LITERATURE

A client named Ruthie -- who seems to know Tess' father a little too well -- asks the newspaperwoman-turned-p.i. to investigate a year-old 'Jane Doe' murder and its grim aftermath. Learn More

A #1 New York Times bestseller for 34 weeks and the book that launched John le Carré's career worldwide Learn More

With a murder at its heart, Roberto Bolaño’s The Skating Rink is, among other things, a crime novel. Murder seems to have exerted a fascination for the endlessly talented Bolaño, who in his last interview, according to The London Observer, “declared, in all apparent seriousness, that what he would most like to have been was a homicide detective.” Learn More

Patrick deWitt, a young writer whose “stop-you-in-your-tracks writing has snuck up on the world” (Los Angeles Times), brings us The Sisters Brothers, a darkly comic, outrageously inventive novel that offers readers a decidedly off-center view of the Wild, Wild West. Set against the back-drop of the great California Gold Rush, this odd and wonderful tour de force at once honors and reshapes the traditional western while chronicling the picaresque misadventures of two hired guns, the fabled Sisters brothers. The most original western since the Coen Brothers re-interpreted True Grit—you’ve never met anyone quite like The Sisters Brothers. Learn More

American professor George Magruder, his wife Louise and their daughter rent an old, isolated house known as Trencher's Farm in Cornwall, so George can finish writing his book. Learn More

A novel about what happens when you go away to college and imediately get sucked into one of those secret organizations. Learn More

In this dazzling novel, the book that established his international reputation, Roberto Bolaño tells the story of two modern-day Quixotes--the last survivors of an underground literary movement, perhaps of literature itself--on a tragicomic quest through a darkening, entropic universe: our own. Learn More

An amoral young tramp. A beautiful, sullen woman with an inconvenient husband. A problem that has only one grisly solution--a solution that only creates other problems that no one can ever solve. Learn More

The first new edition of this landmark anthology since 1945 presents a more complicated, perverse, and culturally engaged Poe. Learn More