Bitter Lemon Press: 76 books

A severed head is found on the Greek border near a wall planned to stop Middle Eastern immigrants crossing from Turkey. Intelligence Agent Evangelos wants the truth about the murder, human trafficking into Greece, and about the corruption surrounding the wall's construction. It is a mystery novel...

Wehmacht officer Bora is sent to recently occupied Crete and must investigate the brutal murder of a Red Cross representative befriended by Himmler. All the clues lead to a platoon of trigger-happy German paratroopers but is this the truth? Bora takes to the mountains of Crete to solve the case, navigating his way between local bandits and foreign resistance fighters.

Albert Savelkoul, Public Prosecutor of Antwerp has power, money, an aristocratic wife and a high-maintenance mistress. A wonderful life-until Opus Dei takes a less than benevolent interest in it. So starts a harrowing yet humorous tale of blackmail and murder.

Novels this funny and self-assured come along rarely; in equal parts astute and raunchy. The gutsy heroine is the owner of Istanbul’s only mystery book store, a fact which should trigger empathy from CBSD customers. This is a crime story but also a wonderful book about Istanbul and Turkish...

A colorful and witty mystery novel set in Rio, published in 2014, the year the soccer World Cup is held in Brazil and two years before the Olympics come to town. Rio is the perfect backdrop with its dictatorships, drug wars, child gangs and violent policing tactics. The hotel residents...

The summer of 1992 had been exceptionally cold in southern Italy. But that’s not the reason why it is still remembered. On May 23, 1992, a roadside explosion killed the Palermo judge Giovanni Falcone, his wife and three police officers. A few weeks later judge Paolo Borsellino and five police officers...

Praise for Holy Smoke, the first in the Antoine series: “A terrific black comedy …both a blasphemously funny satire of provincial Italian chicanery and a wry acknowledgment of the ambivalence that ambitious immigrants feel about their roots.”—The New York Times “Unexpected...

This is Anita Nair’s first crime novel. Inspector Gowda is a fascinating character, a Rebus in love with someone else’s woman. It was published in India in 2013. A story set in an exotic location in a fascinating social context: the underbelly of Bangalore is lovingly and revealingly...

“...One shares Susanne's belief that she must try to carry the deception off. Whether she will succeed keeps the reader, peering over Susanne's shoulder at all the traps, turning the pages of this remarkable book.”—The Independent (UK) Praise for Petra Hammesfahr's The Sinner: “The...

“A spine-tingling novel that keeps you mesmerized from beginning to end.”—InfiniteStorie “Morozzi has a light touch. He has an uncanny ability to convey mood swings, excitement and plot twists with ever increasing velocity.”—Gazzetta di Parma “A chilling and claustrophobic...

The novel won the Goncourt Prize (in 1973, the first ever won by a non-French writer). It is a dark, literary, psychological work and not a crime novel in any shape or form. Should benefit from the success of ‘The Vampire of Ropraz’ and ‘A Jew Must Die’. Fits with the contemporary...

Praise for Esmahan Aykol: "Kati could be the love child of Miss Marple and NPR's Andrei Codrescu. It doesn't matter who done it. What matters is that Aykol uses the genre to tell us more about the world than we're used to."—Newsday "An offbeat amateur sleuth with a distinctive...

Second novel available in English by the author. The first, Holy Smoke, was widely reviewed and sold well in the UK. Someone Else a best seller in France (over 80,000 sold. Two men facing a mid-life crisis decide to rock the boat. Suspense and humour in equal measure.

First novels this funny and self-assured come along rarely; in equal parts astute and raunchy. The gutsy heroine is the owner of Istanbul’s only mystery book store, a fact which should trigger empathy from CBSD customers. This is a crime story but also a wonderful book about Istanbul...