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Bitter Lemon

Heretics

By Anna Kushner (trans.) - By Leonardo Padura - Published 2017

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In 1939, the S.S. Saint Louis arrived in Cuba with 900 Jewish refugees. They boarded hoping for a new life, only to be turned ...Read Review

The Road to Ithaca

By Ben Pastor - Published 2017

Genres:

Mystery/Crime Thriller

While stationed in Moscow in 1941, Baron Martin von Bora, a captain in the German Wehrmacht, is ordered to the isle of Crete to ...Read Review

A Man of Genius

By Janet Todd - Published 2016

Genres:

Mystery/Crime

In 1816 London, Ann St. Clair supports herself by writing gothic horror novels. Her cold, cruel mother had rejected her as a child, and ...Read Review

Tin Sky

By Ben Pastor - Published 2015

Genres:

Mystery/Crime

Tin Sky is the 4th in Ben Pastor’s Martin Bora mystery stories and my first acquaintance with this aristocratic young Abwehr major. ...Read Review

A Dark Song of Blood

By Ben Pastor - Published 2014

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Mystery/Crime

A Dark Song of Blood is the third book in the Martin Bora series of crime mysteries by Ben Pastor, set in 1944 in ...Read Review

The Man Who Loved Dogs

By Anna Kushner (trans.) - By Leonardo Padura - Published 2013

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Biographical Fiction Literary

Three men who loved dogs play major roles in this novel about the assassination of Leon Trotsky. A Cuban veterinary magazine editor meets ...Read Review