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Soho Press
London 2016
Foreign Rights List
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Table of Contents
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War Porn by Roy Scranton (August 2016)
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Murder on the Quai by Cara Black (June 2016)
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The Aimée Leduc Investigations by Cara Black
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Fields Where They Lay by Timothy Hallinan
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The Junior Bender Mysteries by Timothy Hallinan
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The Poke Rafferty Thrillers by Timothy Hallinan
The Blue Madonna by James R. Benn (September 2016)
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The Billy Boyle WWII Mysteries by James R. Benn
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World English
What My Body Remembers by Agnete Friis (May 2017)
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The Second Day of the Renaissance by Timothy Williams (May 2017)
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The Inspector Trotti Novels by Timothy Williams
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Cruel Is the Night by Karo Hämäläinen (April 2017)
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The Works of Fuminori Nakamura
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Bad Seeds by Jassy Mackenzie (March 2017)
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August Snow by Stephen Mack Jones (February 2017)
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Savage Theories by Pola Oloixarac (January 2017)
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The Nantucket Mysteries by Francine Mathews
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Blood Crime by Sebastia Alzamora (September 2016)
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I Shot the Buddha by Colin Cotterill (August 2016)
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War Porn
by Roy Scranton
“War porn,” n. Videos, images, and narratives featuring graphic violence, often brought back from combat zones, viewed voyeuristically
or for emotional gratification. Such media are often presented and circulated without context, though they may be used as evidence of war
crimes.
War porn is also, in Roy Scranton’s searing debut novel, a metaphor for
the experience of war in the age of the War on Terror, the fracturing and
fragmentation of perspective, time, and self that afflicts soldiers and civilians alike, and the global networks and face-to-face moments that suture
our fragmented lives together. In War Porn, three lives fit inside one another
like nesting dolls: a restless young woman at an end-of-summer barbecue
in Utah; an American soldier in occupied Baghdad; and Qasim al-Zabadi,
an Iraqi math professor, who faces the US invasion of his country with
fear, denial, and perseverance. As War Porn cuts from America to Iraq and
back again, as home and hell merge, we come to see America through the
eyes of the occupied, even as we see Qasim become a prisoner of the occupation. Through the looking glass of War Porn, Scranton reveals the fragile
humanity that connects Americans and Iraqis, torturers and the tortured,
victors and their victims.
US publication: August 2016
Praise for War Porn
World
“What impresses is the brutal immediacy of the writing, its authority. Roy
Scranton is a truth telling war writer.”—E.L. Doctorow, National Book
Critics Circle Award-winning author of Ragtime and The March
 A visceral look at the consequences of war, at
a time when it is at the forefront of the
world’s conscience.
“I have never read a book like War Porn . . . Roy Scranton writes with unnerving power.”—Phil Klay, National Book Award-winning author
of Redeployment
 Based in part on the author’s own experience
as an artilleryman in Iraq.
“War Porn is dire, savage, and brilliant, a simmering fever-dream of a novel
that's as pure and true in its vision of the long war as anything I've
read. Roy Scranton is merciless—and why should he be anything but?”
—Ben Fountain, author of Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk
Roy Scranton is the author of Learning to Die in the Anthropocene:
Reflections on the End of a Civilization, and co-editor of Fire and
Forget: Short Stories from the Long War. He grew up in Oregon,
dropped out of college, and spent several years wandering the
American West. In 2002, he enlisted in the US Army. He
served from 2002 to 2006, including a fourteen-month deployment to Iraq. After leaving the Army he earned a bachelor's degree and a master's degree at the New School for Social
Research, then completed his PhD in English at Princeton.
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Murder on the Quai
by Cara Black
The world knows Aimée Leduc, heroine of 15 mysteries in this New
York Times bestselling series, as a très chic, no-nonsense private investigator—the toughest and most relentless in Paris. Now author Cara
Black dips back in time to reveal how Aimée first became a detective . . .
November 1989: Aimée Leduc is in her first year of college at Paris’s
preeminent medical school. She lives in a 17th-century apartment that
overlooks the Seine with her father, who runs the family detective agency.
But the week the Berlin Wall crumbles, so does Aimée’s life as she knows
it. First, someone has sabotaged her lab work, putting her at risk of failing
out of the program. Then, she finds out her aristo boyfriend is planning to
get engaged to another woman. And finally, Aimée’s father takes off to Berlin on a mysterious errand. He asks Aimée to help out at the detective
agency while he’s gone—as if she doesn’t already have enough to do. But
the case Aimée finds herself investigating—a murder linked to a transport
truck of Nazi gold that disappeared in the French countryside during the
height of World War II—has gotten under her skin. Her heart may not lie
in medicine after all—maybe it’s time to think harder about the family
business.
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Praise for the New York Times bestselling
Aimée Leduc novels
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“Forever young, forever stylish, forever in love with Paris—forever Aimée.”
—The New York Times Book Review
“As always, with airfares so high, Black offers armchair travelers a whirlwind trip through the City of Light.” —USA Today
“Transcendently, seductively, irresistibly French.”
—Alan Furst, author of Night Soldiers
“A winning mystery, as stylish and sexy as the city Cara Black knows so
well.”—George Pelecanos
Cara Black is the author of sixteen books in the bestselling
Aimée Leduc series. She lives in San Francisco with her husband and visits Paris frequently.
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The Aimée Leduc Investigations
by Cara Black
About the Series
Paris, 1990s: Aimée Leduc is a chic, no-nonsense former hacker who took over her family’s private investigation agency when her father was killed by a car bomb.
She runs Leduc Détective with her best friend, René Friant, and her cases bring her to every corner of Paris, as she uncovers secrets from her own past.
 A New York Times bestselling series with incredible commercial appeal, particularly for those who love Paris.
 Author routinely travels to Europe and has both fans and author friends in several cities throughout, creating potential for fantastic launch events.
 This series is undergoing an exciting new cover repackage!
World
Previous individual book sales to:
Spain: Factoria des Ideas
England: Constable & Robinson (reverted)
Italy: Hobby & Work
Japan: Hayakawa
Germany: Thiele & Brandstattere Verlag
France: Editions Anatolia, City Editions
Norway: Schibste Forlag A/S
Israel: Keter Books
Praise for the Aimée Leduc Investigations
“Francophiles and mystery-novel lovers alike will devour investigator Aimée
Leduc's latest outing.”—Entertainment Weekly
“Pity the knife-wielding villain who offends that infallible sense of style.”
—The Wall Street Journal
“Wry, complex, sophisticated . . . One of the very best heroines in crime fiction
today.”—Lee Child, author of the Jack Reacher Series
“So authentic you can practically smell the fresh baguettes and coffee.”
—Val McDermid
#1
Murder in the Marais
#2
Murder in Belleville
#3
Murder in the Sentier
#4
Murder in the Bastille
In Paris’s historic Jewish quarter, Aimée
finds a dead woman with a swastika carved
into her forehead, plunging her into a web of
ancient secrets and buried war crimes.
Tension runs high as a hunger strike escalates among Algerian immigrants and Aimée
barely escapes a car bombing in this tale of
terrorism and greed.
When a mysterious visitor promises contact
with her long-lost mother, Aimée finds herself hot on the trail of 70s radicals.
Aimée is attacked in the shadowy Passage
Boule Blanche. Regaining consciousness, she
finds herself temporarily blinded but is
determined to identify the assailant.
#5
Murder in Clichy
#6
Murder in Montmartre
#7
Murder on the Ile Saint-Louis
#8
Murder in the Rue de Paradis
An act of kindness ends in a stranger’s death,
leaving Aimée with a bullet wound, a check
for 50,000 francs, and a trove of Vietnamese
jade artifacts whose provenance is a mystery.
In an attempt to clear a friend’s name, Aimée
encounters Corsican separatist terrorists,
Montmartre prostitutes, and learns of the
French “ear in the sky.”
Aimée tries to identify the mother of a missing child while two murders and an abortive
bombing by environmental protestors propel
her into danger.
Finding out who cut her lover’s throat leads
Aimée into Kurdish and Turkish politics as
she tries to track down his contacts above
and beneath the streets of Paris.
#9
Murder in the Latin Quarter
#10
Murder in the Palais Royal
#11
Murder in Passy
#12
Murder at the Lanterne Rouge
Aimée, a virtual orphan, embraces a Haitian
woman claiming to be her half-sister, involving her in murky Haitian politics that lead to
murder in the old university district of Paris.
René Friant, Aimée’s partner at Leduc Détective, is wounded, and eye-witnesses have
pegged her as the culprit. Someone is impersonating Aimée—someone who wants revenge.
In one of Paris’s wealthiest neighborhoods, a
murder investigation leads Aimée to police
corruption, a radical Basque terrorist group;
and a kidnapped Spanish princess.
A missing woman, an illegal immigrant raid,
botched affairs of the heart, the French secret
service, scientific secrets and a murderer on
the loose—what has Aimée gotten herself
into?
#13
Murder Below Montparnasse
#14
Murder in Pigalle
#15
Murder on the Champ de Mars
A man who claims to know Aimée’s mother
suspects that a long-lost Modigliani in his
possession puts him in danger. When he is
viciously murdered, Aimée is on the hunt for
a killer.
A serial rapist is terrorizing Pigalle, targeting
schoolgirls. Aimée, five months pregnant,
stays away from the investigation—until her
young neighbor Zazie disappears.
A Romany boy begs Aimée to visit his ailing
mother, who may hold the key to her father’s
murder. But the woman has vanished; the
ensuing search leads to the city’s seats of
wealth and power.
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Fields Where They Lay
by Timothy Hallinan
Hollywood's favorite burglar, Junior Bender, is back for the most
Christmas-y heist in burglar history!
It's December 20th, and the Edgerton Mall isn't exactly full of holiday
cheer, despite its two Santas. The mall is a fossil of an industry in decline;
many of its stores are closed, and to make matters worse, there is a rampant shoplifting problem.
Enter burglar Junior Bender, the unwilling fixer for the City of Angels’ various underworld bosses. The murderous Russian gangster who owns the
mall makes Junior look into the shoplifting problem for him. But Junior's
operation doesn't go well: Within two days, two people are dead. It's obvious that shoplifting is the least of Junior's problems. Meanwhile, he must
confront his own deep-seated melancholy at the very notion of Christmas—both present and past.
Praise for the Junior Bender Mysteries
“Bender’s quick wit and smart mouth make him a boon companion.”
“If you're looking for a mystery with a fresh new hero, then you'll want to
run right out and get this book. It's just fabulous.”
—NPR’s Morning Edition
“Every now and then a writer comes along with the imagination and skill
to make the whole thing feel fresh and new again. That's what veteran
crime novelist Timothy Hallinan has accomplished.”
—The Washington Post
“Laugh-out-loud.”—The Boston Globe
“Donald E. Westlake, the casually brilliant master of the comic caper, may
be pushing up daisies, but his spirit clearly lives on in Timothy Hallinan . . .
Swift, sure-footed and awfully funny.”—The Seattle Times
“Crackles with cleverness.”—The Philadelphia Inquirer
Timothy Hallinan's novels have been nominated for the Edgar, Nero, Shamus, and Macavity awards. winner After years
of working in the television and music industries, he now
writes full-time. He divides his time between California and
Thailand.
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 A cheery new holiday installment in a series
for which Soho has newly acquired translation rights.
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The Junior Bender Mysteries
by Timothy Hallinan
Praise for the Junior Bender Mysteries
About the Series
“If Carl Hiaasen and Donald Westlake had a literary love child, he
would be Timothy Hallinan.”—Julia Spencer-Fleming
Junior Bender is a professional burglar who keeps being blackmailed
into being private investigator for Los Angeles’ most dangerous criminals. Luckily, he’s got a sense of humor and a very particular skill set.
“Donald E. Westlake['s] spirit clearly lives on in Timothy Hallinan . . .
Swift, sure-footed and awfully funny.”—The Seattle Times
 Hilarious, Hiaasen-esque crime novels set in/around Hollywood.
“Dangerously outrageous.”—Associated Press
 A critically acclaimed, well-established series newly arriving on
“A modern-day successor to Raymond Chandler.”
the foreign market! (Rights acquired August 2015).
—Los Angeles Daily News
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Film rights currently under option.
US publication: Nov 2012
US publication: Jan 2013
US publication: July 2013
US publication: July 2014
US publication: Apr 2016
Crashed (#1)
Little Elvises (#2)
The Fame Thief (#3)
Herbie’s Game (#4)
King Maybe (#5)
Junior Bender has never been
caught in his 22 years as a
burglar. But now he’s being
blackmailed by Trey Annunziato, a terrifying LA mob boss,
into acting as a PI on her pornography set. Thistle Downing,
a beloved child actress (now a
drug-addled teenager), is starring in the film, which someone
is sabotaging. Junior knows he
should get Thistle out and find
her help, but doing so will
anger a powerful criminal. Can
he devise a miracle solution?
Unfortunately, Junior has developed a reputation as an investigator for criminals. He’s being
bullied into proving music
mogul Vinnie DiGaudio didn’t
murder a tabloid journalist he
threatened to kill, but the journalist’s widow won’t stop trying to seduce him. As the investigation spirals out of control,
Junior's landlady begs him to
find her missing daughter. And
worst both Junior's ex-wife and
teenage daughter have new
boyfriends. What a mess.
93-year-old Irwin Dressler,
Hollywood’s scariest mob-bossturned-movie king, wants Junior to solve a 70-year-old
“crime”—the tabloid-fueled
destruction of actress Dolores
Lamarre, who was ruined by
compromising photos from a
Las Vegas party. Dressler wants
justice for Dolores and the career she never had. Junior thinks
the whole thing is crazy—it’s
been 70 years—but he starts
digging. And he soon finds that
some vendettas never die.
Wattles, LA’s top “executive”
crook, sets up a hit, keeping the
list of criminals involved in his
safe. But someone breaks in and
takes the list, and the people on
it start to pop up dead. Wattles
then approaches Junior, who
already knows who stole the
list: the signature belongs to
Herbie Mott, Junior’s criminal
mentor. Junior seeks him out
and finds Herbie murdered. As
he tracks the killer, he finds
disturbing secrets about Herbie’s past—and his own.
Junior is in the middle of stealing one of the world’s rarest
stamps from an assassin when
his luck turns sour. It takes an
unexpected assist to get him
out alive, but his escape sets off
a chain reaction of blackmail
and escalating crime. By the
time Junior is forced to commit
his third burglary of the week
in the impregnable fortress
that’s home to a ruthless studio
mogul called King Maybe, he’s
starting to wish he’d just let
the killer take a crack at him.
“Fabulous.”
—NPR's Morning Edition
SHAMUS AWARD NOMINEE
A CRIMESPREE MAGAZINE
BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR
WINNER OF THE LEFTY AWARD
“Too many lovable crooks in
contemporary crime fiction?
Well . . . one thing’s for sure:
they’re all chasing Junior.”
—Booklist, Starred Review
A CRIMESPREE MAGAZINE
BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR
NERO AWARD FINALIST
A PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR
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The Poke Rafferty Thrillers
by Timothy Hallinan
About the Series
Praise for the Poke Rafferty Thrillers
American writer Poke Rafferty lives in Bangkok with his Thai wife
Rose, and their adopted daughter Miaow. The happy trio is rocked by
their separate, often dangerous histories.
“You could drown in the waves of corruption that surge through Timothy Hallinan’s Bangkok mysteries.”
 Intelligent, socially minded political thrillers focused on the pre-
“A relentless-as-the-rain paced thriller, sprinkled with an offbeat, cynical humor.”—Seattle Post-Intelligencer
sent-day consequences of colonialism in Southeast Asia.
“Truly remarkable . . . In Hallinan’s Bangkok, the ugly truths of poverty,
homelessness, corruption, caste and crime are shaded with tremendous
compassion.”—The Arizona Republic
 The below novels function within the series as a trilogy, and have
never before been sold on the foreign market!
World
“Heart-rending, unforgettable.”—Publishers Weekly, Starred Review
“Stellar.”—Library Journal, Starred Review
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The Hot Countries (2015)
A talkative stranger named Arthur Varney turns up in Bangkok and befriends
the old men at an expat bar on Patpong
Road. They accept him without suspicion, failing to see that he’s actually
using them to get to Poke Rafferty.
The next Poke Rafferty thriller,
Fools’ River, is coming Fall 2017!
Varney wants two things: money Poke
doesn’t have and a person he’s is unwilling to hand over. It becomes apparent
quite quickly that there’s nothing Varney
won’t do to secure his goals. As his actions threaten the foundation of Poke’s
life in Thailand, the aging men of the
Expat Bar discover that they might still
be a force to reckon with.
(Manuscript available September 2016.)
For the Dead (2014)
The Fear Artist (2012)
After seven years in Bangkok, American
travel writer Poke Rafferty finally feels
settled: his family is about to grow, and
his adopted Thai daughter, Miaow,
seems to have found her place at junior
high school at last. But all that is endangered when Miaow helps her boyfriend
buy a stolen iPhone—an iPhone that
turns out to contain photographs of two
murdered police officers. As Miaow’s
carefully constructed personal life falls
apart, Rafferty discovers that the murders are part of a conspiracy that reaches
the top rungs of Bangkok law enforcement and beyond.
A chance collision on a Bangkok sidewalk
goes wrong when the man who bumps
into Poke Rafferty dies in his arms after
uttering three words: Helen Eckersley. Cheyenne. Seconds later, the police arrive, denying that the man was shot. Poke is interrogated by Thai secret agents who demand to know what the dead man said.
When he's finally released, Rafferty finds
his apartment ransacked and realizes he's
under surveillance. When men in uniform
reappear at his door, he flees and begins
life as a fugitive. As he unearths more, it
becomes apparent that he's caught in a
war on terror, and that his opponent is a
virtuoso whose medium is fear.
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Blue Madonna
by James R. Benn
It's late May 1944. Captain Billy Boyle is court-martialed on spurious
charges of black market dealings. The chief witness against him is Archie
Chapman, a London gangster with a personal grudge, and Boyle is convicted. Stripped of his officer's rank, reduced to private, and sentenced to three
month's hard labor, Boyle is given an opportunity: he can avoid his punishment if he accepts a dangerous mission.
A secret chamber and tunnels once used by escaping Huguenots in the 17th
century has since been taken over by the Allies. But this “safe house” on the
outskirts of Chaumont turns out to be anything but. Two officers, one a
British escaped POW and the other an American pilot, have been murdered.
Billy is parachuted in as part of a three-man team on June 5, 1944, the night
before the Normandy invasion. Billy must solve the mystery of who is behind the murders, then lead a group escape from France back to England,
with both the Germans and a killer hot on their heels.
Praise for the Billy Boyle WWII Mysteries
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“Spirited wartime storytelling.”
World
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“A fast-paced saga set in a period when the fate of civilization still hangs in
the balance.”
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—Lee Child
“Terrific . . . Razor-sharp.”
—Joseph Finder
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James R. Benn is the author of the Billy Boyle World War II
mysteries, including, Billy Boyle, a top mystery of the year by
Book Sense and a Dilys Award nominee, A Blind Goddess, which
was long-listed for the Dublin Literary Award, and The Rest Is
Silence, a Barry Award nominee. A librarian for many years,
Benn lives in Connecticut with his wife, Deborah Mandel.
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The Billy Boyle WWII Mysteries
by James R. Benn
About the Series
WWII Europe: Billy Boyle, an Irish-American cop from Boston, is
promoted to detective at the outbreak of war. Billy is unwilling to
fight—and perhaps die—for England, a country he barely knows. To
protect him, his mother wrangles him a job through family connections. But it turns out his aunt’s husband is US General Dwight Eisenhower, whose headquarters are in overseas London during the Blitz.
“Uncle” Ike has hired Billy as his private investigator in sensitive wartime military investigations throughout Europe.
Praise for the Billy Boyle WWII Mysteries
“Benn's Billy Boyle mysteries are always entertaining, filled with riveting characters, and beautifully plotted stories.”
—Seattle Post-Intelligencer
“Stark and poignant.”
—Denver Post
 A sensitive exploration of major events in WWII through the
“Exceptionally written . . . Whether a reader holds WWII books or
suspense books close to their heart, this one will be a true find.”
lens of James R. Benn’s masterfully crafted mysteries.
 The US paperback edition of Billy Boyle, the first-in-series, has
—Suspense Magazine
gone through several reprints in recent years due to continuing
sell-through.
“Captivating . . . Benn does a superb job of simultaneously capturing the
personal anguish of war and creating a splendid adventure novel.”
—Library Journal, Starred Review
World
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Billy Boyle, a 22year-old cop from
Boston, finds himself in London
during the Blitz. He
must catch a Norwegian spy, and
proves a better
detective than even
he thought.
Billy is to help
arrange the surrender of Vichy forces
in Algeria. But
dissension among
the army, militia,
and de Gaulle’s Free
French leads to
multiple murders.
Billy wakes up in a
hospital in Sicily
with amnesia.
Despite this and
several attempts on
his life, he must
fulfill his mission to
enlist the head of
the Sicilian Mafia
for the Allies.
Billy heads to
Northern Ireland to
find a stash of
stolen weapons and
to prevent the Irish
Republic from
joining the Axis, all
with the help of a
beautiful British
Intelligence officer.
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Billy is sent to
London amidst a
Luftwaffe bombing
offensive to investigate the murder of a
Soviet official. The
crime may stem
from the discovery
of mass graves in
the Katyn Forest.
Two US officers in
Caserta have been
murdered, a playing
card found on each
body. As the invasion at Anzio begins, Billy must
keep levelheaded as
the killer calculates
his next move.
An American monsignor is killed at
Death's Door, one of
the entrances to St.
Peter's Basilica.
Billy is smuggled
into neutral Vatican
territory, with the
secret intent of
rescuing his lover.
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Just weeks before
D-Day, Billy is sent
to southern England to investigate
an unidentified
corpse that has
washed ashore in a
restricted training
area, but hundreds
of soggy corpses
Flashback to 1943:
Billy is summoned
to the South Pacific
to solve a murder. A
grudge between the
Boyles and politically powerful
Kennedys fuels the
investigation in
unknown territory.
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Racism within the
US Army is revealed
as Billy races to
stop an innocent
African American
soldier from being
executed for a
murder he didn’t
commit.
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What My Body Remembers
by Agnete Friis
Translated from the Danish by Lindy Falk van Rooyen
From an author of the New York Times bestselling Nina Borg series
comes a standalone thriller, set among the troubled in Denmark.
Ella has spent most of her life as a societal outcast, underserved by several
foster parents and orphanages before becoming welfare-dependent. Ella
has never held a real job because of unpredictable, violent anxiety attacks
and a somewhat hostile attitude toward a system that has failed her. Her
only goals are to get by in her dingy Copenhagen suburb without making
waves and to give her twelve-year-old son, Alex, a better life than she's
had.
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But when Ella has a very public breakdown and is sent to the psychiatric
ward for a few days, the government threatens to take Alex from her and
put him into the same foster care system that she's suffered though. Panicked, she grabs him and flees to the only place she can think of: her grandmother's abandoned house in her hometown of Klitmøller. Weather on the
western coast of Denmark is windy and rough, but the move is the only
way for Ella to put a roof over her head and temporarily evade social services.
Returning to the small town brings Ella back to a nearly forgotten childhood and forces her to confront a family tragedy that has cast a shadow
over her entire life.
US publication: May 2017
World English
Full English manuscript available.
Praise for Agnete Friis
“Packs an almighty punch.”
—The New York Times Book Review, Notable Crime Book of the Year
“Fans of Nordic crime fiction, rejoice: Something is rotten in Denmark. But
never fear, Red Cross nurse Nina Borg is on the case . . . A wild ride.”
—New York Post
“Terrific . . . Once you start reading, you can’t stop.”
—The Washington Post
“A frightening and tautly told story of the lengths to which people will go
for family and money.”—USA Today
Agnete Friis has co-authored four novels in the New York
Times bestselling, award-winning Nina Borg series: The Boy in
the Suitcase, Invisible Murder, Death of a Nightingale, and The Considerate Killer. She currently works as a journalist in Copenhagen.
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 Marks the solo debut of a co-author of Soho
Crime’s all-time bestselling series.
 The Boy in the Suitcase, Friis’s first
Nina Borg collaboration with Lene
Kaaberbøl, has been translated into
30 different languages and sold more
than half a million copies worldwide.
 As with the internationally bestselling Nina
Borg thrillers, What My Body Remembers
features a captivating female protagonist,
and has a strong political backbone.
Phone: (212) 260-1900
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The Second Day of
the Renaissance
by Timothy Williams
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Timothy Williams’ celebrated Inspector Trotti series makes its longawaited return with a brand-new installment.
COMING
Northern Italy, 1990s: Inspector Piero Trotti has been called to Siena to
meet with his old friend, Spadano. He is told that someone is out to kill
him as revenge for events linked to a case from 1978—over a decade ago.
The murder of Valerio Gracchi, a media sensation at the head of an addiction recovery center in the south called BRAMAN, remains unsolved.
Gracchi had angered the Mafia with his outspoken vitriol against corruption in local politics, but no one ever claimed credit for his fatal shooting,
and several key leaders at BRAMAN also benefitted from his fall.
SOON!
Meanwhile, Trotti meets a young African American girl named Wilma,
who is searching for her father—the very same deceased Valerio Gracchi.
But it seems Wilma is hiding something, and Trotti and his loved ones are
drawn into a web of violence that will result enormous personal cost unless he can find Gracchi’s killer.
Praise for the Inspector Trotti Novels
US publication: May 2017
World English
“[Williams’] simple but stylish dialogue-driven prose is convincingly Continental, his plotting impeccable.”—Time Out
“Long live Trotti.”—Financial Times
“Wake up and smell the grappa. Big Italy is a chilling education, a scalpelsharp exploration of Italy’s body politic. Timothy Williams knows the
ABC of corruption—Andreotti, Berlusconi, Craxi—and is a convincing
and compelling voice.”—Ian Rankin
 A new installment in a well-loved series with
fantastic review coverage.
 Timothy Williams has won the Crime Writers’ Assocation Award and is recognized by
the Observer as one of Europe’s best contemporary crime novelists.
on the Inspector Trotti novels.
“Breathtakingly good.”
—Evening Standard
CWA award-winning author Timothy Williams has written
six crime novels set in Italy featuring Commissario Piero
Trotti, as well as two mysteries set on the French Caribbean
island of Guadeloupe (Another Sun and The Honest Folk of Guadeloupe). The Observer placed him among the ten best modern
European crime novelists. Born in London and educated at St.
Andrews, Williams has taught in Poitiers, France; Bari and
Pavia in Italy; and at Jassy in Romania. He has lived in the
French West Indies, where he teaches, since 1980.
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The Inspector Trotti Novels
by Timothy Williams
About the Series
Praise for the Inspector Trotti Novels
Commissario Piero Trotti investigates crime in a small, unnamed city
on the river Po in northern Italy. Set against the backdrop of the political unrest reshaping Italian cities after the “Italian miracle” of the mid20th century, the Trotti novels capture a historical moment with grace,
subtlety, and authenticity.
“[Williams] capture[s] the Northern Italian milieu with particular insight into the changing attitudes of its people as a younger generation
discards the old traditions of family life.” —The Washington Post
“A delight.”
—The Observer, “10 Best Modern European Crime Writers”
 A wonderfully literary, atmospheric crime series set in northern
“Subtle, tense and gripping”
—Val McDermid
Italy.
 Beautifully repackaged for US reissue, which has gone through
multiple printings.
“Commissario Trotti is clever and tough . . . His investigation is fascinating to an American reader because it offers insights into the Italian power structure, which is far more interesting than it is stable.”
 Accompanied by a brand-new series installment from the author.
—Newsday
World English
Converging Parallels (#1)
1978: Commissario Trotti has two
difficult cases to solve. An unidentified, dismembered body has
been found in the Po, and an estranged friend’s six-year-old
daughter—Trotti's own goddaughter—has been kidnapped.
Following the botched investigation of the kidnapping of Aldo
Moro, president of Italy’s majority
party, the distraught father does
not trust the police.
http://sohopress.com/authors/timothy-williams/
The Puppeteer (#2)
1982: Inspector Trotti is enjoying
a holiday off a northern Italian
lake. He is breakfasting at a café
when gunmen drive up and shoot
the man sitting at the next table.
Was Trotti their intended target?
He isn't sure, and though case falls
under the jurisdiction of the local
Carabinieri, he decides to make
his own inquiries.
Persona Non Grata (#3)
Commissario Trotti, whose colleagues are attempting to force
him into an early retirement, is
assigned to find the person who
stabbed 11-year-old Laura Vardin
as she slept in her bed. Meanwhile, an old friend asks Trotti to
look into several murders that
date back to World War II and
the death of Trotti's only brother.
Black August (#4)
Winner of the CWA Award
When a brutally battered corpse
with a disfigured face turns out to
be an old friend of Commissario
Trotti’s, he joins the manhunt,
despite objections from his superiors. Faced with a seemingly
unsolvable mystery, Trotti must
also grapple with obstructive
colleagues and the problems arising in his private life.
For more information about the author, please see the previous page.
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Big Italy (#5)
Commissario Trotti, again on the
brink of retirement, is looking
forward to a docile life of chicken
farming at his lakeside villa. But as
always, there are complications: A
seedy private investigator begs
Trotti to find the murderer of a
prominent doctor, fearing for his
own life, and Trotti's superiors
place him at the head of a child
abuse unit.
Phone: (212) 260-1900
Foreign Rights
Cruel Is the Night
by Karo Hämäläinen
Translated from the Finnish by Owen F. Witesman
Inspired by puzzle-mystery great Agatha Christie, prizewinning Finnish author Karo Hämäläinen (The Buyout) presents us with a comedy
of murderous intentions
Three cell phones ring in an opulent London suite. The calls go unanswered, because their recipients are dead.
Earlier that night, four old friends and lovers meet for a reunion dinner. It's
been ten years since the host, Robert, who made millions by way of unethical (but not illegal) interest rate manipulation, has seen Mikko, an investigative journalist feared by corrupt financiers and politicians. Mikko's wife,
Veera—with whom Robert once had a secret affair—and Robert's young
trophy wife, Elise, are also joining the fray. Mikko thinks he's about to get
away with murder, but he has no idea what's on the menu for the night:
not only does every diner have a bone to pick with another, but there's an
arsenal of deadly weapons hiding in plain sight.
And by the end of the night, there will only be one.
Praise for Cruel Is the Night
US publication: April 2017
“A compelling setup. The diners’ repartee and the flashbacks revealing
their relationships call to mind Herman Koch’s The Dinner . . . But Hämäläinen’s novel takes things to a completely different level. The reader follows the events safely through a wall of Plexiglas, holding back laughter,
yet absolutely absorbed.”—Helsingin Sanomat, Finland
“QUOTE 2 TK.”
—SOURCE 2
World English
 Karo Hämäläinen is the recipient of several
literary awards, including:
 The Tampere Literary Prize
 The Savonia Literary Prize
“QUOTE 3 TK.”
—SOURCE 3
 Sports Book of the Year from
The Sports Museum of Finland
“QUOTE 4 TK.”
——SOURCE 4
 Though lighthearted in tone, Cruel Is the
Night has dark themes recalling Agatha
Christie’s And Then There Were None &
Herman Koch’s The Dinner.
Karo Hämäläinen’s two passions are literature and the stock
market. He works as the managing editor of the leading Finnish investment magazine Arvopaperi (Securities), and as the
editor-in-chief of the online literary criticism magazine Kiiltomato. His first novel, The Buyout, was awarded the
Tampere Literary Prize. He now lives in Tampere, Finland.
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The Works of Fuminori Nakamura
The Gun (January 2016)
The Kingdom (July 2016)
Translated from the Japanese
by Allison Markin Powell
Translated from the Japanese
by Kalau Almony
From the moment university student Nishikawa spots
the gun next to the dead
man he's stumbled across
on a nighttime walk, the
world around him blurs.
The gun—loaded with four
bullets—brings an intoxicating sense of excitement
to his life. But soon merely
possessing the gun is not
enough. He must shoot it.
Yurika poses as a prostitute to blackmail her clients. Unfortunately, the
organization she works for
has overlapped with another syndicate run by the
sadistic crime lord Kizaki.
Yurika must act as a double
agent in both groups to
save herself.
Also forthcoming from Fuminori Nakamura:
The Boy in the Earth (April 2017)
Translated from the Japanese by Allison Markin Powell
An unnamed taxi driver has experienced a rupture from his everyday life. He cannot seem to stop thinking about suicide, envisioning himself returning to the earth in what become blackout episodes. He must entangle his own past to determine what to do next.
 Literary crime fiction with a philosophical bent, often compared
Praise for Fuminori Nakamura
with the work of Fyodor Dostoevsky and Osamu Dazai.
“Crime fiction that pushes past the bounds of genre, occupying its own
nightmare realm . . . Guilt or innocence is not the issue; we are corrupted, complicit, just by living in society.”
 Fuminori Nakamura is an award-winning, prolific young author
whose first novel to be translated into English, The Thief, was a
finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize.
—Los Angeles Times
World English
“This slim, icy, outstanding thriller, reminiscent of Muriel Spark and
Patricia Highsmith, should establish Fuminori Nakamura as one of the
most interesting Japanese crime novelists at work today.”
Full English manuscripts of all titles available.
—USA Today
Previous books by the author sold to:
UK: Corsair
“[A] thought-provoking and unpredictable new novel by the Japanese
zen-noir master Fuminori Nakamura.”
About the Author
Fuminori Nakamura is the winner of several literary prizes,
including the Ōe Prize, Japan’s largest literary award; the
David L. Goodis Award for Noir Fiction; and the prestigious
Akutagawa Prize. His works include The Thief; Evil and the
Mask; The Gun; Last Winter, We Parted; The Kingdom; and The Boy
in the Earth.
http://sohopress.com/authors/fuminori-nakamura/
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Phone: (212) 260-1900
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Bad Seeds
by Jassy Mackenzie
Johannesburg PI Jade de Jong has been hired by Inkomfe Nuclear Research
Center's charming security director, Ryan Gillespie, to trace a missing employee after an attempted break-in at his plant. The target of her search is
Carlos Botha, a security official who often clashed with Gillespie and vanished mere days after the incident.
Jade traces Botha to the quiet suburb of Randfontein, but then discovers
that she's not the only one looking for him—someone has put a hit out on
Botha, and the two suddenly find themselves working together to escape a
set of highly trained assassins. As it becomes clear that someone intends to
use Inkomfe's nuclear power to heinous ends, Jade must figure out whether that someone is Botha. If she doesn't place her trust in the right person,
and soon, she risks watching the world perish.
COVER
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SOON!
Praise for Jassy Mackenzie
“Mackenzie’s shrewd plotting is enlivened by her sharp eye for both Johannesburg’s high life and its desperate poverty.”
—The Seattle Times
“A terrifying ride into a world of corporate greed, potential terrorism and
the ways that South Africa’s future still resonates with its brutal past.”
US publication: March 2017
—Richmond Times-Dispatch
World English excl. South Africa
“Top-notch crime fiction . . . A terrific adventure with intrigue and a beautifully plotted mystery.”
—Crimespree Magazine
“Remarkable.”
 Gritty, feminist South African crime fiction
with a protagonist in gray moral territory.
 Compelling writing that will please both
commercial and literary audiences.
“A white-knuckle thriller with an utterly chilling finale.”
—Tess Gerritsen, author of the Rizzoli & Isles series
“Jade de Jong is a heroine to cherish: tough, passionate, and packed with
enough flaws to keep her interesting.”
—Sophie Littlefield, author of A Bad Day for Sorry
Jassy Mackenzie was born in Rhodesia and moved to South
Africa when she was eight years old. She is the author of four
previous Jade de Jong novels, Random Violence, Stolen Lives, The
Fallen, and Pale Horses, and she edits and writes for the annual
publication Best of South Africa.
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Phone: (212) 260-1900
Foreign Rights
August Snow
by Stephen Mack Jones
Tough, smart, biracial, and struggling to stay afloat, August Snow is the
embodiment of Detroit. The son of an African American father and a Mexican mother, August grew up in Detroit’s Mexicantown, joined the Detroit
Police, and then was drummed out of the force and then out of town by
wrongful dismissal settlement that left him $12 million and low on friends.
He has just returned to the house he grew up in after a year away, and
quickly learns he has lots of scores to settle.
It’s not long before he’s summoned to the palatial Grosse Point Estates
home of business magnate Elenore Paget. Powerful and manipulative, Paget wants August to investigate the increasingly unusual happenings at
her private wealth management bank. But detective work is no longer August’s beat, and he declines the case. A day later, Paget is dead of an apparent suicide—which August doesn’t buy for a minute.
What begins as an investigation into Elenore Paget’s death soon devolves
into the dark worlds of off-shore banking, mercenaries with Russian prison tattoos and bloody agendas, a still-embittered Detroit Police Department painting a target on his back, an ugly case of embezzlement and a
disturbing double homicide. From the wealthy suburbs to the near postapocalyptic remains of a city teetering on the edge of bankruptcy, August
Snow is a fast paced tale of murder, greed, sex, economic cyber-terrorism,
urban decay and race in modern Detroit.
COVER
COMING
SOON!
US publication: February 2017
World English
Stephen Mack Jones is a published poet (The Dream of Thirteen
Black Women, The Atlantic Monthly), award-winning playwright
(Back in the World), and recipient of the prestigious Kresge Arts
in Detroit Literary Fellowship. He survived a number of years
in advertising and marketing communications. Mr. Jones was
born in Lansing, Michigan, and currently lives in Farmington
Hills, outside of Detroit. August Snow is the first August Octavio Snow mystery.
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 One of our few Soho Crime titles set in the
US, this possesses a unique cultural depth,
told from the perspective of a wealthy former
cop in one of America’s poorest cities.
 A debut author who lives and works as a
playwright in Detroit, and knows the ins and
outs of the city.
Phone: (212) 260-1900
Foreign Rights
Savage Theories
by Pola Oloixarac
Translated from the Spanish by Roy Kesey
A novel of seduction and madness, hate and love, set in the world of
Argentinean academia and animated by the spirits of Wittgenstein,
Rousseau, Nabokov and Bolaño.
A student at the Buenos Aires School of Philosophy attempts to put her life
(academically and romantically) in the service of a professor whose nearly
forgotten theories of violence she plans to popularize and radicalize—
against his wishes. Meanwhile, a young couple—a documentary filmmaker
and a blogger—engage in a series of cerebral and sexual misadventures. In
a novel crammed with philosophy, group sex, revolutionary politics, and a
fighting fish named Yorick, Oloixarac leads her characters and the reader
through dazzling and digressive intellectual byways to an Internet hack
that confronts us with a catalog of historical violence, devastation, and
atrocity throughout the centuries. Spellbinding, strange, groundbreaking,
and already translated into several languages, Savage Theories is the debut of
a major new voice on the world stage.
Praise for Pola Oloixarac
“Pola Oloixarac's prose work has proved a revelation in contemporary Argentinian fiction. Her novel is unforgettable, philosophical, brutal and extremely confident.”—Ricardo Piglia
US publication: January 2017
World English
“Bestselling Argentinian novelist Pola Oloixarac is part of a new generation
of Latin American writers, haunted by the ghosts of Bolaño and Borges.”
—The Telegraph
 A brilliant debut from an acclaimed young
Argentinian writer.
“Clearly one of the first classics that the twenty-first century has given
American literature.”—Le Monde, France
“A truly unusual novel, written by an exquisite anthropologist of contemporary barbarity.”—Ignacio Echevarría
“Monstrously clever and funny. Rather than a debut, this is the book many
of us spend our lives attempting to write.”—Javier Calvo
“A dazzling philosophical comedy.”—Dorr Mariano
Pola Oloixarac is a fiction writer and essayist. Her debut
novel, Las Teorías Salvajes (Savage Theories), has been translated
into several languages. Her fiction was included in the 2010
collection Granta: The Best of Young Spanish Novelists, and she was
a writer in residence at the International Writing Program at
the University of Iowa.
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 A searingly fresh take on academia, with unbridled sex, violence, and intellectual debate.
Phone: (212) 260-1900
Foreign Rights
The Nantucket Mysteries
by Francine Mathews
About the Series
Massachusetts, 1990s: Nantucket is one of America’s most popular summer beach towns. But it’s not exempt to crime, and that’s why the dogged, intuitive Merry
Folger joined the Nantucket police force as a detective over the objections of her father, the residing police chief.
 An unexpected but realistically dark take on what happens outside of peak tourist season at a vacation destination.
 This series is being modernized and republished for the first time in twenty years, in a lovely new paperback repackage.
 Francine Mathews is currently writing a brand-new installment to the series, Death in Nantucket, which will publish in the US in April 2017.
World English
Praise for the Nantucket Mysteries
“Wonderful . . . Nantucket and its impenetrable fog and characters come to
life.”—Diane Mott Davidson
“A wonderful find . . . Detective Merry Folger comes across as a real person,
albeit a smart one, with doubts and concerns.”
—The Denver Post
“Mathews uses her setting and its unique population skillfully.”
—The San Diego Union-Tribune
“[A] spare, atmospheric debut.”
—Publishers Weekly
Death in the Off-Season
Death in Rough Water
Death in a Mood Indigo
Death in a Cold Hard Light
(#1)
(#2)
(#3)
(#4)
Facing her first murder case under
the skeptical eye of her overprotective police chief father, detective Merry Folger seeks the truth
behind the demise of Nantucket
scion Rusty Mason, discovered
drowned in his family home after a
ten-year stint in Brazil to avoid an
insider trading indictment. Why
would he return, and who would
want him dead?
Everyone agrees that Captain Joe
Duarte's death at sea was an accident, except for his estranged
daughter, Merry Folger’s friend
Del, whose return fuels gossip.
When Merry begins to investigate,
she discovers a wake of fishy stories, threatening letters, and scandalous secrets.
Two children on Sconset beach
discover the skeletal remains of a
woman strangled between two and
ten years ago. The Massachusetts
police then arrest a man they believe to be a serial strangler. Is Merry's Nantucket skeleton the killer's
first victim? And do the state cops
have the right man? When the murderer strikes again, he'll draw Merry into a deadly cat and mouse game
in which she's the final target.
Merry Folger is ready for a romantic
vacation with her fiancé Peter when
fate intervenes. Why was twentyone-year-old Jay Santorski, an athlete and Harvard scholar, alone in
the storm-churned bay where he
drowned? As Merry digs further,
she is confronted at every turn by
false leads and dead ends, and traces
them back to police chief John Folger. For the first time, Merry begins
to distrust her own father.
Francine Mathews was born in Binghamton, New York, the
last of six girls. She attended Princeton and Stanford Universities, where she studied history, before going on to work as an
intelligence analyst at the CIA. She wrote her first book in 1992
and left the Agency a year later. Since then, she has written
twenty-seven books. She lives and works in Denver, Colorado.
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Foreign Rights
Blood Crime
by Sebastià Alzamora
Translated from the Catalan by Martha Tennent & Maruxa Relaño Tennent
It is 1936, and Barcelona burns as the Spanish Civil War takes over. The
city is a bloodbath. Yet in all this death, the murders of a Marist monk and
a young boy, drained of their blood, are strange enough to catch a police
inspector's attention. His quest for justice is complicated by the politics,
dangers, and espionage of daily life in a war zone. The Marist brothers of
the murdered monk are being persecuted; meanwhile, a convent of Capuchin nuns hide in plain sight, trading favors with the military police to stay
alive. In their midst is a thirteen-year-old orphan novice who stumbles into
the clutches of the murderer—but can she escape in this city of no happy
endings?
Narrated by a vampire who thrives in the havoc of the war, this stunning
multi-genre novel, inspired by the true story of a massacre in the early days
of the Spanish Civil War, is a gothic reflection on the nature of monsters,
in all their human forms.
Praise for Blood Crime
WINNER OF THE SANT JORDI PRIZE FOR CATALAN LITERATURE
“A sepulchral Gothic thriller of serious and mesmerizing beauty, Blood
Crime depicts a world on the edge of the abyss with a terrifying gentleness.”—Actes Sud, France
“Here is a Gothic novel about a bishop in a style that has no contemporary
narrative equivalent . . . An extraordinary discovery.”—Pere Gimferrer
“A daring effort to make the impossible connection between vampires and
the Spanish Civil War . . . Alzamora portrays anew the apocalyptic beginnings of the National Uprising, bringing together several plots at a thrilling cinematic pace.”—Reading Now, Spain, Book of the Week
“A complex novel that presents a dark, seldom seen portrait of Spanish
Republicans . . . An unclassifiable novel that requires time for reflection,
and a second reading to fully grasp.”—Salon Littéraire, France
Sebastià Alzamora i Martin was born in Mallorca and graduated with a degree in Catalan philology. He rose to prominence as a poet with the collection Rafel. Since then, he has
written three more volumes of poetry and five novels. He has
received numerous prizes, including the prestigious Sant
Jordi Prize for Blood Crime. He is the editorial director of the
Catalan magazine Cultura as well as a regular columnist for
various newspapers, including Avui and Ara. He lives in Barcelona.
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US publication: September 2016
World English
 A contemporary Catalan classic by one of
Barcelona’s most decorated literary talents.
 A beautifully literary reimagining of the
Spanish Civil War, layered in metaphor and
stark depictions of violence.
 Alzamora is available for events, and is already traveling internationally for his French
and US debuts.
Phone: (212) 260-1900
Foreign Rights
I Shot the Buddha
by Colin Cotterill
A fiendishly clever mystery in which Dr. Siri and his friends investigate three interlocking murders—and the ungodly motives behind
them.
Laos, 1979: Retired coroner Siri Paiboun and his wife, Madame Daeng, have
never been able to turn away a misfit. As a result, they share their small
Vientiane house with an assortment of homeless people, mendicants, and
oddballs. One of these oddballs is Noo, a Buddhist monk, who rides out on
his bicycle one day and never comes back, leaving only a cryptic note in the
refrigerator: a plea to help a fellow monk escape across the Mekhong River
to Thailand.
Naturally, Siri can’t turn down the adventure, and soon he and his friends
find themselves running afoul of Lao secret service officers and famous
spiritualists. Buddhism is a powerful influence on both morals and politics
in Southeast Asia. In order to exonerate an innocent man, they will have to
figure out who is cloaking terrible misdeeds in religiosity.
Praise for the Dr. Siri Paiboun Investigations
“Laughter is a subversive weapon when you live under a repressive regime.
That's the take-away lesson from Colin Cotterill's gravely funny novels set
in Indochina in the 1970s.”—The New York Times Book Review
“Unpredictable . . . Tragically funny and magically sublime.”
US publication: August 2016
World English

An award-winning series with a cult following that is always widely and well-reviewed.

Features dark humor, oddball characters,
and rich depictions of Laos in a moment of
political upheaval.
—Entertainment Weekly
“This wonderful series has consistently managed to convey the beauty and
sadness of this damaged country through the wisdom and humor of its
protagonist.”—The Boston Globe
“A gladdening complement to many mystery-reader's table . . . If you are
unfamiliar with Paiboun works, it is time to crawl out of whatever cave
you have been living in. This is for you.”
—The Christian Science Monitor
Colin Cotterill is the author of ten other books in the Dr. Siri
Paiboun series: 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, and Six and a Half Deadly Sins. His fiction has won a Dilys Award and a CWA Dagger in the Library. He lives in Chumphon, Thailand, with his wife and six
deranged dogs.
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For more information on
the Dr. Siri Paiboun mysteries, please visit:
http://sohopress.com/authors/colin-cotterill/

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