Authors on the Soho Press backlist include National Book Award finalist Edwidge Danticat, Sue Townsend, Maria Thomas, Jake Arnott, Stephen Fry, John L'Heureux, Delores Phillips, and Jacqueline Winspear
Agarwal, Shilpa Haunting Bombay Aubin, Henry T. The Rescue of Jerusalem | ⇒ | Kushites descended from the oldest black civilizations of the Nubian sub-Sahara rescue Jerusalem, and with it Yahwism, without which there would otherwise be no Judaism, Christianity, or Islam. Buy: amazon.com | bn.com | indiebound.org eBook: amazon.com | bn.com | sony.com |
Barrowcliffe, Mark The Elfish Gene: Dungeons, Dragons and Growing Up Strange | ⇒ | In 1976, twelve-year-old Mark Barrowcliffe was an ordinary awkward schoolboy. Then he discovered Dungeons and Dragons. His life would never be the same. This is a hilarious memoir of an adolescence spent entirely in the world of fantasy. Buy: amazon.com | bn.com | indiebound.org eBook: amazon.com | bn.com | sony.com |
Baruth, Philip The Brothers Boswell Benedict, Helen The Edge of Eden Benn, James R. Billy Boyle: A World War II Mystery | ⇒ | What's a twenty-two-year-old Irish-American cop who's never been out of Massachusetts before doing at Beardsley Hall, an English country house, having lunch with Haakon, King of Norway? Billy Boyle himself wonders. Back home in Southie, he'd barely made detective when war was declared. Unwilling to fight Buy: amazon.com | bn.com | indiebound.org eBook: amazon.com | bn.com | sony.com |
Blood Alone Evil for Evil The First Wave | ⇒ | A Billy Boyle World War II Mystery (Vol. 2) Billy's task is to help arrange the surrender of the Vichy French forces. But there is dissension between the regular army, the militia and DeGaulle's Free French. American blackmarketeers in league with the enemy divert medical supplies to the Casbah, leading to multiple murders that he must solve while trying to rescue the girl he loves, a British spy. Buy: amazon.com | bn.com | indiebound.org eBook: amazon.com | bn.com | sony.com |
Black, Cara Murder in Belleville | ⇒ | An Aimée Leduc Investigation (Vol. 2) Tension runs high in this working-class neighborhood as a hunger strike to protest strict immigration laws escalates among the Algerian immigrants. Aimée barely escapes death in a car bombing in this tale of terrorism and greed in the shadows of Paris. Buy: amazon.com | bn.com | indiebound.org eBook: amazon.com | bn.com | sony.com |
Murder in Clichy | ⇒ | An Aimée Leduc Investigation (Vol. 5) Spirited Aimée Leduc, a private investigator based in Paris, has been introduced to the Cao Dai temple by her partner, René , who urges her to learn to meditate as a counterbalance to her frenetic lifestyle. A Vietnamese nun asks her for a favor Buy: amazon.com | bn.com | indiebound.org eBook: amazon.com | bn.com | sony.com |
Murder in Montmartre | ⇒ | An Aimée Leduc Investigation (Vol. 6) Aimée's childhood friend, Laure, is a policewoman. Her partner, Jacques, has set up a meeting in Montmartre with an informer. When Laure goes along as backup, Jacques is lured to a rooftop where he is shot to death. Laure's gun has been fired, gunpowder residue is on her hands, and she is charged with her partner's murder. The police close ranks against the alleged cop killer. Aimée is determined to clear Laure's name. In doing so, she encounters Separatists terrorists, Montmartre prostitutes, a Surrealist painter's stepdaughter, a crooked Corsican bar owner, and learns of "Big Ears" Buy: amazon.com | bn.com | indiebound.org eBook: amazon.com | bn.com | sony.com |
Murder in the Bastille | ⇒ | An Aimée Leduc Investigation (Vol. 4) Aimée Leduc is all dressed up in her new Chinese silk jacket, supposedly an "exclusive," for dinner with a difficult client at an elegant restaurant in the Bastille district. She is chagrined to see that the woman seated at the very next table is wearing an identical jacket. When the woman leaves her cell phone on the table, Aimée follows her to return it and is attacked in the shadowy Passage Boule Blanche. When she regains consciousness, Aimée finds that she is blind. Nevertheless, she is told she is lucky- the woman she was following was found in the next passage, murdered. Aimée is determined to identify her attacker. Was he actually a serial killer targeting showy blondes as the police insist? Was he really after the other woman? Or was Aimée his intended victim? Buy: amazon.com | bn.com | indiebound.org eBook: amazon.com | bn.com | sony.com |
Murder in the Latin Quarter Murder in the Marais | ⇒ | An Aimée Leduc Investigation (Vol. 1) Aimée Leduc, the intrepid young French-American detective, is hired to investigate the grisly murder of an old Jewish woman in the Marais district of Paris. Her undercover search leads to a neo-Nazi group and requires that she play a dangerous game involving current politics and old war crimes. Buy: amazon.com | bn.com | indiebound.org eBook: amazon.com | bn.com | sony.com |
Murder in the Rue de Paradis | ⇒ | An Aimée Leduc Investigation (Vol. 8) Aimée is thrilled when her one-time lover, Yves, an investigative journalist, returns from his assignment in Egypt and proposes marriage. But after a single night of bliss, his body is discovered in a Paris doorway. His throat has been slit. Aimée is determined to avenge him. The trail leads to a sleeper jihadist and embroils her in Turkish and Kurdish politics. Buy: amazon.com | bn.com | indiebound.org eBook: amazon.com | bn.com | sony.com |
Murder in the Sentier | ⇒ | An Aimée Leduc Investigation (Vol. 3) The third Aimée Leduc investigation is set in the historic Sentier district, where once-fashionable private mansions now house the Parisian "rag" trade and nightclubs. Members of a 1960s Red gang are seeking their hidden loot, which leads to new murders. Aimée fears the killers may include her long-lost mother. Buy: amazon.com | bn.com | indiebound.org eBook: amazon.com | bn.com | sony.com |
Murder on the Ile Saint-Louis | ⇒ | An Aimée Leduc Investigation (Vol. 7) Facing a tight deadline on a computer security contract, Aimée responds to a telephone call from a stranger that leads her to an abandoned infant in a courtyard on the Ile Saint-Louis. She brings the baby home with her, calls her Stella, and awaits contact from the mother. But days pass, and no one reclaims the infant. Meanwhile, a group of environmental protestors is trying to stop the government from entering into a contract with an oil company notorious for pollution. As Aimée attempts to identify the baby's mother, two murders and an abortive bombing involving the protestors lead her Buy: amazon.com | bn.com | indiebound.org eBook: amazon.com | bn.com | sony.com |
Brandon, Ruth Caravaggio's Angel | ⇒ | A Reggie Lee Mystery Dr Reggie Lee, new at London's National Gallery, is planning a small exhibition of three almost identical Caravaggio paintings when she discovers a fourth. One must be a forgery. That discovery detonates multiple murders. Buy: amazon.com | bn.com | indiebound.org eBook: amazon.com | bn.com | sony.com |
Brooke, P.J. Blood Wedding Brophy, Grace A Deadly Paradise The Last Enemy | ⇒ | A Commissario Cenni Investigation (Vol. 1) Rita grew up in Brooklyn, the only child of a narcissistic Italian mother and the G.I. she married at the end of World War II. After her mother's death, she quits her teaching job and descends upon her poor but aristocratic relatives, the Count and Countess Casati, in Assisi. It takes a while before they realize, to their chagrin, that Rita has come to stay. When the family assembles to watch the penitentes procession in the town square during Easter Week, a Casati tradition, Rita does not join them as planned. Her corpse is later found in the family mausoleum. Alessandro Cenni, a Commissario in the State Police of Umbria and a handsome bachelor whose twin brother is about to become a bishop, must penetrate the secrets of the Casati family and their circle if he is to discover who killed Rita and why. But he is blocked by their powerful right-wing connections, and by a superior who prefers to arrest a scapegoat rather than risk political suicide. Aided by a loyal staff in his quest for that rarity Buy: amazon.com | bn.com | indiebound.org eBook: amazon.com | bn.com | sony.com |
Bruce, Alison Cambridge Blue Chamberlain, Marisha The Rose Variations Chang, Henry Chinatown Beat | ⇒ | A Detective Jack Yu Investigation (Vol. 1) NYPD Detective Jack Yu was raised in Chinatown. Some of his old friends are criminals now; some are dead. Recently transferred to his old neighborhood, where ninety-nine percent of the cops are white, Jack is confronted with a serial rapist who preys on young Chinese girls. Then Uncle Four, an elderly leader of the charitable Hip Ching Society and member of the Hong Kong-based Red Circle Triad, is gunned down. To solve these crimes, Jack turns to both modern police methods and an ancient fortuneteller. Buy: amazon.com | bn.com | indiebound.org eBook: amazon.com | bn.com | sony.com |
Year of the Dog Cleverly, Barbara Folly du Jour | ⇒ | A Joe Sandilands Mystery This seventh book in the Joe Sandilands murder mystery series is set at the Folies Bergere, Paris, December 1926. Joe hurries to the assistance of an old friend who has been arrested for murder. In a cell at the Quai des Orfevres he meets with Sir George Jardine, still in the evening dress stained with the blood of the dead man. The only other witness, a blonde who was sharing the victim's box, has vanished. Joe receives assistance from an entirely unexpected quarter Buy: amazon.com | bn.com | indiebound.org eBook: amazon.com | bn.com | sony.com |
Coles, William Prelude Danticat, Edwidge Breath, Eyes, Memory | ⇒ | At an astonishingly young age, Edwidge Danticat has become one of our most celebrated new novelists, a writer who evokes the wonder, terror, and heartache of her native Haiti--and the enduring strength of Haiti's women--with a vibrant imagery and narrative grace that bear witness to her people's suffering and courage. At the age of twelve, Sophie Caco is sent from her impoverished village of Croix-des-Rosets to New York, to be reunited with a mother she barely remembers. There she discovers secrets that no child should ever know, and a legacy of shame that can be healed only when she returns to Haiti--to the women who first reared her. What ensues is a passionate journey through a landscape charged with the supernatural and scarred by political violence, in a novel that bears witness to the traditions, suffering, and wisdom of an entire people. Buy: amazon.com | bn.com | indiebound.org eBook: amazon.com | bn.com | sony.com |
Krik? Krak! | ⇒ | When Haitians tell a story, they say "Krik?" and the eager listeners answer "Krak!" In Krik? Krak! In her second novel, Edwidge Danticat establishes herself as the latest heir to that narrative tradition with nine stories that encompass both the cruelties and the high ideals of Haitian life. They tell of women who continue loving behind prison walls and in the face of unfathomable loss- of a people who resist the brutality of their rulers through the powers of imagination. The result is a collection that outrages, saddens, and transports the reader with its sheer beauty. Buy: amazon.com | bn.com | indiebound.org eBook: amazon.com | bn.com | sony.com |
The Butterfly's Way Davidson, Craig The Fighter | ⇒ | Everything has been handed to Paul Harris, the son of a wealthy southern Ontario winery owner. But after a vicious beating shakes his world he descends into the realm of hardcore bodybuilders and boxing gyms, seeking to become a real man. Rob Tully, a working-class teenager from upstate New York, is a born boxer. He trains with his father and uncle, who believe a gift like his can change their lives. But he struggles under the weight of their expectations, fearing his own ability to inflict pain. Their disparate paths lead to an underground bare-knuckle fight venue where men brawl for hard cash. When two fighters step into a ring where anything goes, sometimes only one walks out. Buy: amazon.com | bn.com | indiebound.org eBook: amazon.com | bn.com | sony.com |
Dickinson, David Death of a Pilgrim Death on the Holy Mountain Disher, Garry Blood Moon Chain of Evidence | ⇒ | A Hall Challis and Ellen Destry Investigation (Vol. 4) Inspector Hal Challis has been summoned to Mawson's Bluff, his childhood home in the Australian Outback where his father is dying. Sergeant Ellen Destry is left to head an investigation into a ring of pedophiles which has descended on the peaceful Mornington Peninsula, a resort community near Melbourne. A little girl has been abducted from the fairgrounds at the annual Waterloo Show; it takes her mother twenty-four hours to report her missing. By then, hope is slim that the police will find the child before it is too late. Challis's sister's difficult husband disappeared from the Bluff four years ago; since then Meg has received nuisance mail that she assumes comes from him. While Challis is in town, an extra buried body is discovered when a new grave is dug in the local graveyard. A black plastic bag containing the corpse of Meg's husband is found on top of a coffin that was interred four years earlier. With two very different crimes to solve, Challis and Destry have their work cut out for them. Buy: amazon.com | bn.com | indiebound.org eBook: amazon.com | bn.com | sony.com |
Kittyhawk Down | ⇒ | A Hal Challis Investigation (Vol. 2) The once-peaceful beach resort of Bushrangers Bay, not far from Melbourne, is the site of multiple crimes that must be investigated by Homicide Squad Inspector Hal Challis of the Mornington Peninsula Police Force and his staff. A toddler is missing; an unidentified corpse has been fished from the sea; cars are being stolen and torched; letter boxes are being burned. And then one of Challis's own friends, Kitty Casement, who runs an aerial photography service and flies a Kittyhawk, is murdered. Figuring out the connections and identifying the criminals absorbs all the energy and intelligence of this cast of sympathetic but complicated policemen and women. Buy: amazon.com | bn.com | indiebound.org eBook: amazon.com | bn.com | sony.com |
Snapshot | ⇒ | A Hal Challis Investigation (Vol. 3) It took months for Janine McQuarrie to succumb to her husband's pressure to have sex with strangers at suburban spouse-swapping parties, but after attending a few such events on the Mornington Peninsula, this Australian social psychologist rebels. Then, driving with her young daughter one day, she gets out of her car to ask directions and is shot dead. The girl escapes when the gunman's pistol misfires. Inspector Hal Challis, to whose Crime Investigation Unit the case falls, is thwarted in his efforts by his boss. The dead woman was Superintendent McQuarrie's daughter-in-law and he seems to be more interested in protecting his son than in finding her killer. Who might have had a motive to kill this attractive young wife and mother? Buy: amazon.com | bn.com | indiebound.org eBook: amazon.com | bn.com | sony.com |
The Dragon Man | ⇒ | A Hal Challis Investigation (Vol. 1) A serial killer is on the loose in a small coastal town near Melbourne. Detective Inspector Hal Challis and his team must apprehend him before he strikes again. But first, Challis has to contend with the editor of a local newspaper who undermines his investigation at every turn, and with his wife, who attempts to resurrect their marriage through long-distance phone calls from a sanitarium, where she has been imprisoned for the past eight years for attempted murder-his. Buy: amazon.com | bn.com | indiebound.org eBook: amazon.com | bn.com | sony.com |
Downing, David Silesian Station Zoo Station | ⇒ | As World War II approaches, an Anglo-American journalist faces having to leave his German son and his longtime girlfriend in Berlin. As Soviet, German, and British intelligence all attempt to recruit him, he struggles to survive and maintain his integrity. Buy: amazon.com | bn.com | indiebound.org eBook: amazon.com | bn.com | sony.com |
Etchells, Olive Devil at the Crossroads Fallenberg, Evan Light Fell Fry, Stephen The Liar | ⇒ | Stephen Fry's unspeakably funny novel has won praise from critics everywhere. It hit the very top of best seller lists in England. Its bisexual hero is a diabolically brilliant pathological liar with the wit of Truman Capote and the moral compunctions of an amoeba. Buy: amazon.com | bn.com | indiebound.org eBook: amazon.com | bn.com | sony.com |
Gage, Leighton Blood of the Wicked | ⇒ | A Chief Inspector Mario Silva Investigation (Vol. 1) In the remote Brazilian town of Cascatas do Pontal, where landless peasants are confronting the owners of vast estates, the the bishop arrives by helicopter to consecrate a new church and is assassinated. Mario Silva, Chief Inspector for Criminal Matters of the Federal Police of Brazil, is dispatched to the interior to find the killer. The Pope himself has called Brazil's president; the pressure is on Silva to perform. Assisted by his nephew, Hector Costa, also a federal policeman, Silva must battle the state police and a corrupt judiciary as well as criminals who prey on street kids, the warring factions of the Landless League, the big landowners and the Church itself, in order to solve the initial murder and several brutal killings that follow. Justice is hard to come by. An old priest, a secret liberation theologist, finally metes it out. Here is a Brazil that tourists never encounter. Buy: amazon.com | bn.com | indiebound.org eBook: amazon.com | bn.com | sony.com |
Buried Strangers Genelin, Michael Dark Dreams Siren of the Waters Gooden, Philip The Salisbury Manuscripts | ⇒ | In 1873 a canon dies violently while sneaking artifacts out of an ancient burial chamber on the outskirts of Salisbury. London lawyer Tom Ansell discovers the body and comes under suspicion for the murder. To clear himself, he must fi nd the killer. Buy: amazon.com | bn.com | indiebound.org eBook: amazon.com | bn.com | sony.com |
Gordon-Smith, Dolores As if By Magic Mad About the Boy | ⇒ | A Jack Haldean Mystery (Vol. 2) It's the height of summer 1923. At a ball in Sussex, Jack Haldean, former Royal Flying Corps pilot, investigates an apparent suicide, but everything is thrown into chaos when a group of Russian revolutionaries become involved in the aff air. In a case involving deception, greed, jealousy, kidnapping, torture and murder, Jack will face an agonizing choice. Buy: amazon.com | bn.com | indiebound.org eBook: amazon.com | bn.com | sony.com |
Hannah, Sophie Hurting Distance | ⇒ | A serial rapist relies on successful career women's shame to insulate him from punishment. Then one of them sets out to find her missing lover, a married man, and in so doing exposes a sinister plot. Buy: amazon.com | bn.com | indiebound.org eBook: amazon.com | bn.com | sony.com |
Little Face | ⇒ | The first time she goes out after their daughter is born, Alice leaves the two-week-old infant at home with her husband, David. When she returns two hours later, she insists that the baby in the crib is not her child. Despite her apparent distress, David is adamant that she is wrong. The police are called to the scene. Detective Constable Simon Waterhouse is sympathetic, but he doubts Alice's story. His superior, Sergeant Charlie Zailer, thinks Alice must be suffering from some sort of delusion brought on by postpartum depression. With an increasingly hostile and menacing David swearing she must either be mad or lying, how can Alice make the police believe her before it's too late? Buy: amazon.com | bn.com | indiebound.org eBook: amazon.com | bn.com | sony.com |
Hellenga, Robert The Sixteen Pleasures | ⇒ | The Italians called them "Mud Angels," the young foreigners who came to Florence in 1966 to save the city's treasured art from the Arno's flooded banks. American volunteer Margot Harrington was one of them, finding her niche in the waterlogged library of a Carmelite convent. For within its walls she discovered a priceless Renaissance masterwork- a sensuous volume of sixteen erotic poems and drawings. Inspired to sample each of the ineffable sixteen pleasures, Margot embarks on the intrigue of a lifetime with a forbidden lover and the contraband volume--a sensual, life-altering journey of loss and rebirth in this exquisite novel of spiritual longing and earthly desire. Buy: amazon.com | bn.com | indiebound.org eBook: amazon.com | bn.com | sony.com |
Helton, Peter Rainstone Fall Herron, Mick Down Cemetery Road Reconstruction Smoke and Whispers The Last Voice You Hear Why We Die Hill, Suzette A. Bone Idle Bones in the Belfry | ⇒ | Francis Oughterard was the contented vicar of Molehill when he accidentally strangled a lady parishioner. A sleazy art dealer gave him an alibi and Maurice, his victim's cynical cat, and Bouncer, a neighbor's dog, rescued him from his own ineptitude. Now he is called upon to return the favor by storing stolen paintings in the church belfry. The intrigue mounts as hapless FO bumbles through police confrontations. Maurice and Bouncer each contribute their version of events. Buy: amazon.com | bn.com | indiebound.org eBook: amazon.com | bn.com | sony.com |
Howell, Lis Chorister at the Abbey: The Norbridge Chronicles Murder Mystery | ⇒ | The Chorister, a biblically-obsessed serial killer, terrifies members of the Abbey Chorus in a market town in northern England. Amateur detectives, a single mother and a teacher, fi nd themselves drawn into the investigation to help their friends. Buy: amazon.com | bn.com | indiebound.org eBook: amazon.com | bn.com | sony.com |
Hyland, Adrian Moonlight Downs | ⇒ | An Emily Tempest Mystery (Vol. 1) Emily Tempest, a feisty part-Aboriginal woman, left home to get an education and has since traveled abroad. She returns to visit the Moonlight Downs "mob," still uncertain if she belongs in the Aboriginal world or that of the whitefellers. Within hours of her arrival, an old friend is murdered and mutilated. The police suspect a rogue aborigine, but Emily starts asking questions. Emily Tempest, a modern half-Aboriginal sleuth, is a welcome successor to Arthur Upfield's classic detective. Buy: amazon.com | bn.com | indiebound.org eBook: amazon.com | bn.com | sony.com |
Jones, Stan Shaman Pass | ⇒ | A State Trooper Nathan Active Investigation (Vol 2) Alaska State Trooper Nathan Active is regarded as "half-white" by the Inupiats of the village where he is stationed. He was born in Chukchi but was adopted by Anglos and raised in Anchorage. Now he is called upon to investigate the murder of a tribal leader who was stabbed to death with an antique harpoon, which had been recently returned to the community under the Indian Graves Act. Buy: amazon.com | bn.com | indiebound.org eBook: amazon.com | bn.com | sony.com |
Village of the Ghost Bears White Sky, Black Ice | ⇒ | A State Trooper Nathan Active Investigation (Vol. 1) In the small Alaskan village of Chukchi, what are the odds of two suicides occurring in a matter of a few days? State trooper Nathan Active discovers that his suspicions concerning the deaths are well-founded; the two men were murdered. But what was the motive and who killed them? Buy: amazon.com | bn.com | indiebound.org eBook: amazon.com | bn.com | sony.com |
Kray, Roberta The Lost Krieger, Elliot Exiles Landsman, Anne The Rowing Lesson | ⇒ | Betsy Klein is summoned from her home in the United States to her father's hospital bed in South Africa. Orphaned young, he had to struggle to become a doctor and to win the respect of his Boer patients. We first meet young Harold Klein on an excursion with his friends on the Ebb 'N Flow, a river to which he often returns. That is where he later teaches his little daughter to row, and finally, where he makes his last metaphoric passage. Buy: amazon.com | bn.com | indiebound.org eBook: amazon.com | bn.com | sony.com |
Laurie, Hugh The Gun Seller | ⇒ | Cold-blooded murder just isn't Thomas Lang's cup of tea. Offered a bundle to assassinate an American industrialist, he opts to warn the intended victim instead -- a good deed that soon takes a bad turn. Quicker than he can down a shot of his favorite whiskey, Lang is bashing heads with a Buddha statue, matching wits with evil billionaires, and putting his life (among other things) in the hands of a bevy of femmes fatales. Up against rogue CIA agents, wannabe terrorists, and an arms dealer looking to make a high-tech killing, Lang's out to save the leggy lady he has come to love...and prevent an international bloodbath to boot. Buy: amazon.com | bn.com | indiebound.org eBook: amazon.com | bn.com | sony.com |
Levison, Iain How to Rob an Armored Car Limon, Martin Buddha's Money | ⇒ | A Sergeants Sueño and Bascom Mystery (Vol. 3) George and Ernie are American military cops in Korea. They work the neon alleys of sin districts, chasing felons and black marketeers. It's not glamorous, but somebody's got to do it. The kidnapping of a child, held ransom for a priceless jade artifact, is more than these seedy cops can handle. They urge the father to pay it. The only problem is, dad hasn't got it. From that point on, officers Sueño and Bascom are pushed into intrigues way over their heads and expected to unravel conspiracies that are beyond them. Can two disheveled, disrespectful army foul-ups cope with all this? Then again, it's not like they have a choice. Buy: amazon.com | bn.com | indiebound.org eBook: amazon.com | bn.com | sony.com |
G.I. Bones Jade Lady Burning | ⇒ | A Sergeants Sueño and Bascom Mystery (Vol. 1) A Korean prostitute has been horrifically murdered in Seoul, and an army corporal is accused of the crime, as an Army Criminal Investigation Division sergeant investigates the case. Buy: amazon.com | bn.com | indiebound.org eBook: amazon.com | bn.com | sony.com |
Slicky Boys | ⇒ | A Sergeants Sueño and Bascom Mystery (Vol. 2) George Sueño and his partner Ernie Bascom thought they'd seen it all, but nothing could prepare them for the Slicky Boys. They're everywhere. They can kill a man in a thousand ways you don't even want to know about. And you'll never even see them coming. They steal, they kill, they slip away. George and Ernie are about to discover that even the U.S. Military is no match for evil and that human sympathy can sometimes lead to a lonely grave. Buy: amazon.com | bn.com | indiebound.org eBook: amazon.com | bn.com | sony.com |
The Door to Bitterness | ⇒ | A Sergeants Sueño and Bascom Mystery (Vol. 4) The two G.I. cops Martin Limón first introduced in Jade Lady Burning are back with a vengeance in their latest adventures in Seoul and the sin cities surrounding the capital in the 1970s. While North Korea menaces and Vietnam burns, these two weave through back alleys and bordellos, trying to tip the scales of justice back in the right direction. This time they are not only pursuing criminals Buy: amazon.com | bn.com | indiebound.org eBook: amazon.com | bn.com | sony.com |
The Wandering Ghost | ⇒ | A Sergeants Sueño and Bascom Investigation (Vol. 5) The only female MP assigned to a base in the DMZ is missing. Has she been abducted, killed or, possibly, gone AWOL? Eighth Army cops George Sueño and Ernie Bascom, sent to find her, discover a murder that has been concealed, rampant black marketeering and corruption, crooked officers, rioting Korean civilians, and the wandering ghost of a schoolgirl run down by a speeding army truck. It is up to them to right egregious wrongs while being pursued by criminals who want to kill them. Buy: amazon.com | bn.com | indiebound.org eBook: amazon.com | bn.com | sony.com |
Lovesey, Peter Abracadaver Bloodhounds | ⇒ | An Inspector Peter Diamond Investigation (Vol. 4) A rare stamp and a corpse are discovered in Bath within hours of each other. As he investigates, Inspector Peter Diamond discovers that both the person who found the stamp and the victim belong to the Bloodhounds, an elite group of mystery lovers, who now urge Diamond to bring the murderer to justice. But there's a hitch; the body lies inside a padlocked houseboat and the only key is in the pocket of a man with an airtight alibi. Buy: amazon.com | bn.com | indiebound.org eBook: amazon.com | bn.com | sony.com |
Diamond Dust Diamond Solitaire | ⇒ | An Inspector Peter Diamond Investigation (Vol. 2) Fired from the police for insubordination, Peter Diamond is reduced to working as a security guard at Harrods. There he finds a tiny Japanese girl after the store closes. He must identify her in order to save her life. Buy: amazon.com | bn.com | indiebound.org eBook: amazon.com | bn.com | sony.com |
Mad Hatter's Holiday | ⇒ | A Sergeant Cribb Investigation (Vol. 4) Brighton in 1882 is the setting of this novel of crime and tangled emotions. Albert Moscrop, a visitor whose holiday is dedicated to peering through a telescope at the seaside scene, marches down the Queen's Road to the beach and draws us through a sequence of disarmingly trivial observations into a compelling drama, played in the fashionable haunts of the nineteenth-century resort; beach, piers, promenade, swimming bath, aquarium, and Devil's Dyke. A keen student of human nature, Moscrop concentrates his interest on one particular family of holidaymakers Buy: amazon.com | bn.com | indiebound.org eBook: amazon.com | bn.com | sony.com |
Rough Cider | ⇒ | It is World War II and American soldiers stationed in rural England have made friends, especially with the local girls. After a dance to celebrate the pressing of the apples into cider, the resentment of the local men leads to violence and a murder. Later, a child is born, a girl. When she grows up, she tries to find out more about her soldier-father. And long-forgotten jealousies and hatreds come frothing to the surface. Rough Cider was nominated for an Edgar Award. Buy: amazon.com | bn.com | indiebound.org eBook: amazon.com | bn.com | sony.com |
Skeleton Hill The Circle | ⇒ | An Inspector Henrietta Mallin Investigation (Vol. 1) Van driver Bob Naylor, a jingle writer, joins the Chinchester Writer's Circle fearing that he will be shunned by literary snobs. Instead, he finds himself plunged into the midst of a circle of murder victims and murder suspects Buy: amazon.com | bn.com | indiebound.org eBook: amazon.com | bn.com | sony.com |
The Detective Wore Silk Drawers The False Inspector Dew | ⇒ | The year is 1921. A passionate affair between a romantic woman and her dentist has led to his wife's murder. The lovers take flight aboard the Mauretania and the dentist takes the name of Inspector Dew, the detective who arrested the notorious Dr. Crippen. But, in a disquieting twist, when a murder occurs aboard ship the captain invites "Inspector Dew" to nvestigate. This may be Lovesey's most ingeniously plotted mystery for which he was awarded the CWA Gold Dagger. Buy: amazon.com | bn.com | indiebound.org eBook: amazon.com | bn.com | sony.com |
The Headhunters The House Sitter | ⇒ | An Inspector Peter Diamond Investigation (Vol. 7) A woman is found strangled on a beach in Sussex. It takes police 12 days to discover she was a top profiler for the National Crime Faculty. Why was she killed? And why is the NCF thwarting Detective Peter Diamond's efforts to unmask her murderer? Buy: amazon.com | bn.com | indiebound.org eBook: amazon.com | bn.com | sony.com |
The Last Detective | ⇒ | An Inspector Peter Diamond Investigation (Vol. 1) A nude female corpse has been found floating in a large reservoir just south of Bristol. Peter Diamond must solve the mystery of the "Lady in the Lake," locate two missing letters attributed to Jane Austen, and save a woman unjustly accused of murder. Buy: amazon.com | bn.com | indiebound.org eBook: amazon.com | bn.com | sony.com |
The Reaper The Secret Hangman | ⇒ | An Inspector Peter Diamond Investigation (Vol. 8) Widowed Inspector Peter Diamond is being pursued by a secret admirer even as he pursues a serial killer. Delia Williamson, a waitress and the mother of two young girls, is first reported missing by her own mother. She is found in a public park, hanged from the crossbar of a children's swing set. There seems to be no reason for her to have committed suicide and the postmortem reveals that she was murdered. Her present partner, her ex-husband, and a traveling salesman who dined at her table in the restaurant where she worked are all suspects. And then her former husband is found in a cave, also hanged. A remorse suicide? Diamond doesn't think so. When a well-to-do couple is found dead, both hanged, a suicide pact is suggested. Diamond is dubious; too many couples are dying by the same method. Before he can figure out what is going on, one more person will die. Buy: amazon.com | bn.com | indiebound.org eBook: amazon.com | bn.com | sony.com |
The Summons | ⇒ | An Inspector Peter Diamond Investigation (Vol. 3) John Mountjoy has escaped from prison and taken a hostage, and the only person he'll talk to is Detective Peter Diamond, who arrested him four years earlier for the murder of a young journalist. Diamond must follow a cold trail to find another killer and clear Mountjoy's name before someone else dies. Buy: amazon.com | bn.com | indiebound.org eBook: amazon.com | bn.com | sony.com |
The Tick of Death The Vault | ⇒ | An Inspector Peter Diamon Investigation (Vol. 6) Peter Diamond is a policeman whose abrasive manner is not appreciated by his superiors but when a skeletal hand turns up in the vault of the Pump Room in Bath, followed by the excavation of a skull, Diamond is called upon to solve a series of crimes, including murder and forgery, requiring a knowledge of history, nineteenth century art, literature...and contemporary human nature. Buy: amazon.com | bn.com | indiebound.org eBook: amazon.com | bn.com | sony.com |
Upon a Dark Night | ⇒ | An Inspector Peter Diamond Investigation (Vol. 5) A young woman is dumped, injured and unconscious, in a private hospital's parking lot. She is an amnesiac with no memory prior to her discovery by hospital personnel. Detective Inspector Peter Diamond of the Bath homicide squad is unwilling to become involved. He has other, more important cases to solve; A woman has plunged to her death from the roof of a local landmark while half the young people of Bath partied below, and an elderly farmer has shot himself. Are these apparent suicides really so, or are there sinister forces at work? And then he finds a connection to the amnesiac woman named, temporarily, Rose. Buy: amazon.com | bn.com | indiebound.org eBook: amazon.com | bn.com | sony.com |
Wobble to Death | ⇒ | A Sergeant Cribb Investigation (Vol. 1) In 1879 "race walking" competitions, known as "wobbles" were all the rage. The death of a contender, followed by a second murder, introduces us to Sergeant Cribb. This Victorian police detective investigates sports-related deaths in a series of eight books. Buy: amazon.com | bn.com | indiebound.org eBook: amazon.com | bn.com | sony.com |
Lovesy, Peter A Case of Spirits Mackesy, Serena Hold my Hand | ⇒ | When Bridget gets a job caretaking a manor house in the country, she it will mean a fresh start for herself and her daughter, with new names and hope for the future. But Rospetroc House has its own dark secrets. Buy: amazon.com | bn.com | indiebound.org eBook: amazon.com | bn.com | sony.com |
Maltman, Thomas The Night Birds | ⇒ | The summer of 1876 feels like the end of the world to fourteen-year-old Asa Senger. Locusts plague the prairie farms; his family is about to lose everything. The Dakota Indians have been banished from Minnesota, yet an aged Indian appears. Asa's father, the sheriff, jails him, counting on a bounty payment, but Asa is somehow compelled to free the old man, and must bear this guilt. The James-Younger gang, preparing to rob Northfield, stops at their farmhouse. What has propelled them into his life? In this time of fear, another mysterious visitor appears, an aunt who has been confined to an asylum for years. Asa's mother wants nothing to do with her; his father welcomes her. And Asa learns that his identity is bound up in a lost history, The Great Sioux Uprising, which everyone else wants to forget. Prefigured by the twin ravens Hunin and Munin Buy: amazon.com | bn.com | indiebound.org eBook: amazon.com | bn.com | sony.com |
McCunn, Ruthanne Lum God of Luck | ⇒ | Ah Lung and his beloved wife, Bo See, are separated by a cruel fate when, like thousands of other Chinese men in the nineteenth century, he is kidnapped, enslaved and shipped to the deadly guano mines off the coast of Peru. Using their wits and praying to the God of Luck, they never lose hope of someday being reunited. Buy: amazon.com | bn.com | indiebound.org eBook: amazon.com | bn.com | sony.com |
McIntosh, Pat The Rough Collier | ⇒ | A Gil Cunningham Murder Mystery Gil Cunningham, a young notary, has escaped a life in the Church to become the Archbishop's Questioner only to be accused of causing a man's death by witchcraft. Gil and his young wife must solve the crime to save him. Buy: amazon.com | bn.com | indiebound.org eBook: amazon.com | bn.com | sony.com |
The Stolen Voice McKinney, Chris Queen of Tears | ⇒ | By age fourteen she was on her own, fleeing the communists, a waif living in the streets of Seoul, begging from American soldiers and stealing food. Then fate intervened; she was hit by a car driven by a prominent filmmaker. He mentored her into an acting career. By age nineteen, Park Soong Nan was the brightest star of Korean cinema. They called her "The Queen of Tears." Many years later her three grown children are settled in Hawai'i. She comes to visit. Soong's presence is catalytic, setting off smoldering jealousies, dormant longings, and the unending contest for primacy in her affection. Buy: amazon.com | bn.com | indiebound.org eBook: amazon.com | bn.com | sony.com |
The Tattoo Nabb, Magdalen The Innocent | ⇒ | A Marshal Guarnaccia Investigation The body of a woman has been found half-submerged in an ornamental fish pond high up in Florence's Boboli gardens. At first, the woman cannot be identified; only her skull remains. The marshal must use her clothing and a shoe to trace her. She turns out to be a young Japanese woman apprenticed to one of Florence's legendary custom shoemakers, crotchety old Peruzzi. Could he have killed his proté gé? Or did jealousy drive his other apprentice to murder? The neighbors have seen Akiko with a lover Buy: amazon.com | bn.com | indiebound.org eBook: amazon.com | bn.com | sony.com |
The Marshal Makes His Report | ⇒ | A Marshal Guarnaccia Investigation The suspicious-looking suicide of the husband of the Marchesa of one of Florence's oldest families has the Marshal once again refusing to accept the easy answer. He insists on looking for the truth, knowing it could well be the end of his career should he find it. Buy: amazon.com | bn.com | indiebound.org eBook: amazon.com | bn.com | sony.com |
The Marshal's Own Case | ⇒ | A Marshal Guarnaccia Investigation The marshal must leave his snug world, the carabinieri station at the Pitti Palace, and look for a criminal in the shadowy world of prostitutes, their pimps, and their tricks. No one believes he can navigate in this milieu, much less identify a killer, but once again he confounds them. Buy: amazon.com | bn.com | indiebound.org eBook: amazon.com | bn.com | sony.com |
Vita Nuova Neville, Stuart The Ghosts of Belfast Newman, Gary Ruffian on the Stair | ⇒ | On his grandfather's death, writer Seb Rolvenden inherits papers which reveal that his grandfather was involved in the disappearance of a painter and his masterpiece. Seeing a book in this, Seb pursues a trail of clues in the papers. Buy: amazon.com | bn.com | indiebound.org eBook: amazon.com | bn.com | sony.com |
Pattison, Elliot Prayer of the Dragon | ⇒ | An Inspector Shan Investigation Summoned to a remote village from the hidden lamasery where he lives, Shan, formerly an investigator in Beijing, must save a comatose man from execution for two murders in which the victims' arms have been removed. Upon arrival, he discovers that the suspect is not Tibetan but Navajo. The man has come with his niece to seek ancestral ties between their people and the ancient Bon. The recent murders are only part of a chain of deaths. Together with his friends, the monks Gendun and Lokesh, Shan solves the riddle of Dragon Mountain, the place "where world begins." Buy: amazon.com | bn.com | indiebound.org eBook: amazon.com | bn.com | sony.com |
The Lord of Death Pawel, Rebecca Death of a Nationalist | ⇒ | A Sergeant Tejada Investigation set in Spain (Vol. 1) Madrid 1939. Carlos Tejada Alonso y Lean is a Sergeant in the Guardia Civil, a rank rare for a man not yet thirty, but Tejada is an unusual recruit. The bitter civil war between the Nationalists and the Republicans has interrupted his legal studies in Salamanca. Second son of a conservative Southern family of landowners, he is an enthusiast for the Catholic Franquista cause, a dedicated, and now triumphant, Nationalist. This war has drawn international attention. In a dress rehearsal for World War II, fascists support the Nationalists, while communists have come to the aid of the Republicans. Atrocities have devastated both sides. It is at this moment, when the Republicans have surrendered, and the Guardia Civil has begun to impose order in the ruins of Madrid, that Tejada finds the body of his best friend, a hero of the siege of Toledo, shot to death on a street named Amor de Dios. Naturally, a Red is suspected. And it is easy for Tejada to assume that the woman caught kneeling over the body is the killer. But when his doubts are aroused, he cannot help seeking justice. Buy: amazon.com | bn.com | indiebound.org eBook: amazon.com | bn.com | sony.com |
Law of Return | ⇒ | A Carlos Tejada Investigation (Vol. 2) Lieutenant Carlos Tejada has been transferred to Salamanca, the city where he studied law before the Civil War. His new police duties include monitoring parolees-former professors who were fired for protesting a Franco decree. Elena Fernandez, having lost her job because of her political sympathies, has returned home to Salamanca from Madrid where she and Tejada had first been romantically involved. Her father, one of the parolees, was a distinguished professor of Classics. He has just received a letter from a Jewish friend, Professor Joseph Meyer, begging for help to cross into Spain from France before he is forcibly repatriated to Germany. Professor Fernandez cannot violate his parole by traveling to the border town of San Sebastian so Elena goes in his stead. Tejada, tracing a missing parolee, finds himself in San Sebastian, too. There Elena and Tejada's paths fatefully cross again. Buy: amazon.com | bn.com | indiebound.org eBook: amazon.com | bn.com | sony.com |
The Summer Snow | ⇒ | A Sergeant Tejada Investigation (Vol. 4) In the city of Granada, Spain, bastion of the conservative Catholic aristocracy, fear of the red menace remains strong in 1945. One rich, elderly lady summons the police to her home almost once a week, sure Communists are plotting against her. She changes her will almost as often. When she is found dead, the long-suffering police can't believe that she really may have been murdered. But as her latest will has vanished, the death must be investigated.nfluence is exerted to have Lieutenant Carlos Tejada Alonso y Léon transferred temporarily from Potes, in the northern mountains, to take charge because the old lady is his grandaunt. And one of the chief suspects is his father. The family expects Tejada to exonerate its members, but Tejada is a man who puts duty first. Buy: amazon.com | bn.com | indiebound.org eBook: amazon.com | bn.com | sony.com |
The Watcher in the Pine | ⇒ | A Sergeant Tejada Investigation (Vol. 3) Spain, 1940. Potes, a remote northern mountain village, is Carlos Tejada's first independent Guardia Civil command. He soon discovers that this "promotion" is a mixed blessing. The villagers are unwelcoming. He and his pregnant wife, Elena, have no place to live but the jail, and his own men seem strangely hostile. Is it just their suspicion of his wife's Republican sympathies? Or is there more going on in the beautiful but bleak area, recently devastated by the civil war? Tejada discovers that there may, indeed, be a new outbreak of that war with Potes as its epicenter. And he must find a way to reconcile his love for his wife with his duty. Buy: amazon.com | bn.com | indiebound.org eBook: amazon.com | bn.com | sony.com |
Pearce, Michael A Dead Man in Athens | ⇒ | A Sandor Seymour Investigation (Vol. 3) In 1913, a poisoned cat, an exiled Sultan, and a new vision of an ascendant Greece threaten the Balkans with utter chaos and war. Something has to be done, and fast. Who was behind the feline poisoning? British Special Branch officer Seymour is on the case. Buy: amazon.com | bn.com | indiebound.org eBook: amazon.com | bn.com | sony.com |
A Dead Man in Barcelona | ⇒ | A Sandor Seymour Investigation (Vol. 5) Barcelona, 1912. An Englishman is found dead in prison. He was a prominent businessman in Gibraltar. Gibraltar thinks the case cries out for investigation by someone independent of the Spanish authorities. So Scotland Yard dispatches Seymour of the Special Branch. Buy: amazon.com | bn.com | indiebound.org eBook: amazon.com | bn.com | sony.com |
A Dead Man in Istanbul | ⇒ | A Sandor Seymour Investigation (Vol. 2) A murder in Istanbul is entangled with international politics and deadly secrets when an embassy official is shot trying to swim the Dardanelles Straits. Special Branch officer Seymour's investigation ranges through Istanbul's graveyards, box shops, and crowded coffee houses, leading to the heart of Topkapi Palace itself. Buy: amazon.com | bn.com | indiebound.org eBook: amazon.com | bn.com | sony.com |
A Dead Man in Naples | ⇒ | A Sandor Seymour Investigation (Vol. 6) Lionel Scampion, British consul in Naples, has been stabbed to death while bicycling through the piazza of the Porta Carmine. According to his sister, he had no enemies. The Neapolitan police suggest he was murdered by a bicycle racing rival. In Naples, every mystery is attributed to the Camorra, a powerful criminal society; could its members be involved? Scampion enthusiastically backed the Italian invasion of Libya and befriended army officers of the newly formed Italian Bicycle Brigade, which was frowned on by his superiors. Now the Foreign Office in London has heard that international politics emanating from Rome might have been involved. Seymour of the Special Branch is sent to find out the motive for the murder and, incidentally, to identify the culprit. Buy: amazon.com | bn.com | indiebound.org eBook: amazon.com | bn.com | sony.com |
A Dead Man in Tangier | ⇒ | A Sandor Seymour Investigation (Vol. 4) Why is Seymour of Scotland Yard summoned to North Africa? Isn't the death of a Frenchman there a matter for the local police? But in the run-up to the First World War, everything is connected, and a single murder in politically fraught Morocco could destabilize Europe. Buy: amazon.com | bn.com | indiebound.org eBook: amazon.com | bn.com | sony.com |
A Dead Man in Trieste | ⇒ | A Sandor Seymour Investigation (Vol. 1) The churning politics of Trieste in 1906 provide the perfect backdrop for murder in the first in a series set in British embassies and consulates in the early 1900s featuring Special Branch officer Seymour. When the British consul goes missing, who's responsible; the secret police, revolutionaries, or a mysterious lover? Buy: amazon.com | bn.com | indiebound.org eBook: amazon.com | bn.com | sony.com |
Petit, Caroline Deep Night | ⇒ | Leah Kolbe escapes to Macao as the Japanese occupy Hong Kong. Her fiancé is interned in a prisoner of war camp. She becomes a spy for the British and takes a Japanese lover. When she returns with provisions to her beloved Hong Kong on the first boat, she finds the surviving English, including her fiancé , totally altered. He cannot bear to stay in Hong Kong; she chooses to remain and rebuild. Buy: amazon.com | bn.com | indiebound.org eBook: amazon.com | bn.com | sony.com |
Phillips, Delores The Darkest Child | ⇒ | Rozelle Quinn is so fair-skinned that she can pass for white. Yet everyone in her small Georgia town knows. Rozelle's ten children (by ten different daddies) are mostly light, too. They sleep on the floor in her drafty, rickety three-room shack and live in fear of her moods and temper. But they are all vital to her. They occupy the only world she rules and controls. They multiply her power in an otherwise cruel and uncaring universe. Rozelle favors her light-skinned kids, but insists that they all love and obey her unquestioningly. Tangy Mae, thirteen, is her brightest but darkest-complected child. Tangy wants desperately to continue with her education. Shockingly, the highest court in the land has just ruled that Negroes may go to school with whites. Her mother, however, has other plans. Rozelle wants her daughter to work, cleaning houses for whites, like she does, and accompany her to the "Farmhouse," where Rozelle earns extra money bedding men. Tangy Mae, she's decided, is of age. Buy: amazon.com | bn.com | indiebound.org eBook: amazon.com | bn.com | sony.com |
Proulx, Joanne Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet | ⇒ | When seventeen-year-old Luke Hunter foretells the death of his friend with freakish accuracy, his life gets complicated. Everyone in Stokum, Michigan, his rank little pinprick of a hometown, knows about the premonition and wants to know more. But Luke holds everyone Buy: amazon.com | bn.com | indiebound.org eBook: amazon.com | bn.com | sony.com |
Qiu, Xiaolong A Loyal Character Dancer | ⇒ | An Inspector Chen Cao Investigation Set in China (Vol. 2) Inspector Chen's mentor in the Shanghai Police Bureau has assigned him to escort U.S. Marshal Catherine Rohn. Her mission is to bring Wen, the wife of a witness in an important criminal trial, to the United States. Inspector Rohn is already en route when Chen learns that Wen has unaccountably vanished from her village in Fujian. Or is this just what he is supposed to believe? Chen resents his role; he would rather investigate the triad killing in Shanghai's beauteous Bund Park. But his boss insists that saving face with Inspector Rohn has priority. So Chen Cao, the ambitious son of a father who imbued him with Confucian precepts, must tread warily as he tries once again to be a good cop, a good man, and also a loyal Party member. Buy: amazon.com | bn.com | indiebound.org eBook: amazon.com | bn.com | sony.com |
Death of a Red Heroine | ⇒ | An Inspector Chen Cao Investigation set in China (Vol. 1) Contemporary Shanghai comes vividly to life in this new mystery series. Inspector Chen of the Shanghai Police must find the murderer of a National Model Worker, and then risk his own life and career to see that justice is done. Buy: amazon.com | bn.com | indiebound.org eBook: amazon.com | bn.com | sony.com |
When Red is Black | ⇒ | An Inspector Chen Cao Investigation set in China (Vol. 3) Inspector Chen Cao of the Shanghai Police Bureau is taking a vacation, in part because he is annoyed at his boss, Party Secretary Li, but also because he has been made an offer he can't refuse by Gu, a triad-connected businessman. For what seems to be a fortune-with no apparent strings attached- he is to translate a business proposal for the New World, a complex of shops and restaurants to be built in Central Shanghai, evoking nostalgia for the "glitter and glamour" of the 1930s. It is up to Detective Yu, Chen's partner, to take charge of a new case. Yin, a novelist, has been murdered in her room. At first it seems that only a neighbor could have committed the crime, but when one confesses, Yu cannot believe that he is really the killer. As Yu looks further into Yin's life, ample motives begin to surface, even on the part of Internal Security. But it is only when Inspector Chen steps back into the investigation that the culprit is apprehended. And then Chen discovers how Gu has played him and how he, in turn, can play the new capitalist system. Buy: amazon.com | bn.com | indiebound.org eBook: amazon.com | bn.com | sony.com |
Raichev, R.T. Assassins at Ospreys The Death of Corinne The Hunt for Sonya Dufrette The Little Victim Rees, Matt Beynon A Grave in Gaza | ⇒ | An Omar Yussef Mystery (Vol. 2) As he tries to save the lives of two men, Omar Yussef is confronted with the corruption and violence of Gaza's warring government factions and the criminal gangs with which they are connected. Buy: amazon.com | bn.com | indiebound.org eBook: amazon.com | bn.com | sony.com |
Collaborator of Bethlehem | ⇒ | An Omar Yussef Mystery (Vol. 1) For decades, Omar Yussef has been a teacher of history to the children of Bethlehem. When a favorite former pupil, George Saba, a member of the Palestinian Christian minority, is arrested for collaborating with the Israelis in the killing of a Palestinian guerrilla, Omar is sure he has been framed. If George is not cleared, he faces imminent execution. Then the wife of the dead man, also one of Omar Yussef's former pupils, is murdered, possibly raped. When he begins to suspect the head of the Bethlehem al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades is the true collaborator, Omar and his family are threatened. But as no one else is willing to stand up to the violent Martyrs Brigades men, who hold the real power in the town, it is up to him to investigate. Buy: amazon.com | bn.com | indiebound.org eBook: amazon.com | bn.com | sony.com |
The Samaritan's Secret | ⇒ | An Omar Yussef Mystery (Vol. 3) A member of the tiny but ancient Samaritan community who controlled hundreds of millions of dollars of government money has been murdered. Visiting Nablus, Omar Yussef must find the missing money before all aid to the Palestinians is cut off. Buy: amazon.com | bn.com | indiebound.org eBook: amazon.com | bn.com | sony.com |
Richards, Susan Chosen by a Horse: A Memoire | ⇒ | When she agrees to take on the care of one of the abused horses just rescued by the local SPCA, a new chapter opens in Susan Richards's difficult life. She lost her mother at the age of five and was raised by uncaring relatives; married unhappily and divorced; and suffered from alcoholism. While trying to capture another horse assigned to her, Lay Me Down, a skeletal mare, walks into Susan-s horse trailer of her own volition. Susan already owns one mare and two geldings -- the diva-like Georgia, boyish Tempo and hopelessly romantic Hotshot -- but it is with Lay Me Down that she forges a special, healing relationship that alters her life. Poignant and evocative, this is a book for anyone who has ever loved a horse, and for everyone who has ever lost a loved one. Buy: amazon.com | bn.com | indiebound.org eBook: amazon.com | bn.com | sony.com |
Chosen Forever: a Memoir Roberts, David No More Dying | ⇒ | A Lord Edward Corinth and Verity Browne Murder Mystery February, 1939. Edward and Verity are invited to Clivenden in Buckinghamshire, renowned as the headquarters of those prepared to go to any lengths to avert war. Murder stalks the formal gardens as private and public passions come to a climax. Buy: amazon.com | bn.com | indiebound.org eBook: amazon.com | bn.com | sony.com |
Sweet Poison Sato, Kiyo Kiyo's Story: A Japanese Family's Quest for the American Dream | ⇒ | When her father left Japan, his mother told him never to return; there was no future there for him. Shinji Sato arrived in California determined to plant his roots in the Land of Opportunity even though he could not become a citizen. He and his wife started a farm and worked in the fields together with their nine children. At the outbreak of World War II, when Kiyo, the eldest, was eighteen, the Satos were ordered to Poston Internment Camp. Though they had lived the US for two decades and their children were citizens, they were suddenly uprooted and imprisoned by the government. Nearly a year later, Kiyo was released with special permission to attend college, but after graduation she was rejected by many nursing schools due to her ethnicity. She ultimately became a captain in the Army Nursing Corps. Eventually, her siblings, too, all entered professions. And as soon as the law changed, her parents finally became American citizens. Buy: amazon.com | bn.com | indiebound.org eBook: amazon.com | bn.com | sony.com |
Shapiro, Anna Living on Air | ⇒ | In 1966 Long Island, fourteen-year-old Maude Pugh is not the typical Levittown girl. Artistic and intellectual, she's always felt like an outsider in her town. Even worse, her father, an abstract artist, has painted the inside of their house black to better showcase his paintings. Maude feels like she's living in an abstract painting, with no space for human figures. When she secures a scholarship to the prestigious Bay Farm School, she hopes that there she'll find the place where she feels truly at home. She soon befriends Weesie Herrick, a girl who lives on a nearby estate. Maude longs to inhabit Weesie's world, while Weesie envies the Pughs' bohemian lifestyle. Meanwhile, Maude is falling in love with Bay Farm. But just as she comes to feel fully at home there, family tensions and secrets threaten her foothold on happiness. Buy: amazon.com | bn.com | indiebound.org eBook: amazon.com | bn.com | sony.com |
Shen, Aisling JuanJuan A Tiger's Heart: The Story of a Modern Chinese Woman | ⇒ | A Tiger's Heart chronicles her rise from poverty in the rice fields of rural China to a successful career in business in the early days of the country's economic boom, illustrating the massive economic and social changes that have taken place in China over the past several decades. Juanjuan's story is emblematic of a new generation of Chinese people who are leaving the rice paddies and leaving government jobs in order to enter the free market and determine the course of their own lives. Buy: amazon.com | bn.com | indiebound.org eBook: amazon.com | bn.com | sony.com |
Stein, Garth How Evan Broke His Head and Other Secrets | ⇒ | Evan had a hit single, but that was ten years ago. Thirty-one now, he's drifting, playing in a local band and teaching middle-aged men to coax music from an electric guitar. Beset at a young age with a life-threatening form of epilepsy, he's kept his condition a secret. But his deepest secret is that he got his high-school sweetheart pregnant. Then her conservative parents whisked her out of Seattle and out of Evan's life. Now, fourteen years later, he experiences unplanned parenthood when he undertakes to raise the resentful teenage son he's never known. Buy: amazon.com | bn.com | indiebound.org eBook: amazon.com | bn.com | sony.com |
Teo, Hsu-Ming Behind the Moon Townsend, Sue Adrian Mole and the Weapons of Mass Destruction | ⇒ | Adrian Mole, now age thirty-four and three quarters, needs proof that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction so he can get a refund from a travel agency of the deposit he paid on a trip to Cyprus. Naturally, he writes to Tony Blair for some evidence. He's engaged to Marigold, but obsessed with her voluptuous sister. And he is so deeply in debt to banks and credit card companies that it would take more than twice his monthly salary to ever repay them. He needs a guest speaker for his creative writing group's dinner in Leicestershire and wonders if the prime minister's wife is available. In short, Adrian is back in true form, unable-like so many people we know, but of course, not us-to admit that the world does not revolve around him. But recognizing the universal core of Adrian's dilemmas is what makes them so agonizingly funny. Buy: amazon.com | bn.com | indiebound.org eBook: amazon.com | bn.com | sony.com |
Trinchieri, Camilla The Price of Silence | ⇒ | Having taken a young Chinese woman under her wing, wife and mother Emma Perotti finds herself on trial for the young woman's murder. Almost five years earlier, An-ling Huang walked into Emma's ESL classroom and into her family's life. Emma was drawn to the vulnerability she perceived in An-ling. An-ling, for her part, seemed to long for a surrogate mother and eagerly attached herself to Emma. Emma's husband, Tom, resented An-ling's intrusion and his wife's affection for her. Their son, Josh, developed his own relationship with her. Dredging up painful memories and buried grief, An-ling's presence threatened to tear the family apart. Then An-ling was found dead, suffocated. As Emma's trial progresses, An-ling is revealed not to be who she claimed and we learn that the family members all have their own dark secrets. Buy: amazon.com | bn.com | indiebound.org eBook: amazon.com | bn.com | sony.com |
Tursten, Helen Detective Inspector Huss | ⇒ | A Huss Investigation set in Sweden (Vol. 1) Inspector Irene Huss, stationed in Göteborg, is called through the rain-drenched wintry streets to the scene of an apparent suicide. The dead man landed on the sidewalk in front of his luxurious duplex apartment. He was a wealthy financier connected, through an old-boys' network, with the first families of Sweden. But the "Society Suicide" turns out to have been a carefully plotted murder. As more murders ensue, she tangles with street gang members, skinheads, immigrants and neo-Nazis-a cross-section of Sweden's disaffected-in order to catch the killer. Buy: amazon.com | bn.com | indiebound.org eBook: amazon.com | bn.com | sony.com |
The Glass Devil | ⇒ | A Detective Inspector Huss Investigation (Vol. 3) The principal of a high school telephones his friend, Inspector Andersson of the Göteborg Crime Police; one of his teachers failed to show up for work. To Inspector Irene Huss's surprise, on the basis of this vague complaint her boss drives out with her to a remote cottage in snowbound southern Sweden to investigate. There they find a body, its head blasted by a rifle. Teacher Jacob Schyttelius has been murdered. When they go to break the news to his elderly parents, Pastor Sten Schyttelius and his wife, they find the couple dead in their beds, each shot between the eyes. An upside down pentagram has been drawn in blood on their computer screens. The only surviving member of the family is a daughter, now residing in London, but she is too distressed to be interviewed. Is the killer a member of a satanic cult? Is it the parish treasurer, rumored to have been embezzling church funds? Or one of the assistant pastors, tired of waiting for a promotion? Perhaps the attractive blonde who sings in church and practices witchcraft? Irene Huss has a hunch that the answer lies in England, and she travels there twice to discover the reason for this triple homicide. Buy: amazon.com | bn.com | indiebound.org eBook: amazon.com | bn.com | sony.com |
The Torso | ⇒ | A Detective Inspector Huss Investigation (Vol. 2) Part of a human torso washes up on a beach near Göteborg, Sweden. It is so mutilated that gender is only established by DNA testing. A similar crime, now several years old, remains unsolved in Denmark. Detective Inspector Irene Huss is dispatched to Copenhagen to liaise with police. Then a third corpse is discovered. This time it's identified. It is a girl Detective Huss knew; she had been asked by the girl's mother to locate her missing daughter. A fourth victim, the son of a woman heading the Copenhagen crime squad, is also known to Huss. She fears the killer is tracking her, killing people with whom she is connected. There is even a chilling suggestion that he or she is one of her colleagues. Buy: amazon.com | bn.com | indiebound.org eBook: amazon.com | bn.com | sony.com |
Vida, Nina Texicans Wells, Shirley A Darker Side | ⇒ | A Jill Kennedy and DCI Max Trentham Investigation (Vol. 2) Forensic psychologist Jill Kennedy has given up police work for a quiet life in the Lancashire village of Kelton Bridge, but when Martin Hayden, a seventeen-year-old schoolboy, is murdered, DCI Max Trentham, Jill's ex-colleague, wants her back at work. As they hunt Martin's killer, they discover that nothing is as it seems. Buy: amazon.com | bn.com | indiebound.org eBook: amazon.com | bn.com | sony.com |
Where Petals Fall Winspear, Jacqueline Birds of a Feather: A Maisie Dobbs Novel | ⇒ | Maisie Dobbs is back and this time she has been hired to find a wealthy grocery magnate's daughter who has fled from home. A simple case becomes complicated when Maisie learns of the recent violent deaths of three of the heiress's old friends. Is there a connection between her mysterious disappearance and the murders? As Maisie investigates further, she discovers that the answers lie in the unforgettable agony of The Great War. Buy: amazon.com | bn.com | indiebound.org eBook: amazon.com | bn.com | sony.com |
Maisie Dobbs | ⇒ | Maisie entered domestic service in 1910 at the age of thirteen, to work as a maid at the Belgravia mansion of Lady Rowan Compton. When her remarkable intelligence and innate love of learning are discovered by her employer, Maisie becomes the pupil of Maurice Blanche, a learned friend of the Comptons who is often retained by Europe's elite, and the police, to conduct discreet investigations. Eventually, Maisie enters Girton College at Cambridge University, but the escalation of World War I intervenes to change her plans. She serves as a nurse at the front and falls in love with a handsome young doctor, only to lose him. In 1929, following an apprenticeship assisting Blanche iin his work, Maissie hangs out her shingle; M. DOBBS, TRADE AND PERSONAL INVESTIGATIONS. She soon becomes enmeshed in a mystery suurrounding The Retreat, a reclusive community of veterans wounded in body and spirit. At first, Maisie only suspects foul play, but she must act quickly when Lady Rowan's son decides to sign away his fortune and take refuge at The Retreat. A coincidence? Maisie has learned that coincidences can lead to the truth, and hurriedly investigates The Retreat. She uncovers a disturbing mystery at its core which in an astonishing dénouement, gives Maisie the courage to confront the ghost that has haunted her for over ten years. Buy: amazon.com | bn.com | indiebound.org eBook: amazon.com | bn.com | sony.com |
Zeng, Jennifer Witnessing History | ⇒ | Zheng (Jennifer) Zeng was a graduate in science from Beijing University. She was a wife, a mother, and a Communist Party member. But because she followed a spiritual practice called Falun Gong, her life in China was shattered. Adhering to the practice's simple tenets of Truth, Compassion, and Forbearance, she was amazed that the Party would institute a crack down, arrest her and demand that she recant. After twice being held at a detention center and refusing, she was sentenced without trial to reeducation through forced labor. Her "enlightenment" Buy: amazon.com | bn.com | indiebound.org eBook: amazon.com | bn.com | sony.com |
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