The seemingly idyllic family life of Netherlands mathematics professor-turned-politician Siem Sigerius is threatened by his violence-shadowed previous marriage, his older son and an unexpected deception.

During a gala benefit for the Democratic Party's hottest presidential hopeful, a young woman dies, the victim of quick and brutal violence. And the chief suspect is none other than the son of the party's dynmanic candidate.

Griffin has been tooling around for nearly a year with his father's ashes in the trunk, but his mother is still very much alive, and not shy about calling on his cell phone. She does so as he drives down to Cape Cod, where he and his wife, Joy, will celebrate the marriage of their daughter Laura's best friend. But by the end of this perfectly lovely weekend, the past has so thoroughly swamped the present that the future suddenly hangs in the balance....

While teaching a Creative Nonfiction class, Chicagoan Russell Stone encounters a young Algerian woman with a disturbingly luminous presence. Thassadit Amzwar's blissful exuberance entrances and puzzles the melancholic Russell. How can this refugee from perpetual terror be so happy? Russell's amateur inquiries bring Thassa to the attention of a notorious geneticist whose research leads him to announce the genotype for happiness.

From the author of the "raw, ingenious, and utterly fearless" (Wendy Walker, USA TODAY bestselling author) Temper comes a dynamic psychological thriller about two women who give bad men exactly what they deserve—perfect for fans of Killing Eve and Chelsea Cain.
Scarlett Clark is an exceptional English professor. But she's even better at getting away with murder.

Every year, Dr. Clark searches for the...

Professor Dr. Moritz-Maria von Igelfeld despairs over an academic rival's undeserved acclaim and stumbles into a haphazard romance with a charming widow before a mountaineering accident catapults him into unwanted fame.

Retired Army Ranger John Holliday has reluctantly settled into his teaching position at West Point, when young Israeli archaeologist Rafi Wanounou comes to him with desperate news. Holliday's niece and Rafi's fiancée, Peggy, has been kidnapped while photographing the excavation of an ancient tomb in Egypt. Her captors are murderous fanatics known as the Brotherhood of the Temple of Isis, and their search for her will lead into the heart of a conspiracy...

"A dazzlingly original new novel from the acclaimed author of The Borrower. Now, Makkai returns with an ingenious novel set on an historic estate that once housed an arts colony. Doug, the husband of the estate's heir, desperately needs the colony files to get his stalled academic career back on track. But what he discovers when he finally gets his hands on them is more than he bargained for. Doug may never learn the house's secrets, but the reader...

An MIT grad student unwittingly uncovers the hidden connection between the Gardner Museum heist and the most fascinating secret in American history.

"Barbara Jefferson, a young American teaching in Tokyo in the 1960s, is set on a life-changing quest when her Japanese surrogate mother, Michi, dies, leaving her a tansu of homemade plum wines wrapped in rice paper. Within the papers Barbara discovers writings in Japanese calligraphy that comprise a startling personl narrative. With the help of her translator, Seiji Okada, Barbara begins to unravel the mysteries of Michi's life, a story that begins...