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The Pope’s Daughter Dario Fo Translated from the Italian by Antony Shugaar

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Lucrezia Borgia is one of the most vilified women in modern history. The daughter of a notorious pope, she was twice betrothed before the age of eleven and thrice married—one husband was forced to declare himself impotent and thereby unfit, and another was murdered by Lucrezia’s own brother, Cesare Borgia. She is cast in the role of murderess, temptress, incestuous lover, loose woman, femme fatale par excellence. But there are two sides to every story.

Lucrezia Borgia is the only woman in history to have served as the head of the Catholic Church. She successfully administered several of Renaissance Italy’s most thriving cities, founded one of the world’s first credit unions, and was a generous patron of the arts. She was mother to a prince and to a cardinal. She was a devoted wife to the Prince of Ferrara, and the lover of the poet Pietro Bembo. She was a child of the Renaissance and in many ways the world’s first modern woman. Nobel laureate, Dario Fo, reveals Lucrezia’s humanity, her passion for life, her compassion for others, and her skill at navigating around her family’s evildoings. The Borgias are unrivalled for the range and magnitude of their political machinations and opportunism. Fo’s brilliance rests in his rendering their story as a shocking mirror image of the uses and abuses of power in our own time. Lucrezia herself becomes a model for how to survive and rise above those abuses.

Marketing and Publicity • House of Cards meets Macbeth meets Wolf Hall in this tale of political maneuvering and powerful families • National print review coverage • Galley giveaway competitions • Regional interest: Italy, Renaissance, Rome • Reading group guide available Comparative titles: Bring Up The Bodies and Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel; Baltasar and Blimunda by Jose Saramago; Blood and Beauty: The Borgias by Sarah Dunant. On sale: August 4 • Fiction • Paperback • isbn: 9781609452742 5¼ x 8¼ • 208 pages • $16.00/£9.99 • World English • ebook isbn: 9781609452841

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Praise for Dario Fo “Fo is a kind of medieval jester, and here he entertainingly describes the many virtues of that grand dame of the Renaissance, Lucrezia Borgia.” —El País (Spain)

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“In this novel, Fo reveals Lucrezia’s humanity, thus liberating her from the stereotypes of wanton, incestuous woman and placing her into proper historical context and into her day-to-day life.” —The Huffington Post (Italy) “Dario Fo takes the image that has been sent down to us all the way from John Ford’s Tis a Pity She’s a Whore through Victor Hugo’s play Lucrezia Borgia to a slew of the recent popular biographies and turns it inside out.” —La Repubblica (Italy)

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Born near Lago Maggiore in Italy in 1926, Dario Fo is an actor, playwright, comedian, director, songwriter and political campaigner. His first one-act play was produced in 1958 and since then he has written, directed and acted in over forty plays and theatrical productions. In 1997 he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. In the words of the Nobel Prize committee: “He if anyone merits the epithet of jester in the true meaning of that word. With a blend of laughter and gravity he opens our eyes to abuses and injustices in society and also the wider historical perspective in which they can be placed.” The Pope’s Daughter is his first novel.

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Mayumi and the Sea of Happiness Jennifer Tseng

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Books are Mayumi’s one source of true pleasure. Forty-one years old, disenchanted wife and dutiful mother, her work at the town library on a small island off the coast of New England feeds her passion for reading and provides her with occasions for wry observations on human folly, but it does little to remedy the mundanity of her life. That is, until the day she issues a library card to a shy seventeen-year-old boy and swiftly succumbs to a sexual obsession that subverts the way she sees her work, family, the island she lives on, and ultimately herself.

All too conscious of her growing attraction to the young man yet wary of the consequences of acting upon her impulses, Mayumi is hesitant at first. She befriends Violet, the young man’s mother, in an attempt to be close to him while maintaining a safe physical distance. But her obsession gathers force and after a season of overlong glances and nervous conversation in the library, Mayumi quietly propositions the boy. Her life is radically enriched by the few hours she shares with the young man each week. As their relationship deepens, and they begin to share opinions about the books they love and the dreams that animate them, ending the affair seems as impossible as it is imperative. Exquisitely written and compulsively readable, Mayumi and the Sea of Happiness is equal parts wry confession and serious meditation. At its most anxious it’s a book about time, at its most ecstatic it’s a deeply human story about passion and pleasure.

Marketing and Publicity • National print review coverage • Library marketing • Regional interest: New England, Martha’s Vineyard, Islands • Book group marketing and reading group guide available • Social media campaign and galley giveaway on Shelf Awareness and Goodreads Comparative titles: The Professor by Terry Castle; Notes on a Scandal by Zoë Heller; You Deserve Nothing by Alexander Maksik; The Woman Upstairs by Claire Messud; Ancient Light by John Banville On sale: May 26 • Fiction • Paperback • isbn: 9781609452698 5¼ x 8¼ • 272 pages • $17.00/£10.99 • World English • ebook isbn: 9781609452780

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From Mayumi and the Sea of Happiness It began at the library. While the young man waited quietly to be helped, I stood neatly in thrall to the world outside the window. Momijigari was ending; leaves were falling in drifts like snow. Blackcaps were eating the trees, striking the bark with their beaks then rapidly chewing it, in that annual burlesque of sheer appetite I’ve always found vulgar. When I turned, he cleared his throat and asked for a library card. He explained with darting, downcast eyes that although he’d been coming to the library with his mother since he was a child, he’d never had his own card. There was something in his manner—softness, reverence, a hesitation in the face—that is peculiar to a son close to his mother. Doesn’t intimacy foster reverence more completely than anything that can be taught? As I handed him the form and then watched as he filled it in—his fingers fumbling a bit with the tiny pencil—I didn’t think of having him yet, I simply gaped at his beauty. I had the thought: he is out of reach, a thought that, had I been younger, might have spurred me on, but in middle age, told me to retreat.

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Jennifer Tseng’s first book The Man With My Face won the 2005 Asian American Writers’ Workshop’s National Poetry Manuscript Competition and a 2006 PEN American Center Open Book Award. Her second book Red Flower, White Flower, winner of the Marick Press Poetry Prize, features Chinese translations by Mengying Han and Aaron Crippen. Mayumi and the Sea of Happiness is her debut novel. She works at the West Tisbury Library on Martha’s Vineyard.

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Venetia Roberto Tiraboschi Translated from the Italian by Katherine Gregor In the twelfth century AD, Venice is little more than an agglomeration of small islands snatched from the muddy tides. The magnificent and powerful Serene Republic is yet to be born. Here, in this northern backwater, a group of artisans have proven themselves to be unrivalled in an art form that produces works of such astounding beauty that many consider it mystical in nature and think its practitioners possessed of otherworldly gifts. They are glassmakers. Presciently aware of the power they wield and the role they will play in the Venice of the future, the Venetian glassmakers inhabit a world of esoteric practices and secret knowledge that they protect at all costs. Into this world steps Edgardo d’Arduino, a cleric and a professional copyist. Edgardo’s eyesight has begun to waver, but he has heard stories, perhaps legends, that in Venice, city of glassmakers, there exists a stone, the lapides ad legendum, that can restore one’s sight. When a series of horrific crimes shakes the cloistered world of the glassmakers, Edgardo realizes that there is much more at stake than his failing vision. Equal parts The Name of the Rose and The Da Vinci Code, Roberto Tiraboschi’s English-language debut is a gripping historical thriller and a magnificent recreation of Venice in the Middle Ages.

Marketing and Publicity • National print review coverage • Regional interest: Italy, Venice, Middle ages • Reading group guide available Comparative titles: The Glassblower from Murano by Marina Fiorato; The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco; The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown On sale: May 5 • Historical Fiction • Paperback • isbn: 9781609452650 5¼ x 8¼ • 288 pages • $17.00/£10.99 • World English • ebook isbn: 9781609452667

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The men looked at one another, terrified. “These eyes are the color of hell,” someone cried. “It is the work of Beelzebub!” They immediately made the sign of the cross. No one had ever seen such horror. Gouged out eyes, hands cut off, men hanged, and women burned at the stake were commonplace, but that fixed gaze and the icy light of the stones penetrated one’s soul like an augury of death, a curse, the Apocalypse foretold. Who could have done this to the hapless Balbo?

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Roberto Tiraboschi was born in Bergamo (Italy) and lives between Rome and Venice. Screenwriter and playwright, he has worked with Nobel laureate Dario Fo and written screenplays for Italian directors, including Marco Pontecorvo, Silvio Soldini, Liliana Cavani, among others. His novels, Sonno and Sguardo 11, have enjoyed critical and commercial success in Italy. Venetia is the first of his novels to be published in English.

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The World is a Wedding Wendy Jones It is 1926. Wilfred Price, purveyor of superior funerals, is newly married to the beautiful (and pregnant) Flora Myffanwy, but as much as he loves Flora, he senses her distance from him. Are marriage and fatherhood going to be very different from how Wilfred imagined? His brief and painful marriage to Grace is long behind him. Grace has fled to London, where she is working as a chambermaid at the luxurious Ritz Hotel. But Grace has a secret, one that can’t be hidden forever and binds her to her old life in Wales. Despite Wilfred’s earnest effort to embrace the future, he is beginning to wonder if the past has too powerful a hold on him in this witty and charming follow-up to the much-loved The Thoughts and Happenings of Wilfred Price, Purveyor of Superior Funerals.

Marketing and Publicity • National print review coverage • Regional interest: Wales, the United Kingdom • Reading group guide available Comparative titles: The Thoughts and Happenings of Wilfred Price, Purveyor of Superior Funerals by Wendy Jones; The History of Love by Nicole Krauss; The House at Tyneford by Natasha Solomon On sale: May 19 • Fiction • Paperback • isbn: 9781609452674 5¼ x 8¼ • 272 pages • $16.00 • US • ebook isbn: 9781609452773

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MAY Praise for The Thoughts and Happenings of Wilfred Price, Purveyor of Superior Funerals “A story exploring first love, loyalty and loss—this diverting novel is pure pleasure.”—The New York Times Book Review or “A skillfully drawn comedy of manners.”—The New Yorker as s riage

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“This playfully poignant debut blossoms out of an irresistible premise. With wit, compassion and spot-on prose, Jones constructs an engrossing period drama. She expertly conjures the speech patterns, mores and physical details of a bygone world in this remarkable debut.”—The San Francisco Chronicle “From the vagaries of desire, through parental love and its absence, to smalltown morality, the British author has put together a thematically rich book in a perfectly rendered time and place.”—Kirkus, starred review “Jones skillfully demonstrates that life is made up of varying measures of both joy and pain. Her characters are delightfully drawn, lovingly described, and infused with life that transcends the printed page.”—World Literature Today “A life-embracing novel.”—The Boston Globe

Wendy Jones is the author of the biography Grayson Perry: Portrait of the Artist as a Young Girl and the novel The Thoughts and Happenings of Wilfred Price, Purveyor of Superior Funerals. She completed an MA in Life Writing at the University of East Anglia and is currently completing a PhD in Creative Writing at Goldsmiths, where she also teaches. She lives in London.

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The Hollow Heart Viola Di Grado Translated from the Italian by Antony Shugaar In this courageous, inventive, irreverent, and shrewd novel, Viola Di Grado tells the story of a suicide and what follows. She gives voice to an astonishing vision of life after life, portraying the awful longing and sense of loss that plague the dead, together with the solitude provoked by the impossibility of communicating. The afterlife itself is seen as a dark, seething place where one is preyed upon by the cruel and unrelenting elements. The Hollow Heart will frighten as it provokes, enlighten as it causes concern. If ever there were a novel that follows Kafka’s prescription for a book to be an axe for the frozen sea within us, it is The Hollow Heart. In this, Di Grado’s second novel after 70% Acrylic 30% Wool, the twentyseven-year-old prodigy gives proof of her reputation as a singular and explosive talent.

Marketing and Publicity • National print review coverage • Reading group guide available Comparative titles: Life after Life by Kate Atkinson; The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold; Samedi, the Deafness by Jesse Ball; 70% Acrylic 30% Wool by Viola Di Grado. On sale: June 23 • Fiction • Paperback • isbn: 9781609452711 5¼ x 8¼ • 176 pages • $16.00/£9.99 • World English • ebook isbn: 9781609452810

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JUNE Praise for 70% Acrylic 30% Wool “A fearless first novel . . . Shimmering prose.” —The New York Times T Magazine “Sophisticated . . . a subtle meditation on language and its failures.” —The Financial Times

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“[Di Grado’s] black comedy, pungent metaphors and controlled ambiguity announce the arrival of a considerable talent.” —The Times Literary Supplement “Written in lavish language and with beautiful metaphors.” —The Star Tribune

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“What a novel! Viola di Grado is undoubtedly a true creator . . . This first novel shows immense promise.” —The Quarterly Conversation

Viola Di Grado was born in Catania, Italy, and currently lives in London. Her first novel, 70% Acrylic 30% Wool, was the winner of the 2011 Campiello First Novel Award and a finalist for Italy’s most prestigious literary prize, The Strega.

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The Vienna Melody Ernst Lothar Translated from the German by Elizabeth Reynolds Hapgood Everyone in Vienna knows that the inhabitant of number 10 Seilerstätte is none other than Christopher Alt, piano maker, the best in the city, probably in all of Austria, and possibly the world over. His piano keys have given life to melodies by Mozart, Haydn, Beethoven, and many more. On his deathbed, moved by the wish to keep his children united, he leaves a will specifying that his descendants, if they are to get their inheritance, must live together in the family home. Over successive generations of the Alt family, history itself passes through the doors, down the halls, and into the private rooms of the Alt’s building. There is intrigue at the court of FranzJosef: an heir to the throne has fallen in love with Henrietta Alt, who will have to carry the guilt for his eventual suicide. There are betrayals, beloved illegitimate children, and despised legitimate offspring. There are seething passions and icy relations, a world war and the rise of Nazism to contend with. There are duels, ambitions, hopes, affairs of the heart and affairs of state. Three generations of Alts live and die at number 10 Seilerstätte and each, in his or her own way, is a privileged witness to the winds of change and a Europe at the height of both its splendor and decadence.

Marketing and Publicity • National print review coverage • A lost classic returns to print • Regional interest: Vienna, Austria, Central Europe • Reading group guide available Comparative titles: The Leopard by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa; War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy; The Buddenbrooks by Thomas Mann On sale: July 7 • Historical Fiction/Literary Classic • Paperback • isbn: 9781609452728 5¼ x 8¼ • 608 pages • $18.00/£11.99 • World English • ebook isbn: 9781609452827

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JULY Praise for Ernst Lothar

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“A grand novel that offers its readers a profound understanding of Vienna and Austria, rendering them eternal.” —The Los Angeles Times “A long, passionate, literary embrace with a setting that provides a magnificent backdrop for intense characters and their tangles of ruinous emotions . . . This is a Buddenbrooks on the Danube.” —La Repubblica (Italy) “The epic ambitions of this writer fills the story with abiding curiosity that leaves traces everywhere: swift and unforgettable sketches of characters, salons, boudoirs, and fascinating gossip.” —La Stampa (Italy)

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Ernst Lothar was born in Brünn, Austria-Hungary (now Brno in the Czech Republic) in 1890 and died in Vienna in 1974. He was a writer, theatre director, and producer. In addition to The Vienna Melody, first published in the US in 1944 as The Angel with the Trumpet, his best-known works are The Prisoner and Beneath Another Sun. He was married to the Austrian actress Adrienne Gessner.

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The Red Collar Jean-Christophe Rufin Translated from the French by Adriana Hunter In 1919, in a small town in the province of Berry, France, under the sweltering temperatures of summer heat wave, a war hero is being held prisoner in an abandoned barrack. In front of the door to his prison, a mangy dog barks night and day. Miles from where he is being held, in the French countryside, an extraordinarily intelligent young woman works the land, waiting and hoping. A judge whose principles have been sorely shaken by the war is travelling to an unknown location to sort out certain affairs of which it is better not to speak. Three characters. In their midst, a dog holds the key both to their destinies and to this intriguing plot. Full of poetry and life, The Red Collar is at once a pleasingly straightforward narrative about the human spirit and a profound work about loyalty and love.

Marketing and Publicity • National print review coverage • Regional interest: France, Europe, WWI • Reading group guide available Comparative titles: The Most Beautiful Book in the World by Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt On sale: July 21 • Fiction • Paperback • isbn: 9781609452735 5¼ x 8¼ • 160 pages • $15.00/£8.99 • World English • ebook isbn: 9781609452834

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“What does it mean to fight for what one loves? To act out of loyalty? Or out of solidarity? In The Red Collar, a delicate and poetic novel, Rufin examines that which makes us human.”—L’express (France) “Without special effects, with simplicity and the pure pleasure of telling a story, Jean-Christophe Rufin explores the meaning of faithfulness, loyalty, and honor.”—Le Figaro (France) “The Dream Maker brings to vivid life the exemplary career of a little known medieval paragon: Jacques Cœur, banker, visionary and crafter of the glory that was France.”—The Barnes & Noble Review

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Jean-Christophe Rufin is one of the founders of Doctors Without Borders and a former Ambassador of France in Senegal. He has written numerous bestsellers, including The Abyssinian, for which he won the Goncourt Prize for a debut novel in 1997. He also won the Goncourt Prize in 2001 for Brazil Red. He is the author of The Dream Maker (Europa Editions, 2013).

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“Europa Editions is good news if you’re a lover of crime novels.” —NPR The finest international crime fiction is available from Europa Editions in our new World Noir series. Look for the World Noir logo. Available everywhere books are sold. “The best noir is making its way to the US via publishing houses such as Europa Editions.” —The Boston Phoenix


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BLACKBIRD Tom Wright Tom Wright has another winning Jim Bonham Case on his hands with the follow-up to What Dies in Summer. Comprised of cinematic prose and unforgettable characters living in a small town with a shadowy underbelly, Blackbird is a thrilling crime novel that will keep you on the edge of your seat until the last page is turned. In a small town in the Ark-LATex region, Detective Jim Beaudry Bonham has been assigned a new case: a woman has been brutally attacked and nailed to a cross on the outskirts of town the day after a devastating storm hits. Bonham recognizes her immediately as Dr. Deborah Gold, one of the town’s most well-known psychologists. Knowing how many secrets Dr. Gold took to her grave, Bonham’s list of suspects grows by the minute—as well as the questions that help explain just how and why such a gruesome murder was committed. With the help of complex, fully realized characters (the town itself being one of them), Blackbird is not only an intelligent crime novel, but also an in-depth exploration of small-town life and how it is affected by extreme violence and savagery. Wright’s comprehensive description of the setting and characters beautifully juxtaposes the unknowns surrounding the murder, making Blackbird a refreshing and welcome addition to the crime canon.

Comparative titles: What Dies in Summer by Tom Wright; The Rage by Gene Kerrigan; Kindred in Death by J.D. Robb; The Law of Nines by Terry Goodkind On sale: June 16 • Fiction/Crime • Paperback • isbn: 9781609452704 5¼ x 8¼ • 288 pages • $17.00 • US • ebook isbn: 9781609452803

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“A crime novel that does so much more than most others in the genre. Blackbird is dark, haunting and beautifully written.” —MARK BILLINGHAM, author of the Tom Thorne series “Wright’s gift is superb characterization. [What Dies in Summer is] a lyrical and realistic study of innocence lost.” —Kirkus Reviews “What Dies in Summer is an accomplished first novel; menacing, punchy, tense and as close and sticky as a long summer in the Deep South.” —The Scotsman

A Texas native, Tom Wright is a licensed and practicing psychologist in Texarkana, Texas. What Dies in Summer, his debut novel, was a New York Times Editor’s Pick and a finalist for the Crime Writer’s Association Dagger Awards in 2012.

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THE GANG OF LOVERS Massimo Carlotto Translated from the Italian by Antony Shugaar Padua, Italy. An unremarkable man, a husband and father, disappears without a trace. After a few months of searching, the police send his file to the cold cases department. One woman knows the truth about his disappearance, but, being the daughter of a prominent and wealthy Swiss industrialist, she fears coming forward with what she knows: that she was his lover and that there is more to his disappearance than another bored suburban husband running out on his family. Stricken by guilt, she finally confides in a lawyer who advises her to turn to Marco Buratti, a.k.a The Alligator, for help. Buratti agrees to assist the woman and quickly hits on the trail of the unscrupulous and brilliant criminal, Giorgio Pellegrini, protagonist of The Goodbye Kiss and At the End of a Dull Day. The deadly game of cat and mouse in which the good guys and the bad guys are often hard to tell apart is Carlotto’s specialty. But good or bad, these men are survivors in a world where the once ironclad criminal codes of conduct are disappearing and new criminal syndicates do vicious battle with old.

Massimo Carlotto was born in Padua, Italy. In addition to the many titles in his extremely popular Alligator series, he is also the author of The Fugitive, Death’s Dark Abyss, Poisonville, Bandit Love, and At the End of a Dull Day. One of Italy’s most popular authors and a major exponent of the Mediterranean Noir novel, Carlotto has been compared with many of the most important American hardboiled crime writers.

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Regional interest: Italy, Padua On sale: June 2 • Fiction/Crime • Paperback • isbn: 9781609452861 5¼ x 8¼ • 208 pages • $15.00/£8.99 • World English • ebook isbn: 9781609452797

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NOW AVAILABLE - THE MAXIMUM CARLOTTO COLLECTION “Packs plenty of plot into a slim volume, with space set aside for elaborate northeast Italian meals, musings on women, and plenty of Calvados drinking.” —The Daily Beast • 978-1-60945-180-6 • $15.00/£8.99 • ebook: 978-1-60945-190-5

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A ruthless female drug trafficker will stop at nothing to get a piece of the Italian narcotics market. The Alligator, despite his better instincts, is standing in her way. • 978-1-60945-135-6 • $15.00/£9.99 • ebook: 978-1-60945-148-6

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Giorgio Pellegrini has been sold to the mob by his crooked lawyer. Now, after years of living the “honest” life, he’s forced to return to his old ways. Fortunately, killing people is a bit like riding a bicycle. • 978-1-60945-114-1 • $16.00/£9.99 • ebook: 978-1-60945-161-5

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Marco Buratti, a.k.a. the Alligator, plans to spend the rest of his days sipping Calvados and listening to the blues. But when his friend Beniamino Rossini’s girlfriend is kidnapped, Buratti is forced to investigate a case of international drug dealing. • 978-1-933372-80-8 • $15.00/£9.99 • ebook: 978-1-60945-023-6

Poisonville is noir par excellence—there’s murder, moral ambiguity, and a less than heroic main character. In this bestselling novel, the killer is not an individual but an entire system. • 978-1-933372-91-4 • $15.00/£9.99 • ebook: 978-1-60945-172-1

Silvano’s wife and child were murdered before his eyes. Years later, when the man who murdered them appeals to Silvano to approve his application for parole, the one-time law-abiding husband and father sees a chance to exact revenge. • 978-1-933372-18-4 • $14.95/£9.99 • ebook: 978-1-60945-978-9 da

To avoid prison, Giorgio Pellegrini sells out his old friends, turns his back on his former ideals, and cuts deals with crooked cops. To achieve the guise of respectability, he is willing to go even further. • 978-1-933372-05-2 • $14.95/£9.99 • ebook: 978-1-93337-205-1

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THE NIGHT OF THE PANTHERS Piergiorgio Pulixi

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Translated from the Italian by Howard Curtis Inspector Biagio Mazzeo is the head of a special unit composed of cops who have been trained in the investigation of organized crime. He is a kind of father figure to these hard men and he often leads them well beyond the confines of what is legal. But now they’ve been found out. In order to save his men from being smeared in a corruption scandal, Mazzeo sacrifices himself and is tried and sentenced to jail time.

His sacrifice, however, isn’t enough. His unit has stolen a shipment of drugs and its owners want it back. This time, Mazzeo’s boys have messed around with the wrong drug cartel, for these are no ordinary criminals, this is the ’Ndrangheta, the infamous Calabrian mafia that will stop at nothing to get what’s theirs. From behind bars Mazzeo has only one way of helping his men: making a deal with a young female police officer who promises he will be released and all charges dropped if Mazzeo embarks on a suicide mission to put an end to a vicious gangland war. In a gripping crescendo of violence, vendettas and corruption, Biagio Mazzeo is faced with one life or death decision after another. The Night of the Panthers is an action filled police drama that will have readers’ pulses racing.

Regional interest: Italy Comparative titles: the film Department 36 by Olivier Marchal; The Tin Collectors by Stephen J. Cannell; Enemy Within by Robert K. Tanenbaum On sale: August 18 • Fiction/Crime • Paperback • isbn: 9781609452759 5¼ x 8¼ • 288 pages • $17.00/£10.99 • World English • ebook isbn: 9781609452858

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EUROPA WORLD NOIR Praise for The Night of the Panthers “The Night of the Panthers is not only a great novel in terms of style and plot, but, in perfect noir fashion, it is useful for understanding organized crime in Italy . . . Pulixi’s literary promise has become a magnificent reality.” —Tempi Nuovi (Italy) “Pulixi has an amazing talent for plot development and an ability to throw readers off the scent by working in breathtaking twists.” —Thriller Magazine n

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