Genoveva is sixteen. She goes to a Catholic girls’ school and lives, as she puts it, in the 'ass end of the world' – a remote town in deep Latin America, where modernization arrives hand-in-hand with drug trafficking. Between a mother lost in delusional dreams and a father clinging to the ruins of long-faded Trotskyism, Genoveva narrates her world with a voice that’s raw, contradictory, fearless, and startlingly innocent.She doesn’t like what she sees. She doesn’t like what she touches. Sh...

Shipwrecks, dive bars, possession, and science – this is where contemporary horrors and ancient terrors meet.In Fresh Dirt from the Grave , a hillside is “an emerald saddle teeming with evil and beauty.” It is this collision of harshness and tenderness that animates Giovanna Rivero’s short stories, where no degree of darkness (buried bodies, lost children, wild paroxysms of violence) can take away from the gentleness she shows all violated creatures. A mad...

A fast-paced and addictive thriller from the international bestselling author of Cut and The Shock.He thought he'd escaped his past. He was wrong . . .Jesse Berg is a successful paediatrician. Newly divorced, he spends his time caring for his young daughter, Isa. But Jesse has secrets in his past. Things he doesn't talk about.When Jesse's ex-wife is murdered and his daughter abducted, his life spirals out of control. At th...