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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.

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.

A scorching novel from a star of Cuban fiction. The third in the Havana Quartet series.

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.

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

On a cold winter's night, an elegant villa goes up in flames. Evert Struyck, happily married, father of two and successful business man, dies in the fire. His wife, Babette and the children manage to escape. This story talks about a group of people desperately hanging on to the outer varnish of their lives, at any cost.

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.

Praise for Iain Levison:"e;The real deal . . . bracing, hilarious and dead on."e;--The New York Times Book Review"e;Witty, deft, well-conceived writing that combines sharp satire with real suspense."e;--Kirkus Reviews"e;Levison writes tight, punchy prose, with deadpan humor and savvy."e;--The Wall Street JournalPhilip Dixon is down on his luck. An escape from a lucrative but botched bank robbery lands him bleeding and on the verge of collapse in a college town in New Hampshire. How can he find a place to hide out in this innocent setting? Peering into the window of the nearest house, he sees a glimmer of hope: a man in his mid-thirties, obviously some kind of academic, is rolling around on the living room floor with an attractive high-school student. Professor Elias White is then blackmailed into harboring a dangerous fugitive, as Dixon--with a cool quarter-million in his bag and dreams of Canada in his head--gets ready for the last phase of his escape.But the last phase is always the hardest. Attractive and persistent FBI agent Denise Lupo is on his trail. As for Elias White, his surprising transition from respected academic to willing accomplice poses a ruthless threat that Dixon would be foolish to underestimate."e;...Funny and acerbic, and crackles with raw energy."e;--The Sunday Times (UK)Iain Levison was born in Aberdeen, Scotland, in 1963. Since moving to the United States, he has worked as a fisherman, carpenter, and cook, and he has detailed his woes of wage slavery in A Working Stiffs Manifesto. He lives in Raleigh, North Carolina.

';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.

';Prose that penetrates the reader's mind like speed, fast paced, without an ounce of fat.'WeltwocheHe's found five pounds of top--quality Peruvian cocaine in a suit-case. Pur-sued by the police and drug traffickers the luckless Blum falls prey to the frenzied paranoia of the cocaine addict and dealer. This is a fast-paced thriller written with acerbic humour, a hardboiled evocation of drug-fuelled existence and a penetrating observation of those at the edge of German society.Having broken his addiction to on heroin at the age of thirty, Jrg Fauser spent much of the rest of his life dependent on alcohol. He died aged forty-three in 1987, run over by a truck at four am on a German highway.

A brutally mutilated body is discovered washed up in the bay of Havana. The body of Miguel Forcade Mier, head smashed in by a baseball bat, genitals cut off by a dull knife. Forcade, once an official in the Cuban government responsible for the confiscation of the belongings of the bourgeoisie fleeing the revolution, was an exile in Miami.

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.

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.

';Boisterous black comedy . . . funny and goodhearted, with much incident and expert enthusiasm for sex, food and drink.'The Literary Review';Much to enjoy in the clash of cultures and superstitions, even a tasty recipe for poisoning your friends with pasta. Detail like this places European crime writing on a par with its American counterpart.'Belfast IndependentSome favors simply cannot be refused. Tonio agrees to write a love letter for Dario, a low-rent Paris gigolo. When Dario is murdered, a single bullet to the head, Tonio finds he has been left a small vineyard near Naples. The wine is undrinkable, but an elaborate scam has been set up. The smell of easy money attracts the unwanted attentions of the Mafia and the Vatican and the unbridled hatred of the locals. Mafiosi aren't choir boys, and monsignors can be very much like Mafiosi.Winner of three mystery prizes in one year, including the Grand Prix de la Littrature Policire and the Prix Mystre de la Critique.Tonino Benacquista, born in France of Italian immigrants, dropped out of film studies to finance his writing career. After being in turn a museum watchman, a train guard on the Paris-Rome line and a professional parasite on the Paris cocktail circuit, he is now a highly successful author of fiction and film scripts.

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

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

Erika is married to Wallmann. When she falls to her death near their lakeside villa, the police conclude it as a tragic accident. Scholten, a long time employee of Erika's, knows a thing or two about the true state of her marriage. He suspects an almost perfect crime. Scholten's maverick investigation soon buys him a ticket for a dangerous ride.

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

Prosecutor Szackis investigation of a murder in a Polish town reveals the poisonous anti-Semitism that haunts all who live there.