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Alicia Berenson's life is seemingly perfect. A famous painter married to an in-demand fashion photographer, she lives in a grand house with big windows overlooking a park in one of London's most desirable areas. One evening her husband Gabriel returns home late from a fashion shoot, and Alicia shoots him five times in the face, and then never speaks another word. Alicia's refusal to talk, or give any kind of explanation, turns a domestic tragedy into something far grander, a mystery that captures the public imagination and casts Alicia into notoriety. The price of her art skyrockets, and she, the silent patient, is hidden away from the tabloids and spotlight at the Grove, a secure forensic unit in North London. Theo Faber is a criminal psychotherapist who has waited a long time for the opportunity to work with Alicia. His determination to get her to talk and unravel the mystery of why she shot her husband takes him down a twisting path into his own motivations--a search for the truth that threatens to consume him.... Alicia Berenson's life is seemingly perfect. A famous painter married to an in-demand fashion photographer, she lives in a grand house with big windows overlooking a park in one of London's most desirable areas. One evening her husband Gabriel returns home late from a fashion shoot, and Alicia shoots him five times in the face, and then never speaks another word. Alicia's refusal to talk, or give any kind of explanation, turns a domestic tragedy into something far grander, a mystery that captures the public imagination and casts Alicia into notoriety. The price of her art skyrockets, and she, the silent patient, is hidden away from the tabloids and spotlight at the Grove, a secure forensic unit in North London. Theo Faber is a criminal psychotherapist who has waited a long time for the opportunity to work with Alicia. His determination to get her to talk and unravel the mystery of why she shot her husband takes him down a twisting path into his own motivations--a search for the truth that threatens to consume him....

Falsely accused of murder after one of his burglary victims is found dead, gentleman-thief Arsène Lupin is determined to solve the case. However, things are never as they seem and Lupin must juggle pseudonyms, disguises, and mysterious clues, all whilst evading an unknown enemy who wants to bring him down.

The life of a ten-year-old girl is shattered by two drunken and remorseless young men. The mostly white town of Clanton in Ford County, Mississippi, reacts with shock and horror at the inhuman crime. Until her black father acquires an assault rifle and takes justice into his own outraged hands.

Penal Colony No. 74 , AKA White Eagle, lies some 600 kilometres north of Yekaterinburg in Russia's Sverdlovskaya Oblast. Imprisoning the country's most brutal criminals, it is a winter-ravaged hellhole of death and retribution . And that's exactly why the Englishman is there.  Six years ago, Raglan was a soldier in the French Foreign Legion engaged in a hard-fought war on the desert border of Mali and Algeria. Amid black ops teams and competing intelligence agencies, his strike squad was compromised and Raglan himself severely injured.  His war was over, but the deadly aftermath of that day has echoed around the world ever the assassination of four Moscow CID officers; kidnap and murder on the suburban streets of West London; the fatal compromise of a long-running MI6 operation.  Raglan can't avoid the shockwaves. This is personal. It is up to him to finish it and it ends in Russia's most notorious penal colony. But how do you break into a high security prison in the middle of nowhere? More importantly, how do you get out?

في مُستقبل بعيد، وفي توقيت مرور الُمَذَّنب بالسماء، يستيقظ "نديم" على وميضٍ بعدسته؛ "تم تسجيل حلم واحد"؛ سيدة غجرية حمراء الشعر تقف في قاع البحر، ترفع رأسها لتنظر ناحيته. وبعد ساعاتٍ من حلمه، وفي أثناء إلقاء محاضرته على المسرح، يتفاجأ بالغجرية تجلس بين الحاضرين!

 

في ذلك اليوم سيتلقى "نديم" دعوة لزيارة غير متوقعة، تجربة يتمنى الكثيرون خوضها... ما داموا لا يدركون نهايتها... فبعض الحقائق من الأفضل أن تبقى في الظلام.

 

في روايته السادسة، وبدون مرور بالحاضر، ينطلق الكاتب أحمد مراد مباشرةً من التاريخ المصري القديم إلى المستقبل.. رواية تتنبأ بعالَم تُلقَى بذورە الآن، وتناقش الصراع الأبدي بين العقل، وأعظم القناعات على الإطلاق.