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by Zoë Ferraris
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by Leonardo Padura
Published May 2009
Read ReviewsMario Conde, retired from the police force, now makes a living trading antique books. In a book, Conde discovers a newspaper article about a beautiful bolero singer of the 1950s, who disappeared mysteriously. Condes intuition sets him off on an investigation into the murder.
by Diane Wei Liang
Published Apr 2009
Read ReviewsThe first novel in an exhilarating new detective series, The Eye of Jade is both a thrilling mystery and fascinating journey through modern China.
by Richard Price
Published Mar 2009
Read ReviewsRichard Price tears the shiny veneer off the new New York to show us the hidden cracks, the underground networks of control and violence beneath the glamour.
by Aravind Adiga
Published Oct 2008
Read ReviewsBalram Halwai is a complicated man. Servant. Philosopher. Entrepreneur. Murderer. Balram tells us the terrible and transfixing story of how he came to be a success in life - having nothing but his own wits to help him along.
by Vikram Chandra
Published Jan 2008
Read ReviewsVikram Chandra's novel draws the reader deep into the life of Inspector Sartaj Singhand into the criminal underworld of Ganesh Gaitonde, the most wanted gangster in India. It is is a story of friendship and betrayal, of terrible violence, of an astonishing modern city and its dark side.
by Qiu Xiaolong
Published Oct 2007
Read ReviewsThe fourth book in the Inspector Chen series, this unusual and compelling crime novel blends character, poetry, insights into Chinese society and culture, and food with a compelling plot.
by David Hewson
Published Aug 2006
Read ReviewsThe snow is falling in Rome - in the heart of the city, under the Pantheon's great dome, a woman's body lies on the marble floor, carefully positioned with a gruesome carving on her back....this horrific murder hurtles Rome's police force into a collision with U.S. agentsand a secret that has festered for fifteen years, now ...
by Luiz Alfredo Garcia-Roza
Published Jan 2006
Read ReviewsA ruthless group of corrupt cops is playing a lethal game of cat and mouse in the latest installment in Garcia-Roza's Brazilian crime series.
by Rattawut Lapcharoensap
Published Jan 2005
Read ReviewsA glorious fiction debut written with exceptional acuity by an award-winning twenty-five-year-old Thai-American writer. Read a complete short story at BookBrowse.
by Barry Eisler
Published Jul 2003
Read ReviewsA stylish thriller debut introducing John Rain--a Japanese-American freelance assassin and warrior for the 21st century.
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