When a famous conductor is targeted in a series of mysterious attacks, a young lawyer and his wife must unravel a deadly conspiracy in Vienna's vibrant musical world.

"What Sir Arthur Conan Doyle did for Victorian London and Caleb Carr did for old New York, Sydney Jones does for historic Vienna." —Karen Harper, New York Times bestselling author of the Queen Elizabeth I mystery series

A British detective goes undercover in the South of France to investigate a suspicious death in this twisting mystery.

Inspector Paul Picard is no stranger to the dark side of Paris. But as a killer’s seductive knot tightens around him, he learns once and for all that there’s more to the glimmering world of high society than first appears.

“Detective story and fairytale that entertains from start to finish.” —New York Times

Rich in its stories, characters, and imaginative range, The Book of Laughter and Forgetting is the novel that brought Milan Kundera his first international success in the late 1970s. In seven wonderfully integrated parts, different aspects of human existence are magnified and reduced, reordered and emphasized, newly examined, analyzed, and experienced.

"The Book of Laughter and Forgetting calls itself a novel, although it is part fairy tale, part literary criticism, part political tract, part musicology, and part autobiography. It can call itself whatever it wants to, because the whole is genius." —New York Times

Tales from the Celestial Kingdom collects nine spellbinding stories—two previously published, seven original, including the epilogue to the duology—set in the enchanting world of Sue Lynn Tan’s stunning Celestial Kingdom romantasy duology. Filled with magic and mythology, friendship and love, these stories intertwine through the past, present, and future of the two novels, told from the perspectives of multiple characters, including Chang’e, Shuxiao, Liwei, and Wenzhi.