Big Italy (41 page)

Bianca was leaning forward. Her face was gentle and attentive, despite the hard lines of her perm. “Stay on, Piero.”

Trotti glanced up.

“Mind if I sit down?”

She was standing beside him, her hand placed possessively on his shoulder. Simona Scola smiled as she bent over and lightly kissed Trotti on the cheek. “I do hope you’re not flirting with another woman, Piero,” she said laughingly. There was no amusement in the glance that she gave the other woman.

Trotti could not contain his smile. His hand stroked her fingers.

Stephanie Barron
 (Jane Austen’s England)
Jane and the Twelve Days
of Christmas

Quentin Bates
 (Iceland)
Frozen Assets
Cold Comfort
Chilled to the Bone

James R. Benn
 (World War II Europe)
Billy Boyle
The First Wave
Blood Alone
Evil for Evil
Rag & Bone
A Mortal Terror
Death’s Door
A Blind Goddess
The Rest Is Silence

Cara Black
 (Paris, France)
Murder in the Marais
Murder in Belleville
Murder in the Sentier
Murder in the Bastille
Murder in Clichy
Murder in Montmartre
Murder on the Ile Saint-Louis
Murder in the Rue de Paradis
Murder in the Latin Quarter
Murder in the Palais Royal
Murder in Passy
Murder at the Lanterne Rouge
Murder Below Montparnasse
Murder in Pigalle
Murder on the Champ de Mars

Grace Brophy
 (Italy)
The Last Enemy
A Deadly Paradise

Henry Chang
 (Chinatown)
Chinatown Beat
Year of the Dog
Red Jade
Death Money

Barbara Cleverly
 (England)
The Last Kashmiri Rose
Strange Images of Death
The Blood Royal
Not My Blood
A Spider in the Cup
Enter Pale Death

Gary Corby
 (Ancient Greece)
The Pericles Commission
The Ionia Sanction
Sacred Games
The Marathon Conspiracy
Death Ex Machina

Colin Cotterill
 (Laos)
The Coroner’s Lunch
Thirty-Three Teeth
Disco for the Departed
Anarchy and Old Dogs
Curse of the Pogo Stick
The Merry Misogynist
Love Songs from a Shallow Grave
Slash and Burn
The Woman Who Wouldn’t Die
The Six and a Half Deadly Sins

Garry Disher
 (Australia)
The Dragon Man
Kittyhawk Down
Snapshot
Chain of Evidence
Blood Moon
Wyatt
Whispering Death
Port Vila Blues
Fallout
Hell to Pay

David Downing
 (World War II Germany)
Zoo Station
Silesian Station
Stettin Station
Potsdam Station
Lehrter Station
Masaryk Station

(World War I)
Jack of Spies

Leighton Gage
 (Brazil)
Blood of the Wicked
Buried Strangers
Dying Gasp
Every Bitter Thing
A Vine in the Blood
Perfect Hatred
The Ways of Evil Men

Michael Genelin
 (Slovakia)
Siren of the Waters
Dark Dreams
The Magician’s Accomplice
Requiem for a Gypsy

Timothy Hallinan
 (Thailand)
The Fear Artist
For the Dead

(Los Angeles)
Crashed
Little Elvises
The Fame Thief
Herbie’s Game

Mette Ivie Harrison
 (Mormon Utah)
The Bishop’s Wife

Mick Herron
 (England)
Down Cemetery Road
The Last Voice You Hear
Reconstruction
Smoke and Whispers
Why We Die
Slow Horses
Dead Lions
Nobody Walks

Lene Kaaberbøl & Agnete Friis
 (Denmark)
The Boy in the Suitcase
Invisible Murder
Death of a Nightingale

Graeme Kent
 (Solomon Islands)
Devil-Devil
One Blood

Heda Margolius Kovály
 (1950s Prague)
Innocence

James Lilliefors
 (Global Thrillers)
Viral
The Leviathan Effect

Martin Limón
 (South Korea)
Jade Lady Burning
Slicky Boys
Buddha’s Money
The Door to Bitterness
The Wandering Ghost
G.I. Bones
Mr. Kill
The Joy Brigade
Nightmare Range
The Iron Sickle

Ed Lin
 (Taiwan)
Ghost Month

Peter Lovesey
 (England)
The Circle
The Headhunters
False Inspector Dew
Rough Cider
On the Edge
The Reaper

(Bath, England)
The Last Detective
Diamond Solitaire
The Summons
Bloodhounds
Upon a Dark Night
The Vault
Diamond Dust
The House Sitter
The Secret Hangman
Skeleton Hill
Stagestruck
Cop to Corpse
The Tooth Tattoo
The Stone Wife

Jassy Mackenzie
 (South Africa)
Random Violence
Stolen Lives
The Fallen
Pale Horses

Seichō Matsumoto
 (Japan)
Inspector Imanishi Investigates

James McClure
 (South Africa)
The Steam Pig
The Caterpillar Cop
The Gooseberry Fool
Snake
The Sunday Hangman
The Blood of an Englishman
The Artful Egg
The Song Dog

Magdalen Nabb
 (Italy)
Death of an Englishman
Death of a Dutchman
Death in Springtime
Death in Autumn
The Marshal and the Madwoman
The Marshal and the Murderer
The Marshal’s Own Case
The Marshal Makes His Report
The Marshal at the Villa Torrini
Property of Blood
Some Bitter Taste
The Innocent
Vita Nuova
The Monster of Florence

Fuminori Nakamura
 (Japan)
The Thief
Evil and the Mask
Last Winter, We Parted

Stuart Neville
 (Northern Ireland)
The Ghosts of Belfast
Collusion
Stolen Souls
The Final Silence
Ratlines

Eliot Pattison
 (Tibet)
Prayer of the Dragon
The Lord of Death

Rebecca Pawel
 (1930s Spain)
Death of a Nationalist
Law of Return
The Watcher in the Pine
The Summer Snow

Kwei Quartey
 (Ghana)
Murder at Cape Three Points

Qiu Xiaolong
 (China)
Death of a Red Heroine
A Loyal Character Dancer
When Red Is Black

John Straley
 (Alaska)
The Woman Who Married a Bear
The Curious Eat Themselves
The Big Both Ways
Cold Storage, Alaska

Akimitsu Takagi
 (Japan)
The Tattoo Murder Case
Honeymoon to Nowhere
The Informer

Helene Tursten
 (Sweden)
Detective Inspector Huss
The Torso
The Glass Devil
Night Rounds
The Golden Calf
The Fire Dance
The Beige Man

Jan Merete Weiss
 (Italy)
These Dark Things
A Few Drops of Blood

Janwillem van de Wetering
 (Holland)
Outsider in Amsterdam
Tumbleweed
The Corpse on the Dike
Death of a Hawker
The Japanese Corpse
The Blond Baboon
The Maine Massacre
The Mind-Murders
The Streetbird
The Rattle-Rat
Hard Rain
Just a Corpse at Twilight
Hollow-Eyed Angel
The Perfidious Parrot
Amsterdam Cops: Collected Stories

Timothy Williams
 (Guadeloupe)
Another Sun
The Honest Folk of Guadeloupe

(Italy)
Converging Parallels
The Puppeteer
Persona Non Grata
Black August
Big Italy

Jacqueline Winspear
 (1920s England)
Maisie Dobbs
Birds of a Feather