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A Dark Song of Blood by Ben Pastor

1 ROME, 8 JANUARY 1944  Again, the airplane. And again, the animal. Same dream in all details, an obsessive sameness. Russia, last summer. I walk toward the fallen plane making... Read More
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Baghdad Central by Elliott Colla

April 2003 In the chaos of retreat, a few stand and fight. Some fall back, some take the fight to another time and place. Some remain at their stations to... Read More
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The Family by Tonino Benacquista

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Crazy Tales of Blood and Guts by Teresa Solana

Crazy Tales of Blood and Guts by Teresa Solana

1 I’ve been sacked. It happened this morning. The chief executive summoned me to his office and said he was sorry but the minister had decided to relieve me of... Read More
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The Man Who Loved Dogs by Leonardo Padura

1  Havana, 2004  “Rest in peace”  were the pastor’s last words.  If that well- worn phrase, so shamelessly dramatic in the mouth of that figure, had ever held any meaning,... Read More
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The Silence of the Wave by Gianrico Carofiglio

1 For the third time he passed her outside the doctor’s front door. It was on a Monday, at the same hour as usual. But he was certain he had... Read More
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Death on Demand by Paul Thomas

PROLOGUE WARREN Greytown, fourteen years ago Females had always found him hard to resist. When he was small, his aunts and cousins cooed and fussed over him, telling him how... Read More
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A Crack in the Wall by Claudia Pineiro

1  Pablo Simó is at his desk drawing the outline of a building that will never exist. He has been making the same sketch for years, like a man condemned... Read More
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The Sound of One Hand Killing by Teresa Solana

1 “Hey, you still in bed?” I yelled at Borja when he finally picked up the phone, sure he’d say that he was. “Mmm…” came his sleepy reply. “Get a... Read More
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