Italy's best crime writers present nine gripping, often darkly humorous short stories with setting ranging from Milan to Palermo by way of Rome and even Guadeloupe. The mafia is not just Sicilian but
Mario Conde investigates a murder in the Barrio Chino, the rundown Chinatown of Havana. Not his usual beat, but when Conde was asked to take the case by his colleague, the sultry, perfectly prop
Spain, summer 1937. The civil war between Spanish nationalists and republicans rages. On the bloody sierras of Aragon, among Generalissimo Franco’s volunteers is Martin Bora, the twenty-something Germ
Hella Mauzer was the first ever woman Inspector in the Helsinki Homicide Unit. But her superiors deemed her too ‘emotional’ for the job and had her reassigned. Now, two years later, she is working in
An impressive and very funny collection of stories by Teresa Solana but the fun is very dark indeed. The oddest things happen. Statues decompose and stink out galleries, two old grandmothers are venge
The summer of 1992 had been exceptionally cold in southern Italy. But that’s not the reason why it is still remembered. On May 23, 1992, a roadside explosion killed the Palermo judge Giovanni Falcone,
“This important book...brought home to me the complex and shifting situation in the Middle East and the danger of looking for simple responses or explanations. I loved the character of Jonas - t
“This important book...brought home to me the complex and shifting situation in the Middle East and the danger of looking for simple responses or explanations. I loved the character of Jonas - t
After Joel Dicker, here is the latest literary sensation from Switzerland: brilliant twenty-five-year-old novelist Quentin Mouron with his first mystery novel, which garnered ecstatic reviews in the F
The first in the Stratos Gazis mystery series and the first time this Greek novelist is available in English.Stratos hates being called a hitman. A conscientious fixer is what he is. He fixes problems
"Strange and haunting, a gothic novel with a modern consciousness." ?Philippa Gregory"A haunting, sophisticated story about a woman discovering the truth about herself and the elusive, possibly illusi
The fifth in the Martin Bora WWII mystery series. In May 1941, Wehrmacht officer Bora is sent to Crete, recently occupied by the German army, and must investigate the brutal murder of a Red Cross repr
Bangalore's Inspector Gowda is back in another nail-biting thriller. What does thirteen-year-old Nandita's disappearance have to do with the murder of a well-known lawyer in a gated community? Gowda i
"A master crime writer . . . Seicho Matsumoto's thrillers dissect Japanese society."The New York Times Book Review"Seicho Matsumoto combines the prolific output of a Rex Stout with the
"Carofiglio writes crisp, ironical novels that are as much love stories and philosophical treatises as they are legal thrillers."?The New Yorker"Part legal thriller, part insight into a man fighting h
"This is not simply a triumph of style; it is both a reflection on a time of bloodshed and a raw vision of human misery."?Guillermo Saccomanno, winner of the Argentine National Literature Prize"This m
When state proscutor Teodor Szacki investigates a murder in a Warsaw monastery, he encounters a flirtatious young journalist, an eccentric psychiatrist, and a paranoid historian in his seach that conn
Nadia and Susanne look uncannily alike, but one is seriously rich and the other destitute. When Nadia asks Susanne to spend the weekend with her husband, so that she can sneak off with a lover, how c
On April 16, 1942, a few days before Hitler's birthday, a handful of Swiss Nazis in Payerne lure Arthur Bloch, a Jewish cattle merchant, into a stable and kill him with an iron bar. Europe is in flame
Three bodies lie at the bottom of a swimming pool in a gated country estate near Buenos Aires. Under the gaze of fifteen security guards, the pampered residents of Cascade Heights lead a charmed life
On the run and holed up in a luxurious mansion in Buenos Aires, Jose Maria is the silent witness of the cruelty and humiliation suffered by his lover. Scenes of violence and rape conspire to turn his
When David Ninoshvili arrives from war-torn Georgia, the peaceful existence of a school teacher's family in Germany comes to an abrupt end. Christian Kestner has all but forgotten his stay in Tbilisi
Albert Savelkoul, the Public Prosecutor of Antwerp, has everything: power, money, magnificent horses, a family and a high-maintenance mistress. Despite problems with the mistress and his prostate he's
