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The fourth in the Guido Guerrieri series, which have been top of the bestseller lists in Italy now for 20 months. The author was an anti-Mafia pros...

A beautifully written and moving memoir of one of the great British photographers of the twentieth century. "A moving book, lyrically written, a po...

New crime fiction heroine Hella Mauzer is introduced in this Cold War-set thriller - a misunderstood yet brilliant detective fighting both crime an...

The sixth Martin Bora adventure goes back to the earliest point on the chronology yet. Bora investigates the death of a much-loved radical poet on ...

The 4th book in the crime series featuring Major Martin Bora, set in Ukraine during WWII. With appeal to fans of Phillip Kerr's Bernie Gunther seri...

A new and 50% enlarged, entertaining, but fundamentally serious selection of the most rewarding places to visit in Italy. Towns, villages, museums ...

The latest novel from bestselling Gianrico Carofiglio, introducing a new hero, Roberto Marias, once an undercover carabinieri, now a man seeking to...

DescriptionThe story takes place in the suffocating atmosphere of a social housing estate in the south of France. Sixteen-year-old C line and her s...

Jonas' surprisingly quotidian existence as a spy is turned on its head by the kidnap of his father by ISIS - a state-of-affairs that leads Jonas to...

Disgraced British spy August Drummond is on his way to Istanbul when he sees a passenger throw away directions to a cemetery just before being arre...

A mystery novel set in Baghdad after the 'mission accomplished' pronouncements of the Bush regime. The debut from an American academic, who is tota...

The 2nd book in the series featuring Guido Guerrieri, which was top of the bestseller list in Italy for 18 months. With a new jacket and a lower pr...

"Pastor's plot is well crafted, her prose sharp. . . . A disturbing mix of detection and reflection."--Publishers Weekly"A mystery, it rivets the r...

An entertaining selection of the most rewarding places to visit in one of the most historically significant countries in the world. A guide book in...

Devoted to her six-year-old son Noe, Vanda lives with him in a derelict shed on a beach near Marseilles. "The two of them against the world", as sh...

Kalmann is the self-appointed sheriff of Raufarho fn, a sleepy town in northern Iceland. He hunts Arctic foxes and lays shark bait in the sea. But ...

Praise for the "Havana Quartet" "Havana Red, " another winner from Bitter Lemon Press. "The New York Times" Overlaid with a rich smoky patina, an a...

Praise for the Havana Quartet: Overlaid with a rich smoky patina, an atmosphere that reeks of slums and riches, cigar smoke and exotic perfumes. Ha...

Description"The role of Guido Guerrieri is to take on impossible cases that have little chance of success. The lawyer accepts the case only because...

"A magnificent novel. Haunted by the tragic story and passion of its characters."--Magazine LitteraireThe first of the Havana quartet featuring Ins...

Bora is ordered to investigate the murder of Walter Niemeyer, a dazzling clairvoyant, a star since the days of the Weimar Republic. For years he ha...

A Lebanese drug courier flushes the diamonds he is transporting down the Basel train station toilet before the police can seize him. The gems are f...

Gutsy, raunchy investigative reporter Veronica Rosenthal is back. Dario is convinced that his wife has survived a deadly car crash and abducted the...

"A master crime writer . . . Seicho Matsumoto's thrillers dissect Japanese society."--The New York Times Book Review "A stellar psychological thril...

The latest in the Guido Guerrieri series. The setting is Bari in Southern Italy. Against his own instincts, defence attorney Guerrieri takes on an ...

Cuban investigator Mario Conde pursues a mystery spanning centuries of occult history. He is asked to track down a stolen statue of the Virgen de R...

Hella Mauzer was the first-ever woman Inspector in the Helsinki Homicide Unit. But she's been fired despite solving her first murder case. This is ...

Olgu n, an acclaimed Argentinian novelist, delivers a layered, gripping story, finely translated by Miranda France. Best New Crime Thrillers, Finan...

STARRED REVIEW Swiss author Schneider's excellent first mystery and series launch...gripping, plausible debut bodes well for future entries. Publis...

DescriptionWhen she hears about the suicide of a Buenos Aires train driver who has left a note confessing to four mortal 'accidents' on the train t...

Praise for the first novel in the Teodor Szacki series: "In Entanglement Miloszewski takes an engaging look at modern Polish society in this stella...

Lluis Font discovers a portrait of his wife in an exhibition that leads him to conclude he is being cuckolded by the artist. Concerned only about t...

Praise for Claudio Piñeiro: An agile novel, a ruthless dissection of a fast decaying society.--José Saramago, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literatu...

A desolate apartment in a Japanese city, a man and a woman about to spend their last night together. Each believes the other to be a killer, and is...

Its summer on the Mornington Peninsula near Melbourne. Detective Inspector Hal Challis is starting to dread Christmas. But this year there's someth...

These funny, dark and gruesome stories from Barcelona's bestselling crime writer presents a series of oddities including decomposing statues that s...

The first biography of Frances Graham, the muse of leading Pre-Raphaelite painter Edward Burne-Jones. Her life is a study in power - artistic, soci...

A toddler is missing. An unidentified man is fished out of the sea not far from Melbourne with an anchor strapped to his waist. Then a friend of In...

Description Mario Conde investigates a murder in the Barrio Chino, the rundown Chinatown of Havana. Not his usual beat, but when Conde was asked to...