Tag Archives: Mystery & Detective/General

Death at La Fenice

by Donna Leon

“What a ripping first mystery, as beguiling and secretly sinister as Venice herself. Sparkling and irresistible.” –Rita Mae Brown

A Dancer in the Dust

by Thomas H. Cook

“Edgar Award winner Thomas Cook has a string of beautifully written and elegantly plotted thrillers to his name. A Dancer in the Dust is…

The Crime of Julian Wells

by Thomas H. Cook

“Philip’s own odyssey . . . is one of the many pleasures of Mr. Cook’s intelligent and elegant work.” —The Wall Street Journal

The Cry of the Owl

by Patricia Highsmith

“Kafka with a vengeance.” —The Spectator (London)

Comrades in Miami

by Jose Latour

From an acclaimed crime writer, a riveting espionage novel that takes us inside the battle of wits between Cuba and the United States.

Carlito’s Way

by Edwin Torres

Published to coincide with a major motion picture release based on Edwin Torres’s classic gangster novel, which Newsweek calls “exhilarating . . . boils…

By its Cover

by Donna Leon

Commissario Guido Brunetti must question his own assumptions about culture, virtue, and class in order to solve a shocking case of rare book theft…

Blood from a Stone

by Donna Leon

“Few detective writers create so vivid, inclusive and convincing a narrative as Donna Leon, the expatriate American with the Venetian heart.” —Paul Skenazy, Washington…

Bear Is Broken

by Lachlan Smith

A twisty debut thriller in the tradition of Brad Meltzer’s The Tenth Justice, about a young San Francisco lawyer who must investigate the shooting…

Beastly Things

by Donna Leon

In the latest novel of this celebrated series, a dead man is found in a canal, and Brunetti will need all his ingenuity and…