Jon Courtenay Grimwood: 14 books

Masterfully blending speculative fiction and hard-boiled mystery, Jon Courtenay Grimwood’s acclaimed Arabesk series plunges readers into a world eerily familiar and shockingly unpredictable. Here a troubled detective follows a trail of clues through a city where innocence itself may be a thing of...

Nella metropoli nordafricana di El Iskandryia, paralizzata da una serie di esplosioni, le infrastrutture locali si stanno sgretolando e le strade sono nel caos, mentre Ashraf Bey, appena nominato procuratore capo, è alle prese con il suo primo caso: l’uomo più ricco della città è accusato di...

Part mystery, part speculative fiction, and wholly unforgettable, Jon Courtenay Grimwood’s celebrated Arabesk series portrays the dark, hard-boiled story of a man out to prove his innocence in an alternate world where the facts aren’t always the same as the truth . . . and murder isn’t the worst...

From Jon Courtenay Grimwood, author of the celebrated Arabesk series, comes a stunningly inventive novel of futuristic noir set in a world of shifting realities. Here a man is drawn into a gritty postmodern subculture and a secret kingdom of otherworldly beings to find what he lost long ago: a reason...

**“Fast, furious, fun and elegant, the Arabesk trilogy is one of the best things to hit the bookstores in a while.”—SF Revu  In a world where secrets kill, an ex-cop discovers he’s got the biggest secret of all. . . . ** Set in a 21st-century Ottoman Empire, Jon Courtenay Grimwood’s...

Le cicatrici gli attraversavano la schiena come una mappa. Un paesaggio di dolore genuino, con crinali di sfregi a collegare la città a forma di stella sulla spalla alle periferie di cheloidi intorno alle costole e all’addome. Per Raf l’unica cosa di una qualche importanza era quanto poco dolore...

« Le meilleur roman de vampires depuis Lestat le vampire d’Anne Rice. » Civilian Reader « Aiguisé comme une dague, sombre et éblouissant comme une mascarade, la Venise de Grimwood est saisissante. » Mike Carey L’hiver recouvre Venise de ténèbres, la glace fige les...

Venise grouille de complots : les deux régents se haïssent, et les empereurs d’Allemagne et de Byzance espèrent en profiter pour s’emparer de la ville. Tous intriguent autour de Dame Giuletta : à 16 ans, à la fois vierge, mère et veuve, elle est la clé de quiconque voudrait réclamer le...

In the depths of night, customs officers board a galley in a harbor and overpower its guards. In the hold they find oil and silver, and a naked boy chained to the bulkhead. Stunningly beautiful but half-starved, the boy has no name. The officers break the boy's chains to rescue him, but he escapes. Venice...

As the Byzantine and German emperors plot war against each other, Venice's future rests in the hands of three unwilling individuals: The newly knighted Sir Tycho. He defeated the Mamluk navy but he cannot make the woman he loves love him back. Tortured by secrets, afraid of the daylight, he...

Snow shrouds Venice in cold darkness, ice fills the canals, and a thousand ghosts pluck at the shadow's edge. A violent attack on Lady Giulietta's son forces Tycho from his new-found happiness and back into the treacherous intrigue of the court. For Giulietta's sake he would go to the world's...

**A mystery, a thriller, and a cutting-edge sci-fi adventure all in one, Stamping Butterflies bends time, genre, and consciousness itself to tell the spellbinding story of two worlds, three lives, one future–and the question upon which everything depends: who is dreaming whom. . . . ** From...

Venise est à son apogée. Le duc Marco est aux commandes... en théorie, car il est niais et son oncle et sa tante gouvernent à sa place. Ils règnent sur les mers, dictent les lois et semblent tout-puissants. Même s’ils craignent des assassins meilleurs que les leurs... Une nuit, tout...

Al confine tra oriente ed occidente, El Iskandryia, l’antica Alessandria d’Egitto, è un crocevia di culture e ambizioni: libera città dell’impero ottomano, luogo di intrighi e potere, dove i soldi si mescolano alla tradizione e il valore di un uomo si giudica dal suo status sociale. Collocata...