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Rodolfo Walsh’s Last Case

Rodolfo Walsh’s Last Case
  • Author(s): Elsa Drucaroff, Slava Faybysh (translator)
  • Location(s): Argentina, Buenos Aires
  • Genre(s): Political, Fiction, Thriller
  • Era(s): 1970s

A key figure in the politics and literature of Argentina, Rodolfo Walsh wrote his iconic Letter to my Friends in December 1976, recounting the murder of his daughter Victoria by the military dictatorship. Just a few months later, he...

What The River Knows

What The River Knows
  • Author(s): Isabel Ibañez
  • Location(s): Buenos Aires, Egypt
  • Genre(s): Fantasy, Fiction
  • Era(s): 19th Century

Bolivian-Argentinian Inez Olivera belongs to the glittering upper society of nineteenth century Buenos Aires, and like the rest of the world, the town is steeped in old world magic that’s been largely left behind or forgotten. Inez has everything...

Intoxicating Tango: My Years in Buenos Aires

Intoxicating Tango: My Years in Buenos Aires
  • Author(s): Cherie Magnus
  • Location(s): Buenos Aires
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): 2003-2014

A story so sensual, so unconventional, and so shocking…it could only be true. After a series of life-changing and terrible losses, Cherie moves to steamy Buenos Aires, where the romantic attention of the local men reignites her youth and...

There Are No Happy Loves

There Are No Happy Loves
  • Author(s): Sergio Olguin, Miranda France (translator)
  • Location(s): Buenos Aires
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

A NEW CRIME INVESTIGATION BY FEARLESS BUENOS AIRES JOURNALIST VERONICA ROSENTHAL Haunted by nightmares of her past, Verónica is soon involved in a new investigation. Darío, the sole survivor of a car accident that supposedly killed all of his...

Buenos Aires Triad

Buenos Aires Triad
  • Author(s): F E Beyer
  • Location(s): Buenos Aires
  • Genre(s): Noir
  • Era(s): 2020

A fast-paced noir featuring the Venezuelan and Chinese gangs of Argentina’s capital… When an armed robber shoots a British tourist in Buenos Aires, Lucas’s life changed forever. A humble watch-seller moonlighting for the gang behind the robbery, Lucas picked...

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...

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...

Elena Knows

Elena Knows
  • Author(s): Claudia Piñeiro, Frances Riddle (Translator)
  • Location(s): Buenos Aires
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

After Rita is found dead in a church she used to attend, the official investigation into the incident is quickly closed. Her sickly mother is the only person still determined to find the culprit. Chronicling a difficult journey across...

The Fragility of Bodies

The Fragility of Bodies
  • Author(s): Sergio Olguin
  • Location(s): Buenos Aires
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

(Veronica Rosenthal 1) When she hears about the suicide of a local train driver who has jumped off the roof of a block of flats, leaving a suicide note confessing to four mortal ‘accidents’ on the train tracks, she...

All Yours

All Yours
  • Author(s): Claudia Pinero
  • Location(s): Salvador de Bahia, Buenos Aires
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Inés is convinced that every wife is bound to be betrayed one day, so she is not surprised to find a note in her husband Ernesto’s briefcase with a heart smeared in lipstick crossed by the words “All Yours”....

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