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A Parisian couple hire Louise, the perfect nanny, to care for their two small children, and the novel opens with the children dead, then traces how it came to that.
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A Judgement in Stone
The Coverdales, a well-off and well-meaning family in a Suffolk village, hire Eunice Parchman as their housekeeper, not knowing the secret she has kept all her life: she cannot read. The first sentence says she will kill them.
Man Tiger
Margio, a young man in a seaside village in Java, kills a man, and the village tries to understand why, and whether it was the white tiger that lives inside him.
Père Goriot
In a shabby Paris boarding house, the ambitious young Eugène de Rastignac watches old Goriot give everything to his two daughters, who use him and leave him to die.
Doctor Glas
A lonely Stockholm doctor's diary records his fascination with a young patient and his loathing for her clergyman husband, and his slow reasoning towards whether he should kill him.
Strangers on a Train
Two strangers meet on a train and one of them, Charles Bruno, proposes that they each commit the other's murder, a plan the architect Guy Haines takes for a joke.
The Pigeon
Jonathan Noel, a Parisian bank guard who has lived by strict routine for decades, finds a pigeon in the corridor outside his room, and his ordered existence begins to collapse.
Real World
One summer in suburban Tokyo, Toshi's neighbour, a teenage boy her friends call Worm, kills his mother and runs, taking Toshi's bicycle and mobile phone, and she and three school friends are each drawn in.
The Sculptress
Rosalind Leigh, a writer under pressure from her publisher, agrees to write a book about Olive Martin, a huge, silent woman serving life for killing her mother and sister, and begins to doubt she did it.
In the Café of Lost Youth
Four narrators circle the mystery of a young woman who vanished from a Paris café.
The Girl on the Train
Three women's lives intersect around a commuter train route and a missing person, each narrator unreliable in her own devastating way.
I Have the Right to Destroy Myself
A man who helps strangers end their lives narrates the stories of the clients and lovers he has known in a cool, cinematic novel of 1990s Seoul.
The Hours Before Dawn
Louise Henderson, worn out by a baby who will not sleep, begins to suspect the schoolteacher who has taken the spare room.