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From the new york times bestselling author of the nevernight chronicle, jay kristoff, comes the much-anticipated sequel to the #1 international bestselling sensation empire of the vampire. from holy cup comes holy light; the faithful hands sets world aright. and in the seven martyrs’ sight, mere man shall end this endless night. gabriel de león has saved the holy grail from death, but his chance to end the endless night is lost. drawn into an uneasy alliance with the mysterious vampire liathe, gabriel must now deliver the grail to ancients of the blood esani, and learn the truth of how daysdeath might be finally undone. but the last silversaint faces peril, within and without. pursued by terrors of the blood voss, drawn into warfare between the blood dyvok and duskdancers of the frozen highlands, and ravaged by his own rising bloodlust, gabriel may not survive to see the grail learn her truth. and that truth may be too awful for any to imagine.

In this rapturous memoir, writer and activist laura coleman shares the story of her liberating journey in the amazon jungle, where she fell in love with a magnificent cat who changed her life. laura was in her early twenties and directionless when she quit her job to backpack in bolivia. fate landed her at a wildlife sanctuary on the edge of the amazon jungle where she was assigned to a beautiful and complex puma named wayra. wide-eyed, inexperienced, and comically terrified, laura made the scrappy, make-do camp her home. and in wayra, she made a friend for life. they weren’t alone, not with over a hundred quirky animals to care for, each lost and hurt in their own way: a pair of suicidal, bra-stealing monkeys, a frustrated parrot desperate to fly, and a pig with a wicked sense of humor. the humans, too, were cause for laughter and tears. there were animal whisperers, committed staff, wildly devoted volunteers, handsome heartbreakers, and a machete-wielding prom queen who carried laura through. most of all, there was the jungle–lyrical and alive–and there was wayra, who would ultimately teach laura so much about love, healing, and the person she was capable of becoming. set against a turbulent and poignant backdrop of deforestation, the illegal pet trade, and forest fires, the puma years explores what happens when two desperate creatures in need of rescue find one another.

A page-turning adaptation of the first season of the original danish television series the killing, from the author of the detective nic costa series through the dark wood where the dead trees give no shelter nanna birk larsen runs . . . there is a bright monocular eye that follows, like a hunter after a wounded deer. it moves in a slow approaching zigzag, marching through the pineseskoven wasteland, through the pentecost forest. the chill water, the fear, his presence not so far away . . . there is one torchlight on her now, the single blazing eye. and it is here. sarah lund is looking forward to her last day as a detective with the copenhagen police department before moving to sweden. but everything changes when 19-year-old student nanna birk larsen is found raped and brutally murdered in the woods outside the city. lund’s plans to relocate are put on hold as she leads the investigation along with fellow detective jan meyer. while nanna’s family struggles to cope with their loss, local politician troels hartmann is in the middle of an election campaign to become the new mayor of copenhagen. when links between city hall and the murder suddenly come to light, the case takes an entirely different turn. over the course of 20 days, suspect upon suspect emerges as violence and political intrigue cast their shadows over the hunt for the killer.

_______________________________________ an innocent man is days from execution. only a guilty man can save him. travis boyette is a murderer. in 1998, in the small east texas city of sloan, he abducted, raped, and strangled a popular high-school cheerleader. he buried her body where it would never be found, then watched and waited as police and prosecutors arrested donte drumm, a black local football star with no connection to the crime. tried, convicted and sentenced, drumm was sent to death row. nine years later, donte drumm is four days from execution. over 400 miles away in kansas, travis also faecs death, suffering from an inoperable brain tumour. at long last, he decides to do what’s right. after years of silence, he is ready to confess. but the law doesn’t want to hear it. as far as they’re concerned, they’ve got their man. so how can a guilty man convince lawyers, judges and politicians that the man they’re about to execute is innocent? _______________________________________ ‘a master at the art of deft characterisation and the skilful delivery of hair-raising crescendos’ – irish independent ‘john grisham is the master of legal fiction’ – jodi picoult ‘the best thriller writer alive’ – ken follett ‘john grisham has perfected the art of cooking up convincing, fast-paced thrillers’ – telegraph ‘grisham is a superb, instinctive storyteller’ – the times ‘grisham’s storytelling genius reminds us that when it comes to legal drama, the master is in a league of his own.’ – daily record ‘masterful – when grisham gets in the courtroom he lets rip, drawing scenes so real they’re not just alive, they’re pulsating’ – mirror ‘a giant of the thriller genre’ – timeout

A stunning and shocking retelling of the cinderella fairytale from a carnegie medal novelist