When sixteen-year-old Dísa is given five bitcoin by her divorced father she is unimpressed: she hasn’t heard of the cryptocurrency, and five of anything can’t be worth very much. But a year later, when her grandparents are about to lose the farm near the Icelandic village of Dalvík in the north of Iceland, where their family has lived for centuries, quiet, unassuming Dísa is able to rescue it with the profits from her astute trading of her father’s gift. Unknown to Dísa, her mother Helga catches the cryptocurrency bug. Not only does Helga invest in Thomocoin, a new cryptocurrency sweeping Iceland, but she persuades many of her neighbours in Dalvík to invest too, taking a cut for...

1936: Devastated by the death of her beloved brother Hugh, Emma seeks to keep his memory alive by wholeheartedly embracing his dreams of a communist revolution. But when she marries an ambitious diplomat, she must leave her ideals behind and live within the confines of embassy life in Paris and Nazi Berlin. Then one of Hugh’s old comrades reappears asking her to report on her philandering husband, and her loyalties are torn. 1979: Emma’s grandson, Phil, dreams of a gap-year tour of Cold War Europe, but is nowhere near being able to fund it. So when his beloved grandmother determines to make one last trip to the places she lived as a young diplomatic wife, and to try to solve a mystery that...

Iceland, 2017: When a young Italian tourist is found brutally murdered at a sacred church in northern Iceland, Magnus Jonson, newly returned to the Reykjavík police force, is called in to investigate. At the scene, he finds a stunned TV crew, there to film a documentary on the life of the legendary Viking, Gudrid the Wanderer. Magnus quickly begins to suspect that there may be more links to the murdered woman than anyone in the film crew will acknowledge. As jealousies come to the surface, new tensions replace old friendships, and history begins to rewrite itself, a shocking second murder leads Magnus to question everything he thought he knew...

Iceland, midwinter: the days are fleeting, the nights endless and detective Magnus Jonson has been sent to an isolated fishing village in the West Fjords to investigate the possible homicide of a road construction worker. Ringed by steep mountains, this bleak village is cut off from the rest of Iceland and from the modern world. The locals are adamant that Iceland’s legendary huldufólk — hidden people — had a hand in the death. Magnus finds their superstition suspicious... As he digs deeper, Magnus discovers that the victim was not a popular man, leading him to suspect that other, more human, passions are at work...

Ruthless, selfish, dangerous. In fact, just right for the job. At top investment bank Bloomfield Weiss, they taught them to be winners, predators, killer deal-makers. While on the bank’s training programme in New York, Chris and Lenka had become part of a close-knit gang of ambitious trainees, working and playing hard. But when a failed affair sparked a confrontation during a drunken boat-trip, one of the gang died, leaving the rest to cover up the truth of the tragedy. Ten years later a helpless Chris watches Lenka’s lifeblood soak into the snow of a Prague street — and his world falls apart. With his friend and business partner dead, Chris not only has to fight to keep his company afloat...

Disenchanted academic Nick Elliot knows that he may be selling his soul when he joins City brokers Dekker Ward, but he needs the money. Dekker dominate the stormy Latin American bond market and Nick’s boss Ricardo Ross, known as the Marketmaker, is the most successful trader the region has ever seen. And as Nick discovers, you’re either with him or you’ve made an enemy for life. At first Nick’s content to ride his luck until strange things start to happen to Dekker employees. One top trader is fired without warning. Another dies in a bungled robbery. As tension mounts, Nick can’t disguise his feelings for his attractive colleague Isabel. Then she is kidnapped. While Nick debates the wisdom...

The year is 1999 and Internet companies are springing up everywhere. Anything seems possible for those who think big. So when David Lane — a quiet, cautious banker — is invited by his old friend Guy Jourdan to help start up ninetyminutes.com he decides that for once he will do something daring, something dangerous. If only he’d realized quite how dangerous. Because Guy falls out with Tony Jourdan, his father and their biggest investor, bringing the company close to collapse. Then Tony is murdered — and David’s rollercoaster ride into danger and disaster begins...

It is 1999. Alastair is a doctor in his eighties, living in a cottage by a loch in Scotland. He wakes up in hospital having fallen and hit his head, inducing almost total amnesia. A young student, Clémence, the great-niece of a French friend of his, is looking after him. In his cottage, Clémence finds a manuscript. The first line shocks her: It was a warm, still night and the cry of a tawny owl swirled through the birch trees by the loch, when I killed the only woman I have ever loved. She read the short prologue: it describes a murder by someone who is clearly the old doctor. The victim is Clémence’s French grandmother, Sophie. Clémence decides to read the book to the old doctor as it...

Основната морална ценност в могъщата инвестиционна банка „Блумфийлд Уайс“ е да бъдеш победител, хищник, ликвидатор. По време на квалификационния семинар на банката Крис и Ленка се сближават с една затворена група амбициозни преподаватели, които знаят как да работят и как да се забавляват. Но когато по време на пиянска свада за жена единият от преподавателите умира на увеселителния кораб, останалите трябва да прикрият истината за трагедията. Две години по-късно Крис става свидетел на убийството на Ленка — негова приятелка и бизнеспартньор. Крис се опитва да открие кой стои зад на пръв поглед случайното, но хладнокръвно и професионално убийство на Ленка. Убийствата не спират до тук. По всичко...

Майкъл Ридпат, авторът на „Борсови игри“, „Борсов посредник“ и „Сити“, се завръща с най-напрегнатия си трилър досега. Саймън Ейот, бързо изгряващата звезда в „Ревиър Партнърс“ — една от най-големите инвестиционни фирми в Бостън — като че ли е подредил живота си както трябва: женен отскоро за красивата Лиза, работеща в сферата на биотехнологиите, той е на прага да приключи първата си голяма сделка. Затова Саймън е разстроен, когато Франк Кук, един от собствениците на „Ревиър“ и негов тъст, отказва финансиране на инвестицията във фирма, специализирана в продукти за Интернет. Но гневът му бързо се превръща в ужас, когато няколко дни по-късно Франк е намерен мъртъв в отдалечената си къща на...