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A satirical romp and suspenseful mystery set in the world of alternative therapy and meditation centers of Barcelona.

A young transvestite found strangled in a Havana park. The stifling death of a beloved Cuba.

In an atmosphere of intense paranoia Harry Willemer, a taxi driver and his passenger, an ex-KGB agent and the wife of a Russian Mafioso, flee the hit-men sent to recover a large sum of money they have stolen and take their chances on the open road.

In Istanbul nothing happens without baksheesh. All fine until youre the suspected murderer of the man youve paid off.

Maori cop Tito Ihaka, unkempt, overweight, intemperate, unruly, unorthodox and profane , is a stubborn investigator with an uncanny instinct for the truth. He hunts a shadowy hit-man who could have several notches on his belt, including that of an undercover cop. To complicate matters Ihaka becomes involved with a female suspect who could hold the key to everything.

Pablo Borla's marriage is reduced to confrontations with his wife over their daughter's rebellious ways and his firm builds only repellent office blocks destroying the fabric of old Buenos Aires. It all changes with the arrival of a young woman who brings to light a murder committed decades ago by those in his office. A murder everyone assumed was forgotten.Claudia Pieiro, after working as a professional accountant, became a journalist, playwright and television scriptwriter and in 1992 won the prestigious Plyade journalism award. She has more recently turned to fiction; All Yours (finalist for the 2003 Planeta Prize) and Thursday Night Widows.

Praise for Ben Pastor's Lumen: Pastors plot is well crafted, her prose sharp. . . . A disturbing mix of detection and reflection.Publishers Weekly "e;Rivets the reader with its twist of historical realities. A historical piece, it faithfully reproduces the grim canvas of war. A character study, it captures the thoughts and actions of real people, not stereotypes.The Free Lance-Star And dont miss Lumen by Ben Pastor. . . . An interesting, original, and melancholy tale.Literary Review Italy, September 1943. The Italian government switches sides and declares war on Germany. The north of Italy is controlled by the fascist puppets of Germany; the south liberated by Allied forces fighting their way up the peninsula. Having survived hell on the Russian front, Wehrmacht major and aristocrat Baron Martin von Bora is sent to Verona. He is ordered to investigate the murder of a prominent local fascist: a bizarre death threatening to discredit the regimes public image. The prime suspect is the victims twenty-eight-year-old widow Clara. Haunted by his record of opposition to SS policies in Russia, Bora must watch his step. Against the backdrop of relentless anti-partisan warfare and the tragedy of the Holocaust, a breathless chase begins. Ben Pastor, born and now back in Italy, lived for thirty years in the United States, working as a university professor in Vermont. The first in the Martin Bora series, Lumen, was published by Bitter Lemon Press in May 2011.

Praise for Claudia Pieiro's Thursday Night Widows:"e;An agile novel, a ruthless dissection of a fast decaying society.Jos Saramago, winner of the Nobel Prize for LiteratureA gripping story. The dystopia portrayed is an indictment not solely of an assassin but of Argentinas class structure and the willful blindness of its petty bourgeoisie.The Times Literary Supplement A fine morality tale which explores the dark places societies enter when they place material comfort before social justice, and security before morality.Publishers WeeklyInes is convinced that every wife is bound to be betrayed one day, so she is not surprised to find a note in her husband Ernestos briefcase with a heart smeared in lipstick crossed by the words All Yours and signed, Your true love.She follows him to a park on a rainy winter evening and witnesses a violent quarrel he has with another woman. The woman collapses; Ernesto sinks her body in a nearby lake. When Ernesto becomes a suspect in the case she provides him with an alibi. After all, hatred can bring people together as urgently as love. But Ernesto cannot bring his sexual adventures to an end, so Ines concocts a plan for revenge from which there is no return.Claudia Pieiro, formerly a journalist and playwright, is the author of literary crime novels that are all bestsellers in Latin America and have been translated into six languages. All Yours follows on the success of Thursday Night Widows, published in 2010 in the United States.

The fourth Guerrieri in the series. An investigation into the disappearance of a poor little rich girl in Southern Italy.

Argentina, the dictators are on trial, but corruption and violence are still rampant. A crime novel by a former guerrillero.

"e;Exceptional. If there has been a more honest, calm, and profoundly moving memoir written in the last few years, then I've missed it."e;Times Literary SupplementHow would you make sense of your life if you thought it might end tomorrow? In this captivating and best-selling memoir, Vesna Goldsworthy tells the story of herself, her family, and her early life in her lost country. There follows marriage, a move to England, and a successful media and academic career, then a cancer diagnosis and its unresolved consequences. A profoundly moving, comic, and original account by a stunning literary talent.

A short, readable, original and compelling account of how and why societies evolved as they did over the last 35,000 years. And of the crucial, and changing, role of art and architecture in this evolution.

A film director is murdered in Istanbul. The heroine and accidental investigator is the owner of a mystery bookshop.

"e;Pastor's plot is well crafted, her prose sharp. . . . A disturbing mix of detection and reflection."e;Publishers Weekly"e;A mystery, it rivets the reader until the end and beyond, with its twist of historical realities. A historical piece, it faithfully reproduces the grim canvas of war. A character study, it captures the thoughts and actions of real people, not stereotypes."e;The Free Lance-StarPart wartime political intrigue, detective story, psychological thriller, and religious mystery, Ben Pastor's debut follows a German army captain and a Chicago priest as they investigate the death of a nun in Nazi-occupied Poland.In October 1939 Captain Martin Bora discovers the abbess, Mother Kazimierza, shot dead in her convent garden. Her alleged power to see the future has brought her a devoted following; her work and motto, "e;Lumen Christi Adiuva Nos"e; ("e;Light of Christ, help us"e;), appear also to have brought some enemies.Father Malecki has come to Cracow, at the pope's bidding, to investigate Mother Kazimierza's powers. The Vatican orders him to stay and assist Bora in the inquiry into her killing. Stunned by the violence of the occupation and the ideology of his colleagues, Bora's sense of Prussian duty is tested to the breaking point. The interference of seductive actress Ewa Kowalska does not help matters.Ben Pastor, born in Italy, has lived for thirty years in the United States, working as a university professor in Vermont. She is the author of other novels, including The Water Thief and The Fire Walker (St. Martin's Press).

Young lawyer Alex Zabel defends industrialist Herbert Klofft in a case for wrongful dismissal being brought against him by his former employee and mistress. She is thirty-four, he seventy-eight, a despot, now wheelchair bound and dying of cancer. Alex must deal with a hopeless case, his growing empathy with a repulsive client and his sexual attraction to Kloffts elderly wife.

Maori cop Tito Ihaka, "unkempt, overweight, intemperate, unruly, unorthodox and profane ",investigates the murder of a 17 year old girl in Auckland. It all leads to an exciting climax in an atmosphere of political manoeuvring and intrigue surrounding New Zealand's confrontation with the USA over its anti-nuclear stance.

A writer is murdered at the Ritz on the night she wins an important literary prize, battered to death with the trophy she has just won. A satire of the Catalan literary scene dressed up as a hilarious murder mystery.

Roberto Marais is haunted by his past as an under-cover carabinieri. A time of cynicism and corruption, in the world he investigated, and in his own soul. A meeting with Emmalike Roberto ravaged by guiltbegins to revive him. When her teenage son asks Roberto to help him conquer his nightmares, Roberto at last achieves a true rebirth.

"e;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."e;Guillermo Saccomanno, winner of the Argentine National Literature Prize"e;This man knows. He knows about guns, knows about women, knows about dead bodies. . . . But above all he knows how to narrate."e;Ana Mara Shua, author of El peso de la tentacinSuperintendent Lascano is a detective working under the shadow of military rule in Buenos Aires in the late 1970s. Sent to investigate a double murder, he arrives at the crime scene to find three bodies. Two are clearly the work of the Junta's death squads, murders he is forced to ignore; the other one seems different.The trail leads Lascano through a decadent Argentina, a country poisoned to its core by the tyranny of the regime. The third corpse turns out to be that of Biterman, moneylender and Auschwitz survivor. When Lascano digs too deep, he must confront Giribaldi, an army major, quick to help old friends but ruthless in dealing with dissenters such as Eva, the young militant with whom Lascano is falling in love.Born in 1948, Ernesto Mallo is a published essayist, newspaper columnist, screenwriter, and playwright. He is a former anti-Junta militant who was pursued by the dictatorship. Needle in a Hay Stack is his first novel and the first in a trilogy with superintendent Lascano. The first two are being made into films.

Third in the Guerrieri series: a legal thriller by an Italian prosecutor. Turow with wry humor.

When no lawyer accepts to represent Marina in her attempt to bring her boyfriend to trial for assault and battery, Guerrieri takes the case. No witnesses willing to testify and a hostile judge: just his kind of case. Doesnt hurt that hes attracted to Sister Maria, the young woman protecting Marina, who shares his love for martial arts.

A black immigrant is accused of child murder in Italy; the court procedural is tainted with racism.

';Fast-paced and entrancing psychological thriller'Booklist"e;A portrait etched in acid of a Buenos Aires society menaced by economic and political crisis. Without value judgement but with light irony, Bizzio reveals the ugly secrets of a family, seen through the eyes of his nave squatter. The imagery is often blinding and the dialogue pitch-perfect."e;Le TempsJose Mara, a construction worker, is in love with Rosa, a maid in an exclusive Buenos Aires mansion. Subjected to constant humiliation by his foreman, Jose Mara kills him, then hides on an empty floor in the mansion. He silently observes the decadent behavior of the owners and watches Rosa in her most intimate moments. Jose Mara is also privy to more humiliating experienceshe watches as Rosa is raped by the young son of the family, and so he must kill again.A metaphor for the decline of a social class, a country, and the resentment that spreads like a plague penetrating to the core of its people, Rage is also a tale of love and suspense that raises the tension with each successive page until it unavoidably shifts toward an intimate, shattering catastrophe. Humor, misfortune, shrewd social commentary, and thrilling erotic fantasy come together, offering the reader an inside vision of contemporary Argentina.Film adaptation of Sergio Bizzio's Rabia, produced by Guillermo del Toro and directed by Sebastin Cordero, was presented at the 2009 Toronto International Film Festival.

The murder of a Jewish merchant in Switzerland during WWII told in a haunting novel.

';...One shares Susanne's belief that she must try to carry the deception off. Whether she will succeed keeps the reader, peering over Susanne's shoulder at all the traps, turning the pages of this remarkable book.'The Independent (UK)Praise for Petra Hammesfahr's The Sinner:';The Sinner is best psychological suspense novel I have read all year.'Daily Telegraph';Dubbed Germany's answer to Patricia Highsmith, Hammesfahr should win new fans with this novel.'Publishers Weekly';Demonstrates why she is one of Germany's bestselling writers of crime and psychological thrillers. It's grim, delves deep into the human psyche, and keeps you gripped.'The Times (London)Nadia and Susanne look uncannily alike, but one of the women is seriously rich and the other is destitute. When Nadia asks Susanne to spend the weekend with her husband so that she can sneak off with a lover, how can Susanne refuse the outrageous payment on offer? Nadia and her husband barely speak to each other and he will be working most of the weekend. Easy money, or so it seems.One Friday afternoon Susanne drives Nadia's Alfa to her beautiful suburban villa with its indoor pool and glass doors opening onto the sloping lawn. This first stay is followed by others, as an apparently harmless game becomes a deadly web of lies.Petra Hammesfahr, born in 1951, has not had an easy life: she left school at thirteen and became pregnant by an alcoholic husband at seventeen. She published her first novel when she was forty and has since written over twenty crime and suspense novels. Petra also writes scripts for television and film. She has won numerous literary prizes, including the Crime Prize of Wiesbaden and the Rhineland Literary Prize.

A taut psychological thriller about a visitor from war-torn Georgia who brings paranoia to a peaceful family.

Scorching novel from a star of Cuban fiction. The return of Mario Conde.

"e;A scathing satire of Spanish society, hilarious dialogue, all beautifully dressed up as a crime novel."e;--Krimi-Couch"e;A first novel that's spread like wildfire by word of mouth."e;--El Avui"e;Teresa Solana is great proof of the vitality of the roman noir in Catalan. . . . A wonderfully ironic hymn to the city of Barcelona."e;--Diari de BalearsAnother day in Barcelona, another slimy politician's wife is suspected of infidelity. 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 the potential political fallout, he hires twins Eduard and Pep, private detectives with a supposed knack for helping the wealthy with their "e;dirty laundry."e; Their office is adorned with false doors leading to nonexistent private rooms, a mysterious secretary who is always away, and a broken laptop computer picked up on the street. The case turns ugly when Font's wife is found poisoned by a marron glace from a box of sweets delivered anonymously.This is a deftly plotted, bitingly funny mystery novel. A satire of Catalan politics and a fascinating insight into the life and habits of Barcelona's inhabitants, diurnal and nocturnal.Teresa Solana lives in Barcelona. Born in 1962, she studied philosophy and worked as a literary translator and essayist. She has written several novels kept quietly in her drawer. A Not So Perfect Crime, her first published title, won the 2007 Brigada 21 Prize for the best Catalan mystery novel.

"e;An agile novel written in a language perfectly pitched for the subject matter, a ruthless dissection of a fast decaying society"e;Jose Saramago, Nobel Prize winnerThe English translation of hit novel Las Viudas de Los Jueves!';Pieiro's clever U.S. debut.. . illuminates the hypocrisies of the country's upper classes after 9/11.'Publishers Weekly';Pieiro is particularly skilful at exposing the social forces undermining Argentine society, and the fragility of personal relationships. We learn the surprising truth of the three men's death in the final chapter; the build-up to it is riveting.'The Times (London)"e;Pieiro builds up tension through banal, domestic details and the accretion of despair in everyday marital and professional struggles. There may be bloody murder at the centre of this novel, but the dystopia portrayed is an indictment not solely of an assassin but of Argentina's class structure and the willful blindness of its petty bourgeoisie."e;Times Literary Supplement';A razor-sharp psychological and social portrait not only of Argentina, but of the afluent Western world as a whole.'Rosa MonteroThree bodies lie at the bottom of a swimming pool in a gated country estate near Buenos Aires. It's Thursday night at the magnificent Scaglia house. Behind the locked gates, shielded from the crime, poverty, and filth of the people on the streets, the Scaglias and their friends hide lives of infidelity, alcoholism, and abusive marriage. Claudia Pieiro's novel eerily foreshadowed a criminal case that generated a scandal in the Argentine media. But this is more than a story about crime. The suspense is a byproduct of Pieiro's hand at crafting a psychological portrait of a professional class that lives beyond its means and leads secret lives of deadly stress and despair. It takes place during the post-9/11 economic meltdown in Argentina, but it is a universal story that will resonate among credit-crunched readers of today.The film of Thursday Night Widows, by Argentine New Wave and award-winning director Marcelo Pieyro is coming soon with trailers available online.Claudia Pieiro was a journalist, playwright, and television scriptwriter and in 1992 won the prestigious Pleyade Annual Journalism Award. She has more recently turned to fiction and is the author of literary crime novels that are all bestsellers in Latin America and have been translated into four languages. This novel won the Clarin Prize for fiction and is her first title to be available in English.

Maria has money problems, two children from a failed marriage and a depressive boy friend. When she gets pregnant she decides not to keep the baby and then the letters start to arrive. Threatening letters, from pro-life activists she thinks at first, but then she begins to suspect others, eventually her own boyfriend.