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by Louise Penny
Published Jun 2021
Read ReviewsThe 16th novel by #1 bestselling author Louise Penny finds Chief Inspector Armand Gamache of the Sûreté du Quebec investigating a sinister plot in the City of Light.
by Louise Penny
Published May 2017
Read ReviewsWinner of the 2016 BookBrowse Fiction Award
Bestselling author Louise Penny pulls back the layers to reveal a brilliant and emotionally powerful truth in her latest spellbinding novel.
by Jean-Luc Bannalec
Published May 2016
Read ReviewsDeath in Brittany transports readers to the French coast where you can practically smell the sea air and taste the perfectly cooked steak frites in an expertly crafted, page-turning mystery.
by Peter May
Published Aug 2014
Read ReviewsFrom acclaimed author and television dramatist Peter May comes the first book in the Lewis Trilogy - a riveting mystery series set on the Isle of Lewis in Scotland's Outer Hebrides, a formidable and forbidding world where tradition rules and people adhere to ancient ways of life.
by Jason Webster
Published Apr 2012
Read ReviewsAn accomplished debut mystery set in the high-stakes and decidedly murky world of bullfighting in Valencia, Spain
by Louise Penny
Published Aug 2011
Read ReviewsIt is Winter Carnival in Quebec City, bitterly cold and surpassingly beautiful. Chief Inspector Armand Gamache has come not to join the revels but to recover from an investigation gone hauntingly wrong. But violent death is inescapable, even in the apparent sanctuary of the Literary and Historical Society.
The Case of the Man Who Died Laughing
by Tarquin Hall
Published Jun 2011
Read ReviewsA prominent Indian scientist dies in a fit of giggles when a Hindu goddess appears from a mist and plunges a sword into his chest, and Vish Puri, Indias Most Private Investigator, master of disguise and lover of all things fried and spicy, must discover the truth: Was it a supernatural death, or murder?
by Peter May
Published Mar 2010
Read ReviewsA promise made to a dying man leads forensics ace Enzo Macleod to the study which the man's heir has preserved for nearly twenty years. Enzo rashly boasted he could solve the case - but that proves to be more difficult than he thought...
The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie
by Alan Bradley
Published Jan 2010
Read ReviewsAn enthralling mystery, a piercing depiction of class and society, The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie is a masterfully told tale of deceptionsand a rich literary delight.
by Claude Izner
Published Sep 2009
Read ReviewsMurder on the Eiffel Tower is a painstakingly researched but seemingly effortless evocation of 19th century Paris, and an exciting opening to a new series featuring second-hand bookseller and amateur detective Victor Legris.
by Kerry Greenwood
Published Mar 2006
Read ReviewsJoin Phryne Fisher, the feminist sleuth who always gets her man, on a tightly plotted maze of thrilling adventure set in 1920s Australia.
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 Donna Leon
Published Apr 2004
Read ReviewsA riveting, pitch-perfect murder mysterythe work of a truly masterful storyteller. Conjuring contemporary Venice in exquisite and alluring detail, this is widely hailed as the finest installment yet of the Commissario Guido Brunetti series.
by Mort Rosenblum
Published Nov 2001
Read ReviewsIn France, you are what you eat. Mort Rosenblum applies his superb nose for news and fine fare to the food-drenched culture of a country that takes its cuisine as seriously as its politics.
The No.1 Ladies Detective Agency
by Alexander McCall Smith
Published Feb 2001
Read ReviewsPrecious Ramotswe has only just set up shop as Botswana's No.1 (and only) lady detective when she is hired to track down a missing husband, uncover a con man, and follow a wayward daughter. However, the case that tugs at her heart, and lands her in danger, is a missing eleven-year-old boy, who may have been snatched by witchdoctors.
by Peter Mayle
Published Apr 2000
Read ReviewsA whole new feast of adventures, discoveries, hilarities, and culinary treats, liberally seasoned with a joyous mix of Gallic characters.
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