After a visit to Argentina, Spain’s most famous detective Pepe Carvalho is back in his beloved Barcelona and is swiftly embroiled in a murderous scandal amid the murky politics of 21st century Catalonia. When the son of a rich...

The eccentric Mr Hare – as he was known to Sophia, the first wife of Singapore founder Thomas Stamford Raffles – and his Asian harem are brought vividly to life in this work of historical fiction set in Southeast...

A Juge Lombard Mystery 1 A KILLER. A SAINT. A TOWN FULL OF WHISPERS.   When an English expat is brutally murdered, his charred corpse left on a Loire Valley hillside, the police turn to juge d’instruction Matthieu Lombard...

It’s the following Thursday. Elizabeth has received a letter from an old colleague, a man with whom she has a long history. He’s made a big mistake, and he needs her help. His story involves stolen diamonds, a violent...

Set against the harsh reality of an unforgiving landscape and culture, The Man Who Fell in Love with the Moon provides a vision of the Old West unlike anything seen before. The narrator, Shed, is one of the most...

It’s a different kind of Christmas for Tom Shepherd when he meets Ellie and embarks upon an affair. He is lead into the world of fiction where he learns to write and hopes to form a new career path....

When a series of audacious thefts take place in the city of Christiania (current-day Oslo), Detective Asbjørn Krag must deal with a master criminal who has his measure – or does he? From the dark brickyards on the city’s...

A divorced con-artist and his young daughter sell empty bottles of ‘holy’ air to credulous tourists. In a bombed-out Beirut radio station, a Lebanese Scheherazade enchants three young soldiers with her nightly tales. Ahead of a school ‘Show and...

Unfortunately people and tribes degenerate. They lose their teeth, forget their language, until finally they’re bending meekly on the fields and cutting straw with a scythe. Leemut, a young boy growing up in the forest, is content living with...

Mazal Bengtson doesn’t know what her husband was doing on the night of the storm. His search for a job is still hopeless – his moods even more unpredictable. But she had believed he would never leave her to...