Bitter Lemon Press: 76 books

Pablo Borla's marriage is reduced to confrontations with his wife over their daughter's rebellious ways and his firm builds only repellent office blocks destroying the fabric of old Buenos Aires. It all changes with the arrival of a young woman who brings to light a murder committed decades ago by...

First of quartet with same hero. Sold well in Spain, Italy , France and Germany (40,000 per title in Germany alone). First time the author is available in English.Award winning novel.High critical acclaim in all countries.

"This is not simply a triumph of style; it is both a reflection on a time of bloodshed and a raw vision of human misery."-Guillermo Saccomanno, winner of the Argentine National Literature Prize "This man knows. He knows about guns, knows about women, knows about dead bodies....

1.Ingenious, always witty and sometimes gruesome short stories by one of Spain’s best-known crime writers. Echoes of memorable stories by Roald Dahl, like The Skin or Lamb for the Slaughter (of Hitchcock Presents fame). Or Stephen King’s Under the Weather and That Bus is Another World. A...

"A master crime writer . . . Seicho Matsumoto's thrillers dissect Japanese society."-The New York Times Book Review "A stellar psychological thriller with a surprising and immensely satisfying resolution that flows naturally from the book’s complex characterizations.Readers...

“Both a scathing and picaresque comedy, a biting and spicy concoction. Just like tequila.”—Le Monde It’s not easy being a cop in Mexico City. Meet Carlito, a police detective with a complicated life. A wife, a mistress, children by both. He resorts to money laundering and arms dealing...

Bestselling young star of Polish fiction, published for the first time in English. 2. The novel is the winner of “The High Calibre Award” for best Polish crime novel of 2007. 3. A well crafted novel full of dark humour with a world-weary hero suffering from bureaucratic exhaustion and marital ennui....

Jacques Chessex won France’s prestigious Prix Goncourt and is considered Switzerland’s most important living author writing in French. 2. Based on a true story of political murder in Switzerland during WWII. It triggered a deluge of favourable reviews and outrage at exposing a past many wanted forgotten....

1.The second novel in the series featuring twin private detectives Eduard and Borja Martinez, follow-on to the critical success of “A Not So Perfect Crime”. Best seller in Catalan, Spanish and most recently German. Barcelona setting should get attention. Plenty of atmosphere...

“Prose that penetrates the reader’s mind like speed, fast paced, without an ounce of fat.”—Weltwoche He’s found five pounds of top--quality Peruvian cocaine in a suit-case. Pur-sued by the police and drug traffickers the luckless Blum falls prey to the frenzied paranoia of the cocaine...

Baghdad Central is a noir debut novel set in Baghdad in September 2003. The US occupation of Iraq is a swamp of incompetence and self-delusion. The CPA has disbanded the Iraqi army and police as a consequence of its paranoid policy of de-Ba'athification of Iraqi society. Tales of hubris and reality-denial...

"Plot twists galore, relentless suspense and expert insights to satisfy anyone fascinated by today's financial crisis."—Culture TF1 From Lagos to London, by way of the Faroe Islands and St. Petersburg, an investigation turns deadly. The head of the Nigerian fraud squad is evacuated...

The second in the Ariel Kafka series. Like the extensively reviewed Nights of Awe, the first in the series, it is a brisk read, with rapid twists and turns leading to a satisfying resolution. Kafka’s dry humor is once again in evidence, as is his appealing, somewhat melancholic presence. Helsinki’s...

"An agile novel written in a language perfectly pitched for the subject matter, a ruthless dissection of a fast decaying society"—José Saramago, Nobel Prize winner The English translation of hit novel Las Viudas de Los Jueves! “Piñeiro’s clever U.S. debut.. . illuminates...