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A jewel by Seicho Matsumoto (1909-1992), the master of Japanese mystery writing. A beautifully written crime novel set in a coastal city in Northern Japan that takes on the taboo of Japanese prostitution during the American occupation.

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Inspector Gowda is back in another nail-biting thriller set in Bangalore India, the city now a hub for child trafficking.

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A Bangalore police procedural featuring Inspector Borei Gowda, a splendidly grumpy, hard-drinking, deeply flawed character whose chaotic home life includes an absent wife, an estranged son and an enigmatic mistress. It all begins when elderly Professor Mudgood is murdered in his kitchen at 2 am on a November night.

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A passionate love story set in Moscow and centred on a devastating Russian plot to sabotage the undersea communication cables linking the US to the UK.

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October 1944, in the Republic of Sal, a German puppet state in the north of Italy and the last fascist stronghold in the country. Martin Bora must investigate the theft of a painting by Titian. While Boras inquiry proceeds among many difficulties, discovering three dead bodies throws an even more sinister light on the scene.

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The morning after a gruelling psychotherapy session in a Warsaw monastery, Henryk Telak is found dead, a roasting spit stuck in one eye. The case lands on the desk of State Prosecutor Teodor Szacki. World-weary, suffering from bureaucratic exhaustion and marital ennui, Szacki feels that life has passed him by, but this case changes everything.

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Lieutenant Mario Conde is asked to investigate the disappearance of Rafael Morin, a high-level business manager in the Cuban nomenklatura. He remembers Morin from their student days that Morin always got what he wanted, including Tamara the girl he was after. While pursuing the case, Conde confronts his lost love for Tamara and his dreams.

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Havana, 2003, 14 since Mario Conde retired from the police force and much has changed in Cuba. He makes a living trading in antique books bought from families selling off their libraries in order to survive. In the house of Alcides de Montes de Oca, a rich Cuban who fled after the fall of Batista, Conde discovers an extraordinary book collection.

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Eccentric Jewish policeman Ariel Kafka investigates the murder of four Arabs in the long darkness of Helsinki nights.

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In an atmosphere of intense paranoia Harry Willemer, a taxi driver and his passenger, an ex-KGB agent and the wife of a Russian Mafioso, flee the hit-men sent to recover a large sum of money they have stolen and take their chances on the open road.

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The death of a salesman in a Swiss forest appears to be an open and shut case, with an obvious suspect and a confession. But nothing is what it seems, and Sergeant Studer's investigation soon shatters the glassy facade of Switzerland's tidy villages, manicured forests and seemingly placid citizens.

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An entertaining selection of the most rewarding places to visit in one of the most historically significant countries in the world. A guide book in its own right, but above all a thoughtful, opinionated, and supremely well informed supplement and corrective to conventional guides.

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The third in the Martin Bora series. Rome, 1944, the last days of Nazi occupation. Wehrmacht officer Martin von Bora investigates three murders in a city drenched in the violence of partisan attacks followed by mass SS reprisals.

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A woman's body is found outside a synagogue in a small town in Poland, her throat slashed in what looks like a ritual murder.

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On April 16, 1942, a few days before Hitler's birthday, a handful of Swiss Nazis in Payerne lure Arthur Bloch, a Jewish cattle merchant, into a stable and kill him. Europe is in flames, but this is Switzerland, and Payerne, a rural market town of butchers and bankers, is more concerned with unemployment than the fate of nations across the border.

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Literary tour de force set in London and Venice in 1819, written by an internationally renowned Cambridge scholar. The novel tells the story of a successful Gothic novelist battling with psychological dependency and the complexity of obsession.

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A literary novel of 1819 London and Venice: a successful Gothic novelist battles with psychological dependency and suffers the complexity of obsession.

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A satirical romp and suspenseful crime novel set in the literary world of Barcelona.

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Lyrical novel of defiance and tragedy among gypsies on the fringes of a French city.

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Maria has money problems, two children from a failed marriage and a depressive boy friend. When she gets pregnant she decides not to keep the baby and then the letters start to arrive. Threatening letters, from pro-life activists she thinks at first, but then she begins to suspect others, eventually her own boyfriend.

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An American family moves into a villa in Normandy. Fred Blake, the father, tells everyone he is there to write a history of the Allied landings. His wife Maggie gets involved in a local charity; their teenage children enrol in the lycee. At first glance a family like any other. But Fred's real name is Giovanni Manzoni - an ex-Mafia boss.

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Soon after Iraq has fallen to the US army, Baghdad police inspector Khafaji is pressed into service to help rebuild a decimated Iraqi police service. He investigates the disappearance of young women translators working for the US forces. The trail leads Khafaji through battles, bars and brothels, then back to the Green Zone.

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To buy a flat Kati Hirshel has learned the corrupt ways of Istanbul. It all goes well until a man is found murdered in the flat and she is the prime suspect.

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The second in the Ariel Kafka series. Investigating two murders, the only Jewish homicide cop in Helsinki tangles with the Secret Service and Mossad.