Laos, 1979: Retired coroner Siri Paiboun and his wife, Madame Daeng, have never been able to turn away a misfit. As a result, they share their small Vientiane house with an assortment of homeless peop
Emily runs a successful bistro in Humboldt County, California, where she lives with her handsome boyfriend, Jeff, a volunteer firefighter. A lot of her best customers are in the cannabis business
Two police officers are about to head home after a long night shift when they receive one last call: a suspicious nude person has been spotted in the wee hours of the morning. En route to the call, th
“A first-rate piece of crime writing.”—The Washington Post Book World “A straightforward police story with a terrific plot, nuanced characters and solid procedu
Dr. Siri Paiboun, the spry seventy-three-year-old reluctant national coroner of Laos, is out of town when a booby-trapped corpse is delivered to the morgue in Vientiane. The lives of visiting doctors
Relentless South African private investigator Jade de Jong tracks a saboteur in a race to prevent a nuclear disaster in Jassy Mackenzie’s new, pulse-pounding thriller. Despite her checkered history
As an unnamed Tokyo taxi driver works a night shift, picking up fares that offer him glimpses into the lives of ordinary people, he can’t escape his own nihilistic thoughts. Almost without meaning to,
The magnum opus by Akutagawa Prize-winner Fuminori Nakamura, Cult X is a story that dives into the psychology of fringe religion, obsession, and social disaffection. When Toru Narazaki's girlfriend, R
Sebastia Alzamora i Martin was born in Mallorca in 1972 and graduated from the Universitat de les Illes Balears with a degree in Catalan philology. He first rose to prominence as a poet with a collect
Paris, July 1999: Private investigator Aimée Leduc is coming home from a long day's work in St. Germain, where she is investigating a computer security breach at a university, when she is accosted by
"This harrowing murder mystery, winner of the Philippine National Book Award, follows two Catholic priests on the hunt for a serial killer in the notorious Payatas dump city of northern Manila. In no
"After a trying case, Merry begrudgingly agrees to take a leave from work to meet her fussy future in-laws in Greenwich, but it isn't long before she is summoned back to Nantucket. The body of a young
Janwillem van de Wetering's fourteenth Amsterdam Cops novel finds Grijpstra, de Gier, and the commissaris blackmailed into investigating the mysterious hijacking of a supertanker's entire cargo. The a
At his father's request, Lieutenant Carlos Tejada Alonso y Leon, a member of the landed gentry who has chosen to join the Guardia Civil, investigates the death of his great-aunt Rosalia, a task that h
Aimee's childhood friend, Laure, is now a policewoman. When her partner sets up a meeting in Montmartre with an informer, she reluctantly accompanies him as backup. He is shot to death on an icy rooft
The only female MP assigned to a base in the DMZ is missing. Has she been abducted, killed, or, possibly gone AWOL? Eighth Army cops George Sueno and Ernie Bascom, sent to find her, discover a murder
NYPD Detective Jack Yu was raised in Chinatown. Some of his old friends are criminals now; some are dead. Recently transferred to his old neighborhood, where 99 percent of the cops are white, Jack is
Detective Inspector Irene Huss of the Goteborg crime force and her boss drive out to a remote cottage in snowbound southern Sweden as a favor to his cousin, a school principal. They have been asked t
