“A gripping and unorthodox thriller, packed with intriguing characters and unexpected twists.” —Tom Perrotta, bestselling author of Nine InchesLike Smilla’s Sense of Snow combined with the best of Dennis Lehane, North of Boston is a dark and deeply atmospheric thriller with a sharp-witted, tough-talking heroine readers will be clamoring to meet again.Boston-bred Pirio Kasparov is out on her friend Ned’s fishing boat when a freight...

American doctor, Natalie March, travels to Siberia to find her estranged grandmother, only to uncover dark family secrets and a dangerous international plot.Dr. Natalie March always believed that her grandparents perished in the gulag, but when a young Russian woman appears in her office claiming to be her cousin, Natalie must face a surprising truth: her grandmother, Katarina M., is still very much alive.Natalie eagerly travels to Siberia to meet her, only...

Year's Best Crime Novels: 2014, Booklist**Dennis Lehane meets Smilla's Sense of Snow: a big discovery in the world of female suspense, about an edgy young woman with the rare ability to withstand extreme conditionsElisabeth Elo's debut novel introduces Pirio Kasparov, a Boston-bred tough-talking girl with an acerbic wit and a moral compass that points due north.**Pirio Kasparov finds herself abandoned in the North Atlantic when the...

Pirio Kasparov fährt aus einem Alptraum hoch. Wieder schwimmt sie weit draußen vor der Küste Maines. Wieder ist es kalt und dunkel. Wieder überlebt sie, und ihr Freund Ned wird nicht gefunden. Auch von seinem Fischerboot fehlt jede Spur. Und dann spürt sie die Hand seines kleinen Sohnes Noah in ihrer. Er weint und Pirio schwört sich herauszufinden, wer das getan hat. Wer hat den Frachter auf Kollisionskurs gebracht? Wer war der rätselhafte Mann auf Neds Beerdigung? Und wer war Ned wirklich...

A tense and atmospheric short story from the author of the brilliant debut NORTH OF BOSTON - a riveting thriller readers of Laura Lipmann, Dennis Lehane and Harlan Coben should be sure not to miss!Desperate to escape Gaston, a New England institution to which troublesome young adults are banished by their wealthy parents, Louisa Chambers is willing to pay any sum for a get-out pass. But then the price for her therapist's backing becomes sexual favours, and Louisa finds herself trap...

Pirio Kasparov finds herself abandoned in the North Atlantic when the fishing boat she's on is rammed by a freighter. She somehow survives for nearly four hours in the freezing water before being rescued, but Pirio's friend, Ned, is not so lucky. He disappears without a trace. Pirio can't shake the suspicion that the boat's sinking was no accident, and begins to unravel a lethal plot that takes her to Northern Canada and the ice-cold waters of Baffin Bay. To survive, she must overcome a de...

Natalie March is a respected surgeon enjoying a busy life in Washington, D.C. As her demanding career has left little time for friends or romance, her deepest relationship is with her mother, Vera March, a Russian immigrant and MS patient confined to a rehab. Vera is still haunted by the fact that her Ukrainian parents were sent to the gulag, Stalin's notorious network of labor camps, when she was just a baby. All her life she has presumed that they perished there along with millions of ot...

Pirio Kasparov fährt aus einem Alptraum hoch. Wieder schwimmt sie weit draußen vor der Küste Maines. Wieder ist es kalt und dunkel. Wieder überlebt sie, und ihr Freund Ned wird nicht gefunden. Auch von seinem Fischerboot fehlt jede Spur. Und dann spürt sie die Hand seines kleinen Sohnes Noah in ihrer. Er weint und Pirio schwört sich herauszufinden, wer das getan hat. Wer hat den Frachter auf Kollisionskurs gebracht? Wer war der rätselhafte Mann auf Neds Beerdigung? Und wer war Ned wirklich...