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Features Italian crime writers who present nine short-stories with settings ranging from Milan to Palermo by way of Rome and even Guadeloupe. This work includes tales of ordinary criminals: a drug-addled cosmetic surgeon, inept blackmailers and various other low-lifes lusting after easy money.

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DB Cooper hijacked a flight in 1971, claimed his ransom, parachuted out of the plane over the dense woods of the Pacific Northwest with $200,000 strapped to his body. This work presents a true story and the starting point of an odyssey, to Mexico and back, on a collision course with the FBI.

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Christian Kestner has all but forgotten his stay in Tbilisi seven years before. He begins to worry when he receives a letter from David Ninochvili announcing his visit to Germany. Why is David coming To seek revenge from Christian, guilty of flirting at the time with David's wife

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Tito Ihaka, the maverick Maori cop, dances through a minefield of police politics, old grudges, blackmail, and gangs as he hunts a faceless killer in Auckland.

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Kati is the owner of Istanbul's only mystery bookshop. When a woman is found dead in her Istanbul apartment, Kati suspects murder and begins her maverick investigation. The deceased was an attractive young woman, in the middle of a divorce, and a politically active ecologist. Too many people stood to benefit from her death.

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Philip Dixon is down on his luck. A hair-raising escape from a lucrative but botched bank robbery lands him gushing blood and on the verge of collapse in a quaint college town in New Hampshire. How can he find a place to hide out in this innocent setting

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Over 100 essays by the art critic of the Daily Telegraph about significant art exhibitions throughout the UK, and in Paris, Amsterdam, New York and Washington, ranging from early prehistoric art of the Ice Age to the performance art of today,

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Two Swiss women have been killed by gas leaks, murders thinly disguised as accidents. In Morocco, Studer stumbles onto a murky oil deal involving rapacious politicians and their henchmen. With the help of the common sense of his stay-at-home wife Studer solves the multiple riddles on offer. But, assigning guilt remains an elusive affair.

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Antoine's life is good. During the day, he hangs pictures for a fashionable art gallery in Paris. Evenings, he dedicates to the silky moves of billiards, his true passion. But when Antoine is attacked by an art thief in a gallery his world begins to fall apart. His maverick investigation triggers two murders as he uncovers a cesspool of art fraud.

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A double murder at the Moulin Rouge. Crack dealers, property scams and shattered dreams in Paris.

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Twenty-four year old Lissette Delgado was beaten, raped, and then strangled with a towel. Marijuana is found in her apartment and her wardrobe is suspiciously beyond the means of a high school teacher. This novel presents a eulogy of Cuba, its life of music, sex and the great friendships of those who elected to stay and fight for survival.

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A young transvestite is found strangled in a Havana park. Mario Conde's first investigation into a young man's violent murder exposes the equally disturbing death of his beloved Cuba.

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A woman's body scrawled with religious texts is found in a Helsinki apartment. Jewish homicide inspector Ariel Kafka investigates.

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Tonio agrees to write a love letter for Dario, a low-rent Paris gigolo. When Dario is murdered, Tonio finds his friend has left him a small vineyard east of Naples, which is the front for an elaborate scam that attracts the unwanted attentions of both the Mafia and the Vatican.

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A film director is found murdered in a hotel room in Istanbul. Electrocuted by a hair dryer thrown in his bath water. When the police accuse the lead actress she turns to her only friend in town, the feisty and sexy owner of Istanbul's only mystery book shop.

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A murder mystery set in a run-down family hotel in Rio de Janeiro. Rio is the perfect backdrop with its dictatorships, drug wars, child gangs and violent policing tactics. A witty, touching account of life at the edge of Brazilian society, dressed up as a thrilling murder investigation.

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Set in an insane asylum from which a child murderer has escaped, this novel explores the blurred line that separates madness from reason.

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A city choked by a rubbish strike, a beautiful student harassed by a telephone stalker, an arson case at the city orphanage. Then the mutilated bodies begin to appear. Inspector Amaldi had enough problems.

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The revealing letters of probably the most significant Scottish public intellectual and artist of the late 20th century.

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Superintendent Lascano is a detective working under the shadow of military rule in Buenos Aires in the late 1970s. He is sent to investigate the discovery of two bodies but when he arrives at the roadside crime scene he finds three.

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Leila is young, beautiful and a hustler who robs hapless men picked up in trendy nightclubs of Bologna. It's easy money, until she ends up with a document at the centre of a carefully crafted plot of political blackmail. She is now pursued by two secret service operatives, a goon hired by the blackmailer and the police, in this crime adventure.

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A series of murders of young women, all modelled on violent deaths in famous Hollywood noir films, baffles the Antwerp police.

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Lluis Font discovers a portrait of his wife in an exhibition that leads him to conclude he is being cuckolded by the artist. Concerned only about the potential political fallout, he hires twins Eduard and Pep, private detectives with a supposed knack for helping the wealthy with their 'dirty laundry'.

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A new and 50% enlarged, entertaining, but fundamentally serious selection of the most rewarding places to visit in Italy. Towns, villages, museums and individual monuments are described. A guide book in its own right, but above all a thoughtful, opinionated and supremely well-informed guide, supplement and corrective to conventional guides.