Books like The Many Pleasures of Ironwood by Don Winslow

Inside the covert world that shaped U.S. politics in the 1960s, James Ellroy follows former police and FBI officers as they navigate a web of corruption, murder, and power grabbing amid the JFK era, Bay of Pigs, and beyond.

Belinda is an erotic romance by Anne Rice that examines mature relationships, intertwining suspense and romance around teenage girls and middle-aged men, presenting a provocative narrative.

A raw, experimental narrative that follows a young woman navigating adolescent challenges in an American high school setting.

American couple Port and Kit Moresbury travel to North Africa in pursuit of escape, confronting marital conflict and the stark realities of life in Morocco and Algeria.

Retired hit‑man Frankie Machine, now a devoted dad and surf‑loving entrepreneur, must evade both mob rivals and law enforcement when a former client turns on him in San Diego.

A California PI who surf‑s by day and hunts secrets by night confronts an unsolved abduction while juggling a tough lawyer’s insurance investigation, putting his surf crew—and his conscience—at risk.

In a large country house shut off from the world by a gated garden, three young governesses responsible for the education of a group of little boys are preparing a party. The governesses, however, seem to spend more time running around in a state of frenzied desire than attending to the children's education. One of their main activities is lying in wait for any passing stranger, and then throwing themselves on him like drunken Maenads. The rest of the time they drift about in a kind of sated, melancholy calm, spied upon by an old man in the house opposite, who watches their goings-on through a telescope. As they hang paper lanterns and prepare for the ball in their own honor, and in honor of the little boys rolling hoops on the lawn, much is mysterious: one reviewer wrote of the book's "deceptively simple words and phrasing, the transparency of which works like a mirror reflecting back on the reader."Written with the elegance of old French fables, the dark sensuality of Djuna Barnes and the subtle comedy of Robert Walser, this semi-deranged erotic fairy tale introduces American readers to the marvelous Anne Serre.

The force is Don Winslow’s explosive, sensational new novel— the next thrilling entry from the bestselling author of The Cartel.

A form-shifting narrative of a collector's return to traumatic pasts, challenging the discourse around art, love, life, and death in Acker's 'Great Expectations'.

xiv, 295 p. ; 22 cm