Buenos Aires Quintet

10 best books like Buenos Aires Quintet (Manuel Vázquez Montalbán): I Was Dora Suarez, Solea, Ad occhi chiusi, Brouillard au pont de Tolbiac (Nestor Burma, I delitti di via Medina-Sidonia, Dog Day, No Happy Ending: A Hector Belascoaran Shayne Detective Novel, Difesa a zona, Blackout, The Black Curtain

I Was Dora Suarez

Author

Derek Raymond

An ax-wielding psychopath cares young Dora Suarez into pieces. On the same night in London, a firearm blows the top off the head of Felix Roatta, part-owner of the seedy Parallel Club. The unnamed narrator, a police sergeant, becomes fixated on Dora and is determined to solve her murder. Then a photo...

Solea

Author	Jean-Claude Izzo
ISBN	1933372303

The Marseilles trilogy, featuring ex-cop Fabio Montale, is a classic of European crime fiction. Its publication was the catalyst for the foundation of an entire literary movement, Mediterranean noir, and made its author an overnight celebrity. Europa is Proud to reissue the entire trilogy this...

Ad occhi chiusi

Author	Gianrico Carofiglio
ISBN	8838919054

Nelle giornate dell'avvocato Guerrieri, ogni tanto - ma sempre troppo spesso per il bene della sua carriera -, piomba una pratica, di quelle che non portano né soldi né gloria, ma solo nuovi nemici. Lui non riesce a rifiutarla, una specie di molla gli scatta dentro. La nuova pratica di Ad occhi chiusi...

Brouillard au pont de Tolbiac (Nestor Burma

Author

Jacques Tardi

Le détective privé parisien Nestor Burma reçoit un courrier d'un vieux copain, Abel Benoit, qui l'informe qu'"un salaud mijote des saloperies". Intrigué, il se rend au rendez-vous et apprend que Benoit est mort, des suites d'une mystérieuse agression. Abel Benoit, c'est toute la jeunesse...

I delitti di via Medina-Sidonia

Author	Santo Piazzese
ISBN	8838912343

«I sani, buoni, misteriosi delitti, che gli mancano tanto; quelli che rendono vivibili tutti i paesi civili di questo mondo. Quelli con un bel movente, quelli da scavarci dentro, come Maigret, come Marlowe, o - più realisticamente - come don Ciccio Ingravallo, per arrivare alla fine ai meccanismi...

Dog Day

Author	Alicia Giménez Bartlett
ISBN	1933372141

"Gimenez-Bartlett has discovered a world full of dark corners and hidden elements."

In this hardboiled fiction for dog lovers and lovers of dog mysteries, detective Petra Delicado and her maladroit sidekick, Garzon, investigate the murder of a tramp whose only friend is a mongrel dog named...

No Happy Ending: A Hector Belascoaran Shayne Detective Novel

Author	Paco Ignacio Taibo II
ISBN	1590580389

The third English language case for Mexico City independent detective Hector Belascoaran Shayne, No Happy Ending, is Paco Ignacio Taibo II at his subversive, darkly comic best. First, Hector discovers the body of a dead actor, dressed like a Roman in full breastplate and regalia, propped up on the...

Difesa a zona

Author	Petros Markaris
ISBN	8845252043

Για ακόμη μια φορά σωρεία λαθών από Έλληνες συγγραφείς που δεν καταδέχονται να ρωτήσουν κάποιον πριν να δώσουν τα γραπτά τους (Ας δούνε τους ξένους συγγραφείς...

Blackout

Author

Gianluca Morozzi

“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...

The Black Curtain

Author

Cornell Woolrich

Frank Townsend is knocked unconscious by a falling piece of plaster. When he comes to, he wanders home to find his apartment empty and his wife gone. He tracks his wife down to find that three years are missing from his memories and that he ran out on her sometime after the last day he can remember. Frank tries...

More Beer

Author	Jakob Arjouni
ISBN	1935554433

“Kemal Kayankaya is the ultimate outsider among hard-boiled private eyes.”
—Marilyn Stasio, The New York Times Book Review

OVER 1 MILLION COPIES SOLD WORLDWIDE

Turkish detective Kemal Kayankaya might not know when it’s recycling day, but now he has to help four eco-terrorists...

Le memorie di Maigret

Author	Georges Simenon
ISBN	8845916847

«Lo so benissimo che questi libri sono pieni zeppi di imprecisioni tecniche. Inutile star lì a elencarle. Sappia che sono volute e gliene spiegherò la ragione ... Provi a raccontare a qualcuno una storia qualsiasi. Se non la ritocca un po', apparirà inverosimile, inventata. Con qualche aggiustatina,...

Crimini

Author	Giancarlo De Cataldo
ISBN	8806175769

Niccolò Ammaniti insegue, alle costole di un chirurgo plastico dalle strane abitudini, "Il mio tesoro", in una scatenata, demenziale caccia per le strade di Roma. Andrea Camilleri mette in scena una storia d'amore finita troppo presto, e con "Troppe coincidenze". Massimo Carlotto ci fa sentire...