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Esmahan Aykol - Hotel Bosphorus

Reviews for Hotel Bosphorus by Esmahan Aykol

'Aykol makes her English-language debut with her first mystery featuring Kati Hirschel, an offbeat amateur sleuth with a distinctive narrative voice. Kati, a German who's lived for many years in... Read More
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Ernesto Mallo - Sweet Money

Reviews for Sweet Money by Ernesto Mallo

'On a rainy day in a city where the mayor can't even get Olympics tickets for his family, it is a tonic to be transported to Eighties Argentina, where everybody... Read More
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Claudia Pineiro - All Yours

Reviews for All Yours by Claudia Pineiro

'If you read only one crime book in translation this year, make it this one, a book that grabs you from the start and whips along at pace - and... Read More
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Ben Pastor - Lumen

Reviews for Lumen by Ben Pastor

'And don't miss: LUMEN by Ben Pastor. When an abbess thought to have supernatural powers is murdered in Nazi-occupied Cracow, the Wehrmacht captain's investigation is complicated by his compatriots' cruelty... Read More
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Gianrico Carofiglio - Involuntary Witness

Reviews for Involuntary Witness by Gianrico Carofiglio

'Italian lawyer Guido Guerrieri has not always been proud of the cases he has won. However, following a painful separation Guido undergoes a personal crisis that has a transformative effect... Read More
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Tonino Benacquista - Badfellas

Reviews for Badfellas by Tonino Benacquista

'What is the one occupation you should not pursue when you are an ex-Mafia boss living in hiding under the FBI's Witness Protection Program? Autobiographer, perhaps? That is just what... Read More
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Gianrico Carofiglio - A Walk in the Dark

Reviews for A Walk in the Dark by Gianrico Carofiglio

'WHEN Martina accuses her ex-boyfriend of assault and battery, no witnesses can be persuaded to testify on her behalf.After all, he is the son of a powerful local judge, and... Read More
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Ernesto Mallo - Needle in a Haystack

Reviews for Needle in a Haystack by Ernesto Mallo

'Against the bleak backdrop of a country under military rule, Inspector Lascano lives a lonely existence in 1970s Buenos Aires. One day he is summoned to a crime scene investigation... Read More
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Jacques Chessex - A Jew Must Die

Reviews for A Jew Must Die by Jacques Chessex

'Like The Vampire Of Ropraz, Jacques Chessex's previous novel (see my review here) published in English translation by Bitter Lemon Press, A Jew Must Die is based on an historical... Read More
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Zygmunt Miloszewski - Entanglement

Reviews for Entanglement by Zygmunt Miloszewski

'Then a crime novel for some light relief. ENTANGLEMENT has everything I want from a thriller. It opens with a murder and quickly develops into a fast-moving and tightly plotted... Read More
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Petra Hammesfahr - The Lie

Reviews for The Lie by Petra Hammesfahr

  'Suzanne Lasko struggles to survive living in a dump in which she cannot pay the rent on time ever since her marriage ended and her teller job terminated for... Read More
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Claudia Pineiro - Thursday Night Widows

Reviews for Thursday Night Widows by Claudia Pineiro

'In an exclusive gated community 30 miles outside of Buenos Aires, Maria Virginia works as a real-estate agent after her husband loses his job. Readers gradually become acquainted with the... Read More
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