Books like In Matto's realm by Friedrich Glauser

Detective Tom Thorne investigates a hostage situation where a grieving father demands to know the truth about his son's death in prison. Will Thorne's investigation and knowledge about prison conditions uncover the truth without violence? The book explores the complex nature of trust and the impact of trust violations on relationships. It's a thrilling and thought-provoking police procedural that showcases Thorne's expertise in handling sensitive and complex cases.

Celebrities drive hybrids, Al Gore won the Nobel Peace Prize, and supermarkets carry no end of so-called "green" products. And yet the environmental crisis is only getting worse. In Surviving Gaia's Revenge, the eminent scientist James Lovelock argues that the earth is lurching ever closer to a permanent "hot state"—and much more quickly than most specialists think. There is nothing humans can do to reverse the process; the planet is simply too overpopulated to halt its own destruction by greenhouse gases. In order to survive, mankind must start preparing now for life on a radically changed planet. The meliorist approach outlined in the Kyoto Treaty must be abandoned in favor of nuclear energy and aggressive agricultural development on the small areas of earth that will remain arable. A reluctant jeremiad from one of the environmental movement's elder statesmen, Surviving Gaia's Revenge offers an essential wake-up call for the human race.

A detective solves a series of crimes in Braikie, a Highland town hit hard by the recession.

In the 1960s, half‑brothers Clarence Luckman and Elliott Danziger, raised in state institutions after their mother’s murder, are seized as hostages by a death‑row killer and forced on a violent journey from California to Texas.