In the quartet of novels about life in Washington DC of which The Big Blowdown is chronologically the first, George Pelecanos intelligently breaks down the thin barriers between the noir thriller and the character-driven novel of embattled masculinity. In...

Haunted by their past, the Skelf women are hoping for a quieter life. But running both a funeral directors’ and a private investigation business means trouble is never far away, and when a car crashes into the open grave...

The New York Times bestselling author of ‘My Sunshine Away’ returns with another instant Southern classic: a gripping and heartfelt novel about a mysterious machine that upends a small Louisiana town, asking us all to wonder if who we...

From the Big Apple, to the Big Orange, to the Big Mango. It does have a kind of nutty logic to it. Bangkok is about as far as you can go without falling off the edge of the world,...

Galip searches both for clues and for his own identity following the disappearance of his wife. He assumes she has gone find her first husband, Celal, a well-known newspaper columnist. Celal, too, has disappeared and Galip immerses himself into...

In 1842, two sisters drunkenly debate their future, their family chocolate business has failed and so they decide to open a seance parlour. The locals are shocked but soon their shop is crammed with people wanting to contact the...

From the back cover: A brutal killing takes place on the Isle of Lewis, Scotland: a land of harsh beauty and inhabitants of deep-rooted faith. A MURDER: Detective Inspector Fin Macleod is sent from Edinburgh to investigate. For Lewis-born...

The troubled and anxious of Tokyo are desperate to find out. They all have their problems – and they all want to believe that a feline companion from a unique pet shop can help them find a solution. But...

This book brings to the author’s Dublin neighborhood with a variety of ghosts, ghouls and goblins. The stories are full of fascinating local history, atmosphere and architectural details that one can still see today.

Easter week in Seville, a time of passion and processions. The first book that features the detective, Javier Falcon. The case of a man, who is bound, gagged and dead in front of his television, with terrible self inflicted...