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A Novel
by Roberto Ampuero
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by Joseph Kanon
Published Mar 2023
Read ReviewsFrom "master of the genre" (the Washington Post) Joseph Kanon, an espionage thriller set at the height of the Cold War, when a captured American who has spied for the KGB is swapped by the British and returns to East Berlin needing to know who arranged his release and what they want from him.
by Daniel Alarcon
Published Sep 2014
Read ReviewsThe breakout book from a prizewinning young writer: a breathtaking, suspenseful story of one man's obsessive search to find the truth of another man's downfall.
by Juan Gabriel Vásquez
Published Jun 2014
Read ReviewsVásquez is "one of the most original new voices of Latin American literature," according to Nobel Prize winner Mario Vargas Llosa, and The Sound of Things Falling is his most personal, most contemporary novel to date, a masterpiece that takes his writing - and will take his literary star - even higher
by Julian Barnes
Published Mar 2012
Read ReviewsA novel so compelling that it begs to be read in a single sitting, with stunning psychological and emotional depth and sophistication, The Sense of an Ending is a brilliant new chapter in Julian Barnes's oeuvre.
by John Sayles
Published Feb 2012
Read ReviewsIt's 1897. Gold has been discovered in the Yukon. New York is under the sway of Hearst and Pulitzer. And in a few months, an American battleship will explode in a Cuban harbor, plunging the U.S. into war... This is history rediscovered through the lives of the people who made it happen.
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.
Oscar Wilde and a Death of No Importance
by Gyles Brandreth
Published Jan 2008
Read ReviewsLovers of historical mystery will relish this chilling Victorian tale based on real events and cloaked in authenticity. Best of all, it casts British literature's most fascinating and controversial figure as the lead sleuth. (UK title: Oscar Wilde and the Candlelight Murders). Published in the USA simultaneously in hardcover and paperback.
by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Published Jan 2005
Read ReviewsThe international literary sensation, about a boy's quest through the secrets and shadows of postwar Barcelona for a mysterious author whose book has proved as dangerous to own as it is impossible to forget.
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