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Welcome to Unknown Pleasures, a food stand in Taipei's night market named after a Joy Division album, and also the location for a big-hearted new mystery set in the often undocumented Taiwan.August is Ghost Month in Taiwan—a time to pay respects to the dead and avoid unlucky omens. Jing-nan, who runs a food stand in a bustling Taipei night market, isn’t superstitious, but this August will haunt him. He learns that his high school sweetheart has been murdered—found scantily clad near a highway where she was selling betel nuts. “Betel nut beauties” are typically women in desperate circumstances, but Julia Huang was high school valedictorian, and the last time Jing-nan spoke to her, she was far away, happily enrolled in NYU’s honor program. The facts don’t add up. Julia’s parents don’t think so, either, but the police seem to have closed the case without asking any questions. The Huangs beg Jing-nan to do some investigating, but nothing can prepare him for what he is about to learn, or ho

An all-too-realistic thriller about for-profit prisons, big-money politics, shady non-profits, the war on drugs—and the people who would kill to keep the system intactEmily runs a successful bistro in

A fiendishly clever mystery in which Dr. Siri and his friends investigate three interlocking murders—and the ungodly motives behind themLaos, 1979: Retired coroner Siri Paiboun and his wife, Madame Da

Spencer Murphy is a national treasure: a famous correspondent during the Vietnam War who escaped captivity in Southeast Asia, his books and television appearances have made him a fortune for half a ce

South Korea, 1974. US Army CID Sergeants George Sueño and Ernie Bascom are assigned an underwhelming case of petty theft: Major Frederick M. Schulz has accused Miss Jo Kyong-ja, an Itaewon bar girl, o

The world knows Aimée Leduc, heroine of 15 mysteries in this New York Times bestselling series, as a très chic, no-nonsense private investigator—the toughest and most relentless in Paris. Now, author

The third Merry Folger Nantucket mysteryWord travels fast in Nantucket when two children and their dog discover a skeleton in the dunes of the cold Sconset beach. Could the dead woman be the latest vi

Prizewinning Finnish author Karo Hämäläinen’s English-language debut presents us with a literary homage to Agatha Christie with this black comedy locked-room mystery about murder, mayhem, and morality

Zen-Noir master Nakamura returns to the Tokyo of The Thief, where a young grifter named Yurika finds herself in a dangerous game of cat-and-mouse with the shadowy crime lord Kizaki.Yurika is a freelan

The thrilling final installment of the New York Times bestselling Nina Borg series set in DenmarkScandinavian crime series In an attempt to save their marriage, Nina Borg and her husband traveled to a

Tough, smart, and struggling to stay afloat, August Snow is the embodiment of Detroit. The son of an African American father and a Mexican mother, August grew up in Detroit's Mexicantown and joined th

In Tokyo a college student’s discovery and eventual obsession with a stolen handgun awakens something dark inside him and threatens to consume not only his life but also his humanity. Nakamura’s Japan

Jane Austen turns sleuth in this delightful Regency-era mystery November, 1815. The Battle of Waterloo has come and gone, leaving the British economy in shreds; Henry Austen, high-flying banker, is

It’s May and the snow has hardly melted in Goteborg, Sweden, but things are heating up quickly for Detective Inspector Irene Huss in the Violent Crimes Unit. The body of a teenage girl is found in the

Spring 1915: World War One rages across Europe, and the British Empire is assailed on all fronts—domestic and abroad. Amidst this bloodbath of nations, where one man’s flag is another man’s shroud, a

In the follow-up to the controversial and critically acclaimed mystery The Bishop's Wife, Mormon housewife Linda Wallheim finds herself ruffling feathers in Draper, Utah, as she assists a mu

In the Pacific during WWII, Billy Boyle must discover if skipper, and future president, Jack Kennedy is a cold-blooded killer.1943: In the midst of the brutal, hard-fought Solomon Islands campaign bet

Barbara Cleverly's New York Times notable debut mystery, featuring Scotland Yard detective Joe Sandilands Calcutta, 1922. In a land of saffron sunsets and blazing summer heat, an Englishwoman has been

How much can murder, and silence, buy on the black market of 1974 South Korea? South Korea, 1970s: A young Korean woman dressed in a traditional chima-jeogori is found strangled to death on the frozen

Ellie McEnroe is an Iraq War vet living in Beijing, where she represents the work of cutting-edge Chinese political artists. She has one bum leg, a taste for dumplings and beer, and an evangelic

When Rusty Mason, scion of one of Nantucket's oldest and wealthiest families, is found dead in a flooded cranberry bog one foggy fall night, thirty-two-year-old detective Meredith Folger is faced with

The Scandinavian crime fiction sensation with more than than half a million copies in printNina Borg, a Danish Red Cross nurse, wife, and mother of two, is a compulsive dogooder who can’t say no when

Alaska State Trooper Nathan Active investigates the connection between a dead hunter, a year-old fatal plane crash, an act of arson that killed eight people and a lucrative polar-bear-poaching operati

Mario Silva, a Brazilian police inspector, investigates the kidnapping of the teenage grandaughter of a prominient politician and desperately tries to find her before she is lost to an international r

"The latest in the series, G.I. Bones, is brilliant?imbued with affecting characters, a morally knotty storyline, and a last chapter that just plain stuns."?Maureen Corrigan, NPR.org, Best Crime Ficti

The line between friend and foe disappears as Detective Jack Lennon unravels a conspiracy that links his daughter to a killer named Fegan, who is stalking the streets of Belfast.

Peter Diamond investigates the murder of a historical reenactor after the reenactor and a companion discover a headless skeleton while recreating a 350-year-old battle between the Roundheads and Caval

Lieutenant Trompie Kramer and Sergeant Mickey Zondi investigate the murder of a twelve-year-old boy, which may be connected to the accidental death of an American teenager.

Praise for the Dr. Siri series: “Terrifically beguiling detective novels steeped in local color and history.”—The New York Times Book Review “Like Dr. Siri, Col

After a poor college student and her lover are murdered, Jana Matinova struggles to find a connection in the brutality with the help of a retired magician who is also invested in the case.

“James McClure's first novel arrives like a slam in the kidneys . . . a gripping style, real characters, and an exotic locale. . . . The Steam Pig will not only keep the reader's nose to the

Accused of shooting her partner, Aimaee Leduc must also contend with the fact that someone is impersonating her, a taxman is investigating her firm, and two murders may have a connection to the youth

Arriving to visit his son in a heavily Palestinian area of Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, Omar Yussef discovers the beheaded body of one of the boy's roommates; and when his son is arrested as a suspect, Omar m

The granddaughter of a prominent and wealthy politician from Recife has disappeared, together with her girlfriend. For Chief Inspector Mario Silva's boss, no case could be more important due to the p

In Sao Paulo, Brazil, Chief Inspector Mario Silva of the federal police based in Brasilia and his team of investigators, Hector Costa and Arnaldo Nunes, are called in to investigate a mass murder--an

When the recreation center burns down in the Arctic Alaskan town of Chukchi, killing eight people, including the town's basketball star and the police chief, it looks like arson. Did someone want Chie

A Korean fortune teller is being "bothered" by a long dead American soldier who wants his bones found and buried. An underage officer's daughter and a Latino soldier she was secretly dating are missi

Fegan has been a "hard man," an IRA killer in Northern Ireland. Now that peace has come, he is being haunted, day and night, by twelve ghosts: a mother and infant, a schoolboy, a butcher, an RUC cons

On Lansdown Hill, near Bath, a battle between Roundheads and Cavaliers that took place over 350 years ago is annually reenacted. Two of the participants discover a skeleton that turns out to be femal

Dr. Siri Paiboun, the only medical examiner in Laos in 1978, realizes that he is dealing with a serial killer when he discovers that the murder of a beautiful young woman who was tied to a tree and st