Bitter Lemon Press imprint: 67 books

A dark, literary, crime novel set near Boston. Written with the controlled violence of a Tarantino film, it is the story of Franck, a private detective of sorts from NY, a cokehead and a dandy, who, in a race against time and the local sheriff, investigates two brutal murders committed by what could be the same psychopath.

"A Grain of Truth, like every great crime novel, digs up more unsettling questions than it does answers; it also demonstrates the seemingly endless possibilities of the form itself to serve as smart social criticism." --Maureen Corrigan, on NPR's Fresh AirPraise for the first novel in the...

For Victor Cox, a professor of film history, the Hollywood films noirs of the 1940s and 1950s are more real than his daily life. When his wife is found drowned, Cox is the first murder suspect. He falls in love with a student who looks like the 1920s film star Louise Brooks, but she disappears at...

Tito Ihaka, the unkempt, overweight Maori cop, was demoted to Sergeant due to insubordination and pigheadedness. He investigates the unsolved killing of a seventeen-year-old girl at an election night party in a ritzy villa near Auckland. Ihaka is also embroiled in a very personal mystery. A freelance...

Cult author of ‘The Working Stiff’s Manifesto’ and ‘After the Layoffs’ 2. Iain Levison tells this satirical tale of a University professor’s transformation into a ruthless killer with a tough, wisecracking tone that will be familiar to readers of his previous work. 3. A black comedy of morals...

A taut psychological thriller about a visitor from war-torn Georgia who brings paranoia to a peaceful family.

Jacques Chessex won France’s prestigious Prix Goncourt and is considered Switzerland’s most important living author writing in French. 2. A literary gem, The Vampire of Ropraz published in Paris to wide critical acclaim in 2007 and sold over 200,000 copies. 3. A lyrical, deliciously claustrophobic...

Stratos hates being called a hitman. He takes care of problems. Permanently. Problems that people pay handsomely to have solved. His clients don’t want to know the details, but Stratos is conscientious. He will only take on a job if his research shows that the targets deserve their fate. In...

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Baby Blue, the second in a new mystery series, is set in contemporary Greece, a country teetering from one crisis to the next. Soaring unemployment, waves of immigrants, new forms of organized crime, and political instability. Athenians are struggling and their city is a fascinating setting for this...

--A Nordic Noir of the first order set in deepest and darkest Lapland but also a historic mystery novel of the Cold War. --A woman author and a female heroine. Evil Things introduces a wonderful new heroine in crime fiction; Hella Mauzer. A misunderstood, flawed, whip-smart detective, fighting...