Vintage Books

Downtrodden Detective Erlendur and his team must once again investigate Reykjavik#8217;s hidden past to unravel a case of human nastiness.Construction work in an expanding Reykjavik uncovers a shallow grave. Years before, this part of the city was all open hills, and Erlendur and his team hope this is a typical Icelandic missing person scenario;...

How do you catch a killer who doesn't seem to exist? One snowy night in the cathedral city of Lafferton, an old woman is dragged from her bed and strangled with a length of flex. DCS Simon Serrailler and his team search desperately for clues to her murderer. All they know is that the killer will strike again, and will once more leave the same...

When the renowned aviation hero and rabid isolationist Charles A. Lindbergh defeated Franklin Roosevelt by a landslide inthe1940 presidential election, fear invaded every Jewish household in America. Not only had Lindbergh publicly blamed the Jews for pushing America towards a pointless war with Nazi Germany, but, upon taking office as the 33rd...

The theme of this novel is the anatomy of an internecine war, cultural, religious and racial. It is waged between a community of nuns and the strays and misfits who arrive at their convent for safe haven, and those who dwell in the surrounding black township in Oklahoma....

Jin's themes of personal honour in the face of political honesty are carried forward here in this novel, a close depiction of life in a factory town; the manoeuvring, posturing, petty jealousies injustices of a man who tangles with party bosses....

New York Times ?A sleek and sophisticated chamber mystery about art, life and chess?madly clever? Felipe Fernandez-Armesto, European 'Pérez-Reverte is so good at pace, tension, mood and characterisation that the book can be enjoyed almost effortlessly?an irresistible yarn?...