Format: Trade Paperback, 368 pages
Publisher: Soho Press On Sale: April 1, 2010 Price: $14.00 ISBN: 978-1-56947-630-7 (1-56947-630-6)
A motherless girl living with her grandmother and her uncle’s family in their bungalow in 1960s Bombay inadvertently unleashes a ghost, forcing the family to confront the shocking truth behind a drowning death that occurred there years earlier.
“Intriguing.”–USA Today
“Will definitely appeal to fans of Monica Ali and Jhumpa Lahiri...
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Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
Publisher: Vintage On Sale: February 5, 2002 Price: $14.00 ISBN: 978-0-375-72674-3 (0-375-72674-8)
“Our greatest thriller writer.”—Graham Greene
Nicky Marlow needs a job. He’s engaged to be married and the employment market is pretty slim in Britain in 1937. So when his fiancé points out the Spartacus Machine Tool notice, he jumps at the chance. After all, he speaks Italian and he figures he’ll be...
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Format: Trade Paperback, 272 pages
Publisher: Vintage On Sale: February 5, 2002 Price: $15.00 ISBN: 978-0-375-71324-8 (0-375-71324-7)
“Ambler successfully combines excitement, entertainment, and social significance.”—The New York Times Book Review
When Josef Vadassy arrives at the H^tel de la Reserve at the end of his Riviera holiday, he is simply looking forward to a few more days of relaxation before returning to Paris. But in St. Gatien, on the...
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Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
Publisher: Vintage On Sale: December 3, 2002 Price: $14.95 ISBN: 978-0-375-72672-9 (0-375-72672-1)
Returning to his hotel room after a late-night flirtation with a cabaret dancer at an Istanbul boîte, Graham is surprised by an intruder with a gun. What follows is a nightmare of intrigue for the English armaments engineer as he makes his way home aboard an Italian freighter. Among the passengers...
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Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
Publisher: Vintage On Sale: December 3, 2002 Price: $15.95 ISBN: 978-0-375-72675-0 (0-375-72675-6)
Foster’s dramatic skill is well-known in London’s West End theaters. So perhaps it wasn’t so surprising when he was hired by an American newspaper publisher to cover the trial of Yordan Delchev for treason. Accused of membership in the sinister Officer Corps Brotherhood and of masterminding a plot to assassinate his...
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Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
Publisher: Vintage On Sale: December 7, 2004 Price: $14.00 ISBN: 978-0-375-72679-8 (0-375-72679-9)
The Light of Day was the basis for Jules Dassin’s classic film, Topkapi.
When Arthur Abdel Simpson first spots Harper in the Athens airport, he recognizes him as a tourist unfamiliar with city and in need of a private driver. In other words, the perfect mark for Simpson’s brand of entrepreneurship. But...
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Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
Publisher: Vintage On Sale: July 13, 2004 Price: $15.00 ISBN: 978-0-375-72678-1 (0-375-72678-0)
In this classic thriller, two American tourists find more adventure than they bargained for when they get involved with Chinese gun smugglers and Muslim revolutionaries, learning first hand about the intrigue of the post-colonial world.
Greg and Dorothy Nilsen had wanted to go on an adventurous trip, see some of the more...
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Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
Publisher: Vintage On Sale: December 2, 2003 Price: $15.00 ISBN: 978-0-375-72676-7 (0-375-72676-4)
It wasn’t anyone’s idea of a glamorous first assignment at a white show law firm. George Cary, former WWII bomber pilot and newly minted lawyer, was given the ignoble task of going through the tons of files on the Schneider Johnson case, just to make sure nothing had been overlooked. But...
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Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
Publisher: Vintage On Sale: December 2, 2003 Price: $14.00 ISBN: 978-0-375-72677-4 (0-375-72677-2)
All in all Steve Fraser had enjoyed his three-year stint in the former Dutch Southeast Asian colony of Sunda, and he’d been well compensated. But now he was looking forward to a last weekend in the capital before heading home. But Sunda was newly independent, and not entirely stable. An opposition...
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Format: Trade Paperback, 208 pages
Publisher: Anchor On Sale: March 9, 2004 Price: $14.00 ISBN: 978-1-4000-7563-8 (1-4000-7563-7)
“Stop all this talk about monsters, Michele. Monsters don’t exist. It’s men you should be afraid of, not monsters.”
A sweltering heat wave hits a tiny village in Southern Italy, sending the adults to seek shelter, while their children bicycle freely throughout the countryside, playing games and getting into trouble. On a...
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Format: Trade Paperback
Publisher: Soho Press On Sale: June 5, 2012 Price: $15.00 ISBN: 978-1-61695-088-0 (1-61695-088-9)
Fourteen-year-old Jeremy Barker is obsessed with zombie movies. He attends an all-boy Catholic High School where roving gangs in plaid make his days a living hell. His mother is an absentee pill head, his older brother a self-diagnosed sex-addict, and his father an ex-Marine realtor who disappears night after night without...
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Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
Publisher: Soho Press On Sale: May 1, 2010 Price: $14.00 ISBN: 978-1-56947-635-2 (1-56947-635-7)
In this literary thriller set in eighteenth-century London, Samuel Johnson and James Boswell are threatened by Boswell’s mad and envious younger brother John.
“An exciting, suspenseful story. . . . Not to be missed.”–The Washington Post
“[An] accurate, original, and entertaining fictional reconstruction.”–The Boston Globe
“Remarkable.”–David Liss, author of The Devil’s Company...
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Format: Trade Paperback, 384 pages
Publisher: Soho Crime On Sale: May 3, 2011 Price: $14.00 ISBN: 978-1-56947-970-4 (1-56947-970-4)
What’s a twenty-two-year-old Irish American cop who’s never been out of Massachusetts before doing at Beardsley Hall, an English country house, having lunch with King Haakon of Norway? Billy Boyle himself wonders. Back home in Southie, he’d barely made detective when war was declared. Unwilling to fight–and perhaps die–for England, he...
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Format: Trade Paperback, 112 pages
Publisher: Melville House On Sale: May 14, 2013 Price: $15.00 ISBN: 978-1-61219-150-8 (1-61219-150-9)
In seaside Bosque de Mar, guests at the Hotel Central are struck by double misfortune: the mysterious death of one of their party, and an investigation headed by the physician, writer and insufferable busybody, Dr. Humberto Huberman. When quiet, young translator Mary is found dead on the first night of Huberman’s...
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Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
Publisher: Soho Press On Sale: June 7, 2011 Price: $14.00 ISBN: 978-1-56947-951-3 (1-56947-951-8)
American Iraq War veteran Ellie Cooper is down and out in Beijing when a chance encounter with a Uighur–a member of a Chinese Muslim minority–at the home of her sort-of boyfriend Lao Zhang turns her life upside down. Lao Zhang disappears, and suddenly multiple security organizations are hounding her for information...
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Format: Trade Paperback, 496 pages
Publisher: Modern Library On Sale: February 11, 2003 Price: $23.00 ISBN: 978-0-8129-6678-7 (0-8129-6678-3)
Mary Elizabeth Braddon (1837–1915), Victorian England’s bestselling woman writer, blends Dickensian humor with chilling suspense in this “exuberantly campy” (Kirkus Reviews) mystery. The novel features Jabez North, a manipulative orphan who becomes a ruthless killer; Valerie de Cevennes, a stunning heiress who falls into North’s diabolical trap; and Mr. Peters, a...
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Format: Trade Paperback, 384 pages
Publisher: Vintage On Sale: April 19, 2011 Price: $14.95 ISBN: 978-1-4000-9707-4 (1-4000-9707-X)
John Burdett's famed Royal Thai detective Sonchai Jitpleecheep confronts the most shocking crime of his career and is put to the test both as a Buddhist and as a cop in this riveting tale.
Sonchai’s Jitpleecheep’s boss, Colonel Vikorn, has decided to make Sonchai his consigliere in a heroin smuggling operation. Vikorn’s...
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Format: Trade Paperback, 400 pages
Publisher: Vintage On Sale: May 29, 2012 Price: $15.00 ISBN: 978-0-307-74529-3 (0-307-74529-5)
It is April 1997, and all of Hong Kong is counting down to July 1, when Britain will hand over rule of the country to China. Public anxiety about the transfer of power is running high, but “Charlie” Chan Siu-kai’s biggest concern is a gruesome triple murder case, with no solid...
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Format: Hardcover, 304 pages
Publisher: Knopf On Sale: January 10, 2012 Price: $25.95 ISBN: 978-0-307-27267-6 (0-307-27267-2)
Nobody knows Bangkok like Royal Thai Police Detective Sonchai Jitpleecheep, and there is no one quite like Sonchai: a police officer who has kept his Buddhist soul intact—more or less—despite the fact that his job shoves him face-to-face with some of the most vile and outrageous crimes and criminals in Bangkok...
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Format: Trade Paperback, 128 pages
Publisher: Vintage On Sale: May 14, 1989 Price: $13.00 ISBN: 978-0-679-72322-6 (0-679-72322-6)
Tautly narrated and excruciatingly suspenseful, Double Indemnity gives us an X-ray view of guilt, of duplicity, and of the kind of obsessive, loveless love that devastates everything it touches. First published in 1935, this novel reaffirmed James M. Cain as a virtuoso of the roman noir.
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Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
Publisher: Vintage On Sale: May 14, 1989 Price: $14.95 ISBN: 978-0-679-72321-9 (0-679-72321-8)
Mildred Pierce (1941)
Mildred Pierce had gorgeous legs, a way with a skillet, and a bone-deep core of toughness. She used those attributes to survive a divorce and poverty and to claw her way out of the lower middle class. But Mildred also had two weaknesses: a yen for shiftless men, and...
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Format: Trade Paperback, 128 pages
Publisher: Vintage On Sale: May 14, 1989 Price: $13.00 ISBN: 978-0-679-72325-7 (0-679-72325-0)
First published in 1934 and banned in Boston for its explosive mixture of violence and eroticism, The Postman Always Rings Twice is a classic of the roman noir. It established James M. Cain as a major novelist with an unsparing vision of America's bleak underside, and was acknowledged by Albert Camus...
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Format: Hardcover, 632 pages
Publisher: Everyman's Library On Sale: July 22, 2003 Price: $26.00 ISBN: 978-0-375-41438-1 (0-375-41438-X)
These three classics from the master of the noir novel, along with five otherwise unavailable short stories, are electric with the taut narrative voice, the suspense, and the explosive violence and eroticism that were James M. Cain’s indelible hallmarks.
The Postman Always Rings Twice,Cain’s first novel—tried for obscenity in Boston, the...
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Format: Trade Paperback, 464 pages
Publisher: Vintage On Sale: May 14, 1989 Price: $20.00 ISBN: 978-0-679-72323-3 (0-679-72323-4)
All three books are written with an enduring view of the dark corners of the American psyche. Cain hammered high art out of the crude matter of betrayal, bloodshed, and perversity.
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Format: Trade Paperback, 368 pages
Publisher: Vintage On Sale: February 1, 1994 Price: $15.00 ISBN: 978-0-679-74558-7 (0-679-74558-0)
This is a new edition of Capote's true crime masterpiece: the riveting re-creation of the brutal slaying of the Clutter family of Holcomb, Kansas. As Capote reconstructs the murder and the investigation that led to the capture, trial, and execution of the killers, he generates both mesmerizing suspense and astonishing empathy.