Books from Soho Press
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The Reaper
By Peter LoveseyUnkind things might have been said at this end of the evening if Joe Jackson had not been standing just inside the door behind a steaming punchbowl. Normally a solemn figure, he was wearing reindeer horns and an apron made to look as if ...
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The Night She Died
By Jennifer PatrickThey become closer, and she is drawn to him. Rumors about her relationships with men soon begin to circulate, and tensions escalate. Lara is shot dead. And Sterling is the prime suspect. Jennifer Patrick was born in Durham, North Carolina.
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Witnessing History: One Chinese Woman's Fight for Freedom
By Jennifer ZengThirteen-year-old Huang Fang was in for murder. She had been sentenced to three years, which was the longest term you could spend in a forced-labour camp; it was known as 'the full score'. Huang Fang's appearance in Squad 3 caused quite ...
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Witnessing History: One Chinese Woman's Fight for Freedom
By Jennifer ZengZheng Zeng was lucky. Thousands of others have been deprived by an oppressive Chinese government of their freedom of speech and assembly and the freedom to believe as they choose. This is a testament to her ordeal and theirs.
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All of Us with Wings
By Michelle Ruiz Keil“Do you think it's possible to be too smart?" “I've been living with too smart for almost thirteen years." They watched the bison again in silence. The curious herd member nosed the fence, then snorted and trotted back to her family.
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Murder in Montmartre
By Cara BlackIt had been two summers after her American mother had left them. Ten-year-old Laure had confided, in the playground, that she intended to follow her papa into police work. The beep and click of the bedside machines brought Aimée back to ...
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Murder in Passy
By Cara BlackHer memories of the Basque country came from summers in her friend's mother's village. Pine branches heavy with rain, their crisp scent wafting over the whitewashed farmhouses and redtiled roofs bordering the green sheep meadows.
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The Salisbury Manuscript
By Philip Goodenprinted, Adler's Ointment: Suitable for all Types of. While Tom was wondering about the application of Adler's Ointment, Helen unfastened the lid. Inside was a mass of items individually wrapped in brown paper.
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A Dead Man in Naples
By Michael PearceThe most recent letter said: So, my dear, at last I am here. What a hell-hole! I shall escape to Naples at every opportunity. Vincente feels the same but at least he has his bicycle. No such respite for me! Thank God you, at least, ...
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The Gun Seller: A Novel
By Hugh LaurieL'Air Du Temps de Praha. Prague Springs, Summers ... Twentysix churches, fourteen galleries and museums, an opera house - where the boy Mozart had staged his first-ever performance of Don Giovanni - eight theatres, and a McDonald's.
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A Tiger's Heart: The Story of a Modern Chinese Woman
By Aisling Juanjuan ShenI sat down on the mattress next to Wang Hui and told him that he would have to stay with one of the male employees for the night, since the sixth secretary was staying with me. Looking angry, Wang Hui fell back on the mattress and ...
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A Tiger's Heart: The Story of a Modern Chinese Woman: A Memoir
By Aisling Juanjuan ShenThis remarkable true story of a Chinese peasant girl’s unlikely rise to success is “like a suspense novel .
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Anarchy and Old Dogs
By Colin CotterillPhosy could have madeit but itwould have taken afrontend loader to get Dtuiover. She climbed down and watched thedog scratchingat the fence afew yards away. He looked up at her and continued to scratchas if he wanted tobeletout.
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Curse of the Pogo Stick
By Colin CotterillThe first goon had a solid presence about him, like a frontend loader with attitude. Siri had no pockets but he allowed the pouch to be plucked from his waist without any retaliation. “Then I invoke the spirit of the great eagle,” Siri ...
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The Midnight Band of Mercy
By Michael BlaineHe goes to meet a source in a deserted saloon, only to find the man as dead as the cats that started it all. Soon his worst fears come to life. The story Max is stalking now stalks him.
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The First Wave
By James R. BennHarding took more coffee, poured milk into it and tapped his spoon on the edge of the thick ceramic mug. Clink clink clink. “I don't like what I'm hearing. You're suggesting that a US Army officer would betray secret plans for the ...
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Billy Boyle
By James R. Benn“I did,” Harding said. “I was having a smoke and walked over to a window ... Harding half closed his eyes, recreating the scene in his mind. “Daphne was standing next tothe Imp.Kaz ... I'm a cop, remember? I see thisstuff allthe time.
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London Calling
By James CraigWilliam Murray glanced at his boss, who nodded his approval, before leaning forward and speaking slowly into the ... Christian Holyrod was also out on the election campaign, while the other two – Sebastian Lloyd and Harry Allen – were ...
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Ghost of a Flea
By James SallisPopulists like James Agee, and in his own way Fearing, rejected belief that the old high art held some possibility of salvation. Now art, all art, had been democratized, leveled, marked down for quick sale. Now it could only be packaged ...
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Black Hornet
By James SallisWith this flashback novel to Lew Griffin’s past, James Sallis takes readers to 1960s New Orleans, a sun-baked city of Black Panthers and other separatists.