Books from Soho Press

The Ville Rat
By Martin Limon
... the bars charged 1,500 won for a can of Colt 45 , three bucks , which was a hell of a lot . So not many GIs bought ... Ville Rat for each can , but they were evasive . Black marketeering was wide- spread but still a crime . I figured they ...
The Last Detective
By Peter Lovesey
"I am so excited for you to be at the very beginning of this trend-setting, beautifully written, vivid series."—from the introduction by LOUISE PENNY In the first entry to the series and winner of the 1992 Anthony Boucher Award for Best ...
Bones in High Places: The Case of the Vicar and the Casket of Crumbling Bones
By Suzette A. Hill
More from Maurice, Bouncer, and the hapless Reverend Oughterard.
Bones in High Places: A Reverend Oughterard Mystery
By Suzette A. Hill
There FO is pursued by murderous thugs and ensnared by a cranky religious sect. From the Hardcover edition.
A Dead Man in Athens
By Michael Pearce
Seymour of Scotland Yard is sent to conduct a low-key investigation when a cat belonging to the exiled former Sultan of Salonica is poisoned in what many believe was a sighting shot to the ex-Sultan himself.
Dead Man in Athens
By Michael Pearce
... man who makes sense.” “Oh, is that so, Popadopoulos?” they say.And theyusually givemesome shit job.“Well, you make sense of that!” And that is what Ithought they had done now. An Englishman killed. That's bad. The English will be up ...
Death Ex Machina
By Gary Corby
A theatrical murder shocks ancient Athens, in this mystery that “manages to effortlessly integrate laugh-out-loud humor into a fairly clued puzzle” (Publishers Weekly, starred review).
Death on Delos
By Gary Corby
In the seventh in Gary Corby's Athenian Mystery series, Nico and Diotima must solve a murder case while also preparing to have a baby.
The Pericles Commission
By Gary Corby
Athens, 461 BC: A clever young man named Nicolaos has been hired by the politician Pericles to find and expose an assassin.
A Dead Man in Trieste
By Michael Pearce
The churning politics of Trieste in 1906 provide the perfect backdrop for murder in the first in a series set in British embassies and consulates in the early 1900s featuring Special Branch officer Seymour.
When Red Is Black
By Qiu Xiaolong
... up the curtain; the space inside was full of the grimy discarded junk. A ... black pieces in one of his hands and the white in the other, studying the board as ... play the game solo. “Hi,” he said, coming to a stop by the stool. “How come you ...
Snow in July
By Heather Doran Barbieri
Erin Mulcahy has grown up in her older sister Meghan's shadow: not quite as pretty, smart, or dynamic. Just as Erin is on the verge of fulfilling her dream of...
The Leaf Reader
By Emily Arsenault
Emily Arsenault (The Rose Notes) makes her YA debut with a “page-ripping whodunit” about Marnie Wells, who comes face-to-face with the occult when she discovers her ability to read tea leaves might help solve the mystery of a classmate ...
Inside Madeleine: Stories
By Paula Bomer
... she says, I feel resolved about things. Really I do, all the while thinking, yes sir shrinky dink, thinking God is our forty five minutes up yet and then it is and Maddy's alone again and she hears her neighbors cough and she gets up ...
Plum Rains
By Andromeda Romano-Lax
In a tour-de-force tapestry of science fiction and historical fiction, Andromeda Romano-Lax presents a story set in Japan and Taiwan that spans a century of empire, conquest, progress, and destruction. 2029: In Japan, a historically mono ...
The Oasis
By Pauline Gedge
After his father's death, Kamose assumes command of the rebellion of the native princes against their overlords.
Lady of the Reeds
By Pauline Gedge
She grew up on the reed-lined banks of the upper Nile in the twelfth century B.C. but she was not like the other villagers.
The Audacity
By Ryan Chapman
Meanwhile, Victoria narrates her side of the story from an off-the-grid location in the California desert.
99 Ways to Die
By Ed Lin
In Taipei, Taiwan, the kidnapping of a Mainlander billionaire throws national media into a tizzy—not least because of the famous victim’s vitriolic anti-immigration politics.
My Favorite Scar
By Nicolás Ferraro
A teenage girl and her gangster father embark on a road trip toward revenge in this award-winning coming-of-age Argentinian noir.