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Cserháti Éva
Pilgrimage to Death
by: Cserháti ÉvaA respectable Catholic priest is found dead in a confessional compartment of a pilgrimage train with a middle-aged nun by his side, covered in blood. She is member of a female order that was dissolved under the communist regime and survived in the underground.
A respectable Catholic priest is found dead in a confessional compartment of a pilgrimage train with a middle-aged nun by his side, covered in blood. She is member of a female order that was dissolved under the communist regime and survived in the underground.
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Publisher: Athenaeum Kiadó
Publish Date: 2021
Page Count: 368
ISBN: 9789635431366
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Last Stop Moscow SquareIt is mid-July 2015, and a heatwave is frying Budapest. Superintendent Telki-Nagy is close to achieving her life ambition: she has been given the opportunity to build up and lead a team in the homicide department. However, she has serious doubts whether the five people designated to her team will ever be able to work together. She is especially worried about Captain Vasvári, an unpleasant alcoholic in his late fifties, who has been with the police force for almost four decades. His contacts with the high command go back to state socialist times and protect him from being fired.
(original title in Hungarian: The Mermaid’s Secret / A Sellő titka, 2019)
Genre: police procedural and historical novel
Full English translation and synopsis by the author are available.
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Publisher: Prae.hu, Budapest, Hungary
Publish Date: 2019
Page Count: 416
ISBN: 9786155070631 -
Message in a BottleMessage in a Bottle is a novel about women and sailing.
The book was published in 2016 in Hungarian. If you are interested in the foreign rights please contact eva.cserhati@lho.es.
It is the story of Petra a 30 years old Hungarian woman who has been sailing the Mediterranean for a couple of years in company of her French partner. The relationship is on the rocks and Petra hardly can handle her nostalgia for Hungary to where she feels she can not return. One day she finds herself alone in the island of Corfu. The marina life is not alien to her but this is the first time in her life that she is in charge of the boat. She meets other women living on board and together they embarque in new adventures. The novel with some autobiographical touches turns into a crime story.
Részletek
Publisher: Gabo, Budapest, Hungary
Publish Date: 2016
Page Count: 280
ISBN: 9789634062479 -
Escape roomIn Escape Room – The Second Case of the HAND (Athenaeum, 2021) six women are sitting in 1974 in the waiting room of a small town hospital. They are waiting for the decision on their cases to be issued by the local abortion committee. One of them disappears on her way back to the canning factory where they all work, and she is never found. In 2016 a group of young activists who are just about to form a new opposition party, are relaxing in an escape room. The game turns deadly as one of them – the future leader – dies from an allergic attack. The victim is the grandson of the woman who was last seen in 1974. And only a week before his death he hired a private investigator to look into the disappearance of his grandmother.
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Publisher: Athenaeum Kiadó, Budapest, Hungary
Publish Date: 2021
Page Count: 350
ISBN: 9789635430628