- Location(s): Spain
- Genre(s): Photography
- Era(s): Modern
An outstanding photographic report that draws attention to the often dramatic fate of Spain’s abandoned heritage and its frequently forgotten beauty. The locations featured all have their own stories to tell, in a variety of voices, but with one...
- Location(s): USSR
- Genre(s): Photography, Nonfiction
- Era(s): Various
Beautiful, haunting photographs of abandoned places in the USSR. Once thriving buildings now ravaged by nature and time are the subject of this fascinating, coffee-table book. Relics of the Soviet conquest of space, Moscow Pioneer camps, remnants of propaganda...
- Location(s): Egypt, East Africa
- Genre(s): Thriller
Sequel to the critically acclaimed The Abrupt Physics of Dying, The Evolution of Fear and Reconciliation for the Dead. Claymore Straker returns in another gripping, page-turning, socially conscious thriller, with more at stake than ever… It is 1997, eight...
- Location(s): Accra
- Genre(s): Noir, Short Stories
Akashic Books continues its award-winning series of original noir anthologies, launched in 2004 with Brooklyn Noir. Each book comprises all new stories, each one set in a distinct neighborhood or location within the respective city. Brand-new stories by: Nana...
- Location(s): Venice
- Genre(s): Crime
- Era(s): 2000s
Commissario Guido Brunetti of the Venice Questura is shocked to hear that his friend Brett Lynch, lover of La Scala diva Flavia Petrelli, has been savagely beaten. Then a man’s body is found and a terrible confrontation awaits Brett...
- Location(s): Cuba (Republic of), Florida
- Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
- Era(s): Recent
ACROSS FLORIDA STRAITS follows a bastard son of a young Cuban dancer growing up in an all-inclusive Soviet resort on the south of Cuba. His lothario larceny leads to entanglement with trafficking art antiquities and a desperate need to...
- Location(s): Addis Ababa
- Genre(s): Crime, Noir
- Era(s): Various
Akashic Books continues its award-winning series of original noir anthologies, launched in 2004 with Brooklyn Noir. Each book comprises all new stories, each one set in a distinct neighborhood or location within the respective city. Addis Ababa (simply “Addis”...
- Location(s): Central America
- Genre(s): Travelogue
- Era(s): 2005 - 2007
Embarking on a homeschooling field trip to Central America is stressful enough, but add in perilous bridge crossings, trips to the hospital, and a lack of women’s underwear, and you have the makings of an Adventure by Chicken Bus....
- Location(s): Amsterdam
- Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
- Era(s): Modern
A body is found hanging on a hook above the canals of Amsterdam’s old town, a mobile phone forced into the victim’s mouth. In a remote coastal village, a doll lies in the ashes of a burnt-down house. But...
- Location(s): Belize, Caribbean, Honduras, Roatán
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): Modern
Some secrets destroy you. Rob and Anna have only just met Owen and Kim. Now they’ve boarded their handsome old boat to travel to a far off island in the Caribbean. With only the four of them on board,...