Fear
Irene Wagner leads a comfortable and carefree life with her husband and two children. However, after eight years of marriage, dances, theater, opera and other social activities seem predictable and bland....
Literature - Psychological
The Silent Patient
Alicia Berenson, a successful painter, shoots her husband five times in the head and never speaks again. Her refusal to utter a single word turns a domestic tragedy into a mystery that captures the...
The Memoirs of Barry Lyndon Esq
Barry Lyndon is a story of some fictitious memories and, at the same time, a picaresque and satiric novel based on history. It narrates the rise and fall of the overly ambitious Redmond Barry, a young...
The Ministry of Fear
This great novelist's book is set in the city of London during the Second World War. The bombings are daily, the city is reduced to a small area and hundreds of people are killed every day. In addition,...
Vertigo
This book was originally published under the title The Living and the Dead (D'entre les morts), but was renamed with the current title Sueures froides, when Hitchcock bought the...
Portrait of a Murderer. A Christmas Crime Story
Adrian Gray was born in May 1862 and died violently at the hands of one of his own children on Christmas day in 1931. The crime was spontaneous and unpremeditated. The murderer remained staring at the...
My Cousin Rachel
Novel set in the 19th century, in the English countryside. The story is told by Philip, adopted son of Ambrose, a rural lord of Cornwall. Both go on holiday to Florence, where Ambrose marries Rachel, an...