Melville International Crime

The wry and rueful Columbo of Austria investigates a grisly murder at a beloved restaurant where snooty Viennese gourmands go to eat fried chicken. At a wildly popular chicken shack in the Austrian countryside, a gruesome discovery is made in the pile of chicken bones waiting to be fed into the basement grinder: human bones. But when...

Two copsone American, one Kenyanteam up to track down a deadly terrorist.It's December 2007. The Kenyan presidential elections have gotten off to a troubled start, with threats of ethnic violence in the air, and the reports about Barack Obama on the campaign trail in the United States are the subject of newspaper editorials and barstool...

Who's killing the Upper East Side trophy wives?Unleashing the pent-up fury most Americans feel over the financial crisis, Brenda Cullerton's wickedly riotous tale of an interior ';desecrator' turned murderess is a flaming arrow into the dark heart of Manhattan's filthy rich. Working on New York's Upper East Side for phenomenally rich...

Introducing one of Europe's most widely popular detective series Wanting out of high-stress detective work, Simon Brenner takes a calming job as a chauffeur, shuttling a two-year-old girl back and forth in a soothing ride along the Autobahn between her father, a construction tycoon in Munich, and her mother, an abortion doctor in...

A cop from Wisconsin pursues a killer through the terrifying slums of Nairobi and the memories of genocide IN MADISON, WISCONSIN, it's a big deal when African peace activist Joshua Hakizimanawho saved hundreds of people from the Rwandan genocideaccepts a position at the university to teach about ';genocide and testimony.' Then a young woman is...

Introducing a gritty new detective series set in the bleak hinterlands of upstate new YorkWashed-up private investigator Eliot Conte would rather be teaching American literature and listening to opera than taking pictures of spouses in flagrante delicto. But he flamed out of an academic career when he hung the Provost of UCLA out a window, and he...