Chigozie Obioma - Halászok

Mercer Mann is a young, promising but not accomplished writer. He teaches literature to first-year university students and wants to finish his latest novel, but he will soon be fired from his job, and he will not get ahead with the writing. Then a mysterious woman visits him and promises him a very good salary, in exchange for him to finish his abandoned work. Need a better offer? Mercer should temporarily retreat to the remote island of Camino in Florida, where she spent many summers as a little girl at her grandmother's house, in order to integrate into the circles of a bookseller there. Bruce Cable is a renowned expert on the first works and manuscripts of 20th-century writers and is believed to be in possession of the five priceless Fitzgerald manuscripts stolen from Princeton University's library. Mercer eventually accepts the adventure, as all he has to do is write and be curious, but he soon realizes that he knows too much and has gotten too close to the secret dealings of the seemingly decent bookseller.
John Grisham, the uncrowned king of the legal thriller, sometimes likes to break with his usual genre to prove that he can do something else. However, his refined story-telling and tension-creating ability are reliably the old...