Nine books for cold autumn evenings

2024 Author: Leah Sherlock | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 05:25

The time for relaxed vacation reading is over, the time for thoughtful reading of serious books under the sound of rain and the special comfort typical of autumn evenings is approaching. These books will immerse you in their world and capture your imagination.

Masha Traub, "Bedabed"

Emotions are like a trash can: you have to constantly get rid of the excess. Mila, a psychotherapist with great experience, knows this for sure. But she keeps everything to herself. And there is something to keep: a marriage that fell apart in youth, relatives from the provinces, a little granddaughter and a jumping daughter, like a dragonfly from a fairy tale. There are so many problems that there is no strength to endure and something urgently needs to be done. But what? A close friend of Ninka, when she was the captain of their volleyball team, often pinched Mila's leg so that she would come to her senses and come out of her stupor on the playground. But will the method that worked for Mila work for Lyudmila Nikandrovna?

Maria Metlitskaya, "The Other Faith"

In a richly but tastefully furnished country house on a stuffy summer day, Vera Andreevna is going to the wedding of her only son. She remembers other summer days - those that many years ago were riddled with sharp fleeting happiness. Is she happy now?

Life was different -sometimes painfully happy, more often heavy, hopeless. But now, when all the hardships are behind, the marriage is strong, the husband is ready to carry in his arms, what worries her? What does that other Faith that has remained in the past want? Why won't he let go?

Tatiana Polyakova, "Diary of other people's sins"

Sometimes the past can cause not a feeling of nostalgia or pleasant memories, but real nightmares in the present. Anna inherited a house on a farm and, having come to enter into inheritance rights, she was faced with a snake ball of gossip and secrets of the past. Something strange is happening on a small farm: a girl has disappeared. A few days later, Anna finds a frightening gift on her porch, hinting at her connection with the missing person. But Anna just met this girl on the train, nothing connects them, or … Other people's sins are always so tempting to prying eyes. And fraught with terrible retribution.

Lucinda Riley, Seven Sisters

A fascinating and magical story of six orphan girls, once adopted in different parts of the globe by an eccentric rich man and named after the stars of the Pleiades. Years passed, the girls grew up, and their father died. Gathering together to hear his last will, the girls notice their names engraved on an amazingly beautiful sphere, and the coordinates of their birthplaces. Thus begins a journey into the past, during which the sisters learn the story of their origin, get acquainted with the legend of the Seven Sisters, another name for the Pleiades constellation, and find out why their father gathered them in his house.

JoelDicker, "The Disappearance of Stephanie Mailer"

The new book from the creator of the hit "The Truth About the Harry Quebert Affair" is still good. Again a small town and the secrets of the past, echoing in the present. A completely mysterious crime: in 1994, the mayor of New York, his family, and even a bystander who made a morning run nearby were killed at a coastal resort. The case is successfully investigated by two young police officers who catch and imprison the killer. But 20 years later, a journalist named Stephanie Mailer tells one of those cops that he made a mistake and missed something important in that investigation. Missed the real killer. But Stephanie disappears before she can tell more.

Brody Ashton, Jody Meadows & Cynthia Hand, "My Lady Jane"

A witty version of the sad story of the "Queen of Nine Days" - the English lady Jane Gray, who was executed shortly after ascending the throne. The trio of writers rethought the fate of Lady Gray and added magic to the story - it turned out surprisingly harmoniously. The alternative England is inhabited by common people and Eziane - people who can turn into animals. King Henry VIII himself was like that. Now his son Edward, a teenager suffering from a fatal illness, rules. While arranging the affairs of the crown before his death, Edward will soon run into Lady Jane, as well as her fiancé, Gifford. Until he even suspects that together they will uncover an outrageous conspiracy.

Rene Carlino, "Before We Were Strangers"

A beautiful love story that should have a secondchance. An incredible girl and a talented photographer spent a delightful year together, exploring the world of music, photography and art. But soon a tempting offer sent him to the other side of the world, and left her alone. Fifteen years have passed since then, but neither of them has forgotten the other. He accidentally saw her on the subway and seemed to go crazy again. What's next? Trying to fit fifteen years into one coffee break? The main thing is to try. Turn an old grudge back into love.

Oleg Roy, Spare Trump

The irony of fate created the twins Boris and Gleb incredibly different. Blue-eyed handsome men, but one is a boxer, and the other is an artist. One became interested in underground fighting, and the other is preparing to enter an art university. One is recruited by the special services, leaving him no choice, and the second turns out to be a tool of manipulation in this game. Now Boris will have to participate in an anti-terrorist operation in order to save not only Gleb or his family, but also his country.

Anna and Sergei Litvinov, "Brother will answer"

The secretary of the head of the detective agency, Rimma, seems to have overestimated her strength a little. Her boss went on vacation, and Rimma confidently took on a simple task - to find a runaway teacher from a rehabilitation center for teenagers with disabilities. With such a request, Fedor and Yarik, a handsome sportsman and an introverted younger brother with an autism spectrum disorder, came to the detective agency. The matter looked easy, and the children wanted to help, but Rimma did not even suspect what a confusingshe got involved in the story by agreeing to the investigation.