Best selling author from the Netherlands. Her three novels have sold over a million copies in the Netherlands alone. [more]
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Badfellas Tonino Benacquista
Imagine the Soprano family arriving in France under the FBI's Witness Protection Programme and settling down in a small town in Normandy. Violent, pacy and full of black humour.
UK Jan 2010
Rage Sergio Bizzio
A metaphor for the decline of Argentina and the resentment that spreads like a plague penetrating to the core of its people, "Rage" is also a tale of love and suspense...
UK Jun 2009 / US Nov 2009
A Walk in the Dark Gianrico Carofiglio
The portrayal of a slice of Italian society not normally encountered in crime fiction and an immensely appealing flawed hero...
UK Sep 2010 / US Apr 2011
Involuntary Witness Gianrico Carofiglio
A stunner. A courtroom drama of rare quality by an anti-mafia prosecutor from Italy. A Senegalese immigrant is accused of murdering a young boy on the beach.
UK Mar 2010
A Jew Must Die Jacques Chessex
A novel based on a true story. On April 16, 1942 a handful of Swiss Nazis lure a Jewish cattle merchant into a stable and kill him with an iron bar.
UK Feb 2010 / US May 2010
The Vampire of Ropraz Jacques Chessex
On a howling December day a lone walker discovers a tomb recently opened, the body of a young woman violated, left hand cut off, sex mutilated and heart cut out.
UK Oct 2008 / US Apr 2009
The Lie Petra Hammesfahr
Nadia and Susanne have just met. They look uncannily alike, but one is rich, with a husband and a lover, and the other poor and single. A harmless trick turns into a deadly web of lies.
UK Oct 2009 / US Apr 2010
Needle in a Haystack Ernesto Mallo
Three bodies found by the roadside near Buenos Aires. Two to be left well alone, murdered by the junta death squads. The other for Lascano,the honest cop.
UK Jun 2010 / US Sep 2010
Entanglement Zygmunt Miloszewski
The morning after a gruelling psychotherapy session in a Warsaw monastery, Henryk Telak is found dead, a roasting spit stuck in one eye.
UK May 2010 / US Jun 2010
Havana Fever Leonardo Padura
Probably Padura's best novel. This book is many things: a suspenseful crime novel, a cruel family saga and an ode to literature and his beloved, ravaged island.
UK Jan 2009 / US May 2009
