Stories by @rachani

Why We Die.

"The road to hell is paved with all sorts of intentions, as Oxford private investigator Zoë Boehm discovers when a straightforward jewelry store robbery ..."

The Last Voice You Hear

When a woman dies beneath the wheels of a train and her newly acquired lover fails to turn up at the funeral, private investigator Zoe Boehm is hired to find him. And in attempting to unlock the secrets of a woman she's never met, in search of a man who might be anyone, Zoe, already struggling to come to terms with the violence in her past and the possible damage in her future, only finds more questions: where did Alan Talmadge come from ? Why does he appear to have no history ? How did he meet Caroline Daniels ? And has he killed before ?

Joe Country

If Spook Street is where spies live, Joe Country is where they go to die.

Caledonian Road

" • Finalist for the 2024 Orwell Prize for Political Fiction • Named a Best Book of the Summer by The Times, The Guardian, The Observer, and Financial Times • Named a Best Book to Read in 2024 by The Independent and Harper’s Bazaar A biting portrait of British class, politics, and money told through five interconnected families and their rising—and declining—fortunes. Campbell Flynn, art historian, professor, and fêted fixture of the literati, always knew that when his life came crashing down, it would happen in public—yet he never imagined that a single year in London would expose so much." ©2024 Penguin Random House

London Rules

London Rules is the fifth book in the Slough House series by prize-winning British author, Mick Herron- " “A terrorist attack in Derbyshire kills 12, leading to a difficult manhunt with twists and turns in a strong plot combining espionage, bureaucracy and the power of a community’s response to a terrorist attack.” —The Gainesville Sun"

Kairos

"A young student in East Berlin falls in love with a much older writer in the run-up to the fall of the Berlin Wall" © 2024 npr

James

"Percival Everett's gleeful reboot of Mark Twain's The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn puts the enslaved Jim centre stage in a horrifying, painful and funny novel." © 2024 Guardian News & Media Limited

Night Watch

"A beautifully rendered novel set in West Virginia’s Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum in the aftermath of the Civil War where a severely wounded Union veteran, a 12-year-old girl and her mother, long abused by a Confederate soldier, struggle to heal". LONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD IN FICTION • A NEW YORKER BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR © 2024 The Pulitzer Prizes

Hamnet

Hamnet is a 2020 novel by Maggie O'Farrell. It is a fictional account of William Shakespeare's son, Hamnet, who died at age eleven in 1596, focusing on his parents' grief. (From Wikipedia)

The Wager

"A story of shipwreck, survival, and savagery, culminating in a court martial that reveals a shocking truth". Penguin Random House