Soho Press

From a disciple of the late Chinua Achebe comes a masterful and universally acclaimed novel that is at once a taut, literary thriller and an indictment of greed's power to subsume all things, including the sacred.Foreign Gods, Inc., tells the story of Ike, a New York-based Nigerian cab driver who sets out to steal the statue of an ancient war...

Peter Diamond, head of theCriminal Investigation Divisionin scenic Bath, England,isinvestigating the murder of a young woman whose body has been found in the canal, the only clue to her identity a tattoo of a music note on one of her teeth. For Diamond, who wouldn't know a Stradivarius from a French horn, the investigation is his most...

Skeletons emerge from a St. Andrews graveyardand from Detective Inspector Andy Gilchrist's own pastWhen a woman's skeleton is discovered in a shallow grave, DCI Andy Gilchrist is tasked with finding her murderer. But a psychic's warnings and markings on a rusted cigarette lighter found among the rotted remains take Gilchrist on a...

';The best first novel I've read in years...It's a flat-out terror trip.'James Ellroy ';Not only one of the finest thriller debuts of the last ten years, but also one of the best Irish novels, in any genre, of recent times.'John Connolly ';The Ghosts of Belfast is the book when the world finally sits up...

Junior Bender, the clown prince of crime fiction, returns in his most hardboiled adventure yeta tale that will take Junior Bender deep into a murderous conspiracy in present day Los Angeles and uncover an increasingly confusing legacy of his burglar-mentor, Herbie Mott, who until very recently was always one-step-ahead of just about...

An Inspector Hal Challis and Sergeant Ellen Destry InvestigationPraise for Garry Disher: ';[A] first-rate Australian author.'The New York Times Book Review ';While many readers want their thrillers with gouts of gore and endless gunplay, for me, a writer like Disherold-fashioned in the best sense of the termis the most...