“What could be missing in the life of a woman who loves reading detective stories and has a shop specializing in crime fiction that provides her with enough to live on, who lives in a city she adores and has a lover she finds attractive?” Set in Turkey’s largest city, BAKSHEESH follows the misadventures of Kati Hirschel, a self-deprecating German ex-pat who runs a mystery bookshop and finds herself suspected of murdering a man of shady repute.

After being banished to Naples, a bewildered and depressed Inspector Giuseppe Lojacono, formerly of the Agrigento major case squad, finds solace downing nightly glasses of red wine. The sad situation changes when Lojacono is assigned to a chilling series of murders. Noir fans take notice: If “death is a dance,” then THE CROCODILE is a dance choreographed by a first-rate artist.

When Natasha Doroshenko, a Ukrainian woman convicted of the attempted murder of her abusive boyfriend, escapes from police custody and desperately tries to locate her daughter in a refugee camp, Nina Borg, a big-hearted Red Cross nurse, comes to her aid. DEATH OF A NIGHTINGALE is a chilling tale filled with the dark memories of the Stalinist era.

“In this world, you must be powerful, because when an able person becomes a cancer, he is formidable.” Prize-winning novelist Fuminori Nakamura impressively chronicles a young man’s perverse upbringing. Born into a wealthy family, Fumihiro Kuki is fated to carry on a family tradition and become a thorough villain. EVIL AND THE MASK is a chilling mystery thriller, disturbing father-and-son story and dark romance all at once.

Detective Sargeant Alex Morrow investigates the brutal murder of an elderly man in a Glasgow post office the week before Christmas. Veteran writer Denise Mina delivers another gritty, dark and distinctive story of corruption, politics and power.

According to Police Inspector Avraham, “Regular kids don’t just disappear. They may decide to cut school, to get away from home for a few hours, or be too ashamed to come home because they’ve done something unforgivable. But they don’t simply disappear.”  But when a 16-year-old boy inexplicably vanishes from suburban Tel Aviv, the guilt-ridden detective assumes an active role in the inquiry.

“Iris, bellflower, honeysuckle, daisies.” This refreshing whodunit opens on a fine spring morning in Italy’s Piedmont region. Police Inspector Simona Tavianello and her retired police chief husband stop by a beekeeper’s shop to buy honey and stumble upon a corpse. When Simona discovers that the victim, a biotech engineer, was murdered with her gun, she reluctantly gets involved in an investigation implicating radical environmentalists.

Radio reports predict a calm, routine summer in France until a 23-year-old Dutch woman is found dead near a nature preserve and another mysteriously disappears. The Perpignan police force are on full alert, and the shrewd Inspector Gilles Sebag emerges from an emotional funk, summoning his sharpest investigative instincts.

A Lao general eager to find the remains of his missing brother summons the help of a once-dead witch and Dr. Siri Paiboun, the recently retired national coroner. THE WOMAN WHO WOULDN'T DIE is a thoroughly charming mystery with a healthy dollop of quirk.