For fans of Laurel K Hamilton, Kim Harrison, and Karen Marie Moning...Hello, my name is Nina Decker and I'm a monster. Okay, technically, I'm half monster. My mother is the real one. But don't tell anyone. I'm not out of the closet just yet.She's one of the fae. Which are a secret ancient and rare race of people. These are not the fae written about in fairytales with pretty gossamer wings and fairy dust, no they are sinister, malevolent and unkind, dwelling...

Death is best served... pampered?When a woman is brutally murdered at a luxury spa resort, it's the retiree Anne-Maj Mortensen who stumbles upon the body.Despite being slowed down by a recent knee operation, she takes matters into her own hands and launches her own investigation, much to the dismay of the local police.But when another murder is committed, Mrs Mortensen can't help be be drawn further into the cast. Can she solve the mystery and outsmart the killer be...

In a sleepy Danish town, death lurks amongst the dusty bric‑a‑brac…The elderly volunteers at the second-hand shop keep dying. Heart attacks. Strokes. A simple case of old age, say the police. Sad but inevitable.Newly retired Mrs Mortensen begs to differ. This "Danish Miss Marple" and her loyal dachshund, Mortensen III, sniff a sinister pattern at work.Armed with a fierce sense of justice and a fondness for tea and cake, Anne-Maj launches her own investigation. The f...

Gossip Girl meets the Gilded Age in this delicious and compelling novel, the fourth and final book in the New York Times bestselling series from author Anna Godbersen.In the dramatic conclusion to the New York Times bestselling Luxe series, Manhattan’s most dazzling socialites chase dreams, cling to promises, and tempt fate. Only one question remains: Will they fade away or will they shine ever brighter?New beginnings. Shocking...

In a sleepy Danish town, death lurks amongst the dusty bric‑a‑brac…The elderly volunteers at the second-hand shop keep dying. Heart attacks. Strokes. A simple case of old age, say the police. Sad but inevitable.Newly retired Mrs Mortensen begs to differ. This "Danish Miss Marple" and her loyal dachshund, Mortensen III, sniff a sinister pattern at work.Armed with a fierce sense of justice and a fondness for tea and cake, Anne-Maj launches her own investigation. The f...

This work is about the motherly beginning of all earthy, about spiritual origin of humanof a specific person, a woman. Heroine nicknamed Dove, sent to Earth of our time by Morena, the goddess of death and fertility. Dove lives among ordinary people, working, suffering, losing, loving, and tolerating. And finally she returns to the kingdom of Morena riding on a white horse, which was given to her for a worthy mission on Earth, and in the company of the child, whose name is associated with a...

. . . I looked down. Observed the world below, all the caves with rats, poor pansions-pensions with cockroaches, houses with yellow scotches and without, gaming-houses, and museums, churches, deserted towers, seemed from above cosy miniature swallows nests on the background of soft greenery of forest-hills and extended afar, afar, absorbed by space a water azure..And burden and risk of the ascent made sense. (Summer and Wood)

Sofia Crespo x Anna Ridler: A Field of Collaboration collects, for the first time, their five joint projects produced between 2023–2025, which won them the 2025 Arab Bank Switzerland Artist of the Year Award. An interview with the artists and four critical essays provide insight on a hybrid practice where technology functions as an evolving ecology. The authors explore how the artists bridge cutting-edge machine learning with an array of photographic practices, integrate botanical...

André Brink had been chosen to find the stricken members of the Ice People in his generation. The search led him to Trondheim, where an unfortunate woman had given birth to a stillborn, badly deformed child. Could the Ice People have descendants other than those he knew of? André found Mali, the suffragette, and the very helpful Nette. A clue led the three of them to Sweden, where an unfathomable evil waited to take an awful revenge …

Nataniel had been chosen to lead the struggle against the Ice People’s evil ancestor. His closest allies were Tova Brink and Ellen Skogsrud. If Tengel the Evil was to be defeated, then all efforts had to be concentrated on it. This was why all the members of the Ice People were gathered at the Demon’s Mountain, where much was to be revealed, for better or for worse …

As a child, Eskil Lind had heard about the house in Eldafjord and the incredible treasure that was said to be hidden there. He had dreamed of that treasure ever since, and when he grew up he journeyed to find it. When he came to Eldafjord, he met greed, evil and a very unhappy woman with a critically ill son. He also heard that everyone who had searched for the treasure had suffered a sudden and cruel death …

His name was Tamlin, and Tengel the Evil had sent him to spy on the Ice People. He would visit them in their nightmares, tricking their plans for the future out of them. But Tamlin hadn’t reckoned with young Vanja, who had very special talents even compared with those of the Ice People. Whereas Tamlin was invisible to everybody else, Vanja could see him – and fall in love with him.