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The Continental Affair

The Continental Affair
  • Author(s): Christine Mangan
  • Location(s): Belgrade, Granada, Istanbul (Constantinople), Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Early 1960s

Meet Henri and Louise. Two strangers, travelling alone, on the train from Belgrade to Istanbul. Except this isn’t the first time they have met. It’s the 1960s, and Louise is running. From her past in England, from the owners...

Domina

Domina
  • Author(s): L S Hilton
  • Location(s): Venice, Belgrade, Paris, St Moritz
  • Genre(s): Thriller, Erotica
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Judith Rashleigh has made it. Living in luxury amidst the splendours of Venice, she’s finally enjoying the life she killed for. But someone knows what Judith’s done. Judith can only save herself by finding a priceless painting – unfortunately,...

Hidden Camera

Hidden Camera
  • Author(s): Zoran Zivkovic
  • Location(s): Belgrade
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

From one of Serbia’s greatest contemporary writers, Hidden Camera opens with the narrator finding a mysterious, blank envelope stuck in his apartment door inviting him to a private showing of a movie. Or so he initially thinks. Upon arrival...

Monumenta

Monumenta
  • Author(s): Lara Haworth
  • Location(s): Belgrade
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Olga Pavic’s house has been requisitioned. The council will bulldoze it. Her home will become a monument to a massacre. But Olga cannot ascertain which massacre. Three different architects visit, each with a proposal to construct a different monument,...

The Balkan Route

The Balkan Route
  • Author(s): Cal Smyth
  • Location(s): Belgrade
  • Genre(s): Noir, Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

After a businessman is brutally murdered in Belgrade, Inspector Marko Despotović digs into the web of corruption that connects the police, politicians, drug dealers and spiritual healers as they battle over the lucrative Balkan heroin route. Can Marko navigate...

The Woman with a Bullet in Her Leg

The Woman with a Bullet in Her Leg
  • Author(s): Cal Smyth
  • Location(s): Austria, Belgrade
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): 90s - present day

In the aftermath of the Balkan wars, Belgrade is a dangerous place. In a city numbed by the horrors of war, soldiers turned gangsters rule the criminal underworld through fear and unrelenting violence. For those living between the cracks,...

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