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A short, readable, original and compelling account of how and why societies evolved as they did over the last 35,000 years. And of the crucial, and changing, role of art and architecture in this evolution.

Third in the Guido Guerrieri series. The defender of lost causes in Bari,Italy falls in love with his client's wife.

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Two men decide to change their lives. An innocent bet becomes a risky proposition.

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A second volume of letters of probably the most significant Scottish public intellectual and artist of the late 20th century--a companion volume to Midway (2014).These letters centre on the initial development of the garden at Stonypath, near Edinburgh, later to become the world renowned 'Little Sparta'.

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An original readable, understandable (and brief) discussion of the need for arts, one of the great philosophical mysteries, and one which offers a persuasive and satisfying answer.

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Second in a series in Argentina. Written by a former guerillero. Superintendent Lascano is drawn into a war between the Buenos Aires Chief of Police, and the Apostles, drug-dealing cops who want to control the city. When the Chief of Police is murdered Lascano becomes the Apostles' next target. His only way out of the country is to retrieve the loo

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A savagely funny, sexy crime adventure that is a biting satire on life in Mexico City.

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It all begins with two murders, an old man and a prostitute, both strangled and left with their earlobes slit. Inspector Hunkeler of the Basel police investigates and is soon faced with the consequences of certain recent events in Swiss history that everyone wants to keep buried.

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A dead pilot and a kilo of cocaine are found by our hero in the wreck of a small plane. Pressured by a Bolivian drug gang our man agrees to give up the body of the pilot to his family for serious money. Only he doesn't have the body so someone else's will have to do. Or so he thinks.

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Anna, who died of a gastric influenza, left behind handkerchiefs with traces of arsenic. Then, James Farny was found murdered, with a single pistol shot to the heart and no hole in his clothing. Did the fact that the poorhouse inmates had to survive on watery cabbage soup while the Warden drank vintage wines have anything to do with the murders

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Fast paced thriller set in the world of bubble-bursting high finance and low-life politics.From Lagos to London, by way of the Faroe Islands and St. Petersburg.

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Tie-in edition to the film 'The Family' with Robert De Niro, Michelle Pfeiffer and Tommy Lee Jones, to be released in November 2013

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Ingenious, always witty and sometimes gruesome short stories by one of Spain's best-known crime writers. Barcelona plays an important role in most of the stories, often in neighbourhoods where violence goes hand in glove with intrigue and subterfuge.

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Two foreign girls are murdered after a high society party in northern Argentina. Vernica Rosenthal, an audacious, headstrong Buenos Aires journalist with a proclivity for sexual adventure, could never have imagined that her holiday would end with her two friends dead. Not trusting the local police, she decides to investigate for herself

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Veronica Rosenthal is a successful young journalist with a healthy appetite for men and bourbon. She decides to investigate the suicide of a train driver in Buenos Aires involved in the supposed accidental death of young men hit by his locomotive at speed.

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Agent Evangelos investigates a murder near a wall to stop immigrants from crossing the Turkish border into Greece. The government would like to suppress the embarrassing investigation. But Evangelos wants the truth: about the head found by the border, about human trafficking, about the financial shenanigans around the wall's construction.

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A page turning forensic biography of a secret Victorian life and love affair.Robert Bateman is an undeservedly forgotten Pre-Raphaelite artist, friend of Burne Jones, Walter Crane and others, and connected via his wife to the highest reaches of Victorian political and social life.

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Albert Savelkoul, the Public Prosecutor of Antwerp, has everything: power, money, magnificent horses, a family and a high-maintenance mistress. Despite problems with the mistress and his prostate he's convinced that he is invincible, his power untouchable. And so it goes until everyone seems to turn on him.

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A satirical romp and suspenseful mystery set in the world of alternative therapy and meditation centres of Barcelona.

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A murder puts an end to the wedding celebration of Studer's daughter. A man is found with a sharpened bicycle spoke embedded in his back, and a suspect is quickly arrested - a bit too quickly, thinks Studer. This cult novel of the 1930's is the fifth and last of the Sergeant Studer mystery series.

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A young lawyer defends the indefensible: a lying, power obsessed adulterer and ruthless industrialist accused of wrongfully dismissing his mistress.

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Winner of the Prix Goncourt, France's mosdt prestigious literary award.The destruction of a young teacher's life at the hands of his tyrannical father.

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Gutsy, raunchy investigative reporter Veronica Rosenthal is back. Dario is convinced that his wife has survived a deadly car crash and abducted their child. A lorry searched for drugs near Buenos Aires is actually transporting human body parts. All part of a shadowy web involving political, medical, and religious authorities.