Two foreign girls are murdered after a high society party in northern Argentina. Verónica Rosenthal, an audacious, headstrong Buenos Aires journalist with a proclivity for sexual... Læs mere
Disgraced British spy August Drummond is on his way to Istanbul when he sees a passenger throw away directions to a cemetery just before being arrested. August can’t resist... Læs mere
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.
A Lebanese drug courier flushes the diamonds he is transporting down the Basel train station toilet before the police can seize him. The gems are found by a sewer maintenance worker... Læs mere
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... Læs mere
The robbery of the armoured car in Montevideo fails miserably. A lucky break for the intrepid Ursula who manages to snatch all the loot. Only now, the wannabe robbers are hot on... Læs mere
British spy Leonard Flood is asked to investigate the poisoning in London of Willa Karlsson, a retired secret service officer suspected of being a Russian agent. British... Læs mere
Police Inspector Hunkeler is summoned back to Basel from his New Year holiday to unravel a gruesome killing in a gardening allotment on the city's outskirts. An old man known... Læs mere
Set in Venice, over three days in winter. She, a Roman princess, has come to seek undervalued paintings; he is a strange, strikingly erudite tour guide. A touching love story... Læs mere
A jewel by Seicho Matsumoto (1909-1992), the master of Japanese mystery writing. A beautifully written crime novel set in a coastal city in Northern Japan that takes on the taboo of Japanese prostitution during the American occupation.
A passionate love story set in Moscow and centred on a devastating Russian plot to sabotage the undersea communication cables linking the US to the UK.
October 1944, in the Republic of Salò, a German puppet state in the north of Italy and the last fascist stronghold in the country. Martin Bora must investigate the theft of a painting... Læs mere