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- Location(s): Argentina, Buenos Aires
- Genre(s): Political, Fiction, Thriller
- Era(s): 1970s
A key figure in the politics and literature of Argentina, Rodolfo Walsh wrote his iconic Letter to my Friends in December 1976, recounting the murder of his daughter Victoria by the military dictatorship. Just a few months later, he...
- Location(s): Berlin, Buenos Aires
- Genre(s): Crime
- Era(s): 1930s, 1950s
The action switches largely between Berlin in 1932 – and Bernie’s last abandoned case as a police officer when the mutilated body of a spastic teenage girl is discovered – and Buenos Aires in 1950 where he is invited...
- Location(s): Buenos Aires
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): Second half 20th Century
The novel that became the Oscar-winning film. Benjamín Chaparro is a retired detective still obsessed by the brutal, decades-old rape and murder of a young married woman in her own bedroom. While attempting to write a book about the...
- Location(s): Buenos Aires, Havana, Seville
- Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
- Era(s): Modern
Carmen has been feeling the need to break free for Too Darn Long. So when her equally frustrated friend Beth suggests the ultimate escape – dancing their way through a series of scorchingly-hot countries – she can’t resist! There’s...
- Location(s): Buenos Aires
- Genre(s): Crime
- Era(s): Modern
When Pepe Carvalho’s uncle asks him to find his son, in Buenos Aires, Pepe is reluctant. All he knows about Argentina is the tango and Maradona, and he has no desire to find out more. But family is family...
- Location(s): Buenos Aires
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
American student Bruno is on his research trip to Buenos Aires and he becomes steadily obsessed with tracking down an elusive and enigmatic tango singer, whose voice has never been recorded, yet apparently transcends the beauty of the tango...
- Location(s): Buenos Aires
- Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
- Era(s): Contemporary
A NEW CRIME INVESTIGATION BY FEARLESS BUENOS AIRES JOURNALIST VERONICA ROSENTHAL Haunted by nightmares of her past, Verónica is soon involved in a new investigation. Darío, the sole survivor of a car accident that supposedly killed all of his...
- Location(s): Argentina, Buenos Aires, Scotland
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
Kapka Kassabova first set foot in a tango studio ten years ago and, from that moment, she was hooked. With the beat of tango driving her on and the music filling her head, she’s danced across the world, from...
- Location(s): Buenos Aires, Egypt
- Genre(s): Fantasy, Fiction
- Era(s): 19th Century
Bolivian-Argentinian Inez Olivera belongs to the glittering upper society of nineteenth century Buenos Aires, and like the rest of the world, the town is steeped in old world magic that’s been largely left behind or forgotten. Inez has everything...
- Location(s): Buenos Aires
- Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
- Era(s): 2001
Set in a shanty-town on the outskirts of Buenos Aires, this fine first novel focuses on Gringo and Chueco, both 20, who live in an eternal present of hustling for food, sex, alcohol and drugs. Neither future nor past...
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