Bitter Lemon Press
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The End of the Sahara
$17.95 Read moreOn an early autumn morning in 1988, on the outskirts of an unnamed Algerian city, a shepherd stumbles upon the lifeless body of Zaza Zaghouani, a stunning nightclub singer who left her hometown seekin
- Author: Khatibi, Said
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: March 24 2026
- ISBN10: 1916725228
- Language: English
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Involuntary Witness
$14.95 Add to cartA nine-year-old boy is found murdered at the bottom of a well near a popular beach resort in southern Italy. In what looks like a hopeless case for Guido Guerrieri, counsel for the defence, a Senegale
- Series: Guido Guerrieri
- Author: Carofiglio, Gianrico
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: April 02 2013
- ISBN10: 1904738524
- Language: English
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Red Water
$17.95 Add to cartA woman disappears after a beach party, and the search for her reveals Croatia’s complex history well beyond the fall of Communism.
Called The Mediterranean Flower for its beauty, Split has a complex h
- Author: Pavičic, Jurica
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 402
- Publish Date: June 24 2025
- ISBN10: 1916725155
- Language: English
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The Best Enemy
$16.95 Add to cartThis is the fourth in Olguin’s Buenos Aires thriller series, starring the gutsy, earthy, yet vulnerable investigative reporter Veronica Rosenthal. Two journalists have been executed in cold blood. Is … [more below]
- Series: Veronica Rosenthal Mysteries #4
- Author: Olguin, Sergio
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: March 25 2025
- ISBN10: 1916725090
- Language: English
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Runaway Horses
$16.95 Add to cartA murder mystery, a hilarious portrait of a fading marriage, and a lyrical evocation of Siena and its Palio, all rolled up into one brilliant novel.
Siena, one of Italy’s most beautiful cities, visited… [more below]
- Author: Fruttero, Carlo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 180
- Publish Date: February 25 2025
- ISBN10: 1916725031
- Language: English
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Fish Swimming in Dappled Sunlight
$15.95 Add to cart“A Quicksilver Mystery That Flickers, Flashes, Twists And Turns.” New York Times, 21 July 2022. From the author of The Aosawa Murders, one of the NYT Notable Books of 2020.
Set in Tokyo over the cours
- Author: Onda, Riku
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 286
- Publish Date: July 26 2022
- ISBN10: 191339459X
- Language: English
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Kalmann
$16.95 Read more
Kalmann Odinsson is the self-appointe
This atmospheric crime thriller laced with humor–described by some as an Icelandic Fargo—is set in the village of Raufarhî’Žn in
the far north of the country.
- Author: Schmidt, Joachim B.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: June 21 2022
- ISBN10: 1913394689
- Language: English
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A Quiet Place
$14.95 Add to cart“A master crime writer . . . Seicho Matsumoto’s thrillers dissect Japanese society.”–The New York Times Book Review
“A stellar psychological thriller with a surprising and immensely satisfying resolu- Author: Matsumoto, Seicho
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: August 16 2016
- ISBN10: 1908524634
- Language: English
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The Translator
$17.95 Add to cartThe Sunday Times: Best Thrillers of 2023. Financial Times: Best Summer Thrillers of 2023. “A classic thriller of the new Cold War.” Antony Beevor, author of Stalingrad. A highly topical espionage nove… [more below]
- Author: Crawley, Harriet
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: April 23 2024
- ISBN10: 1913394832
- Language: English
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The Lover of No Fixed Abode
$16.95 Add to cart“Doyens of the Italian detective story, Fruttero and Lucentini, offer a perfect blend of the comedy of manners and the macabre…” —Tim Parks, author of Hotel Milano
A passionate affair set in Venic… [more below]
- Author: Lucentini, Franco
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: February 20 2024
- ISBN10: 1913394905
- Language: English
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Point Zero
$16.95 Add to cart“A master crime writer…Seichō Matsumoto’s thrillers dissect Japanese society.”–The New York Times. A beautifully written mystery novel that takes on the taboo of Japanese prostitution caterin… [more below]
- Author: Matsumoto, Seicho
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: March 26 2024
- ISBN10: 191339493X
- Language: English
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The Hand That Feeds You
$15.95 Read moreThe sequel to last year’s much-lauded Crocodile Tears (“Reads like a marvellous mash-up of Anita Brookner and Quentin Tarantino.” The Times). The attempted robbery of the armored truck in the back str… [more below]
- Series: Ursula Lopez Mystery #2
- Author: Rosende, Mercedes
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: March 21 2023
- ISBN10: 1913394743
- Language: English
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The Basel Killings
$15.95 Read moreSTARRED REVIEW “Swiss author Schneider’s excellent first mystery and series launch…gripping, plausible debut bodes well for future entries.” Publishers Weekly——— It all begins with two murders… [more below]
- Series: The Inspector Hunkeler #1
- Author: Schneider, Hansjörg
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 268
- Publish Date: July 20 2021
- ISBN10: 1913394549
- Language: English
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Trouble
$15.95 Read moreThe third in the Hella Mauzer mystery series. Set in Finland, early summer 1953. Hella Mauzer the first-ever woman Inspector in the Helsinki Homicide Unit has been fired and is now a reluctant private… [more below]
- Series: Katja Ivar Mystery #3
- Author: Ivar, Katja
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: February 21 2023
- ISBN10: 1913394778
- Language: English
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The Aosawa Murders
$14.95 Read moreSelected by NYT as one of MOST NOTABLE BOOKS of 2020.
On a stormy summer day the Aosawas, owners of a prominent local hospital, host a large birthday party. The occasion turns into tragedy when 17 peo
- Author: Onda, Riku
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 346
- Publish Date: February 18 2020
- ISBN10: 1912242249
- Language: English
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Thursday Night Widows
$14.95 Read more“An agile novel written in a language perfectly pitched for the subject matter, a ruthless dissection of a fast decaying society”–Jos? Saramago, Nobel Prize winner
The English translation of hit novel
- Author: Piñeiro, Claudia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 269
- Publish Date: January 01 2010
- ISBN10: 1904738419
- Language: English
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The Murder of Anton Livius
$15.95 Read moreInspector Hunkeler is summoned back to Basel from his New Year holiday to unravel a gruesome killing in a community garden on the city’s outskirts. An old man has been shot in the head and found in hi… [more below]
- Series: Inspector Hunkeler Investigates
- Author: Schneider, Hansjorg
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: July 25 2023
- ISBN10: 1913394875
- Language: English
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How to Betray Your Country
$15.95 Read morePW STARRED REVIEW: “Brilliant sequel to 2018’s Beside the Syrian Sea. James Wolff skillfully portrays an espionage agent on the verge of losing himself to his demons. This is spy fiction like no other… [more below]
- Author: Wolff, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: May 25 2021
- ISBN10: 1913394514
- Language: English
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Beside the Syrian Sea
$14.95 Add to cart“This important book…brought home to me the complex and shifting situation in the Middle East and the danger of looking for simple responses or explanations. I loved the character of Jonas – the qui
- Author: Wolff, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: May 15, 2018
- ISBN10: 1908524987
- Language: English
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The Man in the Corduroy Suit
$15.95 Read more“A memorable voice in the genre, Wolff’s prose, all sharp edges and abrupt surprises, keeping the reader in a state of edgy discomfort.”New York Times
The story of an internal investigation into the p… [more below]
- Series: Discipline Files #3
- Author: Wolff, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: June 20 2023
- ISBN10: 1913394840
- Language: English
