The Spring of the Tiger

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Ėlen Gremiĭon

Argentina, konet͡s 1980-kh. Strana tolʹko-tolʹko nachala prikhoditʹ v sebi͡a posle mnogoletneĭ voennoĭ diktatury Khorkhe Videla. Odnazhdy psikhoanalitik Vittorio vli͡ubilsi͡a s pervogo vzgli͡ada v krasavit͡su Lisandru, vserʹez uvlechennui͡u tango. Proĭdet neskolʹko let, brak Vittorio i Lisandry medlenno razrushaetsi͡a, i vot odnim sirenevym vecherom pod zvuki tango Lisandra vypadaet iz okna. Sama ona reshila svesti schety s zhiznʹi͡u? A mozhet, za ee smertʹi͡u stoit kto-to iz pat͡sientov Vittorio, raskryvshikh na seansakh u psikhoanalitika vsi͡u podnogotnui͡u svoeĭ dushi? Ili Lisandra stala zhertvoĭ muzha - idealʹnogo kandidata na rolʹ ubiĭt͡sy? I lishʹ Eva Marii͡a, odna iz samykh vernykh poklonnit͡s talantlivogo vracha, ubezhdena v ego nevinovnosti i reshaet rassledovatʹ tainstvennui͡u smertʹ.

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Eva Wiseman

A fictionalized account of the last blood libel trial in Hungary in 1882 is told through the eyes of Julie, a friend of the murdered servant girl Esther and a servant at the jail where Morris Scharf, the accused, is imprisoned.

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Lawrence Millman

"At the End of the World is the remarkable story of a series of murders that occurred in an extremely remote corner of the Arctic in 1941. Those murders show that senseless violence in the name of religion is not only a contemporary phenomenon, and that a people as seemingly peaceful as the Inuit can become unpeaceful at the drop of a hat or, in this instance, a meteor shower. At the same time, the book is a warning cry against the destruction of what's left of our culture's humanity, along the destruction of the natural world. Has technology deprived us of our eyes? the author asks. Has it deprived the world of birds, beasts, and flowers? Lawrence Millman's At the End of the World is a brilliant and original book by one of the boldest writers of our era"--

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David Wishart

November, AD 40. When a wealthy consul's wife asks Corvinus to investigate the death of her uncle, killed by a block of falling masonry during renovations on his estate in the Vatican Hills, a sceptical Corvinus is inclined to agree with the general verdict of accidental death. But his investigations reveal clear evidence of foul play, as well as unearthing several skeletons among the closets of this well-to-do but highly dysfunctional family. Who could have wanted Lucius Surdinus dead? His vengeful ex-wife? His ambitious mistress? His disillusioned elder, or his estranged younger, son? Or does the key to the mystery lie in the dead man's political past? But when Corvinus's investigations draw him to the attention of the emperor, a dangerously unpredictable Caligula, his prospects of surviving long enough to solve the mystery look slim.