" . . . a truly satisfying police procedural." --Philadelphia Inquirer

" "The picture Tursten provides of Sweden's growing anti-immigrant resentment--embodied in Huss' skinhead daughter--imbues this novel with a cold chill of dread . . ." --Chicago Sun-Times

The first installment in the Anthony Award-nominated series set in Paris, featuring Detective Aimee Leduc. Other books in the series, also available from Soho: Murder in the Sentier, Murder in Belleville, and Murder in the Bastille.

Here are eight contemporary fables, populated by a cast of characters in search of happiness. Behind each story lies a simple truth: happiness is often right in front of one's eyes, though it is often overlooked.

The memorable tale of Emmett Grogan and the Diggers, the irreverent urban guerrillas and masters of street theater who made San Francisco's Haight-Ashbury a home. For anyone who thinks those were days only of peace, love, and flower power, Ringolevio will be a revelation, as it evokes the gritty urban sensibility that supplied backbone to the community's free flights of fancy.

A tale of high adventure and lyrical celebration, tenderness and violence, generosity and ruthlessness, Memed, My Hawk is the defining achievement of one of the greatest and most beloved of living writers, Yashar Kemal. It is reissued here with a new introduction by the author on the fiftieth anniversary of its first publication.

Memed, a high-spirited, kindhearted boy, grows up in a desperately poor mountain village whose inhabitants are kept in virtual slavery by the local landlord. Determined to escape from the life of toil and humiliation to which he has been born, he flees but is caught, tortured, and nearly killed. When at last he does get away, it is to set up as a roving brigand, celebrated in song, who could be a liberator to his people--unless, like the thistles that cover the mountain slopes of his native region, his character has taken an irremediably harsh and unforgiving form.