Sizets - Nozagta dzive
Translated title: The Plot - Stolen Life
Author: Korelitz, Jean Hanff
Genre: Thriller / Crime
Year: 2021 | Pages: 432 | Origin: LAT | BA Seq Num: 80736
Translated
Jacob Finch Bonner was once a promising young novelist with a respectably published first book. Today, he's teaching in a third-rate MFA program and struggling to maintain what's left of his self-respect; he hasn't written - let alone published - anything decent in years. When Evan Parker, his most arrogant student, announces he doesn't need Jake's help because the plot of his book in progress is a sure thing, Jake is prepared to dismiss the boast as typical amateur narcissism. But then... he hears the plot.
Jake returns to the downward trajectory of his own career and braces himself for the supernova publication of Evan Parker's first novel: but it never comes. When he discovers that his former student has died, presumably without ever completing his book, Jake does what any self-respecting writer would do with a story like that - a story that absolutely needs to be told.
In a few short years, all of Evan Parker's predictions have come true, but Jake is the author enjoying the wave. He is wealthy, famous, praised and read all over the world. But at the height of his glorious new life, an e-mail arrives, the first salvo in a terrifying, anonymous campaign: You are a thief, it says
Nozagtais sapnis 2 naves cilpa
Translated title: Stolen Dream 2 Ship Loop
Series: Volume 2
Author: Vilis, Seleckis
Genre: Thriller / Crime
Year: 2021 | Pages: 264 | Origin: LAT | BA Seq Num: 80745
The second book continues the story that began in the first edition 'The Oligarch and His Women'. The reader again encounters familiar characters - Inga Dale, Lori Ruta, police captain Reinis Ritovs, singer Doloret, city council member Aldonas Mikos, photographer Raivos Knopines and others.
The daughter of the murdered Willija Dale, Inga, together with her friend, detective Lori Ruta, must defend her honor and property, which she inherited from her mother. The oligarch Mikos and his assistants have come up with a cunning plan to rob Inga.
Fighting for their justice, Inga and Lori come to the brink of death, they spend several days feeling as if a noose has been thrown around their necks. Her father, the poet Vilmars Daugars, comes to her daughter's aid. He too comes to the brink of death...
Telling about the adventures of his heroes, the author leads the reader to harsh reflections on the events that began in Latvia after the Awakening. What is the legal order of our country? How are people's rights and interests protected?
What are we ourselves, citizens of our country? What threatens our freedom?
Skumju fizika
Translated title: The Physics of Sadness
Author: Gospodinov, Georgiy
Genre: Family Saga / Social Novel
Year: 2025 | Pages: 320 | Origin: LAT | BA Seq Num: 91622
Using the myth of the Minotaur, the hero of Georgiy Gospodinov's novel constructs a labyrinth of stories about his family, jumping from century to century, from point of view to point of view, exploring the state of mind and stumbling blocks of Eastern Europeans.
The unnamed narrator suffers from 'pathological empathy,' the attacks of which take him on wanderings through his own and other people's memories. His message is at times incredibly moving, at times very witty.
'The Physics of Sadness' is a book in which the reader can settle down, look for connections, follow the narrator in his footsteps through various side corridors, blissfully get lost in the countless plots and sympathize with the sad, misunderstood Minotaur - the central axis of this work.
Part family history, part coming-of-age story, part meditation on communist-era Europe, this dazzlingly inventive, vision-broadening novel, with its unique structure, humanist ideas, and gifted narrative, confirms that Georgi Gospodinov is deservedly considered one of Europe's most important contemporary authors
Soseja
Translated title: Highway
Author: Lelde, Kovalova
Genre: Thriller / Crime
Year: 2021 | Pages: 256 | Origin: LAT | BA Seq Num: 80749
Laura and her husband Agris live in a private house in a remote rural area. Laura has a loving husband, caring parents and a successful sister, a friendly dog and a dream of having a firstborn, but one evening her life changes.
Agris goes for a walk with the dog, but does not return home. When the woman begins the search for her missing husband, she has to face the misunderstanding of those around her, and even more - the claim that there is no Agra, that she lives alone.
Laura manages to find evidence of Agra's existence, but she still has to understand what really happened... Where does our imagination end and reality begin? Maybe sometimes we are so sure of our rightness that we are ready to do anything to prove it?
Bille
Translated title: Bill
Author: Belsevica, Vizma
Genre: Social Novel
Year: 2023 | Pages: 288 | Origin: LAT | BA Seq Num: 84866
Vizma Belsevica is my Grandmother, and I must admit that as a child 'Bille' bothered me a bit - often, when I asked my Grandmother about the time when she was little, I would get an unusually firm and blunt: 'Read Bille'.
Well, why should I read if the storyteller is sitting opposite? Now, when some time has passed, I am happy and grateful for this book. It is not only about the girl Billi, but also about countless Riga boys and girls and their parents, ordinary working people, who struggled through life in Riga in the 1930s as if they were teachers. It is described here colorfully, aptly and at times harshly
Laba sieva
Translated title: A Good Wife
Author: Buchan, Elizabeth
Genre: Romance / Family Saga
Year: 2022 | Pages: 416 | Origin: LAT | BA Seq Num: 84863
Translated
Step into a very public marriage, in the compulsive novel from the best-selling author of Revenge of the Middle-Aged Woman. Fanny Savage was once dutiful, clever, vulnerable and dreamy. Now married to Will, a successful politician with big ambitions, her life is a whirlwind of public engagements and loyalty to the party, a position that requires her to look good and remain silent.
But she's no fool. She's well aware that the world outside her home is one that seethes with despair, danger and division. And she's beginning to understand how fragile happiness can be. Is she coping with the transition from eager bride to politician's wife? Has she been the Good Wife? Does being good always mean being truthful?
Viramate
Translated title: Mother-in-law
Author: Hepworth, Sally
Genre: Crime / Mystery
Year: 2025 | Pages: 284 | Origin: LAT | BA Seq Num: 91617
Translated
More than anything, Lucy craves the love and support of her mother-in-law, Diana, but from the very first meeting she encounters cold reticence.
Disagreements and misunderstandings between the two women grow until a conflict breaks out, as a result of which Diana even ends up in the hospital. Ten years after Lucy enters the Goodwin family, tragedy strikes - Diana dies under mysterious circumstances.
Although initially considered a suicide, the evidence suggests otherwise. Who would want Diana dead? When the investigation reveals years of secrets, resentment and mutual conflicts, the shadow of suspicion falls on all family members, including Lucy.
Will she really be found guilty? Will she be able to continue living, having learned who her mother-in-law really was?
Gajeji. Latviesu fantazijas un fantastikas stasti
Translated title: Pedestrians. Latvian Fantasy and Science Fiction Stories
Author: Various Authors
Genre: Fantasy / Science Fiction
Year: 2025 | Pages: 288 | Origin: LAT | BA Seq Num: 91621
A yellow taxi, a golf club and a cat! What do they have in common? As if nothing... only these characters are repeated with unusual insistence in the new collection of stories by Latvian fantasy and science fiction writers 'Pedestrians'. Why? And that's not all - this collection draws the reader into guessing other riddles.
What does the Dream Blower do? How would a car controlled by thoughts work? Is the baby in the bed just a fiction? What would you do if you could rewrite the past? Or, even more so - the future?
The writers do not promise clear answers, but one thing they can promise - a colorful, exciting, even dazzling journey into the world of imagination, which often so imperceptibly overflows into the reality we know, that we have to understand - we are all just pedestrians in some mysterious, completely unknowable traffic of dreams, ideas and unusual events. In traffic, where accidents sometimes happen, and then the inexplicable and fantastic suddenly become visible
Pika stunda
Translated title: Rush Hour
Author: Lubanina, Kristine
Genre: Crime
Year: 2025 | Pages: 192 | Origin: LAT | BA Seq Num: 91615
Good people do bad things too. For some, it is limited only to remorse, but for others - to an article of the criminal law. In a thicket of forest near the borders of Upmale, the body of a wealthy man is found, once again shaking up the peaceful life of the town. Moreover, a rather unusual weapon was used for the murder.
The investigation of the crime is entrusted to local policeman Jekabs Sils, who, preoccupied with the worries of his personal life, gladly hides behind overtime. Soon, his old friend and colleague Karlis Grava also comes to help. The investigation will soon lead to ruined lives, hidden machinations of influential people and secrets kept by the townspeople, as well as test the limits of the endurance of the novel's characters again and again.
In order to find the culprit, Jekabs will be forced to balance on the edge of the law. And at rush hour, it is easy to lose control
Nemodiniet mirusos
Translated title: Don't Wake the Dead
Author: Dace, Judina
Genre: Thriller / Crime
Year: 2021 | Pages: 448 | Origin: LAT | BA Seq Num: 80742
Early Sunday morning, Egons Dambergs receives a call - a body has been found in the yard of Police General Bose, and his kitchen has been vandalized.
On the same day, returning home from Austria, Anna Elizabeth's grandmother, Baroness Anna Rose Berg, disappears without a trace at the Vienna airport. However, if these events remain known only to narrow circles, then the news that a well-known businessman's double has been found murdered in his home, along with an article in the yellow press, spreads throughout the country.
Anna Elizabeth again gets involved in the investigation
