There were always ghosts, she thought, and they were even more poignant at this time of year: souls, wandering at night over the cobblestones, flitting through the dark paved... Read More

The former commander of the local military post has been murdered. The inexperienced new comandante has barely arrived when dynamite is reported missing, apparently stolen by... Read More

Imagine if Ed McBain’s 87th Precinct series was set in Australia and you’ll get a fair idea of Garry Disher’s series featuring Inspector Hal Challis. In "Blood Moon" (Soho... Read More

Colin Cotterills Dr. Siri Paiboun is back for his sixth adventure. The seventy-three-year-old is the only medical examiner in Laos in the mid-1970s, but hed rather be out... Read More

Dr. Reggie Lee of the famed National Gallery in London never dreamed that she would find herself physically threatened and others killed under suspicious circumstances due to... Read More

Ava Martel “knows what it means to be a woman scorned. What woman doesn’t? And since she already knows everything she is about to feel, she thinks perhaps she should simply... Read More

It is a cold and rainy November night in Göteberg, Sweden. One of the country’s wealthiest men, Richard von Knecht, has fallen-jumped or pushed-five stories to his death.... Read More

Behind the tropical mists of the author’s Singapore lie secrets, ghosts, and broke hearted women who guard the past close to their chests. This novel is a beautifully written... Read More

The India infusing this promising first novel is already a phantom, an incense shrine to a secondary source. Its naïve narrator, Leela, knows her homeland only through the... Read More

Even if truth is stranger than fiction, Townsend has been giving truth a run for its money in the person of Adrian Mole, her fictitious English diarist whose life and... Read More

Sarajevo under siege in the 1992-1996 war is not merely the setting for Fesperman’s novel about a murder investigator whose big case arrives during a conflagration, but a... Read More