The Skeleton Road

A thrilling standalone from world-class crime writer Val McDermid—a skeleton found in Edinburgh’s historic center leads cold-case detectives back to war crimes committed during the Balkan Wars of the 1990s….

Silent Snow

“A riveting narrative as notable for its conversational fluency as for the clarity of its alarming information. . . . Cone’s superb and affecting delineation of the Arctic’s chemical crisis…

Sexus

“At times uproariously funny . . . may be Miller’s masterpiece.” —Choice…

The Sexual Outlaw

River Spirit

The spellbinding new novel from New York Times Notable Author and Caine Prize winner Leila Aboulela about an embattled young woman’s coming of age during the Mahdist War in 19th…

The Selected Prose of Fernando Pessoa

“Zenith’s selection [of Pessoa’s writings] is beautifully translated, compact while appropriately diverse, and another of its virtues is that it gives an account of a life that makes up in…

Secessia

From the immensely talented author of The Blood of Heaven, compared by reviewers to Faulkner, O’Connor, and McCarthy, comes a gothic portrait of a city ravaged by war and struck…

The River

“The River introduces the reader to an intriguing cast of people, called by accident or circumstance, into the small English village of Cameldip. Wastvedt has an astonishing ability to bring…

Ritual

“Mo Hayder has utterly mastered the art of suspense. Ritual moves from the eerie and dangerous to the downright ferocious as steadily as an oncoming train. Her characters are full,…

The Retreat

“In The Retreat, a novel much praised for its level of historical detail, French writer Patrick Rambaud locates little grandeur in the ghastly carnage of Napoleon’s retreat from Moscow. ….