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It's 2005. The Italian secret service has received intel that a group of Muslim immigrants based in the Viale Marconi neighborhood of Rome is planning a terrorist attack. Christian Mazzari, a young Sicilian who speaks perfect Arabic, goes undercover to infiltrate the group and to learn who its leaders are. Christian poses as Issa, a recently arrived Tunisian in search of for a job and a place to sleep. He soon meets Sofia, a young Egyptian imm...

Naples, March 1931. As one of the world's greatest tenors, Maestro Vezzi, is found brutally murdered in his dressing room at Naples famous San Carlo Theatre, the enigmatic and aloof Commissario Ricciardi is called in to investigate. But Ricciardi carries his own secret: will it help him solve this murder?

A contemporary Greek novel which returns to the origins of Greek tragedy, from the author of "The Jasmine Island".

Reminiscent of the enigmatic fictions of Latin American greats Jorge Luis Borges and Julio Cortázar, The Mystery of Rio is a finely wrought work of fiction that will transport readers into a thrilling literary hall of mirrors where they might find themselves reflected at times, and pleasurably lost at others.Rio de Janeiro, 1913. The Secretary of the Presidency of the Republic is found murdered at the former home of the Marquesa de Santos, kno...

Every Thursday night, a group of three men meet in Paris. Each man's life, his story, his situation, is as different from the others' as can be. Benacquista gives his readers a variety of unexpected and amusing perspectives on romance, the relationship between the sexes, and friendship between men.

The acclaimed Cuban American author of Love and Ghost Letters delivers "a wonderful story about the stories we tell each other" set in 1960s Cuba (San Francisco Chronicle).Cuba, 1963. Hurricane Flora, one of the deadliest in recorded history, is bearing down on the island. Seven women have been forcibly evacuated from their homes and herded into the former governor's mansion. There they are watched over by another woman-Ofelia, a young soldier...

A father follows his runaway daughter into a world of crime and espionage in this thriller by "one of the more sophisticated writers in his field" (Kirkus Reviews).Amy Boxer, the precocious, frustrated daughter of kidnap consultant Charles Boxer and DI Mercy Danquah, has decided on drastic action: she's leaving home. But Amy can't just walk out. First she goads her parents with a challenge: YOU WILL NEVER FIND ME.>Boxer will use his very speci...

Written under a pseudonym by French author Jean-Denis Bruet-Ferreol, this is a new book in the crime series featuring Police Commissioner Amedee Mallock, following on from "The Cemetery Of Swallows". He goes in search of a serial killer dubbed 'The Makeup Artist'.

A new book in the Italian crime series featuring Commissario Ricciardi. Set in Naples in 1932, it sees Ricciardi investigate the murder of the most famous prostitute in a high-class brothel. Translated by Antony Shugaar. 'A superb historical series.' "The New York Times

A new novel from the author of "The Angry Buddhist", who has worked on the HBO series "Big Love". Explores happiness and heartache with a healthy dose of scepticism and humour.

The barren, beautiful Cumbrian fells provide the bewitching setting for the adventures of Bell and Harry, two children who find enchanting wonder at every turn, as they explore THE HOLLOW LAND. Everyday challenges give a daring edge to this rural work and play. There are ancient mysteries to explore and uncover, like the case of the Egg Witch, and everyone is curious about the Household Name, a wildly famous Londoner moving in to the jewel of ...

The past isn't over. It isn't even past. For Jonathan, a third generation Greek American who has never set foot in his ancestral homeland, a journey to crisis-ridden contemporary Greece will unleash a century of buried family secrets. From the burning quay at Smyrna to present day Manhattan, the Argyriou family has been pursued by disaster. In the 1922 Greco-Turkish War, little Frosso and her sister Erasmia flee as Turkish soldiers descend on ...

A small culturally mixed community living in a Rome apartment building is thrown into disarray when one of the neighbours is murdered. A bittersweet comedy, reflecting today's social reality.

This Orange Prize Finalist novel is both a meditation on time and memory and "a deeply moving portrait of domestic and family life" in Ireland (The Sunday Telegraph).Ireland, 2006. The economic miracle known as the Celtic Tiger has swept the country into a euphoria of wealth and transformation. But for forty-seven-year-old Dubliner Fintan Buckley, the race toward progress is also a troubling purge of the past. His young daughter, Lucy, and tee...

Inspired by the true story of a female spy, this is "an infectious page-turner, as crafty and nuanced and impassioned as any classic thriller" (The National).Inspired by the true story of Melita Norwood, unmasked as the KGB's longest-serving British spy in 1999, at age eighty-seven, Red Joan centers on the deeply conflicted life of a young physicist during the Second World War.Talented and impressionable, Cambridge undergraduate Joan Stanley b...

From the author of three luminous collections of short stories including bestselling "The Most Beautiful Book In The World". The question at the centre of all of these delightful works is the same: What is happiness and how do we attain it? 'Schmitt's stories capture a quirky, clever, feminist, very French sensibility' "Publishers Weekly

Inspired by the true story of California 'Co-ed Killer' Edmund Kemper, this thriller follows Al Kenner as he progresses from antisocial adolescent to full-fledged serial killer in the turbulent '60s and '70s. Translated from French.

A child psychologist struggles to come to grips with her own dark childhood memories, in this "mesmerizing, unsettling novel" (The New York Times).When eight-year-old Julia was asked to be a bridesmaid at her cousin's wedding, she was thrilled. Nothing, not even her mother's resentment of the expensive, inconvenient traveling, could dull her excitement. But when the day finally arrived and she took her cousin's baby on a secret stroll around t...

Frank Darabont, bekennender Hellboy-Fan unter Hollywoods Filmemachern, deutet das Motto des zweiten Bandes von Hellboy-Geschichten bereits im Vorwort an: Man reist nicht, um anzukommen, man reist, um unterwegs zu sein. Fast ausnahmslos große anglo-amerikanische Horror-Autoren, darunter David J. Schow, Tom Piccirilli und Ray Garton, entführen uns in Hellboys Welt. Ihnen ist es zu verdanken, dass Hellboys Sprüche so gut passen wie die 'rechte Fa...

Entropy noir. . . . The hypnotic pull lies in the zigzag dance of its forlorn characters, casting a murky, uneasy sense of doom."The Guardian" A young woman mysteriously disappears. The lives of those she has left behindfamily, acquaintances and strangers intrigued by her disappearanceintersect to form a captivating latticework of odd coincidences and surprising twists of fate. Urban noir at its stylish and intelligent best. Chad Taylor lives ...