Melville International Crime

Another dose of hilarity and mayhem from the author Carl Hiaasen calls ';the real deal'In this winner of the German Thriller Prize, ex-cop Simon Brenner, as part of his never-ending quest to get as far away from being a cop as he can, takes a job as an ambulance driver in downtown Vienna. It's a hair-raising job, though, made more so...

A Duca Lamberti NoirFrom the godfather of Italian noir ';A noir writer richly deserving rediscovery.' Publishers Weekly One balmy spring evening on the outskirts of Milan, a Fiat with two passengers plunges into a canal. At first, their deaths are registered as an accident. But Duca Lamberti, the doctor-turned-detective of Giorgio...

An Inspector Mock Investigation';Phantoms of Breslau is a cynical, moody thriller which solidifies Krajewski's position as a distinctive voice in contemporary European fiction.' Irish ExaminerBreslau, 1919: The hideously battered, naked bodies of four sailors are discovered on an island in the River Oder. When Criminal Assistant...

An Eliot Conte Mystery';Vivid and unnerving . . . Eliot Conte is an instant original.' The Washington PostSomeone's shooting dogs in Utica . . . Ex-PI Eliot Conte (';part Mike Hammer and part William S. Burroughs,' according to The Washington Post) thought he'd escaped the sordid underworld of long-established Mafia...

On the evening of October 17, 1961 twenty-thousand Algerians marched in Paris in defiance of and in protest against a curfew imposed by Maurice Papon, chief of the Paris Metropolitan Police. The protesters were met with ferocious and uninhibited violence. Eleven-thousand were arrested; more than one thousand injured; as many as three hundred were...

';Wolf Haas is the real deal, and his arrival on the American book scene is long overdue.' Carl HiaasenTHE FIRST INSPECTOR BRENNER NOVELThe darkly comic book that launched the bestselling series ...Wolf Haas is firmly established as one of the world's bestselling crime novelists. And now the novel that introduced Simon Brenner,...