Mask noir

It is the 1960s. England has become a dictatorship, governed by a sly, ruthless politician called Jobling. All non-whites have been deported, The English Times is the only newspaper, and ordinary people live in dread of nightly curfews and secret police. Richard Watt used all his journalistic talents to expose Jobling before he came to power. Now in exile in a farmhouse amid the cruel heat of the Italian countryside, Watt cultivates his vineyards. His remote rural idyll is shattered by the arrival of an emissary from London. Derek Raymond's skill is to make all too plausible the transition from complacent democracy to dictatorship in a country preoccupied by consumerism and susceptible to media spin.

El primer caso del detective Carvalho en Madrid. Una reunión rutinaria del Comité Central del Partido Comunista de España. Se apagan las luces. Aparece asesinado el secretario general. A partir de este arranque empieza una investigación paralela entre el comisario Fonseca, designado por el gobierno, y Pepe Carvalho, detective privado contratado por el PCE. Sobre un Madrid sobrecogido por el crimen, se desarrollan los movimientos humanos, políticos, eróticos, gastronómicos de Carvalho en busca de la verdad. Una novela de aventuras con todos los elementos «carvalhianos» y que supone una de las obras más conocidas de Manuel Vázquez Montalbán protagonizada por su detective fetiche.

Crime stories in the British capital. The stories range from regular police procedurals, such as John Harvey's Now's the Time, to more gruesome tales, such as Chaz Brenchley's Scouting for Boys, on a killer of boy prostitutes.

Arnold Cartwright, an 'ordinary Englishman', has lost his job and marriage. A highly-qualified radar technician, he is recruited by a Spanish-based company working in 'commercial aircraft control'. Right from the start, Cartwright realises that the job he is working on is not as innocent as it seems. A murder attempt on his father makes it clear to him that he has his job for life or death... A post-cold-war thriller, Sand Blind raises questions of fundamental importance - the morality of international arms sales, the use and abuse of double agents and Western support for power-crazed dictators. A sexy, enthralling page-turner, Sand Blind is the work of a brilliant writer at the height of his powers.

It's 1953 in Red-baiting, blacklisting Los Angeles, a moral tar pit ready to swallow Easy Rawlins. Easy is out of "the hurting business" and into the housing (and favor) business when a racist IRS agent nails him for tax evasion. Special Agent Darryl T. Craxton, FBI, offers to bail him out if he agrees to infiltrate the First American Baptist Church and spy on alleged communist organizer Chaim Wenzler. That's when the murders begin....

China Bayles has it all - a prestigious Houston law practice, money, power - but it's not enough. She's smart, she's tough, she's confident, and she knows she wants something more out of life than the fast track offers. Something like the Thyme and Seasons herb shop in Pecan Springs, Texas. Realizing that her career is turning her into somebody she doesn't like, China does what many people only dream of doing: She relocates to a small town to begin a new and, she hopes, a gentler, more fulfilling life. But even in Pecan Springs, evil can occur among ordinary people living everyday lives. China soon learns that while she can move from the city, she can't escape the world of moral choice. When China's good friend, Jo Gilbert, apparently commits suicide, China is more than puzzled. Jo had been suffering from a terminal disease, but wasn't the type to take her own life. And, to a lawyer like China, some revealing letters that Jo leaves behind shout blackmail and murder, not suicide. But why would