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
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
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
"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
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
“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
Twenty-four-year old Lissette Delgado has been beaten, raped, and then strangled with a towel. Marijuana is found in her apartment and her wardrobe is suspiciously beyond the means of a high-school te
The death of a travelling salesman in the forest of Gerzenstein appears to be an open and shut case. Sergeant Studer is confronted with an obvious suspect and a confession to the murder. But nothing i
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
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
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
"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
Maria is a young singer with money problems, two children from failed relationships and a depressive ex-boyfriend. Faced with another pregnancy, she decides not to keep the baby, but after the aborti
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
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
Havana, 2003, fourteen years since Mario Conde retired from the police force and much has changed in Cuba. He now makes a living trading in antique books bought from families selling off their librar
When Evert dies in his burning villa, everything points to suicide. The other members of the 'dinner club', a group of five women who meet regularly and whose husbands do business together, rally aro
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
When two women are 'accidently' killed by gas leaks, Sergeant Studer investigates the thinly disguised double murder in Bern and Basel. The trail leads to a geologist dead from a tropical fever in a M
“Prose that penetrates the reader’s mind like speed, fast paced, without an ounce of fat.”—WeltwocheHe’s found five pounds of top--quality Peruvian cocaine in a suit-case. Pur-sued by the police and d
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
"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
Anna, who died of a gastric influenza, left behind handkerchiefs with traces of arsenic. Then, James Farny was found murdered, with a single pistol shot to the heart and no hole in his clothing. Did t
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
Philip Dixon is down on his luck. A hair-raising escape from a lucrative but botched bank robbery lands him gushing blood and on the verge of collapse in a quaint college town in New Hampshire. How c
Bologna in August. Unbearable heat, an empty city. Claudia is a young student in a hurry to return home from her work as a waitress and get out of the skimpy uniform she hates. Tomas is a young man o
This personal and well-informed selection and description of the most interesting towns and individual buildings and archaeological sites in Turkey is the definitive guidebook for the discerning trave
Praise for the Ariel Kafka series:"Ariel Kafka wins the award for most intriguing name for a fictional detective, and it suits this impressively labyrinthine mystery series." Time Out"The clever
