approaching. The Young Man recalls Ernaux as the “scandalous girl” she once was, but is composed with the mastery and the self-assurance she has achieved across decades of writing. It was first published in France in 2022.

A stranger emerges out of a freezing February day with a request for lodging in a cozy provincial inn. Who is this out-of-season traveler? More confounding is the thick mask of bandages obscuring his face. Why is he disguised in such a manner? What keeps him hidden in his room? The villagers, aroused by trepidation and curiosity, bring it upon themselves to find the answers. What they discover is not only a man trapped in the terror of his own creation, but a chilling reflection of the unsolvable mysteries of their own souls.

Considered a masterpiece since its first appearance on stage in 1904, Peter Pan is J. M. Barrie’s most famous work and arguably the greatest of all children’s stories. While it is a wonderful fantasy for the young, Peter Pan, particularly in the novel form Barrie published in 1911, says something important to all of us. Here “the boy who wouldn’t grow up” and his adventures with Wendy and the lost boys in the Neverland evoke a deep emotional response as they give form to our feelings about parents, boys and girls, the unknown, freedom, and responsibility. Humorous, satiric, filled with suspenseful cliff-hangers and bittersweet truths, Peter Panworks an indisputable magic on readers of all ages, making it a true classic of imaginative literature.