Mystery & Detective / Slavic literature

The End of the World in Breslau

Inspector Eberhard Mock Quartet #2

by Marek Krajewski & Danusia Stok

The second installment in the darkly intelligent series that The Independent called “As noir as they get.”

1927, Breslau, Poland: Two elaborate and sadistic murders are discovered within days of each other....

A Grain of Truth

by Zygmunt Miloszewski & Antonia Lloyd-Jones

Prosecutor Szacki’s investigation of a murder in a Polish town reveals the poisonous anti-Semitism that haunts all who live there.

Death in Breslau

Inspector Eberhard Mock Quartet #1

by Marek Krajewski & Danusia Stok

Introducing one of the most stylish and moody historic detective series ever: The Inspector Eberhard Mock Quartet

Occupied Breslau, 1933: Two young women are found murdered on a train, scorpions writhing on their...

The Investigation

by Stanislaw Lem & Adele Milch

A young officer at Scotland Yard is assigned to investigate a puzzling and eerie case of missing-and apparently resurrected-bodies. To unravel the mystery, Lt. Gregory consults scientific, philosophical, and...

The Case of the General's Thumb

by Andrei Kurkov & George Bird

John Le Carré meets Mikhail Bulgakov in this international crime thriller by the author of the acclaimed Death and the Penguin

The corpse of a distinguished general is found attached to an advertising balloon—and...