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Leonardo Padura - Havana Black

Reviews for Havana Black by Leonardo Padura

'HAVANA BLACK, the sequel to the superb HAVANA RED, is an excellent Cuban police procedural that provides readers with a terrific investigation while guiding the audience around Havana three decades... Read More
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Giampiero Rigosi - Night Bus

Reviews for Night Bus by Giampiero Rigosi

'Literary critic Rigosi has set his first crime novel in Bologna; it's a fast-moving thriller that compares favourably with the work of Elmore Leonard and Donald E. Westlake. Andrea Fabbri,... Read More
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Tonino Benacquista - Someone Else

Reviews for Someone Else by Tonino Benacquista

'Seventeen pages in and Benacquista's perfectly judged opening chapter has set up a fascinating premise. Two strangers play a fiercely competitive tennis game, meeting after for a drink, each confesses... Read More
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Alice Ferney - Angelina's Children

Reviews for Angelina's Children by Alice Ferney

'Everything Angelina does is in the interest of genetic survival; she would, she admits, let her husband starve if it were the only way she could feed her children. It... Read More
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Luca Di Fulvio - Mannequin Man

Reviews for The Mannequin Man by Luca Di Fulvio

'Di Fulvio exposes souls with the skills of a surgeon. It's like turning the pages of something forbidden-seductive, elegant and dangerous.' - Alan Rickman 'The book, originally published as L'Impagliatore... Read More
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Friedrich Glauser - In Matto's Realm

Reviews for In Matto's Realm by Friedrich Glauser

'The Spirit of Madness. After reading Friedrich Glauser's dark tour de force In Matto's Realm (Bitter Lemon; paperback, $13.95), it's easy to see why the German equivalent of the Edgar... Read More
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Jörg Fauser - Snowman

Reviews for The Snowman by Jörg Fauser

'Fauser has a wryly observant eye for life on the margins (note the jukebox cockroaches copulating to the tune of 'Don't Go Breaking My Heart'). His stripped-down prose and honest... Read More
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Rolo Diez - Tequila Blue

Reviews for Tequila Blue by Rolo Diez

'A bent copper in the Directorate of Operations, a quasi-political branch of the police of Mexico City is the hero of this short, sharp, cynical novel. Carlos Hernandez is broke,... Read More
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Günter Ohnemus - Russian Passenger

Reviews for The Russian Passenger by Günter Ohnemus

'It is enthralling and completely convincing. You never know where the various interrelationships of the characters are going to lead you. The denouement is enigmatic. This is probably not a... Read More
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Friedrich Glauser - Thumbprint

Reviews for Thumbprint by Friedrich Glauser

'Friedrich Glauser, the Viennese born author of THUMBPRINT (Bitter Lemon Press, 197pp) - first published in a 1930s periodical - was addicted to opium and its derivatives. He wrote this... Read More
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