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Inspector Espinosa Series
by Luiz Alfredo Garcia-Roza
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by James Scudamore
Published Oct 2010
Read ReviewsBy turns darkly humorous and poignant, James Scudamores Booker Prize-nominated novel is a highly original, surprising take on the rags-to-riches story.
by Martin Walker
Published Apr 2010
Read ReviewsThe first installment in a wonderful new series that follows the exploits of Benoît Courrèges, a policeman in a small French village where the rituals of the café still rule.
by Leonardo Padura
Published May 2009
Read ReviewsMario Conde, retired from the police force, now makes a living trading antique books. In a book, Conde discovers a newspaper article about a beautiful bolero singer of the 1950s, who disappeared mysteriously. Condes intuition sets him off on an investigation into the murder.
by Benjamin Black
Published Feb 2008
Read ReviewsIn the debut crime novel from the Booker-winning author, a Dublin pathologist follows the corpse of a mysterious woman into the heart of a conspiracy among the citys high Catholic society
by Matt Beynon Rees
Published Jan 2008
Read ReviewsFor decades, Omar Yussef has been a teacher of history to the children of Bethlehem. When a favorite former pupil is arrested for collaborating with the Israelis, Omar is sure he has been framed. Then the wife of the dead man, also one of Omar Yussefs former pupils, is murdered, possibly raped. And, as no one else will, it is up to him to ...
by David Hewson
Published Aug 2006
Read ReviewsThe snow is falling in Rome - in the heart of the city, under the Pantheon's great dome, a woman's body lies on the marble floor, carefully positioned with a gruesome carving on her back....this horrific murder hurtles Rome's police force into a collision with U.S. agentsand a secret that has festered for fifteen years, now ...
by John Burdett
Published Jul 2006
Read ReviewsFrom the author of Bangkok 8, a head-spinning new novel that puts us back in the company of the inimitable Royal Thai Police detective Sonchai Jitpleecheep.
by Donna Leon
Published Apr 2004
Read ReviewsA riveting, pitch-perfect murder mysterythe work of a truly masterful storyteller. Conjuring contemporary Venice in exquisite and alluring detail, this is widely hailed as the finest installment yet of the Commissario Guido Brunetti series.
by Barry Eisler
Published Jul 2003
Read ReviewsA stylish thriller debut introducing John Rain--a Japanese-American freelance assassin and warrior for the 21st century.
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