Fiction
Books
- The Sound Between Us A Novel of Suspense · Liszt Think
Six months after her sister drowned near a remote hydrophone research station on the Norwegian coast, acoustic engineer Ingrid Solheim arrives to take her sister's old post. It is winter 1989. The sea ice is closing in.
- Edited Silence…d to pull the tape transport’s maintenance records to see if the stated maintenance had actually been performed, or if it existed only as a fiction in Erik’s log entry. She had the proof. She had the splice, the power draw, the override log. Three independent pieces of evidence, each po…
- Listening in the Dark…r could not have run for 153 minutes within a 75-minute window. Unless the generator had never been shut down at all. Unless the test was a fiction, a line in a log book, and the generator had been running the entire time, powering something that required 9.4 liters of diesel, something…
- Mudflat Settles…She is, she realizes, good at this. The thought arrives with a small, cold shock. She is lying smoothly, convincingly, building a technical fiction that Erik cannot immediately dismantle without revealing that he knows more about the diesel log than he should. If the generator is his re…
- The Lisbon Drop A Novel of Wartime Lisbon · Liszt Think
Lisbon, winter 1942. Neutral Portugal is a city of watchers, and Ana Ferreira is one of them — a translator in the censorship office who reads every telegram that crosses her desk.
- The Brother's Crime…e, and that her sense was a form of love — she was protecting him by not acknowledging what he did, protecting them both by maintaining the fiction that the rucksack contained books, that the ink on his hands was from the library’s stamp, that the leaflets were someone else’s concern. T…
- The Unreliable Source…ing, that accepted the terms without accepting the premise. She was not incompetent. He knew she was not incompetent. She knew he knew. The fiction they were maintaining — that this was a clerical error, that she was a careless but honest source, that the explanation was sufficient — wa…
- What Rafael Did…tching her now. One mistake, she had understood in that moment, and everything would collapse. But what was everything? A life built on the fiction of her brother’s innocence, the money earned by selling the same telegrams to both sides, the fragile architecture of double deception that…
- The Tide Clerk A Mystery of the Cornish Harbour, 1923 · Liszt Think
On the morning after the spring tide, Captain Silas Trewin is found dead at the foot of the lock steps. The coroner calls it a fall in the dark.
- Pengelly's Berthing Grudge…find out whether Josiah Pengelly had truly crossed the harbour on the morning after Trewin’s death, or whether the receipt was a convenient fiction, a piece of paper bought and paid for to cover a darker truth. For now, she had three names in her ledger: a lock-keeper with a false log,…
- Ink-Stained Fingers, One Truth…ture. His words still hung in the room like smoke from a pipe long extinguished. The public trust. The harbour’s reputation. The convenient fiction of an accidental death. Her hands rested on the desk’s edge. The ink stains on her first two fingers had darkened with the day’s work, and…
- What Nora Knew A Novella of Memory, Fire, and the Stories We Tell to Survive · Liszt Think
Grief counselor Nora Voss has spent her career listening to the bereaved, guiding them through loss with steady hands and careful questions.
- She Knew My Name…edge of the desk. The wood was solid and real and meant nothing. Her professional identity, her sense of control, her carefully maintained fiction that she was a competent counselor who had made one mistake years ago and learned from it—all of it was shattering, and the shards were cut…
- Clubhouse Confrontation…. Either Eleanor’s diary was a desperate cry for help from a woman who feared her husband was planning to kill her, or it was the elaborate fiction of a deteriorating mind. Both readings accounted for the same facts. Both were internally consistent. And Nora had broken into a burnt hous…
- Nine Doors Down A Novella of the 1926 General Strike · Liszt Think
Nine doors apart on a Bristol terrace, Ada Penrose and Frank Hollis have lived within nodding distance for years.
- Unspoken Accounts…ated, and he sensed her correcting herself—that earlier refusal of indebtedness had been genuine, yet here she was, allowing him this small fiction of repayment. If it preserved his dignity, she would not deny him that. “Then we have an agreement. The gate for the coal. And perhaps—“ Sh…
- The Harbour Ledger A Novel · 绝对值
Iona Kerr has one winter to catalogue forty years of turbine logs in a decommissioned tidal power station on a Scottish estuary before the building is sold.
- The Long Field A Novel of the Fens · Liszt Think
Cambridgeshire, 1911. The wet spring threatens to undo Nell Askew, who has spent two years holding her late husband's forty acres of black peat against the water.