It’s footy season in Melbourne, and Helen Garner is following her grandson’s under-16s team. She not only goes to every game (give or take), but to every training session too, shivering on the sidelin…
This novel begins with a retired Holmes in the English countryside, more interested in beekeeping than solving cases. Only the imminent war with Germany will bring Holmes out of his voluntary retireme…
«Immaginate di tornare un giorno a casa vostra e di trovare un costruttore legato alla mafia lì davanti. Immaginate che vi dica che quella non è casa vostra, ma sua. E che, qualche anno dopo, ve la da…
Novembre, Aosta, il tempo è grigio, piove, il colore del cielo varia dal grigiastro al bianco nebbia. Un ciclista investito sulla strada della Valsavarenche si trasforma per Rocco Schiavone in una ind…
The stark naked body was lying in the tub. Not unusual for a proper bath, but highly irregular for murder -- especially with a pair of gold pince-nez deliberately perched before the sightless eyes. Wh…
Chesterton portrays Father Brown as a short, stumpy Roman Catholic priest, with shapeless clothes and a large umbrella, and an uncanny insight into human evil. "How in Tartarus," cried Flambeau, "did …
On the eve of the first Scottish parliament in three hundred years, Edinburgh is a city rife with political passions and expectations. Queensbury House, the home of Scotland's new rulers, falls in the…
