The Man Who Plundered the City
- Location(s): Oslo
- Genre(s): Mystery
- Era(s): early 1900s
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...
The Man Who Sold Air in the Holy Land
- Location(s): Israel, Israel, Palestine, Lebanon
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
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...
- Location(s): Estonia
- Genre(s): Science Fiction/Future, Suspense
- Era(s): Medieval
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...
- Location(s): Tel Aviv
- Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
- Era(s): Contemporary
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...
The Man Who Watched Trains Go By
- Location(s): Netherlands, Paris
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Early 20th century
- Location(s): Stockholm
- Genre(s): Crime
- Era(s): Contemporary
As a heatwave blazes in Stockholm, a series of women are found brutally murdered and the Criminal Investigation Department is getting nowhere. The murders bear all the hallmarks of Edward Hinde, the serial killer jailed by psychological profiler Sebastian...
The Man Who Wore His Wife’s Sarong
- Location(s): Singapore
- Genre(s): Short Stories
- Era(s): Modern
A toilet cleaner is forced to borrow from a loan shark to save her HIV infected son; a private-eye who channels Monkey God discovers the dark secret between her adoptive father and sister; a mother finds out her son...
- Location(s): Brussels
- Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller
- Era(s): 1970s
Beware: this is a revised edition of an earlier work by the author. Can evil be unmasked before it’s too late . . . ? A REPORTER WITH NO FEAR 1979. Jaded Edinburgh journalist Neil Bannerman is sent to...
- Location(s): Vientiane
- Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
- Era(s): 1976
Julia Rendel asks Maier to investigate the twenty-five year old murder of her father, an East German cultural attaché who was killed near a fabled CIA airbase in central Laos in 1976. But before the detective can set off,...
- Location(s): Laos
- Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
- Era(s): 1970s/2000s
Julia Rendel asks Detective Maier to investigate the twenty-five year old murder of her father, an East German cultural attaché who was killed near a fabled CIA airbase in central Laos in 1976. But before the detective can set...
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