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These letters to (and from) Finlays friend, the English poet and scholar, Stephen Bann, centre on the initial development of the garden at Stonypath, near Edinburgh, later to become the world renowned Little Sparta. They cover Finlays turn away from poetry towards sculpture and garden design, and the thinking behind, and consequences of, this development.

Pablo Borla's marriage is reduced to confrontations with his wife over their daughter's rebellious ways and his firm builds only repellent office blocks destroying the fabric of old Buenos Aires. It all changes with the arrival of a young woman who brings to light a murder committed decades ago by those in his office. A murder everyone assumed was forgotten.Claudia Pieiro, after working as a professional accountant, became a journalist, playwright and television scriptwriter and in 1992 won the prestigious Plyade journalism award. She has more recently turned to fiction; All Yours (finalist for the 2003 Planeta Prize) and Thursday Night Widows.

A taut psychological thriller about a visitor from war-torn Georgia who brings paranoia to a peaceful family.

Praise for Claudia Pieiro's Thursday Night Widows:"e;An agile novel, a ruthless dissection of a fast decaying society.Jos Saramago, winner of the Nobel Prize for LiteratureA gripping story. The dystopia portrayed is an indictment not solely of an assassin but of Argentinas class structure and the willful blindness of its petty bourgeoisie.The Times Literary Supplement A fine morality tale which explores the dark places societies enter when they place material comfort before social justice, and security before morality.Publishers WeeklyInes is convinced that every wife is bound to be betrayed one day, so she is not surprised to find a note in her husband Ernestos briefcase with a heart smeared in lipstick crossed by the words All Yours and signed, Your true love.She follows him to a park on a rainy winter evening and witnesses a violent quarrel he has with another woman. The woman collapses; Ernesto sinks her body in a nearby lake. When Ernesto becomes a suspect in the case she provides him with an alibi. After all, hatred can bring people together as urgently as love. But Ernesto cannot bring his sexual adventures to an end, so Ines concocts a plan for revenge from which there is no return.Claudia Pieiro, formerly a journalist and playwright, is the author of literary crime novels that are all bestsellers in Latin America and have been translated into six languages. All Yours follows on the success of Thursday Night Widows, published in 2010 in the United States.

In this new crime title from Padura, Cuba's most celebrated living author, Police InspectorMario Conde investigates a murder in the Barrio Chino, the rundown Chinatown of Havana.

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,

A toddler is missing. An unidentified man is fished out of the sea not far from Melbourne with an anchor strapped to his waist. Then a friend of Inspector Challis is murdered. A complex case for complicated policemen and women.

According to the police, the victim was stabbed in the heart before the head was separated from the body. As the investigation continues other hotel clients are decapitated, usually with the head found delicately balanced on the knees of the sitting victim. A witty, touching account of life at the edge of Brazilian society, dressed up as a murder mystery.

"e;Exceptional. If there has been a more honest, calm, and profoundly moving memoir written in the last few years, then I've missed it."e;Times Literary SupplementHow would you make sense of your life if you thought it might end tomorrow? In this captivating and best-selling memoir, Vesna Goldsworthy tells the story of herself, her family, and her early life in her lost country. There follows marriage, a move to England, and a successful media and academic career, then a cancer diagnosis and its unresolved consequences. A profoundly moving, comic, and original account by a stunning literary talent.

In Istanbul nothing happens without baksheesh. All fine until youre the suspected murderer of the man youve paid off.

Scorching novel from a star of Cuban fiction. The fourth of the Havana Quartet series.

Argentina, the dictators are on trial, but corruption and violence are still rampant. A crime novel by a former guerrillero.

';After reading Friedrich Glauser's dark tour de force In Matto's Realm, it's easy to see why the German equivalent of the Edgar Allan Poe Award is dubbed ';The Glauser.''The Washington PostPraise for the Sergeant Studer series:';Thumbprint is a fine example of the craft of detective writing in a period which fans will regard as the golden age of crime fiction.'The Sunday Telegraph';In Matto's Realm is a gem that contains echoes of Drrenmatt, Fritz Lang's film M and Thomas Mann's The Magic Mountain. Both a compelling mystery and an illuminating, finely wrought mainstream novel.'Publishers WeeklyWhen, in later years, Sergeant Studer told the story of the Chinaman, he called it the story of three places, as the case unfolded in a Swiss country inn, in a poorhouse, and in a horticultural college. Three places and two murders. Anna Hungerlott, supposedly dead from gastric influenza, left behind handkerchiefs with traces of arsenic. One foggy November morning the enigmatic James Farny, nicknamed the Chinaman by Studer, was found lying on Anna's grave. Murdered, a single pistol shot to the heart that did not pierce his clothing. This is the fourth in the Sergeant Studer series. Friedrich Glauser is a legendary figure in European crime writing. He was a morphine and opium addict much of his life and began writing crime novels while an inmate of the Swiss asylum for the insane at Waldau.

Praise for Friedrich Glausers other Sergeant Studer novels:Thumbprint is a fine example of the craft of detective writing in a period which fans will regard as the golden age of crime fiction.The Sunday TelegraphIn Mattos Realm is both a compelling mystery and an illuminating, finely wrought mainstream novel.Publishers WeeklyA despairing plot about the reality of madness and life, leavened with strong doses of bittersweet irony. The idiosyncratic investigation of In Mattos Realm and its laconic detective have not aged one iota.GuardianWith good reason, the German-language prize for detective fiction is named after Glauser. . . . He has Simenons ability to turn a stereotype into a person, and the moral complexity to appeal to justice over the head of police procedure.The Times Literary SupplementWhen two women are accidentally killed by gas leaks, Sergeant Studer investigates the thinly disguised double murder in Bern and Basel. The trail leads to a geologist dead from a tropical fever in a Moroccan Foreign Legion post and a murky oil deal involving rapacious politicians and their henchmen. With the help of a hashish-induced dream and the common sense of his stay-at-home wife, Studer solves the multiple riddles on offer. But assigning guilt remains an elusive affair.The third in the Sergeant Studer series.

In the 1960s 17 people die of cyanide poisoning at a large party at the Aosawas, owners of a prominent clinic in an ancient castle city on the coast of the Sea of Japan. The only survivor is their teenage daughter Hisako, blind, beautiful, admired by all, but soon suspected of masterminding the crime.

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.

A witty, self-deprecating, and border-line libellous (names of some individuals and institutions have been changed on legal advice) account of thirty interviews over a lifetime with the good, the boring and the downright wicked.

Stratos Gazis hates being called a hit man. What he is, is a conscientious fixer. He fixes problems that few can fix. Things that people are willing to pay handsomely to get done provided he concludes the targets deserve their fate. The story centers around the blue-eyed orphan Emma, the "e;baby blue"e; of the title, a beautiful teenage girl with a talent for card tricks of exceptional sophistication - all the more impressive for her tender years and the blindness that has afflicted her since the age of eight. Emma and her adoptive father, a former investigative journalist, roam the streets of Athens together, earning enough to keep body and soul together by performing Chaplinesque sketches. When the ex-journalist is brutally murdered, Angelino, a well-connected Athenian underworld figure, takes the girl under his wing and retains the services of Stratos to find her father's killers. Meanwhile, Costas Dragas, a top homicide cop and Gazis's best friend, has taken on the investigation of a spate of murders of pedophiles, and as usual, has gone to war with the media. It slowly emerges that their cases intersect and that corporate interests, more powerful than they could ever have imagined, lie behind the murders they both need to solve. Through a combination of experience and the ability to read the ailing city, its residents and its streets with consummate skill, the case is solved, but not without some subliminal tutoring from a great classic of the cinema.

Jonas is a British spy out in the cold. When his father is kidnapped and held for ransom by ISIS in Syria, he takes matters into his own hands and begins to steal the only currency he has access to: secret government intelligence. He heads from London to Beirut with the documents and eventually crosses into Syria to seek his father's abductors.

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.

A dark, literary, crime novel set near Boston. Written with the controlled violence of a Tarantino film, it is the story of Franck, a private detective of sorts from NY, a cokehead and a dandy, who, in a race against time and the local sheriff, investigates two brutal murders committed by what could be the same psychopath.

Retired Havana police inspector Mario Conde is back. A sweeping novel of art theft, anti-Semitism, contemporary Cuba, and crime from a renowned Cuban author.

Occupied Crete 1941. A Wehrmacht officer investigates the murder of a Swiss Red Cross representative, a friend to SS-Chief Himmler.

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

Cora killed a man on a summer afternoon by the lake and in full view of her family and friends. Why? What could have caused this quiet, lovable young mother to stab a stranger in the throat, again and again, until she was pulled off his body? For the local police it was an open-and-shut case. But Police Commissioner refused to close the file.

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

Praise for Esmahan Aykol:"e;Kati could be the love child of Miss Marple and NPR's Andrei Codrescu. It doesn't matter who done it. What matters is that Aykol uses the genre to tell us more about the world than we're used to."e;Newsday"e;An offbeat amateur sleuth with a distinctive narrative voice. Fans of Amanda Cross's Kate Fansler and Kerry Greenwood's Phryne Fisher will find a lot to like."e;Publishers WeeklyKati owns Istanbul's only mystery book store and, as usual, gets involved in a case that is none of her business. Every day, a beautiful woman lunches alone in the restaurant next to the bookstore. When the woman is found dead in her apartment, Kati immediately recognizes the stranger from the restaurant in images in the newspaper photos. Although the police believe it was an accident, Kati suspects something more sinister has happened. Sani Ankaraligil was an attractive young woman and a politically active ecologist in the middle of a divorce from her wealthy husband. So who would benefit from her death? The industrial companies Sani had accused of polluting the rivers of western Turkey, or her jealous husband seeking revenge through an honor killing, or a Thracian separatist group? The investigation pulls Kati into murkier waters: the marriage may have been a sham, designed to cover up Sani's husband's homosexuality . . . the role of her mother-in-law goes from distasteful to outright criminal.

A FINE LINE is a terrific novel, a legal thriller that is also full of complex meditations on the life of the lawyer and the difficult compromises inherent in any system of criminal justice. A book that is intensely rewarding at many levels.Scott TurowThe fifth in the best-selling Guido Guerrieri series. When Judge Larocca is accused of corruption, Guerrieri goes against his better instincts and takes the case. Helped by Annapaola Doria, a motorbike-riding bisexual private detective who keeps a baseball baton hand for sticky situations, he investigates the alleged links to the mafia. Of course Guerrieri cannot stop himself from falling for Annapaola's exotic charms.The novel is a suspenseful legal thriller but it is also much more. It is the story of a judge who, to quote Dostoevsky, "e;lies to himself and listens to his own lies, so gets to the point where he can no longer distinguish the truth, either in himself or around himself."e;

Not for nothing is Claudia Pieiro Argentinas most popular crime writer. Betty Boo is original, witty and hugely entertaining; it mixes murder with love, political power and journalism."e; Times-London"e;Those willing to take the time to enjoy the style and the unusual denouement will find themselves wondering why more crime authors dont take the kinds of risks Pieiro does."e; BooklistThe fourth novel from Claudia Pieiro, South America's best-selling crime novelist.When a renowned Buenos Aires industrialist is found dead at his home in an exclusive gated community called La Maravillosa, the novelist Nurit Iscar (once nicknamed Betty Boo owing to a resemblance to the cartoon character Betty Boop) is contracted by a former lover, the editor of a national newspaper, to cover the story. Nurit teams up with the paper's veteran, but now demoted, crime reporter. Soon they realize that they are falling in love, which complicates matters deliciously. The murder is no random crime but one in a series that goes to the heart of the establishment. Five members of the Argentine industrial and political elite, who all went to the same boarding-school, have died in apparently innocent circumstances. The Maravillosa murder is just the last in the series and those in power in Argentina are not about to allow all this brought to light. Too much is at stake.

"e;Strange and haunting, a gothic novel with a modern consciousness."e; Philippa Gregory"e;A haunting, sophisticated story about a woman discovering the truth about herself and the elusive, possibly illusive, nature of genius."e; Sunday Times "e;Mesmerizing, haunting, imbued with a complete sense of historical verisimilitude"e; Times Literary Supplement"e;A psychologically haunting and disturbing tale as full of mystery, exotic foreign places, and questions of parentage as any penned by her protagonist."e; Library Journal"e;Thrilling and heartbreaking, a gothic novel with emotional heart and depth."e; Foreword Reviews"e;A darkly mischievous novel about love, obsession and the burden of charisma, played out against the backdrop of Venice's watery, decadent glory."e; Sarah Dunant"e;A mesmerizing story of love and obsession in nineteenth-century Venice: dark and utterly compelling."e; Natasha SolomonsSet in bustling Regency England and decaying Venice, A Man of Genius portrays a psychological journey from safety into secrecy and obsession. After a troubled childhood, Ann achieves independence earning her living as an author of Gothic novels. Within a group of male writers, she meets and is enthralled by the supposed poetic genius, Robert James. They become uneasy lovers. Ann and Robert travel from London through a Europe exhausted by the Napoleonic Wars. They arrive in a Venice of spies and intrigue, where their relationship becomes tortuous and Robert descends into near madness. Forced to flee with a stranger, Ann delves into her past to be jolted by a series of revelations about her lover, her parentage, the stranger, and herself.