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Seat 7a

Seat 7a
  • Author(s): Sebastian Fitzek
  • Location(s): Berlin, Buenos Aires
  • Genre(s): Comedy, Fiction, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Psychiatrist Mats Krüger knows that his irrational fear of flying is just that – irrational. He knows that flying is nineteen times safer than driving. He also knows that if something does happen on a plane, the worst place...

Show No Mercy

Show No Mercy
  • Author(s): Cindy Gerard
  • Location(s): Buenos Aires
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Leaving the CIA to take a job with Black Ops, Inc., a private security and intelligence firm specializing in jobs the military and CIA will not touch, Gabriel Jones becomes involved with American journalist Jenna McMillan when she accidentally...

Tender is the Flesh

Tender is the Flesh
  • Author(s): Augustina Bazterrica
  • Location(s): Argentina
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 2000s

‘This book will pull you in, take hold, and not let go until you reach the final page perhaps for longer than that. Without a doubt, my favourite read of this year’ Christina Dalcher, author of VOX ‘What a...

The Accomplice

The Accomplice
  • Author(s): Joseph Kanon
  • Location(s): Buenos Aires, Germany
  • Genre(s): Thriller, Historical
  • Era(s): 1960s

SEVENTEEN YEARS AFTER THE FALL OF THE THIRD REICH  Max Weill has never forgotten the face of Otto Schramm, a doctor who worked with Mengele on appalling experiments and who sent Max’s family to the gas chambers. A NAZI...

The Adventures of China Iron

The Adventures of China Iron
  • Author(s): Gabriela Cabezón Cámara
  • Location(s): Argentina
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Later 19th Century

1872. The pampas of Argentina. China is a young woman eking out an existence in a remote gaucho encampment. After her no-good husband is conscripted into the army, China bolts for freedom, setting off on a wagon journey through...

The Ambivalent Corpse

The Ambivalent Corpse
  • Author(s): Jerold Last
  • Location(s): Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay, Uruguay
  • Genre(s): Mystery, Suspense, Thriller
  • Era(s): The present

In the first novel in the Roger and Suzanne mystery series, private detective Roger Bowman and his girlfriend scientist Suzanne Foster find themselves traveling through Uruguay, Brazil, Paraguay and Argentina to solve a baffling and grotesque murder case. Parts...

The Case of Lisandra P.

The Case of Lisandra P.
  • Author(s): Helene Gremillon
  • Location(s): Argentina
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Later 20th Century

Buenos Aires, 1987. When a beautiful young woman named Lisandra is found dead at the foot of a six-story building, her husband, a psychoanalyst, is immediately arrested for her murder. Convinced of Vittorio’s innocence, one of his patients, Eva...

The Dangers of Smoking in Bed

The Dangers of Smoking in Bed
  • Author(s): Mariana Enríquez, Megan McDowell (translator)
  • Location(s): Buenos Aires
  • Genre(s): Short Stories
  • Era(s): Contemporary

LONGLISTED FOR THE INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE 2021 Welcome to Buenos Aires, a city thrumming with murderous intentions and morbid desires, where missing children come back from the dead and unearthed bones carry terrible curses. These brilliant, unsettling tales of...

The Disappeared

The Disappeared
  • Author(s): Gloria Whelan
  • Location(s): Argentina
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1970s

Silvia’s brother, Eduardo, has Disappeared, and she won’t stop fighting until she finds him. Norberto, the general’s son, is just foolish enough to help. He’ll fall in love with her, and then he’ll ask his father to set Eduardo...

The Dutch Wife

The Dutch Wife
  • Author(s): Ellen Keith
  • Location(s): Germany, Argentina, Netherlands
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1940s and 1970s

Amsterdam, May 1943. As the tulips bloom and the Nazis tighten their grip across the city, the last signs of Dutch resistance are being swept away. Marijke de Graaf and her husband are arrested and deported to different concentration...

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