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Baghdad Central by Elliott Colla
RRP: $11.60Booksplease Price: $8.75Baghdad, November 2003. The US occupation is not yet a disaster but the CPA has disbanded the Iraqi army and decimated the police in its policy of de-Ba'athification of Iraqi society. Inspector... -
A Cut-Like Wound by Anita Nair
RRP: $11.60Booksplease Price: $8.75It is the first night of Ramadan. At Shivaji Nagar in the heart of Bangalore, a young male prostitute is killed and burnt alive. It would have stayed as yet another unsolved murder, but for Inspector... -
The Fragility of Bodies Sergio Olguin 9781912242191
RRP: $11.60Booksplease Price: $8.75*The first in a series of novels by Olguin starring the journalist Veronica Rosenthal. It is set in Buenos-Aires and has been made into a TV series currently showing in Argentina. *Veronica is a... -
Temporary Perfections by Gianrico Carofiglio 9781904738725
RRP: $11.60Booksplease Price: $8.75It all began with an unusual assignment, a job better suited for Marlowe than for counsel for the defence Guido Guerrieri. Could he find new evidence to force the police to reopen their investigation... -
Not So Perfect Crime Peter Bush 9781904738343
RRP: $11.60Booksplease Price: $8.75Another day in Barcelona, another slimy politician's wife is suspected of infidelity. Lluis Font discovers a portrait of his wife in an exhibition that leads him to conclude he is being cuckolded by... -
David's Revenge by Hans Werner Kettenbach 9781904738398
RRP: $10.31Booksplease Price: $7.95A visitor from Georgia, a country torn apart by civil war, ends the peaceful existence of a school teacher's family in Germany. Christian Kestner has all but forgotten his stay in Tbilisi seven years... -
Sweet Money by Ernesto Mallo 9781904738732
RRP: $11.60Booksplease Price: $8.75Superintendent 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... -
Someone Else by Adriana Hunter 9781904738121
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.55Who hasn't wanted to become 'someone else'? The person you've always wanted to be...the person who hadn't given up half way to your dreams and desires? One evening at a bar two men who have just met... -
D.B. Elwood Reid 9781904738190
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.55In 1971, a man calling himself D.B. Cooper hijacked a flight, claimed his ransom without harming a soul and vanished. He parachuted out of the plane over the dense woods of the Pacific Northwest with... -
Holy Smoke Adriana Hunter 9781904738015
RRP: $11.60Booksplease Price: $8.75Some favours 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 his friend has left him... -
A Walk in the Dark by Gianrico Carofiglio 9781904738534
RRP: $10.31Booksplease Price: $7.95When Martina accuses her ex-boyfriend - the son of a powerful local judge - of assault and battery, no witnesses can be persuaded to testify on her behalf and one lawyer after another refuses to... -
The Man Who Loved Dogs by Leonardo Padura
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $13.93Cuban writer Ivan Cardenas Maturell meets a mysterious foreigner on a Havana beach who is always in the company of two Russian wolfhounds. Ivan quickly names him "the man who loved dogs". The man... -
The Man in the Corduroy Suit by James Wolff
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.55British spy Leonard Flood is asked to investigate the poisoning in London of Willa Karlsson, a retired British secret service vetting officer suspected of being a Russian agent. British intelligence... -
Deep as Death Katja Ivar 9781912242306
RRP: $11.60Booksplease Price: $8.75Helsinki, March 1953. An unusually long and cold winter, everywhere frozen sea, ice-covered lakes and rivers. In a port city flooded with refugees, who cares if a young woman goes missing? An... -
Nights of Awe by Harri Nykanen 9781904738923
RRP: $11.60Booksplease Price: $8.75During the period known as the Days of Awe that lead up to Yom Kippur, Ariel Kafka, inspector in the Violent Crime Unit of the Helsinki police and one of two Jewish policemen in Finland, is... -
The Road to Ithaca Ben Pastor 9781908524805
RRP: $11.60Booksplease Price: $9.13The fifth in the Martin Bora WWII mystery series. In May 1941, Wehrmacht officer Bora is sent to Crete, recently occupied by the German army, and must investigate the brutal murder of a Red Cross... -
Holy Ceremony Harri Nykanen 9781908524898
RRP: $11.60Booksplease Price: $8.75A woman's body scrawled with religious texts is found in a Helsinki apartment. Jewish homicide inspector Ariel Kafka investigates. What begins as an investigation of Christian religious lunatics... -
Evil Things by Katja Ivar 9781912242092
RRP: $11.60Booksplease Price: $8.75Hella Mauzer was the first ever woman Inspector in the Helsinki Homicide Unit. But her superiors deemed her too `emotional' for the job and had her reassigned. Now, two years later, she is working in... -
The Russian Passenger John Brownjohn 9781904738022
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.55In 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... -
The Sinner Ms Petra Hammesfahr 9781904738251
RRP: $11.60Booksplease Price: $8.75Cora Bender killed a man on a sunny 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... -
All Yours by Pineiro Claudia 9781904738800
RRP: $11.60Booksplease Price: $8.75This is a portrait of a wife betrayed, at first desperate to save her marriage but then intent on violent revenge, also an unrelenting dissection of family life among the Argentine middle class. ... -
Fish Swimming in Dappled Sunlight by Riku Onda 9781913394592
RRP: $11.60Booksplease Price: $8.22From the author of The Aosawa Murders, one of the NYT Notable Books of 2020. The WSJ commented: "Part psychological thriller, part murder mystery-it is audacious in conception and brilliant in... -
Chain of Custody by Anita Nair
RRP: $11.60Booksplease Price: $8.75How is twelve-year-old Nandita's disappearance connected to the murder of a well-known lawyer? What services has college student Rekha been persuaded to perform by her 'boyfriend'? Who is the... -
Beside the Syrian Sea by James Wolff
RRP: $11.60Booksplease Price: $8.75Jonas is a British spy out in the cold. When his father, an elderly clergyman, is kidnapped and held for ransom by ISIS in Syria, he takes matters into his own hands and begins to steal the only... -
A Grain of Truth by Zygmunt Miloszewski 9781908524027
RRP: $11.60Booksplease Price: $8.75It is spring 2009, and prosecutor Szacki is no longer working in Warsaw - he has said goodbye to his family and to his career in the capital and moved to Sandomierz, a picturesque town full of... -
How to Betray Your Country by James Wolff
RRP: $11.60Booksplease Price: $8.75Things are looking bad for disgraced spy August Drummond. In emotional free fall after the death of his wife, fired for a series of unprecedented security breaches... and now his neighbor on the... -
Havana Black: A Mario Conde Mystery by Leonardo Padura 9781904738152
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.55A 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... -
Night Bus Ann Goldstein 9781904738114
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.55Leila is young, beautiful and a hustler. She robs hapless men picked up in the trendy nightclubs of Bologna. Easy money, until she ends up with a document at the centre of a carefully crafted plot of... -
Mannequin Man Patrick G. McKeown 9781904738138
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.55"Know why she's smiling?" he asked, pointing a small torch at the corpse. "Fish hooks. Two fish hooks at the corners of her mouth, a bit of nylon, pull it round the back of the head and tie a knot."... -
Athenian Blues Pol Koutsakis 9781908524768
RRP: $11.60Booksplease Price: $8.75Stratos Gazis hates being called a contract killer. What he is, is a conscientious fixer. He fixes problems that are only mentioned in whispers. That very few can fix. Things that people are willing... -
A Shortcut to Paradise by Teresa Solana 9781904738558
RRP: $11.60Booksplease Price: $8.75A writer is murdered at the Ritz on the night she wins an important literary prize, battered to death with the trophy she has just won. A satire of the Catalan literary scene dressed up as a... -
Entanglement by Zygmunt Miloszewski 9781904738442
RRP: $11.60Booksplease Price: $8.75The 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... -
The Foreign Girls by Sergio Olguin
RRP: $11.60Booksplease Price: $8.75Veronica Rosenthal has retreated to a cousin's remote cottage in the province of Tucuman, to recuperate from the traumatic events in The Fragility of Bodies. She befriends two female tourists -an... -
Betty Boo by Claudia Pineiro
RRP: $11.60Booksplease Price: $8.75The latest thriller from South America's best-selling crime writer.When a Buenos Aires industrialist is found dead at his home in an exclusive gated community, the novelist Nurit Iscar - Betty Boo to... -
Fever: A Sergeant Studer Mystery by Friedrich Glauser
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.55When two women are "accidently" 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... -
Tin Sky by Ben Pastor 9781908524515
RRP: $11.60Booksplease Price: $8.75Ukraine, 1943. Having barely escaped the inferno of Stalingrad, Major Martin Bora is still serving on the Russian front as a German counterintelligence officer. At a time when weariness,... -
The Chinaman by Friedrich Glauser 9781904738213
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.55When, in later years, Sergeant Studer told the story of the Chinaman, he also called it the story of the three places as the case unfolded in a country inn, in a poorhouse and in a horticultural... -
In Matto's Realm by Friedrich Glauser 9781904738060
RRP: $11.60Booksplease Price: $8.75Studer investigates when the director vanishes and a child murderer escapes from an insane asylum in Bern, an environment Glauser knew all too well from personal experience. Set in the 1920s, the... -
Beside the Syrian Sea by James Wolff 9781912242139
RRP: $18.05Booksplease Price: $12.75Jonas thought about what it would mean to cross a border in a place like this. He might have followed a trail laid down by others, but this time there would be no searchlights, no sirens, no soldiers... -
Fallout by Thomas Paul 9781908524492
RRP: $11.60Booksplease Price: $8.75Tito Ihaka, the unkempt, overweight Maori cop was demoted to Sergeant due to insubordination and pigheadedness. He investigates the unsolved killing of 17 year old girl at an election night party in...